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...there in the dark." And if you were to say that having Oscar as usual is a bit like dancing in the ballroom of the Titanic, Hollywood would reply, "You give us a $2.2 billion worldwide gross and 11 Oscars, and we'll fox-trot till the cold wet dawn...
Remember the great champagne shortage of 1999? As we roared into the biggest New Year's Eve celebration ever, fear spread about the stockpile of French (most Americans liked France then) bubbly. The world wondered whether it would be left high and dry at the dawn of the millennium. And dark. The Y2K bug was supposed to fry the embedded chips in electronic devices ranging from toasters to mainframes. Defending its honor, Paris threw a spectacular millennium party on Dec. 31, 1999, bubbles and all, and the day of Y2K came and went with nary a ripple of disaster...
...Dawn had already broken on an overcast day on the northern front. Throughout the attack the troops showed no signs of movement. It wasn't until mid-morning, after Saddam's I'm-still-here television address, that his soldiers appeared above ground. Soon dozens of men were walking in ant-like in single files along the ridge carrying packages that could not be made out through binoculars. A large military truck came over the rise, stopping at the major bunker before passing along between a number of smaller others, stopping at points and triggering great commotion. "This is very...
...DAWN OF CIVILIZATION Sumerian and Akkadian eras, circa...
...When Dawn Schrepel, an environmental and energy consultant in Washington, wanted to thank her 10 interns for a job well done, she bought each of them an unusual gift--a ton of carbon dioxide. "They were pretty surprised," she says, laughing. "And it took a little explanation." Schrepel, 33, bought the carbon dioxide not in giant tanks but on paper, through Natsource, an energy brokerage based in New York City...