Word: millennium
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...century were fortunate. Photographer Steve Liss traveled to the Chatham Islands, which were, until the Kingdom of Tonga and the nation of Kiribati tampered with the rules, the first inhabited place on earth to greet each new day, and thus would have been the first to reach the new millennium. But when he got to the tempestuous isles, he was told, "We get to see the sun rise maybe four times a year." Nervously, Liss waited and was rewarded, along with the islanders, with a brief but stunning dawn, the first sunrise of the new century. A single daybreak...
...clock in Times Square just click over? Did some great historic moment just explode in the Millennium Dome? If so, someone neglected to inform the "living faces" that preside unchallenged over the loneliest island community in the world (in the same time zone, though hardly the same century, as New York City). On New Year's Eve, grass-skirted dancers perform under fireworks in front of the ancestral figures; but come New Year's Day, all is just eerie midsummer stillness again, the only sound the wind whistling in your ears. It may be that something tumultuous happened to your...
...serve the 3,000 or so residents, and mass transportation is said to consist of a bus that runs occasionally on Sundays in the summer. A 21st century luxury on this remote Chilean possession is wood. And the few foreigners who gather here to see in the new millennium do so largely in the spirit of people choosing to spend the holidays with their grandparents. All over the island, in the ceremonial sites, you see lonely, breathing figures staring out into the silence...
Nowadays, the local airstrip serves as an emergency-landing area for the space shuttle. And as the new millennium approaches, vans start to appear, carrying cameras from Chile (more than 2,300 miles away) to transmit the New Year's ceremonies around the world (from an island that did not know direct television four years ago). In the few cafes around town, large men with tattoos and topknots can be seen arguing passionately that the tribal leaders now bow only before the altar of money and talking heads...
...they seem to ask how much a "New Year" means a new you. What ever is deepest in us, they seem to suggest, is what doesn't change, or lend itself to explanation; in love or in worship we leave the calendar in another room. As a new millennium begins in some parts of the world, the "living faces" with their hidden eyes cannot be heard shouting, "Out with the old, and in with the new!"or "Should auld acquaintance be forgot!" Rather, they seem to murmur, "Happy New Year. Happy...