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Which shapes represent the fundamental structures in our universe? On this point, string theorists are currently clueless. For the world conjured into existence by M theory is so exotic that scientists are being forced to work not just at the frontier of physics but at the frontier of mathematics as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Symphony | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

With the party set for Sunday night, the plan was to give myself a week to order, always starting online but resorting to 800 numbers in a pinch, find a middle ground between ordering the totally exotic (alligator meat) and the reliably prosaic (ham), and default to vendors in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

We asked Margaret Carlson, who usually writes about politicians, to order up dinner on the Web and have a party. The second half of that proposition went well; the first part makes for quite a tale. And despite a lot of coaxing to order only exotic items, Margaret wanted a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Man in the Cardboard Box | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Snow Falling On Cedars is essentially a liberal soap opera. Its simple, anti-prejudice message is hidden (in David Guterson's novel) behind dense thickets of rich, writerly prose and a narrative that moves large numbers of characters back and forth in time as it proceeds, in its leisurely way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snow Falling On Cedars | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

A growing number of people know the difference. Since 1990, tea sales have more than doubled, to $4 billion a year in the U.S., owing in part to the burgeoning interest in finer teas. Classy restaurants are shedding cheap tea bags for menus of luxe loose-leaf varieties. Tea houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Time Once Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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