Inside the temples of true believers, ardent faith has a way of prevailing. And so, in the Dot-Com year of 2000, vast numbers of followers seem eager to fulfill a sacred digital future.
Implicit and largely unspoken, the virtual Ten...
17 May 2000
These days, when we're in Berkeley, Calif., Barbara Yaley and I load up
Jasper, a 10-month old border collie/lab/terrier mix, and head down
University, over I-80, and onto what was once a proud garbage dump, then,
North Waterfront Park,...
16 May 2000
"I come to you today, two days after what would have been her seventh
birthday." -- Veronica McQueen, mother of the girl who was shot to death by
a 6-year-old classmate in Michigan this February, addressing Million Mom
Marchers.
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11 May 2000
AUSTIN -- Government's not so bad when it's just deciding on those
special-interest fights -- some titanic clash for turf between doctors and
chiropractors or AT&T vs. Southwestern Bell. True, the side that makes the
biggest political...
11 May 2000
After the "Love Bug" virus struck millions of computer hard drives, many news outlets attributed the magnitude of the damage to overwhelming reliance on the same type of software. Suddenly, in the digital world, steep downsides of...
09 May 2000
AUSTIN -- Now that we've recovered from Janet Reno's assault on the Branch
Floridians, let's see if we can't get just a bit of attention for some
outrageous cases of robbery. As usual, our friends with the white collars
and the quick...
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