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Date: 05 August 2002
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
National Association of Black Journalists is at crossroads at it holds annual convention in Milwaukee, where some of most popular workshops focus not on becoming better journalists but on career opportunities in other professions; attendance is down 25 percent from last year, and group has lost 300 full members since then (M)
Date: 05 August 2002
By Clifford Krauss
Clifford Krauss
Canadian health experts fear growing national junk-food habit and increasing obesity are vaulting out of control, even while fitness centers and diet clinics sprout to counteract disturbing national trend; fewer than 10 percent of Canadians were obese in 1985, but more recent studies show figure has grown to more than 15 percent of population; dietary experts find troubling tripling of incidence of obesity among young Canadians over past 15 years; crisis has spawned alarming articles in news media, hopeful sign according to experts, who say that Canadians are becoming aware of new health threat; Canadians are still generally slimmer than Americans, among whom 20 percent of adults were considered obese in 2000; photo (M)
Date: 04 August 2002
By Erika Kinetz
Erika Kinetz
Article on Michael's restaurant on 55th Street and Fifth Avenue which, since opening in 1989, has become popular lunchtime spot for news media and publishing crowd; photos (M)
Date: 05 August 2002
By Jack Curry
Jack Curry
New York Mets Notebook discusses treatment of closer Armando Benitez by press, which causes manager Bobby Valentine to defend him; Mets recall second baseman Ty Wigginton and outfielder Mark Little to replace Edgardo Alfonzo and Roberto Alomar while they are injured (M)
Date: 05 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Saudi Arabian crude oil production falls 2.6 percent in 2001 as OPEC reins in sales to keep prices close to $25 a barrel (S)
Date: 04 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ashland Inc says its chief executive Paul W Chellgren will retire because he violated company policy on dating subordinates (S)
Date: 04 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Major League Soccer all-star team defeats US national team, 3-2 (M)
Date: 04 August 2002
INTERNATIONAL 3-15 New Laws for Turkey In Move Toward Europe Turkey's Parliament approved a reform package aimed at improving its chances of joining the European Union by abolishing the death penalty and granting greater rights to the nation's Kurds. 12 Pakistan Wavers in Showdown The government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf appears to be backing down on the Islamic schools, or madrasas, in Pakistan often accused of spreading religious extremism. Caught between Western worry and the home-grown strength of the clerics, government ministers said they would consider watering down their proposals. 10
Date: 05 August 2002
INTERNATIONAL A3-7 Violent Day in Mideast Begins With Bus Bombing A powerful bomb ripped apart an Israeli commuter bus in northern Galilee, igniting a fireball that killed 9 people and wounded 45, beginning a burst of Palestinian violence that defied Israel's tough crackdown. A shootout near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City left three people dead; two ambushes wounded seven Israelis; and a fifth attack in the West Bank killed a married couple. The Islamic group Hamas claimed responsibility for the bus bombing. A1 U.S. Grants Uruguay a Loan The Bush administration said it would grant up to $1.5 billion in short-term loans to Uruguay, an infusion that should allow its banks to reopen this morning. The loan, announced after emergency legislation was passed in Uruguay to help quell the nation's economic crisis, would be the first of its sort by the Bush administration to assist another country directly in a financial crisis. A1
Date: 05 August 2002
By Peter T. Kilborn
Peter Kilborn
School and government officials say wave of immigrants over past 10 years, particularly in rural areas far from traditional immigrant hubs, has left school districts nationwide desperately short of people qualified to teach them English; number of students with limited English skills, most Hispanic, has doubled to five million in last decade, or more than four times rate for general student population; number of qualified teachers for English-as-a-second-language classes, already in chronic short supply, has not kept pace; estimated 50,000 such teachers exist, or one for every 100 students with limited English skills; demand for them has grown most rapidly in school districts in South, Midwest and Northwest; North Carolina has had fastest growth, with number quintupling from 1993, to 52,500 from 8,900; populations of such students in Idaho, Nebraska, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia have at least tripled since 1993; map; photos (L)