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From Mozambique to Miami, people faced flooding of biblical depths. In Africa in February, two weeks of heavy rain were followed by the fury of Cyclone Eline. With it, land near the Limposo River was swamped; by early March at least 200 Mozambicans had died, a million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October...
...great year for cracking codes, man's and nature's alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to 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...
...scores on a pinball machine, and ever more advanced handheld gadgets debuted at a dizzying speed. As the year progressed, those who didn't crave or couldn't indulge a moment's isolation began connecting to the Internet through cell phones or to instant-messaging systems via the BlackBerry two-way pager...
Marion Jones left Sydney with three gold medals (for the 100-m sprint, the 200 m and the 4 x 400-m relay), two bronzes (for the long jump and the 4 x 100-m relay) and a massive headache, having faced a storm of questions about her husband, injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter, whose positive tests for steroid use were revealed during the Games. Of Jones' ups and downs, the one to remember was the first. In the 100 m she blazed to a time of 10.75 secs. and the largest margin of victory in that race since...
...ultimately sad, year for iconic lesbian couples. Actresses Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, above, kept it simple: they laughed, they danced, they broke up. For director Julie Cypher and rocker Melissa Etheridge, things were more complex: they too split, but only after announcing, earlier in the year, that their two kids had been sired with the donated sperm of David Crosby. Bi-sexual tri-partite custody...