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Brazilian beverage giant Cie de Bebidas das Americas, or Ambev, reports profit of $230.3 million in 2000, compared with pro forma profit of $4.36 million in 1999; total volume of sales rose 6.4 percent (S)
Shooting spree by student at Santana High School brings chorus of whys from the mostly white, mostly middle-class families of Santee, California, echoing stunned reaction in recent years of some other supposedly safe suburban residents who believed that 'it can't happen here'; child psychiatrists, educators and other researchers have been asking similar questions since teenagers began shooting other teenagers at suburban high schools in last five years; their explanations point to easy availability of guns, but they also wonder whether violent student outbursts are byproducts of communities themselves, where children come and go as they please, and where ups and downs of student life and cliques are magnified by school's position as center of the local universe; also noted is suburban schools' reluctance to institute intrusive security measures, like metal detectors and security guards; photo (M)
Citing weakened market conditions and uncertainty over the profitability of a new generation of wireless communications, Singapore cut by one-third the minimum bid it would accept for licenses to operate so-called third-generation cellular networks -- to 100 million Singapore dollars ($57 million) from 150 million Singapore dollars. Singapore earlier this year postponed its planned auction of the four licenses to April from February. Yesterday, it said it would delay by one year the deadline for license winners to offer islandwide coverage. Wayne Arnold (NYT)
Online magazines, including Inside, Salon and Slate, have had to shelve plans to sell their news and essays because their readers resist subscription fees; in last year, as subscription and ad sales forecasts fizzled and financing dried up, more than dozen online magazines have gone back to tap old media, including radio and print, to draw audiences--and advertisers--at least until Web delivers on its promise; Michael Hirschorn, editor in chief of Inside.com, Internet magazine, comments on how he and others miscalculated its audience; chart; photos (M)
Pittsburgh defeats Notre Dame, 66-54, Syracuse defeats Providence, 55-54, in Big East basketball tournament; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 7, 2001, covering March 9, 2001.
Shaggy
Jim Johnston
The Beatles
Dido
Soundtrack
2001Jeon Somi, South Korean-Canadian singer[†]
Ennik Somi Douma, known professionally by her Korean name Jeon Somi (Korean: 전소미), is a South Korean and Canadian singer signed under The Black Label. Born in Canada to a South Korean mother and a Dutch-Canadian father, she moved to South Korea as an infant. She quickly achieved domestic fame as the first-place winner of the survival reality show Produce 101 and a member of the show's eleven-piece project girl group I.O.I. Following the conclusion of I.O.I's group activities, Jeon signed with YG Entertainment's subsidiary, The Black Label. She made her debut as a solo artist on June 13, 2019, with the single "Birthday". In 2021, she released her first studio album XOXO, which included the top-ten single "Dumb Dumb". She achieved her first top-five single in South Korea with "Fast Forward" in 2023.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]