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The U.S. Census of 2000: Year in Review 2002 The 2000 census of the United States revealed a nation that had become ethnically and racially more diverse as cities and suburbs filled with new immigrants. It also showed that the migration from the Frost Belt to the Sun Belt was continuing. About 44% of the nation's 30.5 million foreign-born ... The U.S. Census of 2010: Foreshadowing a Century of Change: Year in Review 2012 As the country's demographic yardstick, the 2010 census came at a time when the U.S. was undergoing notable transitions. The first decade of the 21st century showed a country whose growth not only had slowed but also had become more dependent on "new" minorities than in the past-fostered by continuing ... The U.S. Economy and the Looming Fiscal Cliff: Year in Review 2013 The Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, but in many communities across the U.S., it was still going strong in 2012. More than four years had elapsed since a decaying housing market had fueled a gut-wrenching economic collapse that threatened to topple one financial institution after another. Although the ... The U.S. Election of 2000: Year in Review 2001 The U.S.'s tumultuous experiment with democracy over two centuries has produced a colourful record of conflict and decision, but the presidential election of 2000 will rank near the top of any list. Time magazine, exaggerating only slightly, dubbed it "the wildest election in history." It produced the country's fourth president ... The U.S. Election of 2004: Year in Review 2005 When a U.S. president seeks reelection, the outcome is usually decisive. A consensus emerges on whether the incumbent deserves to be kept on, and the sitting president is either dismissed or, more often, reelected-and by a substantial margin. Incumbent George W. Bush (see Biographies), however, won a second term in ... The U.S. Election of 2008: Year in Review 2009 In a national election laden with historical significance, Barack Hussein Obama captured a decisive majority in the 2008 balloting to become the 44th president of the United States; he was scheduled to be sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2009. Obama, a 47-year-old Democratic U.S. senator from Illinois, won the ... The U.S. Election of 2012: Year in Review 2013 Despite a campaign that was largely devoid of major new ideas, Pres. Barack Obama overcame a lethargic economy to win a surprisingly comfortable reelection on Nov. 6, 2012. Obama won with 51.1% of the popular vote, to 47.2% for his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. The electoral college ... The U.S. Gun-Control Debate: A Critical Look: Year in Review 2001 In 2000-a year that witnessed the antigun Million Mom March in Washington, D.C., as well as surging membership in the pro-gun National Rifle Association (NRA)-the issue of gun control was at the forefront of American political debate. Two facts define the poles of the controversy. On the one hand is ... The U.S. Men's Basketball Team: The Dream Team The arrival of the U.S. men's basketball team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, proved a major milestone in two notable trends in modern sports: the demise of the amateur athlete in Olympic competition and the remarkable rise in the popularity of basketball worldwide. The UEFA EURO Championship: Year in Review 2013 In 2012 Spain became the first country to win two consecutive association football (soccer) UEFA European Championship (EURO) titles, defeating Italy 4-0 to lift the Henri Delaunay Cup. The final match of EURO 2012 was held on July 1 in front of 63,170 spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, ... The Uses and Ethics of Cloning: Year in Review 1998 The announcement in February 1997 of the birth of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal, attracted international attention because of the new medical and agricultural opportunities and the new ethical concerns raised by the breakthrough. The term cloning (derived from the Greek word klon, meaning "twig") ... The Vikings of 2000: Year in Review 2001 In the year 2000, descendants of the Vikings achieved what their ancestors had failed to do a millennium earlier-conquer the eastern Canadian province of Newfoundland. Instead of using swords, spears, and shields, the latter-day Norsemen used songs, sagas, and a fleet of graceful replica ships to win over the people ... The Virtual World of Online Gaming: Year in Review 2007 Virtual worlds generated billions of real dollars in 2006 as millions of players around the world fought, bought, crafted, and sold in a variety of online environments. The most populous, Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft, drew seven million subscribers (with more than five million in China alone). This total represented ... The Warehouse While go-go was the rage in Washington, D.C., and hip-hop was ascendant in New York City, gay Chicago was laying the foundation for the most lastingly influential of early 1980s African-American dance musics, house. The name came from a club, the Warehouse, where deejay Frankie Knuckles eschewed the contemporary gay ... The Way International Christian evangelical group founded in 1942 as Vesper Chimes, a radio ministry broadcast from Lima, Ohio, by Victor Paul Wierwille (1916-85). Its current headquarters are in New Knoxville, Ohio; estimates of its membership range from 3,000 to 20,000. The Wireless Revolution: Year in Review 2003 In Helsinki, Fin., gamblers are getting their national lottery tickets by mobile telephone. In Hull, Eng., drivers are paying for their parking spaces with their mobile phones. In Tokyo people are using their phones to make home movies. In Toronto ads for Fido cell phones show students using instant text ... The Woodstock Music and Art Fair the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15-18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who's who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, ... The Wrath of Superstorm Sandy: Year in Review 2013 In late October 2012, a massive storm brought significant wind and flooding damage to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, The Bahamas, and the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states. Flash flooding generated by the storm's relentless rainfall, high winds, and coastal storm surges killed more than 200 people and produced ... The XIX Olympic Winter Games: Year in Review 2003 For a complete list of gold medal winners, see Table. The XVII Olympic Winter Games: Year in Review 1995 For 16 days in February 1994, Lillehammer, Norway (population 23,800), and five neighbouring towns welcomed 1,737 athletes (1,216 men and 521 women), 40,000 accredited officials, 8,000 media personnel, and an estimated 100,000 spectators per day to celebrate the XVII Olympic Winter Games. The Games were held only two years after ... The XVIII Olympic Winter Games: Year in Review 1999 On Feb. 6, 1998, the bell at the 1,350-year-old Buddhist temple Zenkoji in Nagano, Japan, welcomed the world to celebrate the XVIII Olympic Winter Games. For the next 16 days Nagano, located in the Japanese Alps 220 km (137 mi) northwest of Tokyo, played host to 2,450 athletes representing 72 ... The XX Olympic Winter Games: Year in Review 2007 On Feb. 10, 2006, Turin (Torino), Italy, officially proclaimed to the world "Passion Lives Here" as the city opened the XX Olympic Winter Games with "rhythm, passion, and speed." The opening ceremony-filled with fire and ice, art and music-featured some of Italy's finest, including a fiery red Ferrari automobile (Turin's ... The XXI Olympic Winter Games: Year in Review 2011 Vancouver welcomed the world to Canada "With Glowing Hearts" as the city and its environs played host to the XXI Olympic Winter Games on Feb. 12-28, 2010. Some 2,600 athletes representing 82 national Olympic committees (NOCs)-including first-time participants Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, and Peru-competed in 86 medal events ... The Youth Olympic Games of 2010: Year in Review 2011 On Aug. 14, 2010, some 3,600 young athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 gathered in Singapore with family, friends, and officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG). By the end of the 12-day Games, teenagers representing 204 ... Theaceae the tea family of plants in the order Theales. The Theaceae comprises about 40 genera of trees or shrubs native to temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres, including several ornamental plants, one that is the source of tea. Members of the family have evergreen leaves and flowers with five ... Theaetetus Athenian mathematician who had a significant influence on the development of Greek geometry. Theatre: Year in Review 1994 Theatre: Year in Review 1995 theatre in dramatic arts, an art concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama. theatre in architecture, a building or space in which a performance may be given before an audience. The word is from the Greek theatron, "a place of seeing." A theatre usually has a stage area where the performance itself takes place. Since ancient times the evolving design of theatres has been ... theatre design the art and technique of designing and building a space-a theatre-intended primarily for the performance of drama and its allied arts by live performers who are physically present in front of a live audience. Theatre Guild a theatrical society founded in New York City in 1918 for the production of high-quality, noncommercial American and foreign plays. The guild, founded by Lawrence Langner (1890-1962), departed from the usual theatre practice in that its board of directors shared the responsibility for choice of plays, management, and production. The ... theatre music any music designed to form part of a dramatic performance, as, for example, a ballet, stage play, motion picture, or television program. Included are the European operetta and its American form, the musical. Theatre National Populaire French national theatre created in 1920 to bring theatre to the general public. Its first director, Firmin Gemier, had been the director of the Theatre Antoine and had made a number of attempts to create a people's theatre. Initially the TNP offered productions from the other national companies in a ... theatre, African an art, concerned almost exclusively with live performances in which the action is precisely planned to create a coherent and significant sense of drama, as it is presented in sub-Saharan Africa. Theatre, The first public playhouse of London, located in the parish of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch. theatre, Western history of the Western theatre from its origins in pre-Classical antiquity to the present. theatre-in-the-round form of theatrical staging in which the acting area, which may be raised or at floor level, is completely surrounded by the audience. It has been theorized that the informality thus established leads to increased rapport between the audience and the actors. Theatre-Libre (French: Free Theatre), independent, private theatre founded in Paris in 1887 by Andre Antoine, which became the proving ground for the new naturalistic drama. Antoine, an amateur actor, was influenced by the naturalistic novels of Emile Zola and by the theatrical realism of the Meiningen Company. Antoine believed that environment ... theatres, war of the in English literary history, conflict involving the Elizabethan playwrights Ben Jonson, John Marston, and Thomas Dekker. It covered a period when Jonson was writing for one children's company of players and Marston for another, rival group. theatrical production the planning, rehearsal, and presentation of a work. Such a work is presented to an audience at a particular time and place by live performers, who use either themselves or inanimate figures, such as puppets, as the medium of presentation. A theatrical production can be either dramatic or nondramatic, depending ... theatricalism in 20th-century Western theatre, the general movement away from the dominant turn-of-the-century techniques of naturalism in acting, staging, and playwriting; it was especially directed against the illusion of reality that was the highest achievement of the naturalist theatre. Thebes one of the famed cities of antiquity, the capital of the ancient Egyptian empire at its heyday. Thebes lay on either side of the Nile River at approximately latitude 26 N. The modern town of Luxor, or Al-Uqsur, which occupies part of the site, is 419 miles (675 km) south ... Thebes major city of Boeotia (Modern Greek: Voiotia) nomos (department), northwest of Athens (Athina), Greece, and one of the chief cities and powers of ancient Greece. On the acropolis of the ancient city stands the present commercial and agricultural centre of Thebes. It is situated on a low ridge dividing the ... thecodontian archaic term formerly applied to any member of a group of primitive archosaurs ("ruling reptiles") thought to include the ancestral stock of all other archosaurs, including birds, dinosaurs, pterosaurs (extinct flying reptiles), and crocodiles. The name thecodont means "socket-toothed." theft in law, a general term covering a variety of specific types of stealing, including the crimes of larceny, robbery, and burglary. Theiler, Max South African-born American microbiologist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his development of a vaccine against yellow fever. theileriasis any of a group of livestock diseases caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Theileria (Gonderia), transmitted by tick bites. The most serious is East Coast fever of cattle, caused by T. parva; it has 90-100 percent mortality in Africa. Tropical theileriasis, from T. annulata (T. dispar), is a milder ... Thein Sein military officer and politician of Myanmar who served as president of the country (2011- ). Their Eyes Were Watching God novel by Zora Neale Hurston, published in 1937. It is considered her finest book. theism the view that all limited or finite things are dependent in some way on one supreme or ultimate reality of which one may also speak in personal terms. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, this ultimate reality is often called God. This article explores approaches to theism in Western theology and ...