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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2786)	11/5/1998 9:30:00 PM
From: Ken Salaets	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

The real story may be the extent of the Leonid meteor shower in 1999. At this point, I don't believe the experts know how intense it may be, but I read somewhere that it could be more intense than this year's, which is supposed to "hit" at a rate of 15,000+ per hour (normal for the Leonid is about 300, if I remember right). There indeed could be damage. While most of the particles are no bigger than a grain of sand, they are traveling at something like 55 times the speed of a bullet. I just hope it misses the Hubble! By the way, the best show will be in Asia. Unfortunately, it'll be daylight in the States. Ken

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2786)	11/6/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

(so they say) Telephone firms ready for Y2K news.com Telephone companies around the world have taken sufficient precautions to protect themselves from the millennium computer bug, industry leaders told a conference on yesterday. [...] However, other experts are not so sure. Ross Anderson, of Cambridge University's Computer Laboratory, told Reuters earlier this year, that there was a big difference between the attitude of big companies like BT, and countries like South Korea. According to Anderson, BT bought telephone hardware in the late 1980s and has spent around $829 million to thwart the bug. South Korea bought similar equipment and has spent nothing because it sees no problem. "They can't both be right," Anderson said.