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1497771_0 | Not Leading the World but Following It | Disparities in the legal treatment of lesbians and gay men in the United States and their treatment in the rest of the world are becoming more pronounced. As the United States Supreme Court considers an important gay rights case, expected to be decided this month, it should realize that much of the globe sees the issue... |
1497869_1 | CANADIAN LEADERS AGREE TO PROPOSE GAY MARRIAGE LAW | here to marry, since Canada has no marriage residency requirements. In addition, gay-rights advocates in the United States are already declaring that Canada will serve as a vivid example to Americans that same-sex marriage is workable and offers no challenge to traditional heterosexual family life. No American state al... |
1496181_3 | Vandalism and 'Improvements' Mar Great Wall | part of northern China, the Wall provided virtually the only source for this raw material. A 1,000-yard section of Wall slowly disappeared. ''This was a large-scale and long-term demolition, but the authorities weren't even aware,'' Mr. Dong said. ''So we have to strengthen local management, since it may well be happen... |
1496241_2 | An Acoustic Tape Measure for Deep-Sea Archaeologists | be part of the expedition. ''This system allows us to make accurate maps anywhere on the seafloor. It's an acoustic tape measure.'' Deep-sea archaeology is a relatively new academic discipline that combines traditional humanities-based archaeology with engineering advances that enable precision work with remotely contr... |
1498428_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Brooklyn: Suit For Disabled Students | Lawyers for more than 500 disabled preschool children asked a federal judge yesterday to order the city's Department of Education to provide special-education services for their clients immediately. The lawyers have filed a class action suit on behalf of the children, claiming that they are entitled to free special-edu... |
1498333_3 | Talks Collapse on U.S. Efforts To Open Europe to Biotech Food | Africa. African nations, fearing their products would be shunned by Europe, are avoiding developing genetically modified food that might help feed the continent, he said. ''European governments should join, not hinder, the great cause of ending hunger in Africa,'' he said in the speech. European diplomats reacted angri... |
1498382_0 | Cornelia Parker | D'Amelio Terras 525 West 22nd Street, Chelsea Through tomorrow There is a curious literalism about certain forms of conceptual art. If Hamish Fulton, for example, says he hiked a certain mileage in the name of art, we have to believe that he really hoofed the whole distance. Cornelia Parker, a London-based artist with ... |
1493435_0 | The World; A River Rises Through It, Washing Away the Past | AFTER a decade of construction work, China will today close the sluice gates of the giant Three Gorges Dam and forever alter the landscape of its historic heartland. When the gates close, waters from the mighty Yangtze River will begin filling a reservoir that stretches nearly 400 miles, or about the length of Lake Sup... |
1493518_4 | No Headline | offer information about emergency legal and medical services. The demonstrations will coincide with the opening of the three-day annual summit meeting of the leaders of the G-8 -- the world's seven largest industrialized countries, plus Russia -- as well as the leaders of 12 developing countries who have been invited f... |
1493389_2 | The Baby Chronicles, via E-Mail | which has just been published by Harper Entertainment. The e-mail messages, urgent and immediate by nature, turn out to be the perfect medium for a book that reads like a Dickens serial, rife with cliffhangers -- Jackson's harrowing airlift from the Modesto hospital where the twins were born to the one in San Francisco... |
1493457_1 | Dreams, Deferred | the country to find a job right now. In April, the city's unemployment rate was 8.3 percent, significantly above the state rate of 6.1 percent, and the national average of 6.0 percent. Young job seekers have been especially hard hit. ''People 25 to 45 have lower unemployment rates than people under 25,'' said James P. ... |
1500212_4 | Bush Calls for Changes in Africa To End Wars and Promote Trade | an active role in bringing peace to Sudan, where, he said, two million people have died over the last two decades in Africa's longest-running civil war. He said he had asked his special envoy to Sudan, John C. Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, to travel to the country in two weeks to bring an end to ... |
1500130_3 | Caesar Rendered for the Small Screen | be complete without a telltale anachronism or two -- those who dramatize history are doomed to repeat the present. Reflecting the social preoccupations of its own time more than the Roman Republic's, ''Cleopatra,'' the 1963 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, never veered far from the subject of sex and ... |
1500220_2 | Planned Auto Safety Rules Focus on Rollovers and S.U.V.'s | break and the forces putting pressure on the roof change directions. The new requirements would also extend safety regulations to large sport utilities, like Hummers, and to pickup trucks; such vehicles fall outside many of the current standards. And they would encompass 15-passenger vans, which would have to be put th... |
1500116_2 | Weekender | Water Mill, N.Y. | enough asphalt driveway to hold a commercial fleet. The stop signs are painted forest green. Houses start around $2.5 million. ''The big explosion of developing Water Mill happened in the last seven to nine years, and the intimate character of the place has changed,'' said Ms. Konner, who freely admits to having built ... |
1500223_26 | Excerpts From Supreme Court's Decision Striking Down Sodomy Law | ''acting in private'' -- since the Court admits that sodomy laws were enforced against consenting adults (although the Court contends that prosecutions were ''infrequent.'') I do not know what ''acting in private'' means; surely consensual sodomy, like heterosexual intercourse, is rarely performed on stage. If all the ... |
1500258_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Rules For Clergy And Children | A new code of conduct for Roman Catholic priests in the Diocese of Ferns, the center of Ireland's clerical sex abuse scandals, instructs the clergy never to be alone with a young person or out of public view, and to meet with with teenagers and children in accessible rooms with glass windows. The policy, written by pri... |
1497085_6 | U.S. Entangled in Mystery of Georgia's Islamic Fighters | Last fall, they said, they forced a group of about 30 mostly Chechen fighters back across the border. The group, they said, walked right into a force of Russian soldiers, who killed many of them. At the same time, Georgian officials described an incident in which an Arab fighter with apparent links to Al Qaeda might ha... |
1497199_2 | You Asked for It, You Got It: The Pint-Size Watermelon | the United States from $2.99 to $5.99. About 160 miles west of here in San Diego, where Syngenta has just introduced its minimelons, shoppers have not hesitated to pay $3.99 for a 5 to 6 pound fruit. ''Those things were flying off the shelves -- I mean zoom,'' said a manager at a Vons Supermarket in the Murphy Canyon n... |
1497164_3 | Violence Offers Its Own Lessons | doctors were spending increasing amounts of time undoing the handiwork of criminals rather than fighting germs, and it pushed the public health community into a debate on criminal justice. And as violence became a true field of public health and epidemiological inquiry, people like Thomas Cole, a contributing editor of... |
1497276_3 | Almost Cannibalism | ''because of who they are. They are our sibling species, who share with us between 96 and 99 percent of their genetic code.'' Apes are ''special beings,'' he adds, ''who observe the world through eyes and faces like ours,'' show similar emotions, live in similar social systems and display traces of humanlike intelligen... |
1497062_2 | The Nation: Losers All; 'Egalitarian Recession' Keeps Anger At Bay | new car or house. Even the committee of academic economists that determines the turns of the business cycle is stumped. The body has not yet announced an end date for the 2001 recession, despite a year and a half of growth, because the data remain so mixed. ''Consumers see some good parts of the economy -- low inflatio... |
1495929_2 | French Strike Against Cuts In Pensions Jams Traffic | street. Postal workers, state bank employees, telecommunications operators, teachers, nurses and police officers joined in the nationwide strike. Interrupted train service caused traffic jams that stretched for miles outside the capital as private companies' employees drove to work. Protests filled city centers in Mars... |
1495937_1 | Agreeing to Protect Giant Treasures, but How? | few debates where everyone agrees with the objective: these trees are a national treasure, the largest living and growing things on earth. They must be protected,'' said Mr. Gaffrey, 50, a soft-spoken forester who has supervised the Sequoia National Forest since 1996. ''The question is, how do we do this?'' There is li... |
1499177_1 | Congress Finds Rare Unity in Spam, to a Point | says, has reached a crisis point -- consuming an estimated 40 percent of all e-mail traffic. Technology solutions have not been a panacea. As a result, various other business interest groups (with the exception of the spammers themselves) that might normally defend the free play of market forces have converged in suppo... |
1499252_4 | A Wall Once Unseen, Now Revered; At Ground Zero, a Symbol of Survival Is Mended for Posterity | Then it was unimaginably tested on Sept. 11, 2001, when the wall held through the impacts of the hijacked jetliners and the collapse of the south and north towers, which generated temblors of magnitude 2.1 and 2.3, respectively, as measured by Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. In... |
1499158_2 | A Church in Search Of Followers | year before it, in which many hundreds of instances of abuse were brought to light, several bishops resigned in disgrace, an accused priest was shot by his accuser and Cardinal Bernard Law, under fire in Boston, hid behind a bunker of secular legalese? Yes, it can. Because the developments of the year before Dallas, th... |
1499174_0 | More Companies Pay Heed to Their 'Word of Mouse' Reputation | Early this year, the wrath of the World Wide Web rained down on Intuit when its TurboTax software programs displeased some customers, who then promptly posted their grievances all over Internet forums. The velocity in the spread of those critical remarks created a crisis for the company and a colorful case study for th... |
1499251_0 | Still Lax About E-Mail | Despite all the evidence that federal investigators of corporate scandals have amassed from e-mail over the last year, few companies have taken steps to make sure their employees know and follow rules for proper use of e-mail. That is a conclusion, at least, of a recent survey of more than 1,100 employees and executive... |
1500717_0 | Hormones and Cancer | To the Editor: Re ''Study Finds New Risks in Hormone Therapy'' (front page, June 25): I am a 64-year-old pediatrician with invasive lobular breast cancer. I took estrogen and progesterone for five years, thinking that the risk of breast cancer would be small and that it could easily be detected. I now know that lobular... |
1500840_4 | Iran Is Trying to Curb Porn and Politics on Web | have been blocked thus far. The political sites are perhaps more worrisome for the government than the online pornography. Many of the journalists who founded liberal, reformist newspapers that have been banned by the conservative-run judiciary have started Web sites that use much bolder language than the print media a... |
1500893_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1500698_2 | Affirmative Action, Productive Potential | without the policies. But the professors also discovered that the performance of minority workers hired under affirmative action was no worse than that of those who weren't. At least indirectly, these studies give credence to an idea long held by supporters of affirmative action: that most standard measures of aptitude... |
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1500857_4 | Can't Find a Summer Job? Blame All the Layoffs | Charles E. Schumer, with no luck. He eventually was accepted into an unpaid internship program for Representative Christopher Shays. Charles Bassos, president and chief executive of Fairfield County Savings Bank, said that turnover at his bank had slowed. Without open positions to fill, he has watched the number of app... |
1500817_6 | An Aging Europe May Find Itself on the Sidelines | only as Reinhardt was fuming because the spa refused to accept his state health insurance this year and he had to pay the $8 daily entrance fee out of his own pocket. He had not been told that most health insurance programs in Germany removed spa treatments as an automatic benefit last year, though if doctors prescribe... |
1500908_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1500561_13 | The Executioner's I.Q. Test | with help, obtain jobs and driver's licenses, take care of themselves, marry, raise children and so on. Retarded people on death row tend not to have Down syndrome, which usually results in more severe retardation. In any case, people with more significant cognitive deficits either lack the capacity to plan or commit a... |
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1495071_2 | Conscience of Canada Inc. | Elizabeth awarded him the Order of the British Empire. Though Canada has so far been spared corporate scandals on the scale of Enron and WorldCom, its governance record is far from unblemished. Investors lost tens of millions of dollars in 1997 when Bre-X Minerals, a gold exploration company, falsified results from a p... |
1495353_1 | Confessions of a Gym Rat | cult. But who was being worshiped? In ''Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth About Exercise and Health,'' Gina Kolata examines the fitness craze that has swept through the United States over the past 30 years. She tries to answer some of the fundamental questions about exercise that occur to most people who've recentl... |
1495179_0 | The Fresh Air Fund; Camp Broadens Possibilities for Disabled Children | On a drizzly Saturday last month, 9-year-old Daniel Byrd of Brooklyn felt right at home by the pond at Camp Hidden Valley in Fishkill, N.Y., where he was spending the weekend. With his bamboo rod in hand, he walked by himself along the water's grassy edge to find an ideal spot for fishing. His mother, Teresa Byrd, stoo... |
1495132_0 | How to Deal With Spam | To the Editor: ''How to Unclog the Information Artery'' (May 25) offered various possible solutions to a peculiar side effect of global Internet-connectedness: spam. Under one of the proposed solutions, a long-lost buddy from college who finds me on our alumni page might have to fill out information on another Web page... |
1495134_0 | How to Deal With Spam | To the Editor: Fees are charged for mail, fax and telephone calls. Why not for e-mail? Not only would it be reasonable to charge the sender for each e-mail message sent, but it would also have the effect of reducing spam to tolerable levels and acceptable content. JIM LINCOLN Concord, Mass., May 28 The writer is senior... |
1493786_0 | Weighing the Risks Of Hormone Pills | To the Editor: I have a hint for those who do research on dementia (front page, May 28). Check out the studies that show that excitable and ornery older people have the greatest survival rates. Whatever vascular problems may have been caused by my taking Prempro and before that Premarin for more than 35 years is balanc... |
1493806_1 | BUSH PRESSES CASE ON IRAN AND KOREA AT ECONOMIC TALKS | on the issue by declaring that he had no ''discomfort'' in dealing with the American president. Rather than dwell on their differences, Mr. Bush pressed the main issue on his agenda -- nonproliferation. By the end of the day, the president appeared to have won at least a new hearing from Mr. Putin on Russia's technolog... |
1493764_2 | Neediest Cases Fund to Underwrite 1,000 Summer Jobs | the Neediest Summer Jobs Program, will be administered by the After-School Corporation, a nonprofit group that serves about 45,000 children in the city by creating donor-program partnerships. The Neediest Cases Fund is inviting individual and corporate donors to help by either creating blocks of summer jobs or making c... |
1493813_4 | Scores of Thousands Protest Conference, Some Violently | confrontation, even if it meant there was no one to maintain order. Earlier in the day, on the main marching route from central Geneva to the French border four miles away, about two dozen protesters in black clothing, their faces masked or covered, smashed signs, windows and gas pumps at a BP gas station. They stole b... |
1493785_0 | Weighing the Risks Of Hormone Pills | To the Editor: Re ''Hormone Use Found to Raise Dementia Risk'' (front page, May 28): As a geriatrician who treats patients with dementias of all kinds and at every stage, I find it alarming that recent studies about estrogen replacement therapy are scaring women yet again, when several past studies demonstrated the pos... |
1501105_0 | U.S. Chill Flattens Mood at French Wine Fair | Something was missing from the country's largest wine fair here this week, and it wasn't just the air-conditioning (in one of the exhibition halls, temperatures rose so high that corks popped on their own). The usual contingent of American wine merchants were mostly absent, confirming to many at the fair that American ... |
1501146_1 | New Jersey Foster Children Lingering in Mental Wards | now is horrific,'' said Kathy Wright, executive director of the New Jersey Parents Caucus, a federally financed nonprofit organization that supports parents of children with psychiatric disorders. ''DYFS workers bring them there, if they have failed in a foster placement. But once they are in, they stay from 20 days to... |
1501109_0 | British Minister Presses Iran To Allow Nuclear Inspections | Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw, urged Iran today to sign ''quickly and unconditionally'' an additional protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty that would lead to more aggressive United Nations inspections of its nuclear sites. Iran has come under increasing pressure since the International Atomic Energ... |
1494401_1 | Mexico Making Headway on Smuggling | budget has grown tenfold, to almost $150 million. That has permitted José Guzmán Montalvo, general administrator of Mexico's customs service since January 2001, to double or triple salaries and buy up-to-date gamma-ray scanners to view the contents of containers. The agency has pursued corrupt customs brokers, cancelin... |
1494466_0 | The Research; Startled by His Visual Prowess, a Gamer Set His Study in Motion | ALTHOUGH Daphne Bavelier and Shawn Green, researchers at the University of Rochester, were gratified to see their article appear in the journal Nature last week, they never expected to see it cause such a stir. The article was based on a study they had done that showed playing action video games improved visual acuity.... |
1494468_1 | On the Reservation, the Web Plays Dream Maker | allow tribes to communicate, collaborate, develop and prosper,'' said Elstun Lauesen, technology director for the corporation. Tribal leaders hope that in addition to creating jobs that support the network and services delivered to users, the network can stimulate Internet-based businesses. ''Local businesses can sell ... |
1499450_0 | Siblings Need to Be Children | To the Editor: The thoughts and feelings expressed so poignantly by Paul and Judy Karasik in '' 'David is David': Growing With an Autistic Brother'' (June 10) are not confined to siblings of the autistic. Healthy children whose siblings suffer from any mental or physical disability have similar experiences. Most of the... |
1499371_1 | Shoe Inspections Leave Passengers Fit to Be Untied | wait a week or two. Right now, shoes are what everybody is talking about at the airport.) Security concerns over shoes began, of course, after an incident in December 2001 when Richard C. Reid bungled an attempt to ignite explosives in his shoe while aboard an international flight. The T.S.A. has been tightening shoe i... |
1499364_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR DECLINES. Sugar futures fell to a nine-month low on speculation that rain in southern Brazil would increase production. In New York, raw sugar for October delivery fell 0.2 cent, or 3.1 percent, to 6.25 cents a pound. |
1499415_1 | Tougher Rules For Auto Tires To Be Imposed | is a margin of safety with the tires put on those vehicles,'' said Rae Tyson, a spokesman for the traffic agency. The new rules require light truck tires to meet stricter speed and endurance tests, bringing them in line with those for passenger car tires, and also add new requirements, including one that sets a perform... |
1499388_0 | A Rocky Polish Landfall For a Dutch Abortion Boat | For two days last week, the Langenort, a Dutch-registered tugboat, was kept at sea by bad weather off the Baltic coast of Poland. On Saturday, as the winds fell, it was the shipping container bolted to its deck that kept the boat from harbor in Gdansk. The off-white container holds a mobile abortion clinic, and in Cath... |
1499426_17 | Excerpts From Justices' Opinions on Michigan Affirmative Action Cases | admissions,'' and provides examples of admittees who have lived or traveled widely abroad, are fluent in several languages, have overcome personal adversity and family hardship, have exceptional records of extensive community service, and have had successful careers in other fields. The law school seriously considers e... |
1499350_0 | Peoples of Rain Forest | To the Editor: In ''Artists Touched by Amazon Tribe'' (Arts pages, June 17), you suggest that the Yanomami are ''the last example'' of indigenous people living in ''isolated harmony'' with the tropical rain forest. The Yanomami stand in the middle of a long line of indigenous peoples living in harmony with the rain for... |
1497332_0 | Cellphone Chatter and Driving Don't Mix | To the Editor: Re ''California May Restrict Vehicle Cellphone Use'' (news article, June 10): There is an important distinction between cellphone use and other distractions in the car. A phone call, with its lack of visual input, demands some effort on the driver to mentally picture his interlocutor and his environs. Wh... |
1499905_0 | Health Agency Is Trying to Get a Round World to Slim Down | Having just completed a treaty to restrict global tobacco sales, the World Health Organization is now turning more attention to what it views as another big threat to public health: obesity. Officials of the health agency have been conferring with governments, trade and consumer groups and food industry executives for ... |
1500019_0 | Putting All Your E-Mail in One Basket | PENELOPE FINNIE had to give up something precious recently: her work e-mail address. For more than five years Ms. Finnie, a co-founder of Ask Jeeves, the Web search engine, was penny@ask.com, and she had come to rely on the address for a lot more than work correspondence. ''All my family e-mailed me there, and friends ... |
1499895_0 | From Ming To the Patio | IF you are one of those people who can see poetry in stone, then the story of Richard Rhodes may need no explanation. Since 1984 he has traveled the world in search of stones for use in the construction of houses. The stones that Mr. Rhodes, a principal of Rhodes Architectural Stone, a Seattle salvage firm, sought out ... |
1499967_0 | Technology Briefing | Internet: Gates Seeks Measures To Fight Spam | Bill Gates, who said unsolicited commercial e-mail was a ''spreading plague that feeds off the unique power of the Internet,'' has called on the technology industry to develop a strategy of self-regulation to deal with the problem. In a letter posted yesterday on the Microsoft Web site, Mr. Gates pointed to some of the... |
1499936_1 | Senate Panel Approves Bill For Students With Disabilty | Center for Learning Disabilities, lauded the committee for ''legislation that is bipartisan, balanced and respectful of the complex needs of our nation's 6.5 million students with disabilities.'' The center praised the bill for easing mechanisms to identify children who need extra help at younger ages. It also commende... |
1500053_0 | No Link Found Between Cancer And Power Lines on Long Island | A study of women on Long Island has found no link between breast cancer and living near high-voltage power lines, extending a long trail of research that has failed to connect breast cancer on the island to an environmental cause. The report, to be published next week in The American Journal of Epidemiology, is also th... |
1499919_2 | Bush, Skeptical of Report of Hamas Cease-Fire, Asks Europe to Sever Ties | that all funding be stopped for Hamas, including to its political wing. ''We want to push them in the right direction,'' a French diplomat in Washington said. ''The best thing would be a cease-fire, a stop to terrorism and participation in a peaceful dialogue. If they don't, that's another story.'' In Ramallah, on the ... |
1496709_0 | Sharing a Town, Uneasily; Vigilance About Bears Is Second Nature | Soon after their dog was attacked by a black bear here in 1999, Susan and Lee Kuchenreuther put up floodlights to illuminate their backyard at night. The mayor, Robert Moshman, tries to keep bears from raiding his garbage cans by storing meat scraps in a plastic bag in the refrigerator until garbage-collection day. And... |
1496688_1 | 5-Year Hunt Fails to Net Qaeda Suspect in Africa | a long, porous border, which will remain a threat.'' One result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States was an American effort to re-establish some intelligence operations in Somalia. Now, with Mr. Muhammad's suspected use of Somali territory as a hiding place and staging area, Western officials h... |
1496668_1 | Trade Pact on Gene-Altered Goods to Take Effect in 90 Days | was agreed upon by more than 130 nations in January 2000 but could not take effect until formally ratified by 50 nations. The 50th, Palau, just gave its endorsement, so the protocol will go into effect in 90 days, on Sept. 11, the United Nations Environment Program said yesterday. The treaty allows countries to bar imp... |
1496693_0 | Sir Bernard Williams, 73, Oxford Philosopher, Dies | Sir Bernard Williams, the lightning-witted Oxford professor who is credited with reviving the field of moral philosophy and was considered by some to be the greatest British philosopher of his era, died on Tuesday in Oxford. He was 73 and lived at All Souls College, Oxford. No cause of death was announced but he said i... |
1494867_1 | Is Stagolee's Stetson Like a Rapper's Baggy Pants? | hip-hop generation, has much knowledge of this supposedly transcendent archetype? Mr. Brown's personal passion for the legend comes through in the pages of his book, and his skills as a novelist shine most brightly when he relates the details of Stagolee's life. But that passion seems to have also clouded his judgment ... |
1494875_2 | The Real Leo Strauss | opinions of the time was an unquestioned faith in progress and science combined with a queasiness regarding any kind of moral judgment, or ''relativism.'' Many young people were confused, without a compass, with nothing substantial to admire. My father's turning them to the Great Books was thus motivated not merely by ... |
1494940_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Protecting Mahogany | The government has issued strict new rules to further inhibit the export of mahogany from the Amazon, requiring loggers to file a ''sustainable development'' plan before they can cut down trees. The action came just days after the United States refused to allow the entry of nine shipments of the rare and expensive trop... |
1496441_0 | Builder Agrees To Stabilize Buddhist Site It Damaged | A $200 million construction project in Lower Manhattan will remain shut down for several more days after a judge ordered engineers yesterday to come up with a plan to stabilize a Buddhist temple next door that had been so severely damaged by vibrations that the city ordered it vacated. Judge Saralee Evans of State Supr... |
1498070_1 | Where Is Everybody? The Wireless Network Might Know | Carnegie Mellon University's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems who is also researching wireless networks. But a network's location system, he added, could make the computer become ''context-aware.'' There are, of course, already electronic gadgets that can tell their owners where they are -- most obviously, Glob... |
1498011_2 | Report Says More Farmers Don't Follow Biotech Rule | grown in the nation. About 19 percent did not plant a large enough refuge, with 13 percent planting no refuge at all, the data showed. One reason for the discrepancy was that the industry surveyed only large farms. The center also looked at small farms, which had a higher rate of noncompliance. Lisa Dry, a spokeswoman ... |
1498063_2 | The Liberty Bell's Stress Test | for the Liberty Bell work. Working with conservators from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, MicroStrain scientists attached two wireless microsensors, called differential variable displacement transducers, to the bell. These can sense movements of less than a micron, or one-millionth of a meter. One was set to measure wh... |
1498018_2 | U.S. Gays Who Marry In Canada Face Hurdles | warning to America.'' Gay rights groups are advising their members not to force the issue in the United States until they can determine what kind of case would set the best legal precedent. In the meantime, Canadian-wed couples can expect a mixed reception in the United States, with some businesses and localities recog... |
1498010_1 | Study Says Government Has Improperly Detained Foreign Children | human rights group Amnesty International, which advocates for less restrictive placements or foster homes for children who are awaiting determination of their legal status. ''We found frequently instances of abuse such as solitary confinement for such offenses as poor hygiene or poor sportsmanship or misuse of grammar,... |
1498566_0 | Isolation, an Old Medical Tool, Has SARS Fading | Three months ago, SARS appeared poised to sweep the world, a mysterious new disease racing out of southern China for which there was no vaccine, cure or diagnostic test. Today, SARS is disappearing almost as fast, and almost as unpredictably, as it arrived. This week, the World Health Organization declared it under con... |
1498498_0 | E-Mail Swindle Uses False Report About a Swindle | It was a clever, if not entirely flawless ruse. Many of its potential victims saw through it immediately. Others were less skeptical and were caught in its snare. On Wednesday, starting in the early afternoon, people around the country began receiving an e-mail message with ''Fraud Alert'' in the subject line. In the g... |
1499612_0 | U.S. and Other Countries Outline Program to Curb Carbon Emissions | An array of industrialized and developing countries agreed today on the outline of a cooperative research program aimed at capturing and storing carbon dioxide, the main smokestack emission linked to global warming. The agreement came halfway through a three-day conference in McLean, Va., organized by the Bush administ... |
1499814_0 | Putting All Your E-Mail in One Basket | PENELOPE FINNIE had to give up something precious recently: her work e-mail address. For more than five years Ms. Finnie, a co-founder of Ask Jeeves, the Web search engine, was penny@ask.com, and she had come to rely on the address for a lot more than work correspondence. ''All my family e-mailed me there, and friends ... |
1499629_2 | The Last Hard Case: Bleak, Stubborn Belfast | bombs hurled over the wall last summer from the Catholic side. The only thing the two sides ever agree on is that it is the other side that always begins the attacks. ''In other parts of the world, maybe people live like this, but we're talking about the civilized world, we're talking about Europe,'' said Derek William... |
1499598_3 | The Skin Isn't Great, But the Heart Is Pure Gold | in winter. As part of a boom in new subtropical crops, nurserymen and real estate developers promoted avocados as the next big thing -- ''Health fruit possessing unusual Vitalizing and Rejuvenating properties,'' as one pamphlet put it. Lured by dreams of green gold and a bucolic life, well-to-do enthusiasts planted tho... |
1499832_0 | No Link Found Between Cancer And Power Lines on Long Island | A study of women on Long Island has found no link between breast cancer and living near high-voltage power lines, extending a long trail of research that has failed to connect breast cancer on the island to an environmental cause. The report, to be published next week in The American Journal of Epidemiology, is also th... |
1499697_0 | Study Finds New Risks in Hormone Therapy | One year after a major study linked postmenopausal hormone therapy to an increased risk of breast cancer, new findings from the same study paint an even more ominous picture of the hormones' role in the disease. In addition to stimulating the growth of breast cancer, the combination of hormones used in a common type of... |
1497631_0 | Hunt Imperils Polar Bears In Bering Sea, Report Says | Polar bears that traverse the floating ice between the Russian Arctic and Alaska are being shot in rising numbers by poachers on Russian shores, according to a new report by federal wildlife biologists in the United States, and the killing could greatly diminish the bear population if it is not slowed. The findings wer... |
1497630_2 | Ulster Protestant Leader Defeats Challenger | The government, which Mr. Trimble headed in his post as first minister, was suspended by Britain in October for the fourth time in its brief life because of alleged spy activity by Sinn Fein. The Ulster Unionists vow they will not return to government unless the I.R.A. disarms and ceases all paramilitary activity. Prim... |
1497515_0 | Artists Touched By Amazon Tribe | The Yanomami are probably the last example of the myriad Indian tribes that once lived in isolated harmony with the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. As such, devoted to hunting and fishing and governed by powerful spirits, their natural -- and naked -- way of life has come to be viewed with Rousseau-like nostalgia... |
1497511_4 | A Fascination With Forests Finds Fulfillment at Smithsonian | a weekend at the local bar, preferably in the town square, drinking beer, talking to everyone and actually giving out handouts about who we were and what we were doing. Q. How do you think you will respond to pressure to mount certain exhibits or change them? A. I believe the strength of this museum, the core of this m... |
1494182_0 | West Europe Is Hard Hit By Strikes Over Pensions | A wave of strikes from France to Austria left much of Western Europe snarled today, as protesting workers shut down subway systems, ports, trains, toll roads and airlines. In France, where leaders of the seven major industrial countries and Russia ended a summit meeting in the spa town of Évian-les-Bains, a strike by a... |
1493866_3 | The Road to Wellness, Paved With 1,900 Pages | of water in the body. Another feature I find especially helpful is a clever cross-referencing system to additional information on other pages. On most pages, there are red symbols in the text -- squares, triangles, stars, circles, diamonds -- that at the bottom of the page refer to related information elsewhere in the ... |
1493873_0 | Limited Gain Found in Soy Pills | Pills with a soy compound were no better than a placebo at relieving the symptoms of menopause, according to a Finnish study published yesterday in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. A number of studies have found conflicting but often disappointing results for foods and supplements that contain vegetable substance... |
1495526_3 | E-Mail Message Blitz Creates What May Be Fastest Fad Ever | Iraqi card messages that it defines as spam. After the e-mail blizzard reached full force, Mr. Brandenberg sent a scolding e-mail message to all of GreatUSA's sales agents. It reminded them to send solicitations only to people who agreed to be on marketing lists. ''I compared it to kindergarten,'' Mr. Brandenberg said.... |
1495612_6 | As Dam on Yangtze Closes, Chinese Tally Gain and Loss | the most prominent temples and relics have been moved, but countless more, including those never excavated, will be lost for good. One of the chief sites, the White Emperor Temple, is on a hilltop near Fengjie, at the entrance to the famed gorges. Its main buildings lie just above the water line projected for 2009, but... |
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