Time annual, 2001

"...the beginning of the new millennium...when athletes raced for gold medals at the glorious Summer Games in Australia -- and the race for the White House ended up a photo finish in the closest presidential election in American history [between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush]....Here as well is the landmark deciphering of the human genome, which may jump-start a revolution in biology. Here is the triumphant moment when the Serbs discovered people power and cast out Slobodan Milosevic, and the tragic moment when the peace process in the Middle East gave way to…