August 19, 2004

Joseph Holtzman is closing Nest, his quarterly magazine of interiors, which has won two National Magazine Awards in its seven years and gained loyal following in creative circles; says he has been growing bored with magazine and wants to try his hand at painting; photos (M)

Paul Hamm stages one of biggest comebacks in Olympic history, going from fourth to first in final rotation to become first American man to win Olympic all-around gold medal in gymnastics; after disastrous landing on vault sends him stumbling off mat, his spectacular performances on his final two events--parallel bars and high bar--earn him two consecutive 9.837's; his final score of 57.823 is 12-thousandths of point ahead of South Korea's Kim Dae Eun; Kim's teammate Yang Tae Young finishes third with score of 57.774; earlier, Hamm and his twin brother Morgan helped United States men's team win silver, American men's first Olympic team medal in 20 years; photos (M)

Oil prices climb above $47 a barrel, setting yet another record, after figures show supplies in United States are down for third consecutive week and a report from OPEC highlights threat of high oil prices for world economies; crude oil for September delivery settles at $47.27 a barrel in New York; futures prices are up about $10 a barrel since end of June; graph shows slump in crude-oil inventory (M)

Apartment buildings in some large cities are now being built on top of superstores like Home Depot and Best Buy; trend is fed by increasing difficulty of finding good locations in cities; architects seek ways to dissociate residential space from retail activity below; photos (M)

Jeremy Eichler reviews concert by Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, featuring violinist Christian Tetzlaff and violist Tabea Zimmermann and conducted by Bernard Labadie; photo (M)