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Dave Anderson Sports of The Times column discusses Tiger Woods's Doral Open win, which put him back at top in golf's world rankings (M)
Culture in New York Yankees' clubhouse seems to put team first, by presuming that front-line players can handle their own problems, and that they will protect team from controversy, rather than other way around; Yankees do not exhibit kind of passionate team cohesiveness that analysts and many sports psychologists consider critical to success; but social scientists who have studied group performance under pressure say often it is decentalized groups, like Yankees, that prove more resilient than strongly connected ones; say they are better able to weather outside criticism and internal quarrels; informal look at how Yankee players group and interact in locker room of clubhouse in Tampa, Fla; photos; diagram (M)
Rich are becoming own niche in ever more fragmented media world, with some five percent of 6,200 magazine titles published for general public in United States aimed at wealthy and more entering field; Sidney Frank, who recently entered luxury magazine business by buying Travel Savvy magazine, comments, phone interview; photos (M)
Some prominent cardiologists object to Pfizer's plan to sell its promising new heart drug torcetrapib only in combination with its cholesterol drug Lipitor; say torcetrapib should be offered as stand-alone pill, so patients can decide whether to take it with Lipitor or with similar drugs not from Pfizer that may work better for them; torcetrapib could be one of most promising new heart treatments in decade; it still must clear many hurdles before it is approved; it would not reach market before 2007, at earliest, but already Pfizer's plan is generating controversy; authorities on drug development say Food and Drug Adm may have no choice but to approve combination treatment if it proves more effective at preventing heart disease than Lipitor by itself; say agency has little authority over cost of new drugs or ability to encourage competition among drug companies (M)
Ohio State University men's basketball team defeats Illinois University, 65-64, to end Illinois' undefeated season; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 2005, covering March 7, 2005.
Ray Charles
Green Day
The Game
Various Artists
Usher
2005John Box, English production designer and art director (born 1920)[†]
John Allan Hyatt Box OBE was a British film production designer and art director. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won the equivalent BAFTA three times, a record for both awards. Throughout his career he gained a reputation for recreating exotic locations in rather more mundane surroundings; he once created a walled Chinese city in Snowdonia.
2005Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (born 1950)[†]
Debra Hill was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for her professional partnership with John Carpenter.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]