January 13, 2002

Article describes change in makeup of residents of white glazed-brick high-rise co-op apartments on Manhattan's East Side once dominated by single, professional women; women are getting older and buildings, mostly made up of studios and one-bedroom apartments, are being taken over by bond traders and public relations executives, nearly all under 35; photos (M)

Carleton S Fiorina, who has staked her future as Hewlett-Packard's chief executive on winning shareholder approval of merger with Compaq Computer, could provide test for women chief executives if she fails and is forced to leave, but is still viewed as chief executive material and can go on to top post at another company, just as a man would in her place; sheer scarcity of women as chief executives guarantees them enormous attention when they are hired and even more when they are fired; photos; graphs show that gains by women in such fields as medicine, law and higher education are not matched in business (L)

CNN and Fox News Channel escalate their already fierce ratings war, heating up graphics and promotions and working furiously to poach talent from each other; Paula Zahn's move from Fox to CNN exemplifies steps taken by Jamie Kellner, chairman of Turner Broadcasting System, and Walter Isaacson, CNN chairman, to hold on to market share during slow news period, and these steps worry longtime CNN producers and correspondents who were raised in environment in which news, not personality, was star of network; Kellner and his counterpart at Fox, Roger Ailes, have inherited a feud from networks' titanic founders, Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch; Fox is growing revenue generator for Murdoch's News Corp and potentially its highest-profile news outlet, one that Murdoch hopes can become as global as CNN; photos; drawings; graphs (L)

Michelle Kwan, Sasha Cohen and Sarah Hughes take first, second and third place, respectively, in United States Figure Skating Championships; photo (M)

Bush administration's scramble to deal with its first-blown political scandal, its close ties to Enron Corp, reviewed; photo (M)