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LEAD: A 33-year-old woman has sued a Manhattan fertility clinic and a sperm bank, charging that they mistakenly substituted another man's sperm for her husband's. The woman is white, as was her late husband; she said the donor is black.
LEAD: An expensive drug that is widely used to treat heart attacks in the United States is no more effective than a cheaper alternative commonly used in Europe, researchers in Italy reported yesterday.
LEAD: On the block where he lives, the accused youth is known as a bully with a vicious streak - a boy who taunted and beat smaller children, stole their lunch money and other property and sometimes whipped stray dogs into snarling fury and set them on one another for the fun of it.
LEAD: On paper, the mission of the East German Army's Eighth Motorized Rifle Division has been to strike into West Germany at the outbreak of war and to seize Hamburg, 60 miles to the west.
LEAD: In another step toward deregulating the long-distance telephone market, the Federal Communications Commission proposed yesterday giving the American Telephone and Telegraph Company a freer hand in cutting or raising rates and offering additional services for large business customers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 7, 1990, covering March 9, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
The B-52s
Milli Vanilli
1990Daley Blind, Dutch footballer[†]
Daley Blind is a Dutch professional footballer who plays for La Liga club Girona. He has been deployed in a variety of defensive roles – as a left-back, centre-back, and defensive midfielder. He is the son of former Ajax defender and former Netherlands national team manager Danny Blind.
1990YG, American rapper[†]
Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson, better known by his stage name YG, is an American rapper. He released his debut mixtape 4Fingaz in 2008, and its follow-up, The Real 4Fingaz, the following year. The latter gained recognition for its local hit song "Toot It and Boot It", which entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 67 and received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings in October 2009, which entered joint-venture with Atlanta-based rapper Jeezy's record label, CTE World, in 2013.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]