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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fall of 1985, the Chicago Bears were ripping up the NFL on their way to Super Bowl XX, led by tough, fearsome players like Mike Singletary, the late Walter Payton and William "The Refrigerator" Perry. Their hardnose, determined style of play inspired many young boys growing up in Chicago to throw off their Cubs gear and put on the pads...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like Sands of an Hourglass | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

DIED. WALTER PAYTON, 45, Hall of Fame Chicago Bears running back who gained 16,726 rushing yds.--more than anyone else in NFL history; of bile-duct cancer; in Barrington, Ill. (see Eulogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

These temples of scientific and technological enlightenment trace their roots to Munich's pioneering Deutsches Museum, created in 1903. Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and Philadelphia's Franklin Institute brought the movement to the U.S. in the 1930s. Science centers took a giant leap forward, says Franklin's Dennis Wint, in 1969 when man walked on the moon and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto ushered in the hands-on era by inviting museumgoers to explore science by pulling ropes, cranking levers and sounding gongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Time for Sci-Tech Centers | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Canada may find that friends back home are ignorant of all but a few Canadian schools, like McGill. Fortunately, those who count--graduate-admissions deans and corporate recruiters--know better. A Canadian university degree is welcome at such top U.S. graduate schools as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Chicago and M.I.T. Major U.S. corporations such as IBM, Ford Motor and Arthur Andersen increasingly recruit at Canadian schools. Graduates of the University of Waterloo, with its world-class math and computer-science programs, are recruited by Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Film- production students at Concordia University in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: College Abroad | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...year-old man in Chicago is charged with beating his three-year-old stepson to death. The medical examiner's report details severe injury and abuse occurring over a period of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Dangerous Steps | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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