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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terms of the discussion about life elsewhere in the universe; it makes it much more likely that there is life elsewhere...real life, life that we would look at--if we ever saw it--and say looks like us," said Senior Lecturer on the History of Science Peter Buck, who is also dean of the Harvard Summer School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors React to NASA Discovery of Fossil Evidence of Life on Mars | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...long way from being established as true," said Buck, adding that he brought a historian's skepticism to the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors React to NASA Discovery of Fossil Evidence of Life on Mars | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...Most of [NASA]'s great adventures are well-timed" to precede budget decisions, said Buck, who listed the Apollo moon landing and "most of the probes into the solar system" as examples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors React to NASA Discovery of Fossil Evidence of Life on Mars | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

Already several studios are taking the obvious solution and cutting back the pace of production. But that won't be enough; they face other difficulties that will be harder to address. Costs are soaring so dramatically that it's getting tough to make a buck. "Every day I have two choices," says Peter Chernin, chairman and chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment. "One is to make a series of absolutely insane deals and the other is to make no movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD FADES TO RED | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

...author knows this killing ground well, but too often his writing is fast and sloppy. A burning department store is "engulfed in its death throes," and streets are "rivers of flame." Rosso, at a difficult moment, thinks "the buck stops here." No, the reader reflects, it was Harry Truman who thought that. Rosso needs a dialogue coach, and his author, alas for what otherwise is an effective novel, needs treatment for tin-ear disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: CRIME SCENE: SARAJEVO | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

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