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At the moment, the plan is to launch on December 9th and return to earth on December 19th, but the launch date will be reviewed at a meeting on December 1st so there is still a risk of the millennium bug causing trouble.
ECONOMIST: Double, double, Hubble trouble
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Arabs are sharply split over their handling of the row about Israel's portrayal of the whole of Jerusalem as its capital at Walt Disney's Millennium Village, due to open in Florida on October 1st.
ECONOMIST: Jerusalem
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Mr Summers plans to celebrate the millennium with new rules for America's buyback of government debt on January 1st, 2000.
ECONOMIST: Chemical attraction