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In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]
1996Louisa Chirico, American tennis player[†]
Louisa Chirico is an American tennis player. On 24 October 2016, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 58. On 6 March 2017, she peaked at No. 184 in the WTA doubles rankings. Chirico has won seven singles titles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Her best performance in singles at a Grand Slam tournament was reaching the second round at the 2016 French Open.
1996Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral (born 1939)[†]
Jeremy Michael Boorda was a United States Navy admiral who served as the 25th Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda is notable as the first person to have risen from the enlisted ranks to become Chief of Naval Operations, the highest-ranking billet in the United States Navy.
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Quick. Who has the most airplanes in today's crowded skies? Not United. Not American. Not British Airways, either. The winner is the General Electric Company.
TABLE manners are not yet a priority for Claire Ji Dougherty Covner, who is happy to lunge at a salad bowl, grab a bunch of green beans and eat them with her hands. In some ways, Claire leads the conventional life of a 20-month-old girl in a perfectly conventional-looking house in this San Francisco suburb: two stories, Cape Cod-style, blue with white trim, arbor to one side, 10-foot camellia tree in front.
The sign hanging in the South Bronx office building said, "Do not remove the mattresses," but it was just a cruel joke, for there were no mattresses to be had. One little boy slept with his cheek pressed against the dirty tile floor. A mother dozed on a row of plastic-backed chairs, her head on the belly of her son's brown teddy bear. Other mothers never slept at all, fearful that mice might crawl on their babies or that strangers might steal their duffel bags.
SINCE its birth 57 years ago, the television has been basically unchanged, a friendly, bulky box that brings football games, weather reports and Lucille Ball into our living rooms. But in the coming months, the television will mutate, undergoing a change many viewers would like to emulate: It's going to get thinner and smarter. The television of the not-too-distant future may even shake the epithet of "boob tube."
One little boy slept with his cheek pressed against the dirty tile floor. A mother dozed on a row of plastic-backed chairs. Other mothers never slept at all, fearful that mice might crawl on their babies or that strangers might steal their duffel bags. For more than a decade, courts have barred New York City from housing homeless people overnight in the offices they come to in search of shelter.
After six weeks of trying to run for President from the well of the Senate, Bob Dole finally conceded today that his strategy was not working. But while he can take himself out of Congress and get a new backdrop for his speeches, this Congress will inevitably remain a big part of the Dole candidacy. He cannot escape being judged to some degree on the record it compiles and by its personality even after he goes.
After 35 years on Capitol Hill, after more than a decade of leading the Republicans in the Senate, after establishing himself in the eyes of voters and politicians as the very emblem of Congress and its values, Bob Dole sought yesterday with a single dramatic stroke to recast himself as an outsider. It was a bold maneuver, full of potential perils -- not least the possibility that an electorate weary of tactics and stratagems would see his resignation from the Senate as just another gimmick rather than the symbol of new departure that he intends. Dire straits dictate dramatic remedies, and although it is still early, many Republicans felt Mr. Dole needed to act promptly to energize his flagging campaign.
Nintendo of America, the longtime leader in the video-game market, gave its first United States preview today of its flashy next-generation game machine, which it is hoping will revitalize the slowing video game industry this Christmas. But the new Nintendo machine, which will be more than a year behind schedule when it reaches the market in September, may be arriving at a time when much of the action is heading away from stand-alone video devices and toward PC games played by groups of contestants over computer networks.
The boardwalk got its 13th casino yesterday when Donald J. Trump's latest gambling resort opened on the Boardwalk. But perhaps to avoid tainting the 500-room hotel and casino with an unlucky number, officials maintain that it is actually an extension of Trump Plaza, to which it is linked by an enclosed walkway. In fact, the official name of the new resort is Trump World's Fair Casino at Trump Plaza. Gamblers jammed into the new casino yesterday, but the ribbon-cutting is set for May 24.
A mother and daughter injured in a car crash with a drunken former Congressman from Passaic County have reached a $517,000 settlement with him and the Morristown tavern that served him, The Associated Press reported yesterday. Former Representative Robert A. Roe, 72, pleaded guilty to drunken and reckless driving after the May 1993 collision in Rockaway Township, which injured Julia Worosila and her daughter Jodi.
IT'S an afternoon made for playing hooky, the sun just warm enough, the breeze just cool enough, the sky a topaz blue. But 30 would-be junior-senior high school truants from South Jersey have a better offer: a field trip to East Jersey State Prison. Cool. The fun begins as they step off the yellow school bus in front of the gray brick fortress. "Lineupsinglefilenotalkingnolaughing!" barks Lieut. Randy Sandkuhl, the ruddy-faced, squarely built administrator of the prison's famous Juvenile Awareness Program. The youths try to stifle giggles.