Residents of Mott Haven and Morris Park sections of Bronx dream of having access to waterfront area that has been blocked by rail yards and other construction for years; access has become near obsession in densely populated community that has little open space; Councilman Philip Reed has set aside money to fix up one city park; there are various plans for waterfront access in Bronx, but most deal with areas farther north, like Hunts Point; map; photos (M)

Bronx Shoreline Accessible Mainly in Dreams

British Airways Posts Profit in a Difficult Environment

Conflict over which psychological therapies are best at helping patients heats up as more doctors, patients and insurance companies demand evidence of patient healing; Dr Ronald Levant of Nova Southeastern University, who is incoming president of American Psychological Assn, has assembled task force to address controversy between those psychologists who believe therapy is intuitive process and those who believe therapy can be successful by employing specific techniques; both sides agree that research into psychotherapy should not be based on clinical trials, with typical control groups; therapists discuss methods of helping patients and ways that success might be measured; former patient Ken Heideman describes his positive experience in therapy; photos (L)

For Psychotherapy's Claims, Skeptics Demand Proof

Judge Kara J Miller throws out results of random alcohol test that led to suspension of Staten Island Ferry assistant captain Robert Sander in March, finding that he should not have been tested because he was confined to dock duties at time; also finds that test was so flawed that results must be discounted and recommends dismissal of all disciplinary charges aganst Sander, who was suspended; findings deal blow to city's attempts to impose discipline on its ferry operations since crash last October that killed 11 people (M)

Judge Throws Out Alcohol Test That a City Ferry Pilot Failed

Japanese Bank Relents; Will Consider Suitor No.2

From Madrid to London and Tokyo to Beijing, banking deals have become the flavor of the summer. Everywhere, that is, but Germany, where the financial capital, Frankfurt, has settled into its dog days without a significant merger or takeover to its credit.    On Monday, Commerzbank called off talks to buy BHF-Bank, a small bank based in Frankfurt that is owned by the ING Group of the Netherlands. The deal would hardly have been a blockbuster: BHF, with 2,600 employees, 15 branches and a book value of 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion), would have been an easy lunch for Commerzbank, Germany's fourth-largest commercial bank.  

German Banks Avoid Swirl of Transactions

Federal Judge Thomas F Hogan holds Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in contempt of court and orders him jailed for refusing to name government officials who disclosed identity of undercover CIA officer to him; magazine is also held in contempt and ordered to pay fine of $1,000 a day; judge suspends both sanctions while Time and Cooper pursue appeal; judge has firmly rejected their contention that First Amendment entitles journalists to refuse to answer grand jury's questions about confidential sources; ruling comes in investigation into whether Bush administration members illegally disclosed identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame after her husband, Joseph C Wilson IV, wrote Op-Ed piece saying Pres Bush used discredited intelligence about Iraq's supposed search for uranium in his 2003 State of Union address; subpoenas for Cooper and other journalists were issued by special prosecutor Patrick J Fitzgerald, who is trying to learn who told syndicated columnist Robert Novak Plame's identity, which he revealed in his column; Novak claimed he got information from 'two administrative officials'; it is not known whether Novak has received subpoena (M)

Reporter From Time Is Held in Contempt In C.I.A. Leak Case

Federal officers will take over passenger screening on helicopter tours in New York City amid concerns that the tours might become terrorist weapons.   Page A14.

U.S. to Screen Copter Tours

Researchers find that elite runners have three physical characteristics that set them apart from other runners; exercise physiologists pinpoint high volume of oxygen that athlete can consume while at peak level, excellent running efficiency and ability to persevere at high level of exertion for extended periods; good running form described; stride length and its impact on runner's performance is considered one of only few ways casual or elite runner can train to improve technique; experts hold that no amount of training can turn non-gifted runner into elite athlete; photos (L)

Why Joggers Labor And Olympians Fly; The Science of the Long-Distance Runner

Heico Companies acquires insolvent Canadian steelmaker Ivaco Inc for 375 million Canadian dollars ($285 million) (S)

World Business Briefing | Americas: Canada: Steelmaker Acquired

Italy's gross domestic product grew 0.3 percent from April to June compared with first quarter (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: Italy: Economic Growth Slows

Radon, little known arm of Russian government charged with locating, retrieving and securing radiological waste, is working to undo consequences of an incautious time; under orders from Stalin, researchers working in totalitarian secrecy and with incomplete understanding of radiation's dangers built network of institutes and factories with little planning for dealing with discarded material; those sites left behind all manner of radiation-emitting waste; more than 1,200 orphaned sources have been retrieved in Moscow alone; much radioactive material was hastily dumped in forests that were outside city line; but as Moscow grew, it overtook its outskirts and sent down roots into illicit radioactive dumps; Radon began its work in 1961 after more than decade's worth of waste had been orphaned; work became more intensive after 1986 explosion at Chernobyl; Radon recovers and stores only low- and medium-level radioactive waste which are incapable of chain reaction leading to nuclear explosion but dangerous because of radiation emissions; health risks of these sources have not been conclusively establshed; photos; 1993 map showing sites contaminated by radioactive waste in Moscow (M)

Moscow's Nuclear Past Is Breeding Perils Today

New generation of Al Qaeda operatives appear to be filling vacuum created when leaders were killed or captured; intelligence analysts are using computer records, e-mail addresses and documents seized after arrest of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan last month in Pakistan to discern Al Qaeda's new midlevel structure; findings may be significant intelligence coup for Bush administration and its allies in Britain, but they also create far more complex picture of Al Qaeda's status than Bush presents on campaign trail; contrary to his claim that much of Qaeda leadership has been killed or captured, new evidence suggests organization is regenerating and bringing in new blood; officials say it is not yet clear to what extent Osama bin Laden still exercises control over organization, either directly or through his chief deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri; two men are believed to be in hiding somewhere along Pakistan-Afghanistan border; photo (M)

New Leaders Are Emerging For Al Qaeda

Allan Kozinn reviews performances by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, directed by Rachel Podger, at Alice Tully Hall, part of Mostly Mozart Festival; photos (M)

A Little Squeeze on the 'Brandenburgs,' to Make Everybody Happy

Cities and counties throughout South, hoping to attract tourists, are starting projects to commemorate important moments in civil rights movement; in Greensboro, NC, Woolworth where sit-in movement began will become museum; in Mississippi, Neshoba County has published civil rights tour guide showing site where three civil rights workers were killed; in Alabama, National Park Service will break ground on first of three visitor centers along route of Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march; communities are embracing a past laced with shame and violence, lured by tourism money; approach of benchmark anniversaries, like 40th birthday of voting rights march, has prompted re-examination of past, whether locals like it or not; photos; map (M)

Civil Rights Battlegrounds Enter World of Tourism

Japanese machinery orders rose 3.9 percent in June from May, seasonally adjusted; orders in April-June quarter increased record 10.3 percent from previous three months (S)

World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Machinery Orders Rise

Toronto Blue Jays defeat New York Yankees, 5-4; photos (M)

Loaiza Receives Boos Once Aimed At Contreras

Article on prospects for Google's initial public offering; focuses other companies, including Apple Computer, whose share prices started out strong but later faltered; photos (M)

Seeing Google With the Eyes of Forrest Gump

William C Rhoden Sports of The Times column contends that there will not likely be elaborate shows of American patriotism at 2004 Olympic Games, due to negative attitudes toward Americans and volatile political climate (M)

Sports of The Times; Raising a Banner of Hope Amid the Turmoil

Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column discusses popularity of New York Yankees, whose games are becoming tourist destination for New York City visitors as well as hot ticket for residents (M)

Sports of The Times; Yanks Blazing On a Sunny Afternoon

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases figures for first time that show how prone individual models of new cars and light-duty trucks are to roll over in accident, exposing occupants to high risk of death or serious injury; Ford Explorer Sport Trac is found to have highest rollover risk of 68 models agency tested for 2004 model year; four-door Mazda RX-8 sedan was best performer is tests; chart; photo (M)

U.S. Regulators Release Vehicle Rollover Data

Dutch communications company Royal KPN says second-quarter profit more than doubled to 369 million euros ($453 million) despite stagnant revenues of 2.93 million euros; graph (S)

World Business Briefing | Europe: The Netherlands: Telecom Profit Rises

Article on exhibit Liquid Stone: New Architecture in Concrete at National Building Museum in Washington, DC; show explores how architects are using concrete with greater efficiency and panache than ever before; photo (M)

Concrete Is Learning New Tricks, Like Letting In the Light

Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, centerpiece of Donald Trump's faltering casino holdings, plans to file for bankruptcy protection by end of September; hopes move will allow it to reorganize under new management and with new financing that will ease its $1.8 billion debt burden; Donald Trump will step aside as chief executive but will remain chairman, and his 56 percent equity stake will be reduced to about 25 percent; will be required to make series of investments in company, including $55 million cash investment and exchange of Trump Hotels debt that he owns to hold onto 25 percent share (M)

Trump Hotels Plans to Seek Bankruptcy

Parmalat's government-appointed administrator Enrico Bondi is suing Italian branch of Deutsche Bank for 17 million euros ($21 million) to recover money Parmalat repaid German bank on credit lines in December, same month company defaulted on billions of euros of bonds; Parmalat says it might file another lawsuit against Deutsche Bank to recover unspecified amount of money related to bond sales Deutsche Bank handled for Parmalat; photo (M)

August 10, 2004

Headlines from August 10, 2004

Bronx Shoreline Accessible Mainly in Dreams

British Airways Posts Profit in a Difficult Environment

For Psychotherapy's Claims, Skeptics Demand Proof

Judge Throws Out Alcohol Test That a City Ferry Pilot Failed

Japanese Bank Relents; Will Consider Suitor No.2

Billboard 200

Autobiography

License To Chill

The Best Of Both Worlds

Confessions

Here For The Party

Historical Context for August 10, 2004