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Dates: during 2000-2000
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In other words, High Fidelity, of which Cusack is also a co-writer and producer, is a comedy born of depression. Based on Nick Hornby's novel, High Fidelity takes the form of an intermittent monologue, at once glum and knowing, done directly to the camera. Cusack's Rob leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nostalgic Obsessions | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

So, will we time-travel in the next century? Travel to the future--yes, but only in short hops, I suspect. To the past--very likely not. Such travel is expensive, dangerous and subject to quantum effects that may or may not spoil your chances of coming back alive. Those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Travel Back (Or Forward) In Time? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Unfortunately, scientists understand very little about the dynamics of initiation points--how smooth or rough the faults are, what kind of rock is found there, what goes on just before and after a quake. Laboratory experiments can reproduce the pressures to simulate the environment at the initiation point, but without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Save California? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

"University administrators [before the ban] admitted to using race not as a factor, but as the determining factor, knowing that it was illegal and unconstitutional but also immoral," he said. "All applicants need to know that they're going to be treated equally regarded of their race or creed."

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Minority Admissions Rise in U. of California | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

But just how much harder is it to get into Harvard? The admissions office has no official statistics on trends in average SAT score or GPA of the applicant pool, so there is no way of knowing for sure. But there is one important reason why Harvard's admissions process...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, | Title: One Step, No Mess | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

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