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Article discusses how network of Wall Street workers and their families have banded together to give support and solace to survivors of terrorist attack on World Trade Center; photo (M)
Burlington Resources plans to buy Canadian Hunter Exploration of Calgary, Alberta, for $2.1 billion; deal will increase Burlington's gas reserves 12 percent, to 11.5 trillion feet (S)
Mitsubishi Materials Corp, Japan's biggest nonferrous metals company, will cut 2,500 jobs, or 10 percent of its work force, within three years because of slump in demand; will also reduce salaries and take other measures in effort to save 70 billion yen ($583.8 million) a year by end of March 2004; graph (S)
Oil companies and producers are concerned that terrorists could take aim at vast web of infrastructure that carries oil around world; Western oil companies have been scrutinizing their oil wells, flow stations, pipelines and refineries for vulnerability to attack and sabotage, especially where substantial numbers are sympathetic to Osama bin Laden's cause; workers have been told to keep low profile; unscheduled deliveries to oil facilities are being turned away; oil companies, including Exxon Mobil and Unocal, shut their offices in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Oct 8 amid protests over American and British airstrikes in Afghanistan, and reopen on Oct 9 under tight security; concerns are greatest in Persian Gulf, where countries that export 17 percent of world's oil could become targets of sabotage by standing with West; bin Laden has long vowed to topple rulers in his homeland of Saudi Arabia; experts note that attacking country's oil wealth would go long way to destabilizing royal family, at cost, though, of rending social safety net on which many Arab citizens depend; photo (M)
Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY, to present exhibition Horse Tales: American Images and Icons 1800-2000; photo; Princeton University Art Museum mounts exhibition Empire of Stone: Roman Sculpture From the Art Museum, Princeton University; photo; 92d Street Y to open its 2001-2 music season on Oct 13 with first of five concerts celebrating Beethoven; American Composers Orchestra to open its 25th anniversary season on Oct 14 at Carnegie Hall (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 2001, covering October 10, 2001.
Jay-Z
Alicia Keys
Various Artists
Enya
Nickelback
2001Eddie Futch, American boxer and trainer (born 1911)[†]
Eddie Futch was an American boxing trainer. Among the fighters he trained are Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, and Trevor Berbick, four of the five men to defeat Muhammad Ali. Futch also trained Riddick Bowe and Montell Griffin when they handed future Hall of Fame fighters Evander Holyfield and Roy Jones Jr. their first professional defeats. In Baltimore, Maryland, the Futch Gym boxing gymnasium is named after the trainer. He also trained Ireland’s first ever WBC World Champion, Wayne McCullough. Eddie Futch was married to Eva Marlene Futch from March 21, 1996, until his death. Futch often called her "The love of his life."
2001Vasily Mishin, Russian engineer (born 1917)[†]
Vasily Pavlovich Mishin was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet Union, and a prominent rocket pioneer, best remembered for the failures in the Soviet space program that took place under his management.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]