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New York Yankees trade pitcher Ted Lilly and two minor leaguers to Oakland Athletics and get pitcher Jeff Weaver from Detroit Tigers in three-team deal (M)
Lawyers for unidentified Florida woman file class-action suit against Walgreens, Holy Cross Hospital, Dr Lise Lambert and two other doctors and Eli Lilly, maker of Prozac, after woman receives unsolicited free month's supply of Prozac Weekly from Walgreens drugstore near Fort Lauderdale; suit charges plaintiffs misused patients' medical records and invaded their privacy; accuses drugstore and Lilly of unauthorized medical practice; legal experts say sending drugs through mail could be criminal if recipient does not have prescription; photo (M)
Japanese Finance Ministry attempts to persuade its citizenry to purchase nation's bonds; reacts to Moody's Investors Service downgrading of Japanese bonds by two notches, below those of Botswana, Chile and Hungary; country's primary debt overshadows its foreign reserves and overseas assets; photo (M)
Support is growing in New York City Council for changing term-limits law, allowing Speaker Gifford Miller and seven other council members an extra two years in office; proponents of change say they support law and simply want to apply it more evenly; as law now stands, eight council members are limited to six years in office, rather than eight allowed to other members; opponents fear these changes would open door to undoing of law altogether (M)
Benjamin O. Davis Dies Lt. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who broke color barriers as the commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering black World War II fighter pilots, was 89. PAGE A10
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 3, 2002, covering July 6, 2002.
Eminem
Papa Roach
Korn
Various Artists
Avril Lavigne
2002Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman, founded Reliance Industries (born 1932)[†]
Dhirajlal Hirachand "Dhirubhai" Ambani was an Indian billionaire businessman who founded Reliance Industries in 1958. Ambani took Reliance public in 1977. In 2016, he was honoured posthumously with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour for his contributions to trade and industry. Ambani faced numerous accusations of market manipulation, tax evasion, and cronyism.
2002John Frankenheimer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)[†]
John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits are Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, Seven Days in May, The Train, Seconds, Grand Prix, French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Ronin (1998) and Reindeer Games (2000).
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]