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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bare two centuries old, Sydney has grown into one of the world's great cities, a bustling repository of dreams for its four million inhabitants, whether their aim is to take on global financial markets, dazzle the world's artistic or sporting communities-or tend the backyard of their quarter-acre suburban block. Allowing for differences in size, Sydney is as exciting as New York, as sophisticated as Paris, as colorful as Hong Kong and as irreverent as '60s London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting Its Stride | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

...acceptance speech contained no similar apostrophe to the young, except for a promise that Social Security reform would let younger workers accumulate "sound, responsible investments" into a retirement nest egg "over 30 or 40 years." Perhaps both parties have written off the youth vote this year, choosing to aim at demographics that have less apathy, more concrete demands and bigger pocketbooks to vote with. After all, in the 1996 presidential election, only one third of those 18 to 24 years old cast a ballot...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: A Call to Serve | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...know. I try not to think about it too much. I don't think it's good to think about who's reading your stuff. I don't really know and I don't want to know. I don't want to aim either consciously or unconsciously at anyone. I think that's the worst mistake in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q and A With Comicbook Master Chris Ware | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

...READY, AIM...FILE! America Online saw its ubiquitous AOL Instant Messenger software (AIM for short) hijacked last week by a new and fiendishly clever program called Aimster. Aimster takes AIM's popular buddy-list feature and adds a file-swapping function a la the controversial Napster. To date, AOL has made no move against Aimster, but it's clear that the would-be future parent of Warner Music (and of TIME) will have some tough choices ahead. Aimster is available at www.aimster.com at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Aug. 21, 2000 | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...speed of a tortoise." Still, the law may catch up. The California legislature is reintroducing a notification bill that was vetoed in October by Democratic Governor Gray Davis. Last month Senator Charles Schumer of New York introduced the federal Notice of Electronic Monitoring Act, which has a similar aim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberveillance | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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