Fashion designer Josh Patner article on his students at Parsons School of Design, who have eschewed American fashion industry and have helped renew his own interest in fabric, proportion and mood; photo; drawing (M)

They Make Me A Designer Again

Vernon Cherry Partnership Homes in Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn will be named after firefighter Vernon Cherry, who died in attack on World Trade Center; more than 1,000 people have submitted their names to lottery, now closed, for buyers of three-family town houses being built in what has been one of city's most blighted neigborhoods; joint venture of city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development and New York City Housing Partnership, houses are for people with incomes from $35,000 to $75,000; average price is $290,000; Loewen Development is developer; drawing; photo (M)

POSTINGS: Development Is Named for Firefighter; Town Houses Honor Victim Of 9/11 Attack

Anemona Hartocollis Coping column on impact that revolution in New York City public school system may have on affluent parents; notes parents must face possibility that their children will not be accepted into city's best public schools; drawing (M)

Is It Time to Pay for Peace of Mind?

American intelligence reports that Iraq's strategy to thwart United States-led attack calls for slowing advances by American troops toward Baghdad and then confronting them with prospect of bloody street battle in Baghdad; US Defense Dept officials say that Saddam Hussein's administration has developed plans to blow up dams, destroy bridges and ignite its oil fields; maps (L)

Iraq Strategy Is Seen as Delay and Urban Battle

Swiss team Alinghi wins second race in 5-of-9 America's Cup, taking 2-0 lead over Team New Zealand; photo (M)

Alinghi Wins By 7 Seconds And Takes A 2-0 Lead

Richard Childress drivers and Dale Earnhardt Inc drivers are favored to win Dayton 500, where Earnhardt lost his life in racing accident; photo (M)

Earnhardt Still Casts a Shadow

John F Burns article says deep hostility to US throughout Arab world promises more trouble for US as it approaches war in Iraq, even though many Iraqis and other Arabs desperately want Saddam Hussein removed from power or killed; says anti-American opinions in Arab world may swing if US troops are received as liberators and if Hussein's ouster brings to light full extent of his crimes against his people; photo (M)

The World: Arabs and America; Looking at the Enemy as a Liberator

The parents of some severely mentally ill children have made their pleas to emergency-room psychiatrists and listened as caseworkers explained their lack of options. What these mothers and fathers are being advised to do is agonizing: give up custody of their children and turn them over to New York State for the mental health care the parents cannot otherwise afford.    Article, Page 35.

Mental Health Care Carries a Cruel Price

New York University president John Sexton was host Feb 10 of reception at univerity for Robert B Tierney, new chairman of city Landmarks Preservation Commission; Sexton's speech focused on preserving fragile ecosystem of Greenwich Village, where NYU's campus is located (M)

POSTINGS: Preserving 'This Fragile Ecosystem'; N.Y.U. Head's View on Village

Gregg Easterbrook article questions government's advisories on how to protect one's home and family from biological or chemical attack and says public needs better information on how to respond to two far more serious terror threats: atomic explosions and radiological, or 'dirty,' bombs; photos (M)

The Nation: Home Security; The Smart Way to Be Scared

Executives receive lion's share of stock options offered by American companies, and their concentration at the top appears to be damaging many companies' performance; top five executives at 250 biggest options-granting companies received average of 18.1 percent of options during 1999 to 2001 fiscal years, and at some companies figure was over 50 percent; many of remaining options went to executives on next few rungs of corporate ladder; companies that do spread options among all employees appear to outperform those that reserve them disproportionately for executives, defying traditional management theory that options are best used to motivate only people with clear control over company's stock price; photos; list of 100 companies that reserve greatest share of stock options for top five executives (L)

Option Math: Why So Many to So Few?

Fred Goodman article considers reasons for lack of country radio station in New York City, despite industry knowledge that it could be lucrative; photos (L)

Country Radio: Nowhere in New York

 4 Israeli Soldiers Killed  Four Israeli soldiers died when a bomb destroyed a tank near an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip. The militant group Hamas said the attack was retaliation for the killing of two of its members.   PAGE 4

INSIDE

Walter Mosley article explains why loser Al Bundy, character in TV show Married...With Children, is his hero; ABC airs reunion special of program tonight; photo (M)

I'm Still Living in Al Bundy's America

Families of astronauts left behind by space shuttle Columbia disaster have spent past two weeks moving in two worlds; one is defined by international spectacle surrounding loss of shuttle, with nationally televised memorial services to the dead, piles of cards arriving in mail from strangers and hugs from Pres Bush and hundreds of calls from journalists; the other world, the private one, is different, and is about having no one on other side of the bed, and no telephone call to discuss dinner plans, no one to walk children to school or share pew with at church; photos (L)

In Shuttle Disaster, Families Lost More Than Mere Heroes

Profile of and interview with Beth Ann Bauman, 38, who moved to New York a decade ago, worked temp jobs by day, including one at Cantor Fitzgerald that ended shortly before World Trade Center was destroyed, and wrote short stories by night; Bauman's first book, collection of stories titled Beautiful Girls, will be published by McAdam/Cage in March; excerpt; photos (L)

A Writing Life

Lisa Belkin Life's Work column says e-mail is relacing phone conversations for working couples; notes that calling working spouse risks interrupting an important meeting; says she and her husband regularly make important and not-so-important family decisions, arrangements and appointments via e-mail; admits she has even e-mailed him while both were at home, but on different floors of the house; drawing (M)

The Efficient Way to Not See Each Other

Tiger Woods takes third-round lead at Buick Open, allowing for duel with Phil Mickelson to take place in final round; tournament is first that Woods has played since knee surgery; photos (M)

Mickelson And Woods Are Ready For a Duel

Article on 2003 Saturn Ion auto focuses test drive by Chris Wisniewski, who works in product development at Gap; photos (M)

BEHIND THE WHEEL/2003 Saturn Ion; Outer Limits Style From G.M.'s Sci-Fi Channel

Throngs of chanting, placard-waving demonstrators converge on New York and scores of cities across United States, Europe and Asia in global daisy chain of largely peaceful protests against Bush administration's threatened invasion of Iraq; photos of scenes in London, Prague and New York (L)

From New York To Melbourne, Cries for Peace

Article on duct tape, which is being viewed by some as national standard for job done almost right; national security warnings suggest using duct tape, which has become cultural icon, to seal rooms in event of terrorist attack; photos (M)

Unraveling Duct Tape, Warts and All

Bush administration seeks right balance on keeping public informed about about terrorist threats without unduly alarming it; critics argue that government's system for analyzing terrorist threats and sharing information with public is not making public any safer, only frightening them (M)

Balancing Act For Washington In Terror Alerts

Iris G Stevens, director of Westchester County Film Office, receives inquiries every week from two or three more property owners who have heard they can net $2,000 or $3,000 by allowing TV advertising production crew to invade their homes for single, 12-hour shoot; Stevens's listing include everything from 11,000-square-foot mansion to small co-ops and businesses; Betty Rankin, who runs location service based in Tenafly, NJ, says she has noticed sharp increase over last year in number of people who want to list their homes with her in light of increased property taxes and down stock market; Rankin has some 300 properties on file, about 80 percent are in northern New Jersey; New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting has received so many inquiries from property owners that it is upgrading its Web site to reflect growing interest; photos (M)

Lights! Camera! Action! Location Fees!

Article on Restylane, injectible drug that has not yet been approved by Food and Drug Administration for use in humans but is being used, nonetheless, by plastic surgeons in Manhattan and elsewhere to smooth out face wrinkles; photo (M)

Psst: Want to Buy Some Wrinkle Remover?

Foreign countries require arms makers to provide lavish packages of aid, called offsets, as price of awarding military contracts; offsets can take form of direct investments, agreements to help countries export their goods, pacts to use more foreign components in weapons sold and even transferring subassembly jobs oversees; American contractors, like Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, disclose little about offsets to shareholders or regulators, grumble privately that they are 'necessary evils,' but do little to halt practice; offsets are legal, but they distort global trade and cost US thousands of manufacturing jobs; photos (L)

A Well-Kept Military Secret

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They Make Me A Designer Again

POSTINGS: Development Is Named for Firefighter; Town Houses Honor Victim Of 9/11 Attack

Is It Time to Pay for Peace of Mind?

Iraq Strategy Is Seen as Delay and Urban Battle

Alinghi Wins By 7 Seconds And Takes A 2-0 Lead

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