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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street K is most often diverted in liquid form from vets' offices or medical suppliers. Dealers dry the liquid (usually by cooking it) and grind the residue into powder. K causes hallucinations because it blocks chemical messengers in the brain that carry sensory input; the brain fills the resulting void with visions, dreams, memories, whatever. Sara says that once, after snorting several "bumps" of K, she thought other kids on the dance floor had been decapitated. "But I mean, I really knew they had heads. I was just, like, 'This is so weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS YOUR KID ON K? | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...explained at the Brattle Theatre Tuesday night, was that he "didn't know what the hell it was about." Suddenly one book short of a three-book contract, Vonnegut spent the next few years overhauling the novel, drastically paring down the original "temporal anomaly" plot and filling the void with personal remembrances and ruminations...

Author: By Scott E. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kilgore Was Here | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...fill a void in radio by playing good music that does not make the cut at commercial stations that are afraid of turning off listeners," Baum-Snow said...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: BBC Honors WHRB's Programming | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...captured by Mars' gravity, the ship had to pressurize its fuel lines and fire its retrorockets. The last time NASA tried to orbit Mars was in 1993, and that mission ended during pressurization when a fuel line hemorrhaged, sending the billion-dollar Mars Observer probe spinning into the void. Last Tuesday was Surveyor's turn to prime its lines, and despite some well-bitten nails in Mission Control, this time things went perfectly. "To see this event pass successfully is a great relief," said project manager Glenn Cunningham after the pressurization was done. Two days later, the ship fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULL'S-EYE ON MARS | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...Freud," Professor of German Peter J. Burgard's new offering, sets out to fill a void in Freud scholarship at Harvard...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: ELEVEN ELECTIVES | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

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