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LEAD: President Bush called today for a cautious response to the threat of global warming, pleasing those in his Administration who want a deliberate policy but disappointing many environmentalists.
LEAD: MOLECULAR biologists around the globe are making rapid strides in efforts to use genetic engineering to increase production of rice, the staple food of most of the third world's expanding populations.
LEAD: Gov. Jim Florio today replaced the Superintendent of State Police, Col. Clinton L. Pagano, a man regarded as a powerful institution in state government.
LEAD: Facing both a $1 billion budget gap and negotiations with New York City unions that are among Mayor David N. Dinkins's biggest supporters, city officials say they are considering offering contracts with minimal raises this year but the promise of larger payments in the future.
LEAD: Officials of the new Panamanian Government are resisting United States pressure to change the banking laws that historically made the country a haven for enormous illicit drug profits before Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was removed from power.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 31, 1990, covering February 6, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
Janet Jackson
Billy Joel
1990Adam Henrique, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Adam Henrique is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 82nd overall at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils. Henrique previously played for the Devils and Anaheim Ducks. He played Major Junior hockey with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) where he was a member of the team that won back-to-back Memorial Cups in 2009 and 2010.
1990Jermaine Kearse, American football player[†]
Jermaine Levan Kearse is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington Huskies. Kearse was signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 2012 and later won Super Bowl XLVIII with the team. After five seasons with the Seahawks, Kearse played two more seasons for the New York Jets from 2017 to 2018. In 2019, he joined the Detroit Lions, but missed the entire season due to injury.
1990Aida Rybalko, Lithuanian figure skater[†]
Aida Rybalko-Laurecke is a Lithuanian figure skater. She is a two-time Lithuanian national vice-champion.
1990Dominic Sherwood, English actor[†]
Dominic Anthony Sherwood is an English actor and model, best known for his roles as Christian Ozera in the teen vampire film Vampire Academy (2014), Jace Wayland on the Freeform fantasy series Shadowhunters (2016–2019), Kurt in the series Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) and Jeff Murphy in the Netflix legal drama Partner Track (2022).
1990Jimmy Van Heusen, American pianist and composer (born 1913)[†]
James Van Heusen was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television, and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his compositions later went on to become jazz standards.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]