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Manhattan art dealers report robust sales this summer, unlike summers of years past when there would be seasonal lull; stock market boom has created many multimillionaires and billionaires eager to plow their excess cash into paintings, sculpture and decorative art; photos; table shows increased sales at Christie's and Sotheby's (M)
New York Mets defeat San Francisco Giants, 3-0; photo (M)
Market Place column on pressures on Dun & Bradsteet to put itself up for sale following 8 percent drop in revenue for its core credit-information operation in July; Harris Associates LP, which owns 12.5 percent of Dun & Bradstreet stock, is said to be unsatisfied that company executives know how to fix problems at their credit-information business; other large shareholders are reportedly making their own overtures to management, in advance of Dun & Bradstreet's Sept 15 board meeting; Dun & Bradstreet's chief executive, Volney Taylor, calls July results an aberration, but Harris Associates and other big shareholders have apparently decided that solution may be beyond grasp of Dun & Bradstreet's management team, which took over three years ago; graph (M)
The incidence of Type 2, or adult onset, diabetes, is rapidly increasing, leading some doctors to fear a national crisis. But coordinated treatments are giving some patients hope of delaying the onset of the disease or avoiding it altogether. Science Times, page F1.
Article profiles Ron Attivissimo, principal of Middle School 218 in East New York section of Brooklyn, and his preparations for opening of school year; he discusses drawing up student and teacher schedules, interviewing and hiring teachers, assigning classrooms to 15 new teachers, making room for 500 new sixth graders and trying to determine who failed summer school and who passed; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 1, 1999, covering September 7, 1999.
Backstreet Boys
Mary J. Blige
Mobb Deep
Limp Bizkit
Britney Spears
1999Gracie Abrams, American singer-songwriter[†]
Gracie Madigan Abrams is an American singer-songwriter. The daughter of the director J. J. Abrams, she signed with Interscope Records in 2019, and gained recognition after releasing her debut extended play, Minor (2020), and its follow-up, This Is What It Feels Like (2021), alongside various singles including "I Miss You, I'm Sorry". Abrams released her debut album, Good Riddance (2023), and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She also performed as an opening act on Olivia Rodrigo's Sour Tour (2022) and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour (2023–2024).
1999Laurie Jussaume, Canadian cyclist[†]
Laurie Jussaume is a Canadian cyclist.
1999The 6.0 Mw Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless.[†]
The 1999 Athens earthquake occurred on September 7 at 14:56:51 local time near Mount Parnitha in Greece with a moment magnitude of 6.0 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The proximity to the Athens metropolitan area resulted in widespread structural damage, mainly to the nearby suburban towns of Ano Liosia, Acharnes, Fyli, Thrakomakedones, Kifissia, Metamorfosi, Kamatero and Nea Filadelfeia. More than 100 buildings across those areas collapsed trapping scores of victims under their rubble while dozens more were severely damaged. With damage estimated at $3–4.2 billion, 143 people were killed, and up to 1,600 were treated for injuries in Greece's deadliest natural disaster in almost half a century.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]