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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prospects look solid for both of Haggerty'ssquads based on preseason camps...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Injury to Jones Hurts W. Thinclads | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...pocked with deep sinkholes and covered with bentonite, a loose mudstone that gives the sensation of walking on popcorn. When Horner slips, he drives the pick in up to its haft and hangs on as it plows a neat furrow 30 feet down a hillside without catching on anything solid. If this were an Indiana Jones movie, he would smash into something wonderful at the bottom -- the skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, say. In real life, all Horner gets is a banged-up human knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...times of national emergency, Americans tend to rally round the flag and get behind the President. So it is with the crisis in the Persian Gulf. Public-opinion polls demonstrate solid support for George Bush's handling of the showdown with Saddam Hussein, and there have been only a few peeps of criticism from members of Congress. Thus it comes as a surprise that the loudest dissent against the President's policy is being voiced by, of all people, prominent figures on the Republican right wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Look Who's Antiwar | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Seattle with my balky DataGlove, I'm inclined to agree. There is an irritating delay between the moment I tip my head to the left and the time the images move to the right. When I reach to grab an object, there is no physical sensation of hitting a solid surface. When I do make contact, my hand is as likely to pass through the object as to connect with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: (Mis)Adventures In Cyberspace | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don't' just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," Like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid links of pseudofacts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

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