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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...geologist was able to demonstrate thatNorth America was in fact a "collage" of manyformerly independent continents...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Geology Professor Tenured | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...country?s center-right-controlled parliament. The protests of opposition legislators won?t resonate with the electorate, who are still overwhelmingly behind the 45-year-old former paratrooper and failed coup leader. "Most Venezuelans support Chavez because the country?s traditional parties were so corrupt," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. But enthused though they may be by Chavez's promise to share the country?s oil wealth with the impoverished majority, they may be disappointed in him in the long run. "Chavez may be able to use oil revenues to provide health, education and social services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Americans Should Be Watching Venezuela | 8/31/1999 | See Source »

...cream scoops to condominiums. That process has become a business in itself for consultants like SHR Perceptual Management, whose clients, such as Ford, General Mills and Coca-Cola, want artistic help for their brands. "It's all about brand," says Mark Dziersk, president of the Industrial Designers Society of America. "It's attaching the personality to the product that's important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Allure of Commodity Chic | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...small comfort in the era of prime-time segregation: a show that proves black and white actors can make mediocre yuppie-relationship comedies together, just as they can separately. Jaleel White (formerly Family Matters' Steve Urkel) and buddies are--like much of the demo-targeted population of sitcom America--adjusting to postcollegiate life as urbane young men and women, though the only real evidence of this is that they drink wine, smoke cigars and talk on cell phones. Their gay-and-lesbian-obsessed sex banter is still firmly stuck in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grown-Ups | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...resentment. But no amount of carping by labor over the widening chasm between the earnings of the fat cats and the paycheck of the working stiff is likely to change the equation. Shaming the wealthy may be a longstanding pastime in Europe, but nobody apologizes for being rich in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trickle-Down Economy? How About Cascade-Up? | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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