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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when the year 1993 seems like a dim memory to some and like a fantasy to others, Giardi will be talked of as if he were a mythical figure, a sentinel of the Stadium. And then a golden-legged whipper snapper will rise up and challenge Giardi's mammoth accomplishments. Then the cycle will begin again...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: A Gridiron Hero: Charlie Brickley' 15 | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

Holyoke Center's eighth floor smoking room closed, making the mammoth administration building smoke-free. The decision came after consultation with those who work in the building, and was made out of concern for air quality, officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Look Back at the Summer of 1993... | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

Holyoke Center's eighth floor smoking room closed, making the mammoth administration building smoke-free. The decision came after consultation with those who work in the building, and was made out of concern for air quality, officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Look Back at the Summer of 1993...A Lot Happened While You Were Gone | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...exception: the death toll, 26 late last week, was only a hair above the 23 killed by the mammoth flood of 1973 in many of the same areas, and only a tenth of the 250 who perished in the 1937 flood -- to say nothing of the record 2,100 drowned on the single day of May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Main reasons: abundant warnings, evacuation plans well worked out in advance, the lack of flash floods and above all the fact that over the years most population centers have been protected by levees and dams built high and strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flood, Sweat and Tears | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals," notes Walt Conti, the effects magician who created the seductive stand-ins. "It's pretty obvious he was attracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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