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Word: maelstron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indeed. Just one day after the asteroid slammed into the media maelstron, the ripple effect was astonishing. John Walvoord, chancellor of the Dallas Theological Seminary, said the asteroid ?may be a foreshadowing of the second coming of Christ.? Dr. Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb, advocated planting a nuclear device on its rocky surface. And -- surprise, surprise -- Marsden himself smiled meekly from the front page of Friday?s New York Times. Which could go a long way toward answering Don Yeomans? question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroid vs. Earth: When Worlds Don't Collide | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

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