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Purists like to point out that, technically speaking, the beginning of the new millennium does not really occur on Jan. 1, 2000, but on Jan. 1, 2001. This is because there is no year zero in the Christian era, on which historical calendars are calculated. The first year of the era is called A.D. 1, and the one immediately preceding is 1 B.C. Therefore, by the time the calendar reaches Jan. 1, 2000, only 1,999 years will have elapsed since A.D.'s starting point. The same phenomenon occurs as each new century is recorded. In popular observance, however...
...preventive measures for people who want to avoid passing their defective genes on to their children. When one parent carries the deadly and dominant gene for Huntington's chorea, for example, there is a 50% chance that any offspring will have it too. To reduce those odds to zero, doctors of the future will extract several eggs from the prospective mother and fertilize them in a test tube with her husband's sperm. When the fertilized eggs have grown to the 32- or 64-cell stage, the doctors will flick off a few cells from each and analyze their...
WHEN TALES OF DRUNKEN AVIATORS ASSAULTING women at the Tailhook Association convention became public last year, the Navy professed "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment. But in its review of the Navy's handling of the scandal, the Pentagon last week concluded that senior officers who had conducted the inquiry were more concerned about safeguarding the Navy's reputation and protecting officers than naming names or seeking justice...
...Keefe acknowledged that widespread tolerance of demeaning behavior toward women had created conditions that led to the scandal. After promising to fire all who fail to comply with the Navy's new zero-tolerance policy, O'Keefe said, "We get it." But many junior and senior officers braced for the release of a follow-up report in December, which could result in the filing of multiple assault charges...
...labor expert Lacey: "The people who are being jettisoned by the U.S. defense industry form a particularly tragic group in the U.S. work force right now. Some are high-wage production workers, roughly analogous to ex-autoworkers. As a result, the odds of their finding commensurate re-employment approach zero...