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...certainly ripe fodder for conspiracy theorists that the story detailing the administration's aggressive plan to attack AIDS appeared on the front page of Washington's paper of record on the same day that 300,000 gay activists were expected to descend on the nation's capital for their Millennium March. In these final months of the Clinton administration the President has been scurrying to the left to shore up his legacy on liberal causes. There should be little doubt that the administration wants to be remembered for having done something to battle the plague of the latter half...
...comforting, it's even sometimes hilarious, to have these lives of old Hollywood stars (especially Taylor's) to carry with us into the new millennium. Esther Williams recently published an unexpectedly spirited memoir in which she revealed, among other things, that she did not marry the ripple-jawed Jeff Chandler in the '50s because he liked to dress up in women's clothes ("You're too big to wear polka dots," she told...
...recently came upon a magazine article describing the problem facing the islands of Kiribati. If you don't remember the name, Kiribati is an obscure group of Pacific islands that became instantly famous as the location of the first televised sunrise of the new millennium. Not only are the islands experiencing more cyclones and droughts, but the fact is that rising ocean levels are eroding and contaminating the land. The dancing islanders we watched on television may now become environmental refugees. This scenario seems destined to be re-enacted on a much larger scale. The predicted effects of greenhouse gases...
...great honor for me to chair Earth Day 2000, especially because the primary focus of this year's campaign is global warming. Global warming has to be the greatest misnomer of the new millennium, as it is such a benign, almost soothing name for the single most important environmental threat to the future of our planet and all living things...
...This new millennium balances us on the edge of history. If we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, we will almost certainly suffer the drastic effects of climatic changes worldwide...