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British farmers who have offered some of their land to the Government for the test-planting of genetically modified seed crops have become the target of bitter protests.
Ben Brantley reviews New York Shakespeare Festival's performance of Moliere's play Tartuffe in Central Park; Mark Brokaw directs and Dylan Baker stars; photos (M)
Toms River, NJ, beats Phenix City, Ala, 6-0, in opening round of Little League World Series; photo (M)
Fashion, advertising and magazine publishing industries are abuzz over Conde Nast plan to acquire Fairchild Publications, move that will give it control of most of American fashion press; photos (M)
New York City police arrested more people than ever in 1998, though crime has ebbed to historic lows, but there has also been surge in number of flawed arrests; more and more of those arrested were jailed and released without ever having been formally charged with crime; in 1998, prosecutors dismissed 18,000 of 345,000 arrests made in city even before judge reviewed charges, more than double number four years before; rate of cases rejected by prosecutors grew in 1998 by 41 percent in Bronx and 23 percent in Manhattan; in Brooklyn, one in 13 arrests was dismissed before arraignment, double rate of 1997; citywide, 50 people per day are processed through booking system and released because prosecutors reject charges against them, after they have spent hours overnight in packed holding cells (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 18, 1999, covering August 23, 1999.
Backstreet Boys
Limp Bizkit
Ricky Martin
Soundtrack
Britney Spears
1999Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (born 1926)[†]
Norman Wexler was an American screenwriter whose work included films such as Saturday Night Fever, Serpico and Joe. A New Bedford, Massachusetts native and 1944 Central High School graduate in Detroit, Wexler attended Harvard University before moving to New York in 1951.
1999James White, Irish author (born 1928)[†]
James White was a Northern Irish author of science fiction novellas, short stories and novels. He was born in Belfast and returned there after spending some early years in Canada. After a few years working in the clothing industry, he worked at Short Brothers Ltd., an aircraft company based in Belfast, from 1965 until taking early retirement in 1984 as a result of diabetes. White married Margaret Sarah Martin, another science fiction fan, in 1955 and the couple had three children. He died of a stroke.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]