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Word: ups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yet keeping the status quo could have risky consequences. Leaving e-commerce untaxed amounts to a bonanza for Web entrepreneurs and Americans who own computers with Internet access. Within a few years, low-income customers could end up paying a disproportionate share of state and local taxes at stores like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hex on Your Taxes | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Technology, in turn, has led to our obsession with ultraprecise timekeeping and time management. Before the Industrial Revolution, the exact time of day or year mattered only to those in specialized jobs, such as astrologers and sailors. For the rest, the day began at dawn, noon was when the sun...

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

To their victims they seemed pretty normal at first, even admirable. Reinaldo Silvestre, a charming Miami con man with no medical training, is alleged to have operated on his plastic-surgery patients by shoving implants into their chests with a spatula; several were permanently mutilated. A drifter named Luis Garavito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad to the Bone | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

How can the disorder be treated? Though certain medications, like Depakote, curb individual symptoms like aggression and impulsiveness, there have been no drug trials specifically for ASP. Fonagy claims intensive psychotherapy and parent training can help. But researchers say that signs of ASP often show up by age four or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad to the Bone | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

This was to be Rae Carruth's breakout season. The first-round NFL draft pick for the Carolina Panthers hadn't lived up to the promise he showed in 1997, when he led the league's rookie wideouts with 44 catches and 545 receiving yards. First, a broken foot kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of His Season | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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