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...some role for nuclear weapons, they do think keeping an eye on runaway asteroids makes sense. This week, after several months of studying the issue, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will urge Congress to establish a tracking and detection system that could sound the alert if a big chunk of celestial rock starts heading this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Talk About Star Wars | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...blistering boil," "nose slime drip" and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: Santa Might Get Sick | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

...proud new owner of a chunk of Lenin statue Greg, Carr, a 1986 Kennedy School graduate, said the piece will become part of a "very in formal" collection which also includes part of the Berlin Wall...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: K-School Auction Nets $8520 for Internships | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

...Kennedy was just elected," he says, "and he took a large chunk of the faculty with him to Washington. It felt like [Harvard was] the center of the world...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: A 48-Year-Old Senior | 2/8/1992 | See Source »

While Yale does not calculate an actual arts and sciences budget each year, its faculty of arts and sciences makes up "a pretty big chunk" of the university's budget, Long says. And since salaries and department expenses are among those most easily manipulated, the arts and sciences budget must compensate for a significant portion of the $8.8 million shortfall...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recession Hits Universities Hard | 1/31/1992 | See Source »

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