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Dave Anderson, in Sports of The Times column, contends that Connecticut Coach Geno Auriemma was 'nice wrong' in arranging for injured Nykesha Sales to break school's women's basketball career-scoring record at start of game against Villanova; photo (M)
Critic's Notebook on recent Broadway musicals, with reviews of recently-released cast albums; photos (M)
Zoning law upheld by New York State Court of Appeals on Feb 24 could mean end of Scores, exclusive Manhattan strip club that draws Hollywood celebrities, and several other gentlemen's clubs; Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani says only two of half-dozen exclusive strip clubs in Manhattan will remain open, ones that are in strictly commercial areas; they are Paradise Club and Flashdancers; photo (M)
US military contractors, faced with shrinking Defense Department budget, are moving more into commercial ventures; decade-long slide in nation's military procurement budget set off wave of mergers among military contractors so broad that there are now only three prime military contractors left: Boeing Co, Raytheon Co and Lockheed Martin Corp; some of commercial ventures of military contractors discussed; chart; photos (L)
Clyde Haberman column on Patsy and Bill Moody, struggling Hamden, NY, dairy farmers who support proposal that would allow farmers in state to join Northeast Dairy Compact, group of New England milk producers who are allowed to charge higher wholesale prices than Federal Government generally permits; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 1998, covering February 27, 1998.
Soundtrack
Celine Dion
Pearl Jam
Garth Brooks
Spice Girls
1998Todd Cantwell, English footballer[†]
Todd Owen Cantwell is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL Championship club Blackburn Rovers.
1998George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)[†]
George Herbert Hitchings was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.
1998J. T. Walsh, American actor (born 1943)[†]
James Thomas Patrick Walsh was an American character actor. His many films include: Tin Men (1987), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), A Few Good Men (1992), Hoffa (1992), Nixon (1995), Sling Blade (1996), Breakdown (1997) and Pleasantville (1998).
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]