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...lives' work. Says Beth Streeter, a Moraga, Calif., health-care consultant who left on a short mission trip to Egypt with her husband and two young children shortly after Sept. 11: "When you believe at your core that the love of Jesus Christ really is the best gift to humankind, you want to find ways and places for people to hear that for themselves. Sometimes it drives us places that can be awkward and uncomfortable...
...Humankind has not yet invented the right punctuation for Beyonce Knowles. No comma or period can contain her exuberant idiom; no semicolon can keep her from her meandering linguistic path. In the middle of her runaway sentences, Beyonce usually interrupts herself with deep, rolling spasms of laughter. Whether the subject is her tendency to forget lyrics while performing, her lack of time to devote to a boyfriend or her profound inability to play guitar, every utterance arrives with its own disruptive laugh track. Then there are the pauses--earnest, eyes-drifting-into-future-space jobs that can stretch...
...protest the crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet tanks. Adamec explained in a 1,500-word suicide note posted on the Web that he was following Palach's example to protest "the so-called democratic system where not people but money and power rule." He warned that "unless humankind radically changes its ways within the next several decades, civilization will perish in filth or wars." Adamec's grievances were many: violence in movies and on TV, environmental pollution, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, bullying and drug use in Czech schools. But the effect of his actions has been...
...there sipping lemonade," he said later. He half didn't believe it--until the tracking crew ran up and reported hearing the world's first sonic boom, a sound that marked the end of the Wright Brothers' era and the beginning of the age of the astronauts, taking humankind into outer space. His XS-1 had accelerated to Mach 1.06, or 700 m.p.h. That night Yeager fixed his buddies a pitcher of martinis to celebrate. But the world would have to wait to learn of Yeager's feat. It was all top secret until Aviation Week broke the story...
Even in uncertain times, there are days that offer hope for humankind's future. On June 26, 2000, a map of the human genome was announced. We can only begin to imagine what pivotal developments will emerge from it over the next 80 years. But that will be for future generations of editors to judge. In the meantime, join us next week for a fascinating album looking back on what happened on 80 days that shaped our world...