Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ignoring the hot sun, excited fans in black concert T-shirts filled the intersection of Mt. Auburn and Bow Streets yesterday as the Harvard Lampoon presented the Canadian rock band Rush with its Musician of the Millennium Award...
...sun didn't blacken, nor the moon turn red, but the world did come to an end, just as their prophet had promised. The End drove up to their doorstep in a tank, spitting gas, fulfilling prophecies. And if anyone wants to harm them, says the Book of Revelation, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes...
Buzzards circled overhead and the wind blew hard on the day the Branch Davidians died. Before the sun came up, state troopers went door to door to the houses near the compound, telling people to stay inside, there might be some noise. Over their loudspeakers, the tired negotiators called one last time for David Koresh and his followers to surrender peacefully. Then they got on the phone and told him exactly where the tear gas was coming, so he could move the children away. The phone came sailing out the front door. They will make war on the Lamb...
...dinosaurs used to be planetwide climate change; now it's something completely out of this world. Sixty-five million years ago, goes the story, at the very end of the Cretaceous period, an asteroid or comet smashed into the earth, throwing up a planetwide pall of dust. The sun was blotted out for months, killing most vegetation and starving the dinosaurs. The mammals, which had blown a chance during the last mass extinction, 150 million years earlier, rushed in to take over the suddenly vacant ecological slots...
...level of cfcs in the upper atmosphere will peak around the year 2000 and then diminish. What they don't know is how much ozone will be left, whether the areas of severe ozone depletion will expand toward population centers, and how dangerous a 21st century day in the sun will...