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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former governor characterized Hong Kong as China's link to the world and said it should serve as a model for China. In his book, he writes: "Hong Kong is at one and the same time China's window on the world, bridge to the world, shop front for the world and paradigm for the world of what China as a whole could become...

Author: By Anna M. Harrington, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: EX-Leader Discusses Hong Kong's Future | 9/23/1998 | See Source »

...these reasons, I suspect that as sex selection and other reproductive technologies become more efficient and less costly, they may be embraced by American families of even modest means who ask themselves, Why not? What was once unimaginable could become routine--and the link between the sex act and reproduction will no longer be seen as sacred. Ultimately, this may prove to be the real significance of sex selection: by breaching a powerful psychological barrier, it will pave the way for true designer babies, who could really turn society upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Quandary That Isn't | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

What a telling picture the Moscow summit made. Bill Clinton looking weary and spent, his head sunk in his hands, his lips tight in a glum line as reporters badgered him about Monica. Boris Yeltsin next to him, befuddled and disoriented as he struggled to link answers coherently to questions. When a journalist asked whether the Russian President would accept someone other than Viktor Chernomyrdin as nominee for Prime Minister, Yeltsin paused for a moment that grew painfully long. "Well," he finally said, "I must say, we will witness quite a few events for us to be able to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Leaders | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...time Altom could have stopped working and written his thesis, but hechose to keep trying to link the halves together,Corey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chemistry Grad Student Dies | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...from that legal standpoint, obstruction may be the weakest link in Starr's case. The independent counsel has accepted Monica's assertion that she, not Bruce Lindsey, wrote the "talking points." And the discrepancies between Betty Currie's testimony and Monica's -- which Starr seizes on as evidence of Presidential influence -- certainly cut the other way too. "Starr has relied on Lewinsky's version of events as accurate and has reported Currie's contradictory evidence dismissively," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon. "But any good defense lawyer would assert that Currie's credibility is greater than that of Lewinsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Said, She Said | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

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