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Jets offensive coordinator Paul Hackett and quarterback Vinny Testaverde comment on their problems in final seconds of team's 14-9 loss to Buffalo, when Testaverde was barely able to get off last play; photos (M)
Many homeowners in Northeast, where more than third of all homes are heated with oil, are dismayed to find that oil prices are dipping well below rates they locked in over spring and summer; heating oil is mom-and-pop industry, unregulated by government, and there is no data on number of customers who lock in contracts ahead of heating season rather than take their chances on market prices; photo; graph (M)
Pentagon says it weighs sending American ground troops to mountainous area of southern Afghanistan to help forces allied with Afghan warlord Gul Agha Shirzai search for Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar; plan calls for hundreds of troops, probably marines, to help in attacking about 2,000 Taliban soldiers thought to be hiding near Baghran and shielding Omar; over 20 American Special Forces soldiers leave Kandahar, apparently to join up to 30 other Special Forces soldiers aiding Shirzai; Special Forces troops are involved in brief skirmish, near Jalalabad; photos (M)
Tyson Foods, nation's largest meat processor, is badly battered by authorities despite its ties to influential politicians and generous support of Bill Clinton and George W Bush; over last few years, federal officials have accused Tyson of violating labor, environmental and civil rights laws and of making illegal gifts to cabinet secretary; federal grand jury recently indicted Tyson and six employees on charges of conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants into United States to work at company's processing plants; Tyson insists it has been target of overzealous investigators and crusading special interest groups; company largely denies wrongdoing, even in cases it paid to settle years ago; photo of John H Tyson, 48-year-old scion and chief executive (M)
Hyundai Securities of South Korea extends deadline for selling shares in it and two affiliates to consortium led by American International Group (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 26, 2001, covering January 1, 2002.
Creed
Various Artists
Britney Spears
Garth Brooks
Mannheim Steamroller
Simon Adingra, Ivorian footballer[†]
Simon Kofi Adingra is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Ivory Coast national team.
2002Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (born 1944)[†]
Julia Phillips was an American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband Michael three prominent films of the 1970s—The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind—and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, received for The Sting.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]