D'Alessio Enterprises is building six two-family units in Eastchester, NY, with street-level professional office space for people who want to live and work in same place (M)

POSTINGS: Going Up in Eastchester; Live and Work In One House

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, which owns Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan, is upgrading apartments that after a vacancy qualify for a new rent of at least $2,000, at which level the apartment becomes deregulated; number of apartments rented at market rates is only a trickle so far, but MetLife expects that in two or three years the preponderance of vacant aparments will be leased at market rent; existing tenants are unaffected, but have mixed feelings; photos; map (M)

The Upscaling of Stuyvesant Town

Fragrance and cosmetics makers are adding fruit and food-related scents to products, suddenly exploiting long-known fact that they are enticing not only to children but also adults; foods that make people think of comfort and safety are new stars of beauty industry; photos (M)

Beauty Goes Fruity

Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials conclude nearly a week of stop-and-start negotiations in Taba, Egypt, by saying jointly that they they have 'never been closer to reaching' a final peace accord but lack sufficient time to conclude one before Israeli elections on Feb 6; Prime Min Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasir Arafat, Palestinian leader, may meet within days in Stockholm (M)

Mideast Talks End With Gain But No Accord

Behind the Wheel column appraises new Bentley Arnage luxury sedan; photos (M)/

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Bentley Arnage Red Label; The Colors of Money

Rescue workers continue desperate effort to find the living buried in rubble left by earthquake that hit western India on Jan 26; devastation is gravest around Bhuj; among the dead are many of high school students who were in school in Ahmedabad on national holiday, taking an extra science lab; parents and others suspect shoddy construction; photos; map (M)

India, in Grief and Anger, Tallies Huge Quake Toll

Felicia Lee Coping column on New York City's historical lack of public toilets which has, over the years, become dormant issue; holds New Yorkers' apparent anti-toilet attitude may stem from their unwillingness to become vulnerable to strangers; drawing (M)

Public Toilets: The Orphan Issue

American and Chinese military experts begin exploring ways to make American plans for national missile defense palatable to China and say a compromise may be possible, although it would require near-heretical political steps by leaders in both countries; Pres Bush would have to place clear limits on size of shield and acknowledge China's stature as nuclear power, agreeing, implicitly at least, that China could preserve a capacity to hit back at US with at least a few nuclear bombs, even after suffering a surprise American attack; China would have to move beyond reflexive condemnation and relax hypersecrecy that has surrounded its weapons program, allowing US a clear idea of size and capability of its arsenal, and would have to convince American planners that any nuclear buildup would go only so far and would be keyed to size of American shield (M)

Experts Try to Make Missile Shield Plan Palatable to China

Scientific explanation of cosmic birth, when it arrives, is not expected to ambush philosophers and theologians, many of whom have already worked Big Bang into their worldviews; most painful repercussions of approaching moment of creation could be felt in scientific enterprise itself; some scientists admit that they dread succeeding so entirely that the adventure of unraveling history of universe would be over; drawing (M)

Bang, You're Alive!; On the Verge of Re-Creating Creation. Then What?

Female employees of Ford Motor Co complain of discrimination and sexual harassment in workplace; contend in lawsuits and interviews that company's official policies embracing diversity and banishing discrimination are not carried out; Ford is undertaking broad effort to change culture at domestic plants, but challenge will be to reach all employees; photos (M)

If Women Complain, Does Ford Listen?

On Pro Football column maintains former New York Jets and New York Giants coach Bill Parcells was his own worst enemy in Hall of Fame voting; says he has stellar coaching credentials, but his abrasive style and questions about his veracity resulted in him not being named to hall in first year of eligibility; photos (M)

It Wasn't a Lack of Ability That Cost Parcells in Vote

 Agassi Wins in Australia  Andre Agassi defended his Australian Open championship, defeating Arnaud Cl&#233;ment, the first Frenchman to reach the tournament's final since 1928.   SPORTSSUNDAY

INSIDE

Prominent Republicans and even many Democrats agree that Pres Bush has presided over one of most orderly and politically nimble White House transitions in at least 20 years; they, as well as independent academics and analysts, say Bush has carefully calibrated his legislative offering by introducing his education package in a way that make it palatable to many Democrats, even as he reassured conservatives by moving to prohibit federal aid to groups that counsel on abortion overseas; say Bush has shown deft touch with lawmakers; some credit goes to aides who intensely examined previous transitions, scouring historical record for gestures and timetables and even interviewing important players from past administrations; photo (M)

BUSH'S TRANSITION LARGELY A SUCCESS, ALL SIDES SUGGEST

Indexes of 'new markets' established by Europe's traditional stock exchanges to fund new technology companies have fallen further than Nasdaq's, and markets are scrambling both to survive and to establish themselves as pan-European markets; question today is whether individual investors' and institutions' nascent enthusiasm for American-style start-up capitalism will recover or die on vine; photos; chart (L)

Think Nasdaq. Now Double the Pain.

The New York Giants and the Baltimore Ravens face off in the Super Bowl at 6:25 p.m. today in Tampa, Fla. A special section goes inside the Giants playbook to look at what the team might do to bend the mighty Ravens defense.    The section also looks at the improbable season for both teams, with their midseason lows and their impressive playoff runs behind two quarterbacks seeking redemption.   

Giants and Ravens Both on the Defensive

Cathy Horyn reviews spring fashion offerings, Paris, of designers Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld; photos (M)

Review/Fashion; Great Minds, Thinking Alike Again

Andre Agassi defeats Arnaud Clement to win Australian Open tennis tournament; photos (M)

With a Grand Slam Title in Sight, Agassi's Aim Is True

Article on work of John Collins and other ironworkers who are building steel frames of new office towers in New York City, including new Ernst & Young headquarters building in Times Square; photos (L)

Cowboys of the Sky

Jerry West, with Los Angeles Lakers for four decades, is now part-time consultant and does not take feud between Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant as seriously as he did when he played more active role (M)

West Takes Calm View Of Laker Tiff

Crossroads, a market-rate rental building in Manhattan at East Broadway and Rutgers Street, opens, offering 83 apartment units and four retail store spaces; photo (M)

POSTINGS: Crossroads on the Lower East Side; Retail Stores And Rentals

General Motors is retiring Oldsmobile as brand name, but car will live on forever in American heartland, Deep South and other places where people love their cars the way they love their children; photos (M)

In Rearview Mirror, a Wistful Gaze at the Olds

Behind the Wheel column appraises new Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible; photo (S)

With Bonnet Up but Chin Held High

Players Lynn Swann, Nick Buoniconti, Mike Munchak, Jackie Slater, Ron Yary, and Jack Youngblood and coach Marv Levy are elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame; photos (M)

Parcells Fails to Join Levy, Swann and Five Others in Hall

Gary Giddins article offers appreciation of Bing Crosby; Giddens has written a biography, Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years, 1903-1940; photos (L)

Bing Crosby, The Unsung King of Song

Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column says that individual stock investors have shown remarkable staying power despite decline of stock prices since March 2000, but that much of their faith may be due to fact that they still retain much of unrealized profits they have earned since beginning of bull market; cites study by Jim Bianco, who says that investors may jump ship en masse once these unrealized profits disappear and that at that point reverse wealth effect would begin to harm economy; graph (M)

Eroding Paper Gains May Undo a Remarkable Resiliency

Ranko Marinković was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.

January 28, 2001

Headlines from January 28, 2001

POSTINGS: Going Up in Eastchester; Live and Work In One House

The Upscaling of Stuyvesant Town

Beauty Goes Fruity

Mideast Talks End With Gain But No Accord

BEHIND THE WHEEL/Bentley Arnage Red Label; The Colors of Money

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Human Clay

Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 28, 2001