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Word: theses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eyes are rolled. Yes, yes. These days, yes. We drop off Armena at a little yellow house, clothes hanging in the windows. Carlos gets out soon after. At Banao, a tiny town, there is a crowd of 40 waiting; a dozen or so people wave us down. We can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Russia's generals have learned some hard lessons. After the blood-soaked debacle of the last attempt to subdue Chechnya during 1994-1996, war gamers went back to the doctrine of the ferocious Russian who first conquered the Caucasus, 19th century general Alexei Yermolov: use siege warfare rather than frontal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lessons | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Yet even the most accurate clock in the world can't answer the question of what all these atoms are actually measuring. What is time anyway? According to Isaac Newton, both space and time were fixed attributes of the universe, a God-given stage on which events unfolded. But Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

They keep trying. More than 4,000 people thronged to the school's parking lot on a chilly Thursday night for a long-planned concert, held to thank all the hospitals, churches, police and others who have helped Columbine recover. Despite the Internet threat, the mood was downright jolly. Principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columbine: Normal, Dull Days? No! | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Students and staff still suffer emotional highs and lows. "It's hard to concentrate," says junior Ashley Prinzi. "When you're bored in class, everything comes back, because this is where it happened." Yet most are learning, however slowly, to move on. Last month a student in Carol Samson's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columbine: Normal, Dull Days? No! | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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