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In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]
1988Michael Cera, Canadian actor and musician[†]
Michael Austin Cera is a Canadian actor. Over his career he has received nominations for a British Academy Film Award, three Critics' Choice Movie Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Tony Award.
LEAD: This hamlet on the banks of the Hudson River in northern Dutchess County is braced for an influx of tourists and traffic. The reason: Montgomery Place, a restored estate dating back to 1805, will open to the public on Saturday, bringing in an estimated 200 visitors a day.
LEAD: Because it is warmer in the United States, trees grow faster and produce lumber with larger knotholes than in Canada. In the arena of international trade, such a bit of lumberjack lore is of more than passing interest. In fact, passions run high when Canadian and American plywood producers discuss knotholes.
LEAD: IN the last few years, the quest to discover new elements and new variants of known elements has become increasingly difficult. But recent developments have raised hope that despite remaining obstacles, the pace of discovery may quicken.
LEAD: RESEARCHERS studying the effectiveness of groups are drawing conclusions that may change the way many executives view their work habits. Among these are findings that meetings are too often a poor way to get the best out of people and that one of the most destructive forces in a group can be the participant who is trying harder than everybody else.
LEAD: IN a marked shift in focus, researchers are concentrating on what they now see as the crucial, perhaps overriding role of scavenger cells of the immune system in the development of AIDS.
LEAD: Prices of all grain and soybean products futures soared by their daily permissible limits in heavy trading yesterday as the Middle West baked in its driest spring since the Dust Bowl days of 1934.
LEAD: Morton Thiokol Inc., which built the booster rocket that touched off history's worst space disaster, announced yesterday that it would not bid for the contract to build the next generation of rocket motors for the nation's manned space shuttles.
LEAD: The baby had been taken to the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center with second- and third-degree burns along his left side and arm, an injury that might have been caused by an accident.
LEAD: Less than a week after the Bronx Democratic leader had rejected Paul T. Gentile as not having a good chance for election, the District Attorney announced yesterday that he would seek a full term with the same leader standing behind him.
LEAD: For more than a year, Continental Airlines has been struggling to digest People Express, Frontier Airlines, New York Air and two major commuter airlines. The effort has produced labor problems, service nightmares for passengers and heavy losses.
LEAD: In announcing today that they had closed two relatively small savings and loan institutions here and would pay off their depositors, Federal regulators finally seemed to be acknowledging that there are sometimes no other solutions to dealing with the nation's most-troubled savings units.
LEAD: Jackson Wants to Be Asked Jesse Jackson says he wants the option to be the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. Page B8. New Environment Page Breeding successes prepare rare ferrets for a return to their natural environment. Science Times, page C4. Hearns Stunned in 3d