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World Won't End in 2012, Mayans Insist

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MEXICO CITY (Oct. 11) — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly "running out" on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it's not the end of the world.
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Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly running out on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it\'s not the end of the world. Or is it? Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff. A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.\n\nBut most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes predictions from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?