Airline workers often commute to faraway cities, but with planes full they are finding it harder to get home.

Extreme Commutes Grow Longer in Air Industry

At the time of his death, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was still trying to transform his organization into a global terrorist operation.

Terrorists Trained by Zarqawi Went Abroad, Jordan Says

Alay Soler allowed two hits in pitching a complete-game, two-hit shutout as the Mets defeated the Diamondbacks for their fourth consecutive victory.

Soler Tosses Two-Hitter as Mets Win Fourth in Row

Argentina prevailed with a 2-1 victory over the Ivory Coast that brought as much relief as satisfaction.

Argentina's New No. 10 Ensures Opening Victory

Coal is China's double-edged sword — the new economy's black gold and the fragile environment's dark cloud.

Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow

English fans and commentators have convinced themselves that the nation could, just maybe, win the World Cup.

For England, Hard Times Give Way to Greater Expectations

As the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has grown, so have the ranks of those who want to swindle them.

Dollars and Dreams: Immigrants as Prey

An incubator for retail shops provides home-based entrepreneurs the opportunity to establish their own stores.

Nurturing Home Producers to Run Retail Shops

As U.S. forces hand over operations in Afghanistan to NATO, the Taliban is making its strongest show of force since 2001.

Taliban Surges as U.S. Shifts Some Tasks to NATO

Jazil, ridden by 18-year-old Fernando Jara, won the 138th running of the Belmont Stakes, finishing ahead of Bluegrass Cat.

Jazil Writes Happy Ending to Sad Spring for Racing

Even if you are watching "The Searchers" for the first time — perhaps on the beautiful new DVD released to mark the film's 50th anniversary — its final shot may look familiar.

'The Searchers': How the Western Was Begun

Linda Hartough captures golf courses on canvas. There is a two-year waiting list for her work.

Linda Hartough, the Rembrandt of the Back Nine

Four days after the Cannes Film Festival wrapped, the real action got started, 3,981 miles from the sun-drenched beaches of southern France.

Movie Glitz by the Beach. (No, Not That Beach.)

As proxy season draws to a close, shareholders have made their wishes on one issue clear: They want greater involvement in the election of directors.

Finally, Shareholders Start Acting Like Owners

How did a show with critical support, a star creator and a strong fan base end up on the chopping block in the first place?

'Deadwood' Gets a New Lease on Life

A documentary offers a window into the value of a Harvard business degree.

Was Earning That Harvard M.B.A. Worth It?

The borough's "cathedral of thrift," once home to seemingly everyone's dentist, prepares for its next chapter.

For Brooklyn's Beacon, the Luxe Life

A century after his death, the famed painter still serves as the perfect tour guide to the land he portrayed with both deep passion and a lack of sentimentality.

Cézanne's Provence

They were the first deaths of detainees to be reported at the military prison in Cuba since it opened in early 2002.

3 Prisoners Commit Suicide at Guantánamo

After a fictional female president, are Americans ready for the real thing?

The Ascent of a Woman

Article in series The Energy Challenge; pollution will soar both at home and abroad unless China finds way to clean up its coal plants and coal-burning factories, and increase in global-warming gases from China's coal will exceed that for all other industrialized countries over next 25 years; airborne sulphur dioxide poses health threat and causes acid rain, and carbon dioxide from coal plants will last for decades; India is right behind China in stepping up its construction of coal-fired power plants; graphs; photos (L)

Article profiles artist Linda Hartough, whose speciality is painting golf courses; paintings sell for between $50,000 and $225,000; history of golf painting discussed; photos (L)

Presidential aspirations of Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton discussed; political and social climate in America compared to other countries where women have already held high political posts; variety of reasons that US has not had strong woman candidate for president in past, including relatively small number of women governors and in Congressmen, discussed; photos (M)

Genetic genealogy in its commercial form is barely five years old, but hunt for famous ancestors is in full swing; case of Tom Robinson, accounting professor in Florida, epitomizes dream; cheek swab that he sent to Oxford Ancestors, DNA genealogy company, has identified him as descendant of Genghis Khan; drawings; photo (M)

Who's Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy?

IMAGINE signing a contract to buy your very first apartment, a studio high above Herald Square in the heart of Manhattan, but at 25 percent below the usual market price. It was a dream that came true a few weeks ago for Daniel A. Montaña, a 27-year-old Web administrator for PricewaterhouseCoopers.     But Mr. Montaña's dream came with a catch: he may never get to actually buy that apartment. The project is caught up in a legal struggle between the owners of the building and the sponsor firm they contracted with to convert it to condos, and some previous buyers have already backed out of their market-rate deals.  

Condo Sales, With a Catch

Neroli Susan Fairhall was a New Zealand athlete, who was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games.

Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (born 1944)

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Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, was an officer in the British Army who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla.

June 11, 2006

Headlines from June 11, 2006

Extreme Commutes Grow Longer in Air Industry

Terrorists Trained by Zarqawi Went Abroad, Jordan Says

Soler Tosses Two-Hitter as Mets Win Fourth in Row

Argentina's New No. 10 Ensures Opening Victory

Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts a Global Shadow

Billboard 200

Taking The Long Way

High School Musical

American Idol Season 5: Encores

We Don't Need To Whisper

Stadium Arcadium

Notable Deaths

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