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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thaw in microwave (two minutes on high power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Dear Dr. Know | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team of scientists will begin to thaw the beast using, um, hair dryers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jurassic Park 3: The Wild and Woolly Mammoth | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...death," says Shawna Daniels, 14, "and I'm not ever going near the woods again!" A ticket taker graciously walks them to the car. When asked if he has seen the film, he replies, "Not on your life. I don't want to be that scared." For others, the thaw will take longer. Kim Bingham, 33, of Santa Cruz, Calif., says that a week after seeing the movie, her 14-year-old daughter "still can't sleep at night. She doesn't want to talk about it. She won't go outside to feed the dog because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Taiwan?s loose-cannon president may be the unlikeliest of matchmakers between Washington and Beijing, yet Lee Teng-hui appears to have inadvertently healed the post-Kosovo rift. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally reported a thaw in relations with Beijing ? which have been on ice since the Belgrade embassy bombing ? when she met on Sunday with her Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Beijing announced that a previously scheduled September summit between Presidents Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan's Grandstanding Set to Heal U.S.-China Rift | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...palm of your hand and a cell phone with Internet access in your pocket? Not to mention Packard Bell NEC's planned microwave oven with a video-display terminal on the door so you can surf the Web while waiting for your burrito to thaw. E-mail? Web access? Game playing? Will anyone need a PC to perform what today seem like PC functions? Well, there will always be geeks who have to have too much computing power. But the rest of us may be satisfied gazing into our microwaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PC Makers Get Crunched | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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