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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe, just maybe, Coleman was laughing for an entirely different reason. Maybe Coleman knew that with baseball's current vacuum of leadership, there was no one running. The Grand Old Game to make sure he wouldn't get away with...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: While The Game Goes Up in Smoke | 8/3/1993 | See Source »

...name Seagaia is a paradisiacal melding of the English word for ocean and the Greek word for earth. And the sea labors to be as close to the original as possible -- if not better. A computer creates perfect tubular waves four or five times a day, manipulating 10 large vacuum pumps that suck water into 40 chambers, then spew it out into surfable crests that allow expert hotdoggers to demonstrate their skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Great Indoors | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...beating heart", but what they leave out is that abortion ranks relatively low on the global list of things that end lives. In terms of volume, famine, pestilence, war and even heart disease are all far better equipped to truncate heartbeats than some quack with a knife and a vacuum tube...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Words Too Big for Movements | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...cyberspace cannot exist in a vacuum. Now, many of its denizens are mourning a paradise lost. Says one user: "The bottom line is that we can't always trust each other and can't always know who is worthy of our trust." Why venture into an F2F when the party on the other side may think it's just a game or an experiment? "I feel like an absolute fool," says Lisa. "People look at a computer and fail to realize that behind those words is a real person with feelings." Welcome back to the real world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heartbreak In Cyberspace | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...affected by the coming down of the Berlin Wall. Besides, in the very first paragraph of the new book, we see the Gulf War being followed in a posh Zurich hotel -- the very definition of a safe "neutral" zone -- and are reminded that espionage nature abhors a vacuum: if the cold war is over, a hot one must be cooked up in its place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Wars In the Soul | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

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