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Profile of and interview with former Friends co-creator and co-executive producer Marta Kauffman, who comments on her solo work as producer of new WB series Related; photos (M)
Stash away those quarters. Switch off the alarm clock. Rest easy in church. A New York City tradition of free metered parking on Sundays -- revoked in many neighborhoods to help ease the city's fiscal crisis three years ago -- will be revived under a law that the City Council approved yesterday over a mayoral veto.
THE guidebooks touted Bed Supperclub, where the hip and beautiful recline while they eat, and the airline magazine featured the Australian Amanda Gale, who has set the town on its ear with her fusion food at Cy'an. But I was looking for something more traditional, so as soon as I had settled into my hotel room, I picked up the phone and called Robert Halliday, an American writer and gourmand who has lived here so long that he finds vacations without Thai food painful. ''Welcome back to Bangkok,'' he said. ''Prepare to eat like a shark.''
Sergei A Zuykov is lawyer for Starbucks in Russia, but the Starbucks he represents brews no coffee and owns no shops, and its business consists of trying to sell its name back to Seattle-based Starbucks; Zuykov has stalled Starbucks' entry into one of fastest growing retail markets in Europe while competitors have been flourishing; says it is not fair, but it is legal to own rights to Starbucks name; says he owns about 300 brands in addition to Starbucks; photo (M)
JetBlue Airways will begin offering 10 daily flights between Kennedy International Airport in New York and Boston in October, route that has long been dominated by traditional carriers like US Airways, Delta and Continental; move not only allows JetBlue to gain bigger foothold on East Coast, but also underscores one of most frustrating industry dynamics that major carriers are facing: emergence of low-fare airlines like JetBlue in markets that have traditionally been their turf; initially, fares on new service will be as low as $25 one-way for ticket purchased before Oct 20; one-way tickets after that will range from $40 to $120; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 2005, covering October 12, 2005.
Gretchen Wilson
Sheryl Crow
Three 6 Mafia
Toni Braxton
Kanye West
2005C. Delores Tucker, American activist and politician (born 1927)[†]
Cynthia Delores Tucker was an American politician and civil rights activist. She had a long history of involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement. She was Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1977. From the 1990s onward, she engaged in a campaign against gangsta rap music.
2005The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.[†]
Shenzhou 6 was the second human spaceflight of the Chinese space program, launched on October 12, 2005, on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The Shenzhou spacecraft carried a crew of Fèi Jùnlóng (费俊龙) and Niè Hǎishèng (聂海胜) for five days in low Earth orbit. It launched three days before the second anniversary of China's first human spaceflight, Shenzhou 5.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]