June 23, 2002

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)