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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when the demand for drugs is growing. Pharmaceuticals companies are making what seem like almost daily breakthroughs on diseases like Alzheimer's, arthritis and mood disorders. The allure of all these new drugs makes their high cost that much more frustrating to those who want them. "The drugs aren't seen just as a cure for illness. They're seen as essential to an active, healthy lifestyle. That makes the issue even more salient," says pollster Garin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screaming For Relief | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Aliens aren't our job," says Chief Benedict wearily. Yet much of his time is spent picking up lost strangers on the reservation and turning them over to the border patrol. He points out a dozen regular drop-off points, like old marinas and abandoned houses. For several days last week, he was on the alert for Hussein Fayid, an accused Lebanese murderer and reputed Hizballah money mover. Authorities traced Fayid through Toronto. Just outside the Mohawk reservation, he slipped away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Smuggling Is A Good Business | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Pokemon you have, the greater power you possess (the slogan is GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL). And never underestimate a child's ability to master the Pokearcana required to accumulate such power: the ease with which they slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. Grownups aren't ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Is Pokemon payback for our get-rich-quick era--with our offspring led away like lemmings by Pied Poke-Pipers of greed? Or is there something inherent in childhood that Pokemania simply reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Linux, you'll recall, is "open source" software, designed, updated and debugged by an army of volunteers. Although its advocates insist that it crashes far less often than Windows, and it is undeniably cheaper, the judge says Linux can't beat Windows for the simple reason that there aren't enough programs written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fringe Benefits | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Retailers aren't there yet. That perfect calibration of consumer desire and selling proficiency will require more information--privacy advocates say too much information--about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Click and Dagger: Is the Web Spying on You? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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