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1474608_1 | In Praise of Failed Diplomacy | motley ''coalition of the willing,'' only four of whose members offered military support: Britain, Australia, Poland and -- wait for it -- Albania. Yet it is worth pondering a curious footnote to French policy offered by Jean-David Levitte, the French ambassador to the United States. It turned out that his country's fa... |
1474452_10 | The Philosopher of Islamic Terror | and Qutb recounts some of these and remarks on their wisdom and significance. His tone is always lucid and plain. Yet the total effect of his writing is almost sensual in its measured pace. The very title ''In the Shade of the Qur'an'' conveys a vivid desert image, as if the Koran were a leafy palm tree, and we have on... |
1474617_1 | Frisson of Unease Among the City's French | French New Yorkers are tiring of the incessant talk of boycotts and the anti-French jokes. ''We're concerned that things will get worse,'' said Arnaud Thieffry, president of the Union Français de L'Étranger, an organization that represents an estimated 30,000 French expatriates in the city. ''True boycotts, wild charac... |
1474883_3 | A Security Blanket, but With No Guarantees | Airports and Shipping Apply Stricter Rules In February, new bomb detection equipment at Kennedy International Airport set off an alarm, sensing nitrates -- a common bomb ingredient -- in the luggage of a group of Muslims returning from their pilgrimage to Mecca. The culprit turned out to be 15 gallons of harmless holy ... |
1474722_8 | Rebutting a Claim of Tarnished Valor; Research Challenges Account of 9/11 Looting by Firefighters | the truck was parked on Liberty Street, just to the south of two stores, Structure and Express, that stocked thousands of blue jeans. Using detailed accounts of the collapse of the south tower, he described how both the truck and the stores were driven deep into P-15 and P-16, two of the 75-by-75-foot sections on the g... |
1474706_3 | For Soldiers and Their Families, Electronic Links Are Vital | Al Qaeda prisoners are being held. Yet even for the immediacy of e-mail and instant messaging, Ms. Young said she still feels desperately far away from him and has trouble appreciating what is really going on around him. ''I cannot fathom it,'' she said. ''I cannot imagine hearing the bombs go off, or hearing rounds of... |
1471428_0 | MEMO PAD | Carriers Adjust For Possible War Most airlines have followed US Airways and temporarily relaxed penalties for passengers who might change destinations or flight schedules if war begins or if the government declares a code-red security alert. US Airways started the move last week, allowing ticketed passengers 90 days to... |
1471386_6 | Director Tries to Untangle Web of Cancer Controversies | its increased use by men? A. Recognizing the dependency of prostate cancer on testosterone, I am not convinced there is enough evidence on the safety of testosterone to justify its widespread use. Q. You were in your office here only a short while when a huge controversy landed in your turf. A pair of Scandinavian rese... |
1471584_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths AYRES, DR. JOSE MARCIO | AYRES-Dr. Jose Marcio. The Board of Trustees and the Staff of the Wildlife Conservation Society are deeply saddened by the loss of their distinguished senior conservationist, Dr. Jose Marcio Ayres. For over 20 years, Dr. Ayres worked with local people to protect the wildlife and wild places in his native Brazil. His ef... |
1471387_1 | Exploring Combat and the Psyche, Beginning With Homer | Dr. Shay passed the time by ''filling in the gaps'' in his education. He read English translations of the Greek epics, the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey,'' and the Athenian plays and philosophers. That led to another twist of fate, a different scientific destiny. Nowadays Dr. Shay, 61, is a psychiatrist who specializes i... |
1471483_2 | Instant Messaging Leaves School for Office | fast. Most IM conversations are one-to-one, but it is also easy to include several people. As the silent conversation unspools, each party can easily engage in unrelated activities -- often including other IM conversations. Many IM users rave about the ability to do different things at their desks while also engaging i... |
1471407_1 | José Márcio Ayres Dies at 49; Saved Heart of the Amazon | species of fish and birds, with local people benefiting from their survival and having a say in how to assure it. Dr. Ayres, who held the society's Carter chair in rain forest ecology, set up the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in 1996, followed by the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve next to it two years... |
1471432_0 | The New Airport Profiling | Having successfully fielded thousands of newly minted federal agents to screen air travelers and their luggage, the Transportation Security Administration is now turning to a far more controversial endeavor. The agency is developing a sophisticated screening system designed to identify travelers who may pose a terroris... |
1471410_0 | PCB Cleanup in Upper Hudson Is Delayed for Another Year | The dredging of the upper Hudson River to remove the toxic residue of its industrial past -- already stalled many times by squabbles over science and culpability -- has been delayed again. Federal environmental officials said yesterday that an additional year would be needed for planning and design beyond the three yea... |
1471393_5 | Living With Cerebral Palsy, in the Gym and With a Kick | astronomical jury awards, are not preventable in most cases. They may occur because the placenta separates prematurely, the umbilical cord strangles the baby, the baby's shoulders cannot fit through the birth canal, or some other birth mishap that the doctor cannot control. Varying Disabilities Cerebral palsy is a catc... |
1472574_0 | 'Looking for Spinoza' | To the Editor: Philosophers have long been speculating about thoughts and feelings. Recently cognitive scientists and neuroscientists have begun to investigate these phenomena empirically. Their research has catalyzed fundamental reconsiderations of the nature of consciousness as well as the relations between mind and ... |
1472667_0 | Morning Ouzo | To the Editor: ''In Athens, Ouzo Sweetens Life,'' (Choice Tables, Feb. 23) by Kathleen Cromwell, brought back memories of a steamy June morning in 1970, our first day in Athens. My wife and I were walking back to our hotel, sweltering from the heat and feeling dejected, because a badly needed money order had not arrive... |
1472820_3 | Women Recount Life as Cadets: Forced Sex, Fear and Silent Rage | don't want young women to feel that they have to make that kind of humiliating sacrifice to become officers.'' He added, ''That's why we're going to look at the whole place.'' Many of the women who have come forward say they had dreamed of becoming fighter pilots and officers. But their ordeals, they say, convinced the... |
1472595_11 | The Perils of Prevention | one of several risk factors for fractures in the elderly. When the DEXA scan first came into use a decade ago, a panel of international experts convened to decide the cutoff point for diagnosing osteoporosis, drawing the line at bone density that was a certain level below that of the average 25-year-old woman. The pane... |
1474938_0 | Natural Hormones | To the Editor: Re ''Delusions of Feeling Better'' (editorial, March 19): As a practicing physician for 30 years, I have treated hundreds of menopausal women with human hormones, available only through knowledgeable doctors, including certain estrogens found only in humans (not the ones used in the New England Journal o... |
1474942_2 | Start-Up Finds Technology Slump Works in Its Favor | will forward the e-mail to the intended recipient. Analysts who have seen the Mailblocks system are impressed by it, but some said it would be hard for a new entrant to become anything more than a niche player in the e-mail market. The International Data Corporation, a research house, estimates that there are about 700... |
1475051_0 | Cat and Mouse on Iraq's Crucial Waterways | They thought the Iraqi tug might be filled with mines and possibly snipers. A suicide boat, the Navy Special Operations boat crew called it. A boarding party of Polish commandos in black masks strapped on Kevlar vests and loaded their M-4 carbines. An American seaman on the back of a high-speed Navy boat used his infra... |
1469761_0 | All-Out Effort on AIDS | To the Editor: Re ''U.N. Cuts Back Its World Population Projection'' (news article, Feb. 27): The new population projections released by the United Nations show the positive effect of international family planning programs in developing countries, but they also warn that much more has to be done to prevent the spread o... |
1469886_1 | Irish and British Leaders Fail To Rescue Ulster Peace Accord | of the 1998 accord to share power equally between Protestants and Catholics. Elections would be postponed from May 1 to May 29 to allow time to canvass support. Speaking to reporters after midnight, Mr. Blair declined to specify the new proposals beyond saying they offer a ''lasting and durable'' solution to the crisis... |
1469933_0 | CHURCH DELEGATION IN RUSSIA | A delegation of the New York-based National Council of Churches met with Russian officials as part of an effort by the council to spread its message against a war with Iraq. Representatives of the ecumenical group, which unites 36 Protestant and Orthodox Christian denominations, have met with Chancellor Gerhard Schröde... |
1469889_3 | Millions Raised for Qaeda in Brooklyn, U.S. Says | financing, American officials had refused to discuss the case against them or unseal relevant court documents until today. Officials in Germany are considering a request from the United States to extradite the two men, which Yemen has opposed. If tried and convicted in the United States, Sheik Mouyad, 54, would face up... |
1469891_1 | U.S. Sending 2 Dozen Bombers In Easy Range of North Koreans | program. Mr. Bush then added, almost as an aside, that if the administration's efforts ''don't work diplomatically, they'll have to work militarily.'' The statement seemed to reflect a concern in the White House that within weeks it could be dealing with simultaneous crises. ''This is all about the recognition that Nor... |
1468638_2 | In Blix's Words: 'Iraq Could Have Made Greater Efforts' to Find Illegal Items | of some questions put by inspectors in the field. A number of other actions might be discussed under the heading ''cooperation on process'': (a) After some initial difficulties with Iraq relating to escorting flights into the no-fly zones, Unmovic helicopters have been able to operate as requested both for transport an... |
1473773_3 | Nazis' Human Cargo Now Haunts French Railway | he said, showed the company was eager to hide its activity because the convoys were referred to by the code name of IAPT, the French initials for Israelites, Germans, Poles and Czechoslovaks. The trains were also ordered to stay away from the main stations in Marseille, Avignon and Toulouse where they could be delayed ... |
1473764_2 | Pirelli Returns to Basics With Tires Made in U.S. | chairman of Telecom Italia and of Olivetti, which said last week that they planned to merge; Pirelli holds its stake in Telecom Italia through Olivetti. Since Pirelli sold two fiber-optic-related businesses to Cisco Systems and Corning and spent most of the proceeds investing in Telecom Italia, Pirelli's stock has tend... |
1473848_1 | Help Wanted: Customizing A Job Search | overloading a résumé with keywords and technical references. An effective résumé reflects not only the specific skills relevant to the job description, but also a sense of the employer's organization and culture. ''Get a sense of some of the nuances of that organization,'' he said. ''Tailor your résumé to that specific... |
1473848_2 | Help Wanted: Customizing A Job Search | searched by employers (usually using keywords). Career coaches advise job seekers to post several résumés tailored to different sorts of opportunities to at least two of the major boards. It may be more efficient for employers to conduct a narrowly defined search of the board than to post a listing and then sift throug... |
1471681_1 | Turmoil in the Andes | suffered crippling bouts of political violence and instability. President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's hasty escape from his presidential palace in Bolivia last month -- he hid in an ambulance to flee a riot -- was only the latest indication of just how tenuous democracy's hold is on the region. Washington policy makers... |
1471763_1 | An Order of Fries, Please, But Do Hold the French | well, small potatoes. ''Making Congress look even sillier than it sometimes looks would not be high on my priority list,'' said Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts. ''There's a potential war going on. There's a lot of debate about is Congress being actively involved in foreign policy. It's bad enough... |
1471791_0 | Commanders Worry More About Their Troops' E-Mail Than Their Loose Lips | Concerned that sensitive information might leak out, some units of the United States military are starting to clamp down on e-mail communication from their soldiers and sailors, who have been using it from ships, bases and even desert outposts to stay in touch with family and friends. The uncertainty underscores the do... |
1473338_2 | Europeans Still Seek A Solution To Avert War | be called upon to provide aid and participate in rebuilding Iraq. French leaders did not respond directly to President Bush's angry remarks about France on Sunday at a press conference in the Azores, in which he seemed to imply that France would be held to account for leading the campaign to block a second Security Cou... |
1473254_2 | 'Oldest Old' Still Show Alertness | as a normal part of aging,'' said Dr. John C. Morris, a neurologist at Washington University in St. Louis. ''It should be seen as a warning signal indicating that it's time to go get evaluated.'' Such thinking reflects a shift toward greater treatment for the oldest old. In the past, doctors often neglected to treat ag... |
1473317_3 | Extra Steps Are Needed in Wartime | medication; and a copy of your medical prescriptions. Jot down the address of the American embassy or consulate in countries you will visit, to expedite registration upon your arrival. If you are an elite participant in the loyalty program of an airline or hotel company, book its services, as you will receive priority ... |
1473333_0 | Hormone Therapy, Already Found to Have Risks, Is Now Said to Lack Benefits | Confounding a widely held impression, a large federal study has found that hormone therapy for menopause does not affect quality of life. Women taking the drugs did not feel more energetic, or have more sexual pleasure or even more restful sleep. They were not less depressed, their minds were no clearer and their memor... |
1475799_4 | A Trail of Cookies? Cover Your Tracks | to them so you can monitor and delete cookies quickly. E-Mail Anonymity E-mail is another area where privacy and anonymity can be important. Standard e-mail can be compared to a postcard in the world of regular mail: it can be read by mail-server administrators or intercepted en route to recipients. But there are sever... |
1475788_0 | First, Do No Harm (Wirelessly) | IF you think the gowns are bad, consider another indignity you might encounter during a hospital stay: your doctor uses a cellphone, but you and your visitors are prohibited from doing the same. Officially or not, that double standard prevails in many places as hospitals consider the possibility that electromagnetic in... |
1475759_4 | Attacks on Chemical Ships in Southeast Asia Seem to Be Piracy, Not Terror | night, Singapore port officials said in a statement. Tugboats must now provide six hours' advance warning of their movements in Singapore's port. All small vessels have been ordered not to enter -- by day or night -- the special anchorages for chemical tankers, for very large crude oil tankers and for tankers carrying ... |
1475739_2 | Key Executive At HealthSouth Admits to Fraud | court filings, Mr. Owens described how he had personally tried to persuade Mr. Scrushy to abandon accounting fraud as a mechanism for meeting Wall Street's earnings projections, but to no avail. Now, to forestall any charges or to win at trial, Mr. Scrushy will have to persuade prosecutors or a jury that both men -- in... |
1475645_0 | Hopes Fading for Bolivia Pipeline Project | Ed Miller had high hopes in the late 1990's when, as manager for British Gas in this landlocked country, he and another geologist came up with a sure-fire plan to develop and market Bolivia's immense reserves of natural gas. With an eye on California and its insatiable appetite for energy, three multinationals, includi... |
1470048_0 | Travel Industry and Privacy Groups Object to a U.S. Screening Plan for Airline Passengers | The travel industry and civil liberties groups are sharply objecting to government plans for a new airline passenger screening program, saying it could subject Americans to intensive background checks without adequate controls on how the information was used. The proposed program, an upgrading of current profiling syst... |
1469543_3 | Coping With the Threat of War | a big decrease in business but he expects changes and cancellations should a conflict break out. For the airline industry, of course, a conflict would spell potential disaster. The International Air Transport Association estimates that an invasion of Iraq could lead to an immediate 20 percent drop in worldwide travel, ... |
1469531_2 | The Real Scientific Hero of 1953 | A nonlinear system like this couldn't be analyzed by breaking it into pieces. Indeed, that's the hallmark of a nonlinear system: the parts don't add up to the whole. Understanding a system like this defied all known methods. It was a mathematical monster. Undaunted, Fermi and his collaborators plucked their virtual str... |
1469677_4 | NORTH KOREA MIG'S INTERCEPT U.S. JET ON SPYING MISSION | the Cobra Ball, which is equipped with sophisticated sensors to collect electronic and optical data on ballistic missiles and their re-entry vehicles. There are only three Cobra Balls in the Air Force inventory, and one is in depot for maintenance, Air Force officials said. One of the Cobra Ball's missions is to monito... |
1469547_0 | British and Irish Leaders Seek Progress on Belfast Pact | Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland held a series of crisis meetings today with Northern Ireland's main political parties for the second time in a month, trying to resolve a deadlock in carrying out the five-year-old Belfast peace accord. Politicians from all sides described the talks as t... |
1473137_0 | Humanity's Slowing Growth | A generation ago, Paul Ehrlich warned in ''The Population Bomb'' that with demands on resources soaring, overpopulation would kill our planet. As demands on water and air soared, many thought he was right. Now it turns out that population growth rates are plummeting -- for good and tragic reasons. The implications are ... |
1473111_1 | China's New Prime Minister Seen as Careful Conciliator | Wen is that he never makes political mistakes.'' Although he is now the main manager of the world's sixth-largest economy, Mr. Wen ranks third in the Communist Party hierarchy, behind Mr. Hu and Wu Bangguo, who now heads the legislature. Jiang Zemin, the recently retired president and party chief, remains chairman of t... |
1473118_0 | France Seeks Compromise To Prevent U.N. Rupture | Battling the American deadline for war, but reluctant to destroy its relationship with Washington, France is seeking an 11th-hour compromise that will avoid a rupture at the United Nations, senior French officials said tonight. But the Bush administration today rejected a declaration issued over the weekend by France, ... |
1475190_1 | Pilots Learn To Overhaul Flight Plans, And Attitudes | to the bad guys.'' The pilots' changing role, from conducting surgical strikes to providing close air support for ground troops, has required retooling of plans and attitudes. ''This is a balancing act that is ongoing,'' said Rear Adm. John M. Kelly, commander of the three-carrier task force supporting fighter squadron... |
1475180_0 | Oil Prices Help Mexico's Trade | High oil prices pushed Mexico's trade balance into a surplus for the first time since June 1997, the finance ministry said today, reporting a $65 million surplus for February. Mexico exported $1.66 billion in crude oil and other petroleum products in February, an increase of more than 100 percent over February 2002. Th... |
1475230_0 | There's a New Deputy in the Sky | Bill Scannell is a frequent business traveler, a software company executive, an Internet dabbler in privacy-rights activism and a former Army intelligence officer. These days, when he boards a plane, he also is a man with a plan. ''It's Skyjacking 101,'' said Mr. Scannell, 38, of Austin, Tex. The exercise begins by thi... |
1475128_4 | Effort to Make Sex Drug for Women Challenges Experts | is that the enzyme it acts on, PD-5, seems to be present in only one of the vagina's four layers. That may explain why studies suggest that Viagra does not fix female arousal problems -- and why so many women who have tried it say it has not helped. One recent study was more promising. Dr. Jennifer Berman, a urologist ... |
1474352_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Menopause Therapy | Galen Holdings, a pharmaceutical company based in Northern Ireland, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to sell a hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women that is delivered by a self-inserted vaginal ring. The product, Femring, treats hot flashes and vaginal symptoms, the company said, and r... |
1474339_0 | Hormone Therapy | To the Editor: The results of a new study on hormone replacement are less a ''reversal of fortune for drugs'' than a devastating blow to the psychological health of thousands of women (''Delusions of Feeling Better,'' editorial, March 19). How can a randomly assigned study of 16,608 women, none of whom had severe sympt... |
1474290_1 | China Feeling a Need to Build an Oil Reserve | China's limited storage capacity; Western experts said that at least some of it was probably parked aboard aging tankers. As a result, China could probably get through a very brief interruption in supply, said Norio Ehara, an Asian energy specialist at the International Energy Agency in Paris. ''They purchased a lot of... |
1475923_3 | France Holds Out a Tentative Olive Branch, With Thorns, to the U.S. | Blair and Foreign Minister Jack Straw were both in the United States for meetings with the Bush administration and at the United Nations. Mr. de Villepin returned time and again in his speech to what he termed a need for collective decision-making at the United Nations. And despite the presence of thousands of American... |
1476039_1 | Fears of War and Illness Hurt Tourism in Asia | entertainment, sapping economic growth in the world's most populous region. ''This is a double whammy for Asia,'' said Stephen Roach, the chief economist at Morgan Stanley. ''China -- no matter what people tell you -- doesn't have domestic demand growth. They are dependent on the U.S. market, and the U.S. is facing a s... |
1471263_0 | After Weeks of Avoiding a Stand, Japan Says It Will Back the U.S. Resolution on Iraq | Japan's statement on Saturday that it would support a new United Nations resolution on Iraq sought by the United States came after weeks of fence-sitting, marked by almost no public debate on the issue. ''Japan supports the proposed resolution as something that will mark the final step of the global community's effort ... |
1471232_0 | As Cellphones Become Cuter, Clarity Suffers | The mobile telephone has evolved into a sleek multifunctional marvel. It can store e-mail addresses and hundreds of phone numbers. It can emit any of dozens of ring tones or vibrate silently. It can be used to play games and double as a digital camera -- even as it is small enough to fit in cigarette case. But for all ... |
1471284_0 | The Asian Front | France has promised to veto the U.S.-British-Spanish resolution to end Saddam Hussein's manipulation of the U.N. Two other veto-bearing members of the Security Council, Russia and China, are expected to join in protecting Iraq from being forced to disarm. President Bush has made it clear he will call for the vote that ... |
1476900_0 | Michelin Man Enlists Palm To Move Tires | Maybe the cross-promotional deal to be announced today between the tire maker Michelin and the hand-held computer maker Palm deserves a product safety advisory: Products Meant to Be Used Separately. Under the deal, Michelin is offering a free Palm Zire, Palm's entry-level digital organizer, to customers who buy four ne... |
1470361_0 | Panel Finds No Connection Between Cancer and Abortion | A scientific panel appointed by the director of the National Cancer Institute has concluded that there is no evidence that having an abortion increases the risk of breast cancer later in life, a suggestion raised earlier on the agency's Web site. Critics have contended that the Bush administration revised its fact shee... |
1470340_3 | Many Women Gleeful at Old Friend's Encore | and Health. ''The thing about contraception is, there is no ideal method for everyone, and when someone finds something that works, and then it disappears, it's like having your insurance change and having to find a new doctor.'' If women like a method, they are more likely to use it properly, making it more effective,... |
1472202_0 | A $70 Million Plan to Ease the Path to College | Trying to replicate what it calls the advantages of middle-class life, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation said yesterday that it would spend $70 million over the next two decades to help put more than 3,000 of the Kansas City area's poorest students through college. Working on the premise that a distant promise of sc... |
1472190_0 | Brazilian Leader Introduces Program to End Slave Labor | Attacking one of Brazil's most shameful but deeply rooted social problems, the country's new left-wing government has announced a sweeping initiative intended to eliminate slave labor. The plan calls for stepping up police raids on ranches, logging operations and mines that lure poor and often illiterate peasants into ... |
1474115_0 | Wave of Protests, From Europe to New York | Leaders and protesters around the world today condemned the start of war in Iraq, with President Jacques Chirac of France warning that it ''will be fraught with consequences for the future.'' In Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin called for an immediate halt to the American-led assault, saying, ''This military action ... |
1474108_0 | An Inexhaustible Energy to Protect the Environment | THE danger is growing, and if it is left unchecked, say those who demand the use of force, it will be only a matter of time before someone is attacked. This is New Jersey, and the danger is from black bears that are increasingly intruding into urban areas. The State Fish and Game Council, if it has its way, will hand o... |
1474096_0 | Resisting Birth Control, the Philippines Grows Crowded | The more the merrier,'' said the cardinal, Jaime Sin, when asked a few years back about the country's population explosion, and his wish was granted. The population in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country has doubled in the last half-century, to 80 million, and could double again in less time than that. Under the... |
1473596_0 | Chirac's View: 'A Heavy Responsibility' | Following is the text of a statement made today by President Jacques Chirac of France as translated and issued by Élysée Palace: Ever since the beginning of the Iraq crisis, France has endeavored to make possible the necessary disarmament of Iraq under United Nations authority. This disarmament is under way, as the ins... |
1473543_0 | Delusions of Feeling Better | Bit by bit the evidence is accumulating that most women are foolish if they keep taking hormone pills for years at a time. Last year federal health officials halted a large study of hormone replacement therapy because the pills used, a combination of estrogen and progestin, were causing more harm than good. Women takin... |
1471928_0 | The Potatoes Were Smiling; the Fries Were Blue | Kathy Kirkpatrick will do almost anything to make her 7-year-old daughter, Tammy, eat a healthy dinner. When Tammy was an infant, Ms. Kirkpatrick would put green food dye in her eggs because Tammy liked the color. More recently, she bought green ketchup so Tammy could slather it on her vegetables. This week, she tried ... |
1471978_3 | Ease of Paperless E-Mail Sidelines the Forlorn Fax | a confirmation. Although the time and date could be altered on the fax machine, the phone company's records will not lie when establishing when a fax was sent. Both e-mail transmission dates and text can be easily altered, and because of the vagaries of computer servers, e-mail may arrive hours or days after it was sen... |
1463868_0 | U.N. Conference Backs Efforts to Curb Mercury Pollution | Delegates attending a United Nations environmental conference here last week endorsed a global crackdown on pollution caused by mercury, although the United States blocked efforts for binding restrictions on its use. Mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal, is particularly dangerous for infants and children, and it can be ... |
1463831_2 | Even as it gazes toward the stars, the space program has broad benefits for those rooted to Earth. | pour money into NASA. But now, when space technology looks so fragile, may be the time to note some of its often overlooked legacies. ''We're benefiting now from what NASA did 20 years ago and 30 years ago,'' said Jaron Lanier, a virtual-reality pioneer who developed several technologies for NASA that migrated into com... |
1463883_3 | Debate Over the Shuttle Fleet's Value to Science Has Been Raging From the Beginning | large Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, forming a network of communications hubs that relay large volumes of scientific data around the world. Shuttles also orbited the giant Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite in 1991 and an inflatable antenna experiment in 1996, and successfully tested a tethered satellite that cou... |
1468572_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Peace Effort Slogs On | Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland met with Prime Minister Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street in London to prepare for talks in Belfast on Monday on the stagnated Northern Ireland peace effort. The province's five-year-old home-rule government was suspended in October because of disagreement between Roman Catholic and... |
1468489_2 | Canadian and Dutch Officials Warn of Security's Side Effects | At the meeting today he spoke more generally, saying today's terrorists sought to attack the nature of American and Western society. ''Our freedoms and values, very much including privacy, are precisely the target. Far from making us safer, every ill-conceived reduction of those freedoms -- every needless encroachment ... |
1468434_1 | Archbishop of Canterbury Enthroned | pressures drive people away from the institutionalized church. A new church-commissioned report on the past decade warned that there had been steep declines in Sunday attendance, baptisms, marriages and paid clergy. The study predicted that if trends continued, by the year 2030 Church of England attendance would be dow... |
1461955_2 | Two More Are Slain in Protestant Gang Feud in Belfast | were empty, and there were no injuries. The police said today that they were questioning two people in connection with the deaths but gave no details. The killings brought to four the number of dead in the current outbreak, which began last October when the best known brigadier of the Ulster Defense Association, Johnny... |
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1463697_0 | Saving A Landmark | To the Editor: Re ''As a Business Sets Up, a Group Takes Steps to Preserve a Landmark'' (Jan. 26). This article on the development of the Pirelli building site for an Ikea store failed to acknowledge the efforts of New Haven's Alliance for Architecture. The Alliance for Architecture is a 12-year-old organization that p... |
1463376_3 | The Friendly Bogeyman of Los Angeles Radio | up the accent that would become El Cucuy's. He found his way back to radio at stations in places like Fresno and Santa Ana, and came to KSCA in 1997. With ''El Cucuy'' he offers what he calls ''a reality show'' -- a mix of jokes, goofy contests, double-entendre humor, calls from listeners (which can develop into real-l... |
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1463403_6 | The Sweet Essence Of Barbados | the first floor of this curiously majestic home (the upper floors are occupied by the owner) and admired the Chinese Chippendale staircase and cedar paneling. Outside, we explored around the old windmill and gardens, the latter of which had been vandalized by guinea fowl that prowled the grounds with a proprietary air.... |
1463328_4 | Tangled Up in Spam | devise coping strategies of their own. Consumer advocates are working mostly in vain to persuade lawmakers to take action in what should, after all, be a popular cause. Each in its own way, for different reasons, these efforts are failing. Long, long ago, in a previous century, when the Internet was young, people disco... |
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1463573_2 | Vote France Off the Island | diplomacy-lite foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, lacks seriousness. Most of France's energy is devoted to holding America back from acting alone, not holding Saddam Hussein's feet to the fire to comply with the U.N. The French position is utterly incoherent. The inspections have not worked yet, says Mr. de Ville... |
1462073_3 | Menstrual Cups, at Age 66, Begin to Make Up for Lost Time | Web site, www.mum.org. The first cup in this country was patented in 1937 by Leona W. Chalmers, an actress, who in her promotional pamphlets referred to earlier European designs. Wartime rubber shortages put her company out of business, but she later teamed with a venture capitalist to market two successors, the Tasset... |
1462113_2 | The Rules on Baggage Inspection Are Unclear When Things Go Missing | addressed adequately, he said. ''To the extent that the T.S.A. is doing bag inspections outside of the sight of passengers, there's a break in the chain of custody of the bag that can leave passengers and their luggage vulnerable,'' he said. An airline that sells a ticket and a passenger who buys one enter into a contr... |
1462155_3 | Some Breaks in the Budget For Causes Small and Large | he said, ''but it's always been sort of a subtext.'' Mr. Pataki also proposed an income tax credit of up to $50,000 for homeowners who fix up historic properties in distressed areas, after two dozen preservation groups pushed for it through an e-mail and letter-writing campaign last fall. They argued that renovations w... |
1462076_0 | Seizure Drug Cools Hot Flashes | An antiseizure drug appears to help postmenopausal women control hot flashes, but the help comes with a high rate of mild side effects, a new study has found. Researchers said the drug, gabapentin, might be an alternative for women who would rather not use hormone replacement therapy to reduce menopause symptoms. The s... |
1467622_2 | How the Arms of the Helixes Are Poised to Serve | help clotting, leaving her at risk of hemorrhaging. But then she began taking Cerezyme, a drug made by genetic engineering that supplies the enzyme that Gaucher patients lack. The drug improved her blood cell levels, making her strong enough to undergo hip replacement surgery, which has allowed her to walk again. ''I t... |
1467755_1 | North Korea Tests a Missile as South Korea Prepares for a New President | Japan. The missile in this test, American officials said, fell harmlessly into the Sea of Japan. ''This is something that they test periodically,'' one official said, though it is not clear that North Korea has conducted such a launching for the past few years. The Japanese foreign minister, Yoriko Kawaguchi, said toda... |
1465776_5 | NEWS SUMMARY | the Buick Invitational, his first PGA Tournament since he underwent knee surgery in December, by four strokes over Carl Pettersson. D1 Irratic Tyson May Forgo Fight Mike Tyson, who got a tattoo that covers most of the left side of his face last week and left his trainer waiting for him at the gym for three days, told h... |
1465741_2 | Europe's Groundswell: Public Opinion | has been subordinated to Chirac's Gaullism, and they don't like it,'' one diplomat here said as the debate at NATO went into the night. The reference was to the chief foreign policy heritage of former President Charles de Gaulle, to steer a course independent from that of Washington. ''But,'' the diplomat continued, ''... |
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