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Wednesday, September 2, 1998
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The Headlines
In Wealthy Greenwich, There's Plenty of Money Left
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Aerosmith
#1 at the box office
There's Something About Mary
The must-have
Furby
On This Day
The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.
Wikipedia →Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Keanu Reeves (1964)
- Keir Starmer (1962)
- Salma Hayek (1966)
- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853)
- Frederick Soddy (1877)
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
10,138 days ago
(27 years, 283 days)