May 14, 2002

Eight months after Sept 11, many New York children continue to struggle with deep psychological scars; Board of Education study says more than 25 percent of public school children in grades 4 through 12 were candidates for some sort of mental health intervention because of lingering trauma and fear; phtos (M)

John Tierney The Big City column wonders how patriotic New Yorkers would be if terrorists had struck somewhere other than Manhattan; cites article in American Enterprise Institute's magazine that offers mixed review of New York (M)

Sears to Buy Lands' End Sears will pay $1.9 billion in cash to buy Lands' End, the catalog retailer. It is the first time that Lands' End clothing will be sold through another company. BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Does the Moon Throb? Beneath the Moon's cold craters, some scientists say, lies a warm and yielding heart, a finding that may aid a theory about how the Moon was born. SCIENCE TIMES, PAGE F1

Seattle Mariners attract more television viewers than any other major league team, getting highest ratings at 15.7 on Fox Sports Northwest; photos (M)

Sears Roebuck & Co will pay $1.9 billion in cash to buy mail-order retailer Lands' End; agreement gives Sears exclusive rights to Lands' End products for its 870 stores nationwide; Sears also plans to tap into Lands' End customer file, estimated at 30 million households, to sell other products; Lands' End president-chief executive David F Dyer will manager Sears online shopping and catalog business; Lands' End is expected to expand sales by having its clothing and other products on Sears shelves and by having them featured on Sears Web site; Sears executives say they plan to operate Lands' End with no layoffs or cutbacks, but they hope that Lands' End customers will spill over into their sections of Sears stores; Sears chairman-chief executive Alan J Lacy says he expects that 15 percent to 20 percent of all apparel for sale in Sears will be from Lands' End by next year; graph; photo (M)

Australian business confidence rose to its highest level in eight years in April, signaling economy is picking up and that Reserve Bank of Australia may raise interest rates faster than expected; National Australia Bank's index of business confidence rose 5.8 percent, to 20.6 points, highest level since 1994 (S)

Article on controvesy over labeling of Quorn, meat substitute made from fungi which is gaining more attention in American market after being available in Europe for 16 years; competitors, fungus experts and Center for Science in the Public Interest say Marlow Foods is not being accurate in labeling Quorn as member of mushroom family instead of mold; photo (M)

Lay review board pioneered by Archdiocese of Chicago decade ago to discipline priests accused of sexual abuse, gaining national reputation in process, is faulted by some Catholics and church critics amid trauma of new scandals; many now question how vigorously board and its counterparts investigate charges of abuse; accuse boards of undue secrecy, since members' names and proceedings are not made public, and of insensitivity to people bringing complaints; question their independence, noting members are appointed by bishops, even though church officials insist no meddling occurs; Chicago board inspired scores of other dioceses to create similar panels of their own; photo (M)

Pres Bush says he will sign treaty with Pres Vladimir V Putin of Russia during upcoming visit to Moscow committing both nations to cut nuclear arsenals by two-thirds to between 1,700 and 2,200 strategic nuclear warheads over next 10 years; accord does not require destruction of warheads, essentially giving both sides right to keep weapons in storage where they could be reactivated on relatively short notice; gives Pentagon enormous flexibility since reductions are not required before 2012, same year treaty expires; both countries reserve right to terminate it in short time frame, of just three months' notice or half ordinary notification period; other provisions noted; Bush says treaty will liquidate legacy of cold war, and begin new era of US-Russian relationships; provisions of major arms control treaties between both countries since 1972 compared; photo (M)

Former President Jimmy Carter, the most prominent American to visit Cuba in the Castro era, said concerns about Cuban involvement in developing bioweapons were never mentioned to him before his trip.

Footlights column: Frick Collection will stage exhibit of works by 18th-century artist Jean Baptiste Greuze; French writer Michel Houellebecq is named winner of $91,500 Impac Dublin Literary Award for his novel, The Elementary Particles; Tate Modern in London opens exhibit juxtaposing works by Matisse and Picasso; second annual Golden Age of Cinema Festival is set to open at New York University; photos (M)

Dynegy's accounting treatment of partnership Catlin Associates LLC has led some analysts to conclude that it has understated its debt; partnership was set up by Dynegy two years ago to hold power-generation operations; questions about Catlin come at bad time for Dynegy executives, who are already dealing with federal securities investigation of gas supply contract, known as Project Alpha, and are continuing to fend off comparisons to Enron (Market Place column) (M)