Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...match orbits with the comet, Stardust and Wild 2 will still shoot past each other at nearly 4 miles per second, 10 times as fast as a speeding bullet. In order to catch dust particles without disintegrating them, Jet Propulsion Lab engineer Peter Tsou first thought of making a trap out of Styrofoam; he figured dust would bury itself harmlessly inside. Unfortunately, says Tsou, "cosmic dust particles are so small that on Styrofoam, I wouldn't be able to see them...
Harvard really started to turn it on in thethird period. Ahead 3-2, Northeastern tried to sitback in a neutral zone trap, content to stop upHarvard's offense and whittle down the clock. Withjust over seven minutes remaining in the game,Harvard finally broke through thanks to pressuredown low. On the second of two great rebounds,freshman for ward Jeff Stonehouse clanged his shotoff the crossbar. It was the first in a series ofchances that finally culminated in Scorsune'sgoal...
...primly sitting or looking sour while President Clinton gave the speech of his life. But afterward, rather than raising the impeachment scandal, members of the GOP mostly confined their gripes to White House policy -- which is just what Clinton wanted. "The President is trying to set up the same trap as last year, which is to put the Republicans against Social Security," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Though Dick Armey attacked the proposed budget -- "a $4 trillion surplus, and not a penny for tax cuts?" -- Wednesday morning, Dickerson says, Republicans were toning down the rhetoric, going out of their...
Though I continue to fall into this trap every year, I now know that my mid-December visions of a worry-free vacation and a productive, efficient reading period are a stretch at best and imaginary at worst. It's not the workload that really bothers me. It's not even the schedule itself that makes me rue this time of year, because in some ways our post-break exam system is a blessing: no other school I know of gives its students quite this much time to prepare for exams and catch up on reading that got skimmed, forgotten...
...just lost heart. But his life also started to drift as the music spun out of control. His manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had wrapped him so tight in a skein of interwoven business and publishing deals that he had little creative room to move. "We're caught in a trap," he sings with devastating intensity in Suspicious Minds, one of the great tunes of the later years, sounding like a lifer who has the keys to his own cell but has lost them somewhere in the dark that frightens...