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UConn and Ohio State Reach the Final Four The Connecticut men's basketball team won its first trip to the Final Four with a victory over Gonzaga, while St. John's fell just short in a loss to Ohio State. In women's play, UConn was upset by Iowa State while Purdue and Tennessee rolled into the round of 8. SPORTSSUNDAY
Economic boom that started in United States in late 1995 and continues on in late 1999 broke pattern of previous booms, leading many Americans to think it will continue indefinitely; economists worry that malfunction in any one part of economy will cause collapse of entire economy; they are particularly disturbed by notion on Wall Street and among many Americans that if stock prices drop, Federal Reserve will save the day by lowering interest rates, thus adding fresh impetus to economy; fear is that exaggerated confidence in ability of Fed to cushion economy against shocks is prompting investors and businesses to take risks they would not be taking otherwise; graphs (M)
Article discusses final preparations in Hollywood for Academy Awards ceremony; decision to switch event from Mondays to Sunday and promotional efforts to win larger television viewership discussed; photo (M)
Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column on efforts to regulate day traders, which have proliferated since deregulation (M)
Article on Sachem High School senior basketball guard Nicole Kaczmarski, who recently broke Long Island girls' career scoring record; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 17, 1999, covering March 21, 1999.
TLC
Lauryn Hill
Eminem
Britney Spears
Shania Twain
1999Jean Guitton, French philosopher and author (born 1905)[†]
Jean Guitton was a French Catholic philosopher and theologian. Le Monde called him "the last of the great Catholic philosophers."
1999Ernie Wise, English comedian and actor (born 1925)[†]
Ernest Wiseman, known by his stage name Ernie Wise, was an English comedian, best known as one half of the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, who became a national institution on British television, especially for their Christmas specials.
1999Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.[†]
Bertrand Piccard FRSGS is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight. In 2012 Piccard was awarded a Champions of the Earth award by the UN Environment Programme. He is the founder and chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]