Cut on Fish Tank, Man Bleeds to Death
Date: 01 January 2005
Antonio Perez bleeds to death in his Manhattan apartment after he knocks over fish tank and cuts his arm on broken glass (S)
Replaying Friday, December 31, 2004
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31st of December 2004 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 31, 2004
A Time to Mourn
Date: 01 January 2005
By DAVID BROOKS
David BROOKS
David Brooks Op-Ed column contends that world's generosity in wake of tsunami has been amazing, but it is wrong to turn event into good-news story about us, who gave, rather than about them, whose lives were ruined (M)
Public Hospitals Rate Higher Than Private, the Mayor Says
Date: 01 January 2005
By MIKE McINTIRE
Mike McINTIRE
Mayor Michael R Bloomberg, speaking at interfaith prayer breakfast at New York Public Library, praises city's public hospitals; asserts that quality of care they provide is so good that poor New Yorkers receive better medical service than wealthy patients at private hospitals (M)
Is Norway's Oil Pool Deep Enough?; Aging Baby Boomers Loom Over a Fund Financed by Petroleum
Date: 01 January 2005
By ALAN COWELL
Alan COWELL
Norway has turned income from 3.3 million barrels a day of offshore oil production into government-owned investment fund that recently topped $165 billion; it is one of world's richest funds; Finance Min Per-Kristian Foss says Petroleum Fund will be renamed Pension Fund in 2006; says it should be more of cash reserve for future than source of immediate income; Norway's central bank, which administers fund, says it will be able to meet no more than one-quarter of Norway's pension obligations; says rest must come from taxpayers; photos (M)
Disaster Relief: Is America Doing Enough?
Date: 01 January 2005
Rabbi Henry A Sosland letter suggests that flags should be flown at half staff in US as symbol of mourning for tsunami victims
Arts, Briefly
Date: 01 January 2005
Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Arts, Briefly column; Sarajevo will honor late American critic and novelist Susan Sontag by naming street in her memory and placing plaque in one of its theaters (S)
World Briefing | Europe: Greece: Guard Shot To Death Outside British Envoy's Home
Date: 01 January 2005
By Anthee Carassava (NYT)
Anthee NYT
Greek police officer, who was guarding home of British envoy Col Mark Blatherwick in Kifissia, is shot and killed; Blatherwick's predecessor Brig Stephen Saunders was killed four years ago while driving to work (S)
World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Steel Unit Buys Assets From Parent
Date: 01 January 2005
Angang New Steel Co, Hong Kong-traded arm of China's second-largest steel maker, agrees to buy assets from its parent for 18 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) as country's demand for metal rises; unit will sell as much as 8.3 billion yuan in stock to help pay for production assets at government-owned Anshan Iron and Steel Group (S)
In Florida, a Town Seeks a Smile From Mother Nature
Date: 01 January 2005
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Abby GOODNOUGH
Deltona suffered through three of Florida's four hurricanes in 2004; one week before first storm, six teenagers and young adults were bludgeoned to death with baseball bats in crime that investigators say was provoked by disappearance of video game system; four men have been charged in murders; sinkhole began opening along busy thoroughfare on Dec 13; it was 225 feet wide and 50 feet deep, and took 1,282 truckloads of sand to fill on Dec 29; photos (M)
Political Tones To Problems Of TV Maker In China
Date: 01 January 2005
By CHRIS BUCKLEY
Chris BUCKLEY
Tale of Sichuan Changhong Electric Appliance, China's biggest exporter of televisions to US, seems to take new turn with abrupt dismissal of Huang Zuejui, former executive of company, as Communist Party boss of Mianyang; Huang's removal follows news that company would probably report huge losses for year, mostly from nearly half-billion dollars in unpaid debts it had racked up with American distribution company, Apex Digital; Apex president David Ji, American citizen, is arrested by Mianyang police and charged with financial fraud; photos (M)