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His son shook things up even more, not only changing his name to honor the new god (Akhenaten means "one who serves Aten") but also banishing the older gods, especially the priestly favorite Amen. Some scholars believe Akhenaten's monotheism, a historic first, inspired the Hebrew prophets, but it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Pharaohs Of The Sun | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Today, like every day, a woman and her toddler girl board me at the stop just past The Plough and the Stars. Today, like every day, all of the other passengers smile and coo as the pair finds a seat. The woman is pretty--fine-featured and petite; the daughter...

Author: By Lisa J. Powell, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Diary of a Bus | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

When voters put their presidential candidates on the examining table, the first test is whether they have enough "fire in the belly" for the job. Americans like to see whether their future President can make it through a tough campaign. When he gets to the Oval Office, the theory goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: In This Corner... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Smith calls the film "a bizarre mix of lowbrow jokes and highbrow concepts and then vice versa." Ain't it, though? He mixes poop and prophecy, scatology and eschatology; he crams his script with enough belly laughs for six Adam Sandler movies and enough citations of angelology and the Gnostic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can God Take A Joke? | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

The U.S. Constitution, moreover, doesn't have a clone clause. As long as you are a citizen and 35 or older, you're eligible. The age requirement means it can't happen for a while--2036 at the earliest (presuming that someone hasn't already secretly created the first human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could A Clone Ever Run For President? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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