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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]
2002Harold Russell, Canadian-American soldier and actor (born 1914)[†]
Harold John Avery Russell was an American World War II veteran and actor. After losing his hands during his military service, Russell was cast in the epic drama film The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was the first non-professional actor to win an Academy Award for acting and the first Oscar recipient to sell his award.
2002In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.[†]
The 2002 State of the Union Address was given by the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, on January 29, 2002, at 9:00 p.m. EST, in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives to the 107th United States Congress. It was Bush's first State of the Union Address and his second speech to a joint session of the United States Congress. Presiding over this joint session was the House speaker, Dennis Hastert, accompanied by Dick Cheney, the vice president, in his capacity as the president of the Senate.
''It's gone. There's nothing left. Everything we had mostly was in Enron stock.'' Such sorrowful words have lately become all too common on television news reports. But the woman tearfully sharing her anguish on the ''Today'' program yesterday morning was Linda Lay, the wife of Kenneth L. Lay, who resigned last week as chief executive of the Enron Corporation.
ANDERSEN LOSES BUSINESS -- Clients of Arthur Andersen are asking questions about its role in Enron's collapse, and the firm is losing business as a result. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1
Several large corporations are dispersing workers in facilities outside Manhattan, move born of determination since September 11 terrorists attacks not to be concentrated in one place and subject to being knocked out by single cataclysmic event; trend represents greatest challenges in rebuilding Lower Manhattan, where 20 million square feet of office space was damaged or destroyed in attack and where office vacancy rate has doubled; estimated 23,000 jobs went to suburbs from downtown after September 11 and additional 144,000 jobs are in jeopardy in second wave of departures; planned relocation of staff by Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co, Marsh & McLennan and others discussed; photo (M)
Researchers seek to fill in crucial gaps as they assembly scientific evidence on origins of AIDS, and when and how AIDS made jump from animals to people; research regarding AIDS in chimpanzees and wild cats of Africa discussed; photo of researchers Dr George M Shaw and Dr Beatrice H Hahn reviewed (M)
THE streetcar named Desire is now a bus. And has been since before Super Bowl IV, the first of what will be Bourbon Street's ninth Super Bowl, the most of any site. But there is still a trolley on St. Charles Street and they're constructing a trolley line on Canal Street that leads to where the Mississippi and the bourbon flow. And if the New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl, it must be New Orleans. The two other times the Patriots earned an invitation to the game that has created a national holiday that should be known as Party Day, they lost -- to the Chicago Bears, 46-10, in Super Bowl XX and to the Green Bay Packers, 35-21, in Super Bowl XXXI.
Article discusses security precautions being installed at Super Bowl in New Orleans; Federal and local law enforcement officials comment; photo (M)
John Tierney The Big City column on lamentable ignorance of historyrevealed in Prof Anders Henriksson's test of several NYU undergraduates chosen at random at local deli; Henriksson quotes some other comical statements in his book Non Campus Mentis (M)
Justice Department requests major last-minute changes in security arrangements at winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City out of concern that some sites are not adequately protected from terrorist attack; officials say move follows visit by Atty Gen John Ashcroft, who came away dissatisfied with security plans for parts of city away from sports arenas, such as open-air areas of shops and restaurants; Justice Dept officials say security at games is of greater concern to Ashcroft, compared with that for upcoming World Economic Forum in New York and Super Bowl in New Orleans since games have been terrorist targets in past and will take place over 900-square-mile area of Utah; photo (M)
RWE, european power company, and Volkswagen plan to jointly build power plant in Puebla, Mex; Volkswagen builds 400,000 cars per year in Puebla and 80 percent of those cars are sold outside Mexico; joint venture will help Volkswagen and its suppliers become independent of public energy supply and will cut costs (S)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's testimony to state Legislature that Gov George Pataki's proposed budget slights city noted
Pres Bush, following lengthy meeting with national security team, says he is reconsidering whether Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be protected under Geneva Convention, but reiterates that they are 'killers' who will not be granted prisoner-of-war status; says US is adhering to 'spirit' of Geneva Convention; was asked by Sec of State Colin Powell to reconsider decision made on January 18; Powell agrees capitves should not be classified as prisoners of war, but is seeking to have administration affirm that international law of war governs US in its treatment of captives; Bush's unusual request to reverse decision exposes clear split within administration; officials say Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld, reflecting concerns of Joint Chiefs of Staff, has moved to support Powell's view; military officials fear by denying capitives protections of Geneva Convention, US is setting precedent that could put future American battlefield captives at risk; Powell's call for review of policy comes after European leaders bluntly criticized American decision; photo (M)