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Article chronicles The 24-Hour Plays in which six one-act plays are written, cast, directed and performed in one day; event is a benefit for Working Playground, group that provides arts programs for NYC public schools; photos (M)
World Business Briefing: South Korea: Computer Company Breako
Jamaica's economy continues to grow despite Hurricane Ivan; damage from storm was generally lighter than expected; vital tourism business and country's second-largest industry, bauxite mining, seem to have been barely touched; photo (M)
World Business Briefing: Japan:
General Motors, nation's largest private purchaser of health services and drugs, faces staggering health care costs of 1.1 million Americans, including under 200,000 active workers and hundreds of thousands of dependents and retirees like Ernest Pusey, who, at 109, is older than company and one of 240 retirees over age 100; photo; graph; company faces not only soaring costs but competition from Japanese and German rivals that have virtually no US retirees yet and have nationalized health systems at home; economist Uwe Reinhardt notes serious long-term disadvantage of saddling American businesses with obligation that competitors do not have (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 15, 2004, covering September 15, 2004.
Tim McGraw
Ray Charles
Jill Scott
LL Cool J
Various Artists
2004Johnny Ramone, American guitarist and songwriter (born 1948)[†]
John William Cummings, better known by his stage name Johnny Ramone, was an American musician who was the guitarist and a founding member of the Ramones, a band that helped pioneer the punk movement. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Until the band's disbandment in 1996, Johnny, along with the lead vocalist Joey Ramone, were the only two original members who stayed since its inception, and appeared on every one of the band’s albums.
2004Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (born 1931)[†]
Walter Douglas Stewart was an outspoken Canadian writer, editor and journalism educator, a veteran of newspapers and magazines and author of more than twenty books, several of them bestsellers. The Globe and Mail reported news of his death with the headline: "He was Canada's conscience."
2004National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.[†]
The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams – 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional ice hockey league in the world. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) views the Stanley Cup as one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The NHL is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]