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Incredibly, amid the catcalls of the skeptics, one constituency seems to practice that old-time religion: online traders. These e-buyers--indeed, they are mostly buyers--believe in the Net long-term. We know it was the e-little guys doing the buying because the average size of each trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long-Term Carping | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

The revolution in mathematical logic early in the 20th century opened up a delicious prospect: a rigorous science of meanings. Just as the atomic theory in physics had begun to break matter down into its constituent parts and show how they fit together to produce all the effects in nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Philosopher | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

When Wittgenstein returned to philosophy in 1929, it was with the message that the rigorous methods of pure logic could get no grip on the problems of philosophy: "We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Philosopher | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

In 1933, when Louis met and fell in love with 20-year-old Mary Nicol, he already had a family, but in flagrant disregard of the social norms of the time, he divorced. The synergy of Louis and Mary's union was obvious from the outset. In contrast to Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

For example, in my four years at a California public high school, I was never assigned a research paper, required to study more than one of Shakespeare's plays per year or asked to perform a chemistry lab more complex than using pipettes to observe chemical reactions. Such a secondary...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Making the Grade in Section | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

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