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MAYBE the bag searches in the subways and on commuter lines will foil a terrorist plot, and maybe they won't. But at least one side benefit is a distinct possibility: Perhaps some New Yorkers will now abandon the overstuffed backpacks that contribute to making crowded trains a misery for their fellow passengers.
News analysis of huge split in organized labor as fueled by workers' stagnant living standards, ascendancy of service sector and labor's lack of success in politics and unionizing, but also by conflicting ambitions of AFL-CIO president John J Sweeney and his onetime protege, Andrew L Stern of Service Employees International Union; photo; schism is sealed as Stern and Teamsters leader James P Hoffa pull out as AFL-CIO marks 50th anniversary; Stern, known for eloquence, drive and impatience, has long pushed for move; United Food and Commercial Workers and Unite Here boycott convention and may pull out as well; Sweeney has tried to work by consensus, saying AFL-CIO rules prevent him from punishing unions that do not do organizing; Stern seeks far more aggressive recruitment efforts using much more money; Stern seen emboldened by his union's success in organizing growing service sector; his critics charge power grab (M)
Ricky Williams's first formal news conference since he retired from the Miami Dolphins a year ago without forewarning or a farewell address began with Williams stepping stiffly to the microphone and murmuring, ''How's everybody doing today?'' Williams is not a glib public speaker, the football field being the only place in which he is really comfortable expressing himself. His unease during the next 17 minutes was evident in his staccato sentences, his words accelerating in fits and starts as if there were a bottleneck in his breathing passageway.
WHEN Koby Clemens was chosen in the eighth round by the Houston Astros in last month's amateur baseball draft, Tommy Harmon suspected that the ink on the letter of intent young Clemens had signed to attend the University of Texas might be the disappearing kind. Clemens, a slugging third baseman and, yes, an accomplished pitcher, suddenly had his choice of playing for the university his famous father, Roger, had once graced, or collecting his first professional stipend from the franchise also paying big daddy.
The forecast, courtesy of the United Nations, is grim. Today, more than a billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Polluted water contributes, each year, to the death of about 15 million children under age 5. By midcentury, between two billion and seven billion people will face water shortages.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 20, 2005, covering July 26, 2005.
R. Kelly
Missy Elliott
Coldplay
Mariah Carey
Ying Yang Twins
2005Alexander Golitzen, Russian-born American production designer and art director (born 1908)[†]
Prince Alexander Golitzen (Golitsyn), was a Russian-born American production designer who oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.
2005Jack Hirshleifer, American economist and academic (born 1925)[†]
Jack Hirshleifer was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
2005Gilles Marotte, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1945)[†]
Jean Gilles "Captain Crunch" Marotte was a Canadian defenceman in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers and St. Louis Blues.
2005Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission: Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.[†]
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development, as a proposed nuclear shuttle in the plan was cancelled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
2005Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, resulting in floods killing over 5,000 people.[†]
Mumbai, also known as Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the seventh-most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million. Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires out of any city in Asia.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]