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The space shuttle Atlantis is to thunder off the launch pad early in the evening of Wednesday, February 7, carrying the newest segment of the International Space Station, a U.S. laboratory module named Destiny. NASA managers, rarely stolid when it comes to shuttle launches, have taken to describing Destiny as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantis Readies for Liftoff | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

If the great state of California had never existed, or if it had sundered along the edge of the Rockies and sunk, Atlantis-like, into the Pacific, what would the arts of the world have lost?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Flawed Ex-Paradise | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

So far, little has been done. Part of the problem, of course, is that excessive worrying and planning are radically at odds with the spirit of the Big Easy. Despite the damage inflicted by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and the near miss of Andrew in 1992, New Orleans is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Orleans: The Big Easy On the Brink | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

The Republic used to be a very large entity in ancient times, perhaps one million people. The ancient Kisone had a language which is still in the recovery process, as there were many dialects. However, though maps of the original land mass have been recovered, a land mass matching it...

Author: By K.l. Rakowski, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Fowler Cleared of Landgate Scandal | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

Out-of-control events of nature have been visiting regularly for a few years now, of course. Think - to pick an example almost at random - of the summer of 1993, when rain poured down biblically for weeks and the Mississippi overflowed to become a vast, shallow brown ocean and submerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deep Freeze Leads to Deep Unease | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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