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...kind of scene you'd expect in a thriller by Michael Crichton or Robin Cook. A scientist throws some nondescript cells into a lab dish, leaves them alone for a bit and returns to find a disembodied heart thumping away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brave New Cells | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...They spent the first few months fixing ailing systems and upgrading others. Then they moved on to training exercises, preparing the ship's departments--combat systems, navigation, engineering, operations--to work under battle conditions. In one exercise, McGrath trains her binoculars on an object in the distance. As a nondescript oil tanker comes into view, a dozen sailors cram into a small boat that's lowered over the Jarrett's port side. Armed and nervous, they're preparing to climb aboard the tanker (actually a Navy supply ship) to ensure it is not smuggling Iraqi oil in violation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aye, Aye, Ma'am | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...popped Bloodsport into monitor 4E and donned my headphones. I sat next to a nondescript girl with braces who was studying for a BS25 exam. "Have you ever seen Bloodsport...

Author: By Adam M. Taub, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Video Killed the Radial Star | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...edge of the Baltic Sea, just past the rusting hulks of the trawlers that crowd the port of Kaliningrad, sits a nondescript, seemingly abandoned factory. Inside, however, scores of mechanics are assembling classy sedans, while nearby, engineers in white lab coats huddle to discuss production levels with their Russian colleagues in German-inflected English. It's an incongruous setting for one of Europe's most prestigious automotive marques, the Bayerische Motorwerken, better known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In From The Cold | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...even the hum of quartz crystals. For true precision--accuracy to a billionth of a second--you need to travel, virtually at least, to a place like the perfectly circular, well-guarded park that sits in northwest Washington. There, on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, a nondescript concrete building houses the nerve center of the U.S. Directorate of Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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