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I B11 ARTS ENTERTAINMENT NEWSPAPER IN EDUCATION Stock Market SwurillM Industry ociHon New York District consisting of more than 8000 students are Over 2100 playing the paper and internet versions of the 10-week Spring session of the 1999 Stock Market Game The top teams for week 8 are Ksted below the paper game teams begin with IP and the internet teams begin with 1C and are Kakcized Each team starts with an imaginary $1 00000 to buy saM short set or cover common stocks listed on the New York American and NASDAQ stock exchanges Photo bp Jennifer Shoe No It's not a chemical cleanup craw but the bubblegum-soul group 98 Degrees at the Westbury Music Fair on Saturday EQUITY TEAM SCHOOL AM Some Bubblegum Fun 98 Degrees treats its fans to a night of teenybop love H1US1C REVIEW 2I1SI1I ip- 10220 Lane Elementary $167907 2P 10053 Cutchogue East Elementary $160300 3P- 10337 Camp Avenue Elementary $149396 4P 10174 East Memorial Elementary $148747 5P 1 01 55 Jonas Salk Middle $1 44784 ic 11965 South Ocean Middle $193488 2a 10854 Old Mill Road Elementary $180576 sa 11700 Shore Road Elementary $164853 4a 11190 Old Mill Road Elementary $163330 sa 10873 South Bay Elementary $158886 DECREES: Music to grow older with With Jessica Simpson and Bwttched April 20 and Tuesday at the Beacon Theater Manhattan and Friday at Westbury Music Fair Seen Friday By Letta Tayler STAFF WRITER GRADES 7-9 Part 2 NEWSDAY MONDAY APRIL 26 1999 0 ip- 11025 South Middle $164657 2P 11166 St BrigidOLH $164140 3P 1 1 1 23 East End Christian Academy $1 52944 4P 11024 South Middle $142169 5P 11056 Babylon JrSr High $138418 NE SQUEALING female tossed a sizable bra onstage Another threw a teddy bear They were equally appropriate gestures of adulation: The bubblegum-soul group 98 Degrees is all about that rite of passage from little girl to full-blown teen But such pronouncements 98 Degrees came off as less slick than the Boys or Sync Partly it was the staging performing in the round with no glitzy sets the group had to woo the crowd on its own (not that it took much this was preaching to the converted) Partly it was the dancing which was less intricate but seemingly looser and more spontaneous than that of its counterparts Party it was its four-piece backup band which was a lot funkier And while the guys exuded sexuality with bulging pecs and biceps amply displayed they punctuated far fewer phrases with pelvic thrusts that might be beyond the comprehension of younger listeners In addition to songs off their two albums including the sizzling It and the treacly Do (Cherish the group ably performed Motown faves such as Stevie and current hip-hop and rock hits One was Fly (For a White Guy)" a song by the punk group the Offspring that parodies whites who mimic black rappers in an effort to be cool The Offspring have said the song also targets white vocal groups that liberally borrow from hip-hop a category that includes 98 Degrees If the self-parody of the performance was lost on some listeners it was a brave move nonetheless While 98 Degrees is a young object of desire 18-year-old Jessica Simpson instead poses as a teen role model a dismal thought given her shrill voice brassy come-ons and rehashed Spice mantra four teenage girls from Dublin were somewhat more palatable with an effervescent set that was part pop part Riverdance They looked and sounded like girls being girls a welcome respite from the rest of the posturing fa 10581 Herricks High $214457 2a 10373 Great Neck North High $199839 sa 11564 North Shore Middle $177483 4a 1 0389 James Wilson Young Middle $1 71 590 sa 11408 Robert Murphy Junior High $1 6996 GRADES 10-12 ager Boy bands that make young female hearts go pitter-patter have been around as long as rock and roll but the genre has undergone an unprecedented renaissance in tandem with rising teen and pre-teen buying power In many respects 98 show Friday night at Westbury Music Fair was identical to recent performances by their better-selling counterparts Sync and the Back-street Boys The wholesome foursome sang in angelic harmony of love either eternal or unrequited got down with a few funky dance numbers and professed awe at their luck in being surrounded by gaggles of 7-to-17-year-old females (Beys in the audience were scarce enough to classify as endangered species) can Bay with complete honesty that some of the most beautiful ladies ever seen are here tonight in this gushed one of the four guys all of whom are in their 20s but look and act far younger i 1 2340 Division Avenue High $201 955 2P 12345 Division Avenue High $191731 3P 12342 Division Avenue High $177370 4P 12355 Division Avenue High $174987 5P 12349 Division Avenue High $174444 fa 11798 Syosset High $344090 2a 11430 Farmingdale High $224846 sa 10232 Southampton High $196742 4a 10557 West Babylon High $184573 sa 10800 Plainwew-Old Bethpage MiddleSI 82792 Does the GERSHWINS from B2 Gershwins Wrong bofore the Gershwins get another chance like this? The show which actually advertises its brief running time as a selling point begins with a cay announcement to this opportunity to do whatever you have to as if we were all at camp and required bathroom reminders The voice also delivers the usual recriminations against modern technology adding that and Ira did not write the sounds of cell phones and beepers into their Of course they also did not write music for bumps grinds and the rustle of polyester 1C 11762 NYU $171756 2a iiggg Robert Murphy Junior High $171 359 the Stock Market Game is nonsored by the Securities Musty Association Newsday In Education ami SUNY Farminfldale your business wishes to sponsor Stock Market Gams teams please contact us al (516) 843-2181 To join game write to: Lisa UOrto-Anderson Stock Market Game Coordkiator Newsday In Education I 235 Pmeiawn Hoad MetvMe NY 11747-4250 sponsored by: PCJUCHAJtDU TARMINGlMLEl as a James Taylor ballad Got Work If You Can Get Not For to Watch Over Call the Whole Thing we mention the list to remind ourselves of the opportunities wasted Most of the company but especially Adrian Lenox Haas and a spunky single-named pop presence named Orfeh will live to work again How long however.