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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pearl Harbor made history as the target of the 1941 Japanese air attack. But the 91-year-old naval base earned a more dubious distinction last month when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the site to its list of the nation's most dangerously polluted places. Among the hazards scattered across 12,264 acres: unlined landfills, pesticide-disposal pits, chromic acid- disposal areas, heavy-metal contamination and waste-oil leakage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thousand Points of Blight | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

Despite being seeded only sixth in the eight team championship, to be held this weekend at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Freed and the Crimson are confident they can pull out a victory...

Author: By Peter K. Han, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Polomen In Search Of Easterns Title | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...course record is held by the 1982 U.S. Naval Academy Championship Eight, which finished the three miles in 14 minutes and 24.6 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How The Races Work | 10/17/1992 | See Source »

...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendly Fire | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...conservative intellectual who quoted the Stoic philosopher Epictetus to the press last week ("A life not put to the test is not worth living"), Stockdale has spent most of his post-Vietnam career in a succession of academic and think-tank jobs. He has taught at the Naval War College and Stanford University, and was president at the Citadel. Since 1981 he has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution, an independent conservative research center that is located on the Stanford campus. Stockdale also served on the board of the ultra-right-wing Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot's Number Two | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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