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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pages of impossible changes, then kissed off the plan entirely as a "fake document." In the streets of Belgrade, Serbs reiterated their attachment to Kosovo but secretly believed a last-minute deal would be made to ward off NATO bombs. Not until Thursday night did Serbian state television even begin to hint that the threat of air strikes was growing real. And somewhere, burrowed into the rooms of the old Tito residence he rarely leaves, Milosevic was mulling over his difficult choices...
...face restrictions on everything from how they generate electricity to how they wash their cars--are rallying to the cause, reacting with none of the fury that greeted measures to protect the spotted owl in 1990. There are, to be sure, some dissenting voices, and when the new policies begin to bite, there are likely to be more. The only thing that seems certain so far is that saving the salmon will be an uphill fight...
...about two years, and it is these small, silvery fish that make the improbable migration from freshwater river to saltwater ocean. Smolts that survive the trip--and plenty don't--spend four years at sea, feeding and growing to full adult size (3 lbs. to 126 lbs.). Then they begin the long upstream journey D back to their hatching grounds, where they spawn and, a few weeks later, die. A small number of adults may survive this stage and, stubbornly, return to the ocean to repeat the cycle once more...
...next and last TIME 100 issue, looking at the heroes and icons who shaped our century, comes out this summer. Then we'll begin the daunting task of picking a Person of the Century. Comparing the impact of scientists with that of artists, leaders and heroes will be difficult. Even with the luxury of historic hindsight, it's hard to gauge who had the most effect. (Pop quiz: Who had more lasting influence in the 16th century, Shakespeare or Martin Luther, Magellan or Michelangelo, Elizabeth I or the Mogul leader Akbar...
Even then, Keynes had a hard sell. Most economists of the era rejected his idea and favored balanced budgets. Most politicians didn't understand his idea to begin with. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist," Keynes wrote. In the 1932 presidential election, Franklin D. Roosevelt had blasted Herbert Hoover for running a deficit, and dutifully promised he would balance the budget if elected. Keynes' visit to the White House two years later to urge F.D.R. to do more deficit spending wasn't exactly a blazing...