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...Percentage of Americans who believe that a man-made disaster will wipe out civilization during the next century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...trying to wipe out with one move all my good breeding. Actually, I always wanted to be Little Richard as a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...progress made in the decades to follow did not completely wipe out such differences between the genders. When the U.S. invades a tiny country, for instance, women are still more likely to dwell on the disparity in size. Men understand that, regardless of the size of the opponent, combat is combat: you detonate large bombs; you win medals; you could get killed. In that summer house, the men understood that regardless of the origin of the game, you still have to analyze the plays. You still have to keep statistics. You still have to play to win. You still have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Game of Frizzball | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...process, and because the tactics are so new, no one knows for sure how effective they'll be. "We tend to look for magic bullets," says Grace. But controlling termites may require a combination of new techniques and old, including the traditional approach of applying powerful killers that can wipe out a building's worth of bugs at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Termites from Hell | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Congress to at least reduce the marriage penalty. The likely outcome will be a half step: a bigger standard deduction for married couples. That might eliminate the marriage penalty for couples earning less than $50,000--those most likely to let it keep them from the altar. But to wipe out the penalty for all requires a bigger change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marriage Tax | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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