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KickStart plans to open 45,000-square foot building on West 34th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues aimed at high-tech companies interested in short-term leases (S)
U.S. Report Takes Issue With Entertainment Ads A Federal Trade Commission report will harshly criticize the entertainment industry for marketing strategies that entice young people to buy violent films, recordings and video games. PAGE 18
Denmark is experiencing acute identity crisis similar to several other European states; its recurring 'Hamlet syndrome' that something is rotten in state of Europe has reached new pitch as September 28 referendum nears on whether to preserve krone or follow 12 other states of 15-member European Union in abandoning local currencies for euro; situation has fed growing anxiety that Denmark may not be master of its own house anymore and reflects widespread concern across Europe over dilution of nationhood through European integration and mounting immigration; as country is only one that votes regularly on how far Europe should integrate, 'no' vote could further undermine currency whose value against dollar has plunged 25 percent in year, delaying possibility that Britain and Sweden may adopte euro, and exposing seemingly undemocratic nature of mainly German and French drive to create federation resembling United States of Europe; map; photos (M)
New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 5-3; photo (M)
Working families and hard-working middle-class families, frequently mentioned in campaign of Vice Pres Al Gore, feel they are unable to make ends meet ends meet, despite booming economy; three quarters of 72 million families that earn between $30,000 and $75,000 per year, range of middle class incomes in most of America, are able to pay for basics--such as food, mortgage, automobile, modest vacation--but are stressed by other outlays of middle-class life; graph; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 2000, covering September 10, 2000.
Nelly
Britney Spears
Eminem
Various Artists
Creed
2000Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (born 1921)[†]
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah was a Pakistani writer and journalist. Begum Hamidullah was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in English, and also of feminism in Pakistan. She was Pakistan's first female editor and publisher, and the country's first female columnist writing in English. Zaibunnisa Street in Karachi was named after her.
2000Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.[†]
Operation Barras was a British Army operation that took place in Sierra Leone on 10 September 2000, during the late stages of the nation's civil war. The operation aimed to release six British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment and their Sierra Leone Army (SLA) liaison officer, who were being held by a militia group known as the "West Side Boys". The soldiers were part of a patrol that was returning from a visit to Jordanian peacekeepers attached to the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) at Masiaka on 25 August 2000 when they turned off the main road and down a track towards the village of Magbeni. There the patrol of twelve men was overwhelmed by a large number of heavily armed rebels, taken prisoner, and transported to Gberi Bana on the opposite side of Rokel Creek.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]