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Bars, restaurants, clubs and other popular locales in New York City and Los Angeles (Calif) are bringing back photo booths to attract customers who want to leave with photos commemorating their evening; photos (M)
Take Back Your Time and various advocacy groups say too many workers feel overstressed by demands on their time and are arguing for more paid time off to allow them to devote more time to their families; Democrats plan to introduce bill guaranteeing seven paid days off each year for when workers or children are ill; Pres Bush and allies favor twice-failed bill offering overtime workers choice between Middle East enters uncharted political and social territory with mixture of anticipation and dread following opening of Egyptian elections to multiple candidates fall of Lebanese government before street demonstrators and limited vote for municipal councils in Saudi Arabia ; uncensored satellite television spurs protests and pressure from Bush administration emboldens them; American campaign for democracy in Middle East is viewed by many as anti-Arab conspiracy; photo (M)
Navalady in eastern Sri Lanka, lost at least 620 of about 1,900 inhabitants in tsunami, including wife and four sons of bodybuilder Santosh Chinnathambi Selvam; most of 490 families were related in one way or another; residents waver between vowing never to return and saying they would return if everyone else did; community spirit frayed during refuge at school in Batticaloa, yet according to Hindu custom 30 days after disaster, people returned to Navalady to cook feast for their relatives who had died; photos; map (L)
Dennis L Rader, suspect in BTK killings in Wichita area of Kansas, was unusually earnest in upholding mundane laws as Compliance Officer for Park City; stayed constantly and meticulously within strictest mores of society in public way as church and Boy Scout leader; co-workers remember him as awkward to work with, although some found his outsized enthusiasm for his municipal inspection work charming; killings traced; impressions of locals who knew Rader discussed; photos; chart (L)
Behind the Wheel column reviews 2005 Chevrolet Corvette; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 2005, covering March 6, 2005.
Ray Charles
Green Day
The Game
Various Artists
Usher
2005Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)[†]
Hans Albrecht Eduard Bethe was a German-American physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.
2005Danny Gardella, American baseball player and trainer (born 1920)[†]
Daniel Lewis Gardella was an American professional baseball player who played most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a left fielder with the New York Giants from 1944 to 1945. Born in New York City, he batted and threw left-handed.
2005Tommy Vance, English radio host (born 1943)[†]
Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, known professionally as Tommy Vance, was an English radio broadcaster. He was an important factor in the rise of the new wave of British heavy metal, along with London-based disc jockey Neal Kay, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Vance was one of the first radio hosts in the United Kingdom to broadcast hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. He used a personal tagline of "TV on the radio". His voice was heard by millions around the world announcing the Wembley Stadium acts at Live Aid in 1985.
2005Teresa Wright, American actress (born 1918)[†]
Muriel Teresa Wright was an American actress. She won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver. She was nominated for the same award in 1941 for her debut work in The Little Foxes. Also in 1942, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Pride of the Yankees, opposite Gary Cooper. She is also known for her performances in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and in William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (1946).
2005Gladys Marín, Chilean activist and political figure (born 1938)[†]
Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) (1994–2002) and then president of the PCCh until her death. She was a staunch opponent of General Augusto Pinochet and filed the first lawsuit against him, in which she accused him of committing human rights violations during his seventeen-year dictatorship. Gladys Marín was the youngest person ever elected to the Chilean Congress, the first woman to run for the country's presidency and the only female leader of a Chilean political party.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]