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5. "I can feel the sufferings of millions; and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

It took three years for astronomers to test this theory by measuring how the sun shifted light coming from a star. The results were announced at a meeting of the Royal Society in London presided over by J.J. Thomson, who in 1897 had discovered the electron. After glancing up at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

On this score I have been of two minds. On the one hand, I hate to see an extra $20 fee on the bottom of a term bill already in the tens of thousands of dollars. Over the years we've dropped most of the "a la carte" items of...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Raise the Council Fee | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Locked away from the world (and, it should be noted, the dangers of childbirth and the bubonic plague), Virginia became Sister Maria Celeste. She served the church and the man she addressed in her letters as "Most Illustrious Lord Father." Her surviving correspondence, translated and smoothly integrated by Sobel, ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Footnotes No Longer | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Although I probably wouldn't want to watch a video about it, day-to-day weather is just the sort of thing I like. What can I say? Cold and bright, dark and drizzly, thunder and lightning, hot sun and still air--the heavens can open up and give me...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: In Defense of the Weather | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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