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Seventy-six-year-old Otto Schenk has directed more productions at Metropolitan Opera than any other living artist; Donzietti's Don Pasquale will be his 16th and last opera; Schenk comments; photos (M)
If Rex W. Tillerson has his way, Exxon Mobil will no longer be the oil company that environmentalists love to hate. Since taking over as Exxon's chairman three months ago from Lee R. Raymond, his abrasive predecessor who dismissed fears of global warming and branded environmental activists ''extremists,'' Mr. Tillerson has gone out of his way to soften Exxon's public stance on climate change.
St Margaret of Antioch Church in Pearl River, NY, is among parishes that will get new and larger churches under archdiocese reorganization; photo (M)
For two decades, automakers have been concentrating on making vehicles bigger and faster instead of improving efficiency.
Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column on New York City Council hearing over proposal for new Yankee Stadium; says focus of discussion is on financial benefit stadium offers Bronx (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 2006, covering March 30, 2006.
Soundtrack
James Blunt
E-40
Ne-Yo
Juvenile
2006Red Hickey, American football player and coach (born 1917)[†]
Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey was an American professional football player and coach. He played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1941 and the Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams from 1945 to 1948. Hickey served as head coach for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers from 1959 to 1963.
2006John McGahern, Irish author and educator (born 1934)[†]
John McGahern was an Irish writer and novelist.
2006Cyclone Glenda, one of the strongest tropical cyclones in the Australian region makes landfall near Onslow, Western Australia.[†]
Severe Tropical Cyclone Glenda was among the strongest tropical cyclones to threaten Western Australia, though it weakened considerably before landfall and moved ashore in a lightly populated region. It began as a tropical low on 15 March in the Gulf of Carpentaria. The precursor disturbance drifted over Top End and later across the northeastern portion of Western Australia, and after emerging into the Indian Ocean it strengthened into a tropical storm. Aided by favourable environmental conditions, Glenda rapidly intensified to reach Category 5 status on the Australian cyclone scale, and with a peak intensity of 910 mbar it was among the strongest cyclones on record within the Australia region. On 30 March it moved ashore near Onslow as a Category 3 cyclone, and the next day it degenerated into a remnant tropical low over land.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]