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However, students may call the evening shuttle van for service by request from 7 p.m. until...

Author: By M. ARI Behar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Floyd Flies By, Drenching Boston | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Aussies are going in, and they're prepared for the worst. Prime Minister John Howard warned the nation Wednesday to expect casualties, after Australia heeded a U.N. request to head up a mission to restore order to East Timor by "all necessary measures." The first Australians will arrive by the weekend to head up a multinational force of 8,000 drawn mostly from Asian countries. And ending the violence in the territory will be their most dangerous mission since the Vietnam war. The operation's primary task will be to disarm the anti-independence militias who, assisted by elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australians Face a Tough Task in East Timor | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

...Plaza, peering into the NBC Today show's glass-walled studios, pestering Al Roker for a chance to say hi to Aunt Connie in Flat Rock. By afternoon, they're choking Times Square sidewalks outside MTV's fishbowl studio in hopes of getting into a crowd shot on Total Request Live. At various other times, they might hit either site for an open-air concert. Since Today's set went transparent in 1994, getting on TV has become as quintessential a New York City tourist experience as eating a pastrami sandwich the size of your suitcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Living in Glass Houses | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...capabilities. At a recently wired school in Novi, Mich., the school webmaster was just a few hours late posting the lunch-menu calendar on the website, which was created with the help of Carson's Family Education Co. In that time, more than a dozen parents called him to request the information. "A year ago, it never would have been there," says Carson. And now parents are finding it's tough to get by without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Start School With a Click | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

DANCE VS. DANCE What will be the Macarena of the millennium? Mambo No. 5, an old Cuban tune with new words and its own dance steps, tops the charts in 15 countries and request lists in the U.S. But Chicagoans are betting on the "milly," a funky nine-step dance (instructions above) they have learned in droves and will perform on New Year's Eve. Not even Nostradamus could have predicted this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gettin' Jiggy | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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