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LEAD: A provision worth millions of dollars in donations to the nation's museums and libraries and millions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthy Americans who have historically been their benefactors has been adopted by the Senate Finance Committee.
LEAD: The nation's major banks, concerned about their own deteriorating finances, are making fewer loans to corporations.
LEAD: IN an outpouring of analysis that reaches far beyond the study of fossils, scientists are sketching out the influential roles played by climate and ecology in shaping human evolution. In particular, two notable periods of worldwide climatic cooling that occurred within about the last six million years may have touched off critical ecological changes that forced the separation of hominids from apes and, later, of the human line from other hominids.
LEAD: FOR years, cardiologists had a nagging sense that a big piece of the puzzle of why people have heart attacks was missing.
LEAD: I.B.M. reported yesterday that its earnings rose nearly 27 percent for the third quarter, but financial analysts said they were concerned about declining international and personal-computer sales.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 1990, covering October 16, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
George Michael
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Art Blakey, American drummer and bandleader (born 1919)[†]
Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
1990Jorge Bolet, Cuban-American pianist and educator (born 1914)[†]
Jorge Bolet was a Cuban-born American concert pianist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter a renowned pupil of Franz Liszt.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]