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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I probably wouldn't want to watch a video about it, day-to-day weather is just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me anything they've got. Weather is wonderfully evocative, like an old song or a familiar smell. Hot, breezy sunshine transports me to my grandparents' house in southern California, and each clear, crackling autumn day calls up every back-to-school shopping trip I've ever taken...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: In Defense of the Weather | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Brown continued its second-half domination, keeping the ball deep in Harvard territory. The Bears scored again with 5 minutes remaining as Marcio redirected a cross in mid-air into the back of the Crimson net. Marcio, a junior forward from Brazil, is the Ivy goals and points leader...

Author: By Maureen B. Shannon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Soccer Win Streak Comes to End | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...think we anticipated their energy and fire, because beating Harvard--doing well against us--means so much to them," Zotter said. "First touches were off all over the place, and we lost a couple of balls in the air that we should have had, but that just happens some times. The important thing is that we bounced back and played much better later...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Claims Ivy Crown | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...bombs. Once again an American pilot trained at a cost of $2.5 million had beaten the $14,000 bounty Saddam offers to any Iraqi who can down a U.S. jet. "People can say this is a low-intensity conflict," Loose said from his hardened bunker at Turkey's Incirlik Air Base. "But I can tell you that having somebody shoot at me definitely makes me feel like I'm at war. And I guarantee that the people I dropped bombs on feel they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Blanks | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Since then, U.S. warplanes have attacked Iraqi positions in northern Iraq on 89 days--about one of every two days they have flown. Just last week jets bombed missile sites around Mosul for three days. According to documents reviewed by TIME, on some days the Air Force has dropped more than 30 bombs and missiles on as many as half a dozen Iraqi targets. Two months ago, the war ratcheted up when U.S. warplanes attacked an air-defense center south of Mosul and later discovered they had caused "serious destruction" to a 500-man unit hidden there, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Blanks | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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