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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/national/22POLI.html?todaysheadlines">Police Are Split on Questioning of Mideast Men</a></b><br>
Police chiefs are concerned that Attorney General John Ashcroft's request that they help interview thousands of Middle Eastern men seems like racial profiling.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22ANTH.html?todaysheadlines">Connecticut Woman, 94, Is Fifth to Die From Inhalation Anthrax</a></b><br>
Medical investigators began searching for clues as to how a widow who rarely left her house had become the country's fifth recent anthrax fatality.
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Middle-age and elderly people who took anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or naproxen for at least two years were apparently protected from Alzheimer's disease.
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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/2001/11/22/international/asia/22KUND.html?todaysheadlines">Foreign Militants Seek Safe Passage From Afghan City</a></b><br>
Foreign militants trapped inside Kunduz have asked to leave Afghanistan through a protected corridor and travel to Pakistan.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/asia/22TALI.html?todaysheadlines">How bin Laden and Taliban Forged Jihad Ties</a></b><br>
Osama bin Laden's relationship with the Taliban helped lead the Afghan religious movement into a more global jihad and, eventually, doom.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/international/middleeast/22SAUD.html?todaysheadlines">Saudi Sees No bin Laden-Iraq Link</a></b><br>
Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief said Wednesday that his government had seen no evidence that the Iraqi government had provided support to Al Qaeda.
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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/2001/11/22/business/22RETI.html?todaysheadlines">Employees' Retirement Plan Is a Victim as Enron Tumbles</a></b><br>
The rapid decline of the Enron Corporation has devastated its employees' retirement plan, which was heavy with company stock.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/22ENRO.html?todaysheadlines">Circling the Wagons Around Enron</a></b><br>
Officials of Dynegy weighed whether to seek to renegotiate the terms of the company's agreement to acquire Enron, while Enron and its bankers sought to shore up the company's finances.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/22ECON.html?todaysheadlines">Reports Suggest Recovery Soon, but Not Exactly a Robust One</a></b><br>
The economy remains weak but reports suggest it is no longer worsening, giving weight to the increasingly popular view that a recovery is only a few months away.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>TECHNOLOGY</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/circuits/22CHEC.html?todaysheadlines">What Did You Do Before the War?</a></b><br>
New fears and new data tools are yielding a boom in background checks -- even after your hired.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/22SOFT.html?todaysheadlines">Microsoft's Top Lawyer Sets Retirement</a></b><br>
On the heels of two major settlements, William H. Neukom, the legal field general in Microsoft's antitrust conflicts, said that he would retire next year.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/technology/circuits/22HOWW.html?todaysheadlines">A Thermometer That Squawks When the Bird Is Done</a></b><br>
By providing remote readouts, digital meat thermometers are designed to take the worry and the guesswork out of cooking the holiday turkey.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>POLITICS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/politics/22BUSH.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Says War May Go Beyond Afghan Border</a></b><br>
President Bush said that the United States would take the war on terrorism to nations beyond Afghanistan that harbor terrorists.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/politics/22RIDG.html?todaysheadlines">Ridge to Seek Big Increases for Fight on Terror</a></b><br>
Tom Ridge, the director of homeland security,  said that he will seek new spending for federal law enforcement agencies and public health facilities.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22AID.html?todaysheadlines">Some Wonder Where Pataki Has Been During Uphill Fight for Billions</a></b><br>
Gov. George E. Pataki remained curiously silent while New York politicians spoke up as the White House and Congress tried to clamp down on federal aid for New York.
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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/2001/11/22/sports/basketball/22KNIC.html?todaysheadlines">High-Flying Suns Pull Knicks Back to Earth</a></b><br>
With Stephon Marbury directing the action, the Suns put on a high-flying, dunk-laden display as they dominated and deflated the Knicks.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/sports/football/22GRUD.html?todaysheadlines">Gruden Is Brains Behind the Raiders</a></b><br>
The Oakland Raiders' Jon Gruden possesses a multilayered personality that has led many N.F.L. general managers to call him the best young coaching talent in years.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/sports/football/22GIAN.html?todaysheadlines">Giant Optimism Well Above .500 Level</a></b><br>
Despite losses in four of their last six games, the Giants still stress the positives about their season and expect to win most of their remaining games.
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<font size="2" color="#990000"><b>ARTS</b></font><br>




<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/design/22PIAN.html?todaysheadlines">Where Old Pianos Go to Live</a></b><br>
Unlike most museums, this important collection of historic 19th-century pianos is meant to be used.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/dance/22GALA.html?todaysheadlines">Ballet as Balm in a Tribute to a City on the Mend</a></b><br>
It was certainly not your usual opening of   a winter season by the New York City   Ballet.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/arts/design/22MAGN.html?todaysheadlines">Catching the World in the Act of Changing</a></b><br>
The man who recorded the events of Sept. 11, Evan Fairbanks, has made a Zapruder film for our time.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22ANTH.html?todaysheadlines">Connecticut Woman, 94, Is Fifth to Die From Inhalation Anthrax</a></b><br>
Medical investigators began searching for clues as to how a widow who rarely left her house had become the country's fifth recent anthrax fatality.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22AID.html?todaysheadlines">Some Wonder Where Pataki Has Been During Uphill Fight for Billions</a></b><br>
Gov. George E. Pataki remained curiously silent while New York politicians spoke up as the White House and Congress tried to clamp down on federal aid for New York.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/nyregion/22MIKE.html?todaysheadlines">Developer Briefs Bloomberg on Plans to Rebuild Towers</a></b><br>
Larry A. Silverstein, the developer who holds the lease on the World Trade Center, met with Mayor-elect Michael R. Bloomberg and said that he would go ahead with plans to rebuild at the site.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/opinion/22HERB.html?todaysheadlines">Hunger in the City</a></b>
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By BOB HERBERT
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There is something very wrong, in a society as affluent as ours, when families have to choose between food and rent.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/opinion/22SAFI.html?todaysheadlines">Welcome Back, Politics!</a></b>
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Here is the trick in political prognostication: Take what you know to be true and then play   fast and loose with the possible.
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The United States should commit to getting all the world's children in school.
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