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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trigger lock is a device that fits over the trigger mechanism, immobilizing it. It is unlocked with either a key or combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nationwide Backlash | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

People who want to keep the penny are either coin collectors, somehow related to the zinc industry (pennies are 97.5% zinc) or paranoid that stores will raise prices if we start rounding to the nearest nickel. Yet rounding is in force on military bases and in some foreign countries. Three and four get rounded to five; one and two get rounded to zero. Even Einstein would be hard-pressed to defeat that system. You round at the end, not item by item, and you wouldn't round at all if paying by check or credit card. Sure, Dunkin' Donuts could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Penny Saved... | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...Republican leaders say every dollar they leave on the table will just get spent by the "Washington bureaucrats" -? code for either Clinton or some Democratic Congress of the future. Give it all back now, and government will have to stay small. But that disciplined future is a little hard to imagine when right now in the House, Republican super-whip Tom Delay is proudly spending next year?s surplus "and then some" just to make sure there?s no money left for Clinton except for what he promised he wouldn?t touch. "We will negotiate with the President, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I could use the money. So could you. Why a big tax cut still isn't such a great idea | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...every time, but the researchers dream of turning Fas ligand into a supercharged exfoliant for the sun-damaged. Someday. "It?s a long way from the lab to the drug store," says Gorman, "But it makes sense to start out with something the body has already developed for itself." Either that, or start plugging that ozone layer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Lab, Two Ways to Take on Cancer | 8/5/1999 | See Source »

...scene. "The PA would govern Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, while the PLO would continue to act as a representative of the Palestinian diaspora spread across the Arab world," says Hamad. But fear of a challenge to his leadership has restrained Arafat from cultivating candidates for either position, and even the procedures for choosing a replacement are far from clear. "The only certainty," says Hamad, "is that whoever replaces him will be 100 percent different from Arafat in style and outlook." And that?s not a comforting thought for either Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Birthday, Mr. President | 8/4/1999 | See Source »

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