Word: months
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...village hideouts, until they fell back and Russian troops could move safely forward again. Since late September, a Russian force that now numbers 100,000--just about every viable fighting man in the armed forces--has managed to retake control of nearly 60% of Chechnya. For more than a month, it has laid siege to Grozny, pounding the capital with artillery and aerial strikes while ground troops slowly tighten the noose...
...scientific viewpoints. On this side of the Atlantic, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has opened a permanent show on America's fascination with time. In bookstores, best-selling author James Gleick's Faster (Pantheon), which laments the accelerating pace of our lives, will be joined next month by The End of Time (Oxford University Press), British physicist Julian Barbour's treatise on the idea that time doesn't even exist. It's nothing more, he says, than an illusion, a sort of cosmic parlor trick...
...physicists, then, time is an exceedingly complex and slippery concept. No wonder St. Augustine couldn't explain it. But when the month, the year, the century and the millennium end next week, it's a fair bet that theoretical physicists, like the rest of us, will be partying to welcome in the year 2000--whether it really exists...
...Raine, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, has found that the brains of people with ASP look different from those of the rest of the population, with less gray matter in the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that regulates behavior and social judgment. Just last month University of Iowa neurobiologist Antonio Damasio reported findings from a study showing that early brain injuries affect the long-term ability to distinguish between right and wrong...
...headed into the last week before Christmas vacation, Columbine High School was enjoying its first full month without a single warning or suicide or other incident related to the April 20 killing of 12 students and a teacher. School life was returning to some semblance of normal. But then came last week's release of videotapes made by the Columbine killers, first reported in TIME. And then on Wednesday a student using an Internet chat room received an anonymous threat against the school--which moved authorities to close the school and postpone exams. Back came the horrible memories...