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In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]
1994Andrei Chikatilo, Soviet serial killer (born 1936)[†]
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR.
1994Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (born 1932)[†]
Robert Christopher Lasch was an American historian and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. He sought to use history to demonstrate what he saw as the pervasiveness with which major institutions, public and private, were eroding the competence and independence of families and communities. Lasch strove to create a historically informed social criticism that could teach Americans how to deal with rampant consumerism, proletarianization, and what he famously labeled "the culture of narcissism".
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The United States Olympic team got an unexpected gold medal when Tommy Moe of Palmer, Alaska, won the men's downhill at the Winter Games in Norway.
Drums of black-market gasoline exploded in flames Saturday night in downtown Port-au-Prince destroying a half-block of buildings and providing further evidence of leaks in the oil embargo on Haiti. Witnesses and diplomats said that the gasoline drums, trucked across the border from the neighboring Dominican Republic, were to have been added to a nearby stockpile of contraband fuel being held in one of many warehouses in the area believed to be owned by the Haitian military.
A tiny American Indian bank in Montana is challenging the insurance industry's hold on the lucrative annuity business. The bank on the Blackfeet Indian reservation has introduced the first certificate of deposit with the tax advantages of an annuity, according to its promoters, who hope to license the unusual product to larger banks.
Family Faults E.M.S. Actions The Emergency Medical Service is being criticized for its handling of a pregnant Queens woman whose baby died later in a hospital. Page B1. Division in South Africa The Inkatha party's pullout from South Africa's elections stems largely from differing visions for the nation. News analysis, page A3. Hazardous Classrooms The California earthquake has raised questions of how quickly -- or if at all -- the state's universities should upgrade unsafe buildings. Page A10. A2 Arts
An emergency crew argued at length early yesterday with a pregnant Queens woman over her choice of hospital, then made her walk to the ambulance while she was in labor, her family charged. Her baby, later delivered by an emergency Caesarean section, died shortly after it was born. The allegation was made by the family of Tracy Ortega, 24, in a complaint filed with the Emergency Medical Service. The woman's father, Frank Bolanos, said he believed that the baby was dying while technicians spent half an hour arguing with his family about whether to take Ms. Ortega to St. John's Hospital, where her obstetrician was based, or New York Hospital Medical Center in Queens, which was closer.
PREVENTING MURDER ON THE JOB With homicide now the leading cause of death in the workplace in New York City and the second-leading cause across the nation, the crimes are increasingly being viewed as occupational health threats that are potentially preventable, rather than simply as random criminal acts. A1. NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC ADVOCATE, PRIVATE STRUGGLE In the six weeks since his inauguration, Mark J. Green, New York City's new Public Advocate, has seized the issue of reinventing government with a passion. He said that embracing the issue was only natural, and that he had long been a champion of making government leaner and more efficient. But others suggest that it is one of many ways Mr. Green has chosen to make a mark in the city's second-highest post, a job that is ill-defined and widely perceived as just short of ceremonial. B3.
After Rosa Alston had her second leg amputated, her surgeon began making arrangements for her to go to a nursing home. But Mrs. Alston, a 73-year-old widow who lives alone, would have none of it. Instead, she signed up for Palmetto Senior Care, a comprehensive-care program for frail elderly people based on a San Francisco model that is winning support among health policy makers nationwide.
One product that will be introduced at the American International Toy Fair, which opens this morning in Manhattan, says a great deal about current toy trends: Classic Star Trek Turtles. With it, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles boldly go where no Turtles have ventured before -- across product lines to meet Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise, all under the auspices of Playmates Toys Inc. of La Mirada, Calif.
Eleven years ago, Tom Moe Sr. and son Tommy made a father-and-son connection, laying the foundation for a dream. Tom Moe needed 46 weather-plagued hours to reach Norway from Alaska, through Dallas and Copenhagen, and six more this morning to get from Lillehammer to the grandstand at the bottom of the mountain to see it all come true. For the race of his 24-year-old son's life, he arrived with a couple of minutes to spare.
While it might appear that the United States Olympic Committee was a resounding loser and Tonya Harding the big winner as a phalanx of lawyers in the Clackamas County circuit court shaped events some 5,000 miles away, looks have often been deceiving since that whack on a knee six weeks ago. A closer examination of the negotiated settlement, allowing the 23-year-old skater to compete in the Lillehammer Olympics, suggests that the Olympic committee has suffered little beyond the incredulity of those who presume she was involved in the attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, even though she has not been charged.
A year after Congressional redistricting sent a record number of minority lawmakers to Capitol Hill, newly created black Congressional districts face a rising tide of court challenges that may threaten those electoral gains. At stake are not just the future of the districts and the representatives being challenged. At issue is a tangle of politics and race that has the potential to affect the nature of districts, from city councils to Congress, and the makeup of Congress at a time when President Clinton is trying to maintain the fragile margin of support in the House that provided him with legislative victories in his first year in office.
Millions of Americans will assume on Valentine's Day today that the quickest way to a lover's heart is through a box of luscious chocolates, even if it is not the healthiest of gifts. But according to recent studies of chocolate's effects on cholesterol, at least in the medical sense these hopeful Valentines need not worry. National food surveys clearly indicate that chocolate sets many a heart aflutter. But, the studies show, even a three-pound heart-shaped box of the richest pure chocolate -- as sinful as its 6,900 calories may seem -- is unlikely to literally stop hearts dead in their tracks.