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WESTERN KENTUCKY HILLTOPPERS Bowling Green, Ky. Record: 24-6 Sample Fight Song Lyric: "We've got the team/We've got the steam" Reason to Root for Them: They believe an intangible force, "Western Spirit," flows through all alumni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duke and Stanford Have Enough Fans Already | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...molten magma and hot gases in check. This could send up the volatile mix and cause an eruption. Several towns are built on top of Rainier's ancient flows--and lie in the path of new ones that would follow. Luckily, though, the slowly rising magma would likely trigger steam explosions, giving scientists ample warning. A quake can also trigger huge landslides, sending enormous slabs of boulders and clay downhill as fast as a speeding train. Fortunately, the region has had a relatively dry winter; otherwise, say experts, Rainier might already have shed part of its normally waterlogged skin, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for the Second Geological Shoe to Drop | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...That approach may, however, be losing steam, especially in states like Oregon and Colorado, where juvenile death rates have risen along with membership in anti-medical sects. State legislators are energetically sponsoring bills that would end the ban on prosecuting parents whose religion compels them to withhold medical treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom of Religion or State-Sanctioned Child Abuse? | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

There was only wide-open ice between Botterill and Dartmouth goaltender Amy Ferguson. Botterill approached at full steam, closing the gap between her and the net in a split second. Harvard fans knew it was over, and Dartmouth fans hoped for a miracle...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boyz II Ji-men-ez: W. Hockey Returns to Greatness | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...idea of what drilling for that oil would do to ANWR, it helps to visit Prudhoe Bay, America's largest oil field. Just beyond the western edge of the refuge, Prudhoe lights up the tundra for miles with megawatts of yellow industrial light. Steam belches from plants eight stories high; flames shoot from natural-gas flares; and bulldozers the size of houses grind back and forth along 500 miles of roads that link the 170 drilling sites along the coast. Five thousand men--and a few women--work here, pumping 1.3 million bbl. a day down the trans-Alaska pipeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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