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...after a decade-long search, the attention of geologists is riveted on a circular basin some 180 km (112 miles) in diameter. It lies buried under 1,100 m (3,600 ft.) of limestone, centered beneath the town of Chicxulub, on the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and extending out under the Gulf of Mexico. The nature of the basin, its location and a preliminary estimate of its age suggest that it is the Crater, the one gouged into the earth by the comet or asteroid that killed the dinosaurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Last, the Smoking Gun? | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

...will be drafting a new version of Circular A-21--the all-encompassing set of regulations defining appropriate indirect cost billing--that will attempt to further restrict overhead reimbursements in light of the findings...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: The GAO Directs Its Attention to Indirect Costs | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...Will the White House seize the opportunity to take away a perceived cash cow from the universities and add significant restrictions to Circular...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: The GAO Directs Its Attention to Indirect Costs | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...Office of Management and Budget is considering revisions in its Circular A-21, which sets the guidelines for appropriate billing of indirect costs. These revisions would disallow reimbursements for first-class travel, alcohol purchases and items relating to the university president's home, according to the subcommittee investigator...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: General Accounting Office: Indirect Cost Probe Still in Preliminary Stages | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

...both good art and bad art are as sleazy as life itself, and never mind morality. The difference, irritatingly circular, is that good art is good. Korda's shabby novel is a snooze, perhaps because, having purloined his characters, he never felt they were really his to order around. The story does not wake up fully even when Felicia, as Desdemona, runs wildly from the theater because she objects to being strangled. The gossip supplied is that Felicia was a victim of incest, Vane a man of pallid sexuality and, oh dear, some great British Shakespeareans were homosexuals. A wholly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleeping Pill!: CURTAIN by Michael Korda | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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