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… for an interesting chemical topic I was not finding too much, and then I came across the chemical element called nitrogen. Within a few short minutes I had found more interesting information about nitrogen than I had found on all the other elements…

… is a controversial and often confused chromosomal abnormality. In the following paper I will try to address several questions that people may have concerning or relating to XYY syndrome. What is XYY syndrome? Where and how often does XYY syndrome…

… final seconds of the millennium are counting down 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! As people begin to cheer, computers are crashing, all power is cut, and everything goes black. People panic and start to run, trampling each other in their rush to find safety. Cars are…

… fine" - Michael Stipes of R.E.M.. The year 2000 brings the thought of a computer problem the world now calls Y2K. Y for year and K for kilo or thousand making it mean Year 2000. "...The real…

… every passing second. Many have nothing to fear. Why should they? It sounds ridiculous, being afraid of a year, what could possibly go wrong? The truth is, that many things can happen, not from the year itself, but from a simple programming shortcut…

… January 1, 2000, and you look at your alarm clock, the infamous flashing 12:00. Why didn’t it go off? There was no storm last night, no power outages. The world’s biggest problem has just begun, the millennium bug has spread across the globe. You try…

… is the Y2K issue? This paper will describe the problems associated with Y2K and how Industry, Government, and Small Businesses are handling the problem. The first chapter introduces the Y2K issues. Chapter 2 will define how this affects…

… bug are all different names for the same major problem that all computers face once the clock strikes midnight, January 1, 2000. Some say that it is only a minor glitch, yet some experts refer to it as "Armageddon." The problem stems from old systems…

… have their own opinion on what is best for both themselves and the country. There are many extremist out there that are not only saying that the world is just going to shut down, but that it will come to an abrupt end. The Second Coming will finally…

… space turned out to be a quake, capable of trembling the world to its core. When maiden inventors set the year with two digits instead of four, little did they realize that by 1st January 2000 it would cause arithmetic delinquencies and confuses the…