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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kinds of theories. Perhaps the military, angered at having to give up territory it had fought so hard to pacify, wanted to get a few last licks in before pulling out. The military leadership was also clearly afraid that other restive provinces like Aceh and Irian Jaya would use the East Timor precedent to push for their own secession--and so, the theory goes, they wanted to make an example of East Timor. Others argued that regional commanders intended to defy Jakarta and reduce East Timor to a state of anarchy to cancel out entirely the result of the referendum...
That, of course, is Sega's game plan. Launched in a $100 million marketing blitz last week in the U.S., Dreamcast is the first in a succession of machines that promise to bring real computing power for all the family to use. The graphics are far more realistic than those of even the best PC software on the market today and just about as textured as television. And while certainly designed for games, Sega's new consoles are capable of electronic wizardry that should turn even game-playing agnostics into believers. Dreamcast, for instance, comes equipped with a 56K modem...
...York City this week makes clear. "Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" is the first major show devoted to the Old Kingdom. It features some 250 objects from 32 institutions in 10 countries--including exquisite sculptures, relief paintings, vessels, furniture and jewelry--created for use in the temples and royal tombs surrounding Egypt's most familiar monuments...
...bombarded with opportunities to spend money, and the options are about to explode through online shopping geared specifically toward kids. Several new websites, such as Icanbuy, Rocketcash and DoughNet, will set up accounts in a child's name. Parents can deposit a small amount from a credit card or use Grandma's birthday money as their child's online slush fund. These cybermalls are only too happy to point your child toward must-have products. They also offer FDIC-insured banking services so that little Timmy can watch his money earn interest between spending binges...
EVERYONE ISN'T DOING IT In a national survey of teenage drug use, PRIDE, an organization devoted to drug-abuse prevention, revealed last week that while drug use dropped 1.6% between September 1998 and June 1999, a quarter of America's sixth-to-12th-graders used drugs at least once during the past year. Fewer students than in previous years believe heroin and cocaine are "very harmful." But those whose parents talked to them "a lot" about the dangers of drugs were far less likely than other students to use them...