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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battery died, leaving the crew stranded 45 miles south of Martha's Vineyard, with a dead engine and no radio, lights or bilge pump late in the afternoon. The crew was not worried, even as attempts to revive the engine failed...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Professor Rescued At Sea | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

Pony-skin anything Indulge in equine madness: Dolce & Gabbana's pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: The Art Of Autumn | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Although a rising Venezuelan radical may hardly register on the radar of post-Cold War Washington, Hugo Chavez may soon make his presence felt with regular Americans - at the gas pump. Chavez, elected president last November by an overwhelming majority, is moving quickly to consolidate control of his nation?s political institutions, and from there to use the nation?s considerable oil revenues to finance populist spending. This may sound merely like some improbable '60s flashback, but Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is the largest oil supplier to the U.S., and that ?- together with Chavez?s attempts to breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Americans Should Be Watching Venezuela | 8/31/1999 | See Source »

...using a variety of formats that range from canvas to three sizes of paper prints. Throw in the T shirts, mugs and pillows with the same images, and limited looks limitless. "These guys haven't invented anything, they've just discovered an image that's salable, and they pump the market until they can't sell any more," says Herbert Palmer, owner of a gallery on Los Angeles' Melrose Avenue that sells works by the respected contemporary abstractionists Gordon Onslow Ford and Choichi Ida at prices as high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Of Selling Kitsch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...brown ahead of schedule. This has local businesses worried that the lack of foliage could cause tourists to make like a tree and, well, not show up at all those cute bed-and-breakfasts. And that could shave a considerable chunk of the estimated $8 billion that leaf-peepers pump into the regional economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Brown Has New England Feeling Blue | 8/17/1999 | See Source »

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