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While Europe's fears of missile defense are grounded in real fears of a Russian escalation that would directly threaten their security, its concerns over genetically altered crops may be more culturally based. To be sure, the continent's headline writers use terms such as "contamination" to refer to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Europe Blanches at U.S. Genes and Missiles | 5/31/2000 | See Source »

This is the season of legacy for Bill Clinton, and that means photo opportunities. The president arrived in Portugal Tuesday to kick off a seemingly haphazard European farewell tour - Lisbon, Aachen, Berlin, Moscow, Kiev - and immediately began to hit the loud notes of seven years of seemingly haphazard foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuke Talks Could Ruin Clinton's Valedictory Tour | 5/30/2000 | See Source »

Of all the H. erectus bones found outside Africa, these new ones are closest in form to African H. erectus--and may belong to a distinct species, Homo ergaster, which some experts have until now assigned to Africa. Since modern Homo sapiens is believed to have descended directly from H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ancient Exodus | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Yet the danger we face is that of celebrating too soon a global unity that only covers much deeper divisions. Much of the world is linked, more than ever before, by common surfaces: people on every continent may be watching Michael Jordan advertising Nike shoes on CNN. But beneath the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are We Coming Apart Or Together? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

The harsh right angles and rigid grid layout so despised by hapless cubicle-ites are also likely to vanish. In their place, workers might find themselves in a tentlike structure with a retractable roof, pitched right in the middle of a vast, open commons area. Screens stretching from poles could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Our Offices Look Like? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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