July 5, 2001

Motion picture and television producers and actors reach agreement on three-year contract; package includes increases in industry's standard minimum wage: 3 percent for each of next two years before rising to 3.5 percent in final year of contract; photo (M)

E-mail programs refine possibilities for creating subject folders, setting up filters that automatically sort incoming mail into those folders and locating individual messages and text within them; still, most people's e-mail is disorganized maelstrom; photos (M)

Five staff members at Heartland Christian Academy, nondenominational Christian school in Newark, Mo, that uses old-time religion and old-fashioned discipline to try to save troubled children, are charged with multiple counts of felony child abuse; they are accused of taking discipline too far, ordering 11 students, ages 13 to 17, to stand in pits of cow manure as punishment for infractions such a fighting and being disrespectful to instructors; Sheriff David Parrish says workers at dairy saw students standing chest-deep in manure; dairy is owned by Charles Sharpe, millionaire businessman who founded school; he claims punishment is to shovel manure, not stand in it; says he has stopped that form of punishment because it was bad public relations, not because he considers it illegal or abusive, or health risk; notes that of 11 students removed from school by State Division of Family Services, eight have been returned to school by their parents or legal guardians; Sharpe and school and ministries he heads have filed suits charging various local government officials with harassment; photos; map (L)

New York Yankees defeat Baltimore Orlioles, 4-3; photos (M)

Philadelphia Flyers star Eric Lindros says he wants to play for New York Rangers and has asked team to trade for him; photo (M)