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...damper that the loss put on the season was pretty small...
Some laypeople (like me, for example) have trouble seeing the difference between these two views--between saying consciousness doesn't exist and saying it is nothing more than the brain. In any event, both versions of strict materialism put a damper on cosmic speculation. As strict materialism became more mainstream, many philosophers talked as if the mind-body problem was no great problem. Consciousness became almost passe...
...seemed the Crimson had all the momentum--that shot by Gilmore broke the school record for career three-pointers. But Dartmouth sophomore forward P.I. Halas put a damper on the evening by hitting from beyond the are to keep Harvard...
DIED. SHANNON HOON, 28, rock singer; of a drug overdose; in New Orleans. Hoon wailed his way to stardom fronting Blind Melon. A hit single, No Rain, took the group's eponymous 1992 album multiplatinum. But Hoon's drug use put a damper on success, leading to his arrests for urinating during a concert in Vancouver and for disrupting a 1994 awards show. Blind Melon was on tour when an unrevivable Hoon was found on the band...
...only damper on the occasion could be the weather. Although any spillover from Hurricane Opal will be gone by the weekend, the National Weather Service predicts a chance of showers tomorrow and partly cloudy skies Sunday, with high temperatures...