Syracuse defeats Seton Hall, 63 to 62, in college basketball; photos (M)

Seton Hall Wonders After Loss To Syracuse

The chairman of Morgan Stanley, the investment firm, said the company ''clearly made a mistake'' by having former President Bill Clinton speak at its conference last week.    Article, Page 34.

Invitation a 'Mistake'

Special report The Dividing Line: Misery on the Border describes hardship, squalor and poverty afflicting Mexicans living near United States border, Mexicans who are part of tidal wave of workers lured to border by increased trade between United States and Mexico; in last five years, more than one million Mexicans have moved to border; many come not to cross border, but to work in thousands of mostly foreign-owned manufacturing plants, known as maquiladoras; scene in shantytowns such as Ciudad Juarez described; photos; map (L)

Chasing Mexico's Dream Into Squalor

Josh Noel article on taking class from former Vice Pres Al Gore at Columbia Journalism School; photo (M)

VIEW; The Scoop on Professor Gore, An Insider's Story

Article traces love life of Asha Sekhri, whose father is Indian and Muslim and whose mother is Colombian and Catholic, and who, despite being raised colorblind, has long felt like outsider and has had string of failed romances as result of color, culture, faith or family differences; photos (L)

Looking For Love

This will be transitional year for New York Yankees, who open spring training later this week; sizable exodus of core players can be expected after this season; they include Paul O'Neill, Tino Martinez, Scott Brosius and Chuck Knoblauch; in addition, manager Joe Torre and general manager Brian Cashman are both in last year of their contracts; photo (M)

Yankees Entering Transitional Year As Old Guard Nears End of the Line

''You're young, you're crazy, you're in bed and you've got knives.''    -- Angelina Jolie, in a newspaper interview,  explaining her scars.      A SENSIBLE man would be glad not to be involved with a woman who throws the words ''bed'' and ''knives'' into the same sentence. But then, there aren't a lot of sensible men. Many of them would say crazy equals sexy. That it can also lead to emotional ruin, bankruptcy and embarrassing scenes at parties is beside the point. At the time, it seems irresistible.  

Men Are Crazy for Women Who Are, Too

Two rival teams of scientists, opening new era in human biology and medicine, this week present their first interpretations of human genome, set of DNA-encoded instructions that specify a person; two teams report in articles to be published on Thursday and Friday that there are far fewer human genes than thought--probably 30,000 or so--only a third more than those found in roundworm; one team, Celera Genomics, has compiled parts list of proteins needed to make a person; other team, publicly funded consortium, traces history of how 'junk' regions of genome accumulated and finds that small elements of junk may play a useful role; they also discover that human genes have been derived directly from bacteria; chart (L)

Genome Analysis Shows Humans Survive on Low Number of Genes

Two major political parties and members of Congress, facing threat of legislation that could place stringent new curbs on political fund-raising, are rushing to raise as much money as they can during first part of year; legislation, sponsored in Senate by Sens John McCain, Republican of Arizona, and Russell D Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, would ban unlimited and unregulated donations to political parties known as soft money; it would also prohibit lawmakers from raising soft money for their political action committees, a politician's individual political fund (M)

RACE IS UNDER WAY FOR CAMPAIGN CASH BEFORE NEW LIMITS

 Energy Panic Feeds Profits  The system that California created when it deregulated power three years ago has allowed a new breed of energy company to sell electricity for quick profits.   PAGE 28

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Gregory Rodriguez comment predicting that Mexican-Americans, who make up two-thirds of all Latinos in US, may well forge vision of American melting pot different from that of earlier immigrant groups, such as Jews, and from blacks, whose struggle in second half of twentieth century set standard for racial debate; Mexicans are different in that they mix race as well as ethnicity, and have developed little ethnic infrastructure (M)

The Nation: Mexican-Americans; Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot

Socially responsible investing, as it is called by many investors, regardless of their ideology, is becoming more popular, and in process is becoming increasingly Balkanized, with offerings customized to many faiths and beliefs; there are now mutual funds aimed at Muslims, Christian Scientists, socially conservative Christians; one mutual fund will invest only in companies that support gay and lesbian rights, while another shuns such companies; new standards have entered virtually almost every conceivable field of investment; there are socially responsible funds offering high-yield junk bonds, technology stocks and international stocks, not to mention stocks of small, medium-size and large companies; there are socially responsible personalized accounts, annuities and money market and venture capital funds; photo; list of some funds, noting their assets, and what type of companies they will not buy (L)

On Wall St., More Investors Push Social Goals

National Basketball Assn pauses for its annual All-Star Game, cherishing its assets while trying to deal with its problems on and off court; four people involved in game engage in conference call to discuss state of league; participants are Jerry Colangelo, owner of Phoenix Suns, George Karl, coach of Milwaukee Bucks, Chris Webber, Sacramento power forward, and Fred Klein, season ticket-holder with Knicks for last 41 years; photos (L)

At All-Star Break, A Time to Reflect

Move to deregulate US electricity markets makes nation more dependent on younger, independent companies, like Panda Energy International, Bob Carter's 19-year-old, Dallas-based operation, which builds and runs generating facilities across US; these newer companies have relatively little actual capital and face greater risks, from rising fuel prices to potential future oversupply; photos; charts; graphs (L)

A Wildcatter in the Electricity Jungle

Israel's turn to Ariel Sharon, 72-year-old veteran of every battle of its modern nationhood, is accident of history, but is also historically logical at time when Israeli-Palestinian relationship has evolved into primal ethnic conflict reminiscent of pre-state era; photo (M)

The World: Past Hope; Israel, in a Flashback, Turns to an Icon of Might

RAL Companies/270 Broadway Associates is in process of converting old Arthur Levitt State Office Building in Manhattan into three separate sections, offering combination of office space, rental residences, condominiums and retail space; photo (M)

POSTINGS: Offices, Rentals and Condos at Broadway and Chambers St.; Putting 3 Buildings in One

United States Navy discloses that Navy submarine that struck and sank Japanese fishing boat carrying 35 people on board near Hawaii on Friday was conducting drill when it surfaced quickly, as if in an emergency; Navy officials say that in drills of this kind, submarine's officers are supposed to use caution, first coming slowly to surface, listening for traffic with sonar equipment and scanning horizon for miles around through periscope before submerging and quickly resurfacing; Admiral Thomas Fargo, commander in chief of United States Pacific Fleet, apologizes for accident, as does State Sec Colin L Powell, who passes on Pres Bush's condolences; 26 of people aboard Japanese vessel are rescued, but nine people remain missing; Navy officials say that 16 civilians were on board submarine as observers; photos (L)

Sub in Collision Was Conducting Drill, Navy Says

Tony Scherman article says pop music industry has figured out how to do without musicians; says more and more pop is created not by conventional musicianship but by using samplers, digital editing software and other computerized tools to stitch together prerecorded sounds; says pop belongs increasingly to people who do not play instruments and have little or no grasp of even basic harmonic and rhythmic theory; says even mainstream pop from Christina Aguilera and Madonna relies far more on sampling and looping (programming sampled phrase to repeat indefinitely) than on rock 'n' roll staples of guitar playing and drumming; notes that Zach Danziger, one of most gifted drummers, has all-digital home recording studio, while his drums gather dust someplace else; wonders if skilled pop instrumentalist has become endangered species; drawing; photo (L)

Strike The Band: Pop Music Without Musicians

New York City Art Commission continues to have its say on aesthetics of construction projects that are built and public artworks that are installed on city-owned property, having survived battle over unauthorized yard-arm style flagpoles that threatened to end its its abolition; photos (M)

Art Commission: Elitist Bastion or Aesthetic Boon?

Louis Uchitelle column on rise of behavioral economists, who accept traditional theory that people act on basis of rational self-interest but insist that they are also prey to skewed reasoning, self-indulgence, self-destructive behavior and a host of other human frailties and strengths, all of which can have a big and often damaging effect on the economy; says that because the past 25 years of deregulation are predicated upon traditional concepts of economic rationality, behavioral economics' growing influence may alter government's regulatory role; cites work of Sendhil Mullainathan, David Laibson and George A Akerlof; photos (L)

Following the Money, but Also the Mind

Children and adolescents, who were once routinely left out of pharmaceutical research, are now being enrolled by thousands into drug company experiments, trend that is both transforming the care of sick children and generating qualms among pediatricians, ethicists and parents; federal government is driving force behind change; in 1997, Congress offered pharmaceutical manufacturers lucrative incentives to study their products in children; in December, FDA begin requiring companies to test almost all new medicines in young people; experts say testing is necessary because 80 percent of all medicines used in children have not been adequately researched in them; pediatricians often prescribe adult medicines 'off-label,' without FDA approval and without good information on dosing and side effects (M)

Children Test New Medicines Despite Doubts

Ford and Toyota heatedly dispute technical specifications by which to judge whose SUV, Toyota's Sequoia or Ford Expedition, has higher ground clearance and greater cargo space (M)

Every Inch Counts in a Toyota-Ford Space Race

New York City hotels have another banner year in 2000, setting records in occupancy and average room rates; PKF Consulting survey shows occupancy rose to 84.6 percent, up from 81.2 percent in 1999; average daily room rates rose 7.5 percent, to $237.16 (M)

POSTINGS: Report on New York City Hotels; Occupancy Up; Room Rates Too

Abraham D Beame, accountant and clubhouse Democrat who climbed gray ranks of municipal bookkeeping and confounded oddsmakers to become mayor of New York in mid-1970's, only to spend his term strugging with worst fiscal calamity in city's history, dies at 94; career reviewed; photos (L)

Abraham Beame Is Dead at 94; Mayor During 70's Fiscal Crisis

Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column welcomes arbitrator's judgment in case of Duke & Company, failed brokerage firm that was found guilty of securities fraud in 1999, and Fiserv Correspondent Services, which cleared Duke's trades; six Duke clients charged that Fiserv materially aided fraudulent transactions made by Duke; arbitrators awarded $1.8 million to the Duke customers, and award, which has survived court challenge, becomes Fiserv's responsibility (M)

Striking A Blow For the Little Guy

Bryan Gil Salvatierra is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left winger or a left midfielder for La Liga club Girona, on loan from Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur and the Spain national team

Bryan Gil, Spanish footballer

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The Anna Kournikova virus was a computer worm that emerged in February 2001. Disguised as an email attachment purportedly containing a picture of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova, the worm exploited users' curiosity to propagate itself. Upon opening the attachment, the worm replicated by sending itself to all contacts in the victim's Microsoft Outlook address book, causing widespread email disruptions. Unlike some other viruses of its time, it did not cause direct damage to files or systems.

A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.

February 11, 2001

Headlines from February 11, 2001

Seton Hall Wonders After Loss To Syracuse

Invitation a 'Mistake'

Chasing Mexico's Dream Into Squalor

VIEW; The Scoop on Professor Gore, An Insider's Story

Looking For Love

Billboard 200

J.Lo

Hotshot

Save The Last Dance

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O-Town

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Historical Context for February 11, 2001