The Department of Agriculture is announcing much tougher rules that prohibit the use of genetically modified ingredients in products carrying the organic label. The rules also prohibit the use of irradiation to decontaminate the products and the application of sewage sludge as fertilizer.    The new rules, which could take effect by the end of the year, address concerns about the three processes, which were widely opposed in 1997. That was the last time the agency tried to define and regulate organic food.  

Strict Rules to Limit Genetic Engineering On Organic Foods

Rick Marin article on attending performance of Cats, play scorned by Manhattanites as tourist trap, which is set to close in June after 18 years; drawing (M)

Four City Mice Who Had to See 'Cats'

New York art dealer Mary Boone is working hard to reinvent herself, championing new wave of young painters as art world booms again; is back at center of highly public events reminiscent of her 1980's heyday; photos (M)

Stirring Up the Art World Again

Helen Fielding, creator of Bridget Jones, drew throngs at Borders Books in Lower Manhattan. With other reports from the Lower East Side, Harlem, the Upper East and West Sides, Clinton, Greenwich Village, Fresh Meadows, the Brooklyn Waterfront, Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Hunts Point and Staten Island.    PAGES 21-23  

F.O.B. (Fans of Bridget) Get in Line

 Help for Mozambique  Some Mozambicans say foreign help in the floods has come too slowly, with suggestions that people have died because of the delay.   PAGE 8

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College basketball coaches like St John's Mike Jarvis and Temple's John Chaney are angry that NCAA is suddenly cracking down on what many people have long considered acceptable practice, subsidizing tuition for gifted athletes who need better grades and test scores to get into college; seven players, including Erick Barkley of St John's, have been suspended at top basketball programs in past 12 weeks, for alleged violations that occurred when they were high school students; photo (M)

N.C.A.A. Rule Is Resulting In Suspensions And Anger

Elvis Mitchell article on the unappreciated talent of Bruce Willis, who has been passed over for an Oscar nomination in The Sixth Sense, which got six of them, and whose ability to invest the hero of Die Hard films with a flesh-and-blood humanity is lost even on the movies' fans; photos (L)

Behind the Deadpan, A Talent Is in Action

Alex Witchel article describes date spent at Sports Club/LA, New York City, which has turned gym into mini-resort where fitness is not necessarily top priority; photos (M)

Where Jaded Muscles Exercise Their Options

Caryn James article says Fox network's Who Wants to Marry a Multimillion? and ABC's What Wants to be a Millionaire are each in its own way part of a retro trend in television and other forms of in popular culture, a trend that celebrates old values; photos; drawing (L)

Who Wants to Be Retro? Multimillions

New Yorkers' of all races appear to have come to a complex new consensus about the police in the year since the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo in the Bronx: continued distress over the aggressiveness the police can show, especially among blacks, but also a fresh sense of the perils of police work and an appreciation of Police Department's efforts to focus on outreach as well as arrests; comments are solicited along route of No. 2 subway line from North Bronx through Manhattan to Flatbush; very few reflect tone of Rev Al Sharpton, who has referred to the police as some kind of occupying force, and very few espouse Mayor Rudolph W Giuliani's staunch defense of police; photos; map (L)

SHADES OF BLUE: A special report.; Diallo Case Yields More Nuanced View of Police

Sen John McCain and Gov George W Bush approach foreign policy much the way the run their presidential campaign: McCain relying on instinct and Bush relying on a team of advisers; McCain is rarely uncertain of his positions, even if his advisers wince at how quickly he sometimes reaches firm conclusions, then awakwardly tries to wrap a set of principles around them; Bush, by contrast, is far less comfortable with the subject matter, more cautious and more apt to flounder when pressed for answers that go beyond his script (M)

2 Paths on Foreign Policy: Advice and Instinct

Article on New York Yankees pitcher Orlando Hernandez discusses unusual exercise routine that has led to his success on mound; photos (M)

El Duque Rewrites The Book On Pitching

Profile of David Brancaccio, host of half-hour radio program called Marketplace, which is produced by University of Southern California and carried on about 280 public radio stations five days a week; Brancaccio has just written book called Squandering Aimlessly, an account of roaming the country gathering tales of what people would do, or could do, with sizable amount of extra money; Brancaccio takes trip around Manhattan to consider how he might use $25,000 he has coming to him from book's publisher, Simon & Schuster; photos (L)

Squandering A Bundle, In His Mind

Eleven-story building set for Perry Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, will will offer condominium lofts and duplex apartments, as well as commercial and retail space and commercial lofts; rendering (M)

POSTINGS: West Village Landmark; Lofts and Duplexes Replace Vintage Cars

Real Estate Board of New York to hold trade show and convention; planned programs noted (S)

POSTINGS: Real Estate Board's Residential Program; From Skyline To Fire Safety

Dark Matter 2000, astronomy conference in California, discussed; scientists report that, despite ancient hopes to the contrary, it now appears more certain than ever that most of universe is made from some kind of unwordly 'dark matter' that can pass through ordinary matter, leaving barely a trace; some physicists are calling hypothetical new force quintessence, reminder of Aristotle's belief that heavens are more alien and wondrous than meets the earthly eye; photo (M)

IDEAS & TRENDS: Dark Matters; A Cosmic Hall Of Mirrors

A state agency reversed itself and backed her landlord, and Anne Gilman says she cannot afford to pay $2,223 a month and $47,000 in back rent. By Trish Hall   4  

Habitats/West 110th Street; A Tenant Faces Eviction

Profile of John A Williams, founder of Post Properies, firm that helped make Atlanta, Ga, symbol of urban sprawl bursting out of control; through the 1970's and '80's, Williams turned thousands of acres of surburban forest into vast expanses of garden apartments; today, Williams has become of of nation's leading champions of renewed urbanism; Williams now denounces suburbs as eyesores and in recent years has built projects that have added apartments, often with stores and office buildings, to older urban areas; central city revival that Williams is leading is spreading to cities in other states; despite trend, Atlanta's own suburbs, including 10 of nation's four-fastest growing counties, continue to spread; photos of some suburban developments; Williams photo; financial graphs on Post Properties (L)

Saying Goodbye to the 'Burbs

More and more Japanese teenagers are abandoning the ethic of long study hours and single-minded focus on exams and careers, opting instead to have a good time in the present; school dropout rate is up 20 percent in two years, and more than 50 percent of Japanese girls report having had sexual intercourse by their senior year in high school, compared with 40 percent in 1993; trend is increasing as Japan shifts from deeply disciplined, industrial mores to much freer consumerist ways; photo (M)

Tokyo Dropouts' Vocation: Painting the Town

Demand for summer rentals in resort areas of Northeast is high, driving up prices from 5 to 25 percent from 1999; brokers have already run out of houses in some categories; photos (M)

Warm-Weather Retreats; Summer Rentals Are Going, Going . . .

Alex Berenson (Market Watch) discusses New York Stock Exchange's squaring off against Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean over price of stocks and how they are traded, Senate hearing in New York; Goldman and its fellow brokerage firms basically want all stock markets to trade as if they were one big market and want all orders at given price to be executed in order they were received; New York Stock Exchange procedure, which maintains single 'specialist' for setting prices for each stock, discussed (M)

A Confluence of Interests

Mel Gussow article recalls March 1970 explosion that destroyed Federal-style house on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, where Weathermen radicals were making bombs; explains that he and family were renting apartment next door, as were Dustin Hoffman and his wife; describes frightful scene after blast, which severely damaged neighboring homes and traumatized residents of tranquil street; photos; three bomb makers were killed; two others escaped and remained fugitives for more than decade; Cathlyn Wilkerson, whose father owned house, resurfaced in 1980, was convicted and served brief sentence; Kathy Boudin took part in 1981 robbery in which two policemen and Brinks guard were killed; she is in Bedford Hills Correctional Center (M)

The House On West 11th Street

Coping column quoting several New York career women who say that what they really want is to marry knight in shining armor who can and would support them if they wish to stay at home (M)

Looking for Mr. Goodbucks

John F Kennedy's reassurance to Protestant church leaders in 1960 that he would never be a vassal of Roman Catholic Church recalled light of injection of religion into this year's presidential campaign; Kennedy, decorated war hero who had to deal with dregs of anti-Catholic bigotry, gently cautioned nation not to distort presidency by making it an instrument of one religious group, and his words survive as prescription for all campaigners who have followed him through minefields where politics and religion overlap; rough nomination struggle between John McCain and George W Bush, and their bids for Catholic votes, discussed; photo (M)

THE NATION: Cross Purposes; Mixing God and Politics And Getting Burned

James G Cobb assesses Audi S4 sport sedan; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Mercedes-Benz ML55 AMG and Audi S4; Sending Power, and Plenty of It, to All Four Wheels

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March 5, 2000

Headlines from March 5, 2000

Strict Rules to Limit Genetic Engineering On Organic Foods

Four City Mice Who Had to See 'Cats'

Stirring Up the Art World Again

F.O.B. (Fans of Bridget) Get in Line

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Billboard 200

Supernatural

Dr. Dre -- 2001

All The Way...A Decade Of Song

Europop

Christina Aguilera

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 5, 2000