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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that overall it's changed for the worse. It's kind of fashionable to say that. The sad thing is that it's not really a college town anymore," Hermann says of the Square...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, | Title: Big Names Leave No Space for Mom and Pop | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Historic preservation of buildings is one thing," Duehay said, "And historic preservation of businesses is another. Two hundred years ago, they may have been selling cornmeal in the Square. Do I think they should still be doing that...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, | Title: Big Names Leave No Space for Mom and Pop | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...most difficult things to do now? The most important thing is the toilet affairs. I can't do it for myself, and my wife has to help me. It's embarrassing. Another thing is bathing...eating...writing. I can urinate for myself now with no escort. I can't dress myself. I can't pray because I can't wash. I pray only at night when I'm going to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...many people question whether it's a good idea for fallible human beings to go mucking about with the genes of other species. It's one thing if a scientific experiment goes wrong in a lab, they say, but something else entirely if it winds up on your dinner plate. To date, there's nothing to suggest that re-engineered plants have ever done anyone any harm. Nonetheless, the European Union has blocked the importation of some GM crops, and since 1997 has required that foods that contain engineered DNA be labeled as such. Plenty of trade watchers in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...little as four hours' notice, anytime? Priced to make a buck, of course. Customers do not buy a particular plane so much as the right to fly on a jet of the class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around $7,600 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent-a-Jet Cachet | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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