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...damper that the loss put on the season was pretty small...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Lax Goes From Valley to Peak | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN MACHINES THINK? | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Ed Perez-giz, | Title: Men's Cagers Greened, 70-61 | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 6, 1995 | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clintons Take Controversial Vacation | 10/6/1995 | See Source »

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