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Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column tries to sort out confusion about development of World Trade Center site; process involves many different people and agencies with overlapping responsibilities; approach is emerging that involves narrowing teams of designers and eventually selecting one scheme for land use and another for memorial, following international competition (M)
bush aide sees deficit in 2003 of $200 billion* Mitchell E Daniels Jr, Pres Bush's budget director, says federal deficit is likely to exceed $200 billion this fiscal year and probably hit $300 billion in fiscal 2004; says Bush's tax plan would add several scores of billions to deficit in 2003 and about $100 billion to deficit in 2004; suggests that budget is not likely to be in surplus in next 10 years; ballooning deficits--largest ever in dollar terms but smaller relative to economy than deficits in 1980's and early 1990's --could put tax plan in peril; five Republican and six Democratic senators meet to discuss their qualms about that plan and to draft their own; photo; graph (M)
Larry Silverstein faces numerous obstacles as he sets about trying to rebuild 7 World Trade Center, which is outside 16-acre site; Andrew M Alper, president of New York City's Economic Development Corp, notes that Silverstein does not have any tenants for planned 52-story tower and calls building it under those circumstances 'bold'; others believe he will not be able to proceed without anchor tenant; as first construction to begin at site, it is seen as symbolic of importance New Yorkers are attaching to development of area; Silverstein continues to negotiate with mortgage holders on old tower, Blackstone Group and Banc of America Securites, about what he owes and how much equity they will have in new building, but sides remain far apart; photo (M)
General Electric Co is replacing its familiar corporate slogan 'We bring good things to life' with 'Imagination at work,' which is meant to laud its innovations in areas far afield from prosaic products like refrigerators and night lights; new $100 million advertising campaign was developed by BBDO Worldwide; change is also intended to reflect re-emphasis on research and big long-term ideas under new chief executive Jeffrey R Immelt; photos (M)
Koreas Plan to Talk North and South Korea agreed to resume talks in Seoul, but the North rebuffed suggestions of dialogue with Washington. PAGE A14 Testimony on Bombing Error An Air Force commander in Afghanistan said two pilots ignored standing orders intended to prevent innocent deaths. PAGE A16
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 15, 2003, covering January 16, 2003.
Soundtrack
Norah Jones
Avril Lavigne
Dixie Chicks
Christina Aguilera
2003Richard Wainwright, English politician (born 1918)[†]
Richard Scurrah Wainwright was a British politician of the Liberal Party. He was the MP for Colne Valley from 1966 to 1970, and again from 1974 to 1987.
2003The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.[†]
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe, and the female personification of the United States, Columbia was the first of five Space Shuttle orbiters to fly in space, debuting the Space Shuttle launch vehicle on its maiden flight on April 12, 1981 and becoming the first spacecraft to be re-used after its first flight when it launched on STS-2 on November 12, 1981. As only the second full-scale orbiter to be manufactured after the Approach and Landing Test vehicle Enterprise, Columbia retained unique external and internal features compared to later orbiters, such as test instrumentation and distinctive black chines. In addition to a heavier aft fuselage and the retention of an internal airlock throughout its lifetime, these made Columbia the heaviest of the five spacefaring orbiters: around 1,000 kilograms heavier than Challenger and 3,600 kilograms heavier than Endeavour when originally constructed. Columbia also carried ejection seats based on those from the SR-71 during its first six flights until 1983, and from 1986 onwards carried an imaging pod on its vertical stabilizer.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]