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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in The Nation | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

He entered the year as a survivor playing out the string in a lame-duck presidency. She entered the year as the wronged spouse of a cad. He exits the year as the proud spouse of a newly elected U.S. Senator from New York, of all places. She exits the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in The Nation | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

Throughout the past century humanity did everything in its power to dominate nature. We dammed earth's rivers, chopped down the forests and depleted the soils. Burning up fossil fuels that had been created over eons, we pumped billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the air, altering atmospheric chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Nature | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

Not since African American Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has a footrace been freighted with so much extra-athletic significance. Modern Australia is in debate over the nation's poor-to-horrid treatment of the island's original settlers, the Aborigines. Now here was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in Sport | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

It is uncertain that any kid of reading age in the English-speaking world slept during the first week of July as the midnight Friday release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire drew near. At the Book People bookstore in Austin, Texas, three young Harry wannabes were mesmerized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year's Arts | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

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