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...these teams are favored for a reason. By all accounts, the Jints are headed for a very respectable season, but those same accounts say Tony Dungy's Buccaneers are finally ready to assume the Packers' mantle for the next millennium. An undefeated, defense-heavy preseason means the boys in gold make Giants QB Kent Graham look like Dave Brown and stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL: On Top of the Covers | 9/10/1999 | See Source »

...site at the Bahariya Oasis, some 230 miles southwest of Cairo. When he arrived, recalls Hawass, "one of the tomb ceilings had fallen in and the sun shone through it. I went in and looked at the mummies in the rays of the sun. All I could see was gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Valley Of The Lost Tombs | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...Hawass's team has explored four tombs, with a total of 105 mummies laid on top of one another in neat stacks. All told, the remains were interred in four distinct ways. One type was covered with a thin layer of gold. Another lay under lifelike masks made of plaster-coated linen, or cartonnage, that was painted with scenes of ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Valley Of The Lost Tombs | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...Blah Witch Project" was just that--blah. And not scary. Its appeal to the younger set is not so much in its "bold sense of withholding" and "seeming artlessness" but in its Grimm-Golding mix, which zeroes in on the adolescent psyche's worst fears: fear of getting lost in the woods (a la Hansel and Gretel)--leaving home and being without guidance--and fear of the anarchy and tragedy that can ensue without adult supervision (a la Lord of the Flies). Coupled with the reality of the recent high school shootings, this is truly a "grimm" tale that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1999 | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Moses Ma, founder of BusinessBots, based in San Francisco, which is developing smart software for e-markets, says B2B resembles the California Gold Rush. During the Gold Rush, the only ones assured of making money were the obscure shopkeepers who sold the prospectors their shovels, clothes, pots and pans. In the case of B2B, it's companies like Tradex Technologies, Extricity Software Inc. and BusinessBots. They sell the glue (in the form of hardware, software and services) that links individual businesses to their suppliers, customers, partners and distributors. "The true value in B2B is when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E-Trade Stampede | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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