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Liberation of Kunduz, last big garrison of Taliban soldiers in northern Afghanistan by forces of Northern Alliance, described; fate of many foreign Taliban fighters remains unclear; many surrendered, but others vanished and may have left aboard flights villagers saw operating from local airport two weeks before city fell; photos (M)
Talks on Terror Finances The Bush administration will send a delegation to address Saudi concerns about freezing funds of those it has linked to terrorism. PAGE B1
While some New York City residents are moving away following Sept 11 attacks, others who had left before or who have never considered living there, are hankering to return and become part of city and healing process; city is viewed by some as symbol of determination and survival; photo (M)
Analysis of scientific and political significance of announcement by Advanced Cell Technology, Worcester, Mass, biotechnology company, that it has successfully cloned human embryos; shadowing raging dispute over whether such work should be outlawed is major scientific question, namely, whether attempt is milestone or forgettable blunder; cloning experts say it is impossible to know; work with animals shows cloning is something of an art, in which any success can be unpredictable and inexplicable (M)
Imperial Tobacco, Britain's largest tobacco company, reports full-year after-tax profit of $521 million, up 10 percent (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 21, 2001, covering November 27, 2001.
Britney Spears
Pink Floyd
Michael Jackson
Enrique Iglesias
Enya
2001Zoe Colletti, American actress[†]
Zoe Margaret Colletti is an American actress and YouTuber. She made her acting debut in the television pilot of American Men (2006) and played her first major-film role in Annie (2014). Colletti appeared in 2018 films Wildlife and Skin before garnering critical praise in the lead role of Stella Nicholls in horror film Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019). She achieved further recognition and plaudits as Dakota in the sixth season of horror drama series Fear the Walking Dead (2020–2021) and the Truth Pixie in fantasy film A Boy Called Christmas (2021). In 2022 she portrayed Lucy in the second season of Only Murders in the Building. She also starred in the Netflix series Boo Bitch.
2001A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.[†]
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1. It is the lightest and most abundant chemical element in the universe, constituting about 75% of all normal matter. Under standard conditions, hydrogen is a gas of diatomic molecules with the formula H2, called dihydrogen, or sometimes hydrogen gas, molecular hydrogen, or simply hydrogen. Dihydrogen is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and highly combustible. Stars, including the Sun, mainly consist of hydrogen in a plasma state, while on Earth, hydrogen is found as the gas H2 (dihydrogen) and in molecular forms, such as in water and organic compounds. The most common isotope of hydrogen (1H) consists of one proton, one electron, and no neutrons.
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]