If you still haven't made up your mind about where you're going to be come sunrise of the year 2000, here's one to contemplate. How about Barrow, Alaska followed by a leisurely stroll 14 km to Point Barrow at the utmost north of the Americas?

The sun will rise here at 1:04 p.m. -- Jan. 23. Barrow will be the last human community in the world to be lit by the new sun of the numerical millennium.

Barrow has several points to recommend it.