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LEAD: The human body clock, which regulates sleep and other activities, can be reset simply and quickly by exposure to light, new research has found.
LEAD: The Nassau County prosecutor and H.U.D. officials are investigating possible criminal misuse of funds in a program for storefront rehabilitation in Hempstead.
LEAD: In a wave of what some traders called panic selling, the dollar plunged yesterday, closing below 2 marks and 146 yen. The selling continued in Tokyo early today. The dollar fell 6 pfennigs against the mark and 6 yen from its highs yesterday in New York. The dollar had jumped sharply in Asia and Europe before the selloff in New
LEAD: William P. T. Hill, martini in hand, cut the throttle on his Mako 20 as it swept up the Mystic River. ''There it is - there's some mung,'' he said, turning the boat's bow toward a small cove. ''That's nothing compared to what it was a few weeks ago. It was much, much thicker, much, much greener.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 14, 1989, covering June 16, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Paula Abdul
1989Odion Ighalo, Nigerian footballer[â ]
Odion Jude Ighalo is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Saudi Pro League club Al-Wehda.
1989Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.[â ]
The revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most MarxistâLeninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. This wave is sometimes referred to as the Autumn of Nations, a play on the term Spring of Nations sometimes used to describe the revolutions of 1848. The revolutions of 1989 were a key factor in the dissolution of the Soviet Unionâone of the two superpowersâand abandonment of communist regimes in many parts of the world, some of which were violently overthrown. These events drastically altered the world's balance of power, marking the end of the Cold War and beginning of the post-Cold War era.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]