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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made a decision at the time to have each quarter devoted to one important subject that each intelligent person would want to know about, whether he was a scientist, social scientist, humanist or alert layman. I knew of no other such American journal," Holton says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daedalus Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

TIME, like Luce, was alert to the nuances of American power, which, in a way, was the ultimate focus of the magazine's interest. Occasionally, TIME went against the grain of majority opinion, as when Luce, who came to dislike Franklin Roosevelt, pushed Wendell Willkie as the American hope in 1940, or when, after Luce's death in 1967, the magazine seemed to predict the wrong presidential "inevitabilities"--Maine's Edmund Muskie in 1972, say, or Texas' John Connally in '80. As a monitor connected to the nation's political generators, the magazine sometimes misinterpreted the vibrations. In general, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History: The Time Of Our Lives | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Then what? The U.S. has 28 warships, 356 planes and 33,000 troops on alert in the Persian Gulf area, costing about $100 million a month more than the U.S. was already spending on forces in the region. Clinton and Albright argue that by going this extra mile with Saddam, the U.S. will have more support the next time it calls for using force. Maybe so, now that Annan has added his prestige to a deal, but only if the world feels deeply cheated and is ready to punish Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Deal Work? | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...ORAL ALERT Viral infections--including HIV--can be transmitted by oral sex, concludes a review of the data. The partner whose mouth is in contact appears most at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

Under the new emergency alert system, when a caller dials the final digit in 911, the name and address of the phone line's owner appear immediately on the police computer...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Neighbors Complain Of Poor Street Lighting | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

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