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I am not, of course, accounting for the Mexican boy in South Central Los Angeles who lies on his bed staring up at paint chips on his ceiling; or for the pale girl gazing out a high-floor window in one of those blazing office towers at a pale boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Nothing but the sound of waves foaming against black volcanic rock. A man sits alone at a desk reading verses of the Bible aloud to himself. Three white crosses stand desolate atop a bare green hill. All across the empty, silent island--a kind of Polynesian Scotland--moai, or worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You in the New Millennium? | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Rapa Nui (as the locals call their island, their language and their race) is not, happily, one of the typical places on the earth; there is no desperate shortage of food or drinking water or telephones. Yet it throws a curious light on our millennial dreams. There is no place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You in the New Millennium? | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

In place of high-speed modems or PalmPilots--which look, in this scheme of things, a little like the toys the kids got under the tree last week--Easter Island offers what humanity has always relied on: petroglyphs and taboos and ways of peopling the dark. You walk here through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You in the New Millennium? | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

People seem to be mystified about why the shooting of high school students at Columbine happened [SPECIAL REPORT, Dec. 20], but the answer is staring us plainly in the face. Like the parents of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who did not notice the early warning signs, society fails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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