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Texas Tech University coach Bob Knight says he did not instigate argument with university chancellor David Smith, and commends university president Jon Whitmore for handling incident with perspective; photo (M)
Retail atrium at Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle is set to open amid some anxiety about whether New Yorkers will be willing to scale its four stories of shopping space; vertical shopping has not worked well in city, but developers, Related Companies and Apollo Real Estate Advisors, believe retailing mix in multi-use building will be irresistible; developers counting on huge escalators to whisk customers through massive atrium to stores, restaurants and jazz hall; photo; diagram (L)
Elan Corp says antegren, treatment for autoimmune disorders that it was developing in partnership with Biogen Idec, will begin trials for rheumatoid arthritis in first half of year (S)
Virgin Records is hoping to capitalize on controversy surrounding Janet Jackson's performance at Super Bowl half-time show, when her breast was revealed, to promote sales of her new album Damita Jo; Vibe magazine music editor Erik Parker, dismissing idea that incident was accident, says that if record does not sell well, her career may be doomed; other music industry insiders comment; photo (M)
Interview with Angus McIndoe, whose restaurant on West 45th Street, McIndoe's, has become popular gathering spot for actors and theatergoers; photos (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 2004, covering February 4, 2004.
OutKast
Sheryl Crow
Evanescence
Various Artists
Ruben Studdard
2004Hilda Hilst, Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright (born 1930)[†]
Hilda de Almeida Prado Hilst was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and playwright. Her work touches on the themes of mysticism, insanity, the body, eroticism, and female sexual liberation. Hilst greatly revered the work of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, and the influence of their styles—like stream of consciousness and fractured reality—is evident in her own work.
2004Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin.[†]
Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]