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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could have populated an entire continent in a mere 500 years, the span between the time of the presumed land migration and the time by which Clovis spearpoints had been deposited throughout North America. Even more problematic are signs of very early culture in South America. "Humans don't sprint through their environment," says Mercyhurst College archaeologist James Adovasio. "But that's what the Clovis guys would have us believe. There's no analogue for that in archaeological history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...1980s, AT&T, MCI and Sprint installed fiber-optic cable between major U.S. cities to increase the capacity of their long-distance telephone lines. At about the same time, the Federal Government, spurred by Gore, leased some of these lines to give scientists a high-speed data link to supercomputers funded by the National Science Foundation. These two networks, private and public, carry the bulk of the country's telephone and data traffic. In the superhighway system of the future, they are the interstate turnpikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take A Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...terms of conditioning, that's really not much more we can do. We sprint hard...we lift weights," Landry said. "When you don't have the numbers to put three or four lines, people are gonna get fatigued. Pretty much every game, you're gonna have a shift where you want...

Author: By Geoffrey J. Hoffman, | Title: Suffering From Extreme Exhaustion on the Ice | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

...economy. And the President is clearly arousing hopes that he could have severe trouble fulfilling. But as the drum roll for Clinton's State of the Union speech next Wednesday gets louder, what was a limping recovery from the 1990-91 recession is quickening into something more like a sprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Lucky Numbers | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

READ THIS PAGE QUICKLY; IT'S about to disintegrate. In fact, it's already pulp. Everything Amy Fisher touches turns to trash. Including this story. Including viewers of the three schlockudramas that NBC, CBS and ABC began filming in late November and, in some Olympic sprint of sleaze, got on the air last week. Americans by the megamillions watched, on one network or another, the saga of teenage Amy (the "Long Island Lolita"), Joey Buttafuoco (her alleged lover) and his wife Mary Jo (whom Amy shot in the head). Now that the TV-movie epidemic is over, everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trashomon | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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