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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will play this summer, and if I do well enough to earn a contract, than I might turn pro," Blake said. "I think you only have a certain amount of time to play tennis at this level, and companies are looking for younger and younger talent to catch them at their peak...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Freshman Phenom Set for Big Time | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...datable by the radiocarbon method, he took it to the University of Arizona dating lab, where scientists scraped off a sample of this natural "varnish" as well as the blood underneath it. They came up with a date of about A.D. 400--definitely not modern, but still 600 years younger than the carving's style suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

Several years later, when the three labs, the University of Arizona among them, produced their wet-blanket dates for the Turin shroud, a possibility flashed through Garza-Valdes' mind. What if the shroud too had a "bioplastic" varnish--and the labs had been fooled into decreeing an object younger than it actually was? In May 1993 Garza-Valdes traveled to Turin, microscope in hand, and was put in touch with Giovanni Riggi, the microanalyst who had parceled out the 1988 samples. Riggi let Garza-Valdes examine a tiny piece of shroud that he assured him came from the same batch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...poetry will be coming out in droves to support the genre, a veritable LiveAid for the literary world. Aside from a brief spate of spoken-word spots on MTV, pop culture seems to have forsaken poetry altogether. Which makes us wonder, can a nationwide publicity blitz sway today's younger readers? What America really needs now is Courtney Love, wearing a diaphanous nightie, reading Czeslaw Milosz from the roof of the Viper Club. Now that would be something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDITORIALS | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Sure, Jerry has his critics. Some claim he exploits human misery for entertainment, decry the sex and violence and lament the influence he may have on younger viewers...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: The Genius of Jerry Springer | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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