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...seem like backsliding to harness the vast power of 21st century technology to get access to something so last-millennium as radio, but if the tyranny of the Top 40 is getting you down, nothing beats going online to catch a better wave. Live radio on the Internet allows listeners to indulge their passions for Icelandic pop, the sports of other nations or The Archers, Britain's long-running radio soap opera - and almost nothing else can connect you so instantly, even dramatically, with the far-flung corners of the real world. The Internet, says Ken Mueller, curator of radio...
...declining health--at almost 81, he shows the symptoms of Parkinson's disease--and by a flurry of Vatican activity. Last month 44 Cardinals were installed, and in May the princes of the church will again travel to Rome for a wide-ranging discussion on Catholicism in the new millennium...
...after the appointment was officially announced at Loeb House, the NASDAQ plunged 6 percent, and Wall Street had its first bear market of the millennium. The faltering economy is a problem for President George W. Bush, who was noted during the presidential debates for his insistence that critics of his tax plan were using "fuzzy math." If government revenues dry up, Bush may have to backtrack on his huge tax cut proposal...
...undergraduates of the millennium (now, post-millennium) era do not give much historical significance to the miracles and astonishments among which they have been raised, the scientific and technological transformations. They take these things for granted. But the computerization of the world, the globalized economy, the Internet, the mapping of the human genome, following on the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, and the waning of the threat of nuclear world war - these things stand in such contrast to the previous lives of older Americans as to represent a metamorphosis, a passage...
...from sandstone cliffs, these two giants, 53 m and 35 m high, are a fusion of Classical Greek and Indian art that flourished along the ancient Silk Road. Despite their massive size, the standing Buddhas possess an ethereal lightness. It's as if they managed to levitate above a millennium of warfare and calamity that has plagued Afghanistan, at least until the fiercely Islamic Taliban rulers fixed the Buddhas in their gun-sights...