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1504700_1 | Question for 'David' at 500: Is He Ready for Makeover? | begin in September, with a new restorer already named to replace Ms. Parronchi. On the other hand, 15 months ago, Mr. Paolucci canceled plans to restore Leonardo's ''Adoration of the Magi'' in face of international protests. And he is known to dislike scandal. For the moment, with ''David,'' Mr. Paolucci is playing dow... |
1504619_1 | A Holiday To Keep Under Wraps | have come to view with anger, suspicion, scorn and even, at its most virulent, hatred. What finer moment than Bastille Day to check out how the French are faring? After the bashing of their country for opposing the Iraq war, after the headlines calling them ''weasels'' and ''cheese-eating surrender monkeys,'' after the... |
1504610_0 | MEMO PAD | More news about shoes: The Transportation Security Administration issued a statement seeking to clarify its policy on screening shoes at airport checkpoints. The agency said it wanted to ensure that its policy on shoes was consistently interpreted. Travelers have been complaining that screeners apply different rules on... |
1504576_5 | An Era Ends, Many Missions Accomplished | of Dr. Brundtland's staff, will face when he succeeds her on Monday. Dr. Brundtland quickly became involved in international politics to push health issues higher on the political agenda. ''There's no way to make a difference in health without getting issues before those who are going to make political decisions,'' Dr.... |
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1507544_5 | Word for Word/Revisiting 9/11; The Warnings Were There. But Who Was Listening? | largely without the benefit of what some would call its most potent weapon in that effort: an alert and committed American public. . . . Information that was shared with senior U.S. government officials, but was not made available to the American public because of its national security classification, was explicit abou... |
1507467_2 | Long After Graduation, Business School Alumni Return for Job Help | graduate school.) The schools say the alumni programs have become increasingly popular. It's difficult, though, to gauge these programs' success, because many schools have not kept track of the people using them. Among the services for alumni are online resources, networking events and job-search seminars offered aroun... |
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1507636_3 | A Feeding Frenzy on the Web Shoves Sanity Right Out the Door | but its message board isn't bound to the same standard. ''There is an association of integrity,'' said Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia University who specializes in the Internet. ''Money used to be the currency, but there has been a 180-degree change.'' The new currency for the establishment is entertainment a... |
1507463_2 | If You Choose To Be Bumped | Elders include a Christmas trip to Nassau, returning home in January the day before most people needed to start work; coming back from Las Vegas the Sunday after Valentine's Day; flying back from Denver after a ski trip on President's Day weekend; and several trips to Orlando. He also recommends that hopeful ''bumpees'... |
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1507376_0 | Why People Still Starve | Population control -- a responsible birthing program -- is the rational answer to world hunger. Fertilizer, rains, decent government programs and the like are certainly a factor, but try dividing 65 cents a day among 12 children as in the case of the Malawi family. If money is the answer to hunger, try the inverse prop... |
1507659_2 | THE VIEW/From Mystic; Deep-Sea Exploration Where No Oxygen Is Needed | said about the Hercules, which weighs two and a half tons. Video from the ocean bottom will be sent back to the ship, beamed up to satellite and then to a receiving station in Maine. From there it will be transmitted by cable to Electronic Data Systems in Texas and sent via Internet 2 technology, an advanced form of th... |
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1505829_1 | It's a Fat World, After All | powerful weapon: regulations. For food companies, the stakes could be large. Last year, American companies exported 11.8 billion euros ($13.22 billion at current exchange rates) of agricultural products to the European Union, everything from cranberries and candy bars to cereals and sodas. It's not at all certain that ... |
1505829_6 | It's a Fat World, After All | LC1 (a name derived from an active ingredient) that took 30 years to create. In 1964, Nestlé microbiologists identified a bacterium, known as La1, that colonizes the digestive system and stimulates immune response. By 1990, Nestlé had built up a strong dossier for a novel product with a proven health benefit. In 1994, ... |
1506068_0 | A Party for Mr. Flynn, The Fearless Bear Hunter | Angela Davis. The Chicago Seven. Bill Clinton. Patrick Flynn. Patrick Flynn? It's not everybody who inspires legal-defense fund-raising events. But Patrick Flynn, the West Milford resident who shot a 400-pound black bear in his own yard on June 5, is the newest legal martyr on the scene. Mr. Flynn was charged by the De... |
1505644_5 | A Man, a Plan, a Canal | barring all passage through the Chalufa hills, in the very south of the project, and it was not until the last moment that the khedive gave his permission for hundreds of tons of gunpowder to be brought in to blow it up, and so allow the waters of the Red Sea fully to mingle with those of the Mediterranean for the firs... |
1506005_0 | A 'David' for Our Time, or for All Time? | To the Editor: Re ''Question for 'David' at 500: Is He Ready for Makeover?'' (front page, July 15): If it ain't broke, don't fix it. What do we mean to accomplish in an attempt to restore, conserve or arrest the inevitable ravages of time? Michelangelo's ''David'' has survived five centuries. Will it be irreparably dam... |
1503859_0 | Monsanto Sues Dairy in Maine Over Label's Remarks on Hormones | In another sign of how contentious food labeling issues have become in recent years, the Monsanto Company has sued a small milk producer in Portland, Me., over the labeling of its dairy products. Monsanto has accused Oakhurst Dairy Inc. of engaging in misleading and deceptive marketing practices by carrying labels that... |
1503857_0 | Recycling Comes Back | New Yorkers are an adaptable bunch. Just since last year, they have adjusted to traffic-flow changes in Midtown, noise crackdowns in neighborhoods and smoking bans in restaurants and bars. Keeping up with the rules on recycling, however, may prove a singular challenge. Recycling is back, but in a way that will require ... |
1503890_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Marriage For Transsexuals | The government published a bill that would allow transsexuals to marry under their adopted sex, ending a 30-year-struggle for a change in the law, which involves an estimated 5,000 people. Legal status and new birth certificates, if necessary, would be given to Britons who can demonstrate to a panel of doctors and lawy... |
1505283_6 | Watching a Queen Make an Exit | tide. When the ship entered the current after leaving the pier, it really flew downstream. On this morning, as the ship returned from a cruise to Bermuda, the docking went smoothly. The Sandy Hook harbor pilot met the ship outside the harbor at Ambrose Light, which is about 14 miles from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, a... |
1501238_1 | A Test of Paying Attention Behind the Wheel | for Traffic Safety of Spain and the Complutense University in Madrid. Twelve young adults with good driving records were sent on a four-hour highway trip in a Citroën fitted with a camera that tracked their eye movements to gauge how much attention they were paying to how much of the visual field. The dashboard was als... |
1501234_2 | Few Habitats, Many Species And a Debate on Preservation | organizations and international agencies have been seduced by the simplicity of the hot spot idea,'' they go on. ''We worry that the initially appealing idea of getting the most species per unit area is, in fact, a thoroughly misleading strategy.'' Other prominent ecologists have grown critical of hot spots. ''Focusing... |
1501248_3 | Critics, Reasons and Results for Airport Security | Turmail, said. Not that the agency is taking a dismissive attitude toward passengers, Mr. Turmail said; it understands that some of them are upset at having to ''walk around barefoot in a public airport'' and is exploring options for providing them with paper foot slippers. It is also moving to address concerns about t... |
1501317_0 | Court Halts a Bid by Intel to Stop E-Mail | The California Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a former employee of Intel was free to send e-mail messages to current company employees, overturning a lower court's injunction. The court rejected Intel's argument that the messages represented illegal trespassing to its computer systems. That argument is increasingly... |
1501222_2 | Under the Arctic Ice, a Seabed Yields Some Fiery Secrets | more than 80 percent of the instrument deployments detected such emissions over the 600-mile portion of the ridge that was surveyed. ''We were expecting it to be practically dead,'' said Dr. Peter J. Michael, the lead author of one of the new Nature papers and a geologist at the University of Tulsa. ''Instead we got so... |
1501235_0 | OBSERVATORY | Mac 'n' Cheese 'n' Bixin Macaroni and cheese -- the kind made from a box -- is a favorite of young people everywhere. It's hard to say why they love it so, though flavor probably has little to do with it, since by most accounts it has none. No, it must be the otherworldly orange glow that emanates from a heap of mac'n'... |
1523523_1 | Taking the Oceans' Pulse, With Help From Robot Subs | institutions included the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Princeton, Harvard, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Office of Naval Research financed the project. ''It's a fascinating coming together of people who do their science in very different ways,'' said Dr. Russ... |
1523526_0 | Logging in the Amazon | To the Editor: Re ''A Swirl of Foreboding in Mahogany's Grain'' (news article, Sept. 28): The real environmental tragedy of illegal mahogany trading lies not in the impending presence of ''slash and burn'' agriculturalists in the Amazon rain forest. Such people have lived in the rain forest for centuries and at low pop... |
1516456_1 | To Get the Phone, Drivers Are Willing to Risk Getting a Ticket | were issued in the state. About 100,500 citations were issued between December 2001 and February 2003, accounting for about 2 percent of all traffic citations, Ms. McCartt said. ''When you pass a highway safety law you generally get a lot of compliance because of the publicity with the passage of the law,'' Ms. McCartt... |
1516458_1 | Surfers' Paradise Lost to the Great White Hungry Shark | that the sharks, none of which appear to be more than about eight feet long, are attracted by the smell of a 40-foot gray whale that was buried on the beach two years ago. Effluence from the decomposed animal is thought to be leaching into the ocean. The increasing frequency of great whites off the California coast has... |
1516398_4 | Talking Is Better Than Fighting | however, are far greater. Under such a policy, tension on the Korean Peninsula could reach a point where America is drawn into another confrontation -- one with potentially more severe consequences than either Iraq or Afghanistan. Failing to make any decision at all is also dangerous. Abstaining is essentially a vote i... |
1516482_0 | Birth Control in Russia | For 50 years, Russian women relied on state-financed abortions as their main form of birth control. With pills, condoms and other contraceptives often in short supply, most women in Russia expected to face at least one and sometimes more than a dozen trips to the abortion clinic over their childbearing years. Now the R... |
1518134_1 | Clouds In Silicon Valley | be ruined by even a speck of dust. At the same time, the hazardous chemicals used in the process are capable of doing devastating physical damage to the workers. No one has a clear understanding of the extent of the danger to workers over the past few decades. It's indisputable that large numbers of men and women who w... |
1523388_1 | Chile Inches Toward a Law That Would Make Divorce Legal | the church hierarchy has been conducting an intense campaign that includes lobbying members of Congress, especially those from the centrist Christian Democratic Party, and hinting about excommunication. ''What should not be done is to opt for solutions that imply the destruction of the notion of the family,'' Cardinal ... |
1521726_0 | Of Menopause and Memory | Several years ago, Dr. Peter M. Meyer and his colleagues asked a large group of menopausal women how many of them were bothered by forgetfulness. ''Every hand in the room went up,'' he recalled. But tests conducted over several years turned up no evidence to support the idea that menopause actually interfered with memo... |
1521830_2 | Countries Receive a Low Score From the U.N. in Its Worldwide Fight Against AIDS | prevention and care expected of them by 2005. One goal is to ensure that by 2005 at least 80 percent of pregnant women have access to information, counseling and treatment to prevent transmission of H.I.V., which causes AIDS. But such services remain virtually nonexistent in the countries that are most affected by AIDS... |
1521734_0 | For Billions of Birds, an Endangered Haven | It's autumn, and the vast boreal forest of Canada is spilling birds. Ducks and geese are pouring out of it, and songbirds in the billions. Some will winter in Westchester, some in Costa Rica. Some will stop at bird feeders, some will fly directly over hidden hunters. In all, three billion to five billion birds leave th... |
1521864_0 | The JetBlue Files And Big Brother | To the Editor: If an airline supplies passenger names and addresses to help in antiterrorism efforts (front page, Sept. 20), that's no more an invasion of privacy than the government's examining the passports of international arrivals, and much less an intrusion than the airlines' own personal and baggage searches of p... |
1518749_0 | Air Travelers Adjust To a Vigilant Process | Airports, where the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were launched, are where most Americans have seen security changes up close. Some of those changes are big and obvious: the 49,600 federal security agents in crisp white shirts, the mammoth bag-screening machines, the hundreds of pilots carrying guns. Others are smaller an... |
1518772_1 | Cellphones That Reach Alter Egos | and expectant fathers. You pick up a sound-quality benefit, too. For example, a Cingular representative admitted that Cingular coverage in his own home was, as he bravely put it, ''not swell.'' But now he doesn't care. Whenever he's at home (and therefore out of prime cell range), his FastForward gizmo shunts incoming ... |
1518789_2 | Gas Project In Peru Gets Crucial Loan | United States government officials, who say the development endangers the rain forest, native indigenous communities and the Paracas reserve. The Inter-American Development Bank's 14-member board, which represents 46 countries, had already delayed a vote on the loan twice. And today's vote did not come without a setbac... |
1518811_0 | National Briefing | Religion: Bishops Turn To Constitution To Bar Gay Marriage | Leaders of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops, meeting on Tuesday in Washington, endorsed an amendment to the United States Constitution to effectively bar gay marriages by defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The bishops said they would oppose legal or judicial efforts ''to grant same-sex unions th... |
1518746_3 | Slip-On Shoes, Long Waits: Airline Passengers Are Still Adjusting | anymore. It could result in your life. It requires a lot more thought.'' At O'Hare airport in Chicago on Monday, Susane Vitale, 36, looked perplexed as a screener sifted through her toiletry bag looking for the thing that had appeared as a knife on the X-ray. ''But I hardly carry any toiletries any more,'' Ms. Vitale i... |
1518682_3 | Two Years Later, a Thousand Years Ago | transportation or communication. The collapse of 1200 B.C. seems to have been abetted by raiders who exploited shipping lanes. In the Middle Ages, the bubonic plague moved from city to city along avenues of commerce. Today a bioweapon could spread death globally the same way. And support for terrorism proliferates via ... |
1518767_5 | From the Torch To the Toes, Digital Insurance | are still manipulating data. They attribute the delays to their teaching schedules, a lack of money to pay graduate students, and software limitations. The first task after returning from New York was to merge the 13 sets of raw three-dimensional digital data, known as point clouds, by identifying where they overlapped... |
1520094_5 | Luring Customers Back to the Water | them to be handled easily by two people. Mr. Franchini, 50, recently opened offices in Chicago and plans a big push on the American market starting in 2005. ''We have some contacts with individuals,'' he said, ''but you must have a sales and service structure that is adequate.'' Of course, the need to pack modern techn... |
1519938_2 | Exercise Is a Habit; Here's Why to Pick It Up | for me on the corner, not to mention the magnificent sunrises, birds, blooms and bunnies we often encounter. I often remark, ''Look at what the stay-a-beds are missing!'' New Findings Two studies published last week in The Journal of the American Medical Association may provide the motivation many women need to get mov... |
1522005_4 | Forbidden Fruit: Something About A Mangosteen | mangosteens might be completed. Equipment to carry out irradiation, manufactured by the SureBeam Corporation of San Diego, is already in operation in Hawaii and Brazil, and a system has recently been sold to Vietnam. Mark Stephenson, a SureBeam vice president, said that fruits (or meats, on which it is already widely u... |
1522061_3 | California Acts to Ban Junk E-Mail | Network Advertising Initiative, a group of technology companies that send e-mail for marketers. ''Instead of trying to segregate the California e-mail addresses, many of our members are going to make the California standard the lowest common denominator.'' Until now, state laws against spam have largely tried to ban de... |
1522033_0 | Goodbye to Gallant Galileo | Space engineers called it ''the little engine that could.'' The spacecraft Galileo, which ended its 14-year mission on Sunday when it was sent on a suicidal plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere, overcame daunting obstacles to produce some of the most important planetary observations ever made. Its odyssey was a tribute to ... |
1517112_0 | The End of Chocolate (as a Chocolatier Knows It) | First, Christian Constant created a towering sculpture in solid chocolate, dozens of stylized chocolate bars soaring in a turbulent column skyward, out of an immense cracked chocolate egg. The Renaissance of Chocolate, he called it. Next, he draped the doorposts of his store, along Rue d'Assas in Paris, in black as a s... |
1517104_0 | Mentally Ill Children | To the Editor: ''Mental Care Poor for Some Children in State Custody'' (front page, Sept. 1) is the latest installment in a familiar if horrifying story. Mentally ill children are neglected, physically mistreated and without access to needed therapies, locked up in ugly facilities in the care of a poorly paid and poorl... |
1517080_0 | If the Actual Amazon Is Far Away, Invent One Nearby | You probably won't need 98 minutes to get the point of ''The Origin of the Night: Amazon Cosmos,'' a film by the German Conceptualist Lothar Baumgarten. A beautiful, elegiac but largely unsuspenseful meditation on the Brazilian rain forest and the creation stories of the Tupi Indians, this rarely seen movie was made be... |
1517087_1 | Relics of Childhood From an Antique World | rather than as miniature adults -- were well attuned to youthful emotions and body language. Exhibitions on the theme have been rare, but ''Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood From the Classic Past,'' on view at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College here, is a wonderful show that more than makes ... |
1516385_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths SOGG, BARBARA (NEE LAVIGNE) | SOGG--Barbara (nee Lavigne). Suddenly on August 29, 2003. Beloved wife of Jonathan S. Sogg. Sister of Allan and Paul Lavigne. Devoted to Jonny's children, Cathy (Christopher) Lawrence and Julie Seymour and their children Alexander, Zoe and Charles Lawrence and Annabel Seymour. A woman of strength and dignity. Services ... |
1520879_4 | Cameras Shoot Where Uzis Can't | this cacophony of voices,'' Mr. Czitrom said. ''After the sinking of the Titanic, when rescue efforts were hampered by wireless operators clogging the air waves, they passed the Radio Act of 1912.'' But it wasn't until the 1920's, when large national broadcasting companies like CBS and NBC emerged, that government took... |
1518979_4 | In Public and in Private, A Nation Pays Tribute | of respect than anything else.'' Although many churches scheduled prayer services, especially for this evening when people left work, attendance tended to be light compared with Sept. 11, 2002. A memorial service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Mayor Shirley Franklin, Gov. Sonny Perdue and members of the J... |
1519043_0 | Galen and Barr Make Deal on Drug Rights and Patents | Galen Holdings P.L.C., a pharmaceutical company in Northern Ireland that specializes in health care products for women, will sell the rights in the United States and Canada for Loestrin, an oral contraceptive, to Barr Laboratories of Pomona, N.Y., for $45 million, the companies announced today. Galen will also settle B... |
1518941_2 | The Cancún Delusion | rare in Thailand as they are in the United States. Technological displacement has the potential to produce social disasters. Many of the inner-city poor of the United States descend from farm laborers and tenant farmers displaced by the mechanization of agriculture in the South a few generations ago. Those who joined t... |
1520545_2 | Disputes Erupt Over Service For Poor Internet Typists | and that users would like more than just an error message as help in getting to their desired destination. One of the biggest complaints about Site Finder is that it cripples the ability of some Internet service providers to filter out junk e-mail, also known as spam, that is sent with false return addresses. When some... |
1519869_4 | Trying to Reshape Tibet, China Sends In the Masses | population, according to statistics, is at least 40 percent Chinese. Last year, a local official told Western reporters that urban Lhasa was almost half Chinese. No project better illustrates the Chinese strategy, and the uneven benefits, than the Qinghai-Tibet Railroad. Set to be finished by 2007 at a cost of $3 billi... |
1522759_2 | U.S. Prods Airlines for Data To Check on Their Travelers | the middle of the bonfire.'' He said he was asking the big airlines' trade group, the Air Transport Association, to step forward with the data instead. The security agency is still working on the details of Capps II. Currently it is considering a system in which the airlines would provide it each passenger's name, home... |
1522721_0 | Studio Anti-Piracy Drive Could Alter Oscar Race | The race for this year's Academy Awards has been thrown off stride by a move by the major Hollywood studios to curb movie piracy. The studios hope to halt the distribution of thousands of DVD and VHS copies of Oscar-contending films to those whose votes decide the winners. Such a move may hurt the Oscar chances of smal... |
1522705_4 | Developers Urge Support of Water Transfer to Populous South Florida | another, but it requires a region to take every measure possible to find water nearby first. The report recommended eliminating that requirement, saying, ''Developing a system that enables water distribution from water-rich areas to water-poor areas seems to make good environmental and economic sense.'' Such a system w... |
1517300_3 | Academic Industrial Complex | a Corporate Culture'' (Yale University Press), he argues that the dichotomy between the academy and the market is false. He points to two recent surveys (one by The Chronicle of Higher Education, one by the Educational Testing Service) that show that Americans are overwhelmingly confident in their colleges and universi... |
1516863_3 | Donald Davidson, 86, Philosopher With Linguistic Focus | a scholarship to Harvard, where the philosopher A. N. Whitehead regularly invited him to tea and took him under his wing. He began as an English major, then switched to comparative literature, and, finally, to classics and philosophy. He persuaded Harvard to let him put on ''The Birds'' by Aristophanes and played the l... |
1520214_0 | Police Fatally Shoot Home Intruder (a Large, Furry, 4-Legged One) | In northwestern New Jersey, where encounters between people and bears have become increasingly frequent, a black bear broke into the same house twice yesterday, terrifying the occupants, before it was shot and killed by the police. Roy Wherry, the police chief in Vernon, N.J., said the animal had been classified as a n... |
1520277_1 | Relentless Foe of the Amazon Jungle: Soybeans | also appears to have figured in the surge in deforestation from August 2001 to July 2002, according to the country's National Institute for Space Research. So did a certain laxness in law enforcement, traditional during an election year, and a weak currency that made farming for export especially attractive, analysts h... |
1520252_0 | New Federal Battle Over Disciplining Students | When Nancy Davenport, a retired teacher in Dallas, thinks about discipline and special education, she thinks of the times her mentally retarded son got involved in some ''pushing and shoving.'' ''He was not a discipline problem, but it would have been pretty easy if somebody had wanted to kick him out,'' she said -- ex... |
1522363_0 | Studios Moving To Block Piracy Of Films Online | If Hollywood executives have learned anything watching their peers in the music business grapple with online file sharing, it is how not to handle a technological revolution. While the major labels in the music industry squabbled among themselves about how best to deal with Internet piracy and failed to develop consume... |
1522316_3 | Office Buzz: Check The E-Mail | So if Word, Excel and PowerPoint are essentially unchanged, what the heck have the 2,500 members of Microsoft's Office team been doing for the past two years? Apparently, they've been working on Outlook. Over the years, Microsoft's flagship e-mail-calendar program had become the well-deserved butt of jokes, frustration... |
1521610_2 | White House Steps Up Bid To Justify Iraq Spending | think we have to.'' He said, however, that the total reconstruction cost was estimated at $50 billion to $75 billion over several years, far more than the administration's request for $20.3 billion in the coming year. ''It's going to cost a lot more,'' Mr. Biden said, adding later: ''Somewhere you've got to get another... |
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1522830_5 | War Is Hell. Get Used to It. | and Xenophon. Indeed, the most important portrait of him that existed at the time was Aristophanes' mean-spirited attack in ''The Clouds.'' Hanson writes that ''a dead Socrates at Delium might mean today there would not be a book in any library or bookstore on Socrates. Plato himself might be as little known to the gen... |
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1523076_1 | From the Highlands to Your Grocer | niche markets. This page has assailed the enormous farm subsidies in the world's richest nations, and their devastating impact on the efforts of other nations to compete in a fair global marketplace. But we recognize that even if the United States and Europe gave up their subsidies and tariffs on agricultural products,... |
1523105_2 | Hard Realities: Brazil Drops Resistance to Genetically Altered Crops | meeting. ''The next time, I'm going to be the one who travels,'' Mr. Alencar said Thursday night, after backing off and finally signing the decree. The ''provisional decree'' that the government announced applies only until the end of next year and contains several other restrictions. Farmers cannot plant genetically m... |
1523134_0 | Where Security at the Airport Is Up to You | At airports across the country, travelers are frisked and X-rayed, nail clippers are seized and shoes are subject to swabbing. But increasingly, security precautions seem to end just before the last stop for many travelers -- the baggage claim area. Where guards once policed baggage areas at most major airports around ... |
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1523209_3 | Bone Diagnosis Gives New Data But No Answers | that are below average but not below normal. ''Only in Lake Wobegon is everyone above average,'' he said. While some women may need treatment, many more do not, he added. Dr. James Simon, president of the North American Menopause Society, begs to differ. Once bone starts being lost, it is time to think about taking act... |
1523132_6 | A Swirl of Foreboding In Mahogany's Grain | agency's forestry service. The corruption runs so deep, he said, that even confiscated wood is often sold back to the same logging companies. ''It has been legalized through the auction system,'' he said. The Brazilian government tried to address similar problems by requesting the help of inspectors from the United Sta... |
1523086_3 | The World: Common Ground in Paris; 'This Is Not as Serious as People Think' | France since they failed to bridge their differences a year ago over whether to invade Iraq has persisted. Part of the problem is the personalities. Washington sees Mr. Chirac's trusted foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, as arrogant and impetuous. This month, for example, a detailed proposal from Mr. de Villepin ... |
1522935_7 | Leading Passengers to Water | put it at New London, Conn., an old seaport better known for its submarine base, as local merchants spruce up the harbor area and prep cabdrivers on the proper treatment of cruise visitors. Mr. Lafrenz said Liberty Travel was handling bookings this spring for an all-rock 'n' roll cruise on the Norwegian Dawn, departing... |
1523116_0 | Trade in Mahogany Is Threat to Amazon | A murky multimillion-dollar trade in mahogany in Peru's rain forest is whittling away the Amazon, endangering isolated indigenous groups and threatening the commercial future of an ever scarce tree, officials and environmental groups say. Environmentalists' greatest fear is that the presence of loggers deep in the jung... |
1518520_0 | Italy Loses Ruling on Modified Food | In a judgment that appeared to offer ammunition to both sides in the debate on genetically modified foods, the European Court of Justice ruled today that Italy's grounds for banning foods derived from certain genetically altered corn seeds were unjustified. Europe's highest court was asked to intervene by an Italian co... |
1518197_2 | A Battle for Turf Where Threatened Grizzlies Still Roam | The bears' decline is caused by an increase in human population in the region, he said, which has two main effects. If the human population continues to grow at the rate it has, the number of bear deaths is expected to increase as a result, Dr. Mattson said. ''That means they won't be reproducing faster than they are d... |
1518287_3 | Energy Project vs. Environmentalists in Peru | environmental devastation. And some of their concerns have been echoed by some officials at the Export-Import Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and by some members of Congress. The Camisea fields, discovered a generation ago by Shell, were envisioned as one of the largest energy developments in Latin America. S... |
1518287_5 | Energy Project vs. Environmentalists in Peru | has had deep concerns about a lack of transparency, about environmental studies that are called shoddy or insufficient and a lack of knowledge of native groups in the region. An environmental assessment by the Export-Import Bank says access roads and other paths cut into the jungle ''have produced significant direct ne... |
1517794_1 | Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy | and logistical support to antipornography and child protection groups that are raising the issue. For example, Dan Klores Communications, which represents Sony Music and other music clients, has been promoting Parents for Megan's Law, a Long Island group involved with preventing child abuse that has been critical of ch... |
1517515_3 | Of Mythic Proportions | ''It had everything going against it. Only the power of the Rockefellers provided the fulcrum.'' Building the World Trade Center required what the film calls ''the greatest convergence of public and private power the city had ever seen,'' which included demolishing the old Radio Row business district. Once the Port Aut... |
1517602_0 | Public Building | In 1366, the wardens of the Opera del Duomo submitted to the citizens of Florence a referendum on the construction of the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. The wardens had chosen a design that would raise the widest and tallest dome ever constructed without recourse to the buttresses that typically suppor... |
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