SCHENECTADY SCHOOLS STUDY BREAKFAST PROGRAM.(Local)

Byline: Marv Cermak Staff writer

City schools Superintendent Michael J. Coury has appointed a committee to examine the feasibility of starting a district elementary school breakfast program.

He said the committee has been directed to formulate recommendations by Dec. 1 so the district may be able to make timely application for state and federal grants.

Diane Solomon, director of the Nutrition Outreach Project of the Schenectady Inner City Ministry, said the program would be eligible for $100,000 of start-up funds.

She said the funding could be used for school kitchen renovations and other expenses necessary to implement the program. …

Wie enters Q-school for LPGA Tour

Unable to earn her card through sponsor exemptions, Michelle Wie has entered the LPGA Tour qualifying school and will play the first stage next week on the California course where she first rose to fame at age 13.

Her father, B.J. Wie, had said at the U.S. Women's Open that Wie had "no other options" but Q-school if she didn't make enough money to finish the equivalent of 80th of the LPGA Tour money list.

"Nothing has changed since then," he said Tuesday morning from Palm Desert, Calif. "She will go to Q-school."

The first stage will be at Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage, Calif., site of the Kraft Nabisco Championship, …

Cooking up a storm // Restaurateur in a hurry

Steve Chiappetti speaks passionately about his work, but he alsospeaks very quickly. Even when he has been up until 3 a.m. thenight before cooking for Daniel Barenboim, Yo-Yo Ma and others at hisrestaurant Rhapsody, Chiappetti is bubbling with energy, and wordscome streaming from him. One senses that there are so many ideasbouncing around his head that the only way he can express them iswith ferocious speed.

Of course, it's one thing for someone to be filled withgrandiose ideas and plans. Anybody can talk a great game. It's analtogether different thing to implement plans and ultimately realizegoals, especially in Chiappetti's career field.

Chiappetti, however, is …

BIOTECH PEOPLE

* Monica Doss, executive director of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development since 1986, recently received the top non-profit leadership award from the North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association.

Doss received the award for her contributions to the development of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial enterprises and venture capital resources in the Triangle and North Carolina. Winners are chosen by industry peers and the NCEITA board of directors.

Commenting on the exciting environment that she helped create, Doss said, "The Triangle is on the cusp of intense entrepreneurial growth. …

London Marathon here we come.

ONE thing that separates the London Marathon from the world's other sporting events is its accessibility.

The average sportsperson can't take part in the Olympics, the Grand National or Wimbledon, but every average runner can run with the world's best athletes in the world's best marathon.

Beverley area runners are limbering up for …

`NUCLEAR WORM' BECOMES A CONTROVERSIAL NEW BAIT.(MAIN)

Byline: KEN RINGLE Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- Just when you thought it was safe to go back into that snakehead fishpond behind the shopping center in Crofton, Md., now comes word of a new threat slithering into our environment.

It's big (five to seven feet long), it's bad (it can carry cholera), it's hot pink (nearly fluorescent), and it's coming soon to a bait shop near you. It's the Nuclear Worm (genus Namalycastis), Vietnam's biological revenge for all that napalm 30 years ago. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is on the case.

Shipped in via San Francisco, where it's probably just another lifestyle, the nuclear worm has been welcomed into …

FIRECRACKERS, GASOLINE-SOAKED PAPERS FOUND ON CAR MOTOR.(Local)

State Police found three M-100 firecrackers atop gasoline-soaked paper towels on a car engine Friday morning.

John Sanders reported finding a bomblike device under his car's hood at 132 Fairview Ave. at about 6:45 a.m., according to Trooper M.J. …