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Dr Michael Rabin, computer scientist at Harvard, says he has found way to send coded messages that cannot be deciphered, even by all-powerful adversary with unlimited computing power; he and his PhD student, Yan Zong Bing, have discovered a way to make a code based on a key that vanishes even as it is being used; photos (L)
Federal prosecutors reportedly negotiate settlement with TAP Pharmaceutical Products of charges TAP illegally used Medicare system to help hundreds of doctors profit from prescribing Lupron, prostate cancer drug; details of company's alleged scheme to use federal health care program and private insurers to make indirect payments to doctors who prescribe drug are outlined in court documents filed against urologist Dr Joseph Spinella; scheme has helped spawn black market for drug (M)
ABC is producing television mini-series Anne Frank, $12 million production being filmed in Prague; Hannah Taylor Gordon plays Anne Frank, and Ben Kingsley her father; photos (L)
Anna Kisselgoff reviews dance program by Ballet Preljocaj at Performing Arts Center at Purchase College; photo (M)
Environmentalists and others opposed to drilling in Arctic refuge say record of oil and gas developments at other wildlife refuges should be regarded as unfortunate exception; say harm inflicted in refuges in Louisiana and elsewhere will be long-lasting, and not worth short-term economic gain of exploiting nonrenewable oil resources; say Arctic tundra may be even more sensitive to industrial footprint; wildlife service officials say there have been no major spills or widespread death of wildlife in recent memory in refuges where oil and gas activity is under way; but there is evidence of PCB contamination at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, and mercury contamination caused by use of improper equipment at D'Arbonne refuge in Louisiana; Jim Kurth, deputy director of national wildlife refuge system, says they do not yet have fair sense systemwide of impact of oil and gas drilling in refuges; photos; map (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 14, 2001, covering February 20, 2001.
Shaggy
Jennifer Lopez
Soundtrack
The Beatles
Ja Rule
2001Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (born 1910)[†]
Rosemary Shirley DeCamp was an American radio, film, and television actress.
2001Donella Meadows, American environmentalist, author, and academic (born 1941)[†]
Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]