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

Tuesday, May 23, 2000:
* John Gielgud, 96, Dies; Beacon of Classical Stage (By MEL GUSSOW, May 23, 2000)
4 Giants Set to Embrace Electronic Publishing (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, May 23, 2000)
Ebay Nowhere: Sale of Internet Address Is Canceled (By STEVEN VAMES , May 23, 2000)
A Typical Day: Stocks Plunge, Then Rebound (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, May 23, 2000)
A Developing Nation on the Frontiers of Space (By LARRY ROHTE, May 23, 2000)
Yahoo Introduces Direct Stock Plan (By ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 23, 2000)
* BOOKS: For Writers, Father and Son, Out of Conflict Grew Love (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, May 23, 2000)
In Mandrill Society, Life Is a Girl Thing (By NATALIE ANGIER, May 23, 2000)
SCIENCE Q&A: Rotten Fish (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 23, 2000)
Is It a Plane? No, It's a Bird. And a Very Rare Bird Indeed (By E. VERNON LAUX, May 23, 2000)
New Beacon Into Molecular World (By KENNETH CHANG, May 23, 2000)
* ESSAY: And Now, 'The Court Jester in the Palace of Science' (By MALCOLM W. BROWNE, May 23, 2000)
OBSERVATORY: Mystery Reproduction (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 23, 2000)
Scientists Cast Bets on Human Genes; a Winner Will Be Picked in 2003 (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 23, 2000)
Clues to Mad Cow Disease Emerge in Study of Mutant Proteins (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, May 23, 2000)
Cult of the Colon: From Little Liver Pills to Big Obsessions (By DENISE GRADY, May 23, 2000)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Vindication for the Maligned Fiber Diet (By JANE E. BRODY, May 23, 2000)

Monday, May 22, 2000:
* Barbara Cartland, 98, Best-Selling Author Who Prized Old-Fashioned Romance, Dies (By RICHARD SEVERO, May 22, 2000)
William Segal, 95, Publisher Who Painted Self-Portraits (By PAUL LEWIS, May 22, 2000)
David Guralnik, Lexicographer, Dies at 79 (By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr., May 22, 2000)
Op-Ed: I Remember Mae (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 22, 2000)
Brassai Retrospective Reveals an All-Round Artist (By ALAN RIDING, May 22, 2000)
* WRITERS ON WRITING: Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart (By LOUISE ERDRICH, May 22, 2000)
THEATER REVIEW: Muse Charmed by the Nature of Zero (By BRUCE WEBER, May 22, 2000)
DANCE REVIEW: In Rich Full Spectacle, New 'Swan Lake' Tells the Story Straight (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, May 22, 2000)
TELEVISION REVIEW: He Changed Photography and Transformed Society (By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 22, 2000)
Can Mary Higgins Clark Lure Her Faithful to E-Books? (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, May 22, 2000)
Publishers Use Secrecy in Harry Potter Promotion (By ALAN COWELL, May 22, 2000)
Renting Software and the Skills to Go With It (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, May 22, 2000)
COMPRESSED DATA: Homing In on īIntelligentī Web Design (By TIM RACE, May 22, 2000)
NEW ECONOMY: Law Firms See a Bill Come Due (By DAVID LEONHARDT, May 22, 2000)
Agentīs Role in Music Site Changes War Over Rights (By MATT RICHTEL, May 22, 2000)
E-Commerce: Selling to the Global Village (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 22, 2000)

Sunday, May 21, 2000:
* Jean-Pierre Rampal Dies; Popular Flutist Was 78 (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 21, 2000)
Sonny Liston: He Never Knew What Hit Him (By ALLEN BARRA, May 21, 2000)
* REVELATIONS: The Third Secret Raises More Questions (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, May 21, 2000)
'Millionaire' Cashes In (By BILL CARTER, May 21, 2000)
WORD FOR WORD: They Couldn't Resist: Oh, One Last Thing (By JEFF STRYKER, May 21, 2000)
Financial Index (May 21, 2000)
MARKET WATCH: Of Information Overload and the 'Efficient' Market (By ALEX BERENSON, May 21, 2000)
THE RIGHT THING: Telling the Truth, or at Least Most of It (By JEFFREY L. SEGLIN, May 21, 2000)
Funds That Invite More Peeping (By DANNY HAKIM, May 21, 2000)
* STRATEGIES: The Bullishness That Isn't Bullish (By MARK HULBERT, May 21, 2000)
MARKET INSIGHT: WorldCom, With or Without Sprint (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, May 21, 2000)
INVESTING: Neil Barsky and Scott Sipprelle, MRG Nucleus Fund (By ALEX BERENSON, May 21, 2000)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: The Side Effects of Surfing on the Job (By LISA FICKENSCHER, May 21, 2000)
GRASS-ROOTS BUSINESS: Offbeat Office Space for the New Economy (By JOEL KOTKIN, May 21, 2000)
For Bank C.D.'s, a Return to Fashion (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., May 21, 2000)
PRELUDES: Congratulations! Remember Me? (By ABBY ELLIN, May 21, 2000)
Kodak Is Reloading, but Its Stock Is Jammed (By JOANNE LEGOMSKY, May 21, 2000)
* Ram Dass: The Dass Effect (By SARA DAVIDSON, May 21, 2000)

Saturday, May 20, 2000:
Taiwan's New Leader Ends Decades of Nationalist Rule (By ERIK ECKHOLM, May 20, 2000)
Stocks Decline Broadly Amid Ongoing Rate Jitters (By ALEX BERENSON, May 20, 2000)
Traveling on the Wings of the Dollar (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, May 20, 2000)
Korean Traders Want Their Lunch and Time to Eat It, Too (By SAMUEL LEN, May 20, 2000)
Anti-Virus Companies Warn of New Rogue Programīs Danger (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 20, 2000)
Egreetings Stock Jumps on Microsoft Pact (By REUTERS, May 20, 2000)
Drkoop.com Lays Off 35 Percent of Staff (By REUTERS, May 20, 2000)

Friday, May 19, 2000:
Richard F. Arens, 81, Mathematician and Teacher (By By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 19, 2000)
Michel Kazan, 92, Hairstylist Known for Bouffant Hairdos (By ENID NEMY, May 19, 2000)
Health Care Company Agrees to Settle Fraud Charges (By KURT EICHENWALD, May 19, 2000)
* Scientists Find a Particularly Female Response to Stress (By ERICA GOODE, May 19, 2000)
Scientists Offer a Vision of New Tools to Explore Space (By JAMES GLANZ, May 19, 2000)
Flamboyant Owner Finds a Horse to Match (By JOE DRAPE & HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 19, 2000)
Stanley Shopkorn: A Great Stock Trader Sails Off, at Least for the Summer (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 19, 2000)
Boo.com, Online Fashion Retailer, Goes Out of Business (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, May 19, 2000)
New Bug Loose in Computers, Experts Say (By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 19, 2000)
Philippine 'Love Bug' Investigators Question Former Computer Students (By ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 19, 2000)
Technology Shares Slump, but the Dow Ekes Out a Gain (By REUTERS, May 19, 2000)
Chief of Fiber Optic Leader Retires, Citing Exhaustion (By LAWRENCE M. FISHER, May 19, 2000)
Lucent to Add Over 2,000 Jobs (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 19, 2000)
Computer Whizzes at Philippine Pay (By WAYNE ARNOLD, May 19, 2000)
ADVERTISING: ABC Goes in Search of a Younger Audience for Its Soap Operas (By STUART ELLIOTT, May 19, 2000)
In New Forum for Domain Name Disputes, Trademark Holders Dominate (By JERI CLAUSING, May 19, 2000)
Presenting a Fight to the Death From 80,000,000 B.C. (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, May 19, 2000)
ART REVIEW: Kitsch in Sync With Treasures (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 19, 2000)
BOOK REVIEW: Exploring the Morning of a Long Day's Journey (By JOSEPH J. ELLIS, May 19, 2000)
DESIGN REVIEW: Power in Irreverent Imagery (By ROBERTA SMITH, May 19, 2000)
FILM REVIEW: The Ascent of Mankind: An Allegory in 38 Minutes (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 19, 2000)
Two Old Foes, Buckley and Yale, Signal Truce (By PAUL ZIELBAUER, May 19, 2000)
Op-Ed: When Every Child Is an Only Child (By EUGENIE ALLEN, May 19, 2000)

Thursday, May 18, 2000:
MARKET PLACE: Unmutual Fund: An Iconoclast's Idea (By PATRICK McGEEHAN, May 18, 2000)
ECONOMIC SCENE: How Not to Treat Elephants Like Fish (By VIRGINIA POSTREL, May 18, 2000)
TheStreet.com Threatens to Cancel Program in a Dispute With Fox (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 18, 2000)
Lycos Reports a 120% Increase in Revenue (By CAROLYN KOO, May 18, 2000)
AT&T Wireless Offers Free Net Access (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 18, 2000)
CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 18, 2000)
NEWS WATCH: Photo Bought on the Web May Show Emily Dickinson (By SHELLY FREIERMAN, May 18, 2000)
* Secrecy for Everyone, as Encryption Goes to Market (By LISA GUERNSEY, May 18, 2000)
HOW IT WORKS: Pull Up a Lawn Chair and Watch the Robot Mow the Grass
[For Homeowners Who Dream of Electric Sheep, Robomow RL-500
is one of several robotic lawn mowers on the market; costs $795]
(By MINDY SINK, May 18, 2000)
Life in the Slow Lane (By CATHERINE GREENMAN, May 18, 2000)
STATE OF THE ART: To Prepare for Worst, Back Up (By PETER H. LEWIS, May 18, 2000)
Study Reveals Web As Loosely Woven (By IAN AUSTEN, May 18, 2000)
GAME THEORY: Trading an Angelic Face for Any Face That Comes Along (By JOE HUTSKO, May 18, 2000)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Net Pawnshops Say They're Just the Ticket (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, May 18, 2000)
Book Talk: 'Flags of Our Fathers'— Run It Up, See Who Salutes (By MARTIN ARNOLD, May 18, 2000)
Low-Salt and High-Produce Diet Is Found to Tame Hypertension (By DENISE GRADY, May 18, 2000)
Millions of Years and Millions of Dollars Later, T. Rex Unveiled (By ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 18, 2000)
* Letters: One Thing Is Certain: The Mysteries of Physics [Bohr on Clarity] (By LAWRENCE LITT, M.D., May 18, 2000)

Wednesday, May 17, 2000:
* Karl Shapiro, Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 86 (By RICHARD SEVERO, May 17, 2000)
* Herbert Cahoon, Curator at the Morgan Library, Is Dead (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, May 17, 2000)
Fed Lifts Key Rate by 1/2 Point to 6.5% (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, May 17, 2000)
MARKET PLACE: Fed Increases the Dose, but Economy Stays Strong (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 17, 2000)
In the Pursuit of Cybercriminals Real Detectives Turn to Amateurs (By MATT RICHTEL, May 17, 2000)
Terra Agrees to Buy Lycos for $12.5 Billion (By SAUL HANSELL, May 17, 2000)
Hewlett Posts 6.5% Increase in Earnings for 2nd Quarter (By LAWRENCE M. FISHER, May 17, 2000)
'Love Bug' May Have Over 40 Authors (By REUTERS, May 17, 2000)
THE BOSS: Loves Fights. And Cliches. (By ROBERT J. DAVIS, CEO, Lycos Inc., May 17, 2000)
Paul G. Allen: He's Turning Seattle Into His Kind of Town— Microsoft Billionaire Alters Landscape
(By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, May 17, 2000)
* The Internet and Schools: a Vision and the Reality (By BARNABY FEDER, May 17, 2000)
* Education: Making Sure Brand-New Teachers Know Technology (By REBECCA S. WEINER , May 17, 2000)
An Unrelenting Drive, and a Harvard Degree (By JACQUES STEINBERG, May 17, 2000)
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Walker Evans, Famed for Photos but a Man of Lists (By SARAH BOXER, May 17, 2000)
FILM REVIEW: The Pre-Freudian Freud: Physician, Analyze Thyself (By A. O. SCOTT, May 17, 2000)
A Son Illuminates His Father's War (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, May 17, 2000)
Getting to Know the Original Pasta (By MARK BITTMAN, May 17, 2000)
Op-Ed: Unhappy Returns? (RECKONINGS: By PAUL KRUGMAN, May 17, 2000)

Tuesday, May 16, 2000:
* On Left-Handedness, Its Causes and Costs (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, May 16, 2000)
Cybersex Gives Birth to a Psychological Disorder (By JANE E. BRODY, May 16, 2000)
First Step Is Recognizing the Signs of Internet Abuse (By JANE E. BRODY, May 16, 2000)
Emotional Disorder Is Linked to Smell (By ERICA GOODE, May 16, 2000)
One Side Effect of Genetic Testing: Fear (By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., May 16, 2000)
As Mt. St. Helens Recovers, Old Wisdom Crumbles (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, May 16, 2000)
THERAPIES: For Strokes, a Snake Oil With Results (By JOHN O'NEIL, May 16, 2000)
* NUTRITION: A Dose of Fiber for Diabetes Regimen (By JOHN O'NEIL, May 16, 2000)
* CONVERSATION WITH Luis F. Baptista: A Birdman Ponders the Songs of Sparrows (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, May 16, 2000)
SCIENCE Q&A: Flying Turns (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 16, 2000)
U.S. Report Adds to List of Carcinogens (By REUTERS, May 16, 2000)
Lycos to Combine With Terra Networks in a $12 Billion Deal (By DOREEN CARVAJAL with ANDREW SORKIN, May 16, 2000)
Payback for Those Who Sold the Bull Market Short (By DANNY HAKIM, May 16, 2000)
AOL Pays a Fine to Settle a Charge That It Inflated Profits (By FLOYD NORRIS, May 16, 2000)
Super Seeds Sweeping Major Markets, and Brazil May Be Next (By ANTHONY DePALMA with SIMON ROMERO, May 16, 2000)

Sunday, May 14, 2000:
Harriet Lange Rheingold, Infant Behavior Expert, Dies at 92 (by Wolfgand Saxon, May 14, 2000)
Ventures Aim to Put Farms in Pharmaceutical Vanguard (by Andrew Pollack, May 14, 2000)
* Vatican Discloses 'Third Secret' of Fatima (by Alessandra Stanley, May 14, 2000)
Rising Internet Use Quietly Transforms Way Japanese Live (by Stephanie Strom, May 14, 2000)
Street-Name Plan Sparks a Jeffersonian Debate (by Francis X. Clines, May 14, 2000)
* Choosing Recess Over Riches (by Matt Richtel, May 14, 2000)
The Economy Is New, but Not the Standards (by Patrick J. Lyons, May 14, 2000)
Levitating Earnings: an Act, or a Fact? (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 14, 2000)
On the Continent, on the Cusp: Six European Executives See Bridges From an Old World to a New Economy
(C.E.O. ROUND TABLE, May 14, 2000)
In Bonds, Worrywarts or the Wise (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, May 14, 2000)
The Fed, in a Supporting Role for the Euro (By JONATHAN FUERBRINGER, May 14, 2000)
The Line Forms Here for Northern Exposure (By KENNETH N. GILPIN, May 14, 2000)
'I Love You': So Hard to Resist, So Ripe for Evil (By BARBARA WHITAKER , May 14, 2000)
INVESTING WITH: Kent Simons, Neuberger Berman Focus Fund (By CAROLE GOULD, May 14, 2000)
A 2-Month-Old Fund, Carrying a Big Stick (By KATE BERRY, May 14, 2000)
Why G.M. Is Getting a Cold Shoulder (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., May 14, 2000)
Barclays and Vanguard, Index Fund Giants, Square Off (By DANNY HAKIM, May 14, 2000)
INVESTING DIARY: Of Gender and an Index (By RICHARD TEITELBAUM, May 14, 2000)
MY MONEY, MY LIFE: The Legacy in the File Cabinet (By MARILYN KENNEDY MELIA, May 14, 2000)
PERSONAL BUSINESS DIARY: What Market Windfall? (By Alessandra Stanley, May 14, 2000)
Buffett and Barbie, Together at Last (By JOSEPH B. TREASTER, May 14, 2000)
* ON LANGUAGE: Oh-Oh (BY WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 14, 2000)
SALIENT FACTS: QUASARS— Brightness Visible (By JEFF GREENWALD, May 14, 2000)

Tuesday, May 9, 2000:
Ancient Site in Newfoundland Offers Clues to Vikings in America (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, May 9, 2000)

Sunday, May 7, 2000:
NASDAQ ROADSHOW: Feeding America's Craving for Value (By JENNY LYN BADER, May 7, 2000)
Damming the Flow of Free Information (By FELICITY BARRINGER, May 7, 2000)
Cellular Phones: The Weapon of Choice for Self-Defense (By JAYSON BLAIR, May 7, 2000)
* Judging a Book Without Its Cover (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, May 7, 2000)