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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]
2002Benson Boone, American singer-songwriter[†]
Benson James Boone is an American singer. Born and raised in Monroe, Washington, he began his music career when he filled in for a friend at a talent show. Boone appeared on American Idol in early 2021, where he briefly competed before withdrawing voluntarily. He continued to gain popularity on TikTok and subsequently signed a contract with Night Street Records.
2002Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician, 29th Canadian Minister of Labour (born 1934)[†]
Jean Corbeil, was a Canadian politician.
Trial of former New York City Police Officer Charles Schwarz on civil rights and perjury charges begins; Abner Louima testifies about incident in Brooklyn police station, when officers sodomized him with broken broomstick; Schwarz's attorney Ron Fischetti focuses on discrepancies in various versions Louima has given at different stages of case and calls Louima liar; prosecutors say defense's attack on Louima is attempt to distract jury from clear evidence that Schwarz participated in attack; chronology of case noted; photo (M)
George Vecsey Sports of The Times column contends that Brazil national team is and always will be dominant force in World Cup soccer, as team prepares for semifinal match against Turkey; photo (M)
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co and Wendel Investissement enter into exclusive negotiations to buy Legrand for 3.7 billion euros ($3.6 billion) from Schneider Electric; European Union blocked Scheider's acquisition of Legrand last year; Schneider is appealing ruling; any deal with Kohlberg Kravis and Wendel is contingent on outcome of that case; decision is expected this fall (S)
World Trade Organization approves second investigation into tariffs that US has ordered on steel imports; inquiry, requested by China, Norway and Switzerland, will be made by same panel of trade experts that will investigate first complaint, which was sought by European Union, Japan and South Korea (S)
Working overnight and all day, crews created fire breaks that with a shift in wind, helped protect the town of Show Low from the worst forest fire in Arizona history and the biggest in the nation this year.
Official figures show that Steven Spielberg film Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, narrowly beat Disney's animated Lilo and Stitch in first major weekend box-office duel of year; close figures point up shortcomings of system and way in which moviegoers are led to perceive which movie is tops at box office; photo; drawing (M)
Federal appeals court reinstates conspiracy convictions against five Orange, NJ, police officers found guity of beating and pepper spraying of Earl Faison, who died in police custody in 1999; he had been wrongly suspected in killing of Police Officer Joyce Carnegie; court decided that trial judge John C Lifland had improperly found that conspiracy could not be inferred from evidence presented at original trial; case reviewed (M)
Saudi Arabia is showing renewed interest in breaking logjam holding up landmark deal with eight major oil companies that would reopen kingdom to foreign investment; Crown Prince Abdullah tells Royal Dutch/Shell chairman Philip B Watts and Exxon Mobil executive Lee R Raymond that team of ministers hammering out Saudi side of deal will reconvene within two weeks; say negotiations over $25 billion, 20-year deal to develop natural gas resources could then recommence by end of summer; preliminary agreement was signed in June 2001 (M)
Article on Q and Green Destiny, two powerful new computers at Los Alamos National Laboratory that exemply very different visions of future of energy-intensive supercomputing; Q, housed in new three-story, 303,000-square-foot structure, can compute 30,000 billion calculations per second but uses 170 watts of energy per billion calculations; refrigerator-size Green Destiny can perform 160 billion calculations per second using 33 watts per billion calculations; photos; charts (M)
Shares of Brillance China Automotive Holdings begin trading again after company releases statement to explain dismissal of chairman Yang Rong last week; says it replaced Rong to disperse management functions among more executives; says it did not sell shares last week; stock rises 15.1 percent; graph (S)
Brazilian stocks, bonds and national currency, the real, oscillate widely in nervous trading, amid continued concerns about outcome of Brazil's coming presidential election and signs of weakness in country's economy; real has fallen by more than 10 percent since beginning of June, and main stock market index has dropped to eight-month low; Luiz Inacio da Silva, presidential candidate of left-wing Workers' Party, is ahead in pre-election polls; investors remain worried although he has declared his intentions to honor government's obligations; graph; photo (M)
Pres Bush, in blunt White House speech, tells Palestinians they must replace Yasir Arafat as leader before US will will support establishment of independent Palestinian state; also calls for end to Palestinian terrorism, free elections and economic reforms to end corruption; effectively endorses position of Prime Min Ariel Sharon he previously resisted, namely, that no negotiations can take place until Arafat is replaced; speech is tougher on Palestinians than any of Bush's previous statements; its major points discussed; Israeli officials express delight that Bush is asking Israel for relatively little, at least until Palestinians first move to restore security and end terror attacks; feel Sharon has been given free hand to continue present West Bank offensive; many Palestinians condemn speech; Arafat makes no comment on his own fate but describes speech as 'serious effort' to push peace process forward; Israel steps up West Bank offensive; kills six Palestinians with missile strike in Gaza; tanks again encircle Arafat's compound in Ramallah; photos (M)