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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both strength and technical proficiency are needed by the throwers to hurl the shot put and weight. The weight, which is heavier than the shot put, weighs 20 pounds for the women and 35 for the men. That just can't be easy...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Stone's Throw | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

Morrison has learned since, of course, that the Nobel Prize carries burdens somewhat heavier than the problem of what to wear to the celebration. Although every writer drifts into daydreams of winning the prize, actually having it can produce some nightmarish side effects. A crushing mantle of gravitas descends on the winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Found | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Many T-3 pilots at both Hondo and Colorado Springs believe the plane flies much better in the lower, and heavier, Texas air than in the thin air above Colorado's mile-high plains. Some Air Force safety experts have recommended that the entire T-3 operation be based at Hondo. "The flight school shouldn't be in the mountains," says one such expert. "But Annapolis has boats and West Point has cannon, and so saying you're not going to have planes at the Air Force Academy doesn't sound right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Trainer | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...times themselves taking drinks out of Farley's hands. (Based so closely on Farley, Shrek must now be completely reconceived.) The weeks from the end of October appear to have been a monstrous series of alcoholic-and-eating binges. "Around Thanksgiving," says Di Novi, "he was really heavy, even heavier than he's been the past couple of years." On Wednesday, he was up till 3 a.m., imbibing Jack Daniels-and-Cokes, finishing off the night with his two brothers at a Christmas party at the Hunt Club, where he was a regular. At one point, he did his Wolfman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHRIS FARLEY: THE SUFFERING OF A FOOL | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Assignment eight] involves a lot of typing and it would have involved a lot of debugging as well," he said. "[The work is] a lot heavier from the other assignments from earlier in the year...

Author: By Anne C. Krendl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Report Repetitive Stress Injury After Problem Set | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

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