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...tough to make predictions," Yogi Berra said, "especially about the future." A whole lot of predicting went on 10 years ago, at the door to the new millennium. (We were so unsure about it that we couldn't even get the word right: in 1999, newspapers and magazines misspelled millennium 4,709 times.) In TIME's pages, writers predicted cures for the common cold and baldness (sadly, no). We would give up meat. Religion would replace politics as the prime shaper of American society (sure feels that way sometimes). Retirement would disappear (sadly, yes), along with much of major league...
...crest of the hill above Rütli there is an extravagant oddity: an ornate Victorian pile that was a grand hotel and is now headquarters of the World Government of the Age of Enlightenment, founded in 1976 by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Beyond it lies a meadow framed by a mountain that looks like a location from The Sound of Music, suggesting that the Maharishi picked a good place from which to usher in his new epoch of "natural law" and "world consciousness...
...pizza in 4 pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat 6.” (Yogi Berra) – $1 cheese slices today, Greenhouse & Sebastian...
Government intervention! Private-sector-bashing! Americans trying to impress Europeans! These and other pinko motivations would secure a permanent federal handout for Yogi Bear and his picnic-basket-redistributing comrades. You can imagine how the proposal might go down were the parks starting from scratch today. Socialized nature, controlled by tree czars...
...girl is doing good and the dad loves me, man!" Arguello said, bursting into his manic Yogi Bear laugh...