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In 1993, the world population was approximately 5,591,544,797 people[†]
1993Kyle Anderson, American-Chinese basketball player[†]
Kyle Forman Anderson, also known as Li Kai'er, is an American-Chinese professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born in the United States, he played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. After earning All-American honors as a sophomore in 2013–14, he declared for the 2014 NBA draft and was selected in the first round with the 30th overall pick by the San Antonio Spurs.
1993Julian Draxler, German footballer[†]
Julian Draxler is a German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al Ahli. He has also played for the Germany national team at international level.
1993Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (born 1922)[†]
Erich Alfred Hartmann was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions. He was credited with shooting down a total of 352 Allied aircraft: 345 Soviet and 7 American while serving with the Luftwaffe. During his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his fighter 16 times after either mechanical failure or damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had shot down; he was never shot down by direct enemy action.
Sunset's rays have splayed through Peter Alvarez's third-floor windows in Elmhurst, Queens, day after day for the last five months; a celestial array that lifts his spirits. The Elmhurst tanks -- those 200-foot monoliths that stood sentinel to the changing landscape of Queens and as harbingers of hair-tearing delay on the highway to Manhattan -- are down, deflated forever, their skeletal remains waiting to be dismantled.
America is about to start coming unwired. A decade after cellular telephones first captured the hearts of the hurried and the well-to-do by letting them stay plugged in without being pinned down, the Federal Government is about to clear the airwaves for an expansion of wireless offerings more sophisticated than anything available today.
In a major speech in which he sought to counter his opponent's contention that he is not aggressive enough as a crime fighter, Mayor David N. Dinkins yesterday provided details of his plan to combine the city's three police forces, give officers more advanced equipment and improve security in public schools. "I believe that by creating a climate of civility and decency and order in our neighborhoods, we'll let the pushers and the criminals know that this city is ours to enjoy -- not theirs to destroy," Mr. Dinkins said in a speech punctuated by repeated references to his vow of "no surrender."
This is Glamour Girl Day on the fifth floor of the Frances Schervier Home and Hospital in the Bronx. That means that Nikia Bispham, 18, wheels in a cart full of nail polishes and emery boards, tunes her big radio to a rhythm and blues station and settles down for two hours of chitchat and makeovers with an eager queue of white-haired ladies. Ann Finning, who wants her nails painted Cameo Pink, is fretting because she needs a good shampoo and set. The woman next to her is nodding off, but Mrs. Finning keeps up a stream of words: what happened at happy hour yesterday, a recent fall she had, what a lovely job Ms. Bispham is doing.
As President Clinton prepares for Wednesday's prime-time presentation of his plan for overhauling health care, his proposed ceiling on medical spending has emerged as one of the plan's most hotly debated aspects, prompting warnings of a degradation in the quality of care or even rationing. Braking medical spending as sharply as the President proposes -- cutting annual growth by more than half of what it has been in recent years -- could force strapped medical groups to shortchange patients, denying them useful tests and treatments, some doctors and insurance executives maintain. While these critics also fear for their own incomes and profits under the Clinton plan, their warnings are echoed by many economists. Safely Squeezable Nonsense, Administration officials say. They and many medical experts portray an American system so replete with inefficiency, duplication, overcharging and overuse of procedures that huge sums can safely be squeezed out for many years to come.
Luz A. Beltran, a Roman Catholic from Indianapolis, has made pilgrimages to shrines at Fatima, Portugal; Lourdes, France, and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, but her fondest wish has long been to visit the Holy Land. "I was afraid to go, though," she said, "because there always seemed to be trouble in the Middle East." But about a week ago, as a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians seemed imminent, Mrs. Beltran set aside plans to visit Greece and signed up for an eight-day tour next month of religious sites in Israel. Rolling Out the Welcome Mat Tour operators, hoteliers, airlines, cruise lines and governments in the region are racing to roll out the welcome mat, certain that millions of tourists from throughout the world will feel the same way.
"The last three and a half years have not been an easy time for me," Gov. Jim Florio said tonight as he prepared to wrap up a now well-rehearsed stump speech that ends with an appeal that he -- one of the most unpopular politicians in recent New Jersey history -- be re-elected. At the back of the room, Paul Mucha listened intently to Mr. Florio's entreaties.
FROM FLAT ON THE MAT TO A TOP CONTENDER Six weeks before an election that as recently as a year ago few gave Gov. Jim Florio a chance of winning, polls show the Democratic incumbent in a very close race with Christine Todd Whitman. Both Democrats and Republicans on a national level have staked considerable political currency on the outcome of the race in New Jersey, the only state other than Virginia to elect a governor this year. A1. NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL OFFICIALS BATTLE CHAOS With only hours to go before the dawn of a new school year, officials of the country's largest school system struggled to get a final count of how many of New York City's schools would have to close or alter their schedules because of asbestos problems, and to determine how and where to teach the city's one million students. A1.
The Yankees played like the Mets. They made three errors in the first three innings. They made three other defensive miscues that will be hidden in the box score. They produced the stunning sum of five hits and they looked like refugees from Flushing. The Yankees even had Frank Tanana pitching for them to complete the unenviable comparsion. Tanana pitched admirably, but must have thought he had never been traded from the Mets. There was right fielder Paul O'Neill making an error in the second inning. Or was it Jeromy Burnitz? There was third baseman Wade Boggs misplaying one grounder and bobbling another? Or was it Chico Walker? There was shortstop Randy Velarde flubbing a grounder in the third? Or was it Jeff McKnight?
Top Administration economists have stoutly rejected suggestions by Federal Reserve officials that the central bank not consider cutting short-term interest rates because of fear that this could fuel an unwanted speculative bubble in stocks and bonds. The economists said near-record stock and bond levels in no way constituted a bubble, but were rather a justified response to lower interest rates, which they said were fostered by lower inflation and President Clinton's deficit-reduction efforts.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt said today that Syria's leader had told him that Syria wants to make peace with Israel. The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, after a meeting here with Mr. Mubarak, said Israel expected Arab countries to change their attitude toward Israel because of its agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization.
With hours to go before the dawn of a new school year, officials of the country's largest school system struggled yesterday to get a final count of how many of New York City's schools would have to close or alter their schedules because of asbestos problems, and to determine how and where to teach the city's one million students. Parents called special telephone numbers and combed news reports, sorting through confusing and sometimes contradictory information to determine just how chaotic the first day of school would be.