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LEAD: New York State's grand jury system, once seen as the protector of the rights of the accused, is coming under rising attack both from law-and-order advocates and civil libertarians, who say it has instead become an inefficient captive of often overzealous prosecutors.
LEAD: ''AT the moment my decorating motif is cat hairs and plaster dust,'' said Dr. Jessica B. Harris with characteristic acerbity. She is showing a visitor around the odd and interesting house she is remodeling in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and her apologetic tone does not quite disguise the obvious pride she feels in the place.
LEAD: Unable to enforce rules that prohibit people from sleeping on subway benches, the New York City Transit Authority is trying a new tack: removing the benches altogether.
LEAD: MIDWINTER rain fell in a contemplative pitter-patter on the stucco hacienda tucked in the hills. A calico cat sat rigid as a sphinx on the back stoop of the ranch, glaring at the heavy wooden door. But a guest standing inside saw only miles of vineyards, parched from a dry season, turning their pruned tips toward the sky.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1990, covering February 28, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler[†]
Takayasu Akira is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in 2005 and reached the top makuuchi division in 2011, the first wrestler born in the Heisei era to do so. His highest rank has been ōzeki. He wrestles for Tagonoura stable. He has been runner-up in a tournament nine times and has earned thirteen special prizes: six for Fighting Spirit, four for Outstanding Performance and three for Technique. He has won six gold stars for defeating yokozuna. After achieving 34 wins in the three tournaments from January to May 2017, he was officially promoted to ōzeki on May 31, 2017. He maintained the rank for a total of 15 tournaments.
1990Ryan Allen, American football player[†]
Ryan Allen is an American former professional football punter who played in the National Football League (NFL). He is best known for being the starting punter for the New England Patriots for six seasons, during which he won three Super Bowls and was the Patriots’ longest serving starting punter of the Bill Belichick era. He played college football for the Oregon State Beavers and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. Allen won twice the Ray Guy Award in 2011 and 2012, and also was a unanimous All-American in 2012. He was signed by the Patriots as an undrafted free agent after the 2013 NFL draft.
1990Sebastian Rudy, German footballer[†]
Sebastian Rudy is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or defender. He began his senior career at VfB Stuttgart in 2008 before moving to TSG Hoffenheim in 2010, where he spent a majority of his playing career. Rudy transferred to Bayern Munich in 2017 and won the Bundesliga during a one-year spell with the club. He moved to Schalke 04 in 2018, before returning to Hoffenheim on a loan in 2019 and a permanent transfer in 2021. Rudy retired from professional football in 2023. He currently plays for German amateur team SG Dilsberg.
1990Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.[†]
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]