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Review : Millennial missing

29 November 1997

The future is bright, says Yorick Blumenfeld in Towards the Millennium:
Optimistic Visions for Change, a 656-page collection of positive thoughts and
quotations on just about everything human beings have ever done, including
science. Fun to dip in to, but the typography is heavy going. Published by
Chimera Press, $25, ISBN 095315260X.

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