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Art Bell returns to Coast-to-Coast AM effective February 5. He has gotten past many of the difficult issues that took up his time and occupied his mind for so long.

A statement from Whitley Strieber:

I have just talked on the phone to Art and he is extremely happy about his return to the air. He said, “I’m gonna be a little rusty, but I’m excited.” So that marvelous voice from the high desert is soon to be heard again, bringing to the deep night the special magic that is only and exclusively Art Bell’s.

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On New Year?s Eve, Norway?s new high speed express trains suddenly quit running. The computers on the trains did not recognize the date, despite being reprogrammed late last year in anticipation of the “Millennium Bug.”

“We didn?t think of trying out the date 31/12/00,” said Ronny Solberg of Adtranz, the company that manufactures the trains. They solved the problem temporarily by resetting the train computers to December 1, 2000. “Now we have one month to find out what went wrong so we can fix the problem for good,” Solberg said.

The Y2K bug has belatedly bitten in the U.S. as well. Cash registers in the 2,500 7-Eleven stores in Dallas refused to take credit cards because they read this year?s date as 1901 instead of 2001.
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Popocatepetl rumbled for 4 minutes on Saturday, then spewed ash on nearby communities. Residents had all returned home after being evacuated on December 18, when showers of red-hot rock began shooting out of the volcano. This was its biggest eruption in 1,200 years.

Scientists say that the volcano is trying to dislodge a mass of lava that is stuck deep in its crater. They expect it to continue erupting for several weeks. The ash could further pollute the air in Mexico City, which already has one of the worst air quality levels in the world, and even effect the southwest United States. It could also contaminate the underground water supply of one of the world?s largest cities.
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An unusually high number of shooting stars, as many as 100 per hour, will be seen in the U.S., Mexico and western Canada on January 3, as the Quadrantids pass over those areas. You can see them starting at 4 am Pacific time (7 am EST).

“The east coast of North America will be in bright morning twilight,” says Robert Lunsford of the International Meteor Organization. “Sky watchers there may miss the very best rates.” The closer you are to the west coast, the better you?ll be able to see them. “This is the best chance for North American observers to see this shower until the year 2009,” Lunsford adds.
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