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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...response, Hawking utilized complex concepts, such as M-theory, eleven-dimensional gravity, boundary conditions and the Anthropic Principle to set up his understanding of the universe's shape...

Author: By Jimmy Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hawking Defends 'Anthropic Principle' of Cosmology | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

Arcane and complex union rules had sometimes prevented empty security posts from being filled, sometimes requiring HUPD to post uniformed officers to take up the slack...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Guards Phasing Out | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...might not work in a state like California because the poverty problem is more complex there and poverty is seen in greater numbers," Grech said...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thompson Explains Welfare Policies | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...well the world's financial foundations will stand up to the quake is a more complex question. Taiwan produces more than 30% of the world's chip sets and motherboards, and by week's end most of its factories stood silent, awaiting repairs that could take weeks. It will be years, however, before Taiwan fully demolishes the wreckage and rebuilds. For a nation that sits in such a tremor-prone part of the world, that may be just long enough to brace for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tears and Trembling | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...like to say, "He who thinks is lost." In China it's all about reaction. At the nation's heart is a tentatively beating, market-based economy, and keeping it alive puts every other goal--even mass atheism--in distant second place. That's why there's such a complex struggle with religion. China's leaders think a little faith can help the country grow--by serving as a bulwark against social unrest and the ennui Chinese call huise wenhua, or gray culture. Says Bishop Jin Luxian, 83, leader of Shanghai's Catholics: "The Communist Party realizes that religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Search For Its Soul | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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