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S.S., an Oak Park reader, wants you to know that if you go towww.thehungersite.com, a meal of 2 1/2 ; cups of rice, wheat, maizeor other staple will go to someone who is hungry somewhere.

You don't pay for the food. The listed corporate sponsors do.

You are permitted to click on the site and donate once a day.

So there is something good to be said for the Internet, after all.

Then again. Let's not get carried away.; Reindeer roundup Fromthe QT Archive of Knowledge: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is afemale. So are Donder and Blitzen. So are all the rest.

And remember: It is Donder and not Donner. Just desserts NewsItem: Queen Elizabeth places order at British Tesco supermarket chainfor 1,411 Christmas puddings as Christmas gifts for staff.

Shame she didn't have a Tesco Club card. The points would haveentitled her to a trip to Brussels. Give me an `A' Jen Sethsong,of the University of California at Santa Cruz, on why the studentjoined 1,000 other indignant students to protest a proposal that theschool go back to giving letter grades instead of the current"narrative essays" describing a student's performance: "Grades saynothing."

Then why are you so afraid of them, Jen? You're grounded QTCountdown Update (.0068 Percent of the Second Millennium Remaining):All Millennium Eve flights have been grounded by Virgin AtlanticAirways, LOT Polish Airlines and Vietnam Airlines. Dutch KLM hasgrounded 90 percent of its flights. British Airways has grounded 75percent of its long-distance flights and all of its European anddomestic flights. Japan Airlines will avoid takeoffs and landings anhour before and after midnight.

Not that there is anything to worry about. Finnish line Finland has asked Norwegians to stop calling the wool cap masks bankrobbers use "finlandshette," or Finland hoods.

It was complained the usage contributed to cultural stereotyping.

Not a surprise. You know how prickly the Finns are.; Vehiculardevotees News Item: The First Church of the Nazarene in LittleRock, Ark., has built a drive-through Nativity scene for those whowant to experience the "true meaning of Christmas" without leavingtheir cars.

Are the 1990s over yet? We'll call you News Item: "KennethStarr says he would be happy to be nominated for the U.S. SupremeCourt by some future president. He acknowledges that there would besubstantial opposition to the idea, however."

Really? Technology watch Kent Fuchs, head of the PurdueUniversity School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, on theexpected proliferation of wireless electronic microsensors that willbe placed all around us for safety, convenience and other reasons:

"Basically, there will be no privacy in the future, that's forsure."

Happy Millennium!

Contributing: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times. QT is atqt@suntimes.com.