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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The obvious example of T.R.'s "Never Around" approach to statesmanship was the Panama Canal, which he ordered built in 1903, after what he called "three centuries of conversation." If a convenient revolution had to be fomented in Colombia (in order to facilitate the independence of Panama province and allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theodore Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Just to make things even more complicated, it now seems that some of the variations in El Nino cycles come from outside, imposed by other components of the world's intricately interconnected climate system. "We've been treating El Nino as a purely tropical problem, but what if it isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Such a current, Philander thinks, could explain the unusual spate of El Ninos that marked the first part of this decade. Think of the cycle as one of the strings on the climate's violin, he suggests. "When something changes the tension on the string, the frequency of the vibration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Joycelyn Elders, the pediatrician nominated to be Surgeon General, was the first in her sharecropper family of eight children to go to college, working her way through Philander Smith, a black institution in Arkansas, as a cleaning woman. When she was home one weekend, her younger brother Chester, now a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prognosis: Controversy | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

If, in nature's design, romantic love is not eternal, neither is it exclusive. Less than 5% of mammals form rigorously faithful pairs. From the earliest days, contends Fisher, the human pattern has been "monogamy with clandestine adultery." Occasional flings upped the chances that new combinations of genes would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Chemistry | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

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