Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news from MTV. We don't reach them with coffee-table picture books, fireside chats and the New York Times editorial page." Werbach hired a graffiti artist to design posters of the Statue of Liberty wearing a gas mask, and he is negotiating a celebrity-studded CD Rock the Planet. "We want to be hard-hitting," he says. "And if it's not fun, it's not worth doing...
...military policy based on the idea that peace is sustainable, perhaps less reliable than the sun but more constant than the weather. Around the world the ineluctable algebra of economic and political liberalization (less war = more money) is catching on. At the start of 1997, none of the planet's 179 nations was shooting at another...
...another person is ruined because of sexual misconduct. Well, that's a lie, akin to saying it's not the winter, it's the cold that bothers me. No, it is sex, in and of itself, that occupies us, the lying being a collateral offense. A visitor from another planet reading the papers recently about First Lieut. Kelly Flinn, Marv Albert, Frank Gifford, Michael Kennedy and Paula Jones would think that our national pastime was not baseball but the Playboy channel. The day after the Supreme Court ruled that Paula Jones' lawsuit could go forward, the story led most major...
...remember one of the students came to me in 1976, and she was in deep agony because she couldn't decide what bank training program to work on in the summer," Kinsley recalls. "To me, it was sort of like asking what planet she should visit...
...critters well, so I just had to decide what kind of a dragon I wanted and what it was for," she says. "You can't just plant a new creature down on a new planet without establishing a niche for it." Fighting the Thread with fire become her dragons' niche on Pern...