Can '( sums up the millennium coverage from around the globe, and  examines whether the Y2K preparations were a waste.)' be viewed as neither a logical extension nor a contradiction of '(The millennium coverage from around the globe is summed up and examined).'
( sums up the millennium coverage from around the globe, and  examines whether the Y2K preparations were a waste.)###(The millennium coverage from around the globe is summed up and examined).