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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids did not even know they were cheating. They were just following the teacher's orders. "It's important for them to do what the teacher wants; they need to think the teacher is looking out for their best interests," says Moskowitz. "At that age, in the third grade, I don't think they had any clue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Teachers Cheat | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Washington's Teaism, are packing in sippers. Even the high church of coffee, Starbucks, is prominently displaying this year's big acquisition: Tazo Teas. Ellen Lii, the owner of Ten Ren Tea in New York City's Chinatown, used to have an almost solely Asian clientele; now a third of her customers are non-Asians. "People used to spit it out and stick out their tongues," she says of those sampling her exotic teas. "Now they know the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Time Once Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling. The third installment of this phenomenally popular series takes its now teenage hero through another year of his education in the ways of wizardry. Once again, Harry must face a mortal threat, but not before he and his friends get into lively boarding-school scrapes. Children can't get enough of Harry, and neither can their parents...

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

...LONESOME WEST Martin McDonagh continues to astonish. The young London playwright's comedy drama about two brothers fighting over their father's money--the third of a trilogy that includes last season's The Beauty Queen of Leenane--plays at first like a Two Stooges farce. But the laughs thinly disguise a chilling picture of human nature at its nastiest and a rebuke to the romance of rural Ireland...

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

There is no such thing as a global marketplace. There is only the same old colonial imperialism exploiting Third World labor rates. Only now it is driven by multinational businesses instead of political entities. When the average Chinese worker is able to pay $100 for his kids' sneakers and can afford to drive a Ford to his local Starbucks, you can talk to me about a global economy. MATT LESNIESKI Stanhope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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