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Article on lodge in Beijing's Forbidden City, which was built in 1796 as retirement home for Emperor Qianlong; lodge, filled with decorative arts, survived ravages of Cultural Revolution and is being prepared for conservation in collaboration by Chinese government and World Monuments Fund; photos (M)
As Global Crossing, troubled telecommunications company, made its long tumble toward bankruptcy, it became big campaign contributor in New York--giving more than $200,000 in 18 months, most of it to Gov George E Pataki and his allies; Global Crossing and its executives, already big contributors to federal campaigns and candidates in their home base of California, began making contributions to New York State political action committees in 1999, when company bought Frontier Corp, phone company based in Rochester; at time of contributions, Global Crossing was seeking state's permission to sell Frontier and most of its assets to Citizens Communication of Connecticut for $3.6 billion in cash (M)
Boston Symphony Orchestra announces Tanglewood season schedule, which begins July 5 (S)
Serge Schmemann news analysis says truth about pairs figure skating scandal is obscured behind conflicting statements; holds that money, national rivalries and human drama are what define Olympics, create heroes and villains and make modern Olympic games successful; notes that even ancient games were abandoned as pagan, political spectacle; photo (M)
Anthony Tommasini reviews Munich Philharmonic Orchestra concert conducted by James Levine; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 13, 2002, covering February 19, 2002.
Alan Jackson
Creed
Linkin Park
Ludacris
Nickelback
2002Sylvia Rivera, American transgender LGBT activist (born 1951)[†]
Sylvia Rivera was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who was also a noted community worker in New York. Rivera, who identified as a drag queen for most of her life and later as a transgender person, participated in demonstrations with the Gay Liberation Front.
2002NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.[†]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]