World Cup semifinals will pit two great soccer powers, Germany and Brazil, against South Korea and Turkey, which have provided tournament's engaging surprise; South Korea reaches semifinals by defeating Spain, and Turkey by defeating Senegal (M)

New Faces and Old Achieve Final Four Of the World Cup

Long political stalemate over nation's health care policy reviewed; nation that has learned to tolerate 39 million uninsured people will also tolerate, at least for another year, millions of elderly people struggling to pay soaring drug costs; photo; graphs; issues involve partisan advantage, but also fundamental disagreement involving Republican preference for 'choice' and 'free market' over government-run Medicare (M)

The Nation: The Prescription Drug Debate; Why the Elderly Wait . . . and Wait

Gretchen Morgenson Market Watch column reports that some balanced mutual funds, which traditionally hold more bonds than equities, are attempting to lure back investors disappointed by their returns by increasing their stock holdings in attempt to maximize profits; warns that this ploy markedly increases funds' risk; list of such funds (M)

Some Balanced Funds Are Tipping Toward More Risk

Grid, magazine about land use, architecture and real estate development in New York and national trends, is shutting down after 25 issues (S)

POSTINGS: 4-Year-old Publication Cites Revenues; Grid Magazine Set to Close

New York Yankees defeat San Diego Padres, 1-0; photos (M)

Lilly Takes Advantage of His Day in the Sun

Article on group of private investigators who wage high-stakes war against large, loose network of vendors, importers and manufacturers of counterfeit merchandise whose capital, or at least major hub, is New York City's Chinatown; vast range of fake products, from designer items to computer software and prescription drugs, are made in city or imported there and sent elsewhere; counterfeiting reportedly accounts for estimated 5 to 7 percent of global trade, has ties to organized crime, drug trade and terrorism and may be expanding; photos (L)

The Knockoff Squad

Severe hunger is sweeping across southern Africa as result of two years of alternating droughts and floods, coupled with mismanagement of food supplies; Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Lesotho have been declared national disasters, and Mozambique and Swaziland are also struggling; United Nations expects four million people to need emergency aid in next few months as this season's meager harvest runs out; photos; map; graphs (L)

Meager Harvests in Africa Leave Millions at the Edge of Starvation

Article on controversy brewing over Provincetown, Mass, author Peter Manso and his soon-to-be-published book Ptown: Art, Sex and Money on the Outer Cape; photos (M)

Dockside Confidential: The Talk of P-town

St Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile, 33, is found dead in hotel room on day he is scheduled to start against Chicago Cubs; cause of death is unknown; game is postponed as teammates and Major League Baseball mourn; photos (M)

Darryl Kile, Cardinals Pitcher, Is Found Dead in Hotel Room

Pace of conversions of rental buildings to condominiums or co-ops is picking up in New York City after a very slow decade; lull of 1990's was due to thinning out of buildings that were obvious candidates for conversion, ups and downs of real estate market and sponsor defaults in late 1980's; now prices are soaring, allowing sponsors to find buildings suitable for conversion and financing necessary to buy them; photos; map (M)

Conversions From Rentals Trickle On

Researchers say women are not taken as seriously as men when their report pain and they receive less aggressive treatment for their pain; studies also show that women tend to feel pain, particulary acute pain, more intensely than men do and that they are also more vulnerable to variety of painful conditions, including migraines, arthritis, fibromyalgia, temporo-mandibular disorder, pelvic pain and abdominal pain of various kinds; photos (M)

Hurting More, Helping Less?

Article on mass-marketing of perimenopause; many doctor define condition loosely, saying it can begin 15 or 20 years before final menstrual cycle while others see it as opportunity by drug companies, book publishers and herbal supplement makers to exploit concerns of millions of women over age 35; photos (M)

Menopause Forever

Lisa Belkin column on abuse of methamphetamines by middle-class working mothers who feel they must be 'supermoms'; drawing (M)

A New Drug Demographic: Supermoms

 500 Die in Iran Earthquake  A powerful earthquake hit northernwestern Iran, killing at least 500 people and injuring more than 1,000. Officials said the quake caused serious damage in 94 villages.   PAGE 4    Israel Vows 'Decisive' Move  Israeli troops moved into a Palestinian village as a defense official said the military was preparing a ''decisive and crushing'' response to attacks on Israelis.   PAGE 10

INSIDE

Many Americans are following urge to switch careers; doing something completely different can be liberating, but experts warn that it can also backfire if it is not done for right reason and with enough research and consideration; photos (M)

In Following a Dream, A Bit of Reality Helps

Wildfires in Western US are burning twice the acreage of 10-year average for this time of year, and they are likely to keep burning at great expense to taxpayers and, according to some, may even become the norm; are fed by convergence of events -- drier forests, higher temperatures and yearslong drought, and more people are living in places where fire has long made a home; one central question is whether government should be more willing to start controlled fires, to burn off built-up fuels; changing fire policy is slow, subject to partisan fluctuations and interest-group pressure and fraught with technical questions; photos (L)

Era of the Big Fire Is Kindled at West's Doors

Profile of Billy Bush, first cousin of Pres George W Bush, who is East Coast correspondent for entertainment news program Access Hollywood; photos (M)

Eluding Family Ties As He Hunts For Stars

Former Enron managers and executives say company used undisclosed reserves to keep as much as $1.5 billion in trading profits off its books during California energy squeeze of 2000 and 2001 in order to damp political firestorm; say reserves were also used to allow company to report steady profit growth, the kind preferred by investors; majority of gains were 'paper' profits on long-term contracts, rather than cash that could have helped Enron stave off liquidity crisis that led to its collapse; accountants say subjectivity of so-called prudency reserves, which trading companies are allowed to use to protect against market risks, make them susceptible to abuse; photos; graphs (M)

Former Officials Say Enron Hid Gains During Crisis in California

Alessandra Stanley Coping column suggests that self-indulgent upper-middle-class Manhattan parents, rather than giving in to their spoiled children's materialistic demands, band together to deprive all their children equally; drawing (M)

Spare the Pradas Or Spoil the Children

Comment on intractable legacies of ethnic or religious hatred, passed from generation to generation, in Middle East, Northern Ireland, Kashmir and South Africa (M)

Ideas & Trends: Hand-Me-Downs; When Parents Leave a Bequest of Hatred

Eaton Corp chief executive Alexander M Cutler, whose company's woes reflect manufacturing as whole, is skeptical of national statistics that signal strong economic recovery is under way; shuns risk of spending to expand Eaton because of severity of recession's effects on company, which has closed 19 plants and cut 12,000 jobs, or 20 percent of its work force; photos; charts (L)

Ready for an Upturn. Not Ready to Spend.

FBI determines that anthrax powder sent through mail in fall of 2001 was made no more than two years before it was sent; finding is disturbing because it indicates that whoever sent anthrax probably made it and could make more; strenghens theory that person behind mailings has direct and current connection to microbiology laboratory and may have used relatively new equipment; casts serious doubt on theory that culprit stole or somehow obtained old laboratory sample of powdered anthrax from strain first identified in 1981; photos; map (L)

ANTHRAX IN MAIL WAS NEWLY MADE, INVESTIGATORS SAY

Asthma is on rise in Birmingham, Ala, as Southern Co's three coal-burning power plants surrounding city pollute air and water; critics cite company's traditional use of its economic and political might to resist stricter environmental requirements; recent Bush administration relaxation of important enforcement statute of Clean Air Act will make it easier for Southern and other power generators to circumvent environmental protections; company defends slow pace of its anti-pollution efforts; photos; chart (M)

Alabama's Power Struggle

Building going up on Fifth Avenue between 115th and 116th Streets will have 129 condominium apartments and promises to be environmentally and economically sustainable; apartments are priced to attract middle-income buyers; drawing (S)

POSTINGS: On Fifth Avenue Between 115th and 116th Streets; Middle-Income Condos Both 'Green' and 'Smart'

Profile of rapper Nelly, who has become successful, at least partly, by embracing his hometown of St Louis, Mo; photos (M)

The Mayor of Nellyville, a Floating Neighborhood

Guillermo Gonzalez, better known as Pedro "El Rockero" Alcázar was a Panamanian boxer who won the WBO Super flyweight championship, and then sustained fatal injuries in the ring.

June 23, 2002

Headlines from June 23, 2002

New Faces and Old Achieve Final Four Of the World Cup

The Nation: The Prescription Drug Debate; Why the Elderly Wait . . . and Wait

Some Balanced Funds Are Tipping Toward More Risk

POSTINGS: 4-Year-old Publication Cites Revenues; Grid Magazine Set to Close

Lilly Takes Advantage of His Day in the Sun

Billboard 200

The Eminem Show

Totally Hits 2002

Life Goes On

P. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present... We Invented The Remix

Ashanti

Notable Deaths

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