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...deans opt for a hybrid name based on the "brunch" model, the choices could include "brupper," "dinfast" or "breakner." But then with such a cutting-edge invention, the name needs to more millennium-minded. Some newly coined word that captures the dash of the times, our 24/7 immediacy. Something that has just the right alignment with our own Internet-worth: "Food.edu...
...parts of the world are treated to the Leonids - a show of "shooting stars" (actually meteoroids from the comet's tail). Normally 10 to 20 light up the night sky each hour, but this year the show should be considerably better. Astronomical records dating to the beginning of the millennium show that every 33 years or so the Leonids spike a little as the comet passes by the sun and leaves a larger trail of icy bits. The last time it happened was 1966, when 145,000 shooting stars filled the sky each hour. This year astronomers expect between...
...final months of the year (the century!, the millennium!) bring us Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter (Walker; 418 pages; $27) and Isabel Allende's Daughter of Fortune (HarperCollins; 432 pages; $26). Each in its way projects a feminist point of view. More strikingly, both are about revolutions, one scientific, the other cultural...
...maximum number of U.S. government-supported controls on weapons development. This will increase our security and our level of comfort with the continuing trade in and information exchange on the peaceful uses of nuclear science. Both of these are important to the entire world as we enter the new millennium. EDWARD (TED) L. QUINN Laguna Niguel, Calif...
...most overused word of the year. Yet for some reason--our brain circuitry's own Y2K bug perhaps--millennium is also the most shamelessly misspelled one. In 1999, newspaper and magazine editors in America and Britain omitted the second n a full 4,709 times. There's Elizabeth Arden's new Millenium Energist Revitalizing Emulsion; New York City's Millenium Hilton Hotel; and later this month, a New Year's Eve scene from the NBC movie Y2K, above. A concierge at the Millenium Hilton offers an explanation: "We did it to have originality--for the creativity...