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In 1992, the world population was approximately 5,505,989,816 people[†]
1992Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player[†]
Diego Sebastián Schwartzman is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He won four ATP Tour singles titles and reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 in October 2020. As a clay court specialist, his best results were on this surface. He was noted for his high-quality return game.
1992Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1951)[†]
John Mark Heard III was an American record producer, folk rock singer and songwriter from Macon, Georgia.
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AIDS is not a Republican disease. To be sure, plenty of Republicans have died of AIDS, and plenty more are sick. But the party has never been comfortable talking about the disease. The epidemic was more than five years old before President Ronald Reagan uttered the "A" word publicly. The wrath of God, the right wing said. All those homosexuals and blacks and drug abusers.
IT was Merrill Lynch's dream: a million would-be investors filling the streets and lining up all day to get an application to buy stocks. Even when policemen beat them for failing to line up properly, even when dozens were injured in the jostling, throngs of Chinese clamored for the opportunity to pay three weeks' salary for an application that would have a 10 percent chance of being approved to buy new shares. That scene over the last week underscores the enthusiasm that many people here feel for the capitalist buds that are emerging, as the Chinese saying goes, like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. But the episode also illustrated the pitfalls of economic transition: the would-be investors rioted on Monday night when applications ran out.
LOOKING backward is the last thing President Bush wants to do at the Republican National Convention in Houston this week -- for two reasons. Politically, the clear plan for his campaign is to emphasize the future, to nod to the past only to suggest that the next four years will have domestic success to rival the foreign policy triumphs of the last four. As James A. Baker 3d, the Secretary of State, proclaimed as he prepared to leave his second Cabinet office for his fourth Bush Presidential campaign, "It's now time to turn to new challenges." He said that from now on "President Bush will target America."
LONG ISLAND is sending 28 delegates and a like number of alternates to the Republican National Convention, and virtually all are confident that the party can carry Long Island and New York State for President Bush and that he will win re-election despite his standing in the summer polls. There are 601,370 registered Republicans on Long Island, with 317,228 in Nassau and 284,142 in Suffolk. In New York State, there are 2,583,988 enrolled Republicans, and 100 will be voting delegates at the convention.
WHEN Roy Lichtenstein first exhibited paintings based on comic books, advertising and common objects in 1962, he was participating in an art revolution comparable in scope to any in history. His was not just a content change, but also a radical alteration in attitude and in the philosophy of perception. Along with Jim Dine, Claes Oldenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and other practitioners of what came to be known at Pop Art, Mr. Lichtenstein gained wide attention almost immediately, with magazines like Newsweek, Time and Life running cover stories on the new movement.
In the name of helping minorities, whose voting strength Congressional mapmakers have squelched in the past, this year's redistricting has torn and twisted New York's political map in ways an old-fashioned gerrymanderer might admire. But in doing so the effort has produced some unusual challenges to old notions of representative democracy, among them whether voters should be represented by people who broadly share their outlook or by people who look like them.
The ancient Hebrews left Egypt to find the Promised Land. Odysseus embarked on his odyssey to return to his faithful wife Penelope. The writer Jack Kerouac went "On the Road" in search of spiritual fulfillment. And the Houston Astros are on a monthlong tour of National League cities because, well, because George Bush needs the Astrodome. The 25 Astros evicted from their home receive $59 a day meal money, stay in four-star hotels and get $150 to wash their clothes. No one in Houston is starting an Astros homeless fund.
THIRTY-ONE stories above the crashing waves off Seaside Park, 30-year-old Felice Shays waited to jump. She had been weighed on the Funtown pier, where the smell of cotton candy mingled with the salty sea breeze. She had been strapped into a nylon harness as Jim Morrison and the Doors blared over the public address system, and lifted to the metal basket atop the Go Bungee Jump. Then the jumpmaster, Jonathan Kuntz, began the countdown: "Three, two, one -- Bungee!" And Ms. Shays leaped from the basket in a backward freefall, looking up at the sky, screaming, as she plunged toward the water below.
SUN glistens off rotor blades as the helicopter sweeps low over Sandy Hook, then swings right at 95 miles an hour to begin its weekly run along the 127 miles of New Jersey coast. Sunbathers and ocean waders, recognizing the distinctive white-and-blue Huey, with the initials of the Federal Environmental Protection Agency embossed on its fuselage, look up and wave. Jim Castillo, the pilot, waves back. In the surf off Manasquan's East Main Street beach, Susan Williams, an environmental health specialist with the Monmouth County Health Department, wields a 10-foot-long adjustable pole with a water bottle on its end. Once a week, she gathers ocean samples at 13 sites for analysis by the department laboratory.
Ten months after a wind-whipped firestorm destroyed more than 3,000 homes and took 25 lives in the hills here and in Berkeley, an emotional debate is raging over how the 1,600-acre area should be rebuilt. More than a dozen new homes already dot the landscape scarred by the Oct. 20th fire and some 400 others are in or near construction as discussion continues on what, if any, new regulations should be enacted for future construction.
The comments came on national television, on the opening day of the baseball season, and when they spilled forth from Al Campanis on April 6, 1987, it was as if baseball, and all professional sports, for that matter, had been hit by a cataclysmic earthquake. Campanis, then the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was asked by Ted Koppel on "Nightline" why so few blacks attained executive positions in baseball. He answered:
IT takes a special kind of person in this computerized age to get excited about an old-fashioned agricultural fair, but Kenneth Hale, 75 years old, is as fascinated now as he was as a child. And while the soft-spoken, retired poultry farmer from Cheshire is not the grandstanding Frank Perdue, as president of the Connecticut Agricultural Fair, Mr. Hale certainly knows how to draw a crowd. Last month the Connecticut Agricultural Fair ushered in the country fair season, which continues through mid-October.