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...opened the scoring for Harvard, putting onepast the Quakers' goalie early on to put theCrimson on the board. Asano and sophomore LaurenCorkery added to the fuel with a goal and anassist apiece in the first 30 minutes. At the endof the half Harvard...

Author: By Christine Haggerty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 1 Maryland Routs W. Lacrosse, 21-3 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

DRIVE ON Now that gasoline prices are on the rise, you might want to consider trading in that gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicle for a more fuel-efficient model--perhaps the 1999 Honda Civic, which gets around 35 m.p.g. and was cited as the best "green" vehicle in the new Consumer Reports annual automotive survey. As an alternative, you could choose the Volkswagen Passat, named the best family sedan; the Mazda Protege, the favorite small sedan; or the Subaru Forester, the best small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Born in 1882, Goddard was a rocket man before he was a man at all. From childhood, he had an instinctive feel for all things pyrotechnic; he was intrigued by the infernal powders that fuel firecrackers and sticks of TNT. Figure out how to manage that chemical violence, he knew, and you could do some ripping-good flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...student and professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and later at Clark, Goddard tried to figure out just how. Fooling around with the arithmetic of propulsion, he calculated the energy-to-weight ratio of various fuels. Fooling around with airtight chambers, he found that a rocket could indeed fly in a vacuum, thanks to Newton's laws of action and reaction. Fooling around with basic chemistry, he learned, most important, that if he hoped to launch a missile very far, he could never do it with the poor black powder that had long been the stuff of rocketry. Instead, he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Mexico, American plant pathologist Norman Borlaug starts developing high-yield grains that, two decades later, will fuel the green revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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