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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program was chosen "The Best of 1987" by PC Magazine. Today Boyan, 19, a math and computer-sciences major at the University of Chicago, is also president of his own company, Boyan Communications. Though the firm has its headquarters in an unusual place -- Boyan's dorm room -- the young entrepreneur so far has sold 2,000 copies of his software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: May 14 1990 | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...cancer cure, and secured a letter from Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (a fellow Arizonan) erroneously citing legal precedents for the Christian-nation resolution. The most recent entrant is ex-Congressman Sam Steiger, a rodeo bulldogger, airplane wing walker, horse-race broadcaster, rancher and now electronic-equipment entrepreneur. He was convicted of extortion when he was an aide to Mecham, but it was overturned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's Back - in Arizona | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...perhaps as a result, the accents are from Mars. Otherwise there is nothing to fault, from William Dudley's pillow-strewn, louvered-door set to Mark Henderson's offstage fireworks. Film veteran Charles Durning brings beguiling malice to Big Daddy, capturing the crass vitality of this aging self-made entrepreneur, while Polly Holliday, Flo on CBS-TV's erstwhile Alice, is all fluttering and giggles and connivance as his soon-to-be widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Just What the Doctor Ordered | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

Channel One, the latest brainchild of Knoxville media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle, began daily broadcasts last week to 400 junior and senior high schools. (An additional 2,500 have signed up, and will be on board by late May.) Each twelve-minute show provides a digest of the previous day's news, tailored for teens. Few educators dispute the value of such a show in teaching kids about world affairs. Nor do they deny the appeal of Whittle's sales pitch: for every school that agrees to take Channel One, Whittle will donate the satellite and video equipment needed to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Battle over Classroom TV | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...Turner the entrepreneur is increasingly being upstaged by Turner the political activist. In 1985 he founded the Better World Society, a nonprofit organization that produces and distributes programming on environmental issues. A year later, he launched the Goodwill Games to foster better relations between the superpowers following two Olympic boycotts. TNT has aired such advocacy films as Nightbreaker, an antinuclear drama starring Martin Sheen, and Incident at Dark River, in which Mike Farrell (who produced the movie) plays a man whose daughter is killed by toxic waste dumped by a local factory. Currently in production is Captain Planet, a cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Greening of Ted Turner | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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