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LEAD: The New York City Schools Chancellor, Dr. Richard R. Green, proposed yesterday that the public schools offer classes 11 months a year to relieve overcrowding and improve education.
LEAD: CALL it lime green, pistachio, Day-Glo yellow, citrus green, acid green, neon green, pea soup or granny apple, but please don't call it chartreuse.
LEAD: THIS fast-growing suburb of Minneapolis, which is trying to balance development with conservation, is getting a 490-unit rental apartment project.
LEAD: MYRNA ROSEN remembers exactly how she felt the moment she and her husband, Hy, first laid eyes on their East Side condominium - all 309 square feet of it.
LEAD: ''You know what Tawana Brawley wants now?'' C. Vernon Mason, her attorney, said. ''To be a lawyer. You know what she wants to do with her law degree? Become a prosecutor.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 1988, covering March 3, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Teodora Mirčić, Serbian tennis player[†]
Teodora Mirčić is a Serbian former professional tennis player. Over her career, she won three singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit, and also played for the Serbia Fed Cup team.
1988Michael Morrison, English footballer[†]
Michael Brian Morrison is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back for EFL League Two club Cambridge United.
1988Jan-Arie van der Heijden, Dutch footballer[†]
Jan-Arie van der Heijden is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
1988Max Waller, English cricketer[†]
Maximilian Thomas Charles Waller is an English professional cricketer who played first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket for the Somerset County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg break bowler.
1988Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (born 1918)[†]
Henryk Bolesław Szeryng was a Polish-Mexican violinist.
1988Sewall Wright, American biologist and geneticist (born 1889)[†]
Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS HonFRSE was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alongside Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane, which was a major step in the development of the modern synthesis combining genetics with evolution. He discovered the inbreeding coefficient and methods of computing it in pedigree animals. He extended this work to populations, computing the amount of inbreeding between members of populations as a result of random genetic drift, and along with Fisher he pioneered methods for computing the distribution of gene frequencies among populations as a result of the interaction of natural selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift. Wright also made major contributions to mammalian and biochemical genetics.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]