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Whatever the ultimate consequences of population growth may be, it is important to remember the danger of treating statistics as mere numbers. Regardless of the millennial hoopla that Y6B will doubtless create, its cumulative environmental, economic, and humanitarian effects are what we can ill afford to forget...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: 6,000,000,001: A Population Odyssey | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...thinking about last year when I fumbled," Menick said. "It was weird, but I remembered coming back. I just tried to forget...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...honor and glory are at stake in the Ryder Cup. In other golf tournaments, one plays for money and personal distinction, but in the Ryder Cup one plays for one's country. (The Olympics resemble the Ryder Cup in this sense, though to a much lesser degree. Who can forget the Nike partisans of the 1992 Dream Team refusing to wear Reebok warm-ups?) It serves no purpose to describe any further how it feels to carry on one's shoulders the hopes and fortunes of one's fellow citizens, because every competitor calls the feeling "indescribable...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Editorial Notebook: All Glory to the Golfers | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Once you're a Harvard student, it's time to get serious, commit to studying and forget how to have fun, right...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Laughing all the way to Palm Beach: IGP Clowns Around | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Forget all the griping about money and the lack thereof, and forget for a moment that the U.S. Ryder Cup team has in recent years been the most consistently underachieving group in sport. Remember instead the victory, the largest comeback in Ryder Cup history that gave the U.S. team its first championship since 1993. Down 10-6 going into the final day in Brookline, Mass., the American players won their first six matches easily and clinched when Justin Leonard's putt on 17 assured the U.S. team of 14 1/2 points, just enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Wanted to be Paid to Have This Much Fun? | 9/26/1999 | See Source »

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