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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, the Clinton team is determined to try. It lives in dread of an NSSE--the Disneyesque abbreviation for a national-security special event that triggers special precautions. But with Y2K happening all across the world, a flood of threats has washed in from every corner of the globe, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Year's Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

What got the government on edge also seeped through to the public. The State Department issued two warnings about possible overseas attacks. The FBI chipped in with an alert for mail bombs, further raising the temperature. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll on Thursday found that 62% of citizens surveyed believe terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Year's Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

The 155 passengers aboard the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan had better cancel their New Year's plans. That assessment after the country's ruling Taliban militia on Thursday eliminated what may have been India's strongest negotiating tool - the threat of force. The Taliban has also warned that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban Ban on Raid Set to Extend Hijack Agony | 12/30/1999 | See Source »

We may never know what Ahmed Ressam planned to do with the explosives in his car, but that's better than finding out the hard way. U.S. law enforcement officials said Thursday that sophisticated military grade explosives had been found in medicine containers being carried by the Algerian national who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Against Terrorism, Offense Can be Best Defense | 12/30/1999 | See Source »

For those interested in facing mortality head-on, there are few better routes to grisly self-discovery than medical school. Unfortunately, according to a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, at least one commonly-used teaching technique may compromise young doctors' ability to see their patients as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journal Questions Doctors Training in Vein | 12/30/1999 | See Source »

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