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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Bo Burnham, American comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker and poet[†]
Robert Pickering Burnham is an American stand-up comedian, musician, actor, filmmaker, and YouTuber. Burnham's work combines elements of filmmaking with music, sketch, and stand-up comedy, commonly with a dramatic, satirical, or tragic twist that is often left open to interpretation.
1990Christian Vázquez, Puerto Rican baseball player[†]
Christian Rafael Vázquez is a Puerto Rican professional baseball catcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros.
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LEAD: As hundreds of his supporters packed the courtroom and filled the air with hymns on the sidewalk outside, Floyd H. Flake, the Congressman and minister from Queens, pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that he had embezzled funds from a federally subsidized housing complex and cheated on his income taxes.
LEAD: Gov. Jim Florio won a test of wills with one of the nation's insurance giants last week, but the war over who will ultimately pay the bills for the state's $3 billion auto insurance fiasco is certain to be a long one.
LEAD: INCREASING use of a controversial statistical method to evaluate medical therapies and surgical procedures is beginning to affect profoundly the care of pregnant women and patients with cancer, heart disease and many other common conditions.
LEAD: The clock is running for President Bush, with the moment drawing ever closer for several major policy decisions in the crisis in the Middle East.
LEAD: After rising for seven days, the price of oil closed slightly lower yesterday, the first trading session after the announcement by the Saudi oil minister that his country would pump an extra two million barrels a day, with or without OPEC approval. But the price of gasoline continued to rise sharply, and both markets remained nervous.
LEAD: The insurance industry is starting to suffer from the slump in real estate that has already hurt many banks and savings and loan institutions. The delinquency rate on mortgages for office buildings, hotels, shopping malls and other commercial properties held by the nation's insurance companies has increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions by some in the industry that foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years.
LEAD: AH, romance. Can any sight be as sweet as a pair of mallard ducks gliding gracefully across a pond, male by female, seemingly inseparable? Or better yet, two cygnet swans, which, as biologists have always told us, remain coupled for life, their necks and fates lovingly intertwined.
LEAD: The growing ease with which it is possible to design and build supercomputers is making it increasingly difficult for the United States and Japan to keep the powerful machines from proliferating. That raises the possibility that more nations may be able to use supercomputers to design advanced weapons systems.
LEAD: THE possibility of traveling through time, of creating something out of nothing and even of spawning a new universe in a laboratory are notions ordinarily reserved to fiction rather than science. But a rash of articles in some of the most prestigious scientific publications suggests that theoretical physicists have begun to take such outlandish ideas seriously.
LEAD: Love Nests Animals and birds once thought to mate for life are engaging in all sorts of what scientists call extra-pair copulation. Science Times, page C1. Exit Steinbrenner George Steinbrenner, after running the Yankees for 17 1/2 years, said he has signed a letter resigning as the managing partner.
LEAD: As Iraq began moving Americans and other foreigners to military and industrial installations, President Bush declared for the first time today that those trapped in Iraq are indeed hostages. He vowed that ''America will not be intimidated'' by Iraq's efforts to use them as shields against attack.
LEAD: When the new Correction Commissioner last month restructured the office that disciplines New York correction officers and dismissed the official who headed it, the move, part of a general administrative shake-up, drew little attention.