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Travel to exotic regions of the world 52% Own a business 25% Learn a new language 23% Go back to school 21% Learn to play a musical instrument 18% Buy a motorcycle or sports car 15%

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indicators: Apr. 17, 2000 | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Smith was happy to regale the kids with tales of exotic stakeouts and drug busts. (He spent much of his career in France and North Africa.) And he took special pleasure in pointing out the collection's more unusual artifacts: the Superfly fur coat and alligator-skin platform shoes donned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drug Culture Gets a Museum | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Columbia Market, a small Spanish bodega in the heart of Area 4, is one such store. The signs are in multiple languages, and the products inside are just as diverse. Fruits and exotic vegetables line the floors.

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Area 4: Our neighborhood | 4/12/2000 | See Source »

Meanwhile, ironists and fatalists draw austere satisfaction from the fire-or-ice scenario, which reflects the quintessential human perception that nobody gets out of life alive. And that's just what makes me suspicious of it. The great lesson of scientific cosmology is that the universe does not usually conform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will The Universe End? (With A Bang or A Whimper?) | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

On the other hand, the nearest star is about 10,000 times as far away as Pluto. A trip to the stars within a human lifetime requires a spacecraft that cruises at more than 10,000 miles a second and accelerates to this speed within 10 years. The engine would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Travel To The Stars? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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