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The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of America Online and Time Warner, removing the last obstacle to the creation of the world's biggest media business.
California's electric power crisis is inevitable result of ill-designed deregulation program that state put in place three years ago; much of California's immense electric bill has been paid to companies based outside state, with owners of power plants and concerns that trade and market electricity capturing of it, but more than one-third of the electricity sold in state by these companies used to be controlled by Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison until deregulation forced them to sell the power plants; graph; photos (M)
Mexico may for first time seek to limit new construction on still undeveloped sections of Caribbean coast, perhaps putting end to huge new resorts and environmental havoc they help create; aim is to prevent another Cancun, which has nearly 25,000 hotel rooms, roughly three million visitors a year and nowhere left to build; price of rapid construction has been slow destruction of beauty that drew people there in first place; Pres Vicente Fox promised in his inaugural address to build 'Mexico with an environmental conscience,' and he put Victor Lichtinger, new environment and natural resources minister, in charge; Lichtinger's test case is at Xcacel, beach 67 miles south of Cancun, which is one of world's last unsullied sanctuaries for green and loggerhead sea turtles, both endangered species; environmentalists have sued Spanish development company that bought beach for a song in deal brokered by now-fugitive governor of Quintana Roo, and they are calling on government to ban development; tourism is mother lode for Mexico, generating $8 billion yearly; photo; maps (M)
Mike Freeman comments on upcoming NFC championship game between Minnesota Vikings and New York Giants and AFC championship contest between Baltimore Ravens and Oakland Raiders; photos (L)
Houston Rockets defeat New York Knicks, 76-75, Madison Square Garden; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 2001, covering January 12, 2001.
The Beatles
Various Artists
Shaggy
Limp Bizkit
Snoop Dogg
2001Sam LaPorta, American football player[†]
Samuel Joseph LaPorta is an American professional football tight end for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes and was named the Big Ten Tight End of the Year in 2022. He was selected by the Lions in the second round of the 2023 NFL draft. As a rookie, LaPorta was named a second-team All-Pro and voted to the Pro Bowl. He also broke the NFL record for receptions by a rookie tight end, along with setting Detroit franchise records for receptions, receiving yards and touchdowns by a tight end.
2001Luiz Bonfá, Brazilian guitarist and composer (born 1922)[†]
Luiz Floriano Bonfá was a Brazilian guitarist and composer. He was best known for the music he composed for the film Black Orpheus.
2001William Redington Hewlett, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (born 1913)[†]
William Redington Hewlett was an American engineer and the co-founder, with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP).
2001Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.[†]
Downtown Disney is a lifestyle center located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States. It opened on January 12, 2001; a component of the Disneyland Resort expansion project alongside the Disney California Adventure theme park and Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]