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Britain's Reckitt Benckiser says net income increased 14 percent in second quarter to 117 million pounds; sales grew 7 percent, to 960 million pounds ($1.5 billion); graph (S)
Stockholm-based Hennes & Mauritz, which has 900 stores in 17 countries, is preparing to open its first Italian store on Sept 19 (M)
Rebecca Charles, founder of Pearl Oyster Bar in Manhattan, describes lobster mixed grill she cooks during summer vacation in Kennebunks of Maine; recipes; photos (M)
U.S. Crop Policy Is Said To Hurt Mexican Farmers The more than $10 billion that American taxpayers give corn farmers every year in agricultural subsidies has helped destroy the livelihoods of millions of small Mexican farmers, according to a report by Oxfam International. The report says that the subsidies given to American corn farmers allow them to sell their grain at prices far below what it costs to produce. That has led to cheap American corn flooding the Mexican market and pushing the poorest Mexican farmers out of business, according to the report. [Page C4.]
Article on legacy of Jack Kirby, comic book writer and illustrator whose 1940's comic book heroes have been emulated for decades and can be seen in today's movies; Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is set in 1940's comics publishing, comments on Kirby's continuing influence on pop culture; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 27, 2003, covering August 27, 2003.
Alan Jackson
Dashboard Confessional
Soundtrack
Evanescence
Beyonce
2003Pierre Poujade, French soldier and politician (born 1920)[†]
Pierre Poujade was a French right-wing populist politician after whom the Poujadist movement was named.
2003Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.[†]
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from −153 to 20 °C and cosmic radiation is high. Mars retains some water, in the ground as well as thinly in the atmosphere, forming cirrus clouds, frost, larger polar regions of permafrost and ice caps, but no liquid surface water. Its surface gravity is roughly a third of Earth's or double that of the Moon. It is half as wide as Earth or twice the Moon, with a diameter of 6,779 km (4,212 mi), and has a surface area the size of all the dry land of Earth.
2003The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.[†]
The six-party talks aimed to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program. There was a series of meetings with six participating states in Beijing: China Japan North Korea South Korea Russia United States
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]