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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989Natalia Vieru, Russian basketball player[†]
Natalia Stanislavovna Vieru is a Russian former basketball player. She is a member of the Russia women's national basketball team and competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Vieru played last for the Russian club UMMC Ekaterinburg as a center from 2015 to 2020.
1989Steve Rubell, American businessman, co-owner of Studio 54 (born 1943)[†]
Steve Rubell was an American entrepreneur and co-owner of the New York City disco Studio 54.
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LEAD: USING delicate laser ''tweezers'' to twist the tails of bacteria, scientists are exploring mechanisms of their propulsion, including the tiniest rotary motors in existence.
LEAD: Many of New York City's public school students are so lacking in mathematics skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a rapidly changing city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-oriented industries, educators and economists say.
LEAD: PATHOLOGISTS and other experts are questioning the long-term safety of materials and devices implanted into the human body for medical and cosmetic reasons.
LEAD: The former Republican state chairman in Florida said today that he received more than $500,000 in cash and property for consulting work for developers seeking housing benefits from the Reagan Administration.
LEAD: France's largest food company, BSN Groupe, is making a name for itself as a young giant in a hurry as it jockeys for position in the unified, barrier-free market that the European Community envisions for 1992.
LEAD: With a one-line order issued on the final day of its term, the Supreme Court opened a new front in the battle over the constitutional right to privacy.
LEAD: The police here work in the face of a gnawing contradiction. The public wants them to crack down on drug use, but the state cannot keep the people they are arresting in prison.
LEAD: Once virtually absent from the upper ranks of the advertising industry, women are filling one of the newer and more critical roles in agency management: the pursuit of new business.
LEAD: The agreement Mexico reached with its American and other foreign bankers on Sunday, which provides the country with about $3 billion a year in new debt relief, was welcomed yesterday as a breakthrough in a seven-year stalemate that has weighed down Latin American economies and banking companies as well.
LEAD: In a staff shakeup that reflects fears his campaign for mayor of New York is floundering, Rudolph W. Giuliani has pressured three top advisers to step aside and added Roger Ailes, President Bush's media adviser, to the staff.
LEAD: Honeywell Inc. made itself less attractive to corporate raiders today by saying it would cut 4,000 jobs, retreat from its $1.4 billion weapons business and provide added cash to shareholders.