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Paying More for Claritin This is the first allergy season in which Claritin is available over the counter, and many consumers are now paying more for it. PAGE C1 Wizards Let Jordan Go Washington's owners told Michael Jordan they did not want him back in his former position as a team executive. SPORTSTHURSDAY, PAGE D1
Suit Accuses EarthLink Of Violating 2 Patents A Silicon Valley start-up sued EarthLink, the big Internet service provider, contending that EarthLink's latest technology to block unwanted e-mail marketing, or spam, violates two of its patents. The plaintiff, MailBlocks, was granted the patents for its method of verifying senders, a type of technology known as ''challenge response.'' MailBlocks charges users $9.95 a year for the service. EarthLink is offering its customers a free challenge-response system at the end of the month. [Page C4.]
Middle school and high school students flock to Web-based bulletin boards where they can read comments about peers or teachers, then add or respond anonymously to what they see; some students seem enthralled with newfound power that comes from blend of anonymity and publicity; their remarks about fellow students and teachers can be nasty; increasing prominence of message boards focusing on schools adds new wrinkle to debate over free speech; at issue: short of legal action for defamation, what means or premise do parents or school administrators have for trying to suppress such sites? photo (M)
State of the Art column by David Pogue appraises some new models of two-way radios; finds many do not have nearly the range that manufacturers claim they have; drawing (M)
Councilman Robert Jackson leads 150-mile march from Manhattan to Albany to dramatize lawsuit in which he contends that state has shirked its own constitutional obligation to provide all children with sound basic education; suit challenges whether state's $13 billion education budget for 3 million schoolchildren is nearly enough; state appeals court has upheld state in lawsuit, essentially agreeing that state's responsibility ends after providing students with skills needed to 'get a job, and support oneself, and thereby not be a charge' on public dole; case is going to state's highest court; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 2003, covering May 8, 2003.
Madonna
50 Cent
Kelly Clarkson
Linkin Park
Cher
2003Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco[†]
Moulay Hassan is the Crown Prince of Morocco. He is the elder child of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma. He has a younger sister, Princess Khadija. He is named after his grandfather Hassan II. In 2013, he began participating with his father at public official engagements.
2003Elvira Pagã, Brazilian vedette, singer, and artist (born 1920)[†]
Elvira Olivieri Cozzolino, better known by her stage name Elvira Pagã, was a Brazilian vedette and actress, singer, writer and painter. She was the first Rio Carnival Queen, the first woman to wear a bikini in public, and one of the first women to have cosmetic surgery in Brazil. Talented and controversial, she broke the status quo and faced the reigning "machismo" with fearless audacity during the Brazilian military dictatorship and the revolutionary 1960s, where she lived with determination and courage. Pagã retired from public life, wrote and painted in her later years, dying a recluse.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]