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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...towns in places like Seaside, Fla., never really caught on: many of the communities were too far from major job centers. So now developers are chasing a new fashion. Rather than offer an escape from the suburbs, they're struggling to reinvent them by building cute little instant towns near major cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Suburbia | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...though, the Hales are hopeful. And they have company. Developer Paul Estridge Jr. expected 200 prospects to attend the unveiling in June of Centennial, a New England-style TND near Indianapolis, Ind. But 2,000 showed up--ready to buy into the new small town of their dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Suburbia | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...October of 1997, three young actors went into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to play in a horror movie. Twenty-two months later, their film was a smash...and the talk not just of Hollywood but of America. You could hardly walk down a bustling street last week or log on to a website without tripping over that ominous incantation "Blair Witch." The impact, sudden and seismic, of The Blair Witch Project is utterly unprecedented. Never has a--let's be honest--weird movie budgeted at a ludicrously low $35,000 stormed both the box office and the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Several patrons try to shrug off the icy fear the film's neural refrigerator has locked them into. A trio of teens emerging from a screening in Alexandria, Va., refuse to walk to their car, parked near a woodsy area, because "that movie scared me to death," says Shawna Daniels, 14, "and I'm not ever going near the woods again!" A ticket taker graciously walks them to the car. When asked if he has seen the film, he replies, "Not on your life. I don't want to be that scared." For others, the thaw will take longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...STYLISH For years, digital camera owners have lived like second-class citizens, settling for grainy pics while they waited for prices to fall on high-res models. The wait paid off this spring, when Ricoh, Sony and others introduced the first sub-$1,000, 2-megapixel cameras with near film quality. Now Yashica is improving on the standard with its Samurai 2100DG, which boasts the first 4X optical zoom for sharper pics, and a one-hand design to help eliminate blurring caused by accidental shaking of the camera. Due out Aug. 20, the Samurai weighs in at a still hefty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Aug. 16, 1999 | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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