Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That October, I was excited. It was going to be our year at last. We had the best pitcher on the planet, the best pure hitter of this generation, and Big Lou lunching on a dog in the box. How could we lose...
There was my dad in the recliner, insisting that the Sox would lose. There was my mom on the couch, saying little. And then there was my brother, myself and our two friends--possibly the four most fanatical fans on the planet, alternating between praying and cursing...
Until now. Having completed their sojourn inside the largest self-sustaining ecosystem ever built -- and having set a world record for time spent in a sealed environment -- the Biospherians were more than ready last Sunday to come back to planet earth, or, as they call it, Biosphere 1. Just before their release, they finally began to speak out. For observers outside (including 600 tourists a day who spent as much as $12.95 to peer through the glass), it is as if laboratory animals suddenly started to describe life inside the maze...
...didn't work out that way. At a meeting in Italy last week, Griest's boss, Bernard Sadoulet, announced that the team had discovered what appeared to be a tiny star or a huge planet, lurking out beyond the visible stars of the Milky Way. It may be just one of trillions of similar objects, whose combined mass far outweighs all the known stars. At the same time, a French group doing its own search disclosed that it had found two more of the dark bodies, making it unlikely that either team had made a mistake. If the discoveries...
...Florida. At the same time, MTV competes overseas with Rupert Murdoch's British Sky Broadcasting and Ted Turner's CNN. But industry watchers say such clashes of the titans don't have to be fatal. Says Christopher Dixon, an industry analyst for Paine, Webber: "There's room on the planet for all these guys...