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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed. As the 6 billion passengers aboard Spaceship Earth enter a complex new century, few issues are as fundamental as water. We are falling far short of the most basic humanitarian goals: sufficient and affordable clean water, food and energy for everyone. "I cannot bear to watch the nations cry," wrote Derek Walcott, the Caribbean-born Nobel laureate, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dried Out | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby Hughie, who tried to hide under his seat at a Chicago movie theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life With Baby Hughie | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me A New Story | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

When seers forecast the future literally instead of metaphysically, they usually miss by light-years. The Buck Rogers comic strip of the 1950s attempted to depict life in the 25th century. But even before the end of the 20th century, Buck's spaceship looked more like a 1956 Cadillac than any realistic vision of a technological tomorrow that is already with us. Nor can the exactitude of modern science save us from silliness in attempting to know what will happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast 2001 | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

Still, reporters hoped he might throw them a bone. One asked: If Duchovny's going to be in 11 episodes, yet there'll be only six or seven mythology ones - during at least some of which he'll presumably be on a spaceship - how will they work the abductee into the stand-alones in the meantime? "You'll see how that works," he said. "And hopefully you'll think it's very clever of us." Judging by how well the man improvises onstage, we won't be a bit surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woof! C'mon, Mr. 'X-Files' — Throw Us a Bone! | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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