June 24, 2001

Bush Backs DNA Test Limits President Bush said he would support passage of a law preventing insurers and employers from using DNA tests to deny medical coverage or turn people down for jobs. PAGE 10 Crash Forces Bridge Closing A bridge on Interstate 80 in northern New Jersey was so badly damaged during a crash on Friday involving a gasoline tanker that the span will have to be replaced. Motorists may encounter delays for several months. PAGE 22

Americans in their 20's, who came of age in period of spectacular boom and bust, have extraordinarily high, often unmet, expectations of wealth and success, even as they now confront instability in 'digitocracy'; many seem to be experiencing early midlife, or in their case quarterlife, crises, yearning for good personal relationships and work that is spiritually fulfilling, not just lucrative; photos (M)

Special report, Transplant Frontiers, on ethical, emotional and medical issues arising in age of organ transplants; once unthinkable, using healthy people as organ donors to provide kidneys and portions of livers and lungs is gaining wide acceptance; there is no doubt that living donors can save lives of people who are languishing on transplant lists; but no matter how well operations go, performing major surgery on someone who does not need it still violates historical admonition that doctors must 'do no harm'; examples cited; photos; drawings (L)

Columbus condominium complex recently completed in center of Hoboken, NJ, offers light, air and open space; 87-unit develpment stands next to Columbus Park; photo (S)

Amei Wallach article on Ed Ruscha calls him one of handful of triple-threat artists as fluent in printmaking and photography as painting; for more than four decades he has been taking pulse of America that lives at outskirts or cities and at edges of American dream; painting retrospective opens July 1 at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; California Palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco will display selection of his prints, celebrating Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco's acquisition of entire archive of Ruscha's 325 prints and 800 working proofs; photos (M)