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Article discusses preparations by United States Census Bureau for Year 2000 census; notes that because a disproportionately large number of people who are missed by census are poor or members of minorities, Bureau is using advertisements aimed at particular groups to encourage participation; photo (M)
Hewlett-Packard Shares Fall on Earnings Concern Hewlett-Packard shares fell 12.6 percent, to $67, after an analyst suggested that the company might have an earnings shortfall in its fourth quarter, which ends this month. Hewlett-Packard warned on Oct. 1 that sales growth might slow but said it expected to meet earnings projections. Since then, it has expressed concerns to analysts. [Page C2.]
John Tierney The Big City column discusses plight of Nicholas White, who was trapped in elevator in McGraw-Hill building in midtown Manhattan for 40 hours (M)
Gregg Vanderheiden, head of University of Wisconsin's Trace Center, which researches ways to improve access for the disabled, particularly blind persons, to information and telecommunications systems, comments on advances in field; one early development was machine devised by Raymond C Kurzweil in 1976, that provided first practical optical character recognition software in unit called Kurzweil Reading Machine; presently text-to-speech software allows blind to read text on Web sites and in E-mail; while some functions are newly accessible, others, such as graphically rich Web sites and operating systems like Windows and Mac OS, have actually reduced ability of blind people to use personal computer; Microsoft recognizes problem and has charged a staff of 40 persons with insuring that its products can be mastered by people with physical disabilities; software and Web site developers are encouraged to embed hidden descriptive text in their programs so text-to-speech software can read graphics to people with limited vision; photos (L)
Profile of Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, husband-and-wife team whose style combines the gritty with the chic; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 27, 1999, covering October 28, 1999.
Santana
Creed
Backstreet Boys
Lou Bega
Britney Spears
1999Antonios Katinaris, Greek singer-songwriter (born 1931)[†]
Antonios Katinaris was a Greek musician. He was born in Chania, Crete, the first son of a refugee family from Asia Minor. Since his earliest years, he demonstrated his interest and his talent in music. He was already a music professional at the age of 16. His virtuoso bouzouki-playing made him famous on the popular music stages of Chania.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]