- World's Fairs and the End of Progress: An
Insider's View.
by Alfred Heller. World's Fair, Inc. 1999. 259 pages. Paperback. Available from the Futurist Bookstore for $24.95 ($22.95 for Society members), cat. no. B-2246. World's fairs have evolved considerably over the years, reflecting changes in the world itself. But the fairs need to be more than celebrations of progress, according ......
- The next 30 years: our editor offers his personal view
of what is likely to happen over the next three
decades.
In less than three years the world will reach the momentous year 2000 and in less than four - on January 1, 2001, to be precise - a new millennium will begin. Some futurists have attempted to make forecasts for events in the new millennium, ranging up to the twenty-fifth ......
- Education; Social & Behavioral Sciences 2:00 pm
Saturday, April 6, 2002 Battelle Hall 212 Kenneth A.
LaSota-Presiding.
2:00 ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC COURSES COMMON TO UNDERGRADUATE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROGRAMS IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Kenneth A. LaSota, lasota@robert-monis.edu and Daniel Short, short@robert-morris.edu Robert Morris College, Dept of Natural Sciences, 600 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15219-3099. In developing an undergraduate degree in environmental sciences, Robert Morris College surveyed 45 academic institutions ......
- 15 years of Global Finance: 2000
HEADNOTE Anxious to minimize the possibility of catastrophic failures as the new millennium dawned, many companies brought forward tech spending. IMAGE ILLUSTRATION 1 The turn of the Millennium was responsible for a number of dire predictions of death, disaster and the imminent end of the world. Most were dismissed as ......
- Auld lang syne.
Celebrations were widespread last New Year's Eve as people around the world greeted the year 2000, happily watching the three zeros line up at the end of the 1900s. It wasn't really the end of the second millennium, though, since a full 2,000 years wasn't complete until Jan. 1, 2001....
- Living in "Apocutopia."
At the close of the first millennium, hermits descended from the hills to warn, "The end is nigh!" As we near the conclusion of the second millennium, we may be forgiven for wondering if the medieval eccentrics were guilty only of hasty judgment. The entire twentieth century seems like a ......
- Twinkies prepare for Y2K.
Millenniums come, millenniums go, but Twinkies will always be, well, Twinkies. Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corp. has dressed up Twinkles for the year 2000 in special millennium packages, which will be available while supplies last. Each limited-edition box will be numbered for collectors. To celebrate the event, Hostess' Web site, ......