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1524371_1 | Mongolia Is Having a Mine Rush | materials to the world. ''Last year, China surpassed the U.S. as the No.1 consumer and importer of copper, and the holy grail in our business is to be the low-cost supplier to China,'' said Robert M. Friedland, chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, over breakfast at Millie's, one of several American-style restaurants that have sp... |
1524240_1 | El Greco, Bearer Of Many Gifts | made this point a century ago. Impressed by the crowds standing before an El Greco and talking heatedly, ''as they might talk about some contemporary picture,'' he described him as ''an old master who is not merely modern, but actually appears a good many steps ahead of us, turning back to show us the way.'' And this i... |
1531500_0 | A Crucial Case for the Supreme Court | In an alarming ruling earlier this year, a closely divided Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to dismiss a patently unmeritorious libel action against Consumer Reports for a 1988 review that rated the Suzuki Samurai sports utility vehicle ''not acceptable.'' It said the car, since discontinued, had a life-endangeri... |
1531526_2 | F.D.A. Finds Cloned Animals Safe for Food | ''I think it warrants a discussion that goes beyond the narrowest scientific issues,'' said Carol Tucker Foreman, the director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America. Ms. Foreman said polls had shown that American consumers were ill at ease with animal cloning. ''When you say 'animal cloning,' many people... |
1526101_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | Action California's governor-elect, Arnold Schwarzenegger, asked Gov. Gray Davis to suspend action on all pending bills and to stop appointing judges and members of state boards and commissions. A26 Red Cross Faults Detentions The International Committee of the Red Cross said the detention of more than 600 prisoners in... |
1526016_0 | Talk to It (Your Car) | While the Chrysler Pacifica offers a built-in microphone and speakers that allow you to use your cellphone hands free, a new system lets you leave your phone in your pocket or purse. UConnect, a $275 system, links cellphones wirelessly to a microphone, control buttons and the car's radio speakers. The wireless technolo... |
1526100_0 | New Drug Regimen Greatly Cuts Risk of Recurring Breast Cancer | A new drug regimen can markedly reduce the chance that breast cancer will recur in postmenopausal women, a large international study has found. The results were so strongly, and surprisingly, positive that the investigators ended the study early and offered the drug to women taking a placebo. The study involved 5,187 w... |
1530760_4 | It Isn't Just the Peddlers of Pills: Big Companies Add to Spam Flow | of the more common ways that names are gathered and used, but the exact limits will be left up to the courts to define. Moreover, if the federal bill passed by the Senate is enacted it would void most state spam laws, including California's. Not surprisingly, companies that are active users of conventional mail solicit... |
1530689_4 | To Get Back in the Game, Be Ready for a Switch in Positions | looks like, worry about what it says.'' Second, know what you want in the marketplace. ''Regardless of what titles you held or what you did in the past, you may have to reinvent yourself,'' Ms. Webb said. State employment offices or one-stop career centers have numerous services to help job seekers redo their résumés a... |
1529283_2 | Disagreement: It's the Nature Of the Species | one another. And it is also getting ugly. State officials said that they were investigating allegations that about a dozen traps, set by state wildlife workers to capture the bears to gather information about their health and living patterns, were moved, damaged or tripped. They are also looking into a report that some... |
1529170_2 | Moves by Britain and I.R.A. Toward Peace in Ulster Hit a Last-Minute Snag | Mr. Blair of success that the announcement that elections would be held on Nov. 26 was made in London at 7 a.m. on Tuesday before he embarked. ''We are very, very close to what I thought would be quite a historic day in Northern Ireland,'' Mr. Blair said tonight in a brief news conference held many hours after it was s... |
1529094_3 | A Nice Place to Have a Snack or Catch Up on Your Reading | of tape was analyzed for each driver. The subjects were told they were being studied to learn ''how traffic and roadway conditions affect driving behavior.'' The researchers found a mixed picture. Some of the drivers' activities were more common when the car was stopped than when it was moving, including dialing a cell... |
1529154_0 | Swift-Footed W. | On the eve of our invasion of Iraq, I went to ancient Troy in Turkey. It's a haunting spot, quiet and deserted, though if you scrunch up your eyes you may still catch a glimpse of Helen on the walls. Those walls include a gate that shows signs of having been widened -- or so my guide claimed, probably fancifully -- as ... |
1529178_5 | China's Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem | done several studies of Chinese energy use. But environmentalists are also loath to criticize China too strongly, partly because Chinese emissions per person are still so much lower than those in the developed world, and partly because China has been trying with some success to improve the energy efficiency of its indu... |
1529178_6 | China's Boom Adds to Global Warming Problem | those of any other country in the developing world. India, for example, is also showing rapid growth in energy use. In populous countries from Indonesia to Brazil, power plants are burning more and more coal and oil to meet ever growing demand for electricity from industry and households. Even some climate experts in d... |
1529181_0 | Editors' Note; SPECIAL TODAY -- Cars | The Motor City and car-mad California once seemed made for each other, but now they are headed in different directions. Also: Articles on safety, buying and selling, model trends and technical innovations that include a navigational device that's easy to love. SECTION G |
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1530344_7 | High Anxiety | as concerned about who gets first chair in the orchestra, or the lead in the fall play or who wins the essay contest. One Westchester educator, who reacted to the friction by agreeing to speak only on the condition that he not be identified, has a daughter who earned a full academic scholarship to a solid college, part... |
1530253_0 | The Nation: No, You Go First; Cutting Greenhouse Gases, or Not | IN the international debate over how to deal with global warming, the United States and China occupy center stage. The United States has long been the dominant producer of carbon dioxide emissions and the other heat-trapping greenhouse gases associated with rising temperatures. China still lags far behind in total emis... |
1530389_1 | For Many College Students, A Job (or Two) to Pay Tuition | low-paying on-campus jobs involving faxing, filing and checking identification cards. In past years, she said, many departments complained that they could not fill all their positions. But this year, that has not been a problem. Ms. Steinfeld estimated that 20 to 30 percent more students are applying for on-campus jobs... |
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1530090_3 | Animal-Watching Deep In The Amazon | spacious and, though there were candles instead of electric lights, had such amenities as complete bathrooms. It was in stark contrast to the Indian village a mile away, where generations of a family crowded into bare straw huts and wore cheap half-shredded western clothes. Nonprofit organizations had recently turned t... |
1530209_4 | Personal Business; A Tight Job Market Dampens Ivy League Hopes | an assistant dean for undergraduates at Yale. ''It's not to sound blasé about it because things could be better, and it certainly has been a challenge compared to a few years ago.'' Steve Pollock, the president of WetFeet Inc., a company in San Francisco that offers recruiting services, said major companies are more li... |
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1527120_1 | Satellites and Airborne Searches Spot Harmful Ocean Debris | feet deep, said Mr. Vélez-Arocho, who runs the E.P.A.'s marine debris program. ''When they drift for miles or months, they catch sea birds, turtles, seals and endangered animals,'' he added. ''They're a huge problem on the West Coast.'' The nets have been known to travel from the open seas to coral reefs teeming with m... |
1527260_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Leaders Push Election Process | Substantial progress in the Northern Ireland political stalemate, but no breakthrough, was reported after talks between Prime Minister Tony Blair; his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern; Richard N. Haass, President Bush's special envoy; Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army; ... |
1527128_0 | Fly Me to the Moon | The launching of China's first manned spaceflight, scheduled for this week, has caught the fancy of the world's most populous country. In the United States, however, interest in the space program is at a low point. Moreover, after the Columbia accident, the manned space program seems to lack focus and a sense of missio... |
1527110_2 | New Pill Fuels Debate Over Benefits of Fewer Periods | author of ''The Hormone of Desire,'' said she was concerned about the regimen's possible long-term effects. Specifically, she said, a normal hormonal cycle, which continuous use of the pill suppresses, includes two weeks of significantly reduced blood pressure, part of the reason women of reproductive age have fewer he... |
1527165_1 | Where Faith Grows, Fired by Pentecostalism | are not encouraged to ask for any help. They seem to have all of it.'' Not so in the developing world, where Christianity is drawing followers as never before. That growth is changing the complexion and practice of the Christian faith and other religions in a fervid competition for souls, generating new tremors in plac... |
1527208_2 | Farmers Help Deliver Modified Crops to Brazil | business. But then more and more farmers began planting genetically modified soybeans smuggled from Argentina, and Mr. Pippi's sales took off. ''I've been selling Massey Ferguson for 40 years, and I can't recall a more favorable outlook for agriculture round here,'' said Mr. Pippi, who also grows soybeans. Unwilling to... |
1525317_0 | After the Storm, a Better Look at Ravaged Coasts | Measuring the beach has long challenged coastal geologists. Benchmarks are few, and most of them like dunes and high water lines shift from tide to tide and from season to season, as the beach responds to everything from the winds to the phases of the moon. Now, though, scientists are using a radarlike system called li... |
1526994_1 | Genetically Modified Food and the Poor | debate than that of genetically engineered crops, which contain transplanted genes from other species to make them easier to grow or more nutritious or flavorful. The evidence suggests that such foods are safe (Americans have been eating them for six years) and could reduce world hunger. But genetically modified crops ... |
1528261_3 | * Back pain; * Mottled vertebrae; * Anxiety | Michael Reiss, sat at the side of her bed and explained again that although she had breast cancer that had spread, it could still be treated. He recommended hormone-blocking drugs designed to interfere with the tumor-promoting estrogens made by her body. These medicines could slow, even stop the progression of the dise... |
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1528429_1 | The Fall of a Wall Street Ward Boss | a result, the various exchanges that trade put and call options on both Nasdaq and the Big Board would be forced to have a staggered opening, threatening already fragile trading systems. Executives from the other exchanges objected and argued strenuously for a simultaneous opening. But it was not to be. When the Big Bo... |
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1528298_6 | New Lures on Caribbean Shores | last year because of ''crime against passengers and crew,'' said Jennifer de la Cruz, a spokeswoman for Carnival. Later, other cruise lines bypassed St. Croix, causing shops and the cruise ship terminal to close. Now, with surveillance cameras in place and more police, it is possible, according to industry representati... |
1528520_1 | Some Stories Are So Jarring They Don't Go Away | else I know, a colleague, a relative, could find himself in that position. In the United States, a person commits suicide every 17.2 minutes. Women attempt it three times as often as men, but men succeed by much larger numbers. The ratio of male to female suicides in the United States is currently four to one, a figure... |
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1528859_0 | Long-Term Questions Linger In Halted Breast Cancer Trial | Recently, scientists made the startling decision to halt a large multinational clinical trial that was testing a new drug regimen for breast cancer. The five-year trial was stopped after just two and a half years when results showed that the study drug cut the yearly rate of breast cancer recurrence by nearly half. The... |
1528850_2 | Grant Aims at More Healthful Crops | on conventional plant breeding rather than on genetic engineering because it would cost as much as $10 million to get each genetically engineered crop approved in each country. Still, he said, HarvestPlus will do research in genetic engineering because the technology may be used to create some crops that cannot be deve... |
1528892_3 | Where the Moors Held Sway, Allah Is Praised Again | Later, at an Arab leadership conference in Seville, Granada's socialist mayor encouraged him and other Muslims to move to the city. ''He said if we ever build a mosque, it should be in Granada because the last stronghold of the old Muslim community should be the first of the new,'' Mr. Castiñeira said. Eventually a sma... |
1508532_2 | Fortifying the In Box as Spammers Lay Siege | either deletes the message that contains them or strains it into a separate folder. Brightmail augments the filter by maintaining 250,000 e-mail accounts as spam traps. Staff members harvest any spam messages that evade the filters, then generate rules to recognize those messages. The Hotmail filter is upgraded every 1... |
1508486_2 | U.S. Agency Scales Back Data Required On Air Travel | each passenger, and will provide T.S.A. with an authentication score and code indicating a confidence level in that passenger's identify,'' according to the plan. The system would be the government's main method for transmitting around the country the names on a ''watch list'' of people to be questioned or even arreste... |
1508579_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Gowanus Included In River Cleanup Plan | Federal officials have selected the Gowanus Canal in New York and the Passaic River in New Jersey to be included in a pilot project that aims to clean up polluted urban waterways. The Urban Rivers Restoration Initiative, a joint project of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers, will determ... |
1508452_6 | In Bush's Words: 'Taking the Fight to the Enemy' in Iraq | international flights, for example. Now what we can do is, we can be, obviously at home, continue to be diligent on the inspection process of baggage as well as making sure those who board aircraft are properly screened. And obviously we're talking to foreign governments and foreign airlines to indicate to them the rea... |
1503163_0 | Reading, Writing and Special Attention in Queens | Finding the special education students in Marilyn Murphy's first-grade class is challenging. Are they at Table 1, reading aloud and sounding out words like ''tomorrow'' and ''itchy''? Are they playing phonics games on computers or listening to the storybook ''Amelia Bedelia'' on tape? Or are they writing about the book... |
1501820_0 | Don't Evict the Heart of a City | To the Editor: Re ''Learning From China,'' by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, July 1): I grew up in the Chelsea section of Manhattan in the 1960's, when it was overwhelmingly a neighborhood of housing projects, small factories and working-class Puerto Rican and Irish households. My father, who is now 85 and on a fixed inc... |
1501793_2 | U.S. IS CONSIDERING TROOPS IN LIBERIA TO MONITOR TRUCE | the United Nations. The United States has come under increasing pressure from the United Nations, Britain, France and West African countries to take a more active role in quelling the unrest. Recently Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, called for the United States to intervene, as did Mr. Taylor. Last ... |
1501732_0 | Europe Acts to Require Labeling of Genetically Altered Food | The European Parliament approved legislation today to require strict labels for food and feed made with genetically altered ingredients, a move that was hailed by environmentalists but pilloried by American farmers. Intended to better inform wary European consumers, the legislation would require supermarkets to label a... |
1501711_2 | Stars and Stripes Forever; Smithsonian Works To Preserve That Special Flag | over because its glass case was too small to accommodate its size, which was typical for garrison flags, made to be seen over long distances. The flag's full length was unfurled when it was hung vertically in the history museum, which opened on the National Mall in 1964 and was initially called the Museum of History an... |
1501765_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Biotech Food Labeling Rule Advances in European Union The European Parliament approved legislation to require strict labels for food and feed made with genetically altered ingredients, a move that was hailed by environmentalists but pilloried by American farmers. Final European Union approval is expected this fall. The... |
1506272_6 | 'The Real World, Yellowstone': Wolves on View All the Time | patiently watch for hours until the animals make the fatal mistake of leaving the bare ground, where they have the strategic advantage. ''Bison are very agile and defend themselves in a group,'' Mr. McNulty said. ''But when they move through snow they are forced to go single file and can't fight cooperatively. They get... |
1507853_0 | Totaling Up the Bill for Spam | When Indiana University installed its new e-mail system in 2000, it spent $1.2 million on a network of nine computers to process mail for 115,000 students, faculty members and researchers at its main campus here and at satellite facilities throughout the state. It had expected the system to last at least through 2004, ... |
1507870_0 | Diverging Estimates Of the Costs of Spam | Spam has become the bane of the Internet because it is so cheap and easy to send that many businesses and individuals do so. Spammers these days pay as little as 0.025 of a cent to send an e-mail message. The computing costs for the recipients, or their Internet providers, to process each message are similarly tiny. Bu... |
1503468_2 | Rumsfeld Doubles Estimate For Cost of Troops in Iraq | sought to erase the impression that those comments meant that the American commitment could not shrink more rapidly. ''The numbers of U.S. forces could change, while the footprint stayed the same, in the event that we have greater success in bringing in additional coalition forces, in the event we are able to accelerat... |
1503343_4 | It's beginning to look as if the politicians in Washington need to take another look at economic policy. | they paid fairly well, if not as well as jobs derived from capital spending. Government health care spending also produced many well-paying jobs. Other government spending programs conducive to good job growth were for highways, water and air facilities, and police and firefighters. Military spending also added good jo... |
1503464_0 | Personal E-Mail at Work | To the Editor: Re ''Putting All Your E-Mail in One Basket'' (June 26): While many employees, particularly in the top echelons of the company, may consider their business e-mail address a prerogative of employment, certainly they should be aware that work suffers from this infringement on the corporation's intended use ... |
1503465_0 | Personal E-Mail at Work | To the Editor: Re ''Putting All Your E-Mail in One Basket'' (June 26): Anyone who uses a company or Internet service provider e-mail address today that is not portable can benefit from changing to a Web-based account. The great thing about these services is that they are available from any computer connected to the Int... |
1505136_3 | At Sea or on Safari, Satellite Phones Hook Users | last month, he was in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico when Tropical Storm Bill brought huge waves and 50-mile-an-hour winds. Using the satellite phone, Mr. Hilborn was able to call Mr. Maxwell to learn the direction in which the storm was moving, then steer out of the worst of it. All the while, he said, he did not ha... |
1505127_0 | AOL E-Mail on a Screen | You Can Take With You Q. As retirees who like to keep in touch with our e-mail, we have been intrigued by the dropping prices of hand-helds with Web access, but have resisted buying one because of the need to subscribe to a separate Internet service provider. Are there any such devices that would allow us to use our cu... |
1502018_3 | E-Mail Hucksterism, Offensive but Effective | of Elima Biotronic, the maker of Opus-X, an herbal concoction that is marketed as increasing sexual pleasure. Mr. Casselle was a founder of NetNoir, a Web site for blacks, and an executive at Pacific Century CyberWorks, the highflying Hong Kong Internet company that crashed in 2001. Sex pills, he said, seemed like a na... |
1505484_0 | The Phenomenology of Harry, or the Critique of Pure Potter | You knew, of course, that Harry Potter's desire for a gold cauldron instead of a pewter one is an obvious example of commodity consumption, and that snobbish centaurs and enslaved elves are indicative of a conservative worldview in which ''social hierarchies prevail among magical people and creatures.'' No? You have mu... |
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1504141_0 | There's Hope in Liberia's History | Liberia is ready to be rescued from disaster, and the time is ripe for persistent but modest American involvement in this process. I have full confidence that a joint effort with West African nations will be successful. I made my first visit to Liberia as president in 1978, when the nation was a symbol of stability and... |
1504019_0 | Tate to Tate, by Boat Along the Thames | Visitors to London have a new way to travel between the two Tate galleries, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. A 40-minute Tate to Tateboat service takes a circular route, stopping at three piers on the Thames, including the new geometric steel-and-timber Millbank Millennium pier opposite Tate Britain. Other stops include W... |
1504043_3 | Commercial Property/7 World Trade Center; Building Being Reborn Using Part of Old Foundation | tipping effect of winds on the building and to control movement in an earthquake. The effect of winds in the narrow corridors of Lower Manhattan is sufficiently complicated that designers built a model of the structure and tested it in a wind tunnel. ''We need to hold the building up and hold it down,'' Mr. Klein said.... |
1504366_0 | BEAR HUNT SCHEDULED | Amid increased complaints about bears breaking into houses and garages and acting aggressively toward pets and people, the state Fish and Game Council voted last week to approve the state's first bear hunt in 33 years. The state plans to issue 10,000 licenses for the six-day hunt, which is to be held in December and is... |
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1504068_1 | New Kind of Snooping Arrives at the Office | track down the bad eggs and sometimes even send detectives into the office to poke around for evidence after hours, most scrutiny focuses on computers, the weapon of choice for corporate wrongdoers. A growing band of specialists in a field called human-resource forensics are using the latest technology to record everyt... |
1504003_7 | The Whole World Is Watching | ourselves, these are the quintessential traits that celebrate our spirit and geography and tap into the most favorable impressions of America abroad (while inspiring the wrath of fundamentalists from Karachi to Houston). ''The American Effect'' deserves more than one viewing, but each visit should end lying atop the ''... |
1504445_2 | Internet Chat Seen as Tool To Teach Theft Of Credit Cards | card fraud do so to gain the recognition and respect of peers. Mr. Robson, who said he visited the channels only to browse, added that hackers involved with the credit card fraud know who has written the cleverest programs and that ''fame is power down here.'' Bill McCarty, the principal author of the Honeynet Project'... |
1507244_6 | Amazon Indians Honor an Intrepid Spirit | of Indians in Latin America, who came here from England for the ceremony at the invitation of Mr. Villas Bôas's family. Also attending was Orlando's widow, Marina Villas Bôas, who was a 25-year-old nurse when she first arrived here in 1963. She said that from ''the very first day,'' she was swept away by the jungle set... |
1507206_4 | Endangered Species: Slow Food | sustained in many ways. Some need help in marketing, and we help them create a network of sales. Others need structures to be built. Others involve the imparting of knowledge of old farmers to young farmers. Every presidia has its own story, its own needs. If you are opposed to agribusiness, does this mean you're oppos... |
1502733_0 | The online journals known as Web logs are finding favor as an efficient way to communicate within the workplace. | For Nicholas Tang, the deluge of work-related e-mail messages became overwhelming. ''It got to the point where I was getting hundreds of e-mails a day, sometimes more than a thousand,'' said Mr. Tang, director of operations at Community Connect, a company in New York that operates AsianAvenue.com and other online commu... |
1502134_1 | On the Trail of Estrogen And a Mirage of Youth | estrogen and progestin, that were not balanced by benefits. Some women said they could never give up the pills, not because they needed them for severe menopause symptoms but because they were convinced that estrogen prevented wrinkles or because it staved off mental fogginess -- benefits that have never been demonstra... |
1502176_0 | Beliefs; A professor offers a critique of legal responses to reported cases of sexual abuse by the clergy. | When it comes to sexual abuse by the clergy, ''I have as much experience with this issue as just about anyone,'' Patrick J. Schiltz said. Mr. Schiltz is associate dean of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. From 1987 to 1995, when he left private practice to become a law professor, he represented... |
1506790_1 | Insular Japan Needs, but Resists, Immigration | an economic powerhouse or whether its population shrivels and the slow fade of its economy turns into a rout. Japan is at the leading edge of a phenomenon that is beginning to strike many advanced countries: rapidly aging populations and dwindling fertility. The size of this country's work force peaked in 1998 and has ... |
1508090_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Vatican City: Offensive Against Gay Marriage | Facing increasing legal recognition of gay marriage, the Vatican's orthodoxy watchdog, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, plans to issue instructions to clergy and Catholic politicians on Thursday that it hopes will help stop the trend. The group's document, ''Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Leg... |
1507986_0 | A CONVERSATION WITH/Zeda Rosenberg; Agency Seeks a Virus-Killer for Women To Help Control the Spread of AIDS | Dr. Zeda F. Rosenberg, chief executive of the International Partnership for Microbicides, spends her days redesigning global strategies for curbing AIDS. Instead of focusing on the treatment of the disease, Dr. Rosenberg, 49, is trying to create a whole new system for stopping it, and she hopes to use women as a target... |
1506571_0 | Major Change in Mental Health Care Is Urged | Mental health care in America is often inadequate and needs ''fundamental transformation,'' a presidential commission reported yesterday. The commission described the present system as a ''patchwork relic'' of disjointed state and federal agencies that frequently stepped in the way of people who were seeking care inste... |
1503575_3 | The Changing South Finds Its Way on I-85 | $11 billion since 1986, a pattern echoed on interstates across the South. (In the Carolinas, the road is known as the Autobahn, thanks to the number of German automobile companies along its edges.) A key moment for South Carolina came in 1992, when BMW began construction of its plant in Greer. Along with its suppliers ... |
1503700_1 | Universities to Share Patented Work on Crops | hundreds of thousands of children each year -- needed to obtain permission from more than 40 patent or contract holders. The rice is not yet on the market. Besides Cornell, the initiative's participants include the University of California, the University of Florida, Michigan State, North Carolina State, Ohio State, Ru... |
1503578_2 | Greek Verities Endure as Times and Players Change | is a fractured pageant of history and myth. Scenes flicker past. The Furies torment Electra and Orestes for their crime. We see individuals crushed in the name of family, rulers twisted by ambition, and nations decimated. Bloody deeds that were described in Act I are performed now. Memories are like propaganda: they co... |
1503602_0 | Sowing Seeds of Destruction | Though President Bush deserves praise for going to Africa and talking about hunger, his proposals for addressing the problem are likely to make it worse. American farm and trade policies -- particularly the promotion of American-style agricultural biotechnology -- will do little to alleviate hunger. In the weeks before... |
1502892_7 | Doctors' Toughest Diagnosis: Own Mental Health | health care reform. In the midst of his depression, he had asked his psychiatrist if he should stop seeing patients, and she had unhesitatingly endorsed his continuing to work. But upon receiving his renewal form, Dr. Miles said, the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice began an investigation, demanding a letter from hi... |
1502909_0 | A Wildlife Corridor, Green but Imperiled | It stretches from the forests of the North to the farmlands in the South, from woodlands where bobcats scream and cerulean warblers warble to lawns where deer and groundhogs graze. More than 4.5 million people drink water drawn from its aquifers. Fourteen million people use it each year for recreation, more than visit ... |
1502919_0 | TV Program Canceled Over Remarks on Gays | MSNBC said yesterday that it had canceled its Saturday afternoon television program featuring Michael Savage, the conservative talk radio host, after he made antigay remarks that the network called ''extremely inappropriate.'' Mr. Savage's program, ''Savage Nation,'' has been on MSNBC since March. His joining the netwo... |
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1502459_0 | Page Two: June 19-July 5 | IN Europe, foods made from genetically altered ingredients are called ''Frankenfoods.'' In the United States, they are barely noticed. Vive la différence, you say? Not when global trade is in the balance. The European Parliament approved legislation last week to require strict labels on food and feed made with genetica... |
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1502257_2 | The Man Who Loved Chekhov | a novel of his own: ''The Book Against God.'' Wood has made himself deservedly famous for the intellectual dazzle, literary acuteness and moral seriousness of his essays on everything from the King James Bible to Don DeLillo. Even a casual acquaintance with his collection of essays, ''The Broken Estate,'' immediately s... |
1502325_6 | Pirate Movies Weren't Always Shipwrecks | Or would you feel the roll of a stout ship beneath your feet again? -- Charles Laughton in ''Captain Kidd'' Real pirates, after all, were outcasts and outlaws, escaped convicts and slaves. When Blackbeard was killed off the coast of North Carolina, slavery was still legal in the United States, and a third of Teach's lo... |
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1502434_9 | The Lure of Data: Is It Addictive? | chirps at him -- and he acknowledges having used it to check e-mail while in the men's restroom. There is no down time in the car, either. ''I talk on the phone, but I have a headset,'' Mr. Lax said. Does he do anything else, like using his Sidekick to read e-mail? ''I won't be quoted as saying what else I do because i... |
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1504607_3 | The Dirt On the David | all restorations, however, serious issues are at stake. Ms. Parronchi told a British newspaper that Ms. Falletti, an art historian, favors more technological methods because they seem more impressive. Ms. Falletti countered by accusing Ms. Parronchi of possessing a horror of all that is modern -- in this case, of the c... |
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