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In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]
1993Ola Abidogun, English sprinter[†]
Ola Abidogun is a British athlete who competes in T46 sprinting events. He competed for England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, and was part of the British team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics where he took bronze in the 100m sprint. He has won multiple medals at the junior level and as a senior won a silver in the 2014 European Championships.
1993Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer[†]
Yurina Kumai is a Japanese model and former singer. Kumai began her career as a member of Hello! Project Kids in 2002. In 2004, she debuted as a member of Berryz Kobo, a girl group associated with the musical collective Hello! Project. During her time with Berryz Kobo and Hello! Project, Kumai also appeared in Hello! Project's other musical projects, such as Guardians 4. In 2014, Kumai left Hello! Project following Berryz Kobo's indefinite hiatus in the same year.
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Battle Over Girl Ends Ending a two-and-a-half-year fight, the couple who tried to adopt Jessica DeBoer turned the girl over to her biological parents. Page A13. Bombing Suspects on Tape Taped conversations about a bombing plot in New York seem contradictory on the role of a radical Muslim cleric, lawyers said. Page B1. One for the Record Book The Baltimore Orioles were sold for $173 million, a record price for an American sports franchise. Page B9.
The Mississippi River all but consumed villages and farmland to the north and south of here today, but St. Louis's 11-mile concrete flood wall stood firm against a rushing onslaught of muddy water that officials described as the death throes of the great flood of 1993. The havoc suffered in the smaller towns along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers proved to be this city's gain: Unexpected breaks in levees outside the city helped reduce the pressure of the Mississippi and bring down its crest, which ran below the most dire predictions made over the weekend as it passed the landmark Gateway Arch here.
After days of tedious haggling, Congressional negotiators struck a basic compromise today on a five-year budget plan, and the White House and party leaders began the arduous task of rounding up enough votes to pass the measure by the end of this week. "For all practical purposes, this conference is over," said the House Speaker, Thomas S. Foley of Washington.
A COLLEGE student goes two nights without sleep to cram for exams and on the third day comes down with a cold. A night-shift employee begins working days and gets the flu. A surgery patient who is awakened four times a night in the hospital begins to recover only after going home and getting a good night's sleep. Are these situations coincidental? Or do they show that sleep loss promotes illness? Despite intense interest in the question, sleep researchers have been hard pressed to show exactly how sleep influences human health and disease.
For most of the 22 months since he was ousted from Haiti's presidency in a military coup, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been something of a celebrity in Washington, running his government-in-exile from rented Georgetown apartments and lecturing audiences about the urgent need to free his troubled country. Now, after arduous negotiations with the same military leaders who toppled him, the frail, soft-spoken Catholic priest is poised to go home. And the nagging question for the Clinton Administration as Father Aristide prepares his return 13 weeks from now is whether he will be able to make the transition from martyr to statesman.
In the last week, the Clinton Administration changed more than its policy on the use of force in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It changed its strategy for dealing with the European allies. Worried about the deteriorating position of the Bosnian Muslims and stung by criticism that it is indecisive, the Administration is now seeking to reassert America's role in the NATO alliance.
Europe's Currency Crisis The French franc sank more than 2 percent and European governments were left wondering what remained of their monetary system and their plans to create a single currency by the end of the century. [ Page A1. ] Currency traders bought German marks and Japanese yen, pushing weaker currencies down and sending the dollar to a new record low against the yen. [ D17. ] The Economy Congressional negotiators struck a compromise on a five-year budget plan, and the White House and Democratic leaders began the task of rounding up enough votes to pass the measure. [ A1. ]
ON a summer's day, nothing is more natural than the sight of bees and butterflies sticking their heads deep into garden blossoms. Insects and flowering plants are so evidently made for each other that scientists have long assumed it was the emergence of plants with flowers, or angiosperms, 125 million years ago that led to the sudden flourishing of insects in myriad forms. This assumption, elevated to conventional wisdom and taught in biology courses, has been challenged in a new, comprehensive study of insect fossils. The greatest expansion and diversification of insects, it has now been discovered, actually began 120 million years before the advent of angiosperms. If anything, when flowering plants proliferated, insect diversification slackened.
From sleek European-designed offices, Sergei A. Taruta, works long hours trying to insure that the towering Stalin-era steel mill outside his window is a winner and not a loser in the industrial shakeout under way across the former Soviet Union. Mr. Taruta, the deputy foreign sales director at Azovstal, one of the old union's largest steel plants, thinks he has found part of the solution: selling steel plate and slabs to the United States.
Once again, European central banks have given away hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. The recipients were currency traders, speculators and all the others who thought it profitable, or just prudent, to sell overvalued currencies to the central banks. The latest failure of Europe's attempt to sort-of-fix exchange rates in the face of hostile markets emphasized the profits that can be made, at minimal risk, from currency crises. And it again raised the question of why European governments, which end up paying the losses of their central banks, have been so willing to put up with a system that makes such losses a periodic inevitability.
NEW YORK CITY NEW FIGHT OVER PATIENT A new legal fight over the release of a mentally ill homeless man who has menaced and frightened residents of the Upper West Side for years was joined yesterday as New York State officials moved to detain him at a psychiatric hospital for up to six more months to allow time to find him a suitable home. B3. BODIES IDENTIFIED; 4TH VICTIM FOUND A woman and her two children who were shot to death and dumped at the edge of the East River over the weekend were finally identified, and when the police searched their home in Connecticut they made another chilling discovery -- the body of the woman's husband, wrapped in a blanket in the garage. B2. WHERE EVERY SECTION IS ROMANCE They did it to Laundromats. They did it to health clubs. Was it really so long before New Yorkers would turn the mega-bookstore into a meeting place for the unattached? The block-long new Barnes & Noble on Broadway near 83d Street has become, in the words of one patron, "the ultimate safe-sex place." B3. BANKING ON THE BLUES The former American Savings Bank, a neglected neo-Classical temple on Union Square in Manhattan, was bought yesterday by the House of Blues of Cambridge, Mass., which plans to convert the building into one in a national chain of restaurants and blues bars. B3. New York City's 6,000-mile water distribution system has tested clean everywhere. B2. A gunman opened fire inside a high school classroom in the Bronx, wounding an 18-year-old. B3. Alan G. Hevesi begins an advertising campaign to get his name known in the race for New York City comptroller. B2. REGION INSANITY PLEA IS RIFKIN'S DEFENSE In a move that came as no surprise to prosecutors, the lawyer for Joel Rifkin, the unemployed landscaper suspected of killing 17 women, says that he plans to use an insanity defense based on several psychiatric examinations of his client that occurred in July. B5. NEGOTIATION URGED IN INDIAN DISPUTE The Justice Department urges Connecticut officials to negotiate a peaceful end to their standoff with the Golden Hill Paugussett Indians over a tax-free smoke shop on the tribe's reservation. B5. CANINE UNIT GAINS WIDE PRESTIGE The 55 dogs in the Connecticut State Police canine unit are considered among the best crime-fighting dogs in the world and have been called out of state in recent months to help with some of the nation's most publicized cases. B5. TOLL TAKERS BLOCK NEW SYSTEM The New York Thruway Authority had begun collecting some passenger-car tolls electronically, but the toll collectors' union, citing safety issues, won an injunction that has blocked the use of special lanes that would speed the cars through. B4. The police say a Hempstead, L.I., postal worker who threatened his wife with a pistol had a small arsenal. B5. Chronicle B4 Our Towns by Joseph Berger B5
In Government transcripts of secretly taped conversations, an informer and one of the suspects in a plot to bomb the United Nations and other targets discuss details of how the bombings could be carried out, defense lawyers in the case said yesterday. The transcripts include references to the role of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the lawyers said, but the conversations seem contradictory on whether the radical Muslim cleric approved of or even knew about the plan.