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Fierce disputes have erupted over a proposal by President Clinton that would require drug companies to test their products in children before putting new medicines on the market. Mr. Clinton says such studies will improve health care for children by helping doctors assess the safety and determine the proper doses of drugs that are used to treat children.
Michelle Krebs article on Toyota Sienna mini-van; photo (M)
Manhattan Promenade, 22-story, 183-unit building in Gramercy Park area, is one of few new rentals being built in Manhattan without tax or other government incentives; it has opened for leasing and is scheduled for occupancy in March; $30 million project is being developed by ATA Enterprises (M)
After the Chrysler Corporation spent more than half a billion dollars to convert a car factory in Newark, Del., to produce big Dodge Durango sport utility vehicles, it threw a party in September to open the new assembly line. The state's political leaders stood with Chrysler's chairman on a podium decorated with red and white bunting and waved victoriously to hundreds of cheering auto workers whose jobs had been saved. When the Durango went on sale this fall, dealers could not keep enough in stock. And Chrysler, which barely breaks even on ordinary passenger cars, began pocketing $8,000 in profit for every Durango sold.
Home building is booming in New York City metropolitan area, but only in certain areas, due primarily to their proximity to Manhattan or other commercial centers or to their cachet as second-home communities; developers note that while building permits and other measures of activity are up, they are still far from boom years of 1980's; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 1997, covering November 30, 1997.
Barbra Streisand
Shania Twain
Mystikal
LSG
Mase
1997Kathy Acker, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1947)[†]
Kathy Acker was an American experimental novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, critic, performance artist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with complex themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality, language, identity, and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-nouveau roman European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]