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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Probes and people would sally forth into the deeper universe, propelled by thin sails filled by the feeble but inexorable pressure of sunlight or traveling on ion drives that get their boost by shooting high-energy electrified particles out of the rear of the vehicle. Other possible vehicles for space travel may be propelled by a series of tiny thermonuclear explosions using pellets of fuel mined on the moon, or by mass drivers employing electromagnetic fields to expel bucketloads of dirt from the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Anybody Out There? | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...American student. Employers offering temporary jobs, in whatever field of capacity, are often seeking to fill an immediate need and will offer an opening to the first available, qualified body on the spot. Expecting someone to hold such a position for you while your letters go back and forth and you make travel arrangements from the US is probably unreasonable. What have you got to offer to make it worth the risk for an overseas employer to take a chance on an unknown American student? Probably a lot, but be prepared to address this question. Also, be prepared to admit...

Author: By William Klingelhofer, (ADAPTED FROM THE HARVARD GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE) | Title: Looking for a Job Abroad | 10/9/1992 | See Source »

...would actually take to talk with them. Fernandez has sent a second letter to Knowles, again expressing the desire to meet. If the dean again responds negatively, Fernandez said, "We'll have to do something else. We don't want to get caught up in sending letters back and forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open the Office Door | 10/6/1992 | See Source »

Alice in Chains' last wish would be to have their listeners believe that they do have any agenda more intellectualized than making the blood swish back and forth in your head as your body conforms to the primal throb of their beat. Maybe that's why the instrumental content of their songs is so good...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Alice in Chains Digs Out More Grunge | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...days later, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John Shattuck burst forth with an entire paragraph discussing the University's position. He said Harvard was willing to include a seniority pay increase as "an integral part" of the 4 percent raise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: About That Raise... | 9/29/1992 | See Source »

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