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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Is Buddhism Good for Your Health?
-- was the most intense seen in about 175 experimental subjects. In the years since Davidson's fax from the Dalai Lama, the neuroscientific study of Buddhist practices has crossed a threshold of acceptability as a topic worthy of scientific attention. Part of the reason for this lies in new, more powerful brain-scannin...
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Personal Business; The Unemployed Lose More Than a Paycheck
JEFF HALPERN had changed jobs a half-dozen times since receiving his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1991, but the latest change was different. His position at a start-up energy trading company disappeared in the wake of Enron's collapse, and it took almost seven months for him to land a new pos...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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A FLoating Home In The Florida Keys
only a few hundred yards offshore, its pale, lemony sides looking as cozy as a sun-faded beach towel. We couldn't wait to get back on board, where Dave flipped our lone tape into the boombox: Patsy Cline's greatest hits backed by Jimmy Buffett's ''A1A,'' an album that already sounded nostalgic in 1974, the year of its ...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Suburban Bears Should Be Sterilized, Not Shot, Animal-Rights Advocate Says
sharpshooters to tranquilize the bears so the chemical could be administered is almost certainly a long shot. But the bear hunt has created enough turmoil in the state that even Gov. James E. McGreevey took pains not to appear too dismissive. ''It's truly a new age for wildlife management,'' Mr. Chaifetz said. ''People...
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36 Hours | Coral Gables, Fla.
and filigreed peak roofs. 11 a.m. 4. Make a Splash Time for a swim. The Venetian Pool (2701 De Soto Boulevard, 305-460-5356; adult admission $9 April to October, $6 the rest of the year) is a popular site for fashion photographs and films as well as the favorite swimming hole for Gables residents. This inspiration of D...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Yale in Deal With 2 Unions, Ending Strike
year after 20 years or more was just $621 a month. The agreement does not affect the Graduate Employees Student Organization, which has sought to unionize more than 2,000 graduate teaching and research assistants. When the two main unions and the graduates' organization staged a one-week strike last March, they insiste...
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Bears Root Through Garbage, Then Roil Politics
home twice, and was shot and killed by a police officer as it emerged from its second visit. In May, in neighboring West Milford Township, a bear attacked and injured a man who had tackled the bear as it fought with his dog. Another West Milford man shot a large male bear moments after it stood, growling, at his door. ...
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Stating the case for why the Vatican ought to consider an exit plan for old and infirm popes.
The Roman Catholic Church has detailed provisions, honed by centuries of sometimes painful experience, that regulate the election of popes. It has virtually no provisions for the very modern problem of aging and physically or mentally declining popes. That point is raised every time Pope John Paul II, who is 83, shows ...
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Dean Proposes $7.1 Billion To Help Cover College Costs
Taking a page from philanthropists who adopt elementary school classes and promise to pay tuition for those who make it to college, Howard Dean proposed a $7.1 billion program on Thursday to guarantee eighth graders who commit to higher education $10,000 a year in grants and loans. Dr. Dean, the former governor of Verm...
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Cabinet Shake-Up Spoils Colombia's Effort to Cast Stable Image
After taking office 15 months ago, President Álvaro Uribe said his ministers would remain with him throughout his four-year term, a pledge aimed at casting an image of stability and purpose in a nation where governments are usually scorned. But in the last seven days, Mr. Uribe's reputation has been tarnished with the ...
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Cuba: You Can't Get There From Here . . .
a whisper -- bitter complaints about Mr. Castro and urgent desires to emigrate at all costs. Veronica said that she had seen poverty before, in Puerto Rico, where her family is from, but when a worker at the Tropicana, where she and her husband were staying, invited them to his home, his family's circumstances took her...
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Sterilization in India
To the Editor: Re ''States in India Take New Steps to Limit Births'' (front page, Nov. 7): In India, the dominance of female sterilization among contraceptive options is not only unfairly burdening women. With a rapidly escalating epidemic of H.I.V. and AIDS -- at least 4.6 million people in India are already infected ...
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20 Airport Workers Held in Smuggling Of Drugs for Decade
of them from Guyana and Jamaica, officials said. One shipment, a 185-kilogram package of cocaine worth $23 million found in the cargo section of a passenger flight in September, is the largest ever intercepted at Kennedy, officials said. Yesterday, federal agents conducted additional searches in the area and seized abo...
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World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: To the Polls
Voters will select their representatives for the province's legislature today for the first time since 1998, when a landmark peace accord established a local government to share power between Protestant and Roman Catholic parties. The 108-seat assembly has been suspended for a year. Opinion polls have shown no clear fr...
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Spread of AIDS Fast Outpacing Response
way behind in tackling AIDS -- though not, in every case, by name. ''Many countries do not take AIDS seriously, and that is particularly the case of Russia, all the countries of the former Soviet Union, and several Asian countries,'' Dr. Piot said in a teleconference. An estimated million Russians are infected and ''th...
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World Briefing | United Nations: Vote On Cloning Ban Delayed For 2 Years
The General Assembly voted to postpone for two years consideration of a ban on human cloning. The General Assembly's legal committee, which comprises all the members, voted 80 to 79 in favor of a deferral motion introduced by Iran on behalf of Islamic countries. Fifteen members abstained. The vote suspended a contentio...
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Las Vegas Auto Couture: A Fashion Show for Cars
billion in 1998. This week, more than 100,000 people gathered to get their first glance at the Next Big Thing at the annual SEMA show, which closes today. And if there's any sign that the world of car racing and car tuning (think the ''Fast and Furious'' movies) is going mainstream, it's the Recaro booster seat. The co...
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States in India Take New Steps To Limit Births
A new reckoning is under way in India over how best to stabilize a population that is set to surpass China's as the world's biggest by midcentury. Indian women currently bear an average of just under three children -- a steep drop from the six of 50 years ago, but still above the 2.1 that would stabilize a population t...
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Finding the Beast Within, And Portraying It Without
The image of a creature that is part human and part something else has been around for a long time. It's still with us, though the something else now tends to be mechanical rather than living. In premodern times, the other part was usually animal: horse, bull, bird, goat, lion, fish; the list goes on. The ancient Greek...
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'Picasso: The Classical Period'
Modern Art's ''Three Musicians'' of 1921. And he was not exactly taking it easy, much less moving backward, even when working in a Classical mode. The 19 drawings and paintings in this extraordinary show reveal that mode to be bracingly energetic and nearly as multisourced and distortion-prone as Picasso's Cubist phase...
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In the Balance: Attacks on Turkey Aim to Sever a Bridge Between Islam and the West
to finesse its identity by paying lip service to the Islamic world while defining its future among the dynamic economies of the West. Turkey was the first among Muslim nations to recognize Israel and has developed extensive ties with it since then. It has been a model NATO member and has tried hard in recent years to w...
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Brazil's Environmentalists Crying Foul
business groups by supporting the paving of highways in the Amazon, encouraging more agriculture there and resurrecting a regional development agency that the previous government had abolished for corruption and inefficiency. ''The Amazon is not untouchable,'' he said during a visit to the region in June. Environmental...
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Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: More Oversight Urged For Cell Towers
City and state officials called yesterday for more government oversight of cellphone transmission towers. They cited concerns that the proliferation of such antennas on residential buildings might lead to harmful electromagnetic fields. Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr. has called for a public hearing and has proposed le...
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Government Mapping Out A Strategy to Fight Autism
Propelled by the skyrocketing number of diagnoses of the perplexing brain disorder autism in children, federal officials have for the first time mapped out a long-term, interagency plan to deal with the problem. The plan includes objectives like the development of teaching methods that will allow 90 percent of autistic...
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The Testosterone Gamble
the same reckless use of hormones that brought grief and anxiety to so many unsuspecting women? That disquieting possibility is raised by a new report that laments a huge upsurge in testosterone replacement therapy for men despite a paucity of evidence that it is safe or beneficial. One wonders whether another medical ...
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Panel Recommends Studies On Testosterone Therapy
memory and increase sexual drive. The Institute of Medicine report says that more than 1.75 million prescriptions were written in 2002, up from 648,000 in 1999. Researchers at the National Institute on Aging were concerned that the testosterone boom was a public health issue and wanted a large clinical trial. Those at ...
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A New Democracy, Enshrined in Faith
Its first three articles declare Afghanistan an Islamic Republic, make Islam the official religion, and announce that ''no law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam and the values of this constitution.'' The new Supreme Court, which is given the power to interpret the constitution, is to be composed of a mix ...
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Selling to Nonprofits Proves Not That Easy
advises cut across all nonprofit institutions, like policies for directors and conflicts of interest, Mr. Leavy said. But, for example, when Grant Thornton is working for a college or other nonprofit higher education client, many accounting and tax questions grow out of the relationship between schools and students, wh...
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Nonprofits Chase Dean's Example
and push for increased law enforcement. Like the Dean campaign, MADD sent e-mail messages to supporters and allowed them to track the progress of the drive on its Web page. The Dean campaign uses a baseball graphic known as the bat, which shows how much money has been brought in. MADD used a pumpkin, which gradually fi...
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The Tarps of Kilimanjaro
in 1976, would be easily long enough to girdle the two main ice fields. Given that the cliffs are 60 to 150 feet high, their covering would have to be taller than ''Running Fence''; but the total amount of fabric required would probably be no greater than that used for the bright pink skirts Christo spread out around t...
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They Bring Them Back Alive, Quite Often, From Niagara
the river. ''So anything on the outside of the water gets shot out and doesn't hit the rocks.'' Mr. Hill said he had retrieved two living deer and a dog that witnesses saw swept over the falls near the bank. Two daredevils, Karel Soucek and Dave Munday, each made a successful journey in the same area. But, Mr. Hill sai...
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The Neediest Cases; A Young Man Gets a Future and His Mother Gets Rest
When he was a freshman at William E. Grady Vocational High School in Coney Island, James Manas rose at 6 a.m. to get ready and take a bus and a subway to make his first class at 8:30. The length of the trip did not bother him, but what did was the fear of what he might encounter along the way. Getting to and from the t...
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Fast-Food Nation Is Taking Its Toll on Black Bears, Too
It's no secret that America's adults are getting fat and sedentary. Its children are becoming couch mini-potatoes. Even its pets are overweight. Now the fast-food lifestyle is getting to the bears, too. A study of black bears in the Sierra Nevada has found that those animals that live in and around cities and towns are...
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A Course in Evolution, Taught by Chimps
other communities, as is the chimp custom, yet most managed somehow to avoid the risk of inbreeding. But Fifi, a Gombe-born female, was not so lucky. On her seventh conception her oldest son, Freud, was alpha male and, despite his namesake's suspicions, took no interest in her. But her second son, Frodo, a very large a...
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COMPANY BRIEFS
SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION INC., the United States unit of Syngenta, Basel, Switzerland, the world's largest crop-chemical maker, said it had asked a federal judge to rule that it was not infringing on three herbicide patents of Monsanto Co., St. Louis, and that the patents were not enforceable. PILGRIM'S PRIDE CORP., Pi...
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Alzheimer's Risk Identified
Changes in the size of a small part of the brain can be used to predict mental decline in older people, a study being released today suggests. In the study, published in the journal Radiology, researchers from New York University measured the size of a brain region called the medial temporal lobe in 45 healthy people o...
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Deep in the Amazon, Vast Questions About the Climate
rainfall systems, many forests are coming close to the limit where they shed their protective layer and become vulnerable to burning or slowed-down growth and die,'' said Dr. Dan Nepstad, an American scientist who works both with IPAM and the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts. ''By replacing the forest with p...
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Boots, Poles And Cellphone
albeit with communications more along the lines of ''Danny, it's Mom. If you're not at the car in five minutes, you're going to have to find your own way home.'' Although more channels may cut down on eavesdropping, there is one hitch: some of the additional channels are on the General Mobile Radio Service, which techn...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Spammers Can Run but They Can't Hide
there, an activist was born. Mr. Linford found the central meeting place for the anti-spam activists -- an Internet newsgroup that is called Nanae, for news.admin.net-abuse.email. Like many other news groups, Nanae (pronounced nah-NAY) is a boisterous place, where information about fighting spam is interposed with rath...
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Reverse Mainstreaming; Very Special Ed
as language and behavioral models. Of course, the reality in reverse mainstreaming classrooms is blurrier than that. In (Miss Sue) Suzanne Piszar's class in the Brick school, one tall 4-year-old is the verbal star. The first to call out the answer to every question, he is also a ''bus rider,'' which is how teachers ref...
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What a Deal!
wealthy, one poor -- a college that aspires to a higher place in the pecking order may offer merit aid to the wealthier student because it knows the poor student will get offers of aid from other, more prestigious colleges. The bet, officials say, is that the wealthier student will accept, improving the college's yield...
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One Classroom, Many Minds; A Paddle for the Mainstream
SOME fourth graders at the Rand School read at second-grade level; some have already finished ''Lord of the Rings.'' So Cheryl Caggiano organizes her class into clusters based on proficiency, each with a different book and assignment. At any given time, four things are going on at once in Ms. Caggiano's classroom. Stud...
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Classical Education
art and literature, as well as traditions of history, philosophy, science and ways of war. But this shared culture was distinctively modern, and while it may be seen to be descending from the ancients, it certainly did not derive from them in any clear and simple sense. The issue is time. Upheavals of history cut the t...
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Classical Education
council chosen by lot that carries out laws directly voted by the citizens. In Athens the referendum was standard operating procedure. No wonder Athenian democracy was deeply feared by the founders. Thomas Cahill's ''Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea'' is the fourth book in a best-selling series that treats Western history as ...
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When Campus Violence Flares
charged with aggravated assault. The two victims, John P. Morin, 20, of Cliffside Park, and Robert Morgan, 20, of Pine Beach, were reportedly beaten over the head with a baseball bat. Both are still hospitalized and Mr. Morin's condition was improving last week, although Mr. Morgan remained listed in critical condition...
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It's a Multi-Multimedia World
reads the legend in the original Greek. Almost all the elements are interlaced so viewers can test the conclusions and conjectures in a highly personal, intuitive way. Through text and graphics, the students address key details of Homer's story, siding with those who conclude that while the war took place, the giant wo...
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Icelandic Company Says It Has Found Osteoporosis Gene
in the United States from osteoporosis. The new finding comes at a time of particular difficulty for doctors trying to treat the disease. Supplements of estrogen, a hormone that dwindles at menopause, prevent bone loss effectively, but a group of researchers recommended last month that estrogen not be prescribed solely...
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Congress Set to Pass Bill That Restrains Unsolicited E-Mail
some e-mail experts cautioned that it includes many concessions to the marketing industry and may have a limited impact. The bill would not allow people to sue a company that deluges them with unwanted messages, reserving that right for the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general and Internet service provider...
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Hard-Liners Gain in Northern Ireland Voting
Ian Paisley, and the Irish Republican Army's political wing, Sinn Fein. If the two groups do end up as the dominant representatives of Protestant and Catholic communities, they will be unlikely to work together in a legislative chamber. While Sinn Fein exploited the benefits of the fledgling government over the last fi...
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The U.S. And China Test Bounds Of Trade
the current backlash against Chinese exports has taken as long as it has to develop. China's exports have nearly quintupled in the last 10 years. During the 1980's, when Japan and South Korea were similarly criticized in the United States and Europe, Japan's exports doubled and South Korea's nearly quadrupled. China's ...
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Superfund Job, Not Quite Finished, Frustrates a Town
slag heaps sit between the creek and a main road. ''I feel abandoned,'' said Carolyn Kauble, who lives in a modest house one block away from the site. Her husband, Phillip, died this year of cancer, having lived 60 years in the neighborhood. Before his death, Mr. Kauble, who had worked at Continental Steel, helped galv...
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U.S. and Brazil Meet in Effort To Ease Coming Trade Talks
property rights, government procurement and foreign investment for the hemisphere. ''We know the limitations that exist to having an elimination of subsidies in agriculture,'' said Mr. Amorim. ''We've heard it one hundred times, and finally we understand.'' If Brazil made such a major concession, he said, then the Unit...
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For Colombia's Ascetic Leader, Signs That Violence Is Easing
referendum defeat denied him the greater control over state spending that he had sought. Last week, his interior minister, Fernando Londoño, blamed by some for having failed to garner enough support for the referendum, resigned. Then on Sunday night, the government announced that the defense minister, Martha Lucía Ramí...
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Study Raises Doubt About Allergy to Genetic Corn
Remember StarLink corn? Three years ago this genetically engineered corn was found in taco shells and other foods, even though it had not been approved for human consumption. The discovery prompted food recalls and disrupted farm exports. Dozens of consumers claimed they had suffered potentially dangerous allergic reac...
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Political Will Can Stop the Plant
More than a year ago, this page urged Gov. George Pataki and his environmental conservation commissioner, Erin Crotty, to put an end to plans to build an enormous new cement plant on the east bank of the Hudson River just south of Hudson, N.Y. Since then, the mills of bureaucratic procedure have continued to grind exce...
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Fewer Airline Passengers, But More-Crowded Planes
travel agency All About Travel, says she has stopped putting on makeup on board because there is not enough room to maneuver. And Alin Boswell, a flight attendant for 15 years with US Airways, has noticed a lot more silent jousting among passengers. ''The fight over the armrest between two grown adults is hysterical,''...
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Union Raises Questions After Collapse
Resort project said that the focus of the investigation was on the support system used to keep the concrete stable at the 10-story garage while it was hardening. Wood or steel shoring must be installed to hold the wet concrete until it initially dries. Parts of these support materials used to form the shape of the conc...
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Free Trade Won't Free Cuba
According to our state television, the Castro regime was pleased that the United States Senate passed an amendment easing restrictions on American citizens traveling to Cuba. This was no surprise. Just days before the vote, Fidel Castro met here with a group of American travel agents. Both sides are impatient to make b...
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Terrorists in Kenya Killings Posed as Fishermen, a Report Says
The terrorists who attacked an Israeli resort and an airliner along the Kenyan coast last November posed as lobstermen while they smuggled missiles and other weapons from Somalia aboard a wooden boat, according to a United Nations report. The report, a detailed study of the arms flow into Somalia, was delivered to the ...
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Miller Denies Aide's Claim Of a Bid For City Hall
As e-mail messages go, it sounded innocent enough: Council Speaker Gifford Miller was looking to hire a communications director, and possibly a press secretary, as he prepared to make a run for mayor in 2005. The only problem was that Mr. Miller has always been coy about any mayoral intentions. And yesterday he promptl...
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Fidel's Triumph on Capitol Hill
In the debate over how to export American values to Cuba, Congressional leaders have managed to import some of Fidel Castro's values. That old tyrant in Havana is the prime beneficiary of the decision this week to drop a measure that would have effectively lifted the ban on travel to Cuba. He can now go on railing agai...
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Hearing Aid and Cellphone Call a Truce
Wireless technology has not been kind to most people who wear hearing aids: because the older models lack internal shields to segregate digital frequencies, the devices are vulnerable to interference from cellphones. As a result, some 12 million people around the world are said to hear a buzz or static during cellphone...
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World Briefing | Europe: Choice Of France For Reactor Draws Anger
Experimental physics does not usually rouse passions, but the European Union's decision to back a French site as the European candidate for a $5 billion nuclear fusion reactor has left Spanish opposition leaders fuming. Socialist Party leaders cast the decision, which passed over a less costly Spanish proposal, as puni...
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America's Sugar Daddies
is equally energetic in backing Republicans, so all bases are covered. The Fanjuls harvest 180,000 acres in South Florida that send polluted water into the Everglades. (A crucial part of their business over the years has been to lobby not just against liberalization of the sugar trade, but against plans to have the sug...
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A Struggle to Keep the Recycling Bin Full
as easy as possible for people to do the right thing.'' In the towns of Southampton, Southold and Shelter Island, residents are given a choice about what to do with their garbage; hire a private carter or dispose of it themselves at pay-as-you-throw waste and recycling centers. In Southampton, about half the residents ...
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A Canadian Drama: Exit Bears, Pursued by Humans
A hiker came face to face with a grizzly bear in August while walking on the wooded trail to Crowfoot Glacier. Tiptoeing backward in a cautious retreat, the young man tripped on a tree root, and the bear pounced. But it was the hiker who showed the most ferocity. He growled and punched the bear in the nose, forcing the...
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Let's Flag Modified Food
about when shopping at the green market. No, I'm not talking about just a gentle probing touch aimed at steering clear of a mealy bruised apple or a rock-hard arid-fleshed pear (although there are plenty of those), I'm referring to the need for an informed watchfulness to avoid I the supermarket shelf's latest triumph ...
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Visions of Dollars Dance Before Cuban Artists' Eyes
the United States, exhibitions in American galleries, gallery representation and cash from collectors. Meanwhile, American tour groups have been coming to Cuba to visit the homes of artists and buy their work. These artists have cachet in Cuba, and they also have financial clout as important attractions at a time when ...
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What the Dreadnoughts Did
on Jellicoe's cautious approach, which Massie argues was unfair. If anyone messed up at Jutland, it was Beatty, who suffered heavy losses against an inferior enemy. This was to be the only full-scale clash between the Grand Fleet and the High Seas Fleet. For most of the war, the two armadas, afraid of mines, submarines...
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Winning's Not No. 1 to This Team
MAX MAKSIMYADIS stands at the ice hockey net with the confident air of a 16-year-old who is cool and able on the rink. Forget the fact that he can't hold a stick and wears a splint on one leg. He's a good enough goalie, one of his coaches contends, that he could play high school junior varsity. Many of his teammates ha...
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The Disability Gulag
gulag. As age brought disabilities, she got my cousin Mary Neil to move in. Grandmother had enough money to see her through, but not if it had to purchase lots of long-term care. The state's only solution was to make her poor and then foot the big bill for lockup in a nursing home. The nursing home is the gulag's face ...
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How Much Nature Is Enough?
Even some ardent conservationists acknowledge that the diversity of life on Earth cannot be fully sustained as human populations expand, use more resources, nudge the climate and move weedlike pests and predators from place to place. Given that some losses are inevitable, the debate among many experts has shifted to an...
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A Baggage Lock for You And the Federal Screeners
AIRLINE passengers will be able to lock checked bags confidently again starting tomorrow, thanks to a new customer-service initiative between private enterprise and the Transportation Security Administration. Here's how the plan will work: Several major luggage and lock retailers in the United States will announce tomo...
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Scotland Takes Action To Halt Drop In Population
Scotland's baby bust is echoing noisily in the political system. For five years running, Scotland has recorded more deaths than births and now has the lowest birthrate in Britain. Figures released this summer showed that Scotland experienced its lowest birthrate since it began keeping records 150 years ago. In 1971, 86...
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Ideas & Trends; Well, It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time
was monumental. It radically expanded the ability of Homo sapiens to think about what is true and not true. If the criterion is magnitude of impact, the addition of logic to the human cognitive repertoire has few rivals. But logic was too dazzlingly compelling for its own good. After Aristotle, the Greek natural philos...
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To Draw a Bridge
and thin but stable enough to hold the curvy deck of the bridge together. Unlike most bridges, Calatrava's well-regarded Alamillo Bridge in Seville has just one supporting tower. The mast is angled, leaning back from the water and, with visible tension, carrying the roadway by its cables. Building on this idea, early s...
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The Best and the Brightest
chooses, on the whole, not to follow the example of, say, Harold Bloom, who tallied geniuses (in his book ''Genius'') by presenting brilliant or contrarian but nonetheless qualitative arguments (as opposed to quantitative ones) for why someone or something is greater than someone or something else, Murray has to hold o...
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On The Terrace
you are running unroped.'' Which is to say a perfect daiquiri is deceptively smooth. So why mess with a good thing? Just as the traditional martini has undergone an extreme makeover, so the daiquiri and mojito, two of Cuba's most endearing exports, are wearing fancier clothes. Newfangled variations of the rum-based dri...
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Amid Images of Love and Starvation, A More Nuanced Picture Emerges
to see doctors again. The caseworker did note during a June visit that Bruce suffered from ''depression and never fully developed physically and mentally.'' At some point, the caseworker, who has been subpoenaed in connection with the investigation, will have to explain why she did not act further at this point to at l...
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E-Mail and Opposition Rise
Just as pressure is mounting in Congress and elsewhere to reduce unsolicited commercial e-mail, so, too, is the amount of e-mail being sent. Last year alone, people and businesses around the world created five billion gigabytes of data, according to a study by the University of California at Berkeley. That is a 30 perc...
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FOOTNOTES
Buying Cuban cigars may be illegal in this country, but you can smell like one without risking jail time. Havana tobacco is the top note in Santa Maria Novella's Acqua di Cuba eau de cologne. A 3.3-ounce bottle is $65 at Aedes de Venustas, 9 Christopher Street. Rodriguez's own new fragrance, For Her (pictured), doesn't...
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