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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NAME: Planet ("Chapter 11") Hollywood OCCUPATION: Serving burgers with high prices BEST PUNCH: Representatives from the restaurant appeared at the show's outdoor set the following day and shamed Roker into an on-air apology by bringing crateloads of toys for the show to donate to needy children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Juarez cartel has risen faster than most tech stocks, thanks to the vision of its late founder, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and the ruthlessness of his dumber but meaner younger brother Vicente. For a long time, Mexican criminals were simply subcontractors whom the Colombians paid a set fee, usually $1,500 to $2,000 per kilogram, to truck cocaine over the U.S. border and to warehouses in California or Texas. There, Cali cartel employees would reclaim the goods, move them to major retailing hubs like Manhattan and Los Angeles and wholesale them to distributors. The Colombians pocketed a chunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valley Of Death | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...report also proposes a series of solutions, including a new federal Center for Patient Safety that would set error-reduction standards for hospital procedures and medical equipment, as well as a mandatory reporting system that would require hospitals to fess up to what they like to call "adverse events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors' Deadly Mistakes | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...just bureaucrats' caterwauling. Rather, L.A. school superintendent Ruben Zacarias was an eager convert to the crusade against social promotion. In February he unveiled an ambitious plan to end unwarranted promotions in five grades during the 1999-2000 school year--a full year ahead of the timetable set by a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slowing Down a Quick Fix | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Pearl Buck novels and light-classical music. Middle-brow provided a semblance of breeding and was pervasive enough that the manufacturers of mass entertainment wanted to tap it. So radio networks featured operas and symphonies. And Walt Disney produced Fantasia, a melange of pieces from the concert-hall repertoire set to swirling, splashing cartoon images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Disney's Fantastic Voyage | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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