Word: millenniums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trace the roots of our Internet behavior back to the Net's wild-west days in the mid-to-late '90s, most of us were probably launching into cyberspace from a portal page like Yahoo's, or through Excite or Lycos (remember them?). And by the new millennium, search engines, especially Google, had become the place to begin and end our Internet days. Then came Generation Y and the social network. What began as a younger-user phenomenon quickly caught on with 25-to-34-year-olds and older, and now social networks are changing...
Hand in hand, Harvard Medical School and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. are one step closer to finding potential cancer treatments...
...democracy has now replaced Suharto's despotic rule. And yet, he leaves behind an edifice as sturdy as that millennium-old temple in Prambanan. The way things are done in Indonesia is the system of patronage he set up and it remains firmly in place to this day. With Howard Chua-Eoan/New York
...reaction against the scientific norms of the Age of Enlightenment. And the American transcendentalists championed the pleasures of pastoral life partly in response to the Industrial Revolution. "There are times when certain designs thrive. Natural themes tend to run in opposition to formalist conservative periods," says Whitfield. "The millennium was all about high tech and investigations of futurism. Almost a decade out, we have gone through a very conservative time, and we are moving toward softer, more natural themes for the home...
...elusive. Since the establishment of Israel in 1948, the region has been devastated by three major wars and numerous insurgencies on what are today Palestinian territories known as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The efforts of many U.S. presidents and several supposed breakthroughs have proved fruitless. This millennium, the prospects for peace have seemed unusually bleak: More than a thousand Israelis have been killed as a direct result of the terrorist tactics employed by Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian groups since 2000, while Israeli counterattacks and military operations have killed more than 4,000 Palestinians...