Word: millennium
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...arrest came at a tense time for U.S. law-enforcement agents, who are on the lookout for possible terrorism planned to coincide with the millennium celebrations. "He's connected with someone," said Richard Clarke, U.S. national coordinator for counterterrorism. "People don't just walk around with that stuff in their kit bag." One theory is that Noris--who, law-enforcement officials say, is actually an Algerian named Ahmed Ressam, 32--had been dispatched to wreak havoc at the New Year's Eve celebration at Seattle's Space Needle, which is close to a hotel where he had reserved a room...
...arrested in Sacramento, Calif., this month on charges of plotting to blow up two massive propane tanks. And federal agents are investigating the theft of nearly 1,000 lbs. of dynamite and ammonium nitrate from an Arizona rock quarry last week. While such incidents may be unrelated to the millennium, they are being closely investigated by a host of law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI, the CIA, the Defense and Treasury departments and Customs...
Indeed, while scientists have harnessed the power of the atom, cracked the genetic code and probed the very edges of the universe, they still don't understand time much better than St. Augustine did. Yet now, as the last few days of the second millennium tick rapidly away (though diehard purists still insist it doesn't really end for another year), we seem more fascinated with the subject than ever. At the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England, crowds are flocking to a new exhibition, "The Story of Time," which examines time from cultural, religious, artistic and scientific viewpoints. On this...
...physicists, then, time is an exceedingly complex and slippery concept. No wonder St. Augustine couldn't explain it. But when the month, the year, the century and the millennium end next week, it's a fair bet that theoretical physicists, like the rest of us, will be partying to welcome in the year 2000--whether it really exists...
Whether you think the world's coming to an end in the next two weeks or the Y2K bug is a bust, one thing is certain. Come Jan. 1, millions of millennium-happy revelers will be nursing Apocalypse-size hangovers. Despite thousands of years of experience with the effects of overindulging, however, there are no perfect remedies to heal their headaches or tame their tummies. In fact, most scientists won't even consider searching for a hangover cure for fear of what might happen if they succeed. But there are a few things...