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WOODY ALLEN AND SOON YI PREVIN He was 56; she was 21 (although she has no birth certificate, and could have been younger) But: technically, he was not her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Gandhi did not see the full realization of his dreams; India finally gained independence, but a civil war between Hindus and Muslims resulted, despite his efforts, in the bloody birth of Pakistan. He was killed, on his way to prayers, by a Hindu fanatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...What better way to toast the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birth than with a Pushkin vodka and a box of Pushkin chocolates? Perhaps with a visit to Yakutia, which touted itself as the place where Pushkin's friends were exiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Would Be Speechless | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...sesquicentennial of Goethe's birth, 250 illuminated busts of the German poet were lined up in a meadow in downtown Weimar. Fans could buy stockings imprinted with his lyrics or a vibrator bearing his likeness. An exhibition of his drawings was hung at Buchenwald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Would Be Speechless | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...frozen embryo implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You My Mommy? | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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