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1574265_1 | China Tries Again to Curb Independent Press in South | damage related to the huge Three Gorges dam project and have celebrated repeated scoops over the outbreak, cover-up and then recurrence of the SARS virus. If the newspaper's leaders lose their judicial appeals, journalists from the Southern media group, Chinese intellectuals and colleagues from other publications say, ... |
1574226_2 | For Bush and Sharon, 'Confidence' and 'Realities' Are Crucial | create the right conditions to resume negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. I was encouraged by your positive response and your support for my plan. In that context, you handed me a letter that includes very important statements regarding Israel's security and its well-being as a Jewish state. You have prov... |
1574343_0 | Call Me E-Mail | A CORPORATE e-mail message goes astray. Two young strangers flirt in cyberspace. They agree to meet. An assault ensues. And a mystery built on digital clues is born. It's not a plot that breaks new ground. But then, the earnest new ''novel'' that it fuels, ''Intimacies,'' by Eric Brown, is drawing notice more for its s... |
1572194_0 | Endless Questions on Estrogen | To the Editor: Re ''Strokes or Insomnia? A Woman's Hormone Quandary'' (March 23): The author chose to stay on estrogen to avoid hot flashes. But could there be even better reasons to take estrogen? Could the changes in physiology that result from ending the treatment lead to an increased risk of arthritis, osteoporosis... |
1572106_1 | MEMO PAD | for the April Fool's joke, but a lot checked it out with Virgin's press office. Only ''a few seemed perturbed'' at the prank, part of an April Fool's tradition at fun-loving Virgin, a unit of the Virgin Group, said Elizabeth Ciresi, a spokeswoman. FOREIGN TRAVEL UP -- There is more evidence of the resurgence in interna... |
1572634_0 | Cause of Deadly Derailment Is Sought | |
1572548_1 | 100 Years Ago, an Intersection's New Name: Times Square | change on the morning the map was published. Times Square, The Times said, ''is a name that serves perfectly for identification and is one, we think, not likely to be forgotten in this community.'' Or at least not in The Times's new building. Its main entrance led to a subway station. And the subway, The Times said, wa... |
1572597_5 | Block That Ring Tone! | measures left to the customers' discretion. ''They are certainly less odious than jammers,'' he said. Another means of guarding against cellphone disturbance is the use of detectors, sold legally in the United States and abroad, that sound an alert when a cellphone is present. Zetron, a company in Redmond, Wash., makes... |
1572517_2 | Learning to Expect the Unexpected | black swan of the vicious variety. A vicious black swan has an additional elusive property: its very unexpectedness helps create the conditions for it to occur. Had a terrorist attack been a conceivable risk on Sept. 10, 2001, it would likely not have happened. Jet fighters would have been on alert to intercept hijacke... |
1572600_5 | In Google We Trust? When the Subject Is E-Mail, Maybe Not | Web-based e-mail services, Gmail would have the advantage of being available from any computer with Internet access. That, plus the huge amount of storage available, could make it useful as a kind of data-transfer service. Some academic e-mail systems offer a taste of what this could be like. Dartmouth, for instance, u... |
1572661_0 | Corrections | Because of an editing error, an article on March 23 about the Bush administration's assertion that solid progress was being made in wiping out the Andean region's coca crops described the eradication efforts in Peru and Bolivia incorrectly. Only ground operations are used there; aerial spraying is limited to Colombia. |
1577987_2 | And the Rich Get Smarter | storehouse of knowledge than to the institutional coffers, and the shift from liberal arts to the ''practical arts.'' While competition has strengthened some colleges, embedded in the very idea of university are values the market does not honor: the belief in a community of scholars and not a confederacy of self-seeker... |
1578039_1 | The French Get Their Drug Company. Will Foreign Investors Retaliate? | 25 percent of a United States airline. Not that long ago, it was America that was worried about its place in an international economy increasingly dominated by Japan. There were cries of anguish as Japanese investors snapped up assets deemed to be emblematic of the United States, among them Rockefeller Center in New Yo... |
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1573132_2 | Privacy Issues Slow Updated Airline Security | change the required ''passing'' score at a given airport or on a given day in response to intelligence information. The A.C.L.U. is still opposed. LaShawn Y. Warren, a staff attorney who specializes in privacy issues complained in a statement, ''Imagine a travel system where everyone is a suspect, based upon secret inf... |
1573107_3 | Vows | to want,'' and that Americans will easily recognize that polygamy does considerably more damage to a liberal-democratic order than his own preferred policy of ''one person, one spouse'' possibly could. To the ''Men Behaving Badly'' argument -- that what ''settles'' men is not the institution of marriage but the need to... |
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1577723_0 | Future of the Rain Forest | To the Editor: Brian Kelly and Mark London (''Bright Spots in the Rain Forest,'' Op-Ed, April 22) suggest that ''the solution for saving the rain forest may be more development, not less.'' Amazonia will develop, but the real issues are the nature of this development, where it will take place, whether legitimate stakeh... |
1576205_4 | Examining an African Culture in Which Two Sets of Reality Coexist | Some of these sculptures correspond to Western conventions of beauty. A dance mask of a youthful female water-spirit, with its tapering chin, downcast eyes and leaf-shaped facial adornments, is one. Larger-than-life figures of ancestor spirits, their bodies tensed in a half-seated crouch as if in the process of rising,... |
1576221_0 | Work Restarts On Projects Hurt by Strife, Officials Say | Work on rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure is recovering from a near halt at the height of the violence earlier this month, project officials said on Thursday, though 10 percent of the foreign workers remain out of Iraq for safety and little is being done at 10 percent of the projects. The officials said it was too early... |
1576449_3 | Torn Cyprus Votes Today: Will It Enter Europe United? | and on both sides of the debate, said they had tired of the exhortations and excuses of the two old leaders. ''The philosophy of Denktash and Papadopolous is the same philosophy, that it's better to live separate,'' said George Hadji Savvas, a Greek Cypriot supportive of the reunification plan. Now 63, Mr. Savvas remem... |
1574595_0 | World Briefing | Africa: Anglican Leaders Meet About Gay Bishop | Anglican Church leaders from throughout Africa recommended at a meeting in Nairobi that the American Episcopalians who appointed a gay bishop in New Hampshire be disciplined by the church. Representing 40 million Anglicans, more than half the world's total, the African leaders also vowed to turn down donations from Wes... |
1574617_0 | Technology Briefing | Hardware: Xerox To Report On Plastic Electronics | Xerox said that it would present a report today outlining what it said is major progress toward creating electronics out of inexpensive, flexible plastic. The report, which will be presented at the spring meeting of the Materials Research Society in San Francisco, will detail advances in its development of conductive, ... |
1572333_2 | Motor-Vehicle-Related Deaths Will Increase, Study Predicts | medical attention from a clinic or hospital after a traffic accident were suffering from brain injuries. The study said that road crashes should be ranked with cancer, heart disease and stroke as major threats to public health. The organization, an affiliate of the United Nations, issued its last major report on the su... |
1572303_1 | Shortage Makes Vanilla as Precious as Gold | grow vanilla, or xanath, as it is called in their language. Many authorities, including the Larousse Gastronomique, contend that the world's finest vanilla comes from Mexico. But don't expect bargains here. Even in Papantla's market square, beans are about $2 each, cheaper than in New York, where they are about $5, but... |
1572435_3 | A Bit of Arthritis Aside, an Old Fireboat is Fitted for the Future | with the lights off. Otherwise, the glare inside the pilothouse is blinding. Oh, and get there five minutes ago. Lives depend on it. ''You tell me if technology helps under those pressures,'' he said. But as with any institution moving haltingly but relentlessly toward the new, not everyone was persuaded. ''I'm an old-... |
1577181_0 | College, for Richer or Poorer | To the Editor: Your April 22 front-page article regarding the rising numbers of students from higher-income families at American colleges and universities misses a very basic point. Sure, the children of the wealthy have advantages. But the children of successful parents are more likely to be successful not simply beca... |
1577206_3 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; A Green S.U.V., at Least in Theory | 9 percent over the Explorer's conventional five-speed automatic. Improved aerodynamics and tires with lower rolling resistance would also improve fuel economy. Further savings would be achieved by reducing the weight to 3,150 pounds through the use of lightweight materials, including aluminum and high-strength steel, a... |
1574028_2 | Housatonic River Ranked Among Most Endangered | it settles behind at least six dams. By the end of this year, the federal agency has said it will complete assessments of public health risks and ecological dangers linked to river contamination. It is also calculating how the remaining pollutants might be dispersed if they are not removed. Once those studies are compl... |
1573738_3 | Philosophy Hitches a Ride With 'The Sopranos' | the second film in the blockbuster science-fiction trilogy. ''Any of the books in this series sell more copies per month than most of our other books sell in a lifetime,'' said David Steele, the editorial director at Open Court. ''For more traditional philosophy monographs, you hope that in their entire lifetime they w... |
1573743_0 | No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture | Sometimes it takes the great Dustbuster of fate to clear the room of bullies and bad habits. Freak cyclones helped destroy Kublai Khan's brutal Mongolian empire, for example, while the Black Death of the 14th century capsized the medieval theocracy and gave the Renaissance a chance to shine. Among a troop of savanna ba... |
1573767_2 | MEMO PAD | operates Heathrow Airport outside London, is starting a $180 million redevelopment project this week to ready Pier 6 at Terminal 3 to handle the A380's. The new three-story Pier 6 will be nearly 1,000 feet long. CLUELESS OVER SHOELESS -- Most passengers are confused about whether it is mandatory to remove their shoes a... |
1573737_3 | With Tiny Brain Implants, Just Thinking May Make It So | Jonathan R. Wolpaw of the New York State Department of Health has developed a system that does not require implants but uses electroencephalography to pick up brain waves using sensors attached to the scalp. Though Cyberkinetics is not the first to try neural control in people, it seems the most intent on bringing a pr... |
1573858_1 | A Bridge Between the Classics and the Masses | translations of ancient Greek classics have sold some two million copies. ''There are many readers who hunger for substance,'' Dr. Fagles said. ''I do not despair. I know they are out there, and I hear from them often.'' On his desk was an open copy of Virgil in Latin, sheets of paper and Dr. Fagles's printed manuscrip... |
1575845_3 | U.S. Track Is Bracing For Fallout In Balco Case | his position.'' The anti-doping agency has worked with federal investigators on the Balco case, but it is not known how much evidence the Justice Department would share as it builds its own criminal case. Matthew J. Jacobs, an assistant United States attorney in San Francisco, declined to comment on the Balco case yest... |
1575719_0 | Modified-Food Labeling Begins in Europe | ALL food sold in the European Union with genetically modified ingredients must now say so on the label, under rules that went into effect on Sunday. Any restaurant serving genetically engineered food must identify it on the menu. Europe has been unfriendly to modified foods for years. After protests, and with fears ris... |
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1571816_0 | The Socratic Shrink | I think Lou Marinoff is onto something. I am taking a course for my master's degree that requires reading Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. I've discovered that the sky is definitely bluer outside the cave. I have started playing the piano again, listening to music and just enjoying every aspect of my life more. If Marino... |
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1571644_3 | From Brazil to the Pacific, A Road to a Region's Future | hardscrabble lives of the town's residents. ''Without it, we cannot improve our situation, improve our way of life,'' he said. Brazil, which has been projecting its influence in South America by pursuing trade pacts with neighbors, has been the leading proponent of an integrated series of highways in South America. Und... |
1571815_0 | The Socratic Shrink | Philosophy is a difficult discipline with high standards of rigor, where assumptions are relentlessly questioned in a way you rarely find even in the sciences or social sciences (Daniel Duane, March 21). Is it good therapy? As Socrates would say, you tell me. But it is indeed a deeply positive life experience to teach ... |
1571794_0 | Greek Revival | ''Lent is a time for reflection,'' said Nick Livanos at Molyvos, the restaurant at Seventh Avenue and 54th Street that he owns with his family and that is named after a village on the island of Lesbos in Greece. ''For us, it's the time to tame your passions. So the emphasis is spiritual -- it's not just, 'Oh, let's los... |
1576608_4 | A Different Course | students bring in nearly $13 million for the university. For-profit companies have similar success stories to tell, thanks in no small part to a weak economy that drives workers back to school to upgrade skills and credentials. For instance, Strayer University, which began 112 years ago as a business college in Baltimo... |
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1576675_2 | Beware! I'm With You on the L.I.R.R. | it falls over, which it will, the leftover will run under somebody else's shoes, not mine. During rush hour I'll take the aisle seat first and calculate that I'm more likely to have the bench to myself, especially if my coat and bags are piled up next to me. I'll have a really smelly onion roll with egg early in the mo... |
1576664_0 | If You Went Here, You'd Be Sitting Pretty Now | Founded in 1879, Sullivan & Cromwell is a classic white-shoe law firm. It has stately financial-district offices with views of the Statue of Liberty and a history that includes brokering deals that paid for building the Panama Canal. Landing a job at Sullivan & Cromwell is not easy. This June, about 90 lucky students w... |
1576656_0 | When Religion in Schools Meant Spilled Blood | Nolo's IEP Guide: Learning Disabilities By Lawrence M. Siegel Nolo Finding out that your child has a learning disability can be confusing and overwhelming, and that is just the beginning. You then have to figure out the educational interventions that are needed, in a partnership with your child's school, a relationship... |
1576594_3 | On the Art Trail In Rural Japan | Steve adroitly deflected my questions about what was going to happen next with a calm ''We will get to that answer.'' And we always did. Steve declared us to be ''pilgrims of the now.'' Compliantly we pilgrims progressed on the hourlong express train ride to Shikokumura, the 40-minute walk to the glorious Isamu Noguchi... |
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1576612_2 | The B-School Hierarchy | lawyer, investment banker in a top house or a consultant for McKinsey -- these elite jobs that everybody seems to want -- you're not even going to get an interview unless you go to one of the elite schools,'' says Robert H. Frank, a Cornell University management professor and co-author of ''The Winner-Take-All Society.... |
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1576616_7 | The Digital Doctorate | Mr. House, who has specialized in research and technology, acknowledges some of these limitations to online research. During his own graduate studies (at Texas A&M), whenever he got stalled, he said, ''I'd get 10 books around me and start looking for a new, mixed method. I can't thumb through things as easily now.'' 'W... |
1576592_1 | U.S. Security Rules Test British Patience | a maximum of 90 days without a visa under a visa-waiver program. Every year, according to United States estimates, 13 million people from those countries qualify for the waivers, which in practice mean no more than filling out a form and handing it to American immigration authorities on arrival in the United States -- ... |
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1576754_1 | Degrees of Unemployment | with their diplomas,'' said Jared Bernstein, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Washington. ''That's certainly not the case now.'' In an analysis published last month, Mr. Bernstein noted that unemployed college graduates first overtook those without high school d... |
1576830_1 | The Couple Who Saved Park Slope | had to do it over now, the Ortners could hardly afford the house they had the foresight -- or was it the temerity? -- to buy in their past. In 1968, five years after the purchase, something happened that further strengthened the couple's resolve. The Ortners traveled to France for their 25th wedding anniversary and stu... |
1574695_0 | Study Plans To Retest Use Of Hormones In Menopause | Despite studies in recent years finding that hormone therapy after menopause did women more harm than good, researchers at a group of major medical centers have decided to test the treatment again because they still suspect it may have benefits, particularly for younger women. The researchers hope to find out whether h... |
1573014_0 | 88 Air Travelers at Newark Are Held in Immigration Case | Federal agents at Newark Liberty International Airport have detained 88 passengers, close to half of those arriving on a domestic Continental Airlines flight from Los Angeles early Thursday morning, acting on a tip that many illegal immigrants were on board the plane. Homeland Security officials said 53 of those detain... |
1573004_0 | Piracy and Terrorism | Piracy, these days, refers more often to digital miscreants who copy music and movies than to skull-and-crossbones derring-do on the high seas. But pirates of the old-fashioned variety, armed with automatic weapons, are not only a real and growing menace, they are also suspected of forging links with global terrorists.... |
1575974_0 | Bright Spots in the Rain Forest | The rallying cry, ''Save the Amazon!'' rang out again this month when the Brazilian government reported that clearing of the rain forest had reached near-record levels -- with an area bigger than the state of New Jersey disappearing last year. This Earth Day, global environmental groups are covering their Web sites wit... |
1576073_4 | As Wealthy Fill Top Colleges, Concerns Grow Over Fairness | high school students can say how much money their parents make and whether any of their grandparents went to college. Michigan started devising the questions last year when the Supreme Court was considering its affirmative action policies. The court ultimately upheld affirmative action but required the university to el... |
1576112_0 | National Briefing | South: Florida: Cubans Sentenced In Hijacking | Six Cubans were sentenced to 20 to 24 years in federal prison for hijacking a passenger flight in Cuba in March 2003. The men were convicted of using knives and a hatchet to take control of a flight with 37 people on board from the Isle of Youth, off Cuba's southern coast, and divert it toward Florida. United States fi... |
1576067_3 | China Agrees To Postpone Wireless Plan | ''proved to be a complete success.'' That success was ensured by the administration's decision to adopt a narrow agenda and avoid issues where disagreement was inevitable. The Chinese were spared questions about how they will respond once the global textile quota is lifted next year and, experts predict, China takes ov... |
1577610_0 | Roman Catholic Priests' Group Calls for Allowing Married Clergy Members | Representatives of priests in at least nine dioceses, from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Long Island, have announced the birth of a new nationwide effort to allow married men in the Roman Catholic clergy. The priests met in Riverdale in the Bronx on April 20 and 21 and created the Priests' Forum for Eucharist, which the orga... |
1577631_0 | National Briefing | Science and Health: Vermont Requires Labels On Biotech Seeds | Vermont is requiring that genetically modified seeds be labeled, becoming the first state to do so. Gov. Jim Douglas, a Republican, signed the measure into law on Monday. ''It showed that state legislatures can stand up to the biotech industry,'' said Ben Davis, environmental advocate for the Vermont Public Interest Re... |
1577539_0 | Hearing for Senator's Father On His Competency for Trial | Vincent Velella has an average I.Q., but he has dementia and his short-term memory is on the borderline for mild mental retardation, a psychologist testified yesterday. Whether Mr. Velella, 90, is mentally and physically fit to stand trial is being considered by a judge in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, where he is ... |
1572849_2 | China's Premier Orders Halt to a Dam Project Threatening a Lost Eden | the dam project could still eventually go forward. Construction had been scheduled to begin this year on the first dam at Liuku, near the Chinese-Burmese border. But Mr. Wen's instructions make it clear that environmental objections must be given serious consideration. ''He wants to hear more opinions and gather more v... |
1572831_9 | Excerpts From Rice's Testimony Before Commission Investigating Sept. 11 | and airport security personnel, including specific warnings about the possibility of hijacking. The C.I.A. worked round the clock to disrupt threats worldwide. Yet as your hearings have shown, there was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. In hindsight, if anything might have helped stop 9/11 it... |
1571355_3 | Halting Rust From Devouring What 9/11 Couldn't; Curators Battle Elements to Preserve Pieces of a Terrible History | look old, or with the original tape, perhaps hiding thin magnets underneath. The pictures pose yet another challenge, since many of them were produced by color photocopiers or ink-jet printers and are already fading badly. A possible solution, Mr. Weintraub said, is to make high-resolution reproductions and -- once aga... |
1585156_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Cuba And Mexico Agree To Return Ambassadors | Mexico and Cuba have smoothed over a diplomatic dispute, agreeing to return their ambassadors. Mexico withdrew its ambassador to Havana and expelled the Cuban ambassador from Mexico City on May 2, charging that statements by Cuba had constituted interference in Mexico's internal affairs. Mexico has long been an ally of... |
1583547_6 | Conservative Group Amplifies Voice of Protestant Orthodoxy | instead of a controversial position,'' he said, adding that ''the sexuality issues and the liturgical issues in the churches have never been of great interest to us.'' Mrs. Ahmanson, who is Presbyterian, said she and her husband, who is Episcopalian, were motivated mainly by theological concerns. ''My husband and I are... |
1583589_5 | Man Sought by 9/11 Panel Emerges to Tell of Chaos | operated from consoles in the lobbies of the north and south towers. The consoles, which looked like phones, had several buttons, one of which was pressed to turn on the system and a second that activated the handset to talk through. The commission concluded that the second button was not pressed down, creating the per... |
1583475_0 | Anti-Obesity Plan Drafted | After months of negotiations with sugar-producing countries, the World Health Organization reached tentative agreement on Friday on a set of recommendations to help millions of people avoid obesity and other chronic diseases through a healthy diet. The recommendations include strictly limiting fat, salt and sugar. The ... |
1580662_0 | China Unveils Plan to Curb Rapid AIDS Spread | The Chinese government warned on Sunday that AIDS was continuing to spread rapidly here in the world's most populous country, and it announced ''urgent measures'' to improve prevention and education efforts that include holding local officials directly responsible for curbing the disease. ''Those officials breaching du... |
1580640_0 | Researchers Develop Computer Techniques to Bring Blacked-Out Words to Light | European researchers at a security conference in Switzerland last week demonstrated computer-based techniques that can identify blacked-out words and phrases in confidential documents. The researchers showed their software at the conference, the Eurocrypt, by analyzing a presidential briefing memorandum released in Apr... |
1585864_0 | Gene-Modified Crops | To the Editor: Re ''A Call for a Gene Revolution'' (editorial, May 24): The Food and Agriculture Organization and other United Nations agencies are a prime source of the flawed public policy that has stymied the application of gene-splicing technology to the development of new crop varieties for poor countries. Last ye... |
1585883_3 | Salvaging Jewish Heritage in China, Block by Block | ''Faustian bargain.'' Mr. Choa said that no matter what he proposed, much of the ghetto could be torn down anyway. ''There's no guarantee that even a municipal-preserved building will stay,'' he said. But momentum is growing to preserve the entire neighborhood. An alternate plan has been drawn up by two Canadians, Ian ... |
1585893_5 | Technology Strains to Find Menace in the Crowd | other unexplained anomalies, like the tendency of the systems to identify men more accurately than women, and Asians more accurately than other races. Technology sellers are pursing a variety of strategies to improve the results. Some are developing systems that start with three-dimensional images taken by multiple cam... |
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1580254_1 | In the Region/New Jersey; Hat Factory Is a Focus of Redevelopment in Orange | feet of ground-level retail and covered parking. ''These will be for-sale homes rather than rental,'' said Patrick Morrissy, the executive director of Hands. ''That's sort of the point -- to turn this back into a real neighborhood.'' The $7.5 million project, to be financed with a combination of federal and state funds... |
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1580160_3 | And You Thought Art in New York Was a Jungle | there studying architecture. I invited them to Belize to see the ranch. Adrian Barron'' -- a British artist who lives in London -- ''came over in 1993, and that's how it started.'' ''You own the secret sculpture garden?'' I asked. ''Yes,'' he said. ''But it's not secret. Anyone can come see it. They just have to call a... |
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1580414_3 | The Disability Movement Turns to Brains | Dr. Damasio and others compare the shifting awareness about brain function to the broader conception of intelligence that has evolved over the last two decades, driven in part by the theory of Howard Gardner, a Harvard education professor, that children who don't excel in ''traditional'' intelligence -- the manipulatio... |
1579015_1 | Dance to Nature's Rhythm | disorder. Dr. Rako, a Boston psychiatrist, addresses the ''disturbing reality'' of promoting menstrual suppression as beneficial. Doctors, she points out, have been prescribing contraceptive pills, which suppress menstruation, for uses other than those approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Pharmaceutical compan... |
1579012_0 | Development May Threaten National Park | A valley treasured by biologists as one of the wildest places in North America could become the site of large coal-related development projects, if two plans are realized. The proposals call for mining and gas development in the Flathead Valley in British Columbia, a sparsely settled region that includes the North Fork... |
1579012_1 | Development May Threaten National Park | and Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, have vowed to block the proposal. ''If they want to pursue a full-scale operation that could devastate one of our most pristine and valuable areas for recreation and wildlife, then they're asking for a fight,'' Mr. Baucus said. He has written to Secretary of State Colin L. P... |
1582445_4 | A Brooklyn Landmark Gets Its Crown Back; At Music Academy, Color Supplants Grime | beyond rust to exfoliation. Key flashing had failed, and walls were bulging with water damage and age. According to Raymond M. Pepi, president of Building Conservation Associates, more than half of the brick supporting the parapet and cornice had to be taken apart, removed, salvaged, cleaned or replaced, and put back t... |
1582371_4 | A technique to help combat the online piracy of music uses decoy files that deliver noise and 'gotcha' scoldings. | because tactics for fighting piracy are changing, too. ''For a long time the music industry has gone after an 'all or nothing' digital rights management strategy,'' Dr. Hale said. ''It's been pretty brutal. It relies on hardware. It's like putting hardware in your car to meter control of the engine. That's the strategy... |
1584319_4 | Spruced Up For a 500th Birthday; After His Bath, 'David' Has a Bit More Shine | with a hammer, and this too had to be restored. Mr. Paolluci and his team say that what Accademia documents describe as restoration involves only conservation, although the work done here seems to lie somewhere between the two. In some areas the once dull marble has recovered its shine, with the front of the figure's t... |
1584361_0 | MEMO PAD | STANDBY TO STANDBY -- Aviation and government officials are sounding the alarm: With air traffic approaching pre-2001 levels, get ready for worsening airport delays. ''Even though we are not yet into the summer months, typically the busiest for the airlines, we are already seeing delays and congestion resulting from th... |
1584315_4 | OBSERVATORY | The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the crystals are not aligned in chains. A chain configuration, they point out, is one of the most distinguishing characteristics of biologically produced magnetite crystals. So, they say, it will be difficult to prove definitively that the crystals are a s... |
1581276_0 | Where the Jobs Are | Job jitters are vexing America. Not even the striking gains in employment over the last two months have put an end to hand wringing over work being ''outsourced'' to low-wage countries. Americans had become used to shedding factory jobs, but the technology and service jobs now at risk were supposed to be secure, the gu... |
1581270_2 | Google Mail: Virtue Lies In the In-Box | because you'd be missing a wonderful thing. Even in its current, early state, available only to a few thousand testers, Gmail appears destined to become one of the most useful Internet services since Google itself. Like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, Gmail is a free, Web-based e-mail program, which means that you will be able... |
1582794_0 | Report Shows Racial Disparity In Special Education Programs | A disproportionate number of the state's black and Hispanic students are still placed in special education programs, and are far more likely to be kept in separate classes than white students with disabilities, the state said on Tuesday. In a report it released here on the 2002-03 school year, the Board of Regents pain... |
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