Word: millennium
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Whatever the solutions to these problems, it seems clear that, half a millennium later, the finger still points east...
Welfare recipients share with their wealthier neighbors the nation's cities and towns, its social mores and a part of its collective future as it hurtles to the close of the millennium. Perhaps before anyone decides that they are unworthy of assistance,, it would be worthwhile to take a harder look at the common fears, concerns and abilities that people on welfare share in common with all of the other citizens of their extended communities...
...better part of a century TIME has faithfully recorded medicine's advances, pursuing a special interest in scientific subjects that has marked the magazine since its beginning. But to define and describe the frontiers of medicine as the new millennium approaches, we decided that only a special issue could do justice to the subject. In the following pages we present the very latest developments in each of the major areas of medicine--and peer ahead at what may be on the horizon...
...Counting Crows, whose first CD was a multiplatinum hit and a consistent delight; the band's Recovering the Satellites (Oct. 15) is a wise, worthy successor. Also, teen singer Aaliyah's second CD, One in a Million (just out), is soulfully soothing, and neo-soul performer Tricky's Pre-Millennium Tension (Nov. 5) should generate buzz. All three of these sophomores look ready to graduate to stardom...
Flatbush has always been a neighborhood of strivers, a place where one wave of immigrants washes over another. And the library has always been central to their dreams--a haven where that critical ingredient to success, information, is dispensed for free. But now, as the millennium approaches and more knowledge comes down a wire than anyone could ever acquire from books, many people behave as if equipping libraries to serve the info-poor is some kind of novelty...