Number-one song in the charts today |
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In the USA:
"Believe" by Cher
In the UK:
"When The Going Gets Tough" by Boyzone
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TIME Magazine cover this week |
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TIME Magazine: Bill Gates
(TIME Cover: March the 22nd, 1999)
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Famous people born on the 24th of March: |
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1909 - Clyde Barrow, American crime figure (d. 1934)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist
1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
1960 - Nena, German singer
1970 - Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
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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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