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Big Project Moves Forward on One-Acre Site
the stick in order to get this done,'' Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff said yesterday in a telephone interview. ''It's a very complicated deal,'' Mr. Doctoroff said, ''but it seemed to us to make such sense to have Pace and Forest City Ratner and NYU Downtown Hospital as partners. Everybody compromised.'' A key stumbl...
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A Bridge to Sicily, or a Castle in the Air?
To hear Domenico Giorgianni gush about the bridge between Calabria and Sicily, its construction is assured. ''This will be the greatest achievement of modern technology for all time,'' Mr. Giorgianni, an executive with the Strait of Messina Association, said on a recent day. Undaunted by the fact that after 30 years of...
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China's Economy Continues to Race Ahead
China's economy continued to barrel ahead in April despite a series of measures by Beijing to slow growth, a raft of statistics showed on Thursday. Industrial production, bank lending, foreign investment, imports and the money supply all roughly maintained in April the breathless pace they had set in March, three gover...
1581599_5
FIRST FRIENDS: A Governor's Benefactor; With Help From a College Pal, The Patakis' Wealth Increases
fully furnished with antiques, for $725,000 in 1986, when he was a state assemblyman after his two terms as mayor of Peekskill (before that, he was a real estate lawyer). Today, the mansion is worth $2.2 million, his aides say. The buying and selling, however, left Mr. Pataki land rich but cash poor when he came into o...
1581565_0
France and Germany Jointly Criticize Abuse of Iraqis and Express Horror at Beheading
President Jacques Chirac of France and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany on Thursday criticized the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers and expressed horror over the beheading of an American civilian. Their comments, made to reporters after a meeting at Élysée Palace, coincided with a statement by France...
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Architect Starts Study of Failure In Paris Airport
next month. Mr. Andreu, 65, did not speak to reporters. But as attention focused on the columns that supported the elliptical concrete shell of the terminal, experts suggested that the collapse was more likely caused by construction errors than by the design. Hubert Fontanel, the airport's director of operations, confi...
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Enduring Themes
To the Editor: Re ''Hollywood Help Wanted: Classicists With Style'' (Week in Review, May 23), about ''Troy'' and other movies based on classics: If a classic is a work that is as relevant today as it was when it was written, that would explain why ''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey'' rank as two of the greatest pieces of ...
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Energy Department Plans a Push to Retrieve Nuclear Materials
In an effort to keep the raw materials for nuclear bombs out of the hands of terrorists, the Energy Department will undertake a $450 million campaign to retrieve nuclear materials that the United States and the Soviet Union originally sent around the world for research purposes, the energy secretary will announce on We...
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In Latin America, a Cellular Need
now, the best alternative is to have the newest mobile phone clipped to your belt.'' Venezuelans have become increasingly creative in getting more bang for their mobile buck. Text messaging allows virtual conversations that cost much less than a call. The average Venezuelan cellular user sends 113 text messages a month...
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Land Quarrels Unsettle Ivory Coast's Cocoa Belt
In the fertile heart of the world's largest cocoa-producing country, a 20-month-long civil war has spawned an ugly ethnic feud over cocoa land. The largely northern and immigrant workers who cultivate cocoa in Ivory Coast have been expelled from plantations, and deadly reprisal attacks have followed. Not by coincidence...
1582012_3
Hardest Part of the Job? Finding It
Northeastern University in Boston, predicts that this summer's youth labor market will be as bad as last year's, when fewer teenagers worked during the summer than in any other summer since 1948. In July 2003, only 36.1 percent of the country's 16- to 19-year-olds were employed. ''The overall job market has picked up, ...
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Special Needs, Served With the Familiar Pleasures of Camp
As a single parent, Rosa Fabian can barely afford the rent on her Bronx apartment, where nearby radios are always blasting and drugs, she says, are sold right outside her door. ''I have to try and keep my children inside as much as possible,'' she explained. But Mother's Day arrived early this year for Ms. Fabian, who,...
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For Graduates, Getting a Job Is Work
security at home, a politically polarized electorate, international isolation, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against terror. So many reasons for pessimism. There are some glimmers of good news in all the gloom that is the evening news, the newspaper headlines and the daily business reports. In March, more than ...
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Waterworld
United States entered World War II, it began reflagging many of its merchant vessels as Panamanian in hopes of providing Britain with goods and materials without dragging America into war. This ruse has mutated into a system known today as ''flags of convenience.'' Many countries offer their own registries, making it p...
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A Glorious Survivor
buildings, restored the gardens, although with a British touch, and got the canals working again. It is easy to revile the British treatment of the Taj, but the Indians haven't always done much better. As Agra grew, little effort was made to spare the Taj the ravages of pollution, which began to discolor the white marb...
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Where Progress Is Being Made In Albany; At the Landmark Capitol, Repairs Are on Track
also restore more of the building's skylights, and ultimately rehabilitate the huge staircase on the eastern approach, removing it stone by stone and rebuilding the underlying support masonry. Edmund J. McMahon, a fiscal analyst with the Manhattan Institute, a conservative policy group, mused about whether the Capitol'...
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A Call for a Gene Revolution
Few scientific developments have provoked more shouting than genetically modified foods. Plenty of people, especially in Europe, call them Frankenfoods and argue that we do not know if they cause cancer or fatal allergy. Genetically modified crops, which carry transplanted genes from other species to make them easier t...
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Deepening Poverty Breeds Anger and Desperation in Haiti
The pile of garbage behind the spot where Marie Joseph sells tins of tomato paste started out small, the usual primordial goo that coats this grimy capital's streets, binding a putrid mélange. But in the two months since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first democratically elected leader, was forced from powe...
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Ethiopia's Bold Plan to Improve Life Makes It Worse
questioning how it is being carried out. Dessalegn Rahmato, director of a local research institute, Forum for Social Studies, said the extensive government plan was proceeding too quickly and with too little planning for so ambitious a project, repeating the calamitous mistakes of previous resettlement programs. Ethiop...
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'04 Graduates Learned Lesson In Practicality
three internships doubled from 2003. Prepared as they are, students also exhibit the caution and need for security that experts say are characteristic of this generation. In the most recent survey of students by the college and employers association, job stability was the second most important reason for choosing an em...
1585697_0
Spanish Socialists' Proposals Opposed by Church
Spain's new Socialist government is clashing with the Roman Catholic Church over the administration's plans to allow gay marriages, speed up divorce and make abortion easier to obtain in this traditionally Catholic country. Like several other European countries, including Germany and France, some regions in Spain alrea...
1585620_3
The Air Travel Forecast: Brisk, With Frequent Squalls
its work force, which now totals about 45,000 at about 430 airports. ''With the volume probably coming back to pre-9/11 levels, this is going to be the summer that will tell us all how well'' the system will work in balancing effective security and efficient crowd flow, said Rick White, director of transportation secur...
1585677_1
The World: China's Time Bomb; The Most Populous Nation Faces a Population Crisis
sociologist at the China Population Development Research Center in Beijing. ''The burden of our population is too large.'' Demography may be no surer predictor of destiny than trade data. But of the two momentous changes championed by Deng Xiaoping a quarter-century ago, coercive population controls and experiments wit...
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When Screeners Open Your Bags
agency isn't likely to pay on every claim. Ann Davis, a T.S.A. spokeswoman, said she wasn't aware of the details of the government's negotiations with the airlines other than that ''discussions have been ongoing'' but did say the agency has begun processing claims. ''The ones we're paying are the ones we've investigate...
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Blueprints for Healthier Oceans
On the surface, the oceans seem indestructible. Science tells a different story, a story of overfishing, pollution and biological degradation. A presidential commission has now provided further evidence of decline. It has also provided a plausible road map for the oceans' recovery -- and for the policy changes Congress...
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Where Engineering Trumps Nature, Science Seeks a Balance
demand drops for hydroelectric power from Glen Canyon Dam. The river drops too, leaving splash marks high along the granite and lava walls. ''It is like a swimming pool,'' said Ted Melis, a scientist with the United States Geological Survey who is conducting experiments on the river's sparkling clarity, due to the loss...
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Keeping the Forces of Decrepitude at Bay
certain point because you can't see what happens inside your body, and then one day you see signs of aging in your face. It's a sharp reminder of mortality.'' It all goes back to that, of course, as simple a fact of life as it is profound: the dying of the light that leads to the pitch-darkness at the end of the tunnel...
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The Way We Live Now: 5-2-04: On Language; Cut and Run
by said Ship, but cut & run.'' The nautical metaphor was defined in the 1794 ''Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship'' as ''to cut the cable and make sail instantly, without waiting to weigh anchor.'' In those days, the anchor cable was made of hemp and could be cut, allowing an escaping vessel to run before ...
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China Races to Reverse Its Falling Production of Grain
With spring planting under way, the official New China News Agency announced in March that the government had issued an ''emergency circular'' establishing tax breaks, direct subsidies and other incentives for farmers to grow grain. A production goal of 455 million tons was set for 2004 and a ceiling was placed on cott...
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U.S. Military Disputed Protected Status of Prisoners Held in Iraq
state or an occupying power. In testimony last week on Capitol Hill, Col. Marc Warren, a top American military lawyer in Iraq, defended harsh techniques available to American interrogators there as not being in violation of the Geneva Conventions. He said the conventions should be read in light of ''various legal treat...
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Ideas & Trends; Hollywood Help Wanted: Classicists With Style
had ''Gladiator,'' a television remake of ''Spartacus'' and that Mel Gibson movie in the original Aramaic. Both Oliver Stone and Baz Luhrmann are directing movies about Alexander the Great. Of course, you can't really call the new works a trend; the movies have been making tales of togas and chariots for decades, from ...
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Colleges Struggle to Attract Job Recruiters to Campuses
Four years ago, it did not take much to lure corporate recruiters from cities like New York and Boston to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., to interview the latest crop of students at the graduate business school. Now it takes free rides on a corporate jet that is paid for by alumni. ''When the job market isn't great...
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BackTalk; The New Minstrel Show: Black Vaudeville With Statistics
folks are still cuttin' up for the white man. Any ethnic group that ever found itself on the periphery of equality and acceptance has had to create coping mechanisms. Some who were victimized by bigotry secretly mimicked the prejudicial perceptions of their oppressor with exaggerated, self-deprecating depictions of the...
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Brazil Resolves Complaint On Florida Juice-Import Tax
to finance advertising campaigns for Florida juice. In its W.T.O. complaint, Brazil, the world's No.1 citrus grower and exporter of frozen concentrated orange juice, charged that the tax was discriminatory and protectionist. Juice importers in Florida also criticized the tax and challenged it in court. Nearly two years...
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What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace
same challenge today, however, I would probably pass on meeting the girl's father -- and outflank him on the Internet. Thanks to e-mail, online chat rooms and instant messages -- which permit private, real-time conversations -- adolescents have at last succeeded in shielding their social lives from adult scrutiny. But ...
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MEMO PAD
US AIRWAYS EMPHASIZES GLOBAL NETWORKS -- As it battles Southwest Airlines in Philadelphia, US Airways has begun emphasizing the value of its international routes. As part of that effort, US Air said it joined the worldwide Star Alliance last week. Partner carriers in alliances cooperate to sell tickets on one another's...
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Monsanto Shelves Plan For Modified Wheat
Monsanto said yesterday that it had halted its effort to introduce the world's first genetically engineered wheat, bowing to the concerns of American farmers that the crop would endanger billions of dollars of exports. The announcement indicates how difficult it is becoming to introduce genetic engineering into new cro...
1580788_2
The Risks and Demands of Pregnancy After 20
is only one factor -- and perhaps not the most important one -- influencing the ability of a woman to conceive and deliver a healthy child in her waning reproductive years. Writing in the current issue of the journal Contemporary Ob/Gyn, Dr. Shirley Fong and Dr. Peter McGovern review what recent studies have revealed t...
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Europeans Appear Ready To Approve a Biotech Corn
lifting the moratorium.'' The corn, known as Bt-11, will be approved only for consumption, meaning Europeans will be able to eat the corn after it is imported from other countries but European farmers will still not be able to grow it themselves. The corn contains a bacterial gene that produces a toxin making the corn ...
1581734_1
Forget Lonely. Life Is Healthy At the Top.
for the general public, in which he pulls together 25 years of research, declaring that status is more important than genetics, supersize fast food or even smoking. But figuring out that status matters is one thing; figuring out why is another. How does status get under the skin? There are now tens of thousands of pape...
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Vatican Discourages Marriage With Muslims for Catholic Women
In an official church document released Friday, the Vatican discouraged marriage between Catholics and Muslims, especially Catholic women and Muslim men. When ''a Catholic woman and a Muslim wish to marry,'' the document says, ''bitter experience teaches us that a particularly careful and in-depth preparation is called...
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Measuring the Season in Generations . . .
Mr. Olson designs in and around Seattle, where he lives with his wife in a top-floor apartment downtown. (They spend several weekends a month at the cabin, and longer stretches during the summer.) Many of his clients are art collectors whose houses, while hardly gargantuan, are meant for showing off artworks and for en...
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The Architectural Blame Game
collapse have nothing to do with how innovative the architecture is, said Leslie Robertson, who was a chief engineer of the World Trade Center towers. ''When problems occur, it's usually in the interface'' between architects, engineers and contractors, he said. In other words, it is in translating the design from one o...
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Controlling Energy Costs On the Factory Floor
in energy management. ''I am the third or fourth person in this job, but I am not really the energy czar; I have energy czars working with me and for me,'' he said. Fuel switching plays an important role. Goodyear's nine factories in the United States consume large amounts of oil and natural gas to generate steam, whic...
1579477_2
Cordless Phones as Cellular Look-Alikes
highway. The 2.4-gigahertz phones are newer, so they have a newer problem: the frequency is shared with Wi-Fi wireless networks, wireless Xbox game controllers and some microwave ovens. Many recent 2.4-gigahertz phones and most Wi-Fi hubs automatically switch channels within their frequency if they are stepping on each...
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Another Leap by China, With Steel Leading Again
a long, tall shed, where they are pounded into shape and sprayed with jets of water to smooth their finish. Though some of the buildings are nearly half a century old, the plant was and remains one of China's more sensibly planned steel mills, with its own small mine nearby for low-grade iron ore and its own dock on th...
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Narrow Path for New Biotech Food Crops
potatoes were taken off the market by Monsanto after big potato processors and fast-food companies told growers that they did not want them. Lettuce growers in California balked at the introduction of Roundup Ready lettuce, said Kent J. Bradford, a professor of vegetable crops and director of the seed biotechnology cen...
1583140_2
I.O.C. Enters A New World And Stumbles
''The judge was saying that I was 41, old enough to be the mother of the women I was competing with.'' If Richards had been 25? ''It would have been totally different,'' she said. But in the eyes of I.O.C. members -- perhaps worried about future lawsuits, perhaps hoping to make a social statement -- steroids are fine a...
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ONLINE DIARY
Buried Treasure Grandparents, take note: Alan and Nancy Bixby just raised the bar. The Bixbys, a semiretired couple in Whidbey Island, Wash., have come up with a unique legacy by melding a new fad, geocaching, with an old one, time capsules. Their site, www.timeinacapsule.com, details their efforts to bury 10 time caps...
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Humiliating Photographs As Trophies Of War
of the most wrenching pictures are like the ones people pose for as they pretend to hold up the leaning tower of Pisa or point to the penis on Michelangelo's ''David.'' The picture of Pfc. Lynndie England with a naked prisoner on a leash is a version of the classic ''I caught this big fish'' photo. Specialist Jeremy C....
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Getting There and Back by the Book
human being, in person or on the phone.'' As someone who racks up a few miles himself each year, I welcomed Mr. Greenberg's insights on the wide-ranging topic of domestic and international hotels. There's practical information (how hotel room designers think about space; what the markup is on a glass of cola at the bar...
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U.N. Unit Sees Great Promise In Biotech Research on Crops
next 30 years. The issue has been caught up in the larger polarized debate over biotechnology foods. Proponents argue that the technology is essential to helping feed the world -- with the implication that biotechnology's opponents are against the poor. Opponents say that there are better ways to end hunger, or that bi...
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Hospitals Say City Schools Use Them as a Cure-All
to be identified because she works in the city schools, said her son, an 8-year-old second-grader at a Queens school, was taken to the emergency room at Elmhurst Hospital Center in March after school officials said he cried uncontrollably when another child pushed him. ''They called the ambulance and everything,'' the ...
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MEMO PAD
screeners discovered nearly 2 million knives or blades of less than 3 inches, and 3.3 million other ''sharp objects'' in passenger bags, the T.S.A. said. The new guidelines spell out various levels of fines for prohibited items discovered at checkpoints, within secure airport areas, or on board aircraft. Loaded firearm...
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Age-Fighting Hormones Put Men at Risk, Too
Hormone replacement for women past their childbearing years was originally popularized with the promise that taking estrogen could keep women ''feminine forever'' -- preserving their health, skin, bones, muscles, brains and, especially, their sexual pleasure. Now our youth-oriented culture has spawned another rush to f...
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Modified Seeds Found Amid Unmodified Crops
Seeds that are supposed to be free of genetic engineering routinely contain biotechnology traits anyway, a public interest group said yesterday. The group, the Union of Concerned Scientists, said it had detected tiny quantities of genetically modified seeds in most of the bags of unmodified corn, soybean and canola see...
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A Debate on Radiation in Breast Cancer
cells can, with time, spread to other parts of the body. The use of postsurgical radiation began to surge after the results of two large medical trials appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1997. One study from Denmark involved 1,708 premenopausal women who received surgery and chemotherapy, with or withou...
1561334_4
Lifting the Veils of Autism, One by One by One
less frequently, and, unlike most 1-year-olds, do not point at objects or people. Autism's hallmarks are a delay in language development, an inability to relate to other people and stereotyped or rigid behavior. But researchers have found that children vary greatly in the nature and the severity of their disabilities. ...
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Intricate European Mission Goes Hunting for a Comet
an orbit 15 miles from the nucleus of the two-and-a-half-mile-wide comet. Three months later -- after surveying the chunk of ice, dust and other debris for suitable sites -- the Rosetta will move within a couple of miles of the surface and release a 270-pound craft, Philae, that will try to make the first landing on a ...
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A Filter for Your In-Box Sets Passwords for Friends
Spam-fighting experts have long advised having multiple e-mail accounts: one for personal correspondence and at least one for activities like online shopping that can be abandoned when junk e-mail starts piling up. But this is likely to become unnecessary with ZoEmail, a new Web-based e-mail service that incorporates p...
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E-Mailing a Cellphone by the Numbers
recognize their area codes.'' Not surprisingly, Teleflip's rapid growth has attracted the attention of cellular companies, which say their main concern at this point is that the service will be used to send unwanted messages to their subscribers. ''There obviously are some concerns with how this is used, because one of...
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In Meeting Special Needs, Consider Mainstreaming
To the Editor: It was encouraging to read about the religious education geared to children with severe learning or developmental disabilities (In the Schools column: ''Religious Instruction Meeting Special Needs,'' Feb. 1). Many parents whose children are in my pediatric occupational therapy practice often express conc...
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Street News
-- on a curving side road above one of the valleys surrounding Jerusalem, a girl stepped off a bus, a small, delicate girl.'' As readers, we are being toyed with. There is something disingenuous in an aside like ''31 days before, to be precise,'' that suggests narrative intimacy and, above all, precision, even as the n...
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A Surge in Autism, but Why?
WHEN Dawn Geannette, a special education teacher, looks through her scrapbooks from the 1970's and 80's, she sees photographs of many students who were be labeled ''neurologically impaired'' or ''communications disabled.'' Today, they would be identified differently. ''There are more children being classified as autist...
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Armed for Terrorists, in Case Kindness Doesn't Work
The two German-made machine guns on the newest boat patrolling here in San Francisco Bay are not yet operational. There is no ammunition, and some of the sheriff's deputies are still learning how to shoot them. The important thing, though, is that they are obvious -- mounted high on the bow and stern, visibly deadly. S...
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Seeking Help for Autistic Children
To the Editor: Re ''Autism Cases Up; Cause Is Unclear'' (front page, Jan. 26): The federal government, in concert with groups advocating for autistic children, has created a 10-year plan to examine the causes, diagnosis and treatment of autism. While a good foundation, this is an unfinanced plan at the beginning of a p...
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Speech by GatesLends Visibility To E-Mail Stamp In War on Spam
Should people have to buy electronic stamps to send e-mail? Some Internet experts have long suggested that the rising tide of junk e-mail, or spam, would turn into a trickle if senders had to pay even as little as a penny for each message they sent. Such an amount might be minor for legitimate commerce and communicatio...
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AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Beaming TV to Cars, via Satellite
VIDEO systems in today's minivans and sport utility vehicles help to keep the peace in millions of back seats, entertaining young passengers with the huge selection of movies available on DVD and videocassette. But what the video systems rarely show are television programs. Reception of local TV broadcasts is marginal ...
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A Frenchman Or a Jew?
the rights of women, homosexuals, immigrants. In the 80's, we were at the forefront of the antiracist movement.'' In 1990, she noted, after the desecration of a Jewish cemetery at Carpentras -- presumed to have been the act of European-born neo-Nazis -- 100,000 people marched in protest in Paris, with the Socialist pre...
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Manners Matter
To the Editor: Some of the hassle and stress of air travel is unavoidable, but one reform would make things much less difficult. Passengers should be strictly limited to one carry-on item no larger than a briefcase, including women's purses that are the size of a briefcase and large diaper bags. No roll-alongs, suit ba...
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A Bridge Over Troubled Water
who monitor pollution in local streams, arrange conservation easements to maintain open land and conduct seminars on the region's culture, history and environment. ''Really, putting a nonprofit together is putting one foot in front of another,'' she said. ''You learn how to gain members, do mailings. Things happen, and...
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Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve?
a soup-to-nuts company anymore, or what we call molecule-to-market,'' Mr. Klausner said. A decade ago, for instance, his firm helped finance Trimeris, the company that tapped university research to develop Fuzeon, the first of a new class of AIDS drugs. Today, a more typical start-up backed by his firm is Somaxon Pharm...
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Commercial Property; Jamaica Seeks to Build on AirTrain
tenants is seen as a good idea, but, he added, ''Unfortunately, the airline industry is not flourishing now and they have placed expansion plans on hold.'' Development officials had hoped to sign up Jet Blue, a rapidly growing low-fare carrier, but Mr. Maltz said this seems unlikely. ''Jet Blue subleased some Con Ed sp...
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Commercial Property; Jamaica Seeks to Build on AirTrain
is growing rapidly, but Mr. Maltz said this did not appear likely. ''Jet Blue subleased some Con Ed space on Jamaica Avenue that is much less expensive than a new building,'' he said. Dealing With Autos Nonprofit Group Offers Parking Because many people still prefer to travel by car, the Jamaica development group, thou...
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Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat
night is also wrong. They were exhausted from being on round-the-clock alert for over a week. Finally, several historians, yours truly included, have described Washington's victory at Trenton as a merely symbolic or psychological triumph, akin to the Doolittle raid on Tokyo in 1942. Wrong again. Fischer shows that Tren...
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Turbulent Manners Unsettle Fliers
the screening process seems easier. ''If anything, I think since they put more security staff on, civility has risen,'' said Pauline Pastore of Liberty Corner, N.J., who flies from the Newark Liberty International Airport at least once a week on business. One telling pattern appears in the federal Department of Transpo...
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For Schedule Changes, Parents Just Log On
are some questions about potential problems and downsides to these systems. ''We have been looking at and talking about a reverse 911 system for six months,'' Carole Andreasen, director of technology for the Rye City School District, said in a telephone interview. ''We want the right product on board. A prime issue for...
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When the Lights Went Out in Europe
the shape of what many now take as immutable holy writ. Freeman is judicious, too, on the origins of early Christian asceticism and abhorrence of sex. (St. Jerome's theory that the main purpose of marriage was to produce virgins sounds too funny to be true, but apparently is.) Yet the book does not make its case, and i...