Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically an impossibility -- though the definition of that word has changed a bit this year -- and perhaps no one is more relieved about it than Sammy himself...
Fair Harvard, my friends, still has a bit of dust swept under the rug. And though the council still deals with pressing student issues, it does so in a friendlier and more efficient manner. By virtue of being Harvard students, we are all blessed with excellently refined critical skills. We are all capable of looking around the campus and seeing with clear and precise vision that some things are wrong or unfair or poorly done...
...remainder of shopping period, well, after a long day today, I'm going to dust off my course guide, steel my nerve and head back into the fray tomorrow...
...controversy over Jupiter's rings is over. The process that created them, however, is not. Cornell University researchers announced Tuesday that the gossamer-thin disks, first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979, were in fact space dust thrown up by micrometeorites bombarding the inner moons of Jupiter; they are not, as previously thought, particles of a moon that died or never had a chance to form. The bombardment, says TIME space writer Jeffrey Kluger, continues even now: "These moons continue to be pummeled." It's a good thing, too. "The rings need to be refreshed periodically," Kluger explains. "Otherwise...
...once the federal government is going to produce a document that won't collect dust on library shelves. Sometime between now and the end of this month, the report of independent counsel Kenneth Starr is expected to be sent to Congress, where it will promptly explode. Washington is bracing itself for a text unlike anything it has ever handled, with interludes that describe, in all too fascinating detail, half a dozen or more anatomical engagements between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Depending on how vivid it is, Starr's report could be the closest thing to pornography ever issued...