For many vacation-homers desiring resort amenities, golf and tennis have taken a backseat to outdoor pursuits off the beaten path. 




Vacation Homes: Seeking Birds, Not Birdies

The group known as Transportation Alternatives believes in trying to “reclaim New York City’s streets from the automobile.”

On the Road Not Taken, Happiness

Tom Glavine pitched like an ace Thursday night, throwing six scoreless innings as the Mets took a 2-0 lead in their division series against the Dodgers.  

Glavine Pitches Like an Ace, Small Ball Does the Rest

Advocates for exotic animals at the Catskill Game Farm fear that the creatures will be sold to poorly run roadside zoos or to collectors with no guarantee for their well-being.

Farm’s Fate Is Certain, but the Future of Its Animals Is Not

Evangelical Christian leaders are warning one another that their teenagers are abandoning the faith in droves.

Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers

A housing boom in Indiana provided fertile ground for mortgage fraud, as rising home prices served as cover for quick-flip plans.

Suit Says Neighborhood’s Boom Was Built on Mortgage Fraud

Bernard Haitink’s to-do list: Beethoven symphonies (all nine), then take on Chicago.

A Jet-Setting Maestro Sets a Brisker Pace for Beethoven

Videos showing attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq have migrated to Internet video-sharing sites like YouTube.

Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on Web

The cross-shaped beams discovered on Sept. 13, 2001, amid the ruins of 6 World Trade Center are being moved to make way for construction on the east side of the trade center site.

Brief Journey for an Icon of the Attack on New York

Martin Scorsese's cubistic entertainment about men divided by power, loyalty and their own selves is at once a success and a relief.

Scorsese’s Hall of Mirrors, Littered With Bloody Deceit

Once known for orchards, British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley is now a burgeoning wine region and recreation area. 

The Okanagan, a Napa of the North

J. Dennis Hastert, who has become the longest-serving Republican House speaker, made it clear that he would not step down.

Hastert Vows to Overcome Scandal

An anticipated matchup of the erstwhile Atlanta aces, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux, did not materialize Thursday night when Dodgers Manager Grady Little decided to start Hong Chih Kuo over Maddux. 

Crafty Old Men Rely on Mind Over Muscle

Andrew M. Cuomo’s campaign for New York attorney general invested in a fund run by some of his backers.

Cuomo Turns to Hedge Fund and It Pays Off

In providing us with an archivally and anatomically correct reproduction of a landmark show, the creators of this revival neglected to restore its throbbing heart.

From the Top: Five, Six, Seven, Eight!

The big question is whether the S.E.C. will restrict itself to clear cases of options backdating and let spring loaders walk.

They Deceived Shareholders. Who Cares?

Jeffrey M. Johnson was forced out after refusing to make job cuts requested by The Tribune Company. David Hiller has been named as his replacement.

Los Angeles Times Publisher Is Ousted

Now that the Tigers beat Mike Mussina to even the best-of-five series at one game apiece, Friday's starting pitcher Randy Johnson has a new assignment: rescue the Yankees.

Lost in Shadows, Yanks Now Turn to Johnson

More than 100 remote cities benefit from federally subsidized airline service, a program critics say is expensive and unessential.

Subsidies Keep Airlines Flying to Small Towns

Top employees of a city-financed Bronx charity diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars for personal expenses, an investigation found.

City Finds Widespread Fraud at a Bronx Charity

Officials say it will take more than a year to clear southern Lebanon of about one million unexploded bomblets remaining from Israel’s war with Hezbollah.

Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon

Environmentalists in Russia are finding an unlikely ally in the Kremlin as it works to stall projects by oil companies on an island unfathomably rich with oil and gas.

A Mix of Oil and Environmentalism

The S.E.C. will not take action against the hedge fund in an insider trading investigation, according to a Pequot letter to its clients.

Pequot Says S.E.C. Won’t Take Action

Securities and Exchange Commission notifies Pequot Capital Management, prominent hedge fund run by Arthur J Samberg, that it will not recommend enforcement action against firm or its employees relating to insider trading investigation; SEC has not closed probe; declines comment; fund has maintained that its trading was proper at all times; fund came under regulatory scrutiny in late 2004, when SEC lawyer Gary J Aguirre began investigating number of profitable trades made by Pequot in advance of mergers or other market-moving news; Pequot trades were flagged by stock exchange surveillance teams and forwarded to SEC; one focus of investigation was hedge fund's July 2001 purchases of shares in Heller Financial, commercial lender that was acquired by GE Capital for $5.25 billion at end of that month; Heller's stock soared 50 percent the day merger was announced, producing significant profits for fund; Aguirre has said his probe into Pequot's trading led to his firing in September 2005, about one year after he had been hired (M)

Catskill Game Farm in Catskill, NY, shuts down after 75 years; stock of domesticated and exotic animals will be auctioned off; aficionadoes of farm fear animals will end up in poorly run roadside zoos, hands of disreputable collectors or at hunting ranches, where animals are killed for sport; some plead that animals be donated to sanctuaries or that state subsidize game farm or designate it as state park; photos; map (M)

Bertha "Puck" Brouwer was a Dutch sprinter.

Bertha Brouwer, Dutch sprinter (born 1930)

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Eduardo Mignogna was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.

Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1940)

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John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Jr. was an American first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, mostly with the Kansas City Monarchs. After his playing days, he worked as a scout and became the first African American coach in Major League Baseball. In his later years he became a popular and renowned speaker and interview subject, helping to renew widespread interest in the Negro leagues, and played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022 as an executive.

Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (born 1911)

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Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker was an American author who became well known as a writer of mystery, action adventure, and science fiction under the name Wilson Tucker.

October 6, 2006

Headlines from October 6, 2006

Vacation Homes: Seeking Birds, Not Birdies

On the Road Not Taken, Happiness

Glavine Pitches Like an Ace, Small Ball Does the Rest

Farm’s Fate Is Certain, but the Future of Its Animals Is Not

Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers

Billboard 200

FutureSex/LoveSounds

A Thousand Different Ways

The Dutchess

LIVE: Live Those Songs Again

Continuum

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 6, 2006