The eye is still offshore. More than a million already off the Florida coast. Georgia and South Carolina have been told to move. No United States landfall.

11:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 15, 1999

Nation

Gunman kills seven, then himself, at a Fort Worth church

Wedgwood Baptist, See You at the Pole. Four of the dead were teenagers. Larry Gene Ashbrook, 47, of Forest Hill. Police gave no motive.

9:30 p.m. · FORT WORTH · September 15, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Rockies 10–5 and go to 90–57

Agbayani’s homer. A Wednesday at Coors. The wild card is still a race.

9:50 p.m. · DENVER · September 15, 1999

Science

108 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 15, 1999

Weather

More than a million ordered off the Florida coast; Floyd is in the Bahamas

Category 4, still at sea. Hurricane warnings from Florida City toward Georgia. No United States landfall.

8:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 14, 1999

World

Security Council works through the night on a Timor mandate

A draft to authorise force. Troops, ships and aircraft are being assembled. The vote is not tonight’s. Dili has no foreign soldiers.

9:00 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 14, 1999

Science

109 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 14, 1999

World

Alatas flies to New York; the Council is writing the mandate

Jakarta accepted a force on Sunday. The foreign minister is to work out the details. Australia will lead. No foreign soldiers are in Dili.

12:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 13, 1999

Sports

Broncos retire Elway’s 7; then they lose 38–21

Monday night at Mile High. The number came down. Miami took the game. Denver is 0–1.

11:20 p.m. · DENVER · September 13, 1999

Sports

Dolphins beat the Broncos 38–21 on Monday night

Miami at Mile High. The defending A.F.C. West is 0–1. The league’s second night.

11:15 p.m. · DENVER · September 13, 1999

Weather

Floyd is a Category 4 hurricane, about 165 miles north of Grand Turk

Winds 155 miles an hour. Pressure 921 millibars. The strongest storm of the season. No U.S. landfall. The Bahamas are being watched.

8:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 13, 1999

Weather

Hurricane warning up for the northwest Bahamas; Florida is on a watch

Floyd is Category 4 and still at sea. No American landfall. The next islands in the way have the warning.

11:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 13, 1999

Culture

The Practice and Ally McBeal take the Emmys; Sopranos get two

David E. Kelley’s two series took drama and comedy. Edie Falco won. Dennis Franz won his fourth. The new HBO show did not sweep.

12:40 a.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 13, 1999

Science

110 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 13, 1999

Sports

Agassi comes back from two sets to one and wins the Open

6–4, 6–7 (5–7), 6–7 (2–7), 6–3, 6–2 over Todd Martin. Three hours 23 minutes. His fifth Slam, his second U.S. title. Serena won Saturday.

6:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 12, 1999

Sports

Clemens and the Red Sox complete a sweep, 4–1

Boston takes three in the Bronx. The Yankees are 85–57. Pedro had Friday. Saturday was 11–10. Sunday was the Rocket.

4:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 12, 1999

Sports

Cowboys beat the Redskins 41–35 in overtime

The Sunday opener in Washington. Troy Aikman against Brad Johnson. The league is open.

4:20 p.m. · WASHINGTON · September 12, 1999

Weather

Floyd is a major hurricane, still at sea

Category 3 this morning about 315 miles north of San Juan. Strengthening. No U.S. watch has been posted. No landfall.

2:00 p.m. · MIAMI · September 12, 1999

Sports

Jaguars open with 41–3 over the 49ers

Alltel Stadium. A crowd of 68,678. San Francisco had three points. The league is open.

4:16 p.m. · JACKSONVILLE, Fla. · September 12, 1999

Sports

The Browns come back and lose 43–0 to Pittsburgh

Cleveland’s first National Football League game since 1995. Sunday night. The Steelers did not trail.

8:30 p.m. · CLEVELAND · September 12, 1999

Science

111 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number. 9/9/99 is already a Thursday that passed.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 12, 1999

Sports

Serena Williams, 17, wins the U.S. Open

6–3, 7–6 (7–4) over Martina Hingis. Her first Grand Slam singles title. The first Black woman to win the U.S. championship since Althea Gibson in 1958.

4:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 11, 1999

Sports

Agassi and Martin set an all-American final

Agassi beat Kafelnikov 1–6, 6–3, 6–3, 6–3. Martin beat Pioline 6–4, 6–1, 6–2. Sunday they play for the Open. Serena already has the women’s title.

5:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 11, 1999

Weather

Hurricane Floyd is a Category 2 storm, still well out to sea

Upgraded from a tropical storm on Friday. About 265 miles north of Barbuda this morning. No U.S. watch. No landfall.

11:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 11, 1999

Sports

Red Sox beat the Yankees 11–10

A night after Pedro’s 17 strikeouts. New York is 85–56. Sunday is the series closer.

10:30 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 11, 1999

Science

112 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 11, 1999

Weather

Floyd is a hurricane, about 210 miles east-northeast of Barbuda

Upgraded Friday. The National Hurricane Center is watching the western Atlantic. No U.S. watch has been posted.

2:00 p.m. · MIAMI · September 10, 1999

Sports

Hingis beats Venus and kills the all-Williams final

6–1, 4–6, 6–3. Richard Williams left his seat in the second set. Serena is already in Saturday’s final.

4:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

Sports

Pedro Martínez one-hits the Yankees; 17 strikeouts

Red Sox 3–1. Chili Davis homered in the second for the only New York hit. A crowd of 55,239. Pedro is 21–4.

10:30 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

Sports

Reds beat the Marlins 4–2

A crowd of 23,262. The game took 2 hours 45 minutes. The wild card is still September’s.

10:00 p.m. · CINCINNATI · September 10, 1999

Business

Sega says more than 225,000 Dreamcasts sold in the first 24 hours

About $98 million in hardware and software. Some launch discs may be faulty. The machine went on sale Thursday.

12:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

Sports

Serena beats Davenport and reaches her first Slam final

6–4, 1–6, 6–4. Rain delayed the match more than five hours. Saturday she plays Martina Hingis. Venus lost in the other semi.

10:08 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 10, 1999

Science

113 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number. 9/9/99 is already a Thursday that passed.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 10, 1999

Science

9/9/99 passes; the machines do not stop

Some older programs used 9999 as an end-of-file code. Governments watched. The disruption was minimal. January 1 is still the test.

9:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999

World

Clinton suspends all U.S. military programs with Indonesia

Effective immediately. If Jakarta will not stop the killing in East Timor, he said, it must invite the international community in. New lending is already frozen.

4:00 p.m. · WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999

Weather

Floyd is still a tropical storm, and still well out to sea

Named Wednesday. Strengthening is forecast. No landfall is on the advisory. Dennis is finished.

11:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 9, 1999

Culture

Lauryn Hill takes Video of the Year; Britney plays the Opera House

Chris Rock hosted at the Met. Hill’s Doo Wop (That Thing) is the first hip-hop video to win the top prize. She took four awards.

9:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 9, 1999

Business

Sega’s Dreamcast goes on sale in North America

The last console Sega will put in American stores. Sonic is on the box. The price is $199. Japan had it in November.

12:01 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 9, 1999

Science

114 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number. The nines did not stop the machines.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ posts a record Labor Day; fifth week at No. 1

About $29.3 million over four days. It beats The Fugitive’s $17.2 million from 1993. The cume is about $176 million.

8:00 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 8, 1999

Sports

Agassi beats Escudé and reaches the Open semifinals

7–6, 6–3, 6–4. Kafelnikov also went through, in five sets against Krajicek.

4:30 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Cardinals 5–4; Atlanta is 89–52

A crowd of 36,454. The game took 2 hours 28 minutes. The East is still theirs.

7:38 p.m. · ATLANTA · September 8, 1999

Nation

Helicopters spray New York again after the encephalitis cases

The city is still calling it St. Louis encephalitis. Standing water and adult mosquitoes are the targets. Queens was first.

11:09 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Giants 7–5 and split the set

A crowd of 26,499. The game took 3 hours 13 minutes. Tuesday they had lost 7–4.

7:38 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Sports

Reds beat the Cubs 6–4

A crowd of 35,200. The game took 2 hours 52 minutes. Cincinnati takes the series.

7:35 p.m. · CHICAGO · September 8, 1999

Sports

Serena Williams, 17, beats Seles and reaches her first Slam semifinal

4–6, 6–3, 6–2. Next is Lindsay Davenport, the defending champion. Venus is already in the other half.

9:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Weather

The depression is now Tropical Storm Floyd

About 800 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Forty miles an hour at 5 a.m. About 60 by night. Further strengthening is forecast.

11:00 a.m. · MIAMI · September 8, 1999

Business

The Viacom–CBS paper is the talk of the Street

Nearly $37 billion in stock. Second-largest media company if it closes. Regulators have not spoken.

4:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 8, 1999

Science

115 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 8, 1999

Culture

‘Runaway Bride’ holds second behind ‘The Sixth Sense’

Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. About $400,000 on Tuesday. The summer picture has not left.

8:10 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 7, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ is still first after Labor Day

About $1.7 million on Tuesday. Runaway Bride is next. The secret is still the ticket.

8:00 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 7, 1999

Weather

A tropical depression forms in the far eastern Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center is watching a wave well out to sea. Dennis is already inland and dying. This one is days from any coast.

2:18 p.m. · MIAMI · September 7, 1999

Sports

Astros beat the Phillies 8–6

A crowd of 12,934. The game took 3 hours 25 minutes.

7:26 p.m. · PHILADELPHIA · September 7, 1999

Sports

Braves beat the Cardinals 3–2; Atlanta is 88–52

Tuesday night in the National League East. The Braves still hold the division.

4:15 p.m. · ATLANTA · September 7, 1999

Sports

Cubs take the opener 2–1; Reds take the night 10–3

A doubleheader at Wrigley. The night crowd was 33,040. The game took three hours. The wild card is still September’s.

9:10 p.m. · CHICAGO · September 7, 1999

Culture

Enrique Iglesias’s ‘Bailamos’ holds No. 1 in the United States

The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 last week. It is still there on Tuesday.

12:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Giants beat the Mets 7–4 at Shea

A crowd of 24,002. The game took 3 hours 43 minutes. New York is 84–55.

4:50 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Mariners beat the Blue Jays 7–4 at Safeco

A crowd of 39,709. The game took 2 hours 43 minutes.

9:18 p.m. · SEATTLE · September 7, 1999

Sports

Marlins beat the Dodgers 2–1; two Canadians start

Ryan Dempster against Éric Gagné. Neither got the decision. A crowd of 13,644. The game took 2 hours 46 minutes.

7:30 p.m. · MIAMI · September 7, 1999

Nation

New York keeps spraying after the encephalitis cases in Queens

The city is treating it as St. Louis encephalitis. Standing water is being treated. Helicopters flew last week.

11:23 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Science

Offices reopen; the tests are not finished

Labor Day is over. There are 116 days until January 1, 2000. The machines do not take the holiday.

11:21 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 7, 1999

Business

S&P 500 closes at 1,350.45

The first full session after Labor Day. Viacom and CBS agreed to combine the same day.

2:16 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Seles beats Capriati 6–4, 6–3 and stays in the Open

Monica Seles is the No. 4 seed. Jennifer Capriati is out. Mary Pierce also went through.

7:38 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

Sosa goes hitless in the opener; the night game is Cincinnati’s

The Cubs won 2–1 in the afternoon. The Reds won 10–3 after dark. Sosa’s home-run lead is still his.

2:26 p.m. · CHICAGO · September 7, 1999

Sports

Todd Martin comes back from two sets down to beat Rusedski

5–7, 0–6, 7–6, 6–4, 6–4. The American stays in the U.S. Open. Sampras is already gone.

5:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays a Tuesday night; grounds admission is $35

The last day at that price. The Mets are at Shea the same night. Martin already survived Rusedski.

7:30 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Business

Viacom to buy CBS in a deal near $37 billion

The companies agreed Tuesday. The combination would be the world’s second-largest media company. Sumner Redstone would lead it.

9:30 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 7, 1999

Science

116 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 7, 1999

Nation

Clinton declares a major disaster in Virginia after Dennis

Tropical Storm Dennis and the tornadoes with it. Federal help is open to residents and businesses in Hampton.

4:00 p.m. · WASHINGTON · September 6, 1999

Culture

Labor Day: ‘The Sixth Sense’ posts a holiday record

Four days, about $29 million. The largest Labor Day weekend to date. The picture has been first since August.

1:26 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 6, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays Labor Day; the second week is next

Sampras is gone. Rafter is gone. The grounds are open. The finals are Saturday and Sunday.

2:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 6, 1999

Science

117 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number. Labor Day.

11:24 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 6, 1999

Culture

Labor Day Sunday: ‘The Sixth Sense’ is still the picture

Four weeks at No. 1. The holiday weekend is this film’s. Monday is the last day of it.

1:13 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 5, 1999

Sports

Reds beat the Phillies again, 9–7, a day after 22–3

Cincinnati scored nine this time. The game took 2 hours 46 minutes. The National League wild card is still September’s argument.

4:10 p.m. · PHILADELPHIA · September 5, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays a Labor Day Sunday without its top seed

Sampras withdrew. Rafter retired. The second week starts after the holiday. The Mets are in the other park in Queens.

2:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 5, 1999

Science

118 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

11:31 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 5, 1999

Weather

Dennis comes ashore at Cape Lookout as a strong tropical storm

Landfall just before 5 p.m. Winds near 70 miles an hour. The hurricane flag was never restored. The Banks have had the rain for a week.

5:00 p.m. · MIAMI · September 4, 1999

Culture

Labor Day Saturday: ‘The Sixth Sense’ still owns the multiplex

Four weeks at No. 1. About $147 million already. The holiday box office is this picture’s.

12:00 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 4, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Rockies 4–2 at Shea

A crowd of 43,431. The game took 2 hours 31 minutes. September in Queens.

4:15 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 4, 1999

Sports

Reds 22–3: nine home runs in one night against Philadelphia

Cincinnati tied a National League record. Eddie Taubensee hit two. Seven teammates hit one each. Labor Day weekend, and the Phillies were finished early.

7:40 p.m. · CINCINNATI · September 4, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open plays through Labor Day without Sampras

The world No. 1 is gone. The defending champion is gone. The second week starts after the holiday.

2:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 4, 1999

Nation

Willow Fire at 63,375 acres and half contained; Bridge Fire still out

More than 2,700 people on the lines northeast of Lake Arrowhead. The Bridge Fire has burned another 7,100 acres.

11:14 a.m. · LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. · September 4, 1999

Science

119 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

11:38 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 4, 1999

Nation

City sprays northern Queens; CDC calls the illness St. Louis encephalitis

Helicopters and trucks went out at dusk. The federal laboratory result came back Friday. Dead crows are still in the parks.

7:30 p.m. · QUEENS, N.Y. · September 3, 1999

Weather

Dennis hangs south of Hatteras; the rain has not left the Banks

The tropical storm is still at sea. A burst of convection is in the forecast. Landfall is not today.

10:40 a.m. · MIAMI · September 3, 1999

Sports

Indians beat the Orioles 7–6 and stay in front

A crowd of 41,521. The game took 3 hours 20 minutes. Cleveland is 84–50.

7:10 p.m. · BALTIMORE · September 3, 1999

Culture

Labor Day weekend opens with ‘The Sixth Sense’ still first

Four weeks at No. 1. About $147 million already. The holiday is three days of the same secret.

11:00 a.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 3, 1999

Sports

U.S. Open second week is next; Sampras is already gone

The world No. 1 withdrew. The defending champion retired. Labor Day weekend is the middle of the draw.

4:20 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 3, 1999

Nation

United Shuttle 2036 drops at 24,000 feet; about 15 hurt

Los Angeles to San Francisco, Thursday afternoon. Investigators have the Friday file. The jet is a Boeing 737.

2:17 p.m. · SAN FRANCISCO · September 3, 1999

Science

120 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number. Four months, if you count from here.

11:36 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 3, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ is still first; $147 million and counting

Thursday’s take was just under $2 million. The picture has been No. 1 for four weeks. Labor Day weekend is next.

12:00 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 2, 1999

Weather

Dennis is pushed south; the Banks are still in the rain

A ridge over the eastern United States has turned the tropical storm. Winds are still near 50 miles an hour. Highway 12 is not clear.

11:10 a.m. · MIAMI · September 2, 1999

Sports

Indians beat the Angels 6–5 and keep the best record

A crowd of 43,369 at Jacobs Field. The game took 2 hours 44 minutes. Cleveland is still the team to catch in the American League.

7:20 p.m. · CLEVELAND · September 2, 1999

Nation

New York prepares to spray northern Queens at dusk Friday

The working name is still St. Louis encephalitis. Dead crows are still in the parks. Labor Day weekend is the clock.

3:40 p.m. · QUEENS, N.Y. · September 2, 1999

Sports

The U.S. Open goes on without Sampras

The world No. 1 withdrew with a herniated disk. Rafter is already out. The first week is not finished.

4:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 2, 1999

Science

121 days until January 1, 2000

Thursday’s number.

11:16 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 2, 1999

Business

Apple’s Power Mac G4 arrives; Motorola’s chip is the point

Steve Jobs showed the tower at Seybold on Tuesday. The PowerPC G4 has a vector unit Apple calls the Velocity Engine. Prices start with a 400-megahertz machine.

10:45 a.m. · SAN FRANCISCO · September 1, 1999

Sports

Athletics beat the Yankees 7–1; Cleveland takes the best record

Oakland scored in four innings at the Stadium. The Yankees are 81–51. The Indians, after beating Anaheim, sit a game ahead.

7:35 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 1, 1999

Sports

Baseball and the umpires reach an interim deal; 22 are still out

The mass resignations were to take effect Thursday. An agreement today pays the men through the year. It does not put all of them back on the field.

4:20 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 1, 1999

Business

Boeing 717 wins joint FAA and JAA certification

The 100-seat twinjet is the first airliner certified on a single American-European basis. AirTran is to take the first one this month.

1:00 p.m. · LONG BEACH, Calif. · September 1, 1999

Nation

Clinton declares a federal emergency as California burns

Preparedness Level IV. The Willow Fire has crossed Highway 173. Thirty structures are gone. The Bridge Fire is north of Azusa.

11:14 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 1, 1999

Weather

Dennis is a tropical storm; the Outer Banks are not done with it

The National Hurricane Center took the hurricane flag down on Wednesday. The eye is still at sea east of Hatteras. Highway 12 is still overwashed.

11:05 a.m. · MIAMI · September 1, 1999

Sports

Indians beat Anaheim 8–1 and take the league’s best record

Dave Burba went the distance. Jacobs Field sold another night. Cleveland is 82–50.

7:05 p.m. · CLEVELAND · September 1, 1999

Sports

Mets beat the Astros 9–5 at the Astrodome

New York is 81–53. The crowd was 24,112. September in a dome.

8:05 p.m. · HOUSTON · September 1, 1999

Culture

Outside Providence opens; the Farrellys go back to Pawtucket

Miramax has put the picture into wide American release today. Alec Baldwin is the father. Amy Smart is the girl at prep school. Peter Farrelly’s 1988 novel is the source.

12:15 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · September 1, 1999

Nation

Queens encephalitis cluster is still unnamed; the city will spray

Northern Queens has the patients. Dead crows are still in the parks. The working name remains St. Louis encephalitis. Labor Day weekend is the spray window.

11:35 a.m. · QUEENS, N.Y. · September 1, 1999

Sports

Sampras withdraws from the Open; Rafter is already out

A herniated disk. The world No. 1 will not play. The two-time defending champion retired Tuesday with a shoulder. Queens has lost its top names in two days.

9:40 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 1, 1999

Weather

Smoke from northern forest fires covers the valleys

Plumas and Shasta-Trinity are burning. Satellite pictures on Wednesday showed the plumes. Containment is not the word from the forests.

10:19 a.m. · REDDING, Calif. · September 1, 1999

Nation

Ty says Beanie Babies will be retired on New Year’s Eve

A notice on the company’s Web site named 11:59 p.m. Central time, 31 December. Collectors went to the phones. Ty did not expand on the line.

11:50 a.m. · CHICAGO · September 1, 1999

Science

122 days until January 1, 2000

Wednesday’s number. September is the first full month that is only 1999.

11:23 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 1, 1999

Sports

Athletics beat the Yankees 3–2 in extra innings

Oakland takes the series even. The Yankees are 81–50, tied with Cleveland for the league’s best record.

10:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 31, 1999

Weather

Dennis stalls east of Cape Hatteras; the eye stays at sea

Steering currents have collapsed. The hurricane is drifting. Highway 12 is still overwashed. Power is out in pockets of the Outer Banks.

10:18 a.m. · HATTERAS, N.C. · August 31, 1999

Sports

Indians score 10 in the eighth and beat Anaheim 14–12

They trailed 12–4. Jacobs Field sold out again. The win ties them with the Yankees for the best record in the league.

9:48 p.m. · CLEVELAND · August 31, 1999

Science

Microsoft ships a patch for two ActiveX holes

A malicious page could act on a Windows machine. The fix is out Tuesday.

11:24 a.m. · REDMOND, Wash. · August 31, 1999

Weather

South Carolina cleans up; a tropical storm warning runs to Maryland

Dennis’s eye is east of Hatteras. Gusts near Cape Fear had reached 80 m.p.h. The gale warning is posted as far as Delaware.

10:10 a.m. · CHARLESTON, S.C. · August 31, 1999

Nation

The Sixth Sense is still first; $143 million and climbing

Bruce Willis. A boy who sees the dead. Four weeks in, it has not left the top of the American chart.

11:22 a.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 31, 1999

Sports

The U.S. Open’s first round continues in Queens

Hard courts. Heat. Day two. The last Grand Slam of the year is not yet the second week.

2:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 31, 1999

Science

123 days until January 1, 2000

Tuesday’s number. The boxes in Dili are the other clock.

11:30 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 31, 1999

Weather

Dennis crawls off North Carolina; the eye stays at sea

The hurricane is moving slowly north along the coast. The center has not come ashore. Beaches are losing sand. Tens of thousands are without power.

10:09 a.m. · MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. · August 30, 1999

Sports

The U.S. Open begins in Queens

The last Grand Slam of the year. Hard courts. Heat. The draw is posted. First balls today.

2:14 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 30, 1999

Weather

Wilmington shuts schools and courts as Dennis stays offshore

New Hanover County closed offices for the day. The Red Cross opened shelters. The eye has not come ashore. Highway 12 is already overwashed.

10:22 a.m. · WILMINGTON, N.C. · August 30, 1999

Science

124 days until January 1, 2000

Monday’s number. The ballot in East Timor is the other clock.

11:37 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 30, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ still first; domestic take near $140 million

Sunday’s estimated $5.57 million put the running total at about $138.9 million. It has been first since it opened. Mickey Blue Eyes is second tonight.

9:18 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 29, 1999

World

Annan asks East Timor for a day of peace at the ballot

On the eve of the United Nations consultation the secretary-general called for restraint and tolerance. Polling is Monday.

9:01 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 29, 1999

Nation

Cessna T210M crashes near Marcola; three dead

The aircraft, N747CC, hit trees on a forested hillside. The pilot and two passengers were killed.

11:10 a.m. · PORTLAND · August 29, 1999

Weather

Dennis is a Category 2 hurricane, 105 mph, headed toward the Carolina coast

Central pressure 962 millibars. The National Weather Service said the storm approached the region on Sunday as a strong Category 2. No landfall has been named.

9:08 p.m. · MIAMI · August 29, 1999

Sports

Sosa hits his 54th; Cubs beat the Dodgers 6-0

The home run leads the majors. Sunday night at Dodger Stadium.

7:33 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 29, 1999

Nation

Wildfires in the West have burned more than 150,000 acres; a firefighter is dead

Stephen Masto of Santa Barbara died of heat stroke Friday on the Camuesa Fire. The Willow Fire, burning since Saturday in the San Bernardino forest, is into Apple Valley. Homes have been evacuated.

11:06 a.m. · SAN FRANCISCO · August 29, 1999

Science

125 days until January 1, 2000

Federal agencies say they are nearly done. Banks have run weekend tests. The White House Y2K office has asked the public not to empty accounts.

11:17 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 29, 1999

World

U.S. warns Indonesia over violence two days before the ballot

The State Department put Jakarta on notice as militias still roam Dili. Monday’s independence vote is still on the calendar. Getting to a polling station is the other question.

8:34 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

Weather

Hurricane Dennis churns toward the southeastern coast

The storm is near the eastern Bahamas. Watches are up on the Florida east coast. The National Hurricane Center is not yet naming a landfall. The weekend is for plywood.

8:11 a.m. · MIAMI · August 28, 1999

Nation

U.S. expands police powers to monitor cellular phones

The F.C.C. has sided with the F.B.I. on what a 1994 wiretap law means for mobile networks. Privacy groups had asked the commission to draw a narrower line. It has not.

11:26 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

Science

126 days until January 1, 2000

The date is a Saturday party in the public mind. In the machine rooms it is still a two-digit year.

11:24 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

Business

ICO follows Iridium into bankruptcy court

Two weeks after Iridium filed, another satellite-phone company is in Chapter 11. The sky is full of hardware. The customers are not.

4:05 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 28, 1999

Business

Stocks fall after Greenspan ties the rate debate to the markets

The chairman’s latest remarks left traders to decide whether another increase is coming. They sold first. The tape was down on Friday. Saturday is for reading him again.

4:15 p.m. · WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999

Business

Bank of New York missed $4.2 billion in suspect Russian transfers

Investigators say nine accounts moved the money for months before the bank knew. A Kremlin official denies the corruption stories attached to it.

4:01 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Weather

Hurricane watch posted on Florida’s east coast as Dennis slows

The National Hurricane Center has a watch from Sebastian Inlet to Fernandina Beach. The storm has turned northwest and will not hurry. North Carolina is already reading the advisories.

10:13 a.m. · MIAMI · August 27, 1999

Nation

Two more encephalitis cases in Queens as crows keep falling

City health officials have three patients now. They are still calling it St. Louis encephalitis. The birds in the parks are a second file.

11:14 a.m. · QUEENS, N.Y. · August 27, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ still first; ‘The 13th Warrior’ opens behind it

A ghost story audiences will not discuss took in about $5.8 million on Friday. Antonio Banderas’s Viking picture is second, and will not catch it this weekend.

1:35 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 27, 1999

Science

127 days until January 1, 2000

The countdown is still the other clock in the newsroom. Banks, airlines and city halls are still testing. Friday did not change the date.

11:31 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 27, 1999

Culture

Aguilera’s ‘Genie in a Bottle’ holds No. 1 a fifth week

The 18-year-old’s first single is still the song on the radio. Enrique Iglesias is next in line. The summer has one more Friday at the top.

2:12 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Nation

Cardinal O’Connor, 79, hospitalized for tests

Weakness and nausea. A second day of examinations. His spokesman said the cardinal was upbeat. The archdiocese did not name a disease.

11:08 a.m. · NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Sports

Five more umpires to be cut as the resignation ploy collapses

The union asked for arbitration on Friday. Both leagues said no. Twenty-two men are already out. Five more are next.

7:28 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Nation

Gates earmarks $750 million to speed vaccines for the poor

The Microsoft chairman’s foundation is putting a sum that would have been a national budget a generation ago into shots that still take a decade to reach the children who need them.

11:23 a.m. · SEATTLE · August 27, 1999

Business

Internet board backs a single rule for stolen names

ICANN accepted a uniform dispute policy on Thursday. Cybersquatters who sat on other people’s trademarks now have one process, not a dozen lawsuits.

4:16 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 27, 1999

Sports

Japan reaches the Little League final; rain stalls Toms River

Hirakata, Osaka, is through. The New Jersey side that won it two years ago waited on the weather in Pennsylvania.

7:41 p.m. · WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. · August 27, 1999

Culture

Puff Daddy’s ‘Forever’ is out, two years after ‘No Way Out’

Bad Boy’s second album arrived Tuesday. The first one made him the face of the label. This one has to do the same work without the same year behind it.

1:15 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 27, 1999

Business

S.E.C. charges nine firms over Year 2000 filings

Five money managers and four transfer agents, the commission says, failed to tell investors how ready they are for January 1. The countdown has a docket.

4:03 p.m. · WASHINGTON · August 27, 1999

Sports

Sosa hits his 53rd; the league lead is still his

Thursday against San Francisco at Wrigley. A year after 66, he is again the man the bleachers stand up for.

7:38 p.m. · CHICAGO · August 27, 1999

World

Norwegian Cruise Line cancels four sailings after Channel collision

The Norwegian Dream will sit in a German yard until mid-October after striking the burning container ship Ever Decent near the Dover Strait.

6:23 a.m. · MIAMI · August 26, 1999

Science

128 days until January 1, 2000

Governments, banks and the Pentagon say they are ready. Programmers still hunting two-digit year bugs are less sure.

11:38 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 26, 1999

Nation

Drop in AIDS deaths is slowing, health officials report

The steep declines that followed new drug combinations have flattened, and doctors warn that the epidemic is not over.

11:11 a.m. · ATLANTA · August 26, 1999

Weather

Hurricane warnings posted in the Bahamas as Dennis creeps west

The storm is now a hurricane. Its movement is slow and uncertain. The southeastern U.S. coast is being told to watch, not yet to run.

10:25 a.m. · MIAMI · August 26, 1999

Business

Microsoft ships a 502 KB fix for Windows 98 shutdown freezes

The Shutdown Supplement is for Second Edition users whose PCs freeze — or reboot — instead of switching off. It is a small file for a small, very public bug.

4:07 p.m. · REDMOND, Wash. · August 26, 1999

Business

Microsoft ships Word 98 Special Edition for the iMac and iBook

The $99 package bundles the word processor with a browser, mail program, clip art and greeting-card templates — a pitch at households that bought Apple’s new machines.

4:10 p.m. · REDMOND, Wash. · August 26, 1999

Nation

Reno orders a new inquiry after FBI admits pyrotechnic gas at Waco

The attorney general, who approved the 1993 raid, says she was not told that military-style tear-gas rounds were used on the last day of the siege.

11:23 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 26, 1999

Weather

Tropical Storm Dennis stalls near the Bahamas, could become a hurricane

Sustained winds have reached 65 mph. Watches and warnings are up across the islands; the southeastern U.S. coast is on notice.

9:24 p.m. · MIAMI · August 25, 1999

Nation

Dozens arrested in drug-and-weapons sting at Miami International

Investigators say airline employees and contractors smuggled cocaine and firearms through airport security. Officials call it a warning.

11:12 a.m. · MIAMI · August 25, 1999

Nation

A cluster of encephalitis cases in New York has doctors sending samples west

Hospitals in Queens have seen a handful of patients with fever, weakness and confusion. The city has not named the virus. Birds have been dying.

11:20 a.m. · NEW YORK · August 23, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Twins 5–3 and go to 75–48

Sunday in the Dome. Greene had Seville. The Bronx had a road win.

4:15 p.m. · MINNEAPOLIS · August 22, 1999

Science

Giant panda cub born at the San Diego Zoo

Bai Yun delivered this morning. The father is Shi Shi. The cub is unnamed. No giant panda born in the United States has yet survived to adulthood.

8:29 a.m. · SAN DIEGO · August 21, 1999

Sports

Yankees take the Twins 9–3 on the road

74–47. Friday in the Metrodome.

4:10 p.m. · MINNEAPOLIS · August 20, 1999

Sports

Royals shut the Yankees out 3–0

73–46. A rare blank. The East lead holds anyway.

7:40 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 18, 1999

Sports

Yankees beat the Royals 5–2 while Turkey counts the dead

73–45. A Tuesday night in a week the world is elsewhere.

7:35 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 17, 1999

Culture

‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ opens on ABC and immediately owns the night

Regis Philbin’s quiz, imported from Britain, pulled more than 10 million viewers in its first outings. Other networks are already rewriting their fall.

1:31 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 16, 1999

Sports

Woods holds off García by one stroke to win the PGA at Medinah

At 23 he has a second major. At 19, Sergio García nearly took it from him on a Sunday that golf will talk about into the next century.

2:21 p.m. · MEDINAH, ILL. · August 15, 1999

Nation

40,000 fill Central Park to hear the Dalai Lama on compassion

Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader closed a New York visit with a free lecture on the East Meadow. The police had planned for 20,000.

11:17 a.m. · NEW YORK · August 15, 1999

Sports

Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers’ captain who stood with Jackie Robinson, dies at 81

The Hall of Fame shortstop, a ten-time All-Star and the infield of Brooklyn’s only world championship, died of cancer in Louisville.

7:39 p.m. · LOUISVILLE, Ky. · August 14, 1999

Sports

Yankees pound the Twins 14–2; Pettitte goes eight, 22 hits

Knoblauch’s grand slam. They are 71–43. Friday night the Stadium was loud.

10:20 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 13, 1999

Science

141 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

6:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 13, 1999

Nation

Kansas’s vote to drop evolution lands on the nation’s front pages

A day after the 6-4 decision in Topeka, scientists, pastors and candidates are all talking. Textbook writers are not reprinting anything yet.

11:21 a.m. · TOPEKA, Kan. · August 12, 1999

Nation

Anthony Radziwill, cousin and closest friend of John F. Kennedy Jr., dies at 40

He had cancer. He had been an Emmy-winning television producer. He had buried his cousin a month ago. The family is again in black.

11:10 a.m. · NEW YORK · August 12, 1999

Nation

Kansas board deletes evolution from the state’s science standards

A 6-4 vote removes nearly all mention of Darwin from what Kansas will test. Science teachers and university presidents called it a national embarrassment.

11:09 a.m. · TOPEKA, Kan. · August 11, 1999

Nation

Gunman wounds five at a Jewish community center; a postal worker is later killed

A white supremacist opened fire at the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills. Hours later a Filipino-American letter carrier was shot to death.

2:05 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 10, 1999

Nation

Clinton awards the Medal of Freedom to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

The former president and first lady were honored for public service after leaving office — Habitat houses, elections watched, diseases fought.

11:05 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 9, 1999

Business

Hearst agrees to buy the San Francisco Chronicle

The family that has published the Examiner for more than a century is buying the larger paper across town. What becomes of the Examiner is the next fight.

2:31 p.m. · SAN FRANCISCO · August 7, 1999

Sports

Yankees win a brawl night in Seattle, 11–8

66–42. The Emerald City was not friendly. The scoreboard was.

10:40 p.m. · SEATTLE · August 6, 1999

Culture

‘The Sixth Sense’ opens as the summer’s quiet shock

A ghost story starring Bruce Willis and a child who sees the dead took in more than $26 million in its first weekend, with audiences told not to talk.

1:30 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · August 6, 1999

Sports

McGwire hits his 500th home run, and the Cardinals still lose

A shot into the left-field seats at Busch made him the 16th man in the 500 club. St. Louis fell 10-3 to San Diego. The ball was the story.

7:40 p.m. · ST. LOUIS · August 5, 1999

Sports

Tino hits his 200th; Yankees take Seattle 7–4

65–42. McGwire had 500 in St. Louis. Martinez had a round number of his own.

10:15 p.m. · SEATTLE · August 5, 1999

Sports

Yankees answer 8–3; Williams and Irabu beat the Jays

64–42. The series is not Toronto’s.

7:40 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 4, 1999

Nation

Zapruder’s heirs awarded $16 million for the film of the assassination

Arbitrators put a price on 26 seconds of 8-millimeter film. The government keeps the original. The family keeps the money, and the copyright.

11:18 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 3, 1999

Sports

Blue Jays beat the Yankees 3–1; Batista does the rest

63–42. A Tuesday night that would not start.

7:35 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 3, 1999

Nation

Fired Los Alamos scientist denies he gave nuclear secrets to China

Wen Ho Lee, dismissed from the weapons lab in March, says he is not a spy. Investigators have not charged him. The files he is said to have moved are still the argument.

11:00 a.m. · LOS ALAMOS, N.M. · August 1, 1999

Sports

Yankees fall 5–4 at Fenway; Jeter cannot finish it

A Sunday loss. They are 62–41. The East is still theirs, thinner.

4:05 p.m. · BOSTON · August 1, 1999

Science

NASA crashes Lunar Prospector into the Moon, hunting for water

The orbiter ended a 19-month mission in a planned impact near the south pole. Scientists hope the plume will show ice. Telescopes are watching. The Moon did not comment.

11:29 a.m. · MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. · July 31, 1999

Culture

A $60,000 horror picture opens and the lines go around the block

The Blair Witch Project, shot on video in the woods of Maryland, arrived in a handful of theaters. Audiences have been told it might be real. They are buying tickets as if it were.

1:31 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · July 30, 1999

Nation

Twelve killed in attack on Atlanta day-trading offices

A 44-year-old day trader opened fire at two Buckhead brokerage firms. Police later found his family dead at home. Officials called it the worst shooting in Georgia’s history.

2:06 p.m. · ATLANTA · July 29, 1999

Nation

Woodstock ’99 is over; Rome, N.Y., is cleaning the field

The last night had fires. Vendors were looted. The promoters are counting. The town is counting too.

9:13 p.m. · ROME, N.Y. · July 28, 1999

Sports

Barry Sanders retires from the Lions, 1,457 yards short of Payton

He is 31. Ten seasons. 15,269 rushing yards. Training camp was to open tomorrow. He issued a statement instead.

7:26 p.m. · DETROIT · July 27, 1999

Culture

Woodstock ’99 ends in fires, looting and a long argument

The 30th-anniversary festival at a former air force base in Rome, N.Y., closed with burning trailers, sexual-assault reports and a $38 ticket for water.

1:27 p.m. · ROME, N.Y. · July 25, 1999

Nation

A memorial Mass for Kennedy and the Bessettes

St. Thomas More on the Upper East Side. The president and the first lady in the pews. A city that had watched the search now sat still for an hour.

2:07 p.m. · NEW YORK · July 23, 1999

Culture

Woodstock ’99 opens on a treeless tarmac in 100-degree heat

More than 200,000 have come to a former air-force base in Rome, N.Y., for a 30th-anniversary festival. Water is $4. Shade is a rumor. The music has not started the argument yet.

1:27 p.m. · ROME, N.Y. · July 23, 1999

Science

Thirty years after Armstrong stepped off the ladder

July 20, 1969, is a date schoolchildren still know. The three men are alive. NASA is talking about going back. The hardware that did it is in museums.

11:35 a.m. · HOUSTON · July 20, 1999

Sports

David Cone throws a perfect game against the Expos

Twenty-seven up, twenty-seven down, on Yogi Berra Day. It is the 16th perfect game in major-league history. The Stadium, for two hours, had a different lead.

2:30 p.m. · NEW YORK · July 18, 1999

Nation

Search for Kennedy’s plane enters a second day off the Vineyard

Coast Guard cutters and Navy salvage ships are working a wreckage field west of Gay Head. The family is at Hyannis Port. The nation is watching the water.

11:10 a.m. · GAY HEAD, Mass. · July 17, 1999

Nation

John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane missing off Martha’s Vineyard

The Piper Saratoga, with Kennedy, his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her sister Lauren aboard, went off radar on a night flight from New Jersey.

11:05 a.m. · GAY HEAD, Mass. · July 16, 1999

Sports

Safeco Field opens; the Mariners leave the Kingdome

A retractable roof, real grass, and a first pitch in a park built for rain. San Diego won the opener. The city did not come for the score.

7:21 p.m. · SEATTLE · July 15, 1999

Nation

Railroad Killer surrenders at the border to a Texas Ranger

Rafael Reséndez-Ramírez, on the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted list, walked up to Drew Carter after his sister made the call. The murders along the rails are the charge.

2:09 p.m. · EL PASO · July 13, 1999

Sports

United States wins the Women’s World Cup on penalty kicks

90,185 at the Rose Bowl watched Brandi Chastain’s winning shot. China hit the post in extra time. A sport changed in an afternoon.

2:24 p.m. · PASADENA, Calif. · July 10, 1999

Nation

The Midwest gunman shoots himself after a chase; two are dead

Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, a disciple of a white-supremacist church, is dead by his own hand. A Korean student in Bloomington is the second person he killed. Eight others were wounded.

11:26 a.m. · SALEM, Ill. · July 5, 1999

Nation

A gunman in a car kills a former coach in a weekend of racial shootings

Ricky Byrdsong, who coached Northwestern, is dead in Skokie. Other shots in Indiana and Illinois have hit Jews, Blacks and Asians. The man is still at large.

11:18 a.m. · SKOKIE, Ill. · July 2, 1999

Culture

‘South Park’ goes to the multiplex, R-rated and uncut

Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s cartoon opened Wednesday. Paramount is selling a musical that the television show could not say. Parents’ groups are already counting the words.

1:32 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · June 30, 1999

Nation

Clinton would spend the surplus on the debt, then Social Security

The president’s plan is to run the red ink off the books, shore up the two trusts, and talk about a tax cut after that. The Republican Congress has the cut first.

11:09 a.m. · WASHINGTON · June 28, 1999

World

World Bank approves a Tibet resettlement loan the United States opposed

One hundred and sixty million dollars to move 58,000 farmers in a Tibetan area of Qinghai. Washington asked for a delay. The board voted anyway.

8:21 a.m. · WASHINGTON · June 24, 1999

Sports

The United States put seven past North Korea in Foxborough

Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly, the rest of a side that is supposed to win this thing at home. Group play is not the trophy. It is a warning.

7:43 p.m. · FOXBOROUGH, Mass. · June 23, 1999

Nation

Senate votes the back dues to the United Nations

Ninety-eight to one, more than $800 million. Helms got conditions. The check is still not in the mail until the House agrees. The arrears are a decade old.

11:10 a.m. · WASHINGTON · June 22, 1999

Sports

Payne Stewart wins the U.S. Open at Pinehurst by one stroke

Pinehurst No. 2. Phil Mickelson was one behind. Stewart, 42, has a second Open title.

6:30 p.m. · PINEHURST · June 20, 1999

Nation

Gore opens his campaign in Carthage: he wants the job

The vice president made it official in his hometown. Bill Bradley is already in. The Democratic race now has two names on a ballot that is still 17 months away.

2:15 p.m. · CARTHAGE, Tenn. · June 16, 1999

Nation

Bush says it in Iowa: he is running for president

On a farm near Cedar Rapids the Texas governor ends the exploratory phase. The Republican field now has a front-runner with a declaration.

11:18 a.m. · CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa · June 12, 1999

Nation

Senate passes a $265 billion Pentagon bill, 93–4

A pay raise for the ranks. A ban on rebuilding Serbia while Milošević holds the office. The air war is still on. The money is already next year’s.

11:25 a.m. · WASHINGTON · June 8, 1999

Nation

American Airlines 1420 overruns at Little Rock; 11 dead

A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 from Dallas landed in a thunderstorm and left the runway. The captain is among the dead. 134 were on board.

9:15 p.m. · LITTLE ROCK, Ark. · June 1, 1999

Nation

American jet overruns Little Rock runway in a thunderstorm; 11 dead

Flight 1420 from Dallas, an MD-82, slid off in the rain after midnight. The captain is among the dead. More than a hundred walked away.

9:14 p.m. · LITTLE ROCK · June 1, 1999

Business

A college dropout’s program lets strangers swap music over the internet

Napster, written by 18-year-old Shawn Fanning, is spreading through dorms. The recording industry has noticed.

4:02 p.m. · BOSTON · June 1, 1999

Nation

Memorial Day, with American aircraft still over the Balkans

The holiday is Monday. Allied Force is in its tenth week. The names on the Mall are older wars. The sorties are this one.

11:20 a.m. · WASHINGTON · May 31, 1999

Science

Shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station

The first time a shuttle has been on the ISS. STS-96 left Kennedy on Thursday. The station is still a shell. The crew is taking supplies in.

11:33 a.m. · CAPE CANAVERAL · May 29, 1999

Culture

Universal opens Islands of Adventure in Orlando

Six islands: Port of Entry, Seuss Landing, Jurassic Park, Marvel Super Hero Island, Toon Lagoon and the Lost Continent. Soft opening was 27 March. Today is the official opening.

1:24 p.m. · ORLANDO · May 28, 1999

Nation

Cox committee says China stole U.S. nuclear secrets

A select House panel releases three declassified volumes. It says Beijing used espionage and commercial transfers to shorten the work of building warheads.

11:11 a.m. · WASHINGTON · May 25, 1999

Culture

‘The Phantom Menace’ owns its first weekend

The picture opened Wednesday. By Friday the lines are still the story. The other screens are waiting their turn.

11:00 a.m. · LOS ANGELES · May 21, 1999

Culture

Susan Lucci wins a Daytime Emmy on the 19th try

All My Children. Erica Kane. Eighteen losses. Thursday night she won.

1:16 p.m. · NEW YORK · May 21, 1999

Nation

Senate votes 73–25 for gun measures on a juvenile-crime bill

Background checks at gun shows. Safety locks. Columbine is a month old. The House has not acted.

4:00 p.m. · WASHINGTON · May 20, 1999

Culture

‘The Phantom Menace’ opens, and the line finally moves

George Lucas’s first Star Wars film in 16 years took in a record $28.5 million on Wednesday. Fans who had camped out since May were not disappointed. Critics were mixed.

1:29 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · May 19, 1999

Nation

Rubin resigns as Treasury secretary; Summers is the successor

The announcement was in the Rose Garden. Lawrence Summers, the deputy, is to be nominated. The surplus years had his name on them.

11:30 a.m. · WASHINGTON · May 12, 1999

Nation

Chung tells a House panel Beijing promised campaign money

The former Democratic fund-raiser said a Chinese intelligence official offered $300,000 for the 1996 race. He has already admitted fraud.

3:00 p.m. · WASHINGTON · May 11, 1999

Nation

The Citadel graduates its first woman

Nancy Mace walks at the military college that spent years in court to keep her out. Shannon Faulkner enrolled and left. Mace has finished.

11:06 a.m. · CHARLESTON, S.C. · May 8, 1999

Weather

Moore is still a search; the F5 was Monday

Whole blocks remain slabs. The death count has not closed. Volunteers are on the debris. The sirens had sounded. The houses did not hold.

10:23 a.m. · MOORE, Okla. · May 5, 1999

Weather

Moore counts the houses that are no longer there

The F5 tornado was Monday. Whole blocks are slabs. The death count is still being made. Searchers are on the debris.

10:18 a.m. · MOORE, Okla. · May 4, 1999

Weather

An F5 tornado tears through Moore, Oklahoma; dozens dead

A storm with winds the weather service had not measured like this flattened a suburb of Oklahoma City. Whole blocks are gone. The sirens had sounded. The houses did not hold.

10:12 a.m. · MOORE, Okla. · May 3, 1999

Sports

John Elway retires after two Super Bowls in two years

Sixteen seasons. He is 38. He did not say it on the field in Miami. He said it today.

7:42 p.m. · DENVER · May 2, 1999

Culture

SpongeBob SquarePants has its first night on Nickelodeon

A new cartoon about a sponge in a pineapple. Saturday morning is no longer the only hour for this kind of show.

1:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · May 1, 1999

Nation

A week after Columbine, Washington argues about guns

Thirteen dead at a Colorado high school. The White House wants legislation. The Senate has a juvenile-crime bill on the calendar.

2:00 p.m. · WASHINGTON · April 28, 1999

World

NATO’s fiftieth-anniversary summit closes; the war did not

Leaders posed on the Mall. The air campaign was intensified. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic sat as members. Belgrade is still the target list.

8:21 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 26, 1999

World

NATO’s birthday summit ends as a war council

The fiftieth anniversary was planned as a parade. The air campaign made it a target list. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic sat as members. Belgrade is still the other capital.

8:22 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 25, 1999

World

Clinton and Yeltsin agree to keep talking on Kosovo

The two said they would work jointly toward a settlement. NATO’s birthday summit is ending as a war council.

8:15 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 25, 1999

World

NATO marks fifty years with a war on

The alliance that was built for a European stalemate is in the air over Yugoslavia. Three new members sit at the table. Moscow is not in the room.

9:20 p.m. · WASHINGTON · April 23, 1999

Nation

Columbine is two days on; the fence is already a shrine

Funerals have not all been set. The school is closed. Flowers and notes are on the chain-link. Fifteen are dead, including the two who did the shooting.

11:10 a.m. · LITTLETON, Colo. · April 22, 1999

Nation

Littleton counts its dead; the school is still a crime scene

Thirteen were killed on Tuesday. Parents waited for names. Investigators are in the building. Funerals have not begun.

11:01 a.m. · LITTLETON, Colo. · April 21, 1999

Nation

United States says it will take 20,000 Kosovo refugees

Vice President Gore announced the figure. American families would house them. Guantánamo is no longer the plan.

11:17 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 21, 1999

Nation

Thirteen killed at Columbine High School in Colorado

Two students opened fire at a suburban Denver school. Twelve students and a teacher died. The gunmen were found dead. The country is asking how a Tuesday morning became this.

11:24 a.m. · LITTLETON, Colo. · April 20, 1999

Sports

Gretzky plays his last game; the Rangers lose 2-1 to Pittsburgh

Wayne Gretzky, 38, ended 20 seasons in the N.H.L. at Madison Square Garden. One assist. The league is retiring No. 99 for every club.

7:45 p.m. · NEW YORK · April 18, 1999

Science

259 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

11:31 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 17, 1999

Sports

Gretzky says Sunday at the Garden will be the last game

Wayne Gretzky, 38, is retiring after 20 N.H.L. seasons. The Rangers play Pittsburgh on Sunday.

7:22 p.m. · NEW YORK · April 16, 1999

Nation

Kevorkian sentenced to 10 to 25 years

A Michigan judge imposed the term for the lethal injection shown on 60 Minutes. He was convicted last month.

11:02 a.m. · PONTIAC, Mich. · April 13, 1999

Science

266 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

11:22 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 10, 1999

Sports

Yankees 7, Athletics 4

New York took the second game of the young season. Oakland had won the opener.

7:40 p.m. · NEW YORK · April 6, 1999

Nation

Henderson pleads guilty in Shepard killing; two life terms

Russell Henderson admits kidnapping and murder in the death of Matthew Shepard. The death penalty is off the table. Aaron McKinney still goes to trial.

8:30 a.m. · LARAMIE, Wyo. · April 5, 1999

Sports

Opening Day is Sunday; the Yankees start the defense of a title

The 1999 championship season begins tomorrow. New York is the defending champion. The Stadium will be full.

11:00 a.m. · NEW YORK · April 3, 1999

Culture

‘The Matrix’ opens, and the sunglasses sell out

The Wachowski brothers’ science-fiction picture, all black coats and bending bullets, took the weekend. Audiences came out talking about a thing called bullet-time. Hollywood took notes.

1:20 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · March 31, 1999

Business

The Dow closes above 10,000 for the first time

The industrial average finished at 10,006.78. Traders in paper hats posed for the cameras. Whether a number is a market is a question for the next crash. Today it was a party.

4:19 p.m. · NEW YORK · March 29, 1999

Business

A Word macro named Melissa clogs mailrooms on three continents

The virus mails itself to the first fifty names in an Outlook address book. Corporations have shut the servers. A subject line about important documents is not, this weekend, important.

8:27 a.m. · WASHINGTON · March 27, 1999

Nation

Kevorkian convicted of second-degree murder

A jury in Pontiac watched the tape of Thomas Youk’s death, shown on national television last autumn. Dr. Jack Kevorkian had dared the state to stop him. The state has.

11:21 a.m. · PONTIAC, Mich. · March 26, 1999

Nation

Whitewater witness Hale is convicted in Arkansas

A jury in Little Rock found him guilty. He was a central figure in the independent counsel’s case.

11:25 a.m. · LITTLE ROCK · March 26, 1999

Culture

Valgaften wins the Oscar for live-action short

Anders Thomas Jensen’s eleven-minute comedy takes the Academy Award. A Danish taxi, a general election, and a statue from Los Angeles.

9:12 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · March 21, 1999

Culture

Legoland opens in California, the first park outside Europe

The Danish toy company has built a third park, this one among the palos of San Diego County. The bricks are the size of the ones in the box.

8:27 a.m. · CARLSBAD, Calif. · March 20, 1999

Nation

Bodies found in a rental car near Yosemite

Carol Sund, 42, and Silvina Pelosso, 16, had been missing from the park. The car was burned. A third woman is still missing.

11:01 a.m. · MODESTO, Calif. · March 19, 1999

Science

294 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

11:29 a.m. · WASHINGTON · March 13, 1999

World

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic join NATO

The alliance that was built to contain the Warsaw Pact has taken in three of its former members. Moscow called it a mistake. Independence, Mo., called it a ceremony.

8:37 a.m. · INDEPENDENCE, Mo. · March 12, 1999

Sports

The Yankees prepare to bury Joe DiMaggio

He died on Sunday at 84. The city that watched him in center field is arranging a funeral. Opening Day is still a month away.

10:15 a.m. · NEW YORK · March 9, 1999

Sports

Joe DiMaggio is dead at 84

The Yankee Clipper, 56-game hitting streak, Marilyn Monroe’s husband, a man who let the silence do the work. He died in Florida after lung cancer and a long hospital stay.

7:41 p.m. · HOLLYWOOD, Fla. · March 8, 1999

Nation

Supreme Court lets McVeigh’s conviction stand

The justices refused, without comment, to hear the Oklahoma City bomber’s appeal. He argued pretrial publicity and a juror who had decided early. The Tenth Circuit had already affirmed.

11:12 a.m. · WASHINGTON · March 8, 1999

Nation

Bush forms an exploratory committee for president

The Texas governor has not declared. He has named a committee, and the Republican field now has to run as if he has.

11:21 a.m. · AUSTIN · March 7, 1999

Science

301 days until January 1, 2000

Saturday’s number.

11:35 a.m. · WASHINGTON · March 6, 1999

World

Marine pilot acquitted in the Italian ski-gondola deaths

Twenty people died when a low-flying jet cut a cable at Cavalese in 1998. A military jury at Camp Lejeune has found Capt. Richard Ashby not guilty. Italy is furious.

8:25 a.m. · CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. · March 4, 1999

Nation

Lewinsky sits down with Walters; 70 million watch 20/20

The first long interview since the Senate trial. ABC put it on a Wednesday. Half the sets in use were on that channel.

8:10 a.m. · NEW YORK · March 3, 1999

Science

307 days until January 1, 2000

Sunday’s number.

11:38 a.m. · WASHINGTON · February 28, 1999

Science

309 days until January 1, 2000

Friday’s number.

11:38 a.m. · WASHINGTON · February 26, 1999

Culture

Lauryn Hill takes five Grammys, including album of the year

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the first hip-hop album to win the night’s top prize. She is 23.

9:15 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · February 24, 1999

Sports

Jeff Gordon wins the Daytona 500 and holds off Earnhardt

Gordon had the pole. He took the lead with 11 laps to go. Dale Earnhardt finished second. It is Gordon’s second 500.

4:00 p.m. · DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. · February 14, 1999

Nation

A day after acquittal, the capital tries to talk about something else

The president will serve out his term. The House managers are going home. Monday is a working week again.

9:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · February 13, 1999

Nation

Clinton acquitted; the president will serve out his term

The Senate rejected both articles of impeachment. Neither perjury nor obstruction of justice came near the 67 votes needed to remove him.

11:10 a.m. · WASHINGTON · February 12, 1999

Science

Pluto is again the farthest planet from the Sun

For 20 years it had been inside Neptune’s distance. Today it resumes the outer place. The orbits do not collide.

12:00 p.m. · PASADENA, Calif. · February 11, 1999

Nation

The Senate prepares to vote on the president on Friday

Closing arguments are done. Two articles: perjury and obstruction. A two-thirds majority is 67. Nobody is counting that high.

10:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · February 10, 1999

Sports

The lockout is over; the Lakers beat Houston 99–91

A 50-game season. Jordan has retired. Tip-off was tonight. The league that sat out until February is playing.

9:14 p.m. · LOS ANGELES · February 5, 1999

Nation

Police fire 41 shots at an unarmed man in the Bronx doorway

Amadou Diallo, 22, a Guinean immigrant, is dead. Four officers from the Street Crime Unit are on the scene. The city that had been arguing about the mayor now has a doorway.

8:26 a.m. · NEW YORK · February 4, 1999

Nation

Freighter New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay

The 639-foot ship, bound to load wood chips for Japan, dragged anchor in a storm. A bar pilot had told her not to enter on Wednesday night. Twenty-six crew.

11:24 a.m. · COOS BAY · February 4, 1999

Nation

Clinton sends Congress a surplus budget for 2000

The first balanced books since 1969 are the argument he brought. Sixty-two percent of future surpluses would go to Social Security.

10:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · February 1, 1999

Sports

Elway and the Broncos beat Atlanta, 34–19

John Elway, in what may be his last game, won a second straight Super Bowl. The Falcons, in their first, could not catch him. Miami was loud. Denver was louder.

7:28 p.m. · MIAMI · January 31, 1999

Sports

Miami is Super Bowl week: Elway’s Broncos, the Falcons’ first time

Sunday is Denver and Atlanta. The defending champions are back. Atlanta has never been here.

12:00 p.m. · MIAMI · January 29, 1999

Nation

Senate votes to take depositions in the Clinton trial

Monica Lewinsky, Vernon Jordan and Sidney Blumenthal are to be deposed. The trial has not yet called anyone into the chamber.

11:26 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 27, 1999

World

John Paul II in St. Louis; his last American visit

The pope said Mass and spoke to young people at the Kiel Center. He met President Clinton. Mexico was yesterday. Rome is next.

9:11 p.m. · ST. LOUIS · January 26, 1999

Nation

Clinton announces new education initiatives as the trial goes on

The White House talked about schools on Thursday. The Senate is still sitting as a court.

11:20 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 21, 1999

Nation

Clinton’s Senate trial enters a new week; no vote yet

House managers want witnesses. The White House does not. Chief Justice Rehnquist is in the chair. A two-thirds vote is still the number.

9:06 p.m. · WASHINGTON · January 20, 1999

Nation

Clinton addresses Congress with the Senate trial still open

The State of the Union goes ahead while the articles of impeachment sit in the other chamber. He speaks for more than an hour. The Republican majority stands, sits, and keeps the trial on the calendar.

9:12 p.m. · WASHINGTON · January 19, 1999

Nation

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with the Senate still sitting as a court

The holiday is Monday. The impeachment trial did not recess for it. Churches and marches went ahead anyway.

11:09 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 18, 1999

Nation

The impeachment trial is in recess for Martin Luther King Day

House managers have finished a week of argument. The president’s lawyers have not yet opened. The Senate returns this week.

10:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 18, 1999

Sports

Falcons stun the Vikings 30–27 in overtime; Broncos beat the Jets 23–10

Gary Anderson missed. Morten Andersen did not. Atlanta is in the Super Bowl. Denver is going back.

6:05 p.m. · MINNEAPOLIS · January 17, 1999

Nation

House managers open their case in the Senate; Clinton’s lawyers wait

The trial that began last week is in arguments now. A two-thirds vote is still the number. No witnesses have been called.

11:16 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 14, 1999

Sports

Michael Jordan retires from the N.B.A., a second time

Six titles. Five M.V.P. awards. He did not play this lockout season. He said the game was bigger than he was.

7:22 p.m. · CHICAGO · January 13, 1999

Nation

Clinton and Gore announce a Lands Legacy plan

The White House wants money for parks, coasts and open space. The Senate is in the second week of a trial.

11:15 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 12, 1999

Culture

The Sopranos has its first night on HBO

A New Jersey mobster, a psychiatrist, and a cable channel that does not need a mass audience. Sunday night, after the football.

1:18 p.m. · NEW YORK · January 10, 1999

Sports

Broncos 38–3; Vikings 41–21: Saturday belongs to the favorites

Denver ran Miami out of the divisional round. Minnesota did the same to Arizona. The championship games are next Sunday.

4:30 p.m. · DENVER · January 9, 1999

Sports

Falcons 20, 49ers 18: Atlanta survives in the divisional round

San Francisco came back. Atlanta held on. The N.F.C. championship is next Sunday in Minnesota.

4:45 p.m. · ATLANTA · January 9, 1999

Nation

Clinton’s impeachment trial opens in the Senate

Chief Justice Rehnquist was sworn in to preside. The House managers will argue perjury and obstruction. Removal needs 67 votes. The country is watching a trial it did not ask for.

11:19 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 7, 1999

Nation

Hastert is elected Speaker after Gingrich’s fall

Dennis Hastert of Illinois, a former wrestling coach, takes the gavel. The Republican majority that impeached the president now has a quieter man in the chair.

11:04 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 6, 1999

Sports

NBA owners and players end a 191-day lockout

A shortened season will start in February. Games are lost. The Christmas Day television is already a memory. David Stern and the union signed in the small hours.

7:26 p.m. · NEW YORK · January 6, 1999

Nation

Clinton announces a new drug-prevention initiative

The president used a Tuesday event to talk about children and narcotics. The Senate trial is two days away.

11:00 a.m. · WASHINGTON · January 5, 1999

Nation

Jesse Ventura takes the oath in St. Paul

The Reform Party wrestler is sworn as governor. Mae Schunk is lieutenant governor. The capitol has never seen a morning like it.

8:16 a.m. · ST. PAUL · January 4, 1999

Science

NASA launches Mars Polar Lander

A Delta II has sent a craft toward the south pole of Mars. Arrival is in December. The sky is still the cheap way to look.

11:41 a.m. · CAPE CANAVERAL · January 3, 1999

Sports

Young to Owens in the last seconds; 49ers beat Green Bay 30–27

A wild-card game at Candlestick. Steve Young’s pass. Terrell Owens’s catch. The Packers go home.

4:12 p.m. · SAN FRANCISCO · January 3, 1999

Nation

Blizzard buries Chicago; O’Hare is closed

A storm that began on New Year’s has put more than a foot of snow on the city. Highways are stopped. The lake is in the wind.

11:15 a.m. · CHICAGO · January 2, 1999

Sports

Cardinals beat the Cowboys 20–7 and win a playoff game

Wild-card Saturday at Texas Stadium. Arizona had not won a postseason game since 1947.

4:40 p.m. · DALLAS · January 2, 1999

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