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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge quantities of rock and soil into the thin Martian atmosphere. While most of the debris fell back to the surface, some of the rocks, fired upward by the blast at high velocities, escaped the weak tug of Martian gravity and entered into orbits of their own around the sun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE ON MARS | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...emerged blinking into the bright sun from his matinee last Monday, Dole gave a thumbs-up to ID4, not just as diverting summer fare, but--as he later called it--the type of movie that "lifts up our country instead of dragging it down." Of course, those words were written before he actually saw the film. In the version of ID4 that I saw, the country wasn't just dragged down, much of it was demolished by a fire-breathing spacecraft resembling a large piece of pita bread. Millions of our compatriots were blown away in a quite grisly fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: DOLE: THE MOVIE, PART II | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...trust the police," said Gregory J. Rooker, a rising sophomore at Boston University who was playing volleyball in the park. "If they say it's all right, it's all right. And look--it's a beautiful day for some sun and some v-ball...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Police Investigate Bomb Scares | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

...there for them." Even on the Cubans' recent swing through the South, Cubas could be seen lurking behind their dugout. Rick Lawes, who covers amateur baseball for USA Today, recalls a memorable image from the U.S.-Cuba game in Columbia, South Carolina, which Cuba won, 4-2: "As the sun went down, you could see his silhouette creeping across the diamond. He literally was a shadowy figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBAN LONG JUMP | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

DIED. CHAS CHANDLER, 57, bass player with the Animals, the influential 1960s band whose hits included House of the Rising Sun; of undisclosed reasons; in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Chandler discovered and managed Jimi Hendrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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