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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This story, of course, comes out of the old country. You don't find anyone this stubborn and proud who didn't get it from a hungry immigrant who came over with empty pockets and big eyes. George Sr.'s father Antonio boarded a boat in Naples in 1893 with nothing but a copy of the family's secret fireworks recipes. Hilly New Castle reminded him of Naples in look and climate--as it did several other Italian pyrotechnicians. So the first thing he did was lock those formulas in a safe, and that is where they are today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...know that anything is possible in America. A man gets off a boat from another land, sets up shop, and his son becomes a millionaire painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

They're up industry-wide, 11.6% in the first quarter, to their highest level in 20 years. People want bigger and better RVs, says Corson, who sells everything from a $3,500 folding trailer to a $160,000 motor home the size of the Love Boat. They want AC, microwave, satellite dishes, PC stations, hydraulic slide-outs to expand room size when parked. If Coachmen could figure out how to make one with a back lawn, some Joe's going to buy the damn thing and mow it while Ethel does 65 on the interstate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...former CIA renegade who's drafted into Operation Back-Step, a time-travel mission that goes back seven days to undo damage wrought by the attack, bring the President back to life and save the world. If that's too much, there's always another UPN series--The Love Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UPN Goes After the Boys With Bangs and Bucks | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...surfer and a hospital corpsman in Vietnam. He is a presidential adviser on germ warfare and a millionaire yachtsman who, in his 82-ft. sloop Sorcerer, won the first transatlantic race he entered. Indeed, Sorcerer is an appropriate name for a boat owned by J. Craig Venter, one of America's most high-profile biologists. For Venter has conjured up an audacious plan that has so shaken the world of science that it was the focus of a congressional hearing last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venter's Bold Venture | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

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