Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"I'm Your Angel" by R. Kelly and Céline Dion
In the UK:
"Heartbeat / Tragedy" by Steps
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Future of Medicine
(TIME Cover: January the 11th, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 14th of January: |
1702 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
1861 - Mehmed VI, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1926)
1875 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1941 - Faye Dunaway, American actress
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1999 |
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Günter Blobel
1936-
for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell
USA
Rockefeller University - New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Average price of a dozen eggs in 1999 (USA) |
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$1.08 |
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Oscar of the best picture in 1999 |
American Beauty
directed by Sam Mendes
with Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham) and Annette Bening (Carolyn Burnham)
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Designed in 1999 |
The Toy chair
by Philippe Starck |
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