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Taiwan's jobless rate rises to 5.3 percent, Nov, from 5.2 percent in Oct, seasonally adjusted; rate is highest since government began compiling figures in 1978 (S)
Explosives Incident Adds To Airline Industry Tension The passenger aboard an American Airlines plane who tried to ignite explosives in his shoes may have come very close to realizing the airline industry's nightmare scenario. Ever since Sept. 11, executives have worried that the downing of another jet by terrorists would reverse the industry's slow but steady recovery. The incident underscores simmering questions about the public's lack of confidence in stepped-up security measures since the attacks and whether American Airlines is being singled out because of its name. [Page B5.] HotJobs.com Seeks Higher TMP Bid HotJobs.com, the Internet career site, told TMP Worldwide, the parent company of Monster.com, that it had 72 hours to top a $436 million unsolicited takeover bid from Yahoo or HotJobs would call off their six-month-old merger agreement. If HotJobs.com drops its deal with TMP, it will have to pay a breakup fee of as much as $17 million. Shares of HotJobs.com rose 26 cents, to $10.73. TMP rose 40 cents, to $41.50, while Yahoo fell 25 cents, to $16.67. [C3.]
New York Giants defensive back Jason Sehorn will not play against Philadelphia Eagles because of severely sprained ankle; photo (M)
Leading structural engineers and fire-safety experts, critical of current investigation into how and why World Trade Center towers fell on Sept 11, are calling for new, independent and better-financed inquiry that could produce kinds of conclusions vital for safety of skyscrapers and future buildings nationwide; investigation organized immediately after Sept 11 by American Society of Civil Engineers is financed and administered by Federal Emergency Management Agency; mismatch between agency and senior engineers accustomed to bypassing protocol in favor of quick answers has been identified as clear point of friction; Sens Charles E Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton join call for wider look into collapses; photo (M)
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Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 19, 2001, covering December 25, 2001.
Creed
Various Artists
Various Artists
Britney Spears
Mannheim Steamroller
2001Alfred A. Tomatis, French otolaryngologist and academic (born 1920)[†]
Alfred A. Tomatis was a French otolaryngologist and inventor. He received his Doctorate in Medicine from the Paris School of Medicine. His alternative medicine theories of hearing and listening are known as the Tomatis method or Audio-Psycho-Phonology (APP).
In 2001, the world population was approximately 6,254,936,459 people[†]