1894 APW19980923.1395 1 hours, JPL said. After five more months of aerobraking each orbit should take less than two hours. Mars is currently 213 million miles (343 million kilometers) from Earth. 1894 APW19990429.0168 -1 ``The data suggests that Mars was once magnetic and was far more similar to Earth's global magnetic field than had been previously assumed,'' Ness said. 1894 APW19990429.0249 -1 ``The data suggests that Mars was once magnetic and was far more similar to Earth's global magnetic field than had previously assumed,'' Ness said. 1894 NYT19981211.0308 -1 c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ The first of two NASA science probes embarked Friday on a 416-million-mile voyage to Mars, catapulted from Earth by a Boeing Delta 2 rocket.

The spacecraft, called Mar 1894 NYT19990923.0365 1 its farthest point in orbit, it is 249 million miles from Earth. And, so far as anyone knows, there isn't a McDonalds restaurant on the place.

And yet we keep trying to get there. Thirty times in the past 40 years, man has sent a spacecra 1894 APW19990429.0168 -1 LINE>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Early in its history, the geology of Mars may have been much like that of Earth, with molten rock gurgling to the surface from a hot interior and with crustal plates drifting on the surface, according to new s 1894 NYT19990923.0363 -1 so see Mars-sider) By MARK CARREAU c.1999 Houston Chronicle

After a trouble-free, 91/2-month voyage from Earth, NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter disappeared early Thursday as it was maneuvering into orbit around the Red Planet.

< 1894 NYT20000324.0337 -1 For more than two years, planetary geologist Ken Edgett has been among the first experts to examine the steady stream of photography dispatched to Earth by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, a small camera-equipped probe that has been circling the Red Plan 1894 NYT20000324.0337 -1 geologist Ken Edgett has been among the first experts to examine the steady stream of photography dispatched to Earth by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, a small camera-equipped probe that has been circling the Red Planet since September 1997.

1894 NYT19990313.0104 -1 far.

The rain of debris from Mars was hardest, experts agree, in the Earth's early days. And the reverse trip was far less likely because the Sun pulls Earth debris away from Mars and toward itself.

Burns of Cornell and his 1894 XIE19981212.0306 -1 The Orbiter will arrive the red planet in September 1999 after 416 million miles' flight, and begin to track the movement of water vapor and dust in the atmosphere over the entire planet for a full Martian year, or 687 Earth days in a 260-mile-high o 1894 NYT19991122.0091 -1 than the Moon, and a round trip to Mars would take years instead of days. Even at the speed of light, signals from Mars probes take from three to 20 minutes to reach Earth.

Getting there is still a risky business, as the loss of the 1894 NYT19990208.0198 -1 of the solar system and that it is made mostly of ice _ characteristics that seem to show closer kinship with a family of ``Trans-Neptunian Objects'' than with the eight main planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. 1894 APW19990803.0031 -1 Scientists will continue to run computer models to find out how Braille could have traveled so far. Braille, between the orbit of Earth and Mars, is about 117 million miles from Earth. Vesta, between Mars and Jupiter, is 219 million miles away. 1894 APW19980923.1395 1 Mars is currently 213 million miles (343 million kilometers) from Eart 1895 NYT19990810.0082 1 HOURS: During the summer, the park is open from 8 a.m. until midnight. Disneyland goes to a shorter schedule after Labor Day weekend. 1895 APW20000923.0147 -1 Paramedics arrived at the theme park late Friday to find the Southern California boy underneath a vehicle, said Cynthia Harriss, president of Disneyland Resort. 1895 XIE19991222.0030 -1 The manager of Disneyland said the park will be open all days during the festivals at the end of the year and the workers have to live up "to the expectations of the visitors. 1895 NYT19980929.0267 -1 .1998 N.Y. Times News Service

As usual, Tocqueville had it nailed even before it happened. More than a century before Disneyland opened its doors, the great analyst of modern democracy grasped the spirit of hysteria that infuses the 1895 NYT19991024.0166 -1 ely how to smile, died on Oct. 13 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 87.

France brought a background in industrial relations to Disneyland, which opened in 1955 in Anaheim, Calif. He spent more than a quarter-century developing training prog 1895 NYT19991101.0486 -1 vice clients) BY DAVE McNARY c.1999 Los Angeles Daily News

&LR; BURBANK _ Maybe the Walt Disney Co. can't straighten out ABC, maybe its Disney Stores are getting stale and apparently its Club Disney concept wasn't popular enough to e 1895 APW19981022.0032 -1 Company officials predict the park, which is being built on 167 acres (67 hectares) of reclaimed shoreline adjacent to Tokyo Disneyland, will draw more than 10 million visitors a year once it opens in 2001. 1895 APW19981022.0032 -1 park, which is being built on 167 acres (67 hectares) of reclaimed shoreline adjacent to Tokyo Disneyland, will draw more than 10 million visitors a year once it opens in 2001. And although Japan is now 1895 NYT20000207.0448 -1 is set to open at Serris, next door to the original park.

On one weekend in late October, when crowds flooded into Disneyland Paris, highways leading to the park were completely blocked by traffic. The addition of the Serris mall, plus 1895 APW19991015.0193 -1 hat taught Disneyland employees how to sell happiness with a smile, has died at 87.

France, who died Thursday of pneumonia, was hired before Disneyland opened in 1955 to create the training program, called the University of Disneyland. 1895 NYT19981208.0082 -1 Walt Disney World's new Animal Kingdom theme park is known as the Affection Section.

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And speaking of Disney animals: The Animal Kingdom isn't the first time animals have appeared in a Disney park. When California's 1895 NYT19990810.0082 1 HOURS: During the summer, the park is open from 8 a.m. until midnight. Disneyland goes to a shorter schedule after Labor Day weekend. < 1895 XIE19991222.0030 -1 The manager of Disneyland said the park will be open all days during the festivals at the end of the year and the workers have to live up "to the expectations of the visitor 1896 APW19980601.0778 1 Dame and so begins a story behind those chimes - Disney's Animated StoryBook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The story begins with Quasimodo, a meek and mild hunchback. Frollo, a cruel 1896 APW20000121.0140 -1 The musical, based on the story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, opened in Paris in 1998. 1896 NYT19981021.0168 1 1935). It managed to tempt Welles ahead of the bigger, more successful companies.

He first thought about accepting the role of Quasimodo in ``The

Hunchback of Notre Dame,'' but decided to wait until he was offered a chance to 1896 APW20000802.0077 -1 THOMAS

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- She came from Ireland, a flame-haired colleen with extraordinary beauty and fire in her hazel eyes. Maureen O'Hara became the Queen of Technicolor and John Wayne's favorite leading lady.

H 1896 NYT19980709.0283 -1 ve Murray &HT; c. 1998 Cox News Service

Action figures come alive, start warring with each other (and any human who gets in their way) and destroy an idyllic small-town neighborhood.

The setup of ``Small Soldiers'' borro 1896 NYT20000910.0005 -1 ``The most critical play of the game was the third-down pass,'' Notre Dame coach Bob Davie said. 1896 NYT20000910.0005 -1 me was the third-down pass,'' Notre Dame coach Bob Davie said. ``I thought they were going with 1896 NYT19990720.0190 -1 The Hunchback of Notre-Dame,'' and what was the history behind the author? _ M.D.H., Fort Worth

A: ``The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' is the English title of ``Notre-Dame de Paris,'' a French novel written in 1831 by Victor Hugo 1896 NYT20000908.0262 -1 Nebraska fans as well as Notre Dame fans were informed _ if they didn't already know _ that No. 1 Miami came here ranked No. 1 in 1988 and left with a 31-30 loss; and Florida State invaded Notre Dame Stadiuim ranked No. 1 in 1993 and were hit with a 1896 NYT20000314.0357 -1 not geared toward children. It is also the first Disney show that has not been adapted from an animated movie, like ``The Lion King,'' ``Beauty and the Beast'' or ``The Hunchback of Notre Dame,'' which opened to lukewarm notices in Berlin last June, 1896 NYT20000314.0357 -1 its new Hyperion Theatricals unit; the different name is meant to emphasize that the show is not geared toward children. It is also the first Disney show that has not been adapted from an animated movie, like ``The Lion King,'' ``Beauty and the Beast 1896 NYT20000314.0357 -1 Disney is, too. ``Aida'' is the first stage musical it is producing under the umbrella of its new Hyperion Theatricals unit; the different name is meant to emphasize that the show is not geared toward children. It is also the first Disney show that 1896 NYT19990720.0190 -1 A: ``The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' is the English title of ``Notre-Dame de Paris,'' a French novel written in 1831 by Victor Hug 1897 XIE19960304.0037 -1 Atlanta (ATL), Dallas/Ft Worth (DFW), London (LHR), Los Angles (LAX), Tokyo (HND), Frankfurt (FRA), San Francisco (SFO), Denver (DEN) and Miami (MIA) 1897 NYT19991104.0193 -1 If such an agreement could be reached, there might emerge some strong sentiment for changing the name of Dallas Love Field to Dallas Olympics Airport. 1897 NYT19980818.0406 1 The Fort Worth-based airline currently offers jet service only to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, rather than the two urban-area airports.

For nearly 20 years, the Wright Amendme 1897 XIE19990514.0004 -1 d With Monopolizing Air Traffic

WASHINGTON, May 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday charged that American Airlines, the nation's second-largest air carrier, tried to monopolize airline passenger service to an 1897 NYT20000912.0224 -1 D CHICAGO by LAURENCE ZUCKERMAN c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

American Airlines, the nation's second-largest airline, said Tuesday that it would rearrange flights at its two largest hubs to improve its overall r 1897 NYT19981007.0441 -1 Most amazing, however, is Perot's new Belle Starr, if expectations are met, will finally catch Dallas up with the Arlingtons, Fort Worths, Grand Prairies and Irvings. 1897 NYT19981007.0441 -1 new Belle Starr, if expectations are met, will finally catch Dallas up with the Arlingtons, Fort Worths, Grand Prairies and Irvings.

Sports-wise, the fast 1897 NYT19991104.0193 -1 What the heck? If such an agreement could be reached, there might emerge some strong sentiment for changing the name of Dallas Love Field to Dallas Olympics Airport.

(Cecil Johnson is columnist and editorial writer for the Fort Worth Star 1897 NYT19991104.0193 -1 Hey. Yo. Dallas, Big D, D-Town, have I got a deal for you.

Well, I mean, I have an idea that Fort Worth ought to run at you and that you should ruminate upon ve 1897 APW19990321.0036 -1 72 54 .01 68 39 rn 65 37 clr Columbus,Ohio 54 36 47 28 cdy 40 28 cdy Concord,N.H. 42 18 46 36 cdy 44 27 rn Dallas-Ft Worth 60 44 69 49 clr 72 55 cdy Dayton 1897 NYT19991104.0193 -1 What the heck? If such an agreement could be reached, there might emerge some strong sentiment for changing the name of Dallas Love Field to Dallas Olympics Airport. < 1898 APW19990716.0105 1 In 1955, Disneyland debuted in Anaheim, Calif. 1898 NYT19991102.0380 -1 A new Disneyland was just the tonic this downtrodden city needed _ and the team from Disney knew it. 1898 NYT19980917.0064 1 , It's so small!''), cruising by Groman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, and winding up at Disneyland in Anaheim. The traffic going out was horrendous and put us both in sour moods, but those moods disappeared once we entered the 1898 APW19981022.0023 1 worst economic slump since World War II, they have reason to be optimistic Disney's ninth theme park in the world will be a success. Tokyo Disneyland, which marked its 15th anniversary this year, has proven to be the most lucrative of all Disney 1898 NYT19981001.0397 -1 INE> (For use by NYTimes News Service clients) By STACY BROWN c.1998 Los Angeles Daily News

LOS ANGELES -- Metal detectors are being installed at the two Six Flags theme parks, the first time the security devices will be used at 1898 APW19991021.0197 1 LINE>

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- The Walt Disney Co. has banned tobacco sales at its domestic theme parks.

Tobacco sales stopped Sept. 3 at Disneyland in Anaheim, spokesman Ray Gomez said Thursday.

Earlier this year 1898 NYT19990310.0217 -1 L c.1999 Asahi News Service (Distributed by New York Times Special Features)

TOKYO _ Martin Lee, head of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, is normally a thorn in the flesh to the new Chinese rulers of the former British colony.

1898 NYT19990603.0275 1 ``What it actually does is make theme-park patrons responsible for their own behavior,'' said Ray Gomez, a spokesman for Disneyland in Anaheim. 1898 NYT19990603.0275 1 eme-park patrons responsible for their own behavior,'' said Ray Gomez, a spokesman for Disneyland in Anaheim. ``If they break the rules, they a 1898 NYT19991102.0380 -1 in its own stock market to fend off what it called predatory foreign speculators.

A new Disneyland was just the tonic this downtrodden city needed _ and the team from Disney knew it. What followed was 13 months of grinding negotiations as 1898 NYT19991115.0367 1 This month, the Walt Disney Co. announced plans to build a theme park here, its third outside the United States and second in Asia, after Tokyo Disneyland. While it would be cynical to say that this metropolis of 6.8 million will be defined by Mickey 1898 NYT19981202.0161 -1 design consultant. His ideas have contributed to Disney's Epcot and the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles. &HT; Here Bradbury talks about how far we've come from the future he envisioned in the '50s. &HT; -0- &HT; JOHN GEIRLAND: De 1898 NYT20000814.0415 -1 have bypassed Los Angeles itself. Or at least its core. Sightseeing excursions generally have been confined to attractions on the outskirts of the city: Disneyland, Hollywood, the beach, Beverly Hills, Universal Studios. Recently, however, downtown h 1898 NYT20000814.0181 -1 Sightseeing excursions generally have been confined to attractions on the outskirts of the city: Disneyland, Hollywood, the beach, Beverly Hills, Universal Studios. < 1898 NYT19981014.0184 -1 Disneyland's City Hall is clearly drawn at three-quarters scale from the courthouse in Fort Collins, with its exuberant up-thrust towe 1899 NYT19991230.0073 1 > --1962. Maine biologist Rachel Carson warns of dangers to wildlife from DDT and other pesticides in her book ``Silent Spring,'' which launches the modern environmental movement. 1899 APW19990107.0313 1 Rachel Carson's 1962 book ``Silent Spring'' said dieldrin causes mania. 1899 XIE19960320.0295 1 Vice-President Albert Gore described the book "critically important" and compared it with "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson's 1962 book that set off a movement to ban DDT and other pesticides. 1899 NYT20000811.0373 1 It could almost be said that what we call the environmental movement did begin with a single book: Rachel Carson's ``Silent Spring.'' Originally published as a series of articles in The New Yorker, it created a firestorm that has long since 1899 NYT19990520.0352 -1 Go Tell It on the Mountain.''

Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, ``Casino Royale,'' is

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William Golding's ``Lord of the Flies'' presents a dark side of boys in the wil 1899 NYT20000814.0535 -1 use by New York Times News Service clients) By KIT WAGAR c. 2000 Kansas City Star

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. _ Al Gore came to Harry Truman's hometown on Monday to claim the mantle as defender of senior citizens and Medicare, the old-ag 1899 NYT19981113.0076 -1 Anne Morris is the book editor for the Austin American-Statesman. 1899 NYT19981113.0076 -1 the Austin American-Statesman.

Story Filed By Cox Ne 1899 NYT19990721.0145 1 in the lower 48 states. That caused Rachel Carson to write in her 1962 book ``Silent Spring'' that their disappearance might ``make it necessary for us to find a new national emblem.''

Fortunately, Carson made us care. In 1972, the 1899 NYT19991230.0073 1 the American elm.

--1962. Maine biologist Rachel Carson warns of dangers to wildlife from DDT and other pesticides in her book ``Silent Spring,'' which launches the modern environmental movement.

--1970. The first Earth Day is 1899 NYT20000718.0153 1 In 1962, former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Rachel Carson shocked the nation with her landmark book, ``Silent Spring.'' She warned how the widespread use of pesticides was killing birds and other wildlife and harming humans. In a chapt 1899 APW19990107.0313 1 Rachel Carson's 1962 book ``Silent Spring'' said dieldrin causes mani 1900 XIE19960828.0011 1 the Aswan High Dam in 1971, Egypt periodically suffered flooding from the Nile. But excess water is now held back behind the dam in Lake Nasser. The Toshka Canal is near 1900 XIE19970121.0184 -1 To build the 175-meter-high dam, located on the scenic Xiling Gorge in central China, the country plans to build cofferdams in both the upstream and downstream areas, then create a water-free void so that work can begin on the dam and turbine generat 1900 NYT20000928.0255 1 into five segments _ tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, bridges and domes _ the project took him from the Aswan High Dam in Egypt to the bowels of the Holland Tunnel. Combining social history with engineering basics, the book and series examine the 1900 XIE19981014.0011 2 f Aswan High Dam

CAIRO, October 13 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been assured of the fastness of Aswan High Dam on the Nile river despite of the unprecedented high water in the past weeks.

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CAIRO, September 27 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Minister of Public Works and Water Resources Mahmoud Abu Zeid said Sunday that the water level of the River Nile is dropping gradually thanks to the flood diversion of the Lake Nasser.

1900 APW19980904.0891 1 Meanwhile in Egypt, the state-run newspaper Al-Gomhuriya has reported that the Nile water behind the High Dam at Aswan has reached the maximum height permitted. 1900 APW19980904.0891 -1 newspaper Al-Gomhuriya has reported that the Nile water behind the High Dam at Aswan has reached the maximum height permitted. The excess has been diverted into 1900 XIE19981014.0011 2 Aswan High Dam

CAIRO, October 13 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has been assured of the fastness of Aswan High Dam on the Nile river despite of the unprecedented high water in the past weeks.

Mubarak was 1900 XIE19990415.0157 2 Egypt has planned to maintain 12 ancient temples in the area of Aswan, 700 kilometers south of Cairo, the Egyptian Gazette newspaper reported Thursday.

The restoration of the rock-cut temples in southern Egypt will be finished this year in t 1900 NYT20000928.0255 1 speak. Divided into five segments _ tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, bridges and domes _ the project took him from the Aswan High Dam in Egypt to the bowels of the Holland Tunnel. Combining social history with engineering basics, the book and series 1900 XIE19980928.0015 -1 HEADLINE>

CAIRO, September 27 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian Minister of Public Works and Water Resources Mahmoud Abu Zeid said Sunday that the water level of the River Nile is dropping gradually thanks to the flood diversion of the Lake Nasser.

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/soccer/worldcup98/ind 1903 XIE19990523.0168 -1 32 such zones 1903 XIE19970319.0280 -1 zone group one qualifying matches on Tuesday:

Saudi Arabia drew Malaysia 0-0

Chinese Taipei bt Bangladesh 3-1 (halftime 0-0)

1903 XIE19970211.0186 -1 So far, 574 protection zones have been set up, covering 6.43 percent of the country's landspace, the highest percentage in the world. 1903 XIE19970211.0186 -1 been set up, covering 6.43 percent of the country's landspace, the highest percentage in the world. The number of zones is expected t 1903 XIE19990528.0266 -1 zones on 5,000 square kilometers of land and two-thirds of Sichuan's giant pandas are under protection. The province is also making an effort to set up 10 more zones to include all giant pandas.

There are 1,000 giant pandas in the world 1903 NYT19980806.0134 -1 But I support my City Council's courageous action on the East Timor situation, although I wonder just how much impact the ban will have, especially when a Cambridge Chronicle story reports that the prohibition won't apply if a particular good or serv 1903 NYT20000315.0069 1 as the world's prime meridian by an international conference in 1884.

There are 24 time zones, each with a width of 15 degrees longitude. Moving west of Greenwich, the time becomes one hour earlier with each time zone entered. In standard 1903 NYT19980831.0202 -1 Area: The largest country in the world, encompassing 11 time zones and 6.5 million square miles -- or about 1.8 times the size of the U.S. < 1903 NYT19991227.0102 1 The world is divided into 24 time zone 1904 NYT20000101.0219 1 the mound a few inches from the 10-inch height that was legislated in 1968 and expanding the strike zone by enforcing the borders provided in the rule book. Pitchers will 1904 NYT20000227.0156 -1 But if he hits the pitcher's mound's the ball's going to bounce high in the air and over the catcher's head. 1904 NYT19990822.0016 1 the 1992 Astros, who had &UR; Doug Jones, &UR; Joe Boever and &UR; Xavier Hernandez.

In 1968, the last year the pitcher's mound was 15 inches high, only one player ( &UR; Frank Howard, 44) hit 40 home runs and only three (Howard, &UR; 1904 NYT20000513.0040 -1 been set for most home runs in a day (57), week (262) and the month of April (931).

Last year's 5,528 home runs were a major league record, a year after Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa blew up the single-season records, which came a year afte 1904 NYT19980708.0048 -1 ice clients) By Gordon Edes c.1998 The Boston Globe

DENVER _ Skipped over as the American League's starting pitcher, Pedro Martinez went to AL manager Mike Hargrove before Tuesday night's 69th All-Star Game and said that if Hargro 1904 NYT20000804.0176 -1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

ATLANTA _ The fastest pitcher in baseball was Steve Dalkowski.

A Baltimore farmhand phenom, Dalkowski signed with the Orioles in 1957. He never reached Class AAA but was part of baseball lo 1904 NYT19980622.0002 -1 By BUSTER OLNEY c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

CLEVELAND _ Hideki Irabu should take some solace in the fact that he went nearly three months of this season without being routed. But when he absorbed the inevitable beating on Sun 1904 NYT19990813.0034 -1 ``The park obviously helps a lot,'' Williams said after his pitchers gave up nine runs in three games against Chicago. 1904 NYT19990813.0034 -1 ' Williams said after his pitchers gave up nine runs in three games against Chicago. ``It's giving the pitchers some c 1904 APW19990127.0292 -1 the plate -- and on the mound -- in 1999.

The 31-year-old left-hander is taking his comeback to the National League, where the one-handed pitcher will have to bat for the first time since he was in high school.

``I'm really 1904 NYT19981009.0536 -1 Hernandez, a Cuban defector, hopes, as well, that he has good reason to send them videotape of his Game 4 start Saturday against the Cleveland Indians and Dwight Gooden, the pitcher from whom Hernandez adapted his high leg kick a decade ago.

1904 NYT19990404.0209 -1 target 60 feet, six inches away. The victim could be Dennis Reyes or Steve Trachsel, Mike Morgan or Carl Pavano. There were so many of them that none will stand out through the passage of history.

Finally, he summons enough nerve to throw 1904 NYT19990404.0209 -1 eyes are on the batter's box where a 6-foot-5, 250-pound redhead with bulging biceps stands poised, his bat lethally circling above him.

On the mound, a pitcher nervously twitches as he stares intently at the target 60 feet, six inches aw 1904 NYT19991213.0024 -1 Oates said he was sorry to see Zeile and Mark McLemore _ two of his favorites _ leave but added, ``I've lost a lot of good players in my career. But life goes on. Everybody has decisions to make. Nobody is bigger than the game.'' Palmeiro wins DH a 1904 NYT20000227.0156 -1 But if he hits the pitcher's mound's the ball's going to bounce high in the air and over the catcher's hea 1906 NYT20000326.0165 -1 John Paul became the first pope to pray at the site of the Temple since Peter, among the first disciples whom Jesus chose to lead the church and who is the 1906 APW20000329.0132 -1 More than a million votes were cast, and Goldman says there's no evidence they all came from just one die-hard pineapple disciple. 1906 XIE19970318.0036 -1 Peter Fietzek, a Mercedes manager, told Die Welt that Asia, particularly China, was considered as a region of growth for the company. 1906 NYT19980706.0178 1 Perhaps the most striking of the two works is the artist's depiction of St. Peter being crucified upside down. Even though nails are being driven into his feet, Peter glares defiantly at his executioners.

Michelangelo's painting of Paul's 1906 NYT19981123.0361 -1 day, we rented a car and drove south on modern highways cut through green Umbrian hills to the medieval hilltop town of Assisi.

Innumerable pilgrims are expected to pour into Rome, Assisi and other Italian cities in 2000 to take a millenn 1906 NYT19990126.0257 -1 ns &HT; c. 1999 Cox Newspapers

ST. LOUIS _ His own legacy tainted by scandal, President Clinton on Tuesday paid tribute to the moral heroism of one of the most towering spiritual figures of the 20th Century, praising Pope John Paul 1906 APW19980727.1147 -1 Michael Andrews, mayor of Southampton, died at the hospital and another passenger, Peter Shave, was pronounced dead on arrival. 1906 APW19980727.1147 -1 ton, died at the hospital and another passenger, Peter Shave, was pronounced dead on arrival. Ten other passengers were tak 1906 APW20000329.0132 -1 die-hard pineapple disciple. Pineapple tallied 54 percent of the vote, whipping watermelon (25 percent) and strawberry (21 percent.)

To celebrate pineapple's reprieve, the company is hiding special pineapple-only rolls among shipments of 1906 APW19981226.0801 -1 In 1981, I auditioned for Dorothy in `The Wizard of Oz' and got the part _ at the Civic Light Opera in Sacramento, California. I knew at that point I was hooked on theater.'' Her acting and singing lessons paid 1906 NYT20000511.0244 -1 Ascension scene.

The only people ``Jesus'' could possibly offend are those whose interpretation of Christianity looks upon any enjoyment of the physical senses as a little bit sinful. For the rest of us, the film is proof that every story 1908 XIE19990505.0266 1 Iceland, a European country and an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, has an area of 103,000 square kilometers and a population of about 270,000. 1908 NYT19990215.0154 -1 ``What they're doing probably won't hurt me personally, or Iceland now, but I fear that we could be used as a well-defined guinea pig population in the future. 1908 NYT19980731.0083 -1 This time of year is Iceland's summer, featuring nearly 22 hours of daylight and a kind of lightness of being, as increasing numbers of tourists come to mingle in the sophisticated capital city that is home to a majority of the nation's population. 1908 NYT20000616.0089 1 by DeCode Genetics, which has the rights to the genetic, medical, and genealogical information of Iceland's 270,000 residents.

But Framingham Genomic would be the first US company to gain broad access to such a large multigenerational pat 1908 NYT20000731.0377 -1 .) (Eds., name Mihael, in 10th graf, is CQ) By ANDREW POLLACK c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

Wanted: Your genes.

A California startup called DNA Sciences is introducing a Web site this week that will recruit people 1908 NYT19991216.0298 -1 The population was regularly _ and heavily _ culled by famine, plague and earth cataclysms. 1908 NYT19991216.0298 -1 d heavily _ culled by famine, plague and earth cataclysms.

``Our country seems 1908 NYT19990215.0154 -1 is simple and breath-takingly ambitious, relying on a happy confluence of factors.

First, Iceland comes close to having what is known as a closed population, meaning that there has been little immigration to muddy the genetic pool over 1908 XIE19971127.0179 -1 China sincerely appreciates the press communique the Icelandic Foreign Ministry released on November 21 reiterating that Iceland will adhere to "one China" policy and will not establish official relations with Taiwan, according to a Chinese Foreign M 1908 XIE19960520.0261 -1 million people died in 1995, the same as was 35 years ago, but suggested a mortality rate of 9.1 deaths per thousand population, down from 16.5 in 1960.

Sharp decline in death rate was registered in the developing countries, from 20 1908 NYT20000327.0165 -1 says Danish archaeologist Jette Arneborg, the Black Death had decimated Norway, wiping out nearly two-thirds of the population. The plague hit Iceland, too, killing some 30 percent. Although there is still no evidence the sickness reached Greenland, 1908 XIE19990505.0266 1 celand, a European country and an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, has an area of 103,000 square kilometers and a population of about 270,000. < 1908 XIE19990505.0266 1 Iceland, a European country and an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, has an area of 103,000 square kilometers and a population of about 270,00 1909 APW19990109.0013 1 In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. 1909 XIE20000928.0147 -1 "Hong Kong will be the perfect setting for heads of major international companies to talk about how quickly business is changing in Asia," said John Huey, managing editor of Fortune. 1909 NYT19980813.0386 1 to 1900 companies controlled by John D. Rockefeller of the United States and Alfred Nobel of Sweden built vast fortunes on an earlier oil strike here. At the turn of the century, 51 percent of the globe's oil came from Azerbaijan.

By the 1909 APW19990611.0163 -1 bstantial real estate portfolio and Nickles' account was busy in investments.

Friday's forms provided a limited peek into the assets, liabilities and outside earnings of senators; the House will release its forms next Wednesday. Since 1909 NYT20000607.0202 -1 By MICHAEL BRICK c. 2000 NYTimes.com/TheStreet.com

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq) should be split into two separate companies to remedy antitrust violations and foster competition in 1909 NYT20000501.0191 -1 The two new businesses would doubtless cooperate, as Microsoft already cooperates with Intel, the dominant producer of microprocessors. 1909 NYT20000501.0191 -1 less cooperate, as Microsoft already cooperates with Intel, the dominant producer of microprocessors. But they would also encourage eac 1909 NYT19990507.0364 -1 What John D. Doesn't Tell John Q. &QL; &QL;

An Orlando, Fla., divorce battle threatens to penetrate the secrecy surrounding the history, size and substance of the fabled fortune created by John D. Rockefeller. The case involves George O 1909 NYT19990421.0495 -1 Afterward, as Ron Chernow wrote in his 1988 book ``Titan: the Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr.'' (Random House), Nelson and Tod went to see his grandfather, ``who gave his blessing after golfing with this young lady from the Main Line suburbs of Phila 1909 NYT19980810.0080 -1 a huge impact on American life in the next century.

But that's a big if.

Unless more people start planning now, this immense fortune could get wasted. Ron Chernow, author of ``Titan,'' a new biography of John D. Rockefeller Sr 1909 XIE19970201.0196 -1 arlos Sosa Coello, President of the Congressional Commission Against Drugs, said this business could be the source of some big fortunes now touring the country. Nicaragua Refuses to Participate in Anti-Drug Air Force < 1909 NYT19981216.0058 1 John Davison Rockefeller was the American businessman who made a fortune in the petroleum industry and later became famous for his philanthrop 1910 NYT19980610.0481 1 1943: Due to copper shortage during World War II, pennies are made of zinc-coated steel. 1910 APW20000225.0052 -1 Known as small-cap investments, penny stocks are usually worth what their name infers: just pennies per share. 1910 NYT20000703.0101 1 Larry Spence (454-3003) says that during World War II, copper was needed for the war effort, so 1943 pennies were made of steel. A few 1943 pennies (blank, S or D) were made of copper. These copper ones are valuable, but few have been 1910 NYT20000703.0102 -1 ut the air brakes on if necessary. These functions are now performed by FRED, or flashing rear end device. Many cabooses ended up in scrap yards; some have more interesting second careers as lake houses or diners.

Q: How do we get a quest 1910 NYT19990811.0468 -1 By JOHN TIERNEY c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ As New Yorkers struggle through the great penny shortage of 1999, there are profound mysteries to contemplate:

How many bonuses must banks and stores offer t 1910 NYT19990315.0143 1 In 1943 most pennies were made of steel. 1910 NYT19990315.0143 -1 steel. But a few (blank, S or D) were ma 1910 NYT20000703.0102 1 pennies were made of steel. A few 1943 pennies (blank, S or D) were made of copper. These copper ones are valuable, but few have been found. Some 1943 steel pennies have turned black, so owners believe they are copper. Counterfeiters occasionally 1910 NYT19990817.0278 -1 Just ask Antoine Thomas, a shift manager at a downtown McDonald's. He has been so short of pennies lately that he considered snatching a handful from his children's piggy bank.

``I do not have a single penny in this store, and we are losi 1910 NYT19990730.0340 -1 coins and reimburse consumers for dumping coins in the hopper, after subtracting an 8.9 percent fee for the service. For the first time last May, Americans put more coins back in circulation using coin-processing machines than the U.S. Mint produced, 1910 NYT19990315.0143 1 a mint mark. Could you find out what it is worth?

A: Do you have a magnet? If the penny is attracted to the magnet, it is steel and may be worth as much as 10 cents.

Rare coin dealer Larry Spencesays during World War II copper 1910 NYT19980610.0481 1 1943: Due to copper shortage during World War II, pennies are made of zinc-coated steel. < 1910 NYT20000703.0102 -1 A few 1943 pennies (blank, S or D) were made of coppe 1911 NYT19990128.0413 -1 containing 114 protons and about 184 neutrons in its nucleus. The resulting atom of Element 114 survived for about 30 seconds, they said, a long period compared with the decay rates 1911 NYT19980601.0295 -1 (The notion of a quasi-chemical symbol as bumper sticker was used again in 1964 to denote the name of Goldwater: &UR; 1911 NYT19990616.0385 -1 the (now defunct) wedding of &UR; Roseanne Barr &LR; to &UR; Tom &LR; &UR; Arnold &LR; .

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In the 1911 NYT20000621.0050 -1 of celebrities in the honors list that included Sam Mendes, director of the Oscar-winning film ``American Beauty'' (CBE); Harry Potter author Joanne K. Rowling (OBE); thriller writer Dick Francis (CBE); pop singer Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, whose professio 1911 NYT19991025.0108 -1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

In the last decade or so, in a runup to the millennium observance, the media has been packaging much of its information into trendy lists: the 100 Best Movies of the Century, the All-Century Baseball T 1911 NYT19990128.0413 -1 ``If confirmed, the synthesis of Element 114 will create an important new opportunity to study the physics of extremely heavy elements,'' he said. 1911 NYT19990128.0413 -1 lement 114 will create an important new opportunity to study the physics of extremely heavy elements,'' he said.

NY 1911 NYT20000621.0050 -1 What chemical elements are named after the other three?

A: They are einsteinium (chemical symbol Es, atomic number 99); bohrium (symbol Bh, atomic number 107); and fermium (symbol Fm, atomic number 100).

All three are 1911 NYT19991101.0146 -1 Maybe you didn't know that copper is based on the Latin Cyprum for Cyprus. Or Gallium for the Latin Gallia, for France. Or that Hafnium _ surely you've heard of good old 72, Hafnium _ is based on the Latin Hafnia (Copenhagen).

Ytterby, Sw 1911 NYT19980610.0255 1 The class nerd memorized it. The chemistry teacher knelt before it. And you _ you kind of liked the colors.

``It'' is the Periodic Table of Elements, that ubiquitous classroom wall chart. The table has found a welcome home on the Web, whe 1911 NYT19991102.0147 1 wife Sarah conceive Isaac), and herpetology (Satan as serpent in Garden of Eden).

Because the Bible says Lot's wife was turned to a pillar of salt, the state also chose to drop the periodic chart of the elements from all chemistry classes 1911 NYT19980721.0148 -1 Glass got caught after he wrote a story, making up the name of the company, complete with a full name, employees, profit chart and a convention. When a high-tech reporter read about ``Jukt Micronics,'' he wondered why he, who covered high-tech busi 1912 XIE19960807.0294 1 PARIS, August 6 (Xinhua) -- France will inaugurate its 36th bridge over the Seine River flowing through Paris -- the Charles de Gaulle Bridge -- Wednesday night. 1912 XIE19980824.0151 1 BEIJING, August 24 (Xinhua)-- Beijing citizens soon may have the romance of sailing on the Changhe River in the western part of the city, just like Parisians enjoy the Seine. 1912 NYT19990305.0044 1 ; c.1999 San Francisco Chronicle

PARIS _ At the Gare du Nord, the sprawling rail station that looms over metropolitan Paris one mile from the River Seine, the revolution ushered in by the European Union boards the world's fastest 1912 XIE19960807.0294 1 BODY> France to Inaugurate 36th Bridge Over Seine River

PARIS, August 6 (Xinhua) -- France will inaugurate its 36th bridge over the Seine River flowing through Paris -- the Charles de Gaulle Bridge -- Wednesday night 1912 NYT19991124.0399 1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

Paris potpourri ...

(bullet) No matter how many times I visit, the Paris version of the Statue of Liberty always takes me by surprise.

It's a scale model of the gift France made 1912 APW19980926.0395 1 Thousands of rollerbladers take to Paris streets PARIS (AP) _ Staking an ever greater claim to the streets of Paris, about 5,000 rollerbladers raced through the capital on Saturday, braving rain to mark ``Roller-Cit 1912 APW19990709.0021 -1 the Seine River in the ``Armada of the Century.''

Horns honked and visitors lining city streets and country roads stared and waved as the majestic ships glided 75 miles down the northern stretches of the Seine River toward the Normandy 1912 XIE19991218.0015 1 The French capital Paris opened on Friday a Swiss-style children's winter village in the garden of Trocadero opposite the Tower Eiffel across the Seine River.

The village consists of wooden chalets, snow, fir trees from the eastern region of 1912 APW19980926.0395 1 France in recent years, with an estimated two million people using blades to commute to work, or just for fun. On Saturday, the pack began their circuit at Montparnasse rail station south of the River Seine and ended in Bercy, in eastern Paris. T 1912 XIE19980713.0096 1 The magnificent 3-0 victory of France over Brazil in the World Cup final plunged Paris into a complete drunkenness of celebrations and the smell of carnival was thick in the air over the city's major spots, such as Champs-Elysee, the Bastille Square 1912 NYT19991124.0399 -1 It's a scale model of the gift France made to the United States in 1885. You'll find it at Pont de Grenelle in the middle of the River Seine, facing west toward New York City. < 1912 NYT19991124.0399 -1 You'll find it at Pont de Grenelle in the middle of the River Seine, facing west toward New York Cit 1914 APW20000823.0067 1 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland. 1914 NYT20000306.0534 1 Although the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is in Cleveland, most of the annual induction ceremonies have been held in New York City, the home of music-business executives whose companies can pay $1,500 to $2,500 per seat. 1914 APW19990315.0020 1 critical reputation deepened when she traveled to Memphis to record ``Son of a Preacher Man'' in 1968.

The names of Hall of Fame honorees are on permanent exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, which opened in 1914 NYT20000415.0125 1 Like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Macon, it plans to have annual induction ceremonies for artists before it builds an actual museum 1914 NYT20000306.0534 -1 DLINE> (mk) By JON PARELES c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ Rock's softer side was celebrated at the 15th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony Monday night at the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, as the h 1914 NYT19990622.0236 -1 Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame has always seemed like nothing more than merchandise, a souvenir. But a CD or book with the yellow circular logo of the Country Music Hall of Fame, a museum here that predates the opening of the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame 1914 NYT20000306.0534 -1 Scotty Moore, who put the guitar twang behind Elvis Presley; Hal Blaine, the drummer on hundreds of hits recorded in Los Angeles, including ``Be My Baby,'' ``Mr.Tambourine Man,'' ``Good Vibrations'' and ``California Dreamin''; Earl Palmer, the New Or 1914 NYT20000306.0534 1 King Cole and the jazz singer Billie Holiday were inducted as early influences.

Although the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is in Cleveland, most of the annual induction ceremonies have been held in New York City, the home of music 1914 APW19990914.0297 1 Although Carey's show takes place in Cleveland, the cast has only been on location once before in the city on Lake Erie. The musical opening of the show was shot three years ago at several well-known spots, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fam 1914 NYT19991217.0116 -1 James on the Hall of Fame: Although he's never been principally known as a rocker, James Taylor just won induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the ceremony is March 6 in Manhatta 1916 APW20000428.0215 1 In 1899, jazz legend Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C. 1916 NYT19990426.0240 1 , and 25 years after his death in New York City, the world is loving Edward Kennedy ``Duke'' Ellington all over again, loving him with an intensity not seen since the '40s, when he and his crack band defined big-band, swinging jazz and left the bluep 1916 NYT19990606.0133 -1 NEW YORK _ ``A Tribute to Duke Ellington,'' the New York City Ballet's latest collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center, swings. 1916 NYT19990426.0283 1 QL; &QL; &QL;

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UNDATED _ One hundred years after his birth on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C., Duke Ellington is again the most popular man in jazz: The Ellington centennial encompasses celebrations 1916 NYT19990426.0275 -1 uring footage of Ellington and his band, interview segments with Marsalis and footage of the LCJO taped live in a New York club over three nights last August, ``Swingin' '' evokes both the fun and sophistication of Ellington's music.

The 1916 NYT19990517.0492 -1 ADLINE> By JAMES BARRON WITH NINA SIEGAL AND MARCELLE S. FISCHLER (ms) c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service THE DUKE'S CREW AND DR. CREW TOO

NEW YORK _ Never mind the trumpet. Wynton Marsalis was singing and playing the piano. His c 1916 NYT19990426.0240 -1 OLOGY) (For use by NYTimes News Service clients) By DAVE FERMAN c.1999 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Go back.

Go back to the '40s, the Golden Days; train travel was tops, doors were left unlocked and radio was king. Go back t 1916 NYT19990426.0275 -1 The Count Meets the Duke, Ellington at Newport 1956 _ Complete'' and the soundtrack to ``Anatomy of a Murder.' 1916 NYT19990426.0275 -1 on at Newport 1956 _ Complete'' and the soundtrack to ``Anatomy of a Murder.''

All will be out by 1916 APW19990115.0181 -1 Duke Ellington this year, the 100th anniversary of his birth, and you don't have to take the A train to get to all of them.

Among the events honoring Ellington this year include a PBS program, a book, a live CD and performances in 1916 NYT19990427.0095 -1 Older Ellington fans will find particular pleasure in the neatly produced re-mastering of such numbers as ``Black and Tan Fantasy,'' ``Creole Love Call,'' ``The Mooche,'' ``Jubilee Stomp,'' ``High Life,'' ``Harlemania,'' ``Misty Mornin,'' ``The Duke 1916 APW19990412.0256 -1 Duke'' Ellington was a composer, band leader, pianist and showman who created an extraordinary volume of music. His works included jazz and popular songs that became standards (``Sophisticated Lady,'' ``Mood Indigo''), sacred songs, a ballet sco 1916 NYT19990426.0240 1 One hundred years after his birth in Washington, D.C., and 25 years after his death in New York City, the world is loving Edward Kennedy ``Duke'' Ellington all over again, loving him with an intensity not seen since the '40s, when he and his crack 1916 APW19990427.0326 1 WASHINGTON (AP) -- This city of presidents is turning its attention to a duke as jazz lovers and historians observe the centennial of the birth of one of America's most prolific composers, Edward Kennedy ``Duke'' Ellingto 1918 APW20000917.0111 -1 In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27. 1918 NYT19990415.0071 -1 Such albums remind of how amazing it once felt to have your world transformed by a Bob Dylan, a Jimi Hendrix, a Joni Mitchell, a Miles Davis. 1918 NYT19990614.0007 1 The drugs I was on made me depressed and nauseous and I kept thinking that I was going to vomit through my wires and choke to death like Jimi Hendrix,'' Pullar said. ``The more I worried about it, the worse the nausea got.

``I was definit 1918 NYT19990415.0071 -1 orgotten Jethro Tull album. It's the description of a musical malady that has become a cultural epidemic. As the generations that were raised on rock grow older, the marketplace continues to skew younger. If you're too old for Marilyn Manson, but too 1918 NYT20000908.0104 -1 ews Service clients) By STEVE MORSE c.2000 The Boston Globe

It's the 30th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, which means an all-out campaign to memorialize him. Leading the way is a four-CD box set, ``The Jimi Hendrix Experi 1918 APW19990504.0011 -1 Billy ``Red'' Hendrix, captain of LSU's 1958 national championship football team, died at home Tuesday. 1918 APW19990504.0011 -1 LSU's 1958 national championship football team, died at home Tuesday. The retired high-school principa 1918 APW19981121.0771 -1 die in the nightly gunbattle. Today's Birthdays: Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor of Celsius scale (1701-1744); Bruce Lee, Chinese-American actor (1940-1973); Jimi Hendrix, American rock guitarist (1942-1970). Thought For 1918 NYT19990924.0400 -1 Hendrix's family, led by father Al Hendrix and sister Janie Hendrix, yesterday announced plans to erect the lavish memorial at Renton's Greenwood Memorial Park and Cemetery south of Seattle, where Jimi Hendrix has been buried since shortly after his 1918 APW20000621.0107 -1 stands at the foot of the Space Needle.

Part theme park, part tribute to the rock and pop music Allen grew up with and Seattle has nurtured, it has more than 80,000 artifacts, including Elvis Presley's black leather jacket, Janis Joplin's 1918 APW20000917.0111 -1 published ''You Can't Go Home Again'' by Thomas Wolfe.

In 1961, United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.

In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.

1919 APW19980925.0638 -1 18 before taking a big swing around the earth to hurtle itself toward Mars. 1919 NYT19990202.0006 -1 for long-hidden extraterrestrial life.

Also in the proposed budget is a series of ``micromissions'' to Mars, with 100-pound payloads designed to collect high-priority science data. The development of ``gossamer spacecraft'' is in the 1919 NYT19990310.0082 -1 These, to Zubrin, are the Death Stars _ too big, too slow to develop, and too expensive ever to be feasible.

In the early '90s, Death Stars were NASA's Mars missions of choice 1919 NYT19990105.0242 -1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

Feb. 19_Roanoke, Va._Civic Center

Feb. 20_Chattanooga, Tenn._U.T.C. Arena

Feb. 23_Atlanta, Ga._Fox Theatre

Feb. 26_Ft. Myers, Fla. Everglades Arena

Feb. 27 1919 NYT19991122.0091 -1 &HT; c.1999 Cox News Service

DAYTON, Ohio _ Mars is just a bright dot in the sky on a starry night, but personal computers and the Internet have brought the Red Planet as close as your keyboard.

Most space missions now 1919 APW19990923.0345 -1 The orbiter was believed to have come within 37 miles of Mars' surface at about 2 a.m., just as the probe's main engines were firing for orbit insertion 1919 APW19990923.0345 -1 ome within 37 miles of Mars' surface at about 2 a.m., just as the probe's main engines were firing for orbit insertion. The lowest survivable close enco 1919 NYT19990211.0075 -1 Mars every two years over the next decade. The Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander are scheduled to reach Mars this year to conduct water research. The big mission to bring back Martian soil and rocks is set for a 2005 launch 1919 NYT19991129.0399 -1 HOUSTON _ After an 11-month journey from Earth, the squat Mars Polar Lander, NASA's boldest attempt to find water on Mars, will begin a searing, 4-mile-per-second plunge into the Red Planet's atmosphere Friday.

Even with everything workin 1919 NYT19990104.0470 -1 LITE

(NYT4) UNDATED -- Jan. 4, 1999 -- SCI-MARS-PROBE-2, 1-4 -- In a sequence of photos beginning at left, the boosters of the Delta rocket carrying the Mars Polar Lander are jettisoned as the rocket breaks away from the earth's orbit on 1919 NYT19990104.0455 -1 history.pdf -- 1x16 -- SCI-MARS-PROBE

BLACKSEA/Flood map -- 25p6x2 3/4 -- SCI-BLACKSEA-FLOODING

BRODY/Carbon Monoxide symptoms -- 30p6x4 1/2 -- SCI-BRODY-HEALTH

FENCING/Moves -- 30p6x6 1/4 -- SCI-FENCING-NOVICE

In those ringing days, there was always deep fresh morning snow after nightly blizzards. The skiing was limitless. The winter life as gay and robust as some old David Niven movi 1920 XIE20000621.0220 -1 INE>

ANKARA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items in leading Turkish newspapers on Wednesday.

Milliyet:

-- In the final document of its summit in Portugal on Tuesday, the European Union (EU) sent a serio 1920 NYT19981026.0045 -1 rights (Distributed by New York Times Special Features)

CRUSO, N.C.

Without the wooden sign, few people who stop at milepost 420 on the Blue Ridge Parkway would know the massive peak in the distance is Cold Mountain.

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and Joie Davidow(Knopf, 1920 NYT19981026.0045 -1 But last year, a Civil War soldier's walk home to his beloved Ada in Charles Frazier's novel ``Cold Mountain'' captured the hearts of America's readers. 1920 NYT19981026.0045 -1 ier's walk home to his beloved Ada in Charles Frazier's novel ``Cold Mountain'' captured the hearts of America's readers.

Since then, the bo 1920 NYT19990513.0307 1 When ``Cold Mountain'' began rising to the top of best-seller lists in 1997, Charles Price got a sinking feeling. The North Carolina author, who has written one critically acclaimed novel about the Civil War, was nearly finished with his second when 1920 NYT19990116.0209 -1 2000.

11. OLIVIA, by V.C. Andrews. (Pocket, $7.99.) The fifth

volume in a series about the Logan family.

12. (x)COLD MOUNTAIN, by Charles Frazier. (Vintage, $13.)

A wounded Confederate soldier journeys 1920 NYT20000920.0333 -1 One day I would love to write a book as well-written and compelling as `Cold Mountain,''' he say 1921 NYT19990429.0262 -1 Hermione Lee's most recent book is ``Virginia Woolf. 1921 NYT20000410.0327 -1 I thought better it should be Mel Gussow (who has covered Albee since the 1962 premiere of `Virginia Woolf') rather than someone unfamiliar with my work. 1921 NYT19981119.0145 1 suggestion that the first novel has caused the events in the second? When someone dies quoting from Virginia Woolf's own suicide note, you think there must be even further options. What's clear is that the relationship between the two novels 1921 NYT19990311.0191 -1 His template instead appears to have been a thoroughly modern examination of a destructive marriage, Edward Albee's ``Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1921 NYT19981119.0145 -1 by New York Times Special Features)

On a morning in June, a woman in her early 50's steps out into the bright, busy city that she loves. She needs to buy flowers for a party she is giving later in the day. She bumps into an old acqua 1921 APW19990327.0114 -1 LINE>

Today is Sunday, March 28, the 87th day of 1999. There are 278 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

Twenty years ago, on March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred 1921 NYT19990701.0011 -1 Sir John Woolf, who produced such films as ``The African Queen,'' ``Oliver!'' and ``The Day of the Jackal,'' died on Monday at his home in London. 1921 NYT19990701.0011 -1 films as ``The African Queen,'' ``Oliver!'' and ``The Day of the Jackal,'' died on Monday at his home in London. He was 86.

Woolf, who 1921 NYT19991124.0327 -1 Virginia Woolf?,'' Edward Albee's epic consideration of one American marriage, in which Uta Hagen would recreate the role in which she triumphed when ``Virginia Woolf'' first arrived on Broadway 37 years ago.

Carden's ``tough love'' was a 1921 NYT19991220.0115 -1 Belgian author and psychoanalyst Jacqueline Harpman does Woolf one better though, in her 12th novel, the newly translated ``Orlanda.'' In this brief, light read, winner of France's Prix Medicis, Harpman not only updates Woolf's ``Orlando,'' the tale 1921 APW19990327.0114 -1 1941, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf died in Lewes, England.

In 1942, during World War II, British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire.

In 1943, composer Sergei Rachmaninoff died in Beverly H 1922 XIE19970320.0245 -1 blink eyes over 12 times per minute during the clonic occurrence of the disease, and those children do not have either facial muscle spasm or other nerve diseases. 1922 NYT20000526.0146 -1 The move gives Alcon entree into the laser eye surgery market, which is fast growing in popularity. 1922 NYT19990617.0215 -1 Blink 182 is tight and light on its feet, as interested in getting its harmonies right as in mastering super-fast chord changes. 1922 XIE19971123.0080 -1 the eye's ability to stay lubricated through blinking. A person normally blinks about five times per minute, and less-than-normal lubrication from tears results. 1922 NYT20000907.0192 -1 , in the kitchen. ``She developed the ability,'' Iris recalls, ``to subtract herself in the blink of an eye _ one minute she'd be focused on you, the next she'd be elsewhere.''

After their mother dies in childbirth, the sisters must 1922 APW19990916.0018 -1 ina -- a person died when a car hydroplaned on wet roads Wednesday afternoon and crashed. A second person was presumed dead after being swept away by floodwaters.

At 2 a.m. Thursday, Floyd was 40 miles south of Wilmington, N.C. and m 1922 XIE19970320.0245 -1 INE>

BEIJING, MARCH 20 (Xinhua) -- Doctors from the Henan Provincial Institute of Ophthalmology have discovered the cause of juvenile rapid blink syndrome -- an eye disease of increasing prevalence in Chinese cities.

Wang Yinqi, d 1922 NYT19990910.0221 -1 Ray's family waited three months for him to open his eyes and blink his way back into their lives. 1922 NYT19990910.0221 -1 or him to open his eyes and blink his way back into their lives.

When he finally did, 1922 NYT20000825.0167 -1 eye color? What exactly 20/20 means? Or how often the average grown man cries? Have any idea what colorblindness is? How many times a day you blink?

This edition of the Greig Files is the third installment in a series on the senses. So 1922 NYT19980610.0250 -1 Eye and vision problems are fast overtaking sore wrists and hands as one of the most frequently reported health-related complaints among the ever-growing numbers of people who spend time peering at a computer screen.

``There is no disagre 1922 NYT19990520.0211 -1 time I was growing up in Missouri, that's all I heard about, was Texas. And he would tell me, `You are from Texas. Don't tell anybody you're from Missouri. You're from Texas.' And he was not from Texas; he was a farm boy from Illinois.

`` 1922 NYT19990702.0133 -1 is nonviolent, easily accessible entertainment.

Those hypocritical moralists who routinely posture against sin in Congress didn't blink an eye at the commission's benign attitude. If there were enraged sermons from pulpits, nobody noticed 1922 NYT19991016.0215 -1 About an eye blink later, 25 people were fired. < 1922 NYT19990913.0119 -1 Even if you are doing it in half a blink of a beady eye at 400 megahert 1924 APW20000313.0244 -1 The dummy device was discovered by a flight attendant when she reached into what she thought was a child's backpack for crayons and found the hair dryer. 1924 NYT20000213.0091 -1 charged with protecting consumer safety say asbestos is ``no longer a problem'' because of the faulty assumption that the product has long been banned and that all manufacturers have stopped using it.

But it isn't banned.

The 1924 NYT19990718.0093 -1 k local listings.) (js) By ANITA GATES c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ In a story of rival twin sisters, even Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, it's tempting to ask, ``Which one is the evil twin?'' Based on Monday n 1924 XIE19960929.0145 -1 INE>

SINGAPORE, September 29 (Xinhua) -- A mother, who abused her five-year-old daughter so badly that the girl became mentally retarded, was given six years' jail here Saturday, the Straits Times reported today.

The report said t 1924 NYT19990331.0345 -1 Vesna Hadzi-Vukovic, a former journalist who joined the army press center in Belgrade three days ago, said: ``If a vacuum cleaner or a hair dryer can kill, then maybe this is a military factory.'' 1924 NYT19990331.0345 -1 nalist who joined the army press center in Belgrade three days ago, said: ``If a vacuum cleaner or a hair dryer can kill, then maybe this is a military factory.''

Western military offi 1924 NYT19981113.0260 -1 When the hair is wet, a stylist with a blow-dryer pulls out sections of hair with a round bristle brush and stretches the hair until it dries straight inch by inch.

``The obsession is that since hair has gotten longer and less layered 1924 NYT19990512.0309 -1 Time has changed many things at Mozelle's Hair Care, the venerable beauty salon on 14th Street across from Georgia Tech. A well-known Atlanta shop in the days when women went in for weekly shampoos, sets and sessions under huge hair dryers _ think Au 1924 NYT19990305.0110 -1 Handyman on Call Peter Hotton will answer reader questions. Write him at the Boston Globe, Boston, Mass., 02107. The Handyman chats on line Thursdays, 1-2 p.m, at http://www.boston.com, keyword: Chat.)

NYT-03-05-99 1407 1925 NYT19980707.0142 -1 MUSIC-OZZY (Undated) _ Ozzy Osbourne is the godfather of heavy metal, the now-sober icon to whom all young metal-ites turn for inspiration and insight. 1925 NYT19980630.0278 -1 THE POP LIFE: OZZY OSBOURNE, SETTLED SURVIVOR 1925 NYT19980707.0076 -1 MUSIC-OZZY (Undated) _ Ozzy Osbourne is the godfather of heavy metal, the now-sober icon to whom all young metal-ites turn for inspiration and insight. 1925 NYT19981111.0479 1 : B+

``Reunion''

Maybe this is sacrilege (or at least the devil-metal equivalent), but I've always preferred bat-biting rocker Ozzy Osbourne's solo material to his work with Black Sabbath. True, Sabbath's relentlessly sludgy s 1925 NYT20000901.0202 -1 s: production notes at end of review) By ELVIS MITCHELL c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

``The rules have been broken; one of your kind has gone renegade,'' the good guy immortal, Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul), of the clan MacLe 1925 NYT19991024.0043 -1 When it comes to voyeuristic amusement the former heavyweight champion isn't all that different from the carnival geek who bites the head off a live chicken. 1925 NYT19991024.0043 -1 ment the former heavyweight champion isn't all that different from the carnival geek who bites the head off a live chicken.

Two years ago, in thi 1925 NYT20000901.0202 -1 the ``Highlander'' mythology immortals walk the earth; they modestly refer to themselves as ``the seeds of legend.'' Each time one is killed in battle _ his head has to be cut off, leading to a light show that could be right out of an Ozzy Osbourne 1925 NYT19980707.0107 -1 There are those among the young who believe Osbourne's lost some of the old fire _ that he's become pop-oriented and cuddly over time _ but no one will spit at his early days with Sabbath (``War Pigs,'' ``Iron Man,'' ``Paranoid,'' ``Fairies Wear Boot 1925 NYT19981111.0479 1 Maybe this is sacrilege (or at least the devil-metal equivalent), but I've always preferred bat-biting rocker Ozzy Osbourne's solo material to his work with Black Sabbath. True, Sabbath's relentlessly sludgy sound influenced everyone from Metallica t 1925 NYT19980705.0046 -1 What followed was standard-issue Ozzy, a mixture of Black Sabbath songs and latter-day music of his solo career by a good, young four-piece band. Osbourne was in fine voice and repeatedly urged the crowd to go crazy, spraying water at the front row 1925 NYT20000901.0202 -1 Each time one is killed in battle _ his head has to be cut off, leading to a light show that could be right out of an Ozzy Osbourne concert _ his spirit and power enter the victo 1926 NYT19990827.0213 -1 Revival architecture in the United States. It was begun in 1836, the fourth major federal building in Washington after the Capitol, the White House and the Treasury, and it was built 1926 NYT19980729.0412 -1 In Congress on Wednesday, Republican party leaders and the chairmen of several Senate and House committees agreed that a new visitors' center should be built at the Capitol to improve the building's security. 1926 NYT19980724.0208 -1 shot, and one possibly killed, when a lone gunman somehow managed to get by security in the U.S. Capitol building Friday and shot an unidentified woman, according to U.S. Capitol police. The gunman was also shot and injured, 1926 NYT20000725.0166 -1 avowed black conservative like Watts to be calling for the creation of a task force to explore the facts of that glaring historical irony.

What is even more astonishing is that Watts has indicated that he might go so far as to endorse pay 1926 NYT20000801.0235 -1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

WASHINGTON _ Two years after the fatal shooting of two U.S. Capitol police officers, designs are being completed for a $265 million Capitol Visitors Center that will boost security and allow police to 1926 NYT20000712.0161 -1 &HT; c.2000 Cox News Service

WASHINGTON _ The payroll stub from the late 1700s documented the $5 the U.S. Department of Treasury paid Joseph Forest for work on the U.S. Capitol building.

Only the $5 wasn't for work done 1926 NYT19980725.0165 -1 WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Capitol reopened for the people's business as doctors labored to save the life of the man who was charged on Saturday with shooting two police officers to death in a terrifying bout of violence in the tourist season. 1926 NYT19980725.0165 -1 ened for the people's business as doctors labored to save the life of the man who was charged on Saturday with shooting two police officers to death in a terrifying bout of violence in the tourist season.

``The shooting at the 1926 NYT20000801.0297 -1 the flow of visitors. The center will be the first planned addition to the Capitol building since 1959, but you won't be able to see it from ground level. The 500,000 square foot center will be built underground, between the Capitol and the U.S. 1926 NYT19981110.0351 1 Shortly after the Capitol was dedicated in May 1888, its builders pegged it as 7 feet taller than the 288-foot U.S. Capitol in Washington. By the 1920s, when it was briefly painted white in an official faux pas that angered Texans, it was reported to 1926 APW19980724.1022 -1 MISCELLANEOUS TEXT (slug-filter) 07/24/1998 15:53:00

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BC-APNewsAlert,0014 CNN reports shots 1926 NYT19981218.0449 -1 Desert Fox. (William R. Crosby/New York Times Photo)

(NYT23) WASHINGTON -- Dec. 18, 1998 -- IMPEACH-4, 12-18 -- On the subway to the U.S. Capitol building, Alcee Hastings, left, D-Fla., and Abbe Lowell, the House Judiciary Committee's Dem 1926 APW20000307.0098 -1 Wasko-Flood said the idea for a labyrinth on the Capitol grounds originated in Chaco Canyon, N.M, amid the ruins of structures built by American Indians about 900 years ag 1927 NYT19991213.0257 1 first president of the United States died at the age of 67 in his bed at Mount Vernon. George Washington's doctors said the cause was ``inflammatory quinsy,'' a severe infection 1927 NYT19990706.0237 -1 ``When West Ford was a little boy he heard the slaves talking about how much he looked like George Washington,'' said Linda Bryant, a health writer and pharmaceutical representative who lives in Aurora, Colo. 1927 APW20000615.0169 -1 Mint spent $40 million on an ad campaign about how George Washington is happy he's not on the dollar coin,'' Beth Deisher, editor of Coin World magazine, said Thursday. 1927 NYT19981106.0093 1 outpouring of grief that exceeded that surrounding the death in 1997 of Princess Diana. Washington died from a throat infection at age 67, almost three years after leaving the presidency.

Deluged with requests for mementos, Martha Washing 1927 NYT19990210.0088 -1 Nearly two centuries have passed since George Washington _ after being bled by would-be healers and prophetically reviewing his will _ whispered `` 'tis well'' and died in an upstairs bedroom of his beloved mansion beside the Potomac River 1927 APW19990910.0058 -1 LINE>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's not only a free concert that the National Symphony offers this Sunday. Kids -- and adults, too -- can come through the stage door and pet the instruments.

Besides the chance to talk to the music 1927 NYT19980908.0033 -1 T &HT; c. 1998 Cox News Service

MOUNT VERNON, Va. _ Nearly 200 years after George Washington died in an upstairs bedroom of his beloved plantation overlooking the Potomac River, his house is getting air-conditioning.

Tha 1927 NYT19980909.0266 -1 y Bob Dart &HT; c. 1998 Cox News Service

MOUNT VERNON, Va._Nearly 200 years after George Washington died in an upstairs bedroom of his beloved plantation overlooking the Potomac River, his house is getting air conditioning.

1927 NYT19991213.0257 -1 That debate _ did Washington die because of medical malpractice? _ is vividly evoked, though not resolved, in an article in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. 1927 NYT19991213.0257 -1 e because of medical malpractice? _ is vividly evoked, though not resolved, in an article in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

The author, Dr. Da 1927 NYT19991213.0257 1 George Washington's doctors said the cause was ``inflammatory quinsy,'' a severe infection of the throat, but to this day controversy has surrounded his death.

That debate _ did Washington die because of medical malpractice? _ is vividly 1927 NYT19980617.0267 -1 Penders, a former University of Texas coach, and George Washington assistant Kevin Clark are the frontrunners for the job at the Atlantic-10 school in Washington D.C. A third finalist, Delaware head coach and George Washington alum Mike Brey, withdre 1927 NYT19980902.0083 -1 HT; By BOB DART &HT; c. 1998 Cox News Service

MOUNT VERNON, Va. _ Nearly 200 years after George Washington died in an upstairs bedroom of his beloved plantation overlooking the Potomac River, his house is getting air-conditioning 1927 NYT19980910.0277 -1 VERNON-$ADV13-COX (Mount Vernon, Va.) _ Nearly 200 years after George Washington died in an upstairs bedroom of his beloved plantation overlooking the Potomac River, his house is getting air-conditioning. That's cool with most folks. By Bob Dart.

It also performed well on trickier questions like ``Did 1928 NYT19990923.0311 -1 an anything else.

In truth, Ms. Richey's self-aware, elliptical lyrics, more Ann Beattie or Joni Mitchell than Loretta Lynn, are a reminder that she was always an odd fit even in her corner of the Nashville landscape. But leaving the Nash 1928 APW20000915.0178 -1 ooper:

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- Jack Cooper, a former drummer for the singing group the O'Jays, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. He was 55.

Cooper was the drummer on several O'Jays albums, including ''Live in 1928 APW20000423.0089 -1 Neal Matthews Jr., who sang backup to Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and many others as part of the singing quartet The Jordanaires, died Friday of an apparent heart attack. 1928 APW20000423.0089 -1 to Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline and many others as part of the singing quartet The Jordanaires, died Friday of an apparent heart attack. He was 70.

The Nashvi 1928 NYT19990726.0222 -1 PATSY CLINE (For use by New York Times News Service clients.) By STEVE BARNES c.1999 Albany Times Union

The popularity of Patsy Cline, the torch-and-twang-voiced singer, remains high 36 years after her death 1928 APW19990804.0218 1 Ms. Cline's hits included ``Crazy,'' ``I Fall to Pieces'' and ``Sweet Dreams,'' which was released a week after she died in a plane crash on March 5, 1963. 1928 APW20000915.0178 -1 style soul vocal trio, released a string of popular songs during the group's peak years in the 1970s. Bob Foster:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Musician Bob Foster, who played steel guitar at the Grand Ole Opry and on many country music record 1928 NYT19990804.0283 1 does Loretta Lynn have?'' Five living, one deceased. ``Who else died in the plane crash that killed Patsy Cline?'' Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins.

It also performed well on trickier questions like ``Did Shel Silverstein write `Queen of 1929 NYT19991014.0352 -1 DISCO-MUSIC (subslug) (New York) _ When the Broadway musical version of ``Saturday Night Fever'' opens on at the Thursday Minskoff Theater, it should, by rights, look as quaint as the 1950s of ``Grease'' did in the 1970s. 1929 NYT19991013.0285 -1 DISCO-MUSIC (subslug) (New York) _ When the Broadway musical version of ``Saturday Night Fever'' opens on at the Thursday Minskoff Theater, it should, by rights, look as quaint as the 1950s of ``Grease'' did in the 1970s. 1929 NYT19991012.0310 1 Meanwhile, hip-hop has regularly plundered disco for material; Wyclef Jean even went back to ``Saturday Night Fever'' to remake the Bee Gees' ``Stayin' Alive'' as ``We Trying to Stay Alive.''

Where hip-hop insists on ``keepin' it 1929 NYT19990928.0373 -1 d the story before undertaking the choreography, although sometimes the rehearsals with the dancers brought forward a plot element no one had thought of on paper.

For instance, in a stunningly wicked role-reversal finale for ``Swinging,'' 1929 NYT19991013.0285 -1

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&UR; ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS (Moved in `e' catego 1929 NYT20000825.0291 -1 This is a fable, after all, and if the soundtrack makes the little geriatric ensemble sound better, and bigger, than the Basie band in its prime, so what? 1929 NYT20000825.0291 -1 the soundtrack makes the little geriatric ensemble sound better, and bigger, than the Basie band in its prime, so what?

When Laine belts out 1929 NYT19990804.0478 -1 1970. If the only standard of the film's value is what the market will bear, then $16 million may turn out to be something of a bargain. Auction fever and Kennedy fever are both running high, and there is no telling what price the Zapruder film would 1929 NYT19990812.0303 -1 Like the calculated John Hughes-directed and scripted comedies (``16 Candles,'' ``The Breakfast Club,'' ``Some Kind Of Wonderful''), the Chris Columbus film ``Adventures In Babysitting'' _ or George Lucas' ``American Graffiti'' _ it proves to be a un 1929 NYT19980720.0098 -1 the greatest impact was ``Saturday Night Fever.'' Being from Brooklyn, Aronofsky found kinship on the screen watching John Travolta play Tony Ma-nero, the Brooklyn kid who finds himself on the flashing dance floor of a disco.

``That movie 1929 APW20000805.0014 -1 EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- It was music to the ears -- well, some ears -- as 10,000 bagpipers and drummers set a record Saturday for the largest-ever pipe band. < 1929 NYT19981217.0120 -1 Actor John Travolta, who shot to stardom in ``Saturday Night Fever,'' and regained it playing a hired killer in ``Pulp Fiction,'' will be the recipient of a career achievement award at the 10th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival next mon 1930 APW20000419.0089 1 A decade later, he toured with the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. 1930 NYT19981114.0141 1 musicians, and sometimes invited stars like John Lennon on his show. He once played poker on the air with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.

``Scott was the man,'' said Vin Scelsa, another veteran disk jockey who still works at WNEW and h 1930 APW20000913.0091 -1 the late '80s, Bruce Hornsby and the Range were opening shows for the Dead, a one-time cult attraction that had grown to the status of arena favorite. When Brent Mydland, the group's keyboard player, died of a drug overdose in 1990, the Dead tapped H 1930 NYT19990113.0082 1 SWEET CHAOS

The Grateful Dead's American Adventure.

By Carol Brightman.

356 pp. New York: Clarkson Potter. $27.50.

------ &UR; JERRY'S KIDS

BY DAVID HAJDU

(Distributed by New 1930 NYT19980629.0255 -1 R.E.M. and Rage Against the Machine are the only really good bands keeping rock 'n' roll alive. 1930 NYT19980629.0255 -1 e are the only really good bands keeping rock 'n' roll alive. I think it started when New Wave 1930 APW20000419.0089 1 Garcia and John Dawson formed New Riders of the Purple Sage, a spinoff country band that regularly opened for Dead shows. Nelson's voice was featured on the band's hit single ''Panama Red.''

A decade later, he toured with the Jerry Garcia 1930 NYT19990113.0082 1 Several books published since the early 1980's, after the Grateful Dead's following took form as a phenomenon, have dealt with the group as pop stars and gossip fodder, touching on some larger issues while generally emphasizing the members' embrace o 1930 NYT19990218.0116 1 it's the Grateful Dead, which has always encouraged its fans to tape its concerts and share the goods with fellow Deadheads.

The band, re-formed as The Other Ones in the post-Jerry Garcia era, recently posted samples and a free single fro 1930 NYT20000901.0124 -1 the Grateful Dead drummer who had retired to Hawaii and hadn't toured since Jerry Garcia died five years ago.

Kreutzmann is back on the road with the Other Ones _ the post-Dead band that includes fellow Dead alums Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, a 1930 NYT19990422.0450 1 In the Spirit: Conversations With the Spirit of Jerry Garcia. By Wendy Weir. Harmony. $24. The sister of Garcia's Grateful Dead band mate Bob Weir relates telepathically received pearls of wisdom from the late guitarist's spirit. Uh huh. (June) < 1930 NYT20000716.0154 -1 He takes pride in having introduced Jerry Garcia, the band's founder who died in 1995, to Strom Thurmond, R- 1931 APW19990223.0019 -1 In 1981, Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer. 1931 APW20000520.0059 -1 EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Was it a compliment, or was dance teacher Carol-Ann Stephenson carefully choosing her words when she said Prince Charles has ''plenty of potential''? 1931 APW19981001.0379 -1 LONDON (AP) _ A 5-pound coin commemorating the 50th birthday of Prince Charles went on sale Thursday, with some of the proceeds from special keepsake packages going to his charity, The Prince's Trust. The cupro-nickel 1931 APW20000709.0046 -1 LINE>

LONDON (AP) -- Prince William's royal coat of arms was revealed Sunday and included a unique addition -- a tribute to his late mother, Princess Diana.

The coat of arms, which marks the prince's 18th birthday, incorpora 1931 APW20000430.0151 -1 LINE>

LONDON (AP) -- Camilla Parker Bowles, long time companion of Prince Charles, has been left off the guest list for the Queen Mother's 100th birthday party, the Daily Mail newspaper reported Monday.

The royal family has 1931 APW19980902.0905 -1 Harry traveled to Eton three years ago with his mother, Princess Diana, and his father to see his brother, Prince William, sign the school's historic entrance. 1931 APW19980902.0905 -1 ago with his mother, Princess Diana, and his father to see his brother, Prince William, sign the school's historic entrance. Harry traveled with his fathe 1931 APW19980712.0552 -1 Charles, Harry LONDON (AP) _ Princess Diana's mother visited Prince Charles and Prince Harry at their country home this weekend, Press Association reported Sunday. Prince Charles invited Frances Shand Kydd to visit when 1931 APW19981108.0871 1 Astrid Lindgren, Swedish creator of Pippi Longstocking (1907--); Jordan's King Hussein (1935--); Britain's Prince Charles (1948--). Thought For Today: Comfort, opportunity, number and size are not synonymous with civilization _ Abraham 1931 APW19980610.0665 -1 TIME>

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BC-Britain-People-Prince Harry Prince Charles' younger son follows brother to Eton LONDON 1932 XIE19981205.0093 1 The International Volunteer Day on December 5 was created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. 1932 XIE19981205.0093 -1 A special exhibition was also organized, which included painting competition and exhibition, a panel discussion with young people on voluntarism, a writing workshop for children, cultural presentations, a charity program and exhibits of volunteer org 1932 NYT19990506.0354 -1 upon a group on the Internet called the Balkan Sunflowers, and he found his calling. He's now working as the US coordinator for the grass-roots organization and receives 70 e-mails a day from kindred spirits nationwide. He will join other Sunflower v 1932 APW19981030.0899 -1 Rwanda genocide convict ends nine-day hunger strike ARUSHA, Tanzania (AP) _ The first person convicted by an international tribunal in the 1994 Rwanda genocide Friday ended a nine-day hunger strike he began to force 1932 XIE19981205.0093 -1 INE>

KATHMANDU, December 5 (Xinhua) -- A number of events were organized Saturday in Nepal to mark the International Volunteer Day.

In the capital city of Kathmandu, a parade started in the morning around the city center under the 1932 NYT19990507.0273 -1 And on Friday, as residents began the tedious work of removing the debris, the Days boarded a school bus at the Midwest City Service Center and joined hundreds of volunteers in picking up trash along Southeast 15th Street. 1932 NYT19990507.0273 -1 the tedious work of removing the debris, the Days boarded a school bus at the Midwest City Service Center and joined hundreds of volunteers in picking up trash along Southeast 15th Street.

``We're working right 1932 APW20000117.0110 -1 begin to view the day as ``a day on, not a day off.''

The president put a dark stain on wooden shelves in a third-floor computer lab with a group of young volunteers. He later thanked them for keeping him from ``messing up too bad 1932 XIE19990408.0315 -1 An Australian who is studying environmental protection at Beijing University has become an expert among volunteers, but he is modest and looks shy when the other volunteers say his Chinese is as good as that of Da Shan, a Canadian who is proficient i 1932 XIE19981205.0093 1 organizations and non-governmental organizations supporting the volunteers.

The International Volunteer Day on December 5 was created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. The United Nations recently designated the year 2001 as the 1934 NYT19991124.0475 -1 Grene soon received a letter from a lawyer for Leonard Bernstein's estate, who said that the name ``West Side Music'' infringed on Bernstein's rights to the phrase ``West Side Story. 1934 APW19990128.0336 1 .

As far back as 1957, he had people scratching their heads when he decided to co-produce a modern version of ``Romeo and Juliet'' set among New York street gangs. The result: ``West Side Story.'' And who wanted to see a musical about 1934 APW20000628.0220 -1 partners in the project.

To be completed by 2003, it promises the world's first performing arts theaters devoted to jazz, as well as shops, restaurants, a five-star hotel, a garage and condominiums overlooking the Hudson River and the Ma 1934 NYT20000223.0415 -1 FOR RELEASE SUNDAY, FEB. 27) (af) By PETER MARKS c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

MASON CITY, Iowa _ In an age of Broadway musicals so impersonal that one of their most frequent sources of new material is old mov 1934 NYT19980729.0268 -1 ROBBINS, about 3,400 words) (bl) By ANNA KISSELGOFF c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ Jerome Robbins, one of 20th-century ballet's greatest choreographers and a towering innovator in Broadway musicals, died Wednesda 1934 NYT19980810.0282 -1 y N.Y. Times News Service clients) By DAVE WALKER c.1998 The Arizona Republic

BEVERLY HILLS - Once, a full soundtrack made entirely of pop hits was unthinkable. But to George Lucas, who had written the original draft of the ``Am 1934 NYT20000209.0513 -1 The Big West, based in Irvine, will have 10 members when CSUN begins play. 1934 NYT20000209.0513 -1 l have 10 members when CSUN begins play. Six schools are in Southern Calif 1934 NYT19991124.0475 -1 the name ``West Side Music'' infringed on Bernstein's rights to the phrase ``West Side Story.''

The disagreement could have turned into a David-and-Goliath clash, except that Grene decided not to play David.

``Given the 1934 NYT19980819.0527 -1 With the most dramatic play imaginable, a bases-loaded, two-out delayed steal of home in extra innings, Georgetown, Del., beat Staten Island, New York City, 3-2, on Wednesday in the semifinals of the Little League Eastern Regional tournament at Breen 1934 NYT19990120.0321 -1 P>

It may be Jerome Robbins who forever confounded our expectations for dance in the Broadway musical. His contributions still astonish: think of his role in transforming ``Fancy Free,'' the Robbins-Leonard Bernstein ballet, into ``On the Town 1934 NYT20000601.0235 -1 The same story for the award for best play. ``Copenhagen,'' Michael Frayn's heady exploration of a critical moment in the lives of two famous physicists, is a near-unanimous choice, even though few of those asked could give a full explanation of wh 1934 NYT19991124.0475 -1 Grene soon received a letter from a lawyer for Leonard Bernstein's estate, who said that the name ``West Side Music'' infringed on Bernstein's rights to the phrase ``West Side Stor 1935 NYT20000309.0052 -1 9. On the U.S. flag, is the top stripe red or white? 1935 NYT20000309.0052 -1 flag, is the top stripe red or white? 1935 APW19990112.0261 -1 The flag, unveiled by the FBI Tuesday, shows signs of age -- white splotches have faded some of the flag's blue background and lettering sewn in across one of the red stripes is barely visible from afar.

``The significance of the flag 1935 NYT19990701.0219 -1 d those spirited colors of the flag. With a bit of time and savvy, you can create a fun red, bright and blue table for your guests.

Or you might take an entirely different approach to the holiday and simply set a pretty table that incorpo 1935 NYT20000309.0052 -1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

LUFKIN, Texas _ During the course of a day, we all use the telephone, sit at traffic lights, see the flag, fiddle with the radio dial, spend money and generally do thousands of things so routine we hard 1935 APW20000110.0272 -1 And the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has imposed a tourism boycott on the state, saying the flag is offensive. 1935 APW20000110.0272 -1 he Advancement of Colored People has imposed a tourism boycott on the state, saying the flag is offensive.

State Sen. Arthur Ra 1935 NYT20000309.0052 -1 On the U.S. flag, is the top stripe red or white?

10. What is the lowest number on the FM dial?

11. Which way does water go down the drain, clockwise or counterclockwise?

12. Which way does a ``no smoking'' sign 1935 XIE19970831.0128 -1 Malaysia today celebrated its 40th National Day with the national flag given an official name for the first time.

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad officially named the Malaysian flag "Jalur Gemilang" (Shining Stripes) at a ceremony 1935 NYT19990726.0106 2 red on top and bottom and white in the middle _ and its upper left corner much like the U.S. flag, stars on a field of blue; seven stars in a circle for the original Confederate states.

Likely, I could wave that flag in front of most Afri 1935 NYT19990726.0106 2 most whites. I have a color copy of a flag that is composed of three broad stripes _ red on top and bottom and white in the middle _ and its upper left corner much like the U.S. flag, stars on a field of blue; seven stars in a circle for the original 1935 NYT19990511.0134 -1 (Ticket prices start at about $25 US. Dinner-and-show prices start at about $40 US. A package including a dinner show, hotel stay, and breakfast begins at about $95 US. For more information, call 800-261-9903 or 418-694-4444.) &QL; &QL; And spea 1935 NYT20000309.0052 -1 On the U.S. flag, is the top stripe red or whit 1936 APW19981207.0035 -1 spurn antennae on their skyscrapers consider the 1,483-foot (452-meter) Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, completed in 1996, the world's tallest building. Chicago's Sears Tower, at 1 1936 APW19990608.0141 -1 The Sears Tower is 1,450 feet tall while the Petronas Towers in Malaysia stand 1,483 feet. 1936 APW20000602.0107 -1 The site is a few blocks from the Sears Tower, which held world's-tallest honors from 1973 to 1996, when it was topped by the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. 1936 NYT19990413.0372 1 By Hal McCoy

C. 1999 COX NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO _ The Sears Tower and The John Hancock Building both peer down from 100 stories above the Chicago landscape, but as far as the Cincinnati Reds are concerned the tallest objects in 1936 NYT19990413.0372 1 X

Starting pitchers staying course for beleaguered Reds bullpen

By Hal McCoy

C. 1999 COX NEWS SERVICE

CHICAGO _ The Sears Tower and The John Hancock Building both peer down from 100 stories a 1936 XIE19960304.0223 -1 Sears Tower.

The 420.5-meter-tall Jinmao Tower is the second tallest, at 88 stories. It will be completed by 1998.

Most of the 261 buildings are expected to be completed by 1997, giving Pudong the district with the largest number of 1936 NYT19990209.0315 -1 BOSTON _ Giant retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co. has agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud and pay a $60 million fine for illegally collecting credit-card debts from bankrupt customers, US Attorney Donald K. Stern said Tuesday.

Accordi 1936 XIE19960304.0223 -1 plaza will be 17 meters taller than the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower.

The 420.5-meter-tall Jinmao Tower is the second tallest, at 88 stories. It will be completed by 1998.

Most of the 261 buildings are expected to 1936 XIE19960304.0223 -1 year 2001. The plaza will be 17 meters taller than the world's tallest building, Chicago's Sears Tower.

The 420.5-meter-tall Jinmao Tower is the second tallest, at 88 stories. It will be completed by 1998.

Most of the 261 buildings 1936 NYT19990413.0372 1 CHICAGO _ The Sears Tower and The John Hancock Building both peer down from 100 stories above the Chicago landscape, but as far as the Cincinnati Reds are concerned the tallest objects in Chicago right now are the team's starting pitchers standing 1937 XIE19960719.0241 -1 nuclear-powered submarines, 7 multi-purpose submarines, 2 diesel-powered submarines, 2 modern destroyers, 7 warships and 12 other ships. 1937 APW20000814.0078 -1 The chance of survival for more than 100 crew members on board a sunken Russian nuclear submarine depends largely on how badly their vessel is damaged and how quickly rescuers can react, naval experts said Monday. 1937 APW20000825.0084 -1 traveled to Russia.

Russian officials said he was arrested after trying to buy plans to a secret submarine weapon, described as an underwater missile that glides on huge air bubbles it creates and can reach speeds of up to 225 miles per h 1937 APW19990807.0092 -1 there, two trucks creeping along at 5 mph will pull the vessel on a 320-wheel, 16-axle trailer to Hanford, 15 miles away.

Utility officials say barging the leakproof reactor is the safest way to decommission the plant, which for 16 year 1937 XIE19981028.0212 -1 INE>

NEW DELHI, October 28 (Xinhua) -- Despite investments of 20 billion rupees (500 million U.S. dollars) over the past 15 years, India's nuclear submarine program is yet to take off, a national newspaper reported Wednesday.

The 1937 XIE19971204.0033 -1 The first RSM-52 missile was launched at 9:00 Moscow time (0600 GMT) from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea. 1937 XIE19971204.0033 -1 hed at 9:00 Moscow time (0600 GMT) from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea. At a height of about 3.5 kilomete 1937 NYT20000703.0125 -1 can be said to have won the Cold War, it was clearly the submarine. Deep-diving ``boomers'' carried more than half of the nuclear arsenal. Fast attack submarines trailed Soviet missile carriers and performed vital intelligence functions, such as 1937 XIE19960719.0241 -1 A nuclear-powered submarine, "Tomsk," was launched today in Severodvinsk of Arkhangelsk Region, Russia.

The submarine, produced jointly by 800 military enterprises and named after the old city Tomsk in Siberia, is equipped with new combat ca 1937 APW19980911.0121 -1 sailors were killed and three wounded in the attack, according to Russian news reports. Navy officials in Moscow said the submarine was of the Bars class, a nuclear-powered fleet submarine normally armed with nuclear cruise missiles and torpedoes 1937 NYT20000124.0430 -1 The Pamir trip costs $8,390 a person, double occupancy, or $6,590 without air fare from the United States, and includes most meals. The submarine expedition costs $3,890, with all meals and accommodations on Hornby Island, but no air travel. Rates 1938 NYT19991022.0135 -1 The Empire State Building, by comparison, is 1,250 feet tall. 1938 NYT19981202.0243 -1 That was when a B-25 bomber hit the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors, severing lift cables. 1938 APW19990430.0135 1 In 1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated. 1938 APW19990430.0135 1 an American naval force destroyed a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

In 1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated.

In 1931, singer Kate Smith began her long-running radio progr 1938 NYT20000411.0295 -1 NG By EDWIN McDOWELL c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ It has been 21 years since the last meal was served here and the last ice-filled glasses clinked to good fortune. Since then, the Cloud Club in the Ch 1938 NYT19990909.0078 -1 &HT; c.1999 Cox News Service

CHICAGO _ No matter the mayhem or magic the past 100 years, Chicago's big shoulders just shrug. Al Capone. Michael Jordan. Brutal winters, broiling summers. Fixed elections, the arts.

Take i 1938 APW20000416.0069 -1 Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Looking for a primo Manhattan pad to go with your high-flying Internet startup?

Just $6 million or more could buy an entire upper floor of an Old Economy landmark -- the neo-Gothic, 60-story Woolworth 1938 NYT19981114.0177 -1 the 21st through 26th floors of the building. The space will be gutted and offered to commercial customers who are willing to pay for fine views of the Empire State Building to the east and the Hudson River to the west.

The center might 1938 NYT19990708.0015 -1 Kappfjell's daredeviltry in New York began on Oct. 25, 1998, when he plunged from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building.

In an interview with an Oslo newspaper, Dagbladet, Kappfjell called the jump from the Empire S 1938 NYT19990121.0328 -1 atop the ruins of the original New York. Ruins? ``Alien invasion,'' Groening says matter-of-factly. The Empire State Building is still around, but only the top 22 floors and the observation tower. There are no more pigeons in the city because they've 1938 NYT19990118.0189 -1 the Suez Canal, the Dneproges Dam in Ukraine, the Alaska-Canada Highway, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State Building, and the Eifel Tower.

Sure, this S-shaped isthmus has its share of white beaches, dense rainforests, and colonial a 1938 NYT19981114.0177 -1 So Union Health is going to vacate the 21st through 26th floors of the building. The space will be gutted and offered to commercial customers who are willing to pay for fine views of the Empire State Building to the east and the Hudson River to the 1938 NYT19981202.0243 -1 That was when a B-25 bomber hit the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors, severing lift cable 1939 APW19990417.0001 -1 In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, N.J. 1939 NYT20000710.0107 -1 ) Hospital, where Einstein had gone to die. 1939 NYT20000314.0254 1 re often asymptomatic until the aneurysms get dangerously large, only about 200,000 are diagnosed. Some 15,000 die from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms each year.

Albert Einstein died from one in 1955 when he was 76.

Surge 1939 NYT19990617.0336 -1 After sitting in pieces in a jar for more than 40 years, Albert Einstein's brain could make yet another contribution to science 1939 NYT19990617.0336 -1 by calling (888) 603-1036.) (rm) By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

After sitting in pieces in a jar for more than 40 years, Albert Einstein's brain could make yet another contribution to science. Now scienti 1939 NYT19990617.0307 -1 s News Service clients) By DOLORES KONG c.1999 The Boston Globe

What about Einstein's brain made him a genius?

In a study in the latest medical journal Lancet, a Canadian neuroscientist and her colleagues say they 1939 APW19990417.0001 -1 LINE>

Today is Sunday, April 18, the 108th day of 1999. There are 257 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On April 18, 1949, the Irish republic was proclaimed.

On this date:

1939 NYT19990617.0307 1 Ever since Einstein died in 1955 from a ruptured abdominal aneurysm, and his brain taken out during an autopsy by pathologist Thomas Harvey, it has been the subject of fascination. 1939 NYT19990617.0307 1 from a ruptured abdominal aneurysm, and his brain taken out during an autopsy by pathologist Thomas Harvey, it has been the subject of fascination. Einstein's family did not give p 1939 NYT20000710.0107 -1 Einstein had gone to die. Harvey was a last-minute substitution to do the autopsy, a change that would alter his life forever.

When Harvey came to the great thinker's brain, he removed it almost on a whim and took it home, intending to 1939 NYT19990617.0336 -1 When Einstein died in 1955, in Princeton, N.J., a pathologist who performed the autopsy removed the brain and kept it when he left Princeton. According to several journalistic accounts, the pathologist, Dr. Thomas Harvey, kept Einstein's brain in a j 1939 APW19990417.0001 -1 In 1955, physicist Albert Einstein died in Princeton, N.J.

In 1978, the U.S. Senate voted 68-32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on Dec. 31, 1999.

In 1983, 62 people, including 17 Americans, were killed at 1939 NYT20000710.0107 -1 Hospital, where Einstein had gone to di 1941 NYT20000825.0167 1 g. a teddy bear) through the pupil. The iris, a muscle, changes the size of the pupil to control the amount of light. It also gives eyes their color. The lens 1941 APW19980609.1138 -1 It is responsible for adjusting the amount of light entering the eye. 1941 APW20000712.0124 -1 procedure had been burned by fire or chemicals. Others had eyes scarred by disease or reactions to eye drops. Standard cornea transplants had not worked because the people did not have cells needed to grow a new protective covering over the cor 1941 APW19980609.1138 -1 MALAYSIA ENGLISH ASIA WorldSources, Inc. 201 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, S.E., 2nd Floor WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 Tel: 202-547-4512 Fax: 202-546-4194 COPYRIGHT 1998 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO P 1941 XIE19990304.0285 -1 When it is sewn into a wound, growth proteins contained in the membrane encourage cells and blood vessels to grow. 1941 XIE19990304.0285 -1 th proteins contained in the membrane encourage cells and blood vessels to grow. As the wound heals, the collagen 1941 XIE19970701.0235 -1 the patient's own oral mucous membrane. A few months later, when the lens stablized, an opening of five millimeters in the membrane was made to expose the lens to light inside the eye.

Gozlan's first operation was performed on one eye at 1941 NYT20000809.0217 -1 ``We know that light works, but it's so impractical that even patients who find it effective can't afford to sit for an hour in front of a light box,'' said Dr. Phyllis C. Zee, a neurology professor who is director of the sleep disorders program at N 1941 NYT19990114.0349 2 furrows in the lens, gradually revealing the clear pupil beneath.

Woodhams inserts a minute tube within the thin membrane covering the eye and deftly implants the new artificial lens. Then he gently nudges the iris back into shape around 1941 APW19980609.1138 -1 It is responsible for adjusting the amount of light entering the ey 1942 XIE19960720.0246 1 ATLANTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Sites of the Summer Olympic Games, with year, host city and country (no Games in 1916 because of World War I, and in 1940 and 1944 because 1942 XIE19960720.0246 1 ATLANTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Sites of the Summer Olympic Games, with year, host city and country (no Games in 1916 because of World War I, and in 1940 and 1944 because of World War II):

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GENEVA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- The Eastman Kodak Company has renewed its worldwide Olympic sponsorship for the eight-year period from 2001 through 2008, announced the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thursday in Lausanne.

1942 NYT19990219.0419 -1 games were canceled because of World War II.

The war may have robbed Holiday of an Olympic gold medal and a place as an American legend. Johnny Weismuller, who won five Olympic gold medals in the 1920s, and Buster Crabbe, an Olympic 1942 APW19990111.0172 -1 Most Olympics sponsors are awaiting results of investigations into allegations of bribery in the award of the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City before assessing if the games are still a valuable marketing vehicle.

The phone company U 1942 APW20000412.0095 -1 Los Angeles to training at the L.A. Athletic Club to a national championship in the 100-meter freestyle, then three berths on the 1940 Olympics team. When the games were canceled because of World War II, she sold and modeled clothes at I. Magnin's de 1942 XIE19960720.0246 1 TLANTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Sites of the Summer Olympic Games, with year, host city and country (no Games in 1916 because of World War I, and in 1940 and 1944 because of World War II): < 1942 XIE19960720.0246 1 ATLANTA, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Sites of the Summer Olympic Games, with year, host city and country (no Games in 1916 because of World War I, and in 1940 and 1944 because of World War I 1943 NYT19990607.0163 1 a pair of giant panda cubs - Ling-Ling, a female, and Hsing-Hsing, a male - arrived at the National Zoo as a gift of friendship from the People's Republic of 1943 XIE20000526.0273 -1 Of the 13 tombs, only two have been excavated, those of Chang Ling (the burial name for Yong Le, 1403-24), and Ding Ling ( Emperor Wan Li, 1562-1620). 1943 XIE19970211.0142 -1 Sources say that the mother tiger, named Ling Ling, which has given birth to 38 cubs since 1988, is 14 years old, and her mate, Ahua, is the father of 42 cubs.

Experts say this couple has created a world record in cub-bearing.

Accor 1943 NYT19980715.0187 -1 47-42-18-81; telex, 282-942. &HT; (_ Latin America: OLIVIA VASQUEZ in Los Angeles at (310) 996-0075; fax: 310-996-0089. &HT; &HT; -------------------- FREE ART! -------------------- &HT; ONE COLOR SLIDE is available by mail (or ove 1943 NYT19990602.0311 1 1036 or 888-346-9867.) (DW) By MICHAEL JANOFSKY c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

WASHINGTON _ Hsing-Hsing looked as cute as ever Wednesday, perched against the back wall of his feeding room at the National Zoo, munching on bambo 1943 XIE20000917.0200 -1 The 16-year-old gymnast amassed 38.424 points after four apparatus, with teammate Dong Fangxiao's 38.230 in the second spot. 1943 XIE20000917.0200 -1 .424 points after four apparatus, with teammate Dong Fangxiao's 38.230 in the second spot.

China's arch rivals Russ 1943 NYT19990607.0164 1 The zoological relationship is more open.''

Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing attracted thousands of visitors to the zoo over the years. The pair tried to mate, producing several cubs, none of whom lived more than a few days. Ling Ling died of 1943 APW19990618.0109 1 Hsing-Hsing, along with his female mate, Ling-Ling, arrived in Washington in 1972 as a gift from the People's Republic of China following President Nixon's trip to Beijing.

Ling-Ling died of heart fail 1943 XIE19991129.0012 1 Hsing-Hsing and his mate Ling-Ling came to the National Zoo from Beijing in 1972, a gift from the Chinese government following President Nixon's visit to China that year.

The two produced five offspring, but none lived longer than four days. 1943 XIE19990426.0215 -1 he mascot is named 'Ling Ling'. The name mascot suggests the nimbleness, smartness, liveliness and loveliness, said Ms Tang Huaiyu, who gave the mascot the name. It also has the meaning of luck and success, signifying that the world horticulture expo 1944 APW20000418.0002 -1 to White House aide George Stephanopoulos suspected, President Clinton called the book's authorship ''the only secret I've seen kept in Washington. 1944 NYT19990126.0401 -1 Saltzburg, a law professor at George Washington University, also questioned the wisdom of the House prosecutors wanting to depose Blumenthal and call him as witness, noting that Blumenthal is one of the most impassioned defenders of the president and 1944 NYT20000112.0206 -1 After a steep ascent, we turned the plane on course to the northwest, the Washington Monument to our right and P-56, the prohibited area around the White House, looming ahead. Staying clear of Dulles Airport's airspace to the west, we began a circlin 1944 NYT19990210.0088 -1 River 1944 NYT19990126.0401 -1 s Service clients) By ANN SCALES c.1999 The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON _ In the end, Betty Currie got dumped for Sidney Blumenthal.

Republican prosecutors Tuesday said they want to call Blumenthal, assistant to Presid 1944 NYT19990706.0237 -1 style are from quoted source.) (gm) By NICHOLAS WADE c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

Did George Washington father a son with Venus, a young slave who lived on the estate of his brother, John Augustine Washington?

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- An employee in the Office of the Clerk at the U.S. House of Representatives suffered a heart attack shortly after President Clinton ended his State of the Union address Tuesday night, U.S. Capitol Police spoke 1944 NYT19990706.0237 1 ``He called Mount Vernon a well-resorted tavern,'' said Dr. Dorothy Twohig, who was chief editor of Washington's papers for 30 years. 1944 NYT19990706.0237 -1 sorted tavern,'' said Dr. Dorothy Twohig, who was chief editor of Washington's papers for 30 years. ``It just seems to me, knowing Wa 1944 NYT19991126.0089 -1 WASHINGTON _ In 1986, then-Vice President George Bush summoned his family to the rustic presidential hideaway at Camp David to lay out his plan for succeeding Ronald Reagan in the White House.

As usual, Bush's eldest son did not mince 1944 NYT19981103.0160 -1 ELN-2000-ANALYSIS (Washington) _ If Texas Gov. George W. Bush wins his re-election bid handily, he'll be a top candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in two years. If the election further blunts the impeachment issue, it means Al Gore w 1944 APW20000418.0002 -1 With everyone from ''Doonesbury'' creator Garry Trudeau to White House aide George Stephanopoulos suspected, President Clinton called the book's authorship ''the only secret I've seen kept in Washington.''

Klein, then a columnist for News 1944 NYT19990126.0401 -1 witness, noting that Blumenthal is one of the most impassioned defenders of the president and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as can be found at the White House.

A graduate of Brandeis University, Blumenthal joined the White House staff 1944 NYT19990126.0401 -1 Stephen A. Saltzburg, a law professor at George Washington University, also questioned the wisdom of the House prosecutors wanting to depose Blumenthal and call him as witness, noting that Blumenthal is one of the most impassioned defenders of the 1944 NYT19981224.0200 1 In an essay in ``George Washington's Mount Vernon,'' a new book from the Monacelli Press, the architect Allan Greenberg tracked Washington's passionate involvement with the house he acquired from the estate of his half brother Lawrence in 175 1945 XIE19970421.0250 1 Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria. 1945 APW19990419.0044 1 first vice president to die while in office.

In 1836, the Territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress.

In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria.

In 1902, scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated 1945 XIE19970421.0250 -1 INE>

BONN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Right extremists marked Hitler's birthday with scattered violence throughout Germany today, said reports reaching here.

In the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, four right extremists were arrested by 1945 APW19990428.0004 -1 LINE>

Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

April 22

The News Herald of Panama City, Fla., on Colorado school shootings:

We know who is responsible for turn 1945 NYT19991124.0069 -1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

Have a question about the news? Colin Bessonette will try to get an answer. Call 404-222-2002, or write him at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, P.O. Box 4689, Atlanta, Ga. 30302, or e-mail him at q& 1945 NYT19991124.0178 1 Adolf Hitler's last name for me? I thought he was born with the surname Schicklgruber. If that's the case, why did he change it to Hitler?

A: Adolf Hitler was the Nazi dictator's birth name. He never used any other. Born on April 20, 1889 1945 APW19990419.0044 1 in office.

In 1836, the Territory of Wisconsin was established by Congress.

In 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria.

In 1902, scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element 1945 XIE19970421.0250 1 and Nazi propaganda materials confiscated.

Police in Dresden also detained 23 rightwing youngsters who had held demonstrations in the streets and chanted Nazi slogans.

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria.

Baby boomers, those between 35 and 54 years old, were most likely to say the charges against Nixon were serious enough to drive him from office. They also were the generation most critical of the 1946 APW19990806.0017 -1 LINE>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Most Americans think President Nixon's actions 25 years ago in the Watergate scandal were serious enough to merit his resignation, according to a new Associated Press poll that also showed memories of the scan 1946 NYT19990807.0021 -1 ice clients) c.1999 The Boston Globe

After Dwight Eisenhower, the next five presidents left the White House involuntarily. John Kennedy was shot. Lyndon Johnson was forced to abandon his reelection campaign. Richard Nixon resigne 1946 NYT19980910.0011 -1 By ALISON MITCHELL and LIZETTE ALVAREZ c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

WASHINGTON _ Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr on Wednesday sent to Congress a report that prosecutors said contained ``substantial and credible i 1946 NYT19990804.0154 1 A quarter-century after he resigned the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974, one focus of perspective is the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, a handsome, low-rise building amid beautiful gardens in nine acres of former citrus groves. 1946 NYT19990804.0154 1 d the presidency on Aug. 9, 1974, one focus of perspective is the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, a handsome, low-rise building amid beautiful gardens in nine acres of former citrus groves. The 37th president and his wife, 1946 NYT19990807.0021 -1 Nixon's presidency is its last _ when he became the only president to resign in disgrace _ because no other president did as much damage to the office and the nation.

Time and again, Nixon polluted the reservoir of trust that most people 1946 APW19990215.0184 -1 Ehrlichman, who along with H.R. Haldeman was one of Nixon's two top advisers, resigned from his White House post in April 1973 and was convicted two years later for obstruction of justice, conspiracy and perjury in the attempted cover-up of the b 1946 NYT19981218.0385 -1 Every move the market made seemed once again to be dictated by unfolding events surrounding the question of impeachment and President Nixon's future in office,'' the Associated Press said of trading on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

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Some Americans remember where they were and what they were doing on April 12, 1945, when FDR died. Many more remember Nov. 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated; Aug. 9, 1974, the day Nixon resigned; and July 20, 1969, when Nei 1946 NYT19990530.0132 -1 Cox picked Kevin Brown's day to pitch to give starts to left fielder Otis Nixon (his first in a week) and second baseman Keith Lockhart (his first in a month). They were a combined 1-for-7. Though Cox had planned on playing Lockhart anyway, Bret Bo 1946 APW19990810.0259 -1 Twenty-five years to the day Nixon resigned, the image in the library's permanent exhibit brought back Mrs. Byrd's childhood memories of her parents watching coverage of the Watergate scandal that transfixed the natio 1947 NYT20000321.0035 1 If she won the Kremlin, she would be the first woman to rule Russia since the Empress Catherine the Great. 1947 NYT19990426.0237 1 Shortly after Catherine the Great's accession in 1762, an early generation of ``philosophes,'' led by Voltaire, fell in love with Russia and declared the country a model of enlightened monarchy working to overcome cultural ``backwardness. 1947 APW19980601.0782 1 of the returnees are children or teen-agers, compared with 19 percent of Germany's population. Germans went to Russia about 200 years ago at the invitation of the German-born Empress Catherine the Great who granted them land, religious 1947 NYT20000311.0071 1 ecame the template for the sort of Russian the West believes it likes to do business with _ Catherine the Great, Andropov, Gorbachev, the ``liberal reformers'' of Yeltsin's administrations.

No matter that Peter's real intention for his pe 1947 XIE19990910.0058 -1 INE>

PARIS, September 9 (Xinhua) -- French President Jacques Chirac opened Thursday evening an exhibition of the great 18th century French realist painter Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) at the Grand Palais Museum in Paris.

< 1947 NYT20000321.0035 -1 HELEN WOMACK c.2000 The Independent, London (Distributed by New York Times Special Features)

MOSCOW _ ``If only there was woman candidate we could vote for. The men have made quite enough of a mess in this country with their agg 1947 NYT20000823.0042 -1 mentary news files.) &HT; By RUPERT CORNWELL c.2000 The Independent, London &UR; (Distributed by New York Times Special Features) &LR; &QC;

(UNDATED) _ A country may transform its government. It can abolish its former ide 1947 APW19980611.1185 -1 Dame Catherine Cookson, whose novels about working class hardships in 19th century England made her one of Britain's most popular writers, died Thursday at 91. 1947 APW19980611.1185 -1 ls about working class hardships in 19th century England made her one of Britain's most popular writers, died Thursday at 91. Her agent Anthony ... graf 2 1947 NYT19980909.0083 -1 Catherine MacDermott doesn't like the new rule, either. For four years, the St. Ed's business communications teacher had been bringing her dog Miss Whippet, or Missy, to the office.

But because of the new rule, Missy is now going to work 1947 NYT19980930.0481 -1 Catherine went on to buy 1,020 drawings from the collection of Count Heinrich Bruehl, who was at the time a minister at the court of Saxony in Dresden. Virtually on her own doorstep she also acquired the drawings _ almost 2,000 _ that had been collec 1947 NYT20000321.0035 1 among whom is the first woman to run for the Russian presidency, the liberal reformer and former social affairs minister, 46-year-old Ella Pamfilova.

If she won the Kremlin, she would be the first woman to rule Russia since the Empress Ca 1947 NYT19990804.0180 -1 5. RENE RUSSO INTERVIEW Lusty sex is merely one aspect of the 1999 remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway thriller ``The Thomas Crown Affair.'' In the remake, actress Rene Russo plays insurance investigator Catherine and she is not afraid to 1947 NYT19990426.0237 1 Shortly after Catherine the Great's accession in 1762, an early generation of ``philosophes,'' led by Voltaire, fell in love with Russia and declared the country a model of enlightened monarchy working to overcome cultural ``backwardnes 1948 NYT20000913.0396 -1 Quick, somebody hire him to teach a class on human relations. 1948 NYT19990817.0117 -1 What this means here is that Bush escaped with his big-shot status intact, but the key word is escape. 1948 APW19981115.0429 -1 (AP) _ A German-born Turkish juvenile delinquent deported to Istanbul, Turkey, over the weekend was placed in a youth home after German diplomats failed to contact his relatives. Muhlis Ari _ known in the German media as ``Mehmet'' _ was 1948 NYT20000818.0215 -1 age, often into zones that its stuffier defenders have scorned.

Nothing contradictory in that, he said recently.

``You can be interested in slang or dialect or things that people call ungrammatical but still think that there i 1948 NYT19990208.0117 -1 (lb) By WILLIAM SAFIRE c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

In wordplay you can sometimes get word understanding. Phrases like ``If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?'' and ``Why do we put suits in a garment bag 1948 XIE19990817.0127 -1 On January 3 this year, their wedding day, friends and relatives came to their bridal chamber for a visit, and some of the guests began to whisper among themselves when they notice the English word "seduction" printed on a corner of the picture. 1948 XIE19990817.0127 -1 ing day, friends and relatives came to their bridal chamber for a visit, and some of the guests began to whisper among themselves when they notice the English word "seduction" printed on a corner of the picture.

The bridegroom didn't kn 1948 NYT19980619.0402 -1 is putting the squeeze on the hiring efforts of employment agencies.

While a booming economy means more businesses are hiring, it also means skilled workers are harder to find. That's a dilemma for the staffing services industry, whose 1948 NYT19990109.0033 -1 Question: Will the hiring of Mike Holmgren get the Seahawks back on ``Monday Night Football'' for the first time since 1992?

Answer: The NFL schedule won't be released until late March or early April, but the Seahawks do play at Green Bay 1948 NYT19991223.0054 -1 word-of-mouth has time to make the rounds.

But we were talking about university presses, and books for Christmas gifts to good friends and relatives. Here are a few samples of what we mean:

One discussed here not long ago is L 1948 NYT19990511.0090 -1 strains of the hepatitis viruses. ALSO MOVED.

MATERNITY-CLOTHES _ WACO, Texas _ Comfort. Comfort. Comfort. That one small word means the world to mothers-to-be when it comes to surviving the warm-weather months of their pregnancy. (Mays, 1948 NYT20000131.0353 -1 NAIROBI, Kenya _ Ten of the 179 people aboard survived the crash of a Kenya Airways flight on Sunday night in the Ivory Coast, airline officials said Monday as friends and relatives waited for word with a mix of hope and dread. < 1949 NYT19981006.0146 -1 Barbados is a very British island, hence its nickname ``Little England. 1949 APW19990423.0219 -1 At a rehearsal for the opening ceremony, the British flag was carried in upside-down. 1949 XIE19970701.0215 -1 At the last minute of June 30, 1997, the British Union flag was lowered in Hong Kong for the last time, signaling the end of 156 years of British rule here. 1949 APW19990701.0208 1 Crown of Scotland to the Parliament.

Parachutists floated down and a 21-gun salute boomed over the city, decked out with Union Jacks,the British flag, and Scotland's blue and white flag of St. Andrew.

Hollywood legend Sean C 1949 XIE19980101.0063 -1 Flag-Raising Ceremonies Popular on New Year's Day

BEIJING, January 1 (Xinhua) -- Countless people in different parts of China spontaneously chose attending flag-raising ceremonies on New Year's Day 1949 NYT20000411.0292 -1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

Soren Dresch loves the ripple effect of South Carolina's Confederate battle flag debate. The bluster's been great for business.

``I'd guess sales are up tenfold in the past three months,'' s 1949 XIE19970521.0146 -1 India's Janata Party President S. Swamy said here today that his party would hold black flag demonstration against the Queen of England and the British prime minister if they visited the country to attend the 50th year independence celebrations. 1949 XIE19970521.0146 -1 Swamy said here today that his party would hold black flag demonstration against the Queen of England and the British prime minister if they visited the country to attend the 50th year independence celebrations.

He said in a statement t 1949 NYT20000927.0410 -1 the flag represents bondage.''

Monday night, vandals painted over the flag, which locals said has been on the gym wall more than 30 years. The school's nickname is the Rebels, and the mascot is a cartoon Confederate general 1949 NYT19980609.0302 -1 Flag Day and the National Pause are big deals at Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor, the spot where the Americans turned back the British in 1814 and Francis Scott Key got the inspiration to write ``The Star-Spangled Banner.'' An all-day celebration is 1949 APW20000527.0126 1 in Northern Ireland: the name of the province's mostly Protestant police force, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and the flying of Union Jack flags over government buildings.

Britain has insisted that the police should be renamed as part of 1949 APW19980827.0733 1 After the bombings, protesters demonstrated outside the British embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and tore to pieces the British flag, the Union Jack. ``We have supported action against terrorism by America and will continue to support a 1949 NYT19980704.0099 -1 FLAFIRE-FIGHTERS _ ORMOND BEACH, Fla. _ Somehow through the smoke, helicopter pilot Ray Speights spots a fluorescent orange flag tied to a 10-foot pole that firefighter Chris Edwards waves. He pulls a lever and dumps the water directly on the spot 1950 NYT19990921.0178 1 Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg made literary history when he traveled ``around the world in 80 days'' in 1873. 1950 NYT19990519.0253 -1 If they do, is that a plus or minus for the reader and the writer who created the character in the first place? 1950 NYT19990921.0178 1 (For use by New York Times News Service clients) By SYD KEARNEY c.1999 Houston Chronicle

Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg made literary history when he traveled ``around the world in 80 days'' in 1873.

A century later, we can 1950 NYT20000811.0003 -1 Chronicle

No suspense at the Democratic Convention?

How about this: Who dyes?

With all the hard-hitting journalists swarming Los Angeles, someone is sure to blow the lid off the coverup coverup.

Al 1950 NYT19990921.0178 1 HEADLINE> (For use by New York Times News Service clients) By SYD KEARNEY c.1999 Houston Chronicle

Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg made literary history when he traveled ``around the world in 80 days'' in 1873.

A century 1950 XIE20000612.0299 -1 The Khitan characters were created during the Liao Dynasty (916- 1125). 1950 XIE20000612.0299 -1 during the Liao Dynasty (916- 1125). They were abolished in 1191 by a 1950 NYT19980811.0232 -1 Phineas Finn,'' ``The Eustace Diamonds,'' ``Phineas Redux,'' ``The Prime Minister'' and ``The Duke's Children.''

In the 1970s, the Palliser sequence was served honorably by BBC's Masterpiece Theater. To what extent this raised Trollope 1950 NYT19990622.0233 -1 A trove of 17th-century Dutch drawings _ including works by Rembrandt, Pieter Bruegel, Adriaen van Ostade and Jacques de Gheyn II _ has been given to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University by Maida and George Abrams of Newton, Mass.

Th 1950 NYT19990921.0178 1 Chronicle

Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg made literary history when he traveled ``around the world in 80 days'' in 1873.

A century later, we can make the journey in a much shorter time. But why try? The essence of travel invo 1950 NYT19991028.0408 -1 The confessed gunman, Buford Furrow, who shot and killed a Filipino mail carrier before he gave himself up, has been linked to the Aryan Nations and the Phineas Priesthood. Both are virulently anti-Semitic. < 1950 NYT19980813.0093 -1 There, Stella gets pursued by a 20-year-old local named Winston Shakespeare (Taye Diggs), a name that sounds like a marketing character created to entice literary smoker 1951 APW20000209.0109 -1 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Barbara Eden says her 1960s TV show "I Dream of Jeannie" glamorized smoking and drinking. 1951 NYT19991206.0141 -1 -GREED-COX 12-06 0848 BC-BOOKS-GREED-COX

4-hour version of silent film a winner

By Scott Eyman

C. 1999 Cox News Service

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. _ When director Erich 1951 NYT19991220.0325 -1 s News Service clients) By GLENN WHIPP c.1999 Los Angeles Daily News

Judging from this year's slate of holiday movies, it seems as though studio executives must be spending some time in the library. That, or they received a lot of gi 1951 NYT19990317.0304 -1 ) By BARBARA DE WITT c.1999 Los Angeles Daily News

LOS ANGELES _ &UR; &LR; Gwyneth Paltrow must be chewing her nails by now.

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Story Filed By Cox Ne 1951 NYT19981027.0304 -1 BEACH, Fla. _ They call this part of Florida the Space Coast, and it's easy to see why.

Travel A1A, the main artery from Satellite Beach to the Kennedy Space Center. Drive past I Dream of Jeannie Lane, then a take a right over Christa 1951 NYT20000524.0379 -1 Films like ``The Talented Ripley,'' ``The Beach,'' ``Out of Africa,'' ``The Sheltering Sky'' and the recently released ``I Dreamed of Africa'' have attempted to explore what happens when people join hands and parachute into the wilderness of a shared 1951 NYT19980712.0031 -1 AND PEOPLE IN THE ADVERTISING WORLD (mk) c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

Barbara Eden, who played the mischievous genie on the long-running TV series ``I Dream of Jeannie,'' is blinking her way back onto television by 1951 NYT19981027.0304 -1 P> By Jeff Bruce

COCOA BEACH, Fla. _ They call this part of Florida the Space Coast, and it's easy to see why.

Travel A1A, the main artery from Satellite Beach to the Kennedy Space Center. Drive past I Dream of Jeannie Lane 1951 NYT19981027.0304 -1 Travel A1A, the main artery from Satellite Beach to the Kennedy Space Center. Drive past I Dream of Jeannie Lane, then a take a right over Christa McAuliffe bridge and head straight until you reach Saturn Causeway. All along this route to the space 1952 NYT19990202.0014 -1 women gain very little weight during pregnancies, chimps can likewise hide their pregnancies. The gestation period for chimps typically lasts eight months. 1952 NYT19990426.0485 -1 The short of it is that you can buy a ticket from Chicago to Warsaw on American Airlines and you will fly the whole nonstop trip on LOT, the Polish airline, because American does not have Chicago-Warsaw service and LOT is its partner in a code-sharin 1952 NYT20000717.0428 -1 Prevention. Under ``Air Travel During Pregnancy,'' there is this: ``Women traveling with infants should keep in mind that newborns under 6 weeks old should not fly because their alveoli are not 1952 NYT19981205.0174 -1 MATERIAL FOLLOWS)

While doctors advise women not to travel by air in the last trimester of a pregnancy, airlines have no regulations prohibiting such travel, the lieutenant said. And with about six weeks remaining to her due date 1952 NYT20000721.0354 -1 riers, giving each of the three surviving airlines roughly $6 billion in assets, China's state news agency, Xinhua, reported. It did not give a timetable for the mergers or indicate which airline would merge with which. Shares of China Eastern and Ch 1952 XIE19960913.0010 -1 INE>

YANGON, September 12 (Xinhua) -- The Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA) today added Yangon on its route to London for the first time in 20 years with a maiden flight from Bandar Seri Beganwan to Yangon, capital of Myanmar.

The RBA, 1952 NYT19990515.0063 -1 Within five years, the airlines expect to have in-seat video screens in nearly all first- and business-class cabins, and in about 75 percent of all coach seats for international flights. 1952 NYT19990515.0063 -1 pect to have in-seat video screens in nearly all first- and business-class cabins, and in about 75 percent of all coach seats for international flights. But the industry is less certain 1952 XIE19960509.0227 -1 Airlines to Fly to Yangon

YANGON, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Four more foreign airlines -- All Nippon Airways (ANA), Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Vietnam Airlines and Royal Air Cambodia (RAC) will soon fly on regular routes to 1952 NYT19990426.0485 -1 because American does not have Chicago-Warsaw service and LOT is its partner in a code-sharing agreement.

Your ticket will show your flight as American Airlines 6102, but the itinerary attached to the ticket or provided by the travel agen 1952 NYT19980613.0086 -1 PROBLEM: We are a large, close-knit group of siblings whose father just died. The youngest, my sister, lives 3,000 miles away and is 8 months pregnant. Our doctor told us about the many potentially negative effects of stress in the last trimester of 1953 APW19991002.0148 -1 Ovitz Pledges $25M for NFL Team 1953 NYT19981226.0048 -1 There is also interest in Sam Clancy, the black defensive line coach of NFL Europe's Barcelona Dragons, who has coached for three different NFL teams under the league's internship program. 1953 APW19990804.0329 -1 many NFL teams play in rent-free stadiums. 1953 NYT19980601.0093 1 Other cable channels take up sports part-time, and the broadcast networks _ well, see above: ``bidding, breathtakingly costly.''

The NFL has swollen to 31 teams, making what used to be the simple arithmetic task of keeping track of the st 1953 APW19990312.0094 1 LINE>

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Within the next few days, 31 football team owners meeting in Arizona plan to vote on whether to put a new NFL franchise in Los Angeles or Houston.

There have been reports that a decision has already 1953 NYT19980801.0143 -1 The security arm of the National Football League has recently been asked by at least two teams, the Bears and the Jacksonville Jaguars, to investigate a religious group with a growing membership of NFL players, including Enis, according to high-ranki 1953 NYT19980801.0143 -1 ootball League has recently been asked by at least two teams, the Bears and the Jacksonville Jaguars, to investigate a religious group with a growing membership of NFL players, including Enis, according to high-ranking team executives around the leag 1953 NYT19981102.0469 -1 NFL National Football League has become a laughable misnomer because how can a league pass itself off as being national if L.A., which once had two NFL teams and still has two major league baseball teams, two NBA teams, two NHL teams, isn't a part of 1953 NYT20000114.0058 -1 ``Al was calling and and he was looking for a quarterback and he was asking me about working out Kurt,'' said Armey. ``Kurt had come from Northern Iowa and then what I did was look up the report I had done on Kurt when I was with the Patriots. And th 1953 NYT20000113.0227 1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers will host the Washington Redskins the same day, with the kickoff set for 4:05 p.m.

That's three teams from one state among the eight NFL organizations still playing for a spot in Super Bowl XXXIV. There are 31 teams i 1953 NYT20000801.0027 -1 How could we here in L.A., with so many wealthy hustlers whose vanities are larger than their net worth, with two teams in major league baseball, the NHL, the NBA and even the NFL as recently as 1994, still not have an NFL franchise in its midst? < 1953 NYT19981226.0048 -1 There is also interest in Sam Clancy, the black defensive line coach of NFL Europe's Barcelona Dragons, who has coached for three different NFL teams under the league's internship progra 1954 XIE19970122.0228 -1 MTJA is a statuary body vested with the exclusive rights, power, liberties and privileges of exploring and exploiting petroleum resources in the JDA under the MTJA Acts 1990 of Malaysia and 1954 XIE19991016.0009 -1 A replica of the Statue of Liberty,in chains, held a black book listing all the human rights violations committed in the country. 1954 APW19980612.1705 1 1867 - Mexican Emperor Maximilian I is executed by firing squad. 1885 - Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France. 1908 - The ship Kasato Maru arrives in Santos with 168 Japanese families, beginning Japanese immigration to Brazil 1954 NYT19990901.0072 -1 s billed by the Tennessee Department of Transportation for the $2,492.44 expense to repair the concrete bridge abutment he shattered in the wreck.

Mail can be sent to Jones in care of Asylum Records, 1906 Acklen Ave., Nashville, TN 37212. 1954 XIE19971017.0235 -1 INE>

BRUSSELS, October 16 (Xinhua) -- Greenpeace urged European environment ministers meeting in Luxembourg today to protect the right of European nations to refuse genetically engineered crops.

The European Council of Ministers w 1954 APW20000704.0053 -1 CHMANN

NEW YORK (AP) - Traditional tall ships that plied the seas decades ago paraded past President Clinton on Tuesday as he celebrated Independence Day by naming America's next generation of destroyers after the late Adm. Elmo Zumwalt 1954 NYT19990924.0286 -1 The idea clicked with students Becky Helton, Michael Mark and Dave Winter, who formed a committee, passed out petitions, made T-shirts and buttons, and even hosted a benefit concert on Sixth Street called ``Statue Aid.'' 1954 NYT19990924.0286 -1 ky Helton, Michael Mark and Dave Winter, who formed a committee, passed out petitions, made T-shirts and buttons, and even hosted a benefit concert on Sixth Street called ``Statue Aid.'' Eventually, they were able to get 1954 APW20000111.0016 -1 Statue of Liberty' license plates on way out ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Statue of Liberty won't herald cars from New York anymore after the next two years.

New York's 14-year-old red, white and blue "Statue of Liberty 1954 NYT20000627.0328 -1 Long before the Greco-Roman specter of Lady Liberty arrived in New York Harbor in 1886, another woman symbolized the United States, one long forgotten by most Americans. Sometimes known as L'Amerique, or the Indian Princess, she was a Native American 1954 NYT20000907.0416 -1 down, the plane to Sydney is buzzing with accents from far and wide. The United States will be represented by about two dozen athletes born beyond its borders.

``The American Olympic team is a mirror of the country,'' USOC spokesman Mike 1954 NYT20000907.0416 -1 walls separating nations come tumbling down, the plane to Sydney is buzzing with accents from far and wide. The United States will be represented by about two dozen athletes born beyond its borders.

``The American Olympic team is a mirror 1954 NYT20000306.0053 -1 Just as the Statue of Liberty opened the gates of the country to the wretched refuse of other shores, the New York establishment, though stubborn and resistant, eventually and always opened the gates of power to the people who passed through. The a 1954 NYT20000204.0076 -1 It was a rumor that seemed to take on a life of its own: the Statue of Liberty, the preeminent symbol of freedom for people across the world, was really a reminder of this country's darkest past _ slaver 1956 APW20000503.0173 -1 center is the 630-square mile Lake Pontchartrain, the second largest lake in the United States after the Great Lakes. 1956 APW19980807.1217 1 ___ TANZANIA _LAND: Largest country in East Africa, covering 364,000 square miles (943,000 square kilometers). 1956 NYT19990505.0051 1 The constituent republic of the U.S.S.R. that is now Russia, or the Russian Federation, is still the world's largest country, and is almost twice as big as Canada. The statistics: Russia, 6.6 million square miles; Canada, 3.85 million square miles. T 1956 APW19980709.0588 -1 The area stretches far beyond Australia's current 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone and would increase the offshore area over which Australia has rights to more than 7.4 million square miles (19 million square kilometers), compared with 1956 NYT19981109.0114 -1 HATTUCK and SYD KEARNEY c.1998 Houston Chronicle

For many travelers, the Caribbean extends a mystical lure. We fantasize about sun-drenched beaches, turquoise seas, underwater adventure, sipping rum punches on a pirate boat.

< 1956 APW19981106.0675 1 in the past but without results. Sudan covers 1 million square miles (2.6 million square kilometers), making it Africa's largest country, and its population is estimated at 28 million. Egypt's area is 385,229 square miles (1 million square 1956 APW19980709.0588 -1 Australia will seek jurisdiction over an additional 2.5 million square miles (6 million square kilometers) of seabed and subsoil under a claim being prepared for the United Nations, government scientists said Thursday. The area stretches far beyo 1956 NYT19980831.0202 -1 Cox News Service

RUSSIA: AT A GLANCE -- Here's a look at Russia and the problems that brought it to its political and economic crisis:

Population: 146.5 million, and declining as the death rate outpaces the birth rate. Poor 1956 NYT19980831.0202 -1 W. HOLMES &HT; c. 1998 Cox News Service

RUSSIA: AT A GLANCE -- Here's a look at Russia and the problems that brought it to its political and economic crisis:

Population: 146.5 million, and declining as the death rate o 1956 NYT20000313.0149 -1 It is Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. It's a big one - at about 940 square miles, one of the largest state parks in the country. < 1956 APW19980807.1217 1 UR; ___ TANZANIA _LAND: Largest country in East Africa, covering 364,000 square miles (943,000 square kilometer 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. For Somchai Phimsaimol, it's a routine hazard of performing in a 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 BAN KHOK SA-NGA, Thailand (AP) _ There probably aren't many things scarier than having a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. For Somchai Phimsaimol, it's a routine hazard of performing in a stage show with cobras. ``I've been bitten 28 1958 APW19990822.0063 -1 everything and move it upstairs.''

Palm trees whipped as the wind strengthened in early afternoon and Corpus Christi Bay was covered with whitecaps as the Category 4 storm came ashore.

Corpus Christi declared a state of disa 1958 XIE20000531.0163 -1 INE>

ANKARA, May 31 (Xinhua) -- As Turkey's multi-billion-dollar attack helicopter bid approached its end on Friday, competing countries have increased their lobbying activities for the project.

Following Russian Deputy Prime Mini 1958 APW19980730.1259 -1 Newly captured king cobras are purchased from other people in the region for 1,000 baht (dlrs 25) a meter (yard), spreading the idea that it's more profitable to let the snakes live. 1958 APW19980730.1259 -1 purchased from other people in the region for 1,000 baht (dlrs 25) a meter (yard), spreading the idea that it's more profitable to let the snakes live. Proceeds from the shows, h 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. For Somchai Phimsaimol, it's a routine hazard of performing in a stage show with cobras. ``I've been bitten 28 times 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 There probably aren't many things scarier than having a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. For Somchai Phimsaimol, it's a routine hazard of performing in a stage s 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 QC; BAN KHOK SA-NGA, Thailand (AP) _ There probably aren't many things scarier than having a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. For Somchai Phimsaimol 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 Associated Press Writer &QC; BAN KHOK SA-NGA, Thailand (AP) _ There probably aren't many things scarier than having a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minutes. 1958 APW19990826.0102 -1 Callaway believes trade secrets involving the launch of its new golf ball could be in jeopardy if King is allowed to work for its crosstown rival. Carlsbad, about 40 miles north of San Diego, is the home base for Callaway, Taylor Made and Cobra, 1958 APW19980730.1259 1 BAN KHOK SA-NGA, Thailand (AP) _ There probably aren't many things scarier than having a four-meter (13-foot-long) king cobra chomp down on your shoe, fangs dripping venom that can kill a man in 20 minute 1959 NYT20000920.0142 1 CC (upper or lower case) indicates carbon copy; BCC, blind carbon copy. A blind carbon copy bears no evidence that the original was sent to anyone besides the person addressed. 1959 XIE20000123.0157 -1 Letter Writing No Longer Number One in China 1959 NYT19990120.0352 -1 In at least one way, however, Updike is in the literary tradition of letter writing. 1959 XIE19970107.0173 -1 INE>

HANGZHOU, January 7 (Xinhua) -- A new regulation to help people lodge official complaints has been approved by the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress.

The regulation, which will come into force on 1959 NYT20000216.0262 -1 There are letters passed between people who have never met, and a couple of famous pseudoletters, such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s exquisite ``Letter From Birmingham Jail,'' an essay never meant as a private communication. 1959 NYT20000216.0262 -1 eople who have never met, and a couple of famous pseudoletters, such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s exquisite ``Letter From Birmingham Jail,'' an essay never meant as a private communication.

Many of the senders a 1959 NYT19990121.0438 -1 CC,'' the group offers ``An open letter to white people'' and ``What a Southern nationalist movement should be.'' the last tract calls for a ``constitutional assembly for a new country,'' to serve as a bulwark against the ``third-world immigrants 1959 APW19980818.1265 -1 complicated in Japan by the need to mold it to local pronunciations. Today, writing a simple letter in Japanese means juggling two phonetic alphabets of nearly 50 characters each with the kanji, some of which are so complex it almost takes an art 1959 APW19980818.1181 -1 system of its own. Today, writing a simple letter in Japanese means juggling two phonetic alphabets of nearly 50 characters each with the kanji. FEA-JAPAN-CONFOUNDING KANJI. Expected by 0300 GMT. By Masayo Yoshida. AP Graphic JPN KANJI 081098. AP Pho 1959 NYT19990404.0036 -1 Duval, who nearly won the Masters a year ago, has tried to put the tournament in perspective. ``I think it's something that when you get done with your career, you are very happy for what has been but you are still yearnful for what could have been 1960 APW19980820.0233 -1 of the Atlantic Richfield oil company, operates about 1,600 gas stations in the United States as well as the AM/PM chain. 1960 NYT19990216.0370 -1 Mike Kunnen, director of the Cincinnati Gasoline Dealers Association, said prices probably could remain low for several more months, which is good for the consumer, but bad for gas station owners and the United States which will remain reliant on imp 1960 NYT19990509.0026 -1 last year in California because of the federal rules requiring tank upgrades. Additionally, seven stations quit pumping gas but the mini-mart facilities remained open.

Tosco closed 30 stations in 1997 because of duplication in the immedia 1960 NYT19980909.0347 -1 inations, which had originally been allocated to Germany.

With their historically small number of local television and radio stations, few nations outside the United States, Canada and Mexico bother using their assigned call letters, iden 1960 APW19990912.0053 -1 LINE>

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) -- Prices at the gas pumps jumped less than a penny in the past three weeks, due largely to an increase in crude oil prices, an industry analyst said Sunday.

The national weighted average Friday, 1960 APW20000905.0194 -1 DOLAND

PARIS (AP) -- French trucking leaders said early Wednesday that they were satisfied with a government offer to reduce their gasoline bills, but planned to consult with union members before deciding whether to end a blockade of th 1960 NYT19991130.0265 -1 s News Service clients) By PETER J. HOWE c.1999 The Boston Globe

Federal antitrust regulators approved Tuesday the $87 billion merger of Exxon and Mobil, reuniting two key units of the former Standard Oil trust broken up by th 1960 APW19990309.0228 -1 in the United States in 1982 from India's Punjab region and took a job pumping gas. He saved enough money to lease that gas station, then began opening others.

Eventually, his City Gas chain employed 300 people at 51 stations in New 1960 XIE19961004.0140 -1 Saudi Arabia is the biggest oil producing country in the world, and gasoline prices there are lower than in every other country except Iraq. But some gasoline stations in Riyadh sell 53 halalas (0.14 U.S. dollar) a liter, seven halalas less than the 1960 NYT19980901.0399 -1 until late 2000 or early 2001.

Sierra Blanca, some 90 miles southeast of El Paso, was once a ranching and railroad center. Now it is little more than a stretch of commercial buildings along a feeder road between two exits on Interstate 10 1960 NYT19990103.0011 -1 sell such cars, even though those manufacturers make them.

``I've never heard that question come up, and I've been here five months,'' said a salesperson at Lou Grubb Chevrolet.

Fuel can be hard to find. There are only seven f 1960 XIE19991113.0015 -1 ANAA -- A consortium comprising Delma Power of the United States and the International Contractors Federation was awarded a contract for building gas-powered electricity stations in Maareb, some 225 kilometers east of Sanaa. < 1960 NYT20000304.0125 -1 But Cassidy passed the Soviets documents that indicated that the United States had successfully created the nerve agent, to try to convince the Soviets that the United States was ahead in nerve gas developmen 1961 NYT19980916.0138 1 important. Satchel Paige, the greatest pitcher of the Negro Leagues, said Gibson ``could hit home runs around Babe Ruth's home runs. 1961 APW19990607.0235 -1 CLEVELAND (AP) -- Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige were selected the best Negro Leagues figures in a survey conducted by the Society for American Baseball Research. 1961 APW19990713.0143 -1 Larry Walker, who operates the Old Negro League Baseball Shop in Nashville, said Kimbro played with Roy Campanella and against Negro League legends like Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard and Satchel Paige. 1961 APW19990724.0149 1 -to-Chance infield.

Williams, who starred for the Homestead Grays and several other teams before retiring in 1932, was picked in a 1952 poll by the Pittsburgh Courier as black baseball's greatest pitcher, edging out Satchel Paige. 1961 NYT19980924.0459 -1 n time, while Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa fight over the most cherished record in baseball.

Georgia-born Josh Gibson, known as the Black Babe Ruth, was segregated out of the white major leagues, but according to black newspapers, the slug 1961 APW19990713.0143 -1 LINE>

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Henry Kimbro, a Negro League outfielder known as the ``black Ty Cobb,'' has died at age 88.

Kimbro, who died Sunday, batted .320 over 18 seasons. He played from 1934 to 1951 for the Nashville 1961 NYT19990619.0175 -1 When he is on the baseball field, he always has a smile on his face.'' 1961 NYT19990619.0175 -1 he always has a smile on his face.''

Although Deschaine ha 1961 NYT19990428.0035 -1 did in golf and Satchel Paige did in baseball, or the myths that followed Lincoln into history.

They would tell you of his high school days at Granada Hills in Los Angeles, when he would stand on the 50-yard line and a teammate in the end 1961 NYT19980926.0167 -1 Miller was a pretty fair athlete himself, but baseball was his sport, which is why Miller, a retired industrialist who was 95 when he died on Sept. 3 in Tucson, Ariz., was remembered less for his brilliant business career than for a high school frien 1961 APW19990725.0058 1 Stadium scoreboard.

Williams played in the Negro leagues from 1910-32. In a 1952 poll by the Pittsburgh Courier, he beat out Satchel Paige as black baseball's best pitcher.

Selee managed the Boston Beaneaters and Chicago Cubs 1961 NYT19990130.0018 -1 DALLAS _ Mike Miller of Albuquerque, N.M., had the first-place seed all but locked up before the position round of match play even began at the Don Carter Professional Bowlers Association Classic last night. < 1962 NYT19991227.0125 -1 be held at Millennium Island in the Republic of Kiribati, the first bit of land north of Antarctica that will see the sun rise in the new year. 1962 NYT20000904.0139 -1 4) The Dragonball Z cartoon comes from the Land of the Rising Sun, but it is tops among viewers in a country that once claimed the sun never set on its empire. 1962 NYT20000803.0360 1 the Land of the Rising Sun on Thursday looking at a setting sun.

As players, coaches and staffers staggered off buses and into their hotel in Japan, it was the Atlanta equivalent of 6:35 a.m. It was 7:35 p.m. in Tokyo. The team's charter 1962 NYT19990102.0086 -1 But if you are driving in South Africa and find yourself gazing at barren stretches of eroded land, clusters of huts without electricity or absurdly opulent administration buildings rising from the heart of a shantytown, you are probably in one 1962 APW19980723.0132 -1 Photos USH103-105,108 &QL; &UR; By BILL CORMIER &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; USHUAIA, Argentina (AP) _ The temperature's rising, the sun's peeking out over the mountaintops and it promises to be another scorcher in Argenti 1962 XIE19970127.0082 -1 INE>

HANOI, January 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam and Japan will jointly build a NPK (nitrogen, phosporus and potassium) fertilizer plant in the Go Dau industrial zone, Dong Nai province, in south Vietnam.

The local media said the projec 1962 XIE19990927.0311 -1 INE>

TOKYO, September 27 (Xinhua) -- The following are major news items in leading Japanese newspapers Monday.

Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Nihon Keizai:

-- Finance leaders from the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized countr 1962 NYT19990122.0021 -1 That must have been some scene at McNichols Arena, with people sitting there, expectantly, waiting, glancing at their watches, wondering as time passed, ``What's going on? 1962 NYT19990122.0021 -1 McNichols Arena, with people sitting there, expectantly, waiting, glancing at their watches, wondering as time passed, ``What's going on? Where ``is'' he?''

Th 1962 APW20000101.0132 -1 sun was rising or setting. Today I have the happiness to know it is a rising sun.''

Well, two centuries later, we know the sun will always rise on America, as long as each new generation lights the fire of freedom. Our children are ready 1962 XIE20000926.0196 -1 BEIJING, September 26 (Xinhua)-- China and Vietnam are speeding up talks on the demarcation of the Beibu Gulf, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi here today at a regular press conference.

The two countries will try to solve the 1962 NYT19990825.0449 2 source of Japan's defense anxieties. Last year Pyongyang fired a medium-range missile over Japanese airspace without advance warning, exposing Japan's vulnerability to missile attack. Japanese leaders are also uneasy about China. For decades, Tokyo h 1962 NYT20000904.0139 -1 4) The Dragonball Z cartoon comes from the Land of the Rising Sun, but it is tops among viewers in a country that once claimed the sun never set on its empire. Name both countries. < 1962 XIE19960323.0016 -1 Wildlife is seen by authorities as an excuse by land holders to justify under-utilization of land in the face of rising pressure from the land acquisition act, according to the deputy director of the country's white farmers unio 1965 NYT19990216.0099 -1 Teixeira's problem was tamed, as many patients' are, with low doses of l-dopa (Sinemet) and pramipexole (Mirapex), drugs designed for people with Parkinson's disease, another movement disorder that 1965 APW19990914.0125 -1 The company also will continue manufacturing the Omnitracs global-positioning systems and maintain participation in Globalstar Telecommunications, a worldwide satellite-based phone network consortium. 1965 XIE19960327.0147 -1 Shenyang, had 16 million US dollars in sales in China in 1995.

It joined a company in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, in setting up the Hangzhou MSD Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in 1994, its first joint venture in China.

HANGZHOU, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The US's Merck & Co., Ltd, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, intends to increase its investment in the lucrative China market.

In 1992, the company set up Merck Sharp & Dohme ( 1965 NYT20000913.0314 -1 Hans Wildenberg, 44, formerly the top sales executive in Motorola's chip business, was named to the post Wednesday, succeeding Bill Walker, who last week became general manager and No. 2 executive in the company's $7.4 billion chip business. 1965 NYT20000913.0314 -1 top sales executive in Motorola's chip business, was named to the post Wednesday, succeeding Bill Walker, who last week became general manager and No. 2 executive in the company's $7.4 billion chip business.

Janelle Harris, a sen 1965 APW19990727.0324 -1 Sinemet, has been available for 35 years and is given to 75 percent of patients.

Levadopa is the most effective treatment for the symptoms of Parkinson's, which include tremors, slow movement, rigidity and poor balance. But it has a 1965 NYT19981124.0293 -1 ATLANTA _ Hayes Corp. started shutting down its once-stellar manufacturing unit Tuesday, laying off about 100 employees, with 50 more slated for pink slips in coming weeks.

The Norcross, Ga.-based company, which filed for bankruptcy prote 1965 NYT19981207.0250 -1 Clinic. &QL;

The first drug to treat Parkinson's, levodopa, was on the market as far back as the 1960s. But the side effects of the drug were, for some people, as bad as the disease. Levodopa relieved rigidity, but some patients also expe 1965 NYT19981207.0250 -1 P>

The first drug to treat Parkinson's, levodopa, was on the market as far back as the 1960s. But the side effects of the drug were, for some people, as bad as the disease. Levodopa relieved rigidity, but some patients also experienced nausea, 1965 APW20000214.0201 -1 The company's stationery division manufactures Paper Mate, Parker and Waterman pens. < 1966 NYT19990830.0148 -1 > - Freedom Trail. From Boston Common to Bunker Hill and the USS Constitution, this three-mile walking trail encompasses 16 historic sites, including the State House, Fanueil Hall, Boston Massacre site 1966 NYT20000302.0056 -1 The easiest way to see the sights is from the top of a double-decker sightseeing bus, wind in your hair and Westminster at your feet. 1966 NYT19990715.0136 -1 take to his or her grave the memory of McGwire sending baseballs to MIT, the Bunker Hill Monument, Bell Circle, Bangor, Newfoundland, and Neptune, or wherever those baseballs landed after they soared over the wall, over the screen, and off 1966 NYT19980926.0243 -1 tes officially recognized Norman Humes' sacrifice.

The 49-year-old Kansas City man received a Purple Heart medal at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He earned the honor because shrapnel from a mortar tore into his leg in 1970 during combat. 1966 NYT19990219.0127 -1 ts) By DAVID NYHAN c.1999 The Boston Globe

Let's add up the damage from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's week from hell:

His city has to pay $900,000 to the undercover cop who was savagely beaten by fellow officers too 1966 NYT20000117.0358 -1 ``You look at the real legends of the modern era _ Michael, Larry and Magic _ and they were with one team,'' said Jud Buechler, Hill's teammate who also played with Jordan in Chicago. 1966 NYT20000117.0358 -1 the modern era _ Michael, Larry and Magic _ and they were with one team,'' said Jud Buechler, Hill's teammate who also played with Jordan in Chicago. ``I think that means something to 1966 NYT19980915.0382 -1 see their hands telling the story. And I thought, wow, he wants to do something like that here on the Bunker Hill Monument.'' &QL;

There is a teeming confluence of past and present in Wodiczko's Bunker Hill Monument projection. Built in 1966 NYT19991227.0420 -1

ALBANY, N.Y. _ When New York City's crisis managers convene to track any chaos attending the arrival of the Year 2000, they will ride express elevators from the paneled lobby of 7 World Trade Center to the 23rd floor of the black glass tower. 1966 NYT19981023.0154 -1 REVISITED (For use by New York Times News Service clients) By ALEX BEAM c.1998 The Boston Globe

Bunker Hill, Schmunker Hill. Get ready for the Battle of City Hall Plaza, round two.

The real estate c 1966 NYT19981023.0154 -1 SCHEME REVISITED (For use by New York Times News Service clients) By ALEX BEAM c.1998 The Boston Globe

Bunker Hill, Schmunker Hill. Get ready for the Battle of City Hall Plaza, round two.

The real e 1966 XIE19960318.0210 -1 he Shenyang Branch of the Bank of Communication of China, one of the top banks in the country, will arrange the loans for six private enterprises in Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province. < 1967 XIE19981002.0170 -1 to 1983. In 1996, Australians elected the Liberal Party, in coalition with the National Party of Australia, to govern Australia. 1967 XIE19981003.0192 1 The ALP, the largest and the first modern political party in Australia, was a ruling party on 11 occasions since 1904, including one from 1983 to 1996. 1967 XIE19981002.0170 -1 the trade union movement and remains one of the few parties in the world to retain a formal affiliation with trade unions. The ALP, the largest and the first modern political party in Australia, was a ruling party on 11 occasions since 1904, 1967 XIE19981002.0141 -1 ecent Opposition Leader

CANBERRA, October 2 (Xinhua) -- Kim Beazley, leader of Australia's opposition Labor Party, does not bid for the prime ministership as a man who believes he was destined to lead the nation.

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CANBERRA, October 2 (Xinhua) -- Saturday's federal election will decide the status of John Howard in Australia's history: either a tenacious politician that will usher Australia into the 21st century with a new taxation system, or the 1967 APW19981003.0379 -1 Beazley led Labor to a strong recovery but fell short of capturing the 27 seats the party needed to seize a majority in the House of Representatives, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. The final election result may not be decided for 1967 APW19981003.0379 -1 very but fell short of capturing the 27 seats the party needed to seize a majority in the House of Representatives, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp. The final election result may not be decided for days, depending on the large numbe 1967 XIE19981002.0170 1 Australia:

A coalition of the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia dominated national politics from 1949 to 1983, only ceding power from 1972 to 1975.

From 1983 to 1996, the Australian Labor Party 1967 XIE19961227.0085 1 AUSTRALIA -- In Oceania, Australia's electorate gave Liberal Party leader John Howard the mandate to form a conservative coalition government in the March election, ending 13 years of Labor Party rule under prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. 1967 XIE19990630.0200 -1 with it the title of deputy prime minister.

A coalition between the National Party, which represents the interest of Australian farmers, and the Liberal Party of Australia led by the prime minister won last October's federal election to rule 1967 XIE19990630.0128 -1 sort of glory, prestige, power or notoriety," he said.

A coalition between the National Party, which represents the interest of Australian farmers, and the Liberal Party of Australia led by Howard won last October's federal election to rule 1967 XIE19981002.0170 1 he Australian Labor Party was founded in 1891 by the trade union movement and remains one of the few parties in the world to retain a formal affiliation with trade unions. The ALP, the largest and the first modern political party in Australia, was a 1967 XIE19981003.0192 1 The ALP, the largest and the first modern political party in Australia, was a ruling party on 11 occasions since 1904, including one from 1983 to 199 1968 NYT19990819.0398 1 Lynch said patients sometimes seek alternative therapies in Mexico such as shark cartilage, laetrile (an extract from apricot pits purported to cause regression of cancer), vitamins and herbs. Lynch said laetrile 1968 APW19980603.0785 -1 Apples could perhaps be called the archetypal British fruit, especially where I come from, since Worcester and Hereford (until recently a couple of English counties united by what's colloquially known as a ``shot-gun wedding'' since not everyone want 1968 NYT20000808.0174 1 the kernels as an aromatic is much less risky, and that it would take a lot of kernels to harm an adult. (A derivative of bitter apricot kernels called laetrile was actually once touted as a curative for cancer, but was proved useless.) 1968 NYT19990819.0398 -1 year.

Though chemotherapy was offered as an option, Perrot chose instead to travel to Tijuana for alternative treatment. The family has declined to discuss details of the treatment.

Lynch said patients sometimes seek alternati 1968 NYT20000808.0174 -1 of story.) By AMANDA HESSER c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ It is the perfect dessert for someone who likes to fool guests. It looks like ordinary ice cream, the color of butter, with the flavor of almonds.

1968 XIE19971009.0102 -1 Once the insect is brought into China, it would harm not only China's fruit production but also its fruit trade with other countries, Yu said. 1968 XIE19971009.0102 -1 ina, it would harm not only China's fruit production but also its fruit trade with other countries, Yu said.

So far, China has not fo 1968 APW20000906.0151 -1 laetrile sales by World Without Cancer Inc. and Health World International Inc., of Bay Harbor Fla., and Arizona-based Health Genesis Corp., which also does business in Bay Harbor Island, while the court considers an FDA lawsuit seeking to 1968 APW19990929.0148 -1 Huber said fruit wines allow him to use excess fruit produced on his farm, and they also allow him to spread out his wine production throughout the season, starting with strawberries in the spring, blackberries, raspberries and peaches through th 1968 APW20000906.0151 -1 declared laetrile illegal. Several states fought the FDA action but courts backed the government, ending laetrile's heyday by 1980.

Now laetrile is rebounding on the Internet, sometimes sold under the aliases amygdalin or ''vitamin B17.'' 1968 NYT19990601.0126 -1 The dish is the fool, a sublimely easy spring and summer fruit dessert that is little more than fruit and stiffly whipped cream, sweetened with sugar. The fool can be made with almost any fruit _ even stone fruits like mangoes or peaches _ but is b 1969 NYT19980910.0173 1 > _ American Civil Liberties Union: aclu.org/ 1969 NYT19980629.0158 -1 The school district doesn't have a constitutional leg to stand on, said Jordan Budd, Durkee's ACLU attorney. 1969 NYT19980630.0365 1 Laura W. Murphy, spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the ACLU is firmly against the amendment. 1969 APW19990415.0062 -1 ic Schools, Military

CHICAGO (AP) -- Schools, military bases and other publicly funded groups have no business sponsoring Boy Scout troops so long as Scouts are required to take a religious oath, the American Civil Liberti 1969 XIE19961217.0190 -1 INE>

WASHINGTON, December 16 (Xinhua) -- A federal judge has extended his temporary blockage of the enforcement of California's controversial Civil Rights Initiative because he wants more time to consider arguments about its constitutional 1969 NYT20000316.0163 1 ``If the laws are going to be updated, they need to be updated to guarantee more privacy rights to Americans, rather than less,'' said Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 1969 NYT20000316.0163 1 ted, they need to be updated to guarantee more privacy rights to Americans, rather than less,'' said Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Gregory Nojeim, a leg 1969 NYT20000529.0184 -1 what the ACLU does, and they have a rather distorted image of what the organization stands for,'' said Glasser. ``This is also an attempt to educate people about the issues and inform the public of our core values.''

The ACLU late last 1969 NYT19990510.0325 -1 PA. ACLU FLOODED WITH STUDENT COMPLAINTS FOLLOWING COLORADO INCIDENT &HT; By Lisa Fine &HT; c. 1999 States News Service

WASHINGTON, May 10 -- Pennsylvania teens have flooded the state American Civil Libert 1969 NYT19991022.0101 1 profile of a gay AOL subscriber who described himself as a ``submissive bottom.'' The subscriber alerted his local American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) chapter in Fort Worth, Texas, which, in turn, took the issue to the media and online gay 1969 APW20000122.0119 1 says. ``But that's a moral debate, not a constitutional one.''

The American Civil Liberties Union -- however uncomfortably -- sides with Hale.

``I don't think that our First Amendment rights, which have served our country an 1969 NYT19990828.0021 -1 Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri, said his organization had recruited a Kansas City law firm to determine what legal recourse the ACLU has. He disputed Brown's claim of a return to local control. < 1969 NYT20000529.0184 -1 Generally, people don't know what the ACLU does, and they have a rather distorted image of what the organization stands for,'' said Glasse 1970 NYT19990409.0434 -1 the National Pork Products Council, Plugra Butter, Cervena Venison, and Foods From Spain. Airlines also hire celebrity chefs to develop menus. 1970 APW19981023.0480 1 MADRID, Spain (AP) _ The Spanish airline Iberia has told its pilots that if a salary agreement is not reached this month it will have to cancel an order to buy 11 jetliners from Airbus Industrie, the European manufacturing consortium. 1970 XIE20000214.0083 -1 -- The National Transportation Safety Board said that a part of the tail assembly on the Alaska Airlines jet that crashed January 31 had been found to be worn and in need of replacement in September 1997, but that the airline later decided it was goo 1970 XIE19980922.0064 1 Together the new network, "Oneworld", will become a dominant force in the global airline industry.

Cathay Pacific is set to land a place in the new global network. Six other airlines, Japan Airlines, Iberia of Spain, Maersk Air of Denmark, G 1970 NYT19981212.0072 -1 disappearances and torture, those responsible were rarely charged.

It seems all the stranger then that Spain should now be trying to extradite Pinochet to Madrid to face trial for the genocide, terrorism and torture of Spanish nationals 1970 APW19981107.0267 1 Aid flown to Nicaragua in wake of Hurricane Mitch MADRID, Spain (AP) _ An Iberia jet took off from Spain on Saturday to bring tons of medicine, food, water and other supplies to thousands of Central America's victim 1970 XIE19970812.0276 -1 INE>

WASHINGTON, August 11 (Xinhua) -- Sadd'o Mohammed Ibrahim Intissar, who hijacked a Cuban-bound Spanish jet liner to Miami last year, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison.

He was convicted in U.S. District Court April 25 1970 APW19981107.0267 -1 The Boeing 747, the national airline's biggest plane, also carried members of Spanish humanitarian groups. 1970 APW19981107.0267 -1 ine's biggest plane, also carried members of Spanish humanitarian groups. ``There is a lack of everyth 1970 APW19981107.0267 -1 The Boeing 747, the national airline's biggest plane, also carried members of Spanish humanitarian groups. ``There is a lack of everything there and a long task to rehabilitate the region,'' Leopoldo Gomez, secretary-general of Spain's Red Cross 1970 APW19981107.0267 -1 In all, about 55 tons of supplies donated by the Spanish branch of the Red Cross were shipped to Managua. The Boeing 747, the national airline's biggest plane, also carried members of Spanish humanitarian groups. ``There is a lack of everything t 1970 APW19981023.0480 1 w1688 &Cx1f; wstm- r i &Cx13; &Cx11; BC-Spain-Iberia-Airbus 10-23 0206 BC-Spain-Iberia-Airbus Iberia warns it may cancel Airbus order MADRID, Spain (AP) _ The Spanish airline Ib 1970 XIE19980620.0161 1 NAIROBI, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Iberia, Spain's national carrier, is reviewing the possibility of reinstating its flights to Kenya with a view to boosting tourist traffic between the two countries.

This will be in addition to the current Madrid 1970 NYT20000627.0335 -1 Crist read parts of ``The Ginger Man'' as it was written. ``He was very much impressed by it but never thought it had much to do with him,'' Donleavy said. He did, however, recognize a few events, including the farcical scene in which the ceiling o 1971 XIE19991011.0098 -1 38 meters wide, bigger than the famous Yongle Bell, currently the world's largest, which is located in the Big Bell Temple in northwestern Beijing. 1971 XIE19990826.0171 -1 4 meters in diameter, bigger than the famous Yongle Bell, currently the world' s largest bell, which is located in the Big Bell Temple in the northwest of Beijing. 1971 NYT20000727.0191 2 a wider market.

CRACKED LIBERTY BELL, AND THEN SOME

Each state was supposed to send a version of the Liberty Bell to Philadelphia for the Republican convention next week. But South Dakota's won't make the trip. ``It exploded i 1971 APW19990502.0114 -1 Liberty Bell 7 is still 3 miles deep in the Atlantic 1971 APW19990414.0276 -1 LINE>

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Thirty-eight years after Gus Grissom's Mercury capsule sank to the bottom of the Atlantic, an underwater salvage expert hopes to find and recover the sunken spacecraft.

Curt Newport heads 1971 NYT19990119.0137 1 Economist Newspaper Ltd. (Distributed by the New York Times Special Features)

PHILADELPHIA _ William Kelley, chief executive of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, strides over to his Penn Tower window and, like a latter- 1971 NYT20000729.0190 1 e by New York Times News Service clients) By KIM COBB c.2000 Houston Chronicle

PHILADELPHIA _ This city has struggled for years with a massive civic inferiority complex.

``People come to Philadelphia and they have worse 1971 NYT20000221.0458 -1 Liberty filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Norfolk alleging that Block was unfairly advertising in the test markets that taxpayers were getting full refunds without disclosing the true nature of the loans. 1971 NYT20000221.0458 -1 strict Court in Norfolk alleging that Block was unfairly advertising in the test markets that taxpayers were getting full refunds without disclosing the true nature of the loans.

Block disputes those 1971 XIE19990826.0171 -1 The bell will measure 6.8 meters high and 3.4 meters in diameter, bigger than the famous Yongle Bell, currently the world' s largest bell, which is located in the Big Bell Temple in the northwest of Beijing.

To mark the friendship and 1971 NYT19990721.0318 -1 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Thirty-eight years to the day after it was swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean, Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom's tiny Liberty Bell 7 capsule returned to land Wednesday.

The bell-shaped, nine-foot tall capsule sank wit 1971 APW20000711.0011 1 concierges, an address list for 30 of Philadelphia's most famous landmarks and a matching game with 10 easy questions about the city. (Example: Find both the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Answer: Between 5th and 6th streets on Chestnut Street.) 1971 NYT20000411.0123 -1 And who knows, if such products keep the kids busy enough, they may ask ``Are we there yet?'' only a couple hundred times! &QL; &QL; Advice to go: When you set out in the car for your family vacation _ or any other time _ be sure your children a 1971 XIE19990826.0171 -1 4 meters in diameter, bigger than the famous Yongle Bell, currently the world' s largest bell, which is located in the Big Bell Temple in the northwest of Beijin 1973 NYT20000323.0433 -1 Both players are reserves, yet both are pivotal. 1973 NYT20000906.0270 -1 And once the USA Men's basketball team conquers the world in the Sydney Olympics, Abdur-Rahim should shed his reputation as ``the best player in the NBA nobody knows. 1973 NYT19990628.0191 1 Many figured his upside for the next level was better than the others' because he was the only one whose natural position was center.

Instead, he and the team failed miserably.

``It seemed like everybody had different agendas, 1973 NYT19990329.0053 -1 ough Duke had led by 5 points at halftime, Figgs, who would score all of her game-high 18 points in the second half, rallied Purdue to a 47-39 lead just before White-McCarty slumped to the court.

But as White-McCarty lay on the court, Duk 1973 APW19990706.0109 -1 LINE>

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Elton Brand looked around the gym and couldn't help but wonder if he was in the right place.

There was Tim Duncan posting up Vin Baker on one trip down the floor and Gary Payton penetrating the l 1973 NYT19991129.0004 -1 usually as part of the supporting cast.

``I've never been in this position before,'' he said. ``The last time I played (for the national team), I was one of three guys (in the pivot). Rock's the guy who sets us up.''

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Cheng, who joined Shanghai this season due to the lockout of the league in Chinese Taipei, scored only six points from six shots in the field.

"We played a defensive game and Chen Ke was the best on the position," Bayi head coach Zhan 1973 XIE19991212.0067 -1 scored only six points from six shots in the field.

"We played a defensive game and Chen Ke was the best on the position," Bayi head coach Zhang Bin said. "We forced them to make turnovers and miss shots while our players shot the ball very 1973 NYT19990321.0044 -1 Milwaukee's George Karl said he would have agitated for Paul Pierce had he been running the Bucks' draft last June. As it was, he was, as they say, between jobs. ``I worked with Paul a couple summers ago,'' said Karl, ``and even though he was out o 1973 APW19990530.0041 -1 Azzi, who plays for the WNBA's Detroit Shock, also said she had a difficult time accepting her position as a role player on the national tea 1974 NYT19980804.0146 1 fate as Chuck Cunningham, Richie's older brother on ``Happy Days.'' She disappeared after the 1993 season and everyone forgot she ever existed. 1974 NYT19980831.0432 -1 Soon, Richie and Anthony were spending their last days before school searching the www. 1974 APW19990224.0053 1 he was 6, Howard got the role of Opie Taylor on television's ``The Andy Griffith Show.'' He graduated to Richie Cunningham of ``Happy Days,'' the teen-age geek with the goofy grin.

He also appeared as the wholesome teen-ager of the 1974 APW19990224.0053 -1 LINE>

*Celebrity Spotlight & Birthdays

In the spotlight: Ron Howard

*Image:* If Quentin Tarantino is the Mr. Cool of American cinema, then Ron Howard is its King of Corn: the sweet, sincere square whose 1974 NYT19980804.0146 -1 ice clients) By ROGERS CADENHEAD c.1998 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Q: The early episodes of ``Family Matters'' include a younger sister named Judy who wasn't in any of the newer episodes. Why and how was she cut from the show?

1974 NYT19990723.0212 -1 ``People in Japan report being less happy _ probably because they focus on the negative,'' said Diener, referring to several cross-cultural surveys that have been done. 1974 NYT19990723.0212 -1 s happy _ probably because they focus on the negative,'' said Diener, referring to several cross-cultural surveys that have been done. ``They think about their own shor 1974 NYT20000406.0157 -1 Richie and Janice.''

And what a party it was. Such a happy couple. Who would have guessed that before the hour was out she'd whack him with the gun he liked to hold to her head when they were in bed?

Janice merely suggested 1974 NYT19980701.0330 -1 Richie tries to upgrade his smooth '70s vibe on ``Zoomin','' the opening track, which kicks off with the plucky guitar intro from TLC's ``Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls.'' And there's an ambitious rap number, ``To the Rhythm,'' that sounds like Mase on 1974 APW19990811.0258 -1 Retrovision'' takes aim straight at the Count Chocula set. It's resurrecting such 1970s fare as ``H.R. Pufnstuff,'' the animated ``Star Trek'' and a really weird cartoon version of ``Happy Days'' that sends Richie, Malph and the Fonz into a time m 1974 NYT19980821.0271 1 That '70s Show'' is ``Happy Days'' _ only dressed in more colorful duds. It's Richie Cunningham in bell bottoms and Potsie in paisley. The series' formula is pretty stock teen material, with immature guys and unsuspecting parents and ditsy girls, but 1974 NYT19980804.0146 1 A: Judy, portrayed by Jaimee Foxworth, suffered the same mysterious fate as Chuck Cunningham, Richie's older brother on ``Happy Days.'' She disappeared after the 1993 season and everyone forgot she ever existed. < 1974 NYT19990322.0191 1 He literally grew up on television, starring as Opie on ``The Andy Griffith Show'' in the 1960s and then as Richie Cunningham on ``Happy Days'' the following decad 1975 APW19990829.0084 1 In 30 B.C., Cleopatra, the seventh and most famous queen of ancient Egypt, committed suicide. 1975 NYT20000328.0102 -1 But films like ``Romeo Must Die,'' are as much informed by hip-hop as by ``Cleopatra Jones'' and ``Shaft's Big Score'' _ which seems appropriate given that since so many rap artists from Ol' Dirty Bastard to Snoop Dogg to Foxy Brown _ have been clear 1975 NYT19991227.0237 -1 In the silt of Alexandria harbor, French underwater archaeologists found numerous fallen stone columns, statues, sphinxes and masonry blocks with hieroglyphic and Greek inscriptions. Judging by the location, archaeologists said these could be remains 1975 NYT19990520.0205 -1 /P>

Billy Zane has the showiest performance as the committed Marc Antony, who has been maligned in history as a strong ruler who turned into Cleopatra's helpless puppet.

Several historical truths are skipped for the sake of moving 1975 NYT19990520.0205 -1 use by NYTimes News Service clients) By KEN PARISH PERKINS c.1999 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

One of the more glaring failings of arts criticism is the news media's follow-the-leader weakness in covering singular entertainment projects 1975 NYT19990520.0331 -1 ty novel ``The Memoirs of Cleopatra,'' this mini dies of a weak heart: ABC has commited Nile-ism in the extreme by casting Leonor Varela in the title role. By DAVE WALKER. Story moved i 1975 NYT19990520.0331 -1 a,'' this mini dies of a weak heart: ABC has commited Nile-ism in the extreme by casting Leonor Varela in the title role. By DAVE WALKER. Story moved in the ``E'' category. &QL; &QL; 1975 NYT19990520.0205 -1 Cleopatra. They had another son. In ``Cleopatra,'' Marc Antony and Cleopatra die as lovers and failed rulers, but nothing more.

Aside from the killing, there are no emotional beats in ``Cleopatra,'' nothing that stays with you for the 1975 APW19990519.0183 -1 Varela appeared opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in ``The Man in the Iron Mask,'' a part that took her only a week to film compared with 12 weeks on ``Cleopatra.''

Cleopatra, she says, is ``one of the greatest parts any woman could be given 1975 NYT20000508.0048 -1 alive.''

_ Marc Antony (Richard Burton) in ``Cleopatra''

ETERNAL TRUTHS

``The worst sort of life is better than the best kind of death.''

_ Glydon (William Marshall) in ``Demetrius and the Gladiators'' 1975 NYT19990520.0205 -1 In ``Cleopatra,'' Marc Antony and Cleopatra die as lovers and failed rulers, but nothing mor 1976 NYT20000811.0383 -1 Boy Scouts decision handed down more than two weeks earlier? ``I haven't read the opinion.'' Worse, each of these non-answers was surrounded by yards of scripted boilerplate, obfuscation or 1976 NYT19990804.0361 -1 It is the first defeat on the issue for the Boy Scouts in a state Supreme Court, and the organization is vowing to appeal the decision to the U. 1976 APW19990804.0003 -1 George Davidson, an attorney for the Boy Scouts, had argued the group has a right to pick its own leaders without interference from ``an all-powerful state. 1976 NYT19981126.0047 1 next generation of Scouts on everything from tying a square knot to navigating the Internet.

The tenets haven't changed. ``Be Prepared'' is still the official Boy Scout motto. And the Scout laws _ be trustworthy, obedient, cheerful _ are 1976 NYT19981202.0135 -1 xuals, whom the BSA bans. On Monday the US Supreme Court denied a gay former Scout leader's challenge to the policy.)

``The new handbook continues the emphasis on the Scout oath and Scout law and Scout values,'' says Setzer. ``But it does 1976 NYT19980721.0087 -1 clients) By DIEGO RIBADENEIRA c.1998 The Boston Globe

The Boy Scouts of America has ordered the Unitarian Universalist Association, a liberal denomination with long roots in New England, to stop giving out religious awards to 1976 APW20000423.0025 -1 Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It took James Dale 11 years to rise through the ranks of the Boy Scouts. It took the Boy Scouts only 11 days to kick him out after learning he was gay.

Dale was a Cub Scout at 8, a Boy Scout at 11, 1976 NYT19981126.0047 1 Scouts on everything from tying a square knot to navigating the Internet.

The tenets haven't changed. ``Be Prepared'' is still the official Boy Scout motto. And the Scout laws _ be trustworthy, obedient, cheerful _ are as intact as the 1976 NYT19990521.0268 -1 On May 7, a Boy Scout official wrote Buehrens saying the Scouts could not authorize the emblem because the association was planning to provide written materials to Unitarian Universalist Boy Scouts, along with the revised manual, describing the assoc 1976 NYT19981126.0047 1 on everything from tying a square knot to navigating the Internet.

The tenets haven't changed. ``Be Prepared'' is still the official Boy Scout motto. And the Scout laws _ be trustworthy, obedient, cheerful _ are as intact as the Ten Comma 1976 NYT19990325.0145 -1 ``You know what Muni's motto is, don't you?'' said Annie Jew. ``Their motto is: `We're already at work.''' < 1977 APW19991001.0218 -1 Waynesville is about 30 miles west of Asheville, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the North Carolina-Tennessee line. 1977 APW19991008.0042 -1 Off the Cape Fear coast, the runoff is at least 40 feet deep and covers 300 square miles, said Larry Cahoon, marine scientist at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 1977 NYT19980824.0085 -1 chian Mountains of North Carolina, an army of more than 200 people were engaged at the height of the hunt for Eric Rudolph, who has been charged with the death of a security guard in the bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic.

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TARBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Overnight rainfall caused more flooding today in eastern North Carolina, slowing the recovery from Hurricane Floyd and the state's worst environmental disaster.

``The rivers are now swollen with h 1977 APW19991008.0051 -1 is that the pollutants become more concentrated as water evaporates.

Off the Cape Fear coast, the runoff is at least 40 feet deep and covers 300 square miles, said Larry Cahoon, marine scientist at the University of North Carolina at 1977 APW19990914.0039 -1 tes, roared through the Bahamas.

Floyd's eye was expected to pass within 90 miles of southern Florida today, and perhaps come within 50 miles of north Florida's coast by Wednesday morning, before striking land somewhere farther north. 1977 NYT19980921.0130 -1 National Park covers 517,000 acres.

Where it is: The park straddles 60 miles of the North Carolina-Tennessee state line.

Peak facts: Sixteen peaks inside the park rise above 6,000 feet, making them the highest mountains east o 1977 NYT19990916.0341 -1 New Hanover County is North Carolina's second-smallest county in square miles, but one of the most densely populated, with roughly 150,00 people. It trails only booming Charlotte and Raleigh in projected growth through 2010. < 1977 NYT20000315.0364 -1 Along North Carolina's 150 miles of developed shoreline, from this beach town near the South Carolina line to the Outer Banks bumping against Virginia, 968 oceanfront buildings are now threatened by erosion, according to a new survey by the North Car 1978 NYT19980805.0469 -1 Coming off a second quarter in which its revenues from computer hardware dropped 13 percent, Big Blue could use a shot in the arm that Sun's hot servers and workstations could provide. 1978 XIE19970312.0182 -1 INE>

GUANGZHOU, March 12 (Xinhua) -- A simple but solemn ceremony was held today in this capital of south China's Guangdong Province in commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, forerunner of the Chinese democr 1978 NYT19990124.0216 -1 /HEADLINE> CHRON - SUN &HT; By David Einstein &HT; c. 1999 San Francisco Chronicle

&QL; Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems' chief scientist, is to chief executive Scott McNealy what Merlin was to King Arthur. And today, Sun's tec 1978 NYT19981119.0074 -1 symbols) (bl) By ROB FIXMER c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

Why is Java such a big deal?

Java, the programming language at issue in the contract dispute between the Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems, is funda 1978 NYT19980928.0169 -1 Since temperatures reach five million degrees at the center of the sun, standard materials can't be used to build a container to hold such a reaction. 1978 NYT19980928.0169 -1 ion degrees at the center of the sun, standard materials can't be used to build a container to hold such a reaction. Scientists have built machines ca 1978 XIE19960416.0293 -1 big apple displayed by the university and asked a professor how they produced such big apples. The professor answered his questions in detail.

Sun Changwu, a farmer of the Jinlong Village, went to the fair early in the morning to look for 1978 XIE19971012.0111 -1 depiction of the thesis.

Veteran Sun, winner of the men's 10-meter platform in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games at the age of 16, knew he has more for a big party after the Naitional Games' gold ultimately draped around his neck on Saturday. 1978 APW19980601.0493 -1 xfdws UM'S-EXPLANATIONS sked Emerging Markets Datafile June 01, 1998 NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES ENGLISH COPYRIGHT 1998 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONT 1978 NYT19981206.0045 -1 The Sun Bowl has a contract to match teams from the Pac-10 and Big Ten conferences. Here's how yesterday's results effected TCU: < 1978 NYT19990823.0450 -1 0450 NEWS STORY 1999-08-23 23:58

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BC-SUN-SUN _ SF CHRON Sun to Pony Up $540 Million for 1979 NYT20000319.0099 -1 Hayden's team emphasized five solar system zones. The first contains the terrestrial planets _ Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars _ that have metallic cores and a rocky crust and orbit closest to 1979 APW19990329.0017 -1 Serena trails 3-0 in the sibling rivalry, and there's division within the family regarding how many tournaments she and Venus should enter together. 1979 APW19990329.0173 -1 ``No matter how many times we play each other, I could never say that it would affect my relationship with Venus. 1979 NYT19990816.0266 -1 7.) (nk) By WARREN E. LEARY c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

A giant robot spacecraft called Cassini is to streak past Earth Tuesday night on its way to Saturn, culminating a circuitous, two-year journey through the inner solar 1979 APW19990818.0104 -1 Venus to increase its speed since its launch in October 1997. In December 2000, it will swing by Jupiter for a final push toward Saturn and its moons, which the probe will study for four years beginning in 2004.

NASA has used ``gravity 1979 NYT19990111.0260 -1 But Harlow wouldn't do the film and the song was shelved until Rodgers and Hart were asked for a song for ``Manhattan Melodrama,'' with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy. Hart reportedly just rewrote the lyrics and called it ``The Bad In Every Man.'' A song 1979 APW19990814.0075 -1 P>

The flyby at 8:28 p.m. PDT Tuesday will use Earth's gravity to change the probe's direction and speed relative to the sun. Without the ``gravity assist'' and two previous close encounters with Venus and a future flyby of Jupiter, the prob 1979 APW19990818.0104 -1 Cassini has twice used the gravity of Venus to increase its speed since its launch in October 1997. In December 2000, it will swing by Jupiter for a final push toward Saturn and its moons, which the probe will study for four years beginning in 20 1979 NYT20000913.0078 -1 Last month, at the triennial meeting of the International Astronomical Union, the body that is the final arbiter of celestial titles, scientists met to consider what to call the craters and mountains and plains that litter the surfaces of planets lik 1980 NYT19990210.0062 1 say the moon is a quarter-million miles (250,000 miles) away from Earth, the distance actually varies because the moon's orbit around Earth is not a circle but an 1980 NYT19991218.0089 1 For the record, the moon will be 221,662 miles away from Earth when it reaches perigee at 3 a. 1980 NYT19991218.0089 1 the stars.

``We like it best when the moon isn't there,'' he said.

For the record, the moon will be 221,662 miles away from Earth when it reaches perigee at 3 a.m. Wednesday.

At 11:44 p.m. Tuesday, the Earth will b 1980 NYT19991221.0016 1 Around 3 a.m., the moon reaches perigee, coming within 221,662 miles of Earth. At 9:31 a.m., the moon is at its fullest 1980 APW19981013.1191 -1 lectricity, study shows &UR; By PAUL RECER &QC; &UR; AP Science Writer &QC; MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) _ More than 30 volcanoes spew lava, an eerie blue light erupts from torrid fountains and a natural dynamo generates more e 1980 NYT19990719.0430 -1 imes News Service clients) By DAVID L. CHANDLER c.1999 The Boston Globe

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. _ A new satellite observatory called Chandra, poised for a launch aboard the space shuttle Columbia early Tuesday morning, is expected to 1980 APW19981106.1139 -1 mn is sponsored by The Associated Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation. This column is based on an AP story that was for use on Oct.14. ___ &QC; Jupiter's Moon Puts on a Show MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) _ Io 1980 APW19981106.1139 -1 Io is 2,236 miles (3,598 kilometers) in diameter, slightly larger than the Earth's moon. 1980 APW19981106.1139 -1 s) in diameter, slightly larger than the Earth's moon. Io is one of four Jovian moons di 1980 APW19980722.1258 -1 the ball, in his words, for `miles and miles,''' Clinton said. No one is really sure how far it traveled. Shepard was only trying to demonstrate the moon's gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. ``Being a golfer, I thought if I could just 1980 NYT19981208.0128 -1 And Jupiter's little moon Io _ where ferocious volcanoes spew lava night and day _ may have a weirdly shaped magnetic field, said Gary A. Glatzmaier, a space scientist at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Because of Io's hot, bubbling inter 1980 APW19990930.0362 1 roof -- on the moon with lasers.

But, after consulting for two months with astronomers and physicists, they found that the image would have to be as big as Texas to be seen by earthlings more than 238,000 miles away. The project 1980 NYT19980618.0449 1 to be an expensive piece of space junk. In April it began the seemingly improbably salvage mission _ to send the satellite around the Moon, some 240,000 miles away, and back to an Earth orbit.

The idea was to have the Moon's gravity provi 1980 NYT19990719.0430 1 Once in its higher orbit _ which will reach out as far as 87,000 miles above Earth, or a third of the way to the moon, at its highest point _ the telescope will be out of reach of astronauts. Even at the low point in its 64-hour orbit, Chandra will 1980 NYT19990210.0064 1 Although people generally say the moon is a quarter-million miles (250,000 miles) away from Earth, the distance actually varies because the moon's orbit around Earth is not a circle but an oval, which resembles a slightly flattened circl 1981 NYT19990705.0023 1 CAIRNS, Australia _ The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,200 miles along the northeast coast of Australia, the largest system of coral reefs in the world. It is not a 1981 NYT19991207.0076 1 Barry (as in Barrier) is a familiar figure off the island as he greets snorkelers and swims around with hundreds of his smaller friends _ just a sampling of the 1,500 species of fish found in the 1,250-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, stretching along t 1981 NYT19991208.0092 1 Barry (as in Barrier) is a familiar figure off the island as he greets snorkelers and swims around with hundreds of his smaller friends _ just a sampling of the 1,500 species of fish found in the 1,250-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, stretching along t 1981 NYT19991207.0076 -1 treasure. But then again so is the Wet Tropics rain forest, which brings you the world as it was millions of years ago. The rain forest area stretches from about 125 miles north of Cairns, the biggest city in the area, to some 185 miles south 1981 XIE20000510.0161 -1 INE>

ATHENS, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The flame that will burn at the Sydney Olympics was ignited Wednesday in a ceremony in the ancient birthplace of the games.

Cloudy conditions prevented the flame from being lit in a concave mirror a 1981 NYT19990622.0129 -1 Debuting this year, the Great South Pacific runs some 850 miles miles through Queensland from Brisbane, the glistening seaside state capital, to Cairns, a springboard to the Great Barrier Reef. 1981 NYT19990622.0129 -1 h Pacific runs some 850 miles miles through Queensland from Brisbane, the glistening seaside state capital, to Cairns, a springboard to the Great Barrier Reef. Eventually, as modern track is la 1981 NYT19991208.0092 1 the 1,250-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, stretching along the continent's northeastern coast.

The reef, with its fish and coral and islands and waters in several shades of green, is a treasure. But then again so is the Wet Tropics rain 1981 NYT20000713.0098 -1 Internet.

Other comprehensive online sites include www.destinationqueensland.com (the official site of Tourism Queensland), www.great-barrier-reef.com, www.cairns.aust.com and www.portdouglas.com.

Packages: A tour packager 1981 NYT19990219.0397 -1 Colo., the world's biggest escorted-travel operator, has added eight tours this year, offering more excursions and optional tours as well as river rafting in the Rockies and diving at Australia's Great Barrier Reef. It also has tours of two weeks or 1981 XIE19970605.0258 -1 he Caribbean barrier reef of the four countries, which stretches for 1000 kilometers, is the second longest in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef. < 1981 NYT19990705.0023 -1 Yet today, at a time when some other reefs are rapidly declining, the Great Barrier Reef is in relatively good shape, protected by its immense size, by low population densities in its remote northern reaches and by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park 1982 XIE19970312.0090 -1 HK Academic Program Gets Professional Award 1982 APW19990304.0006 -1 Since inception of the awards in 1989, the top movie winner has gone on to win an Academy Award for best picture every year with the exception of 1995 and 1992. 1982 APW19990304.0197 -1 Since inception of the awards in 1989, the top movie winner has gone on to win an Academy Award for best picture every year with the exception of 1995 and 1992. 1982 APW20000325.0089 1 a way but that's what it is today.''

The Zanucks, Oscar winners themselves for producing the 1989 Best Picture ''Driving Miss Daisy,'' are trying to bring back the glamour -- by moving into the future.

They promise the 72nd Ac 1982 NYT20000124.0009 -1 urricane'' from Norman Jewison, about the wrongful imprisonment of the boxer Ruben Carter, won Washington his award for best actor in a drama. He was joined onstage by Carter.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Steven Spielberg's ``Saving Private Ryan'' won the top movie award from the Producers Guild of America.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Steven Spielberg's ``Saving Private Ryan'' won the top movie award from the Producers Guild of America.

Since inception of the awards in 1989, the top movie winner has gone on to win an Academy Awa 1982 APW20000327.0009 -1 ''Everyone put their heart and their soul into this movie,'' said Swank, 25, who bested a field including Annette Bening of ''American Beauty,'' Meryl Streep of ''Music of the Heart,'' Janet McTeer of ''Tumbleweeds'' and Julianne Moore of ''The End o 1982 APW20000327.0009 -1 ir soul into this movie,'' said Swank, 25, who bested a field including Annette Bening of ''American Beauty,'' Meryl Streep of ''Music of the Heart,'' Janet McTeer of ''Tumbleweeds'' and Julianne Moore of ''The End of the Affair.''

''I'm 1982 APW19990304.0197 -1 won the top movie award from the Producers Guild of America.

Since inception of the awards in 1989, the top movie winner has gone on to win an Academy Award for best picture every year with the exception of 1995 and 1992 1982 NYT19990314.0077 -1 and ``The English Patient'' and winning Oscars in some top categories.

Although the Dreamworks film ``Saving Private Ryan'' remains the leading contender for the Oscar, the comedy ``Shakespeare in Love'' seems to be gaining. Katzenberg an 1982 APW19990325.0198 -1 The movie ``Titanic,'' which won the 1998 Academy Award for best picture, included footage of the shipwreck shot by director James Cameron and his crew before Clarke's ruling. < 1982 APW19990304.0197 -1 Since inception of the awards in 1989, the top movie winner has gone on to win an Academy Award for best picture every year with the exception of 1995 and 199 1983 APW19990826.0055 -1 In 1908, Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States, was born near Stonewall, Texas. 1983 NYT20000731.0216 -1 Five men in the 20th century (Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford) became president simply by being vice president when a presidential vacancy occurred. 1983 NYT20000821.0025 1 a problem, and religion would only be an issue if an agnostic or atheist ran for president.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69, Democrat) - Affiliated with the Disciples of Christ; attended church at home and at the National City Christian Church 1983 NYT20000816.0230 1 ashington scene, three vice presidents have become president through the succession process: Harry Truman in 1945 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered a fatal stroke; Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; and Geral 1983 APW19990820.0114 -1 LINE>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before the 1964 presidential campaign, President Lyndon B. Johnson got an offer of help from an improbable source -- Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro.

Castro sent a verbal message to Johnson that he 1983 NYT20000816.0230 1 president through the succession process: Harry Truman in 1945 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered a fatal stroke; Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; and Gerald R. Ford in 1974 when Richard Nixon was forced to 1983 NYT19991208.0193 1 When Johnson succeeded the slain John F. Kennedy as president in November 1963, America had 16,000 military advisers in Vietnam. Thinking that the United States could defeat the communist Vietcong and preserve South Vietnam as a bastion of democracy, 1983 NYT19990324.0384 -1 the Gulf of Tonkin incident contributed to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, and Johnson was the commander of the U. S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific during the confrontations on Aug. 2 and Aug. 4, 1964.

President Lyndon B. John 1983 NYT19990807.0057 -1 And even though the first primary is months away, his real estate foray, which first became news about six weeks ago, has already elicited headlines of ``Little White House on the Prairie'' and evoked comparisons to the ranch in Blanco County where P 1984 NYT19990121.0309 1 fear a retirement crisis?'' Third Millennium claims to speak for members of ``Generation X,'' who were born between 1965 and 1980. 1984 NYT19980715.0055 -1 I thought people born between 1917 and 1924 were the so-called Social Security ``notch babies. 1984 NYT19990226.0232 1 70 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. Without changes, it will be up to the less-populous ``Generation X'' _ 40 million people born between 1965 and 1980 _ to finance the government programs.

With medical costs rising and th 1984 NYT19990402.0065 -1 Bartholomew is a combined parish of about 400 families in the medieval part of this hill town of 21,000 people in the region of Umbria about 90 minutes from Rome. The church is one of hundreds of struggling congregations off the usual path of tourist 1984 NYT19990826.0412 -1 (DW) (ATTN: N.C., Minn., Mich. ) By IRA BERKOW c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

Other than running Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minn., in June, with the entire route winding for 26 miles 385 yards along the sho 1984 NYT20000228.0320 -1 One in every 1,461 people is a leap day baby. 1984 NYT20000228.0320 -1 p day baby. There are about 200,000 in Americ 1984 XIE19970602.0230 -1 1980 to 1985, has been in poor health due to a variety of diseases, the ITAR-TASS news agency said.

Born in May 1905, Tikhonov was deputy prime minister and first deputy prime minister from 1965 to 1976 before he became the prime minister 1984 NYT19980627.0135 -1 Katz, who was born in Hungary, joined the faculty of Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, in 1950 and went on to hold its Bella and Israel Unterberg Memorial Chair of Jewish Social and Educational History. From 1969 to 1972, when he retired from the univ 1984 NYT19990827.0231 1 fabrics with a high-tech feel.

Generation Y _ the children of baby boomers, born mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and raised in a general age of affluence _ dwarfs its shorter-age-span predecessor, Generation X, the roughly 45 million people 1984 NYT19990226.0232 1 Social Security. Medicare also faces the impending retirement of a rising pool of beneficiaries _ the 70 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. Without changes, it will be up to the less-populous ``Generation X'' _ 40 million people born be 1984 NYT19981204.0216 1 The reason is demographic. More people are retiring early and they're living longer. And the payroll taxes of the 40 million members of Generation X _ born between 1965 and 1980 _ will not be sufficient to finance the 76-million strong Baby Boom ge 1984 XIE19960704.0118 -1 BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese lawmaker today called for a clearer definition of the identity of people who were born in China but live oversea 1985 APW19990614.0006 -1 Cavs No Closer to Naming Coach 1985 NYT19990202.0435 -1 In an attempt to elevate its brand awareness and forge a strategic bond, Royal Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands will pay an estimated $180 million to emblazon its name on the 20,000-seat arena being built by Time Warner Inc. 1985 APW19990601.0165 1 Cavaliers owner Gordon Gund, looking for new blood, more wins and more fans in the arena that bears his name, dumped Fratello a month after the team ended an injury-plagued 22-28 season. 1985 NYT19991106.0233 1 to earth, and yet very much a part of the team's first loss of the year, 102-93, at the Cavaliers' Gund Arena Saturday night. Thomas was the one who was supposed to ease the loss of Johnson for the night after the Knicks' leader came down 1985 APW19990601.0165 -1 LINE>

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Mike Fratello has been the master of slow-paced, half-court basketball and the ``Czar of the Telestrator.'' He was never the coach of a playoff winner in Cleveland.

Now he's out of a job.

1985 NYT19991019.0045 -1 USC envisions the arena as a ``campus events center'' that can also host concerts and NCAA playoffs such as basketball regionals. 1985 NYT19991019.0045 -1 pus events center'' that can also host concerts and NCAA playoffs such as basketball regionals. The university also hopes to attr 1985 NYT19991117.0090 1 the Ricktator's first free agent signings was ex-Cav Chris Mills, who lasted less than a 24-second violation in Boston. There also was the Boston meltdown in Gund Arena last year (113-86), which prompted Pitino to say that he'd change his lineup (he 1985 APW19990426.0197 -1 Kemp, averaging 20.5 points and 9.2 rebounds this season, was listed as doubtful for Monday night's game against the Miami Heat. But just before the Cavs took the floor for pregame warmups, a team spokesman said Kemp would not play and will be st 1985 NYT19991117.0090 1 Pitino Years in Boston, they'll notice an early, heavy Cleveland effect. One of the Ricktator's first free agent signings was ex-Cav Chris Mills, who lasted less than a 24-second violation in Boston. There also was the Boston meltdown in Gund Arena l 1985 APW19990927.0234 -1 unusually sonorous as Alfio, the jealous husband who kills Turiddu in a duel.

Carlo Rizzi conducted both operas with a lot of energy but also with some missed signals between the orchestra and the singers.

``Cav'' and ``Pag,' 1985 NYT19991117.0090 -1 When hoop historians start chronicling the Pitino Years in Boston, they'll notice an early, heavy Cleveland effect. One of the Ricktator's first free agent signings was ex-Cav Chris Mills, who lasted less than a 24-second violation in Boston. There 1986 NYT19981028.0258 -1 > ``Chancellor Khayat's great goal is to free the University of Mississippi from these negative images,'' said David Sansing, an Ole Miss historian and the author of the university's 1986 NYT20000517.0336 -1 Shoppers can load up on Ole Miss football souvenirs at University Sporting Goods on the square, but they also can find fine art and hand-crafted pottery at the Southside Gallery and Mississippi Madness. 1986 NYT19981028.0238 1 others it means enormous pressure to pick a school quickly. By Peter Applebome. With photo.

EDLIFE-OLEMISS-DIXIE (Oxford, Miss.) _ A century and a half ago, the University of Mississippi sent its sons off to the Civil War. A century 1986 NYT20000704.0068 1 e a sleepy community famous only for its literary heritage and Ole Miss football games, Oxford is rapidly becoming a trendy urban center for music, art, restaurants and shops.

You can still get collards and chicken-fried steak at the Ajax 1986 NYT20000517.0336 1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

OXFORD, Miss. _ The stone Confederate soldier still stands on the square as a silent memorial to Lafayette County's Civil War dead, but that's about all that hasn't changed in William Faulkner's hometow 1986 NYT19991231.0034 -1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

ATHENS, Ga. _ Call him the scum doctor. He doesn't mind.

For the past seven years, geologist Walter O'Niell has been dipping his hands into tanks blanketed by mats of a primitive blue-green 1986 NYT20000517.0336 -1 ootball souvenirs at University Sporting Goods on the square, but they also can find fine art and hand-crafted pottery at the Southside Gallery and Mississippi Madness.

Named one of the ``10 1986 NYT19981028.0262 -1 Ole Miss must change, the university's loyalists say, it is Robert Khayat. He is, after all, one of them.

Born in Moss Point near the Mississippi coast, Khayat was an all-conference baseball player at Ole Miss. He also led the nation in 1986 NYT19981028.0262 -1 That a black woman could shed tears over Confederate dead seems incongruous on a campus whose history has so mirrored the racial conflicts of the South. By the 1950s, even as integrationist movements were gaining strength elsewhere, the imagery of th 1986 NYT19981029.0431 1 Linda Rosier/New York Times Photo)

(NYT3) OXFORD, Miss. -- Oct. 29, 1998 -- ADV. FOR SUN., NOV. 1 -- EDLIFE-OLEMISS-DIXIE-2, 10-29 -- Robert Khayat the chancellor of the University of Mississippi. Khayat, a former Ole Miss student, footba 1986 XIE19991227.0149 -1 University City" In Northwest China < 1986 NYT19981028.0258 -1 Chancellor Khayat's great goal is to free the University of Mississippi from these negative images,'' said David Sansing, an Ole Miss historian and the author of the university's sesquicentennial histor 1989 APW19990113.0054 -1 Moist snuff topped loose leaf/chewing tobacco as the leading seller of smokeless tobacco products in terms of total pounds sold. With sales of 55.28 million pounds in 1997, moist 1989 APW19990612.0148 -1 Chewing tobacco is banned in the minor leagues and college baseball, although Florida State sports information director Rob Wilson said about two or three Seminoles use it. 1989 APW20000321.0086 -1 -- Smoking banned on interstate buses and domestic airline flights of six hours or less.

1992 -- Nicotine patches introduced.

1993 -- Vermont bans smoking in indoor public places.

April 1994 -- Executives of seven 1989 APW19990922.0226 -1 LINE>

Events in the fight over tobacco in the United States:

1954 -- Industry faces first liability lawsuit by lung cancer victim alleging negligence and breach of warranty. Suit dropped 13 years later.

1964 -- S 1989 NYT19980729.0562 -1 inn.) (rm) By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

Bill Tuttle, a former American League outfielder who waged a campaign against the use of chewing tobacco after developing oral cancer that left him disfigured, di 1989 APW19980922.0563 -1 The tobacco companies filed their lawsuit Monday in Britain's High Court, where they hope to persuade judges to transfer the case to the European Court of Justice. 1989 APW19980922.0563 -1 lawsuit Monday in Britain's High Court, where they hope to persuade judges to transfer the case to the European Court of Justice. (db-ms/sw) (PROF 1989 APW19990612.0148 -1 chewing is OK.''

Chewing tobacco is banned in the minor leagues and college baseball, although Florida State sports information director Rob Wilson said about two or three Seminoles use it.

``It used to be, 10 years ago or 1989 NYT19980729.0562 -1 Bill Tuttle, a former American League outfielder who waged a campaign against the use of chewing tobacco after developing oral cancer that left him disfigured, died Monday at a hospice in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Tuttle, who lived in Anoka, Minn., and 1989 APW19990612.0148 -1 decayed mouths and other tales intended to discourage use of smokeless tobacco.

``People need to know about it,'' said passer-by Jerry Luke, 46, a banker from Atlantic, Iowa. ``Everybody hears about the importance of quitting smoking a 1989 NYT20000403.0609 -1 burned out.'' Contrast that to last month, when he was a surprise, last-minute entry in the 2000 Doral-Ryder Open despite making a cross-country flight during tournament week. Duval said a rigorous conditioning program, coupled with a fat-free diet a 1989 NYT19981206.0150 -1 It's one of several squeegee shrines around Southern California that the former New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies All-Star center fielder has erected with his baseball fortunes and chewing tobacco endorsement cas 1990 APW19990701.0208 -1 The queen did not wear the crown or glittering robes in which she opens Parliament in London. Instead, she sported a purple coat and hat over a green dress, topped with 1990 NYT20000724.0552 -1 In responding to the often vapid print adventures of his competitors, Lee was incredibly canny in the way he shaped comic-book heroes and subverted the idiom. 1990 NYT19990507.0180 -1 (Attn: N.J., Fla.) (af) By FRANK DE CARO c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ Among my friends, Ebay is hotter than Britney Spears.

On-line bidding on everything from lady-head planters to Ba 1990 NYT20000721.0382 -1 ``Of course, that happens more when I wear my Klingon costume.'' 1990 NYT20000721.0382 -1 n I wear my Klingon costume.''

It was that kind of c 1990 APW19990226.0118 -1 a red-headed friend of his named Archie,'' Mrs. Goldwater said. ``He also created Betty and Veronica. Then he decided Archie needed a real good friend. That was Jughead. It just grew and grew.''

Goldwater ran Archie Comic Publications 1990 APW19990226.0118 -1 was broadcast on NBC in 1990.

``Archie was based partly on a red-headed friend of his named Archie,'' Mrs. Goldwater said. ``He also created Betty and Veronica. Then he decided Archie needed a real good friend. That was Jughead. It jus 1991 NYT20000618.0085 -1 BBA-MARINERS (Minneapolis) _ Mariners at Minnesota. 1991 NYT19991006.0470 -1 com, and that site may contain information about how the team will get its name. 1991 NYT19980921.0095 -1 Capitol.

Watkins said he had, too.

_ By RICK BRAGG

Familiar Names In Minnesota Too

In a race among men with famous Minnesota names, victory in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's primary for governor we 1991 NYT19990602.0109 -1 Drivers on freeways in California's Silicon Valley were startled to see, last summer, giant billboards exhorting them to ``upgrade to Minnesota 1991 APW19990407.0109 -1 LINE>

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Gov. Jesse Ventura has been named his state's entrepreneur of the year.

Minnesota Entrepreneurs Inc. said Tuesday that Ventura has taken entrepreneurship ``to a higher level.'' The group's pres 1991 APW20000608.0006 -1 In Minnesota, he obtained a driver's license using a false name and passed a criminal background check to get a job as a manager at a gas station. 1991 APW20000608.0006 -1 's license using a false name and passed a criminal background check to get a job as a manager at a gas station.

Wilson was being held 1991 NYT19990115.0381 -1 Minnesota 6. ``Pittsburgh tried to give it to us everywhere they could; we wouldn't take it.'' Super Bowl XI: Oakland 32, Minnesota 14. ``Some days it just doesn't happen,'' Page said. ``That's how I looked at it. Did I like it? No. You learn how to 1991 NYT20000326.0006 -1 But Minnesota made good use of the at-large bid it got after losing the Western Collegiate Hockey Association tournament to upstart Minnesota-Duluth. Leading, 2-1, going into the third period, the Golden Gophers put the game out of reach when Nadine 1991 NYT20000126.0081 -1 this Super Bowl if Vikings Coach Denny Green hadn't stubbornly insisted on taking quarterback Daunte Culpepper, a luxury for that defensively strapped team.

Sure, three of those 14 teams took quarterbacks for need, but four defensive play 1991 APW19981206.0959 -1 a lot of Canadians thinking about this idiosyncratic, occasionally un-Canadian province. FEA-CANADA-COWBOY COUNTRY. To move as wire time permits. By David Crary. AP Photo NY313, Graphic ALBERTA. YOUR QUERIES: The Associated Press World Service ed 1991 NYT19990903.0050 -1 NHL'S MINNESOTA WILD NAME DOUG RISEBROUGH AS GENERAL MANAGER < 1991 NYT19990306.0246 -1 The Big Ten, the nation's highest-rated conference, definitely will get six and probably will get seven, with Minnesota (17-10) and its power rating of 18 screaming to be include 1992 NYT19981203.0556 -1 '' Sun decided not to begin selling Hot Java, he said, simply because the company could not figure out how to make money with it when Microsoft was giving away its browser, Internet Explorer. 1992 APW19990731.0035 -1 But in the Valley of the Sun, it was hot yesterday, it's hot today and it's going to be hot tomorrow. 1992 XIE19980227.0240 1 because it provides an opportunity to observe the outer corona of the sun. The sun's temperatures often reach two million degrees centigrade and can not be seen under normal conditions.

According to Panamanian experts, the next eclipse of th 1992 NYT19990704.0135 -1 p, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service on Long Island.

How hot was it? The weather service recorded 95 degrees at Kennedy International Airport and 96 in Central Park; 98 in Newark, N.J., Philadelphia and Washington; 92 in H 1992 NYT19990721.0025 -1 e clients) By ALAN BAVLEY and LEE HILL KAVANAUGH c. 1999 Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ 'Tis the season _ to sweat.

Yup. Summer has finally settled in with all its sunshine, wilting humidity and blast-furnace he 1992 NYT20000811.0220 -1 c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

NATIONAL FORECAST &QL;

Weather conditions will deteriorate along the Northeast Seaboard Saturday as low pressure forms near the coast. As breezes begin to blow onshore, clouds and occasio 1992 NYT19990703.0122 -1 As a result of the slow wobble, 11,000 years from now the Earth will be closest to the sun during the northern summer. 1992 NYT19990703.0122 -1 ,000 years from now the Earth will be closest to the sun during the northern summer.

NY 1992 NYT20000802.0188 -1 the heat, we set out to actually show just how hot it is outside _ to see if there is any empirical truisms behind the hot weather idioms.

Hence the egg. And a slew of other attempts to prove the blistering power of the August sun on the 1992 APW19980702.1200 -1 ``The very hot lavas erupting on Io are hotter than anything that has erupted on Earth for billions of years,'' said Alfred McEwen, lead author of a study appearing Friday in the journal Science. ``They are the highest surface temperatures in the sol 1992 NYT19990406.0184 -1 instinct would impel a man to leave his home, cut his hair short and drill for hours under the hot sun. As anthropologists Clifton B. Kroeber and Bernard L. Fontana have pointed out, ``It is a large step from what may be biologically innate leanings 1992 NYT19990823.0450 -1 0450 NEWS STORY 1999-08-23 23:58

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BC-SUN-SUN _ SF CHRON Sun to Pony Up $540 Million for 1993 NYT19981020.0169 1 A. Since Switzerland has three official languages _ German, French and Italian _ it is a great place to improve one's fluency. So much so that each year, Switzerland Tourism, 608 Fifth 1993 NYT19990906.0151 1 ) In reality, they say, there is no evidence that civic unity stems from sharing a single national language _ look at Switzerland, whose three official languages don't seem to have done it any harm. 1993 XIE20000901.0151 -1 GENEVA, September 1 (Xinhua) -- Pupils at primary schools in Switzerland should get lessons in at least three languages, including English, according to a press release by the Swiss education authorities Friday.

At a conference in the Swiss 1993 APW20000418.0031 -1 ong with his Croatian wife and their two Swiss-born children received support from only 35 percent of voters.

''I've given everything I can to become Swiss,'' he adds. ''I've concentrated my whole life on it, and I've worked in Emmen for 1993 APW19981028.0253 -1 Government decides to issue summary of gold report BERN, Switzerland (AP) _ The Swiss government said Wednesday it will issue an easily readable summary of a report on the country's gold dealings with Nazi Germany t 1993 NYT19981020.0169 -1 By RAY CORMIER c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

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Q. I will be in Zurich in the first half of 1999 and would like to learn German there. Where can I take German lessons in or near t 1993 APW19981028.0253 1 Swiss authorities will be responsible for distributing the brochure, which will be printed in Switzerland's four official languages as well as in English. 1993 APW19981028.0253 1 ble for distributing the brochure, which will be printed in Switzerland's four official languages as well as in English. The government-appointed pane 1993 APW19981028.0253 1 Switzerland's four official languages as well as in English. The government-appointed panel of historians based in Switzerland, the United States and Israel is to study other aspects of Switzerland's wartime past. It aims to produce a final 1993 APW19980707.0611 -1 The controversy started after culture officials from Europe's three German-speaking countries, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, agreed in July 1996 to modernize and simplify the language. Among the changes: shorter compound nouns, consistent spe 1993 XIE19990601.0104 -1 P>

Religion: Almost 80 percent of the population are Christians. Other major religious groups are the Hindus, Moslems and Jews. There are also traditionalists.

Languages: South Africa has 11 official languages with English and Afrikaans 1993 XIE19960227.0262 -1 problem remains to be one of the outstanding issues in the constitutional assembly before the May 9 deadline, set for the adoption of the final Constitution.

South Africa has eleven official languages, including English and Afrikaans.

1993 NYT19981020.0169 1 A. Since Switzerland has three official languages _ German, French and Italian _ it is a great place to improve one's fluency. So much so that each year, Switzerland Tourism, 608 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10020, (212) 757-5944, publishes the bookl 1993 APW19981028.0253 1 Swiss authorities will be responsible for distributing the brochure, which will be printed in Switzerland's four official languages as well as in Englis 1994 APW19991004.0084 1 In 1962, the Beatles' first hit, ``Love Me Do,'' was released in the United Kingdom. 1994 APW20000217.0281 -1 "Imagine," originally recorded in 1971, became a number one hit when it was rereleased shortly after Lennon's death. 1994 NYT19981103.0332 -1 -Bowie glam rock songs from the 1970s (including several early Roxy Music numbers) with made-to-order period pastiches. One of his models was the fictional 1993 movie about the Beatles, ``Backbeat,'' in which young postpunk bands re 1994 APW20000307.0011 -1 Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- Eric Clapton, whose solo career has veered between pop hits and blues explorations, joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the third time Monday with fellow honorees James Taylor and Bonnie Raitt.

1994 NYT19980722.0305 -1 The dining-room table is fitted out with four leatherette chairs, and on a side commode is an old rotary telephone, the first one on the block. 1994 NYT19980722.0305 -1 t with four leatherette chairs, and on a side commode is an old rotary telephone, the first one on the block. Mary McCartney needed to be on ca 1994 APW20000217.0281 -1 the Beatles museum until Oct. 9, which would have been Lennon's 60th birthday."

"Imagine," originally recorded in 1971, became a number one hit when it was rereleased shortly after Lennon's death. The former Beatle died outside his New 1994 NYT19991003.0469 -1 Using only a bass, snare drum and big guitar, he reverbs his way through Gene Vincent's ``Bluejean Bop.'' The Animals' ``She Said Yeah'' is a frenetic throwback to the Beatles' classic cover of ``Roll Over Beethoven.'' One of the best offerings is th 1994 APW19980608.0190 -1 that there were no plans for the three former Beatles to sing together. John Lennon, the fourth Beatle, was shot to death in New York City in 1980. Mrs. McCartney, a crusader for vegetarianism and animal rights and an acclaimed photographer, died 1994 APW19980608.0190 -1 AP) _ Paul McCartney says he wants a public memorial service for his late wife Linda to be a celebration that will underscore her passions: animals, vegetarianism, music, photography and her family. Former Beatles George Harrison and Ringo Starr 1994 NYT20000803.0264 -1 ``MAGNOLIA'': (Reprise). Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed ``Magnolia,'' has said the film was adapted from Aimee Mann's songs: her terse, tuneful character studies of people so emotionally scarred that they sabotage their own chances for love or 1994 NYT19990922.0274 -1 Gaines may be a pseudonym _ complete with an elaborate invented background that incorporates bits of Dylan, Beatles and Prince lore and parallels elements of Brooks' life (the solo careers of both begin in 1989, and both have the same number of lette 1995 NYT19980930.0080 1 riverboat gambling on the Mississippi River as a natural tourism draw, said Charles Patton, executive director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission. Basing casinos on water creates a zoning tool that allows 1995 NYT19990801.0219 -1 State governments are primarily responsible for regulating casinos, but Wolf and others have suggested Congress consider extra taxes on gambling revenues, a ban on Internet gambling, a ban on amateur sports betting and removal of some automated telle 1995 NYT19990219.0376 -1 . He failed to put down on his financial disclosure form $21,000 he made from his former business in Mississippi. The Justice Department declined to prosecute, but Smaltz did and won a conviction. Blackley was eligible for probation under the 1995 NYT19981027.0239 -1 success when representing clients appearing before Nevada's gaming regulators.

In part, the casino industry's consumption of government officials is attributed to its rapid growth and resulting job opportunities. Since 1990, casino reven 1995 NYT19981027.0300 -1 in Iowa.

In Mississippi, the nation's third largest gambling jurisdiction, after Nevada and New Jersey, there was no cooling-off period that prohibited Nourse from going to work for a casino in the state. But he did seek an opinion f 1995 APW19990601.0099 -1 In Wisconsin, for instance, Lt. Gov. Scott McCallum invoked the commission's name in urging a moratorium in his state on Indian casinos. 1995 APW19990601.0099 -1 Gov. Scott McCallum invoked the commission's name in urging a moratorium in his state on Indian casinos.

On the other hand, sev 1995 NYT19990913.0060 -1 Mississippi legalized casino gambling in 1992. As in several other states, the legislation required the casinos to float on water.

But whereas the other states allowed gambling only on riverboats, Mississippi added an ingenious loophole 1995 NYT19981027.0236 -1 Perskie was the New Jersey General Assembly member who wrote the 1977 statue that legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City. After serving as chief of staff to former Gov. Jim Florio (Florio joined the board of Bally Gaming, a major manufacturer of 1995 NYT19981027.0236 -1 chief executive officer of the Claridge casino. But Bybee, now a gaming professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, conceded that the revolving door ``can be bad if it's abused and people use their positions to get around doing things, or do 1995 APW20000901.0039 -1 The analysis indicates casino gambling has slowed, though not reversed, the growth of tribal members on public assistance. Participation in the Agriculture Department's Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations increased 8.2 percent from 199 1996 NYT19990118.0257 1 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. 1996 NYT19980819.0535 1 16 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N. 1996 NYT19981120.0321 -1 _ If ever an academic department was hot, it was the English department at Duke University in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it was famously reinventing itself. 1996 NYT19981029.0095 1 Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Baptist); and William Willimon, dean of the chapel, Duke University, Durham, N.C. (Methodist).

Q: Operation Rescue is in the news for opposing what it calls pornographic books being sold by 1996 NYT19981118.0459 -1 g with the big city. Early on I'm sure there were some racial white-flight things going on.''

The people who sent Livingston to Washington tend to be folks who view government as something that is inflicted. People like Buddy Comeaux, who 1996 NYT20000517.0003 -1 ATTN: N.C., Ala., Tenn.) By ERIC V. COPAGE c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, author of several of the most important scholarly works on the religious experience of black Americans, died May 14 at his home in 1996 NYT19980819.0535 1 Wallace Fowlie, a professor emeritus of French literature at Duke University who once compared the rock singer Jim Morrison with the poet Arthur Rimbaud, died Aug. 16 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. He was 89 and lived in Chapel Hil 1996 NYT19980819.0535 1 us of French literature at Duke University who once compared the rock singer Jim Morrison with the poet Arthur Rimbaud, died Aug. 16 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. He was 89 and lived in Chapel Hill.

Fowlie gained promi 1996 NYT19980713.0008 -1 Duke University Press. Duke and the University of Edinburgh are collaborating on the scholarly project. The editors plan to produce an additional 15 volumes.

Kaplan, who teaches English at the City University of New York and is a 1996 NYT19980819.0535 -1 In a 1975 review in The New York Times of ``Letters of Henry Miller and Wallace Fowlie,'' which traced seven years of correspondence between the writer and the scholar _ much of it focusing on the place of the artist in society, and on Rimbaud _ Fowl 1996 NYT19990111.0069 2 on a national registry. The nearest facility to Georgia with a public cord blood donation program is the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank, which collects from volunteer mothers at Duke University Medical Center and Durham Regional Hospital in North Carolina 1996 NYT19990118.0257 1 P>

Beauty is only a light switch away.

_Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

No wonder you always go home alone.

_Sign over mirror in Men's restroom, Ed Debevic's, Beverly Hills, CA.

Though Gen. Horatio Gates commanded American forces at Saratoga, historians generally recognize Arnold as the fighting spirit behind the ``turning point of the American Revolutionary War.''

1997 NYT19980629.0337 -1 nother America.''

``We wanted, quite unapologetically, to reflect the fact that the United States is one of the major cultures of the 20th century,'' Graham Sheffield, the Barbican Center's arts director, said of ``Inventing America.'' `` 1997 APW19990922.0165 -1 LINE>

Today is Thursday, Sept. 23, the 266th day of 1999. There are 99 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Sept. 23, 1779, during the Revolutionary War, the American warship Bon Homme Richard 1997 XIE19981007.0006 -1 INE>

TEHRAN, October 6 (Xinhua) -- The general price index at Tehran Stock Exchange on Tuesday stood at 1537.26 points, up 1.14 points compared to that on Monday.

A total of 2,023,278 shares worth 4.51 billion rials (about 820,000 1997 APW19981104.0093 -1 The West Indies Players' Association said the board had turned down its request for a meeting in London. 1997 APW19981104.0093 -1 on said the board had turned down its request for a meeting in London. Instead Lara, vice president of t 1997 NYT20000612.0542 -1 British plans to control the Hudson River.

Though Gen. Horatio Gates commanded American forces at Saratoga, historians generally recognize Arnold as the fighting spirit behind the ``turning point of the American Revolutionary War 1997 NYT19980707.0059 -1 Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) of New Jersey was a composer who wrote the first known piece of American secular music, a song called ``My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free.'' He also wrote what many musicologists consider to be the first American opera, 1997 NYT19991127.0201 -1 SARATOGA: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War &LR; By Richard M. Ketchum. John Macrae/Owl/Holt, $15.95. Why the British failed in their 1777 invasion of the Colonies from Canada.

&UR; SCORPION TONGUES: The Irresistible History o 1997 APW19990113.0251 -1 --Ed Bryant, 50. He represents suburban Nashville, Tenn., south to the Mississippi border. An attorney elected in 1994, he served in the Army's Judge Advocate General Corps and has taught law at West Point. < 1998 APW19990815.0042 1 In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53. 1998 NYT19980908.0382 -1 Q: How old was he when he broke Babe Ruth's record? 1998 APW19990815.0042 1 In 1894, George Meany, first president of the AFL-CIO, was born in New York City.

In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.

In 1954, ``Sports Illustrated'' was first published by Time Inc.

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GAINESVILLE _ They are among the millions of baseball fans who grab the sports page first thing each morning to follow the Great Home Run Chase of 1998.

Thirty-seven years ago their father w 1998 NYT19980908.0467 -1 Maris surpassed Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle under intense pressure, and his 61 home runs in 1961 should have brought him more fame, more money, more joy, more permanent respect, than they did. 1998 NYT19980908.0467 -1 ey Mantle under intense pressure, and his 61 home runs in 1961 should have brought him more fame, more money, more joy, more permanent respect, than they did.

``Roger played in sev 1998 NYT19980814.0239 -1 Babe Ruth'' gets.

``Babe Ruth'' does make mention of Ruth's inability to manage family, though. He was married at age 19 to a 16-year-old, but he tired of that union when his career with the Boston Red Sox took off.

He 1998 NYT20000928.0356 -1 Nat Fein, who won a Pulitzer Prize for capturing one of the sports world's most poignant images, a rear-view photograph of a dying Babe Ruth receiving his final accolade at Yankee Stadium in June 1948, died Tuesday at Pascack Valley Hospital in Westw 1998 NYT19990116.0038 -1 in sports. Josh Gibson (No. 73) hit home runs longer than Babe Ruth's, but lived and died in the era of the Negro leagues. Althea Gibson (No. 65) was the first great black American tennis player. Satchel Paige (No. 63) kept pitching until baseball op 1998 APW19990815.0042 1 of the AFL-CIO, was born in New York City.

In 1948, baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.

In 1954, ``Sports Illustrated'' was first published by Time Inc.

In 1956, Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated 1998 NYT19980908.0252 -1 Babe Ruth died 50 years ago, but his legacy lives on in this old-fashioned picture book about one of the greatest players who ever live 1999 XIE19971119.0165 -1 Niassa is the province with the smallest population of 764,000 people. 1999 XIE19990213.0023 -1 4 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population -- just 6. 1999 XIE19990213.0031 -1 4 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population -- just 6. 1999 XIE19970402.0140 -1 The ethnic minorities, accounting for 8.98 percent of the country's total population, have 439, or 14.69 percent of deputies to the NPC, China's top legislature. Even the minority with the smallest population has its representative in the lawmaking b 1999 APW19980809.0648 -1 phere's smallest country even smaller &QL; &UR; AP Photos XNEV101-103 &QL; &UR; By JAMES ANDERSON &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; CHARLESTOWN, St. Kitts and Nevis (AP) _ Rose Boncamper has heard all the arguments 1999 APW19990212.0327 -1 LINE>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mississippi retained the dubious honor of poorest state in the nation, with more than one in five people living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population -- just 6.9 1999 APW19990518.0298 -1 LINE>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 9.2 million American children are dealing with numerous adverse family conditions that rob them of their ability to become ``productive, adult participants in the mainstream of America's future,'' accord 1999 XIE19990213.0023 -1 ate. Mississippi retained the dubious honor of poorest state in the nation, with 21.4 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population -- just 6.9 per 1999 XIE19990213.0023 -1 ous honor of poorest state in the nation, with 21.4 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population -- just 6.9 percent.

A family of four wa 1999 XIE19990213.0031 -1 the poverty rates varied from state to state. Mississippi retained the dubious honor of poorest state in the nation, with 21.4 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population 1999 XIE19990213.0023 -1 1995, according to the Census Bureau.

However, the poverty rates varied from state to state. Mississippi retained the dubious honor of poorest state in the nation, with 21.4 percent of its inhabitants living in poverty, while New Hampshire r 1999 NYT19980903.0146 -1 WASHINGTON _ California led the nation in the growth of state Hispanic and Asian-American populations since 1990, while Florida had the largest black population increase, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Friday(cq). < 1999 APW19990212.0327 -1 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mississippi retained the dubious honor of poorest state in the nation, with more than one in five people living in poverty, while New Hampshire remained the state with the smallest poor population -- just 2000 XIE19981212.0306 1 the entire planet for a full Martian year, or 687 Earth days in a 260-mile-high orbit around Mars. 2000 APW19990923.0275 -1 Because Mars and Earth orbit the sun at different speeds, the distance between the planets changes. 2000 XIE19981212.0306 1 The Orbiter will arrive the red planet in September 1999 after 416 million miles' flight, and begin to track the movement of water vapor and dust in the atmosphere over the entire planet for a full Martian year, or 687 Earth days in a 260-mile-high o 2000 APW19990923.0014 1 with two instruments that will be turned on after the probe has finished relaying data from the lander. Observations will continue for 687 days -- a full Martian year.

The Mars Color Imager will take wide- and medium-angle snapshots 2000 APW19990923.0168 -1 >

The signal takes 11 minutes to cross the 121.9 million miles to Earth.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Mars Global Surveyor has finally begun mapping the red planet, turning an array of instruments on Earth's dusty neighbor a year later than originally planned.

``All our instruments are on now,'' 2000 NYT19990308.0273 -1 Mars and Jupiter, following an elliptical orbit around the Sun. But some wind up nearer Earth, where the potential for a life-threatening collision inspires fear and film scripts.

Exactly how an asteroid jumps across Mars orbit to near 2000 NYT19991213.0226 -1 But the Galileo spacecraft got some great information about the large asteroids Ida and Gaspra as it passed through the asteroid belt on its way to studying Jupiter. And another satellite got good data passing within 753 miles of Mathilde, and then h 2000 NYT19991220.0063 1 P>

Year-round school on Mars would last 687 days. (Holy cow _ that's 322 days more than on Earth!) Mars takes longer to rotate around the sun because it's farther from the sun than Earth is. You can learn more cool facts about the Red Planet f 2000 NYT19990415.0282 -1 The discovery teams calculated that the middle planet in the Upsilon Andromedae system is in an orbit corresponding to the distance of Venus from the Sun. It is at least twice the mass of Jupiter, making the complete circuit every 242 days. The out 2000 NYT19991113.0024 -1 The fact that different bodies in the solar system change their relative positions as they orbit the sun will, Dr. Hooke concedes, complicate routing a bit: when the earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, for example, it might be best to se 2001 NYT19981120.0261 1 songs, which include Led Zeppelin's ``Whole Lotta Love,'' the Bow Wow Wow version of ``I Want Candy,'' and Lee Hazelwood's ``Sundown, Sundown.'' Definitely a band that defies stereotyping. 2001 APW20000614.0083 -1 '' And backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, he performed ''Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On'' and ''Great Balls of Fire'' at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. 2001 NYT19991210.0264 -1 Rick Danko, the affable but often troubled Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who sang and played bass with the Band and had many other side projects, died Friday in his home in Woodstock, N. 2001 NYT19981120.0261 1 , which does all-cello covers of Metallica songs.

It's also instructive to look at Betwixt's cover songs, which include Led Zeppelin's ``Whole Lotta Love,'' the Bow Wow Wow version of ``I Want Candy,'' and Lee Hazelwood's ``Sundown 2001 NYT19980720.0095 -1 rk Times News Service clients) By JIM SULLIVAN c.1998 The Boston Globe

``Right now,'' says Roger Daltrey _ now being earlier this month, and Daltrey being in Denver at the time _ ``I am at the top of a very tall diving board, 2001 NYT19981120.0261 -1 ce clients) By STEVE MORSE c.1998 The Boston Globe

When members of the post-Grateful Dead band the Other Ones toured last summer, they enjoyed a flood of media attention. That's not the case with the spinoff band, Ratdog, whic 2001 APW19990315.0288 -1 He also sang ``Let it Be,'' backed with Joel on piano, Springsteen on guitar and Bonnie Raitt, Lauryn Hill, Melissa Etheridge and the Staple Singers as backup singers. 2001 APW19990315.0288 -1 d with Joel on piano, Springsteen on guitar and Bonnie Raitt, Lauryn Hill, Melissa Etheridge and the Staple Singers as backup singers.

The ceremony at the el 2001 APW20000614.0083 -1 Band, he performed ''Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On'' and ''Great Balls of Fire'' at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

For his show at the Camel Rock Casino, Lewis put together a crowd-pleasing blend of ballads, country, rock and 2001 NYT19980720.0095 -1 Well, the show lasts about 2 1/2 hours and may include: the Beatles' ``Norwegian Wood,'' ``Penny Lane,'' ``As My Guitar Gently Weeps,'' ``With a Little Help From My Friends,'' ``Let It Be,'' and ``Hey Jude''; the Who's ``5:15,'' ``Who Are You,'' ``Yo 2001 APW19990424.0159 1 was strong enough to speak, he asked his father to bring him his Led Zeppelin CDs to intensive care.

The 17-year old can nod his head as Robert Plant wails on ``Whole Lotta Love.'' But he can't tap his foot or jam on an air guitar. 2001 NYT19991209.0423 -1 Then came the reception. ``Everyone ambled over to the barn, and the next thing you knew you were in the middle of an incredible, spontaneous rock show,'' said Henry P. Davis, 34, who was the best man for his friend from boarding school. The rock b 2001 APW20000614.0083 -1 And backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, he performed ''Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On'' and ''Great Balls of Fire'' at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Clevelan 2003 NYT20000803.0281 2 end gets to place the mat and roll the jack in the next end _ effectively shortening the distance by 15 feet and throwing me off. 2003 NYT19990605.0071 -1 To confidently measure absolute as opposed to relative distance, you have to calibrate the yardstick by directly measuring how far away the nearest Cepheids are. 2003 APW19990620.0079 -1 ``By game time I was able to shoot righty,'' said Dudley, who did not attempt a free throw and went 0-for-2 from the field in Game 2. 2003 NYT20000803.0281 2 the winner of each end gets to place the mat and roll the jack in the next end _ effectively shortening the distance by 15 feet and throwing me off.

``A common strategy, but you'd be surprised how often it works,'' he said, proving his 2003 NYT20000316.0441 -1 LINE> (rk) By LIZ ROBBINS c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

CLEVELAND _ With four-tenths of a second remaining in an already improbable game stretched into one overtime, David Messiah Capers of St. Bonaventure created an epic f 2003 NYT19990724.0229 -1 Later, Robinson, who was 7 of 14 from long distance for 23 points, scored a pair of free throws and a 3-pointer after Vickie Johnson's steal to make it a five point game (74-69) with 28.2 on the clock. 2003 NYT19990724.0229 -1 rom long distance for 23 points, scored a pair of free throws and a 3-pointer after Vickie Johnson's steal to make it a five point game (74-69) with 28.2 on the clock.

Grubin converted two 2003 XIE19990824.0394 -1 a good throw out in the first round," she said.

The European champion had virtually settled for the gold in her first try in which she managed to throw the discus to a distance of 66.34 meters.

In her third throw, she improved her 2003 APW20000308.0044 -1 Jason Caffey drew the Warriors within three with a free throw, but Coleman countered with two free throws to push the Hornets' lead to five at 96-91 with 57 seconds left. Blaylock made it 96-94 with a three-point play with 54 seconds remaining 2003 NYT19981230.0036 -1 comfortable when roaming 12 to 15 feet from the basket, drained a jumper from the left corner and followed a Watson miss for a 36-23 lead. Davis gave UCLA a 42-27 halftime lead on a 3-pointer with seven seconds remaining _ his first of the season.

For instance, the opposite sides of a die always add to seven. So a three-sided view is enough to know which number will face up as the die moves in any direct 2004 NYT19981202.0181 -1 LINE> (af) By J.C. HERZ c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

It's better than Tetris.

Tetris has been the best puzzle game on the planet for a decade. But Devil Dice is definitely better. If you play it enough, it get 2004 NYT19981202.0181 1 the opposite sides of a die always add to seven. So a three-sided view is enough to know which number will face up as the die moves in any direction. You complete the image in your head because you always know what's on the hidden side 2004 APW19990503.0129 -1 The westbound pickup truck swerved and a section of the camper being towed by the pickup ``tore along the side of the bus,'' state police Capt. John Balderston said Sunday. The girls, ages 12 to 17, were killed instantly.

The young vic 2004 APW19980908.0742 -1 was prime minister under longtime dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, whom Kabila toppled in May 1997. Seven African presidents, a number of whom are lined up on opposite sides of the civil war in Congo, said Tuesday that they were nearing a cease-fire ag 2004 NYT19981124.0149 -1 A few months ago, my friend Lynne chose to die. She was losing her battle with Lou Gehrig's disease and did not want to spend what was left of her life hooked up to a respirator. She told her family and her doctors: ``I would rather have a gentle, 2004 NYT19981202.0181 1 For instance, the opposite sides of a die always add to seve 2005 NYT20000529.0314 1 Cedar Point, the company's flagship park, this year boasts the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster. The 310-foot high Millennium Force drops riders 300 feet down an 80 2005 NYT19990622.0466 -1 Freeze, the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the Southwest. 2005 NYT19990622.0466 1 Volcano: the Blast Coaster is the world's fastest suspended roller coaster. 2005 NYT20000104.0075 1 -time resort atmosphere.'' Not content to rest on its laurels, Cedar Point will introduce still another coaster, Millennium Force, which this year will become the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. Standing 310 feet tall and 2005 APW20000831.0179 -1 14 Hurt in Roller Coaster Collision

BLACKPOOL, England (AP) -- A roller coaster car failed to stop and slammed into the back of a car waiting to unload its passengers, injuring 14 people Thursday night, authorities said 2005 NYT20000111.0063 -1 Chronicle

Monster roller coasters are breaking records all over the world in what aficionados are calling a new golden age of thrill rides. But now doctors are warning that the excitement may come at the price of dangerous blood clot 2005 NYT20000529.0314 -1 es News Service clients) By RICK ALM c. 2000 The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Through a child's eyes, Worlds of Fun is a magical place, an endless sea of eye-popping colors, heart-stopping thrill rides and more candy, ice 2005 NYT19990622.0466 -1 world's fastest suspended roller coaster.

_ In Charlotte, N.C., 2005 NYT19990622.0466 1 coaster this summer. Volcano: the Blast Coaster is the world's fastest suspended roller coaster.

_ In Charlotte, N.C., Paramount's Carowinds offers high-flying thrills with Top Gun: the Jet Coaster, an inverted roller coaster that 2005 NYT19990714.0253 -1 The Lift Hill Megasite (www.lifthill.com), for example, says that the first roller coaster with wheels and a track was built in Moscow in the late 18th century and that the first roller coaster loop was built in France in the middle of the 19th centu 2005 NYT19980619.0369 -1 freeways.

Tailgaters and kamikaze drivers seem harmless after you've been tossed side to side and floated weightless during plunges on what is billed as the world's tallest and fastest stand-up roller coaster.

The thrill ride 2005 NYT20000104.0075 1 this year will become the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world. Standing 310 feet tall and reaching 92 miles an hour, Millennium Force will be Cedar Point's 14th roller coaster. The park will have more coasters than anywhere else on earth. 2005 NYT20000120.0131 -1 &QR; Sea World: Read all about Kraken, ``the fastest, highest, longest and wildest roller coaster in Orlando,'' at www.seaworld.com. The coaster is scheduled to open this spring. Or call 1-800-423-8368. < 2005 NYT20000111.0063 -1 This year, in fact, an unprecedented number of records are expected to be broken in the roller coaster world, including the tallest and fastest wooden coaster, the first vertical-spiral coaster and even the first ``flying coaster'' _ the so-called Pr 2007 APW20000924.0090 -1 French Approve 5-Year President Term 2007 NYT20000924.0158 1 PARIS _ A referendum to cut the French president's term of office from seven to five years was overwhelmingly approved Sunday though a record number of voters did not bother to cast a ballot. 2007 NYT20000605.0141 1 Crossette.

FRANCE-POLITICS (Undated) _ After years of opposition to changing the terms for president, the French president, Jacques Chirac, announced that he will propose reducing a presidential term to five years from seven _ a move many 2007 APW20000924.0090 -1 By DEBORAH SEWARD

PARIS (AP) -- French voters easily approved a referendum Sunday on shortening the presidential term to five years, according to early projections, but dismal turnout was likely to deprive the country's le 2007 XIE20000605.0013 1 INE>

PARIS, June 5 (Xinhua) -- France will cut short its presidential term from seven years to five years in a major reform of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic drafted under General Charles de Gaulle.

French President Jacque 2007 NYT20000924.0158 1 PRESIDENTIAL TERM By SUZANNE DALEY c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

PARIS _ A referendum to cut the French president's term of office from seven to five years was overwhelmingly approved Sunday though a record number 2007 APW20000706.0108 -1 years. Following the long administration of the late President Francois Mitterrand, many French came to feel that 14 years was an excessive period for a president to hold such a powerful office.

If approved, the new presidential term 2007 NYT19980616.0416 -1 PARIS _ ``When the French want to change policy, they will turn to you,'' President Francois Mitterrand told Lionel Jospin, his fellow Socialist and longtime party aide, in 1995 after Jospin unsuccessfully sought the presidency.

French vo 2007 XIE20000605.0168 1 P> PARIS, June 5 (Xinhua) -- French President Jacques Chirac will make a televised speech Monday evening on reforming the presidential term from seven years to five years.

So far Chirac has not publicly given his definite view on shortening 2007 APW20000405.0065 1 The constitutional reform would reduce the president's term from seven to five years, but would allow for a second term. A new president must be elected by May 16. < 2007 XIE19990715.0180 1 In his traditional speech on the National Day on Wednesday, French President Jacques Chirac rejected the suggestion by former President Giscard d'Estaing that he shorten his presidential term from seven years to five year 2009 NYT19991214.0125 -1 > --Their markings are as unique as human fingerprints. 2009 NYT19991108.0444 -1 Bonnie Beaver, a member of the executive board of Veterinary Medicine Group AVMA, says that while many of the links between animal and human psychology are speculative, this much is certain: ``People who are physically abusive of animals have a high 2009 NYT20000427.0063 1 was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

_ Snails can sleep for three years without eating.

_ The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused 2009 XIE19980821.0097 -1 nkeys

KUNMING, August 21 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Finance has decided to offer Deqin County, home of the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, an additional 3 million yuan (360,000 U.S. dollars) each year to protect these endangered mon 2009 NYT19980723.0034 -1 Jeffreys) (sw) By GINA KOLATA c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

Scientists from Hawaii said Wednesday that they have made dozens of adult mouse clones and even cloned some of those clones.

The announcement, coming a 2009 APW19990107.0307 -1 She said the animal endured extreme climates changes over its 50,000 years of existence and died out only after humans had arrived. 2009 APW19990107.0307 -1 me climates changes over its 50,000 years of existence and died out only after humans had arrived.

Timothy F. Flannery, a 2009 NYT20000221.0098 -1 animal that has yet to be documented and studied.

The path to Chilcutt's unusual investigation began with an idea he had in 1995. ``If I could look at fingerprints and could tell the sex, gender and race, I'd be way ahead,'' he recalled 2009 NYT19991105.0309 -1 Singer, whose 1975 book ``Animal Liberation'' spurred the animal-rights movement, said, ``The strength of the movement stands on a firm moral footing, but this action (the razor letters) clearly shifts the sentiment towards the researchers because th 2009 NYT19991214.0125 -1 for about five minutes at a time and average a mere 20 minutes a day.

--Adults can eat up to 140 pounds of foliage a day.

--Their markings are as unique as human fingerprints.

--If water is nearby, they'll drink it 2009 NYT19991214.0125 -1 tall and weigh about 130 pounds.

--They sleep (standing up) for about five minutes at a time and average a mere 20 minutes a day.

--Adults can eat up to 140 pounds of foliage a day.

--Their markings are as unique a 2010 APW20000504.0117 1 Napoleon was 52 when he died May 5, 1821 on the remote volcanic island of St. Helena, where he was exiled after his final defeat at Waterloo. His death has long 2010 NYT19990914.0144 -1 Helena itself, where he spent nine days visiting the mildewed rooms where Napoleon was held captive in the years after his defeat at Waterloo. 2010 APW20000504.0117 1 well-preserved strands of his hair.

Napoleon was 52 when he died May 5, 1821 on the remote volcanic island of St. Helena, where he was exiled after his final defeat at Waterloo. His death has long been attributed to stomach cancer despite 2010 APW19981201.1374 -1 HEADLINE> Monday, Dec. 7 &UR; By The Associated Press &QC; Today is Monday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 1998. There are 24 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 1815 - France's Marshal Ney is shot a 2010 APW20000504.0117 -1 Writer

PARIS (AP) -- Historians, toxicologists and cancer specialists gathered Thursday to consider one of French history's legendary puzzles: Was Napoleon murdered during his final exile, or did the notorious emperor die a natural deat 2010 APW19990328.0118 -1 ``The more communication we have with people on the island the more chances we have that it opens up (to democracy).'' 2010 APW19990328.0118 -1 ith people on the island the more chances we have that it opens up (to democracy).''

Benes, 64, was hired i 2010 APW20000504.0117 1 Napoleon's widening girth, his seafood diet and a few well-preserved strands of his hair.

Napoleon was 52 when he died May 5, 1821 on the remote volcanic island of St. Helena, where he was exiled after his final defeat at Waterloo. His 2010 APW20000504.0117 1 Napoleon was 52 when he died May 5, 1821 on the remote volcanic island of St. Helena, where he was exiled after his final defeat at Waterloo. His death has long been attributed to stomach cancer despite lingering theories of murder, which have gained 2010 NYT19990914.0144 1 reflection on the exile of Napoleon Bonaparte to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Having made that observation, Kauffmann alludes to visits he has made to famous places of exile, including St. Helena itself, where he spent nine days vi 2010 NYT19990914.0144 1 ``All exiles are the same,'' Jean-Paul Kauffmann writes in this sensitive and elegant reflection on the exile of Napoleon Bonaparte to the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic. Having made that observation, Kauffmann alludes to visits he has 2010 APW20000504.0117 1 Napoleon was 52 when he died May 5, 1821 on the remote volcanic island of St. Helena, where he was exiled after his final defeat at Waterlo 2011 APW19990501.0083 -1 In 1519, artist Leonardo da Vinci died at Cloux, France. 2011 NYT19991103.0264 -1 When Dent died in 1994, the project was carried on by the nonprofit group he founded, Leonardo da Vinci's Horse Inc. 2011 NYT20000518.0234 -1 SKETCHES BY LEONARDO DA VINCI

2011 NYT19990830.0364 1 2000, &LR; in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the prototype Renaissance man. (Da Vinci was actually born in 1452 and died in 1519; the date is rough.)

Ferlinghetti told the artists' periodical studioNOTES that he was browsing in 2011 NYT19981216.0284 -1 (js) By ALESSANDRA STANLEY c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

FLORENCE, Italy _ Visitors have long found the entrance hall of the Uffizi Gallery to be about as warm and welcoming as Lenin's Tomb. People lined up outside for hours, 2011 NYT19990830.0366 -1 y LEAH GARCHIK Copyright 1999 San Francisco Chronicle

Columnist &UR; Michelangelo Signorile &LR; writes in the latest Advocate that &UR; Hillary Rodham Clinton &LR; , first lady and almost-candidate for the Senate, has become an i 2011 APW19980821.0583 -1 Police reinforced security at Italy's two main international airports Friday as well as at other places considered possible targets in case of retaliation by terrorists for the U.S. bombings in Afghanistan and Sudan. 2011 APW19980821.0583 -1 y's two main international airports Friday as well as at other places considered possible targets in case of retaliation by terrorists for the U.S. bombings in Afghanistan and Sudan. ``The measures were taken fol 2011 NYT19990830.0366 1 Leonardo da Vinci &LR; , to be exhibited in Milan in the year 2000, &LR; in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the prototype Renaissance man. (Da Vinci was actually born in 1452 and died in 1519; the date is rough.)

Ferlinghetti 2011 APW20000129.0133 -1 Microsoft mogul Bill Gates brought Leonardo da Vinci's ``Leicester Codex'' to Germany's capital Saturday, opening an exhibit that includes drawings by 20th century artist Joseph Beuys.

Beuys, who began his studies in natural science, was 2011 NYT19990526.0353 -1 NYT29) MILAN, Italy -- May 26, 1999 -- LAST-SUPPER-2, 5-26 -- Reporters and art experts gather around the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci's 1498 masterpiece ``The Last Supper'' in Santa Maria delle Grazie church after a major restoration which lasted 2011 NYT19990526.0302 -1 LAST-SUPPER (Milan, Italy) _ After 20 years of painstaking chipping, dabbing and scrubbing, Leonardo da Vinci's ``Last Supper'' is at long last restored and ready to be show 2012 NYT19990625.0181 -1 Barbra Streisand. Marty Robbins had a hit with Lightfoot's ``Ribbon of Darkness'' and Elvis Presley with ``Early Morning Rain. 2012 NYT19981021.0430 -1 Although country music and NASCAR have been an intertwining act throughout most of the stock-car circuit's 50-year history, no one bridged the gap more than Marty Robbins. 2012 NYT19981021.0430 1 as Picasso could paint.

The late country-western singer, who died Dec. 8, 1982 at age 57 after suffering a heart attack six days earlier at his Nashville, Tenn., home, often would return home after a long day of rehearsing and still have 2012 APW19990505.0171 -1 Marty Robbins, Loretta Lynn and Alabama won in previous decades 2012 APW19990421.0409 -1 LINE>

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Jay Leno apparently rates better than David Letterman at more than just late-night talk.

Leno, whose ``Tonight Show'' is a consistent ratings winner over Letterman's ``Late Show,'' will be behind 2012 APW19990428.0210 -1 LINE>

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Country singer Jo Dee Messina fanned herself with her hand and fluttered her eyelids, doing a send-up of the classic Southern belle.

Messina, a Yankee from Massachusetts, was expressing her joy 2012 APW19990506.0358 -1 LINE>

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Garth Brooks was the story of the night, the year and the decade.

The Academy of Country Music bestowed its top award for the 1990s -- artist of the decade -- and branded the Oklahoma na 2012 APW19990412.0263 -1 Robbins died in July at 79. 2012 APW19990412.0263 -1 2012 NYT19981021.0430 -1 Robbins never made more than five starts in any one season and, thus, never posed a serious threat to the championship. But when Robbins did make appearances, they often were memorable.

``Marty was one of the finest men you ever wanted to 2012 NYT19980729.0534 -1 At the same time, he enjoyed phenomenal success on Broadway. From 1944 to 1964, Robbins' golden touch was evident in musicals as disparate as ``On the Town,'' ``The King and I,'' ``Gypsy,'' ``West Side Story'' and ``Fiddler on the Roof.''

2012 APW19990428.0210 -1 to best female vocalist, she's up for best album for ``Faith''; song, single and video for ``This Kiss''; and best vocal event for her duet with husband Tim McGraw, ``Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me.''

The country music artist o 2012 APW19990428.0210 -1 vocalist, she's up for best album for ``Faith''; song, single and video for ``This Kiss''; and best vocal event for her duet with husband Tim McGraw, ``Just to Hear You Say That You Love Me.''

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Today is Wednesday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 1999. There are 352 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 13, 1898, Emile Zola's famous defense of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, ``J'accuse,'' wa 2013 NYT20000719.0066 -1 The Stars and Bars, adopted in 1861, had white stars for the seven seceding states in a circle within a blue square at the upper left of the flag, which had three horizontal stripes. 2013 NYT20000719.0066 -1 1, had white stars for the seven seceding states in a circle within a blue square at the upper left of the flag, which had three horizontal stripes.

Since it was believed 2013 NYT19981216.0058 1 American flag with 15 stripes. I thought the stripes represented the 13 original colonies. Can you explain?

A: On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress resolved that the U.S. flag would have 13 alternating red and white stripes 2013 NYT19981216.0056 1 senator from West Virginia since 1985.

Q: I saw a picture of an old American flag with 15 stripes. I thought the stripes represented the 13 original colonies. Can you explain?

A: On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress 2013 NYT19981216.0056 1 flag with 15 stripes. I thought the stripes represented the 13 original colonies. Can you explain?

A: On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress resolved that the U.S. flag would have 13 alternating red and white stripes representing, as 2013 APW19990529.0011 -1 The banner has a condensed version of the Confederate flag in the upper left hand corner, with red, white and blue stripes covering the remainder of the flag. Its design was recommended by a special committee to the Legislature in 1894. < 2013 NYT19981211.0196 -1 Actually, the first American flag used by the army is believed to be the ``Bennington Flag,'' first carried into battle in 1777, with 9 stripes and 13 stars over the number 7 2015 APW20000504.0056 -1 (AP) -- With Shania Twain and Garth Brooks no-shows at the Academy of Country Music Awards, attention turned to two pairs of country sweethearts. 2015 NYT20000601.0296 1 an `unplugged' album for a while,'' Black, 37, said backstage at the 35th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at Universal Amphitheatre. ``There was no reason not to do one. It looked like it would be an easy process. Then I started 2015 APW20000426.0105 -1 Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- It's business-as-usual in the Faith Hill-Tim McGraw household for mom and dad to win honors at awards shows.

''Gracie gets up and pretends like she's making an acceptance speech,'' said McGraw 2015 APW20000504.0056 -1 Writer

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) -- With Shania Twain and Garth Brooks no-shows at the Academy of Country Music Awards, attention turned to two pairs of country sweethearts.

Tim McGraw won the top male vocalist prize while 2015 APW20000330.0121 -1 LINE>

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Dolly Parton will be the host of the Academy of Country Music Awards show.

The May 3 ceremony in Universal City, Calif., to be broadcast live on CBS, has not used a host the past two years. Pro 2015 APW20000426.0105 -1 Academy of Country Music nominate and select the winners for the annual awards.

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Tim McGraw won the top male vocalist prize while his wife Faith Hill 2015 APW20000503.0297 -1 UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) -- Shania Twain was named entertainer of the year and the Dixie Chicks won group and album prizes for ''Fly'' at the 35th annual Academy of Country Music Awards Wednesday night.

Lonestar's riveting ''Amazed'' w 2015 XIE19971204.0225 -1 he admission ceremony was held Tuesday at the Foreign Ministry building here, with the participation of academy members, intellectuals and poets. < 2015 NYT20000804.0078 1 When the curtain came up on the 35th annual Academy of Country Music awards last May at the Universal Amphitheatre, country icons George Strait and Alan Jackson tore into ``Murder on Music Row,'' the controversial song that bemoans the fact that ``so 2016 XIE19970310.0053 1 Demonstrations began last weekend in the industrial Ruhr area in western Germany, where the country's main coal mining industry is based, after Kohl's center-right government announced a subsidy cuts plan last Thursday. 2016 XIE19970310.0053 1 Bonn is due to be echoed later today in coal mining towns of Bergkamen and Luenen.

Demonstrations began last weekend in the industrial Ruhr area in western Germany, where the country's main coal mining industry is based, after Kohl's center 2016 XIE19960724.0152 -1 stry of Geology and Mineral Resources (MGMR).

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XINING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- A coal deposit with more than 130 million tons of reserves has been found in the Qaidam Basin in north China's Qinghai Province, according to Zhang Chengzhao, deputy chief engineer of the Qinghai Coalfield 2016 XIE19970309.0193 -1 Protests were also staged Friday at several mines in both states after the German government announced one day earlier its plan to gradually reduce subsidies to coal mining from about 10 billion marks (5.8 billion U.S. dollars) a year currently to 5. 2016 XIE19970309.0193 -1 t several mines in both states after the German government announced one day earlier its plan to gradually reduce subsidies to coal mining from about 10 billion marks (5.8 billion U.S. dollars) a year currently to 5.5 billion marks (3.19 billion doll 2016 XIE20000705.0176 -1 is endowed with rich natural resources. A survey shows that the sea areas in its southern and western parts abound in natural gas and oil, and the peninsula itself has plentiful salt and titanium deposits. In addition, deposits of coal, oil shale 2016 XIE19960311.0179 -1 One of China's major coal producers, the region turned out a record of 14 million tons of coal and shipped out 11 million tons last year.

Ningxia's coal industry now accounts for 11 percent of the region's total industrial output value, and 2016 XIE19990909.0206 -1 The area is rich in coal, oil, natural gas and other natural resources, and its coal reserves account for over half of China's total.

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&QL; Americans from Pensacola to the Puget Sound associate California with quality wine, vegetables and movies. Now California cheese makers want a piece of the action.

This month, the California 2017 NYT20000325.0226 -1 Wisconsin shot 57 percent to Purdue's 47 percent in the half. 2017 NYT20000325.0226 -1 e's 47 percent in the half.

Purdue got 7 points a 2017 NYT19990928.0112 1 what they term the ``price-fixing cartels.'' In Wisconsin, where farmers produce roughly 28 percent of the nation's cheese, the outrage is palpable.

Even though the dairy compacts address only the price of milk, the Wisconsin farmers say 2017 APW19990910.0113 -1 the FDA said.

The blintzes -- cheese, blueberry-cheese and cherry-cheese -- were sold in 13-ounce packages in stores in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin. 2017 APW19990316.0285 -1 month to another in the industry's history.

``It's the most dramatic price swing ever experienced,'' said Joel Rotz, dairy specialist with the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau.

Farmers are receiving $10.27 per hundred pounds of milk 2017 NYT19990928.0112 -1 Senators Russell Feingold and Herb Kohl, both Democrats of Wisconsin, have teamed up with Senator Rod Grams, Republican of Minnesota, as well as Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, to combat what they term the ``price-fixing cartels.'' In Wisconsin, 2017 NYT19990928.0112 1 In Wisconsin, where farmers produce roughly 28 percent of the nation's cheese, the outrage is palpabl 2018 NYT19981210.0562 1 Starting in February 2000, the Orbiter will meticulously map the face of Mars and conduct a daily survey of the planet's atmosphere for a Martian year _ 687 Earth days. It 2018 APW19980923.1395 1 It was designed to map Martian terrain for a Martian year, equivalent to 687 Earth days. 2018 NYT19990923.0331 1 .''

Even if the Climate Orbiter is indeed lost, Pilcher said, its science objectives _ observing weather over a full Martian year (687 days) and searching for the cold, arid planet's water resources _ could be met by missions already on t 2018 NYT20000727.0261 -1 one and perhaps two large robotic roving vehicles to scout the planet's surface for signs of water, past or present.

Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday 2018 NYT19990527.0338 -1 6-9867.) (rk) By WARREN E. LEARY c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

WASHINGTON _ The first global three-dimensional map of Mars, made with data from an orbiting American spacecraft, reveals a surface of extreme highs and lows scu 2018 NYT19981211.0308 1 how moisture evaporates from the ground and migrates through the air for an entire Martian year _ 687 Earth days.

Before it begins its work as a weather satellite, the orbiter will act as a radio relay for Mars Polar Lander. The lander is 2018 NYT19990830.0235 -1 COMING ATTRACTIONS: Sept. 7: ``The Other Sister'' (DVD), ``Mary-Kate and Ashley's Fashion Party,'' ``Deep Crimson,'' ``Park City: The Vanguard Collection,'' ``Twin Dragons'' (DVD), ``The Crow: Stairway to Heaven.'' Sept. 14: ``Cookie's Fortune,'' ``C 2018 APW19990923.0014 1 relaying data from the lander. Observations will continue for 687 days -- a full Martian year.

The Mars Color Imager will take wide- and medium-angle snapshots of the planet's atmosphere similar to an Earth-based weather satellite. An 2018 APW19990923.0014 1 data from the lander. Observations will continue for 687 days -- a full Martian year.

The Mars Color Imager will take wide- and medium-angle snapshots of the planet's atmosphere similar to an Earth-based weather satellite. Another ins 2018 XIE19981212.0306 1 he Orbiter will arrive the red planet in September 1999 after 416 million miles' flight, and begin to track the movement of water vapor and dust in the atmosphere over the entire planet for a full Martian year, or 687 Earth days in a 260-mile-high or 2018 APW19980923.1395 1 It was designed to map Martian terrain for a Martian year, equivalent to 687 Earth day 2019 NYT19980930.0265 -1 Dyslexia is a reading disorder characterized by reversals of letters such as ``b'' and ``d,'' words such as ``saw'' and ``was,'' and numbers such as 6 and 9 or 16 and 2019 APW20000725.0059 -1 BOSTON (AP) -- Red Sox infielder Manny Alexander faces an investigation by major league baseball after police found illegal steroids in his car. 2019 APW19990228.0042 -1 CINCINNATI (AP) -- Former Boston Red Sox infielder Tim Naehring accepted a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday.

He was to report to spring training in Sarasota, Fla., on Monday to continue rehabilitation of his in 2019 APW19990412.0180 2 f days whether Garciaparra will go on the disabled list.

In the meantime, Donnie Sadler has played well at shortstop and, to the pleasure of Boston manager Jimy Williams, the rest of the players have also picked up the slack.

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BOSTON (AP) -- Javier Vazquez nearly matched Pedro Martinez, but the Montreal Expos didn't have anyone to answer Darren Lewis.

Martinez struck out 12 to earn his first victory since June 8, and Lewis broke a seventh-i 2019 NYT19981001.0289 -1 Go ahead, name the topic, I'll give you the Sox connection. 2019 NYT19981001.0289 -1 e you the Sox connection.

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BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Red Sox placed third baseman John Valentin on the 15-day disabled list with knee tendinitis on Tuesday and recalled infielder Wilton Veras from Double-A Trenton 2019 NYT19990512.0050 -1 t a highlight.

Red Sox reliever Rheal Cormier had just gotten a bases-loaded double-play ball, and though a run had scored, he seemed secure with two strikes on Cedeno. But when Varitek dropped the foul tip, it gave Cedeno another chance. 2019 NYT19990519.0206 -1 what this team has done,'' said Lou Merloni, a former Providence infielder who was with the Boston Red Sox early this season, before having been sent to the Pawtucket farm team the other day. He had come to lend his support on this last home game.

Who wants it: The Greek island of Samothrace

Status: Still standing at the top of the Louvre's main staircase

French consul and archaeologist Charles Champoiseau found pieces of the 2020 NYT19991109.0183 -1 /P>

PRIAM'S TREASURE

Who has it: Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow

Who wants it: Germany, Turkey and private parties

Status: Still in Moscow

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SUZHOU, May 7 (Xinhua) -- World famous architect Leoh Ming Pei has become a senior urban construction advisor to Suzhou city, in east China's Jiangsu Province.

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''The site is the 2020 NYT19990920.0096 1 From its headquarters at 37 Boulevard Bourdon, near the Bastille, Paris a Velo, C'est Sympa runs daily guided tours in English from early March through the end of October and continues throughout the year on a more limited basis. Most tours last ab 2020 NYT19990716.0088 -1 Travel Trivia: In which of these cities would you be most likely to find a philocubist: Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Boston, or Orland 2021 APW19981125.1425 2 world's coral reefs, with Australia's Great Barrier Reef also suffering damage, a conference of international coral reef experts said Thursday. The International Tropical Marine Ecosystems Management Symposium said in 2021 NYT19990705.0023 1 CAIRNS, Australia _ The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,200 miles along the northeast coast of Australia, the largest system of coral reefs in the world. 2021 NYT19990705.0023 1 CAIRNS, Australia _ The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,200 miles along the northeast coast of Australia, the largest system of coral reefs in the world. It is not a 2021 NYT19990705.0023 1 (mk) By PHILIP M. BOFFEY c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

CAIRNS, Australia _ The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,200 miles along the northeast coast of Australia, the largest system of coral reefs in the world. It is no 2021 APW19990919.0016 -1 f the newly repaired reef along the shallow mile stretch of Looe Key.

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WASHINGTON _ Congress has not earmarked enough money to protect endangered coral reefs in American waters, a Commerce Department official warned lawmakers Thursday.

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CAIRNS, Australia _ The Great Barrier Reef stretches more than 1,200 miles along the northeast coast of Australia, the largest system of cora 2021 NYT19991021.0288 -1 coral reef system, the third largest in the world, could have major economic implications for Florida, said John Ogden, director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography.

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Q: How do you figure GMT?

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Have a question about the news? Colin Bessonette will try to get an answer. Call (404) 222-2002, or write him at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, P.O. Box 4689, Atlanta, GA 30302 2022 NYT19990120.0491 1 What does Zulu signify? _ J.A.T., Worcester, Mass.

A: Zulu time is a reference to the time at 0 degrees longitude, the prime meridian that crosses Greenwich, England. Zulu refers to the word for the letter ``Z'' in the phonetic alphabet 2022 NYT19990111.0490 -1 ATLANTA _ Coca-Cola, the longest-running and biggest-spending Olympic sponsor, said Monday the escalating bribery scandal surrounding the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City could threaten the corporation's future Olympic funding if not cleared up qu 2022 NYT19991129.0127 1 one of the last places to welcome 2000. Whew!

Purists argue the only place to start a day, New Year's or otherwise, is in Greenwich, England, home of the prime meridian, the degree line from which longitude east and west is measured.

2022 NYT19990810.0300 -1 But Israel M. Reyna, the lead attorney for Texas Rural Legal Aid in Laredo, said city leaders are doing what they can in a place where many people have limited English skills. < 2022 XIE20000429.0129 -1 The prime minister told the rally of launching the "Speak Good English Movement" that it is important to speak good English as Singapore is a hub city and an open econom 2023 APW19980718.0841 -1 largest numbers in the Western Desert. ``We're the last country in the world with feral camels and because Australia is such an arid land with a vast amount of desert 2023 XIE19960507.0287 -1 The continent had already surpassed Asia as the world's largest consumer of the staple food, the news said, adding that averagely every African ate 20 kilograms of millet a year, more than four times the amount eaten in Asia, the world's second large 2023 NYT20000113.0233 1 sand women, a daily contest to prevent the Sahara from burying, once and for all, this ancient village in West Africa. The world's largest desert has already taken away a mosque and countless houses in recent years, the rooftops of some 2023 NYT19990224.0336 -1 sident Clinton sought Wednesday to reassure Africans that Americans will ``do the right thing'' for the continent as the United States redefines its role in a world no longer dominated by superpower confrontations.

Clinton, hosting Ghanai 2023 NYT19980804.0163 -1 (bl) By MARIAN BURROS c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

VANCOUVER, British Columbia _ The waiter leaned down, presenting a basket in which several wiggling spotted prawns, just fetched from the fish tank, were awaiting our p 2023 NYT19990727.0154 -1 67.) (bl) By AMANDA HESSER c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ In one night at Gramercy Tavern, I had a dish of creamy lemon panna cotta, a coconut tapioca pudding with cilantro syrup, a chocolate ganache cake, an inte 2023 XIE19990923.0027 2 There are roughly 33.4 million people who are HIV positive in the world now, 70 percent of whom are living in Africa. 2023 XIE19990923.0027 2 ple who are HIV positive in the world now, 70 percent of whom are living in Africa. The pandemic has a terrible effec 2023 XIE19970516.0012 2 the African continent to the best of its ability.

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China is the largest developing country and Africa is considered the largest developing continent in the world.

The MOFTEC official said that the common historical tasks, development goa 2023 XIE19980114.0247 2 sides on the basis of equality.

He said this cooperation is not only of significance for the development of Asia and Africa in the next century, the "South-South" cooperation and peace and stability of the world, but also for pushing China's 2023 XIE19980129.0038 2 peaking in Morocco early this month, Chinese Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister Qian Qichen noted that excellent prospects exist for the development of relations between China, the largest developing country, and Africa, the world's largest developing 2023 XIE19970516.0012 2 Strengthening consultation and friendly cooperation between China, the largest developing country, and Africa, the largest developing continent, will be of great importance to world peace, stability and development and will have a far-reaching influe 2025 NYT19990220.0212 -1 the West Baden Springs Hotel opened in 1902, it was billed as the Carlsbad of America and the eighth wonder of the world. Until the construction of the Houston Astrodome in 2025 NYT19990518.0008 -1 The owner said the place where his team had played for years _ christened The Eighth Wonder of the World _ was inferior, even after millions of taxpayer dollars had been spent to add seats and suites. 2025 NYT20000111.0111 1 at Jeppesen Stadium, then at Rice Stadium for a bit, and then moved to the eighth wonder of the world, the Astrodome. Upon moving to Tennessee, Adams became a temporary tenant at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, then at Vanderbilt Stadium, and 2025 NYT20000127.0468 -1 l have sagged and now find it nearly impossible to compete, in the NFL, smaller may be better. A smaller city like Nashville was hungry for the status a professional team can convey and happily built a $292 million stadium for Adams with taxpayers mo 2025 NYT19980704.0001 -1 ews Service clients) By DAVID CASSTEVENS c.1998 The Aizona Republic

HOUSTON - Buck Showalter lifted his right sneaker and stamped it on the carpet of the tiny office where he sat. ``I've killed eight roaches,'' the Diamondbacks 2025 NYT19990712.0278 -1 lling (888) 603-1036 or (888) 346-9867.) (nk) By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

SEATTLE _ Seattle is about to say hello to Safeco Field, a brick-facade palace with cedar-lined dugouts, an exquisite turf of Ke 2025 NYT19990518.0008 -1 He said he wanted to stay here and play in his own new stadium. 2025 NYT19990518.0008 -1 play in his own new stadium.

So Houston sits.

2025 NYT19980704.0001 1 sports. When the stadium, like no other, opened in 1965 it was billed as the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Now, sadly, at 34 the Astrodome is old, outdated, unwanted, considered as obsolete as Bank One Ballpark and all the other new sports 2025 APW19980722.0838 -1 est game. A British television report Wednesday suggested that construction of the 120 million-pound (dlrs 197.2 million) Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was behind schedule and the World Cup final might have to be transfered to Paris or Edinburgh. 2025 APW19990406.0006 1 Judge Roy Hofheinz, modestly suggested the stadium be dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World.

That was 34 years and several facelifts ago. Now the Astrodome is losing its oldest tenant.

The Houston Astros next season move to 2025 NYT19990703.0096 1 Visitors Clubhouse _ No Visitors.''

The Houston Astrodome has had more than human visitors in its 35 seasons. Once known as the Eighth Wonder of the World, the stadium that gave America artificial grass now finds cats and rats scurrying a 2025 XIE19980912.0074 -1 OHANNESBURG, September 12 (Xinhua) -- World athletics chief Primo Nebiolo told British Sports Minister Tony Banks on Saturday that London would have a good chance of staging the 2003 world championships if proposed renovations to Wembley Stadium were 2025 NYT19980704.0001 -1 When the stadium, like no other, opened in 1965 it was billed as the Eighth Wonder of the Worl 2026 XIE19960427.0264 -1 The ceremony was held at the Panathenean Stadium in Athens where the Olympics was revived in 1896. 2026 XIE19990310.0356 -1 Since 1968 when the first Special Olympics was held, the number of athletes has been growing and there are now about one million people with mental retardation participating in year-around Olympic type of training and competion. 2026 XIE19990310.0366 -1 Since 1968 when the first Special Olympics was held, the number of athletes has been growing and there are now about one million people with mental retardation participating in year-around Olympic type of training and competition. 2026 XIE19960815.0127 -1 The modern Olympic Games were first held in Athens in 1896. Greece had started a campaign in the mid 1980s to hold the Games to mark their 100th anniversary. But the 2026 XIE19960407.0159 1 km to Atlanta to open the Olympics in July.

The Olympics began in Ancient Olympia in 776 BC and were revived in Athens in 1896 by French Baron Pierre de Coubertin.

Samaranch invited Stephanopoulos to attend the opening cerermony in 2026 APW19981207.0372 -1 European group SEMA replaces IBM as Olympic technology provider LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) _ The IOC on Monday appointed the little-known European computer group Sema as the chief Olympic information and technology 2026 XIE19990930.0260 -1 INE>

BEIJING, September 30 (Xinhua) -- It took not only 50 years before China became a giant in the Olympic family, but a long and rough road.

No one has witnessed more about the efforts China has made toward the glory in the Olym 2026 NYT19981211.0119 -1 York Times News Service clients) By JOHN POWERS c.1998 The Boston Globe

Shirley Babashoff should have been America's golden girl at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Holland's Enith Brigitha would have been the first black swimming c 2026 XIE19990131.0012 -1 Olympic silver medalist Samppa Lajunen of Finland boosted for his first World Cup Nordic combined title of the season when he triumphed on Sunday in Le Brassus, Switzerland. 2026 XIE19990131.0012 -1 unen of Finland boosted for his first World Cup Nordic combined title of the season when he triumphed on Sunday in Le Brassus, Switzerland.

Lajunen, who won a pair 2026 XIE19960821.0178 -1 First Asia-Pacific Special Olympics to be Held in China

BEIJING, August 21 (Xinhua) -- The first Asia-Pacific Special Olympics (APSO) will be held in China's largest city Shanghai from November 8th to 11th, 1996, it was 2026 XIE19960821.0178 -1 First Asia-Pacific Special Olympics to be Held in China

BEIJING, August 21 (Xinhua) -- The first Asia-Pacific Special Olympics (APSO) will be held in China's largest city Shanghai from November 8th to 11th, 1 2026 XIE19980903.0330 -1 the 2000 Sydney Olympic games leading to the Athens 2004 games while the four-pronged subject would focus on the civilization of peace, social cohesion, the society of information and the civilization of innovation.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The auction of O.J. Simpson's possessions could turn out to be a financial fizzle because collectors have been shunning the former football star's memorabilia since his 1994 murder case.

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PHOENIX _ Fred Goldman, whose son was murdered in 1994 along with O.J. Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, has been hired by the Arizona Attorney Gen 2027 APW19990217.0016 -1 When it was over, Tuesday night's auction totaled $430,000, a fraction of the $33.5 million Simpson owes the families of Ms. Brown and Ronald Goldman for their 1994 slayings. 2027 APW19990217.0016 -1 auction totaled $430,000, a fraction of the $33.5 million Simpson owes the families of Ms. Brown and Ronald Goldman for their 1994 slayings. The 1968 trophy fetched $255,500 2027 APW19981217.0770 -1 for Simpson also declined comment. O.J. Simpson was ordered to pay dlrs 33.5 million to the estates and heirs of Ms. Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The two were knifed to death June 12, 1994. Simpson was acquitted of murder, but a 2027 NYT20000816.0085 -1 Simpson filed suit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against his former friend and lawyer, Robert Kardashian, and author Lawrence Schiller, whose 1996 book ``American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense'' is the basis of the seri 2027 APW20000724.0041 -1 session on Thursday where members of the public can pay a fee to ask him questions.

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WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore, in a politically strategic break with the Clinton administration, endorsed legislation Thursday that would grant Elian Gonzalez and his Cuban relatives permanent r 2029 NYT20000330.0277 -1 RD &HT; c.2000 Cox News Service

WASHINGTON _ Vice President Al Gore, in a politically strategic break with the Clinton administration, endorsed legislation Thursday that would grant Elian Gonzalez and his Cuban relatives permanent r 2029 APW20000610.0028 1 does another. You can't have it both ways.''

Will he win Tennessee in November? Many believe he will, but at a cost of more money and time than 11 electoral votes might normally warrant.

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The Clinton-Gore ticket carried Flor 2029 NYT19981127.0027 -1 To avoid this potential embarrassment, Tennessee needs to be No. 1 in the coaches poll, which is why it will be interesting to see how the votes come out on Sunday. < 2029 NYT20000731.0371 -1 Rove adds another 112 Southern electoral college votes, not counting Tennessee, Gore's home stat 2030 NYT19991016.0119 1 > ``A telephone system known as Chat Box became, in French, the !ital!Cat!off! Box (since !ital!chat!off! is the French word for cat),'' said Axtell, a former vice 2030 NYT20000314.0265 -1 Although only 40 percent of immigrants here adopt or maintain French as their home language, officials say that is an increase over the 25 percent level of the 1970s. 2030 NYT19990224.0243 -1 Which is not to say that there isn't much of value in many of the French language products. 2030 NYT19991016.0119 1 mean ``Corpse by Fisher.''

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It was about a year after moving to Paris that I first heard the question pop up from friends and relatives back home: ``Are you fluent yet?''

2030 APW19980622.0131 -1 cat show, exhibitions, cat cartoon drawing and cat imitation contests. Kuching is known as Malaysia's cat city. The word itself means cat in the Malay language. Bronze cat sculptures perch on the Sarawak River esplanade and stone obelisks 2030 NYT20000126.0418 -1 Witness the French and Yugolslavian characters in ``Lovers,'' the words they won't give up: the Yugoslav insists his French girlfriend pronounce his name in perfect Serbo-Croatian, but he calls her ``Jane,'' unable to say the French ``Jeanne''; she r 2030 NYT20000901.0071 -1 learning a new system as you might think because a lot of the things we do are similar. It's like learning a new language. When you're studying French there's a long period where you're translating everything in your mind to English and then speaking 2030 NYT19990224.0243 -1 Which is not to say that there isn't much of value in many of the French language product 2031 APW19980730.0877 -1 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) _ Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a statue of the ancient god Osiris in the Nile Delta, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said Thursday. 2031 APW19980830.0943 -1 '' Now, a new image of the Canaanite religion is emerging as archaeologists decipher thousands of texts left behind in the ancient city of Ugarit, where Baal was the patron god. 2031 NYT19981210.0328 -1 reputation, faience was closely identified with women and fertility. The show includes several cult statues of the grotesque god Bes, protector of infants and new mothers, as well as images, possibly talismanic, of women as passive erotic 2031 APW19981117.0063 -1 ; &UR; AP Photos CAI101-102 &QL; &UR; By SALAH NASRAWI &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; LUXOR, Egypt (AP) _ Fending off a scorching sun with dark glasses and a straw hat, the Egyptian guide Sabri Bekheit recites myriad events 2031 NYT19991227.0237 -1 lb) By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

Two centuries ago, an engineer with Napoleon's army in Egypt snatched intellectual triumph from the jaws of military defeat by discovering the Rosetta Stone. This marked 2031 NYT19981210.0328 -1 Faience was a medium with a particular allure for the Egyptians, and they used it to create some of their most memorable art. 2031 NYT19981210.0328 -1 ular allure for the Egyptians, and they used it to create some of their most memorable art. The 200 or so objects here _ scul 2031 APW19980830.0943 -1 of Ugarit, where Baal was the patron god. The texts reveal a wealthy and sophisticated Canaanite society that imported alabaster from Egypt and timber from Anatolia and whose religious services and hymns strikingly resembled those of the ancient 2031 XIE19990303.0083 -1 An analysis of makeup used by Egyptian women 4,000 years ago indicates that the ancient Egyptian women used much more complicated chemistry than had been appreciated, the Washington Post said Monday.

According to P. Walter of the Laboratoire 2031 APW19980730.0864 -1 and weighs 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) and had been buried with other ancient artifacts, Gaballah said in a statement. Osiris, the god of the underworld, his wife, Isis, the goddess of fertility, and their son, Horus, were worshiped by ancient Egypt 2031 NYT19981210.0328 -1 goddess Isis leans back against her outstretched wings like Jean Harlow on a Deco sofa, ready for her close-up. In one cult image, the god Thoth (patron of writers, a thankless job) has a male model's build but a bird's head; in another, he is a plum 2031 NYT19990620.0114 -1 The Vatican _ swear to God _ is considering the creation of a patron saint of the Internet so that millions of cybersurfers can pray for quicker service. < 2032 NYT20000712.0197 1 The Tour de France began in 1903 as a publicity gimmick for the newspaper L'Auto, a predecessor of L'Equipe, a daily sports newspaper based in Paris. The yellow leader 2032 APW19981219.0432 -1 Langen, who won the two-man event Friday, took first place with a time of 1 minute, 55. 2032 APW19981124.0883 -1 Jamie Silverstein, 14, and Justin Pekarek, 17, of the United States, took third place at the early stages of this event, while their compatriots, Melissa Gregory, 17, and James Shuford, 20, placed eleventh. 2032 APW19980802.0594 1 in Switzerland. The Tour de France has been around since 1903, stopping only for the two world wars. It unites the French people more than any other regular sporting event, because 2032 APW19980802.0594 1 We are with you!'' one banner said in eastern France. ``It's hypocrisy!'' said another in Switzerland. The Tour de France has been around since 1903, stopping only for the two world wars. It unites the French people more than any other 2032 APW19990725.0141 -1 This year's race, which ended in American Lance Armstrong's remarkable triumph, marked the first time since 1926 that a Frenchman didn't win a single stage of the Tour. And it was only the fourth time since World War II that one didn't figure i 2032 XIE19960127.0129 -1 INE>

TOKYO, January 27 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will take part in the table tennis and weightlifting Asia-zone qualifying events in Japan for places at the Atlanta Olympic Games, it was reported here Saturday. 2032 XIE19970901.0088 -1 INE>

CHENGDU, Southwest Sichuan, September 1 (Xinhua) -- The China Cup international bridge event will be broadcasted live through the Internet, the first time in the world for the sport, organizers said here on Monday.

Anybody wh 2032 NYT19990226.0164 -1 SUSAN BICKELHAUPT c.1999 The Boston Globe

Tim Johnson is giving Americans a good name in cyclocross racing.

Johnson, of Middleton, Mass., recently returned from the world championships in Poprad, Slovakia, where he p 2032 APW19981015.1043 -1 In addition to raising money for charity, the event was intended to help Johnson improve an image that has been tarnished since he tested positive for steroids after placing first in the 100 meters at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. 2032 APW19981015.1043 -1 harity, the event was intended to help Johnson improve an image that has been tarnished since he tested positive for steroids after placing first in the 100 meters at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. He was suspended for that inf 2032 APW19980802.0596 1 in eastern France. ``It's hypocrisy!'' said another in Switzerland. The Tour de France has been around since 1903, stopping only for the two world wars. It unites the French people more than any other regular sporting event, because it travels to 2032 XIE19980901.0211 -1 Chinese Taipei won the men's and women's team events on the final day of the first round competition at the 1998 World Ranking Asia Archery Circuit here on Monday.

China took the silver medal of the men's team event, followed by Indonesia in 2032 APW19981219.0432 -1 France (AP) _ Germany's Christoph Langen won his second World Cup bobsled event in two days Saturday, guiding the Germany 1 team to success in the four-man competition. Langen, who won the two-man event Friday, took first place with a time of 1 m 2032 NYT19991101.0261 -1 pace for the competition. But a kid from New Jersey later blew away the competition with an 8-inch bubble, which took first prize.

Looking back, Jimmy said the experience was an interesting one.

``Like in any major sporting ev 2032 XIE19990917.0051 -1 he event is organized by the Portuguese Camoes Institute, and is the second of its kind. The first took place in Lisbon last year. < 2032 XIE19980104.0070 -1 Lazutina took ground from Norway's Bente Marinsen's absence in the event to move up in the first place in the overall standings with 333 points after six events of the World Cup competitio 2033 NYT19990405.0243 -1 most basic classification of the hundreds of ways to type human blood, the ABO system, is important because incompatible types of blood react with each other to form sticky globs of 2033 NYT19990405.0269 -1 The most basic classification of the hundreds of ways to type human blood, the ABO system, is important because incompatible types of blood react with each other to form sticky globs of red blood cells that can cause serious sometimes fatal blockages 2033 NYT19980930.0046 -1 routine testing of donated human blood or blood products, and testing of donated human brain tissues that are used in certain types of brain surgery. 2033 APW19990627.0091 1 six units of blood to survive heart surgery, while a car crash victim may need 50.

--There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood, but shortages of all types commonly occur durin 2033 NYT19981114.0114 -1 N.J., Fla., Mass.) (jw) By NICHOLAS WADE c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

Saying that he is ``deeply troubled'' by the creation of part-human, part-cow embryonic stem cells, President Clinton has directed the National Bioeth 2033 NYT19990830.0159 -1 n Spanish.----- &HT; By JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ c.1999 Discover magazine &UR; (Distributed by New York Times Special Features) &LR; &QC;

The human body is an infuriating mix of fallibility and intolerance. When vital organs wear ou 2033 APW19990627.0091 1 There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood, but shortages of all types commonly occur during holidays and the summer because regular donors take vacation. 2033 APW19990627.0091 -1 , B, AB and O. Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood, but shortages of all types commonly occur during holidays and the summer because regular donors take vacation.

--Donated blood can be 2033 NYT19981123.0164 -1 blood types from plague infections. A's have the worst hangovers.

There are wide racial, ethnic, and geographic differences in blood types around the world. There are twice as many O's among native Australians as among Japanese. Eskimos 2033 NYT19980928.0168 -1 That led to a steady procession of advances: the freeze-drying of plasma, which could be shipped long distances and reconstituted to counteract traumatic shock, an enormous strategic advantage during the Second World War; then the isolation of albumi 2033 APW19990627.0091 1 a car crash victim may need 50.

--There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood, but shortages of all types commonly occur during holidays and the summer because regular donors t 2033 NYT20000203.0095 -1 hepatocytes for cholesterol metabolism; endothelial vessels to grow new blood vessels to replace vessels clogged by fat and plaque. There are more than 200 different cell types in the body, and stem cells can theoretically be nudged to form each one. 2033 NYT19990126.0088 -1 Blood was the first commodity on the market, and it is still the most commonly sold body product. Paid blood donors typically earn from $50 to $500 per pint; those with rare blood types or components may get more. < 2033 APW19990627.0091 1 There are four main blood types: A, B, AB and O. Blood centers often run short of types O and B blood, but shortages of all types commonly occur during holidays and the summer because regular donors take vacatio 2035 NYT20000714.0202 1 Cows have four stomachs, you know, and horses just the one. It takes four stomachs to stomach Bahia. 2035 APW20000628.0017 -1 It was unclear how long the cow would spend in police custody. 2035 NYT19990909.0077 -1 A cow with race-car flames. 2035 NYT20000714.0202 1 Bermuda better, with its higher protein value. Bahia is more drought resistant, and cows can get along on it.

Cows have four stomachs, you know, and horses just the one. It takes four stomachs to stomach Bahia.

You know Bahia 2035 NYT19981021.0015 -1 88) 346-9867.) (nk) By BARRY BEARAK c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW DELHI, India _ It takes eight men to capture a street-smart cow, so the municipal cow catchers of New Delhi must squeeze together tightly in the cab of the 2035 NYT20000714.0202 -1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

LUFKIN, Texas _ I was standing in front of the tire store where my Cousin Bubba works, waiting on him to get off for lunch and listening to a couple of fellows talking about haying.

You migh 2035 NYT19981021.0015 1 Table scraps may be fine fodder, they say, but the plastic wrapping is not digestible in any of the cows' four famous stomachs. 2035 NYT19981021.0015 1 hey say, but the plastic wrapping is not digestible in any of the cows' four famous stomachs. They want use of the garbage bags 2035 NYT19981021.0015 -1 stomachs. They want use of the garbage bags banned, though as yet this appears unlikely. In modern India, the utility of the garbage bag may be a force beyond even the spirituality of the cow.

``Inside the cows we find glass, iron, wire 2035 APW19990218.0123 -1 be done with a simple, at-home test.

In a 1997 survey of 52,754 people 50 and up, only 30.4 percent reported having had a colon exam within the previous five years and only 19.8 percent had been tested for blood in their stool in 2035 APW20000317.0001 -1 killed thousands of animals over the last 30 years.

He, too, begins with prayer: ''Oh God Almighty, this (animal) is yours and I'm taking something from it. I ask permission of the Creator to take this animal for us.''

The tax authorities of all 58 California counties legally are required to honor Proposition 60, says Kristine Cazadd, senior staff attorney with the state Bo 2036 NYT20000131.0139 -1 DLINE> &HT; (For use by New York Times News Service clients.) &HT; By ROBERT SALLADAY &HT; c.2000 San Francisco Examiner

RIVERSIDE, Calif. _ The political and economic fissure that runs through California begins j 2036 APW20000323.0261 -1 Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Lawmakers have proposed spending more than $14 million to eradicate a thirsty, half-inch-long brown insect new to California that is threatening the state's grape crop.

''California's table, 2036 NYT20000621.0409 -1 ws Service clients) By CHRIS SIEROTY c.2000 Los Angeles Daily News

LOS ANGELES _ California's robust economy is expected to continue to expand in the coming years, albeit at a more moderate rate, a University of California, Los Angel 2036 NYT20000505.0098 -1 many families in California.''

Also at the bottom of the affordability index are two other Bay Area counties _ Contra Costa and San Mateo _ both ranked at 13 percent.

In Southern California, San Diego County was the least 2036 NYT20000309.0011 -1 Los Angeles was among five Southland counties that posted net losses of domestic migrants and sizable increases of new residents from outside the United States. Only Riverside County bucked the regional trend, adding 175,275 domestic migrants, most o 2036 NYT19990311.0467 -1 Four California counties _ Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Riverside _ were among the top 10 counties nationwide in population growth.

Nevada was the fastest-growing state, gaining 68,207 people, or 4.1 percent, to reach 1.74 million. 2036 APW20000323.0261 -1 91 percent of California's wineries.

Eight counties in southern California and part of Kern County are infested with the insect, state officials say. It has caused $6 million damage to wine grapes in Riverside County's Temecula Valley in 2036 APW20000125.0049 -1 The study also showed that as many or more nonwhite doctors participated in HMOs than white doctors. The study covered 13 large urban counties in California. < 2036 APW19990122.0271 -1 nine California countie 2037 APW20000825.0022 -1 In Iowa and Montana, election officials threw up their arms and held a lottery, with Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver drawing Buchanan's name. 2037 APW20000825.0031 -1 In Iowa and Montana, election officials threw up their arms and held a lottery, with Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver drawing Buchanan's name. 2037 XIE20000531.0124 -1 me Flights to Kathmandu

NEW DELHI, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Indian Airlines (IA) will resume its service to Nepal from Thursday after a five-month-long suspension of its flights to Kathmandu following the hijacking of its airliner to 2037 NYT19990215.0166 -1 s News Service clients) By DAN PILLER c.1999 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Some Iowa Republicans visited Austin last week to beg our Gov. George W. Bush to enter their presidential caucuses next February.

It's a trap, George. 2037 APW20000319.0129 -1 Iowa State got a lift from a boisterous crowd of 13,478 that included All-American Marcus Fizer, who has led Iowa State to the round of 16 in the men's tournament. 2037 APW20000319.0129 -1 erous crowd of 13,478 that included All-American Marcus Fizer, who has led Iowa State to the round of 16 in the men's tournament.

Illinois frustrated I 2037 NYT20000124.0415 -1 Iowa with nearly as much money as Gore to spend on a national campaign. And Bradley enjoys far greater name recognition in New Hampshire than he did in Iowa, largely because of his decade as a Hall of Fame basketball player for the New York Knicks 2037 NYT20000124.0235 -1 IOWA-MAIN _ DES MOINES, Iowa _ Writethru on the results of the Iowa caucuses. (Herman, Austin American-Statesman; Foskett, Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Shepard, Cox News Service). 35.

EDs: Feeds from these reporters will be put together 2037 XIE19971112.0292 -1 in Des Moines Tuesday. With its precinct caucuses opening the presidential nominating season, Iowa gets heavy attention from presidential candidates of both parties. Powell quickly made his point

"I am not a candidate for political office," 2037 APW19990612.0103 -1 The Texas governor and former Cabinet secretary both scheduled stops in Des Moines and in Cedar Rapids at different times of the day.

The two intersected briefly at the Cedar Rapids airport, where their respective campaign airplanes w 2037 NYT19980919.0143 -1 But Mrs. Irwin really did not need her children as models. A native of Peterson, Iowa, Mrs. Irwin, whose maiden name was Bowen, grew up on a farm, majored in music at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and spent 30 years teaching, first music 2037 APW19981214.1346 -1 IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) _ Iowa coach Tom Davis knew all along it would take a signature victory to get his basketball team in the Top 2 2038 XIE19981211.0335 1 of the death in 1896 of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite who established most of the prizes in his will. 2038 NYT20000821.0323 -1 Rule 3: Own what you invent. 2038 NYT19990724.0200 1 explosive's heritage. The Carthage plant, in operation since early in the century, is now owned by a company that traces its roots to dynamite's inventor, Alfred Nobel. The company's name: Dyno Nobel. &QL;

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WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Treasury Department's former top cop, who punished the supervisors of the disastrous Branch Davidians raid, will become a witness for the defense Wednesday as the House Judiciar 2038 APW19981207.1568 -1 /HEADLINE> &UR; By JIM HEINTZ &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) _ The winners of this year's Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday eagerly told of the explosive interest in their discovery and tried to dampen cont 2038 NYT19981208.0190 -1 Noble also made the controversial decision to close Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The closure happened shortly after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995, but Noble insists that the 2038 NYT19990521.0075 -1 But his other great love was actress Faye Dunaway, who starred in the 1965 off-Broadway production of ``Hogan's Goat,'' Mr. Alfred's play about Irish-American politicians, when she was still a Boston University student. And Dunaway adored Mr. Alfred 2038 APW19981014.1184 1 on C-Span. The economics prize is the only Nobel not established in the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite. It was created in 1968 to mark the tercentenary of Sweden's central bank. Prizes in chemistry and physics w 2038 NYT19981208.0190 -1 During his three years with the Treasury Department, Noble also made the controversial decision to close Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The closure happened shortly after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Okl 2039 XIE19990328.0123 -1 Allen Iverson led the Sixers with 24 points. 2039 APW19990306.0073 -1 And the way I look at it, even if I go with a clean slate, don't get in any trouble, win the scoring title and we have a great season and go to the playoffs and make noise, they'll still be hesitant to market Allen Iverson. 2039 APW19990414.0091 1 in this year's draft as well: Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant (both went to the NBA from high school), Allen Iverson (Georgetown), Stephon Marbury (Georgia Tecg), Jamison and Carter (North Carolina), Robert Traylor (Michigan), Jason 2039 APW19990524.0027 -1 coach.

The Sixers, in the playoffs for the first time since 1991, did much more than advance to the second round. They got the jaded fans of Philadelphia to enjoy the ride.

The First Union Center, previously pulsing with boo 2039 APW19990306.0073 -1 LINE>

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Allen Iverson shares at least one trait with Michael Jordan. The kid has a fabulous memory.

Jordan always kept score on the court, remembering the player who beat him off the dribble 10 years ago 2039 NYT19990523.0178 -1 EADLINE> (ms) By IRA BERKOW c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

PHILADELPHIA _ No one on the Indiana Pacers brought out a broom to signify a sweep over the 76ers Sunday afternoon, or made any kind of motion that they had just cle 2039 NYT19990306.0178 -1 ``I knew the college game because of coach John Thompson, and I knew how to play high school ball because of my high school coach. 2039 NYT19990306.0178 -1 of coach John Thompson, and I knew how to play high school ball because of my high school coach. Now coach Brown is teaching me th 2039 NYT19990520.0519 -1 Allen Iverson show. He's a tremendous competitor. What he does for the Sixers, I don't think even they realize.''

It was not long ago that critics were saying Iverson did little for the 76ers. An unconventional point guard, he produced 2039 APW20000316.0220 -1 Brown suspended Iverson for one game three years ago for missing a practice in New York. In December, Iverson lashed out at Brown after being benched for the final 20 minutes of a loss at Detroit. Iverson said then he should be traded if Brown was un 2039 NYT20000319.0144 -1 P>

Now, in Jordan's wake, the NBA is increasingly faced with the task of marketing new stars, many of whom either attended only a year or two of college, like Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers and Vince Carter of the Toronto Raptors, or 2039 NYT20000319.0144 -1 viewed NCAA tournament.

Now, in Jordan's wake, the NBA is increasingly faced with the task of marketing new stars, many of whom either attended only a year or two of college, like Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers and Vince Carter o 2039 NYT19991127.0171 -1 From the Don't Rub It In Dept.: When the Spurs were in town last week, we asked Gregg Popovich to go back to May of 1997 when the futures of two franchises were determined by bouncing lottery balls. Popovich said before the Tim Duncan Lottery, he h 2039 APW19990414.0132 -1 Had everybody who could have stayed in school for all or even part of their four years, these are some of the names that would have been in this year's draft as well: Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant (both went to the NBA from high school), Allen Iv 2040 NYT19990430.0042 -1 By damaging the hind-limb buds when the amphibians are sprouting legs, the worm seems to turn frogs into sitting ducks. 2040 NYT19990419.0168 -1 You probably heard frogs, probably males calling out their version of: ``Hey Baby, what's your sign? 2040 APW19990429.0104 1 studies today in the journal Science report that laboratory research shows a trematode, a simple parasitic flatworm, is infecting tadpoles that grow into frogs with deformed, missing or multiple hind legs.

The worm infection, says Stan 2040 XIE19960607.0195 -1 >

BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) -- A rare, 7-cm-long red frog was caught several days ago by a retired teacher in east China's Zhejiang Province,

The frog-catcher was a biology teacher, who discovered the frog near a grain purchasing s 2040 NYT19990127.0210 -1 P NOBEL c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

Sometime in 1995, Jack Nicholson sat down to dinner with a friend, Alan Finkelstein. At the end of the meal, when the check came, Nicholson took out two cards _ a credit card and a card-size 2040 NYT19980627.0090 -1 Nineteen species of frogs, researchers report, are succumbing to a newly discovered fungus called a chytrid, a type of fungus known previously to live only on decaying matter and insects. 2040 NYT19980627.0090 -1 chers report, are succumbing to a newly discovered fungus called a chytrid, a type of fungus known previously to live only on decaying matter and insects. Researchers say it remains to be 2040 NYT19990419.0168 -1 frogs, probably males calling out their version of: ``Hey Baby, what's your sign?'' They were trying to attract a mate and it is hoped that frog croaking is more persuasive than ``Hey Baby, what's your sign?''

The first few weeks of April 2040 NYT19990323.0067 -1 By Holly Ocasio Rizzo &QL; &LR; &UR; c. 1999 The San Francisco Chronicle &QL; &LR; &QL; Berkeley, Calif. _ &UR; CLASSIC-Magnani &LR; _ Once upon a time, a customer could walk into a family-owned poultry market, cast a critical eye upon the pe 2040 NYT19990419.0168 -1 Service clients) By DAVID ROPEIK c.1999 The Boston Globe

Q. I heard an incredible chorus from a swampy area in the Middlesex Fells at dusk, enough to make your ears ring. It went on for hours. Was it tree frogs, or crickets, a 2040 APW20000227.0046 -1 P> More than 160 attended a training session here over the weekend to study up for the big count. They spent the day being briefed by naturalists and learning to identify some 73 varieties of toads, frogs, lizards, salamanders, turtles and snakes 2040 XIE19960309.0187 -1 e plans to breed 30 million frogs and provides 200 million baby frogs for local peasants to breed and his frog base will be developed into a comprehensive enterprise, which will combine the industries of frog breeding, processing, and pharmaceutics. 2043 NYT19980917.0235 -1 The 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion prior to fetal viability. 2043 APW19991021.0257 -1 In a glimpse of stump strategy in 2000, when a third of the Senate goes before the voters, Harkin said in his floor speech that the vote on his amendment could turn the late-term abortion issue into a debate on Roe vs. 2043 APW19991021.0257 -1 next year's campaigns.

In a glimpse of stump strategy in 2000, when a third of the Senate goes before the voters, Harkin said in his floor speech that the vote on his amendment could turn the late-term abortion issue into a debate on R 2043 NYT19991021.0433 -1 k Times News Service clients) By ANNE E. KORNBLUT c.1999 The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON _ With the federal budget unresolved and time on the congressional clock running out, the U.S. Senate spent a second full day dueling over ab 2043 NYT20000128.0113 -1 Lehane, however, declined to answer a question about whether Gore agreed with the language in the 1984 amendment; or the 1977 measure, the so-called Hyde amendment, that said abortion is the taking of a life and is not protected by the Constitution. 2043 NYT20000128.0113 -1 r a question about whether Gore agreed with the language in the 1984 amendment; or the 1977 measure, the so-called Hyde amendment, that said abortion is the taking of a life and is not protected by the Constitution.

Gore, who once had a 2043 APW19991021.0257 -1 amendment could turn the late-term abortion issue into a debate on Roe vs. Wade.

``It's about whether or not we believe Roe vs. Wade was a wise decision and whether or not women ought to have their right to decide their own 2043 APW20000121.0338 -1 e what limits to place on abortions, adding that the Supreme Court erred by issuing a ruling on the issue 27 years ago.

But Bush, an anti-abortion two-term Texas governor, did not directly call for the outright repeal of the 1973 Roe vs. 2043 NYT20000503.0473 -1 a television ad warning that if Governor Bush is elected President, he will appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn Roe vs. Wade, the landmark abortion rights decision. The ads also warn that Bush ``even supports a constitutional amendment t 2043 APW20000122.0253 -1 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The future of legalized abortion depends on the outcome of the 2000 presidential race, President Clinton told Democratic Party donors today. Clinton added that since Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush, endorsed 2043 APW20000120.0260 -1 Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Bush said: ``Roe v 2044 APW20000520.0152 -1 ahead run in the eighth inning Saturday night to give the Rockies a 4-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. 2044 NYT20000729.0234 1 The stairs and plaza in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (the ``Rocky steps'' locale) are the setting Wednesday morning for ``Es Un Nuevo Dia,'' (It's A New Day), a Hispanic-themed event welcoming Gov. 2044 NYT20000729.0234 1 Even the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, scene of a memorable moment in the movie ``Rocky,'' are booked for a Republican gathering. 2044 NYT20000803.0131 1 of Texas who will become governor if his buddy George W. Bush beats Al Gore on Nov. 7, was on the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps featured in Sylvester Stallone's ``Rocky'' movie Wednesday, waiting for Bush to arrive at a rally. By Dave 2044 APW19990915.0010 1 LINE>

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- To hear locals talk about it, a new movie about dead people walking around Philadelphia is the best thing to happen since a little-known boxer named Rocky trained on the Art Museum steps.

Nearly e 2044 NYT20000729.0234 -1 r use by New York Times News Service clients) By SHELBY HODGE c.2000 Houston Chronicle

PHILADELPHIA _ Forget the somnolent speeches and studied applause of First Union Center where the Republican National Convention is being held t 2044 NYT20000120.0141 -1 A painting the Los Angeles museum has just bought, ``Monkey Magic: Sex, Money and Drugs'' (1999), depicts a monkey holding an urn from which three wads of elephant dung, labeled ``sex,'' ``money'' and ``drugs,'' float upward on the canvas. 2044 NYT20000120.0141 -1 has just bought, ``Monkey Magic: Sex, Money and Drugs'' (1999), depicts a monkey holding an urn from which three wads of elephant dung, labeled ``sex,'' ``money'' and ``drugs,'' float upward on the canvas. The work also incorporates acryli 2044 APW20000803.0036 1 used a final burst of energy to leap up the 80 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just like a certain fictional boxer who will forever be associated with the city.

Anyone who thinks the movie ''Rocky'' has been forgotten only needs 2044 APW20000311.0062 -1 The exhibition includes works on loan from private collectors and museums the world over, as well as the Detroit museum's Van Goghs: ''Portrait of Joseph Rulin,'' a 1992 gift from Walter B. Ford II and his wife Josephine; two Van Gogh landscapes; and 2044 APW19980626.1429 1 parade kicks off at 6:30 p.m. and follows the Parkway to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Many people like to run the steps of the museum like Sylvester Stallone did in the movie ``Rocky.'' After the parade, Peter Nero and the Philly 2044 NYT20000803.0130 1 of Texas who will become governor if his buddy George W. Bush beats Al Gore on Nov. 7, was on the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps featured in Sylvester Stallone's ``Rocky'' movie Wednesday, waiting for Bush to arrive at a rally. (McNeely, Austin Ame 2044 NYT20000803.0070 -1 MCNEELY-COLUMN _ AUSTIN, Texas _ PHILADELPHIA _ That guy on the famous steps here, getting his picture taken, was Ricky, not Rocky. Or at least that's what his momma calls him. Rick Perry, the lieutenant governor of Texas who will become governor i 2044 APW19990915.0010 1 PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- To hear locals talk about it, a new movie about dead people walking around Philadelphia is the best thing to happen since a little-known boxer named Rocky trained on the Art Museum step 2045 APW19980819.1154 1 of Alcantana near Lisbon and enables Spain to double its colonial empire. 1718 - French immigrants found city of New Orleans in Louisiana. 1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Spain. 1860 - British and 2045 NYT20000202.0493 -1 When Gilliland arrived at Tulane in 1997, she found two opportunities for change: out-of-date classrooms could be modernized to attract computer savvy students, and students could be connected more to the city of New Orleans. 2045 APW19980819.1154 1 , who defeats supporters of Don Antonio at Battle of Alcantana near Lisbon and enables Spain to double its colonial empire. 1718 - French immigrants found city of New Orleans in Louisiana. 1825 - Uruguay declares independence from Spain. 2045 APW19990216.0255 -1 zzling on grills and red beans simmering in huge pots woke those who had camped overnight for prime people-watching spots.

Founded in 1960, jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain's marching club claims 125 members, including actor John Goodma 2045 NYT20000202.0493 -1 _ It's just after 6 a.m. Outside it's dark, but here in the fitness center, bright lights shine.

Martha Gilliland, who will begin work as chancellor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in less than two months, sweats on a cross-t 2045 APW19990122.0169 -1 The convention hadn't come to New Orleans for six years because the city's convention center was too small, but an expansion that opened this month made enough space. 2045 APW19990122.0169 -1 Orleans for six years because the city's convention center was too small, but an expansion that opened this month made enough space. The meeting would have filled al 2045 NYT19990923.0507 -1 New Orleans. He was 73 and lived in Terrytown, a suburb of New Orleans.

A world-renowned authority on the application of clinical medicine and pathology to the investigation of sudden, suspicious or violent death, Eckert founded the 2045 NYT19990426.0244 -1 NEW ORLEANS _ He lived here for less than six months and has been gone for 126 years, but Edgar Degas will make a triumphant return this spring at a New Orleans Museum of Art exhibition to highlight ``Francofete,'' an observance accentuating Louisian 2045 APW19980819.1154 1 Duke of Alva, who defeats supporters of Don Antonio at Battle of Alcantana near Lisbon and enables Spain to double its colonial empire. 1718 - French immigrants found city of New Orleans in Louisiana. 1825 - Uruguay declares independence from 2045 APW19980921.0008 -1 Minnesota 29, Detroit 6 Green Bay 13, Cincinnati 6 New York Jets 44, Indianapolis 6 Miami 21, Pittsburgh 0 St. Louis 34, Buffalo 33 Kansas City 23, San Diego 7 New England 27, Tennessee 16 Seattle 24, Washington 14 Tam 2047 NYT19980907.0097 -1 Because Mercury and Venus are ``inferior'' planets, or planets that are closer to the Sun than Earth is, they can show phases like those of the Moon, Rao said. 2047 NYT19991206.0033 1 making because Mercury is a tough target. It orbits just 36 million miles from the sun, where intense solar gravity makes spacecraft visits difficult, and fierce heat challenges spacecraft designers.

The $286 million Messenger spacecraft, 2047 NYT19980907.0097 -1 &LR;

Q. Why is Venus so much brighter in the sky than Mercury, which is closer to the Sun?

A. Venus is brighter because it is much larger, because it has a reflective atmosphere and because it makes close approaches to Earth, 2047 NYT20000406.0010 -1 news file.) By ROBERT MONROE c.2000 Los Angeles Daily News

LOS ANGELES _ Look to the western skies tonight to see a rare clustering of three planets and the crescent moon, a 20-year event that some fear is the beginning of the end of 2047 NYT19990216.0097 -1 lients) By DAVID ROPEIK c.1999 The Boston Globe

Q. What is the smallest planet in the solar system?

F.R., Quincy, Mass.

A. Pluto, with a diameter at the equator of just 1,429 miles, is the smallest of t 2047 NYT19980615.0038 -1 That construction will come after tonight, when the Mercury uses five days off to fully integrate Griffiths, Australians Timms and Kristi Harrower, and Stepanova into systems introduced while they were at the World Championships. 2047 NYT19980615.0038 -1 tonight, when the Mercury uses five days off to fully integrate Griffiths, Australians Timms and Kristi Harrower, and Stepanova into systems introduced while they were at the World Championships.

If Phoenix goes 3-0 i 2047 NYT19980907.0097 -1 is Venus so much brighter in the sky than Mercury, which is closer to the Sun?

A. Venus is brighter because it is much larger, because it has a reflective atmosphere and because it makes close approaches to Earth, said Joe Rao, lecturer 2047 NYT19991008.0159 -1 Mark Hannington of the Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, and his colleagues were studying water and rock samples gathered last year from hydrothermal vents in the Bay of Plenty off the coast of New Zealand. Analysis of the samples showed that the 2047 NYT19990419.0260 -1 to those of Venus and Earth from the sun.

The problem has become even more complex for theorists now that they have encountered three such huge planets in one system, one planet in a close circular orbit and two in elliptical orbits. It h 2047 NYT19990419.0260 -1 their stars corresponding roughly to those of Venus and Earth from the sun.

The problem has become even more complex for theorists now that they have encountered three such huge planets in one system, one planet in a close circular orbit 2047 APW20000331.0102 -1 Mercury News, The Des Moines (Iowa) Register and The Herald-Sun in Durham, N. 2048 NYT20000802.0265 1 Let's set the record straight. The nation's first music video show didn't start in New York in 1981, and it wasn't MTV. An early chapter in the 2048 NYT20000612.0057 -1 It's also sad to see MTV's online news coverage lagging in an election year when a dialogue about issues relevant to young voters should be started _ issues such as school violence and safe sex. 2048 APW19980711.0757 1 -based bands made rock videos that were aired on children's shows in England. When MTV started in 1981, its playlist was filled with this material. ``It looked like there was this English invasion in music when actually there wasn't, 2048 NYT19990218.0055 1 Nickelodeon and VH1. Nickelodeon is the most popular of the outlets (with MTV second and VH1 third) and celebrates its 20th anniversary on April 1. MTV started in 1981 and VH1 in 1985 2048 NYT19980621.0134 -1 12 556-4204.) (ja) By BILL CARTER c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

When John Sykes took over as president of the cable channel VH1 in 1994, he had a theory:

``All the baby boomers, and all those people who started 2048 NYT20000511.0009 1 r 888-346-9867.) By JOSEPH HOOPER c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

Since its founding in 1981, MTV has gotten plenty of mileage out of young people's fantasies about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But if the staple of the channe 2048 NYT19990223.0431 -1 Tom Freston, the head of MTV, said Tuesday that the new music service was expected to generate revenue from advertising and some electronic commerce. 2048 NYT19990223.0431 -1 Tuesday that the new music service was expected to generate revenue from advertising and some electronic commerce. Though the existing MTV site does 2048 NYT19980621.0134 -1 started in 1985 with the purpose of staving off competition for MTV. That year, Ted Turner had started a competing music channel, so MTV Networks offered VH1 free to cable operators, killing off the threat. But the channel's identity as a separate 2048 NYT19990507.0197 -1 So why would people still want their MTV? Consider the recent ``I Was an MTV VJ Too,'' a brief documentary about MTV's late-'80s VJs that had a nostalgia factor yanked from the subconscious (who even remembers Kevin Seal?). This was the most interest 2048 APW19980711.0757 1 other British-based bands made rock videos that were aired on children's shows in England. When MTV started in 1981, its playlist was filled with this material. ``It looked like there was this English invasion in music when actually there wasn't, 2048 APW19980711.0757 1 When MTV started in 1981, its playlist was filled with this materia 2049 NYT20000321.0091 -1 However, Ferguson climbed back in the saddle in the 1920s when his wife, Miriam ``Ma'' Ferguson, served two nonconsecutive terms as governor. Robinson notes that ``one of her first acts was 2049 XIE19970417.0161 -1 Chaim Herzog was chosen as the sixth president of Israel in 1983 and served two terms until 1993. 2049 NYT20000526.0204 -1 Clinton, albeit slim, are better than they would be if a Republican were in the White House.

As of October, Clinton had granted 161 presidential pardons over his two terms. But that represented only 2.5 percent of the applications his off 2049 NYT19980924.0547 -1 arefied.

Maniscalco was born in Manhattan in 1908, a fact he never tired of repeating in his public speeches. His family moved to Staten Island when he was 9. Five years later, he joined the South Beach Democratic Club and a year later wa 2049 NYT19991003.0497 -1 (lb) By WILLIAM SAFIRE c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

The editorialist at The New York Times was scratching his head in unabashed puzzlement at the conflicts within the Reform Party.

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WASHINGTON, August 28 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Boris Yeltsin told a senior U.S. official on Friday that he plans to serve out the remainder of his term in office.

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After the establishment 2049 NYT19980829.0148 -1 terms, but allows a deputy to return to the chamber for nonconsecutive, three-year terms.

``The way it worked until recently was that bills came to the committees from the president's office with the committee reports clipped to the back 2049 NYT19990119.0154 -1 dential terms on his own after serving the remainder of Clinton's term.

Gore could end up serving nearly 10 years as president, second only to Roosevelt, who was elected four times and served 12 years and 39 days, dying in office in 1945. 2049 NYT19980827.0350 -1 inherit the White House until Jan. 21. (The Constitution limits any unelected president to one full, elected term if he has served more than two years before he runs for election).

One development unlikely to happen is a further Clinton e 2049 NYT20000814.0485 -1 and just'' America.

Clinton basked in a curtain call unseen at a Democratic National Convention in more than half a century. He is the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to serve two terms as president.

Despite the person 2049 NYT20000801.0230 -1 Cheney, 59, has never had a reputation as a dynamo despite a swift political ascent. By age 34, he was President Ford's chief of staff. Next he served six terms as Wyoming's lone congressman, including a stint as the No. 2 Republican in the House, 2049 APW19990619.0063 -1 An IOC member since 1981, He served three previous terms on the board, including one as vice president from 1989-9 2050 NYT19990629.0049 -1 Combine sugar, water and vanilla in a heavy saucepan, and stir over low heat to dissolve sugar. Increase heat to medium-high and boil, without stirring, until mixture turns golden brown 2050 NYT19980821.0314 -1 What's scary now is that, at about $289 an ounce, gold is not far from its production cost of $250 to $260 an ounce, though it is up from January's 18-year low of $278. 2050 NYT20000619.0284 1 be a severe blow to an economy already in trouble.

Many mines in Zimbabwe are running perilously low on imported supplies like cyanide, which is used to dissolve gold from crushed rock. Some mines say that they could be forced to shut dow 2050 XIE19991125.0040 -1 Museveni Misquoted on Dissolving Parliament

KAMPALA, November 24 (Xinhua) -- Ugandan President's Office said Wednesday that President Yoweri Museveni did not wish to dissolve parliament as reported in the Monitor newspaper 2050 NYT20000619.0284 -1 CONOMIC, POLITICAL TURMOIL By HENRI E. CAUVIN c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa _ Battered by low gold prices during the last year and squeezed by a currency crisis at home, Zimbabwe's gold 2050 NYT20000619.0284 1 Many mines in Zimbabwe are running perilously low on imported supplies like cyanide, which is used to dissolve gold from crushed rock. 2050 NYT20000619.0284 1 perilously low on imported supplies like cyanide, which is used to dissolve gold from crushed rock. Some mines say that they could be 2050 XIE19960901.0159 -1 Dissolves National Soccer Squad

NAIROBI, August 31 (Xinhua) -- Mauritania's soccer federation dissolved the national team and suspended this season's domestic championship on Saturday.

The decision became followed the 2050 XIE19960928.0025 -1 The following are news items from the Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua in Hong Kong today: hke092741 -- Australian Dollar Strengthens hka092742 -- Hang Seng China Enterprises Index Up hka092743 -- Gold Price in Hong Kong Down hka092744 -- Weather Informa 2050 XIE19961109.0023 -1 Pak Provincial Assembly Dissolved hke110835 -- Tamil Rebels Damage Power Lines in Eastern Sri Lanka hka110836 -- Hang Seng China Enterprises Index Down hka110837 -- Gold Price in Hong Kong Up hka110838 -- Weather Information for Asian-Pacific Cities 2050 NYT19990201.0278 -1 They made the covering out of a gold membrane, a mere three-millionths of a meter thick, surrounded by a chloride solution. That is strong and stable enough to hold in the dose _ except in the presence of an electrical charge. ``Apply a little voltag 2050 NYT19980915.0240 -1 They're decorative. There's nothing the matter with decoration. In Monet's great view of Parliament at sunset, the building dissolves in a sulphurous blue-gold haze, the soft paint like brushed fur. ``Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond'' from 1900, th 2051 NYT20000202.0254 -1 Every year during the brief Antarctic summer, scientists hunt for meteorites that are preserved in the continent's glaciers. One theory says that a meteorite from Mars that was discovered in 2051 NYT20000202.0254 -1 Every year during the brief Antarctic summer, scientists hunt for meteorites that are preserved in the continent's glaciers. 2051 NYT19980828.0051 -1 Twelker buys and sells meteorites around the world. 2051 NYT19990310.0214 -1 entists have discovered that Martians do exist. A life form has been uncovered in Antarctica that has been feeding on ``Martian food'' for many thousands of years.

The organism is a common terrestrial microbe that has lived deep inside th 2051 NYT19990310.0214 -1 Independent, London (Distributed by New York Times Special Features)

Scientists have discovered that Martians do exist. A life form has been uncovered in Antarctica that has been feeding on ``Martian food'' for many thousands of ye 2051 NYT19981214.0156 -1 e.) &HT; By KATHY A. SVITIL c.1998 Discover magazine &UR; (Distributed by New York Times Special Features) &LR; &QC;

If you want to see a time machine, go to room 2677 on the second floor of the geology building at UCLA. 2051 NYT19990322.0185 -1 ut the tantalizing fossilized microbes in Mars meteorites seriously challenged the questions and counterarguments raised about the announcement in 1996 of possible microbial life signs in a Martian meteorite found in Antarctica, called ALH 84001.

Possible fossils found in 2051 NYT20000202.0254 -1 meteorites that are preserved in the continent's glaciers. One theory says that a meteorite from Mars that was discovered in 1984 bears evidence of primitive microscopic life.

Nomad's job is to identify meteorites by using its robot arms 2051 NYT20000228.0504 -1 NEW YORK _ The American Museum of Natural History asked a federal court in Manhattan on Monday to declare the museum the rightful owner of one of its oldest and most treasured exhibits, the 15-ton Willamette Meteorite, which an Indian group in Oregon 2051 NYT20000117.0187 -1 descend upon Antarctica at this time of the year, taking advantage of the frigid continent's brief summer to study and explore. Since 1969, scientists from the United States and Japan have collected more than 20,000 meteorites near certain 2051 NYT20000202.0254 -1 an Antarctic Quest &QL;

Nomad, the very otherworldly robot that is currently searching Antarctica for meteorites, is sharing its discoveries on the World Wide Web.

Nomad, a car-size robot on wheels, is being judged as a form o 2051 NYT20000202.0254 -1 Every year during the brief Antarctic summer, scientists hunt for meteorites that are preserved in the continent's glaciers. One theory says that a meteorite from Mars that was discovered in 1984 bears evidence of primitive microscopic life. < 2052 APW20000626.0040 -1 Texas -- Austin, Houston (Hobby), San Antonio. 2052 NYT19980618.0201 -1 SAN ANTONIO _ Torrid heat has claimed more than 200,000 chickens and turkeys in one South Texas county, poultry farmers say, and the toll could worsen if temperatures continue to soar past 100 degrees. 2052 NYT19990527.0247 1 Focus: Lightning and Cars

An automobile is not immune to being struck by lightning. On Wednesday, lightning struck a car in Bexar County near San Antonio, Texas. One person was killed, though the exact cause of death was not known. Yet a 2052 NYT19981102.0111 -1 Other experts concur that damage is being done.

``It doesn't mean the bridges will fall down. But there is not the degree of safety that is expected,'' said Rob Harrison, associate director at the University of Texas at Austin's Center f 2052 NYT19980824.0442 -1 -1036 or (888) 346-9867.) (lh) By RICK LYMAN c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

SAN ANTONIO, Texas _ The sputtering remains of Tropical Storm Charley had pushed 200 miles up the Rio Grande Valley from the Gulf of Mexico before sta 2052 NYT19990527.0247 -1 c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

NATIONAL FORECAST

A summery weather pattern will spread over a large part of the nation during the next few days as the jet stream continues to retreat north into southern Canada. Areas 2052 NYT19981019.0460 -1 Texas Division of Emergency Management said floods claimed six people in the San Antonio area, two in Comal County and three in Guadalupe County. Tornadoes in Waller and Navarro counties, also in South Central Texas, each claimed one life 2052 NYT19990317.0316 -1 WASHINGTON _ Texas lawmakers criticized the Clinton administration Wednesday for its delays in distributing $2 billion in disaster assistance to offset crop and livestock losses last year from a stubborn drought.

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An automobile is not immune to being struck by lightning. On Wednesday, lightning struck a car in Bexar County near 2052 NYT19990915.0303 1 SAN ANTONIO _ A translator's error has created a major headache for election officials across Texas, and it could cost Bexar County taxpayers $91,000 to fix. < 2052 NYT20000720.0333 -1 SAN ANTONIO _ Flanked by San Antonio families he said epitomize the problems with Texas' health care system, Vice President Al Gore on Thursday attacked George W. Bush for his budgetary priorities, saying the Texas governor placed more emphasis on ta 2053 NYT19990120.0078 -1 Love's ``Celebrity Skin'' is up for three Grammies, including rock album. 2053 NYT20000215.0335 -1 Like the fans they have enabled to become the most powerful force in entertainment, most adolescent stars (and faux-adolescent ones like the 27-year-old best new artist nominee Kid Rock) don't go beyond lip service in acknowledging their elders, eith 2053 NYT19990224.0454 -1 He was specifically upset with Grammy voters for not nominating his fellow rapper DMX for best new artist and at the music industry in general for paying more attention to violence in rap than his upcoming tour. 2053 APW20000216.0104 -1 RCA's 19-year-old singer Aguilera is a Grammy nominee for best new artist. 2053 NYT19990303.0090 1 heartfelt apologies.''

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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- R&B singer Roger Troutman, who had songs such as ``More Bounce to the Ounce'' and ``I Want to Be Your Man,'' was shot to death along with his brother in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.

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Button Gwinnett, George Walton and Lyman Hall were Georgians who could have been hanged as traitors for signing the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

All three have counties named for them in Georgia.

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Which is why I had so many tiny courses at her restaurant, working through a flavor spectrum 2055 NYT19990810.0244 -1 NATALIE HAUGHTON c.1999 Los Angeles Daily News

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Here are some recipes for cooking with your mangoes.

These two recipes are easily made and transported for your next grill outing.

Grilled mango kebabs

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LOS ANGELES _ One of the most clever and enjoyable songs getting airplay on modern-rock radio is ``Pardon Me'' by the Calabasas band Incubus.

The track, taken fro 2056 NYT19991227.0160 -1 It was a year of digital downloading and on-line retail gains, a year of revivals (the J. Geils Band stood out), a year of sadness (the tragic death of Morphine's Mark Sandman in Italy), of great tour packages (Paul Simon with Bob Dylan and Emmylou H 2056 NYT19991227.0160 -1 ng and on-line retail gains, a year of revivals (the J. Geils Band stood out), a year of sadness (the tragic death of Morphine's Mark Sandman in Italy), of great tour packages (Paul Simon with Bob Dylan and Emmylou Harris with Linda Ronstadt), of Lat 2056 NYT19990630.0302 -1 guitarist Dave Navarro, whose refreshing work on ``Blood's'' follow-up, ``One Hot Minute,'' is the only good thing about it.

Time passed. Navarro left. Frusciante rejoined. Kiedis cleaned up. The time and the changes have done the Peppers 2056 NYT19990726.0372 -1 You might think of the music _ by Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, DMX, Alanis Morissette, and others _ as the main dish, but the hors d'oeuvres and dessert were the myriad of partially or totally naked bodies strutting about for the benefit of fell 2056 NYT19990630.0302 1 so fast took their toll: singer Anthony Kiedis' drug habit worsened, guitarist John Frusciante left, and everyone else grew sick of the cycles of being in a popular rock band.

Frusciante's departure led to the arrival of Jane's Addiction 2056 NYT20000707.0118 -1 For fans of intelligent rock, the pairing of the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Foo Fighters is manna from heaven. For Foo Fighters' frontman Dave Grohl, it's something more than simply a fine tour match. Grohl played drums in a group that opened up fo 2056 NYT20000324.0142 -1 The low point came when No Doubt was in Stefani's home in the Hollywood Hills, stumped for ideas, while having to listen to the Red Hot Chili Peppers _ their onetime LA club idols _ perform reams of new music up the street, where Flea, the bassist fo 2057 NYT19991217.0145 1 Grammy queen Lauryn Hill intones a stirring ``Turn Your Lights Down Low,'' as husband Rohan Marley (one of Bob's seven children) spins around her at the end. 2057 NYT19991217.0145 1 .

Grammy queen Lauryn Hill intones a stirring ``Turn Your Lights Down Low,'' as husband Rohan Marley (one of Bob's seven children) spins around her at the end. Reggae pioneer Cliff fixates with party favorite ``Jammin' '' before Badu 2057 NYT19991217.0145 -1 es News Service clients) By STEVE MORSE c.1999 The Boston Globe

All-star tributes are often awkward affairs, filled with erratic performances and cocky stars trying to get their faces on TV because their managers thought it wa 2057 NYT19991217.0145 1 a stirring ``Turn Your Lights Down Low,'' as husband Rohan Marley (one of Bob's seven children) spins around her at the end. Reggae pioneer Cliff fixates wit 2057 NYT19990322.0194 -1 Bob Marley singing the luminous ``Redemption Song'' is not merely a deferential gesture to the reggae icon. (Hill's fiance and the father of her two young children, by the way, is Rohan, Marley's son.) Blasting Bob Marley's folk anthem to freedom is 2057 APW19981010.0796 -1 Marley wrote several of Nash's biggest hits including ``Stir It Up'' and ``Guava Jelly.'' Both songs were produced by Sims, who also produced the Marley classic ``Bend Down Low.'' Sims and Marley split in the early 1970s, but Sims retained publis 2057 APW20000526.0107 -1 Reggae star Ziggy Marley canceled a planned performance in Austria to show his opposition to a far-right party in the federal government.

Marley, son of Bob Marley, was to have performed June 17 at the annual Spring Vibration Festival in 2057 NYT19991217.0145 1 Rain starts to fall on the audience, but doesn't dampen spirits onstage.

Grammy queen Lauryn Hill intones a stirring ``Turn Your Lights Down Low,'' as husband Rohan Marley (one of Bob's seven children) spins around her at the end. Reggae 2057 APW20000618.0092 -1 Marley is the leader of the Melody Makers, which has won three Grammy Awards. The band, which includes four of Bob Marley's children, opens its European tour Tuesday in Germany. < 2057 NYT19990716.0108 -1 Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers _ all children of the late reggae king Bob Marley _ have toiled in their father's shadow for year 2058 XIE19990314.0085 1 The fabrication of "news" out of political opportunism is an insult to the motto cherished by the New York Times which says " all the news that's fit to print." The 2058 NYT19980825.0300 -1 A New York Times News Service article sent on Sunday, August 23, about Nolo Press, the legal publisher, misidentified one of the promotional items that carry the company's motto. 2058 NYT19990624.0409 -1 distribute 1.6 million cans of Coca-Cola Classic in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area promoting the motto of the '99 Games: ``It's All About Attitude.

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WASHINGTON, March 13 (Xinhua) -- An anti-China farce has been put on show recently on the Capitol Hill and by some newspapers here since the New York Times alleged in a report Chinese nuclear espionage in the United States.

T 2058 NYT20000506.0143 -1 For 41 years, Ohio's official state motto was ``With God, all things are possible.'' 2058 NYT20000506.0143 -1 e motto was ``With God, all things are possible.'' Then, two weeks ago, a three-judg 2058 XIE19990314.0085 1 the allegation. The whole story is a complete fabrication.

The fabrication of "news" out of political opportunism is an insult to the motto cherished by the New York Times which says " all the news that's fit to print." The distortion of 2058 NYT20000728.0465 -1 The full Court of Appeals has decided to rehear the case, brought by the Ohio American Civil Liberties Union. Perhaps it hopes to do a better job of answering the question that has had Ohioans scratching their heads since April. They see the national 2058 XIE19990314.0085 -1 that's fit to print." The distortion of facts by a few Congressmen shows that they are irresponsible in dealing with serious political matters.

The joint maneuver by some people in the Congress and the media to hype up the "lab-theft" story 2058 NYT19990220.0069 -1 ``We own the night'' is the motto of the gung-ho Street Crimes Unit, which is charged with, among other things, taking illegal guns off the street. The New York Times' David Kocieniewski reported last week that 45,084 people were stopped and friske 2058 NYT20000717.0110 -1 UR; ATTENTION EDITORS: The following articles from The New York Times Magazine of July 16 are for use by clients of The New York Times Syndicate's CENTERPIECE news servic 2059 NYT19991006.0470 -1 com, and that site may contain information about how the team will get its name. 2059 NYT19981008.0164 1 around Chicago and was a Native American staple. In fact, that city may have gotten its name from the Ojibwa words ``she-kag-ong,'' meaning ``wild onion place.'' It's easy to grow in sunny locations with some moisture. The rose 2059 NYT19991112.0042 -1 ease call 800-444-0267, or fax us at 816-822-1444.) (PLEASE NOTE: This article has been transmitted into the ``a'' domestic news, ``k'' commentary news and ``t'' travel news files.) By ANDREW MARSHALL c.1999 The Independent, London 2059 NYT19990722.0277 -1 ) 603-1036 or (888) 346-9867.) (bl) By BARRY MEIER c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

In an undercover operation last year, Chicago police officers posed as local gang members and went shopping for firearms. Their targets: the su 2059 APW20000308.0272 -1 Chicago could get no closer than 10 points in the second quarter as the Magic led 53-36 at the half. 2059 APW20000308.0272 -1 0 points in the second quarter as the Magic led 53-36 at the half.

Notes: Orlando's Ron Mer 2059 NYT19980811.0165 -1 Chicago Police cars.

You talk to the boy for a while and he tells you his name and where he lives and how he got that cast on his arm _ and then he asks you if it's true what everyone in the neighborhood is saying.

``Did they 2059 APW20000417.0133 -1 ''I'm the first to admit that maybe people get carried away,'' says City Alderman Burton Natarus, who takes credit for much of Chicago's honorary street-naming. ''Some say the signs are tacky and all that, but you can make people feel good, so why no 2059 NYT19991112.0039 -1 a city's sense of itself.

There was an additional perk from the cows, which is that they helped Chicago get one up on New York.

As they were on display in Chicago, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hit the headlines for trying t 2059 NYT19991112.0039 -1 critical to a city's sense of itself.

There was an additional perk from the cows, which is that they helped Chicago get one up on New York.

As they were on display in Chicago, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hit the headlines 2059 NYT19990112.0427 -1 In the larger scheme of things it doesn't make much difference,'' said Allen R. Sanderson, an economist at the University of Chicago who specializes in the business of sports, who had the temerity to suggest in an opinion piece in The Chicago Tribune 2059 NYT19990116.0283 -1 My name is William Preston Summers. How are you doing? I am a third-grader in room 504 at Chase Elementary School in Chicago. < 2061 XIE19960414.0062 -1 1. Djaari Du Plessis, South Africa 2061 NYT19990614.0456 -1 Unless the lower court decision in this case is overturned, that goal will be impossible to achieve. 2061 NYT19980901.0403 1 litigation, Washington worked with teams that drew up briefs, held moot court exercises and tested presentations for the cases that culminated in Brown vs. Board of Education.

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Today is Tuesday, May 18, the 138th day of 1999. There are 227 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court endorsed the concept of ``separate but equal'' racial 2061 NYT19980901.0403 -1 > (ATTN: Md., N.C. ) (fb) By WOLFGANG SAXON c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

James Aaron Washington Jr., a retired District of Columbia judge and Howard University law dean who helped to formulate the Supreme Court case that res 2061 NYT19991012.0367 -1 Pa., Texas) (bl) By LINDA GREENHOUSE c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

WASHINGTON _ Whatever unfinished business remains in the office of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, that business now includes a new Supreme Court case. The 2061 XIE19970417.0065 -1 They said the Supreme Court, given its 1996 decision in the Colorado Republican Campaign Committee vs. the Federal Election Commission, has indicated it would allow spending limits if given a new test case. 2061 XIE19970417.0065 -1 its 1996 decision in the Colorado Republican Campaign Committee vs. the Federal Election Commission, has indicated it would allow spending limits if given a new test case.

One of the most prominen 2061 APW19990517.0210 1 Court endorsed the concept of ``separate but equal'' racial segregation with its ``Plessy v. Ferguson'' decision, a ruling that was overturned 58 years later in the case of ``Brown v. Board of Education.''

On this date:

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On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court endorsed the concept of ``separate but equal'' racial segregation with its ``Plessy v. Ferguson'' decision, a ruling that was overturned 58 years later in the case of ``Brown v. Board of Education.''

Ah, spring. Warm breezes, quenching mists, a time of flowers, young buds, tender sprouts, tissue-soft leaves and fecund soil; a time of renewal, when the fancies of 2062 NYT20000427.0398 -1 does fold down to expand the modest 12-square-foot capacity of the pass-through trunk, no one would ever buy a New Beetle for the cargo space.

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The old VW Bug was a cheap, noisy car with a no-frills heater, a rear engine and a cramped front-end trunk. The new Beetle has air conditioning, remote-control electric locks, six-speaker stereo _ and a $15,200 pric 2062 NYT19981229.0114 -1 MAPUTALAND, South Africa _ On safari at Phinda Forest Lodge, you spend up to eight hours a day watching and photographing animals, the majestic to the mundane, the lion to the dung beetle. It seems only fair, then, to give them a turn watching you. 2063 NYT20000415.0043 -1 ``In admitting an applicant, Gillers said, ``what we are doing is not making a decision about the person's character for practicing law, but making a decision about the person's intellectual capacity to practice law. 2063 NYT20000717.0194 -1 E> (For use by NYTimes News Service Clients) By MARK LOWRY c.2000 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Fans of Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly don't have to worry about their Hollywood icons being overshadowed by Tinseltown's new 2063 NYT20000809.0159 -1 ``Prince Charles is the patron of our company, and Henry IV is his favorite play,'' Barrit said with a Falstaffian glimmer in his eye. 2063 NYT20000809.0159 -1 our company, and Henry IV is his favorite play,'' Barrit said with a Falstaffian glimmer in his eye. ``He came to one of our first per 2063 NYT19990525.0382 -1 the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.'' A critic forced to describe Cagney's performance could do worse than adopt these lines.

Not for an instant was he ``doing Shakespeare 2063 NYT19991221.0218 -1 This year, Shakespeare and his characters have inspired at least three business books, with two on such a similar wavelength that they carry the same title: ``Shakespeare on Management.'' A fourth also tentatively carried that name but is now schedul 2063 NYT19990125.0015 -1 Shakespeare in Love'' won for movie (comedy or musical), screenplay and actress Gwyneth Paltrow's performance. ``The Truman Show'' was also a big winner, taking home prizes for motion picture score and for the work of actors Jim Carrey and Ed Harris. 2063 NYT20000110.0199 -1 If this drama is Shakespearean in its sweep, there are some who, like one of Shakespeare's more cynical characters, think the law is an as 2063 NYT19990908.0056 -1 1. JUDE LAW : LAW OF THE LAND British actor Jude Law has a penchant for dark, challenging roles, playing an alcoholic cripple in ``Gattaca'' and a hustler in ``Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.'' He may finally find mainstream fame with his 2064 XIE19960529.0226 1 The 8,848-meter summit of Mt. Everest lies on the border between Nepal and its northern neighbor China, where people call it qomalangma. 2064 APW19980601.0424 -1 The meeting was informed that after the next mini peak period, 5,86,000 MT of urea will be in the godowns after meeting country's demand while the stock remain at 3,10,000 MT after meeting the demand of the main peak period besides the stock at the d 2064 XIE19960611.0251 1 tons of garbage was brought to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu Monday by a helicopter from Qomolangma Feng (Mt. Everest) on Nepal's northern border in a mission to clean up the world's hottest mountaineering area.

The 1,800-kilogram solid 2064 XIE19960711.0195 1 Nepali government has decided to grant a veteran Mount Everest climber, who has conquered the world's highest peak for 10 times, a life-long allowance of 5,000 rupees (90 US dollars) every month, according to Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat 2064 XIE19990505.0153 -1 INE>

KATHMANDU, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Fourteen climbers scaled the 8,848- meter Mount Qomolangma Wednesday from the Nepali side, the Nepali Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation said in a press release.

Americans Peter George Athans 2064 APW19981016.0626 1 Spanish lawyer scales Mt. Everest KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) _ A Spanish lawyer has scaled the world's highest mountain Mt. Everest, the Nepalese tourism ministry said Friday. Carios Pitarch Fransisco, 31, of Castello 2064 APW19981102.0175 -1 Mt. Everest, died of a heart attack on Saturday in Tukla, just 500 feet (150 meters) short of the 15,000 feet (4,545 meter) peak of Mt. Kalapatar. From that high point, Jerstad hoped to gaze on Mt. Everest, the peak he climbed 35 years ago 2064 APW19981102.0175 -1 Lute Jerstad, 61, who in 1963 became one of the first Americans to climb Mt. Everest, died of a heart attack on Saturday in Tukla, just 500 feet (150 meters) short of the 15,000 feet (4,545 meter) peak of Mt. Kalapatar. From that high point, Jerstad 2064 NYT19990607.0223 -1 then there was mountain climber L.W. Swan, who heard the barheaded goose at 28,000 feet on the Himalayan peak Mt. Makalu. Or the alpine chough (as in that was one tough bird) that followed a 1924 Mt. Everest expedition up to 26,000 feet scavenging fo 2064 XIE19990202.0158 -1 range of towering dunes hundreds of miles long.

They will also have to skirt the famous quicksand of Umm Al Samim, or Mother of Poison.

Jamie, 30, a former cross-country ski champion of Canada, successfully scaled the summit of the 2064 XIE20000611.0191 -1 Chinese scientists sent up the country's first ozone exploration balloon on the northern slope of Mount Qomolangma, better known in the West as Mt. Everest, to detect the ozone density around the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in summe 2064 XIE19960529.0226 -1 t. Everest, or Sagarmatha in Nepalese, was conquered for the first time by Nepali climber Tenzing Norgey Sherpa and New Zealander Edmund Hillary on May 29, 1953. < 2065 NYT19990525.0087 1 > --Females are called cows and males are bull moose. Offspring are calves, year-olds are yearlings. 2065 NYT19990525.0086 1 We stopped at a roadside bog and the spotlight hit not one but three calves and a cow (female moose). 2065 NYT19990525.0086 1 of town. It lived up to its name. We stopped at a roadside bog and the spotlight hit not one but three calves and a cow (female moose). We poured out of the van, popping photos left and right while dodging swooping bats. The moose didn't 2065 NYT19981026.0151 -1 the oldest and presumably most authentic copy of Archimedes' major works to survive the centuries. By Malcolm Browne. (1735 words)

With photo.

SCI-ADDICTION (Undated) _ It is much easier to get off an addictive drug than to st 2065 NYT19990525.0086 -1 s Service clients) By DIANE DANIEL c.1999 The Boston Globe

Now I know what to tell my friends who visit Maine in hopes of seeing moose and return disappointed because the only ones they spotted were inside local gift shops: Go 2065 APW19990906.0021 -1 The fans respond by doing what most of us would call a moose, but what veterans of the stadium call a ``Bullwinkle.'' 2065 APW19990906.0021 -1 st of us would call a moose, but what veterans of the stadium call a ``Bullwinkle.''

As a senior who's play 2065 NYT19990525.0086 1 a cow (female moose). We poured out of the van, popping photos left and right while dodging swooping bats. The moose didn't budge. Some locals drove by, telling us there were more moose just up the road, and so we walked the few feet up to the next 2065 NYT20000831.0134 -1 isoning of Adirondack waters by acid rain.

Big Moose isn't the most acidic lake in New York's vast Adirondack Park. But it's size _ 1,266 acres of tea-colored water _ has earned it the reputation as the largest lake to die from acid rain. 2065 NYT20000624.0115 -1 On one of the evenings when we were anchored in the outlet pool, Ruth yelled to me to turn around and watch a big cow moose wading across the rapids 40 yards above us. It was Ruth's day for wildlife sightings. That morning while on a solo hike 2065 NYT20000724.0158 -1 herd of male elk, their six- and seven-point racks bobbing gently as they slowly grazed past us; on a mountain ledge high above an emerald lake, chatting with collectors of still unidentified Cambrian fossils; in a forest of spruce and subalpine fir, 2065 NYT20000215.0267 -1 Moose recalls going to a restaurant with Kamman years later and being served what the waiter called a &LR; cassis quenelle &LR; . < 2066 NYT19990601.0223 1 entirely from blue agave, a plant that resembles a cactus but is a member of the lily family. A similar spirit called mezcal that's frequently confused with tequila can be 2066 NYT20000720.0090 1 A shortage of blue agave, the plant from which tequila is made, is causing the price increase. 2066 NYT19991027.0216 1 those in the film and music industries on the West Coast.

``Robert Denton introduced these renegade tequilas made of 100 percent agave, and that's what started this whole trend,'' Hutson said. ``El Tesoro is an exquisite example of the 2066 NYT19991029.0268 -1 category)

BUSH-FORUM (Austin, Texas) _ Texas Gov. George W. Bush shrugs off criticism from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination for attending a ceremony honoring his wife instead of appearing at a New Hampshire political 2066 NYT20000919.0123 -1 By TIM WEINER c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

MEXICO CITY _ For a while there, if you believed the rumors, the headlines and the desperate cries of some bartenders, you might have thought that the world's supply of tequila was 2066 APW19980804.0941 -1 AP Photos NY330-335 &QL; &UR; By JULIE WATSON &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; OAXACA, Mexico (AP) _ The sun-broiled hills of Oaxaca are alive _ with worms. And so a marketing hook was born. Zapotecan Indians and their 2066 NYT20000519.0008 -1 But the charismatic Kerr was able to convince a distiller to make a tequila the way he wanted it. 2066 NYT20000519.0008 -1 to convince a distiller to make a tequila the way he wanted it. After almost three years in deve 2066 NYT19980908.0179 1 tequila. Silver is unaged, clear tequila. (Gold is unaged tequila tinted with caramel; reposado is aged from 2 to 12 months; anejo is aged in wood for a year or more.)

100 PERCENT BLUE AGAVE: The fact that the tequila was made only of 2066 NYT19980908.0179 1 This ``mixto'' tequila accounts for 80 percent of Mexico's total annual production of more than 100 million liters, even though the production of 100 percent blue agave tequila has increased by 20 percent since 1995, according to ``The Book of Tequil 2066 NYT19991027.0216 1 the distilled essence of the blue agave plant, which grows abundantly in the highlands of Jalisco, a state on the Pacific side of the country.

By Mexican law and international agreement, all tequila comes from Mexico. About 98 percent of 2066 NYT19990601.0223 -1 Tequila is made by baking the pina _ the huge pineapple-looking center of the plant _ to convert the starches to suga 2066 NYT20000720.0058 -1 TEQUILA-PRICES (San Antonio) _ The taste of tequila is distinctive, and its effects range from soothing to bewitching. But what tequila drinkers are discovering is that its once relatively moderate price has been shooting up. In San Antonio, where 2067 APW20000427.0154 -1 Great Lakes Chemical Corp., down 5 9/16 to 27] 2067 APW20000201.0032 -1 "The Great Lakes are still toxic after all these years," she said. 2067 NYT19990830.0182 -1 as this summer, it is a more classic mountain setting, with pines and cedars on the ridges on each side.

There are 383 lakes you can drive to in California, including hundreds secreted away in little canyons and pockets much as this. But 2067 APW19990531.0171 -1 19990531.0171 1999-05-31 06:30:08 usa Man-Made Lakes Eyed for Recreation

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's 1,782 man-made federal lakes 2067 APW20000201.0023 -1 LINE> WASHINGTON (AP) - The Great Lakes are so polluted that a change of strategy might be in order, say two environmental groups.

The Sierra Club and Great Lakes United think it's time to give one or two contaminated bays, har 2067 APW20000610.0069 -1 lo News

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Giant freighters carrying coal, grain and iron ore floated easily across the Great Lakes only three years ago.

Ships were filled to capacity without worry about scraping lake bottoms. Water level 2067 APW20000201.0032 -1 Great Lakes expert.

"The Great Lakes are still toxic after all these years," she said.

Green and Margaret Wooster of Great Lakes United proposed focusing a new Great Lakes cleanup grant program, should it be approved by 2067 NYT19990614.0419 -1 Various exporting plans are being developed, however, to pump water out of other lakes, in Canada and Alaska. The issue has prompted so much concern that Canada barred water exports in February and, with an eye on the possibility that further proposa 2067 XIE19990615.0122 -1 low water levels in the Great lakes are being witnessed while melting ice cover and drought has become a matter of fact in Atlantic Canada. Toronto, in particular, is experiencing freakish winds, according to the report.

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OTTAWA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- The Great Lakes are cleaner now than they have been for 50 years, but people and wildlife still face threats from toxic substances, the International Joint Commission says.

The commission, a bi-national 2067 NYT20000103.0095 -1 But there is a great distance between that kind of simple suspicion and the hatreds that seem to have exploded in the last decade with relentless regularity in Burundi, Rwanda and eastern Congo _ the Great Lakes area of Afric 2067 APW19990331.0191 -1 --Great Lakes: up 17 cents to $1.123. < 2068 NYT20000801.0321 -1 increase worldwide that the brain-wasting ailment responsible for more than 50 human deaths in Europe is no longer confined to cows. 2068 XIE19970120.0191 -1 ALTAY (Xinjiang), January 20 (Xinhua) -- Hungry wolves and harsh weather are responsible for the deaths of more than 1,500 rare animals in the Altay Prefecture of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. 2068 NYT19990329.0301 -1 ng selected only the most ``tamable'' of some 45,000 foxes over 35 generations, the scientists have compressed into a mere 40 years an evolutionary process that took thousands of years to transform ancestral wolves into domestic dogs.

The 2068 NYT19981216.0386 -1 &HT; c.1998 Cox News Service

ATLANTA _ South Korean researchers said Wednesday they cloned a human embryo through a breakthrough experiment - prompting other scientists to question the accuracy of the claim and the Asian team's med 2068 NYT19991108.0444 -1 Although Dr. Beaver, who is also a professor at Texas A&M University, does not think animal behaviorists are years behind their human counterparts, she does concede that she and her colleagues must sometimes draw on insights from human psychol 2068 NYT19991108.0444 -1 professor at Texas A&M University, does not think animal behaviorists are years behind their human counterparts, she does concede that she and her colleagues must sometimes draw on insights from human psychology. ``Because,'' she explained, ` 2068 APW19980814.0495 -1 the villages' neighborhood, but there is no way to find out if the killed animals were responsible for the children's deaths. Similar killings of wolves in 1996 after attacks on children whipped up a furor among animal rights activists in the state 2068 APW20000822.0091 -1 Control of rabies in domestic animals and development of a vaccine for humans have led to a decline in human cases in the United States from more than 100 yearly in the early 1900s to only about one or two deaths a year. Only 32 cases of human rabies 2068 NYT19990625.0062 -1 are hoping to find a cure for Chagas' disease and other parasitic infections that are major sources of plant, animal and human illnesses and deaths. (Cox News Service). 24.

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HEALTH BRIEFS _ A column of health-related brief 2068 NYT19990629.0146 -1 by doctor.)

WITH: BUG STUDY: Cellular biologists at the University of Georgia are hoping to find a cure for Chagas' disease and other parasitic infections that are major sources of plant, animal and human illnesses and deaths. (Includes 2 2068 XIE19980423.0066 -1 Dolly's arrival has created worldwide fears about human cloning, since it is the first time that an animal was cloned from the cells of an adult mammal, which raises the prospect that the same technique may be one day applied to human 2068 NYT19990625.0062 -1 COXNET SCIHEALTH 0626 _ Cellular biologists at the University of Georgia are hoping to find a cure for Chagas' disease and other parasitic infections that are major sources of plant, animal and human illnesses and deaths. (Cox News Service). 24. < 2069 NYT19990527.0136 1 The deal Lucas struck when he made the original Star Wars movie for 20th Century Fox allowed him to keep both the sequel and merchandising rights for the film. Since 1977 2069 APW19990518.0246 -1 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Arriving in a meteor shower of hype and dodging reviews from the Dark Side, the new ``Star Wars'' movie was set to open, appropriately, when the stars are out, at midnight screenings around the country early Wednesday. 2069 APW19990518.0209 -1 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Undaunted by bad reviews, thousands of fans lucky enough to get tickets lined up outside theaters across the country Tuesday to see the new ``Star Wars'' movie. 2069 NYT19990517.0342 1 the sense of joy and wonder that made the original movie so much fun.

As a director (and this is his first movie since 1977's ``Star Wars''), Lucas famously has only two sets of instructions: ``faster'' or ``more intense.'' Here he 2069 NYT19990426.0260 -1 devoted to this fan fiction, Jenkins said. Now, even Boba Fett, the obscure bounty hunter, has his own fan fiction Web page. &QL; &QL; Powerful symbols &QL; &QL;

``Periodically, our culture stumbles on a character who operates in a s 2069 NYT19990510.0158 -1 THE MAN WHO WOULD BE OBI-WAN KENOBI

&UR; (The following interview with EWAN MCGREGOR, who plays Obi-Wan Kenobi in ``Star Wars: The Phantom Menace,'' is part of The New York Times Syndicate's STAR WARS COUNTDOWN P 2069 NYT19990517.0421 -1 In the modern age of movie merchandising that many say started with the first ``Star Wars'' film 22 years ago, ``The Phantom Menace'' appears destined to break all sorts of records _ for toys, not just ticket sales. 2069 NYT19990517.0421 -1 dising that many say started with the first ``Star Wars'' film 22 years ago, ``The Phantom Menace'' appears destined to break all sorts of records _ for toys, not just ticket sales.

That's not exactly th 2069 NYT19990514.0219 -1 Star Wars'' was made. (The biggest failure, ``Cleopatra,'' was made by 20th Century Fox _ ironically, the studio that became the home of ``Star Wars'' because no one else wanted it.) Even ``Jaws'' was an example of filmmakers chasing a hit; the movie 2069 APW19990528.0028 -1 It took a bunch of American kids to bring ``Star Wars'' fever to Singapore on Friday, where the long-awaited prequel opened for the first time outside the United States.

Eight boys from the Singapore American School spent the day maki 2069 APW19990602.0116 1 warlord culture in the 1977 movie, citing everything from the design of villainous Darth Vader's costume to the samurai-style swordplay, albeit with lightsabers.

Director George Lucas, in Tokyo on Wednesday to plug the new film, acknow 2069 NYT19990516.0067 -1 For those fans and the tens of thousands who lined up last Wednesday in Dayton and other cities to purchase advance tickets for the first new ``Star Wars'' film in 16 years _ along with the 45,000 who attended the Star Wars Celebration two weeks ago 2070 XIE20000909.0165 -1 Tens of thousands of Guatemalans fleeing their country's civil war started to flock into Mexico and the United States in 1981. The war came to an end in late 1996 2070 XIE19991009.0015 -1 Its treasures were saved from looting by Emir Maurice Chehab, former director-general of antiquities, and his wife Olga Chaiban, who bravely decided to move into the museum despite constant shelling when the civil war started. 2070 APW19990411.0001 1 , April 12, the 102nd day of 1999. There are 263 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.

2070 NYT19980603.0107 -1 pts of unknowns from World War II and Korea (whose internments took place in 1958) and Vietnam (1984).

The white marble sarcophagus has never been officially named, according to the Military District of Washington, which oversees Arlingto 2070 APW19990528.0210 -1 LINE>

Milosevic Meets With Russian Envoy

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -- Russia's Balkan envoy met face-to-face with Slobodan Milosevic for nine hours today, declaring the Yugoslav president key to a Kosovo peace plan despite 2070 XIE19980724.0037 -1 INE>

DAR ES SALAAM, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Burundi peace talks have made headway after three days of intense negotiations, with the conflicting parties at Thursday's plenary session adopting a three-point agenda for discussion.

A 2070 XIE19960317.0009 -1 Since 1991 when Sankoh's RUF rebels started their rebellion against the government, over 30,000 lives have been claimed by the civil war. 2070 XIE19960317.0009 -1 s started their rebellion against the government, over 30,000 lives have been claimed by the civil war.

The war also produced ov 2070 NYT19981125.0365 -1 date in the Civil War, referred to them derisively as ``Joe Brown's Pets.''

Gov. Joe Brown, who had formed them as a home guard, never let them fight outside Georgia, say Civil War historians, so the regulars questioned their courage 2070 XIE19980308.0020 -1 Liberian President Charles Taylor has appealed to U.S. assistance to help rebuild his country after seven years of civil war, a report reaching here said Saturday.

Receiving a U.S. fact-finding team in Monrovia Friday, Taylor reportedly comp 2070 NYT19990223.0444 -1 author Elinor Burkett is neither fainthearted nor afraid of flak (``I thrive on it actually'') because it seems that she has started a civil war in the U.S. workplace with a book she hasn't even finished writing yet.

``Procreation Privile 2070 NYT19990223.0444 -1 news files.) By URSULA KENNY c.1999 The Independent, London (Distributed by New York Times Special Features)

It is just as well that American author Elinor Burkett is neither fainthearted nor afraid of flak (``I thrive on 2070 XIE19990205.0110 -1 22 million U.S. dollars) worth of humanitarian aid to Guinea-Bissau since the civil war started in June last yea 2070 NYT19990114.0113 -1 For example, on Jan. 10, 1992, ABC's ``Nightline'' aired a story about a hostile computer virus that the Central Intelligence Agency had introduced into Iraq shortly before the start of the Gulf War, after US News and World Report had run a story o 2071 XIE20000428.0280 1 Indonesia has 17,508 islands, of which around 10,000 were uninhabited. 2071 APW19981028.0551 -1 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) _ Two undersea earthquakes shook some remote Indonesian islands Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, seismologists said. 2071 APW19981028.1344 -1 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) _ Three earthquakes shook remote Indonesian islands, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, seismologists said Thursday. 2071 XIE19970120.0216 1 was no official report on casualties but unconfirmed reports said six people went missing last Friday when Merapi erupted.

Indonesia's 17,000 islands are dotted by some 500 volcanoes, of which 127 are still active and make up the Pacific rim 2071 XIE19990606.0123 1 It provides Indonesia with a very bitter lesson. With more than 300 ethnic groups and 17,000 islands, the seeds for disintegration were there 2071 XIE19990814.0138 -1 INE>

JAKARTA, August 14 (Xinhua) -- A tectonic earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolted Jakarta, Lampung, Bengkulu and West Java provinces at 07:16 a.m. local time on Saturday.

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JIMBARAN, Indonesia (AP) -- Demanding new international respect for his crisis-ridden nation, Indonesia's new pro-democracy president made clear Sunday that relations with the West would take a back seat to ties with Asia, parti 2071 NYT19990830.0108 1 For those Indonesians who argue that East Timor, occupying only a half of one of Indonesia's 13,000 islands, is too small to be viable, the facts may be surprising. 2071 NYT19990830.0108 1 at East Timor, occupying only a half of one of Indonesia's 13,000 islands, is too small to be viable, the facts may be surprising.

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's Java and Sumatra islands Wednesday morning, destroying dozens of houses and causing many people to flee their homes and offices.

There 2071 APW19981129.1044 -1 Eastern Indonesia Time (1410 GMT) Sunday and was centered beneath the Maluku Sea, about 230 miles (370 kilometers) south of the city of Manado on the island of Sulawesi, the agency said. Earlier the U.S. Geological Survey in Washington said the q 2071 XIE19970120.0094 1 Java province and Yogyakarta.

There was no official news on casualties but unconfirmed reports said six people went missing last Friday when the Merapi erupted.

Indonesia's 17,500 islands are dotted by about 500 volcanoes, 127 of wh 2071 XIE19970123.0195 1 of the volcano occurred in 1994, sending massive heat clouds all over the area, killing 69 people and leaving 5,000 homeless.

Indonesia's 17,500 islands are dotted with about 500 volcanoes, 127 of which are active and make up the Pacific rim 2071 APW19981028.1379 -1 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) _ Three earthquakes shook remote Indonesian islands, but there were no reports of injuries or damage, seismologists said Thursda 2071 XIE19961009.0090 -1 oth Indonesia and Malaysia are laying claims to the two islands located at their border. < 2072 APW19980817.0931 1 the original movie version of ``The Crow'' that actor Brandon Lee _ son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee _ was killed in an on-set shooting accident in 1993. The syndicated TV 2072 APW19980817.0931 1 It was during filming of the original movie version of ``The Crow'' that actor Brandon Lee _ son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee _ was killed in an on-set shooting accident in 1993. 2072 APW19980817.0931 1 of ``The Crow'' that actor Brandon Lee _ son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee _ was killed in an on-set shooting accident in 1993. The syndicated TV series, being produced by Crescent Entertainment, is set to premiere next month. (PROFILE 2072 NYT19990531.0084 -1 r her death. The resulting play, ``The Whisperers,'' with three acts by Sheridan and two more in Restoration language by Elizabeth Kuti, premiered in Ireland this spring.

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Fans around the world paid homage Monday to the martial arts star Bruce Lee on the 25th anniversary 2072 NYT19990529.0071 -1 l Olivia Vasquez in Los Angeles, phone: 310-996-0075; fax: 310-996-0089). (jt) By JENNY LYN BADER c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

Imagine being Franz Xaver Suessmayr. Your teacher, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is dying, just as h 2072 APW19990515.0093 -1 Although the jury recommended life without parole for Kehoe this week, they ruled Friday that Lee should die for the murders. 2072 APW19990515.0093 -1 without parole for Kehoe this week, they ruled Friday that Lee should die for the murders. Lee's attorney, Jack Lassiter, s 2072 APW20000811.0087 -1 Brandon craned his neck to breathe.

Jim splashed the water away to get him some air.

''I thought I was going to die, because the water started going over my head,'' Brandon told The Buffalo News Thursday, a day after his 2072 APW20000317.0248 -1 While residents would like to forget, the events of Brandon's life were retold Friday night at the local premiere of the Academy Award-nominated film ''Boys Don't Cry.'' The critically-acclaimed movie chronicles Brandon's days in this southeast Nebra 2072 APW19980817.0931 1 including the Royal Candadian Mounted Police, were investigating the accident. It was during filming of the original movie version of ``The Crow'' that actor Brandon Lee _ son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee _ was killed in an on-set shooting ac 2072 APW19980817.0931 1 Police, were investigating the accident. It was during filming of the original movie version of ``The Crow'' that actor Brandon Lee _ son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee _ was killed in an on-set shooting accident in 1993. The syndicated TV 2073 NYT20000724.0118 1 s ``theory of relativity'' says that nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum, or empty space. That is really, really fast _ about 186,000 miles per second. But scientists 2073 NYT19990809.0124 -1 Travel too fast and it will outdo the pull from below and fly off into space. 2073 APW19990325.0218 1 the burst happened so far away that it took 9 billion years for the light to reach Earth. Light travels about 6 trillion miles a year in space.

Djorgovski said an analysis of light and other energy spewing from the explosion suggests t 2073 NYT20000116.0021 -1 s is serious. Understand?

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A spectacular meteor storm next month threatens to knock the Earth back to the dark ages before cell phones, pagers and the Internet.

This year's 2073 NYT20000719.0315 -1 rk Times News Service clients) By DAVID L. CHANDLER c.2000 The Boston Globe

The real world is starting to behave a lot like a science fiction movie. Traveling much faster than light? No problem. Things arriving before they dep 2073 XIE19990220.0035 1 When light travels through empty space, it zips at a speed of 186,171 miles a second, the highest speed anything can attain, even in principle. 2073 XIE19990220.0035 1 pace, it zips at a speed of 186,171 miles a second, the highest speed anything can attain, even in principle. A moonbeam takes only a little ov 2073 NYT20000724.0118 -1 LIGHT

Albert Einstein may have gotten something wrong. The famous scientist's ``theory of relativity'' says that nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum, or empty space. That is really, really fast _ about 186,000 miles per 2073 XIE19990220.0035 1 When light travels through empty space, it zips at a speed of 186,171 miles a second, the highest speed anything can attain, even in principle. A moonbeam takes only a little over one second to reach Earth. However Danish physicist Dr. lene Vestergaa 2073 NYT19990605.0071 -1 for measuring the size of the universe. They've had to guess, from purely theoretical considerations, how bright a star or galaxy really is. Then from its apparent brightness, dimmed by the journey of the light through space, they judge its distance. 2073 NYT19990217.0373 1 through empty space, it zips along at a speed of 186,171 miles a second _ the highest speed anything can attain, even in principle. A moonbeam takes only a little over one second to reach Earth. But a Danish physicist and her team of collaborators ha 2073 APW19990826.0244 1 A light year is the distance light travels across space in a year, about 6 trillion mile 2073 NYT19990324.0331 -1 An example of a ``physics blooper'': One episode shows an explosion in space, obviously hundreds of miles away, as viewed from the bridge of the Enterprise. It is seen and heard at exactly the same moment, even though sound does not travel in empty 2074 NYT19990202.0030 -1 Pelli designed the tallest office buildings in the world, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At 1,483 feet each, the Petronas Towers surpass the height of the 1 2074 XIE19990624.0039 1 Early this month, Egypt reopened the 137-meter tall Pyramid of Cheops, the largest of the three pyramids, following a similar restoration. 2074 NYT19991227.0237 1 Great Pyramid of Khufu, which overshadowed Napoleon's troops, rose 482 feet and was the world's tallest structure until the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889. 2074 NYT19991227.0237 1 to last the eternity of their anticipated afterlives. The Great Pyramid of Khufu, which overshadowed Napoleon's troops, rose 482 feet and was the world's tallest structure until the Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889.

``We as modern people 2074 APW19981113.0246 1 This is not evident from the ground because of the pyramid's size _ it is 137 meters (452 feet) high or as tall as a 13-story building 2074 NYT19990205.0195 -1 vice clients) By JIM DAVIS c.1999 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico _ Mexico's Mayan Riviera stretches 130 kilometers from tourist-overrun Cancun south to the historic coastal ruins of Tulum. Strategically located mid 2074 NYT20000607.0136 -1 y BILL HENDERSON c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

SEDGWICK, Maine _ In tower building, small is lovely. It is the tall imagination that counts.

A few summers ago in Maine, I built a tower on a high hill overlooking th 2074 XIE19961121.0267 -1 The total of 1000 pyramids were built around 3000 B.C. and may be up to 50 meters in height, the experts say. 2074 XIE19961121.0267 -1 ilt around 3000 B.C. and may be up to 50 meters in height, the experts say.

Unlike Egyptian pyramids 2074 XIE19990624.0039 -1 the second tallest pyramid to tourists on July 1 for repairs, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on Wednesday.

Hosni told Egypt's Middle East News Agency that the Pyramid of Chefren, the second largest of the famous Giza trio, will be 2074 APW19981206.1124 -1 ut Toronto's CN Tower by just over 19 1/2 feet (six meters). The CN Tower in Toronto, Canada has laid claim to the world's tallest structure since it was built in 1976 and stands at 1,815 feet (553.3 meters), including its communications antenna. 2074 XIE19990624.0039 1 and install new light and ventillation systems.

The structure with a height of 136 meters was built as a tomb for King Chefren about 4,500 years ago.

Early this month, Egypt reopened the 137-meter tall Pyramid of Cheops, the largest 2074 NYT19990922.0220 -1 a substantial share _ a third or more _ of the world's known objects from the Weeden Island culture, which inhabited North Florida and South Georgia between A.D. 300 and 800. At Kolomoki, they built at least seven earthen mounds _ the tallest 56 feet 2074 NYT19991227.0237 1 The Great Pyramid of Khufu, which overshadowed Napoleon's troops, rose 482 feet and was the world's tallest structure until the Eiffel Tower, completed in 188 2075 APW20000122.0109 -1 (AP) -- Britney Spears is a hot property in West Virginia where residents camped outdoors in temperatures as low as 4 degrees this week for a chance to buy concert tickets. 2075 NYT19990314.0068 -1 The only thing that's been able to stop teen pop star Britney Spears is dislocating her knee, which she is now nursing at her Louisiana home. 2075 APW20000624.0048 1 KENTWOOD, La. (AP) -- Two residents of Britney Spears' hometown have created a museum at the request of her fans.

Sections of the Britney Spears Museum will be devoted to her early childhood, her tenure as a Mouseketeer, and her present 2075 NYT20000721.0219 1 mpare us because we're kind of the same age, but I think our music and personalities are very different.''

Growing up in rural Kentwood, La., Spears was singing and dancing to the Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston hits she heard on the rad 2075 NYT19990607.0241 -1 y STEVE MORSE c.1999 The Boston Globe

Reunions, high ticket prices, teen idols, a new concert tent, and Woodstock's 30th anniversary help shape this soon-to-be frantic summer pop season. Many of the same faces are surfacing again 2075 APW20000726.0065 -1 VISION

1. ''Survivor,'' CBS.

2. ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Sunday,'' ABC.

3. ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Tuesday,'' ABC.

4. ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-Thursday,'' ABC.

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Britney Spears' sales are another matter altogether.

As we call her for the sixth interview she's doing today, the 17-year-old has just 2075 NYT20000515.0356 -1 ``I've had enough, / I'm not your property,'' she growls on ``Stronger'' (cloned from the staccato hip-hop of She'kspere's ``Bills Bills Bills''). In the album's one surprisingly creative moment, Spears slows down the beat on a startlingly seductive 2075 NYT19990629.0053 -1 is the best at it. He invented fashion and music.''

But Baker added that Hilfiger also has the budget to make the relationships happen. This summer Tommy Jeans is the presenting sponsor of Britney Spears' 48-city North American tour (June 2075 NYT19990629.0053 -1 fashion and music.''

But Baker added that Hilfiger also has the budget to make the relationships happen. This summer Tommy Jeans is the presenting sponsor of Britney Spears' 48-city North American tour (June 28 to

Sept. 5), pr 2075 NYT19990826.0121 -1 Just one year out of design school, the Topsfield, Mass. native was asked to create a costume for Britney Spears, a stretchable vinyl ensemble the pop singer dons in the opening act of her 41-city tour, which arrives in Boston next wee 2075 APW19990713.0263 -1 Born in Los Angeles, Romo was a running back on the Louisiana State University football team in the 1940s, where he became interested in athletic training. After receiving his physical education degree from LSU in 1945, he became an assistant tra 2076 NYT19990303.0423 1 Jordan's other endorsements cited in the analysis are Quaker Oats (Gatorade), Nike, Sara Lee (Hanes), and Rayovac. The other top competitors of these companies are Coca-Cola (PowerAde), Reebok, Fruit 2076 APW19990504.0050 -1 has signed a $758 million deal to acquire the soft drink brand Orangina from French beverage company Pernod Ricard -- an acquisition blocked by France for nearly 18 months. 2076 NYT19991018.0394 -1 While the brand is still, by far, the world's most popular soft drink, its growth rate has been trailing such non-cola flavors as the company's Sprite brand and Pepsi's Mountain Dew. 2076 NYT19990907.0372 1 business, and neither did Marineau, whose main achievement had been building Gatorade into a billion-dollar brand for the Quaker Oats Co.. Steven S. Reinemund, who in July had been named president of Pepsico, was elevated further Tuesday 2076 NYT19990209.0283 -1 uccess is a real challenge for Coca-Cola,'' said Gary A. Hemphill, vice president at the Beverage Marketing Corp., a consulting company in New York, because ``it's in the unenviable position of battling an established brand, Mountain Dew, that 2076 NYT19990907.0372 -1 o MARINEAU-LEVI) (DW) By CONSTANCE L. HAYS c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

With a fresh and catchy advertising program, some successful brands and what appears to be a steady climb in market share, Pepsi-Cola North America had 2076 NYT20000619.0340 -1 Along with the brands it owns outright, Seagram controls worldwide distribution rights for Absolut vodka. 2076 NYT20000619.0340 -1 ight, Seagram controls worldwide distribution rights for Absolut vodka.

Other companies that 2076 NYT19990907.0372 1 the carbonated soft-drink business, and neither did Marineau, whose main achievement had been building Gatorade into a billion-dollar brand for the Quaker Oats Co.. Steven S. Reinemund, who in July had been named president of Pepsico, was elevated 2076 NYT19980928.0410 -1 Indeed, since Diet Coke's July 1982 introduction, it has sold nearly 10 billion cases in the U.S., where it ranks as the third-largest selling soft drink brand behind Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Together with caffeine-free Diet Coke, Diet Coke has a 45.1 pe 2076 NYT19981030.0356 -1 obtaining exclusive distribution rights, is at the center of a federal lawsuit Pepsico filed earlier this year against Coca-Cola, contending that Coke used its considerable leverage to force food-service distributors to drop Pepsi fountain products. 2076 XIE19960314.0129 -1 With its help, its cooperation partner, Tianjin Jinmei Soft Drink Company, began to produce soft drinks with the brand name of Jinmeile in 199 2076 NYT19981211.0022 -1 There was speculation on Thursday night that the meeting at the company's midtown Manhattan office concerned a big financial adjustment or a major acquisition, possibly of a soft-drink or other beverage brand. Coca-Cola's chief financial officer, J 2077 NYT19990807.0154 -1 can weigh up to a half-pound and get as hot as 108 degrees Fahrenheit inside, made it ``a wonderful botanical guinea pig,'' he said. 2077 NYT19980730.0182 -1 If Clinton is a pig, he's living in a big white sty with porticos. 2077 APW19980915.1300 1 as big as a small car is a huge celebrity at the New Mexico State Fair. Harley, a 1,050-pound (476-kilo) Yorkshire hog, is delighting the crowds even though he spends most of his day snoring. Even congressional candidates are awestruck 2077 NYT19990827.0070 -1 the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to cool off the Reagan expansion, making it impossible for thousands of farmers to service the debts they had taken out to buy land at inflated prices.

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Scientists at BioTransplant Inc. say they have created a breed of miniature swine that doesn't infect human cells with potentially harmful viruses, removing a major obst 2077 NYT20000902.0003 -1 mes News Service clients) By ERICA WOOD, THE KANSAS CITY STAR

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ This little piggy has a serious lucky streak.

The pig, Howie, was adopted after surviving a July 3 fall from a tractor-trailer on Intersta 2077 NYT20000202.0335 -1 There, animal technician Kirsten Kennette -- who now calls herself a ``pig wrangler'' -- spent two days bathing them, cleaning their ears with Q-tips, and dressing their scrapes with first-aid cream. 2077 NYT20000202.0335 -1 ennette -- who now calls herself a ``pig wrangler'' -- spent two days bathing them, cleaning their ears with Q-tips, and dressing their scrapes with first-aid cream.

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DALLAS _ Saving time and working smart were the common threads among new products rolled out at the International Builders' Show last weekend.

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For Becky Juarez, a chatty teen-ager who recently graduated from high school, the Internet is a juicy electronic grapevine virtually crammed with information she wants, like g 2079 NYT20000906.0286 -1 me newspaper systems.) By DEBRA A. KLEIN c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

When Ricky Martin swiveled his hips at the 1999 Grammys, he set off a tide of Latin pop record sales in this country.

A year and a half later, 2079 NYT19990810.0300 -1 ``We want them to come here and learn Spanish,'' said Rodriguez, who speaks no English. 2079 NYT19990810.0300 -1 arn Spanish,'' said Rodriguez, who speaks no English.

He said the push for 2079 APW20000216.0238 -1 in confidence.

The Spanish newspapers did not say how they obtained copies of the report. But a source close to the Spanish judge seeking Pinochet's extradition said he had been told that both the Chilean and Spanish governments had 2079 NYT19980923.0214 -1 Webster's New World Spanish Tutor by Macmillan Digital Publishing uses words, slang and accents that are specific to Spain. Cosmi's Swift Multimedia Spanish speaks the Spanish spoken in Mexico and has a Mexican flag icon on every screen.

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``Marc Anthony gave me my inspiration,'' said LaMond, when asked about his decision to enter the salsa music arena. ``We were in Los Angeles and Marc told me he had just finished his first Spanish-language production. 2079 NYT19991108.0162 -1 Entrega,'' released under the Prestigio Recordings label, and its first single ``Que Te Vas'' (a salsa version of the song originally composed by Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel), has placed LaMond as a rising star within the Latino music genre.

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Lodge won the ba 2080 NYT19991013.0484 1 h polarization also played a key role in the defeat of the Versailles Treaty, which came after t the end of World War I, the most popular war the United States had ever fought up to then.

President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, invited neit 2080 APW19981112.0293 -1 ailable &QL; &UR; By MITCHELL LANDSBERG &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; MOSCOW (AP) _ President Boris Yeltsin presented Japan's prime minister with a plan Thursday to resolve the conflict that has divided their nations for mor 2080 APW19980713.0047 -1 Russian Prime Minister Kiriyenko arrives in Japan for talks TOKYO (AP) _ Russian Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko arrived in Japan on Monday to discuss bilateral economic cooperation and a proposed peace treaty. 2080 XIE20000903.0075 -1 pan and Russia agreed in 1997 to conclude the peace pact by the end of 2000, but negotiations have stalled because of differences over ways to resolve the row over a group of Russian- held islands off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. < 2080 XIE20000903.0075 -1 onclude the peace pact by the end of 2000, but negotiations have stalled because of differences over ways to resolve the row over a group of Russian- held islands off Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido.

The islands are known as t 2080 XIE19981112.0007 1 WWI Armistice Anniversary

BRUSSELS, November 11 (Xinhua) -- Belgium commemorated on Wednesday the 80th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice Treaty that ended World War I.

King Albert II, Prime Minister Jean-Luc 2080 XIE19990222.0142 -1 Obuchi's remarks came one day after Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov rejected Tokyo's demand that the two countries' long- standing territorial dispute be resolved before they sign a peace treaty by the year 2000.

"It's not possible," Iv 2080 APW19980828.0852 -1 having never signed a peace treaty ending the 1950-53 Korean War. (PROFILE (WS SL:BC-NKorea-US Pastor, 1st Ld-Writethru; CT:i; (REG:EURO;) (REG:BRIT;) (REG:SCAN;) (REG:MEST;) (REG:AFRI;) (REG:INDI;) (REG:ENGL;) (REG:ASIA;) (LANG:ENGLISH 2080 APW19980710.0308 -1 have never signed a peace treaty ending World War II hostilities because Soviet troops seized four islands at the end of the war. Japan has demanded their return. (nw/gm) (PROFILE (WS SL:BC-Russia-Japan; CT:i; (REG:EURO;) (REG:BRIT; 2080 XIE19980316.0120 -1 The four parties are trying to reach consensus on a peace treaty to replace an armistice signed in 1953 when the fighting on the Korean Peninsula ende 2080 XIE20000903.0009 -1 he war ended with a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in 1988, but the two neighbors have never signed a peace treaty. < 2081 XIE19960801.0270 -1 second-longest women's triple jump in history on her way to win her first Olympic gold medal at the Atlanta Games on Wednesday. 2081 XIE20000804.0073 -1 The first test event, a short-track speedskating World Cup meet at The Peaks Ice Arena in Provo, will take place on October 27, just 26 days after the Sydney Olympic Games. 2081 XIE19960805.0009 -1 INE>

ATLANTA, August 4 (Xinhua) -- Since the gates to the Centennial Olympic Games swung open for all 197 IOC members here two weeks ago, minnows in sports have been making history with their national anthems echoing over this southeastern 2081 NYT20000725.0178 -1 Service clients.) &HT; By JOHN CRUMPACKER &HT; c.2000 San Francisco Examiner

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DALIAN, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Liu Hongyu and Wang Yan, who finished 1-2 in the women's 20km walk event at the World Championships in Seville last year, walked just a few kilometers before pulling out of the Chinese national championships 2081 XIE20000918.0386 -1 Olympic and world record setting rides in the preliminary phases of event on Sunday.

The bronze medal race will be between Sarah Ulmer of New Zealand and Yvonne McGregor of Britain.

The longest day of the track cycling progarm will 2081 XIE19980715.0286 -1 Maurice Greene, world 100 meters champion last year, Dennis Mitchell, defending and U.S. champion in the 100m, Allen Johnson, 1996 Olympic champion in 110m hurdles, Derrick Adkins, Olympic and defending champion in the 400m hurdles, Bryan Bronson, U. 2081 NYT20000731.0129 -1 in Loch Haven Park, at Princeton and Mills Avenues in Orlando. Tickets: $7 to $20; (407) 893-4600. &HT; At Disney's Wide World of Sports, adjacent to the theme parks, the 2000 Junior Olympic Games, the Amateur Athletic Union's top event, features 2081 XIE19990414.0174 -1 Xiong, who won a silver medal in the 10-meter platform event in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and a bronze in Barcelona in 1992, retired in 1996 after finally winning an Olympic gold in the Atlanta Game 2081 NYT19981227.0095 -1 Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps, a native of Paris, Ontario, also excelled in football and track and field. He was captain of the football team at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, graduating in 1936, and was the British Empire pole-vault cham 2083 NYT19980818.0276 2 Lipizzaner Stallions, 14 white horses performing spectacular leaps and maneuvers in the style of the Spanish Riding School of Vienna. 2083 NYT20000311.0023 -1 CLASSIC BREED OF PERFORMING HORSE IS FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE

2083 APW19980807.1162 1 caught the eye of the imperial courts of Europe in the days when a kingdom was only as good as its horses. Spanish stallions were widely admired as the strongest and most talented horses of the Middle Ages. Austria's ruling Habsburgs, who went 2083 APW19980807.1158 -1 empire is long gone, but thanks to a few hundred white stallions, the Lipizzaners, a bit of Austria's past glory lives on. About half a million people every year watch the horses perform at the government-owned Spanish Riding School in Vienna 2083 NYT19990430.0083 -1 mes News Service clients) By MICHAEL MADDEN c.1999 The Boston Globe

LOUISVILLE, Ky. _ His words were not sparse, but neither were they generous, when Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum stood outside Barn 45 in the chill morning air at 2083 NYT19990311.0078 -1 Situated near a long string of car dealerships not far from the Lincoln Tunnel, the two-story red brick building has a ramp that the horses use to go to their stalls on the top floor. 2083 NYT19990311.0078 -1 dealerships not far from the Lincoln Tunnel, the two-story red brick building has a ramp that the horses use to go to their stalls on the top floor.

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CLASSIC BREED OF PERFORMING HORSE IS FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE 2083 NYT20000720.0194 -1 ``The most important Chinese appropriation from its nomadic neighbors was horseback riding and mounted warfare,'' said Bill Cooke, director of the International Museum of the Horse at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Ky. So, Cooke said, ``to exp 2083 APW19980807.1162 -1 Union in 1996 as the original country of the Lipizzaner horses, none of the other countries where some of the world's 3,000 Lipizzaners live disputed it _ until last year. Then Italy, which got some horses from Austria at the end of World War I, put 2083 APW19980807.1162 -1 the same Lipizzaners that powered the Iberian war machine. Or could they? When Austria staked its claim with the European Union in 1996 as the original country of the Lipizzaner horses, none of the other countries where some of the world's 3,000 2083 NYT20000211.0296 -1 Ranging from fingernail to hand-sized, they include two found off southwest Britain: the short-snouted sea horse, Hippocampus hippocampus, and the long-snouted, Hippocampus guttulatus, which are found from Cornwall to Dorset and may breed there; they 2083 XIE20000520.0113 -1 - Defense Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid al-Maktoum won the Horse Endurance race which was held early Friday at the Pyramids plateau. Some 150 equestrians were vying for a place in the 1 million Egyptian pounds (about 2084 APW19981022.1171 -1 Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Ruth hit 60 home runs, a record that lasted until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961. Gehrig had 47 homers and drove in 175 runs. The 2084 NYT19980910.0005 -1 In 1927, when Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, he topped his record of 59 that had been set in 1921. 2084 APW19990308.0192 1 DiMaggio and No. 56 were linked forever after the summer of 1941 when, day after day, game after game, Joe D. delivered base hits, establishing one of the most remarkable records in sports history.

Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs fe 2084 NYT19980708.0017 -1 EADLINE> (sw) c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

The New York Times said in an editorial on Wednesday, July 8:

Baseball aficionados are savoring this summer's three-man assault on one of the game's most celebrated milesto 2084 NYT19980916.0138 -1 Ruth. But his existence was important. Satchel Paige, the greatest pitcher of the Negro Leagues, said Gibson ``could hit home runs around Babe Ruth's home runs.''

While Gibson never got to compete against Ruth, his home runs helped 2084 NYT19980910.0070 -1 ($ used as column separator) &QL; &QL; &QL; &UR; Year &LR; $ &UR; Player, Team &LR; $ &UR; No. &QL; &LR; 1920 $ Babe Ruth, NYY $ 54 &QL; 1921 $ Babe Ruth, NYY $ 59 &QL; 1927 $ Babe Ruth, NYY $ 60 &QL; 1928 $ Babe Ruth, NYY $ 54 &QL; 1 2084 NYT19980910.0005 -1 P>

In 1927, when Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, he topped his record of 59 that had been set in 1921. In 1961, when Maris broke Ruth's record, he hit No. 61 on the final day of the season to barely ease past Ruth.

This season, McGwire 2084 NYT19980910.0005 -1 In 1927, when Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, he topped his record of 59 that had been set in 1921. In 1961, when Maris broke Ruth's record, he hit No. 61 on the final day of the season to barely ease past Ruth.

This season, McGwire could add 2084 NYT19980821.0026 -1 In a recent tribute to Babe Ruth's magnificent 1927 season, when he hit 60 home runs, Sports Illustrated suggested that Ruth had singlehandedly changed the face of the game, elevating the home run from ``its relatively modest role into baseball's mos 2084 NYT20000107.0324 -1 In a similar vein, he wrote of Johnny Sylvester, who died in 1990, 64 years after he came to fame as a bedridden boy who inspired Babe Ruth. Here is how Thomas began his obituary, which was included in ``The Last Word: The New York Times Book of Ob 2085 NYT19981123.0221 -1 10. Phoenix-Mesa _ $11.11 billion 2085 NYT19990302.0025 -1 He also knows that the only reason he's in America, earning millions of dollars to pitch the last inning of close baseball games, is because his father died when Mesa was a boy. 2085 NYT19990218.0232 -1 evoked in Frank Lloyd Wright 60-odd years ago when he was building his winter home, Taliesin West, on Maricopa Mesa, 20 miles from downtown Phoenix. It was ``a grand garden,'' he wrote, ``the like of which in sheer beauty of space and 2085 APW19991010.0167 -1

MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- Dwight W. Patterson, who was responsible for bringing the Chicago Cubs spring training camp to the Phoenix area, has died. He was 87

The rancher and Mesa civic leader died Friday in Mesa, the 2085 APW20000803.0096 -1 LINE>

MESA, Ariz. (AP) -- A crowd of 4,000 people rushed the stage at a No Doubt concert, injuring five people who were crushed against a railing or trampled.

Three people at the Mesa Amphitheater show were hospitalized in t 2085 NYT20000710.0038 -1 na Republic(a)

SAN JOSE - Envy tinged the voice of Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox last week as she gazed around a modern, sunlit building here.

``(beginitalic)This(enditalic) is a homeless shelter?'' she murmur 2085 NYT20000403.0085 -1 Since Piniella already announced that Mesa is not the Mariners' closer _ remember, last week, Mesa gave up six runs on six hits to six unknown Padres minor leaguers, ouch _ it's tough to know what was left to say to Mesa. 2085 NYT20000403.0085 -1 hat Mesa is not the Mariners' closer _ remember, last week, Mesa gave up six runs on six hits to six unknown Padres minor leaguers, ouch _ it's tough to know what was left to say to Mesa.

Maybe Piniella wanted 2085 NYT19991216.0433 -1 Phoenix.

Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano and Mesa Mayor Wayne Brown offered four sites for consideration in north Tempe and along the Tempe-Mesa line. The Downtown Phoenix Part nership and Phoenix City Council man Cody Williams proposed one 2085 NYT20000215.0468 -1 ent of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce.

Mesa hasn't had a locally owned newspaper since the late 1970s, when Cox Enterprises bought the Tribune. ``I guess the days of the local news are a thing of the past,'' Mesa Mayor Wayne Brown lamented. 2085 NYT19981123.0278 -1 by the state where the issuer is based.

For example, 15 Arizona bonds showed up on the Web site's inaugural day. Issuers ranged from Maricopa County and Salt River Project to subdivisions of the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale 2085 APW20000803.0096 -1 Three people at the Mesa Amphitheater show were hospitalized in the suburban Phoenix city, said Mesa Fire Deputy Battalion Chief Mary Camel 2086 XIE19990528.0020 -1 Their studies have shown that a drug called "5-azacytidine" can switch the MMR gene back on and lead to increased anti-cancer drug sensitivity. 2086 APW19990125.0029 -1 Gypsy moths, elm disease, fire ants and zebra mussels also are among other damaging organisms listed in the study. 2086 NYT20000414.0055 -1 s and lambs.

About 80 percent of the human population, including Dr. Schuman, suffer only a sharp annoyance from a fire-ant attack. Around 15 percent get a swollen limb for a week.

But one or two in every hundred, if stung bad 2086 NYT19981016.0159 -1 Tribune c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service

Recently, I learned about the insect-human connection, specifically how people can mentally encourage giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches to clamber all over their bodies by thinking welcom 2086 NYT20000814.0210 -1 ``American Social Insects'' by Charles and Mary Michener calls them the dairying ants. 2086 NYT20000814.0210 -1 rles and Mary Michener calls them the dairying ants. Ants with root-eating aphids ofte 2086 NYT20000731.0248 -1 the question was, what has enabled them to be so successful here?''

In California, the researchers have no trouble finding ants to study. There are Argentine ants invading the chaparral-covered ocean bluffs around the University of 2086 NYT20000731.0248 -1 SAN DIEGO _ In a quirk of evolution and genetics, Argentine ants are overwhelming native California ants while forming what scientists believe may be the biggest ant colony in the world, stretching more than 600 miles from San Diego to north of San F 2086 NYT19990312.0470 -1 built a veritable insect zoo, to study the behavior of roaches, mosquitoes and ants. There is even a ``roach rearing room'' where workers watch the bugs breed.

And, as luck would have it, the campus was unwittingly built on an ant colony, 2086 NYT19990312.0437 -1 3-12 -- In the ``Cockroach Rearing Room'' at Clorox's research campus in Oakland, workers watch the bugs breed. The company built a veritable insect zoo here to study the behavior of roaches, mosquitoes and ants. (Fred R. Conrad/New York Times Photo) 2086 NYT19981122.0212 -1 Edward O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler, authors of the 1990 study ``The Ants,'' estimate that there are 19,000 trillion ants in the world, divided into more than 9,500 species. Some queen ants, who can live more than 20 years, give birth to 150 milli 2087 XIE19980114.0064 -1 Among all provinces, Ontario had more North American Indians. Alberta had the largest Metis population, while the Northwest Territories had the largest Inuit population. 2087 NYT19991224.0217 -1 In Winnipeg, the city with the Canada's largest unemployed aboriginal population, business leaders have begun a campaign to triple the number of immigrants lured annually to this heartland city nearly at the country's geographic center. 2087 XIE19970415.0077 1 most populous metropolitan areas of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Ottawa-Hull.

With a total of 4,263,757 people, Toronto has become the first Canadian city with more than four million people, the federal agency said in the release of the 2087 NYT19991029.0277 -1 ''

The president of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce is Nancy Hughes Anthony. The Quebec Securities Commission has a chairwoman, Carmen Crepin. Margaret J. Barrett is president of the Bank of Montreal Mortgage Corp., a financial company w 2087 XIE19991003.0117 -1 INE>

TORONTO, October 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 4,000 Chinese Canadians staged their largest ever parade here Saturday in the culmination of the week-long celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China 2087 XIE19971127.0019 -1 INE>

VANCOUVER, November 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Jiang Zemin left here today for the Canadian city of Calgary, starting his four-day state visit to Canada.

From Calgary, Jiang will travel on to Canada's capital of Ottawa 2087 XIE19970415.0077 -1 The fifth to 10th largest cities in Canada are respectively Edmonton, Calgary, Quebec, Winnipeg, Hamilton and London, with a population from 862,597 to 398,616. 2087 XIE19970415.0077 -1 s in Canada are respectively Edmonton, Calgary, Quebec, Winnipeg, Hamilton and London, with a population from 862,597 to 398,616.

2087 XIE19991003.0117 1 Canadian parliament member Ianno expressed his warm congratulations on China's 50th birthday and his hopes for strengthened Sino-Canadian ties in the new millennium.

Toronto, Canada's largest city with a Chinese population of over 400,000 2087 XIE19991003.0117 1 Toronto, Canada's largest city with a Chinese population of over 400,000, saluted to the Chinese national flag on Friday as the five-starred red flag was solemnly raised at Nathan Philips Square in the center of the city. Hundreds of local Chinese Ca 2087 XIE19991003.0117 1 on China's 50th birthday and his hopes for strengthened Sino-Canadian ties in the new millennium.

Toronto, Canada's largest city with a Chinese population of over 400,000, saluted to the Chinese national flag on Friday as the five-starred re 2087 NYT19980930.0123 -1 third are in interior cities.

Ciudad Juarez, for example, is Mexico's fourth-largest city with a population of about 2 million people and sits adjacent El Paso, Texas. The city is home to about a quarter of Mexico's NAFTA-related factorie 2087 XIE20000513.0145 -1 He also pointed out that Vancouver, as a city that has a largest Chinese community in the country, has played an important role in promoting the Sino-Canadian relationshi 2087 XIE19970305.0185 -1 o Chi Minh City, the largest economic hub in Vietnam, has a population of more than 5 millions. < 2088 NYT20000210.0352 -1 -TRAVEL-2 -- The dining room of the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs. The resort boasts 637 guest rooms, including 46 suites and 71 guest and estate houses, 10 lobbies 2088 NYT20000630.0390 -1 (The great majority of the 3,000 people who work in the White House daily are involved in security, many stationed in underground rooms. 2088 APW19990612.0075 -1 hold out hope of hosting another president, even if only occasionally.

At the Shawmut Inn, General Manager Roger Sibley has rented 55 rooms this weekend to reporters covering George W. Bush. That's almost as many rooms as when he used 2088 NYT20000707.0107 -1 imes News Service clients) By SUSAN MILLIGAN c.2000 The Boston Globe

WASHINGTON _ To the thousands of tourists who troop each day through a few of its elaborate rooms, the White House is a grand mansion suited for a head of st 2088 NYT19991129.0082 1 The Week in Review) (jt) By JOHN M. BRODER c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

WASHINGTON _ The White House, with 132 rooms of grandeur and its aura of power, has often seemed confining to the wives of the men who lived there. Hi 2088 NYT19991129.0082 1 WASHINGTON _ The White House, with 132 rooms of grandeur and its aura of power, has often seemed confining to the wives of the men who lived there. 2088 NYT19991129.0082 1 132 rooms of grandeur and its aura of power, has often seemed confining to the wives of the men who lived there. Hillary Rodham Clinton, seeking p 2088 NYT20000630.0390 -1 rooms are remarkably free of visible security agents. (The great majority of the 3,000 people who work in the White House daily are involved in security, many stationed in underground rooms.)

Unfortunately, tours are set up so that you 2088 NYT19980903.0086 -1 In his essay in the exhibition catalog, the show's curator, Michael Monroe, notes that in 1913 Woodrow Wilson's wife, Ellen, furnished the ``Blue Mountain Room'' in the White House with fabrics handwoven by women from the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 192 2088 APW20000407.0002 -1 NEWS STORY 2000-04-07 00:24 Leo's White House Chat Spurs Flap By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As President Clinton 2088 NYT20000707.0107 1 To the thousands of tourists who troop each day through a few of its elaborate rooms, the White House is a grand mansion suited for a head of state. But get behind the public part of the president's house, deep in the bowels of the 132-room estate, a 2088 NYT19990818.0403 -1 This is the oldest house of the bunch, a 1901 white Colonial with large rooms and a separate bar 2088 NYT20000707.0107 1 WASHINGTON _ To the thousands of tourists who troop each day through a few of its elaborate rooms, the White House is a grand mansion suited for a head of state. But get behind the public part of the president's house, deep in the bowels of the 132 2089 NYT19990608.0150 1 The body of Puerto Rico's first governor Ponce de Leon, killed by an Indian arrow while looking for the Fountain of Youth in Florida, now rests in an ornate marble 2089 NYT19990915.0077 1 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon _ discoverer of Florida but also Puerto Rico's first governor _ lies interred here, his remains guarded by a virgin warrior. 2089 NYT19990914.0048 1 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon _ discoverer of Florida but also Puerto Rico's first governor _ lies interred here, his remains guarded by a virgin warrior. 2089 NYT19990914.0048 1 interior where religious icons and statues line the walls.

Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon _ discoverer of Florida but also Puerto Rico's first governor _ lies interred here, his remains guarded by a virgin warrior. He may have needed 2089 NYT19990608.0150 -1 pectedly delivered the city from a siege in the 18th century. Thinking the procession along the city walls _ actually, a group of torch-carrying women led by an elderly bishop _ must be a relief force, the British Navy hastily withdrew.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico _ You sort of feel sorry for them. Pasty-white tourists who arrive at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport and go straight by shuttle bus to the shadowy confines of the opule 2089 APW19980817.1051 2 &UR; By CHRIS HAWLEY &QC; &UR; Associated Press Writer &QC; SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Ignoring criticism from allies and opponents, Gov. Pedro Rossello on Monday authorized a referendum on Puerto Rico's ties to the Uni 2089 NYT19981215.0103 1 By WILLIAM A. DAVIS c.1998 The Boston Globe

PONCE, Puerto Rico _ Puerto Rico's second-largest city, and the self-proclaimed ``pearl'' of the island's south coast, Ponce proudly cherishes its traditions.This is happily and visibl 2089 APW19980919.0430 -1 EDT (1500 GMT) to the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. 2089 APW19980919.0430 -1 tish Virgin Islands. People were calm, but they al 2089 NYT19981215.0103 -1 island's chief Caribbean port _ was a boomtown.

Founded in 1692 the city is named for its first governor, a grandson of Ponce de Leon of Fountain of Youth fame. As part of its tricentennial observance, Ponce spent more than $400 million 2089 XIE19970206.0210 -1 Clinton's visit to Mexico City, the first one he will make in his two-term presidency, is arranged as a reciprocal one for the trip to the United States of Mexican President, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, in September 1995, a communique issued by th 2089 NYT19990914.0048 1 to a vaulted, tiled interior where religious icons and statues line the walls.

Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon _ discoverer of Florida but also Puerto Rico's first governor _ lies interred here, his remains guarded by a virgin warrior 2089 NYT19990915.0077 1 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon _ discoverer of Florida but also Puerto Rico's first governor _ lies interred here, his remains guarded by a virgin warrio 2089 APW19990319.0078 -1 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Former Miss Universe Irene Saez was inaugurated today as governor of the Caribbean island of Margarita, five days after winning a landslide victory on an anti-corruption platform. < 2090 NYT20000427.0285 -1 blast of summer-movie spectacle, took upon itself the task of recreating ancient Rome in the years after the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180. Its main set 2090 NYT20000503.0288 -1 The first film that Hollywood's produced in more that three-and-a-half decades to focus on ancient Rome's brutal ``circus'' games, the new epic _ which stars ``Insider'' Oscar nominee Russell Crowe as general-turned-slave Maximus and was directed by 2090 NYT19991111.0246 2 ). Both are due out in December.

He is also involved in post-production on his next film, Ridley Scott's ``Gladiator,'' an epic set in ancient Rome starring Russell Crowe, scheduled for release next May. And he is in the final weeks of 2090 NYT20000713.0163 -1 om Aardman Animation is immensely satisfying, a divinely relaxed and confident film that credits youngsters' interest in a cartoon more substantial than the standard bland musical. The movie employs modeled latex figures to tell the story of a group 2090 NYT20000227.0120 -1 Chronicle &QL; Let's start with what Harry Knowles is not.

He says he isn't a journalist, although his Web site, Ain't It Cool News, is a leading online source for Hollywood dirt and behind-the-scenes movie doings.

He s 2090 NYT19990923.0346 -1 `The Savage Is Loose'' (1974), ``The Hindenburg'' (1975), ``Islands in the Stream'' (1977), ``Movie Movie (1978), ``Hardcore'' (1979), ``The Changeling'' (1980), ``Taps'' (1981), ````Firestarter''(1984), ``Malice'' (1993).

&QR; Among oth 2090 NYT19990923.0346 -1 he Hindenburg'' (1975), ``Islands in the Stream'' (1977), ``Movie Movie (1978), ``Hardcore'' (1979), ``The Changeling'' (1980), ``Taps'' (1981), ````Firestarter''(1984), ``Malice'' (1993).

&QR; Among other TV appearances: ``East Side/Wes 2090 NYT19990502.0197 2 in Ken Russell's version of ``Women in Love,'' died on Sunday while filming a movie in Malta. He was 61.

In what would have been his 100th film or television role, Reed was appearing in ``The Gladiator,'' a movie directed by Ridley Scott 2090 NYT20000706.0322 2 ways throughout the film (Mitchell).

`GLADIATOR,' starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris and Oliver Reed. Directed by Ridley Scott (R, 150 minutes). This movie is the answer to a question no one bothered t 2090 APW20000517.0297 2 Both Ridley Scott, whose ''Gladiator'' is currently the nation's No. 1 movie, and brother Tony Scott were working out of the office and unavailable for comment, an employee at RSA USA said Wednesda 2090 NYT20000901.0222 2 SUMMER-FALL-MOVIES _ Dave Larsen's summer movie review and look ahead to fall: ``At my signal, unleash hell.'' With those words, Gladiator's Russell Crowe launched the 2000 summer movie season. Crowe's command proved oddly prophetic for studios and 2091 APW20000707.0107 1 Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, is accused of displaying a semiautomatic pistol June 3 during an argument with a fellow rapper. Hours later, Macomb County prosecutors say 2091 NYT20000809.0202 1 This summer, there is nobody hotter in music _ Eminem's second CD, ``The Marshall Mathers LP'' (Mathers is his real name), has sold more than 5 million copies in two months and has been atop the national CD charts since its release _ and nobody whose 2091 APW20000601.0037 1 By DAVID BAUDER

NEW YORK (AP) -- Call him Slim Shady, call him Eminem or even by his real name, Marshall Mathers. He's probably too happy right now to care.

The foul-mouthed rapper sold 1.7 million copies of his new album la 2091 NYT20000904.0111 1 With his two multimillion-selling albums of facile, linguistically inventive word play, Eminem _ whose real name is Marshall Mathers _ has left a trail of scorched earth in his wake 2091 APW20000601.0037 1 BAUDER

NEW YORK (AP) -- Call him Slim Shady, call him Eminem or even by his real name, Marshall Mathers. He's probably too happy right now to care.

The foul-mouthed rapper sold 1.7 million copies of his new album last week, 2091 NYT19990729.0213 -1 The controversy highlights the prime directive of hip-hop, which is to ``keep it real.'' 2091 NYT19990729.0213 -1 me directive of hip-hop, which is to ``keep it real.'' These rockers who rap attempt to 2091 NYT19990414.0292 -1 EMINEM-RAPPER &QL;

UNDATED _ Turn on a radio these days and you're liable to hear Eminem's ``My Name Is'' just about anywhere: Pop, R&B and alternative stations have fallen for the tune, which has made the rapper (real name Marshall 2091 APW20000605.0024 1 Eminem, 27, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, has the No. 1 album in the country, ''The Marshall Mathers LP.'' It sold 1.76 million copies in the week following its May 23 release.

Eminem's lawyer, Peter Peacock, said Sunday that he ha 2091 NYT20000904.0110 1 than fulfilled his assignment. With his two multimillion-selling albums of facile, linguistically inventive word play, Eminem _ whose real name is Marshall Mathers _ has left a trail of scorched earth in his wake. By Gary Graff. WITH PHOTO.

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5. ''The Real Slim Shady,'' Eminem. Web/Aftermath.

(From Billboard magazine) ALBUMS

1. ''The Marshall Mathers LP,'' Eminem. Web/Aftermath.

2. ''Oops! ... I Did It Again,'' Britney Spears. Jive. (Platinum) 2091 NYT20000803.0116 1 Eminem is a Grammy-winning white rapper from Detroit whose real name is Marshall Mathers and whose wife is Ki 2091 APW20000610.0093 1 County prosecutors charged Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, with carrying a concealed weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, both felonies. < 2092 NYT20000309.0272 1 Here's the first telegraph, or sounder, invented by Samuel Morse in 1860 and manufactured by Charles L. Williams. 2092 NYT20000309.0272 1 Here's the first telegraph, or sounder, invented by Samuel Morse in 1860 and manufactured by Charles L. 2092 NYT19990713.0316 1 Globe Wireless, a marine communications company, signed off using the same line Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, used in 1844: ``What hath God wrought?'' By ZACHARY COILE. (Already filed.)

WASHINGTON NEWS (``w'' category)

He went riding during a December snowfall, developed a sore throat and died two days later at his Mount Vernon estate. Two centuries after his death, American conservatives can cla 2092 NYT19990618.0187 -1 ork Times News Service clients.) By PETER HARTLAUB c.1999 San Francisco Examiner

SAN FRANCISCO _ A celebrity-studded group that includes Peter Ueberroth, Arnold Palmer and Clint Eastwood grabbed one of the most coveted chunks of 2092 NYT19990713.0290 -1 clients.) By ZACHARY COILE c.1999 San Francisco Examiner

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. _ In the age of satellites and dot.coms, the last distinctive dots and dashes of commercial telegraph transmission faded into history Monday night a 2092 XIE19971029.0280 -1 In 1985, the office sent a record three million telegraphs a month and they accounted for half its business annually. 2092 XIE19971029.0280 -1 three million telegraphs a month and they accounted for half its business annually. But telegraph business began to s 2092 NYT20000309.0272 -1 invented the telephone. It became practical when Edison invented the carbon button transmitter in 1877.

The country would soon be strung with telephone and telegraph lines. Cities would choke on them. What if, some mused, we could 2092 NYT19990713.0214 1 The company signed off the air using the same line Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, used in the first message he sent in 1844 from Washington, D.C., to his assistant in Baltimore: ``What hath God wrought?''

Among those on han 2092 NYT20000309.0272 -1 sounder, invented by Samuel Morse in 1860 and manufactured by Charles L. Williams.

In 1875 Williams leased his Boston workshop to a fellow named Alexander Graham Bell, who with Williams' technician, Thomas Watson, invented the telephone. 2092 NYT20000309.0272 -1 in 1854, it produced a magnetic current for therapeutic purposes. But by harnessing the relationship between magnetism and electricity, it presaged the concept of radio.

Here's the first telegraph, or sounder, invented by Samuel Morse in 2092 NYT19990203.0198 -1 Emile Baudot, the 19th-century French scientist who invented the Baudot telegraph cod 2093 APW20000506.0066 1 The town of Metropolis -- Illinois, that is -- is seeking a Superman for its upcoming festival honoring the Man of Steel, but the big block of ''kryptonite'' parked downtown must be scaring 2093 XIE19980519.0220 -1 As part of the move, the city has provided low-priced houses for middle- and low-income families and local banks are issuing mortgage loans to home buyers. 2093 NYT19990723.0007 -1 We feel rebuilding home ownership in Kansas City is a worthy expenditure of public dollars. 2093 NYT19990830.0183 -1 a homespun, stabilizing family to give me warmth and credibility. I thought they could be my version of Ma and Pa Kent, the Smallville couple who adopted baby Superman after his space capsule from Krypton crashed on Earth.

The truth? I'm 2093 NYT19990530.0005 -1 quarter, including 19 in less than six minutes, to rally Indiana from a 12-point deficit to a 93-86 victory and a 3-2 lead in the series. He had five 3-pointers and one choke hold directed at Spike Lee. Alas, the Knicks won the series in seven games 2093 APW19990315.0128 -1 LINE>

HOUSTON (AP) -- Actor Kirk Alyn, a dancer who followed friend Red Skelton to Hollywood and became film's first Superman, has died after a long illness. He was 88.

Alyn died Sunday in a hospital near his home in The Woo 2093 NYT19990101.0074 -1 T! (DW) By SARAH BOXER c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

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NEW YORK _ A private memorial Mass for John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, will be held Friday morning at a small Roman Catholic church in 2094 NYT19991112.0222 -1 AN &HT; c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

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Popping the disc of Oliver Stone's ``Any Given Sunday'' into the DVD player after taking in parts of four NFL games over the weekend is, to say the least, a weird experience.

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It may have been a charmed administration, but it was also brushed with sorrow, when in the summer of 1963, son Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born premature to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy 2094 APW19990717.0101 -1 John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, grew up in the public eye, from his sad salute at his father's 1963 funeral until his plane disappeared Friday night on the way to a family gathering in Massachusetts. For many, he has embodied the ``Kennedy mystique'' -- 2094 NYT19990717.0167 -1 the public eye, JFK Jr. was a celebrity and icon who struggled to carve his own niche. By Ellen Barry. 1200 words.

KENNEDY-COMMENT (Undated) _ The long, long history of a tragic family. By David M. Shribman. 1200 words.

MEDIA- 2094 APW19990717.0151 -1 TIME> 1999-07-17 19:50:09 usa Events in the Life of JFK Jr.

Major events in the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.:

--Nov. 25, 1960: Born in Washington, D.C.

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`THE MATRIX'

1999, R, Warner, CC, VHS priced for rentals, DVD $24.98

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What causes these 2099 NYT19990702.0206 1 to the silliest group of Britwits ever assembled: Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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The first episode ends with Caesar's assassination by Brutus. The second begins with Antony avenging his death. At once, Billy Zane's loony, overheated performance turns ``Cleopatra'' into some campy late-night cable movie.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Distraught gamblers aren't the only ones who resort to suicide at casinos. Sometimes, even dealers do it.

Thanh Nguyen, 50, a craps dealer at the Sands Hotel Casino, was identified Wednesda 2100 APW19990121.0379 -1 Caesar's ``Your Show of Shows,'' died of cancer at 76.

Ms. Kallen died Monday at her home in Ardsley, a New York suburb.

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LOS ANGELES _ Double-trouble agent David Falk doesn't mind taking an interview to the next level ... pretentious.

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LOS ANGELES _ Double-trouble agent David Falk doesn't mind taking an interview to the next level ... pretentious.

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PARIS, September 9 (Xinhua) -- French President Jacques Chirac opened Thursday evening an exhibition of the great 18th century French realist painter Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) at the Grand Palais Museum in Paris.

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NEW YORK _ Sotheby's sale of the Arne Schlesch collection next week marks the passing of an era. Schlesch, 77, has sold his five-story Scandinavian antiques galler 2101 APW19980601.0782 -1 Russians returning home not burden By BIRGIT BRAUER Associated Press Writer ALMATY, Kazakstan (AP) _ Ethnic Germans returning home from the former Soviet Union are not placing a burden on Germany's pension system, the country' 2101 NYT20000330.0206 -1 ``Russian Hamlet'' was, in fact, helpfully subtitled ``Son of Catherine the Great'' at its U.S. premiere on Wednesday night at City Center, where the superb dancers of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg will perform it through Sunday night as part o 2101 NYT20000330.0206 -1 elpfully subtitled ``Son of Catherine the Great'' at its U.S. premiere on Wednesday night at City Center, where the superb dancers of the Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg will perform it through Sunday night as part of a three-week season.

2101 NYT19980930.0481 -1 was not in Catherine's nature to buy drawings in ones and twos. She wanted a great museum, the way Peter the Great had wanted a great capital city. The deadline, in both cases, was tomorrow, and both of them succeeded.

Catherine began 2101 NYT19980930.0481 -1 Catherine went on to buy 1,020 drawings from the collection of Count Heinrich Bruehl, who was at the time a minister at the court of Saxony in Dresden. Virtually on her own doorstep she also acquired the drawings _ almost 2,000 _ that had been collec 2101 NYT20000927.0440 -1 imperial Russian art from the 18th and 19th centuries is the greatest in the world outside Russia, and her estate has one of the leading U.S. collections of Sevres porcelain, much of it commissioned by Catherine the Great. View of the French Parterre 2101 NYT19990426.0237 -1 Shortly after Catherine the Great's accession in 1762, an early generation of ``philosophes,'' led by Voltaire, fell in love with Russia and declared the country a model of enlightened monarchy working to overcome cultural ``backwardnes 2101 NYT19990804.0180 -1 5. RENE RUSSO INTERVIEW Lusty sex is merely one aspect of the 1999 remake of the 1968 Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway thriller ``The Thomas Crown Affair.'' In the remake, actress Rene Russo plays insurance investigator Catherine and she is not afraid to 2102 APW20000411.0073 -1 A state hearing, pitting the School Committee against the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island, has taken some odd twists. 2102 NYT19981119.0307 1 A member of the Mohegan tribe, he and other American Indians sought to celebrate tribal prayer and water ceremonies last year on Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty, but federal authorities prevented the news media from filming the Indians. 2102 NYT19981119.0307 1 of the Mohegan tribe, he and other American Indians sought to celebrate tribal prayer and water ceremonies last year on Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty, but federal authorities prevented the news media from filming the Indians. 2102 NYT20000204.0076 -1 iendship, Joseph says the French never gave a definite reason for the gift of the copper statue.

The commonly held view was that the statue represents the shared faith in democracy between the two countries. But some historians believe th 2102 NYT19990325.0127 -1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

Reading Winston Groom's books is like eating a box of assorted chocolates: You never know what you're going to get. Fans of ``Forrest Gump'' were surprised by his next book, ``Shrouds of Glory,'' a hist 2102 NYT19990420.0190 -1 (888) 346-9867.) (bl) By MARIAN BURROS c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

NEW YORK _ Gray Kunz, the four-star chef without portfolio, has generated nearly as much talk about his search for a space for his own restaurant as he 2102 NYT20000721.0342 -1 Americans would surely regard the step as a drastic violation of traditional safeguards. 2102 NYT20000721.0342 -1 step as a drastic violation of traditional safeguards.

Straw also has a bill 2102 NYT19981015.0187 2 Island. You'll never see anything built like them anymore. And here's the star of the show: the Statue of Liberty. She stands 305 feet over the harbor, a sculpture fashioned entirely of hammered copper, oxidized to a green patina.

The 2102 NYT19990202.0136 2 Officials at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation in New York, the same organization that gave Lady Liberty a face lift in 1986 without any public funding, estimate that more than 40 percent of Americans can trace their European ancestry bac 2102 NYT19990520.0190 -1 the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island into one day? Should you buy theater tickets before you leave home or spend an hour or more standing in line for half-price seats?

With hundreds of hotels in Manhattan (59, 2102 NYT20000810.0162 -1 me in the Battery, clutching tickets allowing them to ascend into the statue's crown. Instead of an admission card, I was holding photocopies of some postcards, written in Yiddish and dated in the spring of 1912. I was bound for the next stop, Ellis 2102 NYT19990325.0127 -1 Set on Liberty Island, Ellis Island and Manhattan Island, the mystery pits Anna against a deranged killer determined to eliminate anyone who is not a ``real'' America 2102 NYT19980610.0453 -1 Phil Baum, of the American Jewish Congress, who was upset by the ruling, said he foresaw ``a possible landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision.'' Baum said the high court would soon be confronted with a fundamental choice: ``to preserve the principal t 2103 NYT19991221.0218 -1 And he assumed the roles of George Meade, the Union general, and Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general, on trips to the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania. 2103 NYT20000308.0419 -1 City at odds over Confederate general &HT; 2103 NYT20000308.0351 -1 City at odds over Confederate general &HT; 2103 NYT19990324.0238 -1 nor to a censure, in the recent senses of the words.

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``It 2103 NYT19990324.0238 -1 ``Mister Lincoln.'') (nk) By HERBERT MITGANG c.1999 N.Y. Times News Service

It is reassuring to know, 190 years after Lincoln's birth in 1809, that in 2000 and beyond, new studies will continue to seek clues to the 16th presi 2103 NYT20000524.0411 -1 Scott spends as much time fighting his own generals as he does the Mexicans; President Polk is no admirer of Scott's, and has a government lackey on hand in Mexico to negotiate peace without necessarily consulting the commander of the U.S. forces. 2103 NYT20000524.0411 -1 g his own generals as he does the Mexicans; President Polk is no admirer of Scott's, and has a government lackey on hand in Mexico to negotiate peace without necessarily consulting the commander of the U.S. forces. Shaara manages to turn the compl 2103 NYT20000604.0174 1 the general of the Stars said.

In July 1863, history tells us, the combined Confederate forces of Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett advanced on Union troops at Gettysburg. Results were disastrous. A total of 6,240 Confederate soldiers lay dead 2103 NYT19980710.0216 -1 Green soldiers from Vermont's Green Hills, they would play a pivotal role in the most storied battle of the war: the epic July 1-3, 1863, conflict at Gettysburg. After the battle, a New York Times account concluded that a Vermont brigade ``did more t 2103 NYT20000723.0116 1 General Robert E. Lee and gazed out across the broad field of grass where Gen. George Pickett, on Lee's orders, made his fateful charge into the full force of Union battle lines, in one of the costliest tactical errors of American military history. < 2103 NYT20000828.0327 -1 Jefferson's friend and philosophical confederate, James Madison, also professed a general belief in God and wrote in Memorial and Remonstrance that an individual's duty to his ``universal sovereign'' came before his civic responsibilities. But he s 2104 APW19990929.0165 -1 In 1954, the first atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus, was commissioned by the Navy. 2104 NYT20000814.0435 -1 A US Navy spokeswoman said in Washington that US Naval Ship Loyal, which gathers underwater acoustical data, was about 250 miles away from the Russian submarine when it went down. 2104 APW20000821.0016 -1 ''The British submarine is similar to ours, so we believe that it will be unable to dock either,'' Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said Sunday. 2104 NYT20000823.0071 1 Hunley joined two inventors, James McClintock and Baxter Watson, to begin construction of a vessel that would travel underwater. In July 1863, the inventors' third ``submarine boat'' was under construction. It would be named the H.L. 2104 NYT20000403.0472 -1 ieglitz and Imogen Cunningham.

Through photographs drawn from the Lane Collection, on long-term loan to the museum, the exhibition traces the purity of form, fascination with patterns and interest in mundane objects that marked Weston's w 2104 NYT20000823.0076 -1 &HT; c. 2000 Cox News Service

Have a question about the news? Colin Bessonette will try to get an answer. Call 404-222-2002, or write him at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, P.O. Box 4689, Atlanta, Ga. 30302, or e-mail him at q& 2104 APW20000817.0096 -1 The Pentagon estimates there are about 600 submarines in the world's waters today. 2104 APW20000817.0096 -1 bout 600 submarines in the world's waters today.

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Russian officials said the submarine Kursk, with a crew of more than 100, apparently was in a 2104 NYT19991220.0302 -1 A midget submarine of the Japanese Imperial Navy carrying Ensign Sakamaki and Chief Warrant Officer Kiyoshi Inagaki was launched from a mother submarine 10 miles off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at 3:33 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. About four and a half ho 2104 NYT20000126.0030 -1 an eon ago in Internet time), but the patent was granted and its existence made known only in September.

Barnes & Noble accused Amazon of purposely delaying the application process so that the patent was issued just before the 1999 ho 2104 NYT20000126.0030 -1 there have been numerous patent holders who surfaced years or even decades after their inventions were commercialized. They can then literally conduct legal blackmail.

Fortunately, under the new Inventors Protection Act of 1999 passed by 2105 XIE20000519.0178 2 Chinese Farmer Wins Patents for Silk Production Techniques 2105 XIE19980204.0220 -1 Bangladesh's silk industry needs some 250 tons of raw silk per year, but the country can only produce about 30 tons yearly. 2105 XIE19980909.0252 2 Uygur Autonomous Region, and the silkworm cocoons and raw silk are later sent to the cities of Suzhou and Hangzhou, two major silk producers in east China. 2105 XIE19990520.0317 1 China produces and exports 70 percent of the world's silk, but has encountered unprecedented difficulties since the mid-1990s.

The excess processing capacity of China's silk-spinning plants and the Asian financial turmoil have incurred a 2-b 2105 XIE19980909.0252 2 re than 1,000 years ago, camel caravans carried China's silk and other goods along the Silk Road to central and western Asian and European countries.

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SHANGHAI, December 2 (Xinhua) -- A new enterprise opened in Shanghai by a health and beauty products company of the United States, Johnson & Johnson, is expected to become the leading producer of silk sutures in the world.

NEW DELHI, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Indian Commerce Minister Ramakrishna Hegde Friday ruled out reviewing the central government's policy on import of raw silk from China, saying it had not affected the interests of domestic farmers.

2105 XIE19960115.0164 1 Chinese fashion designer, Wu Haiyan, showed her latest silk clothing that was designed for overseas women, here at one of the well-known scenic spots in east China's Jiangsu Province. 2105 XIE19960115.0164 1 n, showed her latest silk clothing that was designed for overseas women, here at one of the well-known scenic spots in east China's Jiangsu Province.

China exports about 60 p 2105 NYT19980831.0336 1 silk, actually began, but silk has been documented as early as the 12th-century B.C. in China, which still produces the bulk of all silk garments, followed by Korea, India and Italy.

Silk comes from the Bombyx mori moth, which produces 2105 XIE19980909.0252 2 Today, trucks transport silkworm cocoons and raw silk produced in the republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrghyz into China through Kashi, an ancient Silk Road city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the silkworm cocoons and raw silk 2105 XIE19980626.0255 2 professionals in silkworm raising and silk manufacturing.

Suzhou is China's largest silk producer, with its annual output accounting for one-sixth of the country's total. Local people began planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms 4,700 2105 XIE20000519.0126 -1 Ningxia enjoys ample sunshine and warm climate favorable to the growth of mulberry trees. Its raw silk is exported to Japan and the Republic of Korea.

Suzhou is China's largest silk producer, with its annual output accounting for one sixth o 2105 XIE19990925.0087 2 uzhou, in east China's Jiangsu province, is the country's largest silk production and export base. < 2106 APW19990203.0313 1 Official name and home: Barbie Millicent Roberts from Willows, Wis. 2106 NYT19990304.0159 1 Barbie's official name is Barbie Millicent Roberts from Willows, Wis. 2106 NYT19990304.0159 1 be done. Included was a girdle. (Maybe it doubled as a sports bra?)

Barbie's official name is Barbie Millicent Roberts from Willows, Wis., though her creator Ruth Handler lived in Southern California.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Can it be that Barbie -- with her perfect figure, big smile and long list of careers -- is having a mid-life crisis 2106 NYT19990302.0052 -1 &HT; c. 1999 Cox News Service

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. _ On the morning of May 12, 1889, construction workers building the new Ministry of Justice building in Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber River near the mausoleum of the emperor 2106 NYT19990405.0373 -1 wan said.

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HOUSTON _ She was born Barbie Millicent Roberts, springing into the world fully grown, like Venus rising from the sea. Shapely, wrinkle-free, with pouty lips and pert b 2106 APW19990614.0253 -1 But she said the complaints prompted Mattell to abandon plans to include tattoos and nose piercing on this spring's Generation Girl dolls, a line of dolls for older girls that includes Generation Girl Barbie and her friend Chelsie. 2106 APW19990614.0253 -1 ed Mattell to abandon plans to include tattoos and nose piercing on this spring's Generation Girl dolls, a line of dolls for older girls that includes Generation Girl Barbie and her friend Chelsie.

The site, off of http://www.barbie.com, is sort of Dr. Frankenstein meets Isaac Mizrahi. It lets you name your Barbie, give it a personality and a hairstyle, pick its hair and eye color and decide whether it will smile open- or 2106 NYT19990108.0078 -1 ``40 Years of the Barbie Doll'' will feature more than 80 Barbies shipped from dollmaker Mattel, including Engineer and Veterinarian Barbie; Designer Clothes Barbie; the first African-American Barbie, from 1980 and a large batch of international Barb 2106 NYT19990304.0159 1 done. Included was a girdle. (Maybe it doubled as a sports bra?)

Barbie's official name is Barbie Millicent Roberts from Willows, Wis., though her creator Ruth Handler lived in Southern California.

She's a Pisces, sensitive 2106 APW19980609.1027 -1 Gandolfo said the parent company had not yet planned to produce a doll, like Barbie, in Thailand. This is because Mattel had recently invested $60 million to complete its Indonesian production plant, which currently produces 33 million dolls a year. 2106 NYT19990826.0137 -1 In ``The Barbie Fixation,'' Brown argued that Dvorak's declaration was ``chock-full of sexist stereotype 2106 APW19990203.0313 1 Official name and home: Barbie Millicent Roberts from Willows, Wis. < 2107 APW20000317.0133 1 to grant the islands independence but keep Denmark's Queen Margrethe as their head of state and continue to link their local currency to the Danish krone. 2107 XIE19980615.0079 -1 Sweden and Denmark are also staying out of the single currency, while Greece failed to meet the criteria for entry. 2107 NYT19980907.0117 -1 Countries not using the single currency, like Britain, Denmark, Sweden and Greece, will continue to experience exchange-rate fluctuations against the euro. 2107 NYT19990204.0377 1 Denmark, another euro outsider, also reduced its discount and repurchase rates by a quarter-point Thursday, though for different reasons.

The Danish currency, the krone, is formally linked to the euro in an exchange-rate mechanism that is 2107 APW19980926.0249 -1 ers EU agrees to tie Danish, Greek currencies to euro &UR; with EU-Finance &QL; VIENNA, Austria (AP) _ European Union finance ministers Saturday backed plans by Greece and Denmark to link their currencies 2107 NYT20000928.0398 -1 ER DISCONTENT WITH INTEGRATION By ROGER COHEN c.2000 N.Y. Times News Service

COPENHAGEN, Denmark _ Denmark voted Thursday not to join Europe's common currency, the euro, undermining an already fragile monetary exp 2107 NYT19990108.0015 -1 ist Newspaper Ltd. (Distributed by the New York Times Special Features)

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Fighting between rebels and U.N. peacekeepers rebels killed seven peacekeepers and injured