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In 1995 Glenn, a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, was paging through a textbook on space physiology when a thought struck him. Doctors had long since identified more than 50 changes that take place in an astronaut's body during weightlessness, including blood changes, cardiovascular changes, changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: Back To The Future | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

The town's primary well is situated only 2,000 ft. from the nearest proposed mining site. A similar uranium-mining effort in the 1980s failed to preserve the water's purity, says Mitchell Capitan, the soft-spoken leader of a grass-roots organization opposed to the mine. "We can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Navajo vs. Navajo | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Nuclear war is but a scarier version of everyday reality in its potential for disruption, eruption, combustion and conflagration. The flow of daily events has the capacity to change the world--for better or worse--to a substantially different and often unrecognizable place. The worlds that we encounter in five...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: On the Brink | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

"It has definitely been a disruption not knowing whether he will play doubles, singles or not all," said sophomore John Doran. "Everyone just has to practice and pretend that they are getting ready to play no matter what happens with Tom. If he is ready then all the better, but...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Faces Georgia in NCAA Sweet 16 | 5/22/1998 | See Source »

Environmentalist Carlton, whose lawsuit prodded the government to move on the mouse, says what the state may be scheming is "an end-run around the law to subvert restoring the ecosystem. You might have to move a golf course or road 100 ft. or so, but protection isn't going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: The Mouse That Roared | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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