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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modern times--a temporal Tower of Babel, as you could call it--is that everything's mixed up: fast and slow are present in every country, often, and in every household. Ancient cultures, as in India and China, are eager to invite the future to come to stay, so long as it doesn't interfere with the way things have always been; software technicians in the Silicon Valley--many of Indian or Chinese descent--try to bring neighborhood to a virtual borderless world (even as their parents are cursing Sikhs, or debating about Mao Zedong). As James Gleick describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Centuries Collide | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...have given cigarettes a second thought. Prohibition stimulates desire. Put me in a non-haggis room and I'll immediately begin to crave haggis. Similarly, prohibitive New Year's resolutions can backfire. Vows like "I will stop cluttering up my ski chalet with ridiculous tchotchkes," "I will stop buying long-range North Korean missiles over the Internet" and "I will not humiliate my family by having oral sex with young women in my office" often result in even more tchotchkes, more Taepo Dong-1 rockets and more oral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resolutions Without The Guilt | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Half-Century," saying "he launched the lifeboats" that saved liberty. You cited Churchill's unmatched career: 50 years of international prominence, the only person to hold high office in both World Wars, the only one to write of his experiences in language that will live as long as words are read. As the first person to proclaim publicly the Soviet threat, Churchill became the architect of the century's great triumph over it. The twin victories over two great evils are this century's dominating achievements. Great movements still in progress--civil rights, gender equality, democratization, market capitalism--would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1999 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...talk of atomic war, an arms race. "So you don't believe that there will ever be peace?" Halsman asked as he released the shutter. Einstein's eyes, Halsman said, "had a look of immense sadness...a question and a reproach in them." He answered, "No. As long as there will be man, there will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Dec. 31, 1999 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...officials in a Beijing hotel room on an Energy Department trip to China in 1998. The stinging blow, however, came when Krajcek told the judge that if awarded bail, Lee could easily jeopardize national security further. The judge then posited that Lee might be released on house arrest as long as he didn't communicate with anyone in Chinese, so his communications could be more easily monitored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wen Ho Lee Mess Before the Trial | 12/29/1999 | See Source »

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