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The Honolulu Advertiser - Customer Service Back issues for Tuesday, December 31, 2002

Articles for December 31, 2002

Breaking/PM Stories
•	Lingle to freeze hiring for some
•	Sales booming for firecracker permits
•	Japanese Cultural Center gets reprieve
•	Argument leads to arrest of suspect
•	Hikers join search for missing man
•	Airport taxi contract award delayed
•	Baby dolphin clings to life
•	Market's dreary year ends with a whimper

Local News
•	NEW YEAR'S Firecracker permit sales skyrocket on O'ahu
•	OTHER TOP STORIES State's theft rate still high
•	Chief of troubled agency quits
•	Talks to resume for St. Francis, Queen's nurses
•	Security alert system for Hawai'i introduced
•	Some states resist lower alcohol limit
•	POLICE/COURTS Prosecutors rebut filing by lawyers in Rodrigues case
•	Lawyer in fraud case sentenced
•	Car plunges into canal after brakes fail
•	OTHER NEWS Japanese Cultural Center to learn fate today
•	Search for missing hiker to resume today
•	Popular Kailua pines cut down
•	Hawai'i part of 911 fitness contest
•	Maui Humane Society boss sees potential
•	Hawai'i briefs
•	COMMUTING State requiring proof tax paid on all cars here
•	O'ahu alternatives to the usual drive
•	ADVERTISER CHRISTMAS FUND Recent donations to The Advertiser Christmas Fund
•	Obituaries
•	Corrections
•	LEE CATALUNA Get towed to safety on New Year's

Sports
•	RAINBOW CLASSIC Hawai'i stuns Butler in OT for Rainbow Classic title
•	Many leading men in UH's win over Butler
•	Western Kentucky third at Classic
•	UH SPORTS Warriors get reacquainted, reorganized
•	UH didn't meet WAC bowl rule
•	HIGH SCHOOLS Kahuku's Peters is state Player of Year
•	Kneubuhl picked as state's best
•	OTHER SPORTS No playoffs, but Lelie 'did all right'
•	For the Record
•	On the Air
•	Sports Calendar

Island Life
•	Japanese symbols abound as new year approaches
•	Southerners look for luck through black-eyed peas
•	The best of the U.S. in 2002
•	Parents reveal pleasures their kids provide
•	U.S., foreign films touch heart, mind
•	U.S.-based Latin musicians enjoy breakthroughs
•	ABOUT WOMEN Buddy system could hold key to keeping fitness resolutions
•	THE LEFT LANE Trans-Atlantic love
•	New Year's Eve celebrations
•	SHOW BIZ Bruddah Iz takes 2002's top Waynie Award
•	TGI Tuesday
•	Tube Notes

Business
•	UH wants world-class biotech research center
•	Hawaii Biotech wins government contract
•	Year-end mortgage transactions mounting
•	O'ahu tops November occupancy figures
•	Retailers report mixed holiday sales
•	Dock talks resume Friday
•	HI. TECH Controversy still dogs Act 221 on last day for 2002 investments
•	TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY IBM wins J.P. Morgan outsourcing contract
•	Sun plans daring comeback strategy
•	Semiconductor sales up 20% in November
•	BRIEFLY ChinaTech 2003 set for Jan. 18-19

Opinion
•	EDITORIALS 'No Child' law a key policy choice in 2003
•	Bush seeks another tax cut for the rich
•	Letters to the Editor
•	ISLAND VOICES Taking property isn't right

Technology/Click!
•	BYTE MARKS Make those pesky PC pop-up ads bite the dust
•	Video-game industry poised for record sales
•	Japanese cartoon again most popular Lycos search