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...clock ticks down toward the millennium, which has the air of being the largest future in some time (and as, paradoxically, that clock moves more and more of us to dwell on the past, our anchor), we find ourselves, more than ever, doing the splits, with one foot racing toward the future and the other firmly rooted in the past. "Fast" cultures fret over Y2K, and slower ones, some even with their own calendar (in Nepal or Ethiopia, say) hardly acknowledge that a new millennium is coming at all. The jangledness of inhabiting several time frames at once...
Center of the World Versailles: Louis XIV's palace is the place to be Rivals: London--colonies and commerce make it Europe's largest city; Mexico City, the jewel of Spanish America...
Center of the World London: Heart of the world's largest empire. Rivals: Berlin, the Kaiser's haughty home base; San Francisco, cosmopolis built by gold, fed by trade and trains...
...through space. The effects you'd feel would be no different from the experience of gravity. Gravity, he figured, is a warping of space-time. Just as Einstein's earlier work paved the way to harnessing the smallest subatomic forces, the general theory opened up an understanding of the largest of all things, from the formative Big Bang of the universe to its mysterious black holes...
...Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the...man whose mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest...