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Rough at Bethpage Black Course (NY), site of upcoming US Open, is notoriously dense and trecherous, presenting challenges to golfers who might have misfortune of hitting ball off desired course; photos (M)
Pakistan officials say several men believed to be American citizens have been taken into custody during past few weeks on suspicion of being linked to Al Qaeda; say most were picked up along with other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members in joint American-Pakistani raids in country's remote tribal areas near border with Afghanistan; say they believe that men form disjointed network of disaffected Westerners who converted to Islam and have been drawn to militant causes; one man, who goes by name Ahmed Muhammad or single name Benjamin and claims to be American citizen, is believed to be associate of Jose Padilla, American-born man detained last month on suspicion that he was trying to build radiation dispersal bomb intended for detonation in United States; report they have picked up about 400 suspected members of Al Qaeda and Taliban in sweeps around country since December, about 300 of whom have been turned over to American authorities; say some of men recently detained and believed to be Americans may have studied under radical Islamic cleric Mufti Muhammad Iltimas, to whom John Walker Lindh and Richard C Reid may also have had link; also say they have confirmed that unidentified American convert to Islam was killed while fighting alongside Muslim guerrillas in Kashmir; map (M)
Web browsing for places to spend outdoor vacations sometimes becomes all-consuming; appealing online sites can keep intrepid vacationers online and away from goal of actually being outdoors; photo; some sites that focus on natural world noted (M)
David Pogue State of the Art column compares ten new digital cameras with eye toward buying one for himself; chart compares features and prices; photo; list of Web sites of various companies noted; final selection is Canon PowerShot S40 (L)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn denies public funeral Mass for John J Gotti, although family will be allowed to bury crime boss near body of his son in Catholic cemetery; concern about crowds cited; priest will attend wake and conduct burial service (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 12, 2002, covering June 13, 2002.
Eminem
Various Artists
Ashanti
Cam'Ron
Celine Dion
2002John Hope, American navigator and meteorologist (born 1919)[†]
John Raymond Hope was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel.
2002Maia Wojciechowska, Polish-American author (born 1927)[†]
Maia Teresa Wojciechowska was a Polish-American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction. Her first book and two books for adults were published under her married name Maia Rodman.
2002The United States withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.[†]
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, also known as the ABM Treaty or ABMT, was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against ballistic missile-delivered nuclear weapons. It was intended to reduce pressures to build more nuclear weapons to maintain deterrence. Under the terms of the treaty, each party was limited to two ABM complexes, each of which was to be limited to 100 anti-ballistic missiles.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]