The January 13, 2003 was a Monday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 12 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 23 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 171 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, January 13, 2027, in 193 days. You have lived for 8,572 days, or about 205,748 hours, or about 12,344,929 minutes, or about 740,695,740 seconds.
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Congoleum Corp, maker of sheet and tile flooring, files for bankruptcy protection to erase its current and future asbestos liability; company hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within six months (S)
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Halliburton Co predicts decline in fourth-quarter earnings because of slowdown in oil and natural gas drilling (S)
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Stores Inc says sales last week at stores open at least one year rose within expectations for 3 percent to 5 percent monthly increase and maintains its forecast for January gain of 2 percent to 4 percent (S)
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
D&B, provider of business information once known as Dun & Bradstreet, plans to cut 550 jobs, or about 7.1 percent of its work force, by July to reduce costs; is in talks to sell its European headquarters in Britain; European unit president Bruno de la Riviere resigns (S)
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Apache Corp agrees to buy oil and natural gas reserves in North Sea and Gulf of Mexico from BP for $1.3 billion in cash (S)
Date: 13 January 2003
By Jihad Fakhreddine
Jihad Fakhreddine
Op-Ed article by Jihad Fakhreddine says Arabs' access to news from West is constantly becoming more free; says Radio Sawa, which is Washington-financed, is transmitted through FM and AM frequencies in many Arab cities, fact made more significant because it is carried by state-owned satellites; says it reaches one-third of homes in Saudi Arabia and 10 percent of all households in Egypt; says Saudi Arabia has taken biggest steps toward opening up to American press; says in addition to Radio Sawa, CNN, Newsweek and Herald Tribune, there is Al Sharq Al Awsat, newspaper edited in London and carrying reports, news analysis and opinion columns from major American newspapers; concludes that growing acceptance of American news is positive development that has not been recognized by United States government; drawing (M)
Date: 14 January 2003
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CNN chairman Walter Isaacson will leave network in spring to become chief executive of Aspen Institute, nonprofit research center specializing in public policy issues; Jim Walton will succeed Isaacson (M)
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Venezuela's pro baseball league cancels rest of season because of political unrest and national oil crisis (S)
Date: 14 January 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 U.S. Signals It Will Talk About North Korea Crisis Faced with narrow options for dealing with North Korea and strained ties with South Korea, a senior Bush administration delegation signaled its willingness today to pursue dialogue to resolve the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. A1
Date: 14 January 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
RadiSys Corp will eliminate 108 jobs, or 17 percent of its work force, by selling business and hiring another company to do more manufacturing of its computer equipment (S)