Striking Greece Culture Ministry workers close Acropolis and hundreds of other cultural sites; jazz pianist Oscar Peterson to open four-night engagement at Blue Note; photo; comment on exhibition Models of Observation, at Knoedler Gallery, that links Dutch Golden Age to modern times; exhibition of Andre Villers's photographs of Picasso goes on view at French Institute Alliance Francaise; photo (M)

Footlights

Angela Williams began her speech at a conference for female corporate lawyers in May with an apology. Her assistant had sent over the wrong biography, describing her as a Baptist minister rather than a lawyer. In reality, she said, she was

Traveling 2 Roads In One Life

R W Apple Jr comments on pleasures of tart Brazilian drink known as caipirinhas; photos (M)

How Brazil Lights Fire In a Glass

Merrill Lynch & Co names E Stanley O'Neal to fill vacant position of president and chief operating officer; David H Komansky, chairman and chief executive, says he expects O'Neal to succeed him when he retires in three years; O'Neal could become first black to lead major Wall Street securities firm; photo (M)

Merrill Picks Heir Apparent To Top Job

As the only psychologist for 880 patients, I've been warmly received by staff and residents. Not long ago, I asked a middle-aged AIDS patient with a history of sporadic violent outbursts whether he got depressed. His reply was: ''The food

The Therapeutic Listener

New York Yankees defeat Detroit Tigers, 6-5; photos (M)

Yankees' Comedy of Errors Ends in Victory

As a result of growth in the number of mutual funds, The Times is eliminating entries for some of the smallest ones and making its daily table more concise.    The table now lists Nasdaq funds with assets of $50 million or more, no longer $30 million. The omitted funds -- accounting for 18 percent of the space formerly occupied by The Times's table -- represent slightly more than 1 percent of the total money invested in the listed funds. When a fund offers more than one share class, its classes are now grouped, no longer listed in separate categories.     On Sundays in Money & Business, the mutual funds table will continue to list funds with assets of $30 million or more, but grouped as they are in the daily table. The order of fund family names will change slightly.    Information on more than 12,000 mutual funds is available at The New York Times on the Web at www.nytimes.com/ business.    Comments about the changes may be e-mailed to tables@nytimes.com or telephoned to (212) 556-8443.  

About Mutual Funds; Editors' Note

R W Apple reports on Brazilian cuisine from region of Salvador da Bahia, two-hour flight northeast of Rio de Janeiro; photos; map; recipes (L)

A New World Banquet, Flavored by Africa

Funeral is held for Rahela Begum, 13, who drowned off Far Rockaway, Queens; she was swept away by strong surf with cousins Jubeda and Shajeda Ahmed; search for cousins' bodies is set to resume; photos (M)

Stunned Neighbors Mourn 3 Cousins Lost off Far Rockaway

Brazilian government plans to ask World Trade Organization to open arbitration panel that will challenge subsidies for soybean growers in US; Brazilian trade officials contend that subsidies, which should reach $3.3 billion this year, have prompted overproduction that has sent world prices falling to 30-year lows (S)

World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Soybean Trade Case

Currency traders drive up Indonesian rupiah 13 percent, sending powerful signal that they expect Indonesia's new president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, to restore stability to economy; Megawait, daughter of Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno, takes control even though her predecessor, Abdurrahman Wahid, refuses to leave presidential palace; photo (M)

In Indonesia, Uncertainty Amid Hopes For Stability

Wayne Gretkzy includes Eric Lindros on list of players invited to Canadian Olympic team summer orientation camp, but says Lindros must be playing somewhere to make Olympics; Lindros, who has not played for Philadelphia Flyers since May 2000, urges Flyers to trade him; says he weighs playing in Europe as last resort; photo (M)

Lindros May Have to Go East Before Going West for Olympics

George Vecsey Sports of the Times column on George Weah; Liberian soccer star lives in New York in wake of attack on his home by government storm troopers, but frequently returns to Liberia with relief funds; he comments on decision to rejoin national team, which he quit after loss spurred fans to curse his mother; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Liberian, New Yorker, Altruist

Nevada and other states are responding to criminal convictions of tens of thousands of adolescents by altering adult prisons to cope with special needs of and dangers faced by young inmates; Nevada corrections director Jackie Crawford explains segregation of adolescents like Shaun Miller, 15 when convicted of robbery in 1998; photo; graph; states are following recommendations of American Correctional Assn; Barry Glick, who headed task force, explains that although young inmates have often committed heinous crimes, they will learn only how to be better criminals if kept with longtime offenders; extra meals and job training described (M)

States Adjust Adult Prisons To Needs of Youth Inmates

Kim Dong Jin is appointed chief executive of Hyundai Motor Co, replacing Lee Kye Ahn; photo (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Change At Hyundai

Profile of Takashi Murakami, thoroughly original 38-year-old painter of obsessively precise, dazzlingly colored paintings of childlike subjects; Murakami has a devoted coterie of assistants working in Brooklyn and Tokyo to execute his ideas; photos (L)

A Japanese Artist Goes Global; Far-Flung Helpers Meet Demand for Takashi Murakami's Paintings

Vaccine makers see new interest in their products after years in doldrums; several companies have been working on vaccines for purposes, with most in early stages of development and testing on humans; testing is being done for vaccines for Alzheimer's disease, cholesterol management, cocaine addiction, traveler's diarrhea and urinary tract infections; companies involved include Acambis, GlaxoSmithKline, Avant Immunotherapeutics, Elan Pharmaceuticals, Merck & Co and Xenova; photos (M)

Big Steps for Vaccine Industry; Fresh Approaches And Technology Ignite New Interest

 Attack Stuns Sri Lankans  A rebel suicide attack on the main airport in Sri Lanka has left leaders questioning how the nation's tightest security cordon could have been breached.   PAGE A3    Merrill Picks Heir Apparent  Merrill Lynch moved E. Stanley O'Neal into position to be its next chief executive. He could become the first black to lead a major Wall Street securities firm.   PAGE C1

INSIDE

It's summertime, and that means the beach and other vacation spots beckon workers away from the office. But with a weak economy, high gasoline prices early in the season and higher costs for meals and lodging, some vacations may be scaled b

Getting Away From It All, at Least for a Little While

Leaders of New York Assembly and Senate say they will move to break four-month budget deadlock by passing austere spending plan; bare-bones budget would omit many of Gov George Pataki's tax cuts and economic development initiatives, hold most all spending at current levels and raise school aid by $382 million rather than $1.7 billion proposed by Democrats; Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate leader Joseph Bruno say they will then try to resolve issues with Pataki on other spending; state often used device of supplemental budgets to get around wrangling in years past (M)

Albany to Pass Austere Budget, Ending Logjam

World Trade Organization panel upholds ruling that US government has illegally increased duties on Japanese steel imports; US and Japan must now agree on when duties will be eliminated (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: Global Trade: Steel Ruling

ABB Ltd reports 21 percent drop in half-year profit and says it will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or 8 percent of work force; says new orders were down 7 percent in period, to $12.6 billion, and revenue was flat, at $11.1 billion; income from continuing operations fell 40 percent, to $329 billion; net income fell 76 percent; photo (M)

ABB, Reporting Lower Profit, Will Cut 12,000 Jobs

Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation, public health group, reports that V-chip usage is fairly low; chip, required by law in television sets built since 1966, allows parents to block television programs they consider inappropriate for their children; foundation estimates that about 40 percent of American families now have at least one television with V-chip, but that only 7 percent of all parents are using V-chip nationally (M)

Survey Shows Few Parents Use TV V-Chip to Limit Children's Viewing

India's Hindustan Lever earned 3.46 billion rupees ($75 million) in its second quarter, 21 percent increase from year earlier; sales rose to 29.3 billion rupees ($630 million) from 28.8 billion rupees ($619 million) (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: India: Profit At Retailer

Lucent announcement of 20,000 job cuts noted

Lucent to Make Cuts Of 20,000 More Jobs

Bryce Young is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, setting the school record for most passing yards in a single game (559) and winning several player of the year awards in 2021, including the Heisman Trophy. Young was selected first overall by the Panthers in the 2023 NFL draft.

July 25, 2001

Headlines from July 25, 2001

Footlights

Traveling 2 Roads In One Life

How Brazil Lights Fire In a Glass

Merrill Picks Heir Apparent To Top Job

The Therapeutic Listener

Billboard 200

Songs In A Minor

The Saga Continues...

Devil's Night

Break The Cycle

Survivor

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 25, 2001