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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's another side to Sacajawea's story. Without her, Lewis and Clark might never have survived their journey and thus might never have been able to map the terrain-mappings which enabled American fur-trading companies to compete with their British counterparts. Sacajawea may have been proactive in playing a key role in the expedition, but she was still a captive...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Choose Your Own Sacajawea | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

...slowing down. Currently he's chairing the City of New Brunswick's environmental commission, and Andrews, who was just awarded a National Science Foundation grant to map the pathways of Trenton pollutants, got Henn named as an adviser. "He gets to donate his insights for free; in turn he is allowed to try and leverage me for one of his next projects," says Andrews. And there will be more projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Give-Back Years | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...modern Torah commentary provides a map listing eight possible locations for Mount Sinai, two of which are not even in the Sinai peninsula. Wherever it was, however, God called to Moses from it, restating his ancient promise that Israel "shall be my treasured possession among all the peoples." Moses leads his followers to the foot of the mountain where God begins to speak to them. They tremble. "You speak to us and we will obey," they tell Moses,"but let not God speak to us, lest we die." God complies, Moses ascends and verbally receives what the ancient rabbis called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...bottom line is a company swollen with millions of new customers, rivers of new revenue and essentially unlimited potential but also a tricky new business model that may prove difficult to take from the white board to the real world. The Netscape buyout has redrawn the online map, but a certain software concern based in Redmond, Wash., still looms menacingly on the horizon. The epic confrontation between Netscape and Microsoft is over, but the epic confrontation between Sun and Microsoft proceeds apace, and the epic confrontation between AOL and Microsoft has barely begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL, You've Got Netscape | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Bechtel got on the map in a place that was almost off it: Black Canyon, Nev. With the Depression raging in 1931, Bechtel's father helped organize a consortium called Six Companies to tackle the massive engineering job that became known as Hoover Dam. The consortium bid $49 million and made a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Bechtel: Global Builder | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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