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Approximately two dozen police departments nationwide are using cameras and computers at strategic intersections to record traffic violations and automatically dole out citations; New York City, which was among first to begin automated ticketing five years ago, operates red-light cameras in all five boroughs; photos (M)
United Healthcare Corp, one of nation's largest health maintenance organizations, is taking $900 million charge in its second quarter, in part to abandon unprofitable Medicare plans; move possibly jeopardizes United Healthcare's proposed $5.5 billion merger with rival, Humana Inc, which would create nation's largest HMO with 10 million members; United Healthcare's announcement raises serious questions as to whether HMO's can make money covering Medicare patients; stock drops $15, to close at $37.88 a share; graph (M)
Allan Kozinn previews Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, which begins 15th annual season in Bridgehampton, NY, on August 8; photos; maps (L)
Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column on 1906 Chicago Cubs notes that team won record 116 games; photo (M)
Federal officials charge Racquet and Tennis Club manager Robert Gressler and Patroon restaurant operators Kenneth Aretsky and Alex Hasbany with selling illicit Cuban cigars to customers; also arrest Kenneth Joseph, Laurence Zimmerman, John Steinhardt and Edward Marron (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1998, covering August 7, 1998.
Beastie Boys
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Jermaine Dupri
Wu-Tang Killa Beez
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1998Vladimir Barbu, Italian diver[â ]
Vladimir Barbu is an Italian diver.
1998MarĂa BelĂ©n Bazo, Peruvian windsurfer[â ]
MarĂa BelĂ©n Bazo GermĂĄn is a Peruvian windsurfer who previously competed in the RS:X class and now competes in the iQFoil class.
1998Jalen Hurts, American football player[â ]
Jalen Alexander Hurts is an American professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL).
1998Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.[â ]
The 1998 United States embassy bombings or sometimes known as the 1998 Nairobi Embassy Bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[â ]