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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[â ]
2002CĂ©sar Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)[â ]
César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.
2002Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (born 1932)[â ]
Boris Said Jr., better known as Bob Said, was an American racing driver from the United States. The son of a Syrian father and a Russian mother, he grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Deerfield Academy and Princeton. He discovered sports car racing during his first year at Princeton.
Article recalls past Oscar-winning films, which were often stuffy, overproduced behemoths and outright duds and notes more recent winners, which have been more hip and sophisticated; photos (M)
New York Marriott Brooklyn hotel will undergo $53 million expansion, adding 280 guest rooms (S)
Tom Rogers, chief executive of Primedia, remains very confident of company's future straddling worlds of old and new media, even though digital media are starving for financing and advertising and Primedia's core business -- magazines -- is suffering from ad recession; Primedia is now laboring under crushing debt, flat earnings and depressed stock price and is being forced it to sell assets and cut costs; photo (M)
Independent counsel's $64-million investigation into collective matters known as Whitewater ends with heavy thud, just ten years after The New York Times first reported Bill and Hillary Clinton's ties to Arkansas real estate venture; five-volume report seems like relic of another era, dredging up names like Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp at time when nation is preoccupied with terrorism; chronology; photos (M)
Home Front column on plight of New York City 'black car' drivers, independent contractors who ferry mostly corporate clients; so many drivers quit after Sept 11 attacks caused business to plunge that dispatchers are searching for replacements, even though business is still down by over 20 percent from year ago; those that are still working are struggling to cover costs; photo (M)
Profile of jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, who has been named America's best singer by Time magazine and who, despite her considerable talent, is showing less interest in jazz and more in folk rock; new album Belly of the Sun reviewed; photos (M)
More and more European children are being born out of wedlock into new social order in which it seems few of old stigmas apply; trend is far more pronounced in Scandinavia, France and Britain, less so in southern countries like Italy, but figures are startling and extend across social classes; out-of-wedlock birth in 1999 were 49 percent of total in Norway, 62 percent in Iceland, 41 percent in France, 38 percent in Britain and about 31 percent even in deeply Catholic Ireland; most Europeans still do marry at some point, but decisions are seen as deeply personal choices free of traditional moral judgments of community, family or church (M)
Indiana and Oklahoma Win Jared Jeffries rose up on defense against Kent State's Andrew Mitchell as Indiana won, 81-69, in the men's N.C.A.A. tournament. The victory ended Kent State's 21-game winning streak and propelled the Hoosiers to the Final Four. They will meet Oklahoma, which beat Missouri, 81-75. For the women, UConn advanced to the Round of Eight by defeating Penn State, 82-64. UConn is seeking its third title. SPORTSSUNDAY A Long Shot on Andersen Paul A. Volcker's offer to remake the Andersen accounting firm seems simple. But the odds for its success are long. NEWS ANALYSIS, PAGE 40
Palestinians, whose Arab friends have tended to offer flowery lip service to their cause at best, may benefit from Saudi peace initiative that Crown Prince Abdullah is expected to unveil at Arab summit meeting; leaders of most influential Arab nations believe Israeli-Arab conflict has moved to point where it risks causing them political at home (M)
Two recent robberies of family-owned Pilsen State Bank in tiny Lincolnville, Kansas, are part of spate of small-town holdups reminiscent of days of Jesse James and John Dillinger; FBI reports bank robberies over all rose 17 percent from 1995 to 2001, but jumped 82 percent in samll towns and 27 percent in rural areas; nearly third of nation's 8,259 bank robberies last year were in small towns, up from less than 20 percent six years ago; explanations range from overall crime rise, especially drug-related, interstate highway access and suburban sprawl that brings city problems closer to countryside; robbers rely on lack of high-tech security; they usually get only marked bait money, but take can range from $2,000 to $10,000 and $30,000 in recent cases; Kansas cases detailed; Alden State Bank in Plevna, robbed twice in two months after 99 years without holdup, will close as result; photos; map; graph (M)
Felicia Lee Coping column on Ana Torres Maldonado, fourth-grade teacher who views her Mott Haven neighborhood in Bronx as community and who will probably be named first principal of new Mott Haven Village Prepatory High School, which is scheduled to open in September; drawing (M)
Gretchen Morgenson column praises William H Gross, manager of Pacific Investment Management, on decision not to own General Electric commercial paper for foreseeable future on ground that GE is not disclosing enough about its operations or financing needs to bond investors; says it is about time investors started making demands of their companies; graph (M)