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In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[â ]
2005Toni Fritsch, Austrian footballer (born 1945)[â ]
Anton K. "Toni" Fritsch was an Austrian footballer who later started a successful career in American football in the United States. He is distinguished as being the first Austrian to play in the National Football League (NFL). He is the only player in history to win professional titles in both association football and American football: he won the Austrian League in 1964, 1967 and 1968, and the Super Bowl in 1972.
2005Julio CĂ©sar Turbay Ayala, Colombian lawyer and politician, 25th President of Colombia (born 1916)[â ]
Julio CĂ©sar Turbay Ayala was a Colombian lawyer and politician who served as the 25th President of Colombia from 1978 to 1982. He also held the positions of Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States.
Louisiana film production industry faces uncertain future in wake of Hurricane Katrina; photo (M)
Judge John G Roberts Jr, during opening day of his confirmation hearings, promises that if confirmed as 17th chief justice of United States, he would 'confront every case with an open mind,' declaring that 'I have no platform'; first afternoon of at least four days of projected hearings is taken up with remarks by each member of Senate Judiciary Committee and Roberts himself; Democrats on panel say they expect Roberts to answer detailed questions about his writings as young lawyer in Reagan administration 20 years ago; question whether he subscribes to expansive view of Constitution able to embrace evolving notions of civil rights and social progress; Republicans on panel hail Roberts as jurist who would exercise judicial restraint and leave law-making to Congress; some say they will ask his views on series of recent Supreme Court rulings that curtailed Congressional power; many say he should not have to answer detailed quewstions about past, present or future cases; photos (M)
Oracle Corp will pay $5.85 billion to acquire Siebel Systems, its largest competitor in market for sales automation programs; deal will bolster Oracle's effort to topple its German rival SAP as leading seller of business applications software for big corporations; Oracle's chief executive Lawrence J Ellison comments; photo (M)
It is said that wetlands soak up water like a sponge. These NASA satellite images show that process at work in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 28. The top image shows the state's southeastern region on Aug. 9. The bottom image was made on Sept. 4, after storm clouds cleared. The images, their colors artificially adjusted, show vegetated areas in bright green; flooded areas are darker.
On the first afternoon here, fossil hunters struck out across the parched sand to the rock outcrops along the bleached brown ridges and down into the broad basin. They walked their separate courses at paces as if set to geologic time. With every step, their figures diminished into the expanse of empty silences and far horizons that is the Gobi Desert, where only camels, nomads and hardy paleontologists seem at home.
FOR 18 years, Sue Gunter taught her prize student, Pokey Chatman, to take control, stay calm, be the one from whom all others take their cue. ''See the big picture, control your emotions,'' Gunter would lecture Chatman when she was her point guard, a coach in training and, finally, her successor as the head women's basketball coach at Louisiana State.
Today is Primary Day in New York State. In New York City, the polls will open at 6 a.m. and close at 9 p.m.
Government is beginning what urban planners call one of biggest bursts of federal housing development in United States history in wake of Hurricane Katrina; goal is to open 30,000 homes every two weeks, reaching 300,000 within months; building boom is already under way in Slidell, La, at edge of Lake Pontchartrain, where one-third of houses have been damaged or destroyed; more than 140,000 people are now packed into emergency shelters, while hundreds of thousands of others fill hotels, homes of friends or relatives or are temporarily relocated across country; more than 25 so-called strike teams are deployed across Louisiana, scouting out possible sites for new boom towns; teams are formed by giant global engineering firms including Bechtel National Inc and Fluor Corp, which have won no-bid contracts worth $100 million each; photos; charts; maps (M)
Today's Democratic primary is the prelude to a potentially revolutionary turning point in New York City's traditional tribal politics: In November, for the first time, non-Hispanic whites are projected to constitute a minority of the voters in a mayoral general election. The impact of the shift, coupled with changes wrought by term limits and public campaign financing, is already apparent in the choices voters face today. Polls say the front-runner for the Democratic nomination is Fernando Ferrer, a Puerto Rican raised in the South Bronx. Among his three challengers is C. Virginia Fields, a black woman who grew up in the South.
When Mark Messier announced his retirement Monday after playing 25 seasons in the National Hockey League, he said he had no thoughts of regrets. Well, except for the failure of the Rangers to earn a playoff berth for the past seven seasons.
In Dorothy Palmer's world, set high above the lights on Broadway, Jon Koons is cross-referenced under ''unusual acts'' and ''actor.'' Visiting Ms. Palmer in her Midtown office one day last month, Mr. Koons brought a résumé, a head shot and a can of gasoline.
New Orleans painters and sculptors who fled city to escape Hurricane Katrina lament loss of their artworks, speculate on future of city's artistic scene; photos (M)