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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pair of colorful dancing lions and myriad other traditional Chinese performances helped the roughly 250 celebrants gathered in Lowell House dining hall last night welcome the year of the rat...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Chinese Feast Marks New Year | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

...Have a very prosperous year of the rat," he said...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Chinese Feast Marks New Year | 2/10/1996 | See Source »

...This--went gold. When the duo split, Martin rebounded as a solo movie star and, for a few years, a fine actor. He had more hit tunes in the '60s and '70s, anchored a nine-year TV franchise, appeared whenever he felt like it in casinos with his Rat Pack pals. Last week, after he died at 78 of acute respiratory failure, lights on the Vegas Strip were dimmed for 10 minutes in his memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROONING TOWARD OBLIVION: DEAN MARTIN (1917-1995) | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

Despite tales of dismal job markets and endless rat races, most college seniors are actually quite optimistic about their future financial outlook, a new Gallup poll reported this week...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Seniors See Big Bucks On Horizon | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

...percent of the reptiles, 50% of the birds, 42% of the land plants, 70% to 80% of the insects and 17% of the fish live nowhere else in the world. Among them: giant tortoises, Galapagos penguins, waved albatrosses, flightless cormorants, Galapagos fur seals, seagoing iguanas, three types of rice rat, Galapagos bats--and 13 species of Darwin's finch, whose variously shaped beaks, perfectly adapted for the foods they subsist on, were used by the scientist to illustrate his theory of evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN THE GALAPAGOS SURVIVE? | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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