Top News of the Year.In this issue, we look back at the top news events of 2000. Fears of the Y2K bug Y2K bug or Year 2000 bug or millennium bug Potential problem in computers and computer networks at the beginning of the year 2000. Until the 1990s, most computer programs used only the last two digits to designate the year, the first two digits being now seem distant, if not forgotten. But as we greeted the New Year, who could have foreseen fore·see tr.v. fore·saw , fore·seen , fore·see·ing, fore·sees To see or know beforehand: foresaw the rapid increase in unemployment. the turmoil and bitter partisanship par·ti·san 1 n. 1. A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. 2. that would accompany the U.S. presidential election? We selected 10 stories as the year's most important. And we invite your students to make their own list. What stories would they add--or delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete. 1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. ? When writing about the year's top news events, we updated many of the stories that appeared in Junior Scholastic this past year. We hope this feature will show students that there is a continuity to events that shape our news. |
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