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1495707_3 | California May Restrict Vehicle Cellphone Use | issue in a nod to cellphone makers, which contend that the devices have been unfairly singled out. ''People say, What about eating and smoking? What about pets? What about personal grooming? Not only are cellphones the cause of more accidents than any of those, but they cause more accidents than all those put together,... |
1495680_2 | Don't Tug on That Buffalo's Tail, and Other Wilderness Wisdom | the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don't paint yourself with barbecue sauce in bear country.'' Actually, that last phrase was my addition. The book has its surprises as well. For instance, Mr. Smith writes, ''A study in Yellowstone National Park found that from 1982 to 1999, buffalo injured far more people than ... |
1495742_5 | Widespread Looting Leaves Iraq's Oil Industry in Ruins | fields. The Army Corps of Engineers has not set a date for starting that project, and a corps spokesman said production at Rumaila could rise without the water. But Mr. Alkadiri and other independent Iraqi oil experts dispute that claim. At South Oil's headquarters, Mr. Leaby questioned how any repairs could hold when ... |
1495726_2 | Latin Lands Don't Share Powell's Priorities | right to democracy,'' adding, ''It does not say the peoples of the Americas except Cubans have the right to democracy.'' Canada's foreign affairs minister, Bill Graham, said that '' many of my colleagues do not believe that this O.A.S. of ours is the appropriate forum to discuss this'' because Cuba does not have a chan... |
1495703_0 | Contraband Is Big Business in Paraguay | Judging by this country's trade figures, Paraguayans would seem to be a nation of ferocious chain smokers. Last year, the tobacco industry here produced about 45 billion cigarettes, worth about $600 million all told. But according to the central bank's records, only about 300 million cigarettes, or $4.3 million worth, ... |
1500392_0 | Rain Forest Is Losing Ground Faster in Amazon, Photos Show | Newly released satellite images show that the Amazon rain forest is disappearing at an increasing rate, with about 10,000 square miles lost mainly to pasture land, soybean plantations and illegal logging in the 12-month period that ended last August. The government said on Thursday that the area represented a 40 percen... |
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1498973_2 | Eiffel Tower Refitted With 20,000 New Points of Light | there were people standing on the ground below,'' said Fred Novel, a 33-year-old supervisor with Jarnias Enterprise, the company in charge of the project. ''There was this terrible fear that a piece of metal could drop from my hands at any time and fall on the crowd. Then there were the tourists who stared at us as if ... |
1498933_1 | The Nation; READING FILE | its July issue. The magazine cites a United States Fish and Wildlife Service study, conducted in 2001, showing that American hunters are wealthier and spending more on their sport now than ever before -- $20.6 billion a year -- including a 29 percent increase in the last 10 years. Also, the wildlife conservation moveme... |
1498680_6 | Savant for a Day | -- are mistaken. Autistic thought isn't wholly incompatible with ordinary thought, he says; it's just a variation on it, a more extreme example. He first got the idea after reading ''The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,'' in which Oliver Sacks explores the link between autism and a very specific kind of brain damage... |
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1498896_1 | Ideas & Trends; Short Men, Short Shrift. Are Drugs The Answer? | salaries tend to be as modest as their stature. If they are out striving to make their mark, they are derided as ''Little Napoleons.'' Call them whatever you please, and chances are you won't get called on it, for making fun of short men is one of the last acceptable prejudices. Small wonder, then, that an advisory pan... |
1498662_2 | Babies Aren't the Only Beneficiaries of Breast-Feeding | ''don't know about the longer-term health effects.'' The most promising aspect is a reduction of the risk for breast cancer in a study that compared data on 150,000 women from 30 countries. It found that each year of breast-feeding reduced a woman's lifetime breast cancer risk by 4.3 percent. The study's lead researche... |
1498666_8 | The Cross-Country Duo Behind a Breakthrough Vaccine | avoid genital warts because they can turn into large, ugly growths on the penis and may repel sex partners. The new vaccine is being tested in tens of thousands of young people in the United States and other countries. Results are expected within several years. Even in countries with widespread screening and relatively... |
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1498639_2 | Always in Attack Mode | to the enemy's own shores. After sailing the 20-gun sloop Ranger from Portsmouth, N.H., to the coast of France, he launched a series of daring raids that soon had the British citizenry in an uproar. Thomas convincingly suggests that Jones used what we would today call a terrorist campaign to settle some decidedly perso... |
1498776_3 | As Graduates Look for Work, The Engineer Is Standing Tall | Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, says he has been pleasantly surprised this spring to be getting calls once again from employers looking for recent computer engineering graduates for jobs in software development. ''It's been pretty quiet the last couple of years,'' Mr. Staley said. AirPrism, a software ... |
1459029_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Talks On Northern Ireland | Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, left, met at 10 Downing Street and said they had charted a ''work program'' in the coming weeks of intensive meetings for themselves and the leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties to try to get the suspended Catholic-Protestant government of th... |
1459149_0 | Civil Rights for Old Boys | The dean of admissions at Harvard, William Fitzsimmons, has defended so-called legacy allowances with heroic attention to data. He told The Wall Street Journal that he read personally ''all applications from children of alumni,'' which last year amounted to (an astonishing) 727. How heavy was the edge given to these ap... |
1458964_1 | Holes Found in I.N.S. Checks at Airports | to shore up airport security operations. All travelers from foreign countries are required to pass through airport checkpoints, as inspectors determine their eligibility to enter. When eligibility is unclear, inspectors send travelers to secondary areas for interviews, examinations of travel documents and, if needed, d... |
1456935_0 | Defending France's Jews | Over the past two years France has been the site of hundreds of anti-Semitic incidents -- synagogues defaced, sacred texts burned, individuals menaced -- nearly all of them perpetrated by disaffected North African youths. The official reaction consisted of a Gallic shrug, as if to ask, What can you expect from poor Ara... |
1456952_0 | Bouncing Signals Push the Limits of Bandwidth | IT is a phenomenon well known to people who drive through urban high-rise canyons. Just as you stop at a traffic light, the car radio loses its signal. Once the light turns green, the car only has to creep forward a few feet to restore the radio reception. Those dead spots, which can also cut off cellphone calls and mo... |
1456943_3 | Rule Your Own Realm: The Ultimate E-Mail Address | One of the best deals is from Doteasy (www.doteasy.com), which offers free hosting and 10 POP e-mail accounts with 10 megabytes of storage space, all for the $25 fee to register your domain name. One disadvantage, however, is that the domain has to be renewed each year. The basic plan from VeriSign (www.verisign.com) i... |
1457003_0 | Technology Briefing | Biotechnology: Planting Of Modified Crops Rose In 2002 | The planting of genetically modified crops increased in 2002 despite lingering concern in some countries about their safety and environmental effects, a group that conducts an annual survey said yesterday. Land devoted to such crops grew 12 percent worldwide last year, to 145 million acres, an area two and a half times... |
1454168_4 | Studios Using Digital Armor To Fight Piracy | like the Apple iPod. ''That's what digital rights management does: it enables business models.'' The new software weapons, entertainment executives say, are already reinforcing a variety of new services, from movies on demand to online jukeboxes, that they say they would have been reluctant to offer before. Tempted by ... |
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1453928_1 | Waters Flooded With Life | the Japurá and (as the Amazon above Manaus is known) the Solimões. The peaceful-looking current in front of us is an underwater highway full of piranha, electric eels, stingrays, manatees, dolphins, water snakes and hundreds of other creatures of questionable motivation. Crocodilians are more numerous here than anywher... |
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1453830_0 | Stoics in Charge | To the Editor: Where have you gone, Marcus Aurelius? After the carnage of 9/11 and the ensuing struggle against+Al Qaeda's hydralike terrorist network, America finds itself in need of sound moral, spiritual and foreign policy guidance. And who better to+impart+such wisdom than ancient Rome's cerebral philosopher-empero... |
1453944_0 | A London Walk | To the Editor: No trip to London's East End (''The East End Goes Mainstream,'' Dec. 8) would be complete without a visit to Body Worlds, an anatomical exhibition of real human bodies, located in the former Old Truman Brewery on Brick Lane, Spitalfields (Aldgate East or Shoreditch tube stations). The exhibition, which c... |
1453867_0 | Towering Vision | Q: So, how have you managed to stay out of the debate over the twin-towers site? You're the only architect who's a household name in America, so naturally people wondered why your name was missing when the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation presented seven new proposals for the site last month. I was invited to be... |
1454115_2 | The Nation: Looming Decision; Affirmative Action Faces a New Wave of Anger | Statistics, part of the federal Department of Education, examined the earnings of a group of college graduates five years after their graduation and concluded that the selectivity of their alma maters had had a minimal impact. A more important predictor of income was the person's undergraduate major. Yet, Dr. Freedman ... |
1454124_1 | Why Keep U.S. Troops? | counterattack. Underlying these deliberations is a touch of dismay with a longtime ally: With North Korea rattling a nuclear sword, how can South Koreans criticize America? When American forces might be better deployed in the Persian Gulf, why should they be tied down in a country that doesn't want them? ''It's like te... |
1453912_5 | Over Hill And Dale, A Fight for Service | kind of comical,'' Mr. Rollinson said. ''I run through the house trying to find a spot. I've gone out on the back deck, the back yard, upstairs figuring that the higher I got it would work better. Success depends on the atmospheric pressure and the amount of leaves on the trees.'' The leaves? Leaves can indeed impede r... |
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1454196_0 | Can Democrats Change Channels? | To the Editor: Re ''Outflanked Democrats Look for Ways to Play Catch-Up in Media Battles'' (news article, Jan. 1): Where are the women? The Democratic Party big boys need a shot of hormones. Estrogen. Judiciously blended with testosterone. This time, there won't be any side effects except the rise in temperature that m... |
1454838_17 | At a Texas Foundry, An Indifference to Life | was relatively low cost -- outside audits, better training, improved manuals, an annual company environmental conference. Before long, the company's stated desire for ''environmental excellence'' was tested in a small way. The question was what to do with a pile of 200 old tires. It would have cost about $750 to have t... |
1454824_3 | Young Survivors of Cancer Battle Effects of Treatment | seem most vulnerable. Dr. Butler said: ''We used to think they would be the most likely to recover, because their brains have greater plasticity. But the youngest children actually take a bigger hit from the treatments.'' Children who have brain tumors -- the second most prevalent form of childhood cancer, after leukem... |
1454899_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about Venezuela's plans to reorganize the state-owned oil company as part of an effort to recover from a strike misstated the amount of crude oil exported by the country to the United States. It was about 1.45 million barrels a day before the strike; that is about 14 percent of the United States' t... |
1453400_2 | For the Gadget Universe, a Common Tongue | also be easily reprogrammed to take advantage of improvements in the network. Consumers would not face decisions as they do today about whether to buy new phones to take advantage of advanced networks. Instead of facing vast, high-risk technology transitions once a decade, the cellphone industry could advance at a stea... |
1453305_3 | ONLINE DIARY | in the area of weight loss,'' Vince Mattaliano, a regular participant in the Men's Room, said by e-mail. ''EDiets provides a forum where men can identify issues that stem from our common roles in business, our status as family members, our preferences in exercise and diet, and the motivators that we feel are most effec... |
1453297_3 | A Sloop Subs For a Town House | purchases survived the journey, despite dire predictions from certain nautical know-it-alls. More important, having a few beautiful things around made the boat feel like a home, and not a floating motel room. If the learning curve for how to make a fiberglass boat feel homey was steep, figuring out how to run a househo... |
1453396_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | left-wing Workers Party and a former lathe operator and labor union leader, was inaugurated as president of Brazil, promising ''a new style of government'' and a crusade against hunger, injustice and corruption. A3 Chinese Charge Demonstrators The police in China have charged two leaders of worker demonstrations in Lia... |
1453358_5 | Professors Vie With Web for Class's Attention | showed up in the dorm, the library and the commons. ''There's less of an obvious use for wiring the classroom,'' where the benefits have to be balanced against the distraction, he said. At American University, Professor Mallek said the benefits of the technology in his classroom far outweighed the problems. He ran the ... |
1453311_0 | New Strategy in the War on Spammers | A RESEARCHER at AT&T Labs is proposing to stop at least some spam before it starts by using e-mail addresses that expire or come with other restrictions attached in code. ''It came to me one day that spam works because there's no easy way to differentiate between what's real e-mail and what isn't,'' said John Ioannidis... |
1460667_2 | Bringing the Oldies To Modern Gamers | as controllers. Old games are history lessons, harking back to a time when looks were not everything but simplicity was. Atari's Pac-Man is like a ghoulish experiment gone wrong. Activision's Pitfall looks like a third-grade class project, with sounds about as sophisticated as a watch alarm. Spy Hunter's trees look lik... |
1460543_0 | An Elevator Tower Hangs in the Balance | Deconstructivism is being put to a vote in Brooklyn. An elevator tower, below left, added to the former Daily News printing plant, at 535 Dean Street in Prospect Heights, doesn't sit well with some condominium owners in the building. The $500,000 tower by Elena Kalman, the project's architect, is clad in aluminum panel... |
1460607_1 | U.S. Links Indonesian Troops to Deaths of 2 Americans | week to help in the investigation. The Indonesian military has denied any involvement in the ambush, which also killed an Indonesian teacher and wounded eight Americans. But a report by the country's police force last year suggested that the military was behind the killings. The two F.B.I. agents now in Indonesia are g... |
1455545_0 | North Korea Is Target Of Protests From World | North Korea stirred a storm of protest with its announcement Friday that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, with many analysts viewing the move as hard bargaining rather than a declaration that it would begin building nuclear weapons. Condemnation came from around the world, from France, Japan... |
1455538_5 | At the Other End of the Axis: Some F.A.Q.'s | ''assisted suicide.'') Whatever you call it, I don't follow the logic. You say North Korea is an isolated totalitarian state that has never learned how to conduct itself in polite society. So the way to teach it better manners is to cut it off? Look, sanctions are everybody's cheap solution for countries behaving badly... |
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1455525_6 | Gold in Them Thar Tin Cans?; Recycler Sees Money to Be Made From City's Containers | disposal world. Most waste companies make their profits by disposing of trash in the most efficient way possible, and many have bought up landfills around the country to further smooth the garbage path from curbside to final entombment. Scrap companies, on the other hand, make their money by squeezing out the last poss... |
1458828_4 | U.S. SET TO DEMAND THAT ALLIES AGREE IRAQ IS DEFYING U.N. | the publication of polls showing a drop in the number of Americans supporting a war, and a vast majority of Americans opposing action without the support of allies. Administration officials said that although both Mr. Chirac and Mr. Schröder had called on the United States to slow down its move toward war, the comments... |
1458724_0 | France and Germany Draw a Line, Against Washington | In a blunt rejection of American impatience toward Baghdad, the leaders of France and Germany said today during ceremonies marking the 40th anniversary of a French-German cooperation treaty that they shared common views on Iraq, and that any Security Council resolution for military action would have to await the report... |
1458807_0 | Hands-Free Conversation, With Help From the Car Radio | Cellphones are moving in contradictory directions. Their overall size is getting smaller at the same time that their tiny displays are being asked to do more things, like presenting e-mail messages. Small screens are a particular problem in cars, where they can make it difficult to sort out names in electronic address ... |
1460381_0 | Plane Is Evacuated After Blade Is Found | A plane about to leave here for San Francisco was evacuated today after a passenger found a box cutter in the seat pocket in front of her. The passenger, in the first-class cabin on United Airlines Flight 179, found the object around 3:20 p.m., 10 minutes before the plane was scheduled to depart from Logan Internationa... |
1460308_2 | The Neediest Cases; Helping a Disabled Boy Return to Summer Camp | Alternatives for Children, a beneficiary of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, one of the seven agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund. ''For them to call, and they said, 'If you need anything' -- that was so refreshing,'' Ms. Flores-Rose said. New Alternatives is a health and social s... |
1459944_1 | U.S. Spy Plane Crashes in South Korean Town, Injuring 5 | minor injuries at an American military hospital and released, said a spokeswoman for the United States Seventh Air Force at nearby Osan Air Base. The cause of the crash was under investigation. South Korean news reports said the plane hit a house and a motor vehicle repair center, setting off an explosion that burned d... |
1459913_1 | Point Man In Europe Assesses Intel Outlook | business market throughout Europe. And there are very large Fortune 500 corporations. So it's a well-balanced market. The consumer market was quite active last year in terms of investing in new clients. Small and medium business is also quite active, and we are seeing initiatives from them to get more and more connecte... |
1459954_0 | Cloned Cows Are Engineered To Speed Up Cheese Making | Will great cheese come from genetically engineered cloned cows? Scientists in New Zealand are reporting that they have created such cows, animals that produce milk with higher than normal levels of protein, which would speed the process of making cheese. Cows have previously been genetically engineered to produce prote... |
1459986_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | Coast as thousands marched in an explosion of anger over a peace accord they said France had imposed to the advantage of rebels. A4 Tibetan Monk Appeal Rejected A Chinese court has rejected the appeal of a prominent Tibetan monk whose death sentence for bombing and separatist activities had touched off a world outcry. ... |
1456753_4 | Swiss Has Peak to Scale, but It's Not an Alp | the bigger picture.'' While Ellison has been demoted to the passenger seat aboard his USA-76, Bertarelli has an active role on Alinghi as the team's navigator. He has sailed since childhood and has won several world championships, but he is perhaps best known for a spectacular crash aboard a 40-foot trimaran in the Bol... |
1456612_6 | Getting Onto the Internet at 30,000 Feet or So | can be upgraded as demand increases, executives say. Neither Tenzing nor Boeing intend to offer Internet or e-mail access on flights lasting less than two to three hours because passengers on short hops probably would not pay for the services, executives say. Tenzing has developed two products: a simple text messaging ... |
1456669_0 | Study Faults U.S. on Assessing Altered Fish | A new study maintains that the government is poorly structured to assess possible environmental hazards posed by genetically modified fish. The study, being issued today by the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, a nonprofit group, comes as the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to approve a salm... |
1454396_1 | ECONOMIC PULSE: The West; California Ups and Downs Ripple in the West | east of Los Angeles, is faring relatively well, with unemployment below the national average, personal income growth outpacing the nation and military contractors riding a wave of Pentagon and domestic security spending. The film industry set box-office records last year, and consumers took advantage of low interest ra... |
1454333_0 | At the Airport: Carry-ons Only | To the Editor: Has it not occurred to anyone (''Peering Into a Billion Bags,'' editorial, Dec. 31) that eliminating the possibility of passenger-air explosions from bomb-laden checked luggage is as simple as eliminating checked luggage? Carry-on bags will suffice for any traveler, who needs only to wait 24 hours for an... |
1454419_2 | A Sturdy Survivor Gets Back to Work; Herculean Effort to Restore A Landmark Battered on 9/11 | has not been affected by the fight with the union, although if picket lines materialize during contract negotiations next August, some construction workers may not cross. The repopulation of 140 West Street with some office workers is now scheduled to begin at the end of 2003, but the rebuilding could continue for year... |
1453154_3 | A Piece Here, a Piece There: An Ancient Temple Is Rebuilt | cushion the construction, each block must be returned to nestle precisely among those beside, above and below it. ''One place for one block, one block for one place,'' Mr. Royère said. ''That's the rule.'' Like any jigsaw puzzle, there is no forcing a piece into a place that is almost right, but not quite. ''You'll lau... |
1457367_5 | A Fishing Boat Falls Prey to Mutiny? Pirates? | before Coastwatch spotted it. The tear-off calendar hanging in the wheelhouse still has the Jan. 3 page on it; earlier pages had been torn off. On Jan. 9, while heading into port at Broome, an Australian Navy ship, the Stuart, came upon the drifting ship and boarded it. The investigation began. The first assumption was... |
1455840_0 | A Year of Originality, If Not Much Else | Judging from the stock market and their balance sheets, many companies may want to forget 2002. But it was a memorable year for product innovation. The Marketing Intelligence Service in Naples, N.Y., which tracks new products worldwide (www.productscan.com), said 31,785 food, beverage, health, beauty, household and pet... |
1455699_2 | Australia Steps Up Security After Bali | checked again. A second tier of newly placed uniformed immigration officers makes random passport checks at the baggage carousels. These new officers were highly visible on a recent visit. As passengers from several overseas flights waited for their baggage, the officers focused on non-Caucasian travelers, inspected th... |
1455947_0 | Rewards of Moonlighting | To the Editor: Re ''Making a Career Leap, Sore Muscles and All'' (Book Value, Dec. 22), in which William J. Holstein reviewed new books about how professionals can reinvent themselves for new careers: Having been forced into early retirement at 55 during the recession of 1991-92, I know the benefits of a dual career, m... |
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1456036_0 | January 5-11: NATIONAL; NEW LABELS FOR ESTROGEN | The Food and Drug Administration announced that all estrogen drugs and drugs combining estrogen and progestin that are used to relieve symptoms of menopause must warn, in a black-rimmed box, of their health risks. A large federal study indicated that one drug, Prempro, increases the chance a woman will develop heart di... |
1455884_0 | Breast Cancer Data | To the Editor: ''Abortion and Breast Cancer'' (editorial, Jan. 6) questioned the motivation behind reassessment of a fact sheet on the National Cancer Institute Web site. Our ''true views'' will always be the views provided by the factual scientific data. Available data on this subject are not consistent. The current s... |
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1458041_0 | New Economy; Getting your résumé to the top of the electronic pile can be a matter of paying an extra fee. But does it translate into better results? | JUST as it is often difficult for people to find what they are looking for on the Internet, it is frequently a challenge for the people themselves to be found when they want to be. For businesses dealing with this issue, Internet companies have long capitalized on the frustration by selling merchants the opportunity to... |
1458110_1 | Russia Helped U.S. On Nuclear Spying Inside North Korea | the Russians for help also demonstrates how the United States has been forced to rely on assistance from other nations to collect information from inside North Korea, one of the most closed societies in the world. Current and former American officials say the fact that the United States does not have an embassy in Nort... |
1455283_0 | U.S. Threatens to Act Against Europeans Over Modified Foods | The Bush administration's top trade official announced today that he was weighing whether to approach the World Trade Organization with a case against the European Union for its ban on genetically modified food, asserting that the ''Luddite'' and ''immoral'' European position was leading to starvation in the developing... |
1460142_2 | F.A.A. Reviews Rules on Passenger Weight After Crash | Gilligan, director of flight standards at the agency, said that she expected people to fib about their weight, but that ''they usually lie in the single digits.'' But officials said passengers generally do not consider the weight of their clothing and shoes. The airlines will also be weighing bags to verify that assump... |
1460094_3 | In-Flight Selling of Food Gets High Marks in Test | would if they had known about the option in advance. Others wanted more selections, including cheaper dinner prices, and perhaps a kid's meal. Some said that paying by credit card would be good. One guy just wasn't happy at all, however. ''Serve only cold food! The plane stinks like a lousy diner from the hot meals,'' ... |
1460211_8 | Nuclear Inspection Chief Reports Finding No New Weapons | more closely on follow-up of specific concerns, as we continue to conduct visits to sites and interviews with key Iraqi personnel. We have begun helicopter operations, which increase the inspectors' mobility and their ability to respond rapidly to new information, and allow wide-scale radiation detection surveys. Labor... |
1460223_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Vatican: Women's Excommunication Upheld | The Vatican upheld the excommunication of seven women, including an American, who were ''ordained'' in Austria last June. The decree, signed by the Holy See's top doctrinal officer, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, said the ''penalty imposed is not only just, but also necessary, in order to protect true doctrine'' and ''safe... |
1460141_4 | College Loans Rise, Swamping Graduates' Dreams | now takes her 70 hours a week worth of tutoring, freelancing and stacking books just to keep them at bay. She has almost no idea how to break into the comic book business, no promising leads, no artistic talent to speak of (or so she says) -- and no appreciable fear of failure or inclination to pursue anything else. Fo... |
1460072_2 | A Goal for Ground Zero: Finding an Urban Poetry | has shifted shape, first into towers of light and now into towers of air. Memory is their invisible structural core. The exposed metal framework of the two structures evokes the origins of tall building design in engineering works of the 19th century. They suggest that the urban center, too, is changing shape, still in... |
1458460_1 | Blair Sees Iraq Weakening As France Resists Early War | of the way,'' he said. Mr. Blair did not elaborate on the intelligence indicating that Mr. Hussein's power has been shaken. In Brussels, France's foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, offered a sharply different assessment of the military buildup, warning against the use of force at a time when the United Nations in... |
1453517_0 | Biotech Company Says It Has Improved 2 Drugs | By applying an artificially accelerated process of evolution in a test tube, a small biotechnology company has developed what it says are improved versions of two of the biotechnology industry's most successful products -- Remicade for rheumatoid arthritis and Rituxan for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The company, Applied Mo... |
1453495_3 | U.S. Trying to Save Washington Forest by Cutting It Down | would have on fish and wildlife. The administration plan would suspend these reports in some cases, and would streamline them in others. Critics of the plan say President Bush is using fire prevention as a way to resume large-scale logging and get around environmental laws. ''It all looks like arcane regulation, but wh... |
1455052_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | estrogen and progestin for menopausal women must include a warning about possible side effects. A18 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 Pataki Talks of Sacrafice But Vows No Tax Increase Saying the state must continue to foster economic growth, Gov. George E. Pataki said that he opposed raising taxes or postponing planned tax cuts. H... |
1455056_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''Having a black box on the label is a big deal. It's pretty astounding to go from a year ago thinking this is one of the most benign drugs to a 180-degree turn in the opposite direction.'' Dr. SUSAN HENDRIX, a gynecologist, on the government decision to require warning labels on drugs containing estrogen. [A18] |
1455000_2 | F.D.A. Orders Warning on All Estrogen Labels | said that the company would work with the agency on revising its label. ''We will have to make changes, but we have to determine what those changes will be,'' Ms. Schillace said. But with 10 million women in this country still taking estrogen products, the agency's decision sends a strong message, medical experts said.... |
1460917_1 | CUNY Says It Must Raise Tuition but Will Try to Limit Increase | incomes under $30,000. ''There is no doubt that there will have to be some change. I can't predict how high it will be or when we will know. But I want to ensure that students at most risk are protected as much as we can.'' Dr. Goldstein said he would seek ways to save money and find other ways to limit the increase; o... |
1460988_0 | When College Breaks the Bank | To the Editor: Re ''College Loans Rise, Swamping Graduates' Dreams'' (front page, Jan. 28): The pursuit of a college degree should be a path to freedom, intellectual and economic. It should not lead to a downward spiral of indebtedness. Rising tuition costs have been extremely burdensome to low- and middle-income stude... |
1460954_3 | Satellites Said to See Activity At North Korean Nuclear Site | experts, to have been carefully chosen, so that Mr. Bush was not taking off the table the threat of a strike on the plant. On the other hand, administration officials have said such a strike may not accomplish much, because North Korea has now admitted to a second nuclear program, involving enriched uranium. ''We don't... |
1461066_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: Crackdown On Drug Production | The Cuban government has announced a crackdown on vice, acknowledging that the country not only has a problem with drug use, but also with domestic production. The campaign was announced this week in Granma, the Communist Party newspaper, which said that those found guilty of using, selling or growing drugs would lose ... |
1453745_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-5 South Korean Leader Drafting a Compromise South Korea's president-elect, Roh Moon Hyun, is preparing a compromise proposal that would require both North Korea and the United States to accept concessions to resolve the standoff over the North's nuclear program, an aide said. A6 U.N.-Israeli Relations ... |
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