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In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]
2000Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (born 1924)[†]
Aleksandar "Aca" Nikolić was a Serbian professional basketball player and coach. He was also a professor at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Sport and Physical Education. He is often referred to as the Father of Yugoslav and Serbian Basketball.
Ford Motor Co to compensate owners of 718,000 Ford Taurus, Mercury Sable, Ford Windstar and Lincoln Continental vehicles with engines prone to head-gasket failures (S)
The Loft, condominium conversion on Crosby Street in New York's SoHo, will have exterior bedecked in titanium, as well as two-level wine cellar holding up to 20,000 bottles; drawing (S)
Vintage-clothing market has undergone marked changes in past 20 years, catering of late to fashion elite that is hungry to signal that it has acquired something that other people have not and cannot have; sampling of shops offering vintage clothing; photos (M)
Market Watch column by Gretchen Morgenson examines finding that insider buyers at technology companies reap bigger gains than at nontechnology companies; says technology is poorly disclosed to investors, and there is lag time, sometimes as long as 25 days, between time insiders make their trades and when trades become public; says this hurts outside investors; says easy fix would be to require insiders to disclose trades to SEC when they make them; graph (M)
It is the second week of school, and Kathleen Sampson has been presenting the same lesson for several days: ''Amina is from Somalia. Somalia is in Africa. Da Quan is a boy. Da Quan is from China. China is in Asia.'' She builds sentences using facts about the students in the classroom, repeating them over and over. This is not first grade, but ninth grade at Liberty High School in Manhattan, with immigrants 14 to 17 years old. Unlike the high-performing immigrants who remain a staple of the American education system, these teenagers arrive from all corners of the earth with one thing in common: little or no education. Long neglected, they may have come from cultures that educate boys but not girls, their schooling may have been interrupted by war or the need to work, or their education may simply have been woefully inadequate.
Stanley Crouch article says that as an instrumentalist and singer, Louis Armstrong asserted a level of individuality in musical interpretation, recomposition and embellishment that was far more radical than any that had preceded it in Western music and that no one in jazz ever played with greater emotional range; says Armstrong, whose centenary will be celebrated over the next two years, is far more praised than comprehended, partly because he lived, as he said, 'in the service of happiness'; photos (L)
Prices for co-op apartments in Manhattan set records in 1999; list (S)
St John's University basketball team defats University of Connecticut, 80-70, winning Big East tournament for first time in 14 years, Madison Square Garden; photos (M)
Third annual African-American Women in Cinema Conference and Film Festival is set to open in Brooklyn; centerpiece will be showing of nine new films by black women who are writers, producers and directors; Carolyn Butts and Terra Renee, founders, comment; drawing (M)
Tampa Bay, Fla, in search for new sources of water to help meet needs of area's 2.3 million residents, plans to desalt sea; never before has large American urban area bet so heavily on sea water desalination for fresh water; proposed plant on Tampa Bay shores, if approved by state environmental officials, would become largest desalination plant this side of Saudi Arabia by end of 2002; map; photo (M)