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In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]
2005Scott Young, Canadian journalist and author (born 1918)[†]
Scott Alexander Young was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, and novelist. He was the father of musicians Neil Young and Astrid Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.
The controversial career of Mike Tyson reached another low Saturday night when he quit on his stool after the sixth round and lost to the journeyman heavyweight Kevin McBride. If this does not convince the public that Tyson (50-6) is washed up, perhaps nothing will. A crowd of 15,472 at the MCI Center could hardly believe what it witnessed as Tyson refused to come out for the beginning of the seventh round, and McBride (33-4-1) and his corner began a celebration that few people expected.
THE struggle to ensure fair treatment for investors is far from won. Just last week, shareholders of Pathmark Stores, a supermarket chain in the Northeast, received the equivalent of day-old bread. Last Thursday, they voted resoundingly to approve a $150 million investment in the company by the Yucaipa Companies, a privately held investment firm in Los Angeles. According to Pathmark, 83 percent of the company's shares were cast in support of the deal. The company said it would issue new shares in exchange for the investment.
He was standing with his back to the window, silhouetted against the dimness, and her heart was beating so violently she could scarcely see him. ''Do you have a suntan yet, darling?'' he said in a pleasant, conversational tone. She nodded. ''Show me your suntan.'' THAT passage is the prelude to a memorably steamy love scene in ''The Best of Everything,'' the 1958 best seller by Rona Jaffe that followed the lives and tortured loves of five young working women in the New York of the early 1950's. The scene is a torrid encounter between a virginal typist in a prestigious Manhattan publishing company and a booze-sodden, much older man. Readers swooned.
EVEN in the end, Mikhail Khodorkovsky remained defiant. After being handed a nine-year prison sentence two weeks ago for tax evasion and fraud, Mr. Khodorkovsky, the former oil tycoon, vowed to appeal the verdict in Moscow. Brazenly jousting with his accusers, he also played to the Western sympathies he had spent so much time and money cultivating. ''Despite the obvious lack of evidence for my guilt, and numerous witnesses having testified that I was not involved in committing any crime, the court has decided to send me to prison,'' he said in a statement. ''I am aware that my verdict was decided in the Kremlin.''
Under pressure from the White House, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has agreed to adopt the recommendations of a presidential commission and will allow the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, to help choose a powerful intelligence chief at the F.B.I., Bush administration officials say. The appointment would for the first time in the bureau's history give an outsider a significant role in the selection of a high-level official at the F.B.I., an agency long regarded by its critics as fiercely protective of its turf and resistant to change. The intelligence chief, who will be chosen jointly by Mr. Negroponte and the director of the F.B.I., Robert S. Mueller III, would have the tentative title of associate director for intelligence and in effect be the third-ranking official at the bureau.
A skeptic might say the Mets are merely the best last-place team in the major leagues. And an optimist might suggest they are a competitive and entertaining team that is getting better, perhaps capable of a surprising summer. They fashioned what might be seen in retrospect as a pivotal victory last night at muggy Shea Stadium when Cliff Floyd hit a three-run homer on a 3-2 pitch in the 10th inning to take a 5-3 victory from the Los Angeles Angels.
As far as apologies go, the one offered by Jeremy Rose shortly after crossing the finish line seven lengths ahead of his nearest challenger in the 137th running of the Belmont Stakes was among the strangest. Neither Afleet Alex nor his rider, Rose, was breathing hard despite swooshing around the far turn and rolling down the stretch as if he were riding a jet stream. ''He should be a Triple Crown winner, but I messed up or whatever,'' Rose said.
THE theater, 70 miles north of Lansing, Mich., was big and boomy and boxy, and a third empty. The fans sat, six to a side, at long tables perpendicular to the stage. A few dozen yards away, slot machines jangled, lights flashed, cards snapped. Onstage, the frail-looking singer hunched over the keyboard and bleated out a tune that the patient audience strained to recognize. The singer, dressed as he always is in courtly dark garb, said little to the audience, though once or twice he emerged from behind the keyboard to play a harmonica solo from center stage. The place was the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, and it was an odd rock 'n' roll show. But it was the kind of show and the kind of site that Bob Dylan has increasingly made his own.
THE June agenda of Community Board 5 in Manhattan hardly suggests romance. The parks committee is considering a proposed public art project in Union Square. The landmarks committee is discussing an application to install a new storefront on West 23rd Street. The public safety and quality-of-life committee is taking up the explosive issue of the application for a cabaret license at 28 East 23rd Street. Springtime in Paris it's not.
Finance Ministers Cancel Debt Owed by 18 Nations Finance ministers from the Group of 8 industrialized nations agreed to cancel at least $40 billion worth of debt owed by the world's poorest nations. Eighteen countries, many in sub-Saharan Africa, will benefit immediately. PAGE 18 34 Are Killed in Iraq Attacks; 40 Rebels Die in U.S. Raids At least 34 Iraqis and 2 American marines were killed in violence staged by rebels in central and western Iraq, and a series of Marine airstrikes in the western Iraqi desert killed about 40 insurgents. American soldiers fatally shot two Iraqis working as security contractors and wounded two others. PAGE 8 Down From the Mountain Despite his frail health, the Rev. Billy Graham is preparing to travel to New York City for another evangelistic crusade -- a three-day revival meeting beginning June 24 in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. ''Maybe this will be the last crusade I'll ever hold,'' he said. PAGE 34 Safety's Price, by the Pound New York City firefighters will soon be outfitted with a state-of-the-art escape kit. The kit weighs about six pounds, the latest addition to an already cumbersome array of protective clothing that has grown heavier in recent years. PAGE 41 Down Goes Tyson Mike Tyson, on the canvas at the end of the sixth round, lost to the journeyman Kevin McBride in a defeat that called his future in boxing into question. SPORTSSUNDAY Afleet Alex Takes Belmont Afleet Alex, the winner of the Preakness Stakes, passed seven horses as he rounded the final turn to win the Belmont Stakes by seven lengths. SPORTSSUNDAY
The babies were lined up under heaters and they breathed filtered air. Few of them weighed more than three pounds. They shared the Boardwalk there on Coney Island with Violetta the Armless Legless Wonder, Princess WeeWee, Ajax the Sword-Swallower and all the rest. From 1903 until the early 1940's, premature infants in incubators were part of the carnival. It cost a quarter to see the babies, and people came again and again, to coo and to gasp and say look how small, look how small. There were twins, even, George and Norma Johnson, born the day before Independence Day in 1937. They had four and a half pounds between them, appearing in the world a month too soon because Dorothy Johnson stepped off a curb wrong and went into labor.
WHEN it comes to food fights, John Belushi's character in ''Animal House'' has nothing on Rick Berman. A prominent Washington lobbyist, Mr. Berman runs the Center for Consumer Freedom, a nonprofit advocacy group that is financed by the food and restaurant industries. Two months ago, after a report in a leading medical journal cast doubt on several assumptions about obesity, he pounced. His group ran $600,000 worth of full-page ads in a half-dozen newspapers, gloating that the study showed that obesity was not an ''epidemic'' but rather a lot of hype. ''Americans have been force-fed a steady diet of obesity myths by the 'food police,' trial lawyers, and even our own government,'' the ad said.