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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Most of [NASA]'s great adventures are well-timed" to precede budget decisions, said Buck, who listed the Apollo moon landing and "most of the probes into the solar system" as examples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors React to NASA Discovery of Fossil Evidence of Life on Mars | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...remarkable story of how a population can be changed, directed or led by the visual and printed media [WORLD, July 15]. How different the world would be if Czar Nicholas II had been able to acquire this group of outside advisers to guide him, rather than Rasputin! GEORGE MOON Southfield, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 5, 1996 | 8/5/1996 | See Source »

Could these be the same scientists who centuries ago said the world was flat? Could these be the same scientists who said we could never put a man on the moon? Could these be the same scientists who said no one would ever jump higher than 8 feet...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Defying the Olympic Spirit | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...upscale holders of tickets--at $636 for a good seat--even though they endured long lines at the security checkpoints. A few hours before the ceremonies Kristin Mathis, a 16-year-old member of the Carolina Youth Dance Theater, was overjoyed at the prospect of being a moon attendant in the elaborate Summertime number: "I mean, we once performed at the county fair, but this is the biggest, greatest thing ever." The blending of small town and wide world is what has already given these Olympics a special flavor. One Atlanta woman remarked the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN OLD SWEET SONG | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory last week reported strong evidence that the Earth's inner core--a sphere about the size of the Moon--is spinning freely within the molten outer core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AS THE EARTH TURNS | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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