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Having chosen men, women, couples and groups of the year, TIME in 1982 named a machine, the computer. (It would take similar liberties with the formula in 1988, hailing the endangered Earth as Planet of the Year.) The computer had long been a fixture in modern life, but the advent of the personal computer made the "desktop revolution" accessible to millions. TIME's story predicted that home computers would someday be as commonplace as TV sets or dishwashers. Twenty years later, with 60% of the U.S. wired, that is well on the way to coming true. The story also foresaw...
...White House, Bush dictated a string of decisions to Rice. First, sell the mission as a campaign against terrorism that threatens every nation, lest it seem a purely American reprisal, but limit it in scope so that the U.S. isn't committed to defeating every terrorist on the planet. There would be no public offering of any "proof" against bin Laden that might undermine the military mission or compromise intelligence...
CONSTELLATION PEGASUS This Place Has Atmosphere America?s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the Hubble telescope has detected the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, 150 light years away. The discovery sparked hopes of finding extra-terrestrial life, since scientists believe a gaseous atmosphere may point to other life-forms. But the planet, about the size of Jupiter and circling a star in the constellation Pegasus, has an atmosphere loaded with sodium, nasa officials said, and would be too hot for life as we know...
...worse year than the one where the meaty offerings were unequivocally over-cooked Christmas hams like Pearl Harbor and The Mummy Returns, and one great film (Spielberg’s A.I.) that everyone hated? Furthermore, who ever thought that Tim Burton would make a truly, undeniably unwatchable film (Planet of the Apes)? Please, save us Santa. Repeat viewings of It’s a Wonderful Life are indeed wondrous, but some chestnuts can roast for only so long...
...When change comes not with the river's quiet grace but explosively fast, we talk about the world being turned upside down. Sept. 11, 2001 was one of those seismic moments, a day when the planet seemed to shudder and shift on its axis. The pilots from hell who obliterated the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon left a sense of before and after cataclysm. What followed - war, anthrax in the mail, a new airline tragedy in still-reeling New York - made overwhelming the sense that the world is now forever changed...