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1485914_12 | The Thinkable | world's graduation from the first nuclear age to the second, we have been a great enabler. The United States has tended to look the other way when nuclear offenders happened to be useful allies. This is inarguably the case in Pakistan. We made little effort to shut down Pakistan's nuclear program during the 1980's, whe... |
1485908_6 | The Futures of Food | cheap raw materials -- usually in the form of convenience or fortification. Selling unprocessed or minimally processed whole foods is a fool's game, especially since the price of agricultural commodities tends to fall over time, and one company's apples are hard to distinguish from any other's. How much better to turn ... |
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1486162_0 | FOLLOWING UP | Still Seeking a Source Of L.I. Cancer Risks No smoking gun was found in one search, but other hunts continue. Last summer, scientists announced that a highly publicized study had found no link between breast cancer risks on Long Island and controversial chemicals once used universally. The study involved DDT and two ot... |
1486075_1 | BEHIND THE WHEEL/2003 Dodge Viper SRT-10 and Dodge Neon SRT-4; A Tempting New Serpent, and a Wolf Dressed Like a Lamb | As a sports car, the new Viper is better in every way. The 450-horsepower V-10, derived from a truck engine, has been redesigned to pump out 500 horsepower and peak torque that is simply astounding: 525 pounds-feet. (For purposes of comparison, the 12-cylinder Ferrari 575M Maranello delivers a mere 434 pounds-feet). Th... |
1491759_4 | Graduates Find Fewer Jobs and Lower Pay | likely to bargain. ''We can hire them less expensively than someone with 20 years' experience,'' Mr. Coletti said. ''If you ask me for a working wage to support a family, I can't afford $50,000 to $100,000 a year. I can afford $25,000.'' Mr. Coletti is looking for two new employees at that salary -- if he can find them... |
1491690_1 | . . . And Fortitude for the Job Hunt | express more sympathy to us than a seven-day stream of shiva callers. Thank you for the pity. But, like Mark Twain, we say the reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated. And here's why: My classmates and I are the masters of technology and networking, two qualities that are crucial to seeking and finding a job. Tho... |
1491751_1 | Drawing a Line, And Defending It | they might cut their tall grass. Then they began bringing their firearms, resulting in equally bloody confrontations. Now the battle for boundaries is back, as satellite mapping systems afford even greater accuracy in determining borders and as towns strapped for cash from state and federal budget cuts look for ways to... |
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1491709_0 | Ideas & Trends: Learning Through Science; Mad Cow Disease Is a Little Less Scarier | ALARMING as it was to learn last week that mad cow disease had appeared in North America, the news could have been far worse. Thanks to advances in bioscience and technology, we can now stop an epidemic like mad cow disease, and its human offshoot, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in its tracks. Little is known so far about ... |
1491661_3 | How to Unclog the Information Artery | abuse the system in order to broadcast e-mail. Lumos has two parts. First, if you are going to be a high-volume sender of e-mail, you will have to get a digital certificate that verifies who you are. The certificate will be encrypted in the header of each e-mail. The recipient will decrypt the header and verify who the... |
1489572_0 | 'Pomp and Circumstance.' Then What? | To the Editor: Re ''College Graduates Lower Sights in Today's Stagnant Job Market'' (front page, May 14): I wish all of them luck, which may be as much a factor in their landing a job as a degree that will cost them five years or more of steady earnings on which to pay back all the loans. And then there's also rent, in... |
1489500_1 | A Ruling Makes E-Mail Evidence More Accessible | asking for is relevant, the banks must bear the cost for searching through the e-mails.'' Investment banks have cited the technical challenge and cost involved in retrieving old e-mail traffic as a reason to dismiss arbitration claims, many of which are frivolous, bank and arbitration lawyers agree. (Under industry rul... |
1489518_2 | Germany Pursues U.N. Accord to End Sanctions on Iraq | office, with Mr. Schröder at a lectern beside him. The changed mood seemed to mark some success for Mr. Powell, whose one-day visit to Germany came at the end of a weeklong foreign tour that also included the Middle East and Russia, during which he sought to garner support for the British-American Security Council draf... |
1488581_0 | South Korean Leader Wants U.S. Troops to Stay, for Now | South Korea's new president, Roh Moo Hyun, said yesterday that he would urge President Bush not to remove American forces from the region just below the demilitarized zone, where they have been stationed for the past half-century, until the North Korean nuclear threat had been dismantled. Mr. Roh was responding, in an ... |
1488595_0 | WEIGHT ESTIMATES ON AIR PASSENGERS WILL BE INCREASED | The Federal Aviation Administration today ordered airlines that fly planes with more than 19 seats to raise the assumed average weight of each passenger by 10 pounds and the assumed weight for each checked bag by an additional 5 to ensure that their planes are not overloaded. The notice, which was sent to all airlines,... |
1490174_3 | Businesses are starting to toy with the wiki, an off-beat technology for fostering Web interaction. | structure and organization. As with any community, each wiki develops its own social systems and rules to guide behavior. But there is basic wiki etiquette. For example, wiki-squatting (using a few pages of a wiki for your own personal use) and wiki spam (pushing a product or service on a wiki page) are frowned upon, a... |
1490250_0 | LOOTING DISRUPTS DETAILED U.S. PLAN TO RESTORE IRAQ | Long before President Bush ordered the attack against Iraq, the White House and the Pentagon drew up a plan for rebuilding and running the country after the war that was nearly as meticulous as the battle plan. But over the past two to three weeks, the wheels have threatened to come off their vehicle for establishing t... |
1490160_0 | Get a Job | This spring's college graduates are entering the worst job market in 20 years. With few good jobs on the horizon, many graduating seniors think it is time to get an advanced degree. They should think again. Applications to both medical and law schools increased this year, while more people than ever are taking the stan... |
1490703_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: U.S. Envoy Wants Elections | Richard Haass, President Bush's special envoy to Northern Ireland, meeting leaders of rival parties for two days, said there was no reason to be ''discouraged'' by the stalled peace negotiations that have kept a five-year-old government in limbo since October. ''We've had a setback, yes, but this is not a crisis,'' he ... |
1490663_1 | FedEx to Switch 30,000 Trucks to Hybrids | to use the hybrids to replace its medium-size delivery trucks, the ones commonly seen on city streets. FedEx says that while the new trucks will be more expensive to purchase, they increase fuel efficiency by 50 percent and will be less costly to maintain. The company hopes to break even over the 10 to 12 years that th... |
1486891_3 | U.S. Approves Force in Detaining Possible SARS Carriers | Bonner said that his inspectors would be careful to differentiate between passengers who might have SARS and those who might be suffering from other illness with similar symptoms There is no test yet available to identify SARS conclusively. ''We are paying attention to SARS,'' he said. ''On the other hand, you don't wa... |
1486882_0 | Ahern and Blair Pursue Changes In Ulster Despite Election Delay | Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain met here today with Bertie Ahern, the Irish prime minister, to discuss the current state of the Northern Ireland peace effort, which has suffered significant setbacks in recent weeks -- including the postponement of legislative elections -- after talks failed to elicit sufficient co... |
1492049_0 | The Graduate Works at Starbucks | To the Editor: Re ''Get a Job,'' by Robert B. Reich (Op-Ed, May 19): My son joins the ranks of the unemployed in early June when he graduates from Harvard. But as a professor of education, I cringe at the implicit message that taking a teaching job in a poor school is equivalent to becoming a gofer who gets some higher... |
1492039_0 | Workers March Through Paris to Protest Pension Reform | Hundreds of thousands of French workers, teachers and students took to the streets today in a demonstration intended to step up pressure on the government here amid a wave of strikes over pensions and other issues. The police in the capital said 300,000 people took part in the march, which started at Place de la Nation... |
1488868_1 | College Graduates Lower Sights In Today's Stagnant Job Market | of Colleges and Employers. ''We definitely picked the wrong time to be graduating from college,'' said Morgan Bushey, 21, who will make about $200 a week teaching English in France, after having been rejected by seven law schools. ''We just have to hold on with our fingertips for a few years until we can do what we rea... |
1488827_0 | Autism Diagnoses Double In California | Diagnoses of autism have nearly doubled in the last four years among children in California, state officials reported yesterday. They said they could not explain the increase. ''The number of cases is accelerating,'' said Dr. Ron Huff, a senior psychologist at the Department of Developmental Services, who oversaw prepa... |
1488811_0 | U.S. Contests Europe's Ban On Some Food | The Bush administration filed suit today at the World Trade Organization to force Europe to lift its ban on genetically modified food, a move that was postponed earlier this year by the debate on Iraq. The suit will further heighten trans-Atlantic trade tensions after several recent rulings against the United States in... |
1488801_4 | Huge Strike by Public Workers Paralyzes France | public sympathy for their cause. According to a survey in the popular daily newspaper Le Parisien, 64 percent of those polled either endorsed the protests or sympathized with the unions' goals. Sixty-five percent said they were worried about the future of their pensions. Under the plan, which calls for modest reform, F... |
1491413_0 | Bear Gets Best of Tussle With Man | North Jersey man tangled with a bear yesterday afternoon and wound up in the hospital, the West Milford Police Department said. The man, Rob Skrypek, 35, of West Milford, in Passaic County, was bitten on the hand, forearm, upper arm and head and was scratched on the back as he tried to defend his dog, a yellow Labrador... |
1491359_6 | New Jersey Is Running Out Of Open Land It Can Build On | than the governor's estimate of 50 acres a day lost to development. First, Mr. Campbell said, the recent trend -- ''a very grim pattern'' -- has been accelerating land consumption. Second, he said, rapid economic expansion occurred in the late 1990's. ''Third,'' he said, ''there's been no real effort to strengthen regu... |
1486429_1 | Finding Solution to Secret World of Spam | another law this group favors. But many others involved in the Internet see thousands of spammers, from teenagers in basements to legitimate businesses, that become too aggressive in their e-mailing. Fighting these lesser offenders, they say, requires different tactics meant to force marginal players into legitimacy, s... |
1487186_5 | For Two-Way Radios, a Mileage Test | in between the two radios being tested -- in other words, on the moon. But they also say that you should still get three miles of range even in terrible conditions -- for example, from inside cars. All I can figure out is that the radio makers and I live in parallel universes. In my suburban tests, these ''seven mile''... |
1487135_2 | Suit Says ChevronTexaco Dumped Poisons in Ecuador | commercial law at the University of Maryland. This case is significant, legal experts say, because it could create a new way for multinational corporations to be held financially accountable for environmental abuses in foreign countries. Chris Jochnick, a lawyer and founder of the Center for Economic and Social Rights,... |
1487221_7 | TOWERS UNTESTED FOR MAJOR FIRE, INQUIRY SUGGESTS | to ensure the complex's safety. ''We cannot be expected to accept responsibility for specifications which have been revised in such a manner,'' the architect wrote. Then, in a mysterious communication a few months later, the Port Authority wrote to Louis DiBono, president of the company that was applying the fireproofi... |
1487169_0 | Europe Plan on Chemicals Seen as Threat to U.S. Exports | The European Union announced a proposal today that would require manufacturers of industrial chemicals to test their products before they can be used, a change that the Bush administration said could threaten the $20 billion in chemicals that the United States exports to Europe each year. Five years in the making, the ... |
1487166_2 | EarthLink Is Sued by Holder of Anti-Spam Patents | 343 accounts from which he sent a million pieces of spam a day. Spam has become a hot issue for Internet users because the volume of unsolicited marketing messages is increasing by 50 percent a month according to some e-mail providers. Start-ups, like MailBlocks, see a booming market among consumers frustrated by spam.... |
1485481_7 | From Olympus, Divine Dresses | on the sand. In a famous essay, ''The Greeks and Us,'' Auden urges his readers to judge civilization by ''the degree of diversity attained and unity retained.'' Yet in modern civilization something like the reverse standard must be applied. Diversity is a given. Unity must be fought for. Unification is what Greece sign... |
1485501_0 | Dr. Jeff Schell, Microbiologist And Gene-Splicing Pioneer, 67 | Dr. Jeff Schell, a Belgian microbiologist who developed some of the first procedures for introducing artificial genes into plants to increase their hardiness and improve their ability to grow, died at his home in Brussels on April 17. He was 67. The cause was progressive supranuclear palsy, said his wife, Dr. Elizabeth... |
1485507_0 | 21st Century Atop 19th In TriBeCa Restoration | The scaffolding that has covered the 19th-century loft building at 73 Worth Street in the TriBeCa East Historic District for the last 18 months came down on Tuesday to reveal a restored five-story Italianate building. It has been turned into 24 loft condominiums topped by a contemporary two-story addition with six pent... |
1485496_0 | Blair Delays Election in Northern Ireland, Citing Violence | The faltering, five-year-old peace effort in Northern Ireland stumbled again today when Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed a critical election, blaming the Irish Republican Army for avoiding a ''very clear'' commitment to end violence. The announcement brought protests, both from Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing... |
1485516_0 | U.S. Declares Major Combat in Afghanistan to Be Over | The United States declared today that major combat operations were over in Afghanistan, a step aimed largely at encouraging more nations to join the international reconstruction effort here. The announcement, made at a news conference here by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, ... |
1485545_0 | House Adopts Global Plan Of $15 Billion Against AIDS | The House adopted a $15 billion initiative to combat AIDS worldwide today. The vote was taken after conservatives won a requirement that at least one-third of the money promote sexual abstinence before marriage. The concession helped solidify support for a measure for AIDS treatment, research and education that is a pr... |
1492909_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Protests Over Delayed Election | Largely Roman Catholic political parties staged demonstrations across the country and in Northern Ireland to protest the postponement of elections to the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly. The protests came on the day the voting was to have taken place before it was delayed until fall by Prime Minister Tony Blair... |
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1487821_2 | Passport, Mask, Thermometer | addition to testing them individually with thermometers. Temperature checks are also in place at airports in Singapore, where tourism has been devastated. And screenings are now standard in India, where a handful of SARS cases had been reported through May 1. The government has begun checking the temperatures of all in... |
1487825_3 | Keep-Out Signs in the Global Village | found myself in places where I didn't belong, in circumstances that call my common sense into question. I have larked around the Caribbean with a couple of drunken shark fishermen. I honeymooned in Haiti during an attempted coup. I spent time in Egypt after the United States had broken off diplomatic relations with tha... |
1487983_1 | The World; Trying to Rebuild Iraq, While Watching Their Backs | being in control of their country.'' Last week, much of the debate over building postwar Iraq focused on who would lead the effort. Would it be the Pentagon's man, General Garner, or the State Department's man, L. Paul Bremer? The answer, it emerged, is Mr. Bremer, a former counterterrorism official, who was named as a... |
1488148_0 | Lessons From the Glory That Was Greece | To the Editor: James Atlas portrays the philosopher Leo Strauss as a champion of democracy (''A Classicist's Legacy: New Empire Builders,'' Week in Review, May 4). But his views were more peculiar than Mr. Atlas suggests. Strauss condemned ''extreme democracy,'' and his lifelong preoccupation was the safety of ''the fe... |
1488150_0 | Lessons From the Glory That Was Greece | To the Editor: ''A Classicist's Legacy: New Empire Builders'' (Week in Review, May 4) traces the ancestry of neoconservatives back through Leo Strauss to the Greeks. What is curious about the contemporary ''Leo-cons'' is that for all their reverence for ancient Greece, they seem to have forgotten one of its central les... |
1491137_0 | Powell Says to the French, Yes . . . but Not All Is Forgiven | Sending a mixed message to the French on his first visit here since before the war in Iraq, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today that France's support for lifting United Nations sanctions against Iraq was ''a step in the right direction,'' but cautioned that ''the disagreements of the past'' have not been forg... |
1492589_0 | Caught in the Squeeze | One of the things President Bush knows best is when to turn on the klieg lights, and when to keep them off. On Tuesday, with no fanfare, he signed a bill increasing the federal debt limit by nearly a trillion dollars. You don't want a lot of coverage when you're mortgaging the future. But yesterday it was high-fives al... |
1492591_2 | Battle Over Biotechnology Intensifies Trade War | the giant of agricultural biotechnology companies -- or American farmers, Mr. Bush and his aides will raise the issue of fighting world hunger. In a speech last week he accused Europe of hindering the ''great cause of ending hunger in Africa'' by banning genetically modified crops. Administration officials say that suc... |
1492138_0 | The Hunt for Clues to a Dry Planet's Watery Past | NASA calls its two Mars rovers ''robot geologists.'' They are to find and analyze rocks, rolling up to half a mile from their landing sites to investigate wide terrain. Unlike the British Beagle II lander, the NASA rovers have no way to look for chemical signs of Martian life. NASA's overall strategy is for its Mars ef... |
1492160_0 | Quirky campaigns vie for the growing market in breath strips, no longer a one-brand novelty. | JUST last year, breath strips that dissolve on the tongue were still so novel that Time magazine called Listerine Pocket Paks -- the first strips on the market in the United States -- one of the best recent inventions, along with breakthroughs like the birth-control patch and a telephonic dental implant called the ''ph... |
1492130_1 | OBSERVATORY | They reported on their work in the May 1 issue of Nature. Their results showed that when exposed to a wide range of pressures, the hydrated meteorite fractured into tiny particles that were then explosively dispersed when the pressure was released. The effect was far greater for the hydrated rock than for the anhydrous... |
1492206_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-15 Sharon Backs Peace Plan Despite Heavy Criticism In the face of scathing criticism from his own right-wing party, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defended his support for the latest Middle East peace effort with language that sounded as if it were coming straight from Israel's liberal peace camp. ''You m... |
1486605_4 | Experts See Mind's Voices In New Light | in California, said the voices seemed so real that she could not believe it when her friends told her she was hallucinating. The findings of studies using brain scanning techniques like positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (M.R.I.) underscore how persuasive auditory hallucinations... |
1485265_0 | Tools of the Trade Shown at Forum on Junk E-Mail | The craft of spammers, the usually shadowy group that sends e-mail come-ons of cheap mortgages and clean septic tanks, was on rare public display here today. The highlight of the first day of a three-day forum on junk e-mail, or spam, that was sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission and attended by hundreds of Intern... |
1485201_0 | Stopping Spam | To the Editor: Re ''Crack Down on Spam'' (editorial, April 29): There does not appear to be a silver-bullet solution to stop e-mail spam. But federal legislation can and should be a part of a solution. The real problem in your e-mail in-box is a result of fraudulent and abusive e-mail practices, not e-mail from legitim... |
1485340_3 | Foster Care Caseworkers' Errors Are Detailed in New Jersey | Among the saddest stories revealed in the documents are those of children who lived in dangerous homes for extended periods after DYFS knew that abuse or neglect was taking place. In 2001, the agency found that two mentally impaired children were being neglected by their foster parents. Despite the fact that the parent... |
1485272_0 | House Backs Vast Changes In Education For Disabled | The House today passed major changes to the laws governing special education for some 6.6 million children, while voting down amendments that would have eased the way for disabled children to attend private school at taxpayer expense. The bill, which updates the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, is intended ... |
1485351_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Britain Still Wants More | Gerry Adams, leader of the Irish Republican Army's political wing, Sinn Fein, reiterated that the guerrilla group would undertake no activities that would undermine the Northern Ireland peace process, but the British government said the pledge did not go far enough to meet its demand for a promise of an end to all para... |
1485313_2 | Cellphones Ring Out With the Help of a Steeple | desirable that location is to the carrier,'' said Patrick Deloney, a vice president with Engineered Endeavors, a tower construction company that has completed over 100 steeple projects. In some areas, a carrier might simply want to fill a small coverage gap; in another, it might pursue a high-elevation site to provide ... |
1489652_1 | Fantasy Island | island -- how it came to be there and how most of it disappeared. In a sense, her book can be seen as a kind of literary rescue, akin to the Cuban government's recent efforts to restore the Barrio Chino and recover a lost facet of Cuba's hybrid soul. As in García's beautiful first novel, ''Dreaming in Cuban,'' and its ... |
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1489740_2 | Assessing Air Quality Aloft | researching such issues as the health effects of elevated ozone levels that can occur at high altitudes; whether current cabin pressure standards create health risks for infants, pregnant women, people with cardiovascular disease and other ''susceptible'' travelers; whether using recirculated cabin air increases the ri... |
1489984_0 | Wooden Wheelbarrows Back in the Picture | BACK in the 1950's and 60's, my German grandfather -- a serious gardener living in Spencer, Mass., -- had but one wheelbarrow, a wooden one with removable sides and a metal-clad wooden wheel. He used it to carry compost, weeds and the occasional grandchild. After he died in 1967, his farmhouse was rented out, and the w... |
1489670_0 | Wooden Wheelbarrows Back in the Picture | BACK in the 1950's and 60's, my German grandfather -- a serious gardener living in Spencer, Mass., -- had but one wheelbarrow, a wooden one with removable sides and a metal-clad wooden wheel. He used it to carry compost, weeds and the occasional grandchild. After he died in 1967, his farmhouse was rented out, and the w... |
1489897_0 | Wooden Wheelbarrows Back in the Picture | BACK in the 1950's and 60's, my German grandfather -- a serious gardener living in Spencer, Mass., -- had but one wheelbarrow, a wooden one with removable sides and a metal-clad wooden wheel. He used it to carry compost, weeds and the occasional grandchild. After he died in 1967, his farmhouse was rented out, and the w... |
1490036_0 | Wooden Wheelbarrows Back in the Picture | BACK in the 1950's and 60's, my German grandfather -- a serious gardener living in Spencer, Mass., -- had but one wheelbarrow, a wooden one with removable sides and a metal-clad wooden wheel. He used it to carry compost, weeds and the occasional grandchild. After he died in 1967, his farmhouse was rented out, and the w... |
1489865_0 | College Students' Debt | To the Editor: In ''College Graduates Lower Sights in Today's Stagnant Job Market'' (front page, May 14), you reported that recent graduates of the University of North Carolina are looking at the worst hiring slump in 20 years. Poor job prospects will exacerbate another problem for this spring's graduates: historically... |
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1488325_0 | How to Hurt Castro | The long prison terms handed to nearly 80 Cuban dissidents and the summary execution of three hijackers of a Cuban ferry have led to calls for a new get-tough policy with the Castro regime. Which raises the question: short of calling in the Marines, what would constitute a get-tough policy with Cuba? We've not had norm... |
1490378_0 | MEMO PAD | Passengers Rate Airline Lounges No United States airline shows up on the annual list of the world's best airline lounges compiled by Skytrax, the British research group. Here are the top 10 for 2003, as tabulated from more than 900,000 Internet responses, group surveys, traveler questionnaires and personal interviews o... |
1490331_0 | Terrorism and Trauma | To the Editor: A May 13 news article, describing a federally sponsored dress rehearsal for urban terrorism in Seattle, pays scant attention to its psychological impact. In situations of war and disaster, a well-designed public health approach should broadly screen individuals for trauma and identify children and adults... |
1490427_0 | E-MAIL'S BACKDOOR OPEN TO SPAMMERS | At first, it looked as if some students at the Flint Hills School, a prep academy in Oakton, Va., had found a lucrative alternative to an after-school job. Late last year, technicians at America Online traced a new torrent of spam, or unsolicited e-mail advertisements, to the school's computer network. On further inqui... |
1516083_4 | A Dead End | level of involvement is being largely left to the local governments, said Mr. Johnson, the Open Space Coordinator for Burlington County. In some towns, like Riverton, plans call for little more than signs pointing out the route of the trail. In other stretches, roadways may be striped to mark designated bike paths, and... |
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1515771_0 | The Better to Eat You With, My Dear | MONSTER OF GOD The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind. By David Quammen. 515 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $26.95. ''In wildness is the preservation of the world,'' Henry David Thoreau famously said, not knowing the half of it. David Quammen's splendid book ''Monster of God'' constitutes... |
1515831_0 | After the Flood | Since the end of imperial rule nearly a century ago, Chinese leaders of all kinds -- democrats and dictators, Nationalists and Communists, technocrats and dreamers -- have shared a single, colossal engineering ambition: to dam the mighty Yangtze River. In June, 84 years after Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese Nationalist leader... |
1516190_2 | New Rules Spice Up Battle In Tight Formula One Race | poles out of 12 races. But the change that has had the biggest effect on Ferrari is the impounding of cars after qualifying until the race. Teams may no longer work on the car all night, nor may they refuel after qualifying or use a special qualifying car engine. Ross Brawn, Ferrari's technical director and the sport's... |
1515809_3 | Stormy Lessons In Flight Delays | leaving shortly for J.F.K. (Tip: carry a fully charged cellphone and a number for your airline.) On my way to that flight, I passed a gate with a flight bound for LaGuardia, where a long line of passengers hoped to claim seats. Curious about the odds of getting one -- particularly since my luggage was going to LaGuardi... |
1515872_6 | School Bells Ring In Changes | school, which was built in 1885 as Public School 7 and later served as the parochial school of St. Veronica's Roman Catholic Church, on the same block but facing Christopher Street. As designed by Leo J. Blackman Architects, the 10th Street facade of the new building is built in a matching red brick, with the same patt... |
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1516081_10 | Reining In Special Education | are the parent of a child with disabilities, you don't want to hear that you are part of balancing the school budget,'' Ms. Jennings said. Trying to Strike a Balance The hope of educators is that they will strike the right note to please both parents of classified students and the rest of the taxpayers. In Middlesex Co... |
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1510571_2 | Thousands Rally in France, Trade Battle in Mind | said. Many organizations that came encapsulated resistance to the social changes sought in France by Mr. Chirac and his conservative prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Daniel Retureau, director of international institutional relations for the General Confederation of Labor, among the most radical French trade unions... |
1510642_0 | For Church Leaders, 2 Tacks on Gay Issue | A group of conservative Episcopalians said they would ask the worldwide Anglican Communion to create a second province for the church in the United States following approval of an openly gay bishop. And the spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans said he would call a meeting to avert a schism over the issue. Articles... |
1510627_3 | Archbishop of Canterbury Calls Meeting of Anglican Leaders Over Gay Bishop in U.S.; Issue Prompts Debate The World Over | only way we can be clear that some of us do not accept this.'' Among those threatening to sever links with American Episcopalians are the Kenyans. Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, leader of the Anglican Church of Kenya, issued a statement with all 29 of his bishops this week that called Bishop-elect Robinson's selection ''c... |
1510632_1 | Lawmakers Criticize Bush's Air Safety Efforts | he said.'' Officials at the agency acknowledged the concerns and said they were taking steps to enhance the safety of air travel. ''We have designed these improvements to provide appropriate protections for passengers and at the same time to ensure the continued economic vitality of the country,'' said Brian Turmail, a... |
1510556_2 | Some Trade Barriers Won't Fall | negotiations in the World Trade Organization. As usual, the sticking point involves agricultural subsidies in rich countries that wreak misery on the developing world. Out of frustration over the way America and Europe protect their farmers, textile producers and others, developing countries like Brazil are refusing to... |
1510591_0 | Engineered Drugs Open New Issue Of Regulation As Patents Expire | Somatropin, a hormone that sends a message to the pituitary gland to stimulate growth in the human body, is not a new discovery. And its synthesis is not a new technological advance -- somatropin products have been on the market for more than a decade, each protected by patents covering varying things, like the way the... |
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