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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Not that an interstate full of delivery trucks will spell the death of your mall. "People will go shopping in stores as a social activity," predicts high-tech guru Esther Dyson, but "there may be a lot of showrooms and fewer places where you actually take things home." Should you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FutureShop: Web-Free Shopping | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

And if you really don't want to walk away from your PC, the Web will still be there. Watch for more gee-whiz applications to draw you into retail websites, like the virtual dressing rooms at eddiebauer.com and boo.com or furniture.com's floor-planning program.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FutureShop: Web-Free Shopping | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

If you believe that the booming American economy is the story of the 1990s, then Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gets my vote as Person of the Decade. The American economy will mark its longest period of uninterrupted expansion this February. During the past nine years, the U.S. unemployment rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Who Mattered | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Now the 49-year-old minister is at it again, blasting most of what passes for black leadership nowadays for failing to speak up about the AIDS epidemic in Africa. As Rivers inquired earlier this month in an open letter to African-American thinkers, clergymen and politicians, "What verdict will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Is a Sin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Good question. By any rational standard, AIDS is the most profound threat to Africa's survival since slavery. Left unchecked, it will decimate the continent. According to the United Nations, 23.3 million Africans are infected by the AIDS virus, more than twice as many as in the rest of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Is a Sin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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