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Russia's Tyumen Oil cancels half-billion-dollar bond sale after PricewaterhouseCoopers revokes its audit opinion given on April 29; accounting confusion arose over how oil company's assets should be valued in corporate reorganization that began in 2000 (M)
Philadelphia Phillies defeat New York Mets, 5-2; photos (M)
Bernard Holland reviews performance by Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch featuring work by Franz Schmidt (M)
Article on eight-year-old 'green' development on Dewees Island, off Charleston, South Carolina, which bans toxic building materials, encourages use of durable, energy-efficient materials and protects native trees; developer John L Knott Jr says inspiration comes from traditional sea island houses; community has only 150 home sites on 1,206 acres and no stores, paved roads or lawns; houses cannot be more than 5,000 square feet; treehouse-inspired home of Rives and Walter Yost described; photos (M)
Government-run Korea Asset Management Corp will stop buying any more nonperforming loans in six months and banking industry will be certifiably off disabled list; South Korea's banking industry was profitable in 2001, for first time since crisis, and its financial health has improved to point that Korea Asset Management has begun phasing itself out; graph (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 22, 2002, covering May 23, 2002.
Musiq
Celine Dion
Lauryn Hill
Ashanti
Kenny Chesney
2002Big Bill Neidjie, Australian activist and last speaker of the Gaagudju language (born c. 1920)[†]
Big Bill Neidjie, nicknamed "Kakadu Man", was the last surviving speaker of the Gaagudju language, an Aboriginal Australian language from northern Kakadu, after which Kakadu National Park is named. He was an elder of the Gaagudju people and a custodian of the land, who cared deeply about preserving his culture and land.
2002Sam Snead, American golfer and journalist (born 1912)[†]
Samuel Jackson Snead was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for the better part of four decades and widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Snead was awarded a record 94 gold medallions, for wins in PGA of America Tour events and later credited with winning a record 82 PGA Tour events tied with Tiger Woods, including seven majors. He never won the U.S. Open, though he was runner-up four times. Snead was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
2002The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.[†]
The Kyoto Protocol (Japanese: 京都議定書, Hepburn: Kyōto Giteisho) was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO2 emissions are driving it. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. There were 192 parties (Canada withdrew from the protocol, effective December 2012) to the Protocol in 2020.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]