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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cast a spell on the media and the public that they served with a humble charm that refused to gloat about his numbers...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, | Title: Goodbye, Great One | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

Look what it did to me. I can't spell! Damn you education!!! I'll cut your taxes...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Problem with America is Dan Quayle | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...when "An-jei Go-la-ta," as we affectionately came to know him, was disqualified and a race riot broke out, we were out of there faster than you can spell solidarnosc. Or at least than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing Advice from the Hulkster | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...plate. Unknown to him, a spore of a rare variant called Penicillium notatum had drifted in from a mycology lab one floor below. Luck would have it that Fleming had decided not to store his culture in a warm incubator, and that London was then hit by a cold spell, giving the mold a chance to grow. Later, as the temperature rose, the Staphylococcus bacteria grew like a lawn, covering the entire plate--except for the area surrounding the moldy contaminant. Seeing that halo was Fleming's "Eureka" moment, an instant of great personal insight and deductive reasoning. He correctly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Louis Leakey's enthusiasm for Africa and the search for earliest man were infectious. Speaking before a packed lecture hall in his staccato-like voice, punctuated by rapid inhales, he cast a spell, making each listener believe he was speaking only to him or her. His following in America was cultlike. Consumed with devotion and swept up in his charisma, many developed a desire to follow somehow in his footsteps, to please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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