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Associated Press reports that Trenton, NJ, school district relies so heavily on substitute teachers that many of them are making lesson plans and giving out grades, in violation of state law (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Cisco Systems Inc's successful use of Internet to sell computer networking gear could portend how businesses may eventually turn Internet into money-making medium; sales on Cisco's World Wide Web site have reached over $1 billion a year and are expected to double that pace by July; Cisco, in addition to order-taking, also handles credit checking, production scheduling, basic technical support and routine customer-support queries on line; benefits include faster service, quicker production cycles and savings; Cisco aide Peter Solvik says companies in any field can soon do same; graph; photos (L)
State Plan, set of zoning guidelines, was supposed to slow suburban sprawl and concentrate development in New Jersey's cities after it was adopted in 1992; New Jersey Audubon Society says development is still gobbling up farms and forests; it has started petition drive to pressure legislators to strengthen plan when they revise it later this year (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Industry experts say Bell Atlantic and Nynex, having won battle for regulatory approval of their $22 billion merger, will find it comparatively easy to meld their operations and turn combined firm into East Coast's dominant telecommunications provider; consumer advocates and other critics score Justice Department's failure to put any curbs on market power of vast new company (M)
Troy L Lewis and two other men from Trenton, NJ, are charged with murder and armed robbery after accidentally shooting to death Lawson D Goode, their alleged accomplice in robbery attempt (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 1997, covering April 28, 1997.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Spice Girls
Soundtrack
Celine Dion
The Wallflowers
1997Shane McClanahan, American baseball player[†]
Shane Peter McClanahan is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2020 and was an All-Star in 2022 and 2023.
1997Denzel Ward, American football player[†]
Denzel Nehemiah Ward is an American professional football cornerback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
1997Ann Petry, American novelist (born 1908)[†]
Ann Petry was an American writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]