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Russian ballet companies Tchaikovsky and Russian National are in midst of extensive American tours presenting audience-pleasing ballets Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake; are quite different and their competition has occasioned amusing wars of words between American promoters who have organized tours; performance dates and venues in New York area noted; photos (M)
With the United States reporting on Thursday yet another surge in its trade deficits with China and the rest of the world, economic tensions are rising again as Washington prepares for the long-delayed visit of President Hu Jintao late next month. But international trade rules and a tight Congressional calendar are limiting the options of American politicians and trade negotiators, who are under increasing pressure to find some way to curb the growth in China's exports.
Clyde Haberman NYC column on resurgence of debate among Italian-Americans over their portrayal on television program The Sopranos; notes some continue to feel program paints all Italian-Americans as linked to organized crime and also as people of excess; reveals that other Italian-Americans see program as pure entertainment; feels that organized crime, real or imagined, has relentless grip on popular culture and news media (M)
Kevin P O'Donnell, lawyer for bar employee Darryl Littlejohn, who is considered by New York City police as person of interest in murder of Imette St Guillen, objects to treatment and public perception of his client; Littlejohn worked at The Falls, Manhattan bar where St Guillen was last seen alive; is being held on parole violation; police continue to search for clues linking Littlejohn to murder; Littlejohn is placed in lineup concerning Queens kidnapping and rape; victim fails to identify any in lineup as attacker; photos (M)
Rosa Guevara, a Mexican-American dental hygienist, grew up with the Univision network's Spanish-language soap operas, which she still watches. But Mrs. Guevara, 59, now watches alone. On any given night, her husband is glued to a western on cable while her 25-year-old daughter who used to watch the soaps with her, may tune in to ''George Lopez'' on ABC or syndicated reruns of ''Friends.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 2006, covering March 10, 2006.
Soundtrack
Kidz Bop Kids
Jack Johnson
Mary J. Blige
James Blunt
2006The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.[†]
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2005, at 11:43 UTC and reached Mars on March 10, 2006, at 21:24 UTC. In November 2006, after six months of aerobraking, it entered its final science orbit and began its primary science phase.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]