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Friday, August 28, 1998
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The Headlines
BUSINESS DIGEST
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Boy Is Mine
Brandy and Monica
#1 at the box office
Blade
$10,925,976
The must-have
Furby
On This Day
Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the "Qur'an and Sunnah" the "supreme law" but the bill is defeated in the Senate.
Wikipedia →Second Congo War: Loyalist troops backed by Angolan and Zimbabwean forces repulse the RCD and Rwandan offensive on Kinshasa.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Black (1969)
- Shania Twain (1965)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Ivo Josipović (1957)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Google Search, iMac G3 & MP3 Player (Rio).
Cost of Living (1995)
Loaf of Bread
$0.79
Gallon of Gas
$1.15
Average Home
$133,900
New Car
$18,200
Time Elapsed
10,143 days ago
(27 years, 288 days)