And of course since the third millennium doesn't really begin till next year, we get to do the whole celebration over again, but this time without all the Y2K issues. Happy New Year everyone and may you know more about your ancestors next year than you do now. - Marilyn >Sorry, Karima, but the new (third) millennium won't begin until a year >from today. A millennium is defined as 1,000 years; the second thousand >years will not end until midnight December 31, 2000. The world's and the >U.S.'s official timekeepers - the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the >U.S. Naval Observatory, respectively - agree that the new millennium is >still a year away. We shouldn't always believe what the media feed us. > >Happy 2000! That change, from the 1900s, is worth celebrating in and of >itself. > >Stuart > Marilyn Angelo mangelo@binghamton.edu