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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that this year's Super Bowl would be better than those of the last few years. When the teams left the field at halftime tied, 3-3, the only people groaning were those who had placed bets on the high side of the 47-point over-under spread. The rest of us kept watching, even if most of us forgot to bring our 3-D glasses for the, as always, puerile halftime show...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Bengals, 49ers Put the Super Back in Super Bowl | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Walsh and Wyche gave Miami and the rest of the crazed world an example. No matter how fierce the fight, there is room at the end for a little comfort, a little understanding--something, as the lights go out in Joe Robbie Stadium and we turn back to the real world, we should remember...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Bengals, 49ers Put the Super Back in Super Bowl | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

This state of affairs could potentially alienate Harvard from the rest of the country, maybe even more than President Bush realized when he spoke of the "Harvard boutique...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Ickey Who? | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

McCovey's smart home is more than a celebrity's novelty item. It is part of a fast-growing industry: home automation. The business has been booming for several years in Japan and is catching on among manufacturers in Europe and the U.S. Their goal: to do for the rest of the house what remote controls did for the family TV and VCR. "People are used to sitting in a chair and making things happen across the room," says Roger Dooley, publisher of Electronic House magazine. "The idea of turning lights and appliances on and off automatically is beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Boosting Your Home's IQ | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Kirshner says that further detailed measurements of Puppis A's light wavelength indicated that part of the supernova was only 800 years old, when the rest of it had been previously estimated at 4000 years of age. On a universal time scale, however, the 3200-year difference is practically simultaneous, Kishner says...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Cosmic Conflagrations | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

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