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Major League Baseball players union and owners announce settlement just before strike deadline, preventing work stoppage and agreeing on new collective bargaining agreement that is result of union's compromise; photo (M)
Atmosphere at ballparks like storied Wrigley Field, where Chicago Cubs faced St Louis Cardinals, is mostly one of appreciation for game of baseball as strike deadline passes without work stoppage; photos (M)
Major League Baseball and its players reach accord on new labor contract without work stoppage for first time in 30 years; Comr Bud Selig and player's union head Donald Fehr hail success in averting strike; 4-year accord includes greater sharing of local revenue among baseball's 30 clubs and bigger penalty for high payrolls, ensures no teams will be eliminated through 2006 season and provides for testing players for steroids for first time; tables of pact highlights and of questions and answers about deal; photo (M)
Augusta National Golf Club chairman William (Hootie) Johnson, rejecting demands that club quickly admit women members, says it will do without commercial sponsors for 2003 Masters telecast; seeks to protect sponsors Citigroup, IBM and Coca-Cola from drive begun by National Council of Women's Organizations; move startles sports marketing experts; could spur women to pressure CBS (M)
Conservatives claim lesson plans produced by school districts, universities and organizations across nation for first anniversary of Sept 11 terrorist attacks are too focused on teaching tolerance and unwilling to cast judgment or assign blame; say educators have gone so far as to be unpatriotic in trying to help students understand ideology behind attacks; National Education Association has y come under so much fire for suggested lesson plan on tolerance that it removed material from its Web site; NEA and other groups say attacked plans were response to requests from teachers and parents who say children are still suffering emotionally from attacks; Thomas B Fordham Foundation releases curriculum written largely by conservatives, including William J Bennett and Lynne Cheney, to counter what it calls 'dangerous idea of moral equivalence' in other lesson plans; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 28, 2002, covering August 31, 2002.
Nelly
Eminem
Bruce Springsteen
James Taylor
Avril Lavigne
2002Lionel Hampton, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1908)[†]
Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.
2002Farhad Mehrad, Persian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and pianist (born 1944)[†]
Farhad Mehrad was a popular Iranian singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. He was a versatile musician who released the first English rock and roll album in Iran. Farhad gained fame among the Iranian rock, pop and folk musicians before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He was prohibited from singing for several years in Iran after the revolution. Farhad's first concert after the Islamic Revolution was held in 1990. He is still recognized as one of the most influential and respected contemporary Iranian singers. Farhad was also the founding member of the popular Iranian band Black Cats.
2002George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)[†]
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
2002Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people.[†]
Typhoon Rusa was the most powerful typhoon to strike South Korea in 43 years. It was the 21st JTWC tropical depression, the 15th named storm, and the 10th typhoon of the 2002 Pacific typhoon season. It developed on August 22 from the monsoon trough in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, well to the southeast of Japan. For several days, Rusa moved to the northwest, eventually intensifying into a powerful typhoon. On August 26, the storm moved across the Amami Islands of Japan, where Rusa left 20,000 people without power and caused two fatalities. Across Japan, the typhoon dropped torrential rainfall peaking at 902 mm (35.5 in) in Tokushima Prefecture.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]