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Maker Warns of Scarcity Of Hormone for Dairy Cows
A genetically engineered growth hormone for cows that is widely used to increase milk production will be in severe short supply this year, its manufacturer, Monsanto, has told dairy farmers. In letters to farmers and a press release to dairy industry publications Thursday, Monsanto said that customers would be allocate...
1552185_3
Ireland's Perennial Outsider: No Confession, No Apology
does he admit to being frustrated with the slow pace of those years out in the cold, and the tenacity of all those involved is often astounding. People who wonder what it felt like to be such a pariah get the simple answer that Mr. Adams never knew it any other way. His thoroughness in describing these and later discus...
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At Ground Zero, Rebuilding With Nature in Mind
While most of the anguished debate about ground zero has focused on recreating and remembering what was once there, another effort has been moving forward to create on the site something that never existed, an environmentally sensitive city within a city that is attuned to nature as well as the real estate market. Over...
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MEMO PAD
aircraft forward,'' said Rob Maruster, Delta's director for airport customer service. First-class passengers will continue to be the first to board. But there is a change for coach passengers with Medallion elite status in Delta's frequent-flier program, who used to be boarded in one group, right after first class. Now...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
1551659_12
What's the Problem, Officer?
problems for a municipality to tackle, and that even a seemingly simple solution may backfire. If a street has too many stop signs, for example, some drivers start to ignore them, while other drivers actually speed up to make up for lost traveling time. In general, traffic engineers say, stop signs are more useful for ...
1551784_5
The SAT III?
Maryland -- has applied for a $400,000 federal grant to help create a test based on Dr. Sedlacek's research that would ''more accurately assess university applicants'' than admission exams can do alone, says Raymond Ting, associate professor of counselor education at North Carolina State. Dr. Ting, who coordinated the ...
1551809_5
The SAT III?
Maryland -- has applied for a $400,000 federal grant to help create a test based on Dr. Sedlacek's research that would ''more accurately assess university applicants'' than admission exams can do alone, says Raymond Ting, associate professor of counselor education at North Carolina State. Dr. Ting, who coordinated the ...
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Tougher Security, More Delays
THE future level of terrorist threats is hard to predict, but two years after airport security personnel began ordering passengers to remove their shoes to check for explosives, more acute disruptions and security delays -- like the ones last month -- seem entirely possible. ''It's conceivable that the imagination of t...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
1551839_2
The Lab Animal
put into practice -- the already strong, seeking to get stronger still. Sweeney gets their e-mail messages. One came from a high-school football coach in western Pennsylvania not long after Sweeney first presented his findings at a meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. ''This coach wanted me to treat his wh...
1550272_0
New System For Air Security Moves Forward
Stymied by the domestic airlines in trying to test a massive new computer system meant to identify people who are risks to civil aviation, the government is thinking of using data collected by European airlines instead, an official said on Sunday night. The agency responsible for the new system, the Transportation Secu...
1547320_3
Bringing the Historical Confucius to Life; A Show in Paris Traces the Origins of the Sage, Who Has Influenced Countless Millions for 2,500 Years
between the 12th and 7th centuries B.C., all of which underline the sophistication of the society into which Confucius was born. And so no less than those who worship ancestors in China today, Confucius had good reason to be in awe of his own ancestors and to show determination to preserve their rituals and knowledge. ...
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FLIGHT SENT BACK ON TERROR FEAR, U.S. OFFICIALS SAY
and directed it to a remote site, a security official involved in the operation said. Intelligence developed by American officials indicated that the route of the flight might be a target of terrorists, and at least one name on the passenger list appeared to match a name on a terror watch list, the security official sa...
1547346_2
Radio Begins to Catch the Eyes as Well as the Ears of Listeners
cars. The technology is standard equipment on all Lexus and BMW models, and either standard or an option on many Ford, Chrysler and Toyota cars with high-end sound systems. General Motors estimates that at least half of the cars it ships to dealers have R.D.S. radios. Even some models of table radios and stereo tuners ...
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Track Tries To Retain Its Ideals
face. I've never looked at track and field that way. I don't look at track meets and wonder who is on steroids and who is not. I look at who finishes where; I look at effort. While I certainly don't approve of performance-enhancing drugs, I won't allow an athlete's recklessness -- if someone wants to destroy his body -...
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India's Lofty Ambitions in Space Meet Earthly Realities
costs have not meant catastrophic launching failures. Only 6 of India's 37 satellite launchings have failed. This month the national newsmagazine The Week ran a grandiloquent cover story that captured the country's infatuation with its space program and its self-image as an emerging power. ''Every space power is trying...
1553172_0
Study Links Some Hair Dyes to Kind of Cancer
Scientists have found more evidence for a possible link between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and long-term use of dark hair dye. A study of more than 1,300 women in Connecticut shows that those who began coloring their hair before 1980 increased their chance of developing the disease by 40 percent. And among those who used p...
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Phones, Too, Get TV Time
argue that Americans multitask in the car quite enough already. Will Sprint customers listen to news, sports or music on their cellphones in the car instead of turning on the radio -- but glance down now and then for a glimpse of the video? Still, when it comes to cultural change, the TV cellphone can't hold a candle t...
1550014_2
The Neediest Cases; Amid Struggles, a Mother Makes Room in Her Home
from their own hopes and dreams. ''I just want all these kids to be successful,'' she said. A lot of the hope that Ms. Ramirez has centers on the education of her children. She attends PTA meetings and has found books and materials for them at local school board conferences. She boasts of her son Wilfredo's accomplishm...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
1549717_2
The Shushing of the Symphony
hearing loss, stemming both from the player's own instrument and from those of others, is a real one among classical musicians worldwide. Hearing loss may manifest itself as a decreased ability to perceive high frequencies or slight changes in pitch. It may also extend to tinnitus, a buzzing or ringing in the ear. But ...
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My So-Called Blog
And you keep on checking your e-mail.'' M. is an unusually Zen teenage boy -- dreamy and ruminative about his personal relationships. But his obsessive online habits are hardly exceptional; he is one of a generation of compulsive self-chroniclers, a fleet of juvenile Marcel Prousts gone wild. When he meets new friends ...
1549656_3
Pacific Overtures
was often inflexible in pursuing stolen goods if they were expedition property rather than personal property -- a distinction lost on Polynesians and sailors alike, who were amused by his ruthless pursuit of a stolen goat across one island. The introduction of European livestock, brought with infinite pains halfway rou...
1549886_4
Taiwan Close to Reaching a Lofty Goal
and might not collapse at all under similar circumstances. The World Trade Center's structure relied on many slender columns in each floor. Taipei 101 has an immense frame with eight pillars of steel and reinforced concrete, each measuring 11 feet by 8 feet at the base, rising inside the corners of the building. Even a...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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An Austrian Advantage
I washed dishes. But by my sophomore year, I went to work for the Harvard Student Agencies, a student-run enterprise that, among other things, publishes the ''Let's Go'' travel guide series. In the summer between my freshman and sophomore years, I became the editor for the Austria and Czechoslovakia editions. While thi...
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Gay Couples Seek Unions In God's Eyes
at was a marriage of two women. I think that more and more rabbis are officiating, certainly in the Reform and Reconstructionist movements.'' Even some members of the clergy who do not have the permission of their denominations -- including Catholic priests -- say they are quietly officiating at ceremonies in defiance ...
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World Briefing | Asia: Taiwan: Rebuke To Chirac
Taiwan said it was suspending high-level government exchanges with France to protest President Jacques Chirac's criticism of the island's planned referendum on missile defense. Mr. Chirac made the comments while serving as host to the Chinese president, Hu Jintao. Craig S. Smith (NYT)
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Interruption of Effort to Down Drug Planes Is Disclosed
Amazon River despite his own wounds from the attack. After that incident, the C.I.A. came under heavy fire for its handling of the program, and the agency's director, George J. Tenet, made it clear to the White House that his agency no longer wanted any part of it. The State Department agreed to take it over, and hired...
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World Business Briefing | Asia: Malaysia: Dam To Be Completed
The prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, said his government would continue to build a $2.4 billion hydroelectric dam in the Borneo rain forest. Some analysts had predicted Mr. Abdullah, who took over from Mahathir Mohamad in October, would shelve the dam after he scrapped a $3.8 billion rail project, citing budget constra...
1587641_2
States' End Run Dilutes Burden For Special Ed
changes Maryland is proposing in relabeling special ed students would not only obscure some numbers, but would likely increase the scores for special ed, since the children remaining in that category would largely be white students from affluent families who generally do better on tests. But even they may not be counte...
1587677_3
Spreading the Pope's Message Of Sexuality and a Willing Spirit
workshops for the clergy and other programs. Led by laypeople, dozens of groups have sprung up around the country to study the pope's views. This month, about 50 people will meet in Maine to train as group facilitators in a retreat sponsored by Women Affirming Life, a national anti-abortion group. Mr. West, who sells h...
1592175_0
Undermining the U.N.
To the Editor: ''U.S. Is Accused of Trying to Isolate U.N. Population Unit'' (news article, June 21) reflects an administration elevating antiabortion politics over American national interests and undermining its own larger objectives. Republicans and others have urged United Nations reform, particularly the need to ov...
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World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: A New Deadline
After meeting in London with Northern Ireland's main political parties, Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland set a deadline of September for restarting the province's stalled local government, which was suspended in 2002 by British authorities for the fourth time in four years amid allegati...
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High-speed Internet access makes it easy to leaf through catalogs online (and you don't have to lick your mouse).
catalogs have also helped ease the strain on customer service representatives when a new catalog ships, Mr. Hayes said. J.Jill sends an e-mail message with a link to the online catalog before it mails the paper catalog, he said, and the early shoppers ''lower the peak demand a little for us, which makes us more efficie...
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It's a Dirty Job, But They Do It, Secretly, in Iraq
It was an engineering success on the order of stringing the first cables for the Brooklyn Bridge or coaxing the first glimmer of starlight through some giant telescope to unravel the structure of the universe. But when it occurred late last month, the achievement remained cloaked in absolute secrecy, marked only by a q...
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Towers' Wind-Force Design Questioned
Engineers who designed the World Trade Center may have significantly underestimated the force of the winds that the twin towers needed to withstand in the worst of possible storms, federal investigators said yesterday, an oversight that could have led to weaker-than-needed exterior steel columns. That design decision, ...
1589126_0
Jobs and Education
To the Editor: Re ''Study Finds Senior Exams Are Too Basic'' (news article, June 10): Businesses should do what colleges have done for decades: use admissions tests and criteria in addition to high school degree and grade point average. Employers need to assess whether students will succeed in the jobs they are being h...
1589171_0
Short on Priests, U.S. Catholics Outsource Prayers to Indian Clergy
With Roman Catholic clergy in short supply in the United States, Indian priests are picking up some of their work, saying Mass for special intentions, in a sacred if unusual version of outsourcing. American, as well as Canadian and European churches, are sending Mass intentions, or requests for services like those to r...
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By a Back Door to the U.S.: A Migrant's Grim Sea Voyage
said. He said he had been navigating migrant boats since the maritime exodus began booming when the economy plummeted at the end of the 1990's. He had been arrested six years ago aboard a migrant boat, and fined $3,000, and his navigator's license had been taken for life. He got a false license without any trouble, and...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
1589048_1
Socrates' New Disciple
discussions, discover a philosophy of life and to cultivate a social conscience. ''I had this sort of hypothesis that there are all these people in America who are dying to get together and engage with one another, really lock hearts and minds -- and they just needed a catalyst,'' Mr. Phillips said in a recent phone in...
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PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL
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The Fidelity Fix
spreading any public-health message. Some researchers have attributed Uganda's H.I.V.-prevention success to increased sexual abstinence among teenage girls, but statistics suggest that partner reduction, especially on the part of men, was far more important. During the early 1990's, Uganda's teenage-pregnancy rates, wh...
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The Fidelity Fix
reduction. He sent back a response but did not answer that question. I also asked Michel Carael, a sociologist and former team leader in prevention at the agency, about the silence on this topic. He denied that the U.N. AIDS program, which was established in the mid-1990's, played down fidelity, but when I read through...
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U.S. Is Accused of Trying to Isolate U.N. Population Unit
The Bush administration, which cut off its share of financing two years ago to the United Nations agency handling population control, is seeking to isolate the agency from groups that work with it in China and elsewhere, United Nations officials and diplomats say. Pressed by opponents of abortion, the administration wi...
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World Briefing | Americas: Canada: Two-Step On Gay Unions
The Anglican Church of Canada sidestepped a decision on whether to approve same-sex unions when church leaders at a national meeting opted instead to defer one for three years while passing a conciliatory resolution that affirmed the ''integrity and sanctity'' of gay relationships. Individual bishops and dioceses may s...
1592002_1
AOL to Buy Advertising.com, an Online Direct Marketer
ad they display. The major antispyware software programs look for and remove Advertising.com's cookies, as well as those from other ad networks, on the ground that they lead to an invasion of privacy. And the company's e-mail marketing operation is listed by the Spamhaus Project, a leading organization that fights junk...
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Movement on North Korea, Finally
North Korea's nuclear arms program has been the biggest unconventional weapons threat to the United States since the day President Bush took office. But it took three years of posturing, in which North Korea probably processed enough plutonium to make several bombs, before the Bush administration took real action. It h...
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Iran and North Korea Reignite Fears on Atomic Programs
Iran and North Korea made separate announcements on Thursday that spurred concern that they are headed to confrontations with the United States over their nuclear programs. European nations said they had received a diplomatic note from Iran saying it would resume manufacturing equipment for its nuclear centrifuges, but...
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Variety, the spice of life, has measurable value. But it's not easy to determine.
varieties were. Consumers do not generally care what country a commodity like crude oil comes from, for example. They care much more about varieties of wine, automobiles or cheese, and they value some varieties more than others. Access to French wine is more important to most people than access to Japanese or Australia...
1590015_0
Clinical Trial Of Growth Drug Shows Promise
Research that the biotechnology giant Genentech began more than a decade ago could be on the verge of a major payoff -- but not necessarily for Genentech. A newly public biotechnology company, Tercica, which uses technology and patents it bought from Genentech, announced favorable results yesterday from a clinical tria...
1590113_3
Sad Adieu to College, And to Good Old .edu
use the e-mail address often while others never do. Still, for most graduates, hanging on is not an option. ''It's a pain, but so is not having your parents do your laundry,'' said Robert P. Hopkins, an associate professor of computer science at Cooper Union who is in charge of e-mail addresses. Students must ''grow up...
1590128_4
Turning The Tables On E-Mail Swindlers
enforcement agency not making use of them. They are on the front lines, and they have information that is very valuable.'' In March, Mr. Visser established www.419legal.org as a clearinghouse for information about advance-fee fraud and as a launching pad for attacking fraud artists. (Mr. Visser said his government's ap...
1590187_2
Waste and Fraud Besiege U.S. Program to Link Poor Schools to Internet
everything they recommend.'' ''You couldn't invent a way to throw money down the drain that would work any better than this,'' he added. The Universal Service Administrative Company, a nonprofit government corporation overseen by the communications commission and known to school administrators as USAC (pronounced YOU- ...
1588288_2
The earning power of women has really increased, right? Take a closer look.
not work at all for four or more years . By contrast, only one man in 27 was out of work so much. Thus, a snapshot of the median income of two-worker families in any given year exaggerates the financial advantage to the family of the working spouse. Some combination of social mores, necessity and, arguably, parental in...
1588227_1
Intriguing the Physicists, Radio Buff Shrinks an Antenna
as normally required. He has spoken to other ham operators in over 80 countries on the 160-meter band through his relatively new, self-supported backyard tower, which is one-third of the conventional minimum size. Mr. Vincent said his improvements were not just applicable to ham radio towers. They could be used to eith...
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Iran Seizes 3 British Navy Boats and Detains 8 Sailors in a Territorial Dispute on Iraqi Border
Iran seized three small British Royal Navy boats and arrested all eight sailors on board on Monday, its Foreign Ministry announced, saying the boats had entered Iranian waters without permission. The British Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Iranian government had seized the boats and detained the sailors after th...
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Brazil's Spreading Exports Worry Minnesota Farmers
but generally without the involvement of state agricultural officials. ''Some of us are absolutely paranoid that Brazil will put us out of business,'' said Gene Hugoson, Minnesota's agriculture commissioner and the owner of a 650-acre soybean farm. ''Others choose to ignore it. ''My function is to get opinion somewhere...
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Brazil's Spreading Exports Worry Minnesota Farmers
exports from Brazil, and has become a leader there in soybean crushing, orange juice and cocoa production, as well as the trading of commodity contracts in São Paulo, Brazil's financial center. But it is Cargill's foray into ethanol exports that has really touched a nerve in Minnesota. Though Brazil is the world's larg...
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A Reason to Switch?
It's no surprise that Internet users are fed up with spam in their inboxes and pop-up ads in their Web browsers. A study by Gartner suggests that many people are willing to switch Internet service providers to find a solution. While there is a variety of software for diverting spam, Lydia Leong, a principal analyst at ...
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A Second Opinion
adding, ''But even the relatively advantaged position of elderly persons in the United States is slipping. The U.S. relative position for life expectancy in the oldest age group was better in the 1980's than in the 1990's.'' The article was published in the summer of 2000. At the time Japan ranked highest among develop...
1587990_3
Sinatra's Hometown Has a New Latin Flavor
where it awaits the ministrations of Maria Guarnaschelli, the celebrated food-book editor, as well as a title. Publication is tentatively set for next spring. ''I have been to every country in Latin America, not once but several times,'' she told me and my wife, Betsey, over dinner at Cucharamama. ''I've been up in the...
1588025_3
Hide-and-Seek Among the Coca Leaves
not impossible, to spray. Perhaps 25,000 acres of coca, nearly 10 percent of Colombia's crop, have been planted recently in state parks and in the vast Amazonian region once thought too remote for coca cultivation and cocaine trafficking. ''What we have is an enormous fragmentation,'' said Sandro Calvini, director of t...
1588007_1
In Mexico, Sugar vs. U.S. Corn Syrup
response, legislators and government officials say, to the United States' unwillingness to accept imports of the Mexican sugar that were displaced in Mexico by cheaper American corn syrup. ''The purpose was to level the playing field,'' said Carlos Blackaller, a legislator from the opposition Institutional Revolutionar...
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This Is Not a Traditional Groundbreaking
plan with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the Tishman Construction Corporation and Voorsanger & Associates Architects. ''What exists there now is not sufficient to support the Freedom Tower,'' Ms. Chang said. Almost the entire floor slab from Level B4 will be saved because it happens to double as the cei...
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Despite Threats of Violence, Workers Struggle to Finish Projects in Iraq
of everything but their concrete shells after the invasion last year. Officials of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which is financing the project and arranged the helicopter trip, are diplomatic enough not to blame local Iraqis for the looting. But Ms. Bock explains delicately that the base saved some money ...
1586025_3
Abstinence-Only: Does It Work?
youngsters to wait until marriage to initiate sexual activity and that said nothing about the usefulness of contraception. Although authorization for the law expired in 2002, Congress has continued to provide interim financing for it and has allocated more money to myriad community organizations that teach abstinence-o...
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Contemplating the Crowded Skies of the Summer
or jokes concerning the security process may result in your arrest.'' Who decides what is inappropriate? I sure hoped it wasn't somebody like the surly sumo-wrestler-size security guard who had snarled at me at the New Orleans airport a few hours earlier for presenting my boarding pass upside-down. Still, I will resist...
1586069_2
The Price of Rice Soars, and Haiti's Hunger Deepens
increased in Haiti,'' he said to reporters before leaving Jamaica and arriving Monday in South Africa, which offered him refuge. Mr. Aristide, who says he is still Haiti's elected leader, received a head of state's welcome in Johannesburg from President Thabo Mbeki. But Haitian businessmen say Mr. Aristide's government...
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Big Employers Join Forces in Effort to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices
is not real, it is not fair to the consumer'' who will be making choices and paying a growing share of the costs. ''We have a responsibility to show consumers the real cost of the drug and the real cost of the alternatives so they can make an informed choice with their doctor.'' The buyers' group is the latest and most...
1590211_3
Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects
shopping cart equipped with radio broadcast hardware through the streets, inviting passers-by to program their own on-air shows. All of this will be archived on Exit Art's Web site, further dematerializing an exhibition composed of ephemera, gestures and pixels. And such a disembodied show is precisely what the curator...
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More Air Travelers, And Fewer Screeners
them out again. At various airports, the security agency has taken steps like extending the belts that convey carry-on bags through the X-ray machine to avoid bottlenecks. At Newark Liberty International Airport, Smiths Detection, a supplier of X-ray machines, said it would begin an experiment that would allow bags tha...
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Used Autos: Depreciation Included
IN 1988, a journalist asked Roger B. Smith, the chairman of General Motors, what his company offered to compete with Chrysler's inexpensive K-cars. Mr. Smith, who would soon become best known as the elusive subject of Michael Moore's documentary ''Roger and Me,'' responded that G.M. indeed offered comparable value, dir...
1590994_1
For Graduates, the Freebies Disappear
had. ''This year, major corporations are recruiting many more first-year associates than in previous years,'' said Douglas Wagner, president of Benjamin James Real Estate. ''We do have a more stable economy, requiring a greater work force, which has finally worked its way down to the first-year research analysts, inves...
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A MONUMENT'S MINDER
did. Several times when Piero Cardone has gone inside Raphael's tomb to change the light bulb, she's accompanied him to polish the glass. And she's been up on the roof, where the Tiber gulls roost and nest and you can see all the way to the Castelli Romani. She's even climbed up the huge lead-covered rings of the dome,...
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Supporting a Bridge the Human Way, With a Crusade
model. So, Mrs. Van Etten, who felt that the bridge would never have been in danger if she had no called attention to it, began working an estimated three hours a day for the next three years learning about bridge preservation, lobbying politicians, raising money and explaining her campaign to reporters. That kind of s...
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Word for Word / A Fine Line; Defining Torture: Russian Roulette, Yes. Mind-Altering Drugs, Maybe.
OF all the memos released by the White House last week in response to the prison abuse scandal in Iraq, none have been more incendiary than the so-called torture memo, dated Aug. 1, 2002, and written by Jay S. Bybee, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department. The ...
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Test Program Is E-ZPass For Airline Screenings
if anything, if the program becomes permanent. Representative John L. Mica, the Florida Republican who is chairman of the House aviation subcommittee and who has been pushing for such a program, said in a telephone interview that he was very frustrated. ''They're wasting time, they're wasting money,'' he said of the Tr...
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Scavenged and Shaped, Rubber Takes On New Life
ACCOMMODATING a variety of materials and forms, contemporary sculpture is a peculiarly liberal discipline. It wasn't always so, for until early last century sculpture was confined to making objects from wood or stone or by casting metal or plaster. Relishing sculpture's newfound diversity, Chakaia Booker, 51, a Brookly...
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A Ledger of Broken Arms
State Boys Rebellion,'' Michael D'Antonio, the author of ''Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right'' and ''Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal,'' documents the Dickensian abuse daily endured by the boys at Fernald and its consequences. On his first day at Fernald,...
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AIDES SAY MEMO BACKED COERCION ALREADY IN USE
wide array of coercive interrogation methods in the campaign against terrorism without violating international treaties or the federal torture law. It did not specify any particular procedures but suggested there were few limits short of causing the death of a prisoner. The methods used on Mr. Zubaydah and other senior...
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AIDES SAY MEMO BACKED COERCION ALREADY IN USE
who said the memo would be reviewed and revised because it created a false impression that torture could be legally defensible. In repudiating the memo in briefings this week, none of the senior Bush legal advisers whom the White House made available to reporters would discuss who had requested that the memo be prepare...
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Grab the Brass Ring, or Just Enjoy the Ride?
was ''just enough.'' She majored in Greek and Latin. In the turbulent 60's, Ms. Nash found herself equally fascinated by mythology, ancient history and current events. She had hoped to become a classics professor. ''The ancient Greek heroes had tragic flaws that brought them down, and so did Richard Nixon,'' Ms. Nash s...
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Still a Robust Role
point the developer wanted to move it to the east side of Greenwich Street -- but the new location distorted the overall plan's balance and blocked the symbolic alignment of the Freedom Tower's 1,776-foot spire with the torch of the Statue of Liberty. Symbols matter, certainly here. Balance matters. The move was reject...
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No River Wide Enough
been an elite training ground for racers,'' Mr. Gilman said, ''but they never made the transition to recreational paddling. They stopped taking members 10 years ago and have no programs or activities anymore.'' Mr. Macknowski, 82, disputes that claim but declined to provide membership figures. While asserting that some...
1592673_1
Hail Marys Not Needed: Vatican Mail Will Deliver
bureaucracy feeling aggravated. Tourists are in on this secret, as well as the Romans, because they flock to this orderly, sovereign religious state enclosed in roiling Rome to send their postcards with papal stamps from the seat of Catholicism. As a result, more mail is sent each year, per inhabitant, from the Vatican...
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Ideas & Trends: Cellular Sociology; I Want to Be Alone. Please Call Me.
ONE of the many paradoxes of modern technology is that gadgets meant to connect us also end up isolating us. Consider the case of Lilia Belkova, a passenger earlier this month on a US Airways flight from Miami to Philadelphia. She refused repeated requests by flight attendants to turn off her cellphone so the plane cou...
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Yahoo Expands E-Mail Storage, In Nod to Google
service, called Yahoo Mail Plus, with two gigabytes of storage for $19.99 a year. ''We are taking storage off the table as an issue,'' said Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's vice president for communications products. Yahoo Mail Plus has a few other features Google does not offer; most significantly, it lets users download th...
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I Sing the Body's Pattern Recognition Machine
for it takes shape in the left temporal lobe. It's not a wolf. It's a woman. The parietal lobe helps you focus on the woman. With the auditory association area, you decipher the sounds -- human greeting or vexed grackle? Young or old voice? Happy or worried? Meanwhile, in the brain's dreamy cities and counties, associa...
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What Is Google's Secret Weapon? An Army of Ph.D.'s
research group, so all 1,900, effectively, are charged to ''boldly go where no one has gone before'' (its words). You have to like Google's chances. Employee motivation is tied to sundry conveniences and happy stomachs, or so it would seem. When Google filed its initial public offering plans in April, it enumerated emp...
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