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...problem is, Kwiatkowski's passing proclivity and his "soda can theory of life" have only brought the Bruins one win this season...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Gridders Put Ivy Hopes on the Line | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

...three losing cities -- Athens, Rome and Melbourne -- that they should register their displeasure at the checkout counter. In a newspaper advertisement in the Australian city, Pepsi declared, "If you don't like the I.O.C.'s choice, make your own." If this keeps up, the committee may have to introduce soda-can hurling as a gold-medal event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Olympic Cola Contest | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...studio Morris is the galvanizing leader. Tossing his long black curls, he tears into every move, often with a soda can in hand and a cigarette dangling from his lips. "Shall we start with the frustrating part or the even more frustrating part just ahead of it?" he asks his eight dancers, speaking of a passage in a rather classical-looking piece he is setting to a showy swatch of Saint-Saens. When people start tiring, he is reluctant to lose momentum, but when he offers a choice of beverages or minuets in mock airline- ese, the choice is soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Mark and Misha Show | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

That offers little comfort to Israeli citizens. Residents were dismayed to learn that their air-raid shelters would prove useless, since heavier-than-air poison gas seeps into underground shelters and lingers there. Many were incredulous when an expert explained that a cloth soaked in water and baking soda could serve as a makeshift breathing mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Low Profile, High Alert | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

Smaller than a soda can and with a sticker price of about $200, a capacitor hardly appears lethal. Its industrial applications range from use in copier machines to air-conditioning units to aerospace equipment. But take a highly miniaturized capacitor capable of storing 5,000 volts, feed it into a peanut- size switch called a krytron, and the result is a device that can be used for the deadliest purpose of all: triggering a nuclear explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East The Big Sting | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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