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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...residential area of Chatsworth and spotted Joseph Ileto, 39, a Filipino-American postman making his midday rounds. Furrow got out and asked Ileto to mail a letter, then started firing a Glock 9-mm pistol he had drawn from his back pocket. Hit by two shots, Ileto struggled to run away, but Furrow opened fire again, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kids Got In The Way | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Here in the U.S., we've got software gods, Web commerce wizards and computer-chip kings. But when it comes to wireless technology, the Finns rule. Just look at what they can do with a cellular phone: buy a Coke from a vending machine. Run a car wash. Zap a digital picture to a friend. On this side of the Atlantic, we're just glad when our calls aren't cut off midsentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Your Cell Phone Stinks... | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Neanderthals didn't happen quickly. Plentiful archaeological evidence proves that Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis inhabited the same general turf in many parts of Europe and the Middle East for thousands of years. That doesn't prove, however, that they lived as peaceable neighbors. Populations were so sparse that run-ins probably would have been rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up From The Apes | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...here to listen. Tell me your stories." Bradley says he is a candidate of "big ideas," but he has been too busy listening to describe them to us. You can hear some variation from all the men (and one woman) who would be President. As she began her run for the presidency, Elizabeth Dole said, "I want to hear from people. Then we're going to be laying out positions on all these issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now They're All Ears | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps I'm being hasty. Who knows if the thing will really work? Still, I'd hate to be 3Com. Its venerable Palm line is under siege from an army of cheap digital assistants that run the competing Windows CE operating system. And last week a dark horse arrived from Psion Inc., a company based in England whose palmtops are especially popular outside the U.S. The 12.5-oz. device is the Psion 5mx ($549, list) and runs on a clever 32-bit operating system called Epoc, which has legions of devotees, just like Palm's OS. Epoc, you should know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Palmy Import | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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