Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Steep Nazareth in a bright sun. The 60,000 Arabs here are Israeli citizens, but the character of the town is distinctly Arab, with winding streets and souks. The Jews live on an opposite hill in modern houses with broad streets that might have been transplanted from suburban America...
...diminished expectations, for one thing. The children of the large baby-boom generation are reaching their expensive teenage years, and college costs loom. Something's got to give. Many consumers also feel a back-to-basics sense of relief now that '80s icons like the Santa Fe look, sun-dried tomatoes and goat-cheese pizza have seen their day. Such ordinary pleasures as gardening, milk shakes and fried chicken and mashed potatoes are acceptable once more. Exclusive name brands no longer carry the same cachet or inspire the same hell-bent-for-leather efforts to pay for them, because nobody...
...contestant looked like a horseshoe. Another resembled a giant pizza box with a bubble on the top. Others were shaped like teardrops, pea pods, torpedoes or pyramids. All were festooned with dark glassy cells that shimmered like fish scales in the sun as the vehicles purred, rather than roared, down the back roads of America. Along the way, people gawked and pointed, squinted and saluted, did double takes, took snapshots and lifted small children to give them a better look at what their future might hold. "Oh, here comes another one!" cried Susie Black, one of hundreds of people...
...weird-looking machines are the solar-powered cars competing in GM Sunrayce USA, the nation's largest ever race for vehicles propelled solely by power from the sun's rays. Built by science and engineering students from 32 American and Canadian colleges and universities, the innovative cars, capable of reaching speeds of up to 113 k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical...
...Washington University built a car with two drivers seated back to back and a solar panel tipped rakishly, and permanently, to one side. In the morning students drove with the panel tilted toward the east. After lunch they simply turned the car around, so its panel caught the afternoon sun, and drove backward the rest...