Article on Paul Mijksenaar, Dutch designer hired by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to redesign confusing signs at its airports; photos (M)

A Ray of Hope For Travelers Following Signs

Brambles Industries expects profits in year ending June 30 to fall to about 343 million Australian dollars ($177 million) from 364.8 million Australian dollars ($186.3 million) in fiscal 2000 (S)

World Business Briefing | Australia: Australia: Costs Up At Brambles

Males are perceived to dominate as both computer hackers and curious explorers in computer laboratories, but some talented women warriors stand out prominently in the field; photos (M)

Among Code Warriors, Women, Too, Can Fight

Scoot.com stock falls 24 percent after Vivendi Universal SA ends talks about acquiring 78 percent of company it does not already own; company provides Internet services for businesses (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: A Dot-Com Slips

Article in series AIDS at 20 focuses on disease's radical impact on economics of patient care; some hospitals are reporting heavy losses on outpatient care, particulary as disease hits more low-income uninsured people; many doctors are also being hurt financially as health maintenance organizations classify AIDS as routine general care covered by flat fee for often time-consuming services; graphs of hospital stays; photos (M)

Price of Success In AIDS Treatment; Hospitals Confront New Therapy

Arts Abroad column on Band of Brothers, 10-part HBO mini-series about exploits of American parachute unit that landed in Normandy during World War II; $125 million series, latest in spate of American screen productions addressing horrors and heroism of World War II, was produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks; photos (M)

A Normandy Landing, This One for a Film

In the latest move in a high-stakes chess match, Tyumen Oil, a major Russian oil producer, said yesterday that it had acquired most of the debts of ZAO Rospan, a Siberian gas producer that once belonged to Gazprom, the giant state-controlled energy company.    Tyumen did not give the total value of the debts it acquired, but a spokesman, Vladimir Bobylyov, told Dow Jones that Tyumen planned to take over Rospan and increase its role in the gas market.  

Tyumen Oil Moves to Control Gas Producer

European Parliament and European Commission officials agree on law to make it easier to carry out hostile takeovers and more difficult for companies to defend selves by selling shares to friendly shareholders; accord comes despite vehement German objections; law will not take full effect until 2006; is likely to spur cross-border takeover bids (M)

Europeans Open Door For Hostile Takeovers

Collectors are snapping up mementos from Trans World Airlines, which declared bankruptcy in January and has been acquired by American Airlines; carrier is last of aviation pioneers whose design legacy is providing touchstone that will endure even after it ceases to exist; photos (M)

Curating Relics of T.W.A. As It Prepares for Departure

Web presents fertile field for lovers of baseball statistics and players of fantasy baseball; photos (M)

Who's on First? Wonder No More

Internal Revenue Service formally warns tax lawyers and other professionals that small business owners face prosecution if they fail to withhold taxes from workers' wages; says primary argument these business owners use has no basis in law; also takes first steps to collect payments from Al Thompson, best-known advocate of view that companies and their workers do not have to pay income taxes; he calls moves illegitimate; IRS has been criticized for moving slowly against businessmen who stop withholding; photo (M)

U.S. Warning To Businesses On Tax Protest

David Pogue column on GoToMyPC, new Web site created by ExpertCity that allows anyone to access his computer and its files from any Internet-connected machine in world; user connected from laptop or any business or convention center, Internet cafe or public library can remotely perform most operations on his home-base computer (M)

Putting You At the PC, Remotely

World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: More Autos

Web site called www.rentapriest.com offers services of married priests for variety of ceremonies, mostly marriages; 300 men are listed on site, whose success is not surprising, given fractured nature of Catholic Church in America; dissent over doctrinal issues concerning celibacy and role of women has driven men from priesthood and alienated segments of country's 60 million Catholics; church does not recognize weddings conducted by these priests, but state does; many who turn to Web site have real devoutness about their Catholicism, but also sense of disconnection from church and willingness to live with its official disapproval; some turn to site as practical matter, as nationwide shortage of priests worsens; estimated thousands of priests have resigned to marry; those who continue to minister are not cohesive group, but they are loosely characterized as having renegade attitudes toward church rules; photo (M)

Web Links Married Priests To Flock Adrift From Church

Bank of England's monetary policy committee votes to hold benchmark interest rate at 5.25 percent as threat of economic slowdown eases (S)1

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Rates Held Steady

Art Garfunkel will headline start of Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill; more than 150 musical events will be offered before festival ends on September 8; Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle season will begin at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson on June 8; will feature violinist Jaime Laredo, among others; photo; landscapes and portraits by American Impressionist Frank Vincent DuMond will be subject of exhibit at Bruce Museum of Arts and Science in Greenwich, Conn; Dance Theater of Harlem will present its first extended run at Apollo Theater, beginning on June 8; photo (M)

Footlights

New findings provide what experts say is strongest evidence that some human heart muscle cells do regenerate after heart attack, though generally too few to repair all the damage; team led by Dr Piero Anversa makes finding using high-resolution microscope and new laboratory technique; heart-cell regeneration research is controversial because researchers have never found evidence of heart-cell regeneration before and have come to believe it does not occur; scarring that follows heart attacks suggests heart is unable to make new cells; experts say Anversa's findings have important implications for treating heart disease, nation's leading cause of death; findings reported in New England Journal of Medicine; photo (M)

STUDY FINDS HEART REGENERATES CELLS

 Philip Morris Ordered to Pay $3 Billion in Smoking Case  A longtime smoker afflicted with lung cancer won the largest ever individual civil award against a tobacco company, slightly more than $3 billion from Philip Morris.    A jury in Los Angeles ordered Philip Morris to pay $3 billion in punitive damages and $5.5 million in general damages. In its 18-page verdict, the jury found against Philip Morris on all six counts of fraud, negligence and making a defective product. [Page A14.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Acting New Jersey Gov Donald T DiFrancesco and YankeeNets, owner of New Jersey Devils and New Jersey Nets, announce tentative agreement for $355 million arena to be built in downtown Newark and paid for largely by sales taxes collected in Newark area; map (M)

DiFrancesco Proposes New Arena Plan for Newark

Herbert Muschamp appraisal of design for National World War II Memorial in Washington; says architect, Friedrich St Florian, reproduces style of architecture associated with World War II period and decade preceding it, which is sometimes called modern classical; says St Florian's design for memorial diminishes substance of its architectural context, and puts sentiment in place where knowledge ought to be; photo (M)

An Appraisal; New War Memorial Is Shrine to Sentiment

Australian economy grew 2.1 percent in first quarter from year-earlier quarter, defying expectations that economy was slowing down (S)7

World Business Briefing | Australia: Australia: Economic Growth

Market Place column says battle for Wachovia Corp seems to be tilting toward First Union Corp as value of SunTrust Banks' hostile bid continues to drop; SunTrust's premium over First Union's friendly offer has fallen to 2 percent, down from 17 percent when bid was made; SunTrust is unlikely to raise bid and risk driving down its stock price even further (M)

Market Place; First Union's Bid for Wachovia Gains Momentum

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Toy Store Turnaround

Eleven of America's top atmospheric scientists declare that global warming is real problem and is getting worse; conclusion may lead Pres Bush to change his stand on issue as he heads to Europe, where United States is seen as major source of air pollution held responsible for climate change; much-anticipated report from National Academy of Sciences includes views of some previous skeptics about global warming; it reaffirms mainstream scientific view that earth's atmosphere is getting warmer and that human activity is largely responsible; report was requested by White House in anticipation of international meeting on global warming in July; European leaders were outraged when Bush rejected global warming pact known as Kyoto Protocol last March; Bush and many in his cabinet are trying to hammer out proposal on limiting pollutants that cause global warming; many international business executives are pressuring administration to move more aggressively on issue, as are some of Bush's closest advisers, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, Treasury Sec Paul H O'Neill, Christie Whitman, administrator of Environmental Protection Agency, and Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser (M)

PANEL TELLS BUSH GLOBAL WARMING IS GETTING WORSE

Food and Drug Administration begins warning companies putting herbal additives in food that products could be illegal, saying herbs have never been approved for consumption in food; warnings so far involve products containing popular ingredients ginko biloba, Siberian ginseng and echinacea; FDA says it acts as part of newly invigorated effort to protect 'integrity' of convential food supply; says it may ask manufacturers for proof that ingredients are safe (M)

F.D.A. Warns Food Companies About Herbal Additives

Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician who served as the 45th president of Bolivia for three nonconsecutive and four total terms from 1952 to 1956, 1960 to 1964 and 1985 to 1989. He ran for president eight times and was victorious in 1951, 1960, 1964 and 1985. His 1951 victory was annulled by a military junta led by Hugo Ballivián, and his 1964 victory was interrupted by the 1964 Bolivian coup d'état.

Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (born 1907)

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Betty Neels was a prolific British writer of over 134 romance novels, beginning in 1969 and continuing until her death. Her work is known for being particularly chaste.

June 7, 2001

Headlines from June 7, 2001

A Ray of Hope For Travelers Following Signs

World Business Briefing | Australia: Australia: Costs Up At Brambles

Among Code Warriors, Women, Too, Can Fight

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: A Dot-Com Slips

Price of Success In AIDS Treatment; Hospitals Confront New Therapy

Billboard 200

Break The Cycle

Lateralus

Survivor

Malpractice

Miss E ...So Addictive

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 7, 2001