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What would a world with television coming through the Internet be like? Instead of tuning into programs preset and determined by the broadcast network or cable or satellite TV provider, viewers would be able to search the Internet and choose from hundreds of thousands of programs sent to them from high-speed connections.
When the January wind whips down the Harlem River in the South Bronx, threading through the 1920's facade of Yankee Stadium, baseball season seems far away. But in the Highbridge neighborhood around the stadium this year, the sport is on many minds. It was six months ago that the Yankees proposed building an $800 million, 53,000-seat stadium that the team would pay for entirely. The city would replace the 22 acres the team wants for the stadium in the Mullaly and Macombs Dam parks with 28 acres of parks, ball fields and tennis courts.
Tens of thousands of discarded Christmas trees now sag in green heaps at this city's curbside, joyless, desiccated, done. With boughs limp and trunks planted amid black bags of debris, they signal that January is here; deal with it. You wish these scented, faintly irritating reminders of Christmas Just Past would simply disappear. The thing is, they do.
The United States generated about 200,000 new jobs a month in the last part of 2005, a healthy pace that President Bush immediately used on Friday as part of a broader campaign to promote his economic record and agenda of tax cuts, tighter limits on government spending and more trade. The nation added 108,000 jobs in December as the unemployment rate edged down to 4.9 percent, the Labor Department said Friday.
Jacksonville Jaguars and coach Jack Del Rio prepare to face New England Patriots in playoff game; photos (M)0
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 4, 2006, covering January 7, 2006.
Mary J. Blige
Jamie Foxx
The Notorious B.I.G.
Eminem
Carrie Underwood
2006Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and author (born 1912)[†]
Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and briefly SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, the "last problem" of the Alps, in July 1938. Harrer and the team flew the Nazi flag atop the mountain. Harrer had joined the Nazi Party shortly after the annexation of Austria in March 1938, and was personally received by Hitler after the climb. A year later in 1939, he and the climbing team went on an expedition to the Indian Himalayas, where they were arrested by British colonial authorities due to the outbreak of World War II. He eventually escaped to Tibet, staying there until 1951 and never seeing active combat from that point onwards. He wrote the books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959).
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]