Word: solarized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Warner Studio Stores. At a Warner outlet a few steps from the Disney emporium in Atlanta's Lenox Square shopping complex, the place is crawling with twentysomethings. At the back of the store, children can climb into Marvin's Rocket Ride and take a push-button blast through the solar system; but kids are scarce here: 85% of the customers are adults. Heather Bamberg, 24, forages until she finds a gift for her godchild: a cap with the Tasmanian Devil logo. More often, though, Bamberg shops for herself. "The themes here remind me of my childhood," she says, surrounded...
...SOLAR SYSTEM...
...like known physical universe: it's huge, amorphous and expanding infinitely in all directions. The pressures for this expansion is the flaming controversy over grade inflation, a conflagration of solar proportions that has swelled passions all over campus...
...blurry were suddenly breathtakingly clear. Not only was nasa's Hubble repair mission an unqualified success (boosting the agency's chances of getting funding for its next big project, the space station), but astronomers now have a scientific tool of unprecedented power. Discoveries -- black holes, white dwarfs, new solar systems -- could pour in for years to come...
...more often than not. Satellites have mysteriously stopped transmitting while in orbit. Space probes have broken down en route to Jupiter and Mars. Along with the setbacks came a crisis in the spirit of space adventure -- a loss of vision and will to probe the unknown reaches of the solar system and the universe. "How do you follow putting people on the moon?" asks Paul J. Weitz, acting director at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston...