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Bernard Holland reviews Orchestra of St Luke's concert, conducted by Peter Oundjian and featuring cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Edward Arron, opening Caramoor Festival, Katonah, NY (M)
Juli Inkster wins McDonald's LPGA Championship; photo (M)
Telephone lines with 540 exchange, promising jobs, hides high cost of call; many flyers containing information concerning 540 lines, most aimed at poor neighborhoods, cost as much as $19 per call; vendors running 540 lines are considered legal (M)
Interview with Henry T Nicholas 3d, co-founder and chief executive of Broadcom Corp, who likes to think of his company, based in Irvine, Calif, as the antithesis of a Silicon Valley company and himself as the antithesis of the new age, new economy Zen master; he directs, and subordinates follow, right down to the dress code; table of biographical data; photos (M)
Vice Pres Al Gore, under criticism from Republicans who accuse him of having no energy plan, will propose array of economic incentives to encourage cleaner technologies intended to reduce nation's dependency on foreign oil; will call for billions of dollars in tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants and other federal subsidies to encourage consumers to buy clean-energy products; has come under attack by Republican presidential rival Gov George W Bush for having supported higher gas taxes in past; Bush's criticisms of Clinton administration for allegedly allowing gasoline prices to rise steeply noted; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 21, 2000, covering June 26, 2000.
Eminem
Britney Spears
Kid Rock
*NSYNC
Matchbox Twenty
2000Ann Li, American tennis player[†]
Ann Li is an American tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 44, and was the runner-up in the 2017 Wimbledon Championships girls' singles final.
2000The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.[†]
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It started in 1990 and was completed in 2003. It was the world's largest collaborative biological project. Planning for the project began in 1984 by the US government, and it officially launched in 1990. It was declared complete on 14 April 2003, and included about 92% of the genome. Level "complete genome" was achieved in May 2021, with only 0.3% of the bases covered by potential issues. The final gapless assembly was finished in January 2022.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]