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...saga continues. Will Richard finally outlive his welcome, now that the ladies can bring home sustenance (one fish)? Will Sean change his Swiss voting ways, now that he's been a Tool of Richard? Will Colleen and Jenna, frolicking playfully in the surf one day, give CBS the 18-34 male demographic boost of its life by looking into each others' eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She's Lissome, Lively and Lovely. And She's Gone | 7/27/2000 | See Source »

...MARRON Thank you, PaineWebber. All brokerage stocks soar after CEO announces deal to sell to Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 24, 2000 | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

...fiery death of the Hindenburg put an end to the hydrogen-filled balloon for passenger travel, and even when the lifting gas was replaced by helium, passengers never again trusted the big airships. The last Zeppelin made, the LZ 130, rolled out of the hangar in Friedrichshafen, near the Swiss-German border, in 1938, and it was eventually turned into scrap. At 246-ft. long, the ship that Danneker will pilot, the new Zeppelin NT--for new technology--will disappoint those expecting to see hotels embedded in the bellies of stadium-size behemoths. German regulations limit the number of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Hot Air | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

Welcome to Tate Modern, once a power station built above the bomb wreckage of the blitz by a half-forgotten architect named Giles Gilbert Scott, now rebuilt by the Swiss-based firm of Herzog & De Meuron as London's first museum of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Kissing a Grimy Princess | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...those Yugoslav names with a paucity of vowels, you might sprinkle in a few, and list your hobbies as boccie playing and fine-tuning your grandma's lasagna recipe. Or maybe, in order to reassure voters that you're harmless because culturally you're already Swiss, you could list your hobbies as eating heavy food, reminding others to be punctual and responding to attempts at humor by frowning and saying, "Is that meant to be funny, or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Elected as a Citizen | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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