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...fears a leap year computer bug on Feb. 29, among other potential disasters. "We don't know what's going to happen with the economy. If the markets crash or my husband loses his job, we're ready," she says. In Ontario, Bruce Beach, who began constructing a bunker of 42 buried school buses 18 years ago, watched astounded as city after city passed into modernity with nary a scratch. And MTV Online, as if to mock it all, was showing Internet film of the six kids it set up in a campy Y2K bunker under a building in Manhattan...
...more than wondering what the event meant, the more pressing question is, How do you pop up out of your bunker? Should you wear an embarrassed grimace, smiling through the 300-lb.-millet-bag jokes lobbed by your Y2complacent neighbors? Should you be angry, suing all the Engineer Littles who tricked you into believing the sky was falling? Or should you climb back inside, waiting for the systems shutdowns in February because of the leap-year...
...death will result from the 5 million bottles of champagne that Americans are expected to drink this New Year's Eve. PMS is a psychological affliction. The Germans, who go in for really long nouns, call it emptiness-from- having-spent-thousands-of-deutsche-marks-(dollars)-stockpiling-the-bunker-(basement)-with-flashlight-batteries-and- spring-water-and-cans-of-tuna-for-no-reason. Heidegger would call it whatnextness, but he is dead...
...Reform Party nominee --Lou Bega's next single --Kathie Lee Gifford's Christmas special --Our neighbor's Y2K bunker --The Ask Jeeves Thanksgiving Day Parade float --Michael Jackson playing Edgar Allan Poe in a movie --Bill Gates' appeal --Y2K: The Movie --Willennium, the Will Smith album --Kurt Warner's second half --The recession --The presidential-campaign debates --The final episode of Shasta McNasty --Howard Stern dating --NHL Minnesota expansion team, the Wild --The debut of the trampolining competition at the Olympics --Bulgarian air-traffic controllers...
...pair of 500-lb. bombs. Once again an American pilot trained at a cost of $2.5 million had beaten the $14,000 bounty Saddam offers to any Iraqi who can down a U.S. jet. "People can say this is a low-intensity conflict," Loose said from his hardened bunker at Turkey's Incirlik Air Base. "But I can tell you that having somebody shoot at me definitely makes me feel like I'm at war. And I guarantee that the people I dropped bombs on feel they...