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In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]
2001Puka Nacua, American football player[†]
Makea "Puka" Nacua is an American professional football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the BYU Cougars after transferring from Washington. Selected by the Rams in the fifth round of the 2023 NFL draft, Nacua set rookie records for receiving yards and receptions, along with being named to the Pro Bowl and as a second-team All-Pro.
2001Andrew Torgashev, American figure skater[†]
Andrew Torgashev is an American figure skater. He is the 2024 Grand Prix de France bronze medalist, 2025 U.S. national silver medalist, 2019 Asian Open Trophy silver medalist, the 2016 Tallinn Trophy bronze medalist, and the 2015 U.S. national junior champion.
2001The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the Court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
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Kremlin Spurns U.S. Offer The American offer of more involvement in defense plans did not end Russia's opposition to scrapping the ABM Treaty, Moscow said. PAGE A3 Army Seeks to Aid Families Saying that too many soldiers are leaving, the Army chief of staff has pledged to improve the morale of troops and their families. PAGE A13
Victor Hugo's descendants plan suit against Francois Ceresa's book Cosette or the Time of Illusions, French-language sequel to Hugo's Les Miserables; sue under French law that protects artists' 'moral right' over their creative works in perpetuity; say work is rewriting of novel, not sequel; Ceresa defends work as homage to Hugo; photo (M)
New York Yankees defeat Boston Red Sox, 4-3; photo (M)
Trafficking to Europe from Colombia and other cocaine-producing South American countries has increased at particularly rapid pace since mid-1990's as cocaine use in US has leveled off; data from White House Office of National Drug Control Policy indicate up to 200 tons of cocaine flowed into Europe in 2000, as much as double amount in 1996, while US received about 300 tons--figure that has remained stable in recent years as consumption by casual users has fallen; Europol, European Union's police force, reports 35 percent of Colombia's cocaine is winding up in region, entering mainly through Spain and Netherlands; seizures in member nations reached 43 tons in 1999, up 37 percent from year before; chart; photo (M)
Movie Pearl Harbor, which received negative reviews, has second largest opening weekend in movie history and largest ever for Walt Disney Studios, earning $60 million in first three days and estimated four-day holiday weekend gross of $75.1 million; figure falls short of $100 million weekend predicted by some in Hollywood (M)
Philadelphia Phillies defeat New York Mets, 5-3; photo (M)
Video warning about dangers of shaking infants proves to be a successful part of education of new mothers at Children's Hospital of Buffalo; in six years before program began, there were 6.5 reported cases of forcible shaking per year on average; in two years after program's introduction, average dropped to 1.5, excluding babies born before program began (M)
Study Questions Advice From Brokerage Firms In a new study, Investars.com, a subscription service that developed a method of measuring the value of advice from brokerage firms, said that following the recommendations of the major Wall Street firms would not have been very profitable over the last four years -- and could have been quite costly. Since the beginning of 1997, only four of the biggest firms have had a positive overall return on the ratings they published on individual stocks, according to Investars. The best results were recorded by Credit Suisse First Boston, which had a net gain of 7.6 percent over four years, while the worst, by the Robertson Stephens unit of FleetBoston Financial, had an overall net loss of more than 36 percent. Market Place. [Page C4.]
Federal investigators say program to protect patients from incompetent doctors is failing because health maintenance organizations and hospitals rarely report them to government as required by law; inspector general of Department of Health and Human Services reports that in last decade 84 percent of HMO's and 60 percent of hospitals never reported single adverse action to government; from 1990 to 1999, while managed care became dominant form of health care in US covering more than 100 million Americans, HMO's reported only 715 adverse actions; low level of reporting occurred even though tens of thousands of Americans die each year because of medical errors (M)
New generation of custom-designed cancer drugs is starting to emerge after decades of research into molecular biology of cancer; new agents are designed to kill cancer cells alone, without attacking healthy cells; Gleevec seems to be first big success, although so far it has been proved to work only on two comparatively rare cancers and it is longer term usefulness is not yet known; has put 90 percent of patients in early stages of one kind of leukemia and 60 percent of patients with rare and otherwise deadly stomach cancer into remission; photos (M)
Performers in Broadway shows to give outdoor lunch-time concert; outdoor performances of Richard II to open Parking Lot season; Metropolitan Museum of Art to begin annual exhibitions from its collection of American works on paper with exhibition of landscape drawings and watercolors; season of free outdoor concerts to begin at New Jersey Performing Arts Center's Theater Square, Newark; photos (M)
Barbara Schett defeats Venus Williams in French Open tennis tournament; other results noted; photo (M)