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Telecom Italia, following board meetings, reportedly will approve plan to make seperate cash and stock offers to buy remaining 44 percent stake in Telecom Italia Mobile in deal valued at about 20 billion euros ($26.8 billion); photos (M)
Gov M Jodi Rell says she will not grant temporary reprieve to convicted serial killer Michael Bruce Ross, who is set to be first person executed in Connecticut since 1960; lawmakers opposed to death penalty concede that they lack votes to repeal law and could not override veto by Rell; photo (M)
In the airline industry's dark months after the September 2001 attacks, the federal government, banks, aircraft lenders and others came forward to help, giving the wounded companies plenty of leeway in the face of extraordinary circumstances. But three years later, the benevolence is gone.
Johnson & Johnson is in advanced negotiations to acquire Guidant, one of the nation's largest makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses, for more than $24 billion, executives close to the talks said yesterday. The deal, long speculated about in the industry, would give Johnson & Johnson, a health care conglomerate that makes everything from Band-Aids to drugs, a strong foothold in the fast-growing market for products like defibrillators and pacemakers that manage heart rhythms. Guidant ranks a strong second in that market to the leader, Medtronic.
Dr John Schwarz and Dr Michael Green celebrate twentieth anniversary of their public announcement of string theory; over past twenty years string theory has become major force in physics and although it has not been definitively proven it is first equation ever developed that explains all laws of physics and may provide insight into origin of space and time in Big Bang theory; various characteristics of strings and general theory described; string theory provides basis for Einstein's quantum gravity and lends valuable insight into study of black holes; many scientific instruments, such as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, could, at least in part, validate string theory; photos; drawings (L)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 1, 2004, covering December 7, 2004.
Eminem
Destiny's Child
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
Clay Aiken
Shania Twain
2004Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator (born 1914)[†]
Frederick Fennell was an American conductor and one of the primary figures who promoted the Eastman Wind Ensemble as a performing group. He was also influential as a band pedagogue, and greatly affected the field of music education in the US and abroad. In Fennell's New York Times obituary, colleague Jerry F. Junkin was quoted as saying "He was arguably the most famous band conductor since John Philip Sousa."
2004Jerry Scoggins, American singer and guitarist (born 1913)[†]
Jerry Scoggins was an American country/western singer, guitarist, and band leader. He performed on radio, in movies, and on television from the 1930s thru the 1980s. He was noted for his work with Gene Autry and Bing Crosby and especially for singing "The Ballad of Jed Clampett", the theme song to the 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.
2004Jay Van Andel, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (born 1924)[†]
Jay Van Andel was an American billionaire businessman, best known as co-founder of the Amway Corporation, along with Richard DeVos.
In 2004, the world population was approximately 6,503,377,772 people[†]