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Michael Kimmelman's Critic's Notebook column reviews -exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gaugin: The Studio of the South; photos (M)
Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column discusses restrained debate between Democratic mayoral hopefuls Mark Green and Fernando Ferrer (M)
Stocks rose sharply, offering a glimmer of hope that the extreme economic slowdown reported immediately after the attacks may have been overstated. Page C1.
Reserve Bank of Australia cuts overnight cash rate to 4.5 percent, down from 4.75 percent (S)
Article describes how World Trade Center attack has impacted on thousands of commuters into New York City; routine commuting patterns on highways, bridges, tunnels, trains and subways in both suburbs and southern half of Manhattan have been jumbled, leaving commuters struggling to find new and unfamiliar ways to get to work (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 2001, covering October 4, 2001.
Jay-Z
Alicia Keys
Nickelback
Tori Amos
Martina McBride
2001Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (born 1976)[†]
Blaise Robert Alexander Jr. also known as BR Alexander was an American professional stock car racer from Montoursville, Pennsylvania. He began racing at the age of 12 in go-karts, winning the coveted World Karting Association East Regional championship in 1992. In 1995, he moved south to Mooresville, North Carolina, and drove in the ARCA Racing Series. Named ARCA's rookie of the year in 1996, Alexander was a regular driver in that series while also driving in both the NASCAR Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series.
2001John Collins, American guitarist (born 1913)[†]
John Elbert Collins was an American jazz guitarist who was a member of the Nat King Cole trio.
2001Ahron Soloveichik, Russian rabbi and scholar (born 1917)[†]
Ahron (Aaron) Soloveichik was an Orthodox Jewish rosh yeshiva and scholar of Talmud and halakha.
2001Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.[†]
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 was a commercial flight shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force over the Black Sea on 4 October 2001, en route from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Novosibirsk, Russia. The aircraft, a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154, carried 66 passengers and 12 crew members. Most of the passengers were Israelis visiting relatives in Russia. There were no survivors. The crash site is about 190 km west-southwest of the Black Sea resort of Sochi, 140 km north of the Turkish coastal town of Fatsa and 350 km south-southeast of Feodosiya in Crimea. The crash was caused by a missile launched during joint Ukrainian-Russian military air-defence exercises at the Russian-controlled training ground of the 31st Russian Black Sea Fleet Research center on Cape Opuk near the city of Kerch in Crimea. Ukraine eventually admitted that it might have caused the crash, probably by an errant S-200 missile fired by its armed forces. Ukraine paid $15 million to surviving family members of the 78 victims.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]