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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yesterday was the 11th celebration of World AIDS Day, when groups of scientists, activists and government officials took a moment to evaluate our success as an international community in combating the devastating effects of the AIDS virus. And once again, unfortunately, the news is not good...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Day to Remember | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...brief and brilliant moment, the council will be, if nothing else, at the center of the public...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campaign Season Pumps Up UC Presidential Candidates | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...pauses for a moment...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ice Men Carveth | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...filmmakers can get away with this because of our enduring millennial uneasiness. We still can't be sure what will happen to our computer-assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Y2K Bug: Do We Still Have To Worry? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...Nile River that runs into the Mediterranean (Africa) are in terrible shape, due mostly to agricultural and industrial run-off, as well as increased rates of evaporation. On the bright(er) side, the relatively sheltered Amazon (South America) and Congo (sub-Saharan Africa) are looking pretty robust. For the moment, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And a Stinking, Dried-Up River Runs Through It | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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