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An English-language Israeli daily newspaper, the Nation, ceased publication Monday, seven months after it was launched to challenge the 56-year-old Jerusalem Post for an estimated 100,000 native English speakers. Editor and Managing Director Hesh Kestin said directors will reorganize and refinance the Nation, which has suffered from high employee turnover since its September launching.

News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is embarking on an ambitious plan for a new national digital newspaper to be distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple Inc.'s iPad and mobile phones. The initiative, which would directly compete with the New York Times, USA Today and other national publications, is the latest attempt by a major media organization to harness sexy new devices to reach readers who increasingly consume their news on the go. The development underscores how the iPad is transforming the reading habits of consumers much like the iPod changed how people listen to music.

Hesh Kestin listened politely as the young hitchhiker he had picked up complained about everything from the poor state of Israeli roads to the ailing national health service. Then something inside the native New Yorker--a commitment to his adopted homeland, a journalistic sense of history, or maybe just an inbred optimism--made him take issue with what he heard. "Look," Kestin admonished his passenger, a soldier. "You have peace with Egypt.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, whose giant globe has been a fixture on the city's skyline for much of the newspaper's 146-year history, will print its last edition today and become the largest metropolitan daily to switch to an online-only publication. The announcement was delivered Monday morning by Publisher Roger Oglesby to a shattered newsroom that -- in classic P-I style -- wiped back tears, broke out the whiskey and then went back to work.

Joan B. Kroc, owner of the San Diego Padres and an outspoken leader in the movement against the buildup of nuclear weapons, spent $400,000 on full-page advertisements that ran in 23 major newspapers across the nation Thursday. The ad quotes President Dwight D. Eisenhower's condemnation of the arms race.

News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is embarking on an ambitious plan for a new national digital newspaper to be distributed exclusively as paid content for tablet computers such as Apple Inc.'s iPad and mobile phones. The initiative, which would directly compete with the New York Times, USA Today and other national publications, is the latest attempt by a major media organization to harness sexy new devices to reach readers who increasingly consume their news on the go. The development underscores how the iPad is transforming the reading habits of consumers much like the iPod changed how people listen to music.

Newspapers around the nation have reacted with pain and anger to the verdict in the Rodney King trial and to the subsequent riots. A sampling of editorial comment: ATLANTA CONSTITUTION We must begin by admitting that the verdict is a product of racism. For some, that realization may be difficult. To white Americans, racism can be like gravity. You can't see it and may never notice it, but its existence is clear by the effect it has on things around you. . . .

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday invoked the name of the late President Richard Nixon in an effort to sell the nation's newspaper publishers--known as a conservative bunch--on Clinton-style health care reform. Noting that President Clinton's controversial plan advocates that companies and workers share the cost of a system that would provide medical care for everyone, Mrs.

Despite declining circulation and other economic problems, a national Catholic newspaper published in Encino has a brighter future--largely because of the achievements of its recently departed editor. Francis X. Maier, 44, who edited the weekly National Catholic Register for the past 14 years, begins work officially next week in the Denver Archdiocese as general manager of its newspaper and secretary for communications.

After weeks of silence, China's state-run media released a flood of reports Monday on the government's handling of the SARS epidemic, both to reassure panicky citizens and to portray the firing of two key officials as a sign of a more open and accountable leadership. From the stodgy official newspaper People's Daily to the most commercial tabloids, front pages were dominated by Sunday's dismissal of China's health minister and Beijing's mayor.

After weeks of silence, China's state-run media released a flood of reports Monday on the government's handling of the SARS epidemic, both to reassure panicky citizens and to portray the firing of two key officials as a sign of a more open and accountable leadership. From the stodgy official newspaper People's Daily to the most commercial tabloids, front pages were dominated by Sunday's dismissal of China's health minister and Beijing's mayor.

Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday invoked the name of the late President Richard Nixon in an effort to sell the nation's newspaper publishers--known as a conservative bunch--on Clinton-style health care reform. Noting that President Clinton's controversial plan advocates that companies and workers share the cost of a system that would provide medical care for everyone, Mrs.

Despite declining circulation and other economic problems, a national Catholic newspaper published in Encino has a brighter future--largely because of the achievements of its recently departed editor. Francis X. Maier, 44, who edited the weekly National Catholic Register for the past 14 years, begins work officially next week in the Denver Archdiocese as general manager of its newspaper and secretary for communications.

Newspapers around the nation have reacted with pain and anger to the verdict in the Rodney King trial and to the subsequent riots. A sampling of editorial comment: ATLANTA CONSTITUTION We must begin by admitting that the verdict is a product of racism. For some, that realization may be difficult. To white Americans, racism can be like gravity. You can't see it and may never notice it, but its existence is clear by the effect it has on things around you. . . .

An English-language Israeli daily newspaper, the Nation, ceased publication Monday, seven months after it was launched to challenge the 56-year-old Jerusalem Post for an estimated 100,000 native English speakers. Editor and Managing Director Hesh Kestin said directors will reorganize and refinance the Nation, which has suffered from high employee turnover since its September launching.

Hesh Kestin listened politely as the young hitchhiker he had picked up complained about everything from the poor state of Israeli roads to the ailing national health service. Then something inside the native New Yorker--a commitment to his adopted homeland, a journalistic sense of history, or maybe just an inbred optimism--made him take issue with what he heard. "Look," Kestin admonished his passenger, a soldier. "You have peace with Egypt.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, whose giant globe has been a fixture on the city's skyline for much of the newspaper's 146-year history, will print its last edition today and become the largest metropolitan daily to switch to an online-only publication. The announcement was delivered Monday morning by Publisher Roger Oglesby to a shattered newsroom that -- in classic P-I style -- wiped back tears, broke out the whiskey and then went back to work.

A fishing boat overturned and 100 people were missing and feared drowned in southeastern Bangladesh, the New Nation newspaper reported today. It said the boat, overloaded with passengers, capsized Monday in a canal.

Joan B. Kroc, owner of the San Diego Padres and an outspoken leader in the movement against the buildup of nuclear weapons, spent $400,000 on full-page advertisements that ran in 23 major newspapers across the nation Thursday. The ad quotes President Dwight D. Eisenhower's condemnation of the arms race.