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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another question is how much ecotourists are truly willing to pay to keep the environment unspoiled. The government of the Seychelles has backed away from the $100 environmental fee it proposed to levy on each traveler this year to fund preservation efforts such as protecting the Vallee de Mai, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call Of The Wild | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

The donations are not only worrying because they?re going to the man accused of planning last summer?s terror bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; they?re reportedly coming from elements of the very business elite that the U.S. views as the most innately pro-Western constituency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite U.S. Pursuit, Bin Laden's in the Money | 7/7/1999 | See Source »

HARRY TRUMAN, who had been a little-known and perhaps ill-prepared Vice President, found himself in 1945 facing the most daunting of responsibilities: ending World War II and containing Soviet communism. Truman's foreign-policy leadership gave the U.S. an unprecedented role in international affairs. The choices he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

I hate to admit it, but the battle over affirmative action in higher education is over, and Ward Connerly won. The developments at the University of California since Connerly's Proposition 209 banned racial preferences will be repeated all over the nation if similar laws are adopted in such states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Yourself | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

It pains her, but when Redwood talks about why this has happened, she sounds a bit like Connerly. "Sometime in the 1980s, a sense of entitlement began to replace blacks' sense of doing things for ourselves," she contends. "We started getting away from the values I was raised with--you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Yourself | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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