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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]
1995Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (born 1952)[†]
Philip Taylor Kramer was an American bass guitar player for the rock group Iron Butterfly and associated groups between 1974 and 1980. He later became a computer engineering executive and inventor. He disappeared in February 1995 and was found dead in May 1999.
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When the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad completed the 125th Street station in Harlem in 1897, the station was called "one of the finest in the city, containing everything necessary to the comfort of the traveling public." These days, 4,000 commuters get on or off a total of 392 Metro-North trains there each weekday. The first train, en route to Grand Central Terminal, rumbles in at 5:38 A.M.; the last pulls out at 1:41 A.M. The station, though, is showing its age. The commuters pass under a leaky viaduct, crowd narrow platforms and buy their tickets in a dreary waiting room. "The station is unattractive and uninviting," said Marjorie Anders, a spokeswoman for Metro-North.
AS trade wars go, the one that started between the United States and China last week in Washington -- and that may well end in truce or treaty later this month in Beijing -- is a classic of the art form. Both sides claim their national sovereignty and economic livelihoods are at stake, so they threaten each other with billions in sanctions and counter-sanctions. Both grab big headlines from Silicon Valley to Shanghai. And both quietly abide by the Geneva Convention of Economic Conflict: Never aim for the vital organs.
Like Charles Barkley pulling a rebound off the defensive boards and bursting from the pack, the sun breaks out with remarkable consistency in this baked desert valley. The forecast is too bright to let one dark day ruin pro basketball's version of "It's a Wonderful Life." Thus depression over Danny Manning's torn anterior cruciate ligament seems already to have come and gone, like one more atrocious round of Barkley's power golf.
While former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was still celebrating the election of his hand-picked successor last summer, he liked to tell visitors that the peasant uprising he faced in the southern state of Chiapas would not be so serious a problem for Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon. With the political appeal of the rebels fading since the first months after their revolt against the Government on Jan. 1, 1994, the next President would be able to take his time in dealing with them, people who spoke with Mr. Salinas said he had told them.
It has 27 softball fields, 11 tennis courts, 7 soccer fields and a 22,000-seat stadium. It also has a psychiatric hospital and a 1,000-bed men's shelter. These and more are all part of the Randalls and Wards Island Parks, a 406-acre complex on the two islands in the East River that is the focus of redevelopment efforts by the private Randalls Island Sports Foundation and New York City. The city has pledged $20 million to the first phase of a projected $250 million development project that will begin next month with the drafting of a master plan.
FOR generations, the war tech wonks at the Army's Picatinny Arsenal in rural western Morris County have aggressively kept to themselves as they put together top-secret weaponry. But with the Department of Defense scheduled to publish by March 1 its latest and final hit list of military bases it wants closed, Picatinny's worried engineers have gone public with a vengeance. A steady stream of visitors -- including Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation -- has been touring the 6,500-acre base in Rockaway Township. They have taken the occasion to express for the press their support for keeping the base alive.
HIGH OVER MALIBU, THE FULL MOON is so perfect it could have been installed by lighting technicians. Aloof, it casts a cool light on the seething movie scene below, a show-biz party on the patio of a preposterously vulgar beach-front mansion. The partygoers, who include a more than healthy sprinkling of leggy young women in very short, very tight spangly dresses, mill around a swimming pool. Off to one side, a Lucullan buffet table bends under the weight of 10-pound lobsters on beds of seaweed, innumerable super-shrimp, heads of broccoli and cauliflower, bunches of grapes, and mega-loaves of bread. Neon pink flamingos near a classical colonnade provide a subtle touch of class. Paul Verhoeven, behind the camera for the first time since "Basic Instinct" in 1992, fusses over a small detail in the scene. It is a key moment in "Showgirls," a drama that ventures, untentatively, into the sex-saturated world of Las Vegas lap dancing, strip clubs and top-of-the-line topless revues. A smarmy Vegas singer, played by William Shockley, is supposed to breeze past two men in togas, Roman sandals and gilded laurel wreaths who will announce his entrance with a trumpet blast. "The left trumpet a little lower, yeah?" says Mr. Verhoeven. "Good. That looks silly enough."
FOR the average technologically savvy adult, the information superhighway is the wave of the future. It's a world of quirky E-mail messages and dazzling CD-ROM images. But where do young children fit in this new Information Age? Wendy Nashid of Mount Vernon is not only finding out where young, preschool-age children belong, she is also preparing them, at ages 3 through 6, to compete handily in the high-tech future of the computer generation. Ms. Nashid, is a New York State-licensed day-care provider and operates the Rise-N-Shine Child Care-Home Center from her eclectic and spacious fourth-floor apartment here.
Two decades after winning its long-sought quest for home rule, the city's government is a shambles, its cash is expected to run out sometime this spring, and its autonomy is threatened by its old ruler and nemesis, Congress, now led by conservative Republicans. Mayor Marion Barry, the dominant power for 12 of those years, back in office from a jail cell, is proclaiming the limited home rule a failure. Throwing the city on the mercy of Congress, he declares the nation's capital cannot survive "half slave and half free."
Once again, it's the invasion of the stroller people. Chappaqua, a quiet Westchester County suburb that a generation ago was a haven for young families, is seeing history repeat. The World Cup Gymnastics and Nursery School added nine new classrooms last summer and recently voters approved a bond issue to expand the primary schools. The kiddie pools at the swim clubs spawn 3-year-olds like tadpoles. And when the Ragamuffin Parade turned off Greely Avenue last Halloween, dozens of MacLaren strollers were parked in the eddy, holding next year's marchers.
THREE or four years ago, as Al Weaver tells it, an old buddy passed him at work on East 22d Street. "I felt bad for him," said Mr. Weaver. "I could tell from the expression on his face that he was taken aback. The last time he saw me was in my office. I had a receptionist, a secretary, my own phone.
JUST asking. Is baseball's proposed expansion franchise in northern Virginia connected to the club owners' lobby in Washington? Just asking.