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...Yeltsin: Hero or Opportunist? Boris Yeltsin: The Man Atop the Tank Yeltsin's Promise and Failure Russia's Maverick Boris Bounces Back Remembering Yeltsin Why Yeltsin Declared Himself Y2K Incompatible Who Should Be the Person of the Century? Boris Bribery Scandal? What Else Is New? Russia's Puppet Master Yeltsin's Fast-Break Generals Survival Of The Fittest Yeltsin Plays Roulette With Russia's Economy But Yeltsin Only Purges After He Drinks Free Fall: Russia in Crisis Surviving Yeltsin's 'Cold' Rescuing Boris The People Choose TIME Covers
...clocks "spring forward" three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and "fall back" a week later, on the first Sunday in November. But the energy conservation that extra hour of sunlight is supposed to deliver comes with a cost: computer glitches that some fear could run to Y2K proportions. Companies with BlackBerrys and older computer applications must make manual adjustments or run software "patches" to revise internal clocks, often expensive endeavors...
...rooms or manufacturing plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria are overblown, analysts say, many offices will be nettled by out-of-synch e-mail and Microsoft Outlook calendars - in other words, a lot of missed meetings. Rich Kaplan, Microsoft's vice president of customer service says the change will amount to little more than "a nuisance...
...TIME is already reporting on the 2008 presidential race? What's next, a March issue about Christmas? Considering your dubious past success rate with prognostication-such as the seriousness of the Y2K problem and the prospects for Howard Dean's presidential bid-you should either leave the fortune telling to others or upgrade your crystal ball. Joe Frank Scottsdale, Arizona...
...time is already reporting on the 2008 presidential race? What's next, a March issue about Christmas? Considering your dubious past success rate with prognostication - such as the seriousness of the Y2K problem and the prospect for Howard Dean's presidential bid - you should either leave the fortune telling to others or upgrade your crystal ball. Joe Frank Scottsdale, Arizona...