Word: y2k
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...draw on all of your experiences and the knowledge you have of other events. You try to package all of that. Everything from the preparatory work for Y2K, to the response after Sept. 11, to demonstrations, to crime scenes. All of that has certainly come into play...
...more militant ring when the RAs voted to affiliate with United Auto Workers Local 2322. They became the nation's first group of unionized undergraduate employees, after the university, which opposed unionization, lost a ruling before the Massachusetts labor-relations commission. The vote forges a bond between Generation Y2K and the graying labor movement...
...messy hair, plopped them on a sidewalk stoop and photographed them in black and white for an album cover worthy of The Strokes. And why not? If that band can make it big with throwbacks to punk’s heyday and a hype campaign to embarrass the Y2K virus, why can’t Phantom Planet be the next group to jump on the “saving rock” bandwagon...
...Europe, old fears about Y2K returned as 2K2 loomed. Jan. 1 was the date for the 12-nation switch to one currency, and in the hours leading up to it, there were nightmare scenarios about riots and self-destructing cash machines as lire, francs, guilders, pesetas and deutsche marks were converted into euros...
Even better, it all pretty much went according to plan. In the hours leading up to the Jan.1 switch, there were still a few nagging anxieties that the euro could turn out to be a Y2K-like disaster for real. But those visions of self-destructing cash machines and riots in supermarkets didn't materialize. True, the banking network was stretched pretty thin. Banksys, the group that operates Belgium's atms, recorded some 600 cash withdrawals a minute in the first two hours of the new year. Two hundred Dutch post offices, which also function as banks for many small...