Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite the 20-point halftime advantage, the Crimson had to remain weary of the Catamounts' offensive firepower. Vermont averaged 51.8 points per second half entering Sunday's contest. What was more, Harvard has a history of blowing leads: Against Holy Cross, it squandered a 21-point advantage en route to a 4-point defeat, and last week escaped with a 1-point victory over Dartmouth, despite leading most of the second half...
...Challenger blew up less than two minutes after liftoff in January 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard, the agency has seemed lost in space. Shuttle launches have been delayed by mechanical glitches more often than not. Satellites have mysteriously stopped transmitting while in orbit. Space probes have broken down en route to Jupiter and Mars. Along with the setbacks came a crisis in the spirit of space adventure -- a loss of vision and will to probe the unknown reaches of the solar system and the universe. "How do you follow putting people on the moon?" asks Paul J. Weitz, acting...
...Scandinavian immigrant to the United States," wrote historian Wittke, "has been the Viking of the Western prairie country." In the mid-19th century, American newspapers carried accounts of immigrant Swedes disembarking en masse from cargo ships and marching -- often with their country's flag carried aloft -- to railway depots where trains would take them upriver to Buffalo, along the Erie Canal and thence to the prairie country of the upper Mississippi valley. "What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!" wrote Frederika Bremer in 1853, and she was right. Today about 400 place names in Minnesota are of Scandinavian...
...solid farce premise (a 12th century knight and his servant are magically stranded in today's French suburbs), a toilet-bowl sense of humor and a few tricks swiped from Hollywood: breakneck pace and gaudy visual effects. The time-travel buffoonery of Encino Man meets Ghostbusters' technical sorcery. En France...
...Seattle via Denver and Portland, has been reduced to three trips a week west of Denver, as have runs south of St. Louis on the Texas Eagle, which connects Chicago with San Antonio and Houston. Eliminated is the River Cities, linking St. Louis and Carbondale, Illinois; instead passengers en route to New Orleans have to take a bus to Centralia, Illinois, where they can board the City of New Orleans. Ticket offices have been closed at 15 stations across the U.S., including Delray Beach, Florida, and Amsterdam, New York. Trains will still stop at these locations, but tickets must...