Several conservation groups promote variety of 'citizen science' projects that make use of amateur observations of nature to compile interactive online databases; projects exploit Web's capacity to receive data from just about anywhere and to display it quickly and clearly to spur outdoor activities; backyard bird count, designed for absolute beginners, described; photos (M)l

Counting Birds at the Grass Roots

Julie Salamon reviews TV documentary Promises, part of PBS series POV; film looks at Palestinian-Israeli conflict from vantage point of even children living in or near Jerusalem (M)

In a Land Where Old Youths Meet as Distant Neighbors

Overview of events in war on terrorism, including shifting deadlines for Al Qaeda forces hidden in Tora Bora caves, contradictory reports from Pakistan about whether Taliban or bin Laden forces might have crossed border, crash of B-1B bomber into Indian Ocean near Diego Garcia, immigration authority's new crackdown on Middle Easterners with invalid visas, and scientific probe of what caused collapse of twin towers (M)

An Elusive bin Laden, Loss of a Bomber, Twin Tower Science

Jai alai fronton in Milford, Connecticut closes after nearly quarter century; photo (M)

Jai Alai Retires From Connecticut; Sport's Fans, Most Elderly, Lament

The legacy of Nirvana is being threatened by infighting between the band's members and Courtney Love. Page 3.  

The Pop Life

Australia's Securities and Investment Commission accuses bankrupt One.Tel's former managing directors Jodee Rich and Bradley Keeling and former chairman John Greaves of breaching their duties and withholding information; commission starts civil proceedings against three former executives; says evidence shows that other directors, including Rupert Murdoch's son, Lachlan, James Packer and Rodney Adler did not know 'true financial position of One.Tel until shortly beefore it failed; photo (S)

World Business Briefing | Australia: More Fallout From One.Tel

Herbert Muschamp's Critic's Notebook article on Raf

Slinky Winter Garden Opens in Philadelphia

J D Biersdorfer State of the Art column assesses new and improved features of American Online's and Microsoft's MSN's Internet software; drawing; photo (M)

Online Duel: You've Got Mail, Music And More

BT Group, formerly British Telecommunications, says Ben Verwaayen will be its chief executive, succeeding Sir Peter Bonfield, who will leave on Feb 1; chairman Sir Christopher Bland comments; photo (M)

BT Group Appoints New Chief Executive

Article on photo exhibit, Manuel Alvarez Br

Alvarez Bravo's 'Lens of Revelations'

The place was not full. That was clear. When the Celtics beat the Knicks on Tuesday night -- just as when the Knicks defeated Houston last week -- Madison Square Garden was pocked with hundreds, if not thousands, of empty seats. The higher the eye went, the more no-shows there were.    It has been like that many nights this fall at the Garden, when the aesthetic void of empty seats has only sometimes been obscured by cheering fans leaping from their perches.  

Counting the Empties

Shoshana Berger and Grace Hawthorne art starting crafts magazine for MTV generation called ReadyMade; Berger and Hawthorne comment; photos (M)

Need Coasters? Dust Off Those LP's

Many affected by Sept 11 terrorism are preserving e-mail messages, voice mail and even instant messages sent by victims shortly before their deaths; some messages noted; photos (M)

Sent: Tues, 11 Sept 2001, 8:45

At Home With column on Hollywood screenwriter Antwone Quenton Fisher, whose memoir, Finding Fish, recalls his 15 years in foster care, most of them with one family, where he was sexually molested and physically abused and neglected; Fisher comments; photo (M)

A Child's Tale Told in Disbelief

Several biotechnology companies work to develop drugs that stimulate brain and other organs to grow new cells and self-repair; drugs avoid rejection of cells and tissues by body's immune system; they avoid surgery usually needed to implant new cells; and they sidestep political and philosophical barbs attached to cloning and stem cell research; some regenerative drugs are in late-stage trials; photos (M)

Drugs to Spur New Cells, And Without the Politics

Lawyers report brisk business in writing wills in three months since Sept 11 terrorist attacks; say they are being overwhelmed with requests from people to write wills, and that demand is astonishing for its breadth as well as its volume; say people of all ages and economic classes want will; say writing wills has long been sleepy process of nudging reluctant clients to prepare for their death; change in tempo and tenor of process suggests fundamental change in way many people have come to think about their lives: suddenly, notion of dying at early age is not irrational fear, but kind of reality; photo (M)

Jolted by Sept. 11, Many Rush to Make Wills

Channeling the rambunctious spirit of the Puerto Rican playwright, poet and actor Miguel Pinero, whose prison drama &quot;Short Eyes&quot; created a sensation in the early  1970's, Benjamin Bratt turns in a tour-de-force screen performance reminiscent of Dustin  Hoffman's Lenny Bruce. The movie, a flashy montage, which jumps around in time and  alternates between color and black and white, lacks narrative cohesion. But its agitated  style mirrors Pinero's streetwise pre-rap poetry and the chaotic criminal life of an artist  who boasted, &quot;I have to keep doing bad to keep the writing good.&quot; &#151; Stephen Holden

Playing Piñero as Just Enough of a Mess

Movement by big business to revise civil liability system gains momentum after Sept 11; airlines, landlords and real estate owners in Manhattan, as well as New York City itself, have already won important protections against lawsuits arising from terrorist attacks, and bill passed by House would do something of the same for insurance industry; biotechnology, which produces vaccines and drugs that might combat biological weapons, also want protection; Bush administration has always supported changes in tort systems but never pushed for them before Sept 11; Sen Tom Dashcle, Democratic majority leader, is seeking to strip insurance bill of liability revisions (M)

Added Rush On Revising Tort System

 Al Qaeda's Trial by Proxy  The defendant is Zacarias Moussaoui, but the government seems intent on putting Al Qaeda on trial.     NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE B5    A Focus on Fireproofing  A fire protection expert said inadequate or faulty fireproofing might have played a role in the collapse of the twin towers on Sept. 11.   PAGE B1

A NATION CHALLENGED

European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co, main shareholder in Airbus Industrie, says deliveries of Airbus SAS planes in 2003 will fall and that job losses might follow; Airbus is sticking to its target of 300 deliveries in 2002 (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Airbus Expects A Decline

Company formed from three-way merger of Usinor of France, Arbed of Luxembourg and Aceralia of Spain will be called Arcelor; deal is expected to close in February; Usinor chairman Francis Mer and Arbed chairman Joseph Kinch will be co-chairmen until 2004, when single chairman will be named; Arcelor is expected to be world's largest steel maker (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Steel Maker Is Named

Annual Candlelight Holiday Concert, presented by Little Orchestra Society, conducted by Dino Anagnost, and featuring soprano soloist Susan Yankee will take place at Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity on Dec 15; Brooklyn Philharmonic, led by Robert Spano, will present world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis' The Cows of Apollo, modern interpretation of ancient Greek satyr play that combines song, theater and dance, at Brooklyn Academy of Music on Dec 14; art exhibit, The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919-2001, is on display at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Handel's Messiah will be sung at Trinity Church in lower Manhattan for 231st consecutive Christmas season on Dec 16; costs of performance have been underwritten by WQXR, radio station of New York Times, which will broadcast it live; reopening ceremony of School of International Center of Photography at its new home at 43rd Street and 6th Avenue takes place Dec 13; photos (M)

Footlights

Joyce Purnick comments on lawsuits being filed against New York City in aftermath of World Trade Center attacks (M)

Metro Matters; Suing the City For Sept. 11? Oh, Why Not?

United States government officials acknowledge that Army scientists in recent years made anthrax in powdered form that could be used as weapon, but claim it was different strain from one used in recent mail attacks that killed five people; experts say this is first such disclosure since US renounced biological weapons in 1969 and began destroying its germ arsenal; officials say scientists at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah turned small quantities of wet anthrax into powder to test ways to defend against biowarfare attacks; Dugway officials decline to say whether any of anthrax produced there was Ames strain, type found in letters sent to two senators and news organizations; government records show Dugway has had Ames strain since 1992; disclosure at Dugway comes as federal agents try to figure out where stores of anthrax are housed around nation and who has skill to create powdered form--major technical step needed to make anthrax used in terror attack; Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, biological arms control expert, has argued that likeliest suspect in anthrax attacks is government insider or someone in contact with insider (M)

U.S. Recently Produced Anthrax In a Highly Lethal Powder Form

Bank of Japan's Tankan report shows Japanese business leaders are rapidly losing confidence in country's weakening economy, and they see no end to current recession in first quarter of 2002; report gives few hints that companies expect rebound soon; US dollar drops to 125.82 yen in Tokyo after report is released, down from 126.01 in New York trading; companies surveyed by bank say they expect to spend 7.8 percent less on factories, equipment and capital goods in remainder of fiscal year, which ends March 31, and they expect sales to slip 3 percent and profits 18.7 percent from year ago; photo (M)

Sentiment on Japan's Economy Worsens

Jayden Goodwin is an Australian cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 10 November 2021, for Western Australia in the 2021–22 Sheffield Shield season.

Jayden Goodwin, Australian cricketer

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The 2001 Indian Parliament attack was a terrorist attack on the Parliament of India in New Delhi, India on 13 December 2001. The attack was carried out by five Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists that resulted in the deaths of six Delhi Police personnel, two Parliament Security Service personnel, and a gardener. All five terrorists were killed by security forces.

2001 Indian Parliament attack: Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by 5 Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.

December 13, 2001

Headlines from December 13, 2001

Counting Birds at the Grass Roots

In a Land Where Old Youths Meet as Distant Neighbors

An Elusive bin Laden, Loss of a Bomber, Twin Tower Science

Jai Alai Retires From Connecticut; Sport's Fans, Most Elderly, Lament

The Pop Life

Billboard 200

Weathered

Now 8

Word Of Mouf

Scarecrow

Britney

Notable Births

Historical Events

Historical Context for December 13, 2001