Word: olds
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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People looked at the searing photograph of a U.S. federal agent taking a young boy at gun point and asked, "How did it get to this?" Briefly, here's how: in late 1999, a small boat sank while making its perilous way from Cuba to Florida. Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's mother and 10 other refugees drowned. Elian was picked up by two fishermen as he floated in an inner tube off Florida's coast. The boy had relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay...
...shreddings had already contributed to at least 46 deaths, an estimate that climbed to more than 100 by year's end, as both Ford and Firestone came under attack. What did they know, when did they know it? Answers came too late for Victor Rodriguez, whose 10-year-old son was killed when a Firestone tire on their Explorer blew in San Antonio, Texas (inset...
...Holy Land seemed like ancient history, as did the unsuccessful mid-summer Camp David summit, when fighting erupted between Arabs and Israelis in the autumn. The spark: on Sept. 28 right-wing Israeli politician and former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, and Palestinians took great umbrage. Protests quickly led to violence, and in the next week rocks, firebombs and bullets claimed the lives of some 70 people and injured more than 1,800 others. It didn't stop there: in October this young Palestinian hurled a molotov cocktail into an alley...
...share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed by an 18-year-old named Shawn Fanning and a piece of computer code he called Napster. Or on the front lines of the agritech wars, where the opponents of so-called Frankenfoods stirred a tempest in a taco shell when genetically engineered feed corn not deemed safe for human consumption (because it might cause...
...constant outpost in the heavens. It hosted its first party of astro- and cosmonauts in the fall, and progress was monitored on the big screen at mission control in Moscow. In mid-November Russia's space program announced it was finally decommissioning its tattered, battered old station...