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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfort, Bernard is not alone, and neither is Sears. The final days of the Internet's first really big Christmas were punctuated by a mountain of undelivered packages and a blizzard of complaints: computers that crashed, orders that vanished, items suddenly out of stock or stuck in the warehouse. In a telling field test, the results of which were released with only five shopping days left, staff members at Andersen Consulting tried ordering 480 gifts at 100 of the most popular online stores and managed to get through only 3 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Postponed | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Person of the Century should be someone who held true to his beliefs and was prepared to fight for them." PAULA MOUNTAIN-AGAR York, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1999 | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...only of the desire to know the truth but also of the capacity to know the truth. In his 1993 novel, Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman writes, "In this world time is a visible dimension. Just as one may look off in the distance and see houses, trees, mountain peaks that are landmarks in space, so one may look out in another direction and see births, marriages, deaths that are signposts in time, stretching off dimly into the far future." It does not take much of another stretch to attach godhead to such a vision, though that was hardly Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Einstein | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Angkor Wat, Cambodia (213 ft. tall). Part holy mountain, part city, the sprawling temple built by King Suryavarman II was intended to be proof of his divinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Evolving Culture | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Ashley Prinzi. "When you're bored in class, everything comes back, because this is where it happened." Yet most are learning, however slowly, to move on. Last month a student in Carol Samson's English class was so struck by something she read in the Charles Frazier novel Cold Mountain that she stayed after class to show the passage to Samson. "Your grief hasn't changed a thing," it reads. "All you can choose to do is go on or not." Frank Peterson says he now gives his biology students more in-class assignments so he can work with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columbine: Normal, Dull Days? No! | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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