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...most objective measures, comes in a distant second--maybe even third behind Pol Pot. One big difference was World War II: the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and so Stalin's enormities were courteously minimized in the wartime alliance against Hitler, when the Russian leader became pipe-smoking "Uncle Joe." After that, the demonology never entirely caught up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Name Of Evil | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Gerry's class has found many artifacts of 18th century life, including pipe stems, wine bottle shards, broken ceramics, nails and animal bones...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Dig Reveals Taste of 18th Century | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...boils down to is this. Netizens are sick of the World Wide Wait. We know the Internet isn't living up to its potential. Most of us would junk our 56K modems in a Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But which pipe will we choose? Cable? Telephone? Wireless? Satellite? No one knows for sure, and Microsoft and AOL--both of whose businesses depend on the answer--are at pains to appear neutral in the coming shakeout. "We're pipe agnostic," says Microsoft vice president Brad Chase. Which actually means they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadband On Trial | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Exactly six weeks after the halls of Columbine High echoed with screams, it was time for the mundanities of survival as students and teachers alike took a day out of summer Tuesday to pick up the things they had left behind. Backpacks, long since checked for pipe bombs, still lay in front of lockers; car keys still sat in desk drawers. Almost everyone had something to come back for, and all of them had something to see and remember: the closet where they had hidden, the classroom where they had huddled and prayed, the parking lot where it all began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sad Homecoming at Columbine High | 6/1/1999 | See Source »

VIOLENCE As we all know by now, the Internet is host to plenty of bombmaking information. From pipe bombs to napalm, it's all available in infamous online tomes like the TERRORIST'S HANDBOOK and ANARCHIST'S COOKBOOK. For better or worse, it's free speech. What's more, the same information can be found in public libraries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberguide | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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