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John Tierney The Big City column discusses The Parrot's Lament, Eugene Linden book analyzing intelligence and creativity of animals; says animals in New York City appear to be less creative and enterprising than those elsewhere and can be likened to unions: the more they get involved in a job, the slower it goes and the more it costs; photo (M)
On-line brokerage firms are staging advertising blitz, hoping to lure more people to on-line investing; top 10 on-line brokers have budgeted $1.5 billion to fill airwaves, newspapers and magazines, billboards, other Web sites and E-mail in-boxes with advertising over next year; their message is that people who take charge of their own investments get rich faster; question is will all this marketing money pay off in form of revenue-generating customers; stock trading is one of best on-line businesses, but number of companies looking for piece of the action has made economics look increasingly dismal; photos; chart (M)
First article in series After the Flood on cleanup efforts of residents and business owners in Bound Brook, NJ, which was flooded by rains from Hurricane Floyd; says recovering from storm appears to be half small triumphs--someone to help cart away the trash--and half navigating an opaque world of financial and bureaucratic uncertainty; focuses on cleanup of Palmyra Tea Room and Art Gallery, owned by Patrick and Bettina DeCaumette; photo (M)
Russia presses missile strikes against Chechen villages of Dargo and Benoy, territory of rebel commander Shamil Basayev, killing and injuring many Chechen villagers; officials hint they will continue assault, and may even send ground troops, until they can create buffer along border with southern republic of Dagestan to protect it from Basayev and militants, who want to establish independent Islamic state; photo; map (M)
Lou Dobbs, financial news anchor and executive, makes deal with NBC for joint venture that would create both financial newsletter and radio program and would enable him to appear periodically on NBC and CNBC programs; these appearances will be deemed guest visits, avoiding conflict with clause in Dobbs's severance agreement with Cable News Network which prevents him from taking job with any other television entity for three years; Dobbs's deal with NBC also sets up their potential future relationship, once Dobbs is legally able to work on television again; Dobbs was president of CNN's financial news cable channel, CNNfn, until his departure last June; Dobbs says details about newsletter and radio program are still being worked out; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 29, 1999, covering October 4, 1999.
Eve
Backstreet Boys
Christina Aguilera
Dixie Chicks
Santana
1999Bernard Buffet, French painter and illustrator (born 1928)[†]
Bernard Buffet was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative and is often classified as Expressionist or "miserabilist".
1999Art Farmer, American trumpet player and composer (born 1928)[†]
Arthur Stewart Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while at high school in Los Angeles. Art gained greater attention after the release of a recording of his composition "Farmer's Market" in 1952. He subsequently moved from Los Angeles to New York, where he performed and recorded with musicians such as Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and Gigi Gryce and became known principally as a bebop player.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]