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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire). He saw it as a major shaper of the earth, circulating in underground caverns and emerging as geysers and mountain springs, and infusing all of life--an idea he often incorporated in his art by painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEONARDO REDUX | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Upton, whose grandfather was a founder of Whirlpool, is an ardent deficit fighter; in 1995, the Concord Coalition named him the fourth most fiscally conservative member of Congress. He initiated the fda Reform Plan, which enables medical-supply companies to produce goods for export that do not yet have fda approval--a popular program in the Sixth, home to Upjohn. Upton will be hard to beat; in five re-election bids, he has never won with less than 58% of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MICHIGAN | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...addition to the equipment on the main level, WellBridge offers a heated pool, complete with a whirlpool and potted cacti, an aerobic studio with a tiled wood floor and a locker room with a sauna and a steam room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Join Gym, MAC Quality Cited | 10/2/1996 | See Source »

...most interesting shot in the movie is of Chinese men spreading out mah-jong tiles. The tiles slide around the tables like a whirlpool suggesting the smooth, swirling plot the movie should have had. But we quickly return to our world of five mile-per-hour car chases and a fool chase involving Angie Everheart which, although almost anything is better with Angie Everheart than it would be without her, is awfully disappointing...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: JADE | 10/12/1995 | See Source »

Kirshner, who chairs the astronomy department, himself studies supernovae using the Hubble telescope most recently one in the Whirlpool galaxy...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: HUBBLE DATA NAILS DOWN A BLACK HOLE | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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