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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dollar price of a Ford Model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...sense that others could not always see, even other moral people." Harvard physicist and historian Gerald Holton adds, "If Einstein's ideas are really naive, the world is really in pretty bad shape." Rather it seems to him that Einstein's humane and democratic instincts are "an ideal political model for the 21st century," embodying the very best of this century as well as our highest hopes for the next. What more could we ask of a man to personify the past 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...destiny. His mind was utterly fearless, and by its uses he diminished fear in others. "It stands to the everlasting credit of science," Einstein wrote, "that by acting on the human mind, it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature." And so he became a model of what humans might do if they put their mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Einstein | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Edison is commonly called the inventor of the light bulb. In truth, he and his co-workers accomplished far more than that. In 1879 they created an incandescent lamp with a carbonized filament that would burn for 40 hours, but a working laboratory model was only the first step. How could they make this device illuminate the world? For this they would need a host of devices, including generators, motors, junction boxes, safety fuses and underground conductors, many of which did not exist. Amazingly, only three years later Edison opened the first commercial electric station on Pearl Street in lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 19th Century: Thomas Edison (1847-1931) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...North America A no-frills yucca-fiber model from the Anasazi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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