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...built in the 1880s as part of a rail empire connecting commercial outposts and mining camps, cuts a meandering 64-mile-long swath through frontier history along the mountainous border between Colorado and New Mexico. From Memorial Day weekend to mid-October, steam-driven locomotives, restored to mint condition and fired by tons of hand-stoked coal, maneuver around bends and across streambeds and pant up grades as steep as 4% on a track measuring just 36 in. between the rails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: 12 Terrific Train Trips | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...with the losing side in any war, we will resist the truth as long as we can. We will listen to Cyndi Lauper and Dr. Dre on the golden oldies station. We will collect mint-condition "Now-And-Later" labels at area auctions and wonder whatever happened to Mr. T. We will bemoan an age in which people no longer take the time to e-mail...

Author: By Jeremy N. Smith, | Title: Alas, Poor Trapper Keeper | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

...himself, "What? A fight?" as if he could hop into the ring at that moment. Soon the candidate came up with the first line he would use with Russert. "I've crashed a couple of planes and slept in a hotel where they don't leave a mint on the pillow," he said to aides who could almost hear the sound track beginning to play. "Losing South Carolina is like a day at the beach." When he walked out of the room, McCain was on the balls of his feet. "He's not going to take it away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: On The Wild Ride | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...NOSE? With nearly 200 million of the coins in circulation four weeks after launch, the U.S. Mint's new Sacagawea Golden Dollar, top, is right on the money. Or is it? The Lewis and Clark Shoshone guide was given an "Ally McBeal nose job" by the Treasury after officials saw the artist's original design, complains the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild. Not so, says the Mint. Any differences (an earlier version of the coin is at right) are the result of mass-production limitations. Heads! Your call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mint Condition | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...million Pennsylvania quarters struck by the U.S. Mint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Feb. 28, 2000 | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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