Selected Articles from The New York Times—
July 2006
(* denotes news of special interest)

Monday, July 31, 2006:
On This Day: July 31 (Augustus 7/31/1526-2/12/1586, George Baxter 7/31/1804-1/11/1867, Jan Currie Hoge 7/31/1811-8/26/1890, Abram Stevens Hewitt 7/31/1822-1/18/1903, Henri Brisson 7/31/1835-4/11/1912, Richard Dixon Oldham 7/31/1858-7/15/1936, S. S. Kresge 7/31/1867-10/18/1966, Jacques Villon 7/31/1875-6/9/1963, Elmo Roper 7/31/1900-4/30/1971, Primo Levi 7/31/1919-4/11/1987, Whitney Young 7/31/1921-3/11/1971, Milton Friedman 1912, Curt Gowdy 1919, Don Murray 1929, Geoffrey Lewis 1935, France Nuyen 1939, Geraldine Chaplin 1944, Sherry Lansing 1944, Willaim Weld 1945, Evonne Goolagong Cawley 1951, Wesley Snipes 1962)
Ranger Takes Close-Up Moon Photos Revealing Craters (By Richard Witkin, July 31, 1964)
* Primo Levi, Holocaust Writer is Dead at 67 [7/31/1919-4/11/1987] (NY Times, Sept. 19, 1961)

* BUSINESS: Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job (By LOUIS UCHITELLE & DAVID LEONHARDT, July 31, 2006)
* E-Commerce Report: Newspapers to Use Links to Rivals on Web Sites (By BOB TEDESCHI, July 31, 2006)

Sunday, July 30, 2006:
On This Day: July 30 (Giogio Vasari 7/30/1511-6/27/1574, Emily Bronte 7/30/1818-12/19/1848, Richard Burdon Haldane 7/30/1856-8/19/1928, Robert McCormick 7/30/1880-4/1/1955, Vladimir Zworykin 7/30/1889-7/29/1982, Casey Stengel 7/30/1891-9/29/1975, Henry Moore 7/30/1898-8/31/1986, C. Northcote Parkinson 7/30/1909-3/9/1993, Michael Morris Killanin 7/30/1914-4/25/1999, Dick Wilson 1916, Richard Johnson 1927, Edd "Kookie Byrnes 1933, Peter Bogdanovich 1939, Paul Anka 1941, David Sanborn 1945, Arnold Schwarzenegger 1947, Frank Stallone 1950, Lisa Kudrow 1963, Hilary Swank 1974)
Cruiser Sunk, 1,196 Casualties; Took Atom Bomb Cargo to Guam (NY TIMES, July 30, 1945)
* Henry Ford Is Dead at 83 in Dearborn: Pioneer in Autos [7/30/1863-4/7/1947] (Associated Press, April 8, 1947)

* NATIONAL: Disowning Conservative Politics, Evangelical Pastor Rattles Flock (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, July 30, 2006)
TRAVEL | Practical Traveler: Advice to Mileage Misers: Use the Hoard Now (By DAVID A. KELLY, July 30, 2006)
* HEALTH | The New Age: So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn't Even Know You (By GINA KOLATA, July 30, 2006)

Saturday, July 29, 2006:
On This Day: July 29 (Alexis Tocqueville 7/29/1805-4/16/1859, George Pendleton 7/29/1825-11/24/1889, Max Nordau 7/29/1849-1/23/1923, Booth Tarkington 7/29/1869-5/19/1946, Don Marquis 7/29/1878-12/29/1937, Don Marquis 7/29/1878-12/29/1937, Benito Mussolini 7/29/1883-4/28/1945, Sigmund Romberg 7/29/1887-11/9/1951, Owen Lattimore 7/29/1900-5/31/1989, Clara Bow 7/29/1905-9/27/1965, Dag Hammarskjold 7/29/1905-9/18/1961, Tsien Chung Chou 7/29/1902-12/13/2000, Lloyd Bochner 1924, Robert Horton 1924, Robert Fuller 1934, Elizabeth Dole 1936, Peter Jennings 1938, David Warner 1941, Ken Burns 1953)
* Amid Splendor, Charles Weds Diana (By R.W. APPLE Jr., July 29, 1981)
* Hammarskjold Dies at 56; Greatly Extended U.N.'s Scope Through Leadership & Personal Initiatives
[7/29/1905-9/18/1961] (NY Times, Sept. 19, 1961)

Friday, July 28, 2006:
On This Day: July 28 (Jacopo Sannazzaro 7/28/1456-4/24/1530, Judith Leyster 7/28/1609-2/10/1660, Beatrix Potter 7/28/1866-12/22/1943, Charles Dillon Perrine 7/28/1867-6/21/1951, Lucy Burns 7/28/1879-12/22/1966, Marcel Duchamp 7/28/1887-10/2/1968, Harry Bridges 7/28/1901-3/30/1990, Rudy Vallee 7/28/1901-7/3/1986, Earl Tupper 7/28/1907-10/5/1983, Malcolm Lowry 7/28/1909-6/27/1957, Andrew V. McLaglen 1920, Darry Hickman 1931, Bill Bradley 1943, Jim Davis 1945, Rick Wright 1945, Jonathan Edwards 1946, Linda Kelsey 1946, Sally Struthers 1948, Elizabeth Berkley 1972)
* Austria Formally Declares War on Serbia (NY Times, July 28, 1914)
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Dies of Cancer at 64
[7/28/1929-5/19/1994] (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, May 20, 1994)

BUSINESS: Drug Makers Pay for Lunch as They Pitch (By STEPHANIE SAUL, July 28, 2006)

Thursday, July 27, 2006:
On This Day: July 27 (Charlotte Corday7/27/1768-7/17/1793, Charles Parnell 7/27/1846-10/6/1891, Emma Goldman 7/27/1869-5/14/1940, Hilaire Belloc 7/27/1870-7/16/1953, Eduard Spranger 7/27/1882-9/17/1963, Geoffrey De Havilland 7/27/1882-5/21/1965, Charles Vidor 7/27/1900-6/4/1959, Willie Mosconi 7/27/1913-9/16/1993, Frank O'Hara 7/27/1926-7/25/1966, Vincent Canby 7/27/1924-10/15/2000, Norman Lear 1922, Jerry Van Dyke 1931, John Pleshette 1942, Bobby Gentry 1944, Betty Thomas 1948, Peggy Fleming 1948, Maureen McGovern 1949, Juliana Hatfield 1967)
Truce Is Signed, Ending The Fighting In Korea; P.O.W. Exchange Near;
Rhee Gets U.S. Pledge; Eisenhower Bids Free World Stay Vigilant (By Lindesay Parrott, July 27, 1953)
Leo Durocher, Fiery Ex-Manager, Dies at 86 [7/27/1906-10/7/1991] (By THOMAS ROGERS, October 8, 1991)

* STYLE: Communal Yoga Mats: Beware of Germs (By ABBY ELLIN, July 27, 2006)

Wednesday, July 26, 2006:
On This Day: July 26 (Arthur Middleton 7/26/1742-1/1/1787, Abner Doubleday 7/26/1819-1/26/1893, Frederick Henry Evans 7/26/1853-6/24/1943, Bernard Berenson 7/26/1865-10/6/1959, Carl Jung 7/26/1875-6/7/1961, Pearl Buck 7/26/1892-3/6/1973, Willy Messerschmitt 7/26/1898-9/17/1978, Stuart Symington 7/26/1901-12/14/1988, William Lear 7/26/1902-5/14/1978, Antonia Brico 7/26/1902-8/3/1989, Peter Lorre 7/26/1904-3/23/1964, Pavel Belyayev 7/26/1925-1/10/1970, Blake Edwards 1922, James Best 1926, Peter Hyams 1943, Helen Mirren 1946, Susan George 1950, Kevin Spacey 1959, Sandra Bullock 1964)
Truman Signs National Security Act Creating CIA, National Security Council
(By Bertram D. Hulen, July 26, 1947)
* Dr. Carl G. Jung Is Dead at 85; Pioneer in Analytic Psychology
[7/26/1875-6/6/1961] (By Associated Press, June 7, 1961)

Tuesday, July 25, 2006:
On This Day: July 25 (Paolo Gualdo 7/25/1553-10/16/1621, Christoph Scheiner 7/25/1575-1650, Henry Knox 7/25/1750-10/25/1806, Maria Weston Chapman 7/25/1806-7/12/1885, Richard Oglesby 7/25/1824-4/24/1899, Thomas Eakins 7/25/1844-6/25/1916, David Belasco 7/25/1853-5/14/1931, Maxfield Parrish 7/25/1870-3/10/1966, Davidson Black 7/25/1884-3/15/1934, Walter Brennan 7/25/1894-1974, Eric Hoffer 7/25/1902-5/21/1983, Elias Canetti 7/25/1905-8/14/1994, Johnny Hodges 7/25/1906-5/11/1970, Walter Payton 7/25/1954-1999, Estelle Getty 1923, Barbara Harris 1935, Nate Thurmond 1941, Verdine White 1951, Iman 1955, Ray Billingsley 1957, Matt LeBlanc 1967)
Italian Liner Andrea Doria Sinks After Colliding with Swedish Ship Stockholm; 51 Dead
(By Max Frankel, July 25, 1956)
* Former British Prime Minister Balfour Dies at 81; Leader for Half a Century
[7/25/1848-3/19/1930] (NY Times, March 20, 1930)

* Scientists Say They've Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA (By NICHOLAS WADE, July 25, 2006)
* Books on Science: Faith, Reason, God and Other Imponderables (By CORNELIA DEAN, July 25, 2006)

Monday, July 24, 2006:
On This Day: July 24 (Benedetto Marcello 7/24/1686-7/24/1739, Simon Bolivar 7/24/1783-12/17/1830, Alexander Dumas 7/24/1802-12/5/1870, Alexander Davis 7/24/1803-1/14/1892, William Gillette 7/24/1853-4/29/1937, Robert Graves 7/24/1895-12/7/1985, Amelia Earhart 7/24/1897-7/2/1937, James Rhyne Killian 7/24/1904-1/29/1988, John D. MacDonald 7/24/1916-12/12/28/1986, Cooti Williams 7/24/1908-9/15/1985, Peter Yates 1929, Jacqueline Brookes 1930, Pat Oliphant 1935, Ruth Buzzi 1936, Mark Goddard 1936, Chris Sarandon 1942, Michael Richards 1949, Lynda Carter 1951, Gus Van Sant 1952, Laura Leighton 1968, Jennifer Lopez 1970, Anna Paquin 1982)
Nixon and Khrushchev Argue In Public As U.S. Exhibit Opens; Accuse Each Other Of Threats
(By Harrison E. Salisbury, July 24, 1959)
Bella Abzug, 77, Congresswoman And a Founding Feminist, Is Dead
[7/24/1920-3/31/1998] (By LAURA MANSNERUS, April 1, 1998)

* TECHNOLOGY: In the Race With Google, It's Consistency vs. 'Wow'
[When Google introduced its mapping service last year, it did something that made
its competitors look antiquated. Users could click on a map and drag it to see an
adjacent area, a much faster approach than those offered by rival mapping services.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, July 24, 2006)
* SCIENCE: The Expert Mind [Studies of chess grandmasters' mental processes
have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well.
José Raúl Capablanca of Cuba won 168 games in a row in 1909.]
(By Philip E. Ross, Scientific American, July 24, 2006)

Sunday, July 23, 2006:
On This Day: July 23 (Francesco Sforza 7/23/1401-3/8/1466, Sir Thomas Brisbane 7/23/1773-1/27/1860, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson 7/23/1828-6/26/1913, S. H. Kress 7/23/1863-9/22/1955, Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons 7/23/1874-3/11/1966, Emil Jennings 7/23/1884-1/2/1950, Sir Arthur Whitten Brown 7/23/1886-10/4/1948, Raymond Chandler 7/23/1888-3/26/1959, Harry Cohn 7/23/1891-2/27/1958, Elio Vittorini 7/23/1908-2/13/1966, Pimen 7/23/1910-5/3/1990, Gloria DeHaven 1925, Calvert DeForest 1928, Anthony Kennedy 1936, Don Imus 1940, Larry Manetti 1947, Belinda Montgomery 1950, Lydia Cornell 1957, Martin Gore 1961, Woody Harrison 1961, Charisma Carpenter 1970)
Austria Ready to Invade Servia, Sends Ultimatum (NY TIMES, July 23, 1914)
Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Dies at 83
[7/23/1892-8/26/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, August 28, 1975)

Saturday, July 22, 2006:
On This Day: July 22 (Jacques-Germain Soufflot 7/22/1713-8/29/1780, Gregor Mendel 7/22/1822-1/6/1884, Thomas Pendergast 7/22/1872-1/26/1945, Edward Hopper 7/22/1882-5/15/1967, Gustav Hertz 7/22/1887-10/30/1975, Ely Culbertson 7/22/1891-12/27/1955, Oskar Maria Graf 7/22/1894-6/28/1967, Alexander Calder 7/22/1898-11/11/1976, Stephen Vincent Benet 7/22/1898-3/13/1943, Charles Weidman 7/22/1901-7/15/1975, Amy Vanderbilt 7/22/1908-12/27/1974, William V. Roth, Jr., 1921, Bob Dole 1923, Margaret Whiting 1924, Orson Bean 1928, Oscar de la Renta 1932, Louise Fletcher 1934, John Korty 1936, Terence Stamp 1939, Geroge Clinton 1940, Alex Trebek 1940, Bobby Sherman 1943, Paul Schrader 1946, Albert Brooks 1947, Don Henley 1947, Willem Dafoe 1955, Rob Estes 1963)
Dillinger Slain in Chicago; Shot Dead by Federal Men in Front of Movie Theatre (NY TIMES, July 22, 1934)
* Emma Lazarus: Death of an American Poet of Uncommon Talent at Age 38
[7/22/1849-11/19/1887] (NY Times, Nov. 20, 1887)

Friday, July 21, 2006:
On This Day: July 21 (Saint Philip Neri 7/21/1515-5/26/1595, John Weaver 7/21/1673-9/24/1760, Georg Brandt 7/21/1694-4/29/1768, Paul Julius Reuter 7/21/1816-2/25/1899, Sir John Gilbert 7/21/1817-10/5/1897, Louise Blanchard Bethune 7/21/1856-12/18/1913, Lovis Corinth 7/21/1858-7/12/1925, Jacques Feyder 7/21/1888-5/25/1948, Hart Crane 7/21/1899-4/27/1932, Hemingway 7/21/1899-7/2/1961, Marshall McLuhan 7/21/1911-12/31/1980, Isaac Stern 1920, Billy Taylor 1921, Kay Starr 1922, Don Knotts 1924, Norman Jewison 1926, Paul Burke 1926, Patricia Elliot 1942, Yusuf Islam [formerly Cat Stevens] 1948, Art Hindle 1948, Robin Williams 1952)
Scopes Guilty, Fined $100, Scores Law; Benediction Ends Trial, Appeal Starts;
Darrow Answers Nine Bryan Questions (NY TIMES, July 21, 1925)
* Hemingway Dies at 61; Prize-Winning Works Reflected Preoccupation With Life and Death
[7/21/1899-7/2/1961] (NY Times, July 3, 1961)

Thursday, July 20, 2006:
On This Day: July 20 (Petrarch 7/20/1304-7/18/1374, Giuseppe La Farina 7/20/1815, Augustin Daly 7/20/1838-6/7/1899, Sir George Otto Trevelyan 7/20/1838-8/17/1928, Max Liebermann 7/20/1847-2/8/1935, Miron Cristea 7/20/1868-3/6/1939, Santos-Dumont Alberto 7/20/1873-7/23/1932, Theda Bara 7/20/1885-4/7/1955, George II 7/20/1890-4/1/1947, Errett Lobban Cord 7/20/1894-1/2/1974, Sally Ann Howes 1930, Barbara A. Mikulski 1936, Diana Rigg 1938, Kim Carnes 1946, Carlos Santana 1947, Donna Dixon 1957, Frank Whaley 1963)
* Men Walk On Moon: Astronauts Land On Plain; Collect Rocks, Plant Flag (By John Noble Wilford, July 20, 1969)
Elliot Richardson Dies at 79; Stood Up to Nixon and Resigned In 'Saturday Night Massacre'
[7/20/1920-12/31/1999] (By NEIL A. LEWIS, January 1, 2000)

SPORTS: Bonds Escapes Indictment, but Inquiry Continues (By DUFF WILSON, July 20, 2006)
BASEBALL: Kansas City Royals Blanked in Boston: 1-0, Back to Back
[90 years ago Babe Ruth and Ernie Shore pitched 1-0 shutouts for Red Sox
against the Yankees (6-22-1916) and the Philadelphia Athletics (6-23-1916).]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 20, 2006)
OP-ED: The Taliban's Silent Partner (By ROBERT D. KAPLAN, July 20, 2006)
LETTERS: Mideast Violence: A Grim Ledger (7 Letters) (By Jonathan Weisberg, et. al., July 20, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Its Profit Soaring, Google Overshadows Yahoo
[Google reported net income of $721 million in the latest quarter, compared with net
income of $342.8 million in the 2nd quarter of last year. In contrast, Yahoo reported
late Tuesday that its second-quarter profit fell nearly 80 percent, to $164 million.]
(By JEREMY W. PETERS, July 20, 2006)

Wednesday, July 19, 2006:
On This Day: July 19 (Samuel Colt 7/19/1814-1/10/1862, Mary Ann Bickerdyke 7/19/1817-11/8/1901, Edward Charles Pickering 7/19/1846-2/3/1919, Charles Horace Mayo 7/19/1865-5/26/1939, Alice Dunbar 7/19/1875-9/18/1935, A. J. Cronin 7/19/1896-1/6/1981, Edgar Degas 7/19/1834-9/27/1917, Herbert Marcuse 7/19/1898-7/29/1979, Edgar Snow 7/19/1905-2/15/1972, George McGovern 1922, Pat Hingle 1924, Helen Gallagher 1926, Sue Thompson 1926, Dennis Cole 1940, Vikki Carr 1941, Atom Egoyan 1960)
* British Open 'V' Nerve War; Churchill Spurs Resistance (By James MacDonald, July 19, 1941)
* Hilaire G. E. Degas, Noted Painter, Dies [7/19/1834-9/27/1917] (NY TIMES, September 28, 1917)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006:
On This Day: July 18 (Hermann Von Reichenau 7/18/1013-9/24/1054, Robert Hooke 7/18/1635-3/3/1703, Royall Tyler 7/18/1757-8/26/1826, William Thackeray 7/18/1811-12/24/1863, Philip Snowden 7/18/1864-5/15/1937, Vidkun Quisling 7/18/1887-10/24/1945, Victor Gruen 7/18/1903-2/14/1980, S. I. Hayakawa 7/18/1906-2/27/1992, Clifford Odets 7/18/1906-8/14/1963, Hume Cronyn 1911, Nelson Mandela 1918, Dick Button 1929, Hunter S. Thompson 1937, Paul Verhoeven 1938, Brian Auger 1939, Dion DiMucci 1939, James Brolin 1940, Lonnie Mack 1941, Martha Reeves 1941, Kurt Mann 1947, Audrey Landers 1959, Elizabeth McGovern 1961, Jack Irons 1962, Vin Diesel 1967)
Spain Checks Army Rising as Morocco Forces Rebel; 2 Cities in Africa Bombed (By William P. Carney, July 18, 1936)
* Andrei A. Gromyko: Flinty Face of Postwar Soviet Diplomacy [7/18/1909-7/2/1989] (By CRAIG R. WHITNEY, July 4, 1989)

* Mickey Spillane, 88, Critic-Proof Writer of Pulpy Mike Hammer Novels, Dies (By RICHARD SEVERO, July 18, 2006)

Monday, July 17, 2006:
On This Day: July 17 (Alexander Baumgarten 7/17/1714-5/26/1762, Elbridge Gerry 7/17/1744-11/23/1814, John Jacob Astor 7/17/1763-3/29/1848, Sir Erskine Holland 7/17/1835-5/24/1926, Ernest Rhys 7/17/1859-5/25/1946, S.Y. Agnon 7/17/1889-3/11/1970, Earle Stanley Gardner 7/17/1889-3/11/1970, Georges Lemaitre 7/17/1894-6/20/1966, James Cagney 7/17/1899-3/30/1986, William Gargan 7/17/1905-2/16/1979, Art Linkletter 1912, Phyllis Diller 1917, Juan Antonio Samaranch 1920, Diahann Carroll 1935, Lucie Arnaz 1951, David Hasselhoff 1952, Phoebe Snow 1952, Nancy Giles 1960)
U.S. And Soviet Astronauts Unite Ships And Then Join In Historic Handshakes (By John Noble Wilford, July 17, 1975)
* James Cagney Is Dead at 86; Master of Pugnacious Grace [7/17/1899-3/30/1986] (By PETER B. FLINT, March 31, 1986)

Sunday, July 16, 2006:
On This Day: July 16 (Clare of Assisi 7/16/1194-8/11/1253, Andrea Del Sarto 7/16/1486-9/28/1530, Marc-Rene Montalembert 7/16/1714-3/29/1800, Sir Joshua Reynolds 7/16/1723-2/23/1792, Camille Corot 7/16/1796-2/22/1875, Mary Baker Eddy 7/16/1821-12/3/1910, Fannie Zeisler 7/16/1863-8/20/1927, Roald Amundsen 7/16/1872-6/18/1928, Barbara Stanwyck 7/16/1907-1/20/1990, Guy 7/16/1921-2/17/1989, Vincent Sherman 1906, Barnard Hughes 1915, Dick Thornburgh 1932, Corin Redgrave 1939, Margaret Court 1942, Ruben Blades 1948, Michael Flatley 1958, Phoebe Cates 1963, Will Ferrell 1967, Corey Feldman 1971)
* Ex-Czar Nicholas of Russia Killed by Order of Ural Soviet (NY TIMES, July 16, 1918)
* Ginger Rogers, Who Danced With Astaire and Won an Oscar for Drama, Dies at 83
[7/16/1911-4/25/1995] (By PETER B. FLINT, April 26, 1995)

Saturday, July 15, 2006:
On This Day: July 15 (Inigo Jones 7/15/1573-6/21/1652, Rembrandt Van Rijn 7/15/1606-10/4/1669, Clement Moore 7/15/1779-7/10/1863, Sir Henry Cole 7/15/1808-4/18/1882, Mother Cabrini 7/15/1850-12/22/1917, Alfred Northcliffe 7/15/1865-8/14/1922, Jacques Riviere 7/15/1886-2/14/1925, Thomas Francis, Jr. 7/15/1900-10/1/1969, Iris Murdoch 7/15/1919-2/8/1999, Philly Joe Jones 7/15/1923-8/30/1985, Philip Carey 1925, Alex Karras 1935, Ken Kercheval 1935, Patrick Wayne 1939, Jan-Michael Vincent 1944, Linda Ronstadt 1946, Kim Alexis 1960, Brigitte Nielsen 1963, Scott Foley 1972)
Americans Drive Germans Back Over Marne: Take 1,000 Prisoners and Check Big Drive (By Edwin L. James, July 15, 1918)
* Iris Murdoch, Novelist and Philosopher, Is Dead [7/15/1919-2/8/1999] (By RICHARD NICHOLLS, February 9, 1999)

* Raja Rao, Indian Novelist and Scholar, Is Dead at 97 (By MARGALIT FOX, July 15, 2006)

Friday, July 14, 2006:
On This Day: July 14 (Jules, Cardinal Mazarin 7/14/1602-3/9/1661, John Gibson Lockhart 7/14/1794-11/25/1854, James McNeill Whistler 7/14/1834-7/17/1903, Emmeline Pankhurst 7/14/1858-6/14/1928, Gustav Klimt 7/14/1862-2/6/1918, Happy Chandler 7/14/1898-6/15/1991, Pancho Barnes 7/14/1901-3/?/1975, Irving Stone 7/14/1903-8/26/1989, Woody Guthrie 7/14/1912-10/3/1967, Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson 7/14/1921-9/26/1996, Gloria Stewart 1910, Gerald R. Ford 1913, Ingmar Bergman 1918, Dale Robertson 1923, Hary Dean Stanton 1926, Nancy Olson 1928, Polly Bergen 1930, Rosey Grier 1932, Del Reeves 1932, Jerry Houser 1952, Matthew Fox 1966)
* Mariner 4 Makes Flight Past Mars [also Adlai Stevenson Dies at 65 in London] (By WALTER SULLIVAN, July 14, 1965)
* James McNeill Whistler Dies at 69 in London [7/14/1834-7/17/1903] (By NY Times, July 18, 1903)

* Comedian Red Buttons Dies at 87 (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, July 14, 2006)

Thursday, July 13, 2006:
On This Day: July 13 (Simeon North 7/13/1765-8/25/1852, Otto Wagner 7/13/1841-4/11/1918, Sidney Webb 7/13/1859-10/13/1947, Mordecai Ardon 7/13/1896-6/18/1992, Mickey Walker 7/13/1901-4/28/1981, Sir Reginald Goodall 7/13/1901-5/5/1990, Dave Garroway 7/13/1913-7/21/1982, Alberto Ascari 7/13/1918-5/26/1955, Charles Scribner, Jr. 7/13/1921-11/11/1995, Jack Kemp 1935, Patrick Stewart 1940, Robert Forster 1941, Harrison Ford 1942, Roger McGuinn 1942, Louise Mandrell 1954, Cameron Crowe 1957, Victoria Shaw 1962)
Power Failure Blacks Out New York; Thousands Trapped In The Subways; Looters & Vandals Hit Some Areas
(By Robert D. McFadden, July 13, 1977)
Death of General Nathan Bedford Forrest at 56, The Great Guerrilla's History
[7/13/1821-10/29/1877] (By NY Times, October 30, 1877)

Wednesday, July 12, 2006:
On This Day: July 12 (Julius Caesar 7/12/100 BC-3/15/44BC, Henry David Thoreau 7/12/1817-5/6/1862, Eugene Boudin 7/12/1824-8/8/1898, Benjamin Altman 7/12/1840-10/7/1913, George Eastman 7/12/1854-3/14/1932, Grederick Birkenhead 7/12/1872-9/30/1930, Amedeo Modigliani 7/12/1884-1/24/1920, Kirsten Flagstad 7/12/1895-12/7/1962, Buckminister Fuller 7/12/1895-7/1/1983, Oscar Hammerstein II 7/12/1895-8/23/1960, Pablo Neruda 7/12/1904-1973, Milton Berle 1908, Andrew Wyeth 1917, Monte Hellman 1932, Van Cliburn 1934, Bill Cosby 1937, Denise Nicholas 1944, Richard Simmons 1948, Jay Thomas 1948, Cheryl Ladd 1951, Kristi Yamaguchi 1971)
Geraldine Ferraro Is Chosen by Mondale as Running Mate, First Women on Major Ticket
(By BERNARD WEINRAUB, July 12, 1984)
* Dr. Carver Is Dead at 81; Negro Scientist's Work Improved Agriculture
[7/12/1861-1/5/1943] (By NY Times, January 6, 1943)

NATIONAL: Come One, Come All, Join the Terror Target List (By ERIC LIPTON, July 12, 2006)
House Backs Crackdown on Gambling on Internet (By KATE PHILLIPS, July 12, 2006)
WORLD: Russia and China Support Sanctions Threat for Iran (By HELENE COOPER & ELAINE SCIOLINO, July 12, 2006)
WORLD: Olympics Imperil Historic Beijing Neighborhood (By JIM YARDLEY, July 12, 2006)
SPORTS: Zidane Offers Explanation for Head-Butting (By PETER BERLIN, July 12, 2006)
American League 3, National League 2: American League Wins M.L.B All-Star Game
(By JACK CURRY, July 12, 2006)
OP-ED: India's Indestructible Heart (By NARESH FERNANDES, July 12, 2006)
* OP-ED: Thank You for Hating My Book (By KATHA POLLITT, July 12, 2006)
* LETTERS: Yes, College Women Work Harder (8 Letters) (By Francesca López, et. al., July 12, 2006)
LETTERS: All Is Fair in Last Names (1 Letter) (By Raleigh Mayer, July 12, 2006)
BUSINESS: Small Gains as Earnings Season Gets Off to Rough Start
[Dow +31.22, Nasdaq +11.93] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 12, 2006)
Wired Magazine Regains Web Sites (By REUTERS, July 12, 2006)
* PHOTOGRAPHY: In Atta Kim's Long-Exposure Photographs, Real Time Is the Most Surreal of All
(By HOLLAND COTTER, July 12, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Man Uses Chip to Control Robot With Thoughts
[A paralyzed man with a small sensor implanted in his brain was able
to control a computer, a television and a robot using only his thoughts.]
(By ANDREW POLLACK, July 12, 2006)

Tuesday, July 11, 2006:
On This Day: July 11 (Robert I, the Bruce 7/11/1274-6/7/1329, John Quincy Adams 7/11/1767-2/23/1848, John Fowler 7/11/1826-12/1864, John Wanamaker 7/11/1838-12/2/1922, Leon Bloy 7/11/1846-11/2/1917, Harry Kellar 7/11/1849-3/10/1922, Georgiana Barryomore 7/11/1854-7/2/1893, Sir Joseph Larmor 7/11/1857-5/19/1942, Roger de La Fresnaye 7/11/1885-11/27/1925, Arthur Tedder 7/11/1890-6/3/1967, E. B. White 7/11/1899-10/1/1985, Rudolf Abel 7/11/1903-11/15/1971, Yul Brynner 7/11/1920-10/10/1985, Brett Somers 1927, Tab Hunter 1931, Bonnie Pointer 1951, Stephen Lang 1952, Leon Spinks 1953, Sela Ward 1956)
Skylab Debris Hits Australian Desert; No Harm Reported (By RICHARD D. LYONS, July 11, 1979)
* E.B. White, Essayist and Stylist, Dies [7/11/1899-10/1/1985] (By HERBERT MITGANG, Oct. 2, 1985)

* June Allyson, Adoring Wife in MGM Films, Is Dead at 88 (By ALJEAN HARMETZ, July 11, 2006)
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd Co-Founder, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 11, 2006)
NATIONAL: Stolen Lives: Meth Users, Attuned to Detail, Add Another Habit: ID Theft (By JOHN LELAND, July 11, 2006)
Investigators Find Medicare Drug Plans Often Give Incomplete and Incorrect Data (By ROBERT PEAR, July 11, 2006)
WORLD: Explosions on Trains in India Kill Scores (By SARITHA RAI & SOMINI SENGUPTA, July 11, 2006)
WORLD: In Big Shift, U.S. to Follow Geneva Treaty for Detainees (By DAVID STOUT & JOHN O'NEIL, July 11, 2006)
NY REGION: How a Town House in N.Y. Went From Dream to Nightmare (By CARA BUCKLEY, July 11, 2006)
SPORTS: Zidane Is Silent; Family Suggests an Insult Provoked Him (By JERE LONGMAN, July 11, 2006)
SPORTS | SOCCER: Racial Incidents Mar Italy's Celebration (By PETER KIEFER, July 11, 2006)
OP-ED: Field of Slobs (By PAUL LUKAS, July 11, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Google to Put a Research Center in Michigan
[Google will hire 1000 for its Ann Arbor center, the hometown of the University of Michigan,
where Larry Page, one of Google's founders, earned his undergraduate degree in engineering.]
(By MICHELINE MAYNARD & NICK BUNKLEY, July 11, 2006)
TV | 'Tintin and I': Hergé, Mild-Mannered Father of the Adventurous Tintin (By ANITA GATES, July 11, 2006)
TV: MSNBC's Star Carves Anti-Fox Niche (By BILL CARTER, July 11, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, July 11, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Rogue Giants at Sea (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, July 11, 2006)
* SCIENCE BOOKS: A Peek Into the Remarkable Mind Behind the Genetic Code (By NICHOLAS WADE, July 11, 2006)
Reporter's Notebook: New Scrutiny for Every Speck on the Shuttle (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, July 11, 2006)
* OBSERVATORY: Teaching Smart Paper to Bend to Human Needs (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, July 11, 2006)
* FINDINGS: As the World Wobbles [earth atmosphere weight: 5000 trillion metric tons]
(By ANDREW C. REVKIN, July 11, 2006)
SCIENCE: Racing to Know the Rarest of Rhinos, Before It's Too Late (By MARK DERR, July 11, 2006)
SCIENCE: Where the Cattle Herds Roam, Ideally in Harmony With Their Neighbors (By JIM ROBBINS, July 11, 2006)
Q & A: Terrors of the Deep (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, July 11, 2006)
HEALTH | Interactive Graphic: Science Illustrated: Lasik Surgery (By Graham Roberts & Vu Nguyen, July 11, 2006)
* REALLY? | The Claim: Your Diet Can Bring on an Acne Outbreak (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, July 11, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Forget the Second Helpings. It's the First Ones That Count. (By JANE E. BRODY, July 11, 2006)
* HEALTH: How Parents Mold Their Children's Weight (By JANE E. BRODY, July 11, 2006)
Scientist at Work | Anthony Atala: A Tissue Engineer Sows Cells and Grows Organs (By ANN PARSON, July 11, 2006)
PROSPECTS: A Tale of Two Drugs Hints at Promise for Genetic (By GINA KOLATA, July 11, 2006)
SIDE EFFECTS: Come Here Often? And by the Way, Did You Happen to Notice That Gorilla? (NY TIMES, July 11, 2006)
CASES: He Wasn't Thinking Straight. So How Do You Get Through? (By SANDEEP JAUHAR, M.D., July 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Treatment: Condom-Style Catheter Cuts Men's Infection Risk (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, July 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/health/nutrition/11nutr.html (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, July 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | On the Scales: Ex-Smokers May Discover a Few Extra Pounds (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, July 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Patterns: Sleep Proves More Elusive Than Many Believe (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, July 11, 2006)

Monday, July 10, 2006:
On This Day: July 10 (John Calvin 7/10/1509-5/27/1564, Sir William Blackstone 7/10/1723-2/14/1780, Robert Chambers 7/10/1802-3/17/1871, Camille Pissarro 7/10/1830-11/13/1903, Adolphus Busch 7/10/1839-10/10/1913, Nikoli Tesla 7/10/1856-1/7/1943, Finley Peter Dunne 7/10/1867-4/24/1936, Marcel Proust 7/10/1871-11/18/1922, Mary McLeod Bethune 7/10/1875-5/18/1955, Carl Orff 7/10/1895-3/29/1982, Kurt Alder 7/10/1902-6/20/1958, Jorge Icaza 7/10/1906-5/26/1978, David Brinkley 1920, Jake LaMotta 1921, Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921, David Dinkins 1927, Jerry Herman 1933, Ivan Passer 1933, Lawrence Pressman 1939, Virginia Wade 1945, Ron Glass 1945, Sue Lyon 1946, Arlo Guthrie 1947, Jessica Simpson 1980)
* 100 Planes Clash in Battle Over a Convoy in Channel; Fight Off Italy Indecisive (By JAMES MACDONALD, July 10, 1940)
* Arthur Ashe, Tennis Star, Is Dead at 49 [7/10/1943-2/6/1993] (By ROBIN FINN, February 8, 1993)

NY REGION: Suspect in Tunnel Bombing Plot Had Maps, Beirut Official Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 10, 2006)
With Soccer on the Screen, France-Italy Borders Spring Up All Across New York
(By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, July 10, 2006)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, July 10, 2006)
SPORTS: A Star Falters, France Fades, Italy Rejoices (By JERE LONGMAN, July 10, 2006)
OP-ED: Too Many Doctors in the House (By DAVID C. GOODMAN, July 10, 2006)
OP-ED: What's Bad for Putin Is Best for Russians (By GARRY KASPAROV, July 10, 2006)
LETTERS: The Difference a Teacher Makes (4 Letters) (By Barbara Yost Williams, et. al., July 10, 2006)
LETTERS: Boys and Girls in School (1 Letter) (By James Siegel, July 10, 2006)
BUSINESS: Rural Idaho Town Seeks to Turn Film's Cult Status Into Prosperity (By LAURA M. HOLSON, July 10, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: At AOL, a Plan for a Clean Break (By SAUL HANSELL, July 10, 2006)

Sunday, July 9, 2006:
On This Day: July 9 (Thomas De La Warr 7/9/1577-6/7/1618, Thomas Davenport 7/9/1802-7/6/1851, Elias Howe 7/9/1819-10/3/1867, Ottorino Respighi 7/9/1879-4/18/1936, Mikhail Borodin 7/9/1887-5/15/1976, Samuel Eliot Morison 7/9/1887-5/15/1976, Dorothy Thompseon 7/9/1894-1/30/1961, Albert Wedemeyer 7/9/1897-12/17/1989, Carmen Franco 7/9/1900-2/6/1988, Meryn Peake 7/9/1911-11/17/1968, Edward Heath 1916, Ed Ames 1927, Donald Rumsfeld 1932, James Hampton 1936, Brian Dennegy 1938, Richard Roundtree 1942, Dean Koontz 1945, O.J. Simpson 1947, Chris Cooper 1951, John Tesh 1952, Debbie Sledge 1954, Lisa Banes 1955, Tom Hanks 1956, Kelly McGillis 1957, Courtney Love 1964, Fred Savage 1976)
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
(NY TIMES, July 9, 1896)
Hassan II of Morocco Dies at 70; A Monarch Oriented to the West
[7/9/1929-7/23/1999] (By JOSEPH R. GREGORY, July 24, 1999)
Cartoon about the American Indian burial mounds (Harper's Weekly, July 9, 1887)
NATIONAL: Gangs Grow Active Online, So the Authorities Home In (ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 9, 2006)
Recent Arrests in Terror Plots Yield Debate on Pre-emptive Action by Government (By ERIC LIPTON, July 9, 2006)
U.S. to Negotiate Russian Storage of Atomic Waste (By DAVID E. SANGER & JIM RUTENBERG, July 9, 2006)
* EDUCATION | The New Gender Divide: At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust (By TAMAR LEWIN, July 9, 2006)
WORLD: Leftist Predicts Unrest Without Complete Recount of Mexican Election (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. & GINGER THOMPSON, July 9, 2006)
U.S. Military Braces for Flurry of Criminal Cases in Iraq (By ROBERT F. WORTH, July 9, 2006)
WORLD: Guggenheim Foundation and Abu Dhabi Plan Museum There (By CAROL VOGEL, July 9, 2006)
NY REGION: Before the Downfall of a Priest, a Fondness for the Good Life (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, July 9, 2006)
Buffalo Journal: What Does Bioinformatics Mean? To an Ailing Industrial Region, the Answer Is Jobs
(By DAVID STABA, July 9, 2006)
SPORTS | SOCCER: France's Aging Magician Conjures a Final Trick (By JERE LONGMAN, July 9, 2006)
SPORTS | SOCCER: Germany Takes 3rd With Win Over Portugal 3-1 (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 9, 2006)
BASEBALL: Cabrera Used to Being a Duck on the Pond [on base 63 consecutive games]
(NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)
BASEBALL: Ortiz and the Bullpen Bail Out a Shaky Beckett (ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 9, 2006)
OP-ED: Immigration— and the Curse of the Black Legend (By TONY HORWITZ, July 9, 2006)
OP-ED: The Dead of Winter (By KATE BRAESTRUP, July 9, 2006)
OP-ED: Canning the Bottle Bill (By JOHN A. CATSIMATIDIS, July 9, 2006)
OP-ED: A Soccer Scandal Made for Television (By ALEXANDER STILLE, July 9, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)
BUSINESS: Investors Lead Home Sale Boom in New Orleans (By SUSAN SAULNY, July 9, 2006)
MARKET WEEK: A Time to Play Some Defense (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, July 9, 2006)
Root, Root, Root for the Start-Up (By GARY RIVLIN, July 9, 2006)
Cashing In Its Chips [Texas Instruments] (By DAMON DARLIN, July 9, 2006)
Everybody's Business: A City on a Hill, or a Looting Opportunity (By BEN STEIN, July 9, 2006)
INVESTING: Drink, Smoke and Gamble, and This Fund Climbs (By JOSHUA BROCKMAN, July 9, 2006)
FUNDAMENTALLY: Cash May Not Be King, but It's Wielding More Power (By PAUL J. LIM, July 9, 2006)
CAREER COUCH: That's Your Desk. It Used to Be Mine. (By MATT VILLANO, July 9, 2006)
THE BOSS: Keeping His Day Job [Mark P. Mays, CEO, Clear Channel Communications]
(As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN, July 9, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)
* ARTS | Close Reading: Entering an Expectant Realm in Hopper's 'Office at Night'
(By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, July 9, 2006)
FILM: Eat Drink Make Movie: Hollywood's Next Course (By STEVE CHAGOLLAN, July 9, 2006)
MUSIC: Never Mind the Monster, Watch Out for the Set of the Opera 'Grendel' (By DANIEL WAKIN, July 9, 2006)
TV: The State of the Art of the Anime Dub (By CHARLES SOLOMON, July 9, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)
* STYLE: A Job With Travel but No Vacation (By WARREN ST. JOHN, July 9, 2006)
FASHION: In Paris, Only the Moat Was Missing (By CATHY HORYN, July 9, 2006)
Happiness Is Three Sheep and a Dog (By LAURA M. HOLSON, July 9, 2006)
* MODERN LOVE: Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map)
[I scroll through the messages to see where my friends went last night, and when,
tracking their progress through various bars and noting the crossed paths. I check
the Google map that displays their locations and proximity to one another.]
(By THEODORA STITES, July 9, 2006)
POSSESSED: Beauty and the Bats (By DAVID COLMAN, July 9, 2006)
VOWS: Sherazad Saleem and Mus Jaffery (By STEPHEN HENDERSON, July 9, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)
Flight Lessons: Failure Can Be Successful (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, July 9, 2006)
THE WORLD: Four Scenarios, and Not One Ends Happily (By DAVID E. SANGER, July 9, 2006)
THE WORLD: Among the Ghosts: Heroes and Grand Plans (By DEXTER FILKINS, July 9, 2006)
When the Personality Disorder Wears Camouflage (By BENEDICT CAREY, July 9, 2006)
Political Geography: Mexico Faces Its Own Red-Blue Standoff (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., July 9, 2006)
IDEAS & TRENDS: The Great Outdoors, Tailored to Your Needs (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, July 9, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Parts of Speech (By BEN YAGODA, July 9, 2006)
Questions for Peter W. Galbraith: The Breakup (Compiled by DEBORAH SOLOMON, July 9, 2006)
Freakonomics: Flesh Trade (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT, July 9, 2006)
CONSUMED: Short and Sweet (By ROB WALKER, July 9, 2006)
THE ETHICIST: Cowardly or Canny? (By RANDY COHEN, July 9, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: The Immigration Equation (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, July 9, 2006)
* A Family History in Rewrite (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, July 9, 2006)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: Salad Daze (By AMANDA HESSER, July 9, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, July 9, 2006)

Saturday, July 8, 2006:
On This Day: July 8 (Samuel Gross 7/8/1805-5/6/1884, Alfred Binet 7/8/1857-10/18/1911, Kathe Kollwitz 7/8/1867-4/22/1945, Percy Grainger 7/8/1882-2/28/1961, Ernst Bloch 7/8/1885-8/4/1977, Alec Waugh 7/8/1898-9/3/1981, David Lilienthat 7/8/1899-1/15/1981, Nelson Rockefeller 7/8/1908-1/26/1979, Louis Jordan 7/8/1908-2/4/1975, Billy Eckstine 7/8/1914-3/8/1993, Roone Arledge 1931, Jerry Vale 1932, Steve Lawrence 1935, Cynthia Gregory 1946, Kim Darby 1948, Raffi 1948, Anjelica Huston 1951, Kevin Bacon 1958, Toby Keith 1961, Rob Burnett 1962)
* Truman Names MacArthur to Head U.N. Force in Korea (By WALTER H. WAGGONNER, July 8, 1950)
* John Davison Rockefeller Dies at 97, Financier's Fortune in Oil Amassed in Industrial Era of 'Rugged Individualism'
[7/8/1839-5/23/1937] (NY TIMES, May 24, 1937)

Joseph J. Schildkraut, 72, Brain Chemistry Researcher, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, July 8, 2006)
WORLD: Kremlin Curtails U.S.-Financed Radio Broadcasts to Russians (By C. J. CHIVERS, July 8, 2006)
OP-ED: How to Be a Good Neighbor (By GREG GRANDIN, July 8, 2006)
OP-ED: Four Eyes and Two Whistles (By DAVID HIRSHEY, July 8, 2006)
LETTERS: Kenneth Lay, in Life and Death (2 Letters) (By Gaël Eichler, et. al., July 8, 2006)
LETTERS: New York's Gay Marriage Decision (6 Letters) (By Larry Sternbane, et.al., July 8, 2006)
TV Is Now Interactive, Minus Images, on the Web (By MARIA ASPAN, July 8, 2006)

Friday, July 7, 2006:
On This Day: July 7 (Joseph-Marie Jacquard 7/7/1752-8/7/1834, Abraham Cahan 7/7/1860-8/31/1951, Gustave Mahler 7/7/1860-5/18/1911, Marc Chagall 7/7/1887-3/28/1985, George Cukor 7/7/1899-1/24/1983, Vittorio De Sica 7/7/1901-11/13/1974, Robert Heinlein 7/7/1907-5/8/1988, Lawrence O'Brien 7/7/1917-9/28/1990, Ezzard Charles 7/7/1921-5/28/1975, Gian Carlo Menotti 1911, Pinetop Perkins 1913, Pierre Cardin 1922, Doc Severinsen 1927, David McCullough 1933, Ringo Starr 1940, Joe Spano 1946, Linda Williams 1947, Shelley Duvall 1949, Roz Ryan 1951, Michelle Kwan 1980)
Reagan Nominates Sandra Day O'Connor as First Woman to Serve on Supreme Court
(By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, July 7, 1981)
* Satchel Paige, Black Pitching Star, Is Dead at 75 [7/7/1906-6/8/1982] (By JOSEPH DURSO, June 9, 1982)

Ralph Ginzburg, 76, Publisher in Obscenity Case, Dies (By STEVEN HELLER, July 7, 2006)
* ART: When Venice Shook the World (By HOLLAND COTTER, July 7, 2006)

Thursday, July 6, 2006:
On This Day: July 6 (John Paul Jones 7/6/1747-7/18/1792, Sir William Hooker 7/6/1785-8/12/1865, Maximilian 7/6/1832-6/19/1867, Vernor von Heidenstam 7/6/1859-5/20/1940, Godfrey Malvern 7/6/1883-5/8/1971, Marc Bloch 7/6/1886-6/16/1944, Axel Theorell 7/6/1903-8/15/1982, Dorothy Kirsten 7/6/1910-11/18/1992, Billy Haley 7/6/1925-2/9/1981, Nancy Reagan 1921, William Schallert 1922, Merv Griffin 1925, Janet Leigh 1927, Della Reese 1931, Ned Beatty 1937, Gene Chandler 1937, George W. Bush 1946, Fred Dryer 1946, Sylvester Stallone 1946, Burt Ward 1946, Shelley Hack 1952, Nanci Griffith 1953)
* Althea Gibson Becomes First Black to Win Wimbledon Tennis (By FRED TUPPER, July 6, 1957)
* Frida Kahlo, Artist, Diego Rivera's Wife, Dies at 44 [7/6/1907-7/13/1954] (NY TIMES, July 14, 1954)

NATIONAL | A Touchy Topic: Boomer in Chief Hits the Big 6-0 (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, July 6, 2006)
SPORTS | France 1, Portugal 0: Zidane Leads the Old Men of Europe Into the Final (By MARK LANDLER, July 6, 2006)
BASEBALL | Yankees 11, Indians 3: Yankees Rebound, but Damon Falls to the Side (By TYLER KEPNER, July 6, 2006)
BASEBALL | Mets 5, Pirates 0: Slow-Pitch Baseball as Hernández Quells the Pirates Softly (By BEN SHPIGEL, July 6, 2006)
TENNIS: Federer Breezes Through Hard Draw (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, July 6, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Ken Lay's Final Act (NY TIMES, July 6, 2006)
* ART: Dada's Women, Ahead of Their Time [Mina Loy, painter & poet]
(By HOLLAND COTTER, July 6, 2006)
* GARDEN | At Home With Donald Hall: For a Poet, the Farmhouse as Muse
[Donald Hall works in the small room he started writing in more than
60 years ago; there is still no computer, or even a typewriter.]
(By JEN BANBURY, July 6, 2006)

Wednesday, July 5, 2006:
On This Day: July 5 (David Farragut 7/5/1801-8/14/1870, Robert Fitzroy 7/5/1805-4/30/1865, Cecil Rhodes 7/5/1853-3/26/1902, Edouard Herriot 7/5/1872-3/26/1957, Judah Leon Magnes 7/5/1877-10/27/1948, Dwight Davis 7/5/1879-11/28/1945, Wanda Landowska 7/5/1879-8/16/1959, Willem Drees 7/5/1886-5/14/1988, John Howard Northrop 7/5/1891-5/27/1987, Henry Cabot Lodge 7/5/1902-2/27/1985, Georges Pompidou 7/5/1911-4/2/1974, Manolete 7/5/1917-8/29/1947, Jatherine Helmond 1934, Shirley Knight 1936, Julie Nixon Eisenhower 1948, Rich "Goose" Gossage 1951, Marc Cohn 1959)
* Ashe Topples Connors for Crown at Wimbledon (By FRED TUPPER, July 5, 1975)
* Phineas T. Barnum, The Great Showman Dead at 80 [7/5/1810-4/7/1891] (NY TIMES, April 8, 1891)

Tuesday, July 4, 2006:
On This Day: July 4 (Jean-Pierre Blanchard 7/14/1753-3/7/1809, Nathaniel Hawthorne 7/4/1804-5/19/1864, Giuseppe Garibaldi 7/4/1807-6/2/1882, E. R. Squibb 7/4/1819-10/25/1900, Stephen Foster 7/4/1826-1/13/1864, Rube Goldberg 7/4/1883-12/7/1970, Louis B. Mayer 7/4/1885-10/29/1957, Gertrude Lawrence 7/4/1898-9/6/1952, George Murphy 7/4/1902-5/3/1992, Lionel Trilling 7/4/1905-11/5/1975, Mitch Miller 1911, Abigail Van Buren 1918, Ann Landers 1918, Eva Marie Saint 1924, Meil Simon 1927, Gina Lollobrigida 1928, George Steinbrenner 1930, Ray Pillow 1937, Karolyn Grimes 1940, Geraldo Rivera 1943, Pam Shriver 1962)
Nation and Millions in City Joyously Hail Bicentennial (By RICHARD F. SHEPARD, July 4, 1976)
Calvin Coolidge Dies at 60, Unusual Political Career, Never Defeated for an Office
[7/4/1872-1/5/1933] (NY TIMES, January 6, 1933)

* NATIONAL | Stolen Lives: Identity Thief Finds Easy Money Hard to Resist (By TOM ZELLER Jr., July 4, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: Teachers Matter (NY TIMES, July 4, 2006)
* BOOKS: A Stolen Identity in 'Talk Talk' by T. C. Boyle (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, July 4, 2006)
HEALTH: The Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking (By KATY BUTLER, July 4, 2006)

Monday, July 3, 2006:
On This Day: July 3 (Robert Adam 7/3/1728-3/3/1792, Samuel Huntington 7/3/1731-1/5/1796, John Singleton Copley 7/3/1738-9/9/1815, Dankmar Adler 7/3/1844-4/16/1900, Charlotte Gilman 7/3/1860-8/17/1935, Franz Kafka 7/3/1883-6/3/1924, M.F.K. Fisher 7/3/1908-6/22/1992, Stavros Spyros Niarchos 7/3/1909-4/15/1996, Dorothy Kilgallen 7/3/1913-11/8/1965, Ken Russell 1927, Pete Fountain 1930, Tom Stoppard 1937, Jay Tarses 1939, Michael Cole 1945, Dave Barry 1947, Montel Williams 1956, Laura Branigan 1957, Tom Cruise 1962, Hunter Tylo 1962)
* Battle of Gettysburg ended after three days in a major victory for the North (NY TIMES, July 3, 1863)
* George M. Cohan, 64, Dies at Home Here Overlooking Central Park [7/3/1878-11/5/1942] (NY TIMES, November 6, 1942)

NATIONAL: A New Partnership Binds Old Republican Rivals (By JIM RUTENBERG and ADAM NAGOURNEY, July 3, 2006)
NATIONAL: Marijuana Fight Envelops Fisherman's Wharf (By JESSE McKINLEY, July 3, 2006)
WORLD: World Cup Brings Little Pleasure to German Brothels (By MARK LANDLER, July 3, 2006)
* WORLD: A Terror Strike, Choreographed on a Computer (By RAYMOND BONNER, July 3, 2006)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, July 3, 2006)
SPORTS: Secret of World Cup Success: Teamwork (By GEORGE VECSEY, July 3, 2006)
* ON BASEBALL: No-Hitter Requires a Complete Game (By MURRAY CHASS, July 3, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: How to Educate Young Scientists (NY TIMES, July 3, 2006)
OP-ED: Devil's Island, New York (By EDWIN G. BURROWS, July 3, 2006)
OP-ED | The Rural Life: Three Birds (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, July 2, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: AT&T Is Calling to Ask About TV Service. Will Anyone Answer? (By KEN BELSON, July 3, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor
[Even as Google spends more than $1.5 billion this year on operations centers
and technology, most of the hundreds of thousands of servers it will deploy
are being custom-made based on Google's own eccentric designs.]
(By SAUL HANSELL & JOHN MARKOFF, July 3, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Internet Calling Pressures Bells to Lower Rates (By MATT RICHTEL and KEN BELSON, July 3, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Studying a Brain Healing From 19 Lost Years (By BENEDICT CAREY, July 3, 2006)

Sunday, July 2, 2006:
On This Day: July 2 (Thomas Cranmer 7/2/1489-3/21/1556, Christoph Glück 7/2/1714-11/15/1787, Richar Henry Stoddard 7/2/1825-5/12/1903, Frederick Gates 7/2/1853-2/6/1929, Clarence Barron 7/2/1855-10/2/1928, Hermann Hesse 7/2/1877-8/9/1962, Hugh Dryden 7/2/1898-12/2/1965, Sir Tyrone Guthrie 7/2/1903-10/9/1995, Sir Alec Douglas-Home 7/2/1903-10/9/1995, Medgar Evers 7/2/1925-6/12/1963, Patrice Lumumba 7/2/1925-1/?/1961, Brock Peters 1927, Imelda Marcos 1929, Ahmad Jamal 1930, Robert Ito 1931, Polly Holliday 1937, John Sununu 1949, Ron Silver 1946, Luci Baines Johnson Turpin 1947, Roy Bittan 1949, Jerry Hall 1956)
Miss Earhart Forced Down at Sea, Howland Isle Fears; Coast Guard Begins Search (ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 2, 1937)
Thurgood Marshall, Civil Rights Hero, Dies at 84 [7/2/1908-1/24/1993] (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, January 25, 1993)

SPORTS | France 1, Brazil 0: France Beats Brazil at Its Own Game (By JERE LONGMAN, July 2, 2006)
BUSINESS: Buffett Children Emerge as a Force in Charity (By JEFF BAILEY, July 2, 2006)
BUSINESS: Novelties: A Pen That's More Than Meets the Paper (By ANNE EISENBERG, July 2, 2006)
ART: Contents (NY TIMES, July 2, 2006)
* ART | An Artist Who Assembled A Life in Dozens of Boxes [Joseph Cornell]
(By BEN GENOCCHIO, July 2, 2006)
ART: A Heart of Darkness in the City of Light (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, July 2, 2006)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, July 2, 2006)
TRAVEL: In Turkey, Sailing Into the Exotic on a Blue Cruise (By TAYLOR HOLLIDAY, July 2, 2006)
TRAVEL FRANCE: Going to Lyon (By ANN M. MORRISON, July 2, 2006)
TRAVEL: Armchair Traveler: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, July 2, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, July 2, 2006)
* Celebrating July 2: 10 Days That Changed History (By ADAM GOODHEART, July 2, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: The Lonely American Just Got a Bit Lonelier (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, July 2, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: And They All Died Happily Ever After (By CHARLES McGRATH, July 2, 2006)
The Ultra-Rich Give Differently From You and Me (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, July 2, 2006)
A History of Publishing, and Not Publishing, Secrets (By SCOTT SHANE, July 2, 2006)
You Call This a Car? We Have Bigger Cockroaches (By DAN BARRY, July 2, 2006)
* BUSINESS | Digital Domain: AOL Said, 'If You Leave Me I'll Do Something Crazy' (By RANDALL STROSS, July 2, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, July 2, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Alright (By AARON BRITT, July 2, 2006)
* IDEA LAB: The Modern Rain Dance (By JEFF HULL, July 2, 2006)
* COVER ARTICLE: Capitalist Roaders (By TED CONOVER, July 2, 2006)
Déjà Vu, Again and Again (By EVAN RATLIFF, July 2, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, July 2, 2006)

Saturday, July 1, 2006:
On This Day: July 1 (Gottfried Leibniz 7/1/1646-11/14/1716, Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau 7/1/1725-5/10/1807, George Sand 7/1/1804-6/8/1876, Susan Glaspell 7/1/1882-7/27/1948, James Cain 7/1/1892-10/27/1977, Charles Laughton 7/1/1899-12/15/1962, William Wyler 7/1/1902-7/27/1981, Mary Steichen Calderone 7/1/1904-10/24/1998, William Dixon 7/1/1915-1/29/1992, Jean Stafford 7/1/1915-3/26/1979, Diana, Princess of Wales 7/1/1961-8/31/1997, Olivia de Havilland 1916, Farley Granger 1925, Leslie Caron 1931, Claude Berri 1934, Jamie Farr 1934, Jean Marsh 1934, Pat McCormick 1934, Sydney Pollack 1934, David Prowse 1935, Wally Amos 1936, Twyla Tharp 1941, Karen Black 1942, Genevieve Bujold 1942, Deborah Harry 1945, Michael Pressman 1950, Dan Aykroyd 1952, Carl Lewis 1961, Pamela Anderson 1967, Liv Tyler 1977)
A New Leader Outlines His Vision for Hong Kong (By EDWARD A. GARGAN, July 1, 1997)
Walter White, 61, Dies in Home Here [7/1/1893-3/21/1955] (NY TIMES, March 22, 1955)

BUSINESS | Your Money: Airfares Made Easy (or Easier) (By DAMON DARLIN, July 1, 2006)