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...entertainment empire, but also its cable television infrastructure, which will prove invaluable if the Virginia-based juggernaut is to dominate the next, broadband phase of Internet development as comprehensively as it has ruled the current era. "Time Warner's cable distribution system is unmatched," says Saporito. "And now those fat pipes are going to be pumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome! Why You've Now Got AOL Time Warner | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

Half the country is fat, half low-fat. Butter and eggs, once out, are in; I suppose you have tossed them out again. Coffee, once considered poison, turns out to be harmless. Red meat is not as lethal as once thought. Take a shot of Scotch, of red wine. Take a shot: vaccines are on the way soon that will prevent pneumonia, rheumatic fever, meningitis and the flu. There's a new prospect called regenerative medicine--using the body's own stem cells and growth factors to repair tissue. We make ourselves anew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...transform LINDA TRIPP into a Rene Russo doppelganger, rhinoplasty should be covered by universal health care. According to the National Enquirer, Tripp, tired of being a national punch line, visited Beverly Hills, Calif., surgeon Geoffrey Keyes, who resculpted her nose, removed the bags from under her eyes and sucked fat from her neck, chin and other parts. "It's amazing," marveled Lucianne Goldberg to the New York Post. "It looks like she's had a head transplant." Almost. Meanwhile, Tripp dyed her hair and shed 40 lbs. through diet and exercise, and she's trying to drop 20 more. Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...give the second millennium a big fat kiss goodbye, Time's Letters Department is happy to report on the robust health of the written word as a form of personal communication, despite dire warnings a decade ago of its imminent demise. For evidence, we point to the 1,300 letters a week, on average, that we continue to receive from our loyal readers, three-quarters of whom now post their insights, bitter complaints, bad puns, outrageous theories and effusive compliments by the miracle of e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...Axis and the Allied powers combined, contributing nearly 300,000 planes, 100,000 tanks, 2 million trucks and 87,000 warships to the Allied cause. "The figures are all so astronomical," historian Bruce Catton marveled. "It was the equivalent of building two Panama Canals every month, with a fat surplus to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: (1882-1945) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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