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In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]
1998Sofia Richie, American model and social media personality[†]
Sofia Alexandra Richie Grainge is an American social media personality and model. She has been featured in campaigns by a number of major brands including Stuart Weitzman, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and Adidas. She is the youngest daughter of singer Lionel Richie and sister of television personality Nicole Richie.
1998E. G. Marshall, American actor (born 1910)[†]
E. G. Marshall was an American actor. One of the first group selected for the new Actors Studio, by 1948, Marshall had performed in major plays on Broadway.
1998First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.[†]
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder called a tag, a radio receiver, and a transmitter. When triggered by an electromagnetic interrogation pulse from a nearby RFID reader device, the tag transmits digital data, usually an identifying inventory number, back to the reader. This number can be used to track inventory goods.
Procter & Gamble hosts 'summit meeting' of top executives from Internet and consumer marketing companies on how to effectively use Internet as advertising medium; many Internet executives say World Wide Web can best be used to provide detailed data about brands consumers already recognize and for selling things directly; Procter and others insist they must find way to use Internet to sell packaged goods; seek to pressure Internet companies to offer bigger, more elaborate advertisements; tables on Internet advertising; drawing; photos (M)
Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin dismisses five-month-old team of economic reformers and reappoints Viktor S Chernomyrdin as Prime Min in anxious bid to shore up political support; reappointment of Chernomyrdin and ouster of Sergei V Kiriyenko comes months after he derided Chenomyrdin as spent force and cast him out of Government; abrupt action raises fresh doubts about Kremlin's commitment to tough economic reforms and poses unsettling questions about Yeltsin's ability to govern; while Chernomyrdin is seen by most of Russian public as uninspired, he has been consensus figure for much of power elite; financial oligarchy regards him as far more sympathetic and pliable than Kiriyenko--even though such attributes make him questionable choice to extract Russia from its economic quagmire; photos (M)
Trailers for Siege, fictional film about roundup of American Muslims and Arab-Americans after Mideast terrorists bombings in New York City, spur concern that film will feed suspicion and hatred of Arabs and Muslims just as real Mideast terrorist group is targeting Americans and United States has launched missile attacks on terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan; people and groups protesting unfinished film are unaware that it is intended as sympathetic portrait of American Muslims; director Edward Zwick says film explores American penchant for undue targeting of ethnic groups; photos (M)
Congolese Govt forces and allies recapture strategic military base at Kitona from rebels, possibly halting their drive toward capital of Kinshasa; rebels appear to have seized Kisingani, country's third largest city, solidifying positions in eastern Congo; developments raise possibility of protracted war, in which Government and rebels, backed by respective allies, would fight each other from entrenched positions in country's second civil war in two years; military advances overtake diplomatic efforts, led by Pres Nelson Mandela of South Africa, to negotiate peaceful resolution; maps; photo (M)
Michael Jones, 16-year-old bicyclist in Brooklyn who was carrying water pistol, is shot and critically wounded by two police officers who were responding to a call about man with gun and who apparently mistook teen-ager's toy for real weapon; photo (M)
Analysis of decision by Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin to dismiss Cabinet and to reappoint Viktor Chernomyrdin, whom he dismissed months ago, as Prime Minister; move may be act of desperation, carried out at moment when political credibility and clout were in danger of being swept away by country's latest financial shock waves; Yeltsin may be salvaging his own leadership at expense of program of economic reform he has embraced since coming to power seven years ago; photos (M)
Article discusses rift over future of Rosendale, NY; majority of old-timers want to maintain town's unpretentious and traditional main street while so-called newcomers, many of whom arrived in late 1960's as artists and hippies, want to transform main street into cultural center; photo; map (M)
Adam Nagourney Metro Matters column discusses Mark Green's active public campaign for Democratic nomination for New York State Governor; photo (M)
True at First Light, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished full-lenght work, is being prepared for publication in time for 1999 centennial of author's birth; Hemingway's son, Patrick, has edited and condensed manuscript, begun in 1954; excerpts; photos (M)
AT&T's decision not to buy Ciena Corp's technology for expanding capacity of fiber optic networks causes Ciena stock to plunge and forces delay of vote on Ciena's merger with Tellabs Inc (M)
Texas Rangers defeat New York Yankees, 12-10; photo (M)
Subcommittee approved by Texas Supreme Court to stamp out unauthorized practice of law is taking on Ralph Warner and his Nolo Press, publisher of legal guides, which has long thrived on unrestrained hostility to lawyers; Stephen R Elias, Nolo executive, charges subcommittee is court's way of enforcing attorneys' monopoly; table of lawyer jokes; photos (M)