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Damage from the incident was apparently limited. When inspected yesterday after the fire, a batch of approximately 25 chocolate chip cookies appeared unburnt...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cookies Spark Fire Scare In Quincy House Kitchen | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

...This chunky, round-faced and unknown young woman with the great grin didn't dare to think about winning even after the race was over. But she ran second behind the fine U.S. racer Christin Cooper in the first run, and after the second, fizzing with joy and unburnt energy, she had taken the gold .4 sec. ahead of Cooper, who finished with a silver. "I was so high and happy, and it was so much fun," Armstrong raved. "There I was, a few weeks ago, still worrying whether I would make the Olympic team, and here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The High and Mighty | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...added evidence that the diamonds arrived in a meteorite, Sobotovich cited their level of carbon 14, a radioactive isotope of carbon found in meteorites that have been subjected to prolonged bombardment by cosmic rays in space. University of Chicago Geochemist Edward Anders cautions that even a trace of unburnt peat could produce a high reading of carbon 14. But, based on these levels, the Soviets calculate that the meteorite must have weighed at least 4,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireball over Siberia: 1908 | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

...assurances of general health, the result will be a bland journalism that serves no one's interest. "A fire is reported," says Reuven Frank, "but not the houses that didn't burn." Should network producers like Frank decide that they must use news time for programs, on unburnt houses, they will be apt to avoid tough subjects entirely. The eventual settlement of the NBC case is certain to have enormous impact on the future of TV and radio reporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who Decides Fairness? | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...Trail. Demoralized, the Viet Cong drew back. In the morning light, more than 100 Communist dead dangled on the wire, some clutching grenades and belts of unburnt ammunition. They belonged to the battle-hardened 580th and 801st Viet Cong battalions, and the dead carried new, Communist-bloc weapons-tying the guerrillas to outside supplies of ammunition and spare parts-a sure sign of Communist confidence in ultimate victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Victory at Kannack | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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