* Beige Planet Mars ( 1998 ) by Lance Parkin and Mark Clapham, a novel in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series is set on a terraformed Mars which has become a retirement home for Earth's wealthy elderly.

Demographic surveys conducted in China in 1998 found a population that was mostly female and elderly.

Three decades later, after serving 24 years in the United States Senate, Glenn lifted off for a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95, in order to study the effects of space flight on the elderly.

In the 1998 feature film The Wedding Singer ( starring Adam Sandler ) in a clip towards the end, the elderly Rosie ( played by Ellen Dow ), whom Robbie ( Sandler ) has been teaching to sing, surprises everyone when she gets up on stage and starts performing this song.

Although he relinquished leadership of the party after the Socialists lost the 1998 elections to Viktor Orbán and Fidesz, he was for a long time considered to have considerable influence in the party, partly because of his personal popularity among elderly voters.

Towards the late-1980s and 1990s she played strong character roles as the elderly mother — usually a bereaved and bitter widow whose husband died at the hands of ruthless villains — or woman of principles in commercially successful films such as Ram Lakhan ( 1989 ), Anari, Baazigar ( 1993 ), Khalnayak ( 1993 ), Karan Arjun ( 1995 ), Border ( 1997 ), Soldier ( 1998 ) and Ek Rishta-Bond of Love ( 2001 ).

This was followed by Off-Broadway rock musicals like Bat Boy: The Musical ( 1997 ) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch ( 1998 ), John Cameron Mitchell's Off-Broadway show about a transgendered rocker.

* Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books ( collection ) ( 1998 )

He also has long stints on DC's Batman ( 1990 – 1992 and 1996 – 1999 ); The Demon ( 1990 – 1994 ); Shade, the Changing Man ( 1990 – 1994 ); and Batman: Shadow of the Bat ( 1992 – 1994 ); as well as Marvel's Captain America ( 1998 – 2002 ) and Earth X ( 1999 – 2000 ).

Breck pro ­ vided the voice of Farmer Brown in Crit ­ ters, a 1998 episode of The New Bat ­ man Adven ­ tures.

Panel of Judges ' first release was an EP, Blind as a Bat on Chapter Music in 1998 ; their debut album Cool Fool was released later that year after which Nichols left and the band continued as a three-piece.

In 1998, the development mostly took a bug-fixing direction as RITlabs ' new product The Bat!

Yulia Tymoshenko was originally elected during the 1998 parliamentary elections in the Ukrainian parliament on the party list of Hromada, but after Hromada's party leader Pavlo Lazarenko fled to the United States in the spring of 1999 to avoid investigations for embezzlement various faction members left the party to join other parliament factions, among them Tymoshenko who set up the All-Ukrainian Union " Fatherland " faction ( Vseukrayins ' ke Obyednannya Bat ’ kivshchyna ).

* The Mortality Of The Planet in Is the World Ending ?, Sean Freyne & Nicholas Lash ( Editors ), SCM Press ( London ), 1998.

* Un Planeta En Peligro De Muerte in Is the World Ending ?, Sean Freyne & Nicholas Lash ( Editors ), SCM Press ( London ), 1998.

* 4 Are Killed As Storms Lash The Northeast ( The New York Times, September 8, 1998 )

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.

* Two additional franchises: the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, now the Tampa Bay Rays ( 1998 )

In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight ( now the Rio Group ), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.

Italian and Dutch investors built a fish processing plant in 1998 that now exports 150 tons of frozen fish every month to markets in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.

The government privatization program ended on schedule in 1998: 80 % of GDP is now produced by the private sector, and foreign owners control 70 % of financial institutions, 66 % of industry, 90 % of telecommunications, and 50 % of the trading sector.

In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.

This sparked protests and riots throughout the country, now termed the Indonesian 1998 Revolution.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U. S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), which ICANN now operates.

This discretion has been heavily litigated in light of the Human Rights Act 1998, which means that juries are required now in a broader range of situations than expressly required by statute.

Since the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force, in those cases alone, the inquest is now to consider the broader question " by what means and in what circumstances ".

A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.

Polo is now an active sport in 77 countries, and although its tenure as an Olympic sport was limited to 1900 – 1939, in 1998 the International Olympic Committee recognised it as a sport with a bona fide international governing body, the Federation of International Polo.

Construction began in 1998, and the Southside Works is now open for business with many store, restaurants, offices, and the world headquarters for American Eagle Outfitters.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

The patent was issued in 1998 and is now owned by Open Invention Network ( OIN ).

In Bangladesh, Manabzamin became the first and is now the largest circulated Bengali language tabloid in the world, in 1998.

In 1998, the special duties list was merged with the general list of officers in the Royal Navy, all officers now having the same opportunity to reach the highest commissioned ranks.

He became involved in the planning of the September 11 attacks while attending TUHH in the late 1990s, meeting Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ramzi bin al-Shibh, forming in 1998 what is now known as the Hamburg cell.

In 1998 faculty member Lawrence Lessig, now at Stanford Law School, was asked by online publisher Eldritch Press to mount a legal challenge to US copyright law.

A split in the Labour Party in 1998, between the PM Sant and the former PM Mintoff, now a backbencher, resulted in the government losing the majority.

This marked the beginning of what has now evolved into the most widely distributed and accepted standard on CM, ANSI – EIA – 649 – 1998.

The brand was sold to Chrysler Corporation in 1928, passed through the short-lived DaimlerChrysler merger of 1998 – 2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC, which has an alliance with Fiat.

Odense University, now Syddansk Universitet Odense ( or SDU Odense in abbreviated form ), has been part of the University of Southern Denmark since 1998 of which it forms the biggest campus.

It was discontinued in 1998 on the launch of the Focus saloon.

1998 820 Sterling saloon ( post-R17 facelift ) Fitted with non standard alloy wheels

The Volvo S80 is a mid-size executive saloon / sedan from Swedish automaker Volvo Cars, and was introduced in 1998 to take the place of the rear-wheel drive Volvo 960 / S90 saloons in the model range.

The Alfa Romeo 164 ( Type 164 ) is an executive car with saloon body, produced by the Italian automaker Alfa Romeo from 1987 to 1998.

The Ascot Innova remained in production until 1996, while the European Accord saloon continued until 1998, with a facelifted model in 1997.