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...other, putting the oppositely charged umbras in contact. The results are spectacular. "Because the umbras have opposite polarities, they attract each other," says the Marshall Center's Moore. "The closer they are together, the stronger the pull. Then, as they push past each other, it's like an earthquake fault slipping. In this case the stored energy is released in a flare." In the sunspot group that produced the flares of March, he notes, spots of opposite polarity were close together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fury on The Sun | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...Basinger's fault that her character is so dull. Sam Haam and Warren Skaaren, who wrote the screenplay, don't seem to have much interest in elevating women beyond the level of comic-book bimbos...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Comic Book Justice Strikes Again | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

Truitt angrily denied the allegation, suggesting that the fault could lie with an inexperienced crew. Last week a Navy statement seemed to clear Truitt. Investigators are now focusing on the equally bizarre theory that Clayton Hartwig, the insured sailor, committed suicide by causing the explosion with a $15 timing device. The Navy blandly insisted that no apology was due Truitt because it had not "discussed publicly" the murder-suicide theories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy , At Ease, Mr. Truitt: | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

Defending his growth strategy, Allison saysthat while his tenure was not without fault, theendowment he built for the school was the mostimportant thing he could have done to secure theschool's future...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: An Architect of Expansion | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...Tarazi shocks people, Kaplan says that isnot his roommate's fault. "It shows howconservative things are in 1989 that people sayTrig is so shocking," he says...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Identities, Tangents and Trig | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

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