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In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]
1998Isabel Atkin, British-American freestyle skier[†]
Isabel Atkin is a British-American freestyle skier who competes internationally for Great Britain. She won bronze in women's slopestyle at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the first British Olympic medal in skiing.
1998Harry Cranbrook Allen, English historian (born 1917)[†]
Harry Cranbrook Allen was a British historian of the United States.
1998Anastasio Ballestrero, Italian cardinal (born 1913)[†]
Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, religious name Anastasio del Santissimo Rosario, was an Italian cardinal and member of the Discalced Carmelites who served as the Archbishop of Turin from 1977 until his resignation in 1989. Ballestrero was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979 and became a leading progressive voice in the Italian episcopate during his time as the head of the Italian Episcopal Conference in the pontificate of the conservative Pope John Paul II. Ballestrero likewise was known for being reserved when it came to the Shroud of Turin as opposed to the enthusiasm of John Paul II for the relic. The cardinal allowed for testing of the shroud and announced that the relic itself was a product of the Middle Ages as opposed to the genuine burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
1998Al Campanis, American baseball player and manager (born 1916)[†]
Alexander Sebastian Campanis was an American executive in Major League Baseball (MLB). He had a brief major league playing career, as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943; he was the first Greek player in MLB history. Campanis is most famous for his position as general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1968 to 1987, from which he was fired on April 8, 1987, as a result of controversial remarks regarding black people in baseball made during an interview on Nightline two days earlier.
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A Greyhound driver making his last run before retirement was killed yesterday along with his wife and and an 8-year-old boy he planned to adopt, as well as four other passengers, when their bus hit a parked truck beside the rain-slicked Pennsylvania Turnpike and pushed it into another truck. Milton Scott Wisner Jr., 61, of Boothwyn, Pa., was about to leave the company after 10 years.
Workplace is emerging as increasingly popular but elusive spot to seek purpose and fulfillment; many companies back search for meaning as way to get more out of workers; recent books on topic cited; diagram (M)
James G Cobb assesses Volvo C70 coupe; table; photo (M)
It is great that the Clinton Administration wants to reconcile with Iran, Alexi Lalas said. He and his American teammates will shake hands with Iran's players before Sunday's game and exchange jerseys afterward. But this is the World Cup, and politics must take a backseat to soccer, he said. Ultimately, it is more urgent to win the game than to win new friends. ''If we establish good relations with another country, fine, just give us 3 points,'' Lalas said.
Robert Lipsyte (Coping) column on plight of Ike and Marcia Tepler and other tenants of Manhattan apartment building that is being converted to residence for elderly; drawing (M)
College officials say schools are using scholarship money to compete for top students, whether or not they need aid, leaving less money to spend on needy students; best schools are taking more subjective approach to need, adjusting scholarships to match or exceed offers students get elsewhere; other colleges are taking need into account where they previously had not, rejecting some poorer borderline applicants in favor of better-off ones; photo (M)
Clinton Administration, preparing for Pres Clinton's trip to China, has shifted perspective in Asia; casts China, formerly seen as military menace, as island of economic stability, and Japan, formerly touted as reliable ally, as economic threat unwilling to take cure; photo (M)
China Trade Stalemate China is not ready to make the economic changes necessary to join the World Trade Organization, the top American trade negotiator said after two days of talks with officials in Beijing. Page 10.
Biological and cognitive advantages women have over men discussed in special section Women's Health; science and medicine are finally realizing that differences that exist between sexes necessitate developing distinct therapeutic treatments addressing specifics of our physiology; for example, some doctors are advocating use of sex-specific assessment and treatment of psychiatric disorders, like depression; Dr Susan G Kornstein says that while depressed men seem to respond better to drugs that affect two neurotransmitter systems, women repond better to drugs that affect only serotonin system; says these differences not only underscore need for medicine to go beyond giving women tapered doses of whatever is being prescribed for men, but support idea that men's and women's brains do not function in same way, largely because of hormonal differences (M)
New York State Tenants and Neighbors Coalition offers guide for tenants on subletting, sharing and apartment succession; guide warns tenants risk financial penalties and loss of apartment if they disregard rules (S)
Aby J Rosen, Michael Fuchs and Trevor Davis are catapulting selves, through RFR Davis partnership, into small circle of developers who build and continue to own and manage Manhattan rental apartments; seek to build portfolio of several thousand apartments within few short years, mostly on East Side; drop in land prices and rise in rents has set stage for resumption of rental building; photos; drawings (M)
Guide offers suggestions to harried New Yorkers seeking some degree of solitude in city as tourists throng and summer heats up; photos (L)