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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very interesting aspect of this eclipse is that the planet Saturn will be very close to the moon," said McRobert. "You will see it as the bright yellow-white star-like object about one thumb's width below the moon during the eclipse...

Author: By Shannon A. Carty, | Title: Total Lunar Eclipse Draws Admiring Crowds | 9/27/1996 | See Source »

...most striking image clearly showed a segmented, tubelike object, with a width about a hundredth that of a human hair, and to the untrained eye clearly resembling a life-form. Apparently to some trained eyes also. "When I took it home and put it on the kitchen table," says Everett Gibson Jr., a geochemist at the Johnson Space Center, "my wife, who is a biologist, asked, 'What are these bacteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE ON MARS | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

Andros Mark VI-A $70,000 (basic model) This hazardous-duty robot can climb stairs at a 45 [degree] angle and make 180 [degree] turns. It can carry two TV monitors and open fire on targets with a mounted shotgun. Its 17-in.-to-19-in. width allows it to get into tight spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 15, 1996 | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...aspect of the musical. The Whore's (Carol Stearns) frock, inspired by Toulouse-Lautrec drawings, is surprisingly faithful to the turn of the century seaside bordello aesthetic. Outfits from the '70s shimmer hilariously under a real disco ball, and are, of course, heavy on the polyester and pant leg width. The brainless visual humor some of the costuming is a welcome relief from the show's tedious, formulaic development--made more tedious by the lack of intermission...

Author: By Fabian Giraldo, | Title: Costumes Shine in Hello | 2/8/1996 | See Source »

Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOBLINS TO SAINTS | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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