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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson said a sense of "mystery" is perhaps the most important cause of democracy, noting the tension between the desire for individual rights and the acceptance of others'--often-conflicting--needs.

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof. Outlines Standards for Democracy | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

East of the Mountains is best read, perhaps, as a kind of firelit Steinbeck Western about how a deliberate man learns the virtues of having his plans overturned and comes to embrace a life he'd all but given up on. Some readers may find the novel a little too...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Different Journey | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

So Raven looks to the wide world to build other countries' capacities for sustainable development. Two areas that he regards as especially critical are Madagascar and the northern Andes. Madagascar has half as many plants as all tropical Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart And Flowers | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Here is one of the back alleys in which the Web can be brilliantly educational. Will enough high school kids, rummaging for term-paper material, find this alley and see what it means? Which is, perhaps, that virtual power, not real size, is often what's important. Envirolink has few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Where do you go when you need someone to rally 200 million people? An ex-President, perhaps, or a former dictator? Whenever the environmental movement needs someone to gather the troops worldwide, it turns to a tall, understated activist who rides his bicycle to work, wears flannel shirts and has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENIS HAYES: Mr. Earth Day Gets Ready to Rumble | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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