NEWSWEEK’S new section, which will be called “2000: The Millennium Notebook,” appears for the first time on the next editorial page of this issue. This feature, to run each week, will contain a wide range of stories, graphics and statistics. How are our eating and dressing habits likely to change? Which inventions of the past 100 years have affected us most profoundly (before you say television or the computer, consider air conditioning)?
This issue of NEWSWEEK is the first of a series of Millennium specials that will appear during the next four years. These will be entire issues devoted to a single theme. Together they will provide our readers with a rich and colorful account of the turbulent 20th century, as well as a taste of the world of the future.
The editors of the Millennium project bring an array of talents to the table. Editor at Large Kenneth Auchincloss, who will oversee it, was NEWSWEEK’S managing editor from 1975 to 1995, and from 1986 to 1995 he was in charge of the overseas editions of the magazine. He has written about topics as diverse as China’s future, Oliver Stone’s movies and the current comeback of the cigar.
Senior Editor Nancy Cooper will edit the new section and the special issues. Most recently, she has been in charge of the INTERNATIONAL section of NEWSWEEK, where she edited cover stories on such topics as the Rwanda tragedy, the rise of China and the royal divorce. “In our Millennium project,” she says, “we’ll be able to examine all the topics that interest us and our readers–medicine and science, war, family life, work and play.”
