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Russian government says country's oil industry has agreed to cut production, as OPEC has been pressing it to do so; analysts say size of cut, about one-half of 1 percent of Russia's daily output, is so tiny that it will have virtually no effect on oil prices (M)
About 16,000 workers strike at Brazil's largest Volkswagen AG factory after talks between union officials and management over payroll reductions reach deadlock; Volkswagen has announced plans to make 3,000 layoffs after local metalworkers' union refused to accept 15 percent cut in wages and working hours in face of 13 percent drop in car production in October compared with previous year; photo (S)
Northern Alliance soldiers mark their advance toward Kabul with executions of Taliban soldiers and widespread looting; Taliban bodies and bunkers are plundered; looting and executions suggest that alliance soldiers, who have received extensive backing from United States, might prove difficult to control as their victories build; alliance forces are able to broach Taliban lines near Bagram Air Base and Khalazai when Taliban soldiers quickly leave their posts; American bombing raids appear to have destroyed enough Taliban tanks and artillery to swing battle in favor of alliance; photos (M)
Footlights column reports on watercolor exhibition at Grey Art Gallery, concert production of Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano, tribute to Yukio Mishima at Alice Tully Hall and exhibition of Albert Bierstadt's paintings at Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey; photos (S)
Regulatory obstacles and research bottlenecks may significantly delay development of drugs to fight anthrax and other bioterrorism agents; EluSys's promising anthrax drug, which inactivates deadly bacterial toxins, cannot be tested on monkey's because the few places that can do tests are overwhelmed by requests from FBI for testing of anthrax spores; furthermore, FDA does still not deem animal tests as sufficient proof of biowarfare drug's effectiveness in humans; using approved drugs that show promise against bioterror agents also poses problems (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 2001, covering November 13, 2001.
DMX
Incubus
Enya
Various Artists
Ja Rule
2001Cornelius Warmerdam, American pole vaulter (born 1915)[†]
Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam was an American pole vaulter who held the world record between 1940 and 1957. He missed the Olympics due to World War II, and retired from senior competitions in 1944, though he continued to vault into his sixties. He was inducted into the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame in 1974.
2001War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.[†]
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks in 2001, and is one of the most recent global conflicts spanning multiple wars. Some researchers and political scientists have argued that it replaced the Cold War.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]