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TIME picks Andrew Grove,chairman of Intel
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Man of the Year.Intel is the world's leading
producer of microprocessors,the"brains"
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On July 1 the people of Hong Kong
celebrated the end of 156 years of
British colonial government.
In an epic journey.
Pope John Paul II - 1
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Cuban leader manned cargo ship rams MIR space station
Fidel Castro as I worst space collision ever.
After 117 years,Woolworth's closes the last of __
"a pilgrim of love, a_, the company's five-and-dime stores.
of truth and r"
USS Constitution,which defended the United _
States during the War of 1812,sets sail on its
of hope:' 34- own for the first time in 116 years.
!'} / British Prime Minister Tony Blair shakes hands
r with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams in the
first meeting in 76 years between the leaders
of Britain and the Irish Republican Army's
litical arm.
® Ann Hogan becomes first coed in the
• 68 year history of the Virginia Military Institute.
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,,'•,-, -- ----- El NInO— '• tland creates its own parliament after
almost three centuries of union with England. Louise Woodward
The Little Boy in Hundreds of thousands of women join in the was found guilty of
Spanish—is an Million Woman March in Philadelphia.
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unusually warm body of • Stock market bounces back with single
biggest one-day surge and record volume of but a judge
water in the Pacific 1.8 billion shares traded, adjusted her
Ocean that has been Bobbi McGaughey gives birth to septuplets.
only the second set known to be born alive. Sentence t0 time
credited with causing A 14-year-old boy
y opens fire at a high school in already served and
torrential rains,ice West Paducah,Ky..killing three students and released her.
storms and other injuring five others.
Representatives from more than 150 countries
weather-related gather in Kyoto,Japan,at a global warming
disasters across the conference to control greenhouse gases.
United States. More than 600 Japanese children are
hospitalized when affected by the flashing
lights of a popular cartoon show.
Terry Nichols convicted of conspiracy in
Oklahoma City bombing.