Word: allenate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boundaries of the earth's magnetic field. The magnetosphere protects the earth by deflecting most of the solar wind around the planet the way a windshield deflects air around a car. Still, untold trillions of charged particles manage to leak through. Some are trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance excites atoms of nitrogen and oxygen, which in turn emit pulses of colored light. The result: an aurora...
Play back the voice of Mel Allen, who died this year, his very name a river of l's rolling out over the radio on an eternal afternoon. "Hello, everybody. This is Mel Allen...
DIED. HERBERT HUNCKE, 81, hustler and hooligan who gave the Beats their name and William S. Burroughs his first fix; in New York City. He was a character in the works of his cronies Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac...
...world record in the 100 m for Donovan Bailey; a first-course 200/400 double for Marie-Jose Perec of France, Guadeloupe and Beverly Hills, California; and his-and-hers gold medals for triple jumper Kenny Harrison and his girlfriend, 100-m winner Gail Devers. Then there were the Johnsons: Allen, who won the 110-m hurdles; Michael; and Michael...
...Monday, when Johnson and Perec won their respective 400s, Lewis the long jump and Allen Johnson the 110-m hurdles, Thursday evening at Olympic Stadium promised the fantastic. It was a night O'Brien had dreamed about for four years, ever since he no-heighted in the pole vault at the '92 Olympic trials. "Watching a competition you felt you could win," O'Brien said of the Barcelona Olympics, "was worse than getting picked last in gym class." This time around, O'Brien had no trouble with the pole vault. But he still had Frank Busemann, 21, of Germany...