United Airlines' new chief executive, John W Creighton Jr, will presumably have to move quickly stanch losses estimated at $20 million a day; must also refashion management team that has lost credibility with employees and manage expectations of labor unions that helped topple his predecessor, James E Goodwin; Frederick C Dubinsky, chairman of Air Line Pilots Association unit at United, strongly endorses Creighton but is cool to idea of wage concessions; many analysts think that such concessions are critical to turning United around; photo (M)

Challenges Abound for New Chief at Beleaguered United Airlines

Kvaerner, the Norwegian engineering company near bankruptcy, lost 4.23 billion kroner ($474 million) in the third quarter, compared with profit of 138 million kroner in the period last year; Kvaerner's biggest shareholder, Yukos Oil of Russia, offers to finance the company for a week (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Norway: Kvaerner Posts Loss

Thriving era of scientific discovery that began in Islamic world shortly after introduction of Islam discussed; Muslims, commanded by Koran to seek knowledge and read nature and inspired by ancient Greek learning, created society in Middle Ages that was scientific center of world; infusion of Islamic learning into Western Europe fueled Renaissance and scientific revolution; reasons for decline of Islamic science are unclear; time line; photos; drawings; map (M)

How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science

Article on New York Yankees preparing for Game 3 of World Series against Arizona Diamondbacks; Yankees trail series, 0-2; photo (M)

Yankees Must Revive Bats To Conquer Arizona's Staff

Pres Bush will tighten immigration controls in move to keep potential terrorists out of US; will crack down on foreigners who remain in US beyond terms of visas; announces creation of new group that will seek out and deport foreigners who remain in US illegally; says administration will press efforts to ensure that students who obtain visas to study in US enroll in classes or leave country; officials note at least two of terrorists who carried out September 11 attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon overstayed visas, and that one obtained visa to attend language course in California but never showed up for class; photo (M)

Bush Announces a Crackdown on Visa Violators

New York Giants coach Jim Fassel discusses team's loss to Washington Redskins; photo (M)

Giants Look Nothing Like Last Season's Team

Tokyo Stock Exchange will become joint stock company on Nov 2, a first step toward selling its shares to the public; exchange's new for-profit mandate will oblige management to cut costs, introduce more money-making products and public annual reports; major changes are expected to come as slowly as the demutualization, which took two years to plan; photo (M)

Tokyo Exchange Takes Steps to Change

Herbert Muschamp appraises Norman Foster's design for new Hearst Corp headquarters, New York City, tower to be built atop existing building; photos (M)

An Appraisal: A Crystal Beacon Atop a 20's Curiosity; Shimmering Tower on Eighth Avenue To Complete Hearst's Headquarters

Izak Rozencwajg, Steven Harris and Lenny Harris, shoeshiners who are stalwart fixtures in lower Manhattan, return to their posts in significant sign that Lower Manhattan has begun trek to recovery; photo (M)

A Shoeshine Trio Resurfaces; Another Small Step in the Recovery of Lower Manhattan

John Tierney The Big City column discusses disclosure that producers of play The Producers are about to start offering 50 premium seats each performance for $480 apiece, ostensibly to thwart ticket scalpers (M)

The Big City; Shed a Tear For Scalpers On Broadway

Boeing Co, stung by losing to Lockheed Martin in competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter for the United States, moves quickly to reassure South Korean officials that it is still ready to build advanced fighter jets for overseas customers; Boeing is competing with Dassault Aviation of France, mulitnational Eurofighter consortium and Rosoboronexport, Russian state trading company, for $4 billion, 40-jet order from South Korea (M)

Boeing Tries to Reassure Seoul On Plans for an Advanced Jet

France's Credit Agricole expects to post profit of about $1.3 billion for 2001, up 9 percent from levels year ago, and expects 5 to 10 percent rise in 2002 profits from 2001 (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Bank Expects Profit

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani called for legislation that would significantly increase the amount of information shared between federal and local law enforcement agencies and said the F.B.I. should set up an office to coordinate such communication.    Article, Page B5.

Information Sharing

Anthony Tommasini Critic's Notebook column sees James Levine's appointment as Boston Symphony Orchestra music director giving him chance to leave his interpretive stamp on major orchestral repertory, conduct more contemporary music and introduce more new works; photos (M)

What Boston Job Means to Levine's Musical Legacy

Unidentified, 61-year-old Bronx woman is critically ill with what health officials believe is first case of inhalation anthrax in New York City; preliminary diagnosis leads city to temporarily close Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, where infection may have occurred; New Jersey officials report unidentified 51-year-old Mercerville woman contracted skin anthrax, making her first person who is not postal employee or government worker, or connected to media company, to be infected during current crisis; officials see link with Hamilton Township mail processing center, which handled several anthrax-tainted letters; photo (M)

Possible Anthrax Case Shuts a New York Hospital

Merrill Lynch & Co will overhaul way it pays its 15,000 brokers in latest step in its effort to attract more wealthy Americans and fewer customers of modest means; among other things, Merrill will pay its best brokers considerably higher commissions for big trades than for smaller ones; Merrill says it still places highest value on customers who agree to pay fees based on amount of money they have on account, rather than commissions on individual trades; to that end, it increases rewards for generating fees even more than it raises commissions; but new plan recognizes that flat-fee accounts do not suit all customers, especially many very wealthy investors whose business Merrill covets most (M)

Merrill Alters Pay of Brokers in Effort to Court Wealthy as Clients

Environmental scientists have long studied physics and physiology of particles 0.05 microns to 10 or 20 microns in size, tiny particles that crop up in environmental science and germ weaponry because once released they can stay aloft almost indefinitely, seep into buildings and be inhaled by people; peculiar microscopic physics shared by all these particles insures some will be deposited deep in lungs, where great damage can be done; knowledge is freely available in unclassified literature; environmental scientists cite bioterrorism threat as added reason to improve quality of indoor air with powerful filters and other methods; diagrams (M)

Particles Are Tiny, but Damage Can Be Great

London Financial Futures and Options Exchange rejects takeover from London Stock Exchange in favor of $805 million all-cash bid from Euronext; Euronext's bid of 18.25 pounds ($26.10) a share tops London exchange's bid of 12 pounds in cash and 7 pounds in stock (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Financial Exchange Accepts Bid

 U.S. Said to Seek Syrian Help  A top C.I.A. official went Syria to seek its investigative cooperation against the terrorist network, American officials said.   PAGE B3    Improbable Rescue Tools  A $20 pair of handcuffs, once used to arrest shoplifters at Toys ''R'' Us, helped save the last two police officers pulled alive from the wreckage of the World Trade Center.   PAGE B1

A NATION CHALLENGED

Germany's ThyssenKrupp and China's Baosteel Group will officially open $1.43 billion stainless steel manufacturing plant in Shanghai, representing one of the largest foreign investments yet in country; ThyssenKrupp holds 60 percent of the joint venture; photo (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Steel Venture

Allan Kozinn reviews Montreal Symphony concert, conducted by Charles Dutoit, with pianist Martha Argerich; photos (M)

Turning the Unexpected to Lyrical Good Use

Article notes concern that United States alliance with Uzbekistan may give credence to government that represses democratic rights; examples are restrictions on faith, judicial system that operates at least partly in secret and security forces that torture suspects and maintain inhumane prisons; repression of religion and imprisonment of Muslims could be viewed as confirmation throughout Muslim world that United States is waging war on Islam, not on terrorism; government says imprisoned Muslims support Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, terrorist organization they believe is fighting alongside Taliban in Afghanistan; map; photos (M)

Alliance With U.S. Spotlights Uzbek Rights Abuses

Military and government officials say collection of documents, computer disks and other material seized during nighttime raid by special operations forces in southern Afghanistan 10 days ago failed to produce intelligence bonanza Pentagon had sought; early assessment of material taken from compound of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar on outskirts of Kandahar, disappoints military commanders who hoped for clues to whereabouts of senior Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden; US bombing of Taliban front lines in northern Afghanistan continues for eighth straight day; Gen Tommy R Franks, head of US Central Command, meets with Pakistan Pres Gen Pervez Musharraf amid growing signs that onset of holy days of Ramadan, as well as civilian casualties, are undermining support for American war effort (M)

DOCUMENTS TAKEN IN U.S. GROUND RAID ARE OF LIMITED USE

ExxonMobil is ready to spend $4 billion over five years to develop large offshore oil and gas fields in far eastern Russia; project, which could grow to $12 billion over its life of 30 to 40 years, will be Russia's largest single foreign investment so far; ExxonMobil began exploring fields, off Sakhalin Island in Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan, in 1996, but as recently as May, company executives were saying future of project was in doubt because of tax issues (M)

Exxon Says Way Is Cleared for Development in Russia

Analysis of General Motors Corp's decision to accept EchoStar Communications' $25.8 billion bid for GM's Hughes Electronics unit; says EchoStar chairman, Charles W Ergen, faces even tougher task of selling deal in Washington; says many industry analysts say takeover may win relatively easy approval from FCC and its pro-business chairman; they say it will probably face far more strenuous review by antitrust division of Justice Department because it would combine nation's No. 1 satellite television company--Hughes's DirecTV unit--with EchoStar, second-largest player; chart; photos (M)

October 30, 2001

Headlines from October 30, 2001

Challenges Abound for New Chief at Beleaguered United Airlines

World Business Briefing | Europe: Norway: Kvaerner Posts Loss

How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science

Yankees Must Revive Bats To Conquer Arizona's Staff

Bush Announces a Crackdown on Visa Violators

Billboard 200

Pain Is Love

A Day Without Rain

Dark Days; Bright Nights

The Blueprint

Silver Side Up

Historical Context for October 30, 2001