July 11, 2004

Marion Jones Loses Bid To Defend Olympic Title Marion Jones, who has been dogged by a doping scandal, failed to qualify to defend her Olympic 100-meter title in Athens by finishing fifth in the Olympic trials. She can still qualify for the Games in other events. SPORTSSUNDAY W.H.O. Lags on AIDS Goal The World Health Organization said that its goal of delivering antiretroviral therapy to three million countries by the end of 2005 could be met, although obstacles have limited the number under treatment. The report was issued a day before the International AIDS Conference.PAGE 4

Beleaguered airlines are facing market that may have changed more fundamentally than at any time since industry was deregulated in 1978; even biggest companies may have to remake themselves radically, quickly and permanently, or face extinction; predominant business model since deregulation is being buried by low-fare airlines that pick and choose their destinations and continually pare costs and ticket prices; some executives say that if airlines simply trim costs, they can withstand onslaught as they did in previous slumps; others say that industry cannot just shrink this time, and that it must reshape itself, abandoning assumptions about consumers and labor contracts; graph; photos (M)

Airports have become more than places for departures and arrivals as amenities and food courts have expanded and security concerns have increased time people spend in them; since 2001, extended security lines, armed soldiers and bomb-sniffing dogs have pushed airport from anonymous background of modern travel into anxious foreground, where travelers are both suspects and potential victims; Pico Iyer, who has written extensively about life inside terminals, contends that there is distinct airport culture where people from hundreds of countries congregate but do not communicate; photos (M)

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John Kerry's selection of John Edwards to be his running mate signals extent to which Democratic presidential campaign will revolve around class--which party represents aspirations, values and economic interests of hard-working middle America; Edwards is fourth white male millionaire to join national tickets, but there are class differences even among millionaires; he is son of millworker, first generation in his family to go to college, and he made his own fortune as trial lawyer (M)