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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That rafting trip down the Colorado River you were planning? Scratch it. According to a group called the World Water Commission for the 21st Century, more than half the world?s major rivers, including the Colorado, are drying up or oozing with pollution. The commission, supported by the United Nations and the World Bank, is looking for ways to safeguard water supplies for the next century - and it looks like they?ve got their work cut out for them. Although the full findings are under wraps until March, a grim summary of the study, released Monday in Washington, D.C., gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And a Stinking, Dried-Up River Runs Through It | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Instead of contributing to the media hype that so negatively affects the lives of MIT students (much more than fraternities actually do), you should consider supporting your peers down the river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Brief side trips to the Alamo and the River Walk aside, the Crimson (1-1) did not take advantage of the 70-degree weather, instead staying in the gym and losing to a powerful Stephen F. Austin (2-0) team before defeating Texas-San Antonio (1-1) in overtime...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Texas Two-Step: W. Basketball Splits | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Tokyo suburb in the late '60s, before the city crept outward. "As a child, I wanted to be an entomologist. Insects fascinated me. Every new insect was a wonderful mystery. And as I searched for more, I would find more. If I put my hand in a river, I would get a crayfish. Put a stick underwater and make a hole, look for bubbles and there were more creatures." In Pokemon the pocket monsters--many in the shape of caterpillars, moths and crabs--can be found anywhere: tall grass, caves, forests, rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...story is still set just north of New York City (and visually quotes the Hudson River School of painters), but it was filmed in a studio near London and cast mostly with British actors. At first the accents are jarring; viewers will stop to wonder just when Americans finally learned to speak American. But the presence of Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson and especially Christopher Lee will tip you to Burton's intent. He is making not an American folktale but a British horror movie--a tribute to the Hammer studio of the late '50s and later, to its Dracula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tim Burton's Tricky Treat | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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