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Change in a Car Culture A pipeline rupture that stanched the flow of gasoline to Phoenix has changed daily life. People are riding buses, walking, or just staying home until the crisis ends. PAGE 12 Sound's Floor Yielding Clues Long Island Sound's past is emerging as never before as scientists delve into the dark muck of history. But so is the glimmering of its many possible futures. PAGE 29
Buildings put up by fraternal orders in New York City, including Elks, Masons, Knights of Columbus and Knights of Pythias, survive as part of city's streetscape, but many have now been converted to other purposes, such as apartments; photos (M)
Like most of the American League, the Yankees had done a pretty good job lately of beating up on the Baltimore right-hander Rodrigo Lopez, whose statistics (5-8, 5.75 earned run average) entering the game were pretty unsightly. Just six days earlier, the Yankees had gotten to him for four runs in four innings on a night they thrashed the Orioles behind the pitching of Mike Mussina. So on a splendid late summer afternoon, 54,397 showed up yesterday at Yankee Stadium for the Lopez-Mussina rematch, and it would have been reasonable to assume they would be treated to more of the same.
Annual sales of hybrid automobiles are expected to increase dramatically in coming years; J D Power & Associates projects sales will top 500,000 by 2008 and 872,000 by 2013; new entries by Ford, General Motors, Daimlerchrysler and Toyota noted (M)
There are growing number of underemployed Americans who are still working but in capacity below what they once had and want; they make less money and work fewer hours than they did before they were laid off, and many are working below their level of experience and skill; BLS reports that number of people working 'part time for economic reasons' rose to 4.6 percent in July, after seasonal adjustment, from 3.1 million three years ago; graphs show unemployment rates, new unemployment claims in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut; graphs on New York regional economy (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 20, 2003, covering August 24, 2003.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
Evanescence
Beyonce
Chingy
2003Wilfred Thesiger, Ethiopian-English explorer and author (born 1910)[†]
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, also known as Mubarak bin Landan was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Thesiger's travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]