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Tuesday, September 21, 1999
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The Headlines
THE MARKETS: Market Place; No News Turns Into Bad News at Retailer
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Unpretty
TLC
#1 at the box office
Double Jeopardy
The must-have
Pokémon Cards
On This Day
The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- H. G. Wells (1866)
- Shinzo Abe (1954)
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909)
- Stephen King (1947)
- Leonard Cohen (1934)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
buzzkillmy badsweetwhatever
Grunge
flannellameposerslacker
Hip Hop
blingboo-yacrunkphattrippin'
Tech
cyberspaceinformation superhighwayspamweb
Tech Check
Napster, BlackBerry, Bluetooth & Wi-Fi (Apple AirPort).
Cost of Living (1995)
Loaf of Bread
$0.79
Gallon of Gas
$1.15
Average Home
$133,900
New Car
$18,200
Time Elapsed
9,755 days ago
(26 years, 265 days)