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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old who University of Virginia Medical Center officials believe is the biological daughter of Rogers, not Johnson. Which would mean that Johnson's genetic child is the girl that Rogers and her boyfriend Kevin Chittum named Rebecca. They were raising her a couple of hours away, in Buena Vista--at least until they were killed on July 4 in the nation's worst car accident that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Do They Belong? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Talk about expensive addresses: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Compaq Computer Corp., owners of the Alta Vista search engine, paid a San Jose, Calif., business owner $3.35 million for the rights to the domain name www.altavista.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Game of the Name | 7/28/1998 | See Source »

Speculating in domain names is not new: Enterprising individuals bought hundreds of Internet addresses such as unitedairlines.com and held them for ransom from their namesakes. (In 1996 a court ruled against registering copyrighted names.) But Marshall had his fair and square -- the Alta Vista search engine wasn't launched until November 1995, and was first registered under the name www.altavista.digital.com. (Why they picked a name that was already taken is inexplicable.) However, having a search engine's traffic mistakenly piling into your site daily isn't necessarily desirable, especially next to $3.5 million, and Marshall finally settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Game of the Name | 7/28/1998 | See Source »

...best vista is from the lounge, whichdirectly overlooks the center of the field. Asweeping balcony is located just outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Athletic Center To Open This Fall | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...Getting to the U.S. used to be a nightmare [for Cuban performers]," says Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, a producer of Buena Vista Social Club. "But things are slowly getting better. America is interested in us again. It's in fashion to smoke a Havana, to visit the island, to have an affair with a Cuban woman." In recent months, celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Campbell and Alanis Morrisette have visited the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: !Viva La Musica Cubana! | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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