Word: linings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learning the value of checks and balances. Evidently unwilling to court still more Republican ire with the internal, FBI-staffed investigation she initially promised, the attorney general is wooing straight-shooting former senator John Danforth of Missouri to head the new probe into the Waco conflagration. Danforth, a party-line-bucking iconoclast who retired from the Senate in 1995, is a former Missouri attorney general, an ordained Episcopal priest and the kind of guy who won?t stop to consider the FBI?s feelings if he finds anything rotten in the state of the agency?s disastrous siege...
...using the Internet to build bridges between themselves and their strategic partners. Each member of the online biz-to-biz (B2B) brigade is hoping to use the Net's instantaneous global reach to build digital marketplaces where buyers and sellers who may never have met in the off-line world can gather daily to move huge and growing amounts of the nation's basic goods...
...Everybody relax and go back to your drinks." That may not be the way scientists usually talk to one another, but it was the punch line of Caltech astronomer GEORGE DJORGOVSKI's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years (TIME, Aug. 30) wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected...
...stopped gamemakers from developing the first titles to cash in on female rock sensations. Um Jammer Lammy for the Sony PlayStation ($35) lets players tap their game pad in time with the beat of progressively more complex sounds. (It's harder than you think.) For more of a story line, Lego Friends ($30, available mid-September) lets girls six and up form their own virtual band, compose songs and try to win a competition. Rock...