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But in Nightingale's time, the British military at least had the excuse that the age of modern medicine, with its emphasis on sterility and proper ventilation of hospital rooms, was only just dawning.
The people farmed and fished; on the dawning of the Bronze Age in 2700 b.c. , they began to work with metals.
Despite any general Y2K calming, a Wall Street Journal front-pager notes a dawning realization among technology workers: come next New Year's Eve, many of them will be not at parties, but at work monitoring their computers' Y2K performance.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr. always told us this would happen: that American politics run in cycles of conservative constraint and liberal largesse--and, I suppose, in his own way, Bush too has signaled that he sees a new mood dawning.
But much to her chagrin, the tabs have hardly mentioned the dawning of the 21 st century (aside from a few New Year's predictions from their astrologers).