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<font size="2">"A horrible fire burst open the door like the Devil himself
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/international/middleeast/21EGYP.html?todaysheadlines">YASSER FUAD,</a>on Egypt's railroad disaster.


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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/education/21SCHO.html?todaysheadlines">Cleveland School Vouchers Weighed by Supreme Court</a></b><br>
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments on whether the government should grant school vouchers for education at religious schools.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/national/21BODI.html?todaysheadlines">Dazed by Crematory Scandal, Undertakers' Trust Is Shaken</a></b><br>
The alleged negligence of a couple entrusted with the cremation of bodies could be costly for their customers, who all own funeral homes.
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Gun sales across the country were hampered this week after federal authorities failed to provide gun dealers with new background check forms.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/international/asia/21STRA.html?todaysheadlines">C.I.A. Warns That Afghan Factions May Bring Chaos</a></b><br>
The Central Intelligence Agency has warned in a report that Afghanistan could fall into violent chaos if tensions between rival warlords are not restrained.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/international/middleeast/21MIDE.html?todaysheadlines">Israel Steps Up Counterstrikes; 22 Arabs Slain</a></b><br>
Israeli forces killed at least 22 Palestinian security officers and militants on Wednesday in retaliation for an ambush in which six Israeli soldiers were slain.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/international/asia/21PREX.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Says U.S. and China Want to See Koreas Unified</a></b><br>
President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China said on Thursday that they would work together on reunification of North and South Korea.
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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/2002/02/21/technology/21GLOB.html?todaysheadlines">Deal's Loose Ends Are Tied to Global Crossing</a></b><br>
Two top executives at Global Crossing were arranging a side deal with a firm that has ties to an Asian alliance now trying to buy the company out of bankruptcy.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/business/media/21NETW.html?todaysheadlines">Ownership Ruling Is Latest Boon to Industry Once Seen as Doomed</a></b><br>
A federal appeals court decision that could end limits on the ownership of TV stations is only the latest positive turn for an industry that has had a streak of good fortune.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/business/21INSU.html?todaysheadlines">Two Insurers Seek to Void Enron Policies</a></b><br>
Two big insurers are balking at honoring policies they wrote covering Enron's directors and officers against the cost of lawsuits, recent court filings show.
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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/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21TIPS.html?todaysheadlines">Whistle-Blower Sites Mine Clues Amid Mountains of Suspicion</a></b><br>
There are now many Web sites that invite anonymous visitors to tip off authorities about potential wrongdoing. But how much quality information can be gained this way?
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/21GLOB.html?todaysheadlines">Deal's Loose Ends Are Tied to Global Crossing</a></b><br>
Two top executives at Global Crossing were arranging a side deal with a firm that has ties to an Asian alliance now trying to buy the company out of bankruptcy.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/technology/circuits/21TOYS.html?todaysheadlines">Toyland Is Tough, Even for Robots</a></b><br>
For toy creator Mark Tilden, simpler is better when it comes to robotic toys. But navigating the road from lab to market, he learned, was anything but simple.
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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/2002/02/21/international/asia/21PREX.html?todaysheadlines">Bush Says U.S. and China Want to See Koreas Unified</a></b><br>
President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China said on Thursday that they would work together on reunification of North and South Korea.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/politics/21DIST.html?todaysheadlines">Fight Over Political Map Centers on Race</a></b><br>
The Justice Department is attempting to block a redistricting plan for Mississippi Congressional seats supported by blacks and Democrats.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/politics/21PEAC.html?todaysheadlines">Interest in Peace Corps Rises After Bush Plea</a></b><br>
Application requests for the Peace Corps have increased 39 percent since President Bush's promise to more than double the Corps numbers.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/olympics/21SKEL.html?todaysheadlines">A Family's 3rd Olympian Wins Gold</a></b><br>
With his grandfather's funeral card tucked inside his helmet, American Jim Shea won the gold medal in skeleton. American Tristan Gale won the women's gold.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/sports/basketball/21KNIC.html?todaysheadlines">Knicks Easy Mark for Even the Bulls</a></b><br>
Allan Houston scored 34 points and Latrell Sprewell added 30, but the Knicks dropped to 20-32 after losing to the Bulls on Wednesday night at the United Center.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/sports/baseball/21METS.html?todaysheadlines">Alomar Will Give the Mets a Player Who Does It All</a></b><br>
Manager Bobby Valentine hopes his other players will benefit from watching and talking to Robbie Alomar.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/books/21ALGE.html?todaysheadlines">A Former Algerian Army Officer Loses His Pseudonym</a></b><br>
In Algeria he was a soldier who had to camouflage the fact he was a writer. Now that he has moved to the South of France, Mohamed Moulessehoul has revealed his identity.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/arts/design/21ELEP.html?todaysheadlines">A Grateful Artist Who Wants to Repay His Elephant Helpers</a></b><br>
Three Asian elephants named Mya, Layang Layang and Dilberta have spent that last decade replenishing the supply of dung that Chris Ofili uses in nearly all his paintings.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/arts/design/21ARTS.html?todaysheadlines">From Ordinary Faces, Extraordinary Ads</a></b><br>
"The Genius and Wit of Howard Zieff" highlights the work of perhaps the most significant advertising photographer in New York in the 1960's.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/nyregion/21DEBT.html?todaysheadlines">Mountain of 90's Debt Looms as City and State Feel Pinch</a></b><br>
New York City and New York State are  the largest debtors in the nation, with $42 billion and $38 billion in loans outstanding, respectively.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/nyregion/21FUND.html?todaysheadlines">Officers' Widows Oppose Control of Twin Towers Fund by Giuliani</a></b><br>
The widows of 15 police officers killed at the World Trade Center want to stop the transferring of control of the Twin Towers Fund to a private charity.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/nyregion/21CANT.html?todaysheadlines">Cantor at Temple Emanu-El Is Accused of Molesting Nephew</a></b><br>
The cantor of Temple Emanu-El was arrested in a case that prosecutors say lays out a pattern of sexual abuse within the family.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/opinion/21SAFI.html?todaysheadlines">The Flipped-Over Rock</a></b>
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Stop pretending Enron and Global Crossing are political scandals and start dealing with the accounting and financial derivatives scandals.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/21/opinion/21WILL.html?todaysheadlines">Chewing Up a Fragile Land</a></b>
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Oil and gas exploration in southern Utah wreaks havoc in the sensitive wildlands adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
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Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's offer to normalize relations with Israel if it were to sign a peace accord with the Palestinians represents a dramatic change in Saudi Arabia's position toward  Israel. Remarkably, the statement seems to have been greeted with a yawn by the Israeli government.
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