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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...front + lawns across the U.S.? No, not pumpkins. They're Stuff-A-Pumpkins, giant plastic leaf bags with a jack-o'-lantern design. When filled to the brim with lawn rakings, the 260-gal. monsters seem large enough to devour a small child. A creation of Connecticut-based Sun Hill Industries, the Stuff-A-Pumpkin (retail price: $3.98) is flying off the shelves of K mart, Wal-Mart and other bargain behemoths, suddenly making the childhood chore of leaf raking such a cool job that even Bart Simpson might volunteer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIT PRODUCTS: It's Here: The Great Pumpkin | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...wants to say is couched in whispers and stares toward the horizon -- of Mars. She describes her grandmother as "a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping." She was afraid to ! expose herself at a topless beach: "They'd never been in the sun before. They might catch fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business Sauce, Satire and Shtick | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...beliefs. While still a laywoman, Harris led the procession at the 1974 protest ritual in which her church's first women priests were illicitly ordained. Continuing to rail against the church for its racism, sexism and homophobia, Harris, who used to work as the top public relations executive at Sun Oil, had become a champion of the downtrodden and disparaged. "I would bring a sensitivity to the needs of different kinds of people, including minorities, women, the incarcerated, the poor and other marginalized groups," said the Philadelphia native shortly before her narrow victory in an acrimonious election as assistant bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Women: To Each Her Own | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

...sight, hiding his whereabouts from the press and his employers. Granted, the University of Utah chemist has been under pressure since March 1989, when he and British colleague Martin Fleischmann said they had created fusion in a jar. Skeptical scientists doubted that the pair had tamed the sun's power source -- at room temperature. The complaint was not just that they had announced their discovery at a press conference rather than in a scientific journal but also that no one else had been able to replicate the experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Calling Dr. Pons | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...sun came...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Cold Night in Hell | 11/3/1990 | See Source »

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