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November 10, 1997

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BUSINESS DIGEST

By Unknown Author

Overseas Banks Fall Behind In Preparing for Year 2000 Large banks and investment firms in the United States are making progress on the enormous task of rewriting date-specific software that if left unaltered may cause computers to crash just after midnight on Dec. 31, 1999. But a study presented to Congress last week suggested that overseas banks might be woefully behind or even ignoring the problem.

Business/Financial Desk538 words
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50's Sci-Fi Camp Goes High-Tech; Icky Giants That Hop, Fight and Think

By Neil Strauss

Starship Troopers, high-tech sci-fi movie, was produced for $100 million, half of which went into special effects; it took five years to make, and used record 500 special-effects shots; its goal was not to look futuristic and realistic, but to evoke old westerns, World War II movies and adventure tales; photos (M)

The Arts/Cultural Desk1530 words
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INSIDE

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Economic Angst in Seoul Asia's economic turmoil has shaken South Koreans, who worry that their once-mighty economy will be the next to fall. Page A3. Turning Down Benefits More Americans are being offered health insurance through work, but many turn it down. Page A24.

Metropolitan Desk115 words
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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 1997, covering November 10, 1997.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Firm -- The Album by Nas Escobar| Foxy Brown| AZ And Nature

    The Firm -- The Album

    Nas Escobar| Foxy Brown| AZ And Nature

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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs by LeAnn Rimes

    You Light Up My Life -- Inspirational Songs

    LeAnn Rimes

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for The Dance by Fleetwood Mac

    The Dance

    Fleetwood Mac

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    10
  4. 4
    Album cover for Butterfly by Mariah Carey

    Butterfly

    Mariah Carey

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
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    6
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    Album cover for The Velvet Rope by Janet

    The Velvet Rope

    Janet

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
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    3

Notable Births

Federico Dimarco

1997Federico Dimarco, Italian footballer[†]

Federico Dimarco is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a left wing-back or left back for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Italy national team. He is known for his pace, crossing, and threatening goal-scoring presence from outside the box.

Marios Georgiou

1997Marios Georgiou, Cypriot gymnast[†]

Marios Georgiou is a Cypriot artistic gymnast. He is the 2024 European all-around champion, and the 2022 European horizontal bar champion and the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a European title, and a major all-around title. He is the 2019 European Championships all-around bronze medalist which made him the first gymnast from Cyprus to win a European medal. He is the 2019 European Games parallel bars silver medalist. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he won the gold medals in the floor exercise and parallel bars and the bronze medal in the all-around, and he won four bronze medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He is the 2018 Mediterranean Games all-around and horizontal bar champion and the 2022 Mediterranean Games horizontal bar champion. He competed at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Olympic Games.

1997Maurice Gomis, Italian-Senegalese footballer[†]

Maurice Gomis is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swiss Promotion League club Paradiso. Born in Italy, he plays for the Guinea-Bissau national team.

Daniel James (footballer)

1997Daniel James, Welsh footballer[†]

Daniel Owen James is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Leeds United and the Wales national team.

1997Giovanna Scoccimarro, German judoka[†]

Giovanna Scoccimarro is a German judoka. She is the 2017 European silver medalist in the 70 kg division. In 2021, she competed in the women's 70 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Yuriy Vakulko

1997Yuriy Vakulko, Ukrainian footballer[†]

Yuriy Mykolayovych Vakulko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.

Historical Events

MCI Inc.

1997WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).[†]

MCI, Inc. was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company in the United States, after AT&T. WorldCom grew largely by acquiring other telecommunications companies, including MCI Communications in 1998, and filed for bankruptcy in 2002 after an accounting scandal, in which several executives, including CEO Bernard Ebbers, were convicted of a scheme to inflate the company's assets. In January 2006, the company, by then renamed MCI, was acquired by Verizon Communications and was later integrated into Verizon Business.

Historical Context for November 10, 1997

In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]