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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...period had been butchered with stone implements. Cut marks on one antelope jawbone suggest that the hominids used a sharp stone flake to remove the animal's tongue. The leg bone of another animal is scarred by cuts, chop marks and signs of hammering, evidence that it was scraped clean of meat and bashed open to expose the nutritious marrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...billion Number of people worldwide who do not have access to clean water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...such a scenario, the payout is based on what it would cost consumers to buy that additional coverage, not what it is costing the company to provide it. And execs have already bought settlement insurance to take care of that amount. Most important, the deal gives Met Life a clean slate as it heads into its big IPO, which, if successful, could easily cover the cost of this and any future settlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Met Life's Snoopy Was a Too-Pushy Puppy | 8/19/1999 | See Source »

...young singer also broadened her palette by studying the blues recordings of Etta James and B.B. King. Now Aguilera blends the whoops, swoops and clean lines of a pure voice like Whitney Houston's with the darker, more earthy tones of the blues, giving her singing a sturdy backbone. RCA Records heard her demo tape, brought her in to sing a cappella and signed her up. The upcoming CD shows off her range. Come On Over is a gospel-tinged R.-and-B. rouser that gives her a chance to shout; So Emotional is a Brandy-style midtempo ballad that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Christina's World | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Rutgers University. The Scouts promptly expelled him. Dale's ouster, the court declared, was "based on little more than prejudice"; he had "never used his leadership position or membership [in the Scouts] to promote homosexuality, or any message inconsistent with Boy Scouts' policies" of being "morally straight" and "clean." The New Jersey court rejected the argument that the Boy Scouts were a private membership organization and had First Amendment rights of "intimate" and "expressive association." In fact, the court referred to the Scouts as a quasi-public entity because of its partnerships with public institutions and facilities. Such accommodation thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All for a Scout's Honor | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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