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<font size="2">"Sports equipment evolves. You either change or get off the
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/olympics/10SKIS.html?todaysheadlines">CAROLINE LALIVE,</a>an American downhill skier.


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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>NATIONAL</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/national/10CHIC.html?todaysheadlines">Poultry Industry Quietly Cuts Back on Antibiotic Use</a></b><br>
Responding to longstanding concerns about health risks with a major change in policy, the poultry industry is greatly reducing the antibiotics that are fed to healthy chickens.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/education/10VOUC.html?todaysheadlines">Cleveland Case Poses New Test for Vouchers</a></b><br>
A voucher program in Ohio designed to help thousands of pupils flee failing public schools will be taken up by the United States Supreme Court this month.
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Grover, N.C., has become the nation's biggest source of the painkiller OxyContin, with a doctor who prescribes the drug at the center of controversy.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>INTERNATIONAL</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/international/asia/10AFGH.html?todaysheadlines">Uncertain Toll in the Fog of War: Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan</a></b><br>
Hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent Afghans have lost their lives during American attacks, a scattering of bodies extraordinarily difficult to tabulate.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/international/africa/10SOMA.html?todaysheadlines">A New Scrutiny of Somalia as the Old Anarchy Reigns</a></b><br>
The United States has taken a new interest in Somalia since Sept. 11, believing that it may become a refuge for experienced terrorists and a breeding ground for new ones.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/obituaries/10MARG.html?todaysheadlines">Princess Margaret Dies at 71</a></b><br>
Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, whose troubled private life aroused both sympathy and reprobation, died Saturday morning in London.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>BUSINESS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/10COLL.html?todaysheadlines">Web of Details Did Enron In as Warnings Went Unheeded</a></b><br>
Two completely different tales have begun to emerge about what happened inside Enron during its last 11 months: the public image and the hidden truth.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/yourmoney/10FIXX.html?todaysheadlines">How Will Washington Read the Signs?</a></b><br>
Enron's collapse may well halt the trend of the government allowing companies to operate with declining amounts of regulation.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/10WEB-SOFT.html?todaysheadlines">Microsoft's Top Officials May Testify to Help Fight Sanctions</a></b><br>
Microsoft, shifting its previous strategy, has named both Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer as witnesses in a trial on remedies in the antitrust case it lost.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/10SOFT.html?todaysheadlines">Microsoft's Top Officials May Testify to Help Fight Sanctions</a></b><br>
Microsoft, shifting its previous strategy, has named both Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer as witnesses in a trial on remedies in the antitrust case it lost.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/technology/10SLAS.html?todaysheadlines">Mayhem, and Far From the Nicest Kind</a></b><br>
In Grand Theft Auto III, a wildly popular new video game, players take on the roles of ex-cons, roaming a city, carrying out depraved missions for the mob.
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Car buyers use the Internet for research, but the moment of truth tends to occur at dealerships.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/politics/10FARM.html?todaysheadlines">Big Farms Making a Mess of U.S. Waters, Cities Say</a></b><br>
Urban and suburban districts and their lawmakers are frustrated with water pollution that comes not from industry, but from rural areas.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/politics/10BUSH.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Looks to Help G.O.P. in Election Year</a></b><br>
In a turnaround from his bipartisan stance, President Bush has committed to fundraising for Republican candidates across the country.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/10UPDA.html?todaysheadlines">Congress Begins an Investigation, Raising New Questions, and Silence</a></b><br>
It was a week of words in the growing Enron scandal: a long report, conflicting Congressional testimony and more questions than answers.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>SPORTS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/sports/basketball/10STAR.html?todaysheadlines">Missing From N.B.A Lineup, One True Center</a></b><br>
The center position, once the most glamorous and dominating post in basketball, is now virtually bereft of first-rate players.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/sports/hockey/10DEVI.html?todaysheadlines">Rafalski's Last Surge Powers Devils</a></b><br>
Brian Rafalski snapped a shot that sneaked between Johan Hedberg's legs with 8.6 seconds left in overtime to lift the Devils to a crucial victory over Pittsburgh.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/sports/ncaabasketball/10JOHN.html?todaysheadlines">St. John's Prevails on Its Playground</a></b><br>
The Red Storm recovered from a calamitous collapse in regulation and put the Huskies away in overtime, thanks to the steady hand of Marcus Hatten.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/arts/music/10OEST.html?todaysheadlines">Michael Tilson Thomas: Maverick in a City of Same</a></b><br>
The San Francisco  Symphony Orchestra has become increasingly exciting  during Michael Tilson Thomas's seven-year tenure as  music director.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/arts/television/10JENK.html?todaysheadlines">From History to Stage to TV, Huey P. Newton's Story</a></b><br>
Roger Guenveur Smith and Spike Lee create a visual collage to portray the complexity of Huey P. Newton's character in an new TV movie.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/arts/theater/10NIED.html?todaysheadlines">A Historic Whodunit: If Shakespeare Didn't, Who Did?</a></b><br>
The position that Edward de Vere, the 17th  Earl of Oxford, was the real Shakespeare is gaining momentum.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/business/10POWE.html?todaysheadlines">Turn Out the Lights; the Party's Over</a></b><br>
After Enron, deregulation is looking less sexy to energy traders in New York, who were once poised to rise as government regulation stepped aside.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/nyregion/10DEBT.html?todaysheadlines">City Hall Seeks Refinancing to Reduce Debt Payments</a></b><br>
New York City officials want to take advantage of low interest rates to refinance some of the city's $40.8 billion in outstanding debt.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/nyregion/10STAT.html?todaysheadlines">An Unpredictable Race in Staten Island</a></b><br>
Overdevelopment in Staten Island will be a major factor with voters in Tuesday's election for the 60th Assembly District.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/opinion/10FRIE.html?todaysheadlines">Blunt Question, Blunt Answer</a></b>
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The Arab-Muslim world's view that America or the Jews are behind all their problems is escapism, not analysis.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/opinion/10DOWD.html?todaysheadlines">Pretty Poison</a></b>
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Feminism was supposed to release women from the tyranny of the unnatural ideal, but the ideal is more unnatural than ever.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/10/opinion/10ABBA.html?todaysheadlines">A Risky Message to Iran</a></b>
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An aggressive posture by America would give the Iranian regime's hard-liners new ability to embarrass the reformist president and block normalization.
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