Andrew M Cuomo and H Carl McCall, candidates for Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York, are seeking votes by saying they want Indian point nuclear reactor closed, and Gov George Pataki now refuses to rule out idea; Supreme Court has ruled that states can make decisions about whether, and where, reactor or other type of power plant can be built, but not about reactor safety; Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sole jurisdiction (M)

Campaigning About A-Plants, But Without Actual Power

Strike at Plum Island Animal Disease Center, high-security laboratory off Long Island that conducts research on dangerous infectious animal diseases, raises concerns about center's ability to function safely and effectively; FBI is called to center to investigate allegations of sabotage after water pressure on island fails to generate sufficient power, preventing scientists from using necropsy rooms; union officials say problem is result of inexperienced workers' being rushed in to replace strikers; debate is heating up in Washington about role of Plum Island and whether it should be included in Department of Homeland Security; strikers at Agriculture Department facility are members of International Union of Operating Engineers and are employed by government subcontractor, LB&B Associates; map; photo (M)

Strike at Animal Disease Center Prompts Concerns for Safety

Standard & Poor's raises Malaysia's most important rating, for long-term foreign-currency debt, up notch to BBB+; rating is best Malaysia has had since July 1998; economists and investors say upgrade is overdue; upgrade is vote of confidence for Prime Min Mahathir Mohamad at time when his 21-year tenure is drawing to close; Mahathir will hand reins of power to deputy Abdullah Ahmad Badawi next year; photo (M)

Debt Rating Of Malaysia Is Upgraded

Harlem Little League baseball team defeats Aptos (Calif), 5-2, to advance to quarterfinals of Little League World Series; photo (M)

Harlem Reaches The Quarterfinals Behind 3 Homers

Anthony Tommasini Critic's Notebook column on this summer's Salzburg Festival under director of Peter Ruzicka; photo (M)

Critic's Notebook; In Salzburg, Striking Sets For Staples

New York Liberty defeats Indiana Fever, 75-60, in Game 3 of Eastern Conference playoffs to win series, 2-1; photo (M)

Johnson Leads Liberty Into Conference Finals

Porsche says it not about to be held to same standards of accountability as its A-list American customers; says it has put its plans to issue shares on New York Stock Exchange 'on ice' because of new law in US requiring senior executives to swear that their financial reports are accurate; chief executive Wendelin Wiedeking does not elaborate on objections to new law; photo (M)

Porsche Is Balking at U.S. Auditing Rule

Commerce Department says trade deficit fell to $37.2 billion in June from $37.8 billion in May because of fourth consecutive month of rising exports; falling value of dollar has yet to spur boom in exports that could jump-start sputtering economic recovery; dollar settles at 118.69 yen in New York, up from 118.57 yen, while euro trades at 97.89 cents, up from 97.62 cents; graph; photo (M)

Weaker Dollar Has Yet to Spur a Boom in Exports

 Former Enron Executive Expected to Take Plea Deal  A former Enron finance executive, Michael J. Kopper, who is considered a crucial witness in the criminal inquiry into the company's collapse, has agreed to plead guilty to at least two felonies and cooperate with the investigation, people involved in the case said.    Mr. Kopper's name is far from the best known of the former Enron executives who have been propelled into the national spotlight since the company filed for bankruptcy protection, but the transactions in which he participated at Enron have become the centerpiece of the criminal investigation. [Page A1.]    Martha Stewart Delivers Files  Martha Stewart has delivered more than 1,000 pages of documents, including e-mails from her laptop and telephone records, to the Congressional committee investigating the sale of her ImClone Systems stock. [C2.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Death toll from terrorist attacks on World Trade Center shows ZIP code with most victims is 10021 on Upper East Side of Manhattan, where 44 residents died on Sept 11; higher death rate per capita was in Hoboken, NJ, 07030, which lost 39 people, about one out of every 1,000 residents; officials in Hoboken say actual toll is much higher, because many recent college graduates working their first full-time jobs in Manhattan lived in Hoboken but were still listed at their parents' addresses; map; photo (M)

Zones of Devastation From 9/11: Mapping the Victims by ZIP Code

Article investigates invention of Ipswich fried clam; lovers of regional specialty swear that potato chip entrepreneur faced with vat of hot oil and pile of clams harvested from mud flats near his home put them together to make history; many clams used nowadays come from Maine; clams from mud flats are thought to have better flavor and no grit commonly found in clams from sandy shores; harvesting of clams discussed; recipes for Ipswich-style fried clams and other regional favorites; photos; map (M)

The Deep-Fried Truth About Ipswich Clams; No matter the source of the harvest, the secret to a classic seaside meal may be the mud.

South Korea's Finance Min Jeon Yun Churl says he will not lower his forecast of 6 percent economic growth this year, even though 'instability in US and South America' could have effect; Korea Stock Exchange rises nearly 3 percent, to 736.70, its highest level in nearly month, on news (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: South Korea: Growth Forecast Stands

Federal Judge Mariana R Pfzelzer orders GlaxoSmithKline to stop saying in its advertisements for Paxil, top-selling antidepressant, that drug is 'nonhabit-forming'; decision is one of first significant rulings on prescription drug advertising; Food and Drug Administration has asked court to reconsider; agency says it has reviewed Paxil ads and agrees that drug company can make 'nonhabit-forming' claim; agency's lawyers says are concerned that decision, which is based in part on California law, can lead to situation where there could be different requirements for drug advertising in each of 50 states; lawsuit contends that GlaxoSmithKline did not warn patients of problems that could arise if they stopped taking Paxil; drawing (M)

Judge Orders Drug Company To Alter Ads

Mexico's unemployment rate rose to 2.9 percent in July from 2.4 percent in June, highest level since January, signaling that economy is slowing down as US demand for Mexican goods falters; higher-than-expected unemployment suggests that Mexican manufacturers are not stepping up production and hiring workers (S)

World Business Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Jobless Level Rises

Tom.com Ltd media company of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, abandons plans to buy 32.75 percent of Asia Television for $37 million after concluding that it is too expensive; Liu Changle, former Chinese military official, recently took control of Hong Kong's second-largest commercial broadcaster, which received Chinese government's approval on Aug 19 to begin transmitting in Guangdong Province (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: Hong Kong: Tycoon Retreats

Mark Bittman The Minimalist column offers ideas for summer salads whose elements can be made ahead, chilled and combined just before serving; three or four salads can be served for lovely casual party or ideal family meal; recipes; photos (M)

Cool, When It Sizzles, And a Breeze to Make

With the gripping but not wholly successful psychodrama &quot;One Hour Photo,&quot; the writer-director Mark Romanek does a sterling job in creating Sy Parrish, a man whose love of superficiality, of surfaces, proves to be his undoing. Robin Williams stars as Parrish, the manager of a one-hour photo stand in the Sav-Mart superstore. His job, developing the photographs his customers drop off, allows him to peer into their lives, providing a view that  reminds him how empty his own life is. Unfortunately, Mr. Romanek has completely conceived only one role in this movie about a man who views people as perfect archetypes and becomes enraged when they fall short. &quot;One Hour Photo&quot; turns everyone but the central character into a cutout. — Elvis Mitchell

That Orderly World of Appearances He Lives In? It's About to Explode

Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez, pursued by New York Mets for 2001 season, reflects on what he could have added to Mets and whether Mets would have had better season than Rangers had he been on team; photos (M)

Rodriguez Still Wonders What Might Have Been

Profile of and interview with actress Marissa Jaret Winokur, who plays leading role of Tracy Turnblad in new musical Hairspray; photo (M)

Big Hair and Personality to Match; For a Young Actress's Career, A Bouffant Moment in 'Hairspray'

AOL Time Warner, AT&T Corp and Comcast plan to announce $9 bilion deal that gives back to AOL Time Warner complete control of Time Warner Entertainment, which includes some of its leading media properties, including HBO pay television operation and Warner Brothers film studio; could also give company's flagging America Online Internet division biggest lift it has received in at least year by making it easier for millions of consumers to connect to service through high speed cable modems; AT&T and Comcast appear to have gotten better part of deal, as they capitalized on intense pressure on AOL Time Warner's chief executive Richard D Parsons to revive America Online unit and simplify his company's structure; AOL Time Warner agrees to give AT&T about $2 billion in cash, about $1.5 billion in AOL Time Warner shares and about 21 percent of newly formed operation Time Warner Cable, which will include all of AOL Time Warner's roughly 12.9 million cable customers nationwide; cash, AOL stock and Time Warner Cable shares will go to Comcast, if, as expected, Comcast completes its acquisition of AT&T's cable operation before end of year; Comcast intends to sell at least some of its 21 percent stake in Time Warner Cable to public some time next year in initial public offering worth about $5.5 billion; that would give AOL Time Warner control of publicly traded company that is strictly in cable television business, potentially making it easier for AOL Time Warner to use that stock to try to acquire additional cable providers; AOL Time Warner would have preferred to give AT&T and Comcast only shares in new Time Warner Cable entity, rather than also giving up cash and shares in parent company; chart; photo (M)

AOL in Deal To Regain All Of Large Unit

Observation that crime often runs in families is borne out by Oregon clan led by late Rooster Bogle; 28 members of clan have been arrested and convicted of various crimes; Justice Department figures show that 47 percent of inmates in state prisons have parent or other close relative who has also been incarcerated, and link between generations is so powerful that half of all juveniles in custody have father, mother or other close relative who has been in jail or prison; Oregon has introduced pioneering program of services for families of the imprisoned that tries to break cycle; chart of Bogle family's criminal convictions; photos (M)

Father Steals Best: Crime in an American Family

The Bush administration said it was working to foster opposition to President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, calling his rule illegitimate and irrational.    Using some of the administration's strongest language yet to condemn the government in Zimbabwe, senior state department officials said Mr. Mugabe won re-election in March through fraud and coercion and has since helped spread starvation in southern Africa through misguided policies.  

U.S. Lends Support To Foes of Mugabe

Michelin three-star chef Joel Robuchon will return to Paris dining scene with L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon on Left Bank; restaurant will have informal open-kitchen setting, encouraging interaction between chef and customers; photos (M)

In From the Cold: A 3-Star Chef Plans An Intimate Encounter

Death toll in Aug 19 crash of Russian military helicopter in Chechnya minefield is put at 114, and incident intensifies political pressure on Pres Vladimir V Putin; some officials say helicopter appear to have been shot down by Chechen rebels using portable surface-to-air missile, but conflicting accounts of what happened, along with reports of poor maintenance, encourage comparison with 2000 sinking of submarine Kursk, which cost 118 lives; Gennady A Zyuganov, Communist leader, blames government for decrepit state of armed services, which suffer from low morale and corruption and are lumbering with aging equipment; Col Gen Vital Pavlov is suspended as chief of army's air services pending investigation into crash; photos; maps (M)

RUSSIA SAYS TOLL IN COPTER'S CRASH HAS REACHED 114

Union Bank of Taiwan agrees to sell nonperforming loans with value of $138 million, in largest negotiated sale yet of bad bank debts in Taiwan, which is trying to purge its banking system of problem loans; buyers is new joint venture in which Morgan Stanley holds 51 percent and Union Bank holds rest (S)

August 21, 2002

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Campaigning About A-Plants, But Without Actual Power

Strike at Animal Disease Center Prompts Concerns for Safety

Debt Rating Of Malaysia Is Upgraded

Harlem Reaches The Quarterfinals Behind 3 Homers

Critic's Notebook; In Salzburg, Striking Sets For Staples

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