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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Students in the freshman class this year are upset about it," Seton says. "They felt like eight people was just too small...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: (Re) Building Blocks | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...brilliant fall Saturday in New York State, the surface of Congers Lake reflects the small airplane motoring above it, rolling left, flipping over, circling in a Cuban Eight, then gliding effortlessly through the October wind. "Flying straight like that is very delicate," offers one nervous spectator. "He has the bare minimum amount of wind under his wings. If he gets it wrong, that plane will crash, straight down. You won't see it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flights Of Fancy | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...little-known hobby has been on the rise in the past five years. Last year membership in the 64-year-old Academy of Model Aeronautics, the hobby's sanctioning body, grew by 6%, the largest increase ever. Some 2,500 clubs across the country meet regularly at lakes, small fields and grand minirunways. Though the flyers start as young as age 6, the hobby is especially popular with retired men. More than half of the AMA's 165,000 members are male and 50 or older. (Women make up just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flights Of Fancy | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...people who came to our country and found themselves in a reality that is strange to them. To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's War and Peace, which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon. Here in our small country we do not have the wide spaces that would allow a retreat from Moscow. The tension is broken, the audience listens to what I say, which is translated into Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diaries of Hope and Hate | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...young gamers. But before long, these companies are betting, game consoles like PlayStation2 will become broad-ranging digital home entertainment centers used by everyone for everything from music playing to video watching. Still, the corporate battle for digital dominance in the years ahead will be determined in no small part by what happens this week, as junior high students everywhere reach a collective decision on just how way-cool the graphics on Smuggler's Run really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Game | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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