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Even before the clock struck midnight, you knew it wasn't happening. Prices had been slashed for undersold events--even ones that involved Sting. The Champagne shortage, despite an ever increasing number of rap video shoots, never materialized. So when the global odometer first flipped in New Zealand--a place experts believed was so dependent on technology it would surely implode if its computers believed the year was 1900--it was only a little shocking that absolutely nothing happened anywhere on or above the globe. Airplanes stayed in the air. Y2K bunker dwellers began to pack up canned food...
...team of Russian and American astronauts took occupancy of the new space station, and astronomers (armed with a new generation of smart telescopes and a fleet of clever space-going robots) snapped brilliantly sharp pictures of fire storms on the sun and watermarks on Mars, and brought the number of planets discovered outside our solar system to nearly 50. Closer to home, this was the year they cloned a pig, approved an abortion pill and took saccharin off the list of known carcinogens. It was also the year that gene therapy, having shown promise in treating a pair of French...
...traffickers. But critics warn the expanded military commitment is simply drawing the U.S. into a quagmire, and point out the poor human rights record of the Colombian military and the fact that many of its senior officers have colluded with right-wing paramilitaries who have been responsible for a number of massacres. Moreover, it is widely agreed that no side of the long-running civil war is free of associations with the drug lords. Peace talks between the government and the rebels appear to have broken down, and the largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC...
...Clinton Legacy: Clinton has fought hard to back the embattled government, and won bipartisan support for his plan. But a growing number of skeptics in his own party, and in the U.S. armed forces, believe the policy is unlikely to end either Colombia's civil war or narcotics traffic from the region...
...notice that a Bush administration would be happy to escalate U.S. support for a military effort to end guerrilla control over those territories ceded by Andres Pastrana's government. But expanding U.S. involvement there may run counter to the stay-at-home instincts of the Pentagon. Expect an increasing number of articles containing the words Colombia and Vietnam...