If there had not been a millennium bug, we would have had to invent it. The fear that millions of computers and their programmes would grind to a standstill on January 1 2000, has brought the date home to peoples around the world in a far more effective way than any proselytising from the pulpit....more

GLOBAL CELEBRATIONS
Guide to the New Year  Dec 23

MARTIN WOLF
Painful lessons from a turbulent century  Dec 6

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The millennium bug  Dec 6

Map  Dec 23

PROFILE
Shashi Tharoor  Dec 22

NET RESOURCES
The millennium bug  Dec 6



EVOLVING POPULATIONS
Sharing a planet with 9bn others  Dec 6

ISLAM
Holy war moves to the diplomatic corps  Dec 6

CHRISTIANITY - THE SCEPTIC'S VIEWPOINT
How to follow 2,000 years of sex and violence?  Dec 6

CHRISTIANITY - THE BELIEVER'S CASE
New Asceticism found - with no forced alleluiahs  Dec 6

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