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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kept bin Laden pretty well bottled up since his Africa attacks. The cruise missiles that leveled his Afghan hideaway have driven him into a sleepless life of hide-and-seek. Though his protectors, the Taliban government in Afghanistan, still refuse to hand him over, he is constrained not to tick them off. The U.S. warned the Taliban again last week to expect harsh reprisals if bin Laden acts. They responded that he cannot even use fax or phone to direct his enterprises, but U.S. officials don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Year's Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Indeed, while scientists have harnessed the power of the atom, cracked the genetic code and probed the very edges of the universe, they still don't understand time much better than St. Augustine did. Yet now, as the last few days of the second millennium tick rapidly away (though diehard purists still insist it doesn't really end for another year), we seem more fascinated with the subject than ever. At the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, crowds are flocking to a new exhibition, "The Story of Time," which examines time from cultural, religious, artistic and scientific viewpoints. On this...

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

...going to be like f___ing Doom," Harris says. "Tick, tick, tick, tick... Haa! That f___ing shotgun is straight out of Doom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Columbine Tapes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...spots, we also had a chance to sit down with Daly and an executive producer of the show to find out why TRL has become such a runaway pop culture juggernaut. Want to hear Carson's opinion of Harvard? Or find out what really makes these teenage girls tick? We'll lay out our whole Incredibly True Adventures of A Boy and a Girl in Love...with MTV in a coming issue...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...want to learn how Congress works or how the presidency works, you're in the wrong place,'" Levin had told the class. "'But if you want to learn about what makes America tick then this class...

Author: By Benjamin M. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: B.U. Political Science Professor, Scholar-Activist, Dies at 72 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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