Word: objections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burst of electromagnetic energy smashed against the earth's atmosphere, ripping apart air molecules, disrupting radio communications and knocking a couple of satellites temporarily offline. The most likely source of the power surge, scientists announced last week: a starquake on a new kind of celestial object called a magnetar...
...only object reported missing is a $100 pair of Ray Ban sunglasses...
...behalf of women sports fans everywhere, I object to Daniel Habib's sexist and insulting depiction of the relationship between men, women and sports (Opinion, Oct. 2). As I initially glanced at Habib's headline and first few paragraphs, I smiled with recognition. I, too, have fallen victim to the dangerously time-consuming condition of baseball playoff fever, this year and every year. Habib dropped the ball, however, when he embraced stereotypes of sports fans as exclusively male and women as sexual objects competing with sports for men's attention...
Your photo of a businessman patting the snout of a bronze bull statue in New York City [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14] brought to mind the days of Moses, when the object of worship was a golden calf. Who said that things change? CARL KAHN Chicago...
...moved to save it," says Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist known as "Her Deepness" since the time in 1979, off the coast of Oahu, when she was cut loose from a submarine and walked freely on the ocean floor, 1,250 ft. beneath the water's surface. The object of her affection requires love of a special magnitude and magnanimity. One has to concede at the outset that the ocean is too vast, deep and secretive to be completely known. It is capable of casual murder and filled with structures that make Picasso's dreams seem ordinary. More demanding still...