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1465688_1 | Telecom gear makers look beyond a war in Iraq and see some opportunities. | at Pyramid Research, a company in Cambridge, Mass., that conducts international telecommunications research. Mr. Braude, who is also the author of ''The New Iraq,'' a coming book about rebuilding that country's infrastructure, estimated that Iraq needed to invest at least $1 billion over the next several years to impro... |
1464525_1 | Neville Colman, Pathologist and DNA Expert, Dies at 57 | A shortage can bring about a type of anemia as well as damage to the nervous system and serious birth defects, including spina bifida. He found that the traditional diet of the indigenous people, relying on maize, which has low levels of folate, and rice, which lost much of the nutrient in traditional long cooking meth... |
1464517_0 | Leaders Try to Mend Irish Peace Accord | Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern of Ireland jointly met with the leaders of the major Northern Ireland political parties at Hillsborough Castle outside Belfast today in an effort to break a deadlock over implementing a peace accord there. The leaders met with each group separately, s... |
1464612_2 | Web's Tin Cups Find Soft Touches Aplenty | cyber-beggars, and many compete to become beneficiaries of her fame and site traffic. The category has also grown to such proportions that it is now indexed: the CyberBeg.com directory links to more than 200 e-panhandling Web sites, and Yahoo and Google offer smaller lists. In this age of identity theft and hacking con... |
1466088_0 | Tell The Truth | As I was listening to the French foreign minister make his case at the U.N. for giving Saddam Hussein more time to comply, I was struck by the number of people in the Security Council chamber who applauded. I wish there were someone I could applaud for. Sorry, I can't applaud the French foreign minister, because I don'... |
1466063_0 | Another March of Folly? | Twenty years ago this month, I was an aide to Vice President George Bush during another trans-Atlantic crisis. There were demonstrations in European capitals in which America was portrayed as the threat to world peace and the American president was called a warmonger, a ''cowboy'' and worse. Vice President Bush's respo... |
1466171_1 | ANTIWAR PROTESTS FAIL TO SWAY BUSH ON PLANS FOR IRAQ | as a last resort raised British and American hopes that the Security Council could ultimately be won over. Officials said the European acceptance of the principle that force might be necessary, in combination with possible critical statements about Iraq's cooperation over the next several weeks by Hans Blix, one of the... |
1466558_2 | Development of Biotech Crops Is Booming in Asia | its research on genetically modified crops. Already, a majority of the cotton grown in China, the world's leading producer, is genetically engineered to resist pests. Besides rice and tomatoes, China has developed genetically modified corn, tobacco, sweet peppers, petunias and poplar trees. Other Asian countries, meanw... |
1466623_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Pharmaceuticals, have agreed to merge, the latest consolidation in the industry. The deal would give NPS, which has no products on the market, access to Enzon's cash and sales and distribution expertise. Enzon, which already has marketed products, would get a pipeline of future drugs. [C3.] Merrill Settles Enron Invest... |
1463050_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Effort To Avert Clash With Rebels | An American couple whose guest ranch in the southern state of Chiapas has been blockaded by Zapatista rebels said the state government was weighing whether to buy them out to avert a violent confrontation. The Americans, Glen Wersch and Ellen Jones, have operated Rancho Esmeralda as an eco-tourism resort for eight year... |
1463003_1 | U.N. Envoys Said to Differ Sharply in Reaction to Powell Speech | for Security Council envoys immediately after Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's presentation at the United Nations on Wednesday, recounted, for example, a sharp exchange between Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, and Ana Palacio, his counterpart from Spain. Ms. Palacio bluntly rejected a proposal Mr... |
1463030_2 | U.S. READY TO BACK NEW U.N. MEASURE ON IRAQ, BUSH SAYS | Powell presented evidence to the Security Council that he said showed Iraq was deceiving inspectors in its determination to conceal or obtain nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, many experts said there were signs that France was preparing for a possible shift in position. France's only aircraft carrier, the Charl... |
1468002_2 | Panel Supports 2 Tall Towers At Disaster Site | will be announced tomorrow morning at a press conference at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, which overlooks ground zero. Several people involved in the rebuilding process said they remained uncertain about which way the decision would go. But one member of the committee that recommended the Think plan yeste... |
1468052_0 | THREATS AND RESPONSES: Briefly Noted; WAR PROTESTS IN ITALY | War protesters near the city of Pisa briefly blocked trains carrying American military equipment across Italy, forcing hundreds of Italian military and police officers to pull them away from the tracks. The trains were carrying jeeps, earthmovers and other equipment to Camp Darby, an American military base along the co... |
1467945_3 | If Sea Gates Don't Work, Call Canute | at stake is the use of this city as an ordinary city,'' said Paolo Costa, the mayor, who has generally supported the sea gates project but has also called for more study of the environmental impact. Mr. Costa said that without the traffic of real life through the exotic maze of Venice, it would become infinitely less e... |
1464876_0 | Mellowing With Age? Yeah, Right. | TOWERING over the Yankees' spring training base, casting a Super Bowl shadow of civic superiority from across Dale Mabry Highway, is Raymond James Stadium, home of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the only kind of team George Steinbrenner can bring himself to respect. Champions in the most current sense, unlike Steinbrenner's... |
1464769_1 | Strong Franc Skews Swiss Profit Picture | will begin to report in euros this year. ''In the end, it makes it easier to understand.'' Because of its heavy export dependence, and since the European Union created its single euro-zone market, Switzerland alone has this currency problem during reporting season. Spain and the Netherlands had it until they became par... |
1467464_3 | Some new incarnations of snow, for the industry and the wintry-blanket effect. | be performed only during winter, when snow has fallen.'' They considered using artificial snow from pulverized ice or freezing sprayed water, they added, ''but the problem is that large-scale facilities are required for this method.'' That means building an indoor road, refrigerating it and then maintaining freezing ai... |
1465510_5 | Parents of Mentally Ill Children Trade Custody for Care | dents in the walls of his mother's Bronx apartment from his punches. More than once a week, his mother said, she needed to call the police for help. ''This is a child,'' she would say when she thought they were handling him roughly. Daniel would be taken to the hospital, calmed, and discharged. Agencies that deal with ... |
1465433_1 | W.H.O. Plan On Tobacco: Limit Ads, Raise Taxes | promotion of tobacco, prohibit the use of misleading terms by tobacco companies, impose high taxes and insist that the companies be held liable for their products. Further, tobacco companies will be obliged to divulge all the ingredients in their products and to print warning labels that cover at least 30 percent of th... |
1465314_6 | Your Taxes; College Savings Plans: You'll Need a Scorecard | did: hire their own children, even young ones in a family owned business. The wages are a deductible business expense, and for this year children can earn up to the standard deduction of $4,750 before owing tax -- or up to $7,750 if they put the difference into an I.R.A. If the business is a sole proprietorship or part... |
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1465508_4 | 1.5 Million Demonstrators In Cities Across Europe Oppose a War Against Iraq | Park, where speakers exhorted Mr. Blair and President Bush to bow to the protesters' demands for peace. In Berlin, protesters from the eastern and western parts of the city met at the Brandenburg Gate, once a symbol of the city's cold war division. The police said the number of protesters was around 500,000. Some Germa... |
1465212_3 | The Efficient Way to Not See Each Other | e-mail I received from him simply said, 'Can I come home?' after a particularly long and grueling 10-day business trip.'' Even when couples aren't traveling, though, e-mail has become a primary form of communication. ''There's another way?'' asks Kelly Deters Baker, a managing partner of Ridgeland Properties. ''I can't... |
1465518_3 | U.S. TO SEEK TESTS TO SHOW THAT IRAQ RESISTS DISARMING | skeptics of using force. The ambiguity of Mr. Blix's statement, coupled with his rebuttal of certain information presented by the United States as evidence of Iraqi misconduct, dismayed many in the American and British governments. Mr. Blix's concluding statement on Friday was that ''the period of disarmament through i... |
1465570_0 | And Now, a Rift Over Food, Too? | To the Editor: You report that ''Consumers in Europe Resist Gene-Altered Foods'' (news article, Feb. 11), as many Americans would if they realized the extent of the tampering. Because food producers have resisted attempts to require truth in labeling, Americans unknowingly consume many genetically altered foods, and al... |
1465172_3 | Change of Habit | that because nuns were so deeply involved in the formation of young Catholics -- and because they outnumbered priests three to one -- to Catholics the face of Catholicism was primarily female. Indeed, compared with bishops and parish priests, the sisters were a fluid force, able to establish a new spur or ''foundation'... |
1465571_0 | And Now, a Rift Over Food, Too? | To the Editor: Foes of biotechnology gloss over two points: neither biotechnology nor genetic engineering is new, and consumers, government and industry have extensive, positive experience with both (news article, Feb. 11). Biotechnology dates at least to 6000 B.C., when the Babylonians used specialized microorganisms ... |
1465613_0 | THREATS AND RESPONSES: THE SCENE -- Paris; Throwing a Party With a Purpose | It was a party a hundred thousand strong, flowing haltingly below the slated mansard roofs of Paris's stately avenues, accompanied by balloons and banners and vendors selling foot-long hot dogs and fries. If there is one thing the French know how to do, it is how to conduct a demonstration. Ladies in stiletto heels and... |
1465162_1 | Lost Girl | second it happened. Walking up to the pencil sharpener in front of the room and wondering, as she sharpened her pencil, if anyone was thinking she looked fat.'' At first, it seems that Maynard (author of the winsome satirical novel ''To Die For'') has made a disastrous choice. After the second tower falls, one of Wendy... |
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1465199_0 | The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Deer | As a psychologist who has also been a sleep specialist for more than 16 years, I have had the opportunity to evaluate and treat many people with the sorts of parasomnias described in your article. I must take issue with the suggestion that many, if not most, complex-behavior parasomnias are neurological events. REM beh... |
1462551_0 | Corrections | A chart in Science Times yesterday with an article about the science experiments aboard the space shuttle Columbia reversed two images in some copies. A diagram by NASA should have appeared with text describing the shuttle's observations of the ozone layer; a photograph of Earth from Columbia should have appeared with ... |
1462391_0 | U.S. Delays Suing Europe Over Ban on Modified Food | With war looming in Iraq, the Bush administration has decided against antagonizing its European allies and has postponed filing a case against the European Union for its ban on genetically modified food, according to a senior administration official. ''There is no point in testing Europeans on food while they are being... |
1463140_0 | Lord Aberconway, 89, Met With Göring Secretly in '39 | Lord Aberconway, once a major British industrialist who built the Queen Elizabeth 2 ocean liner and who in 1939 took part in a secret meeting with Hitler's close aide Hermann Göring, died on Tuesday in London. He was 89. The meeting with seven British industrialists, aimed at averting a world war, was publicly discusse... |
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1461818_1 | No More Wire Mothers, Ever | with surrogate mothers, some made of terry cloth and some of wire. When exposed to a moving toy or a strange room, babies with cloth mothers rushed to them, buried their faces in the soft fabric and relaxed. Their peers, with only wire mothers, shook in terror against the wall. Left alone for months with only wire moth... |
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1461494_0 | Airport Weigh-In | To the Editor: Re ''F.A.A. Reviews Rules on Passenger Weight After Crash'' (news article, Jan. 28): I have stood in line for international flights and answered questions about how long I have known my traveling companion, where we stayed, what we did and whether I spent time with strangers. I have taken my shoes off an... |
1461386_2 | Pictures Worth 10,000 Words, at Least | University Press) to bend him into a more tortured postmodern stance, he has said that he regards photography, rather quaintly, as a ''communicative and analytical medium.'' But like his countryman Andreas Gursky, whose 2001 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York was a popular smash, Mr. Struth also face... |
1461495_0 | Vatican and Women | To the Editor: You report that the Vatican upheld the excommunication of seven women, including an American, who were ''ordained'' in Austria last June (World Briefing item, Jan. 28). How interesting that the Vatican reserves its ultimate punishment, excommunication, for women who dared to set foot on the all-male terr... |
1461728_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... |
1461403_0 | Virus Outbreaks Don't Rock Boats | DESPITE a weeklong bout with a virus aboard a cruise ship two years ago, Jack Mackey was eager to go on another cruise. So on Jan. 19, Mr. Mackey, a San Francisco stockbroker, boarded the Crystal Symphony with his son, daughter-in-law, 19-year-old granddaughter and his fiancée, Marni Grellman, departing Fort Lauderdale... |
1461614_0 | New Subject Open to Women At Korean School: Marriage | When Mary F. Scranton, a Methodist missionary from the United States, founded a school for girls here in 1886, her goal was to provide opportunities that were then available only for boys. That goal remained unchanged as the school, named Ewha, or Pear Blossom, evolved into a college in 1910 and eventually into a unive... |
1464021_3 | Russia to Build 2 Pipelines in the East | of the revenue or the influence over geopolitically important trade flows that Transneft commands. ''Unfortunately, experience shows that we can't regulate fully and efficiently what we don't own,'' said one senior government official. Extensive government involvement, however, could mean delays in completing the pipel... |
1464015_2 | Goliath Smote, Then Smote Again; New Look at a Sculpture of David Finds His Foe's Head Misplaced | of his action,'' Mr. Radke added. ''With the head off to one side, Verrocchio has freed up David.'' After the High Museum's successful exhibition of Michelangelo's drawings from the Casa Buonarroti in Florence two years ago, Michael E. Shapiro, the director, began looking to other European museums for partnerships. ''I... |
1463984_0 | Cellphone Peril, Hands On or Off | Drivers who use hands-free cellphones thinking that they are safer than hand-held ones are still more prone to accidents than other drivers, a new study reports. The new study, which appears in the March issue of The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, finds that hands-free phones do not address the problem of... |
1464024_1 | Consumers in Europe Resist Gene-Altered Foods | ''Luddite'' and ''immoral,'' saying that Europeans' fears about GM foods had persuaded some famine-ridden countries in Africa to reject genetically altered grains. Some Europeans believed that Mr. Zoellick was in effect blaming Europe for starvation in Africa. David Byrne, the European Union's health and consumer prote... |
1464033_0 | Who's Responsible for Checked Bags? | LAST year, we all read plenty of dark warnings about impending chaos in airline baggage-handling and check-in procedures. Some of us (ahem), even wrote up those forebodings, especially as airport managers shouted about the impossibility of meeting a federal law requiring the inspection of checked bags for explosives by... |
1466987_0 | Tangled Up in Spam | The most obvious answer to the spam problem is charging postage for e-mail. A charge of as little as one-tenth of one cent would be unnoticeable to most users -- you would have to average 30 e-mail messages a day to approach a cost of $1 per month. A spammer, meanwhile, would incur a charge of $1,000 for every million ... |
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1467242_0 | Editors' Note; Shifting Landscape | More on Pages 22 and 23: Cleaning the Air Standards for Water The Use of Public Land Finding Energy Sources |
1467038_3 | Heat-Seeking Canadians Segue Over to Cuba | 23, Fidel Castro personally presided over the opening of Hotel Playa Pesquero, the newest and largest of the scores of beach resorts the government has opened all over the island. Double rooms at the nicest all-inclusive resorts average about $250 a night, according to the season. ''Cuban resort'' may seem like an oxym... |
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1467231_3 | In Trying to Avoid a Controversy, French Center Creates One | calls ''the art of dissent.'' ''What I really feel is cheated,'' Ms. Worthington said in Sebastopol, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. ''I make these works as a way to communicate with people. I don't expect people to agree, but I want to awaken something in them. That can't happen when the sculpture is sitting he... |
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1467220_1 | Ulster Militia Looks to Disarmament Talks and Declares a Truce | is about saving face, then people will be skeptical,'' said Mark Durcan, the leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, a moderate Catholic party that favors uniting Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. ''If it means saving lives, then people will welcome it. ''We want to see the removal of the threat at any... |
1468176_1 | European Leaders Dig In to Defend Their Positions on Iraq | same view on the means to attain this goal.'' France's official position is that intrusive United Nations weapons inspections are working and that they should be reinforced, not abandoned, in an effort to avoid war. Mr. Aznar who faces overwhelming antiwar sentiment at home, was equally dug in, backing President Bush a... |
1468255_2 | A Slick Carry-On for the Modern Pilgrim | to look because luggage is one of those things that at first glance, in a store, looks confusingly interchangeable. Kind of black and square. With zippers. But at a site like www.luggageonline.com, you can see an efficiently organized universe of luggage. The site, which sells more than three dozen brands, had hundreds... |
1465054_3 | The new archbishop of Canterbury is known for taking stands, and often stirring controversy. | on childhood from stodgy moralizing, premature sexualizing, calculated marketing and rigid education, and one can imagine many liberals nodding in agreement until being drawn up short by his vigorous moral (although not legal) critique of arguments about abortion rights. It is much harder to explain, at least in any br... |
1465092_2 | How Four Countries Reacted, And What the Iraqis Said, Too | reported on headway they have made. The first private interviews with Iraqi experts have taken place without official escorts. The problem of U-2 aerial surveillance has been resolved. Helicopters, drones, Mirage and Antonov aircraft are to be put at Unmovic's disposal to ensure comprehensive surveillance... The inspec... |
1465099_2 | Powell Calls for U.N. to Act on Iraq and Meets Deep Resistance | consult with President Bush and others in Washington and decide ''in the not too distant future'' how to proceed. A senior French official said after the meeting that France would not support any resolution that Washington offered next week. He did not say whether France would use its veto. American officials seemed su... |
1465090_2 | French Minister Delivers Appeal For More Time | yes, I hear criticism. There are those who think that inspections, in their very essence, cannot be effective at all. But let me recall that that was the very foundation of Resolution 1441 . . . Then there are those who believe that continuing the inspection process is a kind of delaying tactic to prevent or avert mili... |
1462729_1 | France, Backed by Germany, Calls for Stronger Inspections, but the U.S. Is Unmoved | days if there was sufficient support for a second Council resolution authorizing military force. If not, the officials said, the United States and Britain probably would not come back to the Council for new negotiations, but would start to consolidate a separate coalition for war. The initial reactions to Mr. Powell's ... |
1462679_1 | What Are the Chances? | and cars. They help determine home insurance rates for tens of millions of people in the United States, Europe and Japan. And now some of the techniques are being used to analyze the chances of terrorist attack. The concepts were developed four decades ago, but recent advances in computing power have increased both the... |
1462700_1 | F.D.A. Says Food Supply May Contain Altered Pigs | pigs were sold to a livestock dealer who might have sold them for use as food. While the university insisted that the offspring had not inherited the foreign genes and were thus not genetically engineered, the drug agency said it could not verify that. In any case, the offspring were not supposed to have been sold for ... |
1462758_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Russia: Less Red Tape | A Russian research organization, in an extensive survey of hundreds of small businesses, announced today that legislation enacted in 2001 and 2002 has begun to reduce Russia's red tape. In a study conducted with the World Bank, the Moscow-based Center for Economic and Financial Research interviewed 2,000 companies in 2... |
1465854_1 | Offsetting Environmental Damage by Planes | in Jamaica; or take some other conservation measure aimed at offsetting the harm of an individual's commercial flight. Take that Boeing 747's round trip to London. It will discharge a total of 880,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, or 126 pounds for each mile flown. At an occupancy rate of 78 percent, each of the 317 passen... |
1465850_10 | Wanted: Traffic Cops For Space | costs to commercial satellite owners from the proposed standards will be holding in reserve some of the fuel that is used to keep certain satellites precisely positioned. The standards will require those satellites, toward the end of their useful lives, to be boosted into ''graveyard orbits,'' said Dr. Phillip D. Anz-M... |
1465864_1 | Internet High-Wire Act With an 8-Pound Laptop | few airlines, most of them foreign, and many hotels are spending money to start accommodating the growing demand by business travelers for a good Internet connection. Last month, Lufthansa began testing in-flight broadband Internet service provided by Connexion by Boeing, a subsidiary of the aircraft manufacturer, on o... |
1464360_2 | Exhibit A for Mainstreaming; A Boy With Brain Damage, Happy in a Regular School | part, a consequence of sheer volume -- there are more than 140,000 special education students in New York City, a number that is larger than the entire student population of many school systems elsewhere. And unlike other cities, New York has a district dedicated solely to special education. Linda Wernikoff, the deputy... |
1464239_0 | Ketchup With a Pedigree, A Far Cry From Goo | IN the depths of this frigid February, the taste of ripe summer tomatoes seems as distant a memory as the warm days that went with them. One of the last places you would expect to find that deep flavor is in a bottle of ketchup. Unless it is the heirloom tomato garlic ketchup from Heirloom Harvest Foods. More like a fr... |
1466390_0 | As Gasoline Prices Rise, Drivers Have Doubts About Why | Beyond antiwar demonstrations and troop deployments, gasoline prices that have jumped to more than $2 a gallon in some places seem to many drivers to be the most tangible evidence of the Bush administration's plans for a possible attack on Iraq. People pumping gas from Los Angeles to Charlotte, N.C., in the past few da... |
1466357_0 | Regain a Familiar View Within Windows XP | Q. Sometimes the instructions for finding and adjusting settings in the Control Panel in Windows XP do not seem to match what is on my screen. For instance, I don't see separate icons for things like Sound. Why is that? A. Windows XP gives its users two ways to see the system's control panels, so if you are following a... |
1466386_0 | The President and the Protesters; The Role of the French | To the Editor: Re ''Chirac Scolding Angers Nations That Back U.S.'' (front page, Feb. 19): It's truly shocking that President Jacques Chirac of France would publicly muzzle the voices of other democratic leaders with whom he disagrees. The French president, you report, in an emotional outburst after the European Union ... |
1466371_4 | Do-It-All Palmtops: New Tricks | nicely priced; plans range from $20 to $40 a month, not including a voice plan. (Each plan grants you a certain number of megabytes of data sent and received, a silly system. Who knows how many e-mail messages or Web pages that is?) The BlackBerry 6700 series, on the other hand, is already available for AT&T, T-Mobile ... |
1487585_0 | Shock Therapy for Police Recruits | What kind of person constitutes a threat to public safety and the general welfare? When do you unholster a gun and when do you use it? Where is the line between a rights-bearing citizen and a rights-forfeited lawbreaker? Law enforcement aspirants generally expect answers in concrete terms, with strict guidelines made c... |
1492464_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Albany: 100 New Jobs Set For Upstate | Gov. George E. Pataki announced yesterday that a company that recycles scrap rubber tires would create 100 new jobs in upstate New York. The company, Recovery Technologies Group Inc., is the largest tire-recycling firm in North America, the governor said. It will establish plants in Albany, Rotterdam and Romulus, in Se... |
1492315_2 | Its Reputation and Its Odor Precede It | character and flavor. Moreover, some dairy scientists say pasteurization also destroys beneficial bacteria that can protect against dangerous pathogens like listeria. Dr. Catherine Donnelly, a microbiologist at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences of the University of Vermont, who has been studying listeria for... |
1492394_2 | Hormone Use Found to Raise Dementia Risk | decide whether to quit. Because the women in the study were 65 or older, it is not known whether the findings apply to younger postmenopausal women. It is not known, either, whether the results apply to women who take other hormone combinations or estrogen alone. Women who take estrogen alone are being studied separate... |
1492374_0 | To Graduation, Tossing Obstacles Aside | College commencement signifies the end of a journey, often long and arduous. But for some graduating seniors, the trip involves extra twists and turns. Here are the stories of graduates with their own special reasons to celebrate. RON FRANCIS By God's Grace, and Others' Ron Francis's mother, Linda, credits God with her... |
1490839_6 | Security Cutbacks Worry Airport Officials | and ask to see their tickets or driver's licenses. Mr. Orlandella declined to say how effective those efforts had been, though he said no terrorists had been caught. Some lawmakers are calling for the Transportation Security Administration to upgrade its technology. For example, Representative Harold Rogers, a Republic... |
1490856_1 | Bush Links Europe's Ban on Bio-Crops With Hunger | a far softer side to American foreign policy, Mr. Bush insisted that widened use of ''high-yield bio-crops'' would greatly increase agricultural productivity in some of the poorest nations. ''Yet our partners in Europe are impeding this effort,'' he said, clearly meaning France and Germany, though he named no countries... |
1490922_0 | World Health Meeting Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking | The World Health Assembly today adopted the first treaty ever devoted entirely to health, one intended to discourage cigarette smoking and to reduce the estimated five million deaths it causes every year. Health advocates said the next step would be to get the treaty ratified by nations throughout the world. While many... |
1490910_3 | Computing's Lost Allure | field are contracting. In 2000 Intel hired 2,378 recent college graduates. Last year it hired 566, one-fourth that number. The chilly job market has had a converse effect on graduate school enrollment: applications to computer science graduate departments have risen sharply over the last two years as discouraged studen... |
1485734_3 | Yogurt Makers Shrink the Cup, Trying to Turn Less Into More | USA, which also oversees Colombo, said the Colombo ad that ridiculed Dannon for reducing its product size was intended to let Colombo's longtime customers know that the company was not changing anything about its product. ''I don't know if it was a big shot at Dannon,'' he said. Colombo has about 2.6 percent of the yog... |
1487350_0 | A Judge's Record | To the Editor: Given the debate over Priscilla R. Owen's nomination to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (news article, May 2), the most important point is that Justice Owen's record as a person, a lawyer and a judge demonstrates that she is well within the mainstream of American law. Justice Owen has been in the majo... |
1487308_2 | Free Air Or Not, Your Tires Need It | of auto travel, when flat tires were almost daily events. Now, using an air pump usually costs a quarter or 50 cents for five minutes. While air for tires may no longer be free, it's still a bargain. A 20 percent underinflation in a car's tires can increase fuel consumption by 10 percent, according to Bill Egan, a Good... |
1493115_4 | Detention Is a Tool Used in New Jersey For Foster Youths | counties, including Essex and Passaic, have built new centers or wings in recent years, easing crowding and allowing flexibility in the treatment of youngsters. Other counties have had better luck with moving children swiftly out of custody, in part because of a greater number of local options. ''It is rare we have a D... |
1493080_4 | Monsanto Struggles Even as It Dominates | its prices. In the meantime, the competitors are content to profit from Monsanto's biotech traits, which are licensed to most of the world's major seed companies. Sales of soybeans are growing because of Monsanto's biotech traits, said John Sorenson, the president of Syngenta Seeds North America, referring to the growt... |
1486039_0 | Containing The Fear In Asian Markets | THE outbreak of SARS has hurt financial markets throughout Asia. Virtually all the region's major market averages are down for the year. Mark Headley, president of Matthews International Capital Management and manager of the Matthews Pacific Tiger fund, discussed the region's prospects last week. Following are excerpts... |
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1485912_7 | The Next Big Flavor | Bear, and it's quite nice.'' Raab described a shift away from the classic ''Neapolitan'' trio (chocolate, strawberry, vanilla) toward flavors that combine elements of Latin American and Asian cuisine. When we got off the phone, we were moved to brew up a futuristic iced tea, pairing the searing heat of a habanero chili... |
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1486136_2 | The Nation: Leo-Cons; A Classicist's Legacy: New Empire Builders | intellectuals -- favored dinner guests who gave the intellectual justification for policies usually drawn up by more practical political types. Today's dinner guests are the dominant master strategists in their own right, and the transformation brings us face to face with just how much their intellectual roots influenc... |
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