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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magnetar is a star that has run out of fuel and collapsed to form a neutron star--a ball of matter just a dozen miles across, so dense that a teaspoonful weighs tens of millions of tons. In rare instances, a neutron star can generate a magnetic field strong enough to shatter the star's metallic surface, sending high-energy X rays and gamma rays blasting into space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmic Bomb | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...titled "The Pleasures of Writing and Reading Poetry," was comprised largely of material from his recent book on verse, Making Your Own Days, and showed him from the start to be a delightful figure, his manner relaxed, forthright, a little absent-minded; his delivery earnest but clever; his lanky form animated in a way that made him seem very much younger than his seventy odd years...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Koch Enjoys 'Unnoticed Popularity' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...attractive. Many students do not fit into any of those categories and are therefore rejected. On other campuses, where there is a more diverse selection of fraternities, more students could find formal social clubs to match their personalities. Here, the options are quiet limited, forcing many to form a group of friends without the aid of a physical structure...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: The Postures Of Punch Season | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Evil and Unique 3. This sound--which mixes several samples and songs together--is omnipresent in Brother's Gonna Work It Out and gives the record its live DJ performance feel. "It's brought alive some of the tracks that, maybe, weren't quite as powerful in their isolated form," Simons commented in a recent interview. "That's one of the good things about the mix record...

Author: By Benjamin A. Teply, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turning Beats To Bucks: 'Work' Well Worth the Labor | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro may opt for a technocratic manager from outside of politics to form a caretaker government until the next elections. Italy has seen this all before -- at two and a half years, Prodi's tenure was Italy's second longest in postwar history -- which may explain why Milan's stock exchange climbed despite the government's collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrivederci, Romano | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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