Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Firmage, however, travels quite a bit farther into la-la land, insisting that he's in contact with a hush-hush federal lab that will release world-shattering experimental data in a matter of months. "This is real," he maintains. "And it's the story of the millennium...
...seems to like his latest incarnation even better than his years as a software wizard. "When I look up in the stars," he says, "I see a far more majestic picture than most people see." And who knows? Perhaps our descendants will look back from the next millennium and marvel at just how far Joe Firmage...
...millennium is almost upon us. In fact, it's been almost upon us for so long that it will be a relief when it arrives. But there's another date in America's future that may hold far more significance. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that by the middle of the next century, race in America will be turned upside down. In 2050 whites will be a minority, and present-day minorities will be in the majority...
...usual, Microsoft officials downplayed the windfall, saying that such results are unlikely to be duplicated in the near future due to an unstable foreign economy and concern about the yet unresolved "millennium bug." "They always warn of darker clouds on the horizon. It's both good p.r. and a realistic assessment of how fast this industry changes," says TIME's San Francisco bureau chief Michael Krantz. "You always want to outperform people's expectations. If you're a dominant company you want people to set the bar lower so you can always do more." This low-key response may also...
...next war can come not from our borders but from here in Jerusalem, from the Temple Mount," says an Israeli security official. Both the Mossad and the Shinbet, the country's external and internal spy agencies, have become involved in monitoring and managing threats posed by the millennium. Says a source familiar with Israeli security issues: "It must be your first assumption that these people are not logical or reasonable. They can do almost anything at any time." For instance, he says, Dec. 31, 1999, is not necessarily D-day. "It could happen in February 2000 or in June...