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LEAD: During the last decade, acquisitive British advertising agencies snapped up some of Madison Avenue's most famous names - Ogilvy & Mather; Ted Bates; Compton; Backer & Spielvogel and J. Walter Thompson.
LEAD: A little more than a year ago, construction workers cleared the site of an old government building to erect the new National Institute of Health and unearthed something that left them a little shaken: 35 human skulls and thighbones that appeared to date to World War II.
LEAD: Executives of American oil companies say they do not expect the sudden jump in crude oil prices to stimulate exploration and drilling because they have not yet been convinced that the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait will have a long-term effect on prices.
LEAD: Recession looms across America, and wary vacationers are camping out, eating in and heading home early to save a few dollars.
LEAD: Newspapers blow across the dusty, threadbare Great Lawn of Central Park. Abandoned cars block a running path in Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx. Citywide, trees that were once regularly pruned and meadows that were once regularly sodded now receive infrequent care.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 8, 1990, covering August 13, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Poison
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
1990DeMarcus Cousins, American basketball player[†]
DeMarcus Amir Cousins is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Mets de Guaynabo of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional. Nicknamed "Boogie", he played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, earning consensus second-team All-American honors in 2010. He left Kentucky after one season, and was selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft by the Sacramento Kings. In his first season with the Kings, Cousins was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team, and from 2015 to 2018, he was named an NBA All-Star four times. He is also a two-time gold medal winner as a member of the United States national team, winning his first in 2014 at the FIBA Basketball World Cup and his second in 2016 at the Rio Olympics.
1990Benjamin Stambouli, French footballer[†]
Benjamin Fernand Lucien François Stambouli is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Ligue 1 club Metz.
1990A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwanese naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.[†]
Min Ping Yu No. 5202 was a 50-foot mainland Chinese fishing boat from Baiqing Township, Pingtan County, Fujian Province that sank on August 13, 1990, drowning 21 people, after being hit by Taiwan's naval vessel ROCS Wen Shan PF-834 while carrying out a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants. Of the 50 mainland Chinese on board, 29 were rescued by Taiwan's Navy. It was the second tragedy in repatriation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants in less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]