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Sanyo Electric Co plans to cut about 6,000 jobs in Japan over three years, 12 percent of local work force; warns profit might fall by less than 10 percent in next six months (S)
Animal diseases threatening meat supply in Europe are driving up price of hides because fewer animals are being slaughtered for meat; trend will likely have impact on price of luxury leather products in United States because Europe, particularly Britain, is major supplier of most prized hides; trend is already placing cost pressures on tanneries around world; graph of hide prices; photos (M)
Automated-response telephone systems are slowly replacing human customer service representatives with banks of computers that can understand what a caller may be saying and respond appropriately with prompts and phrases recorded by actors; Christopher Kotelly, of Boston-based SpeechWorks, describes how scripts are put together, what he looks for in a voice and how he coaches his actors; photo (M)
Ruling on Abortion Protests A court overturned a verdict against abortion opponents, ruling that calling abortion doctors criminals was protected speech. PAGE A23 Racial Profiling Testimony New Jersey's former attorney general said he told subordinates to look into reports of racial profiling but rarely followed up. PAGE B1
Matthew Purdy Our Towns column says it is minor miracle that Peter G Verniero remembered to show up to testify about all that he had forgotten about his role in New Jersey's racial profiling debacle; Verniero, state Supreme Jourt justice, explains his stance toward racial profiling by saying that as attorney general, his client was New Jersey State Police and his job to defend police against accusations of profiling (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 28, 2001, covering March 29, 2001.
Shaggy
Dave Matthews Band
Aerosmith
Dido
Eric Clapton
2001Helge Ingstad, Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (born 1899)[†]
Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first to prove conclusively that the Icelandic/Greenlandic Norsemen such as Leif Erickson had found a way across the Atlantic Ocean to North America, roughly 500 years before Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. He also thought that the mysterious disappearance of the Greenland Norse Settlements in the 14th and 15th centuries could be explained by their emigration to North America.
2001John Lewis, American pianist and composer (born 1920)[†]
John Aaron Lewis was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
2001A Gulfstream III crashes on approach to Aspen/Pitkin County Airport in Aspen, Colorado. All 18 people on board are killed.[†]
The Gulfstream III, a business jet produced by Gulfstream Aerospace, is an improved development of the Grumman Gulfstream II.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]