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...Hump hreys showed a computer model of this alternate plate tectonics, which included, at one point, the continents moving apart from each other at a rate of two meters per second. He called this process "a continental sprint, not a continental drift...

Author: By Scott A. Rechler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Debate Creationsit Theories | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

...fullbacks Grady Smalling and Chris Stakich came from behind and gave an extra push. There were a few nervous moments as the officials took their time taking apart the pile, but they finally signaled the touchdown, and Harvard had just what it needed to get over the late-game hump...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Kline have upended propriety and frolicked like unruly kids until the collective funny bone is virtually numb. After this week's senior-prom sex farce American Pie, even connoisseurs of adolescent comedy may whisper a desperate prayer: "From Austins and Adams and Wild Wild Westies, and teens that go hump in the night, Good Lord deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: There's Something About Scary | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...moms and dads on the front lines, such concerns are academic. They want to get their kids over the potty hump with as little disruption as possible. And despite Rosemond's contention that they're going about it all wrong, his "back-to-grandma" movement hasn't yet attracted much support. Says Becky Tamblyn Pence of Crystal Lake, Ill., mother of Emily, 5, and Michael, 3: "There are so many things to fight about just to get through the day. At least let them have control over this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War of the Diapers | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...pilots should sit above the flight deck so the nose could be opened up and take cargo. The 747's ultimate fate, he thought, would be as a flying Mack truck. Boeing showed him a wooden mock-up of the 747's flight deck, in the hump above the nose. He foraged around and came upon the space behind the flight deck, the rest of the hump. "What is this for?" he asked. "A crew rest area," said a Boeing engineer. "Rest area?" barked Trippe. "This is going to be reserved for passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUAN TRIPPE: Pilot Of The Jet Age | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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