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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That question lies at the core of the dire declarations in the report that China has systematically stolen our vital security secrets, pilfering design information on every advanced thermonuclear warhead we deploy, on missile guidance, even on the never fielded neutron bomb, to acquire weapons knowledge "on a par" with the U.S. With "insatiable" appetite and "enormous" energy over decades, Beijing's agents mined valuable military information from every corner of the American military-industrial complex and haven't given up yet. From that time to the present, a permissive, often inept U.S. government let the People's Republic help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Cold War? | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...military controlled nearly 20,000 companies employing more than 16 million people. Top P.L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines. Less public was the fact that some of the nation's vital naval and air bases had become smuggling hubs for everything from cigarettes to cement. The handsome profits--more than $10 billion a year--were used to improve the paltry living conditions of the rank and file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Muscle: Birth Of A Superpower | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Before any surgical procedure, it's vital to give doctors a complete medical history, including all drugs and herbal remedies your child takes and any known allergies. A little preparation can avert mishaps and speed your child's recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids and Surgery | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...LOST CAUSE G. Gordon Liddy (6), at the Virginia Military Institute, to its first graduating class to include women: "[Women] were trained separately, and they did noncombat work. That was vital, and they did it splendidly... When you are rising to higher ranks...put it back right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Finally, in Closing | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...what's supposed to be next year's Big Thing. Two days after the trustbusting main event got going again in Washington, Danbury-based Bristol Technology Inc. opened its own suit against the Redmond giant, claiming that Gates & Co. put the Seattle screws to their software business by withholding vital information when Bristol licensed MS's Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft's browsers are now under legal assault," says TIME technology correspondent Chris Taylor. "But NT, because it's the core of the soon-to-be-shipped Windows 2000, is really the one that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gates-Busters Open Up a Fourth Front | 6/3/1999 | See Source »

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