Week of February 15, 2002
President Bush decides that Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as the burial ground for
the nation’s radioactive nuclear waste. Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn is all that
happy and sues to block the action.
Interim Afghan Prime Minister Hamid Karzal promises to take “every measure to
guarantee security in this battered nation.”
In Japan - President Bush meets with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi and they gather for a several sessions.
President Bush sets out on a three-nation Asia trip. He’ll be visiting South Korea,
Japan and China.
In South Korea - President Bush endorses South Korean President Kim Dae
Jung’s vision of a united Korean peninsula and assures him that the U.S. won’t
invade North Korea.
Georgia state officials say it will
take at least eight months and a
ton of money to recover and
identify the hundreds of bodies
they expect to find at the Tri-State
Crematory. So far the number of
corpses found on the 16-acre
grounds is 242.
Employees, whose retirement
finds have been decimated by the
Enron collapse, are moving
forward with a class-action suit
against the company. The move
was approved by a federal judge.
Wal Mart says their fiscal 4
th
quarter profit rose 9.2% as net income rose to $2.19
billion.
Media - Mogal Dick Clark reaches an agreement to sell his television production
firm to a group of private investors for $140 million. The company produces his
annual “Rockin New Years’ show as well as the Golden Globe Awards among
others. Clark who is 72, will remain chairman and chief executive of the company
he formed back in 1957.
Week of February 15, 2002
She’s hot - In only a year, Disney’s Lizzie McGuire is suddenly a valuable
franchise. This week - the Lizzie McGuire fashion doll and gift line debuts. Also,
look for two Lizzie novels to be followed by a book series. Lizzie will also be on
the packages of Oscar Mayer Lunchables and soon - a new Lizzie McGuire
movie. The show debuted January of last year.
She’s played by 14-year-old
Hilary Duff.
Music news -
Don’t forget to catch rocker Moby at the closing of
the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic games.
Salt Lake Winter Olympics -
Chris Witty gets a gold medal in 1,000-meter
speedskatng setting a world-record time of 1 minute
13.83 seconds.
Jack Shea wins a gold medal in men’s skeleton.
Sports -
Ward Burton wins the Daytona 500. He was
followed at the finish line by Elliott Sadler, Geoffrey
Bodine and in fourth place - Kurt Busch.
Television news -
Passing - Pioneering newscaster
Howard K. Smith.
He
was 87.
Vice President Dick Cheney appears on NBC’s “The
Olympic Tonight Show With Jay Leno.”
Saturday night Television -
CBS - Touched by an Angel, The District
NBC - XIX Winter Olympics
ABC - Movie - Thunderball (1965) - Sean Connery as
James Bond
Fox - Cops, America’s Most Wanted
E! - True Hollywood Story, Wild On…
WWF - WWF Excess
Touched by an Angel - A girl begins an online relationship with a stranger.
