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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23SCRE.html?todaysheadlines">U.S. Airport Task Starts With Staff</a></b><br>
As the government takes over the nation's screening system, experts say it will take more than higher salaries to turn the screening process around.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23LIBR.html?todaysheadlines">Breaking Law or Principles to Give Information to U.S.</a></b><br>
Professionals in many fields are re-evaluating long-held precepts of confidentiality in light of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/national/23POXD.html?todaysheadlines">U.S. Hunting Antiviral Drug to Use in Case of Smallpox</a></b><br>
Government scientists are conducting studies to find out whether any existing antiviral drugs  will work against smallpox.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/international/asia/23MILI.html?todaysheadlines">U.S. Hits Caves in bin Laden Hunt; Battle Rages in North</a></b><br>
The American military continued its systematic hunt for Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan by working down a target list of cave networks.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/international/europe/23NATO.html?todaysheadlines">NATO Plan Offers Russia Equal Voice on Some Policies</a></b><br>
The NATO secretary general proposed Thursday to give Russia equal status with the alliance's 19 permanent members in devising and executing some policies.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/international/asia/23BATT.html?todaysheadlines">In Skirmish, Bold Rebel Attack Swerves to Retreat</a></b><br>
Troops of the Northern Alliance scrambled away in sudden retreat Thursday after launching a misbegotten attack against a stubborn Taliban stronghold.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/business/23BANK.html?todaysheadlines">Chase and J. P. Morgan's Paper Anniversary</a></b><br>
One year after J. P. Morgan and the Chase Manhattan Corporation merged, the money-making opportunities that were supposed to justify the union have largely dried up.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/business/23SHOP.html?todaysheadlines">Owner of Casual Corner Chain Seen in Deal for Brooks Brothers</a></b><br>
Brooks Brothers, the retailer of classic American men's wear, is close to being sold to the owner of the Casual Corner women's apparel chain for about $225 million.
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Some auto executives are casting doubt on whether Ford's fuel economy goal set last year  a 25 percent improvement by 2005  can be met.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/technology/23CYBE.html?todaysheadlines">Cyberspace Seen as Potential Battleground</a></b><br>
Government officials are warning that cyberattacks are likely as retribution for the United States campaign in Afghanistan.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/technology/23PHON.html?todaysheadlines">Attacks at Hubs Could Disrupt Phone Lines</a></b><br>
Public safety experts and telecommunications executives are growing increasingly concerned about the possibility of attacks on the telephone system.
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<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 you're hired.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/politics/23INTE.html?todaysheadlines">Inquiries Into Failures of Intelligence Community Are Put Off Until Next Year</a></b><br>
Congressional leaders have agreed to delay until next year any major investigation into the government's failure to stop the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/international/middleeast/23SAUD.html?todaysheadlines">Saudi Says Bush's Words May Soothe Arab Feelings</a></b><br>
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said he was "very much encouraged" by statements from the Bush administration on reviving the quest for Middle East peace.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/politics/23UTAH.html?todaysheadlines">Utah G.O.P. Endangers a Democrat</a></b><br>
Because of redistricting, Jim Matheson, a Democratic representative from Salt Lake City, could be swept out of Congress by next year.
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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/2001/11/23/sports/football/23LION.html?todaysheadlines">Lions Once Again on Short End in Long Season</a></b><br>
The Lions made up all but 2 points of a 16-point deficit in the final seven minutes with two touchdowns and a 2-point conversion, before Green Bay survived with a win.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/sports/ncaafootball/23BELL.html?todaysheadlines">A Town Where Football Is the Glue and the Hope</a></b><br>
Glades Central High School in tiny Belle Glade, Fla., provides football stars at all levels of the sport and gives solace to a poor, rural town where football occupies a complicated social position.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/sports/football/23GRAY.html?todaysheadlines">A Competitor Who Withdrew From the Game</a></b><br>
Leon Gray, a former offensive tackle for the Patriots, abruptly left football in 1983 after a distinguished 11-year career. For the rest of his life, he performed a similar disappearing act in the lives of family and friends.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/movies/23ISLA.html?todaysheadlines">Lifting the Veil on a Far-Off World</a></b><br>
Several new releases  by Iranian filmmakers coincide with  a surge of American interest in anything having to do with Islam and the Middle  East.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/arts/music/23POWE.html?todaysheadlines">Pop Embraces the Teleconcert</a></b><br>
No longer just a pleasure sneaked in   between talk show segments, popular music on television  finds other ways to thrill.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/arts/design/23SMIT.html?todaysheadlines">The Timeless Spell of Empire</a></b><br>
"Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art   From the British Museum" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art is a somberly  beautiful exhibition.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/nyregion/23PARA.html?todaysheadlines">A Parade Steeped in Pageantry, With a Core of Patriotism</a></b><br>
The 75th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was partly transformed by patriotic pomp and recast as an affirmation of New York's resilience in the face of tragedy.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/nyregion/23ANTH.html?todaysheadlines">An Exhaustive Search for Clues, Down to an Anthrax Victim's Hairpins</a></b><br>
F.B.I. agents and health officials spent Thanksgiving Day poring through the Oxford, Conn., home of Ottilie W. Lundgren, who died of anthrax on Wednesday.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/nyregion/23INSU.html?todaysheadlines">Disaster Gives the Uninsured Wider Access to Medicaid</a></b><br>
The need for health coverage is a vexing old problem that has become much worse since Sept. 11.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/opinion/23FRIE.html?todaysheadlines">Terrorist Software</a></b>
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
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For Americans, Osama bin Laden is a mass murderer. But for many young Arabs, bin Laden, even in defeat, is still Robin Hood.
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<font  face="times new roman"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/opinion/23ARBE.html?todaysheadlines">Bravery at Home</a></b>
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President Bush says veterans should talk to children about World War II. A fine idea, but those of us who were children during that war have something to tell, too.
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If we should capture Osama bin Laden or his accomplices in the days ahead, where should   we try them?
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