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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This wasn't the way the script read. Remember how everything was going to go kooky when all those zeroes lined up in a row? We were promised a global computer shutdown, a stock market crash, a Blade Runner world. But the lights never went out, and the sun came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2000 That Was The Year That Wasn't | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

This was our own fault: we had put way too much pressure on the new millennium. We'd been getting geared up for the year 2000--a year so special we put the phrase "the year" in front of it--for a long, long time. It was 1982 when Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2000 That Was The Year That Wasn't | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

Meanwhile, south of the Mason-Dixon line...Joseph T. Smitherman was the segregationist mayor of Selma, Ala., during the famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in The Nation | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

It was a great year for cracking codes, man's and nature's alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Science And Technology | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

KEEP IT REAL Who needs Pinocchio's nose or Wonder Woman's magic lasso when you've got a Handy Truster? This palm-size portable lie detector ($50 at goodmorningshop.com is supposed to be able to sense tremors and other signs of stress in a prevaricator's voice. The Handy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 25, 2000 | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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