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A2 Daily Record. Morris County, Wednesday, November 17, 1999 WeatherPeople ABC personalities go global Dec. 31 Area Forecast National forecast National weather The AccuWeather forecast for noon, today. 30s Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. aus rM A WHEN BARBARA WALTERS' "Ten Most Fascinating Fabulous and Fantastic Persons of the Year 1999" (we made up our own title) gets on the ABC air, we'll be seeing Sumner Redstone in the mix.

This foxy old guy has certainly made news of late everything from his purchase of CBS to his divorce to his new love affair. But does ABC honcho Michael Eisner know that his major star, Walters, is interviewing his compa 7: 20S-L O' I CON I Trenton 46 I long Branch 47 I Cimd47Ji (j kXi VlneHim 47 Alliintic City 48 LIZ SMITH 50s 1 I -J -i 60s 'hI'-. 0s 80s 808 20s 10s 1 TODAY: Partly sunny, continued cold, high 41-46. At night, clear and cold, low 22-27. TOMORROW: Partly sunny, not as cold, high 50-55.

At night, partly cloudy, low 30-35. FRIDAY: Sun, increasing p.m. clouds, high 50-55. At night, becoming mostly cloudy, low 35-40. SATURDAY: Mostly cloudy, chance of showers, high 52-57.

At night, showers end, clearing, low 35-40. SUNDAY: Partly sunny, high 50-55. 30s- 70s 80s Ay FRONTS: 40s WARM COLD STATIONARY 1999 Accu Weather, Inc. Pressure: EH El Ice High Low Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy ny's big rival? He does now.

AND SPEAKING of ABC-TV, the really big ladies and and gentlemen of that network will be scattered worldwide on Dec. 31, covering the millennium. Charlie Gibson will be in London Connie Chung in Las Vegas Cokie Roberts in Rome Cynthia McFad-den sambas to Cuba Diane Sawyer goes all the way to New Zealand and Barbara Walters? She'll be in Paris, the City of Light and fabulous fashion. And I think Barbara's gonna be done up like you've never seen her before. Peter Jennings is to orchestrate these ABC stars from Times Square.

MR. AND MRS. Martin Scorsese are the happy parents of a healthy baby girl, born yesterday morning in New York City. Weighing five pounds, seven ounces, she was named Franceses, and she is the fabled director's third daughter. Mother Helen Morris, daddy and baby are all doing welL PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT: Denzel Washington, who offers not one but two towering performances this season.

In the current thriller hit, "The Bone Collector," with Angelina Jolie, and blazing as boxer Rueben (Hurricane) Carter in the coming "Hurricane." Both are Universal pics, and to say the studio is Denzel-friendly these days would be quite an understatement. BRAVA TO USA TODAY'S divine gossipeuse, Jeannie Williams! She deserves bravas every day because nobody works harder than Jeannie. She does everything, goes every place and has an endless supply of batteries for her ever-present tape recorder. (The better to get those accurate quotes!) Now Jeannie has written a book. No, no, not some tiresome tale of her encounters with the rich, famous and disappointing.

This is a real book, a biography of the opera tenor Jon Vick-ers, titled "A Hero's Life" from Northeastern University Press. Vickers has given aficionadoes many thrilling nights as Othello, Tristan and Peter Grimes for more than 30 years. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Singer Gordon Light-foot is 61. Movie director Martin Scorsese is 57. Actress Lauren Hutton is 55.

Actor-director Danny DeVitois55. Area Statistics The Nation The world PRECIPITATION Total yesterday: 0 Record: 1.21 inches (1983) Month to date: 1.20 inches Normal month to date: 2.40 in. Year to date: 51.12 inches Normal year to date: 41.50 in. SNOWFALL Yesterday: 0 Season to date: 0 SUN MOON TODAY Sun rises: 6:47 a.m. Sun sets: 4:38 p.m.

Moon rises: 1:42 p.m. Moon sets: HIGH TIDES TODAY AM P.M. Sandy Hook 2:01 2:16 Pt Pleasant 1:31 1:36 Seaside Hts. 1:28 1:32 Atlantic City 1:35 1:41 Cape May 1:59 2:00 LOCAL TEMPERATURE Yesterday's Hi: 41 Low: 31 Normal HI: 53 Low: 33 Record Low: 12(1933) Humidity: 7 a.m. 67 3 p.m.

38 Winds: NW 15 with gusts up to 25 m.p.h. DEGREE DAYS Yesterday: 29 Month: 294 Season: 735 Last season: 648 Normal to yesterday: 834 The rjegreeday figure, an index of fuel consumption, indicates how far the day 's mean temperature falls below 65. Tfie higher Uw number, the greater demand on heating systems. COMFORT INDEX TODAY: 7 (for today, on a scale of 1-10) AIR QUALITY: Good High, low and weather from mid- Yesterday's high and low temper- Jacksonville 66 41 cloudy night to midnight on previous day atures and outlook as forecast by KansasCity 68 51 clear HI Lo the National Weather Service LasVegas 69 45 cloudy Amsterdam 46 30 clear HI Lo LittleRock 70 45 clear Athens 71 64 cloudy Albany.N.Y. 36 19 cloudy LosAngeles 66 55 cloudy Bangkok 89 76 cloudy Albuquerque 72 38 clear Louisville 55 33 cloudy 8eiing 40 26 clear Anchorage 30 23 snow Memphis 65 43 clear Berlin 39 24 clear Atlanta 66 38 clear MiamiBeach 78 60 clear Cairo 88 59 clear Baltimore 48 27 clear Milwaukee 50 38 clear Dhahran 88 64 clear Boston 41 31 cloudy Nashville 59 32 clear HongKong 74 64 clear Buffalo 40 29 cloudy NewOrleans 71 46 clear London 50 43 cloudy Burlmgton.Vt.

33 20 cloudy NewYorkCity 45 35 cloudy Madrid 55 40 cloudy Charlotte.N.C. 57 27 cloudy OklahomaCity 77 54 clear Manila 86 74 cloudy Chicago 50 38 clear Omaha 66 46 clear MexicoCity 69 44 clear Cincinnati 47 31 clear Orlando 73 50 clear Montreal 38 32 cloudy Cleveland 45 31 cloudy Philadelphia 47 30 clear Moscow 29 12 cloudy Columbus.Ohio 44 30 clear Phoenix 78 55 cloudy Pans 42 26 clear Dallas-FtWorth 80 61 clear Pittsburgh 45 29 clear Rio 74 65 cloudy Denver 75 39 clear Portland. Maine 41 20 cloudy Rome 61 49 rain DesMoines 60 41 cloudy Sacramento 58 44 rain SanJuan 83 75 ram Detroit 45 33 clear StLouis 60 42 clear Sydney 70 55 cloudy HartfordSpgfld 41 26 cloudy SaltLakeCity 56 33 rain TelAviv 77 56 cloudy Honolulu 83 67 clear SanDiego 65 57 rain Tokyo 64 51 rain Houston 80 52 clear SanFrancisco 58 49 cloudy Toronto 39 25 cloudy Indianapolis 53 34 clear Seattle 49 43 cloudy 2) LASTQTR. Nov. 29 FULL MOON Nov.

22 NEW MOON Dec. 7 FIRST QTR. Dec. 15 People In the news Woman sees 19 kids through college WRITER RE COVERING: Sci- by Michelle Locke Associated Press i' 0 writer Ray Bradbury is recovering from a stroke. Bradbury, 79, was stricken on Nov.

6 as he and his wife, Maggie, were head "I said, 'Where's your mother? Do you go to She said, The light changed. "I watched her walk down to 95th Street and LIFE BEGINS AT 40: Turning 40 may have been Susan Sarandon's turfiing point toward the best times of er life. "By then, I had focus. I don't kndw if I could have brought to thoe parts what I brought to them latar," thfi actress, now 53, told Mqre magazine. "I guess that's why thej say women are in their prime whgn they're older." She was 41 and had been acting in films for 18 years by the time she starred in her 1988 breakthrough movie "Bull Durham." Her role as the bright and seductive Annie Savoy led to a string of roles that won her four Oscar nominations and the 1995 best actress award for "Dead Man Walking." ing to their Sci-fi writer Ray part-time home Bradbury suf-in Palm Springs fered a stroke from Los Ange- on Nov.

6. les, Mrs. Bradbury said in yesterday's Desert Sun. The writer went to a Los Angeles hospital and is "recovering nicely" at home, his wife said. tion in front of their kids' faces all of the time." "I could not keep up with the ways that she wanted to work with them," says Peeks.

"Tutoring, donations of encyclopedias, books, interacting with them, field trips, all kinds of ways to keep them inspired and feeling positive about school." "She started being like a second mom," says Toney. "If I needed some clothes or something, she'd give me some money to get some clothes. If I just came to her and told her I was hungry, she'd give me something to eat." It was in 1995, when Brown took her students to visit black colleges in Atlanta, that Toney fully grasped his good fortune. "I was like, 'Whoa! We're on the plane going to visit these colleges. It was like total organization." Now, he's planning to become a businessman.

"I want to own my own business, he says, "and I want to help some kids like Mrs. Brown." This year, the federal government recognized Brown's accomplishment, too, with the Stanford awards that are honoring 12 citizens for outstanding contributions to education. "Why me?" was Brown's "Who are you?" Peeks exclaimed. Peeks lost no time finding a class for Brown. It took, the children a little longer to catch on.

"I remember a lady coming in the class and she gave all the students Christmas gifts and I remember her saying she would be a part' of bur life and I didn't know what she was talking about," says Jeffrey Toney, a student in that class. Four of the original 23 first-graders didn't make it to college, but 19 hung in. Now 18, Toney is in his first semester at private Columbia College Chicago, courtesy of Brown. Getting the group of kids into college took more than good intentions. There were monthly meetings with parents, weekly meetings with students, lunches on school playgrounds.

"Oftentimes there would be more parents at the classroom meeting than there would be for PTA meetings for the whole school. It was a great way to get the parents connected to their kids' education," Peeks recalls. "She talked a lot about college and her own dreams and aspirations and her life. I think a lot of the parents began to see then that it is their role to really keep the long-range role of educa OAKLAND, Calif. In 1987, real estate agent Oral Lee Brown walked into a class of first-graders in a blighted neighborhood and made a promise: Stay in school and I'll see you through to college.

This fall, she made good, sending 19 students off to the colleges of their choice. "When God is with you, no one can stop you," says Brown, who was making about $45,000 a year selling working-class homes when she made her promise at Brookfield Elementary. Tomorrow, Brown will be in Washington to pick up a John Stanford Education Hero award. It commemorates her 12 years of changing the world, one child at a time. Brown's journey began with a chance encounter with a little girl who asked her for a quarter.

She only had a $5 bill, so she took the girl to the corner store and offered to treat. She knew something was wrong when the girl passed up candy for a loaf of bread and some bologna. Outside the store, as they waited together to cross the road, Brown asked, "Why are you not in school?" The child shrugged. take a right," Oral Lee Brown Brown said. "I will receive an never saw her award for help-again." Ing children.

Over the next two weeks, Brown couldn't shake the conviction that kids in struggling east Oakland were in trouble and it was up to her to help. A colleague warned her, "You can't change the world." The colleague was wrong. Yolanda- Peeks was floored the first time Brown unveiled her plan. As the then principal of Brook-field, she hadn't thought much of it when Brown called to say she wanted to adopt a class. But when Lottery DRAWINGS FOR NOV.

16 New Jersey Pick-3: 507 Straight: $262.50 Box: $43.50 Pairs: $26 New Jersey Pick-4: 5733 'Straight: $4,065.50 Box: $338.50 Jersey Cash 5: 11-13-20-27-32 The Big Game: 10-27-29-37-46 Big Money Ball: 31 N.Y. Daily: 700; WinFour: 7816 N.Y. Pick 10: 3-4-5-6-8-12-30 31-34-35-37-43-44-48 52-54-55-57-63-72 N.Y. Take 5: 2-10-12-27-28 Pennsylvania Cash 01-10-22-31-39 Pa. Dally: 133; Big 4: 1207 rown walked in with her church linister and explained she'd be shepherding a group of first-graders through college, "I almost fell through the floor," recalls Peeks, now the district's associate superintendent for curriculum.

Garibaldi helped unite Italy today In History In the early 19th century, Italy as a patchwork of duchies and despots largely under the domi- kS4 natlon 0T MUS ries. Largely due to his successes, the Kingdom of Italy was established in 1861 with Victor Emmanuel II as king, but it did not in fxr ma, i-rance ana other foreign In 1973, President Nixon told Associated Press managing editors meeting in Orlando, "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook." In 1997, 62 people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when six militants opened fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt; the attackers were killed by police. Ten years ago: The Senate Ethics Committee hired an outside counsel to look into allegations of improprieties against six senators. Today is Wednesday, Nov.

17, the 321st day of 1999. In 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary. In 1800, Congress first met in Washington in the partially completed Capitol building. In 1917, sculptor August Rodin died in Meudon, France. In 1934, Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird." In 1962, Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President Kennedy.

MILLENNIUM P0ThISman who MILESTONES heped put Italy back together as a nation was Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82). Sentenced to death in 1834 during one of the era's many uprisings against foreign occupiers, Garibaldi fled to South America. He returned in 1848 as the movement called the Risorgimento "the revival" sought to oust foreign powers. Soldier and strategist. Garibaldi led small groups of red-shirted soldiers to remarkable victo MORRIS COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER 800 Jefferson Road, Parsippany, NJ.

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