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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, for the organizers of some of the millennium's most ambitious bacchanals, Dec. 31, 1999, may just have come a decade or so too late. There's something a bit retro, a shade Dynasty-esque, about such gilded offerings as the Chicago Fairmont Hotel's two-night suite package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Granted that most of us don't have such options to begin with, there's still a universal theme in Wyatt's choice: the yearning for home in a helter-skelter era. This has been a millennium spent on the road. Colonizations and immigrations. Expeditions to the ocean floor, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Unlike Britons, whose concerns about what they eat have been on the rise ever since "mad cow disease" (even though it had nothing to do with genetic engineering), Americans have seemed indifferent to g.m. foods. Not that they have much choice: half of all soybeans, about a third of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetically Modified Food: Who's Afraid of Frankenfood? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Not that any direct threat to health from genetically modified foods has been found, except by a lone British researcher who claimed--somewhat dubiously--that g.m. potatoes damaged his lab rats. On the contrary, as scientists told the FDA, genetically modified foods could carry clear health benefits, such as delivering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetically Modified Food: Who's Afraid of Frankenfood? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

A. Certainly, we must count our blessings. But for years we've been told day in and day out that the year 2000 teems with consequence of all sorts: numerical, technological, theological. So when we wake up and smell the skim latte and discover that nothing has really changed other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Doctor Y2K | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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