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1545565_1 | Administration Is Exempting Alaska Forest From Protection | the building of roads in 58.5 million acres of undeveloped national forest across the country. Environmental groups attacked the administration for the settlement in July, saying it was an underhanded strategy for circumventing the regulation. Conservation groups said the administration had failed to defend the roadles... |
1540560_1 | Test May Aid Chemotherapy Decisions | by researchers for Genomic Health, a company based in Redwood City, Calif., that developed the test, and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, a federally financed group that conducts clinical trials. The test reviewed the activity levels of 21 genes in a sample of a breast tumor. The gene levels are... |
1546894_1 | Sheep Ailment May Hold Clues to Mad Cow Disease | the disease had turned up for the first time in the United States, in a cow in Washington State, led to a recall of meat from at least eight states and Guam, even though the risk to consumers is low because highly infectious tissues -- brain, spine and part of the intestine -- had been removed from the sick cow in Wash... |
1546913_0 | Behind a Graceful Spire, Science, Art and Passion | IN hard hat, Guy Nordenson was one of the structural engineers who clambered for months through the smoking rubble of the World Trade Center. Now, minus the headgear, in the hushed spaces of his office near ground zero, he holds forth about torque and taper, about Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. He speaks with considerable... |
1547003_4 | AMERICANS ORDER FOREIGN AIRLINES TO USE MARSHALS | ''There's broad concern. Rather than canceling flights on a regular basis, it's more effective to have law enforcement officers on board when you need them.'' The airline association estimates that 10 or 20 out of some 115 airlines that fly into the United States already use air marshals. Israel, for instance, has used... |
1546992_2 | Luggage Lock Program Not Without a Few Hitches | But now the Web site (www.tsa.gov) barely mentions the Travel Sentry initiative, except obliquely, in a section on travel tips that says: ''If T.S.A. screeners need to open a locked bag for inspection, they may have to break the lock. There are now products on the market that have uniform locking systems that enable sc... |
1546959_1 | An Unrepentant Spammer Vows To Carry On, Within the Law | as spam, have dismissed the new federal law as largely ineffectual. And many high-volume e-mailers say the law may even improve the situation for them because it wipes away a handful of tougher state laws. But Mr. Ralsky, who lives in a Detroit suburb, says the law's potential penalties -- fines of up to $6 million and... |
1541452_0 | Where Friends of Bears Foresee Slaughter, Homeowners See Defense Against Invasion | To the pro-hunt residents of northwestern New Jersey, the black bears have become too close, too bold and too dangerous. The bears, they say, routinely roam backyards and sometimes barge into houses looking for food -- usually household garbage, but occasionally pork chops and brownies. The bears wander around playgrou... |
1541512_0 | A Way to Print Detailed Photos For Secure ID's | A subsidiary of the DuPont Company and a small start-up company are to announce today a novel system for printing unusually clear and detailed three-dimensional photos on documents like passports. The technology, jointly developed by A4Vision, based in Cupertino, Calif., and DuPont Authentication Systems, based in Brid... |
1539855_1 | The Two Terrorisms | extend robust political support to moderate unionists, who want Northern Ireland to remain British. The mainly Catholic I.R.A. spent a quarter-century trying to unite the province with Ireland by way of a terrorist guerrilla campaign against the largely Protestant unionist majority and Britain itself. But in 1998, the ... |
1539860_0 | French Diplomats Go on Strike To Protest Planned Budget Cuts | Thousands of French diplomats and Foreign Ministry staff members went on strike on Monday, slowing work at the country's far-flung foreign services and even shutting down some embassies and consulates in protest over proposed budget cuts. The strike was the first of its kind for the stately Quai d'Orsay, as the ministr... |
1539844_1 | When Fish Fluoresce, Can Teenagers Be Far Behind? | This is the tipping point, when the world irrevocably turns toward the science-fiction fantasies of writers like Philip K. Dick and William Gibson, who envision biomedical technology permeating every corner of the marketplace, from global corporations on down to small-time illegal operations like stolen-car chop shops.... |
1539853_0 | Some E.R.! Siena Led the Way; A Medieval Hospital Is Being Converted Into a Museum Complex | When the huge Roman Catholic charity hospital here moved from its ancient headquarters to a modern building in 1997, the city government gained possession of a long-neglected trove of medieval and Renaissance art. The walls in the vast decaying complex were dotted with the remnants of magical frescoes, and storerooms h... |
1539842_2 | Scientists Unearth Urban Center More Ancient Than Plato | were looking for a Classical Pompeii and we found a Bronze Age Pompeii,'' said Dr. Steven Soter of the American Museum of Natural History, the other excavation leader. The trenches exposed stone walls of buildings flanking paved streets. Pottery, mostly intact, lay all around. There were clay jars, cooking pots, tankar... |
1540018_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Britain Discusses Talks | The secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Paul Murphy, discussed the next stage in the province's stalled political process with the Democratic Unionists, a hard-line Protestant group that became the largest party in the provincial Assembly in elections last week. The Unionists' refusal to work with Sinn Fein, the p... |
1539923_3 | Chinese Builders Buy Abroad | represent an annual problem in China, with managers of public works projects running out of money near the end of the year and forced to wait for their next budget allocation. He predicted the market would still grow 30 percent next year, adding, ''After Feb. 1, two weeks after Chinese New Year, nobody will be taking a... |
1539972_0 | Bears and Human Diet | To the Editor: Re ''Fast-Food Nation Is Taking Its Toll on Black Bears, Too'' (Nov. 25): Not only are many Americans overweight, and even many pets fat, but now it seems wild animals are becoming overweight from scouring garbage bins in search of our excess food. At the same time, starvation worldwide is on the rise, w... |
1539900_2 | Hack The Vote | Diebold software by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice Universities found it both unreliable and subject to abuse. A later report commissioned by the state of Maryland apparently reached similar conclusions. (It's hard to be sure because the state released only a heavily redacted version.) Meanwhile, leaked internal... |
1545339_0 | The Brain Wave Made Me Do It | Scientists have experimented in recent years with machines meant to use brain waves to tell if someone is lying. Now, British researchers say they have figured out a way to use similar brain waves to tell something slightly different: whether someone is about to make a mistake. The study, presented on Thursday at a con... |
1545400_1 | Heightened Terrorism Alert May Last Beyond Holidays | been criticized in some quarters as alarmist, sought to convey a sense of calm reassurance to the public. Mr. Bush said that ''American citizens need to go about their lives, but as they do so, they need to know that governments at all levels are working as hard as we possibly can to protect the American citizens.'' Mr... |
1546756_4 | Changes in Episcopal Church Spur Some to Join, Some to Go | couple soon began attending Sunday services at St. Paul's, which is directly across the street from the Catholic church where, 30 years ago, Mr. Martin was ordained a priest. ''What was most impressive was the fact that the straight people were welcoming us as a couple, and as potential members of the congregation,'' M... |
1542262_2 | A study finds benefits forlocalities that offer subsidies to attract companies. | after the plant location decision was announced, the winning counties had faster payroll and job growth in that plant's industry than did the runner-up counties. For example, total payroll increased by $100 million more in the winning counties, on average, in the six years after the announcement was made. In other indu... |
1542271_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Report On 1974 Bombing | After a four-year investigation into possible official collusion in four car bombings in Dublin and in the border town of Monaghan on May 17, 1974, that killed 33 people, an Irish judge stopped short of finding that Protestant paramilitaries received help from the Northern Irish police force or military reserve, though... |
1543421_4 | Computerized voting machines are secure and efficient, their makers say. Skeptics are demanding a paper trail. | prevent. His work was cited in Nevada's decision to choose Sequoia's machines over Diebold's. ''The only way that vendors are going to produce auditable machines is if they are forced to,'' Professor Rubin said. ''So the recent moves of California and Nevada to require voter verifiable paper are huge steps in the right... |
1543403_2 | New Jersey Hunt Took Lopsided Toll on Female Bears | became clear in midweek, Mr. McHugh angrily dismissed a suggestion that hunters were raiding dens and rousting sleeping females and their young. ''That's ridiculous,'' he said. Lynn Rogers, a director of the North American Bear Center in Ely, Minn., and a bear expert who has studied the animals for 37 years, said he wa... |
1546139_2 | Brazil and Argentina Expect Rising Beef Sales | the United States. Among the most important are Japan, South Korea and Mexico, which accounted for the bulk of the United States' $3.2 billion in beef exports last year, and thus are high on Brazil and Argentina's list of markets they hope to penetrate or gain in. On Friday, Venezuela temporarily suspended its imports ... |
1546114_2 | New Villains Pose New Challenges to the Enduring Question of Evil's Banality | guilt and map out a moral philosophy developed more fully in her unfinished final work, ''The Life of the Mind.'' One controversial essay, ''Reflections on Little Rock,'' objecting to the Supreme Court's forced racial integration of schools, does not quite fit with the rest but is worth reading simply to watch an indep... |
1540760_0 | Big Sugar and Trade | To the Editor: Re ''America's Sugar Daddies'' (editorial, ''Harvesting Poverty'' series, Nov. 29): We take exception to your fundamental premise that we are not efficient producers. United States sugar producers are among the most efficient in the world. Our costs are lower than two-thirds of 105 countries studied. Gov... |
1539741_0 | Economy & Business; For the Influential, Time Savers Top Holiday Gift Lists | WHAT do people with busy lives and influential jobs value in their purchases? Reporters asked several such people to name their favorite purchase this year and something they looked forward to buying in 2004. Thoughts on holiday giving and receiving were also sought. The answers from the six people interviewed were wid... |
1539740_0 | Technology & Media; Marketers Adjust as Spam Clogs the Arteries of E-Commerce | AFTER two decades in the garment business in New York, Allan Levy started an Internet company. His first idea -- gifts delivered with custom greeting cards -- did not catch on. So he tried selling gifts without the cards. Still no home run. But that led to a crucial insight: the real money on the Internet was in gather... |
1544591_2 | A Skyscraper Has a Chance To Be Nobler | bridge design, like that of the Eiffel Tower. The span connects heaven and earth. Adaptability and conceptual balance are the essential qualities of the design. Its success as architecture is contingent on the integrity with which these qualities are maintained throughout. The design's weaknesses represent lapses from ... |
1544527_2 | Reason and Faith, Eternally Bound | religious person?'' ''What would you suggest?'' he coyly responds. There are of course approaches that are less blunt and more liberal minded, but the sense of embattlement and polemic has become familiar. In the recent book ''The Closing of the Western Mind'' (Knopf, $30), for example, Charles Freeman argues that West... |
1544167_0 | New York and Microsoft Expected To File Civil Suits in Spam Case | Eliot Spitzer, the New York state attorney general, and Microsoft plan to file civil suits today charging one of the nation's most prominent e-mail marketers with fraud stemming from sending unsolicited commercial e-mail, commonly known as spam, according to several people involved in the cases. The suits are expected ... |
1544147_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Premiers In Talks | Seeking to break an impasse in the stalled Northern Ireland political process, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain met with the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, in London but reported no immediate progress in what he said would be a ''short, sharp and focused'' round of diplomacy. The talks were joined by David Tri... |
1542500_0 | Who's Scarier: The Hunter or the Hunted? | To the Editor: ''Bad News for New Jersey Bears'' (editorial, Dec. 10) reluctantly endorses New Jersey's first bear hunt in 33 years. Shooting bears at random for trophies might be psychologically soothing, but it doesn't target individual problems. It's like trying to reduce crime by shooting into a crowded room. Black... |
1542355_2 | Furnished Houses: Moving In Means Taking Your Toothbrush | covered and open porches and two and a half bathrooms. It is offered completely furnished with a cherry dining room set, rattan furniture in the great room and an old-fashioned round table in the breakfast nook. It also comes with three bicycles. Agent: Frances Young, Dauphin Island Real Estate, (251) 861-8042; www.dau... |
1542501_0 | Who's Scarier: The Hunter or the Hunted? | To the Editor: ''Bad New for New Jersey Bears'' (editorial, Dec. 10) cites the problems black bears are causing but supports the hunt to thin the population, adding that ''come spring, there will be a sure sign that the species is healthy: the birth of a new crop of cubs.'' Would we accept a similar argument with respe... |
1542557_0 | Virginia Indicts 2 Under Antispam Law | Virginia announced yesterday the indictments of two people on criminal charges involving unsolicited e-mail, the first case to be brought under an antispam law that took effect in June. Virginia is one of the few states with laws that include criminal penalties for sending unsolicited bulk e-mail, or spam. Officials ar... |
1542470_1 | Leathernecks Plan to Use A Velvet Glove in Iraq | adopt a hard-nosed approach -- and spawned a behind-the-scenes debate within the American military about the best way to quash the insurgents. While some Army commanders insist the hard-nosed tactics have been successful in reducing enemy attacks, other military officers believe they are alienating Iraqis and thus depr... |
1546543_1 | Signs of Aging in the Global Head Count | Italy. Demographers agree that most of the growth will occur in Africa, Asia and Latin America. At current growth rates -- which pandemics like AIDS and aggressive government birth control programs can skew dramatically -- Nigerians will outnumber Japanese in about a decade and Pakistanis will outnumber Brazilians. By ... |
1546497_0 | We Hate Spam, Congress Says (Except When It's Sent by Us) | Even as Congress was unanimously approving a law aimed at reducing the flow of junk e-mail, members were sending out hundreds of thousands of unsolicited messages to constituents. The spasm of activity is aimed at attracting voluntary subscribers to the lawmakers' e-mail lists, which would not be subject to House rules... |
1546506_0 | From the Recyling Bin | PUBLIC relations professionals churn out millions of news releases, and most go directly into the trash can. Here are a few that seemed to deserve a moment of glory: NEED GAS? -- From publicity for Too Cool Refrigerator Kits: ''Now you can get 'fuel' for your body from a refrigerator that looks like a classic gas pump ... |
1546475_2 | Brazil Resists Plan to Allow Spot Inspection Of Nuclear Site | telephone interview from the organization's headquarters in Vienna, ''We are working and have been working for some time with the government and authorities in Brazil to develop an appropriate verification regime for this new facility,'' but the agency otherwise declined comment. After years of resistance, Brazil adher... |
1545220_2 | Election Win Seems Assured for Guinean Leader, but His Nation's Fate Is Far From Certain | of weapons and irregular combatants circulating in this region is one of the principal elements of concern,'' the report warned. ''These armed groups with their unpredictable allegiances could serve the interests of politico-military elites who seek to create disorder and/or to take power by force.'' The United States ... |
1545252_1 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Dressing Wheels for Winter to Get a Grip on Slick Roads | in luxury cars, family sedans and minivans, hasn't reinvigorated the traditional snow tire, either. The downside, though, is that four-wheel-drive systems -- often aided by electronic traction control -- can give drivers a false sense of security, enabling them to churn through the snow while others are stuck spinning ... |
1545207_0 | A New Trade Deal | Ten years after entering into a free trade agreement with Mexico, the United States has negotiated a similar deal with four Central American nations -- Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic may yet join ''Cafta.'' Though its terms are far from perfect, the proposed agreem... |
1541941_0 | Seeking Balance: Growth vs. Culture in Amazon | As international energy companies move into the Amazon basin to tap some of the last untouched oil and natural gas reserves, more and more natives are fighting to keep them out. Oil workers and contractors have been kidnapped, company officials say. Equipment has been vandalized. Protests, injunctions and lawsuits are ... |
1541943_0 | Bad News for New Jersey Bears | New Jersey is in the midst of its first black bear hunt in 33 years. That the state has enough bears to make them fair game is a miracle of conservation, considering that the population had dwindled to fewer than 100 when hunts were suspended. While estimates of current numbers vary from about 1,000 to 3,000, there is ... |
1541884_1 | Dividing Reality and Myth In the Fate of the Towers | long gestation, difficult birth, brief life and tragic death of the World Trade Center is likely to remain a classic in the already extensive literature on the subject. Without unduly pressing the point or resorting to forced metaphors, Mr. Glanz, a science reporter for The New York Times, and Mr. Lipton, a metropolita... |
1540189_4 | RUSSIA TO REJECT PACT ON CLIMATE, PUTIN AIDE SAYS | what are called joint implementation projects under the treaty. ''Our private sector is lining up for this,'' he said. ''It seems against the interests of Russia not to go into these.'' But it would be highly unusual for the government to have left Mr. Illarionov's remarks -- which were carried by the official Russian ... |
1540115_2 | New Evidence Is Reported That Floors Failed on 9/11 | pieces of one of the jetliners began to sag and fail. The metal was probably molten aluminum from the plane and could have come through the top of an 80th floor window as the floor above gave way, Dr. Pitts said. ''That's probably why it poured out -- simply because it was dumped there,'' Dr. Pitts said. ''The structur... |
1541712_0 | General Aviation Security Concerns | Moving to address concerns about security in general aviation, a field that ranges from single-occupant personal aircraft to fleets of multimillion-dollar corporate jets, the Transportation Security Administration plans to issue formal guidelines early next year for improving security at more than 18,000 airports and l... |
1541639_3 | An Obelisk Is Going Home; A Bolt of Lightning Helped | reminder of all that Ethiopians had been able to accomplish in the past. As for how well Ethiopia could tend to the artifact, he said: ''That's our business. The Italians have neglected their own national monuments for centuries, even though their tourism industry depends on them.'' Even now, with most of the obelisk d... |
1541670_2 | The New Bear in Town | about how best to broker the peace with it. For some recently restored predators in our midst, the peregrine falcon, for example, the reinstatement process remains an all-around feel-good story. To a falcon -- a creature built to hover, both literally and figuratively, above the fray -- our most audacious spires provid... |
1541614_5 | Mars Mission's Invisible Enemy: Radiation | hit each cell once. ''If a cell is hit once, there is no rate,'' she said. ''Once is once.'' After irradiation, the cells are moved to a nutrient medium that is known to support cancer cells but not normal cells. The experiment is repeated with ions of several elements. Dr. Sutherland also uses protons, which come from... |
1541626_1 | Humanity? Maybe It's in the Wiring | ago. Now, researchers can point to specific aspects of brain structure that suggest how our forebears came to develop complex social emotions, culture and other quintessential human behaviors. The search for brain differences has not been easy. Mammalian brains are extraordinarily similar. All contain an outer rind, or... |
1541599_1 | OBSERVATORY | grazes. The fungus thrives and grows in the relatively defenseless interior of the plant, providing a healthy crop for the snails. The researchers showed experimentally that the fungus did much better in the wounds than on the leaf exterior. And the snails do much better on a diet of fungus and grass than on grass alon... |
1540442_0 | Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Morristown: Group Seeks Bear-Hunt Halt | An environmental group yesterday sought to prevent New Jersey's black-bear hunt, which is set to begin on Monday, from including state parks and forests. The group, Saving Our Resources Today, filed its motion in a state appeals court, arguing that hunting bear on those lands was illegal because the State Division of P... |
1540394_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Airline Replaces Routes | Ryanair, the low-budget Irish airline, will replace nine of its routes from Stansted Airport in London and its hubs outside Stockholm, Frankfurt and Brussels, with alternative destinations because of insufficient customer demand. The chief executive, Michael O'Leary, warned last month that such changes were likely. In ... |
1540328_0 | A Harder Road to Irish Peace | Confrontational parties outpolled conciliatory ones on both sides of Northern Ireland's sectarian divide in provincial elections last week. In the largely Protestant unionist community, the Democratic Unionist Party, led by a fiery Protestant preacher, the Rev. Ian Paisley, triumphed over the more moderate Ulster Union... |
1540276_1 | Study Suggests Switching Drugs Could Aid Breast Cancer Patients | as aromatase inhibitors might reduce recurrences of cancer if taken after shorter stints of tamoxifen treatment. About a half-million American women use tamoxifen as a postcancer regimen. Doctors here cautioned that the new trial was somewhat small and that patients were not followed long enough to say definitively tha... |
1543791_0 | Florida Sugar Growers | To the Editor: Your criticism of sugar farmers (''America's Sugar Daddies,'' editorial, ''Harvesting Poverty'' series, Nov. 29) was a recitation of the conventional attacks on the industry and on us. Sugar farmers are not guaranteed success. Our business is extremely low margin. Success depends on innovation, scale, we... |
1543839_2 | U.S. and Europeans Agree on Sharing of Airline Passenger Data | ally in the fight against terrorism'' but that ''a balance had to be found.'' Under the agreement, negotiators said, the United States will be allowed to collect 34 types of data from the records, including a passenger's name, address, telephone number, credit-card numbers, travel companions and the amount of luggage c... |
1543920_0 | Bush Signs Law Placing Curbs on Bulk Commercial E-Mail | President Bush signed a highly awaited law on Tuesday to restrict junk commercial e-mail, or spam, which now accounts for more than half of all e-mail traffic. The law, which takes effect on Jan. 1, will ban the sending of bulk commercial e-mail using false identities and misleading subject lines. It will also require ... |
1545807_1 | Police Kill Bear at a Rural New Jersey Home | been mauled. The bear's killing was reported yesterday by The Record of Hackensack. When the police arrived, the bear emerged and charged an officer, Sergeant Schwartz said. Two officers armed with 20-gauge shotguns and one with a handgun wounded the bear, but even after they had fired 14 shots, it charged another offi... |
1545045_0 | A Road Paved With Good Intentions | WHEN they received their invitations to have breakfast with Governor McGreevey last October, Laura Lynch and other environmentalists thought it was going to be a great meeting: they would sit down with the governor at his mansion in Princeton, hash out some issues and listen to a pep talk from the man they had helped t... |
1544959_1 | One Housing Woe Gives Way to Another; New York Is No Longer Awash in Abandoned Buildings. Now the Issue Is Supply. | huge capital investments in dozens of programs allocating money for repairs, encouraging new construction, promoting homeownership and working with development groups to take over and manage the housing. For some, particularly the city officials, community groups and housing developers who made a leap of faith in addre... |
1545049_2 | The World; In Europe, 'Secular' Doesn't Quite Translate | David, small crosses and hands-of-Fatima pendants. It urged that Muslim chaplains be appointed for prisons and that a national school of Islamic studies be established. It suggested making Yom Kippur and Id al-Adha, the Muslim feast of Abraham's sacrifice, national holidays. Confrontations between religion and seculari... |
1542672_0 | Likud Debates a Palestinian State to Save Israel | In this place that often seems burdened by the past, it is the future that is suddenly bearing down. Within the Likud, the dominant right-wing party, leaders who once advocated holding every inch of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and who for three years argued that Israel could make no concessions because it lacked a Pa... |
1542628_1 | Annals of Homosexuality: From Greek to Grim to Gay | in 1730 in the Netherlands, 250 trials of ''sodomites'' took place, followed by at least 75 executions. Between 1806 and 1835, 60 homosexuals were hanged in England. Mr. Crompton, an emeritus professor of English at the University of Nebraska and the author of ''Byron and Greek Love,'' a much-praised study of Byron's s... |
1544395_3 | Surplus History From Ground Zero; Left Mostly Out of Memorial Designs, Trade Center Steel Sits Rusting in a Hangar | a turnstile from the World Trade Center PATH station. B-3101 is a motor from one of the twin towers' giant elevators that once lifted office workers into the sky. F-3001 is a bicycle rack, complete with seven abandoned bikes. Tires are blown out and rims are twisted, but a silver and blue helmet is still locked to the ... |
1541015_1 | Hong Kong's Latest Fight Over Harbor Turns Nasty | acres of the harbor for a covered harborfront highway, but the plan has infuriated many here, not least because of what it would do to the city's natural beauty and appeal as a tourist destination. So angry has the public reaction been that the government ordered contractors to stop the dredging for a week in early Oct... |
1540924_0 | Little Ship of Horrors | OVER THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. By Laurence Bergreen. Illustrated. 458 pp. New York: William Morrow. $27.95. On the dust jacket of Laurence Bergreen's superb new book, ''Over the Edge of the World,'' Ferdinand Magellan's epic sea voyage is described as ''a three-year odys... |
1542854_0 | 2003: THE 3rd ANNUAL YEAR IN IDEAS; Billboards That Know You | Does it sometimes seem as if the billboards you pass on your daily commute are targeted to appeal to people exactly like you? Well, depending on where you drive, it could be that the billboards are listening in on your car radio as you drive past. Using a specially equipped dish manufactured by Mobiltrak, a Phoenix com... |
1542857_0 | 2003: THE 3rd ANNUAL YEAR IN IDEAS; Cancer Vaccine, The | Treating cancer with radiation or chemotherapy is a bit like firebombing a house to get rid of pests: it can do the job, but good stuff is going to get damaged in the process. Researchers have long searched for a more targeted approach that wouldn't injure healthy tissue. Now they may have found one in a surprising pla... |
1542895_2 | Last Call for Cuba? | topsy-turvy situation, an osteopathic surgeon takes home less than a painter of wooden cows. Paradoxically, much of the charm of Cuba for tourists is a result of the post-revolution economic decline, which prevented old structures from being torn down and replaced. On Avenida 54, the main pedestrian mall in Cienfuegos,... |
1542799_1 | Bring Back the Gods | Lefkowitz of Wellesley College. Her thought-provoking new book, ''Greek Gods, Human Lives,'' is precisely an attempt to write the gods back into Greek myths. She maintains that modern accounts concentrate on the human dimension of these extraordinarily resilient tales, with a distorting playing down of the divine. Jose... |
1543234_0 | BEAR HUNT BEGINS | After long debate, lawsuits and protests, the state's first black bear hunt since 1970 started in deep snow on Monday. Wildlife officials said the goals were to slow the growth rate of the bear population and to reduce potentially dangerous encounters with people. Hunters killed 116 bears on Monday, 66 on Tuesday and 3... |
1542810_0 | The Greeks and Us | To the Editor: No writer could be but made happy by Joy Connolly's characterization of his new book (Nov. 9) as ''a triumph of popularization: extraordinarily knowledgeable, informal in tone, amusing, wide-ranging, smartly paced. We learn much. . . .'' But then it appears we do not learn enough, because in my new book,... |
1542908_0 | 2003: THE 3rd ANNUAL YEAR IN IDEAS; Food Simulator, The | At a technology conference in July, researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan unveiled what they bill as the world's first ''food simulator.'' Looking like a cross between an electric toothbrush and some fearsome dental appliance, the device is designed to replicate the taste, feel and sound of biting into va... |
1542796_3 | Getting to Yes | whom, he says, were hostile to constructive dealings for a variety of selfish or shortsighted reasons. These third parties, in Adams's view, ought to have engaged in talks even in the face of the republicans' campaign of violence, which included attempts to kill Prime Ministers Thatcher and Major, presumably among thos... |
1542964_0 | Don't Say It! | To the Editor: The work of the British architect Norman Foster is certainly eye-catching [''Conserving Everyone's Energy but His Own'' by James S. Russell, Nov. 23]. I don't think anyone could view his London city hall without thinking of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. With that in mind, James S. Russell is to be congratul... |
1542897_1 | Airlines and U.S. In a Bag Battle | do to go through security.'' (He was referring to a survey of passengers conducted by the Department of Transportation last August.) As it turned out, some of the longest lines observed at the airport over the Thanksgiving weekend were at coffee retailers, according to a survey conducted by Travelocity. One undercurren... |
1543219_4 | Trade Center Fireproofing Tests Suggest a Wider Safety Problem | Other experts have disputed that contention, saying that poorly applied and maintained fireproofing could have played a role in the collapses. Only the cores of the twin towers, which held the elevators and escape stairwells, were built like traditional high-rises, with clusters of relatively heavy steel columns and be... |
1545953_28 | ART GUIDE | in actual photographs. These self-portraits have a subtly creepy resonance (Johnson). Other Galleries * ''FROM ISHTAR TO APHRODITE: 3,200 YEARS OF CYPRIOT HELLENISM,'' Onassis Cultural Center, 645 Fifth Avenue, at 51st Street, (212) 486-4448, through Jan. 3. Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty and desire, is the focal p... |
1546026_1 | French Find No Flight-Terror Tie, But American Suspicions Remain | flights were canceled and French officials said they planned to resume the flights between Paris and Los Angeles on Friday. In New York and New Jersey, police increased their surveillance of critical sites, including bridges, tunnels, nuclear power plants and chemical factories. But officials said they were acting out ... |
1545952_1 | Cars That Nudge You to Drive More Safely | auto manufacturers to improve auto safety by getting rid of distractions. Just a few years ago, aggressive driving and road rage were blamed for most accidents, but now distraction has become the bête noire of safety experts. A study for the AAA Safety Foundation, conducted by the Highway Safety Research Center at the ... |
1477974_1 | Bloomberg and Klein Have Plan to Improve Special Education | City schools fail shamefully to improve the odds for children in special education,'' Mr. Bloomberg said. More than 150,000 children, or about 11 percent of public school students, are classified as needing special education. Of those, 20,000 are severely physically or mentally disabled and are enrolled at schools that... |
1477924_0 | Protest Strike in France Interrupts Travel | The government's plans to reform the state pension system came under attack today from the country's powerful labor unions, as hundreds of thousands of government employees, with the backing of some workers in the private sector, staged a one-day strike. The central issue in the dispute concerns the plans by Prime Mini... |
1477869_3 | POP AND JAZZ GUIDE | death metal: buzz-saw guitar themes in minor modes gave way to fast, narrow two-beat drum thrashing. Glen Benton, leader and demagogue, uses the genre's generic low growl; it's business as usual, no big deal. (He also prefers to present himself as being against organized religion rather than, uh, pro-Satan.) But here a... |
1477961_0 | Carriers Respond as Disease Raises Concerns Over Air Circulation in Passenger Cabins | The spread of a new highly infectious respiratory disease is reigniting questions about the cleanliness of the air inside airplane cabins and cutting into bookings for airlines flying into areas where the infection is prevalent. The Association of Flight Attendants petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration yesterd... |
1483685_0 | France Works to Limit Damage From U.S. Anger | France has embarked on a two-track strategy to adjust to the harsh reality that it will have to pay a steep price for opposing the war against Iraq, French officials and analysts say. The severity of the long-term damage to relations with the United States is only beginning to be grasped. Senior French officials visiti... |
1483590_0 | Running Flat, But Running | The thump-thump of a tire going flat always brings a sinking feeling, and it is worst on a busy highway with no place to pull over. So-called run-flat tires, which can travel up to 125 miles without air, solve the problem, but they have been offered mostly on luxury and sports cars. Now Toyota is edging them further in... |
1483589_2 | Stone Works From the East For a Garden | Trapp visits Asia often, and has a friend in China who scouts for him. ''My friend is married to a Chinese woman, and they know all the backwaters,'' he said. ''China is undergoing such rapid modernization that many Chinese now feel that new is good and old is out, so they are willing to let things go.'' How does he kn... |
1481647_1 | Eluding the Web's Snare | others lament the loss of face-to-face contact associated with the rise of the Web. A few confess to ignorance and intimidation. And there are those who manage, through wired surrogates, to take advantage of the Internet indirectly for research or communication. In resisting the tide, the Net evaders are increasingly c... |
1481533_0 | Old Ship's New Life | To the Editor: Re ''For a Historic Ship, a New Port of Call'' (news article, April 15): As the shipping correspondent for The Daily Mail, the London newspaper, for many years and having been aboard the United States on its maiden voyage in 1952, I was happy to read that there may be a future for the old ship as a cruis... |
1479558_1 | U.S. to Move Its Army Headquarters in South Korea Out of Seoul | of bombing North Korea's nuclear facilities. ''There is going to be a realignment,'' Richard Lawless, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian-Pacific affairs, said when asked at a news conference today about the future position of the Second Infantry Division, the most forward based troops of the 37,000 America... |
1482976_3 | Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam | and printing. Albert Ahdoot, for example, started a part-time business using e-mail to sell printer-ink refill systems while he was in college. When he dropped out of medical school, he hooked up with Ms. Sachs, a former producer with Geraldo Rivera who later worked in marketing at several Internet companies. With her ... |
1482880_0 | Options for Protecting Bones After Menopause | Last summer's surprising report from a large federal study relegating the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy to short-term relief of symptoms, not long-term health maintenance, left millions of women in a quandary: what should they do to keep their bones from deteriorating to the point of fracture? Despite the serio... |
1482891_4 | Hormone Studies: What Went Wrong? | all, studies have found. Women who stay with a prescription regimen may be unusual, Dr. Grodstein said. Perhaps they generally care more about their health, and that is the reason they have fewer heart problems. Or perhaps there was some other physical characteristic, as yet unidentified, that made estrogen protect the... |
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