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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is also a second, more private Clinton, who has been uncorking a different riff late at night, between 11 and 2, when he checks in with his closest friends, some of whom are dismayed by Gore. "People wind him up," a Clinton aide says. In those conversations the President starts feeling sorry for himself and lets it rip, saying he brought Gore to the dance, plucked him from certain obscurity and lifted him up. These are nasty venting sessions, done and forgotten by the next day, but they have occurred often enough so that they leaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Marriage Be Saved? | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...Club on Mill St. HUPD received a complaint that nude sunbathers on the roof were throwing cans onto the street. Units were dispatched, and did not find any nude sunbathers. Club members told police that the cans blew off the building because of wind...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan and Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: POLICE LOG | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...China--3,307 miles of wire-and-post fencing, running dead straight to the horizon in both directions. It is known as the Dog Fence because it is meant to keep dingoes inside northern Australia and out of South Australia, so they won't massacre the sheep. If the wind blows your hat over the fence, it's gone forever. The Dog Fence has only one gate every 12 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fella Down a Hole | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...standing in the predawn darkness on the rim of a cliff, 300 ft. above the desert floor. There are purply black mesas before and behind you. Exactly above the center of the largest one, you see Venus, the Morning Star, burning in a deep violet sky. Nothing moves. No wind, no sound, only bitter cold. As the light begins to glow on the eastern horizon, you see an immense desert plain, flat as water--it is, in fact, the bed of an ancient inland sea. And it stretches without interruption, without a building or any other sign of human habitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fella Down a Hole | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

Executives in the insurance industry, however, charge that doctors' motives are less altruistic. They say doctors, who by the A.M.A.'s own calculation have a median annual income of $164,000, are trying to pad their already cushy salaries. And they argue that the doctors' bold stand could wind up hurting their patients. According to a June report released by the Health Insurance Association of America, collective bargaining by doctors for higher fees could cause health-care premiums to balloon as much as 11%, adding up to $80 billion annually to the cost of health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unionizing The E.R. | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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