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<font size="2">"Sometimes if I go to a   household and they're all  
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/national/17LETT.html?todaysheadlines">Suspicious Letter to Senator
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Investigators searching through unopened mail sent to Capitol Hill discovered another letter that contained anthrax.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/national/17BURE.html?todaysheadlines">F.B.I. Chief Says Failed Sept. 11 Hijackers May Remain at Large</a></b><br>
Director Robert S. Mueller III of the F.B.I. said  that there might be others still alive who intended to commandeer airplanes on Sept. 11.
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The president of the University of California is continuing his crusade against the use of SAT scores in college admissions in his university system.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/international/asia/17MILI.html?todaysheadlines">Leader Described as Ready to Flee Talibans Bastion</a></b><br>
Mullah Muhammad Omar was reported on Friday to be ready to abandon the city of Kandahar, as American commandos were engaging in intense combat.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/international/asia/17NETW.html?todaysheadlines">Bin Laden Aide Reported Killed by U.S. Bombs</a></b><br>
Mohammed Atef, a supsected planner of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, is believed to have been killed in an American airstrike.
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Apparent Qaeda presence in a Taliban defense ministry building suggest that Osama bin Laden's   organization was closely linked to the radical Islamic government.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/business/17WARN.html?todaysheadlines">After 15 Years, Warnaco Chief's Short Goodbye</a></b><br>
Linda J. Wachner, once among the highest-paid, best-known businesswomen in the nation, was fired without severance as chief executive of the Warnaco Group.
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Interest rates on Treasury securities shot sharply   higher this week, in one of their biggest weekly moves in recent history.
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Mexico, a nation with divided sympathies about how much oil should cost, is setting out on a round of shuttle diplomacy that analysts said seemed intended to head off an oil price war.
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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/2001/11/17/technology/17SPEC.html?todaysheadlines">Disputed Phone Licenses Transferred to Big Carriers</a></b><br>
The Federal Communications Commission reached a deal to transfer ownership of $16 billion worth of disputed mobile phone licenses to some of the nation's biggest wireless carriers.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/technology/17INTE.html?todaysheadlines">To Forestall a 'Digital Pearl Harbor,' U.S. Looks to System Separate From Internet</a></b><br>
The Bush administration is considering the creation of a secure new government communications network separate from the Internet that would be less vulnerable to attack.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/technology/17HEWL.html?todaysheadlines">Hewlett Son Goes to S.E.C. in Fight Against Compaq Deal</a></b><br>
Walter Hewlett has made a regulatory filing that will permit him to lobby shareholders to fight the planned acquisition of the Compaq by Hewlett-Packard.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/national/17FLY.html?todaysheadlines">Racing to Offer the Details of a Plan on Airline Security</a></b><br>
Federal officials began struggling with the immense challenge of hiring and training 28,000 new federal employees to screen passengers and baggage at all airports within 12 months.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/technology/17INTE.html?todaysheadlines">To Forestall a 'Digital Pearl Harbor,' U.S. Looks to System Separate From Internet</a></b><br>
The Bush administration is considering the creation of a secure new government communications network separate from the Internet that would be less vulnerable to attack.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/national/17LIBE.html?todaysheadlines">Hue and Murmur Over Curbed Rights</a></b><br>
Opinions among liberals and civil libertarians are split over whether plans for a military tribunal and questioning of recently arrived immigrants are an affront to established freedoms.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/sports/basketball/17NETS.html?todaysheadlines">Nets Top Knicks Without a Fight</a></b><br>
The Nets raced to a 23-point halftime lead, turned back the Knicks' 21-point rally and finished with a win that lifted them to a 7-1 record.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/sports/ncaabasketball/17TECH.html?todaysheadlines">Knight Enjoys Spirit of Old West</a></b><br>
Controversial coach Bob Knight returned to basketball, steering his new Texas Tech team to a win and looking as if he had not missed a day of breathing and thinking basketball.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/sports/ncaafootball/17COLL.html?todaysheadlines">Gloves Are Off When Florida Meets Florida State</a></b><br>
The Florida-Florida State game on Saturday is not quite as important as it has been in recent seasons, but the matchup still promises to live up to its contentious history.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/arts/17BHAB.html?todaysheadlines">Harvard's Prize Catch, a Delphic Postcolonialist</a></b><br>
Do any of Homi K. Bhabha's devoted disciples know what he's talking about?
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/arts/17HELA.html?todaysheadlines">Cells That Save Lives Are a Mother's Legacy</a></b><br>
Henrietta Lack's cells  named HeLa after the   first letters in Henrietta and Lacks  became the first human cells to live indefinitely outside the body.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/arts/music/17EBER.html?todaysheadlines">Effervescing From Song to Song</a></b><br>
When Christine Ebersole sashays onto the stage at Arci's Place, the atmosphere begins to fizz as if the cork from a giant Champagne bottle had been popped.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/nyregion/17FIRE.html?todaysheadlines">A Quiet Plea Moved the City to Restore Staffing at Site</a></b><br>
The reason for the restoration of the original number of firefighters at the World Trade Center site was primarily because of the appeal of a retired firefighter to the city's fire chief.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/nyregion/17CRAS.html?todaysheadlines">F.A.A. Orders Study of Planes, as Queens Neighborhood Mourns</a></b><br>
The Federal Aviation Administration ordered the airlines that fly the Airbus A300, the type of plane that crashed on Monday to examine their vertical tail sections and report what they find.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/nyregion/17JOBS.html?todaysheadlines">Wall St. Jobs Are Migrating to New Jersey After Attack</a></b><br>
Many of the jobs lost in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks have migrated across the river to New Jersey.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/opinion/17KELL.html?todaysheadlines">In a State of Denial</a></b>
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By BILL KELLER
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California has been suffering some miseries of its own these days, and it gets less notice from the rest of the country than Uzbekistan.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/opinion/17LEWI.html?todaysheadlines">Waiting for America</a></b>
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The joint call for U.S. intervention by two longtime negotiators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict comes at an important moment.
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If we must depart from constitutional practices, then the United States should prosecute accused terrorists before an international tribunal.
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