Wednesday, May 13, 1998

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The Headlines

Getting the Chance To Do It Himself; Out of the Shadows to Run Home Depot

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Too Close

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#1 at the box office

$23,266,622

The must-have

Furby

On This Day

• India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.

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• Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pope Pius IX (1792)
• Alphonse Daudet (1840)
• Maria Theresa (1717)
• Stevie Wonder (1950)
• Ronald Ross (1857)

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Tech Check

Google Search, iMac G3 & MP3 Player (Rio).

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