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In Style, Time Inc magazine devoted to adoration of celebrity culture, is hit with readers and advertisers; has moved Time Warner unit into what may prove to be hot competition for share of women's magazine market; covers fashion, home furnishings and beauty from vantage point of celebrity; circulation graph; photos (M)
Statistics show wood heating is at lowest ebb over past 20 years, out-run by other cheap fuels and increasingly abandoned by older, busier householders; nadir follows decade of decline in popularity of woodburning stove, which to many once meant doing things good old-fashioned way and using renewable resources back when Arab oil embargo was still fresh in memory; situation is especially true in Vermont, ground zero of back-to-the-land movement of 1960's and 1970's; photo; chart (M)
Interview with Harry Sepulveda, New York City record store clerk esteemed as living memory of Puerto Rican and Cuban music, both in United States and abroad; table of his favorite recordings; photo (M)
Agriculture remains least reformed sector of Russian economy, despite vaunted talk of building free market; nation's chronically inefficient collective farms have been relabeled rather than reorganized as Govt has refused to approve sale of farmland and has done little to help fiercely conservative farmers cope with brave new world of capitalism; distress has been compounded by virtual collapse of banking system and ruinous drought; harvests are at lowest point in 45 years and production of staples continues to plummet--leaving country heavily dependent on imports; conditions at state-owned collective near Novogorod described; photos; map (M)
Delta Blues musician John Lee Hooker, 81, wins Rhythm-and-Blues Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award; Harry Belafonte and Paul Robeson Jr to lead all-star salute marking centennial of singer and actor Paul Robeson; discussion of legacy of Charles Kuralt, star of On the Road television series who died last year at age 62, is set for Museum of Television and Radio; choreographer William Forsythe and his Ballet Frankfurt will present United States premiere of his Eidos: Telos at Brooklyn Academy of Music; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 1998, covering November 30, 1998.
Alanis Morissette
R. Kelly
Celine Dion
Jay-Z
U2
1998Grant Williams, American basketball player[†]
Grant Dean Williams is an American professional basketball player for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Williams played college basketball for the Tennessee Volunteers. He was drafted 22nd overall in the 2019 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics and reached the NBA Finals with the team in 2022. He has also played for the Dallas Mavericks.
1998Janet Lewis, American novelist and poet (born 1899)[†]
Janet Loxley Lewis was an American novelist, poet, and librettist.
1998Margaret Walker, American author and poet (born 1915)[†]
Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]