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These measures bring Harvard into compliance with the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Steen said...
Remember the great champagne shortage of 1999? As we roared into the biggest New Year's Eve celebration ever, fear spread about the stockpile of French (most Americans liked France then) bubbly. The world wondered whether it would be left high and dry at the dawn of the millennium. And dark. The Y2K bug was supposed to fry the embedded chips in electronic devices ranging from toasters to mainframes. Defending its honor, Paris threw a spectacular millennium party on Dec. 31, 1999, bubbles and all, and the day of Y2K came and went with nary a ripple of disaster...
While the years of World War II and the turbulent 1960s offer an abundance of eventful dates to revisit, the turn of the 21st century gives us plenty of candidates too. The run-up to the millennium was characterized by one of the frothiest stock-market surges of all time, kicked off on Aug. 9, 1995, when the initial public offering (IPO) of stock in the Internet-browser maker Netscape rocketed from an expected initial price of $12 to an opening trade of $71. Hundreds of IPOs later, on March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ index hit the all-time high...
...1930s. Back then Caddies were what you drove to announce that you had power, which is why people desired them even as they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs, it can tow up to 3,500 lbs. But Dickie uses it to drive, by herself, three...
...were about uniform dressing, and the decisions the consumer was making were very much brand oriented," says Jaqui Lividini, senior vice president for fashion at Saks Fifth Avenue. "When we turned the millennium, the whole fashion vocabulary changed so radically. Consumers wanted to look different; it became all about individuality. Now she wants to be the first one on the block to discover a new label...