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...people he has helped. He says he's now in that final stage of grieving; he is constantly flooded by wonderful memories of his wife. "What I'm trying to do," he says, "is to pass that way of thinking along to the others. If they can only get one-tenth of that, then I've had a beautiful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRAIG SINCOCK: The Soldier | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Between one-fifth and one-tenth of user assistant appointments are virus related,” Davis said...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fast-Moving Virus Hits Campus Computers | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...computers by taking into account such factors as gravity, impact shock, melting and vaporization. They also created models with a finer level of detail than earlier efforts. Finally, after a number of tries, they arrived at a scenario in which an object, the size of Mars but with only one-tenth the Earth's mass, striking at a highly oblique angle, ejected enough debris from itself and our planet's iron-deficient outer layers to form the moon, which contains very little iron. Left behind was an Earth roughly the size it is today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon Blast! | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...jobs, that number comes from an 11-year-old study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute that economists complain wildly inflates the employment potential. "It's just absurd," says Eban Goodstein, an economist at Lewis and Clark College, who predicts the real job growth will be less than one-tenth that number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Shaky Figures on ANWR Drilling | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...suddenly understood that retired heads of state can do so much more than secure financing for their libraries and prepare their legal defenses. Perhaps Clinton's visit will be an inspiration for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who last week announced he would be stepping down. If Mori has one-tenth Clinton's compassion, he'll soon be telling Gujaratis, "I feel your pain" through an interpreter and wondering when's lunch. Look at it this way, Citizen Mori: You may have lost power, riches and reputation. But you get a turban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

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