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When the spacecraft trained its radio scanners on the lunar south pole's deep Aitkin Basin, the reflected signal indicated that it had spotted just such an ice deposit. "If you collected all the ice scattered across that basin," said Dwight Dunston, a mission director, when the discovery was announced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ON THE ROCKS | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

So instead of deragatory chants and random objects tossed onto the ice, Achilles Rink was scattered with players' parents and a handful of locals.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Play to Meager Crowd Without Halfnight, Zakowich | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

His genius leaps across the centuries. When he seeks explanations, for example, of the faint glow between the horns of the crescent moon or the origin of fossils, he is nearly a century ahead of the scientific thought of his day. He correctly attributes lunar light to solar rays reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEONARDO REDUX | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

My personal feelings about a cappella music are difficult to put into words. For some reason, I can't help comparing it to the time two years ago I went to a Celtics-Magic playoff game. Trailing for nearly the entire game, the Celtics cut the Orlando lead to one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inside the World of A Cappella | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

Even with such compliance, however, 500,000 Hutu refugees will put a strain on the largely Tutsi Rwandan government. Its housing policy is quite clear: anyone occupying someone else's home is required to leave within 15 days of the owner's arrival. But most of those occupying others' houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING HOME | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

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