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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only major character in the original movies who didn't fit into a tidy little box. He wasn't pure good or pure evil. He was the anti-establishment good guy. He was sarcastic; he was crass; he was human. He didn't have a weird family tree. No "Han, I am your father" for him. He didn't even have any fun Jedi powers. He just had a junky ship, a blaster and a bunch of one-liners. Fisher recently confessed in Newsweek that "I had a crush on Mr. Ford before it became a trend." If that ship...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Finding the Force | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...weekend, crews were still sifting rubble for four missing persons. Mostly the searchers turned up not corpses but the mere record of lives: a half-buried checkbook, a Christmas-tree stand, a little red wagon crushed under a beam. In Del City, Monica Hicks wandered the vacant lot that had been her home and remarked, "I knew it would be bad, but I didn't prepare myself for this. My three-year-old said, 'Mommy, the tornado ate our house.'" Hicks spotted a pink plastic Cadillac on the ground with a doll at the wheel and broke into a loopy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funnel of Death | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...have technical talent," says Tracy Koon, director of corporate affairs at Intel. The need for technical expertise is so pervasive that even retailers are demanding such skills. "Company-wide, we're looking for students with specific information-systems skills," says David McDearmon, director of field human resources at Dollar Tree Stores. "Typically we shy away from independent-college students who don't have them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Well-Read Techies | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...children, The Giving Tree is a metaphor for unrequited parental love. For adults, it has been interpreted as a everything from a religious parable to a cynical look at adulthood. A symposium on the book was held in 1995, where distinguished scholars debated the book's underlying meaning...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Sidewalk Ends for Silverstein | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...Giving Tree is just one example of how Silverstein's work for children was embraced by children and adults alike. And this is what made him a master. In 1975, Silverstein told Publisher's Weekly, "I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Sidewalk Ends for Silverstein | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

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