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0)o She math And not a ticket is left Michael Jordan, still great at 38, makes his Continental Arena return IN SPORTS By choosing your calories wisely, you can eat more and shed weight 1 flfr IN FOOD Ik! 50 cents WEDNESDAY January 16, 2002 www.northJersey.com James E. McGreevey Becomes 51st BERGEN COUNTY EDITION A EM NEW A v. AUH Governor PETER MONSEESSTAFF PHOTOGRAPHER has the potential for higher office. "I think right now his focus is on the state of New Jersey, but he's a young man and he's strongly identified with the people in terms of workers' issues," said Sweeney, who was seated a row behind McGreevey, be- See AMBITIONS Page A-4 Three goals: reading, security, living within means. A-5 i 1 A -v Vv ALL KACJbS oyo Inaugural address offers few specifics By JEFF FILLETS Trenton Bureau James E.

McGreevey strode into history Tuesday, promising to create "a new era of community, responsibility, and common purpose" as New Jersey's 51st governor. With his mother, father, wife, and newborn daughter drawn close to him, the ebullient ex-mayor of Wood-bridge, the self-professed "Jersey guy" and son of a blue-collar worker, was sworn into office at 12:19 p.m. before a crowd of 1,500 dignitaries and invited guests at Trenton's War Memorial. "In the days ahead, each citizen of New Jersey should demand more of me. That is your right," said McGreevey, echoing the words in John F.

Kennedy's famous 1961 inaugural address. "But you must also ask more of yourselves. That is your responsibility." McGreevey arrives in Trenton just four years after bursting into the public's consciousness as the underdog who came within 25,000 votes of unseating Gov. Christie Whitman in 1997. Through the miraculous near-miss, McGreevey emerged as his party's consensus candidate for 2001.

It was an edge he never took for granted. Over the past four years, McGreevey worked tirelessly to deepen ties with party leaders and Democratic groups. To those who watched McGreevey practice his Energizer Bunny brand of retail politics across New Jersey, his rapid rise to the state's most powerful seat seemed inevitable. "You must give Jim McGreevey this much he earned it," said former acting Gov. Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican, after Tuesday's cere-mony.

"He worked hard. He won. He's the governor. That's how" politics works." In his 15-minute inaugural address, which was interrupted by applause 11 times, McGreevey used broad strokes to show how he would lead New Jersey in an era of sluggish economic growth and continuing anxiety about international terrorism. New Jersey, he said, faces three immediate challenges: strengthening See GOVERNOR Page A-5 Full text of the inaugural address.

A-5 there is water. In these hostile environments, the best chance for life may lie with Archaea-like microbial communities in hot, geothermal pockets deep beneath the chill surface of Mars, or in liquid water trapped under the miles-thick ice sheets cloaking Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. "For the last 30 years, science said that if you could find hydrogen and C02 carbon dioxide together, you had the components of a viable ecosystem," said geochemist Francis Chappelle of the U.S. Geological Survey. "It was a very nice theory, but nobody had ever found an ecosystem like that." Chappelle and six fellow research-See ORGANISM Page A-9 si hard-line conservatives had difficulty opposing, such as personal and fiscal responsibility and a strong defense.

It ignored divisive issues that helped propel him to a landslide victory in November, such as racial profiling and Republican boondoggles. "He said all the right things," said Assembly Minority Leader Paul Di- The faces of the McGreevey administration. A-4 James E. McGreevey kissing wife Dina after taking oath of office. She held Infant daughter Jacqueline.

At right; McGreevey's father Jack and Chief Justice Deborah Porltz. Some think governor's ambitions go beyond Trenton Gaetano, R-Nutley. "It was designed to be a speech that could be given here, or in Washington." Traveling from Washington to hear the speech was John J. Sweeney, national president of the AFL-CIO. Sweeney is one of the heavyweights in the national Democratic Party, the kind who gets asked by presidential By HERB JACKSON Trenton Bureau Governor McGreevey's administration was less than an hour old before people who heard his inaugural address wondered if Trenton would be big enough to hold his ambitions.

The 44-year-old Democrat's 15-minute speech stressed issues even From pulpit to parade, it was McGreevey's day. A-3 MORE COVERAGE Organism in deep spring fits extraterrestrial model nominees about possible running mates. He's also the first person McGreevey singled out for thanks at the start of his speech, even before he thanked his own wife. Sweeney said in an interview afterward that McGreevey has proved to be a friend of organized labor, and The Middlesex Democrat's path to power. A-4 American Taliban to be tried American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh will be tried in a U.S.

court on conspiracy charges. A-8 Accounting firm admits destroying Enron data What's in a name? Ask Gov. James E. McGreevey. A-4 Rutgers photocopiers undergo anthrax test.

A-6 47 million Americans have an obesity-linked syndrome. A-10 INDEX Ann Landers, Dear Abby F-8 Classified C-1 Comics F-9 Editorials L-8 Food F-1 Movies F-7 Obituaries L-6 Television F-10 Weather S-10 Home delivery: 1-888-4RECORD '2002 North Jersey Media Group Inc. By GUY GUGLI0TTA Washington Post News Service Scientists have discovered what may be the first model for extraterrestrial life: a community of hydrogen-eating microbes living in the darkness of a geothermal hot spring 600 feet beneath southeastern Idaho. The tiny microbes, living organisms known as Archaea, grow as they combine hydrogen with carbon dioxide in an environment that provides neither sunshine nor organic carbon. Such ecosystems are little known on Earth, where sun and food sources containing organic carbon are the familiar prerequisites for most life forms.

But such ecosystems may be present elsewhere in the solar system. Other planets' surface conditions are virtually unlivable, even where By JAMES KUHNHENN Knight Ridder Newspapers WASHINGTON Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that signed off on Enron questionable bookkeeping practices, said Tuesday that its auditors deleted e-mails and destroyed Enron documents in the fall shortly after wary federal regulators had requested financial data about the sinking energy company. Andersen said it fired the lead auditor on the Enron account, David B. Duncan, on Tuesday and that three other partners on the Enron account had been placed on administrative leave. In addition, four partners in Andersen's Houston office "have been relieved of their manage ment responsibilities," Andersen said.

The revelations and the shake-up came as federal and congressional investigators broadened their probes into the collapse of the giant energy trading company and of Andersen's role in Enron's financial dealings. Enron, once the seventh-largest company in the country with political connections all the way to the White House, declared bankruptcy last month, leaving more than 4,000 workers jobless, wiping out the retirement savings of thousands more, and bringing about financial losses to tens of thousands of investors. Andersen on Tuesday descriled a pell-mell rush to destroy records fol- See ENRON Page A ll Metropolitan Plant and Flower Exchange www.metroplantexchange.com Cash Carry Doz. Long-Stem Boxed Roses, $49.99 Fort Lee, Paramus, W. Orange ORDER VALENTINE'S DAY FLOWERS EARLY 1-800-METR013.