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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...clock, and Austin came alive. The Governor was, in the words of one associate, "like a prizefighter pulling himself off the mat." Back in the bout, he and his family returned to watching the Western states closely, all the while keeping an eye on Florida. When another late-reporting state fell into line, George W. punched the air with what vigor he had left, while his revived brother smiled--and stayed on the line to his operatives back East (right). By 1 a.m. Bush's lead in Florida was 200,000 votes, and although Dade and Broward counties were...
People looked at the searing photograph of a U.S. federal agent taking a young boy at gun point and asked, "How did it get to this?" Briefly, here's how: in late 1999, a small boat sank while making its perilous way from Cuba to Florida. Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's mother and 10 other refugees drowned. Elian was picked up by two fishermen as he floated in an inner tube off Florida's coast. The boy had relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay...
...tires in question. Accidents caused by shreddings had already contributed to at least 46 deaths, an estimate that climbed to more than 100 by year's end, as both Ford and Firestone came under attack. What did they know, when did they know it? Answers came too late for Victor Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old son was killed when a Firestone tire on their Explorer blew in San Antonio, Texas (inset...
...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 and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed...
Touching down on the West Side of Manhattan in late winter was a wondrous new vehicle for transport to the stars: the Hayden Planetarium, centerpiece of the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space. The 87-foot aluminum sphere that is the Hayden's core seemed to float inside a 10-story glass-walled cube, which is the Hayden's outer shell. "A cosmic cathedral," was how architect James Polshek proudly described his creation. A planetarium is, of course, only a transmitter of outer space to those of us on terra firma. By contrast, the new space station...