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In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]
1993Tony Harris, South African cricketer (born 1916)[†]
Terence Anthony Harris known as Tony Harris, was a South African sportsman who was the last man to be a dual international of both cricket and rugby union for his country. He represented South Africa in five rugby union Tests during the 1930s as a fly-half, following World War II he played Test cricket three times between 1947 and 1949 as an attacking batsman.
1993J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (born 1914)[†]
John Merrill Knapp was an American musicologist and academic. He was considered an authority on the life and works of George Frideric Handel. Born in New York City, Knapp graduated from the Hotchkiss School before entering Yale University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1936 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He then taught briefly at The Thacher School in Ojai, California before returning to Yale to assume the post of assistant director of the Yale Glee Club. He left there to pursue graduate studies at Columbia University where he earned a Master of Music degree. He served as an operations officer in the Third Fleet of United States Navy during World War II (1942-1946); earning two service stars and a commendation ribbon.
1993Martti Larni, Finnish writer (born 1909)[†]
Martti Larni was a Finnish writer. He was the chairman of the Union of Finnish Writers from 1964 to 1967. During his lifetime, Larni was one of Finland's most internationally known writers in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries thanks to his book Neljäs nikama.
1993Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (born 1929)[†]
Eleanor Sanger was a 7-time Emmy-award-winning television writer and producer, who was the first woman Network Sports Producer.
1993Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (born 1912)[†]
Josef Steindl was an Austrian-born Post-Keynesian economist.
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A small city itself -- fantastic, exaggerated, crazily angled and vividly hued -- the "Red Grooms at Grand Central" installation in the terminal's former waiting room would easily qualify as a milestone on its own. But officials see it as an opening act for something bigger. "What Red Grooms should do is begin to bring people back to the terminal," said Susan E. Fine, director of real estate for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates Grand Central through the Metro-North Commuter Railroad. "And as they look through the art, what they're seeing behind it is a restored space of a quality we'd like to see the whole terminal look like."
IS Henry Kravis, a man who gained wealth and fame through leverage and capital gains, actually embracing the idea of wealth through dividends? That is the apparent aim of the latest dramatic restructuring of RJR Nabisco, the tobacco and food giant that Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company took private in 1989 in the biggest leveraged buyout ever and then took public again in 1991.
A state-imposed freeze on $398 million in insurance settlements owed to auto-accident victims has been turned into a hot new business opportunity by some lawyers and institutional investors. More than 30,000 accident victims are owed settlements by a former state-run insurance pool for high-risk drivers. They were informed that they might have to wait up to 18 months to receive their full claims. But now they have another option -- they can sell their judgments at a discount of up to 25 percent. The purchasers can then wait out the freeze and end up with the whole settlement plus interest.
The shoulder was fine. They said it last week, repeated it as the days passed and insisted that James (Buddy) McGirt wouldn't be bothered by it when he fought Pernell Whitaker for the welterweight title last night. But it wasn't fine. McGirt threw no more than a half-dozen left hooks, but they were ineffective and unimpressive. And without the hook, McGirt didn't have a chance to keep his belt.
RECENT months have seen a significant increase in public and private efforts to combat violence against women in New Jersey. Some examples:
THE gem of housing redevelopment in Central Harlem has gone on the market on St. Nicholas Avenue, bringing adults back to an elementary school transformed. The school is the former P.S. 157, between 126th and 127th Streets. It served for more than 70 years and closed in 1975, gradually deteriorating thereafter amid failed attempts at redevelopment. But Elzee Construction of Flatbush took it in hand four years ago and has rebuilt it as rental apartments to standards befitting its status on the National Register of Historic Places.
OPERATION SHYLOCK A Confession. By Philip Roth. 398 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $23.
THE puzzle in the bomb wreckage beneath the World Trade Center has become one of explanation. Having taken a big step toward finding out who carried out the attack (and how), what no one can yet say is why it was done. If the motive was revenge, why choose so anonymous a setting? And why not do more to take credit? Even the arrest of a 25-year-old Islamic fundamentalist on a charge of aiding and abetting the bombing seemed incomplete. Five people had been killed and more than 1,000 wounded, the twin skyscrapers were decommissioned for at least a month with damages soaring toward $1 billion -- and the one suspect under arrest was a young immigrant who tried to reclaim a cash deposit for a blown-up rental van? It seemed easy to reach for the familiar word to bemoan such violence: senseless.
The bruising gales of Hurricane Andrew stopped battering south Florida last Aug. 24. But the tremendous chunks the storm ripped out of properties and lives are still apparent in the Dade County communities south of Miami. Evidence of the severe damage still lingers in cities like Homestead, where there are huge piles of debris and pitted buildings. Farms that produce winter crops for the entire nation will not be able to grow limes, avocados and mangoes for at least three more years, as farmers replant the thousands of trees that blew away.
Someday it will be her moment, Kaitlin Hopkins says with certainty, just as it was Sigourney Weaver's moment and Meg Ryan's and Kathleen Turner's and all the other stars-in-waiting who paid their dues -- and the rent -- working in daytime soap operas. "Even when I was waitressing, I still considered myself a star," says Miss Hopkins in her disarmingly direct manner. "I just hadn't been given the right job yet."
In the soggy lowlands south of Amsterdam, 18 feet below sea level, the Netherlands is rolling back history: a large expanse of farmland reclaimed a century ago is to be flooded again to revert to marshland and lakes. In the uplands farther east, an arm of the Rhine, tightly hemmed in by walls and jetties, will be set free to meander. In some places the unthinkable is already happening: bulldozers are punching holes in several dikes to let a river spill into its flood plains and recreate alluvial forest.
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