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Subject: Only in NY...
Date: 1 Jul 2000 11:54:43 -0000


Greetings all,


In the news today are the efforts made to place NYC's birth and death
records into a database. Officials report that spot checks revealed that
some people died before they were born and that some men were pregnant.
The city promised not only to make those corrections, but to modify the
software to eliminate the possibility of any other errors like these.

I do not have any other details about the database, but will certainly
pass them along as I get them.

Happy 4th! For those of you who are able to tune in to the area stations,
NBC4, Thirteen and WB11 have special programming scheduled. Thirteen has
live Op Sail coverage starting at 9 am, then at noon NBC4 picks up live
coverage for 3 more hours. At 9 pm NBC will show the Macy's fireworks
display nationally, while WB11 will show the fireworks from Jones Beach.

The Bronx Boro President said, however, that Macy's ought to be ashamed of
themselves. Various barges will be placed around the city, so that
viewing areas may be set up in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island
and New Jersey. Not one barge will be visible from the Bronx.


Marc

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