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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Facing a deficit of 7-5, the pair took the momentum with a giant overhead smash by Rosekrans that landed in the gallery. Later in the game, she once again showed her skills at the net, angling a ball at the feet of her BC counterpart...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Defeats Eagles in Night Thriller | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...from Paris and Cairo to Kiev and Sao Paulo. But on March 10, the Jakarta Legislative Council ordered the nightspot shuttered because its use of religious iconography could be considered offensive to Buddhists. In addition to its religiously inspired name, the restaurant's dining area is dominated by a giant Buddha sitting in the lotus position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Cracks Down on Offensive Hot Spot | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...stock price of the beleaguered financial giant Citigroup jumped 38% today, to a whopping $1.45 per share. Shares are now down only 93% from a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dow Jumps 5.8% — But It's Just One Day | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Nice short jumper by Lin to give Harvard its first lead. He can't really do much driving to the hoop against the giant redwoods, but he can settle quite well. Harvard 23, Yale...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: MEN'S BASKETBALL AT YALE | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

...That was big news if you were hunting for planets but no news at all if you were hunting for life. A planet with enough gravitational oomph to jiggle a star is probably a gas giant like Jupiter, orbiting so close to the fires of its sun that nothing living would have a chance. What biology needs in order to get going is a relatively small, rocky planet orbiting in what's called a star's habitable zone - a place where things get hot but not too hot, cold but not too cold. A place like Earth, in other words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kepler Telescope to Take a Census of the Galaxy | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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