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...astronomy, as in life, the big events always happen in threes. Today's example: The first full solar eclipse of the millennium occurred on the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice, and when the sun finally goes down tonight, Mars will be at its brightest in over a decade...
...Grand did not fall on hard times. But as it ages, it requires constant care. The Musser family, which bought it in 1933, has in the past 20 years spent about $50 million on renovations. Last year the family completed the largest addition since the hotel opened, including a Millennium Wing with 42 new rooms and an expanded dining room, more elevators and first-time fiber-optic phone lines. This season the hotel will also offer more packages than it ever has--15 in all, including Somewhere in Time, named for the romantic movie filmed in 1979 at the Grand...
...last season to 9.57 this season. Most of the credit is being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left-handed hitter's body and still make it break over...
...euro, which he has been stressing, over Blair's "wait and see" approach (27% to 26%), this issue ranks a mere 11th in importance. Funeral pyres of diseased livestock may be spewing smoke over the countryside, some of Blair's ministers may have resigned in disgrace, the Millennium Dome may be a universal symbol of grandiose incompetence - but Sue Heppel, a shop assistant who watched Hague campaign in Portsmouth, sums up the dominant view: "The Conservatives bitch a lot. Labour hasn't had a chance to finish everything off." Barring an upheaval, Blair will be easily returned to office...
...Seniors can be thankful," the staff of the Yearbook wrote that spring, "that they have squeezed their four undergraduate years into just about the only period of 'normalcy' at Harvard from 1941 to the millennium...