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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...respected." Milosevic said he would continue to head the Socialists as an opposition party, but most felt his time had passed. His allies were another question: in the aftermath of the boss's concession, they maneuvered for positions in the new government and legislature. Although reform took a major leap in Yugoslavia with the events of 2000, many steps remain...
...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 in Ramallah; whether...
...taco shell when genetically engineered feed corn not deemed safe for human consumption (because it might cause allergic reactions) turned up at Taco Bells and other outposts in the human food supply. It was big year in space too, as a 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...
...there were also, in the year 2000, signs of greater awareness. Linked by the Internet, hundreds of millions of people rallied for the cause of conservation on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Governments from Washington to Lima took steps to protect large wilderness areas from development. Progress was made toward using more renewable energy from the wind and the sun, and new hybrid cars that used both gasoline and electricity sported impressive fuel-economy statistics...
...when Freeman came off the near turn trailing, it was almost unbearable. Then she surged, and won. The audience was transported, shouting on and on. Freeman sat on the track, unable to rise, for minutes--letting the sound wash over her and the pressure drain away. Then she slowly took off her shoes. "That's what I do among friends," she said later. "I sit down and take off my shoes...