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Sure, some will slip through the cracks and be lured back for more mental punishment, but sooner or later, the grad school gig will become worse than this Doberman-eat-Doberman world. They'll be begging to be thrown into the ring, like those Christians to the lions...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, | Title: The Road to Nowhere | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

First, the Vikings drove 80 yards on the opening possession for 7-0 lead on Hoard's 1-yard run. Then came two straight poorly thrown passes by Jake Plummer, Arizona's $29.7 million man. Both were intercepted by Robert Griffith, his first since Oct. 5, and Minnesota had a 17-0 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vikings Hold the Cards | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...your typical million-dollar South Beach bash: a star-studded crowd grooving to the sounds of Shotgun rocker Bruce Hornsby at a Gianni Versace mansion. But what was different about this party, thrown last September, was its guest list: 1,800 of the world's leading genomics experts drawn to Miami by a conference sponsored by Craig Venter, the enfant terrible of the gene hunters. Not everyone in the galaxy of genetics stars was there, however. Conspicuously absent was DNA co-discoverer James Watson, a former head of the federal Human Genome Project, who like other scientists in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craig Venter: Gene Maverick | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Which of the many problems in our community that Margot Freudenberg has identified and just thrown herself into rectifying would you like to talk about?" asks James B. Edwards, president of the Medical University of South Carolina. "She's a captivating lady who is a stalwart in the community. Everything that is good here, she has been a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Give-Back Years | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Pharaoh, traditionally assigned the identity of Rameses II (reign: 1279-1213 B.C.), was threatened by a growing Israelite population. And so the Egyptians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks." When they continued to multiply, he ordered all newborn males thrown into the Nile. Moses' mother kept him hidden for three months and then set him adrift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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