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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand his little universe. Newton, the 17th century's formidable prodigy, simply enlarged the project. The first of his family of Lincolnshire yeomen to be able to write his name, Newton grew into a touchy, passionately focused introvert who could go without sleep for days and live on bread and wine, and, at an astonishingly precocious age, absorbed everything important that was known to science up to that time (the works of Aristotle and, after that, the new men who superseded him: Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes and Galileo, who died in 1642, the year Newton was born). Riding on the shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17th Century: Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...general, carbohydrates are your friends. Alcohol affects the way your body metabolizes nutrients, causing many people's blood sugar to drop. You may not fancy the idea of eating solid food the morning after, but nibbling on some crackers or a piece of bread should help overcome your sugar blues. And you shouldn't drink on an empty stomach. Imbibing during a meal slows absorption of alcohol and gives your body more time to detoxify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Party | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...character seems to be in danger of becoming rehearsed, soon he expertly shapes and surfaces the dark, manipulative undercurrent of Moss's persona, as well as his jealousy and frustration. David Waller '00 occasionally flounders but eventually pulls through in his well-defined portrayal of John Williamson, the white-bread office manager whose position of power and seemingly cold, tattle-tale tactics render him an object of both envy and scorn by the other sellers...

Author: By By JULIE L. rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Glengarry: Not A World of Men--Ruiz assembles power cast in Kronauer space | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

BEEF: Lousy, processed food STUNT: Noisy picnic press conference with cheese and French bread in front of McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rattled In Seattle | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...that the real problem in these places was not communism but poverty. And the solution was not war but economic assistance. As Senator Christopher Dodd said in a nationally televised 1983 address opposing President Reagan's request for military aid to El Salvador, "We must hear the cry for bread and schools, work and opportunity, that comes from campesinos everywhere in this hemisphere." Well, it turns out that the best cure for the poverty the left so agonized about then is precisely what the left is demonstrating against today--capitalism and trade. In one country alone, China, capitalism and trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Luddites | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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