Monday, November 9, 1998

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The Headlines

City to Speed Applications For Welfare

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Doo Wop (That Thing)

Lauryn Hill

#1 at the box office

$24,431,129

The must-have

Furby

On This Day

• A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.

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• Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Ivan Turgenev (1818)
• Carl Sagan (1934)
• Muhammad Iqbal (1877)
• Edward VII (1841)
• Imre Kertész (1929)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1995)