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Repr Nita M Lowey, amid growing concerns among New York Democrats over finding candidate to run for US Senate in 2000, says that she is seriously considering run for seat and that she has begun calling Democrats and other contributors to measure potential support for her candidacy; photo (M)
Vodafone Group's acquisition of Airtouch Communications shows how local Bell companies can be held back by their own shareholders as well as by regulators; Bell Atlantic had hoped to acquire Airtouch; Bells and GTE Corp have shareholder bases dominated by conservative investors, who focus on dividends, while new rivals have aggressive shareholders who are more tolerant of dilution and more focused on growth in revenue and cash flow (M)
Profile of Nell Minow, principal of Lens fund, which has posted average annual return of 25 percent in last six years, and movie buff known as Movie Mom, who runs a Web site and reviews movies and makes recommendations for families; photos from some of movies Minow suggests for corporate film festival (M)
New York Knickerbockers, after bidding frenzy of several days, reportedly have reached agreement in principle to obtain Golden State Warrior's outcast all-star player Latrell Sprewell; photo (M)
Researchers reach deeper understanding of how flutes and other wind instruments work; new insights center on how jets, eddies and waves of air pressure come together at heart of such instruments to form complex vibrations heard as agreeable tones; drawings illustrate the physics behind music of some instruments (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 13, 1999, covering January 19, 1999.
DMX
The Offspring
Jay-Z
Mariah Carey
*NSYNC
1999Jonathan Taylor, American football player[†]
Jonathan Taylor is an American professional football running back for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). Taylor played high school football at Salem High School, where he set a New Jersey state rushing yards record. He played three seasons of college football for the Wisconsin Badgers, finishing his college career as the sixth all-time rusher in the NCAA and becoming the first player in history to rush for more than 6,000 yards in any three-year span.
1999Donyell Malen, Dutch footballer[†]
Donyell Malen is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the Netherlands national team. Malen started his professional career at PSV Eindhoven. At youth level he also featured for Ajax and Arsenal.
1999Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (born 1967)[†]
Ivan Francescato was an Italian rugby union player.
1999British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.[†]
British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer that was formed in 1977. Its head office was at Warwick House in the Farnborough Aerospace Centre in Farnborough, Hampshire. It purchased Marconi Electronic Systems, the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company, in 1999 to form BAE Systems.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]