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Friday, February 7. 2003, 12:00:00 AM UTC


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Friday, February 7, 2003

The last game is completed in the FIDE Man vs Machine World Chess Chionship, in which Garry Kasparov, the highest rated human chess master, competed against the world chion computer program, Deep Junior. The six game match was played to a 3–3 draw.
President George W. Bush ordered the government to draw up guidelines for cyber-attacks against enemy computer networks, according to a Washington Post report. The order is known as National Security Presidential Directive 16.
Senior citizens groups began a call for a boycott of British-owned pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline, the largest in the world, after the company announced that it would no longer sell drugs to Canadian companies that sell drugs at steep discounts to Americans over the Internet. The boycott would include such brands as Tums antacid, Aquafresh toothpaste, Contac cold remedy, Paxil and Flonase.
Source: Wikipedia