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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take, for example, Starship Troopers, which on first glance seems like as dumb a blockbuster as they come. The premise of the film is to corral a truly mind-boggling number of Aaron Spelling bit players into playing futuristic action heroes fighting giant insects on the planet Klendathu. The movie doesn't skimp on the gunfire or the chomping, stomping Bug Things, which of course are its major selling points...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reconciling Highbrow, Big-Budget Films | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...have hammered out a deal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to between 6 and 8 percent below 1990 levels. So now we can forget about global warming, right? Wrong. As TIME science correspondent Michael Lemonick points out, it'll take a cut 10 times that size to stop the planet from overheating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deal Struck at Kyoto | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

...hammer out a new global-warming treaty, it is clear that this cautious attitude has completely turned around. Melting glaciers, hotter summers and migrations of plants, animals and even deadly microbes have convinced virtually every climate scientist on earth that human activity has indeed started to warm the planet. Even business and labor leaders whose livelihood depends on the production and use of fossil fuels acknowledge the problem. "The science would indicate," says United Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts, "that there is something happening here." The CEO of American Electric Power, quoted in the current issue of FORTUNE, agrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT: HOT AIR IN KYOTO | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Mars Takes Revenge Life on the Red Planet has never been so hotly debated. Now Pathfinder's scientists say Mars was once warm and moist. What do you think? Take part in TIME Daily's first news poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: And so Mars continues to confound. For every theory that says our sister planet is and always was a barren, lifeless rock, there's one that suggests it once teemed with life ? and sure enough, we're more likely to listen to the latter. That was evident when a report in the journal Science pooh-poohing NASA?s claims over the supposedly fossilized Martian meteor was elbowed aside in the media by Friday's edition of Nature. The latter, gathering evidence from the Pathfinder mission, said Mars was once warm, moist ? and more likely to have harbored some form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Takes Revenge | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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