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...into refugees and killer mosquitoes patrol the New York skies, we don?t need the U.N. to tell us something is seriously wrong with the environment. But the Geo2000 report released Wednesday by the U.N. Environmental Program has some bad news for anyone who believes they?re saving the planet simply by recycling their trash and voting for politicians who get dewy-eyed about nature: Much of the damage to the planet is irreversible; we?re under increasing threats of flooding, plagues, drought and famine; and ? the hardest part of all ? the only way to alleviate the unsustainable stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're On the Eve of Destruction, U.N. Warns | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

Things are not looking particularly good for the late great planet Earth. Things are looking very, very bad. Two hundred million demonic horsemen are galloping across the smoky skies, and a third of the world's people will be slain--a third of those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Is Here, Pt. 6 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Anyone who believes there is "only one species of human on the planet" has never shopped at Wal-Mart. BETH WITHERELL Peoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...number of other teams in what is starting to look like OSETI mania. At Princeton, physicist David T. Wilkinson will soon begin surveying nearby stars with a detector similar to Horowitz's. At the University of California, Berkeley, extrasolar-planet hunter Geoff Marcy is re-examining his data for sharp spectral lines that might indicate a continuous beam of light intended as a low-power signal. Another Berkeley team, led by SETI veteran Dan Werthimer, is looking for short, powerful laser bursts in a series of automated observations of 2,500 nearby stars. Later he plans to turn to invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching for a Signal from E.T. | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

South Park (July 1999) Plucky prepubescents try to save the planet from Satan, who plans to take over when the U.S. invades Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satanwatch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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