December 2, 2006

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. is expected to encourage China to strengthen its currency, an apparent contradiction to his public backing for a strong dollar.

During the week they participate in team meetings and punish their bodies during practice alongside the other players. But on game days, practice-squad players like the Jets' Joe Kowalewski watch from the stands.

Hundreds of communities across country have rewritten their zoning rules in recent years, to eliminate longtime bans on apartments in single-family houses and encourage new ones to be built; revisions have occurred largely in suburban and exurban areas where growth and efforts to control it have driven housing costs up; so-called accessory apartments in places like garages or attics are seen as one way to expand supply of moderately priced rentals; they are intended for older people on fixed incomes, young people starting out and workers needed for essential but relatively low-paying jobs; photo shows restored farmhouse and carriage house that was converted into accessory apartment in Montgomery, NY (M)

Sean Bell, who was shot by police officers in Queens, was mourned as a father, a bridegroom, a man whose life had been taken but whose legacy will remain.

Members of circle of unintended friends, made up of relatives of those killed by New York City police officers, have traveled from as far away as Miami to offer support to family of Sean Bell, unarmed man who died in storm of 50 police bullets in Queens; photos show Bell's coffin being carried from Queens church after his funeral, and Marie Dorismond, whose son Patrick was killed by police in 2000 (M)