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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beantown is the exception. Even Peapod, the oldest and most widespread Web grocer, is available to only 8% of the U.S. population. "It's taken quite a while," admits Peapod CEO and president Bill Molloy. "Early on, people felt they didn't deserve this service yet. How could they tell their parents they didn't want to go to the store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight! Food Fight! | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...needed a way around the Rules. What if I could find a local store with a website but faxed the order? My seven years covering the Clintons were coming in handy. How do I get a case of wine to my doorstep by Saturday? Don't ask, don't tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...this point, I realized I needed a real-life Jeeves. Who better to serve food with snootiness sufficient to obscure its Internet provenance? Ironically, my virtual Jeeves couldn't produce a human one. He did tell me of a school in the Netherlands where I could "learn the true art of butling." Smarty pants. I located a domestic agency in Beverly Hills on my own, but its best price for a footman in a morning coat was $500, minimum. In a panic, I had our bureau administrator, Judith Stoler, call the caterer she uses for TIME functions, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dinner @ Margaret's | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...hard even to conceive of it as an independent entity--and when we try, the result is less than enlightening. Pondering the mystery of what time really is, St. Augustine wrote in his Confessions, "If no one asks me, I know; but if any person should require me to tell him, I cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riddle of Time | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...neither pretender could put an interviewee off balance like the Firing Line host, who at last week's taping leaned in to one of his guests, the liberal New York City politician Mark Green, and said, "You've been on the show close to 100 times over the years. Tell me, Mark, have you learned anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Quiet on the Firing Line: William F. Buckley Jr. | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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