July 30, 2000

Felicia Lee coping column on identity fraud recalls situation in which her own identity was stolen by woman who obtained credit card fraudulently; drawing (M)

National Loan Repayment Program, $30 million pool of money to attract health workers to remote towns and inner-city neighborhoods with grants to repay their student loans, has exhausted its funds after making only few dozen grants to new applicants this year; Health and Human Services Department, which runs program, has cut its budget sharply to meet other spending requirements set by Congress, threatening government's ability to get medical professionals where they are needed; used remaining money for grants to people still waiting for awards from previous year and as incentive to health care providers who completed required two years of service to stay put, leaving newcomers to program in financial limbo; graph of educational debt for different types of doctors; photos (M)

Dorrance family, descendants of John T Dorrance, the inventor of condensed soup, must decide whether to sell Campbell Soup Co or try to go it alone amid flat canned soup sales, new competition and consolidation in food industry; photos, graph, chronology, genealogical chart (M)

Geraldine Fabrikant Talking Money With ... column notes actress Sarah Jessica Parker recalls childhood poverty and invests conservatively against the day when she cannot get work; photos (M)

New York Mets defeat St Louis Cardinals, 4-3; photos (M)U