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LEAD: As they struggle to find places to bury or burn their trash, officials throughout the New York metropolitan region are beginning to see the lunacy of an autumn tradition - dumping leaves in landfills.
LEAD: Stock prices fell sharply and broadly yesterday as many investors stayed on the sidelines because of nervousness over both the dollar's continuing slide and the resumption of unrestricted program trading.
LEAD: Police Spoke to Child Victim Last month, Elizabeth Steinberg was questioned by state police officers who had received a report of a sobbing little girl. Page B1. National Book Awards Larry Heinemann's novel ''Paco's Story'' and Richard Rhodes's nonfiction work ''The Making of the Atomic Bomb'' won the 1987 prizes.
LEAD: The First Boston Corporation has told its employees that it posted a net loss in October because of huge losses from its speculation in takeover stocks. It appeared that the losses may have topped $60 million.
LEAD: Judge Anthony M. Kennedy is a judicial conservative, but one whose style more closely resembles that of Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., the pragmatic centrist who retired from the Supreme Court in June, than that of Judge Robert H. Bork, the thundering critic of liberal judicial activism whose nomination for the vacancy was defeated last month.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 1987, covering November 10, 1987.
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
Soundtrack
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987D. J. Augustin, American basketball player[†]
Darryl Gerard "D. J." Augustin Jr. is an American former professional basketball player who played for 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Texas Longhorns from 2006 to 2008. He was drafted ninth overall by the Charlotte Bobcats in the 2008 NBA draft.
1987Sam Malsom, English footballer[†]
Samuel Andrew Malsom is an English professional footballer who plays for Icelandic fourth tier side Hamar. He plays as a winger, attacking midfielder or forward.
1987Kana Oya, Japanese model and actress[†]
Kana Lais Oya, simply known as Kana Oya , is a Brazilian model who is represented by the talent agency, LDH. She was raised in Shizuoka.
1987Charles Hamilton, American rapper[†]
Charles Eddie-Lee Hamilton Jr. is an American rapper from Cleveland, Ohio. He released his debut mixtape, Crash Landing in June 2008, and signed an undisclosed multi-million dollar recording contract with Interscope Records two months later. He released 11 follow-up mixtapes and his debut studio album, The Pink Lavalamp (2008) that same year, although none of which were released by the label. In December, he was selected for XXL magazine's second Annual Freshmen Class list, which was issued the following year.
1987Theo Peckham, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Theo "Teddy" Peckham is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently signed with the Saugeen Shores Winterhawks of the Ontario Elite Hockey League. He is the half-brother of Angela James, one of the first female hockey players to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Their father, Leo James, was an African American from Mississippi who came to Canada to escape racial segregation.
1987Noor Hossain, Bangladeshi activist (born 1961)[†]
Noor Hossain was a Bangladeshi activist who was killed by the police on 10 November 1987, while protesting against Ershad administration near Zero Point, Dhaka. Zero Point was later renamed as Noor Hossain Square and the anniversary of his death is officially commemorated each year as the Noor Hossain Day.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]