Word: stones
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three years later, a compromise was reached. The cow now sits on a stone pedastal in nearby Five Point Park...
...would Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jack Nicholson and Sharon Stone stay on a small island that is just within sight of an oil-tank farm and is located near a busy shipping channel and a sewage-treatment plant? Perhaps it's to bask on a beach of imported white Bahamian sand, flex pecs in the 22,000-sq.-ft. spa, volley at any of the 18 tennis courts or choose from more than 11 brands of bottled water at the local market...
After drifting through interplanetary space for millions of years, one of these Martian rocks ventured close to Earth 13,000 years ago--when Stone Age humans were beginning to develop agriculture--and plunged into the atmosphere, blazing a meteoric path across the sky. It crashed into a sheet of blue ice in Antarctica and lay undisturbed until scientists discovered it in 1984 in a field of jagged ice called the Allan Hills...
Last week that rock--dubbed ALH84001--landed on the front pages of newspapers around the world and seized the imagination of all mankind. At a televised press conference in Washington, a team of NASA and university researchers revealed that this well-traveled, 4.2-lb. stone--about the size of a large Idaho potato--had brought with it the first tangible evidence that we are not alone in the universe. Tucked deep within the rock are what appear to be the chemical and fossil remains of microscopic organisms that lived on Mars 3.6 billion years...
...wandering piece of Mars reminds everyone of cartoons and fantasies that the Red Planet has always stimulated; among other things, it has brought radio talk shows alive with the voices of vindicated UFO spotters, the Mars rock being their Rosetta stone, the key that unlocks the mystery. But does the rock threaten the centuries-long assumptions and designs of theology...