BELIEF WATCH: "2012: A Y2K for the New Age," by Lisa Miller, Newsweek, 11-18 May 2009.

Just when you thought we were safe from the millennialists!

All predicted by the Mayan calendar: Earth is "transformed" by a new "world age" that sounds vaguely New Age in its "human growth" potential.

In Mexico, most people consider it a crazy gringo invention.

An odd twist on a global doomsday. Call it a global bloomsday.