Saturday, August 28, 1993

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The Headlines

U.S. Subpoenas Blood-Test Files In New Health Care Fraud Inquiry

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Can't Help Falling in Love

UB40

#1 at the box office

$14,502,865

The must-have

Beanie Babies

On This Day

• The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

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• NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.

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• A Tajikistan Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 crashes during takeoff from Khorog Airport in Tajikistan, killing 82.

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• Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
• Jack Black (1969)
• Shania Twain (1965)
• David Fincher (1962)
• Ivo Josipović (1957)

Slang

Tech Check

Web Browser (Mosaic), Pentium Processor & PDF.

Cost of Living (1990)