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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Many phone companies may be adding new charges to long-distance residential bills in order to pay for a federal program mandating (a) Internet access for schools (b) new communications satellites (c) Internet encryption (d) telemarketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 1998 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Grand Princess is the name of the (a) hottest London restaurant (b) newest Las Vegas hotel (c) high-tech cell phone (d) world's largest cruise ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 1998 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Nice Guy does not easily wear the albatross of eminence. He may joke about it: "I'm powerful enough now to be taken seriously," he says, snapping his fingers like a born Hollywood sharpie. "Plenty of people take my phone calls!" He can also get plaintive: "Me famous?" he asks. "I can't embrace it for a moment. You guys do that." But he knows he is expected to think he's famous, and to love it: "I was working 18-hour days on That Thing You Do!," he says of the 1996 film he wrote and directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Wednesday, Jan. 28 From Tom To: Meg Yes, I am here...e-mail is this thing that you can do in those pleasant, blank moments in the day when you can be sparkling or witty with people you couldn't get on the phone even if you tried...I am glad to be making this movie with you--a return to some nice suits, a good haircut and some great dialog with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: We've Got Their Mail | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...hate it when someone at the next table in a restaurant thinks it's cool to yammer away on his cell phone? Well, there's a new book out to set him straight: Wireless Etiquette by Peter Laufer ($14.50 from Omnipoint, available at branden.com) Maybe you can copy a few appropriate pages for your briefcase and pass them out to offenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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