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Clyde Haberman column on military honors awarded by Congress to those who fought in war, like Sen John Kerry in Vietnam, and those who did not see battle but whose military service helped promote nation's peace and stability during Cold War; notes that many Republican theorists and leaders do not fit into either category (M)
Columbia University's plans for expansion of campus into mostly industrial part of Manhattanville section of Harlem gets mixed reviews from residents, businesses and community groups in area; almost everyone agrees that area is long overdue for makeover; some businesses fear they will be destroyed, but others say expanded campus will improve their businesses and neighborhood; Columbia already owns or has under contract about half the property and is confident it can acquire rest; Lee C Bollinger, university president, says Columbia wants to bring thriving, vital life to surrounding communities; photo; map map shows properties already acquired by Columbia (M)
Article on television writer/heroin addict Jerry Stahl, clean now for over decade, whose latest success is book I, Fatty, fictional memoir of silent film actor Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle; Johnny Depp's Hollywood-based production company, Infinitum Nihil, has optioned book for possible film project with New York-based production company, This Is That; photo (M)
U.S. Forces in Najaf Enter City's Inner Ring American forces in Iraq sharply intensified the fighting in the Shiite holy city of Najaf early this morning, as troops attacked rebels loyal to Moktada al-Sadr from three sides and pressed into the inner ring of the Old City district for the first time. There, the rebels appeared to be on the verge of collapse. PAGE A6
Dr James Anderson of University of Stirling, Scotland, and colleagues at Kyoto University Primate Research Institute, Japan, study behavior of contagious yawning; research, published in Biology Letters, finds that chimpanzees, not just humans, yawn contagiously; Anderson suggests that other animals may also be found to yawn after seeing others yawn; photos (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 18, 2004, covering August 24, 2004.
Ashlee Simpson
Various Artists
Jimmy Buffett
Usher
Gretchen Wilson
2004Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1926)[†]
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, author, and developer of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".
2004Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.[†]
On the night of 24 August 2004, explosive devices were detonated on board two domestic passenger flights that had taken off from Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, causing the destruction of both aircraft and the loss of all 90 people on board them.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]