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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home runs that Sammy Sosa has to date but below that other infamous abbreviation, Y2K.) For the uninformed, Y6B is what interest groups have begun to call October 12, 1999, the date when the United Nations Population Fund estimates that the number of humans on this earth will rise above the six-billion mark...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: 6,000,000,001: A Population Odyssey | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...appearances, MongoMusic.com is doing pretty well. The start-up, which will help consumers search for and buy music on the Internet, has raised enough money to move into spacious new digs in Menlo Park next month. Right now, the company is "incubating," renting two rooms in a dreary high-rise for $3,800 a month from HQ Global, a company that leases temporary office space. There are 10 other start-ups in the building. "It's not very cost-efficient office space," says MongoMusic's 28-year-old CEO, Jeremy Hinman, "unless you pack people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incubating: Ten Webheads in a Pen | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...activism that gave rise to the Afro-American Studies Department 30 years ago was very different from current movements, says Admissions Officer David L. Evans...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of Ethnic Studies | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

...People have not been put on hold longer this year than last year," Kinchla said. She said she won't know until the end of the month whether the lack of temporary directories caused a rise in calls to directory assistance...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Temporary Phone Directories Cut Due to Overcrowding, Complaints | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...part of the state ? are certainly not defecating where they ought. North Carolinians will certainly welcome Bill Clinton?s moist eye (and wrinkled nose), and the attention and federal disaster monies he?ll bring with him. But with agricultural losses set to exceed $1 billion, rivers still on the rise, and the official death toll (now at 23) bound to skyrocket next week when those rivers finally recede, North Carolina?s disaster may have just begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd's Floods Linger On ? and On | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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