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New York Knicks basketball player Patrick Ewing, who broke his right wrist on Dec 20, is healing more quickly than expected; Ewing could confront Dr Norman Scott with crucial decision--whether to give him go-ahead to return for playoffs; diagram; photos (M)
Black Americans continue tradition of caring for their aging mothers and fathers and grandparents; tradition is not unique to blacks, but blacks are twice as likely as whites to receive care from family members when their health declines; Jacqueline Jones, historian, traces tradition to blacks' historic lack of access to good medical care, public support and kinds of jobs that guaranteed secure old age; in population as a whole, studies show nearly one in four American families is taking care of elderly relative or friend; this is expected to increase as ranks of 'the old old' grow ever larger; experts worry that in black community, economic stress and increased mobility will prevent coming generations from taking on caregiving role; experts say there is more of resistance to institutional care among blacks than whites; stories abound among African-Americans about relatives and friends being mistreated in nursing homes; photos (L)
Excerpts from arguments before Supreme Court when Justices were considering whether to allow Paula Jones to pursue her sexual harassment case against Pres Clinton during his Presidency; photo; Justices ruled unanimously that suit could proceed, although they cannot have imagined lurid developments that have since taken center stage (M)
Analysis of verdict in sexual misconduct trial of Sgt Maj Gene C Mckinney; military jurors were caught in same muddle that often complicates such harassment cases: whom to believe when woman says one thing and man says another; faced with conflicting testimony, little physical evidence and defendant with otherwise shining reputation, military jurors concluded they could not say beyond reasonable doubt that crimes had been committed; photo (M)
Advice on shopping for home mortgage in borrower's market; need to amass large down payment has all but disappeared and interest rates are near historic lows; drawing (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 11, 1998, covering March 15, 1998.
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Celine Dion
Silkk the Shocker
Savage Garden
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1998Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and author (born 1903)[†]
Benjamin McLane Spock, widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician, Olympian athlete and left-wing political activist. His book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise told mothers, "You know more than you think you do." Dr. Spock was widely regarded as a trusted source for parenting advice in his generation.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]