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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scouts as far away as Denmark and Brazil. The slogan for his bulletin board came from closer to home, however. He was inspired by a visit to Disneyland, where a sign outside proclaims it THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. His computer system came to be known as "the nastiest place on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Thomas: THE MARQUIS DE CYBERSPACE | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

Published on a day Judge Ito's court was not in session, the book took the baton from the recessed murder trial for one more lap in the nastiest relay in memory and succeeded in 1) giving the defendant a one-sided word with the world without the unpleasantness of cross-examination or any of the other tethers of jurisprudence; 2) restocking the larder against legal fees, the meter running like it is; and 3) stealing the thunder from another book brought out--there are no coincidences--just days before. This one, Raging Heart, is a work from the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO BANKROLL HIS DEFENSE, THE ACCUSED EXPANDS THE LUCRATIVE O.J. INDUSTRY WITH A SELF-JUSTIFYING BOOK | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Newt's mother shared a secret about the nastiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

When France's stiff antismoking laws took effect in late 1992, people girded for some of the nastiest civil unrest since the storming of the Bastille. Smokers, who represent more than one-third of all Frenchmen over age 12, cried "Egalite! Liberte!" and vowed to puff on. They should have saved their breath for the next cigarette. Despite laws that severely restrict the number of public places where French smokers are allowed to puff their Gauloises, they continue to light up with impunity virtually everywhere. Designated nonsmoking areas in offices and restaurants are routinely ignored, as are curbs in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need a Place to Puff? Hint: Grab Your Passport | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

Even before the storm that trampled through the East Coast of the U.S. last week, the 15th such tempest in the nastiest winter in recent memory, American insurance companies had forlornly concluded that all their carefully calculated predictions about the world's weather have been blown way off course. Aetna Life and Casualty announced last Monday that first-quarter earnings would plunge $120 million -- in part because of claims related to January and February's weather. Industrywide, weather-related claims for these two months may total $825 million, on top of $1.75 billion in insured losses caused by the monstrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burned By Warming | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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