Article on difficulties that collectors face in trying to display contemporary installation art; multimedia works often take up huge amount of space; collectors and artists comment; photos (L)

Living With Work That Needs Its Own Room

Certain New York men are joining women in time-honored beauty regimens, from facials and face lifts tomanicures and pedicures; photos; explanations for new male vanity ranges from baby boom generation's fear of aging to acceptance that, like it or not, they may be judged by their appearance (M)

Almond Pedicure: It's a Guy Thing; From cosmetic dentistry to facials and face lifts, more men are making vanity a priority.

New York Yankees defeat Kansas City Royals, 14-1, Yankee Stadium; photo (M)

Royals' First Mistake? Leaving the Dugout

Article on tentative merger agreement reached between United Jewish Appeal and Council of Jewish Federations; terms of deal would shift power over spending abroad to grass roots and give local donors more control over how monies sent to Israel are spent (M)

Seeking Unity in Jewish Giving

Giuliani administration cancels competition for citywide contract for bus shelters, newsstands and street toilets, both to encourage competition and greater design variation in structures to distinguish New York's different neighborhoods; architectual firms spent millions creating models and prototypes, but feel the expertise they developed in pursing project may yet be called into play; photos (L)

Street Furniture Designs Stuck in Gridlock

Landmarks Preservation Commission approves design for SoHo Hotel, 100-room 'loftel' that Tony Goldman plans to create out of hodgepodge of five loft buildings along Greene Street in SoHo; drawing (M)

POSTINGS: SoHo Developer Calls It a 'Loftel'; A Hotel for Greene Street

Harvey Araton, in Sports of The Times, comments on Pete Rose Jr, who is now playing with independent New Jersey Jackals; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Rose Jr., Forever His Father's Son

Gretchen Morgenson column (Market Watch), noting recent downtown in Dow Jones industrial average, holds investor emotions may be playing part; graph (M)

Thinking It Over, Wall St. Wants Results

New York Giants open pre-season with 24-17 victory over Cincinnati Bengals, in first football game played on grass field in 22-year history of Giants Stadium; photos (M)

Giants Win, Naturally, To Open the Preseason

Jonathan Adler's fashion-oriented approach to pottery designing described; interview; photo; his bold, eclectic pieces are, in turn, collected by many designers (S)

Pottery, From Couture to Ready-to-Wear to Mass Market

Chinese officials say that nation's worst floods, caused by fast-swelling Yangtze River, now threaten to overwhelm several large cities in central part of country; army is evacuating more than half million peple from an area in Hubei Province; state news orgns say increasingly desperate officials there might have to blow up several dikes and deliberately inundate millions of acres of farmland to divert water that endangers larger cities downstream; floods have killed more than 2,000 people, destroyed more than five million homes and indirectly affected over 240 million people, or nearly one-fifth of country's population; photo; map (M)

Floods Now Imperiling Big Cities, China Says

Second article in series After the Revolution, on changes in America's health care system, examines problem of the uninsured; finds that four years after Clinton Adm's effort to reshape health care system collapsed, Congress is confronting demands to provide broad new consumer protection for patients fed up with restrictions of managed care; lawmakers also face a deeper, more intractable problem: despite passage of several laws intended to expand coverage step by step, number of Americans without insurance has risen steadily, by average of one million a year; number of uninsured has increased each year since 1987 and now exceeds 41 million, roughly one-sixth of population; moreover, this steady rise has occurred despite a remarkable economic boom; nation has created more than 14 million jobs since 1993, but most of these are in small businesses, which are far less likely to provide health insurance than are large companies; in Congress, members of both parties keep returning to problems of the uninsured, but cost and complexity of issue pose extraordinary hurdles; lawmakers say they are determined not to repeat mistakes that killed Pres Clinton's plan, but beyond that, there is little agreement; review of measures that Congress has been able to enact expand health care coverage; photos; charts; map (L)

GOVERNMENT LAGS IN STEPS TO WIDEN HEALTH COVERAGE

Nonstop television babble about Pres Clinton and Monica Lewinsky discussed; close-up photos of mouths of some notable talking heads (M)

The Nation: When Too Much Isn't Enough; All Monica, All the Time: A Viewers' Guide

Nissan car company, which posted net loss of more than $100 million last year, outlines recovery strategy; design studio in California gets more responsibility for developing North American models, such as new sport utility; photo (S)a

Nissan Gives a Glimpse Of Its Plan for Recovery

Article on installation art, which began in early 1990's and has become commonplace and a parody of itself; notes medium is difficult to define and artists protest such classification; photos (L)

Installation Art Moves In, Moves On

Behind the Wheel article on 1999 Nissan Quest, redesigned minivan; photo (S)U

BEHIND THE WHEEL/1999 Nissan Quest; Growth Spurt for a Mini Mini-Van

Unionized Bell Atlantic employees went on strike early this morning after a 12:01 A.M. deadline for a new contract pased without a settlement.     The strike by one union - the Communications Workers of America - is not expected to disrupt normal telephone service for Bell Atlantic customers. But it may cause delays in reaching directory assistance, in operator-assisted calls and in service repairs.  

Telephone Workers Strike Over Contract

Bob Morris report on warm welcome given to Pres and Mrs Clinton during their weekend in East Hampton, New York (S)

East Hampton Hails the Chief

Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi is overwhelmed by the grievously maimed and walking wounded; treats 1,600 people in hours after blast; doctors, nurses and technicians are strained to their limits to treat victims of car-bomb attack; hospital is running out of basic supplies; photo (M)

1,800 Injured Overwhelming Kenya Hospital

Israeli soldiers takle over efforts to rescue people still trapped under tons of rubble from terrorist attack on United States Embassy in Nairobi, as American medical teams and FBI agents begin to to arrive in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where more than 140 people were killed in what appears to be coordinated car-bomb explosions against American targets; within hour of arriving at scene, 170 Israeli troops, specialists in rescuing people from destroyed buildings, turn around what had been a slow operation and begin moving tons of rubble in an effort to reach at least three people believed to be still alive; international help begins to arrive; streams of wounded overwhelm Nairobi hospitals, where more than 500 people have been admitted and more than 4,200 treated in less than two days; at least 40 people, many of them secretarial students, are believed to be buried; authorities in Nairobi say that explosion is believed to have been caused by a car bomb, but American authorities maintain strict silence about its attempts to investigate attack; in Washington, State Sec Madeleine K Albright says that one American diplomat is still missing; photos of Prudence Bushness, US Ambassador to Kenya, and scenes of destruction (L)

Bombing Toll Rises; Rescue Effort in Nairobi Intensifies

Kin of American victims of bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaar are faced with sudden bad news, some by phone, others by visits from military officers; American death toll is not yet clear, but State Dept identifies five of victims: Master Sergeant Sherry Lynn Olds, Sgt Kenneth Hobson, Molly Huckaby Hardy, Sgt Jesse N Aliganga and Arlene Kirk; photos (M)

For Victims' Kin, Sudden Bad News Comes From Afar

 Europeans Cooling Down  When Americans rushed to cool their air, Europeans traditionally just slowed down and endured the summer heat. But now Europe is becoming a big market for the air-conditioning industry. Page 16.    Controlling Sex Shops  After years of court battles, the city has begun to enforce a zoning law intended to curtail sex shops. But long-term questions about the law and its enforcement remain. Page 29.

INSIDE

Robert Lipsyte column on pleasure he gets out of cutting suburban lawn; drawing (M)

The Lawnmower Path to Wisdom

Starbucks Coffee Co's new coffee shop-newsstand in lobby of 1185 Avenue of Americas in Manhattan will have no direct from the street (S)

POSTINGS: Starbucks-to-Go in an Office Lobby; First the Grind, Then the Grind

Profile of and interview with Richard D Nanula, major sports fan and chief of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Wirldwide, world's largest hotel company; photos; Starwood's recent acquisition of Westin Hotels and ITT, valued at $16 billion, described; biographical diagram (L)

August 9, 1998

Headlines from August 9, 1998

Living With Work That Needs Its Own Room

Almond Pedicure: It's a Guy Thing; From cosmetic dentistry to facials and face lifts, more men are making vanity a priority.

Royals' First Mistake? Leaving the Dugout

Seeking Unity in Jewish Giving

Street Furniture Designs Stuck in Gridlock

Billboard 200

Hello Nasty

Armageddon -- The Album

Jermaine Dupri Presents -- Life In 1472 The Original Soundtrack

The Swarm

City Of Angels

Historical Context for August 9, 1998