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World Briefing | Asia: Taiwan: Tribe Wants Nuclear Dump Removed
Members of the Tao tribe on Lan Yu Island are demanding the removal of a nuclear waste dump from the island, off Taiwan's southeastern tip. The government's lease of the site expired at the end of 2002 and the tribe is refusing to renew it despite the government's offer of more financial aid. Demonstrators who threw ro...
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U.S. to Make Airlines Give Data On Americans Going Overseas
and submit to the government the name, birth date, sex, passport number, home country and address of every passenger and crew member. The intent is to provide the authorities with more complete information about who enters and leaves the United States. Currently, air and shipping lines are not required to provide such ...
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Gay Focus At Holocaust Museum
pardoned by the German government. Only fragments of their brutal treatment in the Nazi era are known. Robert T. Odeman, for example, who wrote cabaret songs, was convicted for homosexual offenses in Berlin and sent to prison. After he was released, police arrested him again, citing his letters to a half-Jewish friend....
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Rival Palestinian Groups Meet in Cairo to Discuss Ending Attacks on Israeli Civilians
head of Palestinian Preventive Security in the Gaza Strip, who in an earlier, rosier era was a favorite of American intelligence. After being dismissed by Mr. Arafat last spring, Mr. Dahlan is now said to be reporting back to him. But the difficulty of hammering out any agreement on the Palestinian side was emphasized ...
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Don't Pester Europe on Genetically Modified Food
The Bush administration recently announced that it is considering taking action against the European Union because of its ban on imports of genetically modified foods. It's a profoundly bad idea. As a former Reagan administration trade hawk, I take a back seat to no one in demanding the opening of foreign markets. But ...
1459216_0
Mexico Is Struggling Under New President
Few people watch every economic indicator from Washington more closely than Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, and his economic team. That is because Mexico, probably more than any other country in the world, needs United States growth to jump-start its own sluggish economy. Under the North American Free Trade Agreement,...
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South Korea's President-Elect Rejects Use of Force Against North Korea
In a determined defense of engagement with North Korea, President-elect Roh Moo Hyun today all but ruled out the use of force against his isolated neighbor, which he said was seeking a way to open up to the world. ''North Korea wants to escape from its status as a rogue state,'' Mr. Roh said when asked why he had faith...
1457123_0
Reflections of Byzantium, Where East Meets West
I went to Mount Athos -- Hagion Oros, the Holy Mountain -- in Greece in 1982, and I went the way everyone does: very slowly. From New York I wrote to the Greek Foreign Ministry asking permission to visit this great monastic center, isolated on a squared-off peninsula in the northern Aegean. In Athens, I picked up my pa...
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Battle Honors
THREATS AND RESPONSES
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Political Fervor of Iranian Clerics Begins to Ebb
While recent pro-democracy demonstrations on Iranian campuses have attracted widespread attention, a potentially more explosive movement has quietly been taking shape here in one of the leading religious centers of the Islamic world. The Shiite clergy who a generation ago called for the establishment of a fundamentalis...
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U.S. Envoy Starts Discussions in Seoul on North Korea
Assistant Secretary of State James A. Kelly began consultations with South Korea's president-elect and other officials today about the nuclear threat from North Korea, as the North Korean government maintained a barrage of bellicose statements. There were other developments in the United States and Russia on Sunday ind...
1456247_3
China Gambles On Big Projects For Its Stability
on their own subways. By 2005, China plans to add 8,500 miles of railroad, half of that to places that now have no rail service. Shanghai just opened the world's first magnetic levitation train that zips to its new airport at up to 270 miles per hour, faster than any other commercial train. Railroad officials are compl...
1456154_2
Steal This Book? A Publisher Is Making It Easy
and SuSE Linux charge their customers, who buy the software in boxes that include the code on CD-ROM's along with explanatory manuals. Similarly, Prentice Hall, a unit of Pearson, is charging for the books, printed on paper with CD's attached. The first two titles, ''The Linux Development Platform'' and ''Embedded Soft...
1456227_5
AOL Chairman Quits His Post Amid Criticism
authority over the company's executives has also waned with the AOL division's fortunes. Executives from the Time Warner side of the company, many of whom resented the merger and its consequences, have taken over almost all the other top roles in the company. After sitting out of the company's day-to-day during the fir...
1457671_1
Family Diaries That Tug at the Heart
on a waiting list for three years to get into that group home -- and that was two decades ago. Today, said Lonye Debra Rasch, who edited ''Family Diaries'' with a fellow ARC volunteer, Judy Elbaum, the waiting list for group home placement statewide has more than 2,400 names on it. For some parents, like Mrs. Bergman, ...
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Preventing the Next North Korea
the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Neither is perfect. But they are useful tools that could be made more effective through strong American support. Under the nonproliferation treaty, only five countries are officially recognized nuclear weapons powers: America, Russia, Br...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Airport Screening
To the Editor: Regarding ''More Screening at the Airport'' (Practical Traveler, Dec. 29): It is not hard to figure out that the likely result of increasingly intrusive searches, coupled with the government's unwillingness to assume liability for theft or loss of items in suitcases opened during screening, will be a per...
1457773_2
In the 19th Century: Filling the Harbor, Filling a Job
than at the beginning of the century. West Street's straight bulkhead now reached all the way to 16th Street. Long, thin ''finger piers'' thrust out into the water at the end of every cross street. Greenwich's riverfront had finally become a waterfront. The incessant filling didn't stop. Between 11th Street and 14th St...
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Dialing 311: City Says One Call Will Fit All
like getting detailed tax advice or becoming a foster parent. Operators will automatically route emergency calls to a 911 operator. Callers can also find out basic information like which parking rules are in effect for a particular day. New Yorkers will also be able to gain access to the system through mail, e-mail, fa...
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Tighter Security Comes to Bradley
AS federal security director at Bradley International Airport, Dana R. Cosgrove has tried to meet the Congressional requirements for measures that will keep air passengers safe, while keeping in mind that if he makes it too difficult to get on a plane, people will find some other way to travel. So he has tried to keep ...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Treatment for Children
To the Editor: The findings discussed in ''Study Finds Jump in Children Taking Psychiatric Drugs'' (news article, Jan. 14) are consistent with previous studies and current clinical practice. Yes, we are using more medication, but the real question is: Are we treating the right children? According to the Surgeon General...
1458199_0
Many Women Skip the Aspirin
An alarmingly high number of women with heart disease are failing to take medicines known to reduce their risks of heart attacks, according to a study released yesterday. The study, published in The Annals of Internal Medicine, found that although at least 85 percent of the 2,763 women studied should have been taking d...
1458249_2
A campaign to shock the bourgeoisie in France, and then have them use a certain credit card.
ad. The ad ''drew a connection between the color of one's hair and stupidity,'' said Florence Montreynaud, the leader of La Meute, a feminist group. ''I think every blonde woman I know had something to say about this ad.'' The Association of People of Small Size, for example, objected to a television ad with the statem...
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AN ATTACK ON IRAQ NOT YET JUSTIFIED, FRANCE WARNS U.S.
In unusually blunt terms aimed at pre-empting the United States, France said today that it would not support any Security Council resolution for military action against Iraq in the coming weeks. France's foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, accused Washington of ''impatience'' in the confrontation with Baghdad over...
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A Contemporary, Human Scale For Larger-Than-Life Characters
It was an Arctic winter's day in New York, and people were bundled up in overcoats to shield themselves from the cold, but for Fiona Shaw it could almost have been an afternoon at the beach. Oblivious to the wind chill, wearing a short jacket, she radiated warmth and conviviality as she strode from her apartment to a r...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Air Travel Under a More Watchful Eye
November 2001. The agency's mandate includes not only overseeing security of the nation's sprawling aviation system, but also security of its ports, rails, pipelines and trucking industries. The airline piece alone is daunting. The agency will be screening roughly 1.5 billion bags checked each year by passengers. In We...
1459736_0
Lost Luggage: Who Pays?
WAITING for my luggage to appear in the baggage claim area after a December flight to the Traverse City airport in Michigan, I had a sinking feeling as the same few bags circulated and the conveyor belt finally came to a halt. My bag had not made the connection in Detroit -- not a surprise, since my first flight on Nor...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Coming Soon To the U.S.: Cuban Cigars Made in Brazil
recalls that his family went first to Miami, believing Mr. Castro's revolution would be short-lived, then to Spain's Canary Islands once the bitter truth sank in: they had lost their business. There, in Alonso's home country, they made cigars in the Montecristo mold and small panatelas like the Upmann petits that Presi...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Finding the First Rungs On the Career Ladder
The job market for new college graduates was pretty tight last year, and it's not expected to improve significantly in 2003. But many big-name employers are still setting aside entry-level positions, a recent study shows. Heading the list of the top 500 entry-level employers, according to the survey of more than 5,000 ...
1456324_0
Recycling Opportunity
To the Editor: Perhaps if the city took the bold step of choosing a profitable recycling arrangement with a scrap company, versus a costly contract with a waste management company, recycling could gain the foothold it needs to become as ''sophisticated'' and institutionalized as waste disposal (news article, Jan. 11). ...
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Widely Used Crop Herbicide Is Losing Weed Resistance
The world's most widely grown genetically engineered crops -- soybeans, cotton and corn developed to be impervious to a popular herbicide -- are facing a new challenge to their continued long-term use. The herbicide, known as Roundup, is beginning to lose its effectiveness in controlling weeds. In the last few years, w...
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Amid Tight Security, Crew of Shuttle Focuses on Science
which includes Colonel Ramon; Dr. Laurel Salton Clark, a Navy commander and physician on her first space flight; and Dr. Kalpana Chawla, an aerospace engineer who was part of a 1997 shuttle crew. The Blue Team is composed of Air Force Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson, who flew on a 1998 mission to the Russian Mir space sta...
1456366_2
Stimulus for Lawyers
to pay no taxes at all. That's too much, even for the Bush administration. So the actual plan is much more complicated: Dividends will be tax-free only if the company that pays them is deemed to have paid sufficient profits taxes. That's only a minor complication, but it gets worse. Companies that reinvest their profit...
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Memory Problems Linked to Cancer Treatment
Psychologists are beginning to verify what many breast cancer survivors have long suspected: chemotherapy can, in some cases, cause problems with memory and concentration. Various studies have found that 20 percent to 30 percent of women who undergo chemotherapy for breast cancer, as well as other patients who receive ...
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OBSERVATORY
thing happens. As the mantle starts to solidify, an extremely dense layer of uranium- and thorium-containing rock forms. Over time, this dense rock sinks through the rest of the mantle down to the core, where it effectively acts like a tea cozy, keeping the core warm (and even allowing it to heat up). Eventually, howev...
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Typical Greenpeace Protest Leads to an Unusual Prosecution
on sailors returning to port. It forbids the unauthorized boarding of ''any vessel about to arrive at the place of her destination.'' The last court decision concerning the law, from 1890, said it was meant to prevent ''sailor-mongers'' from luring crews to boarding houses ''by the help of intoxicants and the use of ot...
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A Change Of Habits To Elude Spam's Pall
them less trusting of e-mail in general. And surprisingly, perhaps, given what electronic communication was supposed to become, one-quarter said they had reduced their use of e-mail because of spam. ''The ever-increasing flood of spam is causing consumers to turn away from e-mail as a means of communication,'' said Joh...
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ONLINE DIARY
and has just a dozen customers. So why write about it? Because it's mail-forwarding with a twist: if you redirect your physical mail to ScanMe, it will scan the documents, e-mail the scans to you and store the originals. The service was started last month by Richard Uren, an Australian information technology specialist...
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Politicians Scramble to Revive Peace Effort in Northern Ireland
Politicians struggled Wednesday to get the stalemated Northern Ireland peace effort back on track, a day after expectations of a breakthrough suffered a last-minute setback because of an arms dispute. Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons in London that he was pressing for full disclosure of the quantity ...
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Groups Offer E-Mail Guidelines
In the latest effort to preserve e-mail messages as an advertising medium, three online organizations issued guidelines yesterday to discourage unsolicited commercial e-mail, often called spam. The Interactive Advertising Bureau, the E-mail Service Provider Coalition and TRUSTe, which operates an online privacy program...
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World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Vote To Go Ahead
The British and Irish governments acknowledged that they had been unable to resolve a pre-election dispute over the disarming of the Irish Republican Army but confirmed that the vote for the Northern Ireland Assembly would go ahead on Nov. 26. The Catholic-Protestant assembly has been suspended for a year, and intensiv...
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A British retailer calls its logo tongue in cheek. Critics call it inappropriate.
father who objected to a product brought home by his 14-year-old daughter. French Connection contends that its use of the logo, which has appeared in Britain since 1997, is meant to be tongue in cheek. ''The company does not intend to cause upset to the public through the use of the brand,'' the company said in a state...
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Grass Is Green for Amazon Farmers
by buying produce from the forest dwellers and also from farmers like Mr. Mateus, they can help preserve the Amazon's rich biodiversity and its intricate ecological balance while still earning a profit for their company. But can they succeed where bigger corporations with deeper pockets, firmly established in the devel...
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California's New Gold Rush
Valley has plenty of solar radiation, low humidity to thwart disease, heavy clay soil to hold water and pure-water irrigation from mountain snow runoff. But the industry leaves nothing to chance. It supervises the development of improved varieties at the Rice Experiment Station in cooperation with the University of Cal...
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Leaker May Remain Elusive, Bush Suggests
he had instructed his staff to cooperate fully. But he suggested that one impediment to the inquiry would be the unwillingness of journalists to disclose their sources. ''I mean, everything we know, the investigators will find out,'' he said, speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting at the White House. ''I have no...
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Facing Opposition, Hong Kong Delays Harbor Dumping Plan
Retreating in the face of public opposition for the third time in less than five weeks, the government here said on Tuesday that it would dredge part of the harbor in front of the downtown business district but would postpone plans to fill in a large expanse of water to build a highway. A judge ruled on Monday that the...
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This Is Fun, but Did Anyone Ask the Dolphins?
first of the 240 dolphins in Mexican parks were caught by local fishermen, who were paid several hundred dollars a dolphin; 81 dolphins also came from Cuba, which sold many for around $50,000 each. Lately, opponents of the swim programs have enlisted United States officials, alleging that American citizens at Dolphin D...
1524053_0
Big Beasts, Tight Space And a Call For Change
Polar bears, lions, tigers, cheetahs and other wide-ranging carnivores do so poorly in captivity that zoos should either drastically improve their conditions or stop keeping them altogether, biologists from Oxford University report today in the journal Nature. Zookeepers have long recognized that some species thrive in...
1524748_1
A Retread With Mass Appeal
to people's yards: the basketball hoop, the aboveground pool and the tire planter.'' There is nothing ironic about Mr. Prince's special rubber fetish. For him, tire planters are a cheap and charming local idiom, an inland version of the beachcomber's driftwood. ''They kind of remind me of flower power,'' he said, ''And...
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Making Home Visits And Early Friends
assigning a time slot and date. The parent handbook also features information about the program, and the principal talks about it during the new parent orientation meetings. During the first weeks of the school year, the Tappan Hill school dismisses all its 264 students early so that teachers can make the home visits. ...
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Pope Cautions Anglican Leader on Gays
office in charge of relations with other Christian denominations, made clear that one of those matters was homosexuality. Archbishop Williams, seated beside him, said the Vatican's concern weighed very heavily on him as he looked toward an emergency meeting of the Anglican Communion's leaders in Britain later this mont...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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At Home, on the Water
aboard houseboats. On the boat, modern conveniences abound. Mr. Kay's galley includes a three-burner stove, microwave, toaster oven and coffee maker. There also is a refrigerator and freezer that opens by lifting a counter top. Electricity is available at the dock; there are batteries and generators to power smaller ap...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Of Fallen Fruit and Fanciful Fishing
not to be cut except when the trees are killed by disease. The college asks anglers to keep no more than two trout daily and suggests that releasing all of them would be even better. Trout fishing was once superb on the Dead Diamond. In a column in the spring in The Concord (N.H.) Monitor, William Lange quoted an 1889 ...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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They Shoot Bears, Don't They?
bears only a few years ago. The largest figures were compiled by state biologists and imply an explosive rate of reproduction that other scientists say is highly improbable. ''It's such a wide range that I find it disturbing,'' said Dr. Lynn L. Rogers, a bear biologist and director of the Wildlife Research Institute in...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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SENATE APPROVES EASING OF CURBS ON CUBA TRAVEL
B. Enzi, a Wyoming Republican who co-sponsored the amendment, criticized what he called an American ''stranglehold'' on Cuba, a country of 11 million people less than 100 miles from the United States. The decades-old travel ban, he said, merely deepens Cubans' misery without providing fresh ideas to the Marxist-led nat...
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Women With Genetic Mutation at High Risk for Breast Cancer, Study Confirms
breast cancer early. They may also be advised to take the drug tamoxifen, which can reduce the breast cancer risk. Some avoid the disease by having their breasts removed preventively. Most carriers are also advised to have their ovaries removed as soon as they have finished having children. The reason is that there is ...
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Here, Take My Card (Ha Ha, That's Not My Address)
Spam filters, spam blockers, spam blasters: there's no shortage of tools intended to thwart the biggest irritant in an increasingly e-mail-dependent world. But Paul Tyma, co-founder of Mailinator, a free online service, has a simpler solution to offer. ''Mailinator doesn't block spam,'' said Mr. Tyma, a computer consul...
1527643_1
Monsanto Overhauling Businesses
of a broader overhaul announced yesterday that would result in layoffs of 7 to 9 percent of its work force, or as many as 1,200 people. Scientists are experimenting with putting genes into plants that cause the plants to produce proteins for use as drugs, like growth hormone or various monoclonal antibodies. This appro...
1527636_5
Digging For Nuggets Of Wisdom
say, or offhand comments. An adjuster examining an accident between two vehicles, for example, may have noted that the front driver slammed on his brakes in light traffic, a potential tipoff to a staged rear-ender. ''When we looked over their shoulders and saw them reading the text, we saw that we had to do that too,''...
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Search of Planes Ordered After Security Breaches
industry. A senior administration official said the student had been under investigation for some time, after sending an e-mail message to officials warning of lax security and threatening to place potentially hazardous items in jets in an effort to expose the problem. The F.B.I. statement said, ''Proceedings are antic...
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Ben Metcalfe, the Founder of Greenpeace, Is Dead at 83
E. Bennett Metcalfe was born in Winnipeg and accompanied his family to England at 16. He joined the Royal Air Force and saw action in India when it was stirring against colonial rule. Lore has it that he chose to heed Gandhi rather than his orders when, as an aircraft gunner, he and his pilot dropped bombs on empty fie...
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Band of Children
cruelly retorted that British troops were ''underpaid, undersexed and under Eisenhower.'' Many Britons were in turn disturbed by the United States Army's racial segregation and thought black G.I.'s better mannered than the white soldiers. As one local wit put it, ''I don't mind the Yanks but I can't say I care for thos...
1526670_1
Word for Word/Plus Ca Change; The French, Wallowing in Self-Doubt
States, has harsh words for nearly every French institution. Excerpts follow, translated by Alain Delaquérière of The New York Times. The United States presents a textbook case: it reacted to the new global political and economic chaos by radically revising its principles of international action and by forcing its publ...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Anglicans in Angry Split Over Homosexuality Issue
For years, the 38 national churches that make up the worldwide Anglican Communion have been distinguished by their eagerness to coexist despite their differences over such issues as the ordination of women, how bishops are selected and whether worship should be conducted in formal ''high church'' tradition or the evang...
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DataBank; An Extended Rally Depends on Earnings
Stocks rallied last week and could continue to climb if corporate earnings reports for the third quarter meet expectations. A few companies, including PeopleSoft, announced last week that they beat third-quarter forecasts. The reporting gets into full swing this week, with announce-ments expected from Intel, Johnson & ...
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Page Two: Oct. 5-11; GOOD CANCER NEWS
The New England Journal of Medicine, in a rare move prompted by some stunning new research data, released an Internet version of an article and two editorials scheduled to appear in its Nov. 6 issue. They all involve a large international study that indicates a new drug can markedly reduce the chance of breast cancer i...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Political Points
part of a group aiming to provide one. Made up of disaffected third-party members as well as others from the Big Two, the group is asking the Democratic hopefuls to commit to building coalitions with them by supporting efforts to open the elective process through ballot initiatives, nonpartisan elections, same-day vote...
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At a Hartford Seminary, a Military Matter
fully accredited Islamic seminaries in the United States, the Pentagon has had to allow Muslim certifying agencies wide discretion in deciding whether a candidate has the equivalent theological and pastoral training to become a military chaplain. The United States Senate will begin hearings this week to examine whether...
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Business; Computer Viruses Are Frustrating Insurers, Too
the phenomenon of $30 billion in economic damage from one species before,'' Mr. Matai said. Security experts say insurance companies worldwide, overwhelmed by hacking-related claims, have cut the coverage for electronic attacks from general-liability policies, leading to confusion among chief technology officers over w...
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A Onetime Thing of Beauty Gets a Little Prettying Up
bridge ever. Headmired the two tall and narrow towersthat supported the pale green span and praised what he described as its ''light-ness and absence of pretentious ornamentation.'' Barely two years later, the bridge, which had been designed by Othman Ammann, the Swiss engineer whose legacy also included the George Was...
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Aerospace on 2 Wheels: Lightweight and Strong
the industry's largest equipment maker, was highlighting a largely aluminum 10-speed shifting system. A Shimano executive, Robert Bush, said that while the company made more carbon fiber than any other Japanese maker except for military manufacturers, it used the material for other products like fishing rods. Shimano h...
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Natural Gas or Nature In Canada's Far North
development. The federal and territorial governments are eager to see the Mackenzie River valley pipeline project get started, to increase exports to the United States. Once completed, the pipeline is expected to carry as much as a billion cubic feet of natural gas daily, or 10 percent of Canada's current gas exports. ...
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Are Those Leaving Welfare Better Off Now? Yes and No
By many measures, the overhaul of welfare has been a success. Seven years after Congress rewrote the rules in an effort to end long-term dependency on benefits, hundreds of thousands of Americans have moved from welfare to work, many of them substantially raising their incomes. Some also credit the new law for a rise i...
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Study Recommends Not Using Hormone Therapy for Bone Loss
Hormone replacement therapy should no longer be prescribed solely to prevent or treat the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, researchers said in a study being published today, disputing the policy of the Food and Drug Administration. Even though hormones do prevent broken bones in postmenopausal women, the researchers...
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Australia Damaged By Drought
for each sheep and up to 4 Australian dollars for cattle, this has leached an extra $3,000 Australian dollars a week on average from these farmers' pockets. In the last fiscal year, Australia has had to import 340,000 tons of feed, including 53,000 tons of corn, from the United States. It was the first United States co...
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Spam Fighters Turn to Identifying Legitimate E-Mail
technical rules for e-mail -- in such a trusting and open way that now anyone can send e-mail impersonating someone else with little prospect that the messages can ever be traced. Little did these pioneers suspect that the systems, meant to exchange research papers, would lead to a global system that provides nearly in...
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White House to Overhaul Iraq and Afghan Missions
and maybe his re-election, depends on getting this right,'' another administration official said. ''This is as close as anyone will come to acknowledging that it's not working.'' Inside the State Department and in some offices in the White House, the decision to create the stabilization group has been interpreted as a ...
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Schools and the Disabled
To the Editor: Re ''How a Good School Can Fail on Paper,'' by Michael Winerip (On Education column, Oct. 8): While the No Child Left Behind Act does require states to set and meet accountability standards for improving the academic achievement of all children, including children with disabilities, it does not label sch...
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Guidelines Issued For E-Mail Advertising
In an effort to help preserve e-mail messages as an advertising medium, three organizations representing advertisers, agencies and direct marketers issued guidelines yesterday to encourage responsible use. The American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers and the Direct Marketing...
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A Cultural Scorecard Says West Is Ahead
is clear, Mr. Murray writes. Until the 19th century, laws and social convention severely restricted their vocational pursuits. Mr. Simonton, who read early versions of some chapters, said he thought Mr. Murray's application of historiometric techniques was sound. As a means of measuring eminence, he stressed, the metho...
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A Cultural Scorecard Says West Is Ahead
what modern Europe lost was Christianity. While other major religions, like Buddhism and Daoism preached humility, acceptance and passivity, Mr. Murray writes, Christianity fostered intellectual independence and drive. In his account it was Thomas Aquinas who ''grafted a humanistic strain onto Christianity,'' by arguin...
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World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Protest Against Nuclear Controls
More than a thousand people who came for Friday Prayers in Tehran demonstrated against a decision to allow more intense inspections of Iran's nuclear sites and to suspend uranium-enrichment programs. After a meeting with the French, British and German foreign ministers in Tehran on Tuesday, Iran announced that it would...
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Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock
unknown royal, as it first appears to visitors approaching through the narrow rocky gorge that was the main entrance to Petra. But a whole panorama of the city is projected in film images that sweep across a humongous three-part screen, showing the massive scale and extent of its roseate buildings. Among them are the r...
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Investigators Look at Seaman's Medical History for Clues to Why His Ship Crashed
the ferry was approaching the terminal off course and at dangerously high speeds. On Wednesday, a police official said that Captain Gansas had tried to take control of the boat before it crashed. A senior investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said late yesterday that the board had received conflict...
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Stephen Westfall
Lennon, Weinberg 560 Broadway, SoHo Through Nov. 1 Every canvas that Stephen Westfall makes is distinctly his own: flat, grid-based, painted with a dry yet sensuous touch in muted comic book colors and defined by cartoon outlines. But within the tightly controlled limits he sets for himself, Mr. Westfall explores a rem...