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Word: whats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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"What kind of work?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

But the Subaru won't start. It won't even turn over. In a flash, Esteban is out of the car and pushing. I'm driving, and he's barking orders, which need to be translated instantaneously by T/N. I have no idea what we're doing. We stop. Esteban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Halfway to Trinidad, while we are passing La Guira, something recklessly symbolic happens. At the bottom of a small valley, there is a split second when a huge, bulbous green army truck passes us, heading in the other direction. At the same instant, we are passing on our right a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always passes inexorably. We mark it, save it, waste it, bide it, race against it. We measure it incessantly, with a passion for precision that borders on the obsessive. Time is so vitally enmeshed with the fabric of our existence, in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Yet even the most accurate clock in the world can't answer the question of what all these atoms are actually measuring. What is time anyway? According to Isaac Newton, both space and time were fixed attributes of the universe, a God-given stage on which events unfolded. But Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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