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1509386_0 | The Return Of Captain Kidd | ON a foggy Friday evening, six rowdy pirates roamed the piers along the Thames River in New London as their captain bellowed demands: ''Gold. Silver. Your children.'' When the pirates spotted a woman wearing rings, the captain noted how easily they could remove them, by cutting off her hand. ''We'll be back for you, lo... |
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1509125_2 | As Numbers of Screeners Fall, Airport Lines Grow | be pressured by the length of the line. The agency plans a 19 percent cut of passenger- and baggage-screeners at the Denver airport, part of a nationwide effort to cut 6,000 screeners that began on April 1, when there were 55,600. The cuts are supposed to be completed by Sept. 30. Announcing the cuts, the T.S.A. promis... |
1509394_5 | Treasures Under the Lawn | pastures and lumber from its forests was regularly shipped to the West Indies. The ships would return with some of the Caribbean plantations' sugar, salt and rum, which was also being exported to Europe. Return voyages from Europe would bring manufactured goods from there. ''It was a very effective network of people tr... |
1509441_0 | Page Two: July 27 - Aug. 2; TECHNOLOGY: SPAM'S COST | ''A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you have real money,'' the House speaker Sam Rayburn said decades before e-mail. He could have been talking about spam. Any one little message is a tiny drop in the vast ocean of information on the Internet. But the combined cost of the trillions of unsolicited e-mail m... |
1509231_3 | Upstairs, Downstairs On the High Seas | 228-foot boat Aussie Rules, for example, cost about $45 million, and yachts over 120 feet easily cost more than $100,000 a week just to charter -- and have high expectations, sometimes with harrowing consequences. Michael Eudenbach, 33, a yachtie and a nautical photographer from Newport, once helped deliver the Netscap... |
1509068_7 | Cons In Class | to it, and that means more jobs,'' says Stephen J. Steurer, executive director of the association. ''When we had Pell grants people were getting A.A. degrees and B.A. degrees, but you got this whole public 'I work to put my kids through college and these bums are getting free help.' I understand it. I also understand t... |
1509458_0 | Arts Council Headquarters To Undergo Restoration | As two new 35-story residential towers soar next door to the Westchester Arts Council's headquarters in downtown White Plains, the nonprofit group is spending $1 million to keep its nine-story, 74-year-old home much the same as it has always been. The Arts Council will restore the double bronze front door on the former... |
1509120_1 | Cuba Tour Companies Add New (Last) Trips | The following are among those programs with space remaining. The Center for Cuban Studies, (212) 242-0559, www.cubaupdate.org, a New York-based research group, offers weeklong Cuba Update trips examining the country's political, economic, religious and artistic institutions. Trips depart from New York City on Sept. 6, ... |
1513861_2 | Marketers Say They Intend To Join Effort To Fight Spam | is a serious concern, but we understand that the issues of terrorism are more important,'' he said. ''This will allow for an increase in the resources available.'' He said that the initiative was in no way an attempt to prevent all spam legislation; his group, he said, supports reasonable and effective legislation that... |
1510812_1 | A Parrot's Life for Me | in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), an import license from the British Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (three categories Parrot disdains), a certificate of health from a veterinarian and approval stamps from the Fish and Wildlife Service and Department of Agriculture. These we duly obtain... |
1510931_4 | Awaiting the Iraqi Framers, A World of Constitutional Lessons | economy, the fundamental consideration will be fulfillment of the material needs of man in the course of his overall growth and development. This principle contrasts with other economic systems, where the aim is concentration and accumulation of wealth and maximization of profit. In materialist schools of thought, the ... |
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1510928_0 | Ideas & Trends: Family Feud; For Episcopalians, the Price of Divorce May Be Too High | AFTER the Episcopal Church last week approved the election of its first openly gay bishop, the Rev. Canon V. Gene Robinson, more than a dozen conservative bishops denounced the decision and threatened to leave the church. But it will be difficult to bolt. It has been tried before, without much success. Several obstacle... |
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1511111_0 | Page Two: August 3-9; IN BRIEF | * The police identified a 28-year-old recruit of Jemaah Islamiyah, a group linked closely to Al Qaeda, as the suicide car-bomber who killed at least 16 people and wounded more than 150 at the J. W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Tuesday. * Women who took combination hormone therapy were more likely to die fro... |
1511000_1 | In a Calmer Belfast, Surprising Violence Against Ambulances | paramedic based in Ardoyne, was shot at with an air rifle while helping an elderly patient walk out of her house. Charlie Wilson, 54, found his ambulance stuck between another vehicle and a crowd of rioters in the Whitewell area of Belfast. He said that he watched a young man stalk around his ambulance and look him in ... |
1510987_2 | Editorial Observer: HARVESTING POVERTY; Who Said Anything About Rice? Free Trade Is About Cars and PlayStations | of potential free-trade deals with resentful agricultural exporters. The farmers' aversion to regional and bilateral trade agreements has hurt Japanese manufacturers in dealing with countries like Mexico, where European and American competitors enjoy duty-free privileges. Over the long run, it could affect Japan's crit... |
1510864_10 | Moving Closer to Regaining a Riverfront | planning documents emphasize the importance of river and Palisades views, from the waterfront and the rest of the village. ''Structures and plantings should not wall off the river; some west views should be open even at street level,'' one declared. The regional plan group estimated the total cost of developing the wat... |
1510940_1 | When the Bar Itself Has That Empty Feeling | by now a familiar tale but one with alternating villains. First there was Sept. 11, 2001, and days of cleaning up the terrible dust. But then followed six months of drawing pitchers and uncapping bottles for packs of rescue workers thirsting for distraction. ''Those six months after were the busiest of my life,'' said ... |
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1512893_5 | Where Dreams of Speed Meet Reality | ''I love being onstage,'' Alexandra said just before the dress rehearsal began. ''It's just so much fun. I'm not nervous in front of people.'' The play was the culmination of a five-week theater program for children with hearing impairments who fall into a category known as the speaking deaf. ''Not only do we want them... |
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1512610_0 | Corrections | An answer in the Q.& A. column last Sunday about a co-op owner's right to evict a tenant misstated the area affected by a recent appellate court decision holding that tenants who rent from sponsors or other holders of unsold shares after a building has been converted may not be evicted if they agree to pay ''market ren... |
1512862_0 | Encounters With Bears | THE uninvited visitor rambled down the hillside behind Jan and Michael Galanti's campsite on the Delaware River, and then approached the tents and picnic tables. ''We were camping with friends, and there must have been about 12 kids,'' said Jan Galanti, of Red Bank. ''Suddenly, they were all shouting, 'Bear! Bear! Bear... |
1512710_0 | Protecting Commercial Aircraft | Much has been done to tighten aviation security in the United States since Sept. 11, including the hardening of cockpits, more meticulous passenger screening and the posting of armed marshals on many domestic flights. Yet dangers persist. That was highlighted last week by the F.B.I.'s arrest of a man who was charged wi... |
1512711_1 | Politics and the Everglades | it becomes just another water supply project for Florida's booming cities and suburbs. Mr. Bush's personal intervention could keep the project from veering off course. It might also send a useful warning to his brother Jeb, whose commitment to restoration has wavered since his re-election as Florida's governor. The pro... |
1512519_0 | I Say It's . . . Broccoli? | FOOD, INC. Mendel to Monsanto - the Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest. By Peter Pringle. 239 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $24. IT'S hard to believe that in the comparatively simple days before 9/11 the nation's leading thinkers were preoccupied in a mighty battle over . . . a grain of rice. By that I refer ... |
1512519_1 | I Say It's . . . Broccoli? | and more important picture. Consider, for example, Ingo Potrykus, one of the inventors of golden rice. It was Potrykus's brilliant and dogged pursuit of a way to coax beta carotene out of the common rice plant that led to biotech's one discovery (so far) that might actually benefit the third-world poor. Yet this same g... |
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1514692_5 | Study Spurs Hope of Finding Way to Increase Human Life | will be split evenly between their parent institutions, Harvard Medical School and Biomol. Resveratrol is synthesized by plants in response to stress like lack of nutrients and fungal infection. It exists in the skin of both red and white grapes but is found in amounts 10 times as high in red wine as in white because o... |
1514646_1 | How much can the Department of Homeland Security do about cyberattacks? | versions of Microsoft Windows, the operating system used on most PC's. So far, the attacks smell a lot more like vandalism than terrorism. But the potential for serious disruption of electronic commerce has nevertheless prompted Secretary Tom Ridge's Department of Homeland Security, among other organizations, to dispen... |
1509620_5 | Looking Backward and Ahead at Continent's End | exploring the coast, but no country had claimed absolute sovereignty. The United States gained control of what is now the Pacific Northwest after a treaty with Britain in 1846 established the boundaries. Now the years force new perspectives. The Indians who loomed so large in Jefferson's projections and Lewis and Clark... |
1509605_1 | Episcopal Leaders Give First Approval For a Gay Bishop | this out.'' The House of Deputies, which includes more than 800 lay and clergy leaders from every diocese, approved Bishop-elect Robinson in a complicated count of the vote that has, in past elections, made the most controversial issues more difficult to win approval. He won majorities among the lay leaders, and among ... |
1509588_4 | Airports Ready for Impact Of Tightened Visa Rules | added. Ms. Bernaldez said that some of the more popular routes through Houston whose passengers are likely to be affected by the change, included Tokyo to Cancún, Lima to Tokyo, Brazil to Canada and Mexico to London. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the largest number of people using Transit Without Vi... |
1513649_2 | Questions Haunt a Saddened Annan | outside the United Nations. The name most often on people's lips was that of Sergio Vieira de Mello, Mr. Annan's special representative in Iraq. In a telephone interview from London, Ahmad Fawzi, the former press secretary to Mr. Vieira de Mello, said that Mr. Vieira de Mello, ''was conscious of the security concerns t... |
1513568_2 | Church at a Crossroads And Its Future at Stake | amounts of misguided energies denying. (They were able to do this, by the way, only because so many Catholics had accepted what the authorities were forbidding them to recognize.) Catholics have overwhelmingly reflected the shift going on all around them, and are ignoring the Vatican's increasingly shrill orders to pay... |
1513114_3 | From Way on High, Help In Fighting Forest Fires | make morning and afternoon observations daily of almost every point on Earth, and the Modis instruments keep track of the extent and intensity of fires. They also provide altitude estimates of smoke plumes. Modis data processed and transmitted at the Goddard center, and computer models and software developed at the Uni... |
1513280_0 | Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Vernon Township: Bear Goes Untrapped | The bear that chased an 18-year-old woman on Aug. 10 has avoided a trap set for it, said Elaine Makatura, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Environmental Protection. She said a trap was set in Wawayanda State Park in Sussex County the same day that the hiker was chased and knocked down by a black bear. The hike... |
1511570_0 | Mom's a Pepper, Dad's a Tomato: Baby Is a Sweetie, If a Tad Unlovely | The toma bella is the aptly named offspring of a tomato and a bell pepper. This hybrid, which originated in Japan, is now being grown in Mexico, California and Michigan and is sold with the Frieda's Finest label in supermarkets, including Food Town in New Jersey. Bright red and squat like a tomato, it has a somewhat mi... |
1511587_0 | Rethinking Menopause | To the Editor: As an endocrinologist and a researcher, I find the debate over hormone replacement therapy spurious because it is predicated on menopause's being perceived as a ''disease'' rather than as a normal life-cycle process (news article, Aug. 7). Without further understanding of the role of menopause in aging, ... |
1511708_1 | Bear Did Not Try to Eat A Hiker, an Official Says | Mr. Kaskey was quoted in news articles today as saying the bear had exhibited ''classic predatory behavior'' and was ''out to eat'' the young hiker. Mr. Campbell said today that the bear did not try to bite the hiker after chasing her from behind on a wooded trail and knocking her to the ground. Mr. Campbell called the... |
1511656_4 | California's Embattled Governor Gains a New Adviser: Bill Clinton | Republicans in Texas to redraw Congressional district lines in a way would eliminate some Democratic-leaning districts. ''There are a lot of people in the party who are connecting the dots: What's occurring is a conscious and well-heeled effort to try to undo traditional democratic processes,'' one of Mr. Clinton's ass... |
1511922_1 | All Quiet on Campus Save the Click of Keys | technology, Blitzmail has its less appealing side. It has technical limitations. And Blitzmail can be annoying, even oppressive at times, occasionally prompting users to seek refuge from the constant flow of messages. Back in 1984, administrators at Dartmouth, long known for its innovative use of computers, decided tha... |
1511900_0 | Hungary, Then and Now | To the Editor: You are right that the rerouting of the Danube into a concrete-sealed canal ''has been sharply criticized by environmentalists in Hungary and elsewhere'' (news article, ''Down the Danube'' series, Aug. 9). In fact, we are suing the Hungarian government, demanding that it return the case to the Internatio... |
1511876_0 | Authorities Seize Times Newsmen Off J.F.K. | A reporter and a photographer for The New York Times and the captain of the boat they were riding in were detained by the authorities yesterday and were accused of violating the security around John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Coast Guard said. A police boat stopped the 24-foot boat about 100 feet from shore,... |
1511944_4 | With the Apples Arriving by E-Mail, Teachers Adapt | site will attract more than a million visits this month as teachers prepare for school. One new member recently posted a plea in the site's chatroom for ideas on how to avoid the ''lovely task'' of making 180 booklets that could serve as ''passports'' for a sixth-grade geography class (students would get a stamp for ev... |
1514765_1 | ARTS BRIEFING | event, which continues through Sept. 6. Among the stars expected to be on hand are Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Reuters reported. Woody Allen's comedy ''Anything Else'' is the opening night attraction. Other filmmakers whose works will be presented in Venice are Robert Benton, Bernardo Bertolucci,... |
1514847_5 | Tricking The Taste Buds: Science Seeks Sweet Disguise | Sinai Hospital's School of Medicine in Manhattan, discovered gustducin, a protein that is central to the human perception of taste. He founded Linguagen in 1995 to determine how his research could be used in product development. Linguagen has enlisted Beverly J. Tepper, an associate professor of food science at Rutgers... |
1510197_3 | U.S. Is Inspecting Overseas Airports for Missile Threats | upon what part of the country you are in.'' The first of the international airport inspections were organized this spring, without any public announcement, by the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, which is part of the department. The overseas inspections mirror ones that we... |
1510206_7 | Episcopal Church Leaders Reject Proposal for Same-Sex Union Liturgy | Schori, Nevada; James L. Jelinek, Minnesota; Robert H. Johnson, Western North Carolina; James A. Kelsey, Northern Michigan; Chilton R. Knudson, Maine; Robert L. Ladehoff, Oregon; Jerry A. Lamb, Northern California; Peter J. Lee, Virginia; Edwin M. Leidel Jr., Eastern Michigan; Mark L. MacDonald, Alaska; Paul V. Marshal... |
1510158_3 | First Year of Hormone Treatment Is Found to Raise Risk of Heart Attack | to say that no hormones ought to be used. Anyone who says that has not spoken to a symptomatic patient who feels a lot better on treatment.'' The new data suggest that women who take hormones to quell hot flashes should take other steps to lower their risk of heart attacks, said Dr. Jennifer Hays, director of the Cente... |
1510160_1 | Regardless of the progress of a few, many nations still face economic despair. | sole reliance on per capita gross domestic product to include measures of education and health. The agency has added other formal indexes to measure gender equality, gender empowerment and poverty. The latest report emphasizes goals established by the United Nations in its Millennium Declaration of 2000, which ideally ... |
1510202_2 | U.S. Court Rejects Tire Safety Rule, Saying Margin for Error Is Too Great | perfect decision for us,'' said Clarence Ditlow, executive director for the Center for Auto Safety, a plaintiff and a frequent critic of the industry. In a statement, Mr. Ditlow added, ''This decision will block the pro-industry, anti-consumer, deregulatory campaign of the Bush administration.'' Rae Tyson, a spokesman ... |
1510137_0 | Equal Justice in Iraq | To the Editor: ''In Najaf, Justice Can Be Blind but Not Female'' (front page, July 31) reports that the United States has indefinitely postponed the swearing in of Najaf's first female judge because of protests by clerics and lawyers. Will we allow a conservative Islamic culture to prevent women from serving as judges ... |
1509724_2 | Fashion and Art Embrace, if Not Passionately | -- through installations by teams of artists and designers like Damien Hirst and Miuccia Prada -- but that magazines, he says, have generally paid lip service to. ''All too often editors make assumptions about their readers that are out of touch, out of date and condescending,'' Mr. Freedman said, arguing that audience... |
1509703_0 | $85 Million Project Begins For Revival of the Aral Sea | After nearly half a century of studying and deploring the drying up of the Aral Sea, one of the world's greatest environmental disasters, an international agency is building a dike to resuscitate part of the sea. There is broad agreement that it is impossible to return the sea level to its pre-1960 level, 72 feet highe... |
1512370_3 | Getting Off the Ground Remains a Big Challenge | problem now is its backlog of flights and expectant passengers. ''This morning the terminal looked like Thanksgiving weekend,'' said Pat Smith, an airport spokeswoman. Delays and cancellations reached airports and cities that never lost power. At Los Angeles International, the delays required creative rescheduling. The... |
1512293_1 | How India's Mother of Invention Built an Industry | are racing to set up biotech parks, hoping to mimic the success of the information technology industry that defined India as a global knowledge powerhouse. But biotechnology touches human lives in a way that information technology does not, and that is at the heart of the debate over its benefits and risks for developi... |
1512313_3 | Shiite Group Plans Militia to Protect Holy Sites From G.I.'s | army, the Army of Muhammad. Sheik Daraji said in his sermon that it would consist of eight units deployed in different Baghdad neighborhoods. Women would be among the fighters. ''It is only to tell the enemy that we have the ability to respond,'' Sheik Daraji told reporters. ''That will prevent them from assaulting us.... |
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1514559_7 | For $150,000, a Neo-Classical You | of doyens of the parterre. John Russell Taylor, art critic for The Times of London, likened Mr. Childs's technical ability to that of the Victorian painter Frederic Lord Leighton, adding that his work avoids sentiment but instead ''revels in the sensuous possibilities of embodying the ancient myths'' and also ''seeks t... |
1514618_0 | The Way We Live Now: 8-24-03; We're All Connected? | 'The future belongs to crowds,'' Don DeLillo declared in his novel ''Mao II,'' and at the time he was writing it -- the end of the 1980's, when packs of soccer hooligans were rampaging in Europe and masses of undifferentiated couples were getting married in stadium-filled Moonie wedding ceremonies -- that sounded prett... |
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1514326_3 | At Home (of Course) With a Telecommuter | a full kitchen or bathroom. In the early 1990's, the office operated by phone and by fax. His colleagues were scattered around the area -- one in Baltimore, one in Annapolis, one in Columbia and one in Washington, D.C. To allow them the same flexibility he had, Mr. Apgar provided them with desktop computers, fax machin... |
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1511275_1 | Napoleon's Bittersweet Legacy | in a perverse reversal of traditional trade patterns, Europe ranks among the world's leading sugar exporters. To protect its sugar growers, the European Union mandates that farmers like Mr. Duez get paid 50 euros per ton of harvested sugar beets, or five times the world market price, up to an allotted quota. Mr. Duez r... |
1509004_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day on Monday about the economic costs of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or spam, referred imprecisely to an estimate by the Radicati Group, a research company. Its $20.5 billion figure referred solely to corporate information technology globally. It did not include losses of worker productivity. |
1508877_1 | A Bioethicist's Take on Genesis | secularists alike. A few years ago, in a series of television discussions led by Bill Moyers, Genesis seemed little more than a postmodern novel, meaning just about anything. But Mr. Kass -- drawing on interpretations by scholars like Robert Alter, Leo Strauss, Umberto Cassuto and Robert Sacks (along with the work of n... |
1510439_0 | Episcopalians Approve Local Option on Same-Sex Unions | Episcopal Church leaders approved a landmark resolution this evening stating that local dioceses are within the bounds of the church when they allow clergy members to bless the unions of gay or lesbian couples. ''What this says is that these blessings are within the embrace of God,'' said the Rev. Francis H. Wade, chai... |
1510420_0 | New Study Links Hormones to Breast Cancer Risk | A study of one million British women has found a higher death rate from breast cancer among those who took combination hormone therapy than those who did not use it or took estrogen alone. The study is by far the largest to determine the effects of hormones on breast cancer. The findings, which are being published in L... |
1512151_3 | U.S. Apologizes for Baghdad Mosque Incident | fly helicopters up to communications towers to take down flags. And my understanding at this point is that, in fact, there has been an apology issued by the commander on the ground because of this incident that blew down that flag.'' News agencies reported that an American commander in the area had distributed a letter... |
1512074_1 | Problems With Pirates Continue in Sea Lanes of South Asia | urged vessels passing through the strait to stay close to the Malaysian side. With half the world's oil shipments by sea passing from the Gulf through the Strait of Malacca to east Asia, the strait trails only the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf as an oil shipping lane. Fears that pirates and terroris... |
1512090_2 | A Perfect Summer, if You're a Fungus; Record Rainfall Transforms City Into a Wonderland of Mushrooms | ecologist who works with the Parks Department. Another type -- Woodsia obtusa, or blunt cliff fern -- turned up in Central Park just last month. And there are enough mushrooms to kindle memories of ''Anna Karenina'' -- Tolstoy mentioned mushrooms at least eight times -- or of afternoons squandered on Super Mario video ... |
1512099_3 | U.S. Apologizes for Baghdad Mosque Incident | fly helicopters up to communications towers to take down flags. And my understanding at this point is that, in fact, there has been an apology issued by the commander on the ground because of this incident that blew down that flag.'' News agencies reported that an American commander in the area had distributed a letter... |
1512141_0 | People With Radios Suddenly Find an Eager Audience | Good days often find Mark Barney quietly perched on a green fire hydrant outside his 42nd Street apartment, a battery-operated radio pressed to his ear. Untold thousands of New Yorkers have passed him by, perhaps only vaguely attuned to the tinny reports of Knicks and Mets games emanating from his palm-size Panasonic. ... |
1512185_0 | World Business Briefing | Africa: Uganda: Dam Plan Pullout | The world's largest independent power producer, the AES of Arlington, Va., said that it would not build a $500 million dam at Bujagali Falls on the Nile. Frustrated by protests and a nearly decade-long delay, the company pulled out of what would have been the largest foreign investment project ever in East Africa. Envi... |
1512176_0 | People With Radios Suddenly Find an Eager Audience | Good days often find Mark Barney quietly perched on a green fire hydrant outside his 42nd Street apartment, a battery-operated radio pressed to his ear. Untold thousands of New Yorkers have passed him by, perhaps only vaguely attuned to the tinny reports of Knicks and Mets games emanating from his palm-size Panasonic. ... |
1515022_2 | U.S. Corn Subsidies Said to Damage Mexico | put changes in farm practices and trading rules at the top of its agenda during the current round of talks, which are dedicated to the developing world. Mexico, the birthplace of corn, opened its borders to American corn exports after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994. Within a year, corn imports ... |
1513436_0 | Old Virus Has A New Trick: Mailing Itself In Quantity | If the e-mail message offers ''details,'' ''That movie'' or ''Wicked screensaver,'' don't open the attachment. (And why are you still opening unsolicited attachments, anyway? Don't you ever learn?) One of the most common rogue computer programs on the Internet made a virulent reappearance yesterday. The virus, known by... |
1513426_0 | Milwaukee Priests Seek Marriages in Clergy | More than 160 Roman Catholic priests in the Milwaukee Archdiocese have signed copies of a letter calling on the church to allow married men to join the priesthood. The letter, which the Rev. Joe Aufdermauer of Milwaukee mailed today to the leader of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, cited the shortage o... |
1513480_1 | Venture to Drill for Gas and Build Pipeline Off China | of eight companies dominated by PetroChina, with a 50 percent stake, is building a 2,500-mile pipeline from much larger gas fields in the deserts of northwestern China to Shanghai, passing through or close to several large cities along the way. Western analysts have questioned whether that project makes financial sense... |
1511344_0 | OBSERVATORY | Color Them Old Fashion-wise, most fossils are color-challenged, having lost their original pigments in favor of the drab minerals that fossilized them. With most fossils it's impossible to know precisely what color the organism was in life. But not with all. For instance, 50-million-year-old beetle fossils found in Ger... |
1511344_2 | OBSERVATORY | is the first known example in an extinct species. They suggest that by examining the structure of reflectors in other extinct species, even those where the layers have become opaque or completely desiccated, it may be possible to reconstruct their original colors. Underwater Hot Spots The concept of biodiversity hot sp... |
1511356_1 | With E-Mail, It's Not Easy to Navigate 6 Degrees of Separation | of the small number of participants and other shortcomings of the experiment. The advent of the Internet enabled the researchers to more carefully explore the problem, which is part mathematical -- the structure of the network -- and part psychological -- what motivates people to participate or not, and how do people d... |
1511348_1 | Common Sense For Cooling Down | Washington University said. ''Only symptoms that are bothersome need to be treated with anything.'' *Try new herbs or supplements by themselves first, rather than in combinations, so that you know what is responsible for an adverse reaction. Always let the physician know what is being taken. That is especially importan... |
1511421_0 | In a Post-9/11 World, Corporate Travel Is All Business | FOR nearly two years now, we've all been exposed to intense security procedures, many of them clearly sensible, but a good number of them questionable and evidently vaguely conceived. For example, a recent Congressional study found that the public was largely baffled by, and dismissive of, the Department of Homeland Se... |
1511365_3 | Herbs for Hot Flashes: New Attention, Mixed Results | ginseng showed no benefit for hot flashes, the survey in The Annals of Internal Medicine found. Neither did oil of evening primrose or red clover, another Indian folk remedy. One of the most recent studies, published last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that the effects of two brands of ... |
1513000_2 | On a diet and craving French fries? Inventor has a low-carbohydrate version that contains cauliflower. | and ranging from tater tots and latkes to twice-baked potatoes and batter for fried foods. Ms. Blaun is essentially trying to patent a recipe for a dough, made from a powder, which is then shaped and baked into potatolike form. If the dough has the cancer-fighting sulfur compounds present in cauliflower, doesn't it als... |
1512995_3 | The Bits Are Willing, but the Batteries Are Weak | ration the battery power on their portable devices like water. Lorna Keuning, 35, of Park Slope, Brooklyn, forced herself to shut down her iBook on Thursday night when the battery meter was in the red so she would have enough charge to check the Internet in the morning. Her first act on waking up to find the power back... |
1512984_3 | Helped by Technology, Piracy of DVD's Runs Rampant in China | punishment. American film companies once hoped that the shift from VCD technology to the more heavily encrypted DVD would stem piracy. But bootleggers in China and elsewhere cracked the new technology, and the spread of video technology seemed to make unauthorized copying easier than ever. ''Today's pirates have evolve... |
1508749_2 | Vatican Exhorts Legislators To Reject Same-Sex Unions | first predominantly Roman Catholic nation to recognize homosexual unions. Just this year, Belgium began registering gay partnerships. Germany, which also has a large Catholic population, grants gay couples protections, benefits and responsibilities traditionally reserved for married men and women. Similar measures are ... |
1497796_0 | French Arrest 150 From Iranian Opposition Group | French authorities today arrested more than 150 members of a long-established armed Iranian opposition group, accused them of organizing terrorist acts, and seized $1.3 million in $100 bills. The move against the Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Mujahedeen, as the group is known, effectively shut down its operations in Fr... |
1497881_0 | Technology Briefing | Internet: Clamping Down On Fraud | The United States and 29 other countries have developed a ''framework for international cooperation'' to curb cross-border fraud, officials said yesterday. The agreement is intended to make it easier for governments to investigate and shut illegal Internet and telemarketing operations involving multiple countries. Some... |
1497837_0 | Microsoft Sues 15 Organizations In Broad Attack On Spam E-Mail | Microsoft, the world's largest provider of e-mail accounts, filed lawsuits yesterday against 15 groups of individuals and companies that it says collectively sent its clients more than two billion unwanted e-mail messages. Unwanted e-mail, commonly called spam, has been a fast-growing problem for many e-mail users. The... |
1497778_0 | Plan to Block North Korean Nuclear Shipments Gains Support | Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said today that the United States had lined up broad support to press North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program, but an American initiative to interdict shipments of nuclear materials brought a new threat of retaliation. Speaking to reporters on his plane before arriving here... |
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