2000
ID: 3043
Burlington Santa Fe Railroad surreptitiously tests 35 employees for carpal tunnel genetic predisposition
ID: 3043
2000
ID: 3044
40% of blacks, 17% of whites functionally illiterate; 500 per 100,000 Americans incarcerated (up from 50 per 100,000 for 140 years until 1930)
ID: 3044
2000
ID: 3045
Medical community begins recognizing ADHD in adults, creating 'second wave' of prescriptions
ID: 3045
2000
ID: 3046
Commodity Futures Modernization Act exempts derivatives from regulation
ID: 3046
2000
ID: 3047
Y2K preparations force massive modernization of accounting systems worldwide
ID: 3047
2000
ID: 3048
Human Genome Project uses mathematical sequence analysis algorithms - reveals complete human genetic code
ID: 3048
2000
ID: 3049
The human genome project advances, spurring pharmaceutical and biomaterials development
ID: 3049
2000
ID: 3050
US declares measles 'eliminated' (later retracted)
ID: 3050
2000
ID: 3051
Institute of Medicine: Hospitals are 3rd leading cause of death
ID: 3051
2000
ID: 3052
Annual US biodefense funding totaled an estimated $700 million (Pre-2001)
ID: 3052
2000
ID: 3053
Divine Mercy Sunday established universally - St. Faustina canonized - 'Mankind will not have peace until it turns to Divine Mercy'
ID: 3053
2000
ID: 4554
Khovanov homology categorifies Jones polynomial - stronger than all polynomial knot invariants
ID: 4554
2000
ID: 4408
January 2000
Transmeta unveils Crusoe processor - x86 emulation on VLIW core, low power but slow, Linus Torvalds worked there
ID: 4408
2000
ID: 4451
June 2000
Microsoft announces C# - designed by Anders Hejlsberg, Java-like language for .NET framework
ID: 4451