The April 8, 2003 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 97 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 Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 73 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, April 8, 2027, in 291 days. You have lived for 8,474 days, or about 203,391 hours, or about 12,203,502 minutes, or about 732,210,120 seconds.
Date: 09 April 2003
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Andrew SORKIN
General Motors Corp's board is planning to meet to approve deal worth $7 billion that would give control of its Hughes Electronics unit and DirecTV satellite operation to News Corp; deal would end three-year effort by News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to take over DirecTV and its 11 million subscribers and add US outlet to his global satellite empire (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
By KENNETH CHANG
Kenneth CHANG
Dr Ramon J Leeper, Sandia National Laboratory target physics department manager, announces to American Physical Society that Sandia has achieved thermonuclear fusion with Z accelerator; other research approaches also trying to generate electricity through fusion are compared; 104-foot-wide Z accelerator can currently generate enough power to light 40-watt bulb for one ten-thousandth of second; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
Frank J Prial Wine Talk column on Beaujolais; interview with George Duboeuf, called King of Beaujolais, who sells 30 million bottles of wine each year; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By DAN BARRY
Dan BARRY
New York City is slow to set up Citizens Corps councils through which citizens can get engaged in guarding against and preparing for terrorist attack; fault lies not with lack of patriotism but is because of glacial place of government; other places far less likely to be target of terrorism already have active Citizen Corps Councils; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G. Peterson, Robert E. Rubin, Warren B. Rudman and Paul A. Volcker
Bob Kerrey
Op-Ed article by Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G Peterson, Robert E Rubin, Warren B Rudman and Paul A Volcker calls on Congress to stand up for fiscal responsibility by exercising restraint on spending and not enacting any new tax cuts; cites enormous fiscal pressures from Iraq war and domestic needs and ballooning deficit; warns that fiscal outlook is much worse than official projections indicate because revenue and spending assumptions are not realistic (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Raymond HERNANDEZ
Bush administration announces $25 million aid package to New York City to help prepare for terrorist attacks; money is part of package of about $100 million that will go to cities deemed most vulnerable and is part of first round of money disbursed by Department of Homeland Security (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
New Hampshire chapter of Voice of the Faithful calls for resignation of Bishop John B McCormack and deputy Bishop Francis Christian because of their handling of sexual abuse of children by priests; group sends letter to Pope John Paul II(S)
Date: 09 April 2003
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Andrew SORKIN
General Motors Corp's board is planning to meet to approve deal worth $7 billion that would give control of its Hughes Electronics unit and DirecTV satellite operation to News Corp; deal would end three-year effort by News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to take over DirecTV and its 11 million subscribers and add US outlet to his global satellite empire (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
By KENNETH CHANG
Kenneth CHANG
Dr Ramon J Leeper, Sandia National Laboratory target physics department manager, announces to American Physical Society that Sandia has achieved thermonuclear fusion with Z accelerator; other research approaches also trying to generate electricity through fusion are compared; 104-foot-wide Z accelerator can currently generate enough power to light 40-watt bulb for one ten-thousandth of second; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
Frank J Prial Wine Talk column on Beaujolais; interview with George Duboeuf, called King of Beaujolais, who sells 30 million bottles of wine each year; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By DAN BARRY
Dan BARRY
New York City is slow to set up Citizens Corps councils through which citizens can get engaged in guarding against and preparing for terrorist attack; fault lies not with lack of patriotism but is because of glacial place of government; other places far less likely to be target of terrorism already have active Citizen Corps Councils; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Andrew SORKIN
General Motors Corp's board is planning to meet to approve deal worth $7 billion that would give control of its Hughes Electronics unit and DirecTV satellite operation to News Corp; deal would end three-year effort by News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to take over DirecTV and its 11 million subscribers and add US outlet to his global satellite empire (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
By KENNETH CHANG
Kenneth CHANG
Dr Ramon J Leeper, Sandia National Laboratory target physics department manager, announces to American Physical Society that Sandia has achieved thermonuclear fusion with Z accelerator; other research approaches also trying to generate electricity through fusion are compared; 104-foot-wide Z accelerator can currently generate enough power to light 40-watt bulb for one ten-thousandth of second; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
Frank J Prial Wine Talk column on Beaujolais; interview with George Duboeuf, called King of Beaujolais, who sells 30 million bottles of wine each year; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By DAN BARRY
Dan BARRY
New York City is slow to set up Citizens Corps councils through which citizens can get engaged in guarding against and preparing for terrorist attack; fault lies not with lack of patriotism but is because of glacial place of government; other places far less likely to be target of terrorism already have active Citizen Corps Councils; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G. Peterson, Robert E. Rubin, Warren B. Rudman and Paul A. Volcker
Bob Kerrey
Op-Ed article by Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G Peterson, Robert E Rubin, Warren B Rudman and Paul A Volcker calls on Congress to stand up for fiscal responsibility by exercising restraint on spending and not enacting any new tax cuts; cites enormous fiscal pressures from Iraq war and domestic needs and ballooning deficit; warns that fiscal outlook is much worse than official projections indicate because revenue and spending assumptions are not realistic (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Raymond HERNANDEZ
Bush administration announces $25 million aid package to New York City to help prepare for terrorist attacks; money is part of package of about $100 million that will go to cities deemed most vulnerable and is part of first round of money disbursed by Department of Homeland Security (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
New Hampshire chapter of Voice of the Faithful calls for resignation of Bishop John B McCormack and deputy Bishop Francis Christian because of their handling of sexual abuse of children by priests; group sends letter to Pope John Paul II(S)
Date: 09 April 2003
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Andrew SORKIN
General Motors Corp's board is planning to meet to approve deal worth $7 billion that would give control of its Hughes Electronics unit and DirecTV satellite operation to News Corp; deal would end three-year effort by News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to take over DirecTV and its 11 million subscribers and add US outlet to his global satellite empire (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
By KENNETH CHANG
Kenneth CHANG
Dr Ramon J Leeper, Sandia National Laboratory target physics department manager, announces to American Physical Society that Sandia has achieved thermonuclear fusion with Z accelerator; other research approaches also trying to generate electricity through fusion are compared; 104-foot-wide Z accelerator can currently generate enough power to light 40-watt bulb for one ten-thousandth of second; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
Frank J Prial Wine Talk column on Beaujolais; interview with George Duboeuf, called King of Beaujolais, who sells 30 million bottles of wine each year; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By DAN BARRY
Dan BARRY
New York City is slow to set up Citizens Corps councils through which citizens can get engaged in guarding against and preparing for terrorist attack; fault lies not with lack of patriotism but is because of glacial place of government; other places far less likely to be target of terrorism already have active Citizen Corps Councils; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G. Peterson, Robert E. Rubin, Warren B. Rudman and Paul A. Volcker
Bob Kerrey
Op-Ed article by Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G Peterson, Robert E Rubin, Warren B Rudman and Paul A Volcker calls on Congress to stand up for fiscal responsibility by exercising restraint on spending and not enacting any new tax cuts; cites enormous fiscal pressures from Iraq war and domestic needs and ballooning deficit; warns that fiscal outlook is much worse than official projections indicate because revenue and spending assumptions are not realistic (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Raymond HERNANDEZ
Bush administration announces $25 million aid package to New York City to help prepare for terrorist attacks; money is part of package of about $100 million that will go to cities deemed most vulnerable and is part of first round of money disbursed by Department of Homeland Security (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
New Hampshire chapter of Voice of the Faithful calls for resignation of Bishop John B McCormack and deputy Bishop Francis Christian because of their handling of sexual abuse of children by priests; group sends letter to Pope John Paul II(S)
Date: 09 April 2003
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Andrew SORKIN
General Motors Corp's board is planning to meet to approve deal worth $7 billion that would give control of its Hughes Electronics unit and DirecTV satellite operation to News Corp; deal would end three-year effort by News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch to take over DirecTV and its 11 million subscribers and add US outlet to his global satellite empire (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
By KENNETH CHANG
Kenneth CHANG
Dr Ramon J Leeper, Sandia National Laboratory target physics department manager, announces to American Physical Society that Sandia has achieved thermonuclear fusion with Z accelerator; other research approaches also trying to generate electricity through fusion are compared; 104-foot-wide Z accelerator can currently generate enough power to light 40-watt bulb for one ten-thousandth of second; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
Frank J Prial Wine Talk column on Beaujolais; interview with George Duboeuf, called King of Beaujolais, who sells 30 million bottles of wine each year; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By DAN BARRY
Dan BARRY
New York City is slow to set up Citizens Corps councils through which citizens can get engaged in guarding against and preparing for terrorist attack; fault lies not with lack of patriotism but is because of glacial place of government; other places far less likely to be target of terrorism already have active Citizen Corps Councils; photo (M)
Date: 09 April 2003
By Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G. Peterson, Robert E. Rubin, Warren B. Rudman and Paul A. Volcker
Bob Kerrey
Op-Ed article by Bob Kerrey, Sam Nunn, Peter G Peterson, Robert E Rubin, Warren B Rudman and Paul A Volcker calls on Congress to stand up for fiscal responsibility by exercising restraint on spending and not enacting any new tax cuts; cites enormous fiscal pressures from Iraq war and domestic needs and ballooning deficit; warns that fiscal outlook is much worse than official projections indicate because revenue and spending assumptions are not realistic (M)
Date: 08 April 2003
New Hampshire chapter of Voice of the Faithful calls for resignation of Bishop John B McCormack and deputy Bishop Francis Christian because of their handling of sexual abuse of children by priests; group sends letter to Pope John Paul II(S)