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February 13, 2001

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Headlines from February 13, 2001

Criticized on Office Rent, Clinton Looks to Harlem

By Charles V. Bagli With Marc Lacey

Former Pres Clinton abandons plans to move into 56th floor of midtown Manhattan skyscraper, faced with barrage of criticism about renting such lavish office space; he is now looking uptown, at more modest space on Harlem's main shopping boulevard, 125th St; Clinton staff meets with owners of newly renovated office building at 55 West 125th St, and tours vacant top floor of 14-story building; asking rent for 7,000-square-foot space is $30 a square foot, compared with $89 at Midtown building; General Services Administration will begin lease negotiations and Secret Service will begin inspecting it immediately; building is owned by Cogswell Realty Group; photos; chart; map (M)

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BUSINESS DIGEST

By Unknown Author

Napster Suffers Setback In Appeals Court Ruling A federal appeals court dealt a major setback to Napster, which has shaken the record industry by allowing people to copy music free over the Internet, by largely affirming a lower court ruling that the company encourages and abets the infringement of copyrighted works. Music industry experts and Napster officials said the ruling may ultimately force the service to shut down. But the order does not force Napster to close immediately. Rather, the decision asks the lower court to fashion an injunction requiring that Napster stop the exchange of copyrighted works while permitting the service to continue to be used to trade songs that artists and record labels have authorized for exchange. [Page A1.]

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 7, 2001, covering February 13, 2001.

  1. 1
    Album cover for J.Lo by Jennifer Lopez

    J.Lo

    Jennifer Lopez

    Last week
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    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Hotshot by Shaggy

    Hotshot

    Shaggy

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    25
  3. 3
    Album cover for Save The Last Dance by Soundtrack

    Save The Last Dance

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    5
  4. 4
    Album cover for 1 by The Beatles

    1

    The Beatles

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    11
  5. 5
    Album cover for O-Town by O-Town

    O-Town

    O-Town

    Last week
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    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    1

Notable Births

Kaapo Kakko

2001Kaapo Kakko, Finnish ice hockey player[†]

Kaapo Ville Olavi Kakko is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). Kakko was selected second overall by the New York Rangers in the 2019 NHL entry draft, and played the first five and a half years of his NHL career with them. Kakko plays right wing, but also has experience playing at centre. He made his professional debut playing with TPS of the Finnish Liiga.

Historical Events

2001An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 315.[†]

The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". This was later revised and renamed the local magnitude scale, denoted as ML or ML .

Historical Context for February 13, 2001

In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]