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...reader, are all to be found in the newly launched TIME archive. The online archive goes back to 1985 and contains the full text of the more than 25,000 TIME stories that have appeared over the past 16 years. An easy-to-use search function allows you to pinpoint quickly the most relevant TIME article on any topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive At Your Service | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...them just this past lunchtime. And we're likely to see a lot more of these, because a major focus of Palestinian rage following the latest Israeli attacks has been the ideas that without the support of Palestinian collaborators, the Israelis would not be able to carry out these pinpoint strikes on Palestinian leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Palestinians Are Rounding Up 'Collaborators' | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

Geocaching is a new sport made possible by a satellite-based technology called GPS (global positioning system), which enables users to pinpoint their exact latitude and longitude on the earth's surface to an absurd number of decimal places. Last year early adopters in the Portland, Ore., area began hiding little stashes of CDs, action figures, Band Aids and other goodies in exotic locations--on a mountaintop, underwater, hanging off a cliff face--and posting the coordinates on the Internet as a challenge to their fellow nerds. The idea is that once you find a cache, you take the prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geocaching | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Judge Banales is unmoved. From a list of nearly 300 adult sex offenders, he chose 14 of the 15 by working with probation officers and a polygrapher to pinpoint those who had multiple victims, were not showing progress in therapy or had failed to show empathy for their victims. Even in court last week, for instance, Trevino persisted in questioning the judge on why a 14-year-old could be tried for murder, but could not consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Scarlet Letter | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...specify the time frame of the extinction rather than the cause. According to the study, every Australian land mammal, reptile and bird heavier than 100 kg and most of those weighing 45 to 100 kg died out 46,400 years ago. The study, which used optical dating to pinpoint the age of fossils from sites across Australia, narrowed the previously fuzzy timeframe of the extinction. But the new dates makes human influence a more likely factor because scientists believe humans arrived on the continent between 52 and 60 thousand years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wooly Whodunit — Man Killed the Mammoth | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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