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LEAD: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, according to the song. But in the future, the spoonful of sugar may be the medicine.
LEAD: FACED with legal challenges, shifting alliances and a deteriorating relationship with the National Football League, college football is beginning the most significant season in its 122-year history.
LEAD: The networks' evening newscasts received higher ratings than the average prime-time entertainment show this month. ABC's newscast ratings jumped the most. Page D1.
LEAD: Berlin Refashions Itself Berliners are taking the changes in stride as their city, like two gigantic pieces of a cracked dinner plate, is glued together. Some chips are still missing. Page A3. The Pressures at Rikers The clash at Rikers Island came as the prison grappled with sweeping changes amid the pressures of court orders and union demands.
LEAD: Top officials of the Education Department are forcing out Richard C. Hawk, chairman of the nation's largest guarantor of student loans, Mr. Hawk said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 15, 1990, covering August 20, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Poison
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
New Kids on the Block
1990Macauley Chrisantus, Nigerian footballer[†]
Macauley Chrisantus is a Nigerian professional footballer who last played as a striker for Lynx.
1990Culoe De Song, South African music producer and DJ[†]
Culolethu Zulu, known commonly by his stage name Culoe De Song, is a South African record producer, DJ and sangoma. His first name, "Culolethu", is an IsiZulu name meaning "our song", and he is known as "Culo" or "Culoe" meaning "song"; the name is pronounced with a clicking "C", not to be erroneously pronounced like the Spanish word "culo", which rhymes with "cool". He released his first album, A Giant Leap, in 2009. In 2011, he released his album Elevation with the help of Kindnes Khupe, a Zimbabwean-born tribal mix DJ. Later, he released Exodus (2013). Culoe De Song recently won The Best Male Artist for the 2014 Metro FM Awards for his album Exodus, an album that was featured on Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums of 2013. He also participated in the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona, Spain.
1990Venelin Filipov, Bulgarian footballer[†]
Venelin Filipov is a Bulgarian footballer who played as a defender for Sozopol. His brother, Tsvetan Filipov, is also a footballer.
1990Leigh Griffiths, Scottish footballer[†]
Leigh Griffiths is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Australian club Mandurah City, as well as being part of the coaching staff.
1990Fabien Jarsalé, French footballer[†]
Fabien Jarsalé is a French professional football player. Currently, he plays in the Championnat National 3 for Vertou.
1990Bradley Klahn, American tennis player[†]
Bradley Klahn is an American former professional tennis player from Poway, California.
1990Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer[†]
Ranomi Kromowidjojo is a retired Dutch swimmer of mixed Dutch-Javanese Surinamese origin who mainly specialises in sprint freestyle events. She is a triple Olympic champion, winning the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympics, and in the 50 m freestyle and 100 m freestyle at the 2012 Olympics. Kromowidjojo holds the world record as part of the Dutch team in the 4×50 m freestyle relay. She formerly held world records in the 50 meter freestyle, and the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m freestyle relays. She has won a total of 45 medals in FINA World Championship events.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]