Selected Articles from The New York Times—
February 2004 (* denotes news of special interest)

Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004:
On This Day: February 29 (Paul III 2/29/1468-11/10/1549, Ann Lee 2/29/1736-9/8/1784, Gioacchino Rossini 2/29/1792-11/13/1868, John Philip Holland 2/29/1840-8/12/1914, Herman Hollerith 2/29/1860-11/17/1929, Augusta Savage 2/29/1892-3/26/1962, Morarji Desai 2/29/1896-4/10/1995, Jimmy Dorsey 2/29/1904-6/12/1957, Fyodor Abramov 2/29/1920-5/14/1983, James Mitchell 2/29/1920, Michele Morgan 2/29/1920)
Panel On Civil Disorders Calls For Drastic Action To Avoid 2-Society Nation (By JOHN HERBERS, February 29, 1968)
* John P. Holland Dead: Inventor of Submarine Boat Succumbs in Newark at 72
[2/29/18401-8/12/1840] (NY TIMES, August 13, 1914)

* Daniel Boorstin, 89, Former Librarian of Congress Who Won Pulitzer in History, Dies
(By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Feb. 29, 2004)
Lady Fiennes, Muse of a British Explorer, Dies at 56 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 29, 2004)
Bernard Goldberg, 79, Ex-Chief of Two American Distilleries, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 29, 2004)
NATIONAL: Edwards Shifts Schedule in Race to Derail Kerry (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 29, 2004)
Bush Strategists Now Expect to Trail Kerry or Run Even Through the Summer (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 29, 2004)
POLITICAL POINTS: Positive Words, Negative Effect (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 29, 2004)
With Decision at Hand, Many Voters Turn to Instinct (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Feb. 29, 2004)
* Forget the Gators: Exotic Pets Run Wild in Florida (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Feb. 29, 2004)
* EDUCATION: Harvard Says Poor Parents Won't Have to Pay (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Feb. 29, 2004)
WORLD: Hussein's Regime Skimmed Billions From Aid Program (By SUSAN SACHS, Feb. 29, 2004)
Bush Increases Push for Haitian to Leave Office (By DAVID E. SANGER & ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 29, 2004)
New U.S. Effort Steps Up Hunt for bin Laden (By DAVID E. SANGER & ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 29, 2004)
As Phones Falter, Haitians Find a Communications Lifeline (By SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 29, 2004)
NY REGION: Mayor Wedding Gay Couples Has History of Activism (By THOMAS CRAMPTON, Feb. 29, 2004)
DEATH ON THE NIGHT SHIFT: Through Gaps in System, Nurse Left Trail of Grief
(By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI & JASON GEORGE, Feb. 29, 2004)
Hanging Out or Left High and Dry, the Seals Are Back (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 29, 2004)
SPORTS: GOLF: Woods Off Early, but Recovery Is Right on (By CLIFTON BROWN, Feb. 29, 2004)
* BASEBALL: The Art of Catching a Fly: Playing the Angles (By LEE JENKINS, Feb. 29, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Folly of Forecasting the Braves' Demise (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 29, 2004)
BOXING: Beaten Chavez Leaves Ring With Head Up (By MICHAEL KATZ, Feb. 29, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Premature Death for the Hubble (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
EDITORIALS: MAKING VOTES COUNT: EDITORIAL OBSERVER:
The Results Are in and the Winner Is... or Maybe Not (By ADAM COHEN, Feb. 29, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: 30 Little Turtles (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 29, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: Sorry, Right Number (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 29, 2004)
OP-ED: How the Judges Forced the President's Hand (By LISA SCHIFFREN, Feb. 29, 2004)
OP-ED: Joining the Debate but Missing the Point (By NATHANIEL FRANK, Feb. 29, 2004)
* OP-ED: A New Topic for an Old Argument (By JOSEPH J. ELLIS, Feb. 29, 2004)
LETTERS: Jobs, From Bangor to Bangalore (6 Letters) (By CLAIRE FABVIER, et. al., Feb. 29, 2004)
Fear Not, Married Couples (2 Letters) (By WINIFRED G. NEWMAN, et. al., Feb. 29, 2004)
An Asset to Kerry [Teresa Heinz Kerry] (By CHARLES J. SMITH, Feb. 29, 2004)
BUSINESS: Call In the Feds. Uh, Maybe Not. (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 29, 2004)
* BUSINESS: Web of Friends and Business Blurs Stewart's Glossy Image (By LESLIE EATON, Feb. 29, 2004)
MARKET WATCH: After I.B.M.'s Options Overhaul (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 29, 2004)
* EXECUTIVE LIFE: For the Boss, Days of Sweat and Fumbles (By MELINDA LIGOS, Feb. 29, 2004)
Yes, Women Spend (And Saw and Sand) (By FARA WARNER, Feb. 29, 2004)
A Movie Pondered Reality. A Lawsuit Questions Its Originality. (BY WILLIAM NORWICH, Feb. 29, 2004)
* THE BOSS: Cowboy Willpower [SCO owns the UNIX OS license rights] (As told to EVE TAHMINCIOGLU, Feb. 29, 2004)
PORTFOLIOS: Do Dividends Help? Look at Interest Rates, Not Tax Rates (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 29, 2004)
ECONOMIC VIEW: How a Stronger Yuan Could Hurt the U.S. (By EDUARDO PORTER, Feb. 29, 2004)
A Goodbye to 'Buy' and 'Sell' (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Feb. 29, 2004)
PRELUDES: When It Comes to Salary, Many Women Don't Push (By ABBY ELLIN, Feb. 29, 2004)
PRIVATE SECTOR: A Supporting Role Earns Praise (By NEAL KOCH, Feb. 29, 2004)
Taking Big Risks Out of Small Films (By ERIC DASH, Feb. 29, 2004)
Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve? (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 29, 2004)
Warming Up to Funds That Trade Like Stocks (By PAUL J. LIM, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: The Joy of Gay Marriage (By FRANK RICH, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ARTS: The Eerily Lovely Children of the Photoshop Generation (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ART: A Tiny Museum Achieves Its Towering Ambition (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ARTS: The White Stuff ["The Snow Show"] (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 29, 2004)
ARTS: Into the Heart of Darkness, With Puppets (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Feb. 29, 2004)
DANCE THIS WEEK: Vibrating to the Ideas of Beckett (By GIA KOURLAS, Feb. 29, 2004)
DANCE THIS WEEK: Voguing to Sounds of Bartok (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Feb. 29, 2004)
* FILM: And the Oscar for Worst Oscar Goes... (By BRYAN CURTIS, Feb. 29, 2004)
FILM: After 'Chicago,' Waiting for the Razzle-Dazzle (By REBECCA TRAISTER, Feb. 29, 2004)
MUSIC: The Many Faces, and Grooves, of Arthur Russell (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 29, 2004)
MUSIC PLAYLIST: Rap by the Beatles and Reggae by Alicia Keys (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 29, 2004)
OPERA: Reaching the Top of the Opera World by Accident (By CORI ELLISON, Feb. 29, 2004)
* TV: A Hospital That's a Real Horror Show [Stephen King] (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 29, 2004)
TV RERUNS: The Show That Made Police Brutality Stylish (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Feb. 29, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
FASHION: Wearing Mom to the Oscars (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Feb. 29, 2004)
STYLE: Wanted: Pretty People to Fill Mansion (By BOB MORRIS, Feb. 29, 2004)
FOREIGN REPORT: LONDON: This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Soul Food
(By WARREN ST. JOHN, Feb. 29, 2004)
WHAT I'M WEARING NOW: The Designer (By JENNIFER TUNG, Feb. 29, 2004)
FASHION DIARY: All Together Now: The Making of a Scene (By GUY TREBAY, Feb. 29, 2004)
* POSSESSED: Beauty, the Enigma on the Table [Faye Dunaway] (DAVID COLMAN, Feb. 29, 2004)
VOWS: Norma Fritz and Michael O'Brien (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Feb. 29, 2004)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
TRAVEL: In Dublin, Lots to Talk About (By ROBERT O'BYRNE, Feb. 29, 2004)
* Celebrating James Joyce (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
Baptism on Bikes in Donegal (By BRIAN LAVERY, Feb. 29, 2004)
* Rafting Past Ghosts in Utah (By JOHN FREEMAN GILL, Feb. 29, 2004)
* WHAT'S DOING: In Tokyo [cherry blossoms] (By, Feb. 29, 2004)
* JOURNEYS: In the Yucatán: All Yoga, All the Time (By JANE GROSS, Feb. 29, 2004)
TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT: San Francisco Toasts Gay Weddings (By DEAN E. MURPHY, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ESSAY: Every Trip Is a Picnic (By JOANNE KAUFMAN, Feb. 29, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
The Culture Wars, Part II (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 29, 2004)
TACTICAL SHIFT: On the West Bank, a Hint of Resistance Without Blood (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 29, 2004)
STANDING BY: Ignore Haiti? Tell That to Politicians in Florida (By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS, Feb. 29, 2004)
MARRIAGE-MINDED: The Gay Rights Movement, Settled Down (By TAMAR LEWIN, Feb. 29, 2004)
OVERCOMPENSATING: In Fraud Cases, Guilt Can Be Skin Deep (By ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 29, 2004)
* THE PUBLIC EDITOR: What Do You Know, and How Do You Know It? (By DANIEL OKRENT, Feb. 29, 2004)
* CORRESPONDENCE | CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: China's Wealthy Live by a Creed:
Hobbes and Darwin, Meet Marx (By YILU ZHAO, Feb. 29, 2004)
GRAPHIC: For Kerry and Edwards, Much Bears Repeating (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Feb. 29, 2004)
The Social Security Promise Not Yet Kept (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 29, 2004)
* Joyously Watching Others Fail [negative news] (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Feb. 29, 2004)
The Sky is Falling! Say Hollywood and, Yes, the Pentagon (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 29, 2004)
Don't Take This Shirt Seriously (Just Buy It) (By SHAILA K. DEWAN, Feb. 29, 2004)
DENNIS KUCINICH: How He Keeps Going and Going (By GLEN JUSTICE, Feb. 29, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Bring It On! (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 29, 2004)
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Pull of Family (By JAMES TRAUB, Feb. 29, 2004)
* QUESTIONS FOR FARAH PAHLAVI: A Life in Exile (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Feb. 29, 2004)
* ESSAY: The Personal Jesus (By STEPHEN PROTHERO, Feb. 29, 2004)
* COMPLETE COVERAGE: "The Passion of the Christ" (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
DIAGNOSIS: Chest Pain, Frequent Cramping, Weakness (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Feb. 29, 2004)
CONSUMED: Method (By ROB WALKER, Feb. 29, 2004)
THE ETHICIST: Just Awards (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 29, 2004)
* COVER ARTICLE: Great Performers (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG and KATHY RYAN, Feb. 29, 2004)
* COMPLETE COVERAGE: The Oscars (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
A Frenchman or a Jew? (By FERNANDA EBERSTADT, Feb. 29, 2004)
Say No More [lost language in Patagonia] (By JACK HITT, Feb. 29, 2004)
* Deep in Suburbia [Chang-rae Lee] (By CHARLES McGRATH, Feb. 29, 2004)
FOOD: Cuckoo for Cocoa (By JONATHAN REYNOLDS, Feb. 29, 2004)
LIVES: Not Close Enough for Comfort (By DAVID P. BARDEEN, Feb. 29, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 29, 2004)
* How the Brontës Became Romantic Icons (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Feb. 29, 2004)
* 'The Age of Shakespeare': The Play's the Thing, Usually [Frank Kermode] (By JOY CONNOLLY, Feb. 29, 2004)
'Chiang Kai-shek': Before the East Was Red (By JONATHAN SPENCE, Feb. 29, 2004)
'Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars': An Impenetrable Lie (By MAX FRANKEL, Feb. 29, 2004)
'Dot in the Universe': Calling a Speck a Speck [Lucy Ellmann] (By CLAIRE DEDERER, Feb. 29, 2004)
* 'The Body': Eternal Youth [Hanif Kureishi] (By BENJAMIN KUNKEL, Feb. 29, 2004)
* 'Trouble in Mind': Poems of Gorgeous Austerity [Lucie Brock-Broido] (By MAUREEN N. McLANE, Feb. 29, 2004)
'Sacred Time': The Silence [Ursula Hegi] (By VALERIE SAYERS, Feb. 29, 2004)
'Dancing With Cuba': Memories of Underdevelopment (By KATHA POLLITT, Feb. 29, 2004)
'At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig': You Don't Want to Live There (By BEN MACINTYRE, Feb. 29, 2004)

Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004:
On This Day: February 28 (Michel de Montaigne 2/28/1533-9/23/1592, Gabriele Rossetti 2/28/1783-4/24/1854, Sir John Tenniel 2/28/1820-2/25/1914, Geraldine Farrar 2/28/1882-3/11/1967, Ben Hecht 2/28/1894-4/18/1964, Bugsy Siegel 2/28/1906-6/20/1947, Milton Caniff 2/28/1907-4/3/1988, Stephen Spender 2/28/1909-7/16/1995, Vincente Minnelli 2/28/1910-7/25/1986, Denis Parsons Burkitt 2/28/1911-3/23/1993, Zero Mostel 2/28/1915-9/8/1977, Billie Bird 1908, Charles Durning 1923, Svetlana Alliluyeva 1926, Gavin MacLeod 1931, Tommy Tune 1939, Mario Andretti 1940, Bubba Smith 1945, Bernadette Peters 1948, John Turturro 1957, Rae Dawn Chong 1961)
4 U.S. Agents Killed in Texas Shootout With Cult (By Sam Howe Verhovek, February 28, 1993)
* Linus C. Pauling Dies at 93; Chemist and Voice for Peace
[2/28/1901-8/19/1994] (By RICHARD SEVERO, August 21, 1994)

John Randolph, 88, an Actor on Broadway and in the Movies, Dies (By BEN SISARIO, Feb. 28, 2004)
Amy M. Spindler, Style Editor of Times Magazine, Dies at 40 (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 28, 2004)
Walter F. Riker Jr., 87, Drug Adviser for N.F.L., Dies (By STUART LAVIETES, Feb. 28, 2004)
Waggoner Carr, a Longtime Official in Texas Goverment, Dies at 85 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 28, 2004)
Stanislaw Ryniak, Auschwitz Inmate, Dies at 88 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 28, 2004)
Thomas Soffron, 96, Creator of Clam Strips, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 28, 2004)
MUSIC: Revisionists Sing New Blues History (By BEN SISARIO, Feb. 28, 2004)
TV: 'TRUST': Lawyers Woo and Brawl in Sunny Londontown (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 28, 2004)

Friday, Feb. 27, 2004:
On This Day: February 27 (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2/27/1807-3/24/1882, Ellen Terry 2/27/1847-7/21/1928, Alice Hamilton 2/27/1869-9/22/1970, Lotte Lehmann 2/27/1888-8/26/1976, David Sarnoff 2/27/1891-12/12/1971, Marino Marini 2/27/1901-8/6/1980, John Steinbeck 2/27/1902-12/20/1968, Peter DeVries 2/27/1910-9/28/1993, Lawrence Durrell 2/27/1912-11/7/1990, Irwin Shaw 2/27/1913-5/16/1984, Joanne Woodward 1930, Elizabeth Taylor 1932, Ralph Nader 1934, Barbara Babcock 1937, Howard Hesseman 1940, Debra Monk 1949, Adam Baldwin 1962, Grant Show 1962, Chelsea Clinton 1980)
Bush Halts Offensive Combat; Kuwait Freed, Iraqis Crushed
(By Andrew Rosenthal, February 27, 1991)
Justice Hugo Black Dies at 85; Served on Court 34 Years
[2/27/1886-9/25/1971] (United Press International, September 25, 1971)

F. Booker Noe II, Master Bourbon Distiller, Dies at 74 (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Feb. 27, 2004)
Alvino Rey, Virtuoso of the Steel Guitar, Dies at 95 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 27, 2004)
Estelle Stewart Axton, 85, a Founder of Stax Records, Dies (By JON PARELES, Feb. 27, 2004)
Carl Anderson, 58, Judas in Rock Opera, Dies (By REUTERS, Feb. 27, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bliss and Bigotry (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 27, 2004)
* ART: 'SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN': With an Ear for God and an Eye for Art (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Feb. 27, 2004)
DANCE: COMPANIA MARIA PAGÉS: Flexible Flamenco That Draws on Surrealism and the Tango
(By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 27, 2004)

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004:
On This Day: February 26 (Wenceslas 2/26/1361-8/16/1419, Victor Hugo 2/26/1802-5/22/1885, William F. Cody 2/26/1846-1/10/1917, Herbert H. Dow 2/26/1866-10/15/1930, Grover Cleveland Alexander 2/26/1887-11/4/1950, Margaret Leighton 2/26/1922-1/13/1976, Mason Adams 1919, Tony Randall 1920, Betty Hutton 1921, Fats Domino 1928, Robert Novak 1931, Johnny Cash 1932, Bill Duke 1943, Mitch Ryder 1945, Michael Bolton 1953, Jennifer Grant 1966, Erykah Badu 1971)
Blast Hits Trade Center, Bomb Suspected; 5 Killed, Thousands Flee Smoke in Towers
(By Robert D. McFadden, February 26, 1993)
* John Harvey Kellogg Dies at 91; Health Expert & Founder of Breakfast Food
[2/26/1852-12/14/1943] (NY TIMES, December 16, 1943)

Irma Fleck, 84, Who Battled Decay in the Bronx, Dies (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 26, 2004)
H. Daniel Carpenter, Who Revitalized Chelsea, Dies at 95 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 26, 2004)
Jeremiah S. Gutman, 80, a Fighter for Free Speech, Dies (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Feb. 26, 2004)
* OP-ED COLUMNIST: What Goes Around... (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 26, 2004)
* FILM: New Film May Harm Gibson's Career (By SHARON WAXMAN, Feb. 26, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 26, 2004)
* COLLECTIBLES: DVD's? I Don't Rent. I Own. (By WILSON ROTHMAN, Feb. 26, 2004)
* BASICS: For Peace of Mind, the One-Button Backup (By THOMAS J. FITZGERALD, Feb. 26, 2004)
* Q & A: Help Your Windows PC Masquerade as a Mac (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 26, 2004)

Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004:
On This Day: February 25 (Johann Philipp Krieger 2/25/1649-2/7/1725, Carlo Goldoni 2/25/1707-2/6/1793, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 2/25/1841-12/3/1919, Benedetto Croce 2/25/1866-11/20/1952, Enrico Caruso 2/25/1873-8/2/1921, Vyacheslav M. Molotov 2/25/1890-11/8/1986, Dame Myra Hess 2/25/1890-11/25/1965, Marcel Paul Pagnol 2/25/1895-4/18/1974, Anthony Burgess 2/25/1917-11/22/1993, Larry Gelbart 1928, Tommy Newsom 1929, Tom Courtenay 1937, Bob Shieffer 1937, Diane Baker 1938, George Harrison 1943, Sally Jessy Raphael 1943, Neil Jordan 1950, Veronica Webb 1965, Tea Leoni 1966)
Hiram R. Revels, First Colored Member Admitted to the Senate (NY TIMES, February 25, 1870)
Dulles Dies at 71; Formulated & Conducted U.S. Foreign Policy for More Than Six Years
[2/25/1888-5/24/1959] (NY TIMES, May 25, 1959)

* Dan Kiley, Influential Landscape Architect, Dies at 91 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 25, 2004)
Joe Viterelli, 66, Actor Who Played Lovable Tough Guys, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 25, 2004)
Jiri Ruml, Czech Anti-Communist Editor, Dies at 78 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 25, 2004)
* FILM: 'THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST': Good & Evil Locked in Violent Showdown
(By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 25, 2004)
* FILM: 'Passion' Disturbs a Panel of Religious Leaders (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Feb. 25, 2004)

Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004:
On This Day: February 24 (Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 2/24/1463-11/17/1494, Charles Le Brun 2/24/1619-2/12/1690, Johann Clauberg 2/24/1622-1/31/1665, George Curtis 2/24/1824-8/31/1892, Winslow Homer 2/24/1836-9/29/1910, Arrigo Boito 2/24/1842-6/10/1918, Honus Wagner 2/24/1874-12/6/1955, Mary Elloen Chase 2/24/1887-7/28/1973, Henri Frankfort 2/24/1897-7/16/1954, Abe Vigoda 1921, Michel Legrand 1932, Zell Miller 1932, Renata Scotto 1935, James Farentino 1938, Barry Bostwick 1945, Paula Zahn 1956)
President Andrew Johnson Impeached by House (NY TIMES, February 24, 1868)
Admiral Nimitz Dead at 80; Built Pacific Fleet That Fought Japan
[2/24/1885-2/20/1966] (United Press International, February 21, 1966)

* Andy Seminick, Catcher for Whiz Kids, Dies at 83 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 24, 2004)
Charles Benenson, Developer and Philanthropist, Dies at 91 (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Feb. 24, 2004)
* SMALL BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2004)
SIZABLE DECISIONS: The Big Question: To Grow or Not to Grow? (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Feb. 24, 2004)
OUT OF BUSINESS: Lessons Learned the Hardest Way, by Going Belly-Up (By LAURA RANDALL, Feb. 24, 2004)
THE OUTLOOK: Optimism, and Hiring, Appear to Be on the Rise (By BERNARD STAMLER, Feb. 24, 2004)
* With Computers, Shop Carefully and by Need (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 24, 2004)
GAME PLANS: Expert Advice on Avoiding the Pitfalls of Being Small [taxes] (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 24, 2004)
ON THE JOB: Where the Motto Is, We Work in Harmony to Ply a Lost Trade (By ANNA BAHNEY, Feb. 24, 2004)
* Oscar Fashion: Slide Show (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2004)
HEALTH: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 24, 2004)
* HEALTH: Brain Scans Substantiate Feel-the-Pain Sentiments (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Feb. 24, 2004)

Monday, Feb. 23, 2004:
On This Day: February 23 (Samuel Pepys 2/23/1633-5/26/1703, George Frederick Handel 2/23/1685-4/14/1759, George Watts 2/23/1817-7/1/1904, Cesar Ritz 2/23/1850-10/26/1918, Norman Lindsay 2/23/1879-10/29/1969, Karl Jaspers 2/23/1881-2/26/1969, Victor Fleming 2/23/1883-1/6/1949, William Shirer 2/23/1904-12/28/1993, Allan MacLeod Cormack 2/23/1924-5/7/1998, Peter Fonda 1940, Patricia Richardson 1951, Kristin Davis 1965)
Lasting Prevention of Polio Reported in Salk Vaccine Tests (By William L. Laurence, February 23, 1954)
* W. E. B. DuBois Dies in Ghana; Negro Leader and Author, 95
[2/23/1868-8/27/1963] (NY TIMES, August 28, 1963)

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004:
On This Day: February 22 (Charles VII 2/22/1403-7/22/1461, George Washington 2/22/1732-12/14/1799, Rembrandt Peale 2/22/1778-10/3/1860, Arthur Schopenhauer 2/22/1788-9/21/1860, James Russell Lowell 2/22/1819-8/12/1891, Bill Klem 2/22/1874-9/16/1951, David Dubinsky 2/22/1892-9/17/1982, Luis Bunuel 2/22/1900-7/29/1983, Sean O'Faolain 2/22/1900-4/20/1991, Peter Hurd 2/22/1904-7/9/1984, John Mills 1908, Marni Nixon 1930, Edward M. Kennedy 1932, Jonathan Demme 1944, Hohn Ashton 1948, Julius Erving 1950, Julie Walters 1950, Michael Chang 1972)
U.S. Defeats Soviet Squad In Olympic Hockey by 4-3 (By Gerald Eskenazi, February 22, 1980)
* Edna St. V. Millay Found Dead At 58, Poet Succumbs of Heart Attack
[2/22/1892-10/19/1950] (NY TIMES, October 20, 1950)

* SEEING AND BELIEVING: A Movie's Power Over Attitudes and Action (By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 22, 2004)
* WORD FOR WORD: The Passion of Mel Gibson (By KARI HASKELL, Feb. 22, 2004)

Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004:
On This Day: February 21 (Antonio Lopez Santa Anna 2/21/1794-6/21/1876, John Henry Newman 2/21/1801-8/11/1890, Pierre Laffitte 2/21/1823-1/4/1903, Leo Delibes 2/21/1836-1/16/1891, Constantin Brancusi 2/21/1876-3/16/1957, Harry Stack Sullivan 2/21/1892-1/14/1949, Anais Nin 2/21/1903-1/14/1977, Tom Yawkey 2/21/1903-7/9/1976, W. H. Auden 2/21/1907-9/29/1973, Kelsey Grammer 1955, Mary Chapin Carpenter 1958, Christopher Atkins 1961, William Baldwin 1963, Jennifer Love Hewitt 1979)
Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally Here (By Theodore Jones, February 21, 1965)
* Andres Segovie Is Dead at 94; His Crusade Elevated Guitar
[2/21/1893-6/2/1987] (By DONAL HENAHAN, June 4, 1987)

Friday, Feb. 20, 2004:
On This Day: February 20 (Honore Daumier 2/20/1808-2/11/1879, Georges Bernanos 2/20/1888-7/5/1948, Bill Tilden 2/20/1893-6/5/1953, Jimmy Yancey 2/20/1898-9/17/1951, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney 2/20/1899-12/13/1992, Rene Dubos 2/20/1901-2/20/1982, Louis Kahn 2/20/1901-3/17/1974, Aleksey Kosygin 2/20/1904-12/18/1980, Konstantin Sergeyev 2/20/1910-4/1992, Gloria Vanderbilt 1924, Robert Altman 1925, Sidney Poitier 1927, Nancy Wilson 1937, Buffy Sainte-Marie 1941, Phil Esposito 1942, Mike Leigh 1943, Sandy Duncan 1946, Peter Strauss 1947, Edward Albert 1951, Patricia Hearst 1954, Charles Barkley 1963, Cindy Crawford 1966, Andrew Shue 1967)
Glenn Orbits Earth 3 Times Safely (By Richard Witkin, February 20, 1962)
* Ansel Adams, Photographer, Is Dead at 82
[2/20/1902-2/11/1984] (By JOHN RUSSELL, April 24, 1984)

* NY REGION: Go Ahead and Cry. It's Happy Hour. (By TRIPTI LAHIRI, Feb. 20, 2004)

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004:
On This Day: February 19 (Nicolaus Copernicus 2/19/1473-5/24/1543, David Garrick 2/19/1717-1/20/1779, Luigi Boccherini 1/19/1743-5/28/1805, Elie Ducommun 2/19/1833-12/7/1906, Svante Arrhenius 2/19/1859-10/2/1927, Merle Oberon 2/19/1911-11/23/1979, Eddie Arcaro 2/19/1916-11/14/1997, Carson McCullers 2/19/1917-9/29/1967, John Frankenheimer 1930, Smokey Robinson 1940, Bobby Rogers 1940, Prince Andrew 1960)
U. S. Marines Storm Ashore on Iwo Island (ASSOCIATED PRESS, February 19, 1945)
Stan Kenton, Band Leader, Dies AT 67; Was Center of Jazz Controversies
[2/19/1912-8/25/1979] (By JOHN S. WILSON, August 27, 1979)

Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004:
On This Day: February 18 (Mary Tudor 2/18/1516-11/17/1558, Alessandro Volta 2/18/1745-3/5/1827, Ramakrishna 2/18/1836-8/16/1886, Max Klinger 2/18/1857-7/5/1920, Charles M. Schwab 2/18/1862-9/18/1939, Wendell Willkie 2/18/1892-10/8/1944, George Gipp 2/18/1895-12/14/1920, Enzo Ferrari 2/18/1898-8/14/1988, Sir Arthur Bryant 2/18/1899-1/2/1985, Wallace Stegner 2/18/1909-4/13/1993, Jack Palance 1921, Helen Gurley Brown 1922, George Kennedy 1925, John Warner 1927, Toni Morrison 1931, Milos Forman 1932, Yoko Ono 1933, John Hughes 1950, Cybill Shepherd 1950, Juice Newton 1952, John Travolta 1954, Vanna White 1957, Matt Dillon 1968, Molly Ringwald 1968)
The Inauguration of the President of the Southern Confederacy
(NY TIMES, February 18, 1861)
Louis C. Tiffany, Noted Artist, Dies at 84 [2/18/1848-1/17/1933] (NY TIMES, January 18, 1933)

Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004:
On This Day: February 17 (Arcangelo Corelli 2/17/1653-1/8/1713, Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 2/17/1836-12/22/1870, A. Montgomery Ward 2/17/1844-12/7/1913, Andrew B. Paterson 2/17/1864-2/5/1941, Andre Maginot 2/17/1877-1/7/1932, H. L. Hunt 2/17/1904-7/19/1980, Hans Morgenthau 2/17/1904-7/19/1980, Red Barber 2/17/1914-1/5/1990, Huey Newton 2/17/1942-8/22/1989, Kathleen Freeman 1919, Margaret Truman Daniel 1924, Hal Holbrook 1925, Alan Bates 1934, Jim Brown 1936, Mary Ann Mobley 1939, Rene Russo 1954, Michael Jordan 1963, Michael Bay 1964, Michelle Forbes 1967, Jerry O'Connell 1974)
* President Nixon Leaves on Trip to China (By Tad Szulc, February 17, 1972)
* Thomas J. Watson Sr. Is Dead; I.B.M. Board Chairman Was 82 [2/17/1874-6/19/1956] (NY TIMES, June 20, 1956)

* Lawrence S. Ritter, Chronicler of Baseball History, Dies at 81 (By, Feb. 17, 2004)
Jan Miner, 86, Stage Actress Who Played Palmolive's Madge, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 17, 2004)
Paul Ilyinsky, a Romanov, 76, and a Mayor, Is Dead (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Feb. 17, 2004)
Robert F. Colesberry Jr., 57, Film and Television Producer, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2004)
Esther Buhler Bradley, Screenwriter, 81, Is Dead (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2004)
TV Director Larry Kamm Dies at 64 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 17, 2004)
NATIONAL: Exit Polls Show Kerry and Edwards Running Strongly (By KIRK SEMPLE, Feb. 17, 2004)
NATIONAL: As Aide Departs, Dean Says His Bid Will Keep Going (By ADAM NAGOURNEY & JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 17, 2004)
POLITICAL MEMO: Missing Ingredient in 2004: Attack Ads by Democrats (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 17, 2004)
Kerry Promises Effort to Halt Flow of Jobs Out of the U.S. (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 17, 2004)
Arabs in U.S. Raising Money to Back Bush (By LESLIE WAYNE, Feb. 17, 2004)
Citing Survey, CNN Says 4,450 Priests Were Accused of Abuse (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Feb. 17, 2004)
Rushing to Say 'I Do' Before City Is Told 'You Can't' (By CAROLYN MARSHALL, Feb. 17, 2004)
MILITARY CONTRACTS: Halliburton Stops Billing U.S. for Meals Served to Troops (By ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 17, 2004)
WORLD: On Russian TV, Whatever Putin Wants, He Gets (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 17, 2004)
Haiti's Embattled Leader Vows to Finish Term (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 17, 2004)
BAGHDAD: At Least One Iraqi Child Is Killed in an Explosion in a Schoolyard (By NEELA BANERJEE, Feb. 17, 2004)
Pakistan Opposition Charges Atomic Cover-Up (By SALMAN MASOOD and DAVID ROHDE, Feb. 17, 2004)
RECONSTRUCTION: U.S. Envoy Promotes Role of Iraqi Women (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 17, 2004)
NY REGION: A 'Plague of Artists' Is a Battle Cry for Brooklyn Hasidim (By TARA BAHRAMPOUR, Feb. 17, 2004)
* INVENTION FOR 900 HANDS: Taking a Perfectly Lovely Piano and Fine-Tuning Its Personality
(By JAMES BARRON, Feb. 17, 2004)
PUBLIC LIVES: The Oval Office? Gender Is Her Agenda [Marie C. Wilson] (By LYNDA RICHARDSON, Feb. 17, 2004)
NYC: Presidents? They're as Near as Your Pocket (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 17, 2004)
* SPORTS: Rodriguez Slips Into Pinstripes (By KIRK SEMPLE, Feb. 17, 2004)
* SPORTS: Yanks Assure Jeter He's Safe at Shortstop (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 17, 2004)
* SPORTS: The Historian Had a Verdict on the Yankees' Deal [Larry Ritter] (By GEORGE VECSEY, Feb. 17, 2004)
ON BASEBALL: Blockbuster Trades Become Case of Paying as They Go (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 17, 2004)
BASKETBALL: In the Name of His Father: The Journey of Pete Maravich's Son (By PETE THAMEL, Feb. 17, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Distorting the Intelligence (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Political Timing, Outsourced (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Health of Nations (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 17, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Party of Kennedy, or Carter? (By DAVID BROOKS, Feb. 17, 2004)
OP-ED: A Small Turnout but a Big Vote (By MARY LOGUE, Feb. 17, 2004)
* OP-ED: Once Upon a Time in Wisconsin [Kennedy vs. Humphrey] (By BOB GREENE, Feb. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: Road to Cloning: Caution Ahead (4 Letters) (By JUDY NORSIGIAN, et. al., Feb. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: Taiwan and the 'Status Quo' (By VINCENT WEI-CHENG WANG, Feb. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: What the Iraqi Police Need (By SHAWN BRIDGEMAN, Feb. 17, 2004)
LETTERS: Women and Childbirth (By LISA FAY, Feb. 17, 2004)
BUSINESS: Disney Board Rejects Bid From Comcast as Too Low (By LAURA M. HOLSON & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 17, 2004)
MARKET PLACE: Good Times Roll On for Developing World, for Now (By EDUARDO PORTER, Feb. 17, 2004)
* MARKET PLACE: For Investors, AT&T Wireless Didn't Deliver on I.P.O. Hopes (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 17, 2004)
* Cingular's $41 Billion Offer Wins Bidding for AT&T Wireless (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 17, 2004)
Vodafone Is Seen as Favored Buyer of AT&T Wireless (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 17, 2004)
* Verizon Wireless May Benefit From Results of Auction (By MATT RICHTEL ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 17, 2004)
Wolfgang Bernhard Tapped to Lead Mercedes (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 17, 2004)
The Ghost of Waksal Past Hovers Over the Stewart Trial (By LESLIE EATON, Feb. 17, 2004)
* Japanese Capital and Jobs Flowing to China (By KEN BELSON, Feb. 17, 2004)
MSNBC Is Said to Have a New Chief [Richard N. Kaplan] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 17, 2004)
Pepperidge Farms to Trim Goldfish [artery-clogging trans fatty acids] (By Reuters, Feb. 17, 2004)
ADVERTISING: New Direction for Tech Marketing (By STUART ELLIOTT, Feb. 17, 2004)
ARTS Briefing (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Feb. 17, 2004)
DANCE: NYC BALLET: Two Charismatic Newcomers Enliven a Familiar Work (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 17, 2004)
FILM: Rwanda Revisits Its Nightmare (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 17, 2004)
MUSIC CRITIC: Taking the Perilous Way in a Field Full of Safety (By JEREMY EICHLER, Feb. 17, 2004)
THEATER: 'THE STENDHAL SYNDROME': A Maestro Hears Music as Echoes of His Ego (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 17, 2004)
TV: A Sidekick Gets a Chance to Take Center Stage (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 17, 2004)
TV: 'UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS': After the 'Monologues,'
Speaking Out Against Sexual Violence (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Feb. 17, 2004)
STYLE: Fashioned for Youth: A Store You Shop Until It's Dropped (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 17, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 17, 2004)
* SCIENCE: From Space, a New View of Doomsday (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Feb. 17, 2004)
* SCIENCE REVIEW: With Close-Ups of Mars, the Mystery Gets Lost in Space (By SARAH BOXER, Feb. 17, 2004)
* Specter of Cloning May Prove a Mirage (By STEPHEN S. HALL, Feb. 17, 2004)
* A CONVERSATION WITH | WOO SUK HWANG AND SHIN YONG MOON:
2 Friends, 242 Eggs and a Breakthrough (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Feb. 17, 2004)
Crystals Could End Up as the Fuel Tank of the Future (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 17, 2004)
On Last Legs, Old NASA Tower Gains Supporters (By STEFANO S. COLEDAN, Feb. 17, 2004)
* OBSERVATORY: Tunneling Nanotubes (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 17, 2004)
Q & A: Raising Eyebrows (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 17, 2004)
* HEALTH: Research in Italy Turns Up a New Form of Mad Cow Disease (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Feb. 17, 2004)
* HEALTH: Beyond Delicious: Could Chocolate Also Be Good for You? (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Feb. 17, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Must I Have Another Glass of Water? Maybe Not, a New Report Says
(By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 17, 2004)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: Nationwide H.I.V. Reporting to Bring Trends Into Focus (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Feb. 17, 2004)
Despite F.D.A. Ban, Ephedra Won't Go Away (By MARY DUENWALD, Feb. 17, 2004)
* CASES: When Bipolar Masquerades as a Happy Face (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Feb. 17, 2004)
* BOOKS ON HEALTH: Surviving the Healing (By JOHN LANGONE, Feb. 17, 2004)
VITAL SIGNS: Safety: Deadly Parents Behind the Wheel (By JOHN O'NEIL, Feb. 17, 2004)

Monday, Feb. 16, 2004:
On This Day: February 16 (Giambattista Bodoni 2/16/1740-11/29/1813, Nikolay Leskov 2/16/1831-3/5/1895, Henry Adams 2/16/1838-3/27/1918, Robert Flaherty 2/16/1884-7/23/1951, Edgar Bergen 2/16/1903, Patty Andrews 1920, John Schlesinger 1926, LeVar Burton 1957, John McEnroe 1959)
* Tut-ankh-Amen's Inner Tomb is Opened Revealing Undreamed of Splendors, Still Untouched After 3,400 Years
(NY TIMES, February 16, 1923)
Katharine Cornell Is Dead at 81 [2/16/1893-6/9/1974] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, June 10, 1974)

Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish Singer With Political Messages, Dies (By SEBNEM ARSU, Feb. 16, 2004)
Celso-Ramón García, 82, Is Dead; Helped Refine 'The Pill' (By JEREMY PEARCE, Feb. 16, 2004)
Adrian Lopez, 97; Published Niche Magazines (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 16, 2004)
Amato Semenza, 84, Educator and Guard Officer, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 16, 2004)
Martin Jurow, 92, Producer Involved in Many Classic Films, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 16, 2004)
Marco Pantani, 1998 Tour de France Winner, Is Dead at 34 (By SAMUEL ABT, Feb. 16, 2004)
Susan Schechter, 57, Author of Books Exploring Impact of Domestic Violence, Is Dead (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Feb. 16, 2004)
NATIONAL: Top Dean Aide Discusses Plans to Back Kerry (By JODI WILGOREN, Feb. 16, 2004)
Dean Aide Leaves, After Saying He Might Shift Support (By KIRK SEMPLE, Feb. 16, 2004)
Who's the Front-Runner? Not Me, Says Kerry (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 16, 2004)
In Wisconsin Forum, Kerry's Rivals Pull Their Punches (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Feb. 16, 2004)
In Their Own Words: The Democrats Debate (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2004)
Kerry Site Posts Attack on Bush (By JIM RUTENBERG, Feb. 16, 2004)
WHITE HOUSE LETTER: Lieutenant Bush, Cavities and All (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 16, 2004)
Bird Flu Outbreak Has Farmers Jittery (By JAMES DAO, Feb. 16, 2004)
WORLD: After Attacks, Iraqi Security Looks Unready (By NEELA BANERJEE, Feb. 16, 2004)
U.S. Aides Hint Afghan Voting May Be Put Off (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 16, 2004)
Chaos Becomes a Way of Life in a Rebel-Held Haitian City (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Feb. 16, 2004)
Algeria Shows Willingness to Abandon Its Violent Past (By SIMON ROMERO, Feb. 16, 2004)
* HUE JOURNAL: Vietnam Slowly Restores Imperial City With a Grim Past (By JANE PERLEZ, Feb. 16, 2004)
NY REGION: Bringing Back the Dead (By ALAN FEUER, Feb. 16, 2004)
Good News: Cold Will End. By June. July at the Latest. (By PATRICK HEALY, Feb. 16, 2004)
PARISH JOURNAL: New York's Snow Capital Proud, Plowed and Unbowed (By MICHELLE YORK, Feb. 16, 2004)
On City Streets Gravely Wounded by Weather, Time Again to Make the Holes Whole (By ANDY NEWMAN, Feb. 16, 2004)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (By JOE ROGERS, Feb. 16, 2004)
* ON BASEBALL: Summer or Winter, the Yankees Show the Red Sox How to Win (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 16, 2004)
BASEBALL: Deal for Rodriguez Makes Dollars, and Sense (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 16, 2004)
SPORTS: Do You Recall Balco? Baseball Hopes Not (By HARVEY ARATON, Feb. 16, 2004)
* SPORTS: Yanks' Pitching Must Be A-O.K., Too (By DAVE ANDERSON, Feb. 16, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Five Sisters (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 16, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Promises, Promises (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 16, 2004)
* OP-ED: The Medals Don't Matter (By JAKE TAPPER, Feb. 16, 2004)
OP-ED: Out of the Nuclear Loop (By STEPHEN P. COHEN, Feb. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: A Path Leading to New York's Past (4 Letters) (By CHRISTOPHER NEVILLE, et. al., Feb. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Iraq's Fantasies, and Ours (By FRANK VETERAN, Feb. 16, 2004)
LETTERS: Kerry: Twice a Hero (By TOM MILLER, Feb. 16, 2004)
BUSINESS: A Shade of Green: S.U.V.'s Try to Soften Their Image (By DANNY HAKIM, Feb. 16, 2004)
AT&T Wireless Bids Heat Up in an Apparent 2-Way Fight (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 16, 2004)
A Newspaper Buyout Plan That Leaves 'Some in Place' [Washington Post] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Feb. 16, 2004)
* For Al Jazeera, Balanced Coverage Frequently Leaves No Side Happy (By SAMUEL ABT, Feb. 16, 2004)
Rare Programming No-No: Burnett Show vs. Burnett Show [Mark Burnett] (BILL CARTER, Feb. 16, 2004)
For Comcast, It's About Bundling Services (By SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 16, 2004)
Merger Would Mean New Style as Well as New Bosses at Disney (By BILL CARTER, Feb. 16, 2004)
* Hoping Next Merger Helps Sell Books on the Last One (By HUGO LINDGREN, Feb. 16, 2004)
Tuning In to Music That People Tune Out (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Feb. 16, 2004)
* MOST WANTED: Online Teenage Gender Gap (NY TINMES, Feb. 16, 2004)
Mix-Up Over Sale of 'Silence' Cleared Up With a Little Talk (By DAVID F. GALLAGHER, Feb. 16, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2004)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: New Source of Online Ad Revenue (By BOB TEDESCHI, Feb. 16, 2004)
* PATENTS: Not Too Young for a Patent (By TERESA RIORDAN, Feb. 16, 2004)
* BOOKS: The Accidental Literary Star [Anne Tyler's "The Amateur Marriage"] (By MEL GUSSOW, Feb. 16, 2004)
BOOKS: 'THE LAST GOODBYE': In Atlanta, Murder, Opera and Star-Crossed Romance
(By JANET MASLIN, Feb. 16, 2004)
DANCE: The Saratoga Arts Center Ends City Ballet Summers (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 16, 2004)
MUSIC: NEW CD'S: Albums That Bring the Noise (By JON PARELES, Feb. 16, 2004)
OPERA: METROPOLITAN OPERA: You Don't Have to Be Italian to Play l'Italiana (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 16, 2004)
THEATER: CRITIC: London Theater Reflects War's Bleak Futility (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 16, 2004)
TV: 'CROWN HEIGHTS': Finding Crown Heights Peace: Hip-Hop and Hope (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 16, 2004)
TV: An Insolent Puppet Roils Canadian Politics (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Feb. 16, 2004)
* TV: Gibson Defends Film on 'Primetime' (NY TIMES, Feb. 16, 2004)
TV: 'SHE'S TOO YOUNG': Really, Mom, We're Just Going Out for Ice Cream. Trust Me.
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Feb. 16, 2004)

Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004:
On This Day: February 15 (Pedro Menendez de Aviles 2/15/1519-9/17/1574, Galileo Galilei 2/15/1564-1/8/1642, Jeremy Bentham 2/15/1748-6/6/1832, Henry Steinway 2/15/1797-2/7/1871, Alfred North Whitehead 2/15/1861-12/30/1947, John Barrymore 2/15/1882-5/29/1942, Earl Henry Blaik 2/15/1897-5/6/1989, Harold Arlen 2/15/1905-4/23/1986, Graham Hill 2/15/1929-11/29/1975, Roger Chaffee 2/15/1935-1/27/1967, Kevin McCarthy 1914, John Anderson 1922, Claire Bloom 1931, Susan Brownmiller 1935, Melissa Manchester 1951, Jane Seymour 1951, Matt Groening 1954, Renee O'Connor 1971)
U.S. Battleship Maine Blown Up in Havana Harbor Killing 260 (NY TIMES, February 15, 1898)
Miss Susan B. Anthony Died This Morning at 86 [2/15/1820-3/13/1906] (NY TIMES, March 13, 1906)

* Frances Partridge, Last Survivor of Bloomsbury Group, Dies at 103 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
NATIONAL: Bush's Campaign More Aggressive in Coming Weeks
(By ADAM NAGOURNEY & RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Feb. 15, 2004)
POLITICAL MEMO: Do You Need to Go Negative to Topple a Front-Runner? (By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, Feb. 15, 2004)
Kerry Triumphs in Nevada and District of Columbia (By JAMES DAO and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 15, 2004)
Kerry's Brother Helps Make the Big Calls (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
Swift & Company Cuts the Production of Beef at 2 Plants (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 15, 2004)
In Haze of Guard Records, a Bit of Clarity [Bush's military record] (By DAVID BARSTOW, Feb. 15, 2004)
Bush Urged Speedy Release of Guard Files (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 15, 2004)
* Southern Baptists Bring New York Their Gospel (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 15, 2004)
Eviction Threat Can Loom for Independent Elderly (By MOTOKO RICH, Feb. 15, 2004)
Shooting on an Ohio Highway Appears Related to 23 Others (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2004)
POLITICAL POINTS: Nader Searches For His Roots (By JOHN TIERNEY, Feb. 15, 2004)
WORLD: 25 Die as Raid on Iraqi Police Frees Prisoners (By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 15, 2004)
* THE ECONOMY: An Iraqi Factory Reflects U.S. Recovery Effort (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 15, 2004)
South Korean Movie Unlocks Door on a Once-Secret Past (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Feb. 15, 2004)
* In Europe, Lovers Now Propose: Marry Me, a Little (By SARAH LYALL, Feb. 15, 2004)
Iran Says It's Ready to Sell Nuclear Fuel Abroad (By REUTERS, Feb. 15, 2004)
NY REGION: New York Police Training for Catastrophic Terrorism (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM & JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 15, 2004)
A Split Tribe, Casino Plans and One Little Indian Boy in the Middle (By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Feb. 15, 2004)
LONG ISLAND: On a Roll (By STACY ALBIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
SPORTS: Yanks and Rangers Complete Rodriguez Deal, Officials Say (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 15, 2004)
* ON BASEBALL: A Deal Driven by Losing Has the Look of a Winner (By MURRAY CHASS, Feb. 15, 2004)
* BASEBALL ANALYSIS: The Lure of New York Was Too Strong to Resist (By JACK CURRY, Feb. 15, 2004)
* SPORTS: Trade Turns Up the Pressure on Jeter (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
SPORTS: Earnhardt Jr. Wins First Daytona 500 (By VIV BERNSTEIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
EDITORIALS: How America Doesn't Vote (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Tower Records in the Maelstrom of Consumer Desire (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Feb. 15, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Meet the Press (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 15, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST:The Thief of Baghdad (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 15, 2004)
OP-ED: My War (By LARRY DAVID, Feb. 15, 2004)
* OP-ED: Our Dinners With André (By RUTH REICHL, Feb. 15, 2004)
OP-ED: Why Your Job Isn't Moving to Bangalore (By JAGDISH BHAGWATI, Feb. 15, 2004)
LETTERS: Iraq and Al Qaeda: No Smoking Gun (3 Letters) (SCOTT ATRAN, et. al., Feb. 15, 2004)
BUSINESS: Greenspan Can Still Move Markets (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 15, 2004)
BUSINESS: Jobs Lost Abroad: Host of New Causes for an Old Problem (By STEVE LOHR, Feb. 15, 2004)
Talking Simplicity, Building a Maze (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Feb. 15, 2004)
Companies Hope Profits Run From Clean Water (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Feb. 15, 2004)
* Reach Out and Upend an Industry [Internet telephony] (By MATT RICHTEL, Feb. 15, 2004)
PORTFOLIOS: Market May Not Duck the Wallop of Higher Rates (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 15, 2004)
* MARKET WATCH: When Stocks Rise, Look Harder (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Feb. 15, 2004)
* MARKET INSIGHT: Challenges for Comcast, Before or After a Deal (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
A 401(k) Picks a Mutual Fund. Who Gets a Perk? (By LYNN O'SHAUGHNESSY, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAXES: Four Ways That Conventional Wisdom Can Go Astray (By CHARLES DELAFUENTE, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAXES: A New Law Means More Than Bigger Refunds (By JAN M. ROSEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAXES: A Spin on Route 1040: Testing the Software Programs (By CHARLES DELAFUENTE, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAXES: Pin the Label on Tax Policy (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAXES: That Out-of-State Shopping Trip May Buy a Higher Tax Bill (By VIVIAN MARINO, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAXES: Outsourcing Abroad Applies to Tax Returns, Too (By LYNNLEY BROWNING, Feb. 15, 2004)
TAX TIPS: Savings Are Found in Details (By JAN M. ROSEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
EXECUTIVE LIFE: Your Next Boss Could Be a Temp (By AMY ZIPKIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
* THE BOSS: Setting the Table [David Brennan] (By DAVID BRENNAN, Feb. 15, 2004)
ECONOMIC VIEW: A Penny Saved Just Might Cost You an Election (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Feb. 15, 2004)
(What Wears Black and Is a Foot Tall? By JIM RENDON, Feb. 15, 2004)
Moving In on New York Lawyers (By MELINDA LIGOS, Feb. 15, 2004)
BUSINESS PEOPLE: Trump's Next Move: From 'Apprentice' to Global Master (By, Feb. 15, 2004)
* Demand for Workers Surges in Policing Cybertechnology (By ELLEN RAPP, Feb. 15, 2004)
* LIFE'S WORK: St. Valentine, He's in Human Resources (By LISA BELKIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
The Wonderful World of (Roy) Disney (By ALEX BERENSON, Feb. 15, 2004)
* ARTS OP-ED: FRANK RICH: My Hero, Janet Jackson (By FRANK RICH, Feb. 15, 2004)
ARTS: Introducing a Cartoonist Named Crumb (By TESSA DeCARLO, Feb. 15, 2004)
ART: Home Team Advantage [athletes art] (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Feb. 15, 2004)
ARTS: Better, More Surreal Homes and Collages (By LINDA YABLONSKY, Feb. 15, 2004)
ARTS THIS WEEK: No Longer a Nobody on Her Home Turf (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Feb. 15, 2004)
DANCE: When Altogether Different Becomes Same Old (By GIA KOURLAS, Feb. 15, 2004)
DANCE THIS WEEK: Love and Loss, Australian Style (By ELIZABETH ZIMMER, Feb. 15, 2004)
DANCE THIS WEEK: From Peru's African Heritage (By BRIAN SEIBERT, Feb. 15, 2004)
* FILM: The New Golden Age of Acting (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: After the King Returns, Will a 'Hobbit' Follow? (By JESSE McKINLEY, Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: The Movie That Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Fans ["Lord of the Rings"] (By MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS, Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: Anatomy of a Blake Edwards Splat (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: The Performances in Close-Up: Best Actor (By ELVIS MITCHELL, et. al., Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: The Performances in Close-Up: Best Actress (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, et. al., Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: And Now, a Few Words From the Writers (By Steven Knight, et. al., Feb. 15, 2004)
FILM: Old Folkies in Love: 'There's a Kiss at the End of the Rainbow' (By BEN SISARIO, Feb. 15, 2004)
MUSIC: Rockers at an Exhibition (By JON PARELES, Feb. 15, 2004)
MUSIC: A Boss as Tough as the Nails He Pounded (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 15, 2004)
* MUSIC: He Got His Opera, Vienna Got Its Maestro [Seiji Ozawa] (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 15, 2004)
* MUSIC: Inauthentic Beethoven, but Authentically So (By LEONARD SLATKIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
MUSIC PLAYLIST: Disco From the Heart, Violin From Everywhere, Flamenco From Mars (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 15, 2004)
MUSIC HIGH NOTES: Reclaiming Bach for the Harpsichord, Minus the Dogma (By JAMES R. OESTREICH, Feb. 15, 2004)
MUSIC: A Rough Experience in Seattle (By DOUGLAS McLENNAN, Feb. 15, 2004)
THEATER: Passing the Bra: The Search for a New Edna (By JESSE GREEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
THEATER: Love! Valour! Survival! High Drama! (By ALEX WITCHEL, Feb. 15, 2004)
THEATER EXCERPT: Brutal Dictators and the Women Who Love Them (By JASON ZINOMAN, Feb. 15, 2004)
TV RERUNS: The Evil Geniuses of Kiddie Schlock (By EMILY NUSSBAUM, Feb. 15, 2004)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
FASHION: Sex Doesn't Sell: Miss Prim Is In (By RUTH LA FERLA, Feb. 15, 2004)
Under a Banner of 'Curly Power,' A Do Can Coil With Pride (By ALLEN SALKIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
The World at Ears' Length (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Feb. 15, 2004)
A NIGHT OUT WITH Doing a Samba at 100 M.P.H. | Helio Castroneves (By LINDA LEE, Feb. 15, 2004)
GOOD COMPANY: Small Oven, Big Table: Feeding Fashionistas (By PAULINE O'CONNOR, Feb. 15, 2004)
BOOKS OF STYLE: For the Closet Nudist (By PENELOPE GREEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
BOOKS OF STYLE: How to Be Fashionable (By PENELOPE GREEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
VOWS: Jennifer Good and David Adler (By ELAINE LOUIE, Feb. 15, 2004)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
TRAVEL: Turbulent Manners Unsettle Fliers (By LAURA MANSNERUS, Feb. 15, 2004)
Cellphones: Does Your Seat-Mate Have a 'Mute' Button? (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Feb. 15, 2004)
A Modern Oasis Stands Apart in Dubai (By JAMES BENNET, Feb. 15, 2004)
WHAT'S DOING: In Philadelphia (By KEN KALFUS, Feb. 15, 2004)
* ESSAY: Grounded in Reality (By ANITA GATES, Feb. 15, 2004)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
* BATTLE STATIONS: Still the Question: What Did You Do in the War? (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 15, 2004)
CASE STUDY: CELLPHONES: The Bright Side of Sending Jobs Overseas (By EDUARDO PORTER, Feb. 15, 2004)
GOVERNED BY GOD: In Iran, a Quiet but Fierce Struggle for Change (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Feb. 15, 2004)
WORD FOR WORD | PAKISTAN'S HERO: Dr. Khan Got What He Wanted, and He Explains How (By PETER EDIDIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
CROSSING ETHICAL BORDERS: Human Cloning Marches On, Without U.S. Help (By NICHOLAS WADE, Feb. 15, 2004)
THE PUBLIC EDITOR: It's Been 11 Weeks. Do You Know Where Your Ombudsman Is? (By DANIEL OKRENT, Feb. 15, 2004)
Forget 'Gorky Park': Russia Can't Crack Its Crimes (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Feb. 15, 2004)
HAITI TO RUSSIA TO BOSNIA: Why Democracy Defies the Urge to Implant It (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Feb. 15, 2004)
* GRAPHIC: Martian Bunnies?
[There's a bunny on Mars, at least in the eyes of some beholders] (By TOM ZELLER, Feb. 15, 2004)
Haiti's Man of the People Lost His Way (By AMY WILENTZ, Feb. 15, 2004)
Where the Elite Meet to Eat and Greet (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Feb. 15, 2004)
* Show Dogs Don't Give a Woof About Blue Ribbons (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
* ON LANGUAGE: Obfuscations (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Feb. 15, 2004)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Missing Thriller (By CHARLES McGRATH, Feb. 15, 2004)
* QUESTIONS FOR ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: Growing Old, Artfully (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Feb. 15, 2004)
Betrayed by the Game (By DARCY FREY, Feb. 15, 2004)
DOMAINS: A Film Buff's Town House (Text and interviews by EDWARD LEWINE, Feb. 15, 2004)
CONSUMED: Uglydolls (By ROB WALKER, Feb. 15, 2004)
THE ETHICIST: Ball in Play (By RANDY COHEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
COVER ARTICLE: The Permanent Scars of Iraq (By SARA CORBETT, Feb. 15, 2004)
* The Very, Very Personal Is the Political (By JON GERTNER, Feb. 15, 2004)
The Flying Maloof Brothers (By HUGO LINDGREN, Feb. 15, 2004)
STYLE: Longing (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 15, 2004)
Slide Show: Longing (By CATHY HORYN, Feb. 15, 2004)
FOOD: Trans-Atlantic Passions (By JASON EPSTEIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
LIVES: Between Ice and a Hard Place (By GEORGE SAILER as told to SARA IVRY, Feb. 15, 2004)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'The Working Poor': Can't Win for Losing [David K. Shipler] (By RON SUSKIND, Feb. 15, 2004)
Halldor Laxness: 'Iceland's Bell': Isle of Blight [trans. Philip Roughton] (By BRAD LEITHAUSER, Feb. 15, 2004)
General Tubman [Jean M. Hume; Kate Clifford Larson; Catherine Clinton] (By DREW GILPIN FAUST, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'The Singing': The Poetry of Truth [C. K. Williams] (By WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ, Feb. 15, 2004)
'Washington's Crossing': Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat [David Hackett Fischer] (By JOSEPH J. ELLIS, Feb. 15, 2004)
'Paths of Desire': Of Mud and Men (By STACY SCHIFF, Feb. 15, 2004)
'The Perfect Wife': The Un-Hillary [Ann Gerhart, "Laura Bush"] (By ROBIN TONER, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'The Genome War': Speed-Reading the Book of Life [James Shreeve] (By DAVID PAPINEAU, Feb. 15, 2004)
'When I Was Cool': This You Call a College? [Sam Kashner, "Kerouac School"] (By PAUL TOUGH, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'Softwar' and 'Everyone Else Must Fail': Speak, Oracle ["Larry Ellison"] (By ADAM COHEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'Language Visible': A Is for Alphabet... [David Sacks] (By JULIE WALTON SHAVER, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'The Closing of the Western Mind': When the Lights Went Out in Europe
[Charles Freeman] (By ANTHONY GOTTLIEB, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'War Paint': Rival Cosmetics Moguls [Lindy Woodhead]
[Madame Helena Rubinstein & Miss Elizabeth Arden] (By PENELOPE GREEN, Feb. 15, 2004)
* 'Jesus in America': From Cotton Mather to Mel Gibson [Richard Wightman Fox] (By CALEB CRAIN, Feb. 15, 2004)
* ON WRITERS AND WRITING: Photo Dynamics (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Feb. 15, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Despite Advance in Cloning, Scientists Are Tempering Hope With Reality (By GINA KOLATA, Feb. 15, 2004)
HEALTH: Two Drinks Can Kill Brain Cells in a Fetus, Studies Suggest (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 15, 2004)

Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004:
On This Day: February 14 (Francesco Cavalli 2/14/1602-1/14/1676, Thomas Robert Malthus 2/14/1766-12/1766-12/23/1834, Christopher Sholes 2/14/1819-2/17/1890, Frank Harris 2/14/1856-8/26/1931, C.T.R. Wilson 2/14/1869-11/15/1959, George Jean Nathan 2/14/1882-4/8/1958, Jack Benny 2/14/1894-12/27/1974, Woody Hayes 2/14/1913-3/12/1987, Hugh Downs 1921, Florence Henderson 1934, Carl Berstein 1944, Gregory Hines 1946, Pat O'Brien 1948, Ken Wahl 1957, Meg Tilly 1960)
7 Chicago Gangsters Slain by Firing Squad of Rivals (NY TIMES, February 14, 1929)
Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Suffragist, Dies at 72 [2/14/1847-7/2/1919] (NY TIMES, July 3, 1919)

Robert A. Bruce, Pioneer of Cardiac Stress Test, Dies at 87 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Feb. 14, 2004)
Stephen Max Kellen, 89, Banker and Philanthropist, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 14, 2004)
Philip A. Straus, 88, Financier and Patron of Art and Education, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 14, 2004)
NATIONAL: Bush Acts Against Critics on Guard Records and 9/11 (By ELISABETH BUMILLER & PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 14, 2004)
So Begins the Vice-Presidential Mating Dance (By TODD S. PURDUM, Feb. 14, 2004)
McCain Fights Old Foe Who Now Fights Kerry (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 14, 2004)
INTELLIGENCE: Dispute Prompts Scrutiny of Bush's Daily Reading (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Feb. 14, 2004)
Turmoil Hits Charity Fund Over Its Handling of Money (By STEPHANIE STROM, Feb. 14, 2004)
* EDUCATION: An Educator Says 'Instinct' Helped Halt School Shooting (By DENNIS GAFFNEY, Feb. 14, 2004)
WORLD: Cyprus Greeks and Turks Agree on Plan to End 40-Year Conflict (By WARREN HOGE, Feb. 14, 2004)
Chaos and War Leave Iraq's Hospitals in Ruins (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Feb. 14, 2004)
South Korea Sending 3,000 Troops to Iraq (NY TIMES, Feb. 14, 2004)
SATURDAY PROFILE: A Samurai Fighter, Clad in Jeans, Takes On Putin
[Irina M. Khakamada] (By SETH MYDANS, Feb. 14, 2004)
NY REGION: Amid Manhattan's Wealthiest, a Beggar Found Open Hearts (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Feb. 14, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Afghan Women, Still in Chains (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Feb. 14, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Zarqawi Rules (By DAVID BROOKS, Feb. 14, 2004)
* OP-ART: Valentine's Day facts, figures and first dates (By JAMES STEVENSON, Feb. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: Bush and Kerry: The War Years (6 Letters) (By MORTON WACHSPRESS, et. al., Feb. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: The First Lady Speaks (2 Letters) (By WILLENE S. HARDY , Feb. 14, 2004)
LETTERS: Valentine Thoughts (By SHEILA FEIT , Feb. 14, 2004)
BUSINESS: Rising Deficit and Falling Confidence Send Shares Lower
[Dow -66, Nasdaq -20] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 14, 2004)
WORLD BUSINESS: U.S. Trade Deficit Reaches a Record $489.4 Billion (By ELIZABETH BECKER, Feb. 14, 2004)
Martha Stewart's Lawyers Score Legal Victory on Testimony (By CONSTANCE L. HAYS, Feb. 14, 2004)
For Disney, the Best Defense Could Be a Good Offense (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 14, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Release of Windows Coding Is a New Worry for Microsoft (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 14, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Amazon Glitch Unmasks War of Reviewers (By AMY HARMON, Feb. 14, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: Cingular Bid Is Said to Be $35 Billion (By MATT RICHTEL and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 14, 2004)
* ARTS: What Runs in the Family Isn't Success (By EMILY EAKIN, Feb. 14, 2004)
* ARTS: When Philosophy Makes a Difference (By SARAH LYALL, Feb. 14, 2004)
* ARTS: CONNECTIONS: Is Fear Itself the Enemy? (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Feb. 14, 2004)
BALLET: Balanchine the Storyteller (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 14, 2004)
MUSIC: Boulez and the Cleveland, Old Friends Reunited Lucidly (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 14, 2004)
THEATER: Patti LuPone Shows She Still Can-Can (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 14, 2004)
TV" 'IT MUST BE LOVE': Stuck in the Woods on the Way to Divorce (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Feb. 14, 2004)

Friday, Feb. 13, 2004:
On This Day: February 13 (Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 2/13/1682-4/28/1754, John Hunter 2/13/1728-10/16/1793, Lord Randolph Churchill 2/13/1849-1/24/1895, Georgios Papandreou 2/13/1888-11/1/1968, Grant Wood 2/13/1892-2/12/1942, Georges Simenon 2/13/1903-9/4/1989, Pauline Frederick 2/13/1906-5/9/1990, Eileen Farrell 1920, Chuck Yeager 1923, Kim Novak 1933, George Segal 1934, Bo Svenson 1941, Carol Lynley 1942, Jerry Springer 1944, Mena Suvari 1979)
Hauptmann Guilty, Sentenced to Death for the Murder of the Lindbergh Baby (By Russell B. Porter, February 13, 1935)
* William B. Shockley, 79, Creator of Transistor and Theory on Race
[2/13/1910-8/12/1989] (By WOLFGANG SAXON, August 14, 1989)

Edward Jablonski, Who Wrote Biographies of Gershwin, Dies at 81 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 13, 2004)
Richard Diamond, 71, Newspaper Publisher, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 13, 2004)
Jozef Lenart, 80, a Czech Prime Minister, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 13, 2004)
* NATIONAL: Conservatives Shine Spotlight on Kerry's Antiwar Record (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Feb. 13, 2004)
Seeking Memories of Bush at an Alabama Air Base (By DAVID BARSTOW, Feb. 13, 2004)
Bush Acts to Ease the Furor Over Jobs Shipped Abroad (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Feb. 13, 2004)
More Than 50 Gay Couples Are Married in San Francisco (By CAROLYN MARSHALL, Feb. 13, 2004)
Cuba Detentions May Last Years (By NEIL A. LEWIS and ERIC SCHMITT, Feb. 13, 2004)
Budget Woes to the Wind as Schwarzenegger Takes to the Road (By CHARLIE LeDUFF, Feb. 13, 2004)
Guardsman Taken Into Custody and Examined for Qaeda Tie (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Feb. 13, 2004)
9/11 Panel to Seek Testimony From Bush (By PHILIP SHENON, Feb. 13, 2004)
INTELLIGENCE: Stung by Exiles' Role, C.I.A. Orders a Shift in Procedures (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Feb. 13, 2004)
WORLD: U.S. May Support Israeli Approach on Leaving Gaza (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Feb. 13, 2004)
Iran Admits That It Has Plans for a Newer Centrifuge (By DAVID E. SANGER & WILLIAM J. BROAD, Feb. 13, 2004)
GOVERNMENT: U.N. Envoy, Visiting Iraq, Backs Cleric on Elections (By EDWARD WONG, Feb. 13, 2004)
NEWS ANALYSIS: VIOLENCE: New Targets: Attackers Shift Their Sights to the Iraqis
(By DEXTER FILKINS, Feb. 13, 2004)
* BEIJING JOURNAL: Offended by the V-Word, China Mutes 'Monologues' (By JOSEPH KAHN, Feb. 13, 2004)
NY REGION: Officials Say Avian Flu Poses No Threat in New Jersey (By MARIA NEWMAN, Feb. 13, 2004)
Eat and Be Merry; On Saturday 2 Classics Die (By GLENN COLLINS & WILLIAM YARDLEY, Feb. 13, 2004)
Site, Not Remnants, Sanctifies Ground Zero, Officials Say (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Feb. 13, 2004)
* Artful Weavers of Queens to Pack Up Their Needles and Go (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 13, 2004)
* How Do I Love Thee, Valentine? Let a Paid Poet Count the Ways (By MAREK FUCHS, Feb. 13, 2004)
PUBLIC LIVES: Portraying People Knocked Slightly Off Balance [Cynthia Adler] (By CHRIS HEDGES, Feb. 13, 2004)
NYC: Heck, No? Antiwar Voices Persist, Softly (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 13, 2004)
* SPORTS: Greece Struggles to Reach Olympics' Finish Line (By FRANK BRUNI, Feb. 13, 2004)
* Steroids Case May Weaken Overpowering Bonds Legacy (By TYLER KEPNER, Feb. 13, 2004)
SPORTS: With Indictments Swirling, Baseball Becomes Big Loser (By GEORGE VECSEY, Feb. 13, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Real Man (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Feb. 13, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Bush's Duty, and Privilege (By BOB HERBERT, Feb. 13, 2004)
OP-ED: The Cups Runneth Over (By JESSICA SEIGEL, Feb. 13, 2004)
* OP-ED: Beware Generals Bearing a Grudge (By JEAN EDWARD SMITH, Feb. 13, 2004)
LETTERS: Dr. Atkins: Diet and the Man (2 Letters) (By JOSEPH J. DONAHUE, et. al., Feb. 13, 2004)
BUSINESS: Shares Decline on Forecasts of Earnings
[Dow -44, Nasdaq -16] (By REUTERS, Feb. 13, 2004)
* Americans Pour Money Into Stock Funds in Near Record Amounts (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 13, 2004)
* Valuing Disney: What Is a Mouse Worth? (By LAURA M. HOLSON and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 13, 2004)
News Analysis: Tightening of Media Knots (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Feb. 13, 2004)
Low-Cost Airline Seeks Niche in Europe (By MARK LANDLER, Feb. 13, 2004)
Dell Posts 24% Profit Increase on Cost Cuts and More Demand (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 13, 2004)
FLOYD NORRIS: Speculating in Worthless Stock While the Trains Speed to London (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 13, 2004)
TECHNOLOGY: F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet (By STEPHEN LABATON, Feb. 13, 2004)
* ART: 'MANET AND THE SEA': Impressionism, Born of the Sea (By ROBERTA SMITH, Feb. 13, 2004)
ART: 'COUPLES IN AFRICAN SCULPTURE': Procreation, Passion and Partnership (By HOLLAND COTTER, Feb. 13, 2004)
* ART: 'BOCCIONI'S MATERIA': Blurring the Line Between the Present and the Future
(By GRACE GLUECK, Feb. 13, 2004)
* ART REVERBERATIONS: Help for the Old and Safe, Neglect for the New and Challenging
[Dana Gioia] (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Feb. 13, 2004)
ART: 'TALKING QUILTS': Patchwork Portraits of American Life That Tell as Much as They Show
(By KEN JOHNSON, Feb. 13, 2004)
ARCHITECTURE: 'HARLEMWORLD': Metaphors Rise in Harlem Sky (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Feb. 13, 2004)
DANCE: CONFIGURATION: Blending Jazz and Tango With a Traditional Style (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 13, 2004)
* DANCE: ELISA MONTE DANCE: A Mystical View of God's Feminine Side (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 13, 2004)
DANCE: DEBORAH HAY: A Four-Cornered Asylum With Solos Inside (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 13, 2004)
DANCE: Tapping Into the Past (By JACK ANDERSON, Feb. 13, 2004)
FILM: '50 FIRST DATES': A Love That's Forever, if Only for a Day (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 13, 2004)
FILM: 'THE TRILOGY: AFTER THE LIFE': A Little Marital Stress?
He's a Cop Who Buys the Drugs She Demands (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 13, 2004)
* FILM: 'CHARLIE': Studiously Unraveling the Intricate Web of Chaplin as Filmmaker and Performer
(By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 13, 2004)
FILM: 'THE SEAGULL'S LAUGHTER': A Town in Turmoil on the Coast of Iceland (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 13, 2004)
FILM: 'LOVE OBJECT': If Only Barbie Were Life-Size (By ELVIS MITCHELL, Feb. 13, 2004)
FILM: 'LA MENTALE THE CODE': The New Parisian Underworld (By DAVE KEHR, Feb. 13, 2004)
JAZZ: RANDY WESTON AND RODNEY KENDRICK:
Giving Two Grand Pianos a Strong Sense of Locomotion (By BEN RATLIFF, Feb. 13, 2004)
MUSIC: ALAN FEINBERG: Tribute to a Composer Shows How He Heard and Thought (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 13, 2004)
THEATER: 'AGAMEMNON': It Isn't Easy Being Queen (Murders and Power Grabs!) (By BEN BRANTLEY, Feb. 13, 2004)
* TV: 'IRONED JAWED ANGELS': Determined Women, Finding Their Voice
[Hilary Swank] (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 13, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Medical and Ethical Issues Cloud Plans to Clone for Therapy (By ANDREW POLLACK, Feb. 13, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Split on Clones: Research vs. Reproduction (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and DENISE GRADY, Feb. 13, 2004)
* SCIENCE: South Korea, With Renowned Scientists, Revives Debate (By SAMUEL LEN, Feb. 13, 2004)
* SCIENCE: After Packing M&M's Together, Scientists Like What They See (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 13, 2004)

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004:
On This Day: February 12 (Thomas Campion 2/12/1567-3/1/1620, Cotton Mather 2/12/1663-2/13/1728, Peter Cooper 2/12/1791-4/4/1883, Abraham Lincoln 2/12/1809-4/15/1865, John L. Lewis 2/12/1880-6/11/1969, Alice Roosevelt Longworth 2/12/1884-2/20/1980, Max Beckmann 2/12/1884-12/27/1950, Omar Bradley 2/12/1893-4/8/1981, Roy Harris 2/12/1898-10/1/1979, Franco Zeffirelli 1923, Joe Garagiola 1926, Arlen Specter 1930, Bill Russell 1934, Joe Don Baker 1936, Judy Blume 1938, Ray Manzarek 1939, Maud Adams 1945, Arsenio Hall 1955)
First Prisoner Release Completed from Vietnam (By James P. Sterba, February 12, 1973)
* Death Of Charles Darwin at 73; Published Theory of Evolution
[2/12/1809-4/19/1882] (NY TIMES, April 21, 1882)

Julius Schwartz, 88, Editor Who Revived Superhero Genre in Comic Books, Dies (By ERIC NASH, Feb. 12, 2004)
Ryszard Kuklinski, 73, Spy in Poland in Cold War, Dies (By JAMES RISEN, Feb. 12, 2004)
Jim Russo, 81, 'Superscout' Who Helped Build the Orioles, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Feb. 12, 2004)
Norman Thelwell, 80, British Cartoonist, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 12, 2004)
EDITORIALS: Mr. Greenspan Weighs In (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: Arabs, It's Your Move (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Feb. 12, 2004)
OP-ED COLUMNIST: The Khan Artist (By MAUREEN DOWD, Feb. 12, 2004)
OP-ED: Saving Ourselves From Self-Destruction (By MOHAMED ELBARADEI, Feb. 12, 2004)
* LETTERS: Bush's Guard Record: A Debate Touches a Nerve (8 Letters) (By MICHAEL J. ESPOSITO, et. al., Feb. 12, 2004)
* LETTERS: Showing the Way to the Web Generation (By JIM TEICHER and MALA BAWER , Feb. 12, 2004)
LETTERS: Revealing Sources (By MICHAEL GARTNER, Feb. 12, 2004)
LETTERS: To Grieve Is to Heal (By Rev. ANNE-MARIE HISLOP, Feb. 12, 2004)
BUSINESS: Fed's Reassurances Send Shares and Bonds Higher
[Dow +124, Nasdaq +14] (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, Feb. 12, 2004)
* THE OVERVIEW: Cable Giant Bids to Take Over Disney
(By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, LAURA M. HOLSON and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Feb. 12, 2004)
* Disney Deal Suggests Content Is No Longer King (By FLOYD NORRIS, Feb. 12, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Intel Reports a Research Leap to a Faster Chip (By JOHN MARKOFF, Feb. 12, 2004)
FILM: Sisterhood in a Floating Powder Room (By NANCY RAMSEY, Feb. 12, 2004)
FILM CRITIC: A Festival of Odd Finds to Cheer Film Buffs (By A. O. SCOTT, Feb. 12, 2004)
MUSIC: Michael Jackson Faces Cash Crisis (By SHARON WAXMAN, Feb. 12, 2004)
THEATER: George C. Wolfe Is Leaving the Public Theater (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Feb. 12, 2004)
TV CRITIC: A Show and a Real Trial: A Moral Line (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Feb. 12, 2004)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2004)
Making High-Tech Play Less Work (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Feb. 12, 2004)
* File Sharing's New Face [Bram Cohen's BitTorrent for sharing large files] (By SETH SCHIESEL, Feb. 12, 2004)
STATE OF THE ART: For iPod, 6 Flavors of Flattery (By DAVID POGUE, Feb. 12, 2004)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Toll-Free Apology Soothes Savage Beast (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Feb. 12, 2004)
WHAT'S NEXT: Benign Viruses Shine on the Silicon Assembly Line (By ANNE EISENBERG, Feb. 12, 2004)
BASICS: Prints Worthy of a Scrapbook, Made at Home (By IAN AUSTEN, Feb. 12, 2004)
For Those Who Can't Wait for the Future to Arrive (By ASHLEE VANCE, Feb. 12, 2004)
* ONLINE DIARY: Sharing Celebrity Bonds (By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL, Feb. 12, 2004)
* He Loves Me Not, Digitally (By IVAN BERGER, Feb. 12, 2004)
From Flow Charts to Footnotes, the Lens Illuminates Every Detail (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 12, 2004)
Desktop, or Hand-Held? A Device Changes Costumes (By CHRIS LARSON, Feb. 12, 2004)
* Stylish or Chicken Scratch, Your Handwriting as a Font (By ADAM BAER, Feb. 12, 2004)
Roses Blue, Violets Red? A Tool to Calibrate Your Monitor Colors (By IVAN BERGER, Feb. 12, 2004)
A New Cellphone Nods to the Needs of the Disabled (By LISA GUERNSEY, Feb. 12, 2004)
Slides and Video Set to Music, in a Paperback-Size Package (By JUDY TONG, Feb. 12, 2004)
* Q & A: Reporting Telltale Signs of an Internet Intruder (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Feb. 12, 2004)
* SCIENCE: Milestones in Cloning (NY TIMES, Feb. 12, 2004)

Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004:
On This Day: February 11 (Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle 2/11/1657-1/9/1757, William Talbot 2/11/1800-9/17/1877, Otto Ludwig 2/11/1813-2/25/1865, Max Baer 2//1/1909-11/21/1959, Joseph Alioto 2/11/1916-1/29/1998, Farouk I 2//11/1920-3/18/1965, Eva Gabor 2/11/1921-7/4/1995, Sidney Sheldon 1917, Lloyd Bentsen 1921, Kim Stanley 1925, Leslie Nielsen 1926, Tina Louise 1934, Burt Reynolds 1936, Shery Crow 1962, Jennifer Aniston 1969)
YALTA PARLEY ENDS: Big 3 Doom Nazism and Reich Militarism (By Lansing Warren, February 11, 1945)
* Edison Dies at 82, prolific inventor with 1,093 patents
[2/11/1847-10/18/1931] (By BRUCE RAE, October 18, 1931)

Helmut Werner, 67, Executive at Mercedes, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 11, 2004)
Claude Ryan, Quebecer Who Opposed Secession, Dies at 79 (By BERNARD SIMON, Feb. 11, 2004)
* Funerals With a Custom Fit Lighten Up a Solemn Rite (By PETER T. KILBORN, Feb. 11, 2004)
NATIONAL: Delaware Finds Flu in Chickens on a 2nd Farm (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 11, 2004)
WORLD: Freed Afghan, 15, Recalls a Year at Guantánamo (By CARLOTTA GALL, Feb. 11, 2004)
* NY REGION: What Killed Dr. Atkins, and What Keeps the Issue Alive? (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Feb. 11, 2004)
BUSINESS: Some Modest Gains Ahead of Greenspan's Testimony
[Dow +35, Nasdaq +15] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 11, 2004)
* BOOKS: For Hollywood Misery, an Alter Ego Helps [Carrie Fisher] (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, Feb. 11, 2004)
DANCE: 651 ARTS: A Showcase for Prizewinning African Choreographers in Brooklyn
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Feb. 11, 2004)
* FILM: From Guerrilla to Director: The Twisty Road to 'Osama' (By RANDY KENNEDY, Feb. 11, 2004)
MUSIC: NY PHILHARMONIC: Celebrating the Genesis in a Clinical Fashion (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Feb. 11, 2004)
MUSIC: DANILO PEREZ AND STEVE LACY (An Odd Combination Finds Synergy, Feb. 11, 2004)
MUSIC: MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: Surprising and Bold, Even if Not in the Club (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Feb. 11, 2004)
MUSIC CRITIC: Youthful Dynamism From Two Different Pianists (By JEREMY EICHLER, Feb. 11, 2004)
MUSIC: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Exploring the Link, if Any,
Between Jewish Composers and Vienna (By ALLAN KOZINN, Feb. 11, 2004)
* TV: 'GODFATHERS OF THE RENAISSANCE': Medicis as Mafia: Fanciful View of the 15th Century
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Feb. 11, 2004)

Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004:
On This Day: February 10 (Charles Lamb 2/10/1775-12/27/1834, William Allen White 2/10/1868-1/29/1944, Jimmy Durante 2/10/1893-1/29/1980, Harold Macmillan 2/10/1894-12/29/1986, Dame Judith Anderson 2/10/1898-1/3/1992, Bertolt Brecht 2/10/1898-8/14/1956, Stella Adler 2/10/1901-12/21/1992, Leontyne Price 1927, Robert Wagner 1930, Roberta Flack 1939, Mark Spitz 1950, George Stephanopoulos 1961)
U-2 Pilot Powers is Freed by Soviet in an Exchange for Abel (By Tom Wicker, February 10, 1962)
* Pasternak Is Dead at 70; Wrote 'Dr. Zhivago'
[2/10/1890-5/30/1960] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 31, 1960)

William B. Tabler Sr., Architect of Hilton Hotels, Dies at 89 (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, Feb. 10, 2004)
Donald Barr, 82, Headmaster and Science Honors Educator, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Feb. 10, 2004)
Jason Raize, 28, Simba in 'The Lion King,' Dies (NY TIMES, Feb. 10, 2004)
Herbert Semmel, 73, Lawyer in Civil Rights Suits, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Feb. 10, 2004)
NATIONAL: Labor Raises Pressure on California Supermarkets (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Feb. 10, 2004)
NY REGION: POLITICAL MEMO: No Social Recluse, Mayor Fights Killjoy Image (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Feb. 10, 2004)
CITYWIDE: Retirement Gives Him His Finest Ministry (By DAVID GONZALEZ, Feb. 10, 2004)
PUBLIC LIVES: For a Notorious Victim, Some Things Never Heal [Hedda Nussbaum] (By COREY KILGANNON, Feb. 10, 2004)
NYC: If Turnstile Balks, Who Is Fare Swiping? (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Feb. 10, 2004)
* EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: A Close Shave (By CAROLYN CURIEL, Feb. 10, 2004)
BUSINESS: Profit Taking Is Cited as Indexes Register Some Declines
[Dow -14, Nasdaq -3] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Feb. 10, 2004)
DANCE: NEW YORK CITY BALLET: The Balanchine Essence Shines in 'Jewels' (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Feb. 10, 2004)
FILM: A Film Festival With Weighty Themes (By ALAN RIDING, Feb. 10, 2004)
MUSIC: Arista's Analog Man on Top Again [Clive Davis] (By EVELYN NUSSENBAUM, Feb. 10, 2004)
MUSIC: At the After-Grammys, Sampling the Heat (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Feb. 10, 2004)
MUSIC: DIZZEE RASCAL: The Exotic Beats and Slang of London's King of Grime (By KELEFA SANNEH, Feb. 10, 2004)
THEATER: 'THE FLU SEASON': Psychiatric Patients and a Maze of Language (By MARGO JEFFERSON, Feb. 10, 2004)
SCIENCE: Contents (NY TIMES, Feb. 10, 2004)
New Germ Labs Stir Debate Over Secrecy and Safety (By JUDITH MILLER, Feb. 10, 2004)
SCIENCE: Beyond Brrr: The Elusive Science of Cold (By JAMES GORMAN, Feb. 10, 2004)
Call of the Dwindling Wild Returns Zoo Bongos to Home (By MARC LACEY, Feb. 10, 2004)
* How the Red Planet Came Down With the Pink Blues (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 10, 2004)
Pollution Is Blamed for Thinner Air at Edge of Atmosphere (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Feb. 10, 2004)
With Mars Orbiter's Help, NASA Pinpoints 2nd Rover (By KENNETH CHANG, Feb. 10, 2004)
OBSERVATORY: The Kuiper Waltz (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Feb. 10, 2004)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Just a Few Simple Steps Can Keep the Air Flowing Freely (By JANE E. BRODY, Feb. 10, 2004)
HEALTH: A Home Away From Home for Dying Children (By LAURA NOVAK, Feb. 10, 2004)
Out of the Blue, a Lightning Bolt to the Heart (By SANDEEP JAUHAR, Feb. 10, 2004)
Parkinson's Research Focuses on Links to Genes and Toxins (By LINDA CARROLL, Feb. 10, 2004)
Research on Day Care Finds Few Timeouts (By MELISSA P. McNAMARA, Feb. 10, 2004)
Early Fevers (By REUTERS, Feb. 10, 2004)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: Healing an Error-Prone Medical System (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Feb. 10, 2004)
* VITAL SIGNS: Habits: Attacking Mortality in Your Sleep (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 10, 2004)
* Cause and Effect: When a Good Knee Turns Bad (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Feb. 10, 2004)
CASES: A Mind Emerges Joyfully After Years Lost in a Cloud (By BEVERLY JABLONS, Feb. 10, 2004)
Q & A: Calculating Health Risks (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Feb. 10, 2004)

Monday, Feb. 9, 2004:
On This Day: February 9 (Gasparo Angiolini 2/9/1731-2/6/1803, William Henry Harrison 2/9/1773-4/4/1841, Samuel Tilden 2/9/1814-8/4/1886, Amy Lowell 2/9/1874-5/12/1925, Ronald Colman 2/9/1891-5/19/1958, Dean Rusk 2/9/1909-12/20/1994, Bill Veeck 2/9/1914-1/2/1986, Kathryn Grayson