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In reality, the antivaccine activists demonstrate both medical illiteracy and an appalling ignorance of history. What happened to the quarantine notices that were once routinely posted on houses afflicted by measles, mumps or whooping cough? Or the long rows of iron lungs filled with polio victims unable to breathe on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Will Only Hurt for a Minute | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

For a little more than two decades now, the sports books, as they are called in Nevada, have been an integral part of casinos large and small. Walk into any casino and you will see an area carved out for sports gamblers. There the legal gambler may spread his sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing The Game | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Whatever the direct cause of the disaster, the Kursk was doomed as much by underfunding, insufficient training and incompetent military management as by collision or high explosives. Since the end of the cold war, the Russian navy has declined from 613 ships of all types to around 95 today, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fatal Dive | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

Juan Maldacena with a set of mathematical equations is like a magician with a wand. He can take rows of arcane symbols that describe the gravitational weirdness of a black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that govern the will-o'-the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theoretical Physics: The Man Who Does Tricks with Strings | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

At that moment, two more rows of police followed by dozens of vans and patrol cars appeared at the other end of the street, boxing the demonstration between the buildings. A yellow school bus pulled up behind the police batallions who had arrived first, and a plainclothes officer told the...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

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