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Hosting the first convention of the new millennium seems like a natural step for Boston, according to the mayor's office...
Firmage, however, travels quite a bit farther into la-la land, insisting that he's in contact with a hush-hush federal lab that will release world-shattering experimental data in a matter of months. "This is real," he maintains. "And it's the story of the millennium...
...seems to like his latest incarnation even better than his years as a software wizard. "When I look up in the stars," he says, "I see a far more majestic picture than most people see." And who knows? Perhaps our descendants will look back from the next millennium and marvel at just how far Joe Firmage...
...millennium is almost upon us. In fact, it's been almost upon us for so long that it will be a relief when it arrives. But there's another date in America's future that may hold far more significance. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by the middle of the next century, race in America will be turned upside down. In 2050 whites will be a minority, and present-day minorities will be in the majority...
...group of Americans already exemplifies that future. The Millennium Generation, today's 15-to-25-year-olds, is the most racially mixed generation this country has ever seen. Its members are 60% more likely to be nonwhite than those of their parents' and grandparents' generations, and an increasing number are racially mixed. A third are black, Latino, Asian or Native American. And the two-thirds who are white have grown up with more exposure to people of other races, through school, sports, dating and the media...