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It might sound like the ultimate East-goes-West success story. Chen Chong, the daughter of two Shanghai doctors, becomes a movie star at 15, is dubbed "the young Elizabeth Taylor of China" and, at 19, wins the country's top acting prize. She goes to America where, as Joan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joan of Art | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

A decade after her first book, her agent circulated a second work in progress that proposed to explore the origins and geological aspects of the sea. The material was rejected by 15 magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic. Eventually the work came into the hands of Edith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environmentalist RACHEL CARSON | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Terman believed IQ tests should be used to conduct a great sorting out of the population, so that young people would be assigned on the basis of their scores to particular levels in the school system, which would lead to corresponding socioeconomic destinations in adult life. The beginning of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The IQ Meritocracy | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Downplaying Fox's gains, MSNBC executives point out that it draws more viewers in the key 25-to-54 age group sought by advertisers and that its audience is spread more widely across the Internet and other NBC-owned channels. (Brian Williams' nightly newscast, for example, is repeated an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Post-Scandal Blur | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

In addition to No. 1 Blake, No. 2 Ryan Sachire of Notre Dame, No. 4 Oliver Freelove of Illinois, No. 6 Francisco Rodriguez of Alabama and No. 10 Ignacio Hirigoyen of Southern Methodist University are vying for the prestigious singles title.

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 16 Tennis Faces Blue-Gray Test | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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