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...first glance, Norretranders--heralded as Denmark's leading science writer--appears to be simply the latest author dazzled by the brilliant approach of a new millenium. In this finde-de-siecle, so-called Information Age, where URLs serve as book titles, books like The Roaring 2000s are appearing on shelves to herd the masses in the right direction. You can already see them approaching, regiments of technology gurus marching onward with laptops under their arms and PalmPilots in hand, ready to take every bit of information you have and compile it into terabyte-sized chunks...
Water, water everywhere. Water on the moon, water on Europa. Twenty years and a few big drills, and the cold grey moon will be dotted with lake houses and tourist traps, kind of a Catskills for the new millenium. With the International Space Station grounded by delays and budget overruns, we'll certainly need a place to live...
...that sparked the protests helps us to comprehend the complexities of current Taiwan-China relations. The Taiwanese people emigrated to Taiwan from southern China about 400 years ago, but the island they settled was only claimed by the Chinese empire for eight of those years. In the past half millenium, Taiwan has been periodically governed by several European powers and eventually by the Japanese in the 50 years prior to World War II. During these 400 years, the immigrants mixed with the indigenous peoples, essentially cut off from the mainland, and their ideas and culture diverged from those of imperial...
...last year, become strongly displeased with the thinking of this campus. I have long hoped--perhaps spurred on by an over-abundant knowledge of the Harvard of the late 1960s and an overdose of Puritan literature--that a fortuitous alignment of the stars and the coming of the Millenium would bring Harvard students together with ever-increasing celerity into a harmonious union of souls...
...Millennium Generation. The Millennium Generation are those people born after 1982 and who present themselves as law-abiding and morally sound. The Gen Xers, born between 1961 and 1981, are without such character and are the drinkers and drug addicted students of today. Let's hope the Millenium Generation restores our faith in character, morals and respect for the law. -Richard V. Scali, License Commission Executive Officer