Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project is ever completed, prospectively in 1998, virtually no place on earth will be out of range. Satellites are also making possible commercial use of the Pentagon- developed global positioning system, which was employed by soldiers using handheld monitors during the Gulf War to pinpoint their location in the desert. Private-boat owners have been using GPS to fix their position at sea for the past decade...
...there has been an explosion of the acknowledgement of cross-dressing in the culture. A number of movies dealing explicitly with the subject have received both critical and popular acclaim. They include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Mrs. Doubtfire. An upcoming Patrick Swayze vehicle, will soon join their ranks. Inexplicably, the current video by a mainstream adultcontemporary pop singer, Gloria Estefan, is a paean to the thrills of crossdressing. Consequently, increased exposure to the practice means that the traditional, instinctive reaction to many public male-to-female cross dressers, usually one of laughter coupled with spasms of revulsion...
...Army Ranger training exercise killed four soldiers at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The trainees died after spending several hours in chilly chest-high swamp waters. The men had previously completed training in rugged forest, desert and mountain terrains. Four separate investigations of the deaths are under...
...after its introduction, this much-anticipated fount of sweetness has already made a dent in the life of Currier residents. Its popularity is evidenced by the high consumption rate which, according to Currier Dining Hall Supervisor Charlie Lambert,averages about 15 gallons per day. More than justproviding a tasty desert, fro-yo has affectedCurrier life in subtler ways. With names asstimulating as "Blissful Banana," "RadicalRaspberry" and "Just Peachy"--or "Simply Vanilla"for the mild at heart--the daily changing of theflavors adds extra flair to mealtimes...andbedtime. "It's better [than ice cream] forspreading on bodies," says one junior...
...House should be renamed'Fro-Yo House,'" Casual joke or flagrant idolatry?The same student calls the process of servingfro-yo a "creative outlet; you get a chance tosculpt and relax at the end of your meal time."The simple act of trying to get a serpentine ropeof frozen desert to curl around the bottom of thedish seen as an act of aestheticexpression...Marjorie Garber, where...