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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As with all unfamiliar technology, there are a few hurdles you'll have to jump and plenty of chances to get ripped off along the way. First of all, the standard for this medium is a superfast cable called FireWire (geeks know it as IEEE 1394, and Sony folks call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home, Hearth & Hollywood | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

To prepare for the transplant, Keone had to undergo nine days of chemotherapy. The object was to kill his bone marrow, the source of his sickled blood cells, as well as to neutralize his immune system so it would accept the new cells. These came from an anonymous donor at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sickle-Cell Kid | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

For most of the 1990s, NASA's Dan Goldin has come across as the very model of a modern government administrator. Facing criticism that the space agency was wasting money, Goldin declared at the start of his tenure that he would turn the problem into an opportunity, finding ways to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Reconsidered | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Or maybe not. With the Mars Polar Lander all but written off as a total loss, and the catastrophic failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter three months earlier, NASA is fast becoming the Dan Quayle of government agencies. Late-night comics have been roasting it mercilessly, while the Washington Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Reconsidered | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

O.K., so maybe the ribbing is a little unfair. Despite NASA's can-do public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Reconsidered | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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