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...noted the new object, called 2004 AS1, and noticed further that its brightness was expected to increase an almost unbelievable 4,000% in the next day or so--an indication that it was approaching with blistering speed. Then he plotted the orbit Spahr had calculated and realized that the chunk of rock, estimated at the time to be about 100 ft. across, was on a direct collision course with Earth--specifically, somewhere in the northern hemisphere--and only days away. At that size, it would probably explode in the atmosphere a few miles up with the force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Chicken Little Alert | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...think work. Although, in the end, people work just as hard to make a good movie as a bad movie, and you don’t want to be too glib about it because it does represent a huge chunk of time and money. The same ten hours you spent watching those movies [Kevin Costner’s Waterworld, The Postman and Wyatt Earp], people spent a lot more than that trying to get those movie made, and you know how heartbreaking that...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

...thing for Urquidez, “the Texan, hispanic frat machine,” as Fishman calls him. Fishman also affirms Omar’s dedication and Pi Iota Alpha pride, saying that “[Omar’s] collection of frat t-shirts accounts for a good chunk of his wardrobe...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Brotherhood of One | 3/4/2004 | See Source »

...provide the Palestinians with a forum for their well-known complaints. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said the refusal of most countries to take part showed that "the international community neither supports nor wants nor is interested" in the hearings. But to court world opinion, Israel dismantled a chunk of the barrier the day before the ICJ sessions began. That same day, the move was upstaged by a suicide bomber who killed eight on a Jerusalem bus; Israeli officials said a finished fence could have averted the attack. The ICJ case seems to have helped Sharon's government at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fence Goes on Trial | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

...moving bodies available on television. The 90s unleashed the Internet, which made sex accessible, nearly unavoidable, on the computer. Then there are the ?lad books,? including Maxim and FHM, which have taken the Playboy format with one exception - they keep some clothes on their models - and devoured a huge chunk of the male market. (A PG13-rated sex magazine: I will never understand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Your Grandfather?s Playboy | 1/3/2004 | See Source »

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