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In 1995, the world population was approximately 5,758,878,982 people[â ]
1995Alison Hargreaves, English mountaineer (born 1963)[â ]
Alison Jane Hargreaves was a British mountaineer. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. She soloed all the great north faces of the Alps in a single seasonâa first for any climber. This feat included climbing the difficult north face of the Eiger in the Alps. Hargreaves also climbed 6,812-metre (22,349Â ft) Ama Dablam in Nepal.
1995Jan KÅesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (born 1926)[â ]
Václav Jaroslav Karel Pinkava, better known by his pen name Jan KÅesadlo, was a Czech psychologist who was also a prizewinning novelist and poet.
1995Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1931)[â ]
Mickey Charles Mantle, nicknamed "the Mick" and "the Commerce Comet", was an American professional baseball player who played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career (1951â1968) with the New York Yankees, primarily as a center fielder. Mantle is regarded by many as being one of the best players and sluggers of all time. He was an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player three times and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
AS senators dicker over welfare policy, debating how much power to give the states, President Clinton has fostered what amounts to a quiet revolution. His Administration has approved almost all the innovative welfare changes that states have devised. Some impose work requirements and time limits, some require teen-age mothers to live at home and still others deny additional benefits to women who have more children while on welfare. All seek to reduce the rolls and to nudge the poor from welfare to work.
EVERY child likes to feel special, especially in the eyes of a grown-up. But when a special grown-up is missing from their lives -- as is true for nearly one of every four children in Connecticut -- a parent may need to turn to strangers for help. Nationwide, more than one-half of all black and one-third of all Hispanic children are being raised in one-parent homes, according to Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of America. As this figure continues to grow, the need for mentors -- to help children stay in school, keep out of trouble and feel better about themselves -- grows too.
NEW YORKERS & CO. 2 A New Yorker teaches the Japanese to navigate the big city.
In the days before Croatia attacked rebel Croatian Serbs on Aug. 4, Bill Clinton met repeatedly with his national security aides almost every morning to weigh a crucial question: How far should he go in pressuring the Croats to call off their offensive? Anthony Lake, the national security adviser, and Madeleine K. Albright, the United States representative to the United Nations, were arguing that a Croatian attack probably could not be stopped, and might bring some benefits.
The men's 400-meter relay team from the United States has achieved only two results at the Olympics and world championships: a gold medal or disqualification. The Americans have never been beaten by others, but several times they have beaten themselves. On a day when Allen Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., won the 110-meter hurdles title with a personal-best of 13.0 seconds, the American 400-meter relay team was disqualified in the first round after a failed baton exchange, continuing a string of disappointing performances in the short sprints at the world track and field championships.
NEW YORKERS & CO. 2 A New Yorker teaches the Japanese to navigate the big city.
As Roger E. Moore stepped outside for his newspaper on a crisp Arkansas morning last autumn, a man wearing camouflage battle dress and a black ski mask pointed a pistol-grip shotgun, slung with a loop of stainless-steel garroting wire, at his midsection. "I'll never forget the sight of him," Mr. Moore said. "One look, and I knew this guy was a professional killer."
A Woman Enters the Citadel Shannon Faulkner reported to The Citadel, finally winning her legal battle to become the Southern military college's first female cadet. Page 14. Iraqi Defector Talks of Coup A son-in-law of President Saddam Hussein who defected to Jordan vowed to work for the overthrow of the Iraqi Government. Page 3. Amid Criticism, Success Criticism of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ignores how well it performs compared to other urban transit systems. Page 31. A Bronx Push for Quiet With the car alarms, boom boxes, and salsa, the Bronx is noisy. Hence a campaign for quiet. Page 31.
WELCOME, Yankee fans, to Compu-Race, the latest in playoff software. In order to access the many teams and to calculate baseball's new math, you will need a special modem hookup to receive West Coast box scores as you sleep, along with the updated how-to manual, "Wild Card for Dummies." Speaking of which, before they blew another ninth-inning lead and game to the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium on Friday night, those silly Yankees tried to act as if they were still in an old-fashioned divisional race with streaking Boston. By the end of the night, they were nine games out. Did anyone catch the Texas and Milwaukee and Baltimore scores? Who won the Kansas City-Seattle game? Who was supposed to win?
Ernie Els has this routine he goes through when he really wants to launch his tee ball. He widens his stance and slows his swing and gives the ball what he likes to call "the treatment." The treatment. That's what Els is giving the P.G.A. Championship. That's what he's giving the field, which was the strongest in the history of golf when the week began. That's what he's giving Riviera Country Club, and it's a treat just to be able to watch.
THIS summer when Milan Kofol took time off from his job as treasurer of Reader's Digest in Pleasantville, he did not spend time lounging in a beach chair. He has been playing a series of tennis tournaments, competing for national ranking among men 45 and older. His son, Tim Kofol, 13, who played No. 1 on the varsity tennis team at Bronxville High School last spring, has also been busy on the courts, vying for national ranking among boys 14 and younger.
When the Yankees drag what is left of their division-title hopes into Fenway Park tomorrow, they will brace for the usual nooks and crannies the old ball park can present. However, the Yankees will not have to brace for the newest wrinkle, and among the most puzzling, presented by the Red Sox this season. They will miss Tim Wakefield, the born-again master of the knuckleball, by one day, a bit of good fortune needed by a team that has had too little of that commodity lately.