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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...community of Posoltega, nestled on rich soil beneath the Casitas Volcano in Nicaragua's mountainous northwest, Mitch was the apocalypse. Close to noon on Oct. 30, after the hurricane had dumped three days of rain into Casitas's crater, the mountainside burst with what villagers described as the angry roar of a jetliner. It hurled mud, water and rock onto Posoltega's rooftops, "a terrible, towering wall that just fell out of the clouds," says Santo Diaz, 24. Diaz gathered his elderly father, mother, sister and two brothers to escape--but the avalanche claimed them. He was still clutching their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murderous Mitch | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...sitting in the kitchen of Bruce Springsteen's New Jersey home when you hear a muffled roar outside. The Boss is back. He has pulled up in his driveway astride his Triumph motorcycle, and now he's walking in the front door. His face is ruddy from the wind and the sun, and he's smiling broadly. His new boxed set, Tracks (Columbia), featuring 66 songs, 56 of them previously unreleased, is due in stores this Tuesday, and Springsteen is eager to talk about it. The songs on the four-CD set span his career; a great many of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Echoes of Thunder | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Suchomimus tererensis, an entirely new breed of dinosaur to be unveiled Friday in the journal Science. Suchomimus was discovered -? bit by fossilized bit -? by paleontologist Paul Sereno in Niger, Africa, last year. Now that he's been shipped whole to the States, the world will hear him roar. "With its forearms and its jaws, it would have been able to take down just about anything," said Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago. "It was the dominant predator of its time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fisher King | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Yankee fans have come to appreciate the ways their team makes gold out of lead. At the stadium they often function as a second Yankee pitcher whenever there are two outs and the official pitcher has two strikes on a batter. They rise, roar and clap to ride that third strike in. Indian outfielder Dave Justice showed less appreciation of the Yankee fans before Game 6, by telling reporters that New Yorkers could not get more menacing "unless they showed up with Uzis." True to their spirit of murderous fun, the fans did show up with Uzis, making posters with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The-uh-uh-uh Yankees Win! | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Tigers may be able to roar, but a Crimson can, well, win a soccer match, hopefully...

Author: By Andrew S. Brunswick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Princeton Presents Ivy Must-Win for M. Soccer Tomorrow | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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