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George Vecsey Sports of The Times column discusses New York Yankees and their road to second consecutive world championship; photo (M)
Article on Falun Gong, spiritual movement banned in China because of fears that it was achieving cult status, is thriving in New York City under spiritualist Li Hongzhi; movement, a combination of exercise and music, described; photo (M)
American economy turns in its best quarterly performance of year this summer, virtually guaranteeing enough momentum to carry nation to its longest economic expansion in history early next year; economy expands at brisk 4.8 percent annual rate in June-Sept quarter, while inflation turns out to be mild; Commerce Dept, at same time as it provides its fresh snapshot of economy, also releases sweeping revision of its past data, stretching back to 1959; revision is intended to make Government's measure of economic performance reflect the new electronic technologies that are now so important; new numbers show 1990's to be decade of stronger economic growth than originally reported, although not stronger than any of last four decades; separately, Labor Dept releases its employment cost index for third quarter; index rises only by 0.8 percent and 3.1 percent over last 12 months (M)
Ben Brantley reviews musical The Dead, adapted from story by James Joyce, and presented at Playwrights Horizon; Christopher Walken and Blair Brown star; photos; book is by Richard Nelson, with score by Shaun Davey (M)
Floyd Norris column on questionable accounting practices of some companies acquired by Tyco International Inc just prior to mergers; says in two recent purchases--of AMP Inc and United States Surgical--companies took big losses just before acquisitions closed as sales dropped sharply and expenses soared; says losses were never reported to investors; urges Securities and Exchange Commission to change rules that would allow investors to have knowledge of such losses; graph (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 27, 1999, covering October 29, 1999.
Santana
Creed
Backstreet Boys
Lou Bega
Britney Spears
1999Greg, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1931)[†]
Michel Régnier, best known by his pseudonym Greg, was a Belgian cartoonist best known for Achille Talon, and later became editor of Tintin magazine.
1999A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.[†]
The 1999 Odisha cyclone was the most intense recorded tropical cyclone in the North Indian Ocean and among the most destructive in the region. The 1999 Odisha cyclone organized into a tropical depression in the Andaman Sea on 25 October, though its origins could be traced back to an area of convection in the Sulu Sea four days prior. The disturbance gradually strengthened as it took a west-northwesterly path, reaching cyclonic storm strength the next day. Aided by highly favorable conditions, the storm rapidly intensified, attaining super cyclonic storm intensity on 28 October, before peaking on the next day with winds of 260 km/h (160 mph) and a record-low pressure of 912 mbar. The storm maintained this intensity as it made landfall on Odisha on 29 October. The cyclone steadily weakened due to persistent land interaction and dry air, remaining quasi-stationary for two days before slowly drifting offshore as a much weaker system; the storm dissipated on 4 November over the Bay of Bengal.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]