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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With their ailing captain, Ross Cockrell, struggling not to leave deposits in the sand traps, Harvard's other four players were on their own. Junior Robert Kincaid led the team, shooting 76-80--156 for the two-round, two-day tournament at the par-72 Hickory Ridge Country Club in...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Good News, Bad News For Golfers at Toski | 10/2/1990 | See Source »

Human activities have also disrupted the delicate natural systems that maintain water supplies. To obtain wood and clear land for homes and farms, mankind is chopping down forests at an unprecedented rate. But vegetation traps water, reducing runoff and replenishing groundwater supplies. Throughout the world, tree cutting has led to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Last Drops | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

"My interest in Egyptology began in third grade. It was a social studies class on Egypt. We had an assignment to do a design for the traps inside a pyramid. Mine went on for about three or four sheets of construction paper, and finally they had to tell me to...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

When a five-year civil war in the early 1980s drove farmers to abandon their land and livestock, swarms of once docile domestic pigs and their offspring returned to the wild, rooting up the earth in peasants' gardens and devouring cassava, sweet potato and groundnut crops. With their powerful sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uganda: Night of the Wild Pigs | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Sununu, whose task was to keep the Republican right quiet until the summit concluded, apparently did his job with far greater zeal than Bush intended. Sununu's efforts almost torpedoed the summit before it started. Democrats immediately took them as confirmation of their darkest suspicions -- that Bush is again trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush: Ignore My Lips | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

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