Y2K: It's Real,
Get Ready -
"Americans should prepare for
the millennium bug like they would a hurricane, by stocking up
on canned food and bottled water in case vital services are
cut off, senators leading a congressional study of the problem
said..."
Rottweiler
Kills Suspected Robber -
"The animal practically destroyed him with bites,'' Lopez said.
The Red Cross said the dog had pulled off the man's right hand,
destroyed one of his feet and caused severe damage to his head...
THE
CENTURY OF SEX - "The sexual revolution was a miserable
failure, if you take it in the utopian terms mandated in the '60s:
We didn't make love, not war, happily ever after. But drop the
notion that the revolution was conjured out of thin air in about
1967, and a different picture emerges..."
Republican
Debate -- We hear excerpts of last night's debate between
Republican presidential candidates in Iowa. (In
Real Audio)
Cracker
Defiles Aussie Authority - "For almost half a day, the
censor itself was censored. After a cracker defaced and placed
obscenities on the homepage of the Australian Broadcasting Authority
(ABA) early Friday morning, the regulatory agency was forced to take
its Web site offline..."
The
Taxman Cometh for Cyberspace - "TAXATION IS AS OLD AS
PROSTITUTION, only much more lucrative. (Now you know where the
phrase, "a piece of the action," really came from.) From
Tribute to the King and Tithing to the Church, to Sales and Use
Taxes, enormous amounts of energy have been spent (as it were) on
creating taxes..."
War
Crimes of the Twentieth Century - "On the eve of the
new millennium, nations seem no closer to stopping war and ethnic
violence than at the beginning of the millennium. But there is fresh
optimism that at the close of a war-stained century, nations have
found the collective will to deter and punish the worst crimes
against humanity..."
The
fight to die well - "We die hard, working to cheat the
grim reaper every step of the way. If any civilization in history
loved to live, our own would surely rank among them. Obviously,
20th- century western society lives with gusto, fighting each battle
and building each bridge with the elan of a bloated prizefighter.
The 20th century is a testimony to nothing so much as the will of
western societies to fight against their own dying..."
