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Senate Education Committee approves bill to revamp school financing, but it adds money to prevent wealthier school districts from losing state aid--as they would have under Gov Christine Todd Whitman's original proposal--unless their enrollment has declined (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Clinton Administration is set to ease two-decade-old policy meant to keep nuclear weapons out of hands of terrorists and rogue states, despite protests from arms control specialists; Energy Department will recommend that plutonium from dismantled atomic bombs be used as fuel in civilian nuclear power plants before being discarded with radioactive waste; decision would breach wall between commercial nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons establishment; Administration says change is not unduly risky, and would help secure Russia's cooperation on weapons disposal; Russia is intent on using surplus plutonium in power plants; critics see great danger in expanding distribution of plutonium; technical difficulties of plutonium disposal explained (M)
Report indicting Canadian policies towards indigenous peoples noted
Compuserve Corp, in abandoning its fledgling, family-oriented Wow service, is trying to reinvent itself once again, building computer network for home office and small-business customers; meanwhile, Compuserve's majority owner, H&R Block Inc, its own earnings dragged down by Compuserve's performance, makes it clear that it will not wait for on-line service's next makeover; instead, it intends to sell 80.1% of computer service company it still owns, even though Compuserve's shares are trading for only fraction of value they were last spring when Block first spun off Compuserve's stock to public (M)
New York Workers Rights Board holds hearing at Judson Memorial Church on city's workfare program; board, made up of union officials, clergy, academics and community leaders, condemns program for exploiting welfare participants; tribunal's pronouncements have no legal authority, but its founders say it has plenty of sting and moral authority to pressure wayward companies and governments to mend their ways; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 20, 1996, covering November 22, 1996.
Makaveli
Mo Thugs Family
Celine Dion
No Doubt
The Beatles
1996Hailey Bieber, American model[†]
Hailey Rhode Bieber is an American model, socialite, creative director and businesswoman. She is the founder and chief creative officer of her namesake skin care company Rhode, and has featured in campaigns for Guess, Ralph Lauren, and Tommy Hilfiger.
1996Mackenzie Lintz, American actress[†]
Mackenzie Coleman is an American film and television actress. She is known for playing Norrie Calvert-Hill on the CBS television drama Under the Dome.
1996JuJu Smith-Schuster, American football player[†]
John Sherman "JuJu" Smith-Schuster is an American professional football wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, earning second-team All-American honors in 2015. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2017 NFL draft. With the Chiefs, he won Super Bowl LVII.
1996Woozi, South Korean singer, songwriter, record producer, member of boy band Seventeen[†]
Lee Ji-hoon, known by his stage name Woozi (우지), is a South Korean singer, songwriter and record producer. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen, the leader of its vocal team, and part of its subunit Hoshi X Woozi.
1996Terence Donovan, English photographer and director (born 1936)[†]
Terence Daniel Donovan was an English photographer and film director, noted for his fashion photography of the 1960s. A book of his fashion work, Terence Donovan Fashion, was published 2012. He also directed many TV commercials and oversaw the music video to Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistible". The Guardian labelled “Addicted to Love“ as being "fashion's favourite video" since it was released.
In 1996, the world population was approximately 5,842,055,734 people[†]