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LEAD: JANE CHIURCO, a physician and infective-agent medical director for E.R. Squibb & Sons in Lawrence Township, was helping a friend understand how her mother's daily life was complicated by the aging process.
LEAD: MARCH will bring with it not only spring, but also a brimming dance calendar. The state's three major ballet companies and several modern troupes have designed programs that include reconstructions of important works by major 20th-century choreographers as well as a spectrum of current choreography.
LEAD: THE IMMORTAL BARTFUSS By Aharon Appelfeld. Translated by Jeffrey M. Green. 137 pp. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. $15.95.
LEAD: THE bull in the Merrill Lynch television commercial, which galloped along a breezy coast while a woman sang, ''To Know No Boundaries,'' is off the air. Today, Merrill's ads feature straight-talking financial consultants with no music and sober advice. One of them might be speaking for the whole mutual fund industry when he intones, ''These are uncertain times.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 24, 1988, covering February 28, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player[†]
Albertín Aroldis Chapman de la Cruz is a Cuban-born American professional baseball relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers, and Pittsburgh Pirates and in the Cuban National Series for Holguín. Chapman bats and throws left-handed, and is nicknamed "the Cuban Missile", due to his high fastball velocity. A member of the 300 save club, Chapman is the all-time leader in strikeouts for left-handed relievers.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]