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Group of Point Pleasant Beach residents are battling developer Bay Point Dunes Development for right to use part of town beach (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Speech by retired Gen Colin L Powell at Republican National Convention highlighted; framed vision of ideological tent seemingly big enough to hold all factions of deeply riven party; photo (M)
Discovery of Martian meteorite that may contain evidence of life on Mars stimulates discussion about expanding and accelerating current plans for Mars exploration; already on NASA's books are 10 low-cost, unmanned flights that are designed to orbit and land on the planet over the next 10 years; meanwhile scientists are stepping up their laboratory analysis of the meteorite; charts; photo (M)
New York City and New York State officials scramble to prepare for largest public jobs program since Great Depression in effort to meet requirements of new Federal welfare-reform bill passed by Congress; program could create statewide work force of welfare recipients as large as New York City's municipal payroll at cost that may exceed $1 billion per year; under plan, as many as quarter of state's adult welfare recipients will begin working, within two years, for city and other governments statewide in exchange for welfare benefits; by 2002, number of workfare recipients may grow to nearly 204,000 employees, nearly that of city's current work force; city officials acknowledge they have no idea where they will get money to administer such huge program, particularly in case of mothers whose children need day care (M)
New evidence that Mars may once have harbored primitive microbes lends new energy to a call for close exploration not only of Mars, but also of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that scientists see as a possible habitat for life; Europa is completely enveloped by ice and water and researchers suspect that the satellite has a hot core and inner waters may seethe with life forms that have evolved over billions of years; diagrams; photo of Europa taken by Galileo spacecraft (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 7, 1996, covering August 13, 1996.
Nas
Alanis Morissette
LeAnn Rimes
Metallica
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
1996Antonia Lottner, German tennis player[†]
Antonia Lottner is a German former tennis player.
1996António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (born 1910)[†]
António Sebastião Ribeiro de Spínola was a Portuguese military officer, author and conservative politician. During the Estado Novo he became one of the most senior military commanders, leading military operations against independence movements. After the Carnation Revolution organised by under-ranked military captains, he was invited to be the first President of Portugal. His role in Portugal's transition to democracy was polemic, particularly regarding his role in leading the 11 March 1975 attempted coup and the terrorist organisation Movimento Democrático de Libertação de Portugal. He was noted for wearing a monocle on his right eye.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]