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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influence and control between the British and Russian empires. But another Great Game is what it is. Washington wants Caspian oil to flow through many pipelines so that no single country can bottle it up, and is adamantly against having a new pipeline pass through Iran. It is fine if some of the lines run through Russia, as they already do, but Russia should not be able to turn a valve and shut off all or most of the Caspian flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rush For Caspian Oil | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...affects the lives of millions of men and their partners." This is true, of course. It also speaks to the tricky questions of taste and exploitation that Pfizer will have to navigate in marketing the drug. So far, without an official launch or virtually any promotion, Viagra is doing fine. But why hold back? Advertisements will begin appearing in medical journals in about six weeks, followed by consumer ads this summer. A company spokesman says they will be "tasteful and emotional, emphasizing [impotence] as a couple's condition." One can imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viagra Craze | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...find a few things to complain about. The once standard fax utility, for instance, has vanished, though if you already have Microsoft Fax on your machine, you'll still be able to use it. And although most pre-Win 98 applications will work fine, old versions of disk utilities like Norton Antivirus will require upgrades. Games like Activision's Heavy Gear that use Win 95 movie features also might not work properly. (Microsoft says early bugs have been fixed; we'll see.) Then there's Win 98's gluttonous appetite for hard-drive space: if you upgrade, be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Peek At Windows 98 | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...Fine," concedes Myers. "We talk about trips...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CAMPUS IN THE ROUGH | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

...which is bad news for Northern Ireland. The IRA won?t stop Sinn Fein from voting yes on the deal, but part of the fine print calls for paramilitaries to hand in their guns and semtex over the next two years. If they?re not going to do that, Protestant leaders smell a rat. ?You cannot say there?s a peace agreement if some party has a private army armed to the teeth and ready for action,? fumed Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. Like it or not, a sustained cease-fire is the best the Irish can hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRA: We Won't Disarm | 4/30/1998 | See Source »

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