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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeff's mother, as smart, headstrong and pioneering as anyone in the clan, married young and gave birth to Jeff on Jan. 12, 1964, when she was 17. The marriage lasted about a year. Jeff has neither memory of nor interest in his biological father. "I've never been curious about him. The only time it comes up is in the doctor's office when I'm asked for my medical history," he says. "I put down that I just don't know. My real father is the guy who raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Jeff was an exceptionally smart child. Fed up with sleeping in a crib, the toddler found a screwdriver and reduced his jail to its component parts. He constantly built models, worked a Radio Shack electronics kit that Pop bought him down to the nubs and endlessly tinkered with stuff. When he was six, his sister Christina was born; a year later, his brother Mark arrived. When the siblings were old enough to get into Jeff's bedroom, he rigged a buzzer to his door that would go off like a burglar alarm. Later, in what his family has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...wasn't Disney's movies that impressed Bezos but his theme parks. He went to Disney World six times. "The thing that always amazed me was how powerful his vision was," Bezos says. "He knew exactly what he wanted to build and teamed up with a bunch of really smart people and built it. Everyone thought it wouldn't work, and he had to persuade the banks to lend him $400 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...demands. The plaintiffs want gunmakers to distribute only to dealers who won't sell at gun shows, to require that dealers sell only one gun a month per buyer, to cut off those who sell a disproportionate number of guns linked to crimes, and to make the industry develop "smart" guns that only their owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Politics: Enter The Big Guns | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Although Bradley's complete medical record has yet to be released, what we do know is encouraging. His total cholesterol level of 161 mg/dL places him solidly among the heart-smart set. His blood pressure is an enviable 118/68, and his pulse holds steady at 55 beats a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bradley's Health: A Candidate's Racing Heart | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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