Motorola is learning a cruel new lesson that a phone’s value reflects not so much what it can do, but whether it is the envy of friends.

Cellphone Envy Lays Motorola Low

Groundhog Day has been part of the Western calendar since around the fifth century,  but will it survive in an age of global warming?

The Groundhog Emerged, and Sounded a Lot Like Al Gore

The report said warming and its harmful consequences could be substantially blunted by prompt action. 

Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’

When the regular season ended, they had allowed an average of 173 yards rushing a game. But in three playoff games, the Colts have allowed 100 fewer rushing yards a game.

The Colts Get Up to Speed as the Stakes Get Higher

An officer who faces manslaughter charges after a crash last month on the Pulaski Skyway was hired in spite of a spotty past.


After Crash, Police Hiring in Jersey City Is Questioned

A culture of toughness permeates N.F.L. locker rooms, encouraging players to fight through pain and stay on the field even as they feel the dizzying effects of a blow to the head.

N.F.L. Culture Makes Issue of Head Injuries Even Murkier

The N.F.L. might be more popular in Mexico than it is among Spanish-speaking people in the United States.

Among Hispanics, N.F.L. Mania Hits Cultural Wall

At the age of 70, Carl C. Icahn has gone from being a corporate raider to a “shareholder activist.”

From Raider to Activist, but Still Icahn

A new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq expressed deep doubts about the abilities of Iraqi officials to hold the country together.

Analysis Is Bleak on Iraq’s Future

Consumer advocacy takes on renewed power as it moves into a new form, the blog.

Consumers Have Allies on the Web

Never in memory has the political world been so awash in items about every burp and wart of our nation’s leaders.

Titillating or Not, Washington Gossip Blossoms

Silicon Valley’s best and brightest organized a concerted, high-tech effort to find a missing Microsoft researcher.

Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Hunt for Colleague

Bernard Lagat held off a stiff challenge for supremacy in the Wanamaker Mile Friday night at Madison Square Garden, but not from the challenger he expected.

Lagat Needs Every Yard to Win Wanamaker Mile

YouTube says it will comply with Viacom’s request that it remove more than 100,000 clips from the Web.

Viacom Tells YouTube: Hands Off

Second-act chief executives bring deep knowledge of their industries and their companies, but may be reluctant to make radical changes.

2nd Acts in the Executive Suite

Complaints about a school bus plan threatened to turn into a renewed attack on the reliance on  consultants by Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein.

Consultants Draw Fire in Bus Woes

Police officers stopped 508,540 individuals last year, often searching them for illegal weapons.

Number of People Stopped by New York Police Soars

The image of Buddy Ryan as a gentleman farmer and caring family man are at odds with the nasty public image from the 1980s when his Bears defense smashed through the N.F.L.

On Ryan’s Farm, Memories Fresh and Fading

The members of Harlem Mothers Stop Another Violent End are working to get illegal guns off their streets.

Mothers Harness Grief to Try to Save Lives

A report in the World Briefing column yesterday about criticism by Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, of President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war described one comment incorrectly. Mr. Chávez did indeed call Mr. Bush “the devil,” as he had done in a speech at the United Nations in September.

For the Record

The economy expanded faster than expected in the last quarter of 2006 and remains strong. 

Good News on Economy, Except for a Dell Executive

Corrections

A front-page article on Wednesday about a death sentence handed up by a federal jury for a man who killed two police detectives on Staten Island misstated the marital status of one victim, Rodney J. Andrews, and referred incorrectly in some copies to the federal trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, who was convicted of terrorism charges related to Sept. 11 but did not receive the death penalty. Detective Andrews and his wife were separated, not divorced, and Mr. Moussaoui’s case was tried by prosecutors in Virginia, not New York.

A front-page article on Thursday about a 29-year-old sex offender who is accused of posing as a boy to enroll in schools misspelled the name of an Arizona city where administrators of the Shelby School say he attended school for 21 days in 2005. It is Payson, not Peyson.

Because of an editing error, an article and headline in Business Day yesterday about management changes at Gap Inc. misstated the circumstances surrounding the departure of Cynthia Harriss, the president of Gap brand. She resigned; she was not “ousted” or “removed.”.

February 3, 2007

Headlines from February 3, 2007

Cellphone Envy Lays Motorola Low

The Groundhog Emerged, and Sounded a Lot Like Al Gore

Science Panel Calls Global Warming ‘Unequivocal’

The Colts Get Up to Speed as the Stakes Get Higher

After Crash, Police Hiring in Jersey City Is Questioned

Billboard 200

Daughtry

Dreamgirls

Jump In!

Corinne Bailey Rae

Konvicted

Historical Context for February 3, 2007