Another hypothesis is that some ball lightning is the passage of microscopic primordial black holes through the Earth's atmosphere as proposed by Mario Rabinowitz in Astrophysics and Space Science journal in 1999.

* Baruch Rabinowitz ( 1999 – 2000 )

Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of " torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs ".

Barbara was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 1999 ).

Around May 1999, Philip Njaru wrote a newspaper article where he alleged ill-treatment of civilians conducted by the 11th Navy Battalion based in Ekondo-Titi.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

Despite his three titles, and although John Cooper considered him " the greatest ", Formula One journalist Adam Cooper wrote in 1999 that Brabham is never listed among the Top 10 of all time, noting that " Stirling Moss and Jim Clark dominated the headlines when Jack was racing, and they still do ".

One prominent French media critic is the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu who wrote among other books On Television ( New Press, 1999 ).

* Brian Aldiss and Roger Penrose wrote White Mars ( 1999 ) as a response to the terraforming science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson and Paul J. MaCauley above.

Dr. Valerius Geist, who emigrated to Canada from the Soviet Union, wrote in his 1999 book Moose: Behaviour, Ecology, Conservation:

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

In 1999, King wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, which featured former Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon as the protagonist's imaginary companion.

Because the play is so stripped down, so elemental, it invites all kinds of social and political and religious interpretation ," wrote Normand Berlin in a tribute to the play in Autumn 1999, " with Beckett himself placed in different schools of thought, different movements and ' ism's.

Based on other surveys and figures, Laurent Hendschel wrote in 1999 that between 30 and 40 % people were bilingual in Wallonia ( Walloon, Picard ), among them 10 % of the younger population ( 18 – 30 years old ).

They initially became estranged when Nancy spoke about her daughter on a television show and later wrote a book titled, From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir ( 1999 ).

Jaroslav Foglar ( 6 July 1907 in Prague-23 January 1999 ) was a famous Czech author who wrote many novels about youths ( partly also about Boy Scouts movement ) and their adventures in nature and dark city streets.

In August 1999, Childish and Thomson wrote The Stuckists manifesto which places great importance on the value of painting as a medium, as well as its use for communication, the expression of emotion and of experience – as opposed to what Stuckists see as the superficial novelty, nihilism and irony of conceptual art and postmodernism.

In the Fall of 1999, retired senior CIA engineering executive S. Eugene Poteat wrote that he was asked in early August 1964 to determine if the radar operator's report showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined one.

* Luther Blissett wrote Q ( 1999 ), set in 15th-century Europe during the Protestant reformation and German Peasants ' War

As Tony Sloman wrote in 1999, " As the varied likes of David Lean, Robert Wise, Terence Fisher and Dorothy Arzner have proved, the cutting rooms are easily the finest grounding for film direction.

He wrote his autobiography, Dancing in the Moonlight: My Early Years on Stage in 1993 and released All I Ever Wrote, his complete scripts, in 1999.

* Amy Seham, drama professor at Gustavus Adolphus College, wrote a musical entitled " Tiresias " in 1999, with music by Chanda Walker and Kira Theimer.

In 1999, Gaiman wrote Sandman: The Dream Hunters, which was illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed a 97-minute film version, filmed in Summer 1998, and released on May 19, 1999 at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1999, she wrote about her struggles with the show in her first one-woman show, I'm the One That I Want.

The pressure group, the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament wrote to English Heritage asking them to remove all signs bearing their name from Cornish sites by July 1999 as they regard the ancient sites as Cornish heritage, not English.

" The critic John Lahr wrote in a 1999 New Yorker profile that, " To a large extent, Schreiber's professional shape-shifting and his uncanny instinct for isolating the frightened, frail, goofy parts of his characters are a result of being forced to adapt to his mother's eccentricities.

The first issue came out in 1999 under the editorial direction of founder Batya Weinbaum.

She has been active in the Gypsy Lore Society, and served as its president from 1996 to 1999 ; she has also served on the editorial boards of many journals related to language, and as an associate editor of Language.

Black Emperor in 1999 saw the paper dip to a sales low, and Sutherland later stated in his weekly editorial that he regretted putting them on the cover.

He was editor ( or head of the " editorial cabinet ") for many years but retired from day-to-day duties in 1999, and now only contributes occasional cartoons.

Established in 1999, the Taipei Times is published by the Liberty Times Group, which publishes the Chinese language newspaper the Liberty Times which has a pro-Taiwan independence editorial line.

The House was further restored between 1986 and 1999, not always sympathetically: an editorial in The Burlington Magazine, November 1995, alluded to " the recent transformation of the Queen's House into a theme-park interior of fake furniture and fireplaces, tatty modern plaster casts and clip-on chandeliers ".

A similar term, Homogenocene ( from old Greek: homo -, same geno -, kind, kainos -, new and-cene, period ), was first used by Michael Samways in his editorial article in the Journal of Insect Conservation ( 1999 ) entitled, " Translocating fauna to foreign lands: here comes the Homogenocene ".

On October 15, 1999, Eric Scheirer, later a digital music analyst for Forrester Research, wrote an editorial for MP3. com titled " The End of SDMI " which declared that the group's true goal to fold the technology industry into an alliance that would guarantee the record industry's near monopoly over musical content had failed.

Following COMDEX Fall 1999 ( in Las Vegas ), organizers made major changes to their criteria for admission of media, rejecting nearly all but those who were on editorial assignment from a handful of " acknowledged " trade papers.

ADMC, the largest and most diversified media corporation in the Arab world, enjoys editorial and administrative independence while somewhat dependent on government and federal funding through its previous attachment to the Ministry of Information and Culture since 1999 and current attachment to Abu Dhabi Media Company in which the ministry was scrapped in Feb. 2006.

Mary Ellen ( Meg ) Greenfield ( December 27, 1930 – May 13, 1999 ) was a Washington Post and Newsweek editorial writer and a Washington, D. C. insider known for her wit and for being reclusive.

The cash for comment affair was an Australian scandal that broke in 1999, concerning paid advertising in radio that is presented to the audience in such a way as to sound like editorial commentary.

Jim Kacian and Bruce Ross edited the inaugural number of the annual anthology American Haibun & Haiga ( Red Moon Press ) in 1999 ; that series, which continues to this day, changed its name to Contemporary Haibun in 2003 and sponsored the parallel creation in 2005 of Contemporary Haibun Online, a quarterly journal that added Welsh haibunist Ken Jones to the founding editorial team of Kacian and Ross.

Asia Times Online was created early in 1999 as a successor in " publication policy and editorial outlook " to the Hong Kong / Bangkok-based daily printed newspaper Asia Times, owned by Thai media mogul and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy Sondhi Limthongkul, that closed in mid 1997, a week before the devaluation of Thailand's baht kicked off the Asian financial crisis.

A symposium of scholarly articles assessing aspects of Luce's editorial and its significance originally published in Diplomatic History 23. 2 ( 1999 ).

Michael Sprinker ( 8 February 1950 in Elgin, Illinois – 12 August 1999 ) was a literary critic known for his writings on Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, among others, as well as for his editorial work at Verso, Cambridge University Press, the New Left Review and The Minnesota Review.

The Brantford Expositor ran a scathing editorial about Johnson in June 1999, stating there was " no way could win re-election because he simply had not done the job.

She joined Jane Magazine in early 1999 as an editorial assistant and was later promoted to assistant editor, associate editor, senior editor, deputy editor and finally executive editor.

Clifford H. Baldowski ( 1917 – 1999 ) was an editorial cartoonist for the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution who drew thousands of editorial cartoons under the name " Baldy ".

" According to the Times, it is also socially conservative as evidenced by a 1999 editorial denouncing the Miami Herald's coverage of gay issues.

The editorial staff of Healthcentral. com wrote articles based on his radio show topics on HealthCentral. com from 1999 until 2001 when the site went bankrupt and was sold to new owners.

Shapiro was COO at Gist Communications, then the leading independent online provider of TV listings and editorial, from 1999 to 2001.

In 1999 he joined BabyCenter. com, a site for new and expectant parents in San Francisco, as managing editor and then editorial director.