1.   A bipartisan Voter.com poll released Thursday morning showed Gore making some progress, but there was still a considerable distance between him and Bush.

2.   Clinton told him that his campaign polling showed Dole making gains in the last few days, Warfield said.

3.   Douglas Hattaway, a spokesman for the Gore campaign, said polls showing Bush making inroads among Hispanic voters are meaningless so early in the campaign.

4.   The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, for example, released a monthly survey that showed manufacturing making a come-back.

5.   The designer Martin Margiela came literally up from the streets, where he showed costumes made by pickup bits, and cellophane.