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January 17, 2004

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NASA Cancels Trip To Supply Hubble, Sealing Early Doom

By Dennis Overbye

NASA admr Sean O'Keefe tells managers of Hubble Space Telescope that there will be no more shuttle visits to maintain it; visit by astronauts to install some scientific instruments and replace equipment had been planned for 2005; telescope will probably die in orbit in 2007 without any more visits; Pres Bush has ordered NASA to redirect its resources toward human exploration of Moon and Mars (M)

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BUSINESS DIGEST

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Microsoft Antitrust Deal Is Said to Fall Short Two separate reports suggest the antitrust consent decree reached between Microsoft and the Justice Department has neither fostered significant competition nor changed Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior. The government's agreement with Microsoft to settle its antitrust lawsuit has ''fallen short'' of its goal of creating competition, according to the plaintiffs' report. [Page C2.]

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 2004, covering January 17, 2004.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast

    Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

    OutKast

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  2. 2
    Album cover for The Diary Of Alicia Keys by Alicia Keys

    The Diary Of Alicia Keys

    Alicia Keys

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  3. 3
    Album cover for Now 14 by Various Artists

    Now 14

    Various Artists

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    9
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow by Sheryl Crow

    The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Crow

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for The Singles 1992-2003 by No Doubt

    The Singles 1992-2003

    No Doubt

    Last week
    8
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    6

Notable Deaths

2004Raymond Bonham Carter, English banker (born 1929)[†]

Raymond Henry Bonham Carter was a British banker and a member of the prominent Bonham Carter family.

Harry Brecheen

2004Harry Brecheen, American baseball player and coach (born 1914)[†]

Harry David Brecheen, nicknamed "the Cat", was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the St. Louis Cardinals. In the late 1940s, he was among the team's stars, in 1946 becoming the first left-hander ever to win three games in a single World Series, and the only pitcher ever to win consecutive World Series games. He later led the National League in several categories in 1948.

Ray Stark

2004Ray Stark, American film producer (born 1915)[†]

Raymond Otto Stark was an American film producer and talent agent. Stark's background as a literary and theatrical agent prepared him to produce some of the most profitable films of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, such as The World of Suzie Wong (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Misfits (1961), Lolita (1962), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Funny Girl (1968), The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Toy (1982), Annie (1982), and Steel Magnolias (1989).

Noble Willingham

2004Noble Willingham, American actor (born 1931)[†]

Noble Henry Willingham, Jr. was an American actor who appeared in more than thirty films and in many television shows, including a stint opposite Chuck Norris in Walker, Texas Ranger.

Historical Context for January 17, 2004

In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]