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1531953_1 | Europe and U.S. at Odds On Airlines and Privacy | name and date of intended travel to luggage tag numbers, but also including sensitive payment information and billing and e-mail addresses, to be supplied before a passenger arrives. European officials maintain their willingness to stand by the United States in its war against terrorism. But by and large Europe has bee... |
1533509_0 | Treating Osteoporosis | To the Editor: The discovery of a gene linked to osteoporosis by scientists in Iceland (front page, Nov. 3) offers an exciting new development in research on this serious public health problem. You say, ''The new finding comes at a time of particular difficulty for doctors trying to treat the disease.'' In fact, the re... |
1533535_2 | Disability Requests Reflect Changes in SAT Procedure | public school districts, the process is well-defined, with evaluations provided by the district, and, if appropriate, placement in special education, with an individualized education plan that may include extended time on all tests. Affluent districts, like those in Unionville, Pa., or Basking Ridge, N.J. -- both of wh... |
1533581_3 | 9/11 Panel Issues Subpoena to Pentagon | of the joint Congressional committee that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks last year, said that a White House offer made this month for partial access to the Oval Office documents was ''completely unacceptable.'' The White House refused to provide copies of the daily intelligence reports to the joint Congressional com... |
1533597_0 | Our Man In Havana | It would take some chutzpah for me to accuse President Bush, Congressional Democrats and a courageous Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident of bolstering some of the world's most odious dictators. But here goes. The Bush administration has variously backed, threatened, acquiesced in or hinted at tough new sanctions again... |
1532929_0 | World Business Briefing | Global Trade: Mixed Export Data | Southeast Asia's latest trade gauges offer a mixed picture on demand for exports from the United States. A closely watched barometer of manufacturing activity in Singapore rose in October to its highest level in more three years, as faster demand from the United States brightened Singapore's economic prospects. The jum... |
1535979_3 | A Quick Swing Through Little Costa Rica | trained to see them and, unless one is a skilled spotter or bird-watcher, extremely helpful. My wife, Janice, and I were part of a group of 11 Americans, all well traveled, touring under the auspices of Overseas Adventure Travel of Cambridge, Mass. Our 13-day itinerary took us generally north and west of the capital, S... |
1535493_4 | Higher and Higher | Rockefeller's aides persuaded McKinsey to withdraw, and the report, in retrospect on target, was never completed. The architect, Minoru Yamasaki of Detroit, was selected in part because of the delicacy of a project he designed for the Seattle World's Fair. Working with the Port Authority was both painful and corrupting... |
1535805_0 | FOLLOWING UP | A Ride Loses Its Rust, But Future Is Unclear It has been deconstructed and reconstructed, and, in between, repainted and restrengthened. Now the question of what's next for the long-orphaned parachute jump in Coney Island is afloat in New York City's bureaucracy. The 262-foot jump ceased functioning as a ride in 1968 a... |
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1535586_9 | 'Master and Commander': On the Far Side of Credibility | action as O'Brian's capstan pawls and mangerboards are to the novel. Nor will such otiose detail compensate O'Brian fans and perhaps others for the wild absurdities of the plot, especially the climactic scene in which the Surprise relies upon a ruse to challenge the more powerful Acheron. Maturin goes ashore on the Gal... |
1535550_4 | Mr. Bodacious | porcelain-white flesh gleaming against leathery grounds). Other pictures go in the opposite direction. They affect the dumb look of calendar pin-ups and might show scenes in which nude blondes appraise the precise size of their absurd cantaloupe-like breasts. In the early 90's, Currin found another unlikely muse: the l... |
1535549_8 | Remote Possibilities | their core friends and family but are less likely to engage the civic life around them. ''When you're waiting for the bus and it's late, you could talk to the person next to you. But if you're texting to someone, you won't talk to that stranger,'' he says. In Italy, it's even a marital problem. Husbands have been caugh... |
1538032_0 | E-mail Messages From Beyond | Die-hard e-mail users take note: You can click ''send'' from the hereafter. Mylastemail.com, a British company, has introduced a service to hold a writer's farewell e-mail messages for three years, to be delivered after the writer's death. The service costs $10, and if the three-year period expires before the subscribe... |
1538018_2 | In War Over Spam, One Company Is Happily Arming Both Sides | if IronPort can change the way SpamCop operates.'' Some antispam activists are not so worried. ''IronPort's reputation is pretty spotless,'' said Adam Brower, a volunteer at the Spamhaus Project, a spam-fighting group. ''They can help improve SpamCop.'' IronPort denies that there is a conflict in working with commercia... |
1631988_1 | Job Growth Down Sharply From Pace Set in October | but the United States still has at least 200,000 fewer jobs than it did before the recession began. At the same time, the adult population has grown by about four million. ''The economy is adding jobs, but not at a feverish pace,'' said Richard Yamarone, chief economist at Argus Research, an economic research firm in N... |
1633414_0 | Effort in Northern Ireland Falls Short of Restoring Shared Power | The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland admitted Wednesday that they had so far failed to restore a power-sharing government between Catholics and Protestants in this British province, which is still trying to recover from three decades of sectarian violence. The reason, they said, was that the two sides could not a... |
1633343_0 | Certain Type of Breast Cancer Drug Shows Better Result in Study | A class of hormone-blocking drugs called aromatase inhibitors was more effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence in women past menopause than was tamoxifen, a medication now prescribed by many doctors, researchers reported yesterday. The authors of the study, published online in the British medical journal The L... |
1631711_2 | More Data Sought on Drug for Sex Drive | but not until millions of women had used those drugs for years. Whether such risks exist for Intrinsa, they said, cannot be known because only a small number of women have used the patch for more than one year. Procter & Gamble, known more for consumer products than for drugs, said in a statement after the meeting that... |
1631689_1 | No Bear Hunt in New Jersey, State's Highest Court Decides | ordered his agency's Division of Fish and Wildlife not to grant bear hunting permits and closed all department land to bear hunting. In its unanimous order yesterday, the Supreme Court said that in light of the dispute between Mr. Campbell and the council, no hunt could take place until the state adopts a comprehensive... |
1631656_2 | The Newest Hot Rods: Retro, Resto and Rat | rodders to the ranks and the abundant disposable income of some baby boomers, who are finally getting the cars they wished they had in high school. The industry is now so big that it is possible to build a hot rod entirely from new parts. And for purists who want old parts, the Internet has eliminated the hallowed junk... |
1631708_0 | Mixed News on Poverty | To the Editor: David Brooks is right to draw attention to the encouraging global poverty data from the World Bank (''Good News About Poverty,'' column, Nov. 27). But he does not point out that economic growth, while an important indicator, is only one measure of success in the fight against global poverty. The Millenni... |
1631734_1 | Americans Relying More on Prescription Drugs, Report Says | than spending for any other category of medical goods and services, the government said. Nearly half of all women -- 49 percent -- were taking prescription drugs in 1999-2000, compared with 39 percent of men. Adults' use of antidepressants almost tripled from 1988 to 2000. Use was higher among women than among men. In ... |
1631821_0 | Explorers Club: Less 'Egad' and More 'Wow!' | RICHARD C. WIESE, the president of the Explorers Club, has done something out of the ordinary, once again. He persuades a wary visitor to eat a scorpion on a leaf of endive. Crunchy. There is also the North American farm-raised cricket. And let's not forget the sautéed rattlesnake and the roasted Colombian ants. The cr... |
1638567_2 | Gaining Ground on the Wage Front | the large influx of nonworking women into low-wage jobs in the 1990's, caused in part by the overhaul of welfare, depressed the median wage of women as a whole. That influx has stopped, and the median wage has responded by rising. College-educated women, having entered the labor force in large numbers for nearly 30 yea... |
1638543_3 | Social Security Underestimates Future Life Spans, Critics Say | agency. ''In the last few years, we've moved a bit closer to the position of other agencies and demographers.'' Some experts say other factors could ease the effects of longer life on Social Security's solvency. ''The higher costs associated with longer life expectancy could be offset in several ways that do not involv... |
1638509_2 | Text Messaging Pushed for Use as Disaster Warning Systems | some form since 1951 and broadcasts warnings over television and radio. The system is used hundreds of times each year to warn people of local emergencies. Many towns also use speed dialers to warn residents of emergencies. But the rise of the cellphone creates new opportunities. ''The cool thing about mobile messaging... |
1638597_10 | China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence | Front-line rioters hurled the rocks at the police -- tentatively at first, then in volleys. Under the barrage, the police retreated. Protesters charged the terrace, shattered the windows and doors of government headquarters and surged inside. Official documents were scattered. Protesters dumped computers and office fur... |
1638600_22 | How Scientists and Victims Watched Helplessly | might be broken in the port.'' It was about 1 p.m. Sunday, and he decided to call other ports in Malindi and Lamu, where workers reported similar water movements. ''It was like seeing the sun setting in the east,'' he said. ''The tide was crazy. The water wasn't following the rules.'' Then, Mr. Hamisi said, the ministe... |
1633636_1 | For Siblings of the Autistic, a Burdened Youth | with any disability carry the burden of extra responsibility and worry for the future, though they are also enriched by early lessons in compassion and familial love. But autism, a brain disorder that affects communication and social interaction, is in a class by itself in the heavy toll it takes on siblings, according... |
1638033_0 | Updates for Driving in a Winter Wonderland | Early in November, in anticipation of the treacherous driving conditions that inevitably accompany a Northern winter, I had new top-of-the-line tires put on my car even though the odometer read over 110,000 miles. I think of good tires as a kind of life insurance policy, and these tires, the salesman told me, were desi... |
1638022_0 | Saving a Species: Can Profit Make the Caged Bird Sing? | The delta of the Orinoco River has always been home to the macaw, one of the parrots most prized by pet smugglers. The delta, 11,000 square miles, is a maze of winding channels separated by marshy mangrove forests that are also home to the jaguar and the Orinoco crocodile. Some 20,000 indigenous people, the Warao, inha... |
1637989_0 | Travel Havoc Prompts U.S. To Investigate | The federal government said yesterday that it would investigate air travel disruptions over the holiday weekend that left thousands of people stranded at airports or without their luggage when they reached their destinations. The transportation secretary, Norman Y. Mineta, said his agency would examine disruptions at U... |
1638042_0 | MEMO PAD | SECURITY POLICY MODIFIED -- Reacting to complaints from women who said they had been groped by airport screeners under a new policy to search for nonmetallic explosives, the Transportation Security Administration last week modified the procedures for pat-down security searches. But a lawyer representing some women seek... |
1637586_3 | Cuba Counters Prostitution With AIDS Programs | passing it along. Once they leave the hospitals, the patients are closely monitored in their homes by social workers, officials say. A decades-old United States embargo on selling Cuba many medical supplies has crimped the country's ability to provide drugs to patients, but the government has replicated some advanced r... |
1637541_0 | Page Two: Dec. 19-25; A Song of Solitude | HUMANS are social animals, and the lifeblood of society is conversation. In its absence, loneliness awaits. Indeed, one reason humans deploy radio telescopes and send time capsules into space may be their hope that evidence of another intelligence will relieve their feelings of intergalactic solitude. Perhaps this expl... |
1637331_1 | Katharina Dalton [ b. 1916 ]; The Prophet of PMS | Raymond Greene, a colleague, recommended the treatment. It was a kind of miracle. On progesterone, not only did Dalton's monthly migraines disappear; so, too, did the bouts of asthma and epilepsy that plagued some of her patients. Her conclusion was logical: women had premenstrual symptoms not because they were mad or ... |
1637371_0 | The Way We Eat; Miracle Grow | Fruits and vegetables are made, not born. In the hands of plant breeders they evolve and take on new colors, shapes and tastes. Two of these innovators died last year. Oved Shifriss concentrated on vegetables. Ross Sanborn experimented with fruit. Both men, in search of more healthful and more delicious food, changed t... |
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1637456_0 | Cellular Antennas As an Income Source | CO-OP corporations and condominium associations looking to produce a little extra income might consider looking up rather than around. A building's roof has for some time now been good for a lot more than keeping out the rain. These days, it is becoming increasingly common, real estate specialists say, for owners of ta... |
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1637582_1 | Sunday News Quiz | to head with young Chinese, Indians and Eastern Europeans more than ever, the Bush team is trimming support for the Pell grant program, which helps poor and working-class young Americans get a higher education. (The change will save $300 million, while some 1.3 million students will receive smaller Pell grants.) 5. The... |
1634614_0 | Northwestern Bears Hit Hard by Humans | The two large protected grizzly bear populations that remain in the United States, one in and around Glacier National Park and the other around Yellowstone, were hit hard this year by an unusually high number of deaths caused by humans. In the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, 31 bears were killed illegally or had... |
1634639_0 | Necessity as the Mother of Tenure? | AS we fret over the nation's fitful economic growth and the growing number of jobs moving overseas, few are discussing a matter that may be a better indicator of our future in the global marketplace: the declining number and quality of patents awarded to Americans. Patents, along with available investment capital, are ... |
1632872_0 | MEMO PAD | GIFT BAGS ON CONTINENTAL -- That fixture of the celebrity gala and the high-end hotel giveaway, the luxury goody bag, is coming to the front of the plane on Continental Airlines in February on flights from Newark to Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle. On those intensely competitive transcontinental route... |
1632774_0 | When Teeth Tell Tales on Bones | Dental X-rays of postmenopausal women can help doctors spot signs of the weakening bones of osteoporosis, as well as more traditional tests, a new study reports. Writing in The American Journal of Roentgenology, the researchers said the tip-off lay in erosion in the lower jaw. If dentists are trained to identify the pr... |
1632801_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''E-mail is a party to which English teachers have not been invited. It has companies tearing their hair out.'' R. CRAIG HOGAN, a former professor who heads an online school for business writing. [A23] |
1632978_0 | What Corporate America Cannot Build: A Sentence | R. Craig Hogan, a former university professor who heads an online school for business writing here, received an anguished e-mail message recently from a prospective student. ''i need help,'' said the message, which was devoid of punctuation. ''i am writing a essay on writing i work for this company and my boss want me ... |
1635949_1 | Ideas & Trends; Patient, Heal Thyself | retinas, light-sensitive chips that mimic the eye's signal-processing ability, have been tested in a handful of blind subjects, but they usually ''see'' nothing more than bright spots. Interestingly, other technologies offer signs of success by exploiting the body's own abilities, in particular the regenerative powers ... |
1636046_1 | Documents Of Weddings In New Paltz Are Rejected | SSN Card,'' also extends to several other municipalities that permitted gay marriage ceremonies. All certificates issued in Asbury Park, N.J., from March 8 to March 10; in Multnomah County, Ore., from March 3 to April 20; and in Sandoval County, N.M., on Feb. 20, are to be rejected, the policy states, because ''the leg... |
1635814_1 | Clear Sailing | the boat still has a mission -- as a floating classroom, to raise schoolchildren's awareness of history, science and the wonders of the riverine world, and as a living link to an earlier era of grassroots activism. We have come a long way from the age of belly-up fish and flammable rivers, of groundbreaking lawsuits an... |
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1636451_3 | U.S. Slips in Attracting the World's Best Students | universities had expressed anxiety at professional meetings. ''But we compete no holds barred among ourselves for the best faculty, for students, for gifts and for grants, and that's one of the reasons for our strength,'' Dr. Sample said. ''Now we'll compete with some overseas universities. Fine with me, bring 'em on.'... |
1636393_1 | Battling Insurers Over Autism Treatment; Most Resist Big Payments, Challenging Therapists and Disorder's Nature | drag their feet on payment or avoid it in individual cases by questioning the qualifications of the therapist or even a doctor's affirmation that treatment is medically necessary. Autism is a poorly understood brain disorder that impairs the ability to communicate, form relationships and tolerate change. The kind of in... |
1633889_0 | E-Mail and the Decline of Writing | To the Editor: Re ''What Corporate America Cannot Build: A Sentence'' (news article, Dec. 7): As a university professor, I am troubled by the inability of students (and their working counterparts) to differentiate between their off-the-cuff, private e-mail style and public, formal writing. The speed and informality of ... |
1638159_4 | Postal Service Links Delays In Deliveries To Airlines | problems could be one more headache for airlines. ''It's one more customer that may be upset with these carriers,'' said Robert W. Mann Jr., an airline consultant in Port Washington, N.Y. ''Of course, it is one very big customer: that is to say, the U.S. government.'' US Airways and Comair both said yesterday that they... |
1636874_0 | ADMINISTRATION OVERHAULS RULES FOR U.S. FORESTS | The Bush administration issued broad new rules Wednesday overhauling the guidelines for managing the nation's 155 national forests and making it easier for regional forest managers to decide whether to allow logging, drilling or off-road vehicles. The long-awaited rules relax longstanding provisions on environmental re... |
1636801_3 | On Ever Brighter 5th Ave., Taking Comfort in a Quiet Glow | earlier this year, the upper floors were illuminated. ''One of our concerns was not to overlight the building,'' said Ellen Sears of Thompson & Sears Lighting, which was responsible for the design. ''It's wrong to make things stand out too much. They should blend with the city even as they are revealed. And we all feel... |
1636787_6 | E-Mail Doesn't Take a Holiday | of importance. ''The more senior you grow, the more e-mail you get,'' said Candace Sidner, a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Mass., who co-authored a study of e-mail use. ''Some very senior managers have staff devoted just to their e-mail.'' One reason a pile feels overwhel... |
1636857_3 | Snow. Rain. Avalanche of Catalogs.; Even in E-Mail Age, Mailbags Bulge | needed precautions for threats like the anthrax attacks of October 2001. The service is also in a fight with Congress over $3 billion in savings in the fund for postal workers' pensions. Postal officials say they need the money to cover current costs, but Congress says the Postal Service should save the money for futur... |
1631534_1 | Panel to Review Drug for Low Female Sex Drive | In documents posted on the F.D.A. Web site yesterday along with the company's data from clinical trials, the agency's reviewers also said they had concerns about the long-term safety of the treatment, which consists of the hormone testosterone. Other hormone therapies, involving estrogen and progestin, were widely used... |
1631461_0 | World Business Briefing | Americas: Mexico: U.S. Eases Avocado Limit | The United States Department of Agriculture has lifted almost all the restrictions on imports of Mexican avocados, the Mexican Agriculture Ministry said. Beginning Jan. 31, Mexican avocados will be allowed to enter all states year-round except California, Florida and Hawaii. By 2007, those states will also be opened. M... |
1633091_1 | Shangri-La No More: The Dragons Have Settled In | walking sticks or clutching babies. Many of them have journeyed a week or more in order to make the pilgrimage, often traveling from villages so remote they are not served by roads, yet they wear looks of beatitude upon arrival at the palace. But these days the palace is choked with other, untraditional visitors, Chine... |
1638259_0 | From Banner to Bag, And Bold as Ever | Freitag, a Swiss company known for recycling highway signs, truck tarpaulins, tires and seat belts into bags, has created 300 one-of-a-kind tote bags made from outdoor exhibition banners from the Museum Of Modern Art (where earlier Freitag products are represented in the design collection). The bags, which come in scor... |
1638295_1 | Rebuilding, Yes, but Taking Pains to Preserve, Too | in recent years it has shown itself capable of sensitivity to the historical value of its properties. With persuasion from inside and outside, the agency has made substantial investments in existing landmarks, sometimes kicking and screaming. It has also committed itself, in the case of the future World Trade Center tr... |
1638270_6 | Hobbyists Fill Out The Weather Map | the right instruments, the right computer software and a site where you can post your data. Personal weather instruments are available for a wide range of budgets. These are among them: VANTAGE PRO2 from Davis Instruments ($595 at davisnet.com, but available for less elsewhere online) includes a full range of sensors a... |
1632185_0 | An Islamic Democracy for Iraq? | Is ''Islamic democracy'' really possible? Or is it something meaningless, like ''Jewish science,'' say, or contradictory, like ''people's democracy'' under Communism? This is the question that will determine the future of Iraq, since the man with the greatest credibility in that broken country is Grand Ayatollah Ali al... |
1632231_2 | A Steeple Is Ready To Rise Again | damage to the building prompted a campaign to save and restore the Meeting House. The restoration took decades, but today the interior looks much as it did in 1771. The outside tower and steeple have their own history. The Meeting House was financed by a local Colonial-era tax but there was no money left for a separate... |
1632352_0 | Guarding the Flow Of Global Production | AS companies rely increasingly on suppliers and factories overseas, keeping their global supply chains safe from terrorism and other disruptions has become an important part of business. Bob Stoffel, senior vice president at United Parcel Service for its supply chain group, talked recently about ways to limit the risks... |
1632119_0 | Checking In as a Do-It-Yourself Project | EXPERIENCED travelers have grown accustomed to handling many duties that used to fall to airline personnel, from booking tickets to printing boarding passes. Now, consumers are taking charge of another responsibility: checking in baggage. Several airlines, including Alaska, Northwest and Southwest, have begun using mac... |
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1636986_0 | If You Hear 'Cachaça,' Don't Think of Rum | There are a few things that really irk the average Brazilian. One is to argue that Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great, was better than Pelé. Another is to confuse samba, the quintessential Brazilian rhythm, with salsa, a popular Latin music genre that has its origins in the Spanish-speaking countries of the Car... |
1636974_0 | Ski Condominiums: Upbeat Digs After a Downhill Day | WHO -- Peter D. Wick, 74, a retired general contractor, and his wife, Anne Marie, 58, a retired teacher WHAT -- 2-bedroom condominium with a sleeping loft WHERE -- Sun Valley, Idaho Peter: I've been coming to this area to ski every year for 50 years. In the early days, there were no freeways, and believe me, it wasn't ... |
1637101_0 | Zimbabwe Extends Crackdown On Dissent as Election Nears | A few yards from Raymond Majongwe's office, on the apron of a four-lane highway outside this capital city's downtown, a cherry red sedan sat recently beneath a clutch of trees, its engine off, the driver idle. The sedan has been there for weeks, Mr. Majongwe said. It will be there next week, too. Mr. Majongwe is the he... |
1635176_0 | A Child's Autism, a Family's Love | To the Editor: It was very gratifying to see a front-page article about young siblings of children with autism (''For Siblings of the Autistic, a Burdened Youth,'' Dec. 10). As an adult sibling of someone with autism, I felt a mixture of awe and pride as I read about these young, largely unheralded siblings. Things wer... |
1634009_1 | Find the Hidden Philosophers | for ''West Face'' includes his own photographs of clouds in Colorado, pictures clipped from mountain climbing magazines and books on the Himalayas, and portraits of philosophers from encyclopedias and textbooks. He then projects the finished collage onto a blank canvas and paints the shadow image, he says, ''over-readi... |
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1634379_8 | South America Seeks to Fill the World's Table | selling. I want to buy more property myself because there is no better investment in the world than buying land in Mato Grosso.'' The Costs of the Boom The real estate boom has not been without social tensions and other costs, particularly to the environment, as the expansion of farm and grazing lands has accelerated A... |
1633993_0 | Augmented Bar Code, The | Meant for mechanical eyes only, the bar code divulges little information to the shopper. But Dara O'Rourke, a U.C. Berkeley professor of labor, says that with a few tweaks, it could help foment a consumer revolution. As he explained in a World Bank Group policy paper in the spring, shoppers choosing, say, turkeys could... |
1636170_2 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; To Test Snow Tires, What Could Top Florida in July? | wears, the fibers open up microscopic holes that act like tiny suction cups. The grains of sand work like miniature claws for better grip in rain or snow. Ford Motor Company used the Eglin facility for the first time in September, just a few weeks before Goodyear's visit. In 4 to 8 inches of snow, Ford engineers worked... |
1636150_0 | Sprint Will Offer A Radio Service That Plays Music Over Cellphones | For those annoyed by people who seem to have a cellphone constantly held to their ears, count your blessings. It is about to get worse. Today, Sprint will offer a new reason, besides placing calls, for people to use their mobile phones. It will introduce a radio service that allows people to listen to music over their ... |
1636209_5 | How About Not 'Curing' Us, Some Autistics Are Pleading | anxious for their children to appear normal that they cannot respect their way of communicating. Parents argue that their antagonists are showing a typical autistic lack of empathy by suggesting that they should not try to help their children. It is only those whose diagnosis describes them as ''high functioning'' or h... |
1636158_4 | On the Open Internet, a Web of Dark Alleys | begins in three more weeks. We've obtained 19 confirmations for studies in the faculty of law, the faculty of urban planning, the faculty of fine arts, and the faculty of engineering.'' And increasingly, new tools used to hide messages can quickly be found with a simple Web search. Dozens of free or inexpensive stegano... |
1637803_1 | Mission: Difficult, but Not Impossible | auditors undercover to airports around the country last year to see how well screeners were able to detect guns, knives and explosive devices. We found that it was still far easier than it should have been, two years after 9/11, to get deadly weapons past passenger and baggage checkpoints. Yet the department has been r... |
1634965_1 | No Bang for Our Cheap Buck | and, with it, America's need to attract nearly $2 billion each day from abroad to balance its books. But the dollar has been declining since February 2002 -- it's down by 55 percent against the euro and 22 percent against the yen -- and the trade deficit has stubbornly refused to shrink along with it. The falling dolla... |
1569275_0 | Study Doesn't Link Abortion To Higher Breast Cancer Risk | Miscarriages and induced abortions do not increase a woman's risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to a study of 83,000 women worldwide being published today. The study's authors, from the University of Oxford in England, said it was the largest to examine the issue, which has been highly charged po... |
1566299_1 | In This Recovery, a College Education Backfires | research scientists, corporate executives, financial advisers, strategic planners, advertising executives and television producers. These are Mr. Reich's symbolic analysts, and their great contribution is conceptual thinking. No one does that better than America's college graduates, the argument goes. The next great in... |
1566297_6 | Business; Thinking Outside the Can: A Fresh Look at Food in a Box | a Dean Foods unit in Mount Crawford, Va., and Jasper Products are the only businesses with plants putting dairy products into aseptic plastic bottles. Morningstar has licenses to make milk drinks branded by Hershey Foods and Folgers brand latte drinks for Procter & Gamble. The Dr. Pepper/Seven Up division of Cadbury Sc... |
1566322_1 | The World; China's Economic Engine Needs Power (Lots of It) | industry. Last year, China accounted for almost a third of the world's consumption of finished steel. Electricity consumption jumped by 15 percent. Domestic coal production rose by 100 million tons -- and still there were shortages. Yet China's appetite today is modest compared with what is estimated for the future; th... |
1566064_2 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS | wrong direction. And losing time at sea was serious business, since food and water would begin to run out. Even if a ship managed to arrive at its location in an expeditious fashion, problems were not over. Sure, Grenada was dead ahead -- but at night or when the weather was bad, who knew whether it was 50 miles away o... |
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1566081_4 | Arrivederci, Gucci | has taken concepts and images that he loved and reinvented them as clothes or bags or shoes that inspired a similar connection in consumers. He was the first designer to envision the world as a global marketplace that could be linked by a sensibility -- his sensibility. He and Domenico De Sole, Gucci Group's chairman a... |
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1566143_6 | High Anxiety | terrorist scenarios they have considered. Whatever those chilling specifics, the general approach that the designers are taking is clear, said Matthys Levy, an engineer and founding partner at Weidlinger Associates, the company that is consulting on the effects of blasts for the project. ''You define attack scenarios,'... |
1564270_3 | Athens: An Olympian Metamorphosis | When I asked a Greek how people would weather the heat and nefos this summer, he laughed and said the athletes are already polluted with pills and performance-enhancing drugs. ''A few exhaust fumes shouldn't hurt them.'' For hearty souls, the best advice may be to hike around Athens. In its most salutary innovation, th... |
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