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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservatives--and even some feminists--have been making the argument for years, most recently in books like What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden. But it's Wendy Shalit's debut book, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (Free Press), that is currently bubbling in the public debate. The book has earned the neoconservative author an interview by Katie Couric on the Today show and inspired heated online debate, as well as a drubbing from many across the feminist spectrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modestly Provocative | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...soon to tell whether the laws make for smarter drivers. But preliminary accident statistics in some states indicate they may be helping. In 1997, the first full year of graduated licensing in Florida, fatal and injury crashes among 15-to-17-year-olds fell 9%, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Young To Drive? | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

AARON SHIKLER, we should tell you, painted this week's cover illustration three months ago, when TIME was considering Hillary Clinton for Person of the Year. Since that time, the buzz swirling around the First Lady has shifted from her husband's impeachment to her potential Senate candidacy. But Shikler insists the illustration has nothing to do with buzz. "I did not want to take a journalistic approach," he says. "I wanted to paint her as the person I saw: a lively woman with great dignity and a great smile." Shikler spent more than an hour photographing Clinton and taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

That's just the sort of killer instinct Hollywood loves: an unerring commercial sense at the price of a street vendor's Rolex. Time will tell if Ritchie is the real goods. But as LS&2SB proves, he can blast out 107 minutes of hard, dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond Pulp Affliction | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Bette was convincing enough to make me do some research. I concluded that the adopt-a-highway program is not only stupid; it's not even very much fun. There's no Sally Struthers sending you monthly letters and updated pictures to tell you how well your highway is doing. Instead, the program requires you and lots of your friends to show up four times a year for two years and pick up trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come Meet My Highway | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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