Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think quickly: Where were you on August 27? That, according to NASA scientists, is when the biggest Earth-bound burst of gamma rays and X rays ever recorded pummeled our planet's upper atmosphere, disrupting radio broadcasts and satellite transmissions -- whilst the occupants, safely sheltered beneath a thick blanket of air, remained largely oblivious. The source of this blistering radiation: a tiny star, measuring a mere 12 miles in diameter (roughly the size of Washington, D.C.), speeding more than 20,000 light-years away on the other side of the Milky...
Baseball is mired in nostalgia--a nostalgia more virulent than that which any other sport faces. Change is interpreted, inevitably, as decline. Chattering sports-radio reactionaries decry free agency while forgetting the reserve clause that bound players to their teams, remember fondly earlier eras while forgetting the major leagues were segregated until the late '40s. The mythology of baseball is at once a blessing and a curse; a sense of history can never hurt, but clinging to the past...
...Playoff-bound for the second time in four years. Will this be their year? Unlikely. But a fun October awaits nonetheless. --The editorial board
...hard because most of our clientele isHarvard bound in some way, and if they live aroundhere, most of them head out in those months,"Trost says...
...back home. "A similar explosion on Earth would release a lot of debris, but it would fall back to the ground," says Kluger. Indeed, the only rings astronomy buffs can ever hope to see themselves are those around Saturn; Jupiter's shroud will forever remain invisible to the Earth-bound...