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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mind, since he was a teenager in the 1960s, although officially his company, Millennium Jets, has been at it only six years. The look of his machine is pure sci-fi: an 8-ft. metal frame supports two gas-engine-powered fans, each 38 in. in diameter, that jut like oversize ears above the frame. The pilot stands on a pair of footrests, straps on a body belt and grabs a joy stick-like controller. Moshier says the Solotrek will someday travel 8,000 ft. above the trees at up to 80 m.p.h. "There are lots of nonbelievers," he admits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Blue Sky: But Will They Fly? | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Buddha may still be weeping for this troubled land: certainly foreigners don't stay long in Galle anymore. The colonial mansions, the storehouses, the fort walls that jut south into the Indian Ocean echo more with the ghosts of visitors past. And like Zheng He, all trace of them, and of the hopes and ambitions they brought with them, is growing faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Testament to an Odyssey, A Monument to a Failure | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...Last month, the Health and Human Services department doled out $17 million in new federal grants and President Bush, a supporter of no-sex ed as governor of Texas, has vowed as part of his renewed focus on conservative values to push for even more funding. "Abstinence is not jut about saying 'no' - it's about saying yes to a happier, healthier future," Bush wrote to the teens at the Miami conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Reviews for Abstinence-Only Programs | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

...around in the first six "Road" movies, but her function was what Alfred Hitchcock called the MacGuffin - the trigger to the plot, the prize that Bing usually won from Bob. Women had to be in Crosby movies, the way songs and a standard-issue villain did. But these were jut narrative conventions. Bing was, if not a man's man, a guy's guy; women were ornaments to his self-esteem but not central to it. "In a lifetime of tears and laughter," he declaims with trembling sonority in "Rio," "it has been my discovery that friendship between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Undergraduate Council, which has not hesitated to jut its moral yardstick into national issues such as police brutality, has not issued any kind of statement regarding this conflict. The council, indeed the school, is quick to pass resolutions of sentiment condemning contentious issues like homophobia. And it is quick to sponsor panels on difficult questions like diversity. But the moment the campus actually could use a body to provide a forum for free discussion, the council doesn't say a word...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Holding Dialogue Hostage | 11/1/2000 | See Source »

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