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Excitement for the new millenium pervaded the speeches. "It's time to celebrate," Thakur said during his presidential speech, putting on a Hawaiian...
...word of the year. Yet for some reason--our brain circuitry's own Y2K bug perhaps--millennium is also the most shamelessly misspelled one. In 1999, newspaper and magazine editors in America and Britain omitted the second n a full 4,709 times. There's Elizabeth Arden's new Millenium Energist Revitalizing Emulsion; New York City's Millenium Hilton Hotel; and later this month, a New Year's Eve scene from the NBC movie Y2K, above. A concierge at the Millenium Hilton offers an explanation: "We did it to have originality--for the creativity...
...millenium approaches, "The X-Files" also approaches a climax of rather cosmic proportions. This is, sadly enough, to be the show's last season; after seven years, they're finally going off the air. As a loyal fan, I'm both disappointed and relieved--I'll miss the weekly dosage of new episodes, but I'm glad they're smart enough to bail out before the number of paranormal plotlines thins too much...
...know? Simple. We're not ready for the millenium...
...courses that history could take on the eve of the millenium. The first course is linear. We progress in our technological achievements and eventually we conquer the mysteries of flying cars and food capsules. We push our notion of The Future back a few years. Maybe The Future will become sometime after...