Subletting of cooperative apartemnts has become lucrative deal for owners in New York City's frenzied rental market; photos (M)

Subletting: From Stopgap to Cash Cow

New layers of grievance, resentment and distrust have made it increasingly unlikely that Israelis and Palestinians will soon accept that they have shared heritage in Jerusalem and should agree to share control of city; rather, both sides seem increasingly to believe that the best guarantee of access and security is sole political control over all or part of city; photo (M)

Ideas & Trends: Summits/Dealing With Jerusalem; The Holiest City, the Toughest Conflict

James G Cobb letter praises design of DaimlerChrysler's new PT Cruiser9

It's Whatever You Make of It

Behind the Wheel report on Chrysler PT Cruiser; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser; The Sexiest Van Alive?

Austin Lavin letter says he and his high school friends consider PT Cruiser cool2

Article on small minority of single adults, calling themselves 'born-again virgins' and embracing abstinence in order to regain self-control and boost self-esteem rather than for moral or religious reasons; drawing (M)

The Once And Future Virgins

Richard Taruskin reviews San Francisco Symphony's American Mavericks music festival, organized by symphony's artistic director Michael Tilson Thomas; photo (M)

Corralling a Herd Of Musical Mavericks

New York Mets defeat Atlanta Braves, 4-0; photo (M)

Reed Gets His Chance And Beats Maddux

Linda Lee describes what happened when she looked up on the Internet, contacted, e-mailed and eventually met two old boyfriends, one poor, uncommunicative and available and the other rich, demonstrative and married; drawings (M)

Old Flames Flicker Brightly, Electronically

Spain defeats United States in Davis Cup semifinal; photo (M)

Americans Eat Clay Against Spain

Felicia Lee Coping column offers update on case involving homeless woman, Gladys Dobelle who, decade after divorce, is seeking monthly sum from her ex-husband, who has since remarried and now has three young children; focuses on issue of what ex-spouses owe each other; drawing (M)

When Do an Ex-Spouse's Obligations End?

 U.S. Will Work With Fujimori  Despite criticism of Peru's election, the Clinton administration says it does not have the leverage to force a new vote and will work with President Alberto K. Fujimori.   PAGE 4    Girding for Convention  The Democratic National Convention is shaping up as the biggest test in years for Los Angeles, as protesters train for action and city officials feud over financing.   PAGE 12

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Medicine Merchants, article in series examining marketing and business practices in pharmaceutical industry, describes how companies stall generic versions of their drugs; Congress passed law in 1984 intended to keep drug prices down by speeding up entry of generic drugs; Rep Henry A Waxman, author of bill, says pharmaceutical companies, through different business arrangements, have made reverse happen; in fact, efforts to extend profitable drug's monopoly, as much as pursuit of scientific discoveries, drive decisions in one of world's most lucrative, and secretive, industries; detailed description of Abbott Laboratories' efforts to protect patent on its drug, Hytrin, against companies seeking to offer generic version; that effort has spawned 13 private antitrust suits against Abbott, and others filed by health maintenance organizations, pharmacies and drug wholesalers; photos; graphs (L)

Keeping Down the Competition; How Companies Stall Generics And Keep Themselves Healthy

Article on hottest new alternative soul singer Kina, who is attracting crowds to Bowery Ballroom on Manhattan's Lower East Side even before release of her debut album; photo (M)

One Foot in Motown, One in Led Zeppelin

Alex Berenson Market Watch column notes stocks rallied on strong second-quarter corporate earnings and indications that economic growth may be slowing, perhaps making further interest-rate increases unnecessary, at least for a while; graph (M)

No Longer Bulletproof, but Feeling Bullish Again

Celera Genomics president J Craig Venter has gotten most of attention in news about recent mapping of human genome, but PE Biosystems president Michael W Hunapiller is arguably the man most responsible for achievement; PE Biosystems built high-speed DNA sequencers used in project, and Hunkapiller and his boss, PE Corp chief executive L White, set up Celera with 300 sequencers to beat publicly funded Human Genome Project, which responded by buying 200 PE sequencers and stepping up pace of its own effort; photos (L)

The Microsoft (and Gates) of the Genome Industry

Thousands of people line up for much-publicized casting call to audition for parts in hit HBO series, The Sopranos'; hopeful crowd outside Harrison High School in Harrison, NJ,is comprised of young, cigar-chomping men in muscle T-shirts and women with tall hairdos and spiked heels; photo (M)

A Big Crowd That Aspires To Be a Mob

Booming economy has created tight labor market that has driven wages for everyone up faster than inflation, but income gap between college graduates and workers without college has widened rather than narrowed; moreover, proportion of Americans who have only high-school diploma has remained steady at about one-third for 30 years; photos, graphs (M)

The Nation: The Classroom Ceiling; Making Sense of a Stubborn Education Gap

Tiger Woods leads after third round of British Open; photo (M)

Woods Drives On With Grand Slam in Sight

Advisers to Gov George W Bush say that in choosing running mate, Bush is steering clear of glamour and gloss--and more toward safe and solid; advisers say Bush's leading choice is Richard B Cheney; Cheney, who is orchestrating search for running mate, is respected but hardly electrifying former defense secretary and former congressman; another candidate is Sen John Danforth, who initially took himself out of running; others who are thought to have survived homestretch are Gov Frank Keating of Oklahoma and Gov George E Pataki of New York (M)

Bush Seeking Safe and Solid Running Mate

Municipal Art Society and Historic Districts Council sponsor panel discussion on reusing historic complexes in New York and other cities (S)

Postings: Panel on Reusing Historic Complexes; Recycling Writ Large

Herbert Muschamp reviews Seventh International Architecture Biennale in Venice, which runs through October 29 and which features so-called 'blob' designed and produced with aid of computer animation software; photos (M)

Architecture's Claim on the Future: The Blob

Government recommends strict new rules that would require thousands of nursing homes to hire more nurses and health aides; Clinton administration report, based on eight years of research, says understaffing has contributed to increase in incidence of severe bedsores, malnutrition and abnormal weight loss among nursing home residents; says many patients get life-threatening infections, dehydration, congestive heart failure and other problems that could probably have been prevented if homes had more employees; says 'quality-of-care' problems are far more likeey at nursing homes with low ratio of employees to patients; says 54 percent of nursing homes currently fall below 'proposed minimum standard' of two hours of care each day from nurses' aides for each patient; says 31 percent of homes are below proposed 12 minutes a day of care from registered nurse (M)

U.S. RECOMMENDING STRICT NEW RULES AT NURSING HOMES

Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway gets a great deal of attention, but Maurice R 'Hank' Greenberg at American International Group has posted a significantly better return for 10-year period ended June 30, 2000; Buffett and Greenberg have created very different public images for themselves, but in fact they have a great deal in common, as do their firms, which are both fundamentally insurance businesses that have delivered immense value to shareholders; photos, graphs, chronology (L)

Polar Opposites? Not Where It Counts; Warren Buffett Gets All the Attention, But Hank Greenberg Is Posting Better Returns

Article on New York City subway buffs Philip Ashforth Coppola, who is devoting rest of his life to writing and publishing exhaustive, multivolume history of design and decoration of all 496 stations that ever existed in New York City subway system, Paul Kronenberg, who has mock-up of motorman's cab in his Brooklyn apartment, Derek Nisbett, who collects model subway cars, and David Pirmann, who runs subway Web site; photos (L)

July 23, 2000

Headlines from July 23, 2000

Subletting: From Stopgap to Cash Cow

Ideas & Trends: Summits/Dealing With Jerusalem; The Holiest City, the Toughest Conflict

It's Whatever You Make of It

BEHIND THE WHEEL/2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser; The Sexiest Van Alive?

It's Whatever You Make of It

Billboard 200

The Marshall Mathers LP

Ryde Or Die Vol. II

Oops!...I Did It Again

Country Grammar

No Strings Attached

Historical Context for July 23, 2000