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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the trick to solving some of the world's problems is to think, Amazon-like, in the long term. "Say you want to solve world hunger. If you think in terms of a five-year time frame, you get really depressed; it's an intractable problem. But if you say, well, let's see how we could solve this in 100 years--it's a problem because you'll be dead by then, but the solution becomes more tractable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...zero of the New Economy? At age five, Earth's Biggest Bookstore is now Earth's Biggest Selection, in keeping with Bezos' plan for world domination. Meaning what, exactly? Well, in a sense, Amazon isn't about technology or even commerce. Any moron can open an online store. The trick is showing millions of customers such a good time that they come back every few days for the next 50 years. Amazon is, like every other site on the Web, a content play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cruising Inside Amazon | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...laments the accelerating pace of our lives, will be joined next month by The End of Time (Oxford University Press), British physicist Julian Barbour's treatise on the idea that time doesn't even exist. It's nothing more, he says, than an illusion, a sort of cosmic parlor trick...

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

However, Team USA outshot Harvard, 41-14. In addition to Magee's hat trick, the Americans also got goals from Katie King, Stephanie O'Sullivan, Melissa Heizman and Karen...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Team U.S.A. Handles W. Hockey in Exhibition | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Jordan era. Now he has proved he's also its most amazing. Woods won his second major title and eight tournaments (including a gravity-defying four in a row) and made almost as much money as The Sixth Sense. Perhaps the most awe-inspiring feat was the juggling-ball trick in that Nike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Sports of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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