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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Venice So much cork was needed for the fashion that whole forests were endangered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...tell the guys [that] we're like a river that's rising," said Fish. "Each player is like a cork floating on the river, and as long as the river is rising, it doesn't matter who's up or down...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surprises Abound as M. Tennis Closes Out Fall Season | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

...DISSENT: Cork the Champagne...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A New Era for Women | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Vestiges of the past are still apparent everywhere, from the now-worn cork floors to the five or so typewriters tucked away in a reading room on level...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A World of Books All Their Own | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...Wright brothers had been fascinated by the idea of flight from an early age. In 1878 their father, a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, gave them a flying toy made of cork and bamboo. It had a paper body and was powered by rubber bands. The young boys soon broke the fragile toy, but the memory of its faltering flight across their living room stayed with them. By the mid-1890s Wilbur was reading every book and paper he could find on the still earthbound science of human flight. And four years before they made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviators: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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