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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That answer has meaning not only for Jupiter but also for Uranus and Neptune, which have their own satellites and their own faint bands. Around those planets, little moons have likely taken a similar pounding and decorated their parent worlds in a similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jovian Jewelry | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...Orioles fan who spent summers straining to hear faint radio signals from WBAL Baltimore while vacationing on Cape Cod, I never felt the pull of the nation's obsession with Ripken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thank God, The Streak Is Over | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

...face at that prayer breakfast. Clinton had found his groove again. Gone was the stunned and dejected man of one week earlier in Moscow, the one who had gone through the motions of a press conference with Boris Yeltsin. At the breakfast Clinton sometimes spoke with the faint but unmistakable trace of a smile. You could see him warming to his subject, even when the subject was his own abjection. Throughout Clinton's political career he has been happiest and most energized during a campaign, when he was asking for love and approval, and never more so than when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Clinton A Survivor? | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...July 23, Arecibo directed a powerful high-frequency radio beam toward the site SOHO should have been, a million miles away orbiting the sun. Ten seconds later, NASA's 230-ft. radiotelescope at Goldstone, Calif., began picking up its faint radar profile, barely perceptible against the background noise of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost and Found in Orbit | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...perform their work before a panel of judges randomly chosen from the audience. Each performer is rated on a scale of 0 to 10; the highest cumulative score wins. It is poetry as team sport; Emily Dickinson vs. Langston Hughes on the wrestling mat. It is not for the faint of heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Just What You Say, It's How You Say It | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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