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LEAD: CONNECTICUT'S family and medical leave law takes effect today, guaranteeing workers in private companies up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a newborn or adopted child or a sick family member. But the State Labor Department has yet to provide detailed regulations, and some employers say they are unsure how the law will work.
LEAD: In an effort to broaden the economic base of Howard Beach, Queens, a local developer has created a sleek, two-story office building on the community's main commercial strip. The Pan-Bay Office Building, at 156-36 Cross Bay Boulevard, was completed at a cost of $2 million by Attillio W. Panzarella, who came out of retirement in Scottsdale, Ariz., to realize his vision of giving his old neighborhood an economic boost.
LEAD: Suddenly, Democrats are dusting off their sheet music and learning to sing ''Happy Days Are Here Again.''
LEAD: Whenever talk in Bonn turns to Helmut Kohl, someone inevitably recounts how some rival, imagining Mr. Kohl to be a bumbling provincial politician, challenges the Chancellor head on, only to be left sprawled in the dust.
LEAD: Adult Met fans outnumber their Yankee counterparts by almost 3 to 1 in New York City, a New York Times/ WCBS-TV News poll has found.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 27, 1990, covering July 1, 1990.
New Kids on the Block
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
Sinead O'Connor
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Jurriaan Schrofer, Dutch sculptor, designer and educator (born 1926)[†]
Jurriaan Willem Schrofer was a Dutch sculptor, graphic designer, type designer, and art school educator.
1990German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.[†]
German reunification was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic and the integration of its re-established constituent federated states into the Federal Republic of Germany to form present-day Germany. This date was chosen as the customary German Unity Day, and has thereafter been celebrated each year as a national holiday. On the same date, East and West Berlin were also reunified into a single city, which eventually became the capital of Germany.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]