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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIOMEDE ISLANDS, RUSSIA AND THE U.S. A Stroll Across The Date Line With snowshoes, adventurers will walk between the islands --$12,000 for the tour --3 signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Corks Everywhere | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...downsizing of new year's Eve is a logical reaction to that conspicuous, late-second-millennium phenomenon: runaway hype. We've seen years of countdowns, retrospectives and magazine special issues. One entrepreneur went as far as to trademark and license the date 01-01-00 for New Year's gewgaws. No sooner did the milestone begin looming than advertisers began trying to persuade us to, say, associate the Roman numeral 2000--MM--with a certain candy-coated chocolate. Even the Y2K problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auld Lang Sigh | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...PACIFIC OCEAN Double Take at The Date Line Cruise ships will cross the international date line at midnight--and double back to celebrate the millennium twice --$30,000 to $115,000 --More than 500 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Popping Corks Everywhere | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms of two-digit years, and no one can predict with certainty how many of our silicon friends will freak out when both digits suddenly come up empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Y2K Bug: Do We Still Have To Worry? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...shutdown, it could cause ripples in the global pool. And that's why Y2K command-center staff members won't be popping Champagne corks if midnight comes and goes without incident. There will be at least another week of active duty on the financial watch ahead of them. The date many Y2K watchers are waiting for is not Saturday, Jan. 1, but Monday, Jan. 3, when the world's trading floors and banks reopen for business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Y2K Bug: Do We Still Have To Worry? | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

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