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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This time Aaron Israel got the call, but by game's end he needn't have bothered with such gestures; many of the home folks already had trickled out of Gutterson Fieldhouse like the melting snow, dirty in hits retreat down the hill from the arena towards Lake Champlain, after another two-goal Harvard victory...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Defeat Vermont, 5-3, Looking to ECAC Tourney | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

...Hugues Quester), a world famous composer, was in the midst of writing a concerto celebrating the unification of Europe when he was killed. A reporter covering Patrice's death mentions the rumor that it is actually Julie who composed her husband's works. After the tragedy, Julie attempts to retreat from society, moving to a seedy section of Paris. She sells most of her material belongings, using the money to provide for the senile mother who no longer recognizes...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: `Blue' Reveals the Moving Emotional Life of a Modern Artist | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

...similar way, of course, the bourgeoisie deserved every bashing it took under Soviet communism: After the revolution, the Zhivago family had to retreat to a corner of their Moscow mansion and submit to the insults of the proletariat who moved in to abuse the former masters and break up the furniture for firewood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Are They Really That Bad? | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

There is a growing understanding as well that ice ages are not uniformly icy, nor interglacial periods unchangingly warm. About 40,000 years ago, for example, right in the middle of the last Ice Age, the world warmed briefly, forcing glaciers to retreat. And while the current interglacial period has been stably temperate, the previous one, according to at least one study, was evidently interrupted by frigid spells lasting hundreds of years. If that period was more typical than the present one, humanity's invention of agriculture, and thus civilization, may have been possible only because of a highly unusual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ice Age Cometh? | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

Besides, a simple astronomical model would predict smooth and gradual climate transitions -- the opposite of what really happens. The last Ice Age was in full retreat about 13,000 years ago when temperatures suddenly reversed and began heading lower again. They stayed low for 1,000 years, an episode known as the Younger Dryas period. The periodic "spikes" of warmer weather that have interrupted ice ages and the cold weather that often came on suddenly in the last interglacial period are also impossible to explain with astronomy. And so is the astonishingly rapid changeover from warm to cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ice Age Cometh? | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

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