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In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]
2001Vernon Carey Jr., American basketball player[†]
Vernon A. Carey Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for Karşıyaka Basket of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. He finished his high school career at NSU University School as a five-star recruit and among the top-ranked players in the 2019 class.
2001A. R. Ammons, American poet and critic (born 1926)[†]
Archibald Randolph Ammons was an American poet and professor of English at Cornell University. Ammons published nearly thirty collections of poems in his lifetime. Revered for his impact on American romantic poetry, Ammons received several major awards for his work, including two National Book Awards for Poetry, one in 1973 for Collected Poems and another in 1993 for Garbage.
2001Don Bradman, Australian international cricketer; holder of world record batting average (born 1908)[†]
Sir Donald George Bradman, nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. His cricketing successes have been claimed by Shane Warne, among others, as making Bradman the "greatest sportsperson" in history. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is considered by some to be the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
Behind the Wheel column on Subaru Outback six-cylinder, L L Bean Edition; photos (M)
Profile of New York Yankees' pitcher Roger Clemens, who remains one of baseball's hardest throwers at age of 38; exercise regimen that keeps Clemens in remarkable shape discussed; chart; photos (M)
Serbs Arrest Ex-Police Chief The new Serbian government announced that it had detained Slobodan Milosevic's feared secret police chief on suspicion of involvement in murder. PAGE 8 Bush Readies First Budget President Bush will present his first budget this week, and aides say it will show he can restrain spending, pay for his $1.6 trillion tax cut and overhaul Social Security. PAGE 18
Profile of Jason Binn, magazine publisher, self-marketer and New York editor-about-town; Binn publishes Hamptons in summer and new magazine Gotham, paean to celebrity and bible for social climbers; interview; photos (M)
Pres Bush is preparing to meet Colombia's president, Andres Pastrana; Congress's $1.3 billion aid package, approved 8 months ago, was presented as latest effort to stem flow of drugs; it is morphing into rescue operation for failing state; American officials recognize that any effort to stop drug trade in Colombia must also deal with reasons drug lords there have so much power: government is weak, army has terrible reputation for human rights abuses, leftist guerrillas have long controlled much of countryside and have cast their lot with drug trade, and right-wing militias fighting leftists also get money from drug trade; photos (M)
Article on how Broadway musical has become accepting platform for marginally talented; says Rosie O'Donnell, who is starring in musical Seussical, is uncrowned but undisputed queen of what has become biggest little karaoke bar in country, area otherwise known as Broadway; holds she is its pre-eminent karaoke artist, ordinary gal with chutpah to get up there and perform, and its foremost promoter; drawings (M)
Eight-story building scheduled to rise on East Third Street in East Village will consist of 51 rental apartments, including three duplex penthouses; achitect is Stephen B Jacobs and designer is Andi Pepper; photo (M)
Anemona Hartocollis Coping column on dispute over warehouse at Broadway and 132nd Street owned by Jarvis Doctorow; artists and other longtime tenants fear that Doctorow, with Harlem becoming chic, now favors high-tech companies and will raise rents to force them out; drawing (M)
Susan Cianciolo discusses her turn from desiging purposefully crude clothing that won her cult following, to new career as artist; interview; her newest installation, Run Restaurant, in Alleged Galleries space owned by her husband Aaron Rose, features Cianciolo as waitress serving visitors in Japanese-style luncheonette setting; photos (S)
As a pitcher ages, all those thousands of fastballs take their toll. There is microscopic tearing. Fluid leaks. Cells are damaged. Calcium builds up. The legs weaken, the arm slows, and eventually, a 96-mile-an-hour weapon becomes an easy target for hitters. Then there's Roger Clemens.
Robert Philip Hanssen, FBI counterintelligence agent accused of spying for Russia, is portrayed by co-workers as deeply religious man and committed anti-Communist; case is described by officials as potentially worst intelligence breach in bureau's history, given Hanssen's access to some of most highly classified information in computer banks of FBI; bureau says at least two Russian double agents who were executed may have been exposed by Hanssen; many of Hanssen's closest friends and colleagues are dumbfounded by spying accusations against man so committed to his faith and so opposed to political system long considered organized religion's greatest enemy; they suggest Hanssen may have deluded himself into thinking espionage is exciting intellectual challenge; say he may have done it for the thrill; say money he allegedly received from Russians he probably used to pay tuition at expensive private schools his six children attended; photos (L)
Article in series, Power Politics, examines energy strains in New York that have striking similarities to those in California; both states have been slow to build new plants and have been caught off guard in last year as demand for electricity jumped; both depend heavily on natural gas to run generators, leaving them vulnerable to soaring gas prices; both states have deregulated their electricity markets, so they no longer control price of power; immediate prospects for New York are less dire than in California; power supplies may be tight in New York City, but blackouts are unlikely this summer; state's six utilities are financially healthy, and New York depends much less than California on out-of-state suppliers; New York's method of deregulation leaves ratepayers in New York City and Westchester even more exposed than Californians to price spikes; industry experts expect New York's problems to worsen over at least next three years; say lack of major new plants and transmission lines will put city at increasing risk of shortages and blackouts as demand rises faster than supply; photos; graphs (L)