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New York Knickerbockers forward Marcus Camby, one day after flying into rage that shook holiday crowd of nearly 20,000 fans, many of them children, and left Coach Jeff Van Gundy with bloody cut above his left eye, meets with reporters to show his contrition (M)
Benny Villani, New Jersey businessman who has been banned for life from involvement in New York City waste industry after being tied by government officials to organized crime, stands to profit from more than $100 million-a-year deal Giuliani administration is negotiating as it closes Fresh Kills landfill; Villani and his wife are partners in recently formed real estate group that would receive $1.2 million a month in rent for 18 acres of waterfront property it owns in Linden, NJ; Allied Waste Industries will use site as transfer station where up to 6,000 tons of New York garbage a day will be asembled and then shipped out by rail; photo (M)
Women make gains in the the male bastion of engineering; gains resonate beyong the profession, since an engineering degree is one of the surest tickets to advancement in America and is already helping propel some women into upper ranks of management; Aine Brazil, one of seven managing principals at Thornton-Tomasetti, comments; photo (M)
Israel's election campaign shifts into high gear with barrage of television commercials from incumbent, Prime Min Ehud Barak, and challenger, Ariel Sharon; Sharon, who leads Barak by commanding majority in polls, preaches healing of rifts and calls for unity government after election; Barak focuses on Sharon's performance as defense minister in 1982, when he led invasion that embroiled Israel in Lebanon for 18 years; photo (M)
Twyla Tharp, in coup for efforts to create a cultural district in Brooklyn, plans to open her first permanent dance studio in historic Fort Greene church near Brooklyn Academy of Music; Tharp is first major artist to be lured into budding cultural district by Harvey Lichtenstein, chairman of Brooklyn Academy of Music Local Development Corp; photo; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 17, 2001, covering January 17, 2001.
The Beatles
Shaggy
Various Artists
Snoop Dogg
Limp Bizkit
2001Enzo Fernández, Argentinian footballer[†]
Enzo Jeremías Fernández is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Chelsea and the Argentina national team. Primarily a central midfielder, he is also capable of playing as a defensive or attacking midfielder.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]