Y2K BUG NIPS MAINE.

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Maine has spent $18 million in the last four years trying to make sure that computers wouldn't misread '00 as 1900, according to the Bangor Daily News. But one glitch slipped by the secretary of state's office, which issues about 450,000 motor vehicle titles every year. Suddenly last fall, new car owners (or their banks) began to get titles identifying their 2000 model-year vehicles as "horseless carriages." The trouble is, horseless carriage license plates and titles are still on the books--and in the computer...