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Business; A Drug's Royalties May Ease Hunger
the University of California, lists four inventors: Dr. Mendelsohn, Dr. Sato and two researchers in Dr. Sato's lab who did the grunt work - J.Denry Sato, who is Dr. Sato's son, and Tomoyuki Kawamoto, a postdoctoral researcher from Japan who died some years ago. The inventors and the estate of Dr. Kawamoto will divide 4...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Jesus as Box-Office Superhero
in the culture wars is to state the obvious. What makes the movie so fascinating, and so unnerving, is that it marches onto a battlefield much older, and much more brutal, than the continuing arguments about the moral direction of contemporary American society. Mr. Gibson, brushing aside any pretense of pluralism and i...
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Reducing Travel Trauma
To the Editor: I would like to heartily second Harvey Molotch's notion to make airport security more user-friendly (''You Want Me to Put My Shoes Where?,'' Op-Ed, March 12). I suggest that the most appreciated first step would be to have the conveyor belts slant down to eliminate the current waist-high lift of suitcase...
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U.S. Will Celebrate Pakistan As a 'Major Non-NATO Ally'
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell praised Pakistan's handling of a sweeping nuclear proliferation scandal during a visit here on Thursday and announced that the Bush administration would designate the country a ''major non-NATO ally.'' Once it is formally conferred by President Bush, the status will give Pakistan adde...
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City Hall Steps: Pulpit, and Now an Altar
married two women and two men. Both Rabbi Lippman and Ms. Bumgardner said they had performed similar ceremonies in the past. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has declined to give his personal position on the issue, said of the ceremonies outside his office: ''I think this is more theater than anything else. If you want ...
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The Free Lane on the Information Highway
In Bryant Park, next to the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, laptop users can sit at one of the public tables on a glorious afternoon and read their e-mail while sipping a latte, thanks to the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation. Similarly, Columbia University offers free wireless access on its campus. But these...
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When College Graduates Struggle to Find Jobs
To the Editor: Of course we need to be concerned about the diminishing job prospects for college graduates. But we should not overlook the fact that even nowadays, many people go to college to improve not only their job prospects, but also their minds. Felicia Ackerman Providence, R.I., March 16 The writer is a philoso...
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When College Graduates Struggle to Find Jobs
To the Editor: ''In This Recovery, a College Education Backfires'' (Economic View, March 14) described how more college graduates have found themselves unemployed as American companies have downsized and outsourced more work overseas. But in what fields are these unemployed college students getting their degrees? There...
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Sheep Farm With a Local Following
January, but she changed the schedule this year so that lambing began in February, after the most bitter cold of the winter, to protect the newborns. She thinks the change is responsible for this year's high percentage of multiple births. The lambs and calves are given no growth hormones or antibiotics. Mrs. Sankow mai...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Losing Their Religion
consort of men and angels, the wisdom of the body in rapture. Informally opposed to this school, cynical rather than pessimistic, was a tendency that found some of its best expression in the writings of the Whig aristocrat Bernard de Mandeville. Mandeville shared with the mighty Thomas Hobbes a view of man as Homo homi...
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Staying Eco-Friendly By Building Green
-- a belief echoed by other contractors and suppliers around the county. Homeowners and builders alike more often prefer traditional materials like cedar and slate over eco-friendly options, like roofing and decking made from recycled plastics and rubber, they said. ''Very few clients will actively choose to use enviro...
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The Socratic Shrink
death, the need for a reliable ethics. ''Even sane, functional people need principles to live by,'' Marinoff told me, his voice lowering without slowing in the sun-flooded courtroom, ''so we are offering what Socrates called the examined life, the chance to sit with a philosopher and ask what you really believe and mak...
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My Favorite War
parallel, the ground is laid. When we later read that the republic was a ''superpower,'' that the rich dominated its politics, that the elite indulged in luxurious holiday villas, mistresses and gourmet meals while proclaiming an ethic of self-restraint, the ominous implication is that America, too, is on the verge of ...
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World Briefing | United Nations: Measure To Keep Arms From Terrorists
The United States and Britain introduced a Security Council resolution aimed at filling a gap in existing international law that they said did not bar nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and the materials to make them, from falling into the hands of terrorists. ''There are lots of disarmament and nonproliferation...
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BOLDFACE NAMES
eyebrows. Tamer: (Polite) It's harder do that. It's a bit wider part of the head. And it's for safety as well. You can feel, you see how he's gonna react. When he's willing to do it, there's no tension in the jaws and when he's had enough, he'll start to close so you'll know when to take your head out. But he's very go...
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Bite Your Tongue
To the Editor: Re ''An 'Oops' Button, or a Tool for Retrieving That E-Mail Note You Sent'' (March 11), on BigString, a service that allows users to pull back an e-mail message or prevent it from being printed by the recipient: What possible justification can exist for preventing someone from printing a message that the...
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To Save a Life or a Limb, Gently Shake a Minefield
MILLIONS of unexploded land mines lie beneath the dirt and sand of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq and many other nations. If the mines are made of metal, detectors can usually find them. But when more sensitive detectors are used to locate plastic-based mines with little metal in them, they often fail to distinguish...
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In their hiring of teachers, do the nation's public schools get what they pay for?
new research by Caroline M. Hoxby, a Harvard economist, and Andrew Leigh, a doctoral student at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, suggests a more complicated story here, too. High-scoring women aren't the only women with greater opportunities today. All sorts of jobs, including those that require only average ab...
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Russia's Future, Putin's Legacy
Although most independent observers agree that last week's presidential election in Russia was unfair, there is little doubt that Vladimir V. Putin would have won re-election by a landslide even in an honest election. That's because a campaign slogan used to great effect in America 12 years ago -- ''It's the economy, s...
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When Instant Messages Come Bearing Malice
are counting on to transform IM services into a handy route to deliver spam (known as ''spim'' on IM), unleash viruses, create back doors into the systems of unsuspecting users and cause general mayhem across the Internet. Instant messaging was first popularized by teenagers in the 1990's; it has since gained widesprea...
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Stand and Fight: An Arsenal for Spam Victims
THE subject lines on junk e-mail may present rich source material for cultural anthropologists, but for most users, spam is simply a maddening headache. Fortunately, effective weapons are emerging in the Battle of the In-Box. You can install special software that works alongside your e-mail program to filter incoming m...
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Seed Concerns Donate Data On Corn Gene
The nation's two leading seed companies have agreed to make a vast amount of information about corn genes available to government and academic scientists, an effort that the companies and outside scientists said could greatly accelerate improvement of one of the nation's most important crops. The move by the companies,...
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U.S. Is Fighting Mexican Taxes On Beverages
The United States filed a complaint on Tuesday with the World Trade Organization accusing Mexico of imposing unfair taxes on beverages sweetened by high fructose corn syrup. Mexico imposed a 20 percent sales tax in January 2002 on soft drinks and other beverages that do not use cane sugar as a sweetener and another 20 ...
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U.S. Professors Rush to India to Study Rush of U.S. Jobs There
and academicians alike. ''Today, every other country in the world is trying to reposition itself to compete with India and China,'' he said. Few have tracked outsourcing more closely than AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor at Berkeley and one of the trend's early researchers. ''The speed with which this phenomenon has taken...
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For Audio Players, A Chance to Cut the Cord
ELECTRONIC devices have been cutting the cord for years, with one notable exception: portable music players. From the earliest Walkman to the latest fashion-accessory MP3 player, music on the go has generally meant cables trailing from ears to pocket or purse. But a short-range communications technology based on magnet...
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Estrogen Study Stopped Early Because of Slight Stroke Risk
A large federal study of estrogen therapy in postmenopausal women has been stopped a year ahead of schedule because the estrogen increased the risk of stroke and offered no protection against heart disease, the government announced yesterday. The study included only women taking estrogen alone, not those who take combi...
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INSIDE
Another New Design Santiago Calatrava, who designed the World Trade Center transportation hub, is planning a residential tower in Lower Manhattan. PAGE B1 Estrogen Study Halted A large study of estrogen therapy in postmenopausal women was stopped because estrogen increased the risk of stroke. PAGE A15 Haiti Confusion D...
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U.S. and France Set Aside Differences in Effort to Resolve Haiti Conflict
and the navy based in the Caribbean will be deployed in Haiti. On Tuesday, Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie acknowledged that France was involved in protecting Mr. Aristide but said he was free to leave whenever he wished. ''Today, he is protected and not imprisoned,'' Ms. Alliot-Marie said in an interview with Eu...
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World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Unionists Quit Talks
Northern Ireland's second-largest Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists, pulled out of negotiations to restore the province's suspended local government in a protest over perceived breaches of the Irish Republican Army's cease-fire. The party's leader, David Trimble, above, wanted Prime Minister Tony Blair to punish S...
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Estrogen Therapy Woes
Another stake has been driven into hopes that long-term hormonal treatment might provide health benefits to postmenopausal women. The National Institutes of Health halted a trial of estrogen therapy in thousands of American women this week because it increased the risk of stroke and failed to protect against heart dise...
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Up in the Air On Estrogen: Women Under 50
years, and one says go off hormones and the other says stay on them,'' she said. Dr. Margery Gass, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Cincinnati and the immediate past president of the North American Menopause Society, said there were answers for such women but added, ''The problem is our ans...
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Biting Back at Barking Security Agents
punch in the back -- a closed fist, by the way -- at least three times.'' Deborah deGroff, another frequent business traveler, said that a ''large burly screener'' recently insisted that she remove her Hermès scarf so he could have a look at her neck. ''What I am increasingly aware of, and afraid of, is that the rules ...
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U.S. Asks Allies To Condemn Iran On Nuclear Issue
The United States is pressing its European allies in the International Atomic Energy Agency to condemn Iran's nuclear program despite Tehran's insistence that it is for peaceful purposes only, according to a spokesman for the agency. The United States is circulating a draft resolution at the agency's current board of g...
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When the Games Began: Olympic Archaeology
be held in Athens, in the land where it all began. A closer study of ancient texts, art and artifacts and deeper archaeological excavations are giving scholars new insights into the early games and just how integral athletics was to ancient Greek life. The games, said Dr. Stephen G. Miller, an archaeologist who is a cl...
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Once Looted and Forlorn, An Iraqi Symbol Revives
ago. The thieves dragged it down the stairs, breaking the marble steps. Now, the stairs have been repaired and a ghostly veil of marble dust covers the floors of the galleries. The statue, rescued from a cesspit by the American military police and Iraqi police, sits cleaned in a museum storeroom. Shortly after the loot...
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Chance to Revive Sales Draws Nuclear Industry to China
China plans to significantly expand its nuclear power in the coming decades, and the Bush administration has been courting the country's top officials on behalf of American companies seeking a starring role in that expansion. The United States is competing with France, Russia and, in a minor way, Canada to build four 1...
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Dam Building Threatens China's 'Grand Canyon'
The highest villages in the mountains above the Nu River seem to hang in the air. Farmers grow cabbage and corn nearly a quarter-mile up, as if cultivating ski slopes. Necessity has pushed them into the sky; land is precious along the river. They may have to move higher still, perhaps into the clouds. The Nu, which flo...
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Secondhand Finery, First-Rate Shopping
the news that it was a knockoff. ''I've done a lot of research on what's real and what's not real,'' said Lamis Faris, who runs the 1,200-square-foot Princeton Consignment Boutique in Skillman. ''I have someone who goes out and helps me make sure what we're selling is authentic.'' ''For example,'' she added, ''we have ...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Use of Credit Records Grows In Screening Job Applicants
Job seekers know the to-do list. Rework the résumé, using zippy action verbs like ''initiated'' and ''negotiated.'' Scan online classified ads and make sure the navy blue suit still fits. Practice, practice answers to those 101 common interview questions. But what about checking the credit report? Employment profession...
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Far From the Ocean, Surfers Ride Brazil's Endless Wave
''The first time I did it, my legs hurt so much afterward that I could hardly walk for a couple of days. But then I learned to relax.'' In the language of the Tupi Indians, ''pororoca'' means ''mighty noise,'' and a classic Amazon surge is just that. Long before the pororoca can be seen, it can be heard, first as a dis...
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Tighter Gas Supply Is Expected to Send Prices Even Higher
Chávez and his domestic opponents has weighed on oil markets that were already under some strain from surging demand in China, the slow recovery of Iraqi exports in the violent aftermath of the Iraq war, and signs of renewed assertiveness in OPEC. ''Our cowboy mentality has failed us miserably in Venezuela,'' said Fade...
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Federal Hall Is Uplifted, First by Steel, Then by Art; Paintings From the Uffizi to Arrive
an engineer and the firm's principal in charge of the project. Because the building is rigid masonry and is surrounded by subway and utility lines, it had been threatened by vibrations and settling soil for many decades. Indeed, the rumbling of passing trains can be felt through the hall. Ms. Ennis said the investigati...
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Ready for Takeoff, With Emphasis on 'Off'
Carson, of a committee established last year at the request of the F.A.A. to explore the problem. Scores of experts from airlines, aircraft equipment makers and consumer electronics companies have been meeting since early 2003 and hope to issue recommendations in about 18 months. Yet new products are entering the marke...
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Ready for Takeoff, With Emphasis on 'Off'
is broadcasting, looking for an access point. Some may turn on a wirelessly equipped hand-held to look at a calendar and forget that it, too, is radiating. And that only accounts for devices in the passenger cabin. A passenger might pack a two-way pager in checked luggage, Mr. Carson said. ''Then you can't get a hold o...
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Junk E-Mail Is Unabated Despite Law, Survey Says
not worsening, problem, according to a survey released yesterday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Roughly 75 percent of the Internet users surveyed reported no change or an increase in the amount of junk e-mail they receive, and nearly one-third of them said they were using e-mail less because of it. ''Th...
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Osteoporosis Drug Found Safe to Take for 10 Years
For millions of women who have the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, researchers are reporting that Fosamax, the drug most commonly used worldwide to improve bone density and prevent fractures, can be taken safely and effectively for 10 years. About three million Americans now take the drug, most of them postmenopaus...
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You Want Me To Put My Shoes Where?
the conveyor belts should slant down so that travelers don't have to lift their luggage as high. More ambitiously, the whole operation needs systematic analysis -- just like one that an industrial designer would conduct for a car model or can opener. The result could be a radically different configuration of apparatus,...
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President, Marking Anniversary of War, Urges World to Unite to Combat Terrorism
President Bush sought to rally support on Friday for what he called an inescapable battle with terrorism, telling representatives of 83 nations that they can afford no concession, no sign of weakness and no division. On the first anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq -- a conflict that his critics say weakened th...
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Keeping Seeds Safe
When an American farmer gets ready to plant a crop like corn or soybeans, he has two basic choices. Traditional seeds are the kind farmers have planted throughout history, developed by crossing parents with desirable traits to get a superior variety. Genetically modified seeds, first widely planted in 1996, contain tra...
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Ulster Attack Linked to the I.R.A. Provokes Anger in Ireland
as attacks between Roman Catholics and Protestants, and would violate the I.R.A.'s cease-fire declared seven years ago. In a landmark speech last October, Mr. Adams said Sinn Fin had a ''total and absolute commitment to exclusively democratic and peaceful means of resolving differences.'' ''We are opposed to any use or...
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Opinions Vary on Treating Remnants at Ground Zero
there. On Feb. 6, the development corporation said the entire site would be eligible for listing on the national register. But three days later, it issued a document saying the ''significance of the transcending events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath clearly does not depend on the presence of the original, or even the da...
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2 Muslim Sites Attacked in France, and Reaction Rankles
A Muslim prayer center in the Alpine town of Seynod was destroyed, and the annex of a mosque in nearby Annecy was damaged in arson attacks before dawn on Friday. The local police said the two fires were purposely set but declined to label them hate crimes. There were no injuries. The Interior Ministry made no public st...
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World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: State To Allow Same-Sex Unions
A judge in the southernmost state in Brazil, the world's largest Roman Catholic country, has authorized same-sex couples to register civil unions at any public notary office. The decision came after gay rights groups complained of discrimination and local prosecutors sought an injunction on their behalf. ''Notwithstand...
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Gay Marriage Licenses Create a Quandary for the Clergy
this historical moment.'' The Rev. Ruth M. Frost, who officiated on Sunday at the Rodrigues-Mason marriage blessing and 14 others at St. Francis Lutheran Church, was herself married on Feb. 13 to another pastor at the church, the Rev. Phyllis Zillhart. The congregation was expelled from the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...
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For Insight on the Way We Act, Read the Philosophers
To the Editor: In ''One Nation, Enriched by Biblical Wisdom'' (column, March 23), David Brooks makes an important point, but not the one he intended. If we want insight into the way human beings act, from the sources they derive their hopes, fears, motivations and desires, we need to look not to religion but to philoso...
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A Passion for the Classics and, Well, Passion
In the first episode of ''The L Word,'' the Showtime cable network's new series about lesbians, two women flirt at a party. ''Have you read anything by Anne Carson?'' one asks, referring to the Canadian-born classicist-poet. '' 'The Autobiography of Red,' '' the other answers, blushing and naming Ms. Carson's best-know...
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An Oops Button, or a Tool for Retrieving That E-Mail Note You Sent
THE speed and efficiency of e-mail can present problems for an impulsive person. A message written in haste can be dispatched instantly on a whim (''Sell 2,000 shares''; ''I resign''; ''We should see other people''), and there is no going back once one has clicked Send. At least until now. A new e-mail service means co...
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Treatment Is Seen to Cut Breast Cancer Recurrence
Drugs that completely block estrogen can lower the risk of breast cancer recurrence in postmenopausal women after surgery, according to the latest study to suggest that some women can improve their chances of recovering from breast cancer with aromatase inhibitors. The study followed more than 4,700 women who took tamo...
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4 Big Internet Providers File Suits To Stop Leading Senders of Spam
egregious. And you have to filter out spam at the I.S.P. level. It is the combination of methods that will knock these people down and bring us back to a level of sanity we can deal with.'' Many spam experts argue that the single most effective method for reducing spam would be to modify the technical protocols used to...
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Ashcroft Weighs the Granting of Political Asylum to Abused Women
The first hint of change came without much fanfare or publicity last month as the Department of Homeland Security quietly proposed sweeping changes in the handling of political asylum cases. But as word trickled across the country, dozens of battered women seeking refuge in the United States felt the first stirrings of...
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OBSERVATORY
Nature. The changes coincide with the fish's movement from near the surface, where ultraviolet light is prevalent, to deeper waters, where the light is mostly blue-green. Other creatures alter their color vision by changing the density of cones of different color sensitivity or by changing the chromophores, another ele...
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A Mountain Railroad Spells Death for Grizzlies and Cubs
Every day, trains climb a steep mountain corridor between the southern boundary of Glacier National Park and the northern boundary of the Great Bear Wilderness. The corridor is at the heart of the continent's wildest landscape, and it is prime bear habitat. In some 24-hour periods, up to 42 milelong trains use the line...
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The 1,776-Foot-Tall Target
architects and engineers of Freedom Tower are working to devise ways to increase the security of the building's future occupants, pondering additional stairwells for escape, new supports that would prevent structural failure and better flame retardants. ''Of high-rise buildings, I believe this is one of the safest,'' s...
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Strokes or Insomnia? A Woman's Hormone Quandary
Ask any woman who has had a difficult menopause if she thinks that Mrs. Rochester, locked in the attic in ''Jane Eyre,'' was actually insane. The answer is likely to be a resounding no. Poor Mrs. Rochester, living in an era before hormone therapy, has been on my mind lately, as I have tried, unsuccessfully, to wean mys...
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Tower of Strength, or a Risky Lure?
To the Editor: Daniel Benjamin (Op-Ed, March 23) states the obvious: skyscrapers are potential terrorist targets. But many civic structures -- town squares, embassies and train stations -- are, too. We would obviously restore these structures should disaster strike, despite their vulnerability to repeat attacks. After ...
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Recycling in the City
To the Editor: In ''Back to Recycling'' (editorial, March 23), you say that before some policy changes, New Yorkers were ''coming around'' to recycling, and that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg should now persuade them ''to get back on the wagon.'' But why focus on items, like old newspapers, that are only marginally recycl...
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Tower of Strength, or a Risky Lure?
To the Editor: Daniel Benjamin suggests that because terrorists target our symbols of liberty and freedom, it is irresponsible to build them (''The 1,776-Foot-Tall Target,'' Op-Ed, March 23). Perhaps we should put the Statue of Liberty or the Liberty Bell in storage under such logic. On the contrary, we should rebuild ...
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Libya's Vast Pipe Dream Taps Into Desert's Ice Age Water
In one of the largest construction projects in the world, engineers are trying to ''mine'' ice age rainfall, now locked in the sandstone beneath the Sahara, and convey it to Libyan cities and farms along a vast waterworks. The project is almost invisible, except when something goes wrong. Bashir O. Saleh, a Libyan engi...
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California County Debates Use of Gene-Altered Foods
Els Cooperrider, who owns an organic restaurant and brewery here, decided she had had enough when she could find only genetically modified canola oil for sale. Ms. Cooperrider, a retired scientist who lives in a cabin with no electricity or telephone, began circulating a county ballot measure that if approved on Tuesda...
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U.S. Wants to Place Its Own Inspectors at Airports Abroad
Domestic security officials plan to station American inspectors at a number of airports in Europe, Asia and elsewhere to look for terrorists who may be using fraudulent travel documents, officials said Monday. The plan, still preliminary, is seen as one way of avoiding the kind of repeated flight cancellations that hav...
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OBSERVATORY
A Scientific Seal If you want to keep a plate of leftovers from drying out in the fridge, what do you do? Simple: cover it with plastic wrap. That's the idea behind a new approach to scanning electron microscopy developed by scientists from Israel and reported in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The...
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E-Mail Doesn't Lie (That Much)
Hype and prevarication may be the rule when it comes to spam. But truthfulness prevails in e-mail messages between people who know each other, a new study has found. Students who tracked their lies for a week reported telling lies in 15 percent of e-mail messages, compared with more than a third of phone calls, 25 perc...
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Airport Medical Resources Are Far From Standard
study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 2002. The devices give voice commands to apply the pads to a person's bare chest, plug in the connectors and press the button to administer an electric shock. At the country's busiest airport clinic, Kennedy Medical Office near the American Airlines terminal at ...
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Possible Peril Found in Menopause Cream
A popular cream that eases the symptoms of menopause exposes women to higher levels of the hormone progesterone than has been commonly thought, researchers have found. Pro-Gest, one of more than two dozen creams containing natural progesterone, is a widely used alternative to synthetic hormone therapies that have been ...
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Groundbreaking Gene Scientist Is Taking His Craft to the Oceans
research vessel. The Sargasso Sea findings, published online yesterday by the journal Science, represent perhaps the most dramatic example to date of how genomics is beginning to shake up environmental studies. Normally, scientists try to understand microbes by growing them in laboratory cultures, but that has not been...
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Online Swindlers, Called 'Phishers,' Lure the Unwary
have brushed up on their English or hired proofreaders.) Phishers often create Internet addresses that closely resemble legitimate ones. Some have used domains that included ''yahoo-billing.com'' and ''eBay-secure.com.'' How is the typical user to know those are not real, but ''billing.yahoo.com'' is? In response, Micr...
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New Clues To Women Veiled In Black
genetic. The single gene, 5-HTT, that has been definitively linked to depression is no more common in women than in men. But preliminary research suggests that there are other depression-related genes that mainly affect women. For example, after scanning the genomes of people with major depression in 81 families, Dr. G...
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A Road Less Traveled Through Immigration Lines
said. Airport construction has created other challenges. After San Francisco built a new international terminal, for instance, the Inspass kiosks were not hooked up, though Mr. Knight said they would be once network issues were resolved. Although the Inspass program still has financial support for operation and mainten...
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Wolves Come Back (On Their Terms)
animals. Wolves tend to look on these dogs as intruders in their territory. From 1976 to 1991, wolves killed two dogs. In 1998 alone, they killed 11 and injured 4. The payment for a hound has been a maximum of $2,500, although owners have asked for more. If a bear kills a dog that is hunting it, that is simply in the n...
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Dominicans And the U.S. Complete A Trade Deal
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua as part of the agreement. The combined trade of these nations with the United States is about $32 billion in goods a year. After a series of missed deadlines, Mr. Zoellick has signed free trade deals with eight countries in three months: the six in the Central American agr...
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China Aims to Cut Pollution From Scrap Metal Industry
group's director general. Tighter supervision should result in a cleaner environment in China, he said, by making it harder for less scrupulous companies to dump almost anything in containers and send it across the ocean. It will also force companies to do more work in places like the United States and Europe, separati...
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Despite Cleanup at Mine, Dust and Fear Linger
the matter,' '' she said. There is no conclusive link between any child's disabilities and exposure to lead from the mining wastes, and the lead levels in children's blood here are in fact lower than the national average from 1975. But Ms. Pace keeps what she considers a possible smoking gun: a list trying to correlate...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Now Can We Talk About Health Care?
increasingly sedentary lifestyle that, combined with a diet filled with sugar and fat-rich foods, undermines our ability to fend off chronic diseases like diabetes. And research is proving that the pollutants and contaminants in our environment cause disease and mortality. It is overwhelming just thinking about the pro...
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Earlier Start Offered In Special Education
identified as having special needs by their home district's committee on preschool special education are entitled to early intervention programs, like the Children's School for Early Development here. ''There's more awareness of these problems,'' Loraine Chun, assistant commissioner for services for children with speci...
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The Highbrow Hijacker
bridged the freebooting era of Francis Drake and the naval expeditions of Captain Cook, ''fusing the piratical plundering and derring-do of the former with the scientific inquiry and meticulous chart and record keeping of the latter.'' Their protagonist emerges as an outstanding chronicler, recording what he saw with o...
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World Briefing | Europe: Italy: A Cleaning For Pisa's Tower
Part of the Leaning Tower of Pisa will be obstructed from view for the next year or so as it undergoes a cleaning. A huge stain on the tower will be lifted at a cost of more than $5 million, a portion of which paid for a special scaffold that will not harm the tower's precarious tilt. The tower, which leans more than a...
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In Soy Food, Kibbutzim Find Manna for a Modern Age
process, and success stories like Solbar and Tivall demonstrate that finding the right industry will allow the kibbutzim to get out of their financial crisis.'' For many of Israel's 270 kibbutzim, which were set up with government grants and have subsisted on farming and small factories for most of the last 50 years, t...
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One More Reason to Join a Gym
Overweight older women can reduce unhealthy estrogen levels, and perhaps reduce their risk of breast cancer, by taking off fat through exercise, a new study has found. The study's lead author, Dr. Anne McTiernan of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, said that fat cells were the main source of estrog...
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Byzantine Chant, Rich Challenge To Its Gregorian Counterpart
Most New Yorkers, conditioned as we are to the modes and key systems of Western European music, know the sound of Byzantine chant more by reputation than by direct acquaintance. We hear it indirectly, through the Russian Orthodox sacred music that in recent years has found a concert following, or in the music of the co...
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Every Passenger Is a Potential Case Study
An airplane cabin is a fertile laboratory for the study of social interaction. One time, the man next to me was drooling and snoring. As usual, in my direction. I let my tray fall with a clunk. I tried adjusting my seat. One passenger gave me that ''I feel bad for you'' pout. Finally when the drool on his chin reached ...
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Take Two Aspirin, E-Mail Me Tomorrow
in Boston, 18,000 patients routinely log on to a protected Web site called PatientSite to request prescription refills, write to their doctors or scan personal medical records. ''I mostly write about things that are not extremely urgent,'' said Bruce Male, 62, a retired business leader who periodically sends e-mail to ...