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Friday, May 11, 2001
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Is the question, How fully can we engineer the human body to
do physically impossible things? If it is, what do you have
at the end of that? Something that looks like a human, but
is so engineered, so tuned, that it's no longer going to do
what the body is designed to do."

- DR. THEODORE FRIEDMANN, director of the gene therapy program at the 
University of
California at San Diego.

Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11GENE.html



NATIONAL
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F.B.I. Kept Reports From the Defense in McVeigh's Trial
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11EXEC.html

Boston Journal: Hold Please, the Governor Is About to Give
Birth
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11GOVE.html

Paddling Foes Get Change in Amendment on Liability
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11PADD.html

Many Utilities Call Conserving Good Business
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11CONS.html




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POLITICS
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Congress Adopts Plan to Cut Taxes Over Next Decade
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11BUDG.html

Many Utilities Call Conserving Good Business
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11CONS.html

Judge Bars New Forest Rules, Citing Potential Local Harm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11FORE.html

Bush Names a Drug Czar and Addresses Criticism
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11DRUG.html



INTERNATIONAL
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House Warns U.N. of Pocketbook Revenge
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11NATI.html

Bush Asks Congress to Grant Him a 'Fast Track' in Trade
Talks
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11TRAD.html

Militants in Zimbabwe Now Take Aim at Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11ZIMB.html

Candidates in Italy Test TV's Muscle
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11ITAL.html



BUSINESS
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Insurer Pushes to Sell Top Allergy Drugs Over the Counter
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/11FDA.html

American International and American General Near a $23
Billion Merger
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/11INSU.html

California Bets the House on Energy Savings
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11SAVE.html

Hedge Fund Managers Said to Talk to Grand Jury
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/11HEDG.html



TECHNOLOGY
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Shift in Technology Markets Is Helping I.B.M., Chief Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11BLUE.html

Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CODE.html

Cyber Law Journal: Does a Parody Site Go Too Far?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CYBERLAW.html

Judge Postpones Retrial in Internet Sex Abuse Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CYBE.html



NEW YORK REGION
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3 Killed and 2 Are Wounded Above Busy Midtown Block
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11SHOO.html

Everyone Wants to Fix Rent Regulations. No One Knows How.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11RENT.html

Ferrer Learns Difficulty of Ethnic Politics in a Changing
City
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11SHAR.html

Student's Father Tells Jury of Identifying Her Body
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11WATK.html



SPORTS
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Getting the Athletic Edge May Mean Altering Genes
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11GENE.html

No More Springtimes for the XFL
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11XFLL.html

Kasparaitis's Goal Rescues the Penguins
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11BUFF.html

Mets' Downward Spiral Quickens
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11METS.html



ARTS
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Dylan Keeps A-Changin', Making Him a Hard Act to Follow
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11DYLA.html

On TV, Crime Will Pay, as Hit Series Show
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11COPS.html

The James Ensor Show: A Haunting Beauty in a Carnival of
Follies
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11KIMM.html

Safari Through Troves of African Wonders in Brooklyn and
Chelsea
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11AFRI.html




OP-ED COLUMNISTS
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Empty Deeds, Ugly Words

For the son of Hafez al-Assad to be accusing anyone of
religious intolerance is laughable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/opinion/11FRIE.html


By GAIL COLLINS: The Year of the Stork

Ever since Jane Swift ran for lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts, her life has resembled one of those old
"Airport" movies in which there's a bomb on the plane.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/opinion/11COLL.html



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