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In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]
1998Phil Leeds, American actor (born 1916)[†]
Phil Leeds was an American character actor. He appeared in many movies and television series, including guest appearances in The Dick Van Dyke Show, Maude, Friends, Barney Miller, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, Boy Meets World and more.
1998Dorothy West, American journalist and author (born 1907)[†]
Dorothy West was an American novelist, short-story writer, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Gretchen Morgenson column suggests investors, as stock prices continue to slow, read 1934 book Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd (M)
Young women dress up in 1970's clothing a la Cher to audition for ABC television movie And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story; photos (S)
Steve Stricker and Vijay Singh are tied at seven-under-par 203 after three rounds in PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Redmond, Wash; photos; chart (M)
Storeworks, program created by not-for-profit Neighborhood Housing Services and New York City Housing Preservation and Development Department, is enabling small-business people and first-time home buyers to buy deserted, ramshackle buildings in struggling neighborhoods by offering low purchase prices, favorable mortgage rates and city subsidy to gut and rehabilitate properties; seeks to spread current real estate boom in some areas of city to poorest neighborhoods; comes amid signs of vitality in once-desolate areas; photos (M)
President Clinton's lawyer, David E. Kendall, is preparing him for testimony about his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky. As director of Mr. Clinton's legal strategy, Mr. Kendall's reputation is also at stake. Article, page 22.
New York City Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani has proclaimed Sept Home Ownership Month; events planned by Housing Preservation and Development Department underscore variety in types of buildings now being built or rehabilitated under city auspices (S)t
Robert Lipsyte column (Coping) on Grace Fitzgerald, New York City election official who has quit because city is unable or unwilling to repair elevators and build ramp so disabled voters can cast ballots at old Stuyvesant High; drawing (M)
Two sisters who had planned to come to the United States were buried in their village eight days after a bomb ripped through the American Embassy in Nairobi. Page 6.
Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are building home for International Research Institute for Climate Prediction on Lamont-Doherty campus, Palisades, NY; institute will study weathher phenomena; photo of model (S)
Some of largest commecial sites of World Wide Web have agreed to feed information about their customers' reading, shopping and entertainment habits into system developed by CMG Information Services, Massachusetts company that is already tracking moves of over 30 million Internet users, often without their knowledge; agreement calls for participating Web sites to track their users so that advertisements can be precisely aimed at most likely prospects for goods and services; while this system guarantees anonymity of individual users, underlying technology disturbs privacy-rights advocates, who have long worried about growing ability of on-line companies to collect and store personal data about people who use Web; this new industry cooperative represents most ambitious effort yet to gather disparate bits of personal information into central data base containing digital dossiers on potentially every person who surfs Web (M)
Article describes significant differences between fall 1997 US stock market drop, blamed on Asian currency devaluation, and latest downturn; some experts say decline shows bull market's long run has ended; drawing (M)
Michelle Krebs assesses GMC Envoy, offered by General Motors to distinguish GMC sports utility vehicles as premium alternative to its Chevrolet line; photo (M)