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...enthusiasts, you ain't seen nothin' yet. In a few years, predicts Flock, "people are going to have faster connections and processors, more memory and more storage. These worlds are going to become the dominant form of entertainment." Which should even bring down the cost of those Mytheral breastplates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grab Your Breastplate! | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...course you want to get your money's worth (at an average daily cost of $213, according to AAA, food and lodging for a family of four ain't cheap), but overplanning can backfire. "Before you worry about any of the logistics, you need to remember that this is special time with your kids," says Candyce Stapen, author of the Great Family Vacations series. "It's not about seeing every Civil War battlefield; it's about being together as a family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Travel: Are We There Yet? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...this ain?t Y2K, either. The Melissa virus affected 19 percent of U.S. corporations; Taylor doubts Explore.Zip will come anywhere near that. "It?s not nearly as infectious," Taylor says. "Of course, those that it hits, it hits much harder. Still, it?s just a matter of shutting down the network and deleting the virus, computer by computer," he says, and that didn?t take long even for big dominoes like Microsoft (down a few hours) or Boeing (a few days). As for the perpetrator, all we know is that he?s an expert programmer who knows long-dead language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Worm and No Play for Virus Victims | 6/15/1999 | See Source »

...through the crowds and signs autographs. He has probably signed more autographs than any other athlete ever, living or dead. It is his principal activity at home, working at his desk. He was once denied an autograph by his idol, Sugar Ray Robinson ("Hello, kid, how ya doin'? I ain't got time"), and vowed he would never turn anyone down. The volume of mail is enormous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUHAMMAD ALI: The Greatest | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Before Jackie Robinson broke the color line, I wasn't permitted even to think about being a professional baseball player. I once mentioned something to my father about it, and he said, "Ain't no colored ballplayers." There were the Negro Leagues, of course, where the Dodgers discovered Jackie, but my mother, like most, would rather her son be a schoolteacher than a Negro Leaguer. All that changed when Jackie put on No. 42 and started stealing bases in a Brooklyn uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE ROBINSON: The Trailblazer | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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