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President Clinton plans to seek a substantial increase in Federal spending for AIDS treatment, primarily to help those infected with the virus that causes the disease pay for the effective but expensive new drugs that appear to block development of the disease.
New York Giants' loss to Minnesota Vikings in last minute and a half of their playoff game on Dec 27 was due to deluge of poor judgments, bad bounces and quirky blunders; photo (M)
New York City, which prides itself on working into overdrive if not hyperdrive, has been mostly idle for past two weeks because of curse of calender, which has Christmas and New Year's Day both falling inconveniently on Thursday; many workers have decided to take all days off between Christmas and New Year's, flushing work entirely from their minds; photos (M)
Dr Gary Ruvkun, research biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, uses DNA data banks to help him open up surprising new window on nature of diabetes; has found two families of genes that are involved in relaying messages about sugar metabolism to information center in nucleus of living cells; he believes that defects in any of these genes could be contributory causes of diabetes, and if so, biologists trying to trace pedigrees of diabetic genes have whole new range of targets to consider; Ruvkun is conducting research on microscopic roundworm, standard laboratory organism surprisingly similar to humans; diagrams; photo of worm (L)
Clyde Haberman column criticizes Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's antigridlock plan in midtown Manhattan; argues that pedestrians, who are being forced to cross three streets instead of one to accommodate turning cars, are more important to city's economy than cars are; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 24, 1997, covering December 30, 1997.
Garth Brooks
Celine Dion
Barbra Streisand
LeAnn Rimes
Chumbawamba
1997Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1926)[â ]
Shinâichi Hoshi was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer best known for his "short-short" science fiction stories, often no more than three or four pages in length, of which he wrote over 1000. He also wrote mysteries and won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for MÅsÅ GinkÅ in 1968.
1997In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.[â ]
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The capital and largest city is Algiers, located in the far north on the Mediterranean coast.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[â ]