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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amongst expressions of shock and sadness, many searched for a moral to this terrible story. "It has really shaken everyone...that something like this could actually happen in our own city. It's a great tragedy for all of us in the city and it's a traumatic experience for our young people," said Councillor Timothy J. Toomey Jr. "It just reiterates how much we have to take care of our young children...

Author: By Jamie H. Ginott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Council, Community Mourn a Local Boy's Death | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

When the truck bomb went off in Oklahoma City 2 1/2 years ago, virtually everyone in the country learned of it instantly and sat gazing at the television, immobilized by shock. Everyone, that is, except Terry Nichols, the man accused of helping Timothy McVeigh build the bomb. Nichols didn't have cable service at the time and his TV reception was lousy, so he didn't know about the incident until the next day. While the whole wired world was rapt by the tragedy, the alleged accomplice was hanging around his house in Herington, Kansas, as if April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT NICHOLS REVEALED | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...culture has generally favored the 1999 New Year's Day as the dawning of the new century. The other view "has always been over-whelmingly favored by scholars and by people in power (the press and business in particular), representing what we may call high culture." No big shock there...

Author: By V. MICHELLE Mcewen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Questioning Heavyweight Trivia | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...massive immune response can also cause fluid to leak from blood vessels throughout the body. This leads not only to dehydration and deterioration of vital organs but also to a dangerous drop in blood pressure, which can result in shock. Indeed, many patients admitted to burn units are already in shock and unable to feel the pain that would be overwhelming if they were conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO HELL AND BACK | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

Israel sends shock waves through the Mideast with a dramatic prisoner release (TIME Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today's Headlines | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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