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DIED With her 1980 work, The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson helped pull together various emerging countercultural strains--including alternative birthing centers and the exploration of altered states of consciousness--into what soon after became Known as the New Age movement. In her book, she remarked, "We are entering a millennium of love and light--in the words of the popular song 'The Age of Aquarius,' the time of 'the mind's true liberation."' Before the book's release, Ferguson published a monthly newsletter titled Brain/Mind Bulletin, reporting on new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience...
...Gist: When freelance writer Mac Montandon was growing up, he explains at the outset of Jetpack Dreams, he saw the turn of the millennium as a distant future full of awesome toys. "In that glorious future," he writes, "we would have long ago traded in our dirt-streaked Hyundais...at the very least, we'd have hovercrafts and flying cars. But really, the future meant jetpacks." Now that the future has arrived, he asks a simple question: "Where's my 'f-----g jetpack?' The device captured imaginations in movies like Thunderball and The Rocketeer, but attempts to harness its potential...
...over 100 million people from around the world in the “Stand Up & Take Action Against Poverty” movement on Friday, holding a rally in Paine Hall and at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. The approximately 100 attendees publicly committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, which call for halving the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. The rally’s keynote speaker, Harvard Kennedy School student Hyoung-Joon Lim, spoke about his personal experiences in developing countries and compared worldwide hunger to the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed an estimated...
...what it’s really appealing to is one of our deepest, darkest, most neurotic obsessions: the playlist. “What’s on your playlist?” is the “What’s your sign?” of the new millennium. We’re too indie for astrology anymore.The playlist-check is the ultimate Information Age interaction. There, in glowing black and white, is a complete set of personal information. Conversation? Unnecessary. Just scan the iPod. Within it lies infinite personality indicators. What are his 25 most played...
...United Nations Global Assembly last month, the global-hunger charity Oxfam warned of disastrous consequences for poor countries if the financial crisis affects international aid - which was already down in 2007. Yet at that meeting, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner underlined an uncomfortable reality. "To talk about development or Millennium Goals in the middle of such a crisis is unfair," he said...