Perhaps the biggest question is how the millennium will affect the global financial system.

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Apple has without question been the de facto consumer-technology juggernaut of the new millennium.

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That led to four years with the station in question before making a new year's resolution for the new millennium to try out everything she had learned on a bigger scale - and she moved to the UK in 2000 armed with two suitcases and a demo tape.

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