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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Volunteers and staff use flashlights and mirrors to help decipher the worn lettering. Or, when all else fails, they turn to Google books to fill in missing poems or biblical quotes.

Author: By STEPHANIE R. MCCARTNEY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Neverending Task | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

But the genuinely transformative factor is that China now gets Taiwan. The island is a more complex place for Beijing to decipher than Hong Kong and Macau, former British and Portuguese colonies whose governments could make no moral argument against the return of the two territories to Chinese sovereignty. Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting It Strait | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

I couldn't do it. It was so terrifying that I never touched it, and something like 15 years later I tried to decipher some of this miniature handwriting - it was really microscopic - and after 20 or 30 pages, I just stopped. A few years ago, my wife Lena encouraged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Werner Herzog | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

Richard Branson The media mogul and entrepreneur is the CEO of Virgin Group and a past TIME 100 honoree James Lovelock developed an instrument that helped decipher the role of chlorofluorocarbons in the depletion of the ozone layer. His Gaia theory of how our planet works has real applicability in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME 100 | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

If only the cure were that easy. Any doctor will tell you the advantages of having lots of patient data on computers: it helps us avoid redundant tests, gather huge amounts of information for research, screen automatically for drug interactions - and spare others from having to decipher our illegible handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Prescription | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

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