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Floyd Norris column on boring stock markets around world; says in most cases, doubts shown by dull markets have been resolved with good news and could be harbinger of good times; graph (M)
Tens of thousands of autoworkers walk off job at Mercedes-Benz plants across Germany, intensifying already bitter dispute between DaimlerChrysler and its union; more than 20,000 workers strike plant in Sindelfingen, where company has been trying to eliminate hourly breaks in effort to cut labor costs; carmaker is seeking to reduce labor costs by 500 million euros ($617 million) a year; workers have offered cuts worth 180 million euros ($222 million); photo (M)
Article on visit to quiet residential enclaves along section of coastal Rhode Island and Massachusetts south of I-95; photos and descriptions of houses for sale; map (M)
Last article in series Making Summer Happen describes what goes on at Chouteau County Fair in Fort Benton, Montana; photos (L)
Clyde Haberman column on plaques enscribed with names and messages that have been placed on benches in Central Park under Central Park Conservancy's Adopt-a-Bench program; conservancy promises to maintain bench and plaque in perpetuity for one-time payment of $7,500; roughly 1,500 of park's 9,000 benches have been 'adopted' since program was introduced in 1986; program brings in roughly $1 million a year (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 14, 2004, covering July 16, 2004.
Lloyd Banks
Usher
Brandy
Jadakiss
Lil Wayne
2004Amiah Miller, American actress and model[†]
Amiah Miller is an American actress and model. She starred in the 2017 film War for the Planet of the Apes. She also appears in the TV series Henry Danger, Best Friends Whenever and MacGyver.
2004George Busbee, American lawyer and politician, 77th Governor of Georgia (born 1927)[†]
George Dekle Busbee Sr. was an American politician who served as the 77th governor of Georgia from 1975 to 1983.
2004Charles Sweeney, American general and pilot (born 1919)[†]
Charles William Sweeney was an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the pilot who flew Bockscar carrying the Fat Man atomic bomb to the Japanese city of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. Separating from active duty at the end of World War II, he later became an officer in the Massachusetts Air National Guard as the Army Air Forces transitioned to an independent United States Air Force, eventually rising to the rank of major general.
2004Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.[†]
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in July 2004, is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) section of northwestern Grant Park. Featuring a variety of public art, outdoor spaces and venues, the park is bounded by Michigan Avenue, Randolph Street, Columbus Drive and East Monroe Drive. In 2017, Millennium Park was the top tourist destination in Chicago and in the Midwest, and placed among the top ten in the United States with 25 million annual visitors.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]