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...salt flats of central Utah. The scientists haven't quite perfected their techniques for extracting the particles, some of which will be smaller than the width of a human hair, but they expect to have it down by 2006. They may not have the luxury of a pure sample: a perfect seal would have been too expensive, which leaves a remote chance that some earthly dust could contaminate the aerogel on re-entry, making analysis more complicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounter with a Comet | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...sharpest change in the President's defense last week was that after months of arguing the merits, the White House lawyers finally argued the facts--and that decision was pure Clinton. In the House proceedings, his team buried the evidence deep in their legal briefs, arguing in their rare public comments that the offenses, even if true, did not warrant impeachment. But once the prospect of a trial became real--and the President's lawyers got the time to make a variety of arguments--the direction of the defense came from Clinton himself. Lawyers Charles Ruff and David Kendall kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...aware that such a distinction exists. After years of expensive private schooling and math tutors and tennis camps and SAT prep courses and letters of recommendation from important family friends, she's been told that, unlike beneficiaries of affirmative action, she got into an Ivy League college on pure merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: One Egg (Ph.D. Pref.) | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

What I mean is that a professional football game is the mutation of inert muscle (noun) into pure historicized act (verb), framed in a matrix ("gridiron") of time and space. At the precise pencil-point of time, the quarterback's cogito presses urgently upon the possibilities of the unthought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deconstructionist at the Super Bowl | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...story of Moses is pure baloney, as are most of the stories in the Bible. It is incredible that in this day such stories are still being fed to innocent children. PAUL H. BARLOW Weddington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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