Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Remember ALH84001? Of course you do. It's the chunk of 16-million-year-old Martian rock found in the Antarctic wastes last year over which everyone from NASA to the White House went ga-ga. Until now, prevailing scientific opinion said the worm-like forms on the potato-sized meteor meant there may have once been life on Mars ? little green bacteria, if not little green...
...nowhere, Scott came in to deflect the shot. Jumping about 10 feet out of bounds, he flung the ball over his head back onto the court. As both teams were scrambling for the rock, Scott ran back onto the parquet, dove onto the floor, and ended up with the basketball. He was greeted with a standing ovation from everyone in the building...
...shiny symbol of the new era is veejay Matt Pinfield, a bald, overweight, 34-year-old ex-radio station manager and Uncle Fester lookalike whom the Tiger Beat editors consistently overlook. Pinfield, though, knows music; his long-running alternative-rock show, 120 Minutes, had a ring of authenticity that veejays like Simon Rex, hottie though he may be, just couldn't deliver. Pinfield plays host on several shows that cross a range of musical genres, something MTV is able to do now that pop is resurfacing and breaking down the old barriers. "Our audience is smarter than people give them...
...biographies, the channel is considering a drama about long-distance relationships called Distance; a variety show with Beck as host; a parody of Kung Fu movies called Kung Pow; a pilot by John Woo; and Band of Spies, a comedy about CIA agents who go deep cover in a rock band. Hey, it could work, in a weird James-Bond-meets-anthrax, teenage-boy kind of way. Though more videos might be a safer way to shut Bart up for a while...
Schmitt, 27, and Martin, 28, met at an indoor rock-climbing center in 1991. A year later, Schmitt married 20-year-old Ursula Dechamps. After five months, the couple's car plunged off a ramp into a canal; he escaped unhurt, but his wife's body washed up three days later. Schmitt collected $472,000 from her life insurance policy and headed off to Florida with Martin. Three years later, when their money ran out, authorities say the couple returned to Belgium, where Martin met a homely financial consultant through a personal ad. They married quickly, but on their honeymoon...