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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point that Bactria's history becomes a mystery. Not until one Yüeh-Chih ruler united the five tribes circa A.D. 50 to form the Kushan dynasty does the record resume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Golden Nobles of Shibarghan | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...these things to others, and I require the same of them." That stands up as well as an epitaph for a good, cranky and singular man, but he himself would not have chosen it. John Wayne preferred an old, simple Mexican saying: "Feo, fuerte y formal" (He was ugly, he was strong, he had dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Mark Insalata Ossining, N. Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1979 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

George Eddy Parker Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1979 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Another increasingly popular fuel for commercial plants is urban garbage. At least 16 plants burn refuse in such cities as New York, Chicago, Sacramento and Milwaukee. One of the latest to switch to garbage power is Hempstead, N. Y., which has set up a $73 million plant on Long Island that will consume 2,000 tons of waste a day and generate up to 40 Mw (megawatts), enough electricity for 15% of the residential needs of Hempstead's 865,000 population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Energy: Fuels off the Future | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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