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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maybe that's where Einstein got it. Just before he died, Newton remarked, "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17th Century: Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...even boasts fluoride for the teeth. A Harvard study this year found that a cup of black tea a day cuts the risk of heart attacks by 44%. What's more, caffeine freaks, jangly from coffee's finger-in-the-socket jolt and drop, are coming to appreciate the smoother caffeine boost of black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tea Time Once Again | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

This year, Driskell and Burton are back for more, hoping that a "smoother operation," complete with strategy meetings and bolder posters, will lead them to election victory...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos and Andrew S. Holbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Profile of Driskell-Burton | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...buxom heroine of the Tomb Raider series of computer games--and his face lights up with a naughty-boy grin. "Lara's changed fairly significantly," he says of her latest outing, Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation. "She's got a bottom now. She's got cheeks. She's smoother. Now she exists just as we first imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Lara Croft | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...swallowed 40 pills--20 aspirin and 20 Tylenol--and was hospitalized for eight days. After having clinical depression diagnosed, she was put on the antidepressant Effexor, among other medications. "Now, instead of the peaks and valleys," she says, "I just feel small waves of emotion. Things are a lot smoother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wednesday: 3:30 P.M. Mental Health | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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