Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TEST by Nicholas Lemann. Each year, the Scholastic Assessment Test determines where hundreds of thousands of high school seniors will go to college. Lemann shows how this process developed and casts a gimlet eye on the concentration of so much power in so few hands. Is this any way to run a meritocracy...
...TIGER WOODS He was already the world's most ubiquitous athlete in the post-Jordan era. Now he has proved he's also its most amazing. Woods won his second major title and eight tournaments (including a gravity-defying four in a row) and made almost as much money as The Sixth Sense. Perhaps the most awe-inspiring feat was the juggling-ball trick in that Nike...
...OMIKRON What other game boasts a virtual David Bowie? French designer Quantic Dream drops you into a parallel world that owes much to Blade Runner and 1984. With more than 400 locations--including the club where Bowie's character sings--Omikron is a game you don't so much play as live...
...deal with millennium madness. After years of cocktail parties and late-night gatherings, my husband and I have spent the past few New Year's Eves with our four children. We've opted for a midnight family celebration with our kids at home. The next century belongs as much to our youth as to adults who will be attending those celebrations with a multitude of other people. ARLENE STEIER Omaha...
...issue of the World Trade Organization isn't so much one of globalization as of democracy vs. corpor-ocracy. Globalization has the potential to gradually lift all countries to higher standards for the environment, labor laws and justice. Instead, the WTO, multinational companies and governments are using globalization and open trade to circumvent democratically enacted laws that emphasize the need for a better quality of life and more balanced values. KERRY MCDANIEL Berkeley, Calif...