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New York State Court of Appeals upholds repeal of New York City's commuter tax for state residents and rules that tax must also be eliminated for out-of-state commuters, double blow to Giuliani administration that will cost city $360 million per year (M)
Consulting firm Joanne H Pratt Associates says more than 19 million people worked at home at least once a month during normal business hours in 1999, a 390 percent increase from 4 million in 1990; known as telecommuting, movement has been fueled by Internet, which makes communications between home and office much easier; Hewitt Associates survey shows that number of large companies offering work-at-home option has increased yearly since 1993, reaching 27 percent in 1998; graph (M)
On College Basketball column discusses Michigan State winning National championship; photo (M)
Article on golfers Greg Norman and David Duval preparing for Masters golf tournament; photo (M)
Hundreds of companies are looking at workers' electronic mail correspondence on routine basis, and number of companies doing so is soaring; market for e-mail monitoring has doubled in size over last year; managers are on lookout for oversize e-mail attachments that clog networks; others seek to dissuade employees from using their systems for personal activities; and others want to make sure employees are not sending harassing messages; snooping is raising ethical questions; in last six months, software has become more advanced, enabling companies automatically to record, filter and sort every word that streams through their networks; SuperScout, product made by SurfControl, can generate bar charts showing 10 people who get most e-mail messages, 10 who send most and 10 who send biggest messages; another product, xVail, made by xVault, enables managers to view and search text of messages; Symantec and GFI Fax and Voice have also introducted e-mail monitoring products the last few months; Andrew Quinn, systems manager at Canada's Ritvik Toys, comments on monitoring workers' e-mail; graph; chart; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 5, 2000, covering April 5, 2000.
*NSYNC
Santana
Ice Cube
Pantera
Sisqo
2000Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (born 1909)[†]
Heinrich "Wudi" Müller was an Austrian football player and coach. In the early 1930s he was an albeit minor part of Austria's all conquering Wunderteam. As coach he defined the post-World War II glory period of Austria Wien.
2000Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914)[†]
Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. He is the patriarch of the Petty racing family. He was one of the early pioneers of NASCAR and one of its first stars. He was NASCAR's first three-time Cup champion. He is the father of Richard Petty, who went on to become one of the most successful stock car racing drivers in history. He is also the grandfather of Kyle Petty and great grandfather of Adam Petty.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]