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Design Notebook on ninth Venice Architecture Biennale, where more than 200 design projects from 170 studios are on display in vast towering halls of 16th-century Corderie dell'Arsenale; event also takes in 33 national pavilions at Public Gardens; photos (M)
Harvard Medical School neurobiology Prof Margaret S Livingstone and colleague Bevil R Conway, after studying 36 self-portraits by Rembrandt, suggest, in article in latest issue of New England Journal of Medicine, that artist had vision flaw, divergent strabismus, known as walleye, which may have aided his genius; photos (M)
J P Morgan Chase is ending seven-year, $5 billion deal to outsource much of its data processing to IBM, which it agreed to in December 2002; 4,000 J P Morgan employees who moved to IBM as part of deal will return to bank early next year; company says managing it own technology infrastructure is best for long-term growth and success of its company as well as its shareholders; J P Morgan analyst Bill C Shope says IBM's loss in revenues from contract will be $700 million to $800 million a year (Market Place column) (M)
Article on contract issues facing Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra, whose multiyear contracts are about to expire at moment of serious economic hardship; matters are at their worst in Philadelphia, where each side has hired outside public relations consultants and is waging fight on rival Web sites; chart; photos (M)
Singapore's Temasek Holdings acquires control of Neptune Orient Lines, which operates fleet of container ships, for $566 million (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 15, 2004, covering September 16, 2004.
Tim McGraw
Ray Charles
Jill Scott
LL Cool J
Various Artists
2004Michael Donaghy, American-English poet and author (born 1954)[†]
Michael Donaghy was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985.
2004Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.[†]
Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane, and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, Ivan formed in early September and reached Category 5 strength on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale (SSHS). Ivan caused catastrophic damage in Grenada as a strong Category 3 storm, heavy damage in Jamaica as a strong Category 4 storm, and then severe damage in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and the western tip of Cuba as a Category 5 hurricane. After peaking in strength, the hurricane moved north-northwest across the Gulf of Mexico to strike Pensacola/Milton, Florida and Alabama as a strong Category 3 storm, causing significant damage. Ivan dropped heavy rain on the Southeastern United States as it progressed northeastward and eastward through the Eastern United States, becoming an extratropical cyclone on September 18. The remnant low of the storm moved into the western subtropical Atlantic and regenerated into a tropical cyclone on September 22, which then moved across Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, and then into Louisiana and Texas, causing minimal damage. Ivan degenerated into a remnant low on September 24, before dissipating on the next day.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]