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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]
2002Livvy Dunne, American gymnast and social media personality[†]
Olivia Paige Dunne is an American influencer and former artistic gymnast. She is also a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and former member of the LSU Tigers women's gymnastics team. In 2017, she was named as a member of the US Junior Women's National Team. Dunne has a social media following of over 10 million.
2002Walter Annenberg, American publisher and diplomat (born 1908)[†]
Walter Hubert Annenberg was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and diplomat. Annenberg owned and operated Triangle Publications, which included ownership of The Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form and Seventeen magazine. He was appointed by President Richard Nixon as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, where he served from 1969 to 1974.
Researchers who specialize in molecular electronics, despite now discredited breakthrough in miniaturization by Dr J Hendrik Schon of Bell Labs, are making steady progress in single molecule transistors used as switches; difference in how atomic and silicon transistors work described; drawing (M)
German wholesale sales dropped sharply in August, the Federal Statistics Office said. Compared with August last year, the sales fell 6.3 percent, based on figures adjusted for inflation. On a monthly comparison, sales dropped 1.8 percent. Petra Kappl (NYT)
A plan by the Daewoo Motor Company's creditors to split the company into five entities as part of the sale of assets to the General Motors Corporation was approved by a South Korean court. The approval is a step closer to sealing 32 months of efforts to sell the insolvent Daewoo.
Ron Wertheimer reviews four-part PBS documentary The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow; pohto (M)
Anne Midgette reviews Metropolitan Opera production of Rossini opera La Cenerentola featuring Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez; photo (M)
Article on nascent rock 'n' roll band Dry Cell, whose first single, Body Crumbles, proved popular but whose debut album remains unreleased and whose contract with Warner Brothers Records has been cancelled; photos (M)
Gov Pataki basks in benevolent gaze of union leaders who usually have eyes only for Democrats, Albany; union leaders wave ceremonial pens in air after Pataki uses them to sign law to prevent employers from spending state funds to fight union organizers; Pataki, in part because of his support for such union-friendly laws, has won endorsements of Democratic bastions like UNITE and 1199/SEIU, 220,000-member health care union; photo of Pataki with union leaders (M)
The government warned pharmaceutical companies today that they must not offer any financial incentives to doctors, pharmacists or other health care professionals to prescribe or recommend particular drugs, or to switch patients from one medicine to another. The government informed the industry that many practices commonly used in the marketing and sale of prescription drugs could run afoul of federal fraud and abuse laws.
Article on Drs David Rizzo and Matteo Garbelotto, who have discovered that previously unknown pathogen species, now named Phytophthora ramorum, is cause of fast-spreading new disease known as sudden oak death syndrome; disease, which has spread to 17 different species, has killed tens of thousands of trees in California and may spread to East and Midwest; photos (M)
South Korea's largest commercial bank, Kookmin, will soon face competition in administering low-interest loans that are subsidized by the government for people buying homes for the first time. The Construction and Transportation Ministry said it would name two more banks in October to deal with such loans. The government decided to give others a chance after Woori Finance Holding, whose Woori Bank ranks second to Kookmin, objected to the monopoly. Don Kirk (NYT)
Bloomberg administration, with New York facing yet another steep budget deficit, signals that it is no longer opposed to tax increases; debate at City Hall shifts to which taxes should be raised and by how much (M)
MyTravel, Europe's third-largest tour operator, said changes in accounting procedures would leave its 2002 profit far short of previous expectations. The company's shares fell by more than one third, to 81.5 pence, their lowest in more than 10 years. The company, which is based in Manchester, said pretax profit this year could be as low as £90 million ($141 million), a decline of 38 percent from last year and 14 percent lower than earlier forecasts. Under its new accounting procedures MyTravel will book earnings when clients depart on vacation rather than when they make reservations. Alan Cowell (NYT)