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Dates: during 1990-1999
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POSSIBLE RATIONALE Both Dharma and Dylan are throwbacks to the 1960s

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 6, 1999 | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

The kite theory evokes a rolling of eyes, however, from professional Egyptologists, most of whom believe the pyramid builders used ramps. Many of these experts are weary of amateurs' pushing bizarre theories that often involve space aliens. "Even if Caltech demonstrates you can lift heavy blocks using kites, that doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Build A Pyramid? Go Fly A Kite | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Now look at the other side. As every Middle East hand knows, Arab (or Turkish) coffee, especially when spiced with cardamom, is among the best in the world. But when did Arabs last win a war? Or the Italians, who have given the world the Gaggia and the macchiato? Indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Which brings us to the decline and fall of the American empire. Yes, the mightiest nation on earth still slugs it out with the Saddams and the Milosevics. But willpower is melting away like foamed milk on top of a double-shot decaf. The numbers speak for themselves. At the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Why great empires thus falter was explained by a 16th century Arab physician. Imbibe the brew, he warned, and "the body becomes a mere shadow of its former self. The heart and the guts are so weakened..." Or, in modern parlance, you polish either your gold-plated Melior or your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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