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They’re ringing in the new year in Bangladesh, not once, but twice this year. Or more accurately, they’re ALMOST ringing in the New Year twice. At 11:59 PM, Bangladeshis are moving their clocks back to 10:59. So, technically, the clocks will strike midnight only once. The government moved the clocks forward in June to save electricity. A look back.

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JEB SHARP:  As we prepare to usher in a new decade, we recall how we said good-bye to the previous decade.  Our final news program of 1999 opened this way.

TONY KHAN:  This is The World, I’m Tony Khan.  Fears of terrorist attacks in the United States, perhaps tied to New Year’s Eve, have been stirred by two separate arrests this month, nearly three thousand miles apart.  The first was of an Algerian man who was charged with trying to smuggle explosives and timing devices into the United States from Canada.  The second was of a Canadian woman who, for the time being at least, faces only immigration related charges.  But today …

SHARP:  That 1999 New Year’s Eve terrorist attack never happened, of course and if you recall, there were bigger fears ten years ago tonight, fears of a computer glitch.  Remember the Y2K scare?

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