Word: someness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shaun Fernando, a junior at Texas A&M University, embarked this fall on a rite of passage that began in 1909. Alongside 5,000 of his classmates, he helped construct a massive tower of wood that would be torched before the Thanksgiving-week football game against rival University of Texas...
Fernando had the night shift last Thursday when, at 2:28 a.m., he saw the 44-ft.-tall tower and "a little flinch in the sky." While he looked, "the whole thing came down." As it toppled, the scores of kids who were on it scrambled. The lucky ones escaped...
This is New Year's Eve 1999, as foreseen by Y2K--a truly painful NBC film that last weekend became a late-breaking entry for the title of Worst TV Movie of the Millennium, despite some substantial competition. For what the movie lacks in budget and coherent plot, it makes...
Happily, not many geeks in the know are betting on a real-life replay of NBC's nightmare scenario. Talk to the software engineers, the ones who have been wading knee-deep in the raw computer code for some time now, and you'll find they are hardly planning to...
Because even if the U.S. does turn out to be more or less Y2K O.K., other parts of the world may be less fortunate. "There's going to be some massive issues in other countries," says Steve Brown, CIO of Micron, a major PC manufacturer in Idaho. "Mexico's got...