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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right now there are more large-cap companies outside the index than at any other time in history, because of investors' massive reweighting toward technology companies. Among those we consider potential admittees are JDS Uniphase, a $42 billion fiber optics company; online retailing colossus Amazon, with $36 billion in market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Index Game | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Within a day of getting online, however, I realized I needed two things: a home network so the two computers in my office could share the cable modem, and a fire wall to protect my machines. The fire wall was especially urgent, I felt. It spooked me to leave my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Modems | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

The recommendations also addressed the scope of the questions physicians routinely ask their patients. All women, beginning at 19, for example, should be asked if they have any bladder- or bowel-control problems. While these problems are not very common in younger women, the question is easy enough to ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Women Only | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

1 HOME TOWN This fond but completely unsentimental portrait of Northampton, Mass., captures the joys and the sheer human cussedness on daily display there. Tracy Kidder lives nearby, and he spent years listening to his neighbors and walking their streets. His book is an extraordinary feat of reporting and writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best Books Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

1 EBAY O.K., so it's prone to outages. It has a few white elephants. It may not even be the best auction website. But this year, eBay became an economic phenomenon second only to the stock market. Every day, 250,000 new items are added and 1.5 million visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cybertech: The Best Cybertech of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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