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Vodafone Group agrees to transfer at least one million wireless customers to Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd if its bid for Cable and Wireless Optus Ltd succeeds; shift would be made to satisfy antitrust regulators (S)
NBA Commissioner David Stern is optimistic about NBA; he plans to address players' union officials about poor image portrayed by some players and effect of player misconduct on attendance and television ratings, both of which are down; he may also look at rule changes now that players are so adept at defense that high-scoring games are rare; Stern assails news coverage, saying focus is less on game; photo (M)
John Tierney The Big City column offers sardonic discussion of effects of term limits on New York City Council; sarcastically refers to Council members as 'marvels of mercantile efficiency' and predicts economy will soar when their entrepreneurial skills are unleashed on private sector (M)
Pres Bush will order comprehensive review of nation's nuclear arsenal, first step toward unilateral cuts in warheads and missiles that he promised during his campaign; administration officials say Bush's order will also underscore his commitment to building defense missile shield; say review is intended to move United States toward new strategic doctrine, as well as new approach to arms control that reflects today's world rather than cold war's superpower standoff; say Bush's directive does not declare his intention to withdraw from Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; review appears intended to lay foundation for decision to do so in parallel with nuclear cutbacks; nation's arsenal as of last year included 7,519 nuclear warheads on missiles, submarines or bombers; significant reductions in American arsenal could smooth anxieties among opponents about administration's pursuit of missile shield (M)
Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column maintains XFL is programmed entertainment, not football; holds while other football leagues were formed to compete with NFL, XFL has no such illusions; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 7, 2001, covering February 9, 2001.
Jennifer Lopez
Shaggy
Soundtrack
The Beatles
O-Town
2001Dylan Cozens, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Dylan Cozens is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Cozens was selected seventh overall in the 2019 NHL entry draft by the Buffalo Sabres. Nicknamed "The Workhorse from Whitehorse", he is the first player from the Yukon to be a first-round Western Hockey League (WHL) draft pick, a first-round NHL draft pick, and a member of the Canada men's national junior ice hockey team.
2001Herbert A. Simon, American political scientist, economist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)[†]
Herbert Alexander Simon was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and he is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He received the Turing Award in 1975 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978. His research was noted for its interdisciplinary nature, spanning the fields of cognitive science, computer science, public administration, management, and political science. He was at Carnegie Mellon University for most of his career, from 1949 to 2001, where he helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, one of the first such departments in the world.
2001The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision takes place, killing nine of the thirty-five people on board the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru, leaving the USS Greeneville (SSN-772) with US $2 million in repairs, at Pearl Harbor.[†]
On 9 February 2001, about nine nautical miles south of Oahu, Hawaii, in the Pacific Ocean, the United States Navy (USN) Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) collided with the Japanese fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) from Ehime Prefecture. In a demonstration for some VIP civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency ballast blow surfacing maneuver. As the submarine shot to the surface, she struck Ehime Maru. Within ten minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of the thirty-five people aboard were killed: four high school students, two teachers, and three crew members.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]