March 29, 1999 | Vol. 153 No. 12

Art: A True Visual Sensualist (The Arts / Art)

Modernists once dismissed John Singer Sargent's society portraits. They were wrong

Music: The Future Never Came (The Arts / Music)

Blur's new album, 13, has an experimental spirit but no focus amid all its electronica distortions

Television: Payne (The Arts / Television)

Alas, a Painful Turn in Larroquette's Career

Cinema: Famous for Being Famous (The Arts / Cinema)

Now this actor can be famous for being good

Books: Millennium Fevers (The Arts / Books)

In her absorbing new novel, Gail Godwin tracks modern maladies into a mountain town

Futurama (The Arts / Short Takes)

Fox, Tuesdays

Joey McIntyre (The Arts / Q+A)

Television: It's Like, You Know... (The Arts / Television)

It's Like Pretty Funny

Television: The Norm Show (The Arts / Television)

Macdonald Buys the Comedy Farm

Books: It's The Stupidity, Stupid (The Arts / Short Takes)

By Harry Shearer

Cinema: The Corruptor (The Arts / Short Takes)

Directed by James Foley

Cinema: The King And I (The Arts / Short Takes)

Directed by Richard Rich

Theater: Snakebit (The Arts / Short Takes)

By David Marshall Grant

Divided by 10,000 (Personal Time / Your Money)

It's a big-stock world, but there's unusual value in small companies. Will they ever rally?

Help-Line Hell (Personal Time / Your Technology)

Now that you have to pay for support when your PC goes on the fritz, whom are you going to call?

Get Some Sleep (Personal Time / Your Health)

Bothered by insomnia? A study says changing your habits is more effective than taking pills

Your Health: Mar. 29, 1999 (Personal Time / Your Health)

Your Money: Mar. 29, 1999 (Personal Time / Your Money)

Your Technology Mar. 29, 1999 (Personal Time / Your Technology)

Fighting AIDS (Time 100)

Penicillin was the magic bullet against bacteria, but what will stop HIV?

Beyond Kitty Hawk (Time 100)

Vannevar Bush: Hypertext Prophet (Time 100)

Who Built The First Computer? (Time 100)

The Engines Of Creation (Time 100)

Will Eric Drexler's nanotechnology do for the next century what silicon chips did for this?

Paul Erdos: The Oddball's Oddball (Time 100)

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Lord Of The Depths (Time 100)

Margaret Mead (Time 100)

Robert Noyce: Microchip (Time 100)

Watson on Pauling (Time 100)

Where Anthropology Meets Psychology (Time 100)

Bertrand Russell (Time 100)

Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards: Brave New Baby Doctors (Time 100)

John von Neumann: Computing's Cold Warrior (Time 100)

Ian Wilmut: Breaking The Clone Barrier (Time 100)

The Great Minds Of The Century (Time 100)

SIGMUND FREUD: Psychoanalyst (Time 100)

SIGMUND FREUD He opened a window on the unconscious--where, he said, lust, rage and repression battle for supremacy--and changed the way we view ourselves

Chemist LEO BAEKELAND (Time 100)

Setting out to make an insulator, he invented the first true plastic and transformed the world

Aviators: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS (Time 100)

A pair of self-taught engineers working in a bicycle shop, they made the world a forever smaller place

Bacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING (Time 100)

A spore that drifted into his lab and took root on a culture dish started a chain of events that altered forever the treatment of bacterial infections

Rocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD (Time 100)

He launched the space age with a 10-ft. rocket in a New England cabbage field

Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES (Time 100)

His radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism

Astronomer Edwin Hubble (Time 100)

He saw a vast universe beyond the Milky Way, then found the first hints that it began with a Big Bang

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Philosopher (Time 100)

He began by trying to reduce all mathematics to logic and ended by finding most metaphysics to be nonsense

Child Psychologist Jean Piaget (Time 100)

He found the secrets of human learning and knowledge hidden behind the cute and seemingly illogical notions of children

Atomic Physicist: ENRICO FERMI (Time 100)

He was the last of the double-threat physicists: a genius at creating both esoteric theories and elegant experiments

Anthropologists: THE LEAKEY FAMILY (Time 100)

Without the groundbreaking--and backbreaking--efforts of Louis, Mary and Richard, the story of how we evolved would still be largely untold

Electrical Engineer PHILO FARNSWORTH (Time 100)

The key to the television picture tube came to him at 14, when he was still a farm boy, and he had a working device at 21. Yet he died in obscurity

Mathematician KURT GODEL (Time 100)

He turned the lens of mathematics on itself and hit upon his famous incompleteness theorem--driving a stake through the heart of formalism

Environmentalist RACHEL CARSON (Time 100)

Before there was an environmental movement, there was one brave woman and her very brave book

Solid-State Physicist WILLIAM SHOCKLEY (Time 100)

He fathered the transistor and brought the silicon to Silicon Valley but is remembered by many only for his noxious racial views

Computer Scientist: ALAN TURING (Time 100)

While addressing a problem in the arcane field of mathematical logic, he imagined a machine that could mimic human reasoning. Sound familiar?

JONAS SALK: Virologist (Time 100)

Many scientists were racing to make a polio vaccine in the '50s--but he got there first

Molecular Biologists WATSON & CRICK (Time 100)

It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student-- along with some unwitting help from a competitor--to crack the secret of life

Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee (Time 100)

From the thousands of interconnected threads of the Internet, he wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st century

Putting Science To Work (Time 100)

Sometimes the greatest inventions are the ones with the most mundane uses. These ideas quickly found their way into everyday life

The IQ Meritocracy (Time 100)

Our test-obsessed society has Binet and Terman to thank-- or to blame

Cranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes (Time 100)

The century gave us scientific superstars like Freud and Einstein, but it also produced its share of...

A Century Of Science Fiction (Time 100)

A master of the genre contends that it boasts an impressive predictive track record--if you squint hard and ignore most of the evidence

What's Next? (Time 100)

The pace of discovery is likely to accelerate, says the former editor of Nature

A Century of Science (Time 100)

How We've Become Digital (Time 100)

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