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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd was split between local college Democrats and members of the Carpenters' Union, said Kennedy campaign spokesperson Rick Gureghian...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Kennedy Woos Voters With Nightclub Event | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...between human and ape proteins and DNA. The divergence between the ape and human lines, argued the biochemists, came somewhere between 4 million and 6 million years ago. And some paleontologists predicted that as hominid species were discovered from periods closer and closer to the time of the actual split, they should be even more apelike than Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Less Missing Link | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...industrial film promoting General Motors cars in a gleaming world-of-tomorrow landscape, Servo (he's the red gumball machine with Slinky arms) intones, "Future not available in Africa, India, or Central or South America." Listen to Crow (the gold robot constructed of a lacrosse helmet, a split bowling pin and some Tupperware sections) explain the Hercules sex-and-pecs epics of the late '50s: they stem from "European indignation toward postwar conservatism and sexual repression, which translates onto the screen into big sweaty guys pushin' girls around." Or Mike, on the chorus line of prancing red devils in Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The Magical Mst Tour | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Because she would split her time with the history department, Ulrich would only fill half the position. To fill the other half, women's studies is conducting a joint search with the sociology department, Schor said...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Female Scholar Of U.S. History May Be Tenured | 9/29/1994 | See Source »

...Lorenzo, then Victor, then Yummy and eventually five more. She dropped out of 10th grade, found an apartment, went on welfare and nursed a crack habit. For a while she tried living with Yummy's father Robert Akins, who was convicted of drug and weapons charges. They soon split because he had "a rather angry and hot temper," she told a social worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder In Miniature | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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