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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suppose, for example, that the black intellectuals who have been burning up the Internet to castigate the alleged shortcomings of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s television series Wonders of the African World were to devote an equal amount of brainpower to publicizing the AIDS epidemic. They might come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Is a Sin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

There is no grocery website that delivers to my ZIP code, so fresh vegetables are hard to come by--thank goodness. I find the very sight of raw broccoli and cauliflower on a buffet table dispiriting. I don't go to parties looking to balance my diet with the four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

If you believe that the booming American economy is the story of the 1990s, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gets my vote as Person of the Decade. The American economy will mark its longest period of uninterrupted expansion this February. During the past nine years, the U.S. unemployment rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

That home schoolers have begun a debate about the nature of a school community is a little strange. For years they simply withdrew kids from the broader community often because they felt its schools had become antireligious. They fought bitter battles for the right to change old compulsory-education laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside, Wanting In | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Separately, some advocates pursued this issue in the Michigan political arena earlier this year. Some Republicans, including popular Governor John Engler, supported them. Engler called for home-schooler access to public teams in his state of the state address. But proponents of a bill forcing the change were no match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside, Wanting In | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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