Word: globally
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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 up in the morning. Then John McCain was going to win the nomination, the Red Sox were going to win the World Series, Marion Jones was going to win five gold medals and Tommy Lee was going to win Pamela Anderson's heart back. No, no, no and no. Even...
Even before the clock struck midnight, you knew it wasn't happening. Prices had been slashed for undersold events--even ones that involved Sting. The Champagne shortage, despite an ever increasing number of rap video shoots, never materialized. So when the global odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food...
...same taunts that had greeted conventioneers at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle the previous December. Some called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice, the group showed up again later in the year to disrupt a monetary conference in Melbourne, Australia. Just as graphic as the IMF protests...
...rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October, Hulda Stern, 93, who lived on her own with her cat Pinky, refused to leave the house in which she had lived since 1945. Some scientists warned that global warming would make the tropical storms of the future ever more intense, destructive and lethal...
...that the climate was changing rapidly. Weather was even more erratic than usual, giving some places too little rain and others too much. Fires raced across the parched American West last summer, and recent storms spread devastation from Britain to Taiwan. No specific event could be directly blamed on global warming, but scientists say that in a greenhouse world, deluges and droughts will be more frequent--and severe. Already the hotter climate has increased the range of tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. Other ominous signals from an overburdened planet include falling grain and fish harvests and fiercer...