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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost as worrisome are the estimated 300,000 asteroids larger than 300 ft. wide that also come perilously near or intersect Earth's orbit; each could inflict Tunguska-like damage over a large region. The number of Earth-crossing asteroids larger than 60 ft. across, says University of Arizona astronomer Tom Gehrels, could be as high as 100 million. A hit by any one of them could destroy a large city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asteroids: Whew! | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

Basil led the new triangle offense through some early bumps to its near-flawless execution against Stanford. Seanor added some offense to her already solid defense, and finished the season as Harvard's leader in assists...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering a Historic Season | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...watch, but Rebekah still shows much promise. Her future albums will probably get much better as she focuses on her work and produces more music. As such, Remember to Breathe deserves a listen just to know what kind of raw talent awaits us in the near future of the pop music forefront...

Author: By Chantalle Lafontant, | Title: SOUND ADVICE | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...mother. Mother shows unnatural affection for son. Mother greets naked girlfriend of boy for the first time in boy's room. Mother manipulates birth control so that son can give her a grandchild. Mother pleads helpless to get the son to move back home so that she can be near him--and can off the offending new queen bee as soon as she delivers...

Author: By Shatema A. Threadcraft, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wait for Re-runs of Southern Gothic Soap Opera | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...considering the small performance space with which they have to work. Set Designer John Gordan '01 manages to create a maze of fourdoorways and an onstage discovery space throughwhich the actors may roam--and all within theconfines of a theater the size of a Harvard commonroom. Although the audience near the back issometimes forced to stand in order to see some ofthe downstage scruffling, it is more a testamentto the engrossing action than to the use of thestage. The onstage room itself is tastefullydecorated with paintings of naked women by thelikes of Rubens or Gauguin, as would be expectedof...

Author: By Elaine Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilde Would Have Loved Orton's Freudian `Butler' | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

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