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...enough that some unlucky travelers had to sit captive for hours on planes during January storms. Now over the past two weeks, all the major airlines have increased the price of leisure tickets by 4%. Delta and United also announced that most full-fare tickets purchased for the Y2K New Year's holidays will be nonrefundable. Last week though, Senators John McCain (R.-Ariz.) and Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) said they would introduce a bill to give passengers 48 hours to cancel nonrefundable tickets and require airlines to explain why flights are delayed. For now travelers can assert their rights...
...finally, we have the year 2000 (aka Y2K). This pseudo-millennial marker has caused quite a stir for something that has yet to happen...
...Y2K will be the nonevent of the millennium. The only thing less likely than a catastrophe is that the profiteers who make a fortune off the gullible will refund everyone's money after being hit by "survivor's guilt" in January 2000. ANDREA CHESNEY Los Angeles...
...story" about Y2K isn't the billions of defective codes in mainframe computers or the 25 billion to 50 billion embedded chips. The blame doesn't go to shortsighted programmers or managers who procrastinated until it was too late to fix the problem or to a government that knew about the Y2K situation in 1995 but did little about it until 1998. The real issue with Y2K is American Christians who see serious potential problems and are making rational preparations. What an interesting spin you put on Y2K. LOREN JACOBS West Bloomfield, Mich...
Chris Taylor mentioned in his article "The History and the Hype" that "no one in the computer industry wanted to rock the boat..." by confronting the Y2K problem. Well, Apple Computer did, and thanks to the makers of Macintosh, Mac users do not have to worry about the Y2K bug in the operating system. Just imagine manpower expenses for those who did not rock the boat--whole nations could be given a free computer for every citizen. WOLFGANG SCHUBERT Tien Mou, Taiwan