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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, to answer one of the great riddles of our time: What's the big deal with racing? Essentially, 40 extremely mobile billboards circle a track for three hours, driven by men in jumpsuits that make bowling apparel look sharp. And yet car racing continues to be the hottest, fastest-growing sport in America, generating $2 billion in revenues and drawing gazillions in sponsorship money. In TV ratings, NASCAR racing blows away every major sport but pro football. With California-born Gordon as its poster boy, NASCAR is expanding beyond its Southeastern roots, going after the wine-and-cheese crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

Saturday's time was his personal best and was his fastest time since high school...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M., W. Individual Stars Impress at Tufts, St. John's | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...declared that JukeBox would embrace the MP3 format--allowing users to effortlessly encode their CDs in it--it was clear to me the gig was up. And to a lot of other folks too. More than 350,000 people downloaded the JukeBox software in 2 1/2 days, the fastest online "uptake" on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coinless JukeBox | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Based on previous results, the heavyweights came into the race as the third-fastest crew in the field behind Princeton and Penn...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Varsity Crews Struggle at Easterns | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with the trading cards, some schools have banned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pokemon: The Cutest Obsession | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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