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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. You've heard of places described as cow towns? Coffeyville was actually labeled Cow Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Jeff's mother, as smart, headstrong and pioneering as anyone in the clan, married young and gave birth to Jeff on Jan. 12, 1964, when she was 17. The marriage lasted about a year. Jeff has neither memory of nor interest in his biological father. "I've never been curious about him. The only time it comes up is in the doctor's office when I'm asked for my medical history," he says. "I put down that I just don't know. My real father is the guy who raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...students, the doctors-in-training weren't eligible to participate in bargaining talks. The board reversed that stance in November, and while the Boston Medical Center residents are the first to take advantage of the board's change of heart, they could be only the first of many young doctors to push for full union rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Start Saying Good-bye to the Bleary-Eyed Resident | 12/22/1999 | See Source »

...Well, where's Crash Davis when you need him? The hero of the baseball pic "Bull Durham" was given the task of mentoring a young pitcher named Nuke LaLoosh on how to break into the big leagues. On the eve of Nuke's promotion, Crash coaches him in dealing with the media: Crash: "You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down, 'We gotta play it one day at a time.'" Nuke: "It's pretty boring." Crash: "'Course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocker's Best Pitch: Learning How to Shut Up | 12/22/1999 | See Source »

...most recent game, the Crimson fell 72-63 to Northeastern despite leading by as much as seven points in the second half. Besides the gaping hole in the offense, the Crimson's other problems seem to be a lack of stamina in a young rotation...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Teams Load Holiday with Slate of Games | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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