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INTERNATIONAL

3 POLICEMEN AND 3 GUNMEN DIE

In Attack on U.S. Post in Turkey

A group of unidentified gunmen opened fire on Turkish security guards outside the United States Consulate in Istanbul, the Turkish authorities said, and at least three police officers and three assailants were killed in a brief gun battle. Officials said a fourth assailant escaped. The late-morning attack was the first on a diplomatic mission in the city since 2003. PAGE A12

IRAQI COMMANDER SURVIVES ATTACK

Violence claimed the lives of at least 20 Iraqis, including eight who were killed in a suicide attack against Iraq's top military commander in the northern city of Mosul. The commander escaped unharmed. Mosul, home to many former military officers loyal to Saddam Hussein, had continued to be violent as attacks in much of Iraq declined. PAGE A11

A TOUGHER NEGOTIATING PARTNER

The Bush administration's quest for a deal with Iraq that would formally authorize an unlimited American troop presence there beyond George W. Bush's presidency appears to be unraveling. And the irony, Steven Lee Myers writes in a news analysis, is it may be a victim of the administration's successes in the war. PAGE A6

IRAN ON U.S. ELECTION STAGE

Iran's missile tests became a flashpoint in the presidential election as Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama each seized on the incident to try to validate their differing Iran policies. Mr. Obama called once again for pursuing what he called ''direct and aggressive diplomacy with the Iranian regime,'' while Mr. McCain warned against that approach and said that the tests highlighted the need for missile defense in Europe. PAGE A11

LEADERS DIVIDED ON CLIMATE

Rich nations and emerging powers declared climate change ''one of the great global challenges of our time.'' But they set no short-term goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with the largest developing countries demanding more action by wealthy nations before moving. The declaration grew out of an unprecedented meeting that brought together 16 nations, rich and poor, and the European Union on global warming. PAGE A10

WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN AT THE G-8

Nearly everyone had something to cheer about after the major industrial powers and a big group of emerging nations pledged to pursue ''deep cuts'' in emissions of heat-trapping gases in coming decades, Andrew C. Revkin writes in a news analysis. But behind the congratulatory speeches, some experts say, was a sobering reality: The documents had very few of the goals needed to keep greenhouse gases from growing at their torrid pace. PAGE A10

NATIONAL

THREE ALABAMA COUNTIES

In Voter Fraud Inquiry

Federal and state authorities are looking into accusations of voting fraud in three largely black counties of Alabama, after a citizens group gathered a series of affidavits detailing several cases in which at least one Democratic county official paid citizens for their votes or encouraged them to vote multiple times. Some Democrats there say the inquiries are motivated by racism and partisanship. PAGE A13

GAINS FOR OLDER CITIES

In a modest reversal, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and some of the nation's other older cities registered small gains in population in the year that ended July 2007, while others slowed their declines, according to census figures. Growth slackened in some booming Sun Belt cities, but that region was home to 9 of the 10 cities registering the largest numerical gains in population. PAGE A17

SALMONELLA OUTBREAK GROWS

More than 1,000 people in 41 states and the District of Columbia have been sickened in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, which officials said was the largest food-borne outbreak in the last decade. Officials have still not pinpointed the source of the contamination, and some food safety experts are linking problems in tracing the source to what they say are shortcomings in the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. PAGE A13

FATIGUE ENDANGERS FIREFIGHTERS

For nearly a month, firefighters have been tugged from one place to another in California with little respite from fires that are threatening to grind them down. Crews used to working 24-hour shifts are sometimes working two or three days straight. And the fatigue heightens the inherent risks. ''Tired guys are just looking down,'' one firefighter said. If they do not look around and up, he added, ''then a tree falls on them.'' PAGE A14

OBITUARIES

BRUCE CONNER, 74

An artist internationally admired for his haunting, surrealistic sculptures and groundbreaking avant-garde films, his assemblages from women's nylon stockings, parts of furniture, broken dolls, fur, costume jewelry, and photographs were a vehement rejection of the consumerist spirit of mainstream American society. PAGE B7

JOHN Y. SIMON, 75

A Civil War scholar, he undertook a mammoth effort in editing of the papers of Ulysses S. Grant, which created a new standard for the organization of historical documents. The volumes he published helped cement Grant's place as a literary memoirist and changed the nature of documentary editing. PAGE B7

SPORTS

MUNSON MEMORABILIA TO BE PART

Of Auction for All-Star Fans

About three months ago, Diana Munson decided to hire an auctioneer to sell much of what her husband, Thurman, had amassed before his death in 1979, like his rookie contracts and his World Series rings as the Yankees' star catcher and captain. It will join Whitey Ford's collection, the star of the auction, which will take place Monday and Tuesday during Major League Baseball's All-Star Fan Fest at the Javits Center in Manhattan. PAGE D3

A PERFORMANCE-ENHANCED HORSE

The Horse of the Year in 2007, Curlin, accomplished that honor assisted by the anabolic steroid Winstrol, his owner, Jess Jackson, acknowledged. Now Jackson is hoping to prove that Curlin is not a merely a chemically enhanced colt, but a true champion. PAGE D1

CONCUSSION GUIDELINES TO BE URGED

The players union plans to approach Major League Baseball about developing guidelines for managing concussions, Michael Weiner, the union's general counsel, said. The conversation will not explore the treatment of Ryan Church, the Mets' right fielder who has been sidelined by post-concussion syndrome on and off for almost two months, he said, but he added that Church's case highlighted the challenge that concussions present. PAGE D1

NEW YORK REPORT

WAITING FOR HOURS

For a Special Embrace

The line started outside on 34th Street, entered the lobby, and snaked up the stairs to the balcony. It veered left at the aisle, then downstairs again to the rear orchestra section. Some people waited up to seven hours for their turn. And for what? A hug from Mata Amritanandamayi, known to her followers as Amma, or Mother. PAGE B4

COLLECT NOW, SPEND LATER

Melinda R. Katz, a City Council member and a candidate for city comptroller, has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the real-estate industry. But starting in December, new limits will be placed on contributions from real estate interests, so Ms. Katz wants the city's Board of Elections to let her keep collecting the big donations for much of this year and then spend that money next year. One opponent calls the request a move to circumvent the finance limits. PAGE B1

EXPANSION OF DOMESTIC PROTECTIONS

Gov. David A. Paterson said that he would sign a major expansion of New York State's domestic violence law to allow family court judges to issue civil protection orders against a far broader swath of people accused of abuse. PAGE B3

BUSINESS

FEARS FOR MORTGAGE INDUSTRY

Again Send Stocks Lower

Concerns about the health of the mortgage industry helped push the Dow Jones industrial average down 75 points in the final 30 minutes of trading. The Dow finished down 2.1 percent, its lowest close of the year. The sell-off made for the third consecutive day that trouble at big mortgage lenders has resulted in steep market volatility. PAGE C1

DEALING WITH SELLER'S REMORSE

Christopher A. Baker achieved what most entrepreneurs dream of with his company, MailCode: he made it successful and then sold it. For more than $20 million. What he had not taken into consideration was what he would do after, which in his case was to go from being the head of a small start-up to a cog in the wheel of a major corporation. PAGE C9

THE NEW BREED OF INSTRUMENTS

First came the theremin, an instrument named for its inventor that has two metal rods protruding from a base. Its sound is created by a musician's hands' disturbing electrical fields that surround the dual antennas. These days, modern electronic whizzes are creating other electronic instruments for the musically inclined gadget freak to play at home -- with considerably more ease. PAGE C6

YAHOO LOOKS FOR ALLIES

Yahoo is trying a new tack in its competition against Google: Opening its search technology and data centers to other companies, allowing them to build new search engines. Yahoo will then sell ads on those new search engines, so if some grab even small slivers of the search market, it will share in their success. But the company's future remains uncertain. PAGE C5

Northwest Cutting Jobs C3

HOME

HOW SOME PARENTS MAKE HOME

The Coolest Place to Be

No, money can't buy everything. But affluent parents who want to keep a handle on their children's social lives by enticing them to stay home are learning that an updated rec room -- with, say, a home theater and stylish furniture -- or gym, kitchen or spa bathroom just might do the trick better than an old-fashioned great room. PAGE D1

PROTECTING EXPENSIVE TOYS

So you sprung for that big-screen TV, or new computer or whatever, dipping into the vacation account. All of those items have been showing up on claims reports from people who learned how power failure can thoroughly cook their new electronic toys, which means you need to think protection. Lightning can strike. PAGE D2

Seeding for Late Bounty D6

ARTS

A LOWER MANHATTAN CLUB

Prepares to Spread Its Wings

The Knitting Factory has been a facet of Manhattan for 21 years, 14 of them spent on Leonard Street in TriBeCa, where the club has been a focal point for underground music. Now, the owner's new vision will take the show on the road, first to Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, and then west, to Boise, Idaho, and Spokane, Wash. Page B1

OFF THE TRACK, BUT TRUE TO THE PATH

Change, suggestion, shadows and trickery. Such are the tools of the new work from the Pilobolus dance troupe, ''Darkness and Light.'' The show pairs the dancers with the puppeteer Basil Twist to create something new, a combination of puppetry and the troupe's trademark lyrical acrobatics. But the shadows, for all their lack of substance, become the real stars, Alastair Macaulay writes. Page B1

HAIL TO THE CRuE, AND ENTOURAGE

Motley Crue gave a raucous, performance at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, offering a plethora of imagery reminiscent of their past that gave fans a reminder of why they occupy a place in rock history, Jon Caramanica writes. Page B5

The Baroque and the Modern B3

Stepping Out in Public B6

STYLES

FITNESS TO THE BEAT

Of Salsa and Merengue

It began, as many successes do, by accident. Alberto Perez, 37, a former aerobics trainer from Colombia, was about to teach a class when he realized he had forgotten his aerobics music tapes. He grabbed his own music from his car -- salsa and merengue -- and improvised. Thus was born Zumba, and five years after arriving in gyms and dance studios, it keeps expanding. PAGE E1

ABBREVIATED PANTS

They used to be a matter of convenience: when a pair of blue jeans hit their golden years and summer drew nigh, a bit of surgery on the pants legs expanded a guy's wardrobe. Of course, a couple of runs through the washing machine were necessary to add the proper fraying. Nowadays, fashion people will step in for those afraid of do-it-yourself. PAGE E5

WHERE ARE THEIR MANNERS?

Is it possible that a co-worker would actually steal the Hot Pocket you brought for lunch and leave you foodless? Indeed it is, and sometimes worse. What is it with these people? And what should you do about them? PAGE E2

Putting Coolers to the Test E7

An Unnecessary Balm? E3

EDITORIAL

GOOD INTENTIONS, VAGUE PROMISES

There was some good news on climate change from this week's summit meeting of major industrialized nations. But it will take strong American leadership to turn good intentions into real policy changes. Page A22

CHOLESTEROL DRUGS FOR 8-YEAR-OLDS

The American Academy of Pediatrics has recommended that some children be given cholesterol-lowering drugs, which is a reminder of the dismaying state of the nation's health. Page A22

THE GOVERNMENT AND YOUR LAPTOP

The Department of Homeland Security routinely tramples Americans' privacy rights when it searches laptops at airports as Americans re-enter the country. Page A22

OP-ED

GAIL COLLINS

You liked Barack because you thought he could bring Americans together. Where did everybody think this gathering was going to take place? Left field? Page A23

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

I want the G-8 to address Darfur because its people, like the women beaten with their own babies, haunt me. Yes, genocide truly is ''that bad.'' Page A23

SIPHONING G.M.'S FUTURE

In an Op-Ed article, Roger Lowenstein writes that oil prices are hurting the car company, but pensions are killing it. Page A23
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Apple's Latest Opens a Developers' Playground
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When Apple opens its online App Store for iPhone software on Thursday, Steven P. Jobs will be making an attempt to dominate the next generation of computing as it moves toward Internet-connected mobile devices.

The store, which will offer more than 500 software applications, including games, educational programs, mobile commerce and business productivity tools, may be a far more important development than the iPhone 3G, which goes on sale at the same time. An abundance of software could make the iPhone's operating system dominant among an abundance of competing phones.

''The reaction we have gotten so far has been really strong,'' Mr. Jobs said in a telephone interview this week. ''The quality and the sophistication of the applications you can write for the iPhone is in a different class.''

Mr. Jobs failed to make his personal computers dominant, in part because software developers did not write as many programs for Mac-based machines as they did for Microsoft Windows PCs. He did not make the same mistake when he developed the iPod music players. Apple's iTunes stores, with easy and inexpensive downloads of music, gave the device an insurmountable lead, to date, over other players.

With the App Store, Apple simplified the process of adding software to the phone. Mr. Jobs contends that Apple does not plan to make much money on games and other applications; he has also said the company does not make much money selling music on iTunes. ''We are not trying to be business partners,'' Mr. Jobs said of the App Store. Instead, he said, the goal is to ''sell more iPhones.'' Apple gives developers a 70 percent cut of sales.

The enthusiasm among software developers is high, from San Jose to San Francisco. But, at the same time, some developers are approaching Apple with caution as they figure out what their relationship with the company will be. Many expect the dealings to be more lucrative than those with wireless carriers, which in large part control what programs end up on phones. But there are still many unknowns, especially for developers whose applications will compete with the popular iTunes music and video store.

Apple has a substantial way to go to catch its competitors. Palm, Microsoft, R.I.M., Nokia and Symbian have all enticed developers to write software for their smartphone operating systems. Palm, for example, says that it has 30,000 active software developers, and Microsoft said last month that it had more than 18,000 applications available for its Windows Mobile operating system, which is available from 160 cellular carriers around the world.

Still, Mr. Jobs is catching up quickly, and none of his rivals are dismissing him.

''Everybody wants to build an iPhone app,'' said Gene Munster, a senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis. ''It's pretty rare you hear things like this. The enthusiasm is surprising.''

Matt Murphy, a partner in a fund set up by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to invest in iPhone apps, ascribes the intense interest to the consumer demand for the iPhone, as well as the unfettered distribution promised by the App Store: it limits the phone company's role as a gatekeeper.

''A lot of the best entrepreneurs haven't wanted to start anything because the carriers had to bless you,'' he said. ''There were a lot of unknowns.'' For instance, there was no standard deal for what carriers would be paid. Carriers also rejected some applications and, Mr. Murphy said, ''No one wanted to fall on their face.''

One indication of how much the iPhone changes the scene is Mr. Murphy's fund, the iFund, which plans to invest $100 million in new iPhone-related software firms. In the last four months, the Kleiner fund has received 2,000 financing requests from developers, 85 percent of them intended for consumers.

Mr. Murphy said that Kleiner was serious about 100 of those ideas. The fund expects games, health care, social networking, mobile commerce and location-based services to be the most popular types of software. An application that would allow Bay Area surfers to check tides and network with other surfers failed to past muster.

Instead, Kleiner is backing, among others, iControl Networks, which is creating an application to let homeowners turn off their lights and alarms at home, as well as monitor security cameras, via their iPhones.

Still, Apple could end up at odds with some developers -- particularly creators or distributors of content and media -- who offer applications that compete directly with iTunes. Rajeev Raman, chief executive of Mywaves, an ad-sponsored free mobile video service available on millions of handsets, including Nokia and BlackBerry smartphones, said he would like to offer Mywaves in the App Store.

But he has made little headway in his discussions with Apple, he said: ''We have a reverse conflict because they are not providing video for free, but we are. We are interested, but we don't want to jump into anything that will have our hands tied behind our backs.''

When asked about it, Mr. Jobs said: ''He's right. We will compete.'' He added, ''That's a discussion to have.''

Twenty-five percent of the first 500 applications at the store will be free, Mr. Jobs said. Of the commercial applications, 90 percent will be sold for $9.99 or less, he said, adding that a third of the first wave of applications will be games.

Mr. Jobs insisted that the 30/70 split is a more generous deal for developers than what is common in the video game industry. And he said that Apple would provide distribution and marketing.

The question that remains unanswered is how Apple and Mr. Jobs will manage the relationship with software developers. When the iPod was released, music executives hailed him as a savior for their flagging business. But they later complained they were not paid enough. Hollywood studio executives were even more cautious, dragging their feet for months before allowing full-length movies on iTunes.

Mr. Jobs declined to elaborate on how he expected to foster a more positive relationship with software developers, but Mr. Murphy of the iFund said: ''He can't kill the golden goose. The promise of the iPhone is developers. If you choke them off, there are a lot of other platforms waiting.''
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