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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The 155 passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan had better cancel their New Year's plans. That assessment after the country's ruling Taliban militia on Thursday eliminated what may have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban Ban on Raid Set to Extend Hijack Agony | 12/30/1999 | See Source »

France's worst storm in this century highlighted an advanced industrial society's vulnerability to nature's wrath. "The sight of toppled steeples and chimneys and craters opening up in old structures all over Paris after a storm makes you wonder what a small earth tremor could do to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Leaves Millions Without Heat, Power | 12/29/1999 | See Source »

In a development that could give new meaning to the term "experiential learning," a number of American universities are under investigation for misuse of heroin, cocaine, LSD and marijuana provided for research studies. According to the Associated Press, the Drug Enforcement Administration is looking into the research programs of at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemistry 101: The World of "Nose Candy" | 12/29/1999 | See Source »

Looking to shine some light into the murky medicinal netherworld of online drug sales, the Clinton administration Tuesday proposed that the federal government begin policing cyber-pharmacies In the bricks-and-mortar world, drugstores are regulated by states, but state authorities have had a hard time overseeing sites based outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rx for Web Drug Abuse: Bring in the Feds | 12/28/1999 | See Source »

Is the USDA ready for an Oprah-style trial, deep in the cattle-raising heart of Texas? They'd better be. According to a recent Associated Press report, head honchos at the Agriculture Department want to soften long-standing restrictions on soy as a meat replacement. The agency proposed using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Schools Hold the Lunch Meat? | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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