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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keep in mind that, outlandish as it sounds, this scheme comes from a man who made his career betting against the short-term odds. No one is longing for environmentally correct transportation. But there has never been as much global political pressure to produce nonpolluting vehicles. In Asia and Europe, where noisy, gas-powered scooters are fast being outlawed, electric bicycle markets are exploding. Analysts like retired GM engineer Frank Jamerson expect even the minuscule U.S. market, led by enviroconscious California, to double this year, as it did in 1998, to a total of 30,000 bikes sold. "How deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca Gets New Wheels | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...article is correct in hinting that there was something special about Oakley's work ethic. But Greene reveals his ignorance by repeatedly calling the hard-working power forward a thug. Granted, Oak was a bruiser and did play a physical game, but he was anything but a cheap shot artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oakley Not Cheap Shot Artist | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...best part of Clinton's plan may be the respite grants, which will help 250,000 families take a much needed break. The rest of the package is based on the wan hope that the market will somehow correct itself; the bill tries to nudge it that way. Over 60% of Medicare users believe their program covers long-term care, a fallacy that leaves them unprepared for protracted illness. Medicaid, the state and federal health program for the poor, does cover long-term care, and those without insurance often end up in its arms--after care costs have gutted their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help for Life's Long Night | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...need look no further than the cover of Friday's New York Times, where a photo shows Rep. Asa Hutchinson pointing to a chart of the chronology of the Lewinsky affair labeled "Calender of Job Search Activity." Those who know that the correct spelling is "calendar" might be justified in wondering whether the impeachment of a president isn't important enough to warrant some quality control. Nor is the sloppiness confined to one side of the aisle: The cover of the President's defense brief, circulated by his team, carried his name on its own line -- there it was, William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Impeachment: Error and Trial | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

Anderson concedes that the historic gene therapy practiced on Ashi did not produce a cure, because the T cells made by her bone marrow still lack their own functional ADA gene. "Nevertheless," he insists, "Ashi does provide the proof of principle that if you put a correct gene into enough cells in a patient, you will correct the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Success Stories | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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