Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...1930s the editor Henry Luce was more than pleased with the way his magazine, TIME, was covering the world's news. "Nevertheless," he felt, "people are missing relatively more of what the camera can tell than of what the reporter writes. With more or less success they 'follow' the news--i.e., the written news. They scarcely realize how fascinating it can be to 'follow' pictures--to be for the first time pictorially well-informed...
George W. Bush had been no more nor less ignored than Al Gore throughout a long campaign that never really engaged the public. Surviving the debates, he led in the polls for 20 of the last 26 weeks leading to Election Day, then headed back to Texas to hunker down and, surrounded by his famous family, watch the returns. Now, finally, attention would be paid. It was clear very early that the race was close, but when Florida was called for Gore shortly before 8 p.m., despondency fell over the Bush clan. With tears in his eyes, brother Jeb, Florida...
...living prospect. 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...
...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 by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning and a piece of computer code he called Napster. Or on the front lines of the agritech wars, where the opponents...
...know how to walk. And on a planet that is getting increasingly crowded, taking up less space is a virtue. In fact, taking up less space is a form of courtesy. It's allowing others to have room. Hogging space is a way of saying, "Where I am is more important than where you are." It's self-important and rude...