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1482886_1 | A River Diverted, the Sea Rushes In | glacial origins in the Himalayas to its mouth at the Arabian Sea, the Indus and its tributaries support the world's largest system of irrigation canals. The region has fertile soils but little rain. The waters of the Indus basin sustain scores of millions of people in northwest India and literally underwrite the nation... |
1484576_0 | Sinn Fein Leader Pledges Full Disarmament of the I.R.A. | The Irish Republican Army will disarm fully as part of the Northern Ireland peace settlement if the other parties to the accord fulfill their obligations, Gerry Adams, president of the guerrilla group's political arm, Sinn Fein, said today. Mr. Adams gave the pledge in a speech responding to complaints from Prime Minis... |
1484574_0 | 3 E-Mail Giants Will Join In an Effort to Reduce Spam | The three leading providers of e-mail accounts said yesterday that they had started to work together to develop ways to reduce the unwanted commercial messages, commonly known as spam, that are increasingly clogging their customers' mailboxes. The companies -- America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo -- are calling for tech... |
1484634_4 | AMERICANS ARREST WOULD-BE LEADER OF IRAQ'S CAPITAL | Baghdad. The area was formerly known as Saddam City, but it has been renamed by clerics there to honor Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, a powerful Shiite leader who was assassinated by Mr. Hussein in 1999. Seven trucks carrying 45 tons of rice, flour, sugar, oil and other food staples arrived from the Iranian city of ... |
1479416_4 | Before Power Plants, Glory Days at Indian Point; Where Neutrons Now Dance, a Grand Amusement Park Stood on the Hudson | any seismological, hydrological or meteorological tests to check the nuclear suitability of Indian Point was hardly surprising,'' Mr. Cantelon wrote in a paper about the company's nuclear history. ''The sudden push toward commercial nuclear power created situations without precedent.'' To Con Edison's engineers, he add... |
1479319_1 | Bush Pledges to Help as Ulster Nears a Junction in Peace Path | decision on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the signing of the accord, when they will receive a final blueprint for re-establishing the home-rule government that is the centerpiece of the effort to balance power between the Protestant majority and the Catholic minority. It is hoped that the document, distilled from ... |
1477678_0 | 2 Hijackers Seize Havana Ferry and Sail for Florida | Two armed men commandeered a ferry today in Havana and set a course for Florida, the second time in two days that Cuban hijackers have taken hostages as they tried to flee to the United States. The F.B.I. said 15 to 20 people were aboard the 45-foot government-run ferry, which runs between Havana and Casablanca, across... |
1477678_3 | 2 Hijackers Seize Havana Ferry and Sail for Florida | Miami and other experts on Cuban affairs said there were other possible explanations for the hijackings. Some said Cuba's struggling economy and increasing domestic tensions were likely factors and might lead to an exodus from the island. The once-robust sugar industry was sharply scaled back last year in the face of c... |
1478930_0 | This French New Wave Finds Few U.S. Fans | Extreme big-wave surfing, a fairly new twist on an ancient sport, is possible wherever monstrous storm swells and lunatic surfers converge. This generally happens in only two places on earth: Hawaii and California. That is why jaws dropped from Maui to Monterey last month when the sponsors of a contest promising $60,00... |
1478889_0 | Bush Visit Is Viewed as Hopeful Sign for Ulster Impasse | The visit of President Bush to Northern Ireland on Monday comes at the most critical moment for the province's peace plan since the accord was signed five years ago this week. Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, had already planned to mark the anniversary on Thursday by making public an e... |
1483923_1 | Taking Jesus as Spouse, and Living a Life in Prayer | Christ, a woman must have never married and must demonstrate a life of chastity and devotion to the church. There is no age requirement, although some dioceses prescribe a minimum age like 30. Consecrated virgins have no formal obligations besides daily prayer, but they typically engage in service to the church. There ... |
1480887_0 | Peace Snagged, I.R.A. Outlines Its Intentions | The Irish Republican Army, under pressure to disarm to save the Northern Ireland peace process, submitted a confidential statement to the British and Irish governments tonight outlining what it might do to break the stalemate. In a brief message to the media, the I.R.A. said the statement would address its six-year cea... |
1480904_2 | Unions Recommend That Members Be Cautious | aware of special methods for disinfecting a plane on which an infected passenger had flown. ''Actually, I think we would follow the normal cleaning procedures,'' Mr. Brown said on Friday. Mr. Brown said he thought ''the antiseptics currently used on the planes are sufficient to kill the SARS bacteria'' based on guidanc... |
1482025_1 | The Latest Theory Is That Theory Doesn't Matter | proceedings. ''We want to be the Starship Enterprise of criticism and theory,'' he told the audience. But any thought that this would be a gleeful strategy session with an eye toward extending theory's global reach, or an impassioned debate over the merits of, say, Derrida and Lacan, was quickly dispelled. When John Co... |
1482041_0 | Facing U.S. Threat of Penalties, Cuba Issues a Defiant Statement | As the Bush administration considers several measures to penalize Cuba in response to its jailing of nonviolent dissidents, the Cuban authorities said today that they were ready to withstand the worst. Administration officials said this week that they might stop family remittances, which amount to as much as $1 billion... |
1482031_0 | Obstacles to Irish Peace | To the Editor: Re ''No Friends of the Irish'' (editorial, April 16), about the Irish Republican Army's refusal to give up its weapons: The I.R.A. is not the only obstacle to peace in Northern Ireland. There are formidable barriers on the Protestant side. First are several Protestant terrorist organizations that are sti... |
1482139_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Symbolic Day But No Deal | The British and Irish governments waited without success to obtain a disarmament statement from the Irish Republican Army needed to break the stalemated Northern Ireland peace process and restore the suspended power-sharing government in Belfast created by the so-called Good Friday agreement five years ago. David Trimb... |
1480651_0 | In a General's Words: 'Setting the Conditions for a Stable and Free Iraq' | Following are excerpts from a news conference in Doha, Qatar, yesterday by Brig. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks about efforts to stabilize Iraq, as recorded by Federal News Service Inc. A full transcript is available at nytimes.com/iraq. . . . The regime is in disarray and no longer in control of Iraq, and the coalition remain... |
1480441_7 | Learning With Disabilities: An Answer to Autism; Nudging Toward Normal | the conviction, stamina and money for the fight. Like many such schools, the Alpine Learning Group was founded by parents; the first classes were held in 1988, with four children in a church basement. It now ranks among the most respected programs, along with the Princeton Child Development Institute and the Douglass D... |
1480439_5 | Learning With Disabilities; A Mother's Journey | been another story entirely. ''HE'S lazy.'' ''He's spoiled.'' ''He's manipulative.'' ''Because of his disability, he looks for the easy way out.'' It's another day this winter and 16 adults are crammed into a small conference room adjacent to the main office in Ross's school. We are there -- seven people from the schoo... |
1480697_0 | In the Heart of France, Anti-U.S. Mood Softens | Patrick Lebel watched the television images this week of a statue of Saddam Hussein toppled in Baghdad as joyous Iraqis danced about and he thought, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld did, of the Berlin Wall. ''It was purely symbolic, of course,'' said Mr. Lebel, 46, a heating systems technician, ''but I thought o... |
1480275_6 | Overdoing Democracy | alike to the tyranny of the mass market. Our best hope, he concludes, is to delegate more power to impartial experts, insulated from the democratic fray. Today's independent central banks provide a possible template. Zakaria would like to see a chunk of federal fiscal policy handed to an equivalent of the Federal Reser... |
1480296_6 | Learning With Disabilitied: Higher Expectations; The College Hunt | The condition ''makes it hard for me to finish anything,'' she says. ''It's very easy for me to get distracted.'' ''College I know is going to be much more of a challenge,'' she says. Specifically, she thinks she could use help on time management and likes the idea of a college where ''you can get advice when you need ... |
1480442_2 | Finding the Right College, and Getting In | Colleges are required to accommodate only legally documented disabilities, and most want recent evaluations. Beth Robinson of the College Board, which administers the SAT's, says students who seek accommodations on testing can use that process as a dry run, since most admissions offices want the same documents as the b... |
1482741_4 | An Old Leopard Tries to Change Its Silk Pajamas | Wenner said. ''As long as he is having a great time doing it, what is the incentive?'' Many of the magazine's charms are by now anachronistic. The magazine's cartoons seem dated, but in a poll readers ranked them as the No. 1 reason they liked the magazine. The centerfold's ''turnoffs'' have remained remarkably unchang... |
1482734_2 | As regulators become more stringent, data storage companies prepare for a wave of demand. | is up 64 percent over a year ago, the company says. Most new e-mail systems archive and duplicate every single piece of incoming mail, including spam and unread messages, even though all those functions are not specifically required by the new regulations. Companies would rather save it all, according to Mr. Lewis, tha... |
1482783_2 | Turks Wonder Whether U.S. Will Share Some of the Spoils of Rebuilding | Turkish businesses a share of the spoils. In Turkey's case, the question is complicated by Parliament's refusal to allow tens of thousands of American troops to pour across the southeast of the largely Muslim country to open a second, northern front against Baghdad -- a decision that lost this NATO member much good wil... |
1479863_2 | Gene Study Finds Cannibal Pattern | must have been exposed to some form of prion disease, the researchers say. They contend that that prion disease was probably spread by cannibalism. Besides the example of the Fore, there is ''strong evidence for widespread cannibalistic practices in many prehistoric populations,'' the researchers say. Frequent epidemic... |
1479860_0 | Northern Irish Peace Hopes Are Set Back | Hopes of a breakthrough in the deadlocked Northern Ireland peace process were dashed today when Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland had to cancel a joint appearance here because of last-minute objections by Sinn Fein, the political party of the Irish Republican Army. The two leaders had pl... |
1479914_3 | Kirkuk's Swift Collapse Leaves a City in Chaos | The first large departures had been observed around midnight, when the Special Forces saw a convoy of about 75 vehicles heading south. They refrained from bombing the convoy, the Special Forces major said, because they could not confirm that it did not include civilians. He said that even then the speed of the collapse... |
1484783_1 | Slight Dip in Special Education Students Statewide | and New York City in particular, have long been criticized for placing too many students in special education classes, where many languish for years. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has pledged to move more disabled students into mainstream classes and provide them with a special new reading program, but the challenge is st... |
1484760_4 | Justices to Take Up Interstate Water Fight | was the dispute between New York and New Jersey over Ellis Island, in which New Jersey prevailed. As local residents, all the justices may have more than a passing interest in the new case. Of the court's nine members, five live in the Virginia suburbs: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices John Paul Stevens,... |
1484883_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Elections In Doubt | Politicians began their first day of campaigning for May 29 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly while representatives of the British and Irish governments met in Belfast to discuss whether to postpone the vote until the rival Catholic and Protestant parties could agree on a plan to get the body up and running ag... |
1484876_0 | Dams of Folly | To the Editor: The Indus River basin certainly presents a grim picture of the economic, ecological and social disasters created downstream by large dams built on a river (''A River Diverted, the Sea Rushes In,'' April 22). The same folly is being repeated in countless other basins where large new dams are still being b... |
1484836_0 | Whiff of Spam Leaves Web Sites Offline | Scores of Web sites were taken off the Internet over the weekend because of new pressures on a commercial Internet service provider to stop unwanted marketing e-mail, or spam, and the companies that use it. Most of the Web sites that were shut down had no relation to the company accused of sending spam other than havin... |
1484807_0 | Crack Down on Spam | No one with an e-mail account needs to be told that unwanted commercial messages, better known as spam, are a bad problem that is getting worse. America Online reports that 70 percent of the e-mail its users receive is now junk, and that the quantity has doubled just since the beginning of this year. Much of the increa... |
1484740_3 | Brain Surgery, Without Knife or Blood, Gains Favor | board, said radiosurgery had created a ''real revolution'' in the treatment of conditions like brain metastasis and deep-seated tumors. ''As few as four years ago, when a person got cancer that spread to the brain, that was the kiss of death,'' said Dr. Lunsford, who heads the department of neurosurgery at the Universi... |
1484873_0 | Saying No to Hormone Therapy | To the Editor: Re ''Options for Protecting Bones After Menopause'' (April 22): Until last summer, women of a certain age were unable to go to a physician without being made to feel guilty if they were not on hormone replacement therapy. We were told to do everything possible to stave off bone loss and protect ourselves... |
1483292_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein Is Resolute | Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, stood firm on the impasse blocking progress in the Northern Ireland peace accord, saying a statement on disarmament from the I.R.A. that the British and Irish governments have found vague and noncommittal was in fact clear and convinc... |
1483165_1 | Cultivating a Partnership | by China,'' where demand is expected to rise by 28 million tons this year, according to UBS Warburg. In agribusiness, Brazil's soy exporters have more than doubled shipments to China in the last three years and expect to sell five million tons of beans there this year. Exporters of paper and cellulose, orange juice and... |
1483165_3 | Cultivating a Partnership | role in China's Three Gorges Dam project, despite several visits by Chinese delegations to Brazil's giant Itaipu hydroelectric plant over the past decade. Still, top executives here say Brazil has not missed the train. ''Brazil's profile is attractive to China,'' said Carlo Lovatelli, president of Brazil's association ... |
1483109_2 | Mount Maker: Ready for an Earthquake | The isolators are only about four inches tall and rest unobtrusively between the object's pedestal or case and the floor. Each is custom-designed for the artwork, takes a month or more to build and can cost up to $4,000, not including labor. Each isolator has three levels, with the bottom level bolted to the floor and ... |
1483501_0 | Memo to Spammers: Don't Tread on Me! | To the Editor: Your April 22 front-page article ''Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam'' is a reminder of the Boulder Pledge against spam, which I proposed at the 1996 Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado. It reads: ''Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as... |
1483394_0 | Blair Says Ulster Peace Hinges on I.R.A. | Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a public challenge to the Irish Republican Army today, saying its refusal to make a clean break with its violent past was the sole remaining obstacle to lasting peace in Northern Ireland. Mr. Blair told a Downing Street news conference that breaking a current stalemate was ''frustrating... |
1483472_1 | The News from Home, Sealed With a Click | link. It has bolstered morale in the field and at home, lending a bit of electronic normalcy to the chaos. But what has been less well chronicled is that the improvements in wartime communications work only if family members at home have access to an online connection. Ms. Carmichael, a nurse, is one of many who do not... |
1483431_3 | U.S., Angry at French Stance on War, Considers Punishment | spokesman, said that Mr. Powell had taken a call today from his French counterpart, Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, and that the two had spoken in part about Mr. Powell's blunt ''yes'' on the Charlie Rose program. ''They kind of laughed about some of the exaggerated press reporting of what 'yes' means,'' Mr. Bo... |
1481307_2 | Peaches Coaxed From the Sand | in April does not give much time to develop sweetness and aroma. To come up with improved varieties, Mr. Bacon and his predecessors at Sun World's breeding program made tens of thousands of crosses over 15 years. No artificial genetic modifications were involved, but because early peaches ripen before their seeds are m... |
1481326_0 | No Friends of the Irish | Five years ago the Good Friday agreement brought a promise of peace and justice to Northern Ireland's long-suffering people. That promise is now threatened by the Irish Republican Army's stubborn refusal to declare a final end to armed combat, give up its weapons and commit itself exclusively to peaceful political pers... |
1481383_2 | Testing Fad Is Farce For the Disabled | amounts of useless paperwork, the federal government will soon mandate even more standardized tests for these students. When I asked Dr. James Rowley, a physician and the parent of a 9-year-old at Wing Lake, what officials were thinking, he replied, ''I'm not sure they were thinking.'' This bureaucratic adventure began... |
1478155_0 | Cuba Arrests 8 in Hijacking of Havana Ferry | Cuban security forces arrested at least eight armed men who hijacked a passenger ferry west of Havana and tried to reach the United States, the Cuban government said today. Nearly 50 hostages, including some children, aboard the ferry were freed. The boat ran out of fuel in international waters and was commandeered by ... |
1478215_0 | Fear of Reprisal | |
1478260_0 | GENESOFT WINS APPROVAL FOR PNEUMONIA-FIGHTING DRUG | GeneSoft Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company, said the Food and Drug Administration approved its first product, an antibiotic called Factive, for treatment of pneumonia and chronic bronchitis. The drug, which is expected to be available late this year, could help doctors cope with bacteria that are becoming increa... |
1478163_2 | History's pagans might have approved of President Bush's Iraq policy, an author suggests. | calls a pagan ethos. Mr. Kaplan, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly with years of reporting experience from some of the world's most violent war zones, made the case for conducting United States foreign policy according to such an ethos in his book ''Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos'' (Rando... |
1477080_0 | Legacy of Lead at Menopause | Women in menopause are at greater risk of high blood pressure if they have even low levels of lead in their blood, a new study reports. The problem is mainly a result of lead that has built up in the skeleton over a lifetime, and is then released as menopause causes bones to break down and lose minerals, said Dr. Denis... |
1477098_0 | Weather Satellites Can Be Better Used | Weather satellites could be even more effective forecasting and charting climate change if the agencies that run them keep up with the latest technology, an expert panel has reported. Too often, the panel said, no efficient pathway exists to move sensors from experimental satellites to operating weather satellites. In ... |
1480089_1 | U.S. Envoy Puts Peace-Plan Onus on I.R.A. | would call a halt to its operations, including recruitment, training, intelligence gathering, arms procurement and punishment attacks, and carry out a visible act of destroying its weapons. On seeing the language of the intended I.R.A. statement, however, both governments were taken aback at its lack of clarity and com... |
1481848_0 | One Airline's 5 Weeks With a Medical Threat | On March 15, the captain of a Northwest Airlines 747 called the airline's chief doctor to find out if he had heard anything about a mysterious illness that had been discovered in Asia. That same day, an advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Northwest's safety and environmental departme... |
1482221_2 | Helen Overcomes Bad Men and Bad Press | those days,'' Ms. Kern said. ''Helen had been stolen before she ever met Paris, and there had been no major war to reclaim her. Her brothers simply went and got her.'' Adam Shapiro, the executive producer of the series, said that the network's advertising tag line -- ''Desire Is War'' -- ''can refer to Helen's desire f... |
1482624_0 | April 13-19: INTERNATIONAL; MOST WANTED | Nearly 18 years after Palestinian terrorists commandeered the cruise liner Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean and killed a disabled American passenger, the mastermind of the attack, Abu Abbas, was captured in Baghdad by American Special Forces. Mr. Abbas had been living there openly for two years, another link, adminis... |
1482619_1 | Helping Graduates Outwit Hard Times | numbers higher than they should be.'' Not just Ms. Steinfeld but her whole 24-person staff has one big piece of advice for job seekers: don't abandon hope. During the second half of the 90's, she explained, it was a cinch for N.Y.U. graduates to find jobs. All that many students had to do was circulate their resumes on... |
1482347_4 | A British Raid (Minus Cannon Fire) | and drove them back to the car they had left downriver. The next day, they finished the row. Most memorable, however, was another Concklin-Fernandez raid. The two were heading back downriver, in the dark. ''We were moving very rapidly,'' Mr. Concklin said. Suddenly, they hit a buoy. Their oars went overboard; they near... |
1482626_0 | April 13-19: INTERNATIONAL; BRITISH SKELETONS IN IRELAND | For years human rights organizations and leaders of the republican movement in Northern Ireland charged that members of Britain's security forces assisted Protestant guerrillas in killing Catholics in the 1980's. Now a report from Sir John Stevens, the head of Scotland Yard, says they're right. It details a 14-year inv... |
1482319_1 | When Imagination Took Flight | reserved for the wealthy or those on generous expense accounts. Throughout the plane's operational life, the cost of a ticket never dropped below $9,000. A far larger and much more economical version built by Boeing never got beyond a wooden mockup. Congress wasn't prepared to pay the price for development at a time wh... |
1482494_0 | The Travel Industry Changes Its Vacation Plans; Undercrowding in China | Double-decker 747's are flying into Shanghai with a dozen or so passengers. Hotels are lucky to fill a third of their rooms. The tourists and conventioneers who usually fill the streets, shops and high-end restaurants of Shanghai this time of year are staying home. Despite China's concerted efforts to present the count... |
1484219_3 | Ode to Joi(sey) | ''The way Princeton is set up is that it is a university that acknowledges that poetry is another way of making sense of how the world functions,'' he said. ''People who do this, they believe, are useful people to have around. One is meant to be teaching away, but also contributing something to the general intellectual... |
1484110_4 | SARS Puts a New Face Flying in Asia | in travel.) Mr. Boyd said he had no idea what percentage of passengers or crew members were choosing to wear masks and emphasized that their use is optional. He also stressed that offering masks is just one aspect of a ''multilevel approach'' the airline and health authorities are taking to protect passengers. Other me... |
1484282_0 | High Cost of Spam | To the Editor: One thing not mentioned in ''Internet Is Losing Ground in Battle Against Spam'' (front page, April 22) is the monetary cost to consumers and businesses. Spam uses bandwidth. An Internet service provider must pass along the cost of this bandwidth to its customers. In addition, spammers will often use poor... |
1484144_4 | Commercial Property/Westchester; A Grand View, and Metro-North Too | and Mr. Lyons also own a small boat club at the north end of the property. In addition to the new three-story building, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, the partners are continuing to renovate parts of the old factory. Combined, the two projects are expected to add 75,000 square feet of office ... |
1484438_0 | Punish France? Stop the Pettiness | To the Editor: How petty we are (''U.S., Angry at French Stance on War, Considers Punishment,'' news article, April 24)! The French, the Russians, the Germans and the Chinese were only reflecting what much of the world was saying: that we should give inspections more time and adhere to international law. To punish the ... |
1484028_2 | Don't Eat This Page | circumvent them, the barons of business were as much the beneficiaries of the F.D.A.'s influence as were the American people; commercial success depends, after all, on public confidence. ''The laying down of the scientific standard came first,'' Hilts writes, ''and the creation of the modern pharmaceutical industry fol... |
1481173_0 | Keeping the Bears Healthy | To the Editor: ''Bears' Healthy Genes'' (March 25) reports good news that inbreeding is not likely to threaten Yellowstone grizzly bears for several generations. But the paper cited in the article also says that for Yellowstone grizzlies: *Inbreeding will occur unless genetic connections are established with other popu... |
1481084_0 | Spam: The Next Frontier In Booking Your Trip | HENRY H. HARTEVELDT knows a whole lot more about online travel booking than I'll ever know, but on the other hand Mr. Harteveldt doesn't have to wade through my e-mail in basket. For example, I was traveling most of last week. When I got back, I spent two hours sorting out the e-mail messages I wanted to read from a fi... |
1481178_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: I.R.A. Outline Studied | The British and Irish governments, sponsors of the Northern Ireland peace agreement, welcomed a confidential statement from the Irish Republican Army outlining steps it would take to save the accord, but Paul Murphy, the Northern Ireland secretary, told the House of Commons that further clarification was needed on seve... |
1481127_0 | Cases of Lethal New Illness Rise Sharply in Interior Region | Reported cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome rose sharply today in an interior province of northern China, heralding the possible spread of the disease through the country's vast, medically underserved hinterlands. A report last week that 32 people in Shanxi Province, a region of coal mines and factory towns, ha... |
1478775_0 | Seeing the Voice of the Lord | THE SPIRIT OF EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Seeking the Face of God. By Robert Louis Wilken. 368 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. $29.95. I ONCE heard the eminent German classicist Eduard Fraenkel declare that the greatest masters of Latin prose were Cicero, Petronius and Tertullian. These three people would probably ha... |
1478590_5 | The Nation; Stop-and-Go Traffic on a Global Scale | So far, no treatment has been found for SARS. Scientists also have not come up with a test for the disease, so the best airport screening method now -- if a highly inefficient one -- is for workers to question travelers. If a test were devised, then health workers might be able to better examine passengers, but that wo... |
1478723_0 | March 30-April 5: INTERNATIONAL; CUBA HIJACKINGS | For the third time in two weeks, hijackers in Cuba took hostages and demanded to be taken to Florida. On March 19, six men with knives overtook an airplane in Havana and redirected it to Key West. On Tuesday, a man with what turned out to be fake grenades redirected another plane to Key West. No hostages were harmed. O... |
1478338_0 | Television/Radio; Not Greek, And Only A Little Fat | AS middle age approaches, sexy leading men often seek refuge in character roles. It's rare for someone to go in the opposite direction. But that's exactly what happened to John Corbett, who turns 42 next month. In 1990, he landed a supporting role as a philosophy-spewing disc jockey on CBS's ''Northern Exposure.'' But ... |
1478560_0 | Personal Business; Some Travel Bargains by Air, but Even More by Sea | TRAVEL companies have been cutting prices for months, but more bargains are surfacing this spring, especially for cruises. Many people had been reluctant to travel because of the economy and lingering fears of terrorism. But the war in Iraq and concerns about severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, have increased t... |
1478784_4 | Chaos Theory | and his belief in personal autonomy leads to work that is profoundly skeptical of big ideas, even as it can't stop bringing them up. ''A Letter'' begins: Dear philosophers, I get sad when I think. Is it the same with you? Just as I'm about to sink my teeth into the noumenon, Some old girlfriend comes to distract me. 'S... |
1478685_2 | Public Confronts New Virus on Laymen's Terms | been fielding a barrage of e-mail messages about the illness, many of them anti-Chinese (that the disease originated with people in Hong Kong eating dogs that had it, that workers at Chinese restaurants have the disease, and so on). A favorite Internet rumor, that the disease is the result of a genetic engineering expe... |
1476599_2 | Whereas, Lawmakers Seem to Be Bored . . . | from intentionally feeding the marauding pests. Someone decided that a Subsection B was needed to clarify that the act ''shall not apply in the case of an unintentional feeding of a black bear.'' This is good news for anyone who has, say, put food out to attract grizzlies or pandas. ''Yes, officer, I do see that I've a... |
1476485_0 | Missile Threat Is Bringing Stricter Rules for Airports | Federal authorities will order major security improvements at several of the nation's largest airports after inspections showed that passenger planes taking off or landing at those airports would be vulnerable to attack by terrorists using shoulder-fired missiles, senior Bush administration officials said. The inspecti... |
1476782_2 | Cutting Through Angkor's Wats Politics and Banyans | Royal Palace. By this time, the New York-based World Monuments Fund had already beaten a path to Preah Khan, a partly collapsed 12th-century structure outside the main complex. But it was the Japanese, Cambodia's most generous donor, who came to dominate the effort through the presence of what now amounts to four resto... |
1476782_3 | Cutting Through Angkor's Wats Politics and Banyans | a collapsed embankment, Sophia University in Tokyo works on the western causeway, a stone's throw from J.S.A.'s reconstruction of the northern library. With major backing from the New York businessman Peter Stern, the World Monuments Fund is eager to lay its hands on the Churning of the Sea of Milk bas-relief, an Asian... |
1476381_1 | A Mission of Hope on a Mountain in Russia | as the rescue mission here. Perhaps none is more quixotic. For the Karmadon avalanche occurred last Sept. 20 -- more than six months ago. Of the 125 people who vanished in the Karmadon Gorge avalanche, 19 have been found. All were dead. The most recent discovery, a month and a half ago, was that of a shepherd high in t... |
1476526_1 | French Rallies Against War Shift Focus To Israel | anti-Semitism'' on the Place de la Concorde near the heavily guarded American Embassy, one huge banner read ''Hitler, Bush, Sharon, in the name of God we kill.'' Young French Arab teenagers from the poor suburbs chanted slogans pledging war and martyrdom in the name of both Palestinians and Iraqis and against Israel. '... |
1468851_8 | Bring Back the Sabbath | play, no idle strolling was known; no sign of human life or motion was seen except the necessary care of the patient cattle and other dumb beasts, the orderly and quiet going to and from the meeting, and at the nooning, a visit to the churchyard to stand by the side of the silent dead.'' Anyone who has experienced the ... |
1469074_2 | Democratic Hopes Test China's Political Limits | insiders, not dissidents. Mr. Hu, 49, is a Communist Party member and a teacher at the Shanghai branch of the party's school system. His ambitions are modest: to be allowed to run for office as Chinese law says he can, and to urge the legislature to talk to people before passing laws that affect them. He even takes the... |
1468903_6 | RIDING THE WILD BRAHMAPUTRA | crescent of white sand, it was an idyllic spot. I hade never seen such a profusion of wild vegetation. Giant plantains loomed out of the mist like ghostly green spiders, their leafy tendrils drooping to the earth. Others were dotted across the hillside, exploding into view like silent green fireworks from the surroundi... |
1469201_0 | Rolling With 'Better for You' Food Bandwagon | AMERICANS may be paying more attention to nutrition, but they still reach for plenty of processed foods at the market. One byproduct of this paradox is the popularity of so-called ''better for you'' foods, which mimic the taste of conventional snacks and other packaged foods but lack the customary preservatives, additi... |
1470536_0 | It Will Be a Smaller World After All | Remember the number 1.85. It is the lodestar of a new demography that will lead us to a different world. It should change the way we think about economics, geopolitics, the environment, culture -- and about ourselves. To make their calculations orderly, demographers have typically worked on the assumption that the ''to... |
1470531_2 | Ethical War? Do the Good Guys Finish First? | Stauffenberg, the German Army officer who was executed for trying to assassinate Hitler, and Hugh C. Thompson, the American helicopter pilot who, seeing the My Lai massacre in progress, ordered his door gunner to aim his weapon at United States troops. Those facts don't excuse the captain's conduct, Mr. Wrage suggests,... |
1470554_0 | Bear Hunt Is Proposed In New Jersey | The agency that writes New Jersey's hunting regulations today proposed the state's first bear hunt since 1970 to thin a bear population that has been moving into more suburban areas and frightening people as they spread. But before the day was out, the proposal for a six-day black bear hunt in December was already gett... |
1470566_1 | Strained Relations, And Spilled Merlot; Restaurateur Shows Displeasure Over French Leaders' Stance on Iraq | them longtime patrons who vowed never to return. One man left a message calling him ''foul and vicious.'' Another vowed to picket for peace outside his restaurant and drive him out of business. As they drifted into the restaurant this afternoon and learned about his protest, some of his customers voiced support, while ... |
1476158_0 | Science of Hormones | To the Editor: As a 54-year-old woman with hot flashes of my own, I was saddened to see the March 22 letters about hormone replacement therapy that blame the scientific messenger for what are in fact long overdue research results. As someone who may be saved from invasive breast cancer, stroke or heart attack, I applau... |
1474828_0 | Is the Future Older, Smaller and Better? | To the Editor: A March 17 editorial mentions my book ''The Population Bomb,'' and its warnings about shortages of resources. In the book, and many later publications, I also discussed the unhappy connections of population growth to the deterioration of our epidemiological environment. I warned of the emergence of plagu... |
1474826_0 | Is the Future Older, Smaller and Better? | To the Editor: Re ''Humanity's Slowing Growth'' (editorial, March 17): The freedom of women and men to make decisions on family size is contributing to slower population growth. The decisions, especially by women, are helping not only individuals, but also families, communities and countries. But population is still gr... |
1474684_4 | Isolated Bangladeshi Area Proves an Ideal Lab | and has an annual budget of $16 million. The basic data collection is done by community health research workers like Rabeya Khatun, 45 and a mother of two. She walks from house to house, 351 in all, moving by country boat in monsoon season, when much of the area comes under water. She inquires about everything from bir... |
1474677_0 | The Western Front | There are three fronts in this Iraq war: one in Iraq, one between America and its Western allies, and one between America and the Arab world. They are all being affected by this unilateral exercise of U.S. power. For now, I've embedded myself on the Western front, where, I can report, all is quiet. France is shocked an... |
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