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RORAIMA, BRAZIL The Amazon Jungle The Yanomami tribe, which has no calendar, will ignore the millennium and most likely go to bed early in their thatched huts --Free --About 20,000 Yanomami remain...
LONDON The Millennium Dome The Queen will light a beacon, then boat down the Thames to officially open Britain's millennium landmark --Invitation only --10,000 guests...
NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA St. John's Coast Onlookers on the rocky shore will be the first in North America to greet the new millennium --Free --50,000 to 100,000 expected...
...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...
Like so many other aspects of this enigmatic end of the millennium--enticing and sinister, like a ticking package wrapped with a golden ribbon--the size and scope of the world's party refuses to resolve itself before the last minute. There's ample time for a backlash against the backlash as M-day draws closer and people start feeling millennial peer pressure to make impressive plans. (Even Wyatt is now thinking about adding a "big boom" to her family retreat in Texas.) But if more of us than expected end up passing the moment quietly, toasting our family...