Message-ID: <9519258.1075855589132.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:13:00 -0700 (PDT) From: nytdirect@nytimes.com To: mike.grigsby@enron.com Subject: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: The New York Times Direct X-To: mike.grigsby@ENRON.COM X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Michael_Grigsby_Jun2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Grigsby-M X-FileName: mgrigsb.nsf TODAY'S HEADLINES The New York Times on the Web Friday, May 11, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com QUOTE OF THE DAY ========================= "Is the question, How fully can we engineer the human body to do physically impossible things? If it is, what do you have at the end of that? Something that looks like a human, but is so engineered, so tuned, that it's no longer going to do what the body is designed to do." - DR. THEODORE FRIEDMANN, director of the gene therapy program at the University of California at San Diego. Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11GENE.html NATIONAL ========================= F.B.I. Kept Reports From the Defense in McVeigh's Trial http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11EXEC.html Boston Journal: Hold Please, the Governor Is About to Give Birth http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11GOVE.html Paddling Foes Get Change in Amendment on Liability http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11PADD.html Many Utilities Call Conserving Good Business http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11CONS.html /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------\ Unique Mother's Day Gift Idea! Get her a Rio500 MP3 Player for $49* and each month she can download any two audiobooks for only $12.95. Now she can enjoy listening to her favorite books without using those silly looking bifocals. Plus, she will be the "coolest" mom or grandmom on the block. MP3 Player - they're not just for music anymore. http://www.audible.com/nyt/feboffer3 \---------------------------------------------------------/ POLITICS ========================= Congress Adopts Plan to Cut Taxes Over Next Decade http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11BUDG.html Many Utilities Call Conserving Good Business http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11CONS.html Judge Bars New Forest Rules, Citing Potential Local Harm http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11FORE.html Bush Names a Drug Czar and Addresses Criticism http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/politics/11DRUG.html INTERNATIONAL ========================= House Warns U.N. of Pocketbook Revenge http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11NATI.html Bush Asks Congress to Grant Him a 'Fast Track' in Trade Talks http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11TRAD.html Militants in Zimbabwe Now Take Aim at Industry http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11ZIMB.html Candidates in Italy Test TV's Muscle http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/world/11ITAL.html BUSINESS ========================= Insurer Pushes to Sell Top Allergy Drugs Over the Counter http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/11FDA.html American International and American General Near a $23 Billion Merger http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/11INSU.html California Bets the House on Energy Savings http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/national/11SAVE.html Hedge Fund Managers Said to Talk to Grand Jury http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/business/11HEDG.html TECHNOLOGY ========================= Shift in Technology Markets Is Helping I.B.M., Chief Says http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11BLUE.html Judges Seek Answers on Computer Code as Free Speech http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CODE.html Cyber Law Journal: Does a Parody Site Go Too Far? http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CYBERLAW.html Judge Postpones Retrial in Internet Sex Abuse Case http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/technology/11CYBE.html NEW YORK REGION ========================= 3 Killed and 2 Are Wounded Above Busy Midtown Block http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11SHOO.html Everyone Wants to Fix Rent Regulations. No One Knows How. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11RENT.html Ferrer Learns Difficulty of Ethnic Politics in a Changing City http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11SHAR.html Student's Father Tells Jury of Identifying Her Body http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/nyregion/11WATK.html SPORTS ========================= Getting the Athletic Edge May Mean Altering Genes http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11GENE.html No More Springtimes for the XFL http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11XFLL.html Kasparaitis's Goal Rescues the Penguins http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11BUFF.html Mets' Downward Spiral Quickens http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/sports/11METS.html ARTS ========================= Dylan Keeps A-Changin', Making Him a Hard Act to Follow http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11DYLA.html On TV, Crime Will Pay, as Hit Series Show http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11COPS.html The James Ensor Show: A Haunting Beauty in a Carnival of Follies http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11KIMM.html Safari Through Troves of African Wonders in Brooklyn and Chelsea http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/arts/11AFRI.html OP-ED COLUMNISTS ========================= By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Empty Deeds, Ugly Words For the son of Hafez al-Assad to be accusing anyone of religious intolerance is laughable. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/opinion/11FRIE.html By GAIL COLLINS: The Year of the Stork Ever since Jane Swift ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, her life has resembled one of those old "Airport" movies in which there's a bomb on the plane. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/11/opinion/11COLL.html HOW TO CHANGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------ You received these headlines because you requested The New York Times Direct e-mail service. 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