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Rosenblatt's article was good, but I hardly believe that in 1997 people were driven by "apocalyptic, fin-de-siecle anxieties about the approaching millennium." It is true that people get touchy when encountering the finale of a century, and even more so at the end of a millennium, but violence, insane mass hysteria, suicides, murders and a highly emotional society are not produced by the end of a period of time; they lie in human nature. JANET M. BOLLERO Rosario, Argentina...
...Sept. 19, 1783, at Versailles, the first aeronauts--a sheep, a rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned free flight (2). Asked what good are balloons, U.S. envoy Ben Franklin replies, "What good is a newborn baby?" The English Channel is crossed in 1785, and ballooning soon becomes the stuff of daredevils (3). But in 1794 the world's first air force is born: warring France uses tethered balloons...
Long live the new apolitical Undergraduate Council. Although she was elected to "de-politicize" the Council, on Sunday President Beth Stewart '00 attempted to derail the traditionally neutral grants process in a way hardly consistent with her campaign platform...
...Gold prices have been dropping for more than 10 years. "Seoul may be grasping at the age-old rule, which is buy gold in times of crisis because it's a hedge against inflation," Kadlec says. "But the world has changed. Prices everywhere are dropping; the concern is for de-flation." In a year, the government may open its reserves and find a vault filled with lead...
FRANCE Jacques Chirac Charles de Gaulle (6) 32 years...