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Randolph set foot on American soil for the first time in 1980, when she arrived in Florida as a newlywed with her husband, an Asian-American airman who had been stationed in Haiti...

Author: By Hannah E. Kenser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Haitians, despite obstacles, plant city roots | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...Super Soaker is just one of 62 patents (with an additional 18 pending approval) that Johnson has amassed since his basement days. He's had ideas for hair-drying rollers, a digital thermostat, a baby-diaper detector that activates musical nursery rhymes when wet, and a device that measures soil moisture and waters grass automatically. Many of his ideas never went further than the prototype. He didn't have the money or the contacts in those early days to push them into production. "There are all kinds of ways to skin a cat, and there are all kinds of mousetraps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soaking In Success | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Kosovo Liberation Army, and has stepped up its operations against the group on the Kosovo side of the border, it has also warned Belgrade against sending troops into the buffer zone. But for President Kostunica, the continued presence of hundreds of heavily armed guerrillas from Kosovo on Serbian soil killing Serbian policemen is intolerable - particularly when the Milosevic-led opposition is charging that Serbia's government is now in the hands of its enemies. Kostunica's message to NATO has been, essentially, either the West deals with the problem or Belgrade will. But that's precisely what the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serb Threat Raises NATO Dilemma | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Until last fall, the meadow was fenced in and allowed to grow wild. But last October, the MDC filled the area with soil. The agency seeded grass and paved a path through the field so riverside strollers can walk nearer to the Charles. Wellons says that made nesting dangerous and stressful for the geese...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Farewell to Mother Goose? | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...decision by putting his faith in the advisers he picks; Gore, in the information they bring him. Bush's goal in mastering a new issue is to learn the lay of the land; Gore isn't convinced he knows the terrain until he runs his fingers through the soil. Bush's experience tells him there are few adversaries he cannot bring around with his irresistible charm; Gore's experience tells him there are few he cannot conquer with an irrefutable argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: How They Run The Show | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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