كان ٥ سبتمبر ٢٠٠١ الأربعاء تحت علامة النجمة ♍. كان هذا هو يوم 247 من السنة. كان رئيس الولايات المتحدة George W. Bush.
إذا كنت قد ولدت في هذا اليوم ، فأنت تبلغ٪ s سنة. كان عيد ميلادك الأخير في 24 ، الجمعة، ٥ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٥ يوم مضى. عيد ميلادك القادم في 277 ، بعد السبت، ٥ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٦ يوم. لقد عشت لمدة 87 يوم ، أو حوالي ٩٬٠٤٣ ساعة ، أو حوالي ٢١٧٬٠٥٤ دقيقة ، أو حوالي ١٣٬٠٢٣٬٢٥٦ ثانية.
Date: 05 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Dynamics Corp extends its $2.6 billion offer for Newport News Shipbuilding for sixth time because federal regulators need more time to review proposal; General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman Corp are competing to acquire Newport News (S)
Date: 06 September 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Fox News Channel fires Paula Zahn, one of its prime-time talk show hosts, after learning that she received offer from CNN, rival cable television news network; says Zahn's contract extends until Feb 28 and she is precluded from negotiating with any other party until that contract ends; will file lawsuit against Zahn's agent, Richard K Leibner of N S Bienstock, and is considering action against both CNN and Zahn; photos (M)
Date: 05 September 2001
By Geraldine Fabrikant With Craig S. Smith
Geraldine With
AOL Time Warner and News Corp move closer to long-sought goal of receiving permission from Chinese government to broadcast their television programs in China; Star TV, which is owned by News Corp, is already seen by many Chinese viewers who have illegal satellite dishes; Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television, in which Star TV holds stake, is already allowed to broadcast over cable television systems in Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong province; AOL Time Warner has stake in China Entertainment Television, satellite TV station based in Hong Kong, which broadcasts over cable systems in smaller area of Guangdong; China is considering giving limited rights to AOL and News Corp, which would allow them to reach millions of cable subscribers in Guangdong; Chinese government wants assurances that Chinese-run channel carrying government-approved English-language news broadcasts, as well as Chinese cooking programs and Mandarin-language classes, will be available to viewers in US (M)
Date: 06 September 2001
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Walt Disney Co and News Corp will join forces to create Internet video-on-demand service, Movies.com (S)
Date: 05 September 2001
By William J. Broad
William Broad
Scientists say fears over shark attacks are overblown, despite recent attacks on people off Florida and North Carolina coasts; say recent global trend in shark attacks is down, even as publlicity soars; attribute recent attacks off US coast to more poeple at beaches and increasing popularity of water sports; photo (M)
Date: 05 September 2001
Editorial says Justice Department's clumsy maneuver to obtain home telephone records of Associated Press reporter John Solomon betrays alarming insensitivity not only to free-press principles but to department's own investigative policies; says incident blots reputation of Robert Mueller, newly installed director of Federal Bureau of Investigation and former acting deputy attorney general
Date: 05 September 2001
By William S. Cohen
William Cohen
Op-Ed article by William S Cohen, former secretary of defense, on proposed legislation to create new criminal offense for intentionally revealing classified information to unauthorized persons; says new legislation would probably do little to prevent leaks, and administrative and criminal penalties already exist; says any new legislation should be carefuly reviewed to determine its effectiveness for national security and implications for journalists and public dialogue (M)
Date: 05 September 2001
By John Schwartz
John Schwartz
Second article in series, Tracks in Cyberspace, on concerns over online privacy arising from use by companies of 'cookie' data files to track Web users and their activities; even though technologies for monitoring and analyzing their activities have grown more powerful, most consumers still do not know where to start in protecting privacy on line; many who want to reject cookies find task daunting as expertise needed to deploy cookie-control features in most Internet browsers is beyond their abilities, and even when users set computers to reject cookies, many Web sites cease to function properly without them; problem of security is complicated by Americans' ambivalent attitudes toward privacy; while majority favors privacy protections, it still does not know what cookies are even after more than three years of public debate in news media and Congress; photos; diagram (L)
Date: 05 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Providian Financial Corp cuts its 2001 earnings outlook; stock falls $8.70, to $30.36 per share (S)
Date: 06 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Procter & Gamble says fiscal first-quarter earnings will rise as company cuts costs (S)