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East Germany's 300 chemical makers are on track to produce same volume of chemicals next year as East Germany did in 1989, but with one-tenth of employees; have made 14.1 billion euros of investment in new factories and equipment over 15 years; photos (M)
Frank Bruni reviews Per Se, Thomas Keller's restaurant at Time Warner Center; photos (L)
BOC Hong Kong names Raymond Lee chief financial officer, succeeding Law Man Wah, who will become general manager overseeing financial department (S)
Alitalia's unions promise to fight 5,000 planned layoffs through variety of actions, from more negotiations to brief hunger strikes; union leaders are united in blaming management for dire financial situation of Alitalia; biggest unions are most conciliatory, indicating there may be room for Alitalia's chief executive Giancarlo Cimoli to negotiate settlement; photo (M)
Home Depot opens $20 million, three-story store in former Hasbro building in Chelsea section of Manhattan, complete with doorman and concierge to assist with taxis and map directories; will skew its normally surburban style to fit urban consumers and apartment dwellers; some smaller merchants complain that megastore will drive them out of business, but others expect to benefit from added foot traffic; company will wearhouse merchandise in Secaucus, NJ, and truck sorted and labeled items in at night to avoid traffic; will offer array of upscale products, but says it will keep prices at levels comparable to those in nearby surburbs; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 8, 2004, covering September 8, 2004.
Tim McGraw
R. Kelly
Young Buck
Mase
Various Artists
2004Lewis Hall, English footballer[†]
Lewis Kieran Hall is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back or midfielder for Premier League club Newcastle United and the England national team.
2004Frank Thomas, American animator, voice actor, and screenwriter (born 1913)[†]
Franklin Rosborough Thomas was an American animator and pianist. He was one of Walt Disney's leading team of animators known as the Nine Old Men.
2004NASA's uncrewed spacecraft Genesis crash-lands when its parachute fails to open.[†]
Genesis was a NASA sample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. It was the first NASA sample-return mission to return material since the Apollo program, and the first to return material from beyond the orbit of the Moon. Genesis was launched on August 8, 2001, and the sample return capsule crash-landed in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevented the deployment of its drogue parachute. The crash contaminated many of the sample collectors. Although most were damaged, some of the collectors were successfully recovered.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]