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South Korea's Hanvit Bank, Peace Bank of Korea, Kwangju Bank and Cheju Bank will be forcibly merged because government sees no way they can survive independently; banks will be combined under single holding company (S)
Microsoft and Logitech have each released for sale what they are certain will become the computer mouse of the future; it is driven by optical rather than mechanical signals (M)
Microsoft Corp chairman, William H Gates, will demonstrate prototype of portable computing slate, which is the size of 8 1/2-by-11-inch notebook and is operated with a pen stylus--at Comdex computer show in Las Vegas; in recent weeks company has begun testing first of several hundred prototypes; Microsoft does not plan to make such computers commercially, but it hopes that hardware makers will begin selling them by 2002 (M)
Network executives concede they made key errors in covering election returns that spurred Vice Pres Al Gore to mistakenly concede election; reconsider how they predict winners; errors in awarding Florida first to Gore and then to Gov George W Bush had seismic impacts on how analysts, television viewers and newspapers initially perceived returns; photos (M)
Anatoly B Chubais, chief executive of United Energy Systems, Russia's national power company, has joined forces with Krasnoyarsk Gov Aleksandr I Lebed to resolve dispute over price of electricity in region; Chubais has pressed for application of price increase that has been suspended since Russian Aluminum took it to court in September; Lebed is trying to control his vast region, and has insisted on higher electricity prices, leading to confrontation with aluminum magnate, Oleg Deripaska, whose company controls most of Russia's industry; Chubais says restructuring of electricity industry, freeing of prices and introducing competition among power-generating companies will eliminate such political battles in future; aluminum company, controlled by Deripaska, wants to keep its current rates, which are one-third below industry average (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 8, 2000, covering November 9, 2000.
Limp Bizkit
Lenny Kravitz
Nelly
Ja Rule
Baha Men
2000Sherwood Johnston, American race car driver (born 1927)[†]
Sherwood Johnston was an American racing driver who won racing titles on land and sea. Johnston was active in sports car racing during the 1950s. His greatest success was winning the 1952 SCCA National Sports Car Championship.
2000Eric Morley, English television host, founded Miss World (born 1918)[†]
Eric Douglas Morley was an English television host and the founder of the Miss World pageant and Come Dancing programme. His widow, Julia Morley, is now head of the pageant and his son, Steve Douglas, is one of its presenters.
2000Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.[†]
Uttarakhand, also known as Uttaranchal, is a state in northern India. The state is bordered by Himachal Pradesh to the northwest, Tibet to the north, Nepal to the east, Uttar Pradesh to the south and southeast, with a small part touching Haryana in the west. Uttarakhand has a total area of 53,483 km2 (20,650 sq mi), equal to 1.6% of the total area of India. Dehradun serves as the state capital, with Nainital being the judicial capital. The state is divided into two divisions, Garhwal and Kumaon, with a total of 13 districts. The forest cover in the state is 45.4% of the state's geographical area. The cultivable area is 16% of the total geographical area. The two major rivers of the state, the Ganges and its tributary Yamuna, originate from the Gangotri and Yamunotri glaciers respectively. Ranked 6th among the Top 10 Greenest States in India with Best AQI.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]