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From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: November 6, 1998| Author: White, Stephen | Copyright information

It is two minutes to midnight on New Year's Eve next year.

It's a Friday night, the champagne's on ice and you are surrounded by family and friends.

In a few seconds you will be welcoming the Millennium....

The Dome in Greenwich is full of the great and good for the party of the century.

But we could be first-footed by a nightmare world. You might just notice the screen on your video recorder flashing `Date Incorrect' and the microwave g...

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