Penelope Green offers selection of books due out this fall on fashion and style; photos (M)

Fall Reading, From Head To Toe

University of Connecticut, which was founded as agricultural school in 1881--its mission: to train young men and send them back to the family farm--is gaining recognition today for its agricultural research, including work on cloning, nutrition and satellite-aided mapping; photos (M)

This Is Not Your Father's Agricultural School

Jan-Michael Gambill defeats Mark Philippoussis in second-round match of US Open tennis tournament; photo (M)

Gambill Plays It Cool to Hold Off Philippoussis

Toyota's reasonably priced, mid-sized convertible, Camry Solara, assessed; photo (M)

Toyota Camry Solara SLE convertible; Grown-Up Fun in the Sun, Set to an Easy-Listening Beat

Article assesses multiple aspects of Toyota Avalon XLS, easy-riding, made-in-USA vehicle geared to mature American consumers; photo (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Toyota Avalon XLS; How Do You Say 'LeSabre' in Japanese?

Ralph Fiennes will perform in Almeida Theater Company project pairing Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus, directed by Jonathan Kent; photo (M)

Two Power Plays By Shakespeare, One Ralph Fiennes

Allen Salkin puts new robot dog models through their hoops; photo (M)

Pets or Appliances? Meeting the Purebred Robot Dogs

Salsa dancing, as mambo is often known today, is hotter than ever, surpassing even the craze of 1950's; cultural historians attribute resurgent popularity in part to globalization and the Internet; with wider appeals has come a new zeal to dance well; in New York, dance studios report a record enrollment in salsa classes, higher than that for tango or swing in major studios; diagram show two major schools of thought on how to dance the mambo: on 1st beat, or on second beat; photos (L)

Battle of the Mambo Is Bruising Some Toes

New York City Housing Preservation and Development Department schedules series of seminars and for homeowners and landlords (S)

POSTINGS: Programs From City's Housing Agency; Learning to Be A Homeowner

New York City has long tradition of union-built and public housing developments that provide space for artists to grow and flourish; Bernard and Aaron Olshan, father and son artists who live in Amalgamated Houses in Bronx, and others comment; photos (M)

Where the Arts Still Sustain the Social Compact

Cleaning of facade of Federal Reserve Bank of New York reveals colorful patchwork of limestone and sandstone blocks; photo (M)

POSTINGS: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Gets a Cleaning; Under the Soot, a Colorful Quilt

Stormy battle over globalization that brought protests to streets of Seattle and Washington moves this week to heart of world's only truly global orgn, United Nations; extraordinary, three-day summit meeting of more than 150 world leaders called to thrash out problems of poverty and peace is turning instead into debate aobut future of orgn, as well as the world, at time when national boundaries have become nearly irrelevant to economic and political tides as they are to infectious diseases or popular music; summit meeting will begin Sept 6 and end Sept 8 (M)

Globalization Tops 3-Day U.N. Agenda For World Leaders

As academic year begins for nation's 53 million students, growing number of schools are rudderless, struggling to replace a graying corps of principals at a time when pressure to raise test scores and other new demands have made already difficult job an increasingly thankless one; in Vermont, one of every five principals has retired or resigned in last few months alone, some of them replaced temporarily by other principals who had retired several years earlier; in New York City, which has been unwilling to compete with suburbs that pay principals as much as $20,000 more a year, 163 schools will open this week with a temporary administrator welcoming students back from summer vacation; situation in other states and cities noted (L)

NATION'S SCHOOLS STRUGGLING TO FIND ENOUGH PRINCIPALS

Fashion scene at Mr Chow restaurant on Upper East Side described; photos (M)

For the Hip-Hop and Fashion Set, An Entire Wall of Mirrors

Strategists on both sides of presidential campaign agree that more than 90 percent of electorate has by now settled on either Gov George W Bush or Vice Pres Al Gore; that leaves outcome in November hinging on sliver of expected voters--fewer than 10 percent--who truly have not made up their minds; this narrow pool of voters reflects what pollsters say has been appreciable shift in electorate in two weeks since Democratic convention: Gore consolidated base vote in his party, something Bush accomplished weeks, if not months, earlier; estimated 5 million of voters who are expected to vote are seen undecided; table shows demographics of undecided voters in most hotly contested states (L)

For Last Dance, Candidates Eye The Wallflower

Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column on return of stock picker's market, where hottest shares are found off the beaten track and where individual stocks can outshine indexes; Olstein Financial Alert Fund manager Bob Olstein and Lehman Brothers analyst Ravi Suria offer picks (M)

Return Of the Stock Pickers

 Tire Workers Stay on the Job  The union representing nearly 8,000 Bridgestone/Firestone workers told its members to remain on the job even though there was no settlement before the strike deadline.   PAGE 22    Burmese Standoff Ends  Nearly 200 riot police officers forced an end to a standoff with Myanmar's pro-democracy leader.   PAGE 9    Lebanese Vote, Again  The second round of elections today is shaping into a constitutional crisis for Lebanon, and a tough test for the new leader of Syria.   PAGE 8    Art and the City  In New York's worker housing, a commitment to stimulating artistic activity endures.   ARTS & LEISURE    Southern Italy's Surprises  Long ago, residents of Basilicata carved homes into its rock and left behind churches filled with frescoes. In Sicily, newly restored hotels are comfortable bases for excursions to ancient sites. Also: A volcanic park in northern California.   TRAVEL    Called to Be Gore  In ''The Prince of Tennessee,'' David Maraniss and Ellen Nakashima find in Al Gore a compulsive self-scrutinizer, virtually born on Page 1 and required all his life to think about how whatever he does will look; reviewed by Ben Macintyre.   BOOK REVIEW    N.F.L. Preview  When the National Football League season opens today, teams will try to emulate the quick-strike offense of quarterback Kurt Warner and the St. Louis Rams. Also, assessments of the Jets and Giants, a look at each N.F.L. team and complete schedules.     SPORTSSUNDAY    Black Comedy's Last Laugh  In a movie landscape suddenly dominated by African-American comics, no one is bigger than Chris Tucker.     MAGAZINE  

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NFL Season Preview article on executing (and preventing) vertical passing of long, quick strikes; top offenses and defenses based big-play pass discussed; charts; photos (M)

The Big Play Comes Back In a Big Way As Offenses Go Vertical

Changes are wrought in real estate market and in landlord-tenant relationships in New York City as telecommunications companies lease and modify space for their special needs and elaborate equipment that is needed for e-commerce; photos (M)

E-Business Alters ABC's of Real Estate

World made smaller by airplane traffic brings greater risk of spreading illness, including that carried by mosquitoes; most common mosquito-borne diseases are malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and encephalitis; to stop mosquitoes, European nations have stepped up their spraying of pesticides of airplanes; United States carriers hesitate to do this, fearful of litigation from passengers; poor nations of world regularly spray streets with pesticides, something New Yorkers are now enduring as West Nile virus reaches Central Park; photos; maps (M)

The Nation: Reality Bites; Hovering Where Rich and Poor Meet, the Mosquito

St Louis Cardinals defeat New York Mets, 2-1; photo (M)

In the End, Cardinals Top Mets Once Again

Article in series Al Gore's Journey describes how Gore handled his midlife crisis by turning to writing, and by regarding himself as a writer, a role that he seems to see superior to that of politician; after he watched car hit his six-year-old son in 1989, his therapy, his catharsis was a writing project that became the book Earth in the Balance, environmental call to arms; Gore's life at midlife recalled; photos (L)

Career in the Balance, Gore Focused His Energy on a Book

Case of Dr Wen Ho Lee, who was fired from Los Alamos National Laboratory amid spy inquiry, is worrisome example of just how bewildering nation's nuclear secrets policy has become; Lee's defense team has shown that data Lee downloaded was classified as secret and confidential only after his dismissal, and John L Richter, former top nuclear weapons designer at Los Alamos, testified that 99 percent of downloaded information had already been made public and would not be useful to foreign country; Richter's assertion has fed growing perception that many, if not all, nuclear secrets are out of the bag--view based partly on fact; diagram (M)

Ideas & Trends: Bombshells; Are There Any Nuclear Secrets Left to Steal?

Lawyer Johnnie Cochran Jr, 62, who broke into top-level national law leagues by successfully defending O J Simpson, comments on his money-management philosophy; photo (M)

TALKING MONEY with JOHNNIE L. COCHRAN JR.; Finding a 'Dream Team' for His Finances

Article, assessing top executives at General Electric in light of impending resignation of chief executive John Welch and other recent changes, holds company's weakness is that it is run by white men; photos (M)

Where G.E. Falls Short: Diversity at the Top

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Brandon Williams, English footballer

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Fall Reading, From Head To Toe

This Is Not Your Father's Agricultural School

Gambill Plays It Cool to Hold Off Philippoussis

Toyota Camry Solara SLE convertible; Grown-Up Fun in the Sun, Set to an Easy-Listening Beat

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Toyota Avalon XLS; How Do You Say 'LeSabre' in Japanese?

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