WORLD'S WACKIEST Y2K GLITCHES! Fears of global computer meltdown proved unfounded, but that didn't stop the media's relentless quest for millennium-bug stories. Our pick of last week's reports:
--A man returning a copy of The General's Daughter to a video store in Colonie, N.Y., was initially charged $91,250 for bringing the tape back 100 years late.
--In Denmark, a hospital computer registered the country's first baby born in 2000 as 100 years old.
--Fearing an infestation of Y2K bugs at midnight, a young boy in England cut the wires leading to his uncle's computer.
--In Rayong, Thailand, a street vendor...
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