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Robert Lipsyte column on the debate over doctor-assisted suicide, a subject that divides one New York family: Richard Weiner, his wife, Florence, and her sister, Simi Linton; cartoon (M)
Article on search for truth in criminal cases, focuses on O J Simpson's criminal and wrongful-death trials; examines assertion by some lawyers, notably Alan Dershowitz, that criminal trial is anything but search for truth; photo (M)
Several new situation comedies have begun airing in Russia, representing radical shift in Russian broadcasting; Western-style shows are made in Russia for purely Russian audience, reflecting expanding advertising revenues, rising costs of imported programming and rapidly growing number of television stations; also reflect disaffection with West and growing nostalgia for Russian popular culture; photos (M)3
In-depth profile of Robert L Crandall, combative chairman of American Airlines; at time when American is riding stong industry comback from huge losses of early 90's, as well as heralding big marketing alliance with British Airways, Crandall has experienced setback in deal to buy $6 billion worth of Boeing jets because of labor dispute at American; Boeing deal was contingent on approval of four-year contract by American's pilots, who rejected deal; labor problem underscores likelihood that Crandall will not be moving ahead as rapidly as he would like, either with pilots or with Boeing; in addition, dealings with pilots show Crandall has once again stubbed his toe in labor talks where his hardball positions are often criticized as counterproductive; his photo; cartoon (L)
Problems that plagued American banks in 1990, driving bank stocks into ground, are coming to head in Japan; index of Japanese bank shares fell 15 percent during final four days of last week, causing plunge in Nikkei stock index; current question facing banks is one of capital; Japanese bank accounting is opaque, so it is not easy to know just how bad off they will be if they wrote off all their bad loans, but general suspicion is they will be be very bad off indeed; graph on performance of Topix index of Japanese banks (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 8, 1997, covering January 12, 1997.
No Doubt
Celine Dion
Bush
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1997Darius Slayton, American football player[†]
Darius Slayton is an American professional football wide receiver for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Auburn Tigers and was selected by the Giants in the fifth round of the 2019 NFL draft.
1997Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (born 1936)[†]
Jean-Edern Hallier was a French writer, critic and editor.
1997Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901)[†]
Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for medical school. He was one of the founding staff members of the University of Chicago Medical School, where he remained for the duration of his professional research career. Huggins's work on how sex hormones influence prostate function ultimately led to his discovery of hormone therapies to treat prostate cancer. For this finding, he was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. In addition to his work on prostate cancer, Huggins explored the relationship between hormones and breast cancer, developed an animal model for breast cancer, and developed chromogenic substrates that are widely used for biochemical analyses. Huggins continued to perform research into his 90s; he died in Chicago in 1997.
1997Space Shuttle program: Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-81 to the Russian space station Mir, carrying astronaut Jerry M. Linenger for a four-month stay on board the station, replacing astronaut John E. Blaha.[†]
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]