August 26, 2001

Apopka, Fla, defeats Bronx's Rolando Paulino All-Stars for United States little league championship; photo (M)

Evidence that current economic downturn is different than previous downturns leaves forecasters unsure when bottom has been reached or what will happen next; slowdown has come mainly as result of rapid drop in business investment, while consumers continue to spend; gross domestic product; graph (M)

Article traces pickle's rich history in Manhattan's Lower East Side, particularly Orchard Street; city, at turn of century, was home to 200 family-run pickle shops, half of them on Lower East Side; one, Guss's Pickles, 91-year-old shop on Essex Street, remains; Lucy Norris, who comes from pickling family in Texas and is member of New York Food Museum staff, is helping to conduct oral history of pickling and plans to write book; museum has declared September 30 First Annual New York International Pickle Day; photos ( L)

Notre Dame quarterback Matt LoVecchio is under extraordinary pressure to put together winning season; discusses other quarterbacks at Division I-A schools and notes teams to watch as season gets under way; photo (M)

David Brion Davis article holds current national debate about slavery and its role in American history is forcing re-examination of distorted views promulgated after Civil War to spur North-South reconciliation; cites as South's ideological victory view that slavery played minor role in national history and even as cause of war, that Negroes are inferior to whites and that slavery was unfortunate but benign institution; photos (M)