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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commanding lead in the marketplace, it won't run traditional floppies. If you have a drawerful of 1.44s, you'll need a separate floppy drive to read them. The SuperDisk drive has its own 120-MB discs but can run regular old floppies too. And if you can wait until late fall, you will have even more options: Sony and Caleb separately announced last week that they'll start shipping their own ultra-high-density drives, which will also be able to run standard floppies. Sony's entry, the HiFD, uses a 200-MB disc. Caleb, a smaller company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Little Discs | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

Byerly Hall. As I wait for the letter to come next month from the Financial Aid Office, I've been thinking about what an enormous impact my financial aid package has on my life and what Harvard could do to help its students...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, | Title: POSTCARD FROM MARYLAND | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

...should be drinking champagne every day to celebrate these times!" asserts Allen Sinai. But he and the other members of TIME's Board of Economists add a caveat: Don't wait to pop the corks. The economy right now is as good as it gets, perhaps the best in American history, Sinai claims, with little disagreement from his colleagues. However, it will start coming down off this giddy high very soon--maybe this summer. And fears are growing that the trip down could be bumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quarterly Business Report: As Good as It Gets | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...reading far more into this than these guys deserve," says Rife Kimler, a local attorney. "These are three guys who got mean, got drunk and saw an easy target." But a target for what kind of anger? History lies in wait in the woods that stretch 100 miles through East Texas to Louisiana, biding its time to strike. Towns like Jasper were the refuge for Confederate deserters who fled to the forests after the Civil War. The area became fertile ground for the Klan. "There is a predisposition, a culture over here in East Texas," says John Craig, co-author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beneath The Surface | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...like Diane Nash and Robert Moses were willing to put their lives and bodies on the line at a time when both white political leaders like John Kennedy and established civil rights groups like the N.A.A.C.P. urged caution and so-called moderation. The young activists were simply unwilling to wait or compromise. Their impatient fearlessness shook America to its roots and changed the face of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marching On: Civil rights warrior John Lewis tells his life's story | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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