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University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey will take over pediatric AIDS program it has jointly run since 1986 with United Hospital of Newark that filed for bankruptcy; program will be relocated to University Hospital (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
New York City Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew removes school board of District 5 in Harlem, charging that they have failed in their mission to 'promote the academic success' of its students; board is first to be removed since passage of state law that authorizes Chancellor to remove elected school officials (M)
News Corp and Echostar Communications Corp to combine their direct broadcast satellite businesses into company that could provide major challenge to cable television industry; new company will adopt Sky brand name from News Corp's global satellite broadcast business; it will be valued initially at $2 billion; Echostar's shareholders will own 50 percent, News Corp will own 40 percent and MCI Communications, large shareholder in News Corp, will hold 10 percent; News Corp will put its American Sky Broadcasting subsidiary into new company; two companies say new Echostar Sky venture's key advantage will be its ability to beam 500 channels of high-quality digital television to homes along with local stations; new company will be able to include local service because of large number of satellites and transponders it will control, as well as new technology; Rupert Murdoch says monthly subscription rates for service would be comparable to cable (M)
Prosecutors asked Federal judge in Trenton to end nearly six years of court-ordered supervision of Local 54 of Hotel and Restaurant Employees International Union, local that represents more than 15,000 people who work in Atlantic City casinos (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Experts in United States say Dr Ian Wilmut of Scotland would never have won Federal grant for sheep-cloning project because goal of making sheep that are drug factories was too practical and because he comes from world of animal science, not high-technology world of molecular biology; success of effort astounds biologists, who believed cloning adult animals was impossible and pay little attention to animal science issues (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 1997, covering February 25, 1997.
No Doubt
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Toni Braxton
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Celine Dion
1997Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress[†]
Isabelle Fuhrman is an American actress. She is known for her breakthrough role as Esther in the horror film Orphan (2009) and its prequel Orphan: First Kill (2022). She played Clove in the dystopian adventure film The Hunger Games (2012), Alex in the independent film The Novice (2021), and Diamond in the Western film series Horizon: An American Saga (2024–present).
1997Thon Maker, South Sudanese-Australian basketball player[†]
Thon Marial Maker is a South Sudanese-Australian professional basketball player for the Al Riyadi Club Beirut of the Lebanese Basketball Federation. He attended high school at Orangeville District Secondary School and played basketball for Canada's Athlete Institute. He was picked 10th overall in the 2016 NBA draft, and played for three different NBA teams between 2016 and 2021.
1997Andrei Sinyavsky, Russian journalist and publisher (born 1925)[†]
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial of 1965.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]