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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says he is hopeful that the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC), currently being built by the University of Texas, will provide a clue. The SSC will smash the W particle against another, neutral, particle, known as the Z particle...

Author: By Paveljit S. Bindra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proton Decay: Window to Future Particle Physics? | 2/5/1992 | See Source »

...most extreme version, the operation would begin with covert CIA stimulation of a new revolt by Saddam's Kurdish and Shi'ite opponents and proceed to very overt bombing of the forces the Iraqi dictator sent to smash the rebellion. That, goes the plan, would so weaken the regime that either the rebels or Saddam's military commanders, or both, would get rid of him. In another version, the U.S. would covertly incite a military coup by Saddam's lieutenants, in part by letting them know Washington stood ready to back them up with air power, if need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Are Saddam's Days Numbered? | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY. The unseen star of this instant smash is Mikhail Gorbachev: his overtures to peace some years back inspired a parable of detente involving the Enterprise guys and the evil Klingon empire. Though William Shatner & Co. claim that this is the saga's last chapter, we'll bet they keep going until Willard Scott is wishing them all happy birthday. That would be about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 30, 1991 | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

Well, almost never. Hit tunes from late in his career like Those Lazy-Hazy- Crazy Days of Summer and Ramblin' Rose stretched his credentials pretty thin and are nowhere to be found on Mosaic. Neither are such excellent songs as Mona Lisa, a 1950 smash that was also the first Cole side to have no trio inflection whatsoever. The Mosaic set is for jazz fans, not nostalgists, and at $270 it is not an impulse purchase. (It is available only by mail or phone order from Mosaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off on A Cashmere Cloud | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...Boris Yeltsin recognizes this essential fact of capitalism, his country will begin the real move to a market so desperately needed by the Russian people. Maltsev recommends that Russia simply legalize the black market, making it the white market. If Yeltsin fails to smash such bureaucracies as the OBKhSS and legalize the black market, he will condemn his people to decades more of poverty and discontent...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: A Black Mark (et) | 11/27/1991 | See Source »

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