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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back as last autumn that Belgrade was planning Operation Horseshoe: when spring melted the snows, the Serbs would move in their tanks and artillery to destroy the Kosovo Liberation Army and drive many ethnic Albanians over the southern and western borders. At a village a day--the rate Milosevic calculated the West would tolerate--Serbia could methodically eliminate the Kosovar population over a number of months. Analysts knew Milosevic would intensify his purge if bombing started. But they believed his intent was to crush the K.L.A. and then gradually drive out the entire ethnic Albanian population. Among political decision makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road To Hell | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...some 25,000 refugees had formed on the border with Macedonia. "We're seeing ladies in slippers, children with no shoes and socks," he said. In Albania the refugees' dismal plight was further prolonged by the authorities' cumbersome registration procedures. Even as refugees flowed over the borders at the rate of 20,000 a day, officials warned of many more ethnic Albanians still displaced from their homes in Kosovo, trapped in the killing fields and unable to make their way out. Last week Serb units reportedly shelled internal refugees forced into hiding in the Pagarusa Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrain Of Terror | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...lazy and proud of it, I am always on the lookout for things that will make my life even more friction free, which is why the sudden proliferation of all manner of electric bikes and scooters thrills me (in a low-affect, let's-not-unduly-elevate-the-heart-rate kind of way). You've probably heard about the E-Bike, the brainchild of erstwhile Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, which went on sale (for $995 and up) at car dealerships in warm-weather states two weeks ago. I'm certain Iacocca is on to something, but even if I lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an E-Ride | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

REALITY CHECK Young boys tend to overestimate how well they're doing in school compared with how their teachers rate them. Girls, on the other hand, tend to underestimate their performance. Why care? Kids of either sex who underrate themselves may suffer from depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...calls the number of applicants "disappointing," and says "the allure of warm beaches and cold slopes appears to prevent us from achieving a higher placement rate...

Author: By Mary C. Cardinale, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Canning Cancun: Students Spend Spring Break Hard at Work | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

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