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In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]
2004Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1929)[†]
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it considered the first Turkic cosmonaut.
Intelligence officials who fear terrorism at Athens Olympics say delays in completing security apparatus and athletic facilities have left too little time to fully test systems meant to detect or respond to attack; say security command center will not be operating completely until mid-July; say Science Applications International Corp, US-led consortium building system, has provided defective software and failed to complete work on command center by May 28 deadline; map; photos (M)
Sen John Kerry begins Midwest presidential campaign tour by bus with patriotic paean to heartland and scathing indictment of Bush administration for being too willing to settle for modest job growth; holds June job growth numbers are not good enough, rally, Cloquet, Minn; notes private-sector jobs are still down 1.8 million since Pres Bush took office; seeks to reach out to small-town and rural America; photos (M)
Dan Barry column on huge mural that Alberto Gonzalez of Artkraft Strauss Sign Corp is currently painting high up on wall of building at Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street; mural is greatly magnified reproduction of Bruce McCall painting that is roughly 24 inches by 18 inches; client is Delta Air Lines; painted facades were once routine in New York, but are now giving way to vinyl ads that are drawn across brick like tucked bed sheets; photos (M)
New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter's inspirational play during game against Boston Red Sox exemplifies his often-daring performances on field and his sheer dedication to winning; photos (M)
Bond prices shoot higher, interest rates and stock prices fall and dollar drops over 1 percent against euro after government reports June job growth was weaker than expected; 10-year Treasury bond rises 26/32, to 102 9/32, to yield 4.46 percent; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index falls 3.56 points, to 1,125.38; Nasdaq composite index drops 8.89 points, to 2,006.66; Dow Jones industrial average drops 51.33 points, to 10,282.83; graphs of stock and bond prices and exchange rate; table of stock prices and key interest rates (M)
Pres Bush and army of top administration officials try to make best of weaker-than-expected June job growth, holding nation has added 1.5 million jobs since last Aug; advisers to Sen John Kerry, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, hold nation is still over million jobs short of where it was when Bush took office; both sides are keenly aware that how voters perceive job market's broader direction is key election issue; photos (M)
Marlon Brando, the rebellious prodigy who electrified a generation and forever transformed the art of screen acting but whose obstinacy and eccentricity prevented him from fully realizing the promise of his early genius, died on Thursday at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 80. The cause was pulmonary fibrosis, said Jay Cantor, a family spokesman.
Labor Dept reports that employers added only 112,000 jobs in June, less than half average monthly increase of first five months of year; increase was under 150,000 threshold of jobs needed for employment to keep pace with natural labor force growth; it was also below 250,000 forecast on average by Wall Street economists, who have been consistently wrong about jobs for better part of last year; unemployment rate, which essentially has not budged all year, remained unchanged from May at 5.6 percent; graph; photo (M)
Marlon Brando, rebellious prodigy who electrified generation and forever transformed art of screen acting but whose obstinacy and eccentricity prevented him from fully realizing promise of his early genius, dies at age 80; photos (M)
Talk of reinstating military draft persists around US, driven by Internet, moves by military to shore up its forces and fears that reassurances about no need for conscription could quickly melt away if world events took turn for worse; top lawmakers, Pentagon leaders and Bush administration officials say there are no plans to resume draft and that military is much better off relying on volunteer force (M)
Sen John Kerry has increased his discussion of values, treading on traditionally Republican terrain in effort to root his platform and background in broad moral terms voters can identify with; Kerry aides say increased use of values-laden remarks signal new phase in Kerry's presentation, in which he explains his policies as extension of his convictions; polls show that Pres Bush has significant advantage with voters who say that most important issue in campaign is moral values, but that Kerry can make inroads; Kerry photo (M)