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72% Not Concerned At All

Jn relation to the 26% Cautiously Concerned
anticipated Y2K problems,
2% Extrem ely Concerned
how concerned were you?

After predictions of the Apocalypse
spurred years of preparations and
precautionary spending in excess
of $50 0 billion worldwide, the year
20 0 0 came without incident. Y2K
brought only minor glitches despite
concerns over a technologically
triggered Doomsday. As celebration
of the new year subsided, there
was growing criticism of the media,
the government and a multitude of
entrepreneurs for their part in the
Y 2 K hysteria. Also at issue was the
question of the new millennium,
with purists arguing that it was still
a year away.
Scott Applewhite/AP
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In the highest-scoring Sugar Bowl game ever
played, top-ranked Florida State outlasted No. 2
Virginia Tech, 4 6-29, to claim the National
Championship. The Seminoles trailed the Hokies
late in the third quarter before scoring 18
unanswered points for the win. Florida State
ended the season with a perfect 1 2-0 record and
became the first team to start and finish a season
ranked No. 1 since the preseason ratings system
began in 1 950.

English physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton was the 17th ages. It took its toll and, six months after their first landings, the origi­
Century's most significant genius. His quest for answers gave us the nal 600 settlers had been reduced to a mere 60.
law of universal gravitation, calculus, a new theory of color and light, The first newspaper appeared in Strasbourg, Germany, in
and the three laws of motion that form the basis of modern physics. 1609. Published weekly, the R elation was followed by other newspa­
Intelligent and skillful, Newton unified the discoveries of Galileo, pers printed with movable type in England, Italy and the Netherlands.
Kepler and others, formalizing and modifying physical science. These newspapers were costly to produce and were printed for the
King James I granted a charter to wealthy and educated readers. It wasn't until the mid-
open the Americas in 1606, making 1800s when the American "penny press" made
way for settlement in the New World newspapers available to the general public.
by European immigrants. The first The birth of the telescope can be traced to Italian
American colony, Jamestown, was astronomer, physicist and mathematician
established in 1607. Life there was not 0 , who in 1609 built a telescope and made
pleasant with settlers having to con­ several profound astronomical discoveries, finding
tend with harsh weather, sometimes that four large moons orbited Jupiter, Venus had
hostile natives, disease and food short­ phases and the sun had spots. Galileo published his
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