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11th-Hour Budget Skirmish With Congress and President Clinton poised to finish the government's $600 billion annual spending plan, the White House and a powerful Alaska senator squared off for one more fight -- over sea lions. PAGE A32
British homebuilders Bryant Group and Beazer Group agree to merge in all-stock transaction valued at $562 million; shareholders in each company will own about half of new company; companies expect to lay off 300 workers, or 5 percent of their combined staff, after merger (S)
Battle for one of three seats on nonpartisan West Hempstead-Hempstead Gardens Water District's Board of Commissioners now stands with 3-vote margin, agitated claims and counterclaims about need for recounts, and court date; Michael A Uhl clings to 393-390 lead over Anthony Dignoti, 30-year incumbent; Dignoti seeks recount; photo (M)
Confusing maze of street names and numbers in Queens, New York City, described; knowing a street's number is not enough, a driver must determine is it an avenue or a road, a drive or a lane; logic underlying vexing vortex of vast Queens street system discussed; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 2000, covering December 15, 2000.
Backstreet Boys
The Beatles
Various Artists
Creed
Tim McGraw
2000Kayvon Thibodeaux, American football player[†]
Kayvon Thibodeaux is an American professional football linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). A native of Los Angeles, he was named USA Today's High School Football Defensive Player of the Year in 2018.
2000Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (born 1974)[†]
Haris Brkić was a Yugoslavian basketball player. He achieved greatest results in Partizan and he is still remembered by fans for his great contribution to the club.
2000The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.[†]
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning. ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Kyiv. The plant was cooled by an engineered pond, fed by the Pripyat River about 5 kilometres (3 mi) northwest from its juncture with the Dnieper River.
In 2000, the world population was approximately 6,171,702,993 people[†]