New York Yankees defeat Seattle Mariners, 10-8; photos (M)

Futility Ends For O'Neill And Yankees

Article describes life of Tito Mahones, Brooklyn handyman, street vendor, ex-convict and former drug dealer who hopes to tap in to New York City's booming economy but is plagued by bad luck and missed opportunities; photos (L)

Tito Mahones: A Life On the Edge

Combination of forces, including economic activity in surrounding areas, could induce development in Manhattan's West 30's and 40's that has been anticipated since construction of Jacob K Javits Convention Center 16 years ago; More than $175 million in public financing has been cobbled together toward $315 million cost of creating new Penn Station in shell of General Post Office, and NY Waterway is proposing to build glass-walled West Midtown Union Ferry Terminal; Javits Center itself is planning $15 million renovation, and Silverstein Properties and Equitable Life Assurance Society are building twin 921-apartment towers; photos (M)

The Taming Of the 'Wild West'

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Procter & Gamble, test-marketing its fat substitute olestra in Indianapolis, finds consumers are aware that olestra has been linked to diarrhea and are still willing to try snacks made with it; company and its marketing partners, Frito-Lay and Nabisco, have blanketed area with free samples and promotions, overwhelming Center for Science in Public Interest effort to warn of health hazards; table; photos (L)

In a Test, Snacks Hit the Spot Despite Some Rumblings?

Behind the Wheel column assesses BMW's new M3 sedan; photo (M)

Able to Carry Families And Faster Than A Speeding V8

Study by University of Houston finds 1,185 immigrants have died over last four years from drowning, exposure, dehydration or in automobile accident while trying to cross Mexican border into US away from designated checkpoints; deaths, which generate little attention, typically happen one or perhaps two at a time, but have risen so greatly over past decade that Immigration and Naturalization Service has undertaken campaign warning of dangers of trying to cross border illegally; while drowning is most common form of death, there is noticeable increase from environmental factors--usually cases in which people die in deserts or deep in mountains; some deaths have clearly come as result of much-publicized border crackdowns, prompting many immigrants to take increasingly circuitous and dangerous routes; advocates for immigrants accuse US authorities of knowingly enforcing policy that directly leads to hundreds of deaths each year; photo; chart; map (M)

'Silent Deaths' Climbing Steadily As Migrants Cross Mexico Border

Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary in Oyster Bay, NY, and Krusos Foundation of Cold Spring Harbor join American Bluebird Society in conducting study of nesting bluebirds and develop ways to increase their population; photos (M)

Bird Lovers Unite in a Crusade To Lure Back Besieged Bluebird

Survey of building sales in Manhattan finds probable increase for year in sales of commercial property--office buildings and stores--in area south of 96th Street in Manhattan (S)

A Pickup in Sales Of Offices and Stores

Ukrainian Museum to begin construction of new three-story building on East Sixth Street in Lower Manhattan to replace current crowded quarters in brownstone on Second Avenue; new building will have 17,800 square feet of space; diagram (S)

For East Sixth St., a Ukrainian Museum

Frank Bruni column (Coping) describes his experience with television psychic healer; drawing (M)

The Future Is Clear. You Will Pay a Bill.

Foreign and local officials express concern over risks as NATO peacekeepers press campaign in Bosnian Serb enclave of Banja Luka to implement faltering Bosnia peace agreement by seizing police stations and weapons and feverishly working with Bosnian Serb opposition leaders to build alternative power base; operation includes promoting Pres Biljana Plavsic in her effort to topple Radovan Karadzic, predecessor who continues to hold de facto power from stronghold in Pale; there is widespread recognition that 1995 agreement, which called for united Bosnia and return of refugees to homes, has not worked, and that war will likely resume after NATO forces withdraw, as scheduled, in June 1998; NATO commanders say their efforts in Banja Luka is Bosnia's last chance for peace; photo; map (M)

OFFICIALS SEE RISK IN NEW NATO PUSH FOR BOSNIA PEACE

Recent stock market volatility discussed; could be sign that market is shifting direction or reaction to New York Stock Exchange cut in minimum size of stock price move from 12.5 cents to 6.25 cents; graph (M)

Wall Street Is Growing Crazier By the Day

Thousands of New Yorkers have been caught in criminal justice system once dominated more by people accused of felonies in Giuliani Administration's new crackdown on quality-of-life violations; strategy has made Mayor Rudolph Giuliani popular with voters, and even most skeptical experts say misdemeanor arrests, which have soared by about 50 percent, have at least contributed to plunge in city's overall crime rate; among some critics of police, change in strategy has raised question of whether aggressive stance against low-level crime has exacted too high a price; photos (M)

In New York, the Handcuffs Are One-Size-Fits-All

Outlook for stock prices discussed in light of parallels between current market exuberance and bull market that preceded Oct 1987 stock market crash; review of developments that led to crash makes it obvious that United States economy is in much sounder shape now and that policy makers are unlikely to repeat same errors; shows that potential damage of events that bring down markets is often not recognized as events unfold; graph; photo (L)

10 Years After, Lessons of an Earlier Market Peak

Economists call recent surge in human productivity the real peace dividend; they agree that world battered by century of devastating wars now faces future with unparalleled opportunity; no major international wars are being fought, no military alliances are faced off in global arms race, democracies are flourishing and end of cold war has removed ideological chains and with them distortions of economies rooted in big-power rivalries; however, historians caution that peace on its own is never enough for sustained economic strength; photo (M)

A New Credo: Make Money, Not War

Interview with Martina Hingis, top seed at United States Open tennis tournament; photo (M)

A Calculated Approach Has Put Hingis on Top

Tangled trail that led to recall of tainted beef packaged by Hudson Foods highlights problems within beef industry, and says as much about competitive and sensitive nature of industry as about specific quality of production at single meat processor; absence of specific Federal regulations has left many practices within industry determined by dictates of efficiency or marketplace; myriad companies are usually involved in progression of meat from ranch to slaughterhouse to processing plant to customer, so that tracing of problems are often difficult; Federal investigators say even though Hudson plant in Columbus, Neb, is one of most modern in industry and is clean and generally well run, some of its practices are worrisome; cite poor recordkeeping and mixing of leftover meat into next day's production; decision by Burger King, company's largest customer, to stop buying its meat noted; photos (M)

The Tangled Trail That Led to a Beef Recall

George Vecsey Sports of The Times article hails new Arthur Ashe Stadium, New York City, and late tennis star Arthur Ashe; photo (M)

Ashe's Image Well Served At New Joint

 F.Y.I.   2  MAKING IT WORK   3  The Hudson River is coming back as a place for boating, fishing and even swimming.    NEW YORKERS & CO.   4  Tough guys from the background of mob movies are making one of their own.

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Article by Richard Klein on the lure of the taboo, particularly smoking; notes that smoking is, once again, hot in entertainment media; says Hillary Rodham Clinton recently blamed Hollywood for increase in teen-age smoking; says she does not allow for possibility that films merely exploit climate of repression and censorship surrounding tobacco; says adolescents are curious about abyss between what can be said and shown about smoking, and fact that more than 25 million adults continue legally to smoke; photos (M)

After the Preaching, the Lure of the Taboo

Macao, which will revert to Chinese rule after more than 400 years as Portuguese colony, is engulfed in gang war of increasing ferocity, and is sinking into obscurity; no longer center of Asian commerce it was in 17th and 18th centuries, it has been eclipsed by Hong Kong as region's dominant financial and trading center; as it trundles toward formal Chinese suzerainty, Portuguese Government, which all but surrendered control in late 1960's during Cultural Revolution, is confronting sudden explosion of turf wars by competing triads, civil service virtually devoid of local people at top and economy sinking under glut of speculative real-estate deals and foreign indifference; photos; maps (L)

Eclipsed and Fraying Macao Limps Toward Chinese Rule

Media conglomerates and small publishers alike are questioning steady production of popular books at time when readers are shifting from written page to computer screen; even though readers do continue to read books, amount of new titles far exceeds demand; diagram; chart (M)

You Can't Read Books Fast Enough

University of Washington football team is resurgent after severe Pacific-10 Conference sanctions it received four years ago; continued presence of players who were freshmen when sanctions were announced and are now 5th-year seniors helped restore team's credibility; photos (L)

Huskies' Long-Awaited Future Has Arrived

Article on possible dangers of jump-starting cars packed with electronics; notes power surge can cause computers to crash; drawing (M)

Battery Dead? Look Before You Jump

Alan Olav Walker is a Norwegian DJ and record producer. His songs "Faded", "Sing Me to Sleep", "Alone", "All Falls Down" and "Darkside" have each been multi-platinum-certified and reached number 1 on the VG-lista chart in Norway. Walker values his anonymity and is known to wear a hoodie and mask to remain inconspicuous.

Alan Walker, British-Norwegian DJ and record producer

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Luigi "Gigi" Villoresi was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956.

August 24, 1997

Headlines from August 24, 1997

Futility Ends For O'Neill And Yankees

Tito Mahones: A Life On the Edge

The Taming Of the 'Wild West'

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In a Test, Snacks Hit the Spot Despite Some Rumblings?

Billboard 200

No Way Out

The Art Of War

Men In Black--The Album

Transistor

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