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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adventure tour, the musical equivalent of climbing a particularly high peak without bottled oxygen. Traditional rock can be a sad grind--for example, on Eric Clapton's wan new CD, Pilgrim, one of the few listenable songs, Sick and Tired, turns out to have disturbing lyrics about threatening to blow out a woman's brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Triumph of Youth | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...school. A teacher in the same county was murdered a few years earlier by an emotionally disturbed student. The deaths of these teachers are tragic, senseless and unexplainable. And every time I give a student an F, I wonder if this student will be the demented one who will blow me away. TARA EISENHAUER EBERSOLE Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Last week the government announced that it will have a $50 billion budget surplus. The pols immediately began arguing over how best to spend it. How often do we get our hands on a windfall like this? Here are some ways we could just blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Blow $50 Billion Without Even Trying | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...Russian incapacity comes as no surprise here, but the report does mean NASA administrator Daniel Goldin is out of options. It recommends he go cap in hand back to the White House and the Hill -- a major blow for the man whose main aim is to offer America "better, cheaper, faster" space missions. Worse, it means the station's completion date is set to be pushed back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Fin(anci)al Frontier | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...would an industry heavyweight making a gazillion a year blow off a few hours of his day just to pick up a few pairs of sneakers? Human nature, I'm guessing--free stuff just smells so good. But some honchos really are too busy, and for them Tracy has set up a Nike outreach program. It is by all accounts her most impressive achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sneakers In Tinseltown | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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