Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eagerly picked up your magazine this week to get some insight regarding succeeding in the digital age from the greatest digital visionary of the 20th century. Imagine my disappointment when I read the trite suggestions that Gates came up with. Insist on e-mail? Study sales data online? My four-year-old nephew could have come up with such gems while watching Barney on the boob tube. Who is Gates' target audience for these pearls of wisdom? SANJAY THOMAS Ottawa...
...Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union were the monsters of the 20th century, China has all the makings of becoming the monster of the 21st century. The Chinese government steals technology from the U.S., sells arms and technology illegally to other countries, violates human rights with impunity, amasses nuclear weapons, continues to occupy Tibet and threatens Taiwan's safety and security. Yet it always gets a sweetheart deal from the U.S. and is crowned a most favored nation. By the time we finally wake up, the monster will have emerged full-fledged. CHARLES PUTHOTA Milwaukee...
TIME's continuing series of special issues naming the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when the magazine names a single figure as the Person of the Century. To help TIME's editors decide, we are asking a select group of people to tell us whom they would choose. Here is a first sampler of thought-provoking suggestions...
...seems to be that the female is determined entirely by genetics. Therefore, studies of the habits of prehistoric females help us see what roles are suitable for modern females. But my question is, Why would any intelligent person with freedom of choice, living at the very end of the 20th century, want to base her actions, roles and self-concept on those of cavewomen? It would make about as much sense to base her actions on those of chimpanzees. ROBERT REESE Bulawayo, Zimbabwe...
...what is meant by "empty space," which turns out not to be empty at all. There are also serious philosophical problems created by the Big Bang, which can be described but not explained. Worse, nobody has been able to reconcile quantum physics with the other great triumph of 20th century physics: Einstein's theory of gravitation. Until that is done, the true nature of our universe will remain beyond...