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Dates: during 1990-1999
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His first patent, for an electric vote recorder, taught him a lesson that would guide the rest of his career. There was no demand, at the time, for electric vote recorders, and his device earned him nothing. Edison vowed never again to invent something unless he could be sure it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 19th Century: Thomas Edison (1847-1931) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

There is a more nuanced, even insidious, argument for Hitler's pre-eminence: that good and evil are dependent on one another. It is a fundamental tenet to many religions that evil, while mysterious, may clear the way for good, that the soul is perfected only in battle, that pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

1224-1424 Notre Dame de Chartres (112 ft.). Again and again, over the course of 200 years, fire destroyed the cathedral as commoners, clergy and nobility struggled to raise it. But with its towers, sculpture and luminous stained glass, it became the crown of the High Gothic age as it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

The airport tarmac at Kandahar became a battlefield of regional political intrigue as the hostages sweated and shivered through sweltering days and chilly nights: Initially, India looked set to restore relations with the Afghan rulers on the basis of their cooperation with Indian efforts to free the hostages, but then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands Tied, India Caves in to Hijackers | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Of course, not all Y2K troubles are of the man-made variety. Plenty of people believe that 2000 means the end of a lot more than just your operating system, and in The Rapture, writer-director Michael (The Player) Tolkin seriously wonders if maybe they aren't right. Starring Mimi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You're Not Doing Anything for New Year's... | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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