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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[†]
1995Ibai Llanos, Spanish internet personality[†]
Ibai Llanos Garatea, better known mononymously as Ibai, is a Spanish internet celebrity, streamer, and esports commentator. He was a content creator for G2 Esports from 2020 to 2021. He is the co-founder of the esports organisation KOI.
1995Eazy-E, American rapper and producer (born 1964)[†]
Eric Lynn Wright, known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records. Eazy-E is often referred to as the "Godfather of Gangsta Rap".
CLINT EASTWOOD APPEARED. HE FILLED the whole doorway of his office bungalow. He wore a shiny maroon golf shirt, old blue pants hiked up high on his waist and black rubber loafers. "Hi," he said.
THREE years ago, the hot new color on the road was teal, a bluish-green. Then teal yellowed, becoming a truer green, whether a silvery fern, a grassy emerald or a darker shade of hunter. By the end of 1994 green had displaced white as the top-selling color for intermediate and luxury cars, according to Du Pont Automotive Finishes. Now see what green has wrought this year: purple, which for the first time in recent years has penetrated the entire range of domestic and imported vehicles. Classic maroon is becoming bluer, a truer grape purple, available on many models from BMW's "Daytona violet" on the M3 to the "deep iris" of the Ford Escort and the "orchid" of the Chrysler Cirrus. The Dodge Neon's "light iris" is the fourth-most-popular hue for that subcompact, and the "navarra violet" of the BMW 7-series luxury sedans is a hit.
Amateur Action, a computer bulletin board service that advertises itself as "the nastiest place on earth!," was still open for business yesterday despite the conviction of its owners last year on charges of transmitting obscene material over computer networks. The only change appears to be a warning that greets all callers: "Amateur Action B.B.S. is for the private use of the citizens of the United States! Use by law enforcement agents, postal inspectors and informants is prohibited!"
Guatemalan and the C.I.A. A Guatemalan colonel's story has exposed the C.I.A.'s longstanding ties with high-ranking officers of a military often accused of making war on its own people. Page 6. Deadline? What Deadline? A week before Governor Pataki's budget deadline, the pressure on legislators is only modest. Page 37. Returning to Chain Gangs Alabama is planning to bring back that long-gone image of prison life, the chain gang. Page 9.
WAITING FOR THE DARK, WAITING FOR THE LIGHT By Ivan Klima. Translated by Paul Wilson. 234 pp. New York: Grove Press. $21.
FOR the Rev. Joseph Roberts, the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once served, February's celebration of Black History Month and the King Birthday were painful times. A dispute between the leadership of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change and the National Park Service had closed the center and the Dr. King's birthplace to Park Service tours, so busloads of visiting schoolchildren could only stand outside and look at the ocher-colored frame house with the dark brown trim. "I have sadly seen schoolchildren come and stand outside singing 'Happy Birthday' to Dr. King, but not be able to go inside," he said. "They didn't understand the tactics that were being used to win something politically. But now that seems to be over."
An Iraqi court today sentenced two Americans to eight years in prison after convicting them on charges of entering the country illegally, the White House said. The Americans were arrested on March 13 near the Kuwaiti border. The swiftness and severity of their punishment prompted strong condemnation from the Clinton Administration, which had warned only on Friday that Iraq could serve no purpose in holding the men.
CONCEPCION RODRIGUEZ, 91, and her sister Maria Mayor, 87, live in a modest ranch house in a working-class neighborhood of West Islip with their niece Georgina Corostola. Although the sisters meet Medicaid criteria to be admitted to a nursing home, they, like 1,800 other Nassau and Suffolk County residents, live at home with the support of the state's Nursing Home Without Walls program. The state started the program, formally called the Long-Term Home Health-Care Program, in 1984. It provides home services like nursing care, rehabilitation therapy and health aides.
WHILE many people whiz easily along the information superhighway, others are are stuck in neutral, under the impression that RAM is a sheep, byte is a snack, and port is a kind of wine. Unwilling to be DOS deficient any longer, 14 people paid $100 recently to take a six-hour course on the basics of computers. The course, called Introduction to the PC, was held at Middlesex Community Technical College in Middletown. It is one of many similiar credit-free courses offered in adult education programs across the state, specifically designed for bewildered would-be personal computer buyers and users.
The architect Hugh Hardy says the interior of the New Amsterdam Theater, the Art Nouveau cynosure of 42d Street playhouses, has the "imagery of an enchanted garden." Yes, but years of neglect left it looking like a garden to which defoliant had been liberally applied.
NEW is nice. It is fresh and exciting and full of promise. People like to buy new things, from toothpaste to laptop computers. In stocks, new equals the big score. If you had sunk $10,000 into Dell Computer, the Austin, Texas, computer manufacturer, when it went public eight years ago, you could be sailing on your yacht in the Caribbean today instead of scanning this newspaper for financial advice.