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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it was just a little misunderstanding, a thing that happens from time to time in every family. Maybe Al Gore really had someplace better to be at the moment Bill Clinton arrived on the South Lawn last Monday morning to announce that the gods had bestowed an extra trillion--with a t--dollars on the U.S. Treasury. Maybe Gore, a serious man who worries about serious things, had to polish the speech he was making that afternoon in Philadelphia on the war against cancer. Maybe the White House had pressed him to try to make the event, and Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Marriage Be Saved? | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...call them a religion. The Nuwaubians describe themselves as a "fraternal organization" of people of different religions, including Christians, Muslims and others who just happen to share a few extra tenets. Says Marshall Chance, head of the Nuwaubians' Holy Tabernacle Ministries: "The main thing that brings us together is fellowship and facts." Among those facts: that black people are genetically su-perior to whites and that the Nuwaubians are direct descendants of Egyptians who, having walked from the Nile Valley to the Americas before continental drift separated the landmasses, are actually the original Native Americans. York and several hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Invaders | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...EXTRA BONUS] Animal-to-camper ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello Mother, Hello Father | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...EXTRA BONUS] Saturday-night skits can be "adult themed," no PBJ on menu

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello Mother, Hello Father | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...they should have done all along--honing verbal and math skills, preparing students to take advanced classes and tests like the SATs. "People can talk about tests being biased, but that's not going to fly anymore," says Santa Ana school superintendent Al Mijares. "No longer should we expect extra points for skin color and ZIP code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Prep from Day One | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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