Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity offers sterilization to men and women addicted to drugs or alcohol, and creates ethical rift between those who view issue as humane form of child neglect prevention and those who consider idea to be forced and irreversible birth control; photo (M)

Sterilization Offer to Addicts Reopens Ethics Issue

New York City Mayor Michael R Bloomberg denies Bear Stearns & Co's request for new round of tax breaks; Bear Stearns has threatened to move 1,500 employees from Brooklyn (NYC) to New Jersey to avoid increased occupancy costs in 2004 unless city offers investment bank subsidy package to remain in New York; budget pundits criticize Bear Stearns for playing New York against New Jersey in order to reap most benefits (M)

Bear Stearns And City Hall At an Impasse On Tax Breaks

Coming week includes start of winter repertory season at New York City Ballet, opening of Mark Nadler show at FireBird Upstairs Supperclub, reopening of Baltimore Museum of Art's Jacobs Wing, and opening of 12th annual New York Jewish Film Festival; photos (M)

This Week

Two suicide bombers commit deadliest attack against Israel in 10 months, blowing themselves up just seconds apart in downtown area of Tel Aviv; 23 are killed and 100 more injured; area is crowded with foreign laborers and Sunday evening shoppers; spokesman for Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Palestinian militant organization, claims responsibility; Israeli reprisals begin, with gunships entering skies over Gaza and rocketing Palestinian positions there; Prime Min Ariel Sharon's cabinet meets in emergency session; rescue teams encounter scene of horrific carnage; say two bombs appear to be unusually large and were packed with nails and ball bearings and hunks of metal to sharpen their effect; photos; map (M)

Pair of Bombers Kill 23 in Israel; Reprisals Begin

San Francisco 49ers defeat New York Giants, 39-38, in first round of NFL playoffs; Giants led game 38-14 in third quarter and suffer second largest playoff collapse in NFL history; photos (M)

Squandered Lead, Bungled Kick: Giants Let the Playoffs Slip Away

Rise of WB television network, which made its first profit after only eight years in business, reflects its success in reaching young viewers so dear to advertisers; its average prime time audience pales next to those of rivals, but that audience has lowest median age in broadcast television, 31, and that enables WB to offer advertisers reaching out to young consumers a cheaper, more targeted broadcast alternative to immensely popular network programs; WB also has larger audiences of young viewers than cable's MTV; photos; graphs (M)

A Network That Serves Youth, and Sells It as Well

Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column contends that architectural designs for rebuilding of Lower Manhattan and World Trade Center site are indulgent fantasies, impossible to realize because of ailing economy, zoning laws and transportation priorities (M)

Metro Matters; Soaring Plans, Somewhere Over Rainbow

Jonathan Miller, chairman of struggling AOL unit of AOL Time Warner, must generally meet separately with Stephen M Case, chairman of parent company, Don Logan, chairman of media and communications group, because they speak with each other as little as possible; this delicate diplomacy just complicates Miller's mission of getting entire company behind new business strategy; photos (M)

AOL Unit's Chief Navigates Churning Corporate Rapids

Walt Disney selects creative team from world of theater and opera for Aladdin, stage adaptation of 1992 animated film that will open in February at California Adventure, new Walt Disney theme park in Anaheim, Calif; project will also rely more on traditional staging than on kind of pyrotechnics generally associated with theme-park entertainment; is headed by Anne Hamburger, Disney's new executive vice president for creative entertainment; other such projects are planned as part of what appears to be effort to increase flagging theme-park attendance; photos (M)

Disney Enlists Theater Innovators for Theme Park Shows

Jennifer Dunning reviews Doug Elkins Dance Co program starting off Altogether Different series at Joyce Theater; photo (M)

Like Vivid, Alert Fish In Dances' Subtle Tides

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column contends that New York Giants's loss to San Francisco 49ers in playoffs, whether fault of long snapper Trey Junkin or place-kicker Matt Bryant, occurred because 49ers are better team and Giants could not find reliable long snapper or place-kicker; photos (M)

Sports of The Times; Kicking Mishap Concludes Story With 2 Views

 Roy Jenkins Is Dead at 82  Roy Jenkins, a Welsh miner's son who became a Socialist cabinet minister and then tried to change British politics by creating a new centrist party, is dead.   PAGE A19

INSIDE

Boys and girls as young as 12 are forced to join Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelan in their 20-year fight for separate state for Tamils of Sri Lanka; some are taken by force from their homes, others go 'voluntarily' to spare their parents after Tiger cadres threaten them; human rights organizations, incuding United Nations, claim much of rebels' battle has been fought on backs, and bodies, of child soldiers; Tigers are in peace talks with Sri Lankan government and they inist they no longer have, or accept, children in their ranks; villagers in northern and eastern parts of country, where most Tamils live, whisper that children continue to be taken; complaints filed with international aid groups, as well as interviews with Tamils and community leaders in Tiger-controlled north and east, also indicate that child enlistment and abduction, while down from past levels, continue; photos; maps (L)

Sri Lanka Young Still Forced To Join in Endless Rebellion

Bering Strait, seven-member Russian band that plays cross-cultural blend of pop rock and classic country, is catching on with audiences in Nashville, and first album is set for release; The Ballad of Bering Strait, documentary film, chronicles band's rocky road from classical music conservatory in Russia to country bigtime; Mike Kinnamon, manager, has been brought to brink of bankruptcy after four years of helping support band; photos (M)

From Russia, Without Twang But With Country in Their Hearts; Despite Hard Breaks, Bering Strait Hopes to Make It in Nashville

San Francisco 49ers defeat New York Giants, 39-38, to advance to NFC divisional playoffs; photos (M)

24-Point Lead Vanishes Into the Off-Season

Telephone calling over Internet now accounts for more than 10 percent of international calling traffic, and it is now generating more interest among businesses and general population; routing technology differs from that of regular phones, but Internet telephony allows people to use equipment that looks and sounds like regular telephones for nothing more than what they pay for their fast Internet connection; analysts and industry executives expect gradual transition over several years; numerous companies on margins and even closer to center of telecommunications industry are seeking to take business away from dominant carriers by offering cheaper Internet-based services; potential major force in Internet telephony in US could be cable television industry; photos; graph (M)

Phone Calling Over Internet Is Attracting More Interest

Analysts are intrigued that Sumner Redstone, Viacom chief executive, has been raising his personal stake in two companies in which he is already dominant shareholder: Midway Games, publisher of video games, and WMS Industries, maker of slot machines; new investments, about $20 million in each company, are small in terms of Redstone's overall portfolio, but analysts know that he is obsessive about all his investments; their interest is all the greater because most of them are not recommending shares of either company; those shares have rebounded since last August, when Redstone began buying new shares; photo; graph (M)

Market Place; Whatever Viacom's Chief Is Doing, It Is Noticed

 Cities Add Wireless Access In Hope of Luring Business  Add urban renewal to the growing list of reasons to deploy wireless computing networks. The city of Long Beach, Calif., plans to announce on Friday that it will make free wireless Internet access available in its downtown area as part of an effort to attract visitors and companies to the business district.    Long Beach is one of a growing number of cities and community groups that are considering free wireless Internet access. A number of cities are exploring the idea of installing such networks in downtown areas or throughout entire communities. [Page C7.]

BUSINESS DIGEST

Latest article in series, Economic Pulse, examines how ups and downs of California's wobbly economy are rippling across West; southern California is faring relatively well, with unemployment below national average, personal income growth outpacing nation and military contractors riding wave of Pentagon and domestic security spending; but San Francisco Bay Area is still reeling from dot-com collapse; skilled and formerly wealthy workers are fleeing to find jobs elsewhere and analysts worry that it could be years before next new thing revitalizes Silicon Valley; one economist expects California to lag US economy, primarily because it is being dragged down by Bay Area; viewed as whole, California accounts for one-sevenths of nation's total output; its huge economy exerts strong gravitational pull on neighboring states; Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii all are heavily dependent on tourism and on California's market for their manufactured goods; when California suffers, they traditionally tend to suffer as well; this time, Arizona is faring slightly better; it offers potential employers lower wages, ample land, fewer taxes and less government regulation than California; photos; graphs (L)

ECONOMIC PULSE: The West; California Ups and Downs Ripple in the West

Landmark Verizon Building, whose face was severely damaged during collapse of neighboring World Trade Center, undergoes speedy restoration despite Verizon's union disputes and layoffs, lending sense of recovery to Lower Manhattan and site of terrorist attacks; photos (M)

A Sturdy Survivor Gets Back to Work; Herculean Effort to Restore A Landmark Battered on 9/11

Pres Bush's national security team is assembling final plans for administering and democratizing Iraq after expected ouster of Saddam Hussein; plans call for heavy American military presence in country for at least 18 months, military trials of only most senior Iraqi leaders and quick takeover of country's oil fields to pay for reconstruction; proposals amount to most ambitious American effort to administer country since occupations of Japan and Germany at end of World War II; many elements of plans are highly classified, and some are still being debated as Bush's team tries to allay concerns that US will seek to be colonial power in Iraq; broad outlines show enormous complexity of task in months ahead, and point to some of difficulties that would follow even swift and successful removal of Hussein from power (L)

U.S. IS COMPLETING PLAN TO PROMOTE A DEMOCRATIC IRAQ

Parents are more closely involved in lives of their college-age children; university officials, students and their families say generation gap is nothing like it used to be, now that baby boomers, once so alienated from their parents, have become parents themselves; hundreds of colleges nationwide have recognized new reality by giving parents stronger presence on campus, through host of offices created to deal with parents' queries and concerns; students say they turn to their parents for help with everything from roommate troubles to classwork; cellphones and e-mail make communication easier; students speak of their parents with fondness and admiration, and parents are delighted to find their relationships with college-age children have not tapered off; some educators are disturbed by trend; Judith R Shaprio, president of Barnard College, questions how healthy it is for parents to get into every part of their child's life, at time when child should be learning to separate; photos (M)

Parents' Role Is Narrowing Generation Gap on Campus

American companies continue to move their software development tasks out of their own offices to computer progrmming companies in US and abroad, raising concerns that such outsourcing may heighten risk of theft, sabotage or cyberterrorism from rogue programmers; operations in some countries, like US, Britain and India, are generally considered safe for such software outsourcing, and nervousness focuses on possibility of abuse by hackers, organized crime agents and cyberterrorists in nations like Pakistan, Philippines and Russia; outsourcing can save company 25 percent to 40 percent, and some of security concerns are raised by interested parties, programmers fearing export of jobs; companies providing outsourcing services argue that they take all necessary precautions to limit risk (M)

Experts See Vulnerability As Outsiders Code Software

Pittsburgh Steelers defeat Cleveland Browns, 36-33, to advance to AFC divisional playoffs; Steelers score 22 points in fourth quarter for biggest comeback in team's playoff history; photos (M)

Rampaging Steelers Send the Browns Home With Nothing

Body of 7-year-old Faheem Williams is found lifeless in storage bin in basement of Newark home, where brothers Raheem and Tyrone Williams had been found earlier, neglected and brought to hospital for starvation and treatment for dehydration; authorities are searching for Sherry Murphy, who was allegedly caring for children while mother reportedly recovered from car accident in New York City hospital; photo (M)

Body of Boy Found in Bin Inside Home

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Sterilization Offer to Addicts Reopens Ethics Issue

Bear Stearns And City Hall At an Impasse On Tax Breaks

This Week

Pair of Bombers Kill 23 in Israel; Reprisals Begin

Squandered Lead, Bungled Kick: Giants Let the Playoffs Slip Away

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