Word: africas
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Changes in Russia were more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote to the fitful Boris Yeltsin, but his unmoved reaction to the submarine Kursk's demise and his unapologetic bludgeoning of Chechnya showed him to be less than inspiring. Africa's news was bleak. The world awoke this year to the unspeakable holocaust AIDS is wreaking there, a calamity that overshadowed the fights and famines already blighting the continent...
From Mozambique to Miami, people faced flooding of biblical depths. In Africa in February, two weeks of heavy rain were followed by the fury of Cyclone Eline. With it, land near the Limposo River was swamped; by early March at least 200 Mozambicans had died, a million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October...
...Long-suffering Charlie Brown, exuberant Snoopy, philosophical Linus, domineering Lucy, talented Schroeder, narcoleptic Peppermint Patty, became revered figures in Japan, beloved in England, France, Germany, Norway, Italy, and known by sight in 75 countries throughout Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Asia. The Times of London called them "international icons of good faith" - perhaps not surprising for a cartoonist with a Dickensian gift for characterization. At all levels of society "Peanuts" had a profound and lasting influence on the way people saw themselves and the world in the second half of the 20th century...
...Percentage of South Africa's 15-year-olds expected to die of AIDS in the next decade...
...best bets are films that might get Oscar nominations for costume design, like Titanic. This can be tricky, though, because it's hard to maintain holiday cheer when, say, Baroness von Blixen contracts syphilis in Out of Africa. Or when you come home from the war scenes in 1990's Havana and then watch Marines on the news spending Christmas in the Saudi desert before bombing Iraq. And Nixon, like Nixon, was kind of a bummer...