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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DEATH Some diseases that once were top killers have been brought under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...those angles have worked out. A comedy they hoped to produce last year about pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey fell apart during the development process. A film about disco icons the Village People derailed when they couldn't obtain creative control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Civil rights took a variety of forms this century. Women got the right to vote, gained control over their reproductive life and made strides toward achieving equal status in the workplace. Gays and lesbians gained the right to be proud of who they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

After World War II, he urged the Allies to set up a world government to control the atom bomb. He was offered the presidency of the new state of Israel in 1952 but turned it down. "Politics is for the moment," he once wrote, "while...an equation is for eternity." The equations of general relativity are his best epitaph and memorial. They should last as long as the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

TRANSFERRED. THE PANAMA CANAL, 50-mile engineering feat, shipping lane and cruise-ship highlight; after 96 years of U.S. control; to Panama. At a ceremonial hand-over, Jimmy Carter, who brokered the transfer treaty in 1977, told Panama's President Mireya Moscoso, "It's yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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