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Where the Rubber Meets the Sublime
arranged to represent the dead Christ lying in the lap of the Virgin. Solemn and graceful, it's a kind of junkyard Pietà. Other sculptures also refer to religion, an important part of Ms. Booker's life. ''Baptismal Dance'' (1994) consists of bone, fruit peels, and wood arranged in the vague shape of a crucifix. In plac...
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A dish of protein with a side of comedy is being used to promote foods with a soy additive.
on grocery shelves with the Solae label so that we can feel comfortable that consumers who see our ads can indeed find our product,'' he added. More important, a much wider cross-section of consumers have turned to soy. ''Soy products don't just sell to those 2 percent of people who are disciples anymore,'' Mr. Sutton ...
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Another Recall Involving Ford, Firestone Tires And S.U.V.'s
Auto safety regulators said on Thursday that Bridgestone/Firestone North America had begun the first tire recall since the government started using a new early warning system created in the wake of the rollover problems of Ford Explorers equipped with Firestone tires in the late 1990's. The latest recall again involves...
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Ground Zero's Ephemeral Elegance
the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. Within days of that catastrophe in May 1976, special relief funds had been set up around New York to aid victims and survivors. In March 2002 Nemo Gonano, the president of the Scuola Mosaicisti, wrote to New York officials offering the gift of a mural from the peo...
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E-Mail at The Washington Post Disrupted by a Missed Payment
Sometimes it doesn't take a hacker to bring down a computer network. The Washington Post said yesterday that it had inadvertently allowed the registration for one of its Internet domain names -- washpost.com -- to expire. That lapse had the immediate effect of shutting down the e-mail system that reporters and other Po...
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Experts Urge Bird Vaccination Against Flu
Three international health organizations yesterday urged countries in Asia where avian influenza is spreading to consider large-scale vaccination programs to protect billions of healthy birds. The move -- which would be a first, involving a vast undertaking in eight countries -- underscored the desperation of internati...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Religious Instruction Meeting Special Needs
tuition. Twelve students are currently enrolled, grouped according to age and ability. The children's problems are not mild learning disabilities or attention deficit disorder; rather, some students are autistic. Others have significant language delays, or severe learning disabilities and other problems. David Roher, a...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION
TILT A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa. By Nicholas Shrady. Simon & Schuster, $21.95. For Nicholas Shrady, the Tower of Pisa has some very human traits -- stubbornness, contrariness, a gravity-defying persistence -- and it has been driving people crazy for 800 years. ''What lies behind the tower's pristine white-ma...
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A Queen Gets Her Sea Legs
below us on the ocean's floor. The afternoon begins on the top deck complete with ''virtual golf'' (standing in a mesh cage whacking golf balls at the wall). TUESDAY, JAN. 20 -- As far as the eye can see there is nothing but azure water, a perfect setting for a glorious day of nothing. I chuckle thinking back to the fi...
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Students and Records Overlooked In Special Education Overhaul
LAST summer, as part of his overhaul of the New York City schools, Chancellor Joel I. Klein reorganized the special education system, which assesses and educates 150,000 children with handicaps ranging from minor learning disabilities to severe retardation. The restructuring, he promised, would remove bureaucratic dead...
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Pfizer Gives Up Testing Viagra On Women
said the researchers were changing their focus from a woman's genitals to her head. The brain is the crucial sexual organ in women, he said. Drugs that affect brain chemistry ''could be an extremely interesting area of investigation,'' he said. Pfizer's problem has been that its research effort has largely been led by ...
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Maybe Pilots Should Stick to the Script
that everyone who didn't raise their hands might want to speak to those who did about their faith'' during the four and a half hour flight. When the plane landed, many passengers reported being upset. News accounts over the weekend said that the pilot called passengers who did not accept Christ ''crazy,'' but Mr. Wagne...
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Of Hearts, Minds and Menopause
Symptoms of depression, even when mild, put postmenopausal women at much higher risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a new study. The researchers, who reported their work yesterday in The Archives of Internal Medicine, said their conclusions were based on data from the Women's Health Initiative and 93,676 post...
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Diagnosis Menopause
To the Editor: Re ''Hormone Use After Cancer Can Be Risky, Study Says'' (Feb. 3): The article refers to ''treating'' menopause, suggesting that it is a disease rather than a natural process. Or does society's penchant for valuing comfort at any cost influence scientific inquiry? Certainly, debilitating problems might r...
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ARTS BRIEFING
the Russian National Orchestra. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a nominee in the spoken word album category for the audiobook version of her memoir, ''Living History,'' was a runner-up to Al Franken and his ''Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'' INDIA: GRAMMY AFTERMATH -- In ...
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Technology Briefing | Internet: Governments Urged To Fight Spam
Governments around the world were urged to cooperate more in their fight against the proliferation of spam, or unsolicited e-mail, at a conference yesterday organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Governments should use their spending power ''as a carrot to encourage suppliers to develop...
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Speeding Flight Check-In At Self-Service Kiosks
at Zapp Packaging, near Los Angeles, is able to check in electronically and to get priority security screening at some airports. On a December flight, Mr. Zawaideh helped his mother, who travels infrequently, obtain a boarding pass at the check-in counter. ''I got through the kiosk in about five or six minutes,'' he re...
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Hormone Use After Cancer Can Be Risky, Study Says
Breast cancer survivors who took hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms had many more cancer recurrences than women who did not take hormones, a new study has found. The study, conducted in Sweden, was halted abruptly when the difference between the groups became apparent, because the researchers judged that even shor...
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Corrections
An article in Business Day yesterday about electronic stamps and other proposed deterrents to e-mail spam misstated the affiliation of David Farber, a computer scientist who said electronic postage systems were likely to be too complex and would impose costs on noncommercial users who should be able to send e-mail free...
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After the Nightmare, Saving Cambodia's Treasures
the Indians. ''Their presence was politically important,'' he said. ''They were the first to return, with few resources and under very difficult conditions. There was a cease-fire, but still great insecurity. Perhaps their method was not correct, but it is good to remember the conditions.'' Finally in 1991 Cambodia's w...
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After the Nightmare, Saving Cambodia's Treasures
team is restoring Chau Sey Tevoda outside the eastern gate of Angkor Thom. A Swiss team is reinforcing the structures of the ''pink'' temple of Banteay Srei, 20 miles northeast of Angkor Wat. Japanese experts, who have already restored the northern library of the Bayon, are restoring the towers of Prasat Suor Prat and ...
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Adventure or Inquiry? Two Visions of Cosmic Destiny
The shuttle and the space telescope were a marriage of convenience, the visions driving them composing a sort of yin-yang heartbeat inside NASA. In the 1970's, astronomers, who had long dreamed of a telescope above the blurry atmosphere, had no choice but to build a telescope that could be launched and maintained from ...
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A Town Forever on the Brink of Death Wants Visitors
butte that resembles a ridiculously tall, top-heavy cupcake. Although the rate at which it is crumbling is more or less glacial, Mr. Pompei said the battle to contain the process was intensifying. At the start of this year, he said, engineers began a soil-fortification project that will cost more than $15 million and t...
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Still Spam, but Less of It
To the Editor: A Feb. 5 letter suggests that e-mail postage would not stop spam and analogizes to junk mail, which we still get even though the senders must pay postage. Even if some marketers continued to send e-mail advertisements, the number would drop. Simply put, only those advertisements expected to generate a re...
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U.S. and Australians Reach Wide-Ranging Trade Accord
The United States completed negotiations for a free trade agreement with Australia on Sunday, and proponents called it a landmark deal that could increase American manufacturing exports by as much as $2 billion annually. The agreement, a rare trade victory for the Bush administration, was reached as America's annual tr...
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World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Peace Accord Review Starts
The British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland's political parties began a formal review of the the so-called Good Friday Agreement of 1998 that created the Catholic-Protestant government that has been suspended since October 2002. President Bush's new envoy to Northern Ireland, Martin Reiss, met with all the g...
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On Last Legs, Old NASA Tower Gains Supporters
Web site, www.savethelut.org, to rally support. A NASA contractor has already brought in equipment to dismantle and decontaminate the tower's red segments before they head for the blast furnace. The demolition, which is to take about six months, would consist of separating the individual components and then blasting th...
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OBSERVATORY
Cells communicate in a number of ways. Gap junctions, for instance, are even smaller and shorter channels between cells that allow ions and small molecules to cross. In plants, small strands of cytoplasm known as plasmodesmata allow molecular transfers. The researchers say their nanotubes appear to be another form of c...
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Hunt for Chief Raises Questions for Coke
been the mastermind behind much of the company's restructuring efforts. ''It gives them one more year to evaluate him as a candidate,'' said Michael C. Bellas, the chairman and chief executive of Beverage Marketing. ''Lots of the fruits of what they've been working on will be a little more discernible at the end of the...
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John Hume
No one did more to bring about the peace that has settled over Northern Ireland in recent years than John Hume, the professorial politician, civil rights advocate and admirer of Martin Luther King, who announced this month that his current terms in the European and British Parliaments will be his last. After years of s...
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Privacy Issue Delays Change In Airport Screening System
Aviation Administration, which was then in charge of aviation security. The system is operated by the airlines based on their computer records about passengers, and some computers are so old that they cannot store all the letters in a passenger's name. The replacement system, known as CAPPS II, was mandated by Congress...
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F.C.C. Opens Phone Lines To Plug-Ins Over the Net
Homes could start being connected to the Internet through electrical outlets, and consumers and business may find it easier to make cheaper telephone calls online under new rules that the Federal Communications Commission began preparing on Thursday. Taken together, the new rules could profoundly affect the architectur...
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4 Indicted in a Steroid Scheme That Involved Top Pro Athletes
Conte communicating with professional athletes and coaches about steroids, defeating steroid testing, attempts to keep these activities covert and concealing financial transactions,'' Mr. Novitzky wrote in the affidavit. One e-mail message that was said to be written by Mr. Conte and sent to someone identified only as ...
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Bridge Out of Nowhere Leads a Town to Its Future
subdivisions with names like River Knoll sprawling on the hilltop. ''Art and culture have never been high on the agenda,'' said Carol Whiteside, president of the Great Valley Center, a nonprofit regional public policy organization in Modesto, Calif. ''Many rural places don't understand the value of landmarks.'' Mr. Cal...
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A Way Out for Haiti
Ever since President Woodrow Wilson sent in the Marines in 1915, the United States has made intermittent -- and sometimes inconsistent -- efforts to bring about stability, democracy and prosperity in Haiti. The last decade, especially, has seen striking examples of contradictory American policy, and the cumulative resu...
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Engineer's Papers Dispute Hubble Decision
of the next decade as originally planned. In explaining his decision, Mr. O'Keefe had cited a recommendation of the board that investigated the Columbia space shuttle disaster last year that NASA must develop a way to inspect and repair damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system. While the National Aeronautics a...
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Camus and the Neo-Cons: More in Common Than They Might Suspect
emerging in new configurations. So neo-conservativism continues, now even taking center stage, named as the ideology behind President Bush's foreign policy. In neo-conservatism's continued evolution, though, how are lessons learned from the past to be applied to a transformed world? An example from the past may show ho...
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A Triumph for Big Sugar
America's sugar growers may not be competitive in the global marketplace, but they know how to play in Washington. The sugar lobby has managed to exempt its product from a free trade deal with Australia, a triumph that comes at the expense of American consumers and the nation's broader trade agenda, not to mention the ...
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When Philosophy Makes a Difference
When the Library of Congress first talked to the 76-year-old Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, it was to ask him to nominate candidates for a new $1 million humanities prize. So he was taken aback when the Library later called to tell him he had won the award himself. If Dr. Kolakowski was surprised, most Americans...
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McGreevey's Optimism on Budget Plan Meets Criticism of Its Sources of Financing
leader and a Republican. Mr. McGreevey, however, said that he was keeping to his promise not to raise sales and income taxes, and he has challenged his critics to find other ways to cut the budget, or other ways to raise revenue. ''This budget reflects my values and reminds me of why I wanted to be governor,'' he said....
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Economic Memo; Even for Financial Experts, Analyzing the Job Market Is an Adventure
Is the job market improving more quickly than most people realize? Even though the government recently ignited new talk of a jobless recovery by reporting a measly gain of 1,000 jobs in December, nearly every other measure of the labor market offers a more encouraging picture. The gap suggests that President Bush may b...
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MEMO PAD
International Traffic Up For Most U.S. Airlines Despite tightened security measures that included more than 15 canceled foreign flights over the holidays, most domestic airlines carried significantly more international traffic last month than in December 2002, according to the airlines' monthly traffic reports. Foreign...
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Some Fliers Could Avoid Extra Scrutiny
and may also inspect the carry-ons. That takes only an additional three or four minutes, he said, so ''individuals will have to decide'' whether obtaining a card is worthwhile. It is not clear who would bear the cost of running a background check on the traveler; one idea is that the applicant would pay. Some passenger...
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Ecuador Indians Fend Off Oil Companies With Tourism
An Achuar Indian, Cristóbal Callera treads through the jungle like a child of the rain forest. But on a recent day he had a gaggle of heavy-footed tourists in tow, the rain falling in waves and the trail mired in mud. Mr. Callera stopped frequently before what appeared to be unremarkable plants, slicing them open with ...
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A Memorial Worth Preserving
If it had been possible to look ahead, just a few months after 9/11, to the memorial design that was unveiled last Wednesday morning at Federal Hall National Memorial, we would have been surprised not only by its beauty, but also by the fact that the footprints of the twin towers are preserved intact, as essential elem...
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Choir Founder Admits He Erred in Allowing Counselor to Keep Working With Students
Walter J. Turnbull, the embattled founder and director of the Boys Choir of Harlem, acknowledged yesterday that he had made a mistake in allowing a counselor to remain in contact with students after the man had been banned from the school for molesting a 14-year-old student. ''It happened; I handled it badly,'' Mr. Tur...
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East German Steroids' Toll: 'They Killed Heidi'
It was affiliated with the powerful sports club Dynamo, which was sponsored by the Stasi, the East German secret police. At 16, Heidi began to receive round blue pills wrapped in foil. This was the steroid Oral-Turinabol, but coaches typically called them vitamins that would increase strength and help the athletes endu...
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Costa Rica to Be 5th Country In New Trade Pact With U.S.
nations, with their lower labor costs, are especially feared. The creation of something like a textile free-trade area would make the United States cotton and textile industries part of a tariff-free supply chain with the garment factories of the Central American region. ''We believe this will be extremely helpful when...
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E-Mail on Wheels
computers. Briefly, this schoolyard of tree stumps and a hand-cranked water well becomes an Internet hot spot. It is a digital pony express: five Motomen ride their routes five days a week, downloading and uploading e-mail. The system, developed by a Boston company, First Mile Solutions, uses a receiver box powered by ...
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Keeping Track of Visitors
concerns that the United States would excessively humiliate certain travelers, or treat them in an undignified manner. Despite earlier worries that visitors from the Middle East might be singled out for special scrutiny, the program applies to visitors from all over the world. It exempts only tourists from 28 nations w...
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'Wired' Passenger in Paris Was in Motorcycle Garb
When Richard Reid was found with a fuse in his shoe two years ago on a flight from Paris, the discovery foiled a terrorist plot. But on Tuesday, the suspicious wiring on another flight from Paris turned out to be a false alarm. With the United States and France on heightened alert over the prospect of an international ...
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World Opinion Is Fragmented On Tighter Security for Visitors
No one would dare to seem soft on terrorism these days. But the new security measures imposed on travel to the United States have sparked strong and starkly different reactions around the world, veering from loud cheering to swift retaliation. In a sense, the response provides a fresh global analysis of the trauma of S...
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Spam Keeps Coming, but Its Senders Are Wary
in their recent cases against mailers. Still evidence in the e-mail stream suggests violations of the new law are rampant. Postini, a company that filters e-mail for corporations, said that 84 percent of the messages it had seen since Jan. 1 were spam, up from 80 percent in mid-December. But Andrew Lochart, the company...
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British Cancel Another Flight Bound for U.S.
British Airways canceled another flight to the United States on Friday as the Bush administration faced questions from American allies about the reliability of the intelligence information that has led to the recent rash of flight cancellations. The British airline grounded a flight from London to Washington -- the thi...
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Drop in Business Clients Is Seen After Cancellations
travel season, which they expected to improve over last year, when bookings were depressed by the SARS epidemic and the looming war with Iraq. But the industry's outlook dimmed yesterday as more flights were canceled. ''Given the uncertainties involved, all of a sudden you're playing roulette with the possibility that ...
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The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware on the Web
Americans are smitten by the idea that new technologies will revolutionize life as we know it and greatly expand human potential. This was true of the inventor Thomas Edison, who predicted in the 1920's that the motion picture camera would transform public schooling and might even replace textbooks. An early broadcasti...
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Putting the Sex Trade on Notice
Around the world, about one million women and children are seduced into leaving their homelands every year and forced into prostitution or menial work in other countries. Most are duped with promises of good jobs in more prosperous nations. These cases are not confined to remote parts of the world. Of the 15 nations th...
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Heading for the Stars, And Wondering if China Might Reach Them First
collaboration with developed countries, state news media reported. China has also joined with Brazil on satellite launches. In all, China plans to launch 10 satellites this year, and a total of 30 by 2005; it currently has 16 in orbit. The satellites have scientific, commercial and military applications. More bold are ...
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Intolerance in Northern Ireland: Religion, and Now Race
The young couple from China were sitting in front of the television set in their newly rented row house in South Belfast, just before Christmas, when they heard glass shatter. They looked up to see two men standing in their living room with bricks in their hands. One of them battered the Chinese man's face repeatedly. ...
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The Bush proposal on illegal immigrants is a tentative but important first step.
in the United States, as populations age. As for benefits to developing nations, preliminary results of an incomplete survey by Mark Rosenzweig of the Kennedy School and his colleagues show that earnings increases for migrants over what they made in their home countries are steep. To give an idea, the average increase ...
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The Electronic Verification Is in the Mail
code against the old one. If the fingerprints do not match, then the user knows the document has been altered. Because the actual document is not sent to the database, the creators of the service say privacy is uncompromised. An altered document is not necessarily one that has been tampered with. A faulty data transmis...
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Beijing Leaders' Populist Touch Is Not Felt by Most Rural Poor
peasants whose wages disappear in an impenetrable web of unpaid debts. Their woes are a major source of rural instability, the official media suggest. They regularly carry reports of construction workers who beat their bosses, or threaten to kill themselves by jumping off towers they have built, to draw attention to wa...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Business; So, the Fish Glow. But Will They Sell?
with larger philosophical concerns about genetic engineering. In fact, they say, the fish may need a little more genetic tweaking to really impress people. They suggest that the fish are not all that spectacular, considering the price. Stores generally sell GloFish for $5 to $10; an ordinary silver and black zebrafish ...
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Pilots in Europe Look Askance at Marshals
DO guards with guns protect airplanes and their passengers from terrorist attacks? For many Americans, long used to the association of law enforcement with weapons, the answer might seem an obvious yes. But since the United States ordered foreign airlines to deploy sky marshals on some flights to the United States, the...
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Résumés That Make It Happen
unemployment runs out. You probably weren't home eating bon-bons.'' Ms. Shirit recently advised a client hoping to change her job as a retail executive to public relations, a move the client feels she could make with relative ease. Ms. Shirit agreed that it was a possible transition but that the client's résumé needed ...
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Ideas & Trends -- Sp@m ShEn@nig@nS!!; That Gibberish in Your In-Box May Be Good News
spammers can't easily fake their identities. Other speakers proposed eco-electronic solutions like digital postage stamps that would put a price on sending e-mail -- trivial for an individual user but making hit-or-miss barrages prohibitively expensive. Like epidemiologists discussing how to predict and control a biolo...
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Burtynsky's Account: Adding Up the Price That Nature Pays
Now, as 2004 begins, Mr. Burtynsky, 48, has decided to step back. ''I'm taking this year off, in a way, without having a monolithic idea of what I want to do,'' he said recently over coffee in a restaurant near his West End Toronto studio. ''I'm allowing the year to be very splintered, where I'm just letting myself tou...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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Corrections
An article last Sunday about the aging of the world population reversed two figures that described the rate of population growth in the United States last year. According to the Census Bureau, on average an American was born every 12 seconds; one died every 20 seconds. (On Monday the bureau issued a new estimate: one b...
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Gay Marriage: A Compromise
purists on both sides of this issue will not accept compromise. Rabbi J.B. Sacks Rosen, a gay activist who served for nine years as rabbi to Congregation B'nai Jacob in Jersey City, says he entertains compromise only because it ''affords the civil rights of marriage to those who should be receiving them in any event.''...
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From Cereal to Juice, a Year of Innovation
Many consumers may look back at 2003 as the year in which the economy and stock market finally started to bounce back. But it was also a year of product innovation. Consumers could buy portable cereal that never becomes soggy, plastic wrap that clings only to the things they want it to cling to, and orange juice that c...
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Remedial Work
to justify its use. There was (and is) no compelling evidence that testosterone relieves fatigue or nervousness, and later there was evidence that it might be harmful. Testosterone now qualifies as a postmodern exemplar of snake oil, regularly hawked in that new digital bazaar, the Internet. Women, alas, have been forc...
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Reliving 9/11, With Fire as Teacher
of course, do not make an entire trade center, or even one of the wide-open, acre-size floors in either of the towers. So Dr. Kevin McGrattan, a mathematician at the building and fire research lab, is using the Fire Dynamics Simulator to knit together data from the small-scale tests and calculate the sweep of the fires...
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Officials to Consider Role of Preservation at Ground Zero
rarely dealt with as unconventional a site as ground zero. To begin with, the trade center site falls far short of the ordinary 50-year age requirement for registry eligibility. That, however, can be overcome with a finding that it possesses exceptional significance. More challenging, the site is both a mass graveyard ...
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A Chance for Scholars to Assess Ground Zero's Historical Significance
Architectural preservationists are coming to the rescue one more time. Thanks to these intrepid souls, the ground zero design process may shortly enter a new stage. Legitimacy, it might be called. Preliminary discussions are being held today on a federal review of plans to develop the World Trade Center site. As stipul...
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Rubin Gets Shrill
projections that this deficit will decline over time aren't based on ''credible assumptions.'' Realistic projections show a huge buildup of debt over the next decade, which will accelerate once the baby boomers retire in large numbers. All of this is conventional stuff, if anathema to administration apologists, who ins...
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U.S. Institutes Fingerprinting At Entry Points
had now passed. Intelligence leads have pointed to potential attacks ''around New Year's and beyond'' on British Airways flights between London and Dulles International Airport outside Washington, an administration official said. Those flights were canceled for two straight days last week because of security concerns, ...
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Strong Depth Of Emotion And No Frills In 2 Footprints
in this direction in late 2001. Mr. Gehry urged me to read Seneca, but Marcus Aurelius proved more helpful. Where have we come from? Where are we going? What is the nature of this place? Ms. Tharp boxed my ears until I admitted that continuity matters more than rupture, especially at times when rupture isn't hard to fi...
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Leaving Some Children Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act is potentially the most important school initiative to come along since the country embraced compulsory education in the early 20th century. But the goal of providing all children with qualified teachers and high-quality schooling may slip away unless Congress provides the money needed to d...
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Built for the Arctic: A Species' Splendid Adaptations
did 25 years ago. He and other researchers fear that while the worldwide population of polar bears, estimated at 30,000, is not imminently threatened, subgroups like that of the western Hudson Bay may well be wiped out if the climate continues to heat up. ''It would be a sad day,'' said Dr. Schliebe, ''if polar bears w...
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'Overlooked' No Longer
''The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women,'' edited by Dr. Lauren Slater, Dr. Jessica Henderson Daniel and Dr. Amy Elizabeth Banks. Beacon Press, $24.95. Why women's mental health? Why not just general mental health? The answer, the authors of this home reference conclude, is that men and women are different, in ...
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In a Mental Institute, the Call of the Outside
of my work as clinical director. Until one recent meeting of unit leaders, when Dr. C. announced: ''We've come to a decision. Enough is enough. No more cellphones!'' I was shocked. As far as I knew, our wireless experiment had been going reasonably well. ''Why?'' ''Because they were too disruptive.'' Dr. C. was unchara...