August 1, 2004

Hand-held video camera is one of most potent weapons being deployed by Iraqi insurgents; kidnappings are becoming tactic of choice in Iraq, and nearly every group that has captured foreigner has produced accompanying video; broadcasting of such videos has drawn news organizations into web of modern warfare, raising question: at what point does media organization become tool of war? photo (M)

Experts who work with retirees and family businesses say parents are increasingly coming out of retirement to work for their children run small businesses in need of sporadic, and preferably free, labor; trend is part of sweeping change in way workers approach retirement; new relationship between parent and child, while fraught with perils, can be enriching to both; photos (M)

Behind the Wheel column reviews 2004 Mitsubishi Galant; chart compares features with similar models; photo (M)

Article on some of more than three dozen Web loggers who, for first time, won press credentials to Democratic National Convention; photos (M)

Anemona Hartocollis Coping column about Marie Ponsot, Vijay Seshadri and Katha Pollitt, some of about 30 poets who will be reading their poetry at St Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery Church as protest against Bush administration during Republican National Convention in New York; drawing (M)