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Article profiles Martin Luther King Jr High School soccer team, coached by Martin Jacobson, and its quest for winning NYC PSAL championship; photo (M)
Orchard Street, the Lower East Side's classic destination for Sunday bargain hunters, is latest frontier for young and groovy entrepreneurs; same entrepreneurial energy that inspired street's legendary pushcart peddlers and drygoods discounters is now being claimed by artists, designers and hipsters; they are signing leases for boutiques featuring their own designer labels, bars, or vintage furniture stores; photo (L)
Charles Handy, writer and lecturer, and his wife Elizabeth, professional photographer, have devised way to pursue their own careers and still be close together; couple separated year into two parts, and agreed to concentrate on one spouse's career for half of each year; Charles Handy, who specializes in creative approaches to work-related issues, expects many couples over age of 50 to be making similar arrangements, taking into account likelihood that they will not spend their whole working lives behind desk at one company; photos; diagram (L)
Pres Saddam Hussein's refusal to end Iraqi occupation of Kuwait after 43 straight days of air bombardment in 1991 is being weighed by American officials as they consider whether to bomb Iraq to force Hussein to allow Americans on United Nations' team of weapons inspectors in Iraq; any strategy that relies on bombing raids to bring Iraq into line is filled with political and military gambles; photo of Baghdad residents buying lamp oil and candles in face of possible air raids and blackouts (M)
Several movie stars have number of new movies out this winter, running consecutively or simultaneously; short list of tried-and-true audience pleasers appear with dizzing frequency as number of films released nationally has greatly increased in recent years; most are men in their 40's and 50's; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 12, 1997, covering November 16, 1997.
Mase
LeAnn Rimes
Dave Matthews Band
Mariah Carey
Nas Escobar| Foxy Brown| AZ And Nature
1997Bruno Guimarães, Brazilian footballer[†]
Bruno Guimarães Rodrigues Moura, known as Bruno Guimarães, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Premier League club Newcastle United, which he captains, and the Brazil national team.
1997After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.[†]
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), making it the third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]