Word: brights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was the line of march: first bright Lutupen, the Samburu guide, with his spear and tribal finery, the yellow-and-black-bead cords crisscrossed on his chest, the tops of his ears sprouting the bead horns that gave the Samburu warrior, Toad thought, an air of medieval imp. Toad admired Lutupen's sense of style. Lutupen had slipped a trapezoid of broken mirror under his bead headband for decoration, so that he now had a kind of third eye, a window in the center of his forehead that flashed as he slipped along through the forest...
...with a strong core of young players and the legendary coaching of Bill Cleary, the hockey team will surely create more than its share of excitement on frigid Friday and Saturday nights at Bright Center...
...away from Bright in Briggs Cage, the Harvard men's basketball team will be continuing its quest for its first-ever Ivy League title. Coach Peter Roby begins his fifth year at the helm of the University's most frustrating varsity squad. Each year is The Year. Finally, the Crimson will win the Ivy championship. Each year, Harvard watches the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on television. television...
...earth-size planets had come into view around the eastern rim* of the glowing orb. Created by intense magnetic fields and cooler than the surrounding gases, the sunspots were visible as dark blemishes on the fiery surface. Just as astronomers were turning their attention to the mottled region, a bright spot suddenly appeared in its midst. It spread like a prairie wildfire, glowing white hot on the sun's yellow face and quickly expanding to cover hundreds of thousands of square miles. The monster blotch was an unusually large solar flare, a stupendous explosion that belched radiation and billions...
...Giant spots, bright flares and huge eruptions are blemishing the face of the sun, delighting scientists and sparking spectacular auroral displays in the night skies. Astronomers are uncovering the secrets of the mysterious star that provides the earth with energy and sustains life itself. See SCIENCE...