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Between now and 2014, about 81 million baby boomers will celebrate their 50th birthday. That may have something to do with the number of books being published about hitting the half-century mark. Any of these books is a perfect milestone birthday gift...
...finally over. Michael Jordan has retired, probably for good this time. The greatest basketball player ever, and allegedly the one irreplaceable star in the National Basketball Association, has left the game. But no one is irreplaceable. News of Jordan's retirement broke the same day that baseballs hit by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were auctioned off for far more than balls hit by all-time home run king Hank Aaron and former single season home-run leaders Roger Maris and Babe Ruth. This is a vast and rich nation full of talented people in all fields who keep turning...
...real home run derby begins on Tuesday: eBay, the online auction house, is selling off home run balls from Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. What will we hear for Nos. 61, 63, 67 and 70 from McGwire, along with Sosa's 61st, 64th, and 66th? EBay has been accepting bids online for the past week; offline partner Guernsey's Auction House is using those as the floor for its live auction in Madison Square Garden starting at noon Eastern time...
Want to make your mark on the millennium? Better get in line. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been inundated with more than 1,400 applications for millennial trademarks, which could lead to some serious endorsement conflicts at your next New Year's Eve party: Do you reach for the official champagne of the millennium (Korbel) or the official martini (Beefeater)? Our guide to the clash of the trademark titans...
...Human Genome Project was recast. Completion was pushed up from 2005 to 2003. And while project scientists had previously been unwilling to release data until they were of high quality, the administrators announced that they would offer up a "working draft" of only moderate precision by 2001. Says Mark Guyer, an assistant director with the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute: "These data are so rich, it's hard not to extract value from them." But, he admits, "it would not have happened had it not been for the Celera announcement...