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LEAD: IT'S a typical morning at the branch of the Milwaukee Y.M.C.A. in this suburb. All through the building, there is a constant coming and going of men and women, mostly in running shoes and T-shirts, on their way to exercise class or weight training or a session on the running track that is suspended above the basketball courts.
LEAD: FROM the tortilleria of the Tianguis supermarket here comes the slap, slap, slap of women making tortillas by hand. On a Saturday afternoon, the market is in perpetual motion: women mix, shape and bake tortillas almost nonstop. The result is corn tortillas, flour tortillas (with or without lard), corn chips and tostados.
LEAD: Encouraged by serious consideration of laws that might make commercial production of electric cars practical within a decade, companies from small start-ups to some of the world's largest battery manufacturers are racing for a breakthrough in battery technology.
LEAD: Barely four years after its completion, the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center needs to expand by as much as a third - 600,000 square feet - to remain competitive and to attract the nation's largest trade shows, the acting president of the center says.
LEAD: Above-normal blood pressure, even if it is not high enough to qualify as hypertension, can permanently damage heart and blood vessels and increase the risk of heart attack, a new study says.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 18, 1990, covering July 18, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
New Kids on the Block
Wilson Phillips
Soundtrack
1990Canelo Ălvarez, Mexican boxer[â ]
Santos SaĂșl Ălvarez BarragĂĄn, commonly known as Canelo or SaĂșl Ălvarez, is a Mexican professional boxer. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, from light middleweight to light heavyweight, including unified titles in three of those weight classes. In 2021, Ălvarez became the first and only boxer in history to become the undisputed super middleweight champion, before becoming a two-time undisputed super middleweight champion in May 2025. He has also held the Ring magazine super middleweight title since 2020.
1990Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (born 1896)[â ]
Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. He was a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.
1990Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (born 1897)[â ]
Yun Po-sun was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the president of South Korea from 1960 to 1962. He was the only president of the short-lived Second Republic of Korea, and served as little more than a figurehead due to its nature as a parliamentary system.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[â ]