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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rock to perform X-ray spectroscopy, says project scientist Justin Maki, "it got a little too enthusiastic." What really happened is that Sojourner's controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to take into account a small outcropping at the base of the rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began trying to climb it. As one of the rover wheels began rolling up the side of Yogi, sensors aboard Sojourner detected a tilt and shut down the little vehicle, leaving it hung up, in effect, on the rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK FESTIVAL ON MARS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...decade's most imperiled collections of stocks. Who is this new-age superhero? None other than Supergeek, a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard & Poor's index of cable stocks rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABLE'S COOL AGAIN | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...PALC and Afro protesters marched out of the hall, their fists thrust upward in a proud, but less-than-victorious, end to the building occupation. They and the cheering supporters paraded through Holyoke Center and down Mt. Auburn Street...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: A Takeover for African Liberation | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

PALC protesters march out of Mass. Hall, their fists thrust upward, in a proud but less-than-victorious end to the 153-hour occupation, the longest in Harvard's history...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Flashback to 1971-'72 | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...house formal actually begins two days prior. It begins on a sunny Friday inside Keezer's Formalwear where he goes to pick up some accessories. He's been to a few of these before and at this point he's used to the incipient nervousness creeping upward from the base of his stomach...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: A Mere Formality | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

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