The Pope visits St. Louis. Hillary Clinton leans toward a bid for a New York seat in the U.S. Senate. Michael Jordan and hockey great Wayne Gretzky retire. And golfer Payne Stewart dies in a strange plane crash. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa both top 60 home runs for the second consecutive year.
Drought grips the South and East.
Hurricanes flood North Carolina. Creationism advocates battle evolution in the schools. The New York Yankees win their 25th World Series. Relations with China sour. And we wait anxiously to see if our computer systems will crash as the new century begins.