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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...property and anti-dumping rules. The developing countries want it just the other way around. In a fair world, we'd consider all of these questions in a serious, transparent and careful way, with a deep attention to the concerns of the poorest countries, who live at just one hundredth of the dollar incomes enjoyed by Americans...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Sachs, | Title: Sense and Nonsense in Seattle | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...believes, is a means of relieving themselves of responsibility for their lives. Not that he blames them. "I think the urge to believe things is very strong," he says, "You'd hate to think you're just a lump of atoms on the surface of the earth for one hundredth of the age of the universe, and that that's it. But you know, that...could be true...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Astrology with Prof. Kirshner | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...claims. Any plutonium vaporized in an accident, they explain, would be so diluted in the atmosphere that it would pose no real threat to most people. Still, activists say, had Cassini been equipped with solar panels for electricity, all danger could have been averted. But Saturn receives only a hundredth of the sunlight Earth does, and the solar panels needed to supply Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spacecraft Cassini Has Nuke Activists in a Tizzy | 8/17/1999 | See Source »

...Saturn receives only a hundredth of the sunlight Earth does, and solar panels needed to supply Cassini at that distance would have to be far too large for such a mission. Other than plutonium generators, says physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of Earth's radiation belts, "there is no practical source of electrical power for spacecraft that go to the outer planets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Back! Cassini Flies By | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Thursday, HotJobs.com filed for an IPO, hoping to raise $69 million this summer, even though other stocks in the category, like Topjobs.net have struggled. "A story is only interesting the first time," says Chip Morris, manager of the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology Fund. "By the hundredth time an Internet company comes in repeating the same mantra, you just want to scream to somebody, 'Give me a break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet IPOs: What Goes Up... | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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