Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Imus announces that the awards process was too much work and terminates them...
...week by early November are still unfilled. On Thailand's balmy beaches it's been "the anticlimax of the millennium," says Imtiaz Muqbil, executive editor of Travel Impact Newswire. In London there's a prospect of empty seats greeting the Queen and the Prime Minister as they open the much vaunted Millennium Dome on New Year's Eve, while all six suites in the New York City Palace's $25,000 "Splurge of the Century" are yours for the taking...
...more important, an underbooked New Year's is a letdown only by a fairly consumerist measure, one that assumes you can divine enthusiasm and millennial spirit in terms of buzz and box office, units moved and luxury suites occupied. People are not so much dismissing the event as trying to determine how to mark it in a way that's meaningful to them. So a lot of people are making low-key, local plans, like neighbors and single dads Bruce Rave and Charlie O'Dowd of Albuquerque, N.M., who are planning a minimalist block party...
...Most boil down to one thing: other people. With no basis in nature, the passage of a thousand years is a man-made phenomenon, and so are its attendant worries. The question of how you mark this millennium is partly a question of faith--not religious faith so much as faith in humankind. Faith that people can throng by the hundreds of thousands in the world's metropolises without havoc. Faith that one's fellow humans will not--out of their own faith or some twisted private purpose--seek to put a bloody exclamation point on the millennium or precipitate...
Unlike Britons, whose concerns about what they eat have been on the rise ever since "mad cow disease" (even though it had nothing to do with genetic engineering), Americans have seemed indifferent to g.m. foods. Not that they have much choice: half of all soybeans, about a third of the corn crop and substantial quantities of the potatoes grown in the U.S. come from plants that have been genetically altered. And many more g.m.s are in the offing, including alfalfa, lettuce, broccoli and cabbage--if there's a market for them. Some skittish U.S. farmers now say they may plant...