Word: 1990s
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Once at Pokhran, 100 men work in slow motion; any burst of activity at the site would be noticed by the satellites. The more than 700-ft.-deep shafts into which five nuclear devices will be dropped have already been drilled back in the early 1990s, but there are cables to hitch and instruments to set up. Luckily, seasonal sandstorms broom away telltale tracks of vehicles. Every day India's space scientists calculate how long a "blind spot" will open up for workers when the trajectories of two advanced Lacrosse and two KH-12 satellites take their electronic eyes away...
When one reads the title of William Finnegan's Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (Random House; 421 pages; $26), a journalist's sampler of youth on the margins in the 1990s, one wants to ask, "Harder compared to what?" To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression? Or to growing up almost anywhere in the developing world today? In 1998, in an America presided over by the quintessential Mark Twain character Bill Clinton (an irrepressible trickster out of Arkansas with late-adolescent hormones), the Dow noses up toward 10,000, and this spring...
Wilson said yesterday that discussions of organizational changes are premature, and must be preceded by discussions of intellectual mission. Because Radcliffe expects its goals for the 1990s will soon be achieved, Armini said the college's "invitation" for responses from its constituency does not confirm any rumors about Radcliffe's strategic planning...
However, Rehman poorly chooses United Nations resolutions as a basis for his morality. Through the early 1990s, the United Nations and many of subordinate bodies were frequently a mouthpiece for the policy of the Soviet Union, spoken through its numerous client states in the Third World. Hence, the resolutions passed during that time period, while perhaps reflective of the realpolitik of the Cold War, certainly represent no morality except that of the immoral Soviet state...
Three of the warmest years of the 20th century were bunched in the 1990s. Does this reflect a long-term warming of the globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from...