Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from January 2002:
PHILANTHROPISTS' EFFORTS MORE RESTRAINED IN 2001.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: THERESA AGOVINO Associated Press NEW YORK -- There must be a recession; even Bill Gates is cutting back. And he's not alone. The super-rich are becoming much more frugal with their charitable giving. The 10 largest single gifts to charity in 2001 ...
ENRON CREDITOR SUES TO BLOCK INSURERS' QUERY.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: BRAD FOSS Associated Press NEW YORK -- After demanding payment from insurance companies that backed more than $1 billion worth of oil and gas contracts signed by Enron Corp., J.P. Morgan Chase is trying to prevent the insurers from getting details about the transactions ....
MARKETS LOOK TOWARD 2002.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: LISA SINGHANIA Associated Press NEW YORK -- Wall Street ended one of its most dreadful years on a down note as investors sent stocks sharply lower Monday to minimize their tax bills. The selloff seemed an appropriate finish to 2001 for the market, which saw ...
FOR MANY INVESTORS, 2001 WAS A YEAR TO FORGET.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: LISA SINGHANIA Associated Press NEW YORK -- There won't be any fond farewell to 2001 for most investors, who are only too happy to put the painful and difficult year behind them. Stocks fell to unimaginable lows in a bear market worsened by terrible corporate earnings, a ...
SCHENECTADY ADDS NEIGHBORS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: KENNETH AARON Business writer - A modest rise in Capital Region home sales last month was bolstered by a home-buying binge in Schenectady County, a product of low interest rates, good prices and a marketing push. Agents sealed deals on 126 homes in Schenectady ...
RITE AID DRUG CHAIN WEATHERS STORMY YEAR.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: SHADE ELAM Bloomberg News CAMP HILL, Pa. -- Rite Aid Corp. Chief Executive Robert Miller averted possible bankruptcy in 2001 and bought more time for the third-largest U.S. drugstore chain when he negotiated a $3 billion debt refinancing. ``There were lots of ...
STATES ASK TOUGHER MICROSOFT PENALTIES.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Nine states on Monday opposed Microsoft's request for more time to produce evidence in the antitrust case against the company. The states told U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that their broad proposed penalties -- ...
COURT PREVENTS ECHOSTAR FROM DUMPING DISNEY CHANNEL.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Bloomberg News BURBANK, Calif. -- Walt Disney Co. said a court granted a temporary restraining order barring satellite-television broadcaster EchoStar Communications Corp. from dropping Disney's ABC Family channel from its system. EchoStar, owner of the ...
IT'S NOW THE EURO IN EUROPE.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press FRANKFURT, Germany -- Greece and Finland led the way as 12 European nations adopted the euro at midnight Monday in the most ambitious currency swap in history, one which the euro's architects hope will bolster dreams of a united Europe. ...
NATURAL GAS PRICES CONTINUE YEARLONG DOWNWARD TREND.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Bloomberg News NEW YORK -- Natural gas futures prices fell more than 7 percent, leaving prices down by about three-quarters this year, on forecasts for a break in a cold spell that has boosted demand in the largest U.S. markets for gas heat. Natural gas ...
FANNIE MAE ECONOMIST PREDICTS GROWTH IN 2002.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Dow Jones News Service NEW YORK -- 2002 will bring solid housing and mortgage markets and a total U.S. mortgage origination of about $1.6 trillion -- second only to this year's $2 trillion record, according to Fannie Mae. In an economic commentary released ...
DATABASE GIANT ORACLE PLANS TO CUT 840 JOBS.(BUSINESS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- San Francisco Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle Corp., coming off its worst quarter in a decade, said Friday it plans to cut up to 840 jobs early next year to reduce costs, largely in its consulting business. The announcement marks the second time in nine ...
SYMPHONY, STUDENTS TEAM FOR COMMUNITY CONCERT.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... The Schenectady Symphony Orchestra will team with students from the Shenendehowa High School Orchestra to present a free community concert at 7 p.m. Saturday. The concert is the culmination of a three-month residency that paired the symphony's concertmaster and string quartet ...
`KATE & LEOPOLD' DEFIES AGE-OLD TRADITION.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: PAUL FARHI Washington Post Say what you will about the new romantic comedy ``Kate & Leopold'' -- and you might say it's a mildly diverting throwaway -- but give it this much: ``Kate'' boldly defies one of Hollywood's oldest and sturdiest taboos. It stars Meg ...
THE PERIL OF MAKING REAL LIVES INTO MOVIES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: MALCOLM JOHNSON Hartford Courant Two very different movie biographies opened on Christmas Day: an epic of a world-celebrity sports hero, and a more intimate portrait of a Nobel Prize winner. Michael Mann's ``Ali'' and Ron Howard's ``A Beautiful Mind'' may ...
FAMILY PARTY AT SHAKER HIGH.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... A Family Fun Party will be held from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Shaker High School, 445 Watervliet Shaker Road, Latham. The night will include dancing, music, food, games such as Go Fish with live fish ...
MAKE SAFE INROADS INTO WINTER WORK.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: ALAN J. HEAVENS Knight Ridder We have traded in El Nino and La Nina this year for ``arctic oscillation,'' which has something to do with North Atlantic water temperatures and the motion of winds. Arctic oscillation caused December's warm weather; it can also create lots ...
FOODS HIGH IN OMEGA-3 HELP EASE DRY SKIN.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: SEKAI K. MUTUNHU Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Peeling. Chafing. Itching. Winter weather can wreak havoc on all skin types, but what you eat and drink could help keep your skin soft and supple. Some nutritionists suggest moisturizing from the inside out by ...
DRUG CAN END TRAUMATIC STRESS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... For people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the anxiety, flashbacks and other symptoms typically last three to five years. But a study of 96 patients taking the antidepressant sertraline for 28 weeks found that the drug can abolish their symptoms and prevent ...
COLD VS. FLU IS A MATTER OF DEGREES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: STEPHEN SMITH Knight Ridder Your nose is running faster than a Triple Crown winner. From your throat blasts a basso rumble with all the percussion of the ``1812 Overture.'' But you're still standing, still able to get the kids off to school and ...
VOICES ON MACHINE NOT ETIQUETTE ISSUE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it ever considered appropriate or acceptable practice to leave the voice of a deceased person on a telephone- answering machine -- especially for three years after the date of death? I can accept the fact that this person is no longer living, and I feel ...
TAKE ONE STEP AT A TIME ON ROAD TO HEALTH.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: LISA LIDDANE The Orange County Register We come to the end of a year marked with tremendous pain, sadness, fear, anger, stress and uncertainty. But as we begin a new one, some of us are thinking about what's important in life. Families. Friends. Faith. Hope. ...
ROOM FOR PRAYER EMOTIONS AFTER SEPT. 11 FILL AIRPORT SANCTUARY'S COMMUNAL NOTEBOOK.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL STAFF WRITER It's an ordinary spiral notebook with lined, blank pages. It rests on a bookcase near copies of the Quran, The Book of Mormon, a Spanish Bible, Buddhist and Hindu prayer books and other tools for meditation in the interfaith prayer room at the ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... That's the way it sounds As he has for the past 18 years, former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite, above, hosts ``From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2002'' (live, 2:30 p.m. today; encore, 8 p.m. on WMHT Ch. 17). Seiji Ozawa conducts the Vienna Philharmonic through waltzes, polkas and ...
SAINTS CAUGHT IN AIRPORT.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer CINCINNATI -- Spending all day Sunday in an airport wasn't the wisest way to prepare for Siena's game with Xavier on Monday night. That being said, Siena coach Rob Lanier would not blame the long day on the Saints' 68-59 loss to the Musketeers New ...
SYRACUSE TOPS RATS.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press SYRACUSE -- Sean Pronger scored a pair of goals to lift the Syracuse Crunch to a 3-1 victory over the Albany River Rats in American Hockey League action on Monday. Pronger got on the scoreboard first with a goal at 4:13 ...
JORDAN MAGIC AGAIN.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Michael Jordan put on a year-end performance to remember, scoring 45 points against the top team in the Eastern Conference and nearly setting an NBA record for consecutive points. Jordan, coming off a 51-point game, made 16 of 32 ...
GIONTA ADDING HIS SPARK.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Staff and wire reports Brian Gionta, that little bundle of energy who looked so good alongside Scott Gomez during training camp, isn't going to be the Devils' offensive savior. That's too much to ask of any kid seven months out of college who's probably only making a ...
LINDROS ACKNOWLEDGES HE HAS CONCUSSION.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press PHOENIX -- Eric Lindros acknowledged his seventh concussion in less than four years but said that this one is ``real mild.'' The Rangers' center told the Madison Square Garden network before New York played Phoenix on Monday that he hopes to ...
WOODS' ODDS DOUBLED.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Combined wire services LONDON -- U.K. bookmakers more than doubled the odds on Tiger Woods winning all four golf majors next year after he failed to capture three of them in 2001. - Woods, who for two months last year held the four major titles, won two official events ...
`NICE GUY' LOSES JOB IN SAN DIEGO.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Combined wire services SAN DIEGO -- Mike Riley exited gracefully, smiling and cracking jokes on the day he was fired. Riley's demeanor was no different after losing his job than it was after losing so many excruciatingly close games as coach of the San Diego Chargers. - ...
PERRY IN AREA SUNDAY.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Gaylord Perry heads a list of former baseball and football players scheduled to be on hand Sunday at the Center for the Disabled on South Manning Boulevard to sign autographs as part of the 42nd annual C.P. Telethon. Perry will appear in the sports room from noon to 2 p.m.. Ryne ...
JETS NOT COMMUNICATING.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Combined wire services HEMPSTEAD -- Fifteen games into the NFL season and the New York Jets still lack communication on offense. The communication problems were at their worst at the end of Sunday's 14-9 loss to Buffalo that temporarily denied the Jets ...
PROMOTING PACK WITH PACKED RAT.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Green Bay Packers are $14,000 richer -- thanks to some enterprising fans and a 9-inch stuffed rat dressed in green and gold and packaged in a box that's a replica of Lambeau Field. Dan Henning of Oshkosh, Wis. and Randy Franklin of ...
CATS MAUL DANES.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: MARK SINGELAIS Staff writer BURLINGTON, Vt. -- No Gallup? No mercy. There was no sympathy forthcoming from the University of Vermont men's basketball team, which for the second straight year took delight in kicking the University at Albany while the Great ...
FOR SIENA, LOSS IS OLD BUT NOT A SIGN.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer CINCINNATI -- If the past means anything, Siena College is in for a lousy 2002. The Saints said goodbye to 2001 Monday night with a 68-59 loss to Xavier of the Atlantic 10. Siena is now 4-10 and, in the 26 years the school ...
NFL PLAYOFFS: IT'S A JUMBLE OUT THERE.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: DAVE GOLDBERG Associated Press The Philadelphia Eagles and Tampa Bay Bucs are in a bizarre position, playing each other Sunday night in Tampa to close out the regular NFL season. Then, no matter what happens, they meet again the following week in Philadelphia in a game ...
NOTRE DAME HIRES STANFORD'S COACH.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: TOM COYNE Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame hired Stanford's Tyrone Willingham as its football coach Monday, looking to move past the embarrassment of the George O'Leary fiasco. Associate athletic director John Heisler said Willingham signed a ...
BIG ENCHILADA AT FIESTA?(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: BOB BAUM Associated Press TEMPE, Ariz. -- For the past week, The Associated Press national championship trophy has been on display at every Fiesta Bowl news conference, tantalizing evidence of the implications of today's game. Not only should the matchup of ...
COME, GAZE INTO MY CRYSTAL BALL.(SPORTS)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: STEVE CAMPBELL Out with the old. In with the new (can't help but be improved simply because it isn't 2001) year. Enjoy the wonders and blunders to come in 2002: January -- Nebraska upsets top-ranked Miami in the Rose Bowl, sending the Bowl Championship ...
CRONKITE ENJOYS WALTZING INTO 2002.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: FRAZIER MOORE Associated Press NEW YORK -- For most of his long life, Walter Cronkite wasn't big on celebrating New Year's. ``This hype that New Year's Eve has always had -- I could never quite get on board with it,'' the veteran newsman was saying last week ....
LEGISLATURE TO NAME CHAIRMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Peter Guidarelli, supported by a political rainbow coalition of Republicans, Democrats and a Conservative, is expected to be elected chairman of the County Legislature at today's reorganizational meeting. The 34-year-old Republican ...
POST-`SURVIVOR' LIFE SWEET.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Knight Ridder Ben & Jerry's, have we got a poster girl for you. After being voted off CBS's ``Survivor: ``Africa,'' Kim Powers says the first thing she did when she got home was eat a pint of B&J's Chunky Monkey. At 9 a.m. Then she downed another ...
FRIENDS PRAY FOR ZAMBIA PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: DEBORAH MARTINEZ Staff writer Anderson K. Mazoka's friends in the United States, including several with ties in the Capital Region, said Monday they are praying for the safety of the 1969 Union College graduate and his family in the wake of Zambia's third-ever ...
DOGGED PURSUIT ENDS PRISONER'S BRIEF ESCAPE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... MINDEN -- A 21-year-old Montgomery County man, already on the lam from state prison, got away a second time over the weekend when he escaped from a Fort Plain police officer's car moments after being taken into custody. He was eventually recaptured and jailed. The ...
NURSING HOME WORKS TO REDUCE PATIENTS' RISK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer A state finding that Albany County Nursing Home patients are in ``immediate jeopardy'' remained in place on Monday, but county officials said they hope to rectify the problems by the end of this week. ``They are working ...
PILOT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press ARMONK -- The pilot of a small plane was killed when the aircraft crashed in the parking lot of IBM headquarters Monday afternoon, a Westchester County Airport official said. There were no other passengers in the plane when it went down at ...
WHAT'S OPEN, WHAT'S CLOSED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Today is New Year's Day. The following is a partial list of holiday schedule changes. BANKS: Closed. BUSES: Capital District Transportation Authority buses will operate on a Sunday/holiday schedule New Year's Day. For information, call CDTA at 482-8822.CAPITAL HOLIDAY LIGHTS: ...
MCCALL CRITICIZES AGENCIES ON ADS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY -- State agencies under Gov. George Pataki are spending $115 million a year on self-promotion, much of it in advertisements featuring the governor's name or face, a report from state Comptroller H. Carl McCall estimates. ...
BUFFALO CLEANUP COSTS SOAR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO -- The 7 feet of snow that buried Buffalo last week could prove to be the most costly disaster ever to hit the region, authorities said Monday as the city reopened for business. City and county officials were holding ...
PROPOSALS FOR HONORING TERROR VICTIMS WEIGHED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: JOEL STASHENKO Associated Press ALBANY -- Opinions vary in the state Legislature on how to honor those killed or injured in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Legislators have proposed everything from World Trade Center license plates to memorial ...
NYPD DATA SHOW VIOLENT CRIME DOWN 12.3% IN '01.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- Violent crime in New York City dropped 12.3 percent from last year, making 2001 one of the safest years in recent memory. The Police Department did not include in its violent-crime statistics the nearly 3,000 people killed ...
MAN CHARGED IN CAR CRASH THAT KILLED TWIN SISTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ROCHESTER -- A 22-year-old man was arraigned Monday on charges stemming from the death of his twin sister in a car accident. Shawn Quinn of Rochester was charged with two counts of second-degree vehicular manslaughter after the crash that ...
AID DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR TRADE CENTER VICTIMS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- The deadline for victims of the World Trade Center disaster to apply for federal assistance has been extended 60 more days into March, state and federal officials said Monday. Under the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
POSTAL UNION SEEKS JUDICIAL CONFERENCE ON ANTHRAX.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- Lawyers for a postal union filed a request on Monday for a conference with a federal judge to decide how to proceed with cleaning a Manhattan mail-sorting facility where traces of anthrax were discovered for the second time. ...
15 PENNIES BUYS A BIG APPLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Michael Bloomberg took the oath of office Monday in the first of three swearing-in ceremonies, presenting City Clerk Victor Robles 15 pennies as a symbol of progress. The ceremony did not actually make Bloomberg mayor. He was to be ...
LIVES AND HEARTS ARE TOUCHED AND CHANGED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer - The Times Union had another successful holiday fund drive, despite concerns that people might cut back on charitable giving after contributing heavily to families of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Yet checks from ...
IRISH AID GROUP REDUCES EFFORTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: JACQUELYN SWEARINGEN Staff writer The Albany chapter of Irish Northern Aid Committee, which raises money for the families of former Irish Republican prisoners, has cut back on its fund-raising efforts in an acknowledgment that people are less interested in the problems ...
NEW KID ON THE BLOCK STANDS TALL AMID NEIGHBORS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer - If the new, 15-story state comptroller's building at 110 State St. looks a little familiar, that's no coincidence. Architect Daniel Patane wanted it that way. After years of anticipation and construction, the facade of ...
FIRST COLLEGE TEST: JUST APPLY ON TIME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer While many of her classmates were figuring out which colleges to apply to, Shaker High senior Gia Stark already knew where she wanted to go: West Point. So she applied by Dec. 1 for early admission. Other colleges also were on her ...
JENNINGS CALLS FOR YEAR OF UNITY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: LYDIA POLGREEN Staff writer In the crisp air of the year's last night, Mayor Jerry Jennings took the oath of office Monday, beginning a third term at the helm of city government. ``Eight years ago, I promised we would build a better Albany together,'' ...
PLANE CRASHES LOW IN 2001.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN Knight Ridder WASHINGTON -- Here's an unusual statistic for a year dominated by the horror of planes crashing into buildings: There were fewer major airplane accidents in 2001 than in any year since World War II. That's because record-keepers ...
WAR'S SECRECY CARRIES BIG RISKS BY ROBERT G. KAISER.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2002 ... The critical moment in the war in Afghanistan may have come on Nov. 9, when Mazar-e-Sharif fell to Northern Alliance troops and -- apparently -- to U.S. special forces, igniting the Taliban's collapse. Americans appear to have played a key role in that victory, but six weeks later, who ...
EYE 9-11 AS WE STEP TO FUTURE.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN BOSTON -- The flags are still draped from the houses on the block. They went up in September in quick succession, like sports fans in a stadium performing the wave. They've stayed there, day and night, huge flags somewhat the worse for the weather, covering ...
MISTAKEN INTERPRETATION OF `ROE VS. WADE'.(MAIN)
Jan 01, 2002 ... Byline: JOEL MARGOLIS Albany David Bayley is sadly mistaken if he believes that Roe vs. Wade is the ``moderate'' position on abortion. Despite what he claims, Roe vs. Wade allows a woman, no matter what anyone ...