Word: millennium
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...diners that take themselves, and their digestive systems, rather too seriously. Of course, there are a growing number of examples to the contrary, but I - a non-vegetarian not yet fully free of bias - have never seen a place that so thoroughly demolishes the stereotype than San Francisco's Millennium Restaurant, www.millenniumrestaurant.com...
...Wrote a book in 2000, Priests for the Third Millennium, which is used in some seminaries in the U.S. Composed mainly of a series of lectures he gave while in Rome, it lays out the challenges currently facing Catholic priests and seminarians...
...This is not a mere logic game. If there is a single "big idea" to have emerged in the first decade of the new millennium - from the September 11 attacks to the financial crash - it is the notion of the "black swan," the danger posed by difficult to predict, high-impact events. The short history of nuclear weapons is already scattered with unplanned and seemingly improbable incidents that suggest we feel more secure than we should. In 1995, a communication failure with the Russian Embassy led the Russian military to believe that a weather rocket launched off the coast...
...years is a lifetime in entertainment technology; it's about as long as the age of DVD. Until the digital millennium arrives, Blu-ray is the best, and best-looking, way to see movies at home. It's less than a revolution but more than a gimmick...
...Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.," which runs till March 21, is a landmark gathering of over 300 artifacts from collections in 12 countries, primarily in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of the objects are simply stunning - such as a curved ivory wand from Mesopotamia, whose delicately chiseled engravings, still intact after 4,000 years, were meant to ward off evil spirits from harming an infant. But there's a larger magic at work: seen through the display's myriad vessels, statues, seals and pendants, the cultures of antiquity take shape in a world system threaded...