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Social Studies, second period, is different. Mr. Goode, usually grinning, begins class by holding his left wrist above his head and looking at his watch. "Fifteen seconds," he says. The students have 15 seconds to quiet themselves and clear their desks for a test; otherwise, they lose "freebies," excuses from detention...

Author: By Bryan D. Garsten, | Title: Khalilah Horton Goes to School | 5/12/1993 | See Source »

Eoraptor has so many primitive features, including an exceptionally simple jaw, that Sereno thinks it probably originated just a short time after the ornithischians and saurischians diverged. Says Sereno: "Fifteen years ago, it was a radical idea to think that dinosaurs came from a common stem. Now we are just inches away from finding that stem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...There was, 15 years ago, a concern that it might shade their feelings," he said. "I feel, it's much less true. Fifteen years ago, there were no openly gay faculty members, period...

Author: By Melissa Lee and Anna D. Wilde, S | Title: Gay Faculty Become Activists | 4/23/1993 | See Source »

That it is the secretaries that run everything is a truism acknowledged by anyone who has ever worked in an office. These days, most secretaries work as the single clerical support for the ten to fifteen workers of a specific section. It is the secretary who knows: how to fix the copier without calling the service person, who to call when the voice mail system goes on the blink, when every flex-time employee will actually be in the building, how to get accounting to reimburse funds even though the receipt is lost and where the copy of a bill...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Secretaries Day | 4/21/1993 | See Source »

...last two weeks have been filled with peculiar events involving the Council. First, the Council took out twin ads, in two different campus publications, detailing spring grant allocations. The Council also took o' 'an ad, "A New Spirit of Openness," in Fifteen Minutes, The Crimson's weekly magazine...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Grovelling for Your Fall Votes | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

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