2000:

• DNA sequencing of Human genome roughly completed.
• International space station up.
• Dali Lama visits Portland, Oregon.
• Russian submarine sank in the Barents sea.
• Israel withdraws from S. Lebanon.
• First meeting ever between North and South Korea.
• Bush wins U.S. presidency by a few hundred votes.
• Palestinian and Israeli war continues.

2001:

• Space probe lands on asteroid Eros.
• Mad cow disease spreads in Britain and Europe.
• Power crisis and rolling  blackouts in California.
• US National Academy of Science reports that global temperatures would raise 2.5-10 degrees Fahrenheit by end of century.
• Members of the Taliban blew up Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
• On September. 11, terrorists crashed two high jacked airplanes into World Trade Center in New York killing over 5000 people and another plane crashed into the pentagon.
• President Bush declares war on terrorism.

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