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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're not quite racists. I'm sure they have a smidgen of diversity within their sales-force ranks. It's hard to describe them as chauvinists since I'm certain that they have a smattering of female executives. And I'm willing to bet that they even have a couple of retailers with crooked noses that are prone to the occasional pimple...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Abercrombie and the "American" Image | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...turns to panic. "You do find some men in their 30s who suddenly realize they've spent too much time on their careers," DePalmo says. Bhatia, at least for the moment, remains sanguine. "I work 18 hours a day because it's fun," he says. "I've chosen a certain life, and I've been pretty successful. For right now, success and marriage don't really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dating: Romance Can Wait | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

What makes hurricanes? They are, in essence, just big wind machines that move heat from the equator to the poles. While they do this very efficiently, the same task could be performed by swarms of independent thunderstorms. It takes a certain amount of magic, in other words, to set a hurricane in motion. First, you have to make the thunderstorms, and then "you have to get the thunderstorms dancing," as Florida State University climatologist James O'Brien puts it. "You have to get them dancing in a big circle dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wait Till Next Time | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...those storms be? That's harder to estimate, in part because a very big storm is in some ways its own worst enemy. "A hurricane has a noticeable cooling effect on the ocean," explains atmospheric scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Indeed, at a certain stage of its life cycle, a storm of a given size will stir up enough cold water to put a halt to its growth. At that point, scientists say, it has come into equilibrium. Maintaining that balance is especially hard, because if a hurricane stirs up too much cold water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wait Till Next Time | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...launch pyrotechnic military tear-gas rounds into the Branch Davidian compound. However, as government caveats go, the devices did not cause any kind of fire or explosion within the besieged domicile. This is like crew members of the Enola Gay saying that although they did drop a certain atomic device over Hiroshima in 1945, the inevitable explosion was not a result of anything they did. Rather, the Japanese somehow nuked themselves. ROBERT GLENN Edmonds, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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