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Autos on Friday column on balancing costs and benefits of highway improvements; photo; graphs on accident rates for various types of urban and rural roads, and design changes that make them safer (M)
Andrew S Grove is stepping aside as chief executive of Intel Corp; Grove will remain full-time employee as Intel's chairman; Grove is turning over top job to Craig R Barrett, Intel's president and chief operating officer; photos (L)
House Republican leaders put off vote on McCain-Feingold finance legislation because they lack support they need to kill the bipartisan plan to rewrite nation's fund-raising rules; dozen or more Republican lawmakers have said they would work with Democrats to use parliamentary maneuver to pass measure; many of defectors are long-time proponents of changing campaign finance laws; core group are Northeast Republicans worrying about election-year challenges; Republican disarray signals that majority exists in House to pass bill that would ban political parties from accepting large unregulated donations known as soft money; bill would also curb 'issue ads' by outside groups; bill is fiercely opposed by Republican leaders, whose party generally has fund-raising advantage (M)
George Vecsey, in Sports of The Times column, comments on latest basketall gambling scandal, point-shaving at Northwestern University (M)
Steven A Pagones takes witness stand in Tawana Brawley defamation trail, and confronts his accuses under oath; states repeatedly that he never attacked Brawley, and has never seen her, except on television; expresses bewilderment over why Brawley's former advisers made their accusations, but asserts that one of defendants, Alton Maddox, 'is a liar'; Pagones's testimony reviewed; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 1998, covering March 27, 1998.
Soundtrack
Madonna
Celine Dion
Eric Clapton
Savage Garden
1998Giannis Bouzoukis, Greek footballer[†]
Giannis Bouzoukis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Super League club Panetolikos.
1998David McClelland, American psychologist and academic (born 1917)[†]
David Clarence McClelland was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation need theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. McClelland is credited with developing Achievement Motivation Theory, commonly referred to as "need for achievement" or n-achievement theory. A Review of General Psychology survey published in 2002, ranked McClelland as the 15th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
1998The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for erectile dysfunction, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.[†]
The United States Food and Drug Administration is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and promoting public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, caffeine products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed and veterinary products.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]