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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AROUND THE WORLD Flying on the Concorde Highflyers will depart on Dec. 24 for a supersonic trip around the world in 18 days --$75,000 --96 passengers expected...
Like so many other aspects of this enigmatic end of the millennium--enticing and sinister, like a ticking package wrapped with a golden ribbon--the size and scope of the world's party refuses to resolve itself before the last minute. There's ample time for a backlash against the backlash as M-day draws closer and people start feeling millennial peer pressure to make impressive plans. (Even Wyatt is now thinking about adding a "big boom" to her family retreat in Texas.) But if more of us than expected end up passing the moment quietly, toasting our family...
There's a downside to such actions, however. By overreacting to fears fanned by well-fed consumers in the industrialized world, food producers might uproot an industry that could someday provide billions of people in the rest of the world with crops they desperately need...
...feeling of letdown everyone will experience starting Jan. 1, along with a pounding headache, nausea, sensitivity to any sound louder than a mouse cough and wishing that the world had in fact come to an end just after midnight...
...fifth-highest-paid college president in the country, with salary and benefits that Forbes magazine estimated at $524,000 last year. "Together we have built a wonderful dream," Roche said in his resignation letter. "We have proved that integrity, values and courage can still triumph in a corrupt world." No one answered the door at Roche's home, and he did not return calls seeking comment...