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LEAD: The apartment building that General Atlantic Realty is erecting on the former site of the Children's Aid Society will be tall. Not Twin Tower tall, not even Trump Tower tall, but its 46 stories will make it a giant for the southwest corner of the 88th Street-First Avenue intersection.
LEAD: Innumeracy, the mathematical analogue of functional illiteracy, afflicts far too many literate people, even widely read and articulate men and women who might cringe if words such as ''imply'' and ''infer'' were confused. They generally react without a trace of embarrassment, however, to even the most egregious numerical solecisms.
LEAD: In an art world ever more eager to share the glamour of rock music, the swagger of big business and the seasonal values of fashion, the new has become increasingly hard to resist. Among many contemporary artists, critics, collectors and dealers, there is an unending search for art that is of the moment, that partakes of the spirit of the age, that leads to the heart of the Zeitgeist.
LEAD: As producers of plastics try to expand their role in construction and housing, one major manufacturer, the General Electric Company, is building a ''house of the future'' here to showcase its possibilities.
LEAD: THIS city, which has been looking for a new economic base since the tobacco industry began dying out some 20 years ago, seems to have struck gold.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 1988, covering January 1, 1989.
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player[†]
Jason Andrew Pierre-Paul is an American professional football linebacker. He played college football for the South Florida Bulls and was selected by the New York Giants in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. With the Giants, Pierre-Paul made two Pro Bowls, was first-team All-Pro and won Super Bowl XLVI. With the Buccaneers, Pierre-Paul made his third Pro Bowl and won Super Bowl LV.
1989The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.[†]
The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was agreed on 16 September 1987, and entered into force on 1 January 1989. Since then, it has undergone several amendments and adjustments, with revisions agreed to in 1990 (London), 1992 (Copenhagen), 1995 (Vienna), 1997 (Montreal), 1999 (Beijing), 2007 (Montreal), 2016 (Kigali) and 2018 (Quito). As a result of the international agreement, the ozone hole over Antarctica is slowly recovering. Climate projections indicate that the ozone layer will return to 1980 levels between 2040 and 2066. Due to its widespread adoption and implementation, it has been hailed as an example of successful international co-operation. Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated that "perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol". In comparison, effective burden-sharing and solution proposals mitigating regional conflicts of interest have been among the success factors for the ozone depletion challenge, where global regulation based on the Kyoto Protocol has failed to do so. In this case of the ozone depletion challenge, there was global regulation already being installed before a scientific consensus was established. Also, overall public opinion was convinced of possible imminent risks.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]