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1587321_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1587339_1 | It's a Long Way to Corfu: A Modern-Day Odyssey | for Christos Katehis and Andoni Prikas, two Greek-American sailors far from the legendary Troy, Corfu is a distant destination. The men started across the Atlantic Ocean last Sunday from Sheepshead Bay, near where they live. They were aboard a 40-foot sailboat called Adele, in a bid to fulfill a dream and commemorate t... |
1587228_2 | Thoroughly Modern, Thoroughly New England | still being landscaped, this will eventually make a fine setting to sit or to stroll. ''This expansion really marks the beginning of a new era for the museum,'' said Kathleen O'Grady, chairwoman of the Aldrich board of trustees. ''The building will allow us to strengthen our core mission of presenting cutting-edge cont... |
1587094_6 | Mother-Daughter Deck Chairs | the best thing about the voyage. We shared a queen-size bed. Even on the most high-tech, high-falutin' superships, a cruise is a step back into the past. People stroll up and down the decks arm in arm. A waiter in a white jacket serves real beef bouillon to the queasy. It's not an upper-class thing; the tea is Lipton's... |
1587243_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1587079_0 | Sex Without Estrogen: Remedies For the Midlife Mind and Body | ''SEX life for women doesn't end with the menopause,'' wrote Dr. Alex Comfort in ''The Joy of Sex,'' his landmark self-help book from the 1970's, ''unless they have been convinced that it should.'' Unfortunately, quite a few women fall into that category. Although 10 percent of a group of women in midlife who were trac... |
1587231_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1587058_4 | Travel | and other modern malaises -- seems nearly as distant as that of Ulysses and Agamemnon. More relevant is George Sarrinikolaou's FACING ATHENS: Encounters With the Modern City (North Point, $18), which, while not an attractive book, is an important one. He too writes of the spirit of Greece, but it has changed considerab... |
1587087_2 | Fighting Dryness, With Pills, Gels and Rings | Because the vagina absorbs what it needs and excretes the rest, sanitary pads are useful. Some women may get a harmless brownish discharge with Replens, said Dr. Isaac Schiff, the chief of the Vincent Memorial Obstetrics and Gynecology Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. CAVEAT -- Moisturizers may not ... |
1587149_12 | The Virtue In $6 Heirloom Tomatoes | North Carolina -- even as many of its vendors have followed the same path from fringe to hip to the edge of mainstream. There seems to be some agreement among Mackey and businessmen like Steve Demos, the president of White Wave, which makes Silk soy milk, that the battles for consumer attention (good taste, recognizabl... |
1587072_1 | New Looks At Old Questions | enough to prevent fractures and maintain libido in most women. With that knowledge, we need to go back and carefully study which menopausal and postmenopausal problems are related to the surgical removal of ovaries and which are tied to the natural course of menopause itself. And we still need to develop blood tests th... |
1587096_3 | At the Helm of Home | took two centuries before that vision was fully realized, and for a brief period canals were the main arteries of commerce, not only in France but all across Europe. Railroads soon replaced them as a cheaper, faster means of transporting freight, but France's canals, though largely obsolete, are exquisitely maintained.... |
1587404_3 | Threats to Rights and Financial Barriers to Poor Are Cited at Graduations | elective surgery, the ultimate cosmetic all designed to maintain hunger for stasis. While children are being eroticized into adults, adults are being exoticized into eternal juvenilia. There is nothing more satisfying, more gratifying than true adulthood. The process of becoming one is not inevitable. Its achievement i... |
1587188_2 | Thoroughly Modern, Thoroughly New England | eventually this will make a fine setting to sit or stroll. ''This expansion really marks the beginning of a new era for the museum,'' said Kathleen O'Grady, who chairs the Aldrich's board of trustees. ''The building will allow us to strengthen our core mission of presenting cutting-edge contemporary art and, through th... |
1587343_0 | The Sweet and the Sour Of 'For Sale by Owner' | WE are a do-it-yourself nation. Call it Emersonian self-reliance, bootstrapping individualism or the Home Depot effect, but many Americans would rather take care of the home front themselves, thanks. That applies to selling their houses, too. As home prices have soared across much of the nation, many people of modest i... |
1587089_0 | On Hormone Therapy, the Dust Is Still Settling | TWO years after a bombshell dropped on hormone replacement therapy, there are signs that the rush away from the drugs is ending. In July 2002, a federal study, part of the Women's Health Initiative, was halted when its data showed the dangers of hormone therapy outweighing its long-term benefits. Sales of the drugs -- ... |
1586227_0 | U.S. to Divulge More About Modified Crops | Responding to criticism that a controversial farming practice is shrouded in secrecy, the Department of Agriculture plans to disclose more information about crops that are genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals, an official said yesterday. The official, Cindy Smith, the deputy administrator for biotechnology... |
1586269_6 | Where Butterflies Rest, Damage Runs Rampant | biologically diverse jungle after the Amazon. Environmentalists predict it could disappear within the next two decades. The old-growth pine forests in the northern Sierra Tarahumara and its rich diversity of wildlife face threats from drug traffickers who burn down the trees up to 200 years old to plant marijuana. Vill... |
1587842_1 | U.S. May Cut Third of Troops In South Korea | increased concerns about the intentions of that closed society. This week, American and South Korean security officials are conducting regularly planned talks on the future of the alliance. But conservative editorial writers and politicians are already accusing the liberal government of President Roh Moo Hyun of allowi... |
1587790_2 | Lost Luggage Is Rare, but the Trauma Can Be Acute | to Tim Bruins, a senior account executive at the Maritz Travel Company, a corporate travel agency in St. Louis, that was the fate of 40 passengers who arrived on an Iberia Airlines flight in Barcelona for a cruise that his firm organized. Deprived of their luggage, they were unable to buy new clothes at the first port,... |
1593308_3 | Courting Minorities, Kerry Promises Expanded College Access | at the convention of the National Council of La Raza, to unveil proposals to help educate more highly skilled workers, particularly in the sciences, and to increase the rate at which all students, but especially minorities and women, graduate from college. ''In an era when college graduates will earn $900,000 more than... |
1588547_0 | Europe Knows It Needs a Lot of Immigrants. But It Also Fears Them. | TERRORISM has come to Europe. The Continent's economic growth seems to lag perennially behind that of the United States. But neither of those things topped the list of worries for some European business and political leaders who gathered here this week for an international business conference. Instead, they worried abo... |
1593023_0 | MEMO PAD | AIRPORT CAPACITY STRAINS -- Mainly because of a return of robust business travel and the growth of low-fare carriers, 9 of the 35 top airports in the United States are operating above their passenger levels before Sept. 11, 2001, and 6 more will exceed pre-9/11 passenger levels by the end of the year, said Marion C. Bl... |
1593006_4 | Brazil's Big Stake in Cotton Likely to Become Bigger | vast sugar cane fields and orange groves. Perhaps no place better illustrates Brazil's cotton revival than Mato Grosso, a sprawling, sparsely populated state tucked beneath the Amazon rainforest that is drawing farmers in droves from all over the country in search of cheap land and low labor costs. Blessed with soil ri... |
1591611_0 | 4 Rivals Near Agreement on Ways to Fight Spam | Four large Internet service providers agreed yesterday to a partial truce in their battle with one another over potential technology to stop junk e-mail in hopes that they can devote their united energy to fighting spam. More than a year ago the four providers -- America Online, Yahoo, EarthLink and Microsoft -- said t... |
1591614_4 | WHITE HOUSE SAYS PRISONER POLICY SET HUMANE TONE | abuse and torture, Mr. Bush told reporters in the Oval Office that torture ran counter to the values of the United States and that he would never sanction its use. ''Let me make very clear the position of my government, and our country,'' Mr. Bush said. ''We do not condone torture. I have never ordered torture. I will ... |
1591555_1 | Fast Track at the Airport | aren't likely to be many complaints about the intrusiveness of the program. A similar program at some border crossings is already in place. A 90-day test starts in July; airlines hope to enroll up to 10,000 frequent fliers. But before the program can expand nationwide, the government must address two concerns. One invo... |
1591797_3 | Until a more thorough study is done, it is impossible to know whether private or federal airport screeners perform better. | -- including the availability of law enforcement officials to the airport and the screening company's resources -- to choose them from among the 19 airports that applied to use private screeners. It is likely that this process yielded airports that gave the private screeners an advantage over the remaining 424 federall... |
1591806_7 | Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones? | middle-class kids,'' said Professor Gates, who plans to assemble a study group on the subject. ''We need to learn what the immigrants' kids have so we can bottle it and sell it, because many members of the African-American community, particularly among the chronically poor, have lost that sense of purpose and values wh... |
1589817_0 | Program Would Ease Security a Bit for Frequent Fliers | Airport security officials will enroll 5,000 to 10,000 frequent fliers as ''registered travelers'' in a five-airport pilot program beginning this month, the Transportation Security Administration will announce Wednesday. Security experts have described the problem of finding a weapon among the 1.8 million passengers sc... |
1589857_1 | F.T.C. Rebuffs Plan to Create No-Spam List | system. Earlier this month, Microsoft agreed to combine its plan with a similar approach backed by America Online and many smaller Internet companies. Yahoo is holding out for a different technical standard that is potentially more powerful, but far more difficult to implement. The commission said it would defer to the... |
1589807_0 | Treacherous Shoals ... of Trenton?; Harbor Pilots Divided Over Plan to Regulate Them | Ever since men have gone down to the sea in ships, pilots have guided the vessels in and out of harbors, through the fickle currents and other vagaries of local waters. The waterways close to land pose challenges that differ greatly from those of the open seas -- sandbars, rusted wrecks and hidden rocks. And in the bus... |
1589918_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Power Cuts As Protest | Electricity workers stepped up their commando-style protests against the government's plan to privatize partly the state-owned utility Électricité de France and cut power to the country houses of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and a dozen other politicians. Major companies had their power cut off for a few hours, ... |
1601019_0 | Sexuality, Drugs And The Ideal Of Sport | THE Olympic Games take place in Athens this month, even as an investigation into the use of steroids has led to suspicions that some of the biggest names in track and field, as well as other sports, are using banned drugs. That makes this an awkward time for the International Olympic Committee to decide, as it did in M... |
1600868_6 | Ceremonies For Any Occasion | of people together and raise a glass or two and say thank you and recognize that it wasn't the end of the world.'' The use of celebrants has been generally treated with approval by members of the clergy familiar with their methods. The Rev. Carlisle Dickson, the interim pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Clifto... |
1600704_2 | Feathers, Fur and Jungle Waters | a muscular roar and a mini-tornado in the middle of the Quichua community. The wooden houses on stilts looked empty, but dozens of small children came running out of the forest carrying their toddler brothers and sisters on their backs to see the helicopter. Jiovanny Rivadeneira, a powerful-looking Quichua with black h... |
1601038_2 | American Indians Expand College Hopes | that's not uncommon for Natives,'' said Danielle Terrance, an Akwesasne Mohawk who is a student development specialist at Cornell University's American Indian Program. ''You're always having to explain who you are.'' During the five-day course here, known as College Horizons, students polished college entrance essays, ... |
1601015_3 | Breaking the Silence | say that the causes of black poverty are both structural and behavioral. Think of structural causes as ''the devil made me do it,'' and behavioral causes as ''the devil is in me.'' Structural causes are faceless systemic forces, like the disappearance of jobs. Behavioral causes are self-destructive life choices and per... |
1600831_1 | Environmentalists Can Call This Home | rest of Ladera Ranch, Terramor has a bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly network of neighborhoods. But it also has much more: solar power, recycled building materials, artificial wetlands and reed-filled streams for runoff filtration, energy conservation measures more stringent than those mandated by the state, and even a... |
1604767_1 | Bag It | after the screener's lawyer made it clear that he planned to ask a government official about T.S.A. operations at the trial. The possibilities for mischief are considerable. Congress requires the transportation agency to check all airline baggage with bomb-detection machinery or with hand-held bomb detectors. More than... |
1604765_1 | Guiding a Child Into College Is Now Part of the Job | Sachs. ''I saw this service as the Consumer Reports on the subject of college. You want to know which features are important, what you want to pay for and what you don't, and all of that came through in the presentation and the counseling sessions.'' Once the province of the rich, private college counseling has become ... |
1603354_6 | All Thumbs, Without the Stigma | 'Where's my message?''' she said. ''My husband's 25 years old. I've got to become technologically quick.'' Of course, there is some worry, even among users, that speed typing with one thumb could create repetitive strain injuries, like joystick wrist. But the early evidence is inconclusive, according to people who foll... |
1603358_2 | New Strains and New Rules for Agents Along Mexican Border | to tracking illegal immigrants and drug smugglers, using weapons as varied as night-vision cameras and horseback patrols, the agents are particularly on terrorism watch, a high-stakes mission, officials say, given the huge traffic -- legal and illegal -- from Mexico. The task was highlighted July 19 when Border Patrol ... |
1605300_2 | Senator? Terrorist? A Watch List Stops Kennedy at Airport | a plane yet again. The alias used by the suspected terrorist on the watch list was Edward Kennedy, said David Smith, a spokesman for the senator. At the hearing, Mr. Kennedy wondered how ordinary citizens could navigate the tangled bureaucracy if a senator had so much trouble. ''How are they going to be able to get to ... |
1605314_0 | 'From Myth to Life' -- 'Images of Women From the Classical World' | Smith College Museum of Art Elm Street at Bedford Terrace Northampton, Mass. Through Oct. 10 This show is not pegged to the Olympic Games, but it ties in nicely with the spirit of ancient Greece. Drawn from the finely tuned collection of Celia and Walter Gilbert (she is a Smith alum), ''From Myth to Life'' presents mor... |
1606839_0 | Court Goes to Oil Fields In Ecuador Pollution Suit | Hidalgo Zurita watched as half a dozen technicians in white hazardous-materials suits used a motorized drill to search for oil -- in his yard in this small Amazon town. To his dismay, Mr. Zurita, 46, a cattle trader, has readily found oil. ''I've dug five wells in that yard looking for drinking water -- four of them ca... |
1606973_0 | Government to Begin Passenger Screening | Officials from the Department of Homeland Security formalized plans on Thursday to begin screening airline passengers against a list of potential terror suspects, taking over a responsibility now carried out by the airlines. The officials said they planned to begin testing the system, which will compare passenger names... |
1604045_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1603968_0 | Airport Screening | To the Editor: In ''Plan for Screening at Airports Is Dropped'' (July 25), Matthew L. Wald details the derailment of the Transportation Security Administration's plan for ''data mining'' of passengers. He writes: ''Now the Department of Homeland Security, of which the Transportation Security Administration is a part, h... |
1603961_0 | Sailing Into the Past On Lake Champlain | Beginning this month, the Lois McClure, a replica of an 88-foot 1862-class canal schooner, will circumnavigate Lake Champlain just as the original canal boats did in the 1800's, allowing a rare glimpse into 19th-century maritime transportation and commerce. During the 1800's, Lake Champlain was the principal route for ... |
1602039_0 | What About Iraq? | A funny thing happened after the United States transferred sovereignty over Iraq. On the ground, things didn't change, except for the worse. But as Matthew Yglesias of The American Prospect puts it, the cosmetic change in regime had the effect of ''Afghanizing'' the media coverage of Iraq. He's referring to the way new... |
1601973_4 | Resourceful in the Deep South vs. Sleek in an Alpine Landscape | Us Now Praise Famous Men'' (1941). Born and raised in Hale County, Mockbee set out to make a difference, using whatever was at hand. He ended up creating one of the more perfect expressions of local action yielding globally useful ideas, working with his fellow teachers and their graduate students at the Rural Studio, ... |
1602360_8 | Building a Bad Reputation | achieve the same effect. The Modern's construction model involves a substructure, or invisible supporting skeleton, onto which large smooth panels -- a signature of the architect's design -- are clipped. That part is fairly standard. But in addition, Mr. Taniguchi designed another, underlying frame that is entirely adj... |
1602312_2 | Logging On At 30,000 Feet | be the next to add the service, sometime this summer or early fall, followed by Scandinavian Airlines and All Nippon Airways. Singapore Airlines, China Airlines and Korean Air will follow early next year. Mr. Scott said Connexion is in ''active discussions'' with several United States carriers, but none has signed on y... |
1602500_0 | Keep the Lampposts Free | LAST month, New York City proposed a revenue-generating deal that will allow six companies to place cellular phone antennas and relay boxes for wireless telecommunications service on 18,000 lampposts and other public structures. This is a bad idea for several reasons. First, there are potential health hazards. Accordin... |
1602283_5 | They Saved Money on Uniforms | an athletic site inhabited between festivals only by caretakers and priests and attendants of the temples of Olympian Zeus, Hera and Pelops. Elis, a city about 36 miles by road from Olympia, was the festival's administrative base; competing athletes reported there a month before the Games for official inspection and tr... |
1602347_0 | What Olympic Ideal? | The official mascots for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens are a pair of fanciful, brightly colored cartoon humanoids, and they're very, very cute; you'd never guess, just by looking at them, who they're supposed to be. Each figure has the shape of an inverted triangle, with a vestigial face and a couple of winso... |
1601294_3 | U.S. Warns of High Risk of Qaeda Attack | level to orange because of concerns about international flights over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, intelligence officials said they had no information to conclude an attack was now imminent and no specific indication about when one might be carried out. The elevation of the threat level for the financial insti... |
1601203_2 | Interim Trade Triumph Short on Hard Details | from the lawsuits Brazil has brought to World Trade Organization tribunals against the United States and the European Union. Those cases, one that led to a ruling against some American cotton subsidies and another pending against European sugar subsidies, helped convince rich countries that the global market was changi... |
1607909_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Boat Seized In Harbor | The police confiscated a 45-foot pleasure boat in New York Harbor and arrested its owner about 2 a.m. yesterday after finding three weapons, including a machine gun, on board, the authorities said. Coast Guard officers initially stopped the boat, the My Way, in the harbor near Governors Island, because it was cruising ... |
1607823_0 | School Achievement Reports Often Exclude the Disabled | The first time Tyler Brenneise, a 10-year-old who is autistic and mildly retarded, took the same state achievement tests as California's nondisabled children, his mother, Allison, anxiously awaited the results, along with the state report card on his special education school, the Del Sol Academy, in San Diego. But when... |
1603127_3 | Mapuche Indians in Chile Struggle to Take Back Forests | tree farms here,''' said Alfredo Seguel, a leader of a group of young Mapuche professionals called Konapewman. ''Productive fields have been turned over to a monoculture that hurts other activities, helps destroy the land, employs very few people and pays low wages.'' Yet the signs of a landscape transformed are everyw... |
1603278_0 | Metro Briefing | Connecticut: Hartford: Impeachment Lawyer Rejoins Firm | Ross H. Garber, left, one of the lead lawyers who represented former Gov. John G. Rowland in the impeachment inquiry that prompted his resignation, is joining a private law firm's white-collar criminal defense and government investigations practice. Mr. Garber, 37, left his position as the governor's in-house legal cou... |
1606114_0 | Few Nations Check to See if Passports Are Stolen, Interpol Says | Despite heightened terror alerts around the world, people traveling on stolen passports continue to slip across international borders because few countries check to see if incoming passports are among those known to be missing, says Interpol, the international police organization based here. For example, Milorad Ulemek... |
1606094_0 | But Who Protects the Luggage? | To the Editor: In ''Bag It,'' James Bovard proposes scrapping the federal baggage screening program because of thefts from baggage by airport screeners working in non-public areas. To be replaced by whom? Other people screening our baggage in non-public areas? The solution is not related to which agency is doing the sc... |
1606096_0 | But Who Protects the Luggage? | To the Editor: Organized terrorist attacks using airplanes are acts of war against the United States, not simply criminal acts perpetrated against airlines and their passengers. Governments, not corporations, are charged with defending us from such attacks. James Bovard recommends that airlines and airports be made lia... |
1607575_1 | The World -- Economic Strains; Old, in the Way And Hard at Work | the United Nations population division. ''Lower mortality is very good news. But we've got to adjust the system.'' Consider the situation in Japan. With half the population over the age 41, Japan is among the oldest countries. With one of the lowest fertility rates -- 1.32 children per woman -- by 2050 there will be ab... |
1607276_2 | Talking in a River Wonderland | leaping overhead or a formidable tarantula lurking in a tree become a common refrain. ''Oh, golly, look at that,'' he cries, his hand clutching at his heart. ''I think I'm going to die!'' The excitement is contagious, and the to-die-for moments start piling up: coming eye-to-eye with a small black caiman, a mere ghost ... |
1607390_1 | Shop, Walk, Work And Demonstrate | disruption. After the Civil War, New York became one of the first cities in the nation to require permits for individuals and groups seeking to use streets and parks for assembly or marches. Bitter lessons had been learned from the 1863 Draft Riots, which left more than 100 people dead and turned the city into chaos, a... |
1607576_0 | The World -- People and Pollution; A Greener Globe, Maybe | WITH all the hand-wringing about the economic perils of falling populations, and the prospect of a spreading demographic shift from explosion to implosion, there could be one beneficiary: the environment. For decades, the rise in human numbers has been seen as the chief force threatening rain forests, depleting fisheri... |
1607389_5 | That's Money You're Tossing | per pound. The store collects about two tons of fat and 400 pounds of bone a week, which can be turned into agricultural feed additives or further refined into the base ingredients of such things as cosmetics, soaps and linoleum. The soil created from the compost has been sold in the store's garden shop, and fresh supp... |
1607591_2 | The World -- Subtract Billions; Demographic 'Bomb' May Only Go 'Pop!' | late as 1970, the world's median fertility level was 5.4 births per woman; in 2000, it was 2.9. Barring war, famine, epidemic or disaster, a country needs a birthrate of 2.1 children per woman to hold steady. The best-known example of shrinkage is Italy, whose women were once symbols of fecundity partly because of the ... |
1606158_3 | As a Substitute for Hormones, Soy Is Ever More Popular, but Is It Safe? | placebo effect, a significant factor in treatments for menopause. Women taking hormone therapy have found their hot flashes reduced by about 60 percent. Still, both the American Menopause Foundation, an education and advocacy group, and the North American Menopause Society, a medical group, support the use of a moderat... |
1606165_4 | Can a Robot Save Hubble? More Scientists Think So | because a power converter gave out. It is unclear whether a robot service mission can repair this failure, but NASA engineers are examining the possibility, officials said. Because of the potential of using robots in space, the job of developing a service mission for Hubble was placed under NASA's new exploration initi... |
1606331_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Albany: Attacking 'Tire Mountains' | Work is to begin this fall on a plan to get rid of about 30 million used tires stockpiled in 95 places around New York State, environmental officials said yesterday. The first tire mountains to be tackled will be Pinnacle Tire in West Monroe, Oswego County, and Mohawk Tire in Waterford, Saratoga County. Each contains a... |
1604394_0 | U.S. Eights Set Records In Heats | Not long after Sunday's rowing events were over, and the American men's and women's eights won their heats in world-record times, high winds kicked up white-capped waves at the man-made lake outside Athens. On that same lake, several boats swamped and sank at last year's junior world rowing championships, so Olympic or... |
1601776_2 | If higher education is so important to the economy, why is its financing being cut more than that of other large programs? | the gaps in average income between those with degrees and those without are enormous. And the more education the better. The median annual income for men with graduate degrees was more than $66,300, more than twice the high school graduate's earnings. Second, higher levels of education are critical to economic growth. ... |
1601821_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Security Strike Continues | Negotiations to end a week-old dispute between management and truck drivers at Brinks Allied, an armored delivery company, collapsed in a disagreement over security procedures, resulting in the continuation of a strike that left 70 percent of A.T.M.'s along the east coast of Ireland, including Dublin, empty during a bu... |
1601761_1 | W.T.O. Rules for Brazil in Sugar Dispute | going to use its legal victories in cotton and now sugar to mount other cases,'' said Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow and trade specialist at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, which describes itself as a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research group devoted to the study of international economic ... |
1601746_0 | Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby. | LIKE many people these days, Jason Kim and Linda Crasco rely heavily on e-mail for their work, running a small educational research and evaluation company in Norwood, Mass. And like many people, they get plenty of spam, some 400 pieces of unwanted e-mail daily. So when their company, Systemic Research, first installed ... |
1601748_5 | Another Try At Inventing Superphone | its software design. A hundred times in your first days, you'll wonder how to do something -- bookmark a Web site, change your e-mail signature, turn off the radio for use on an airplane. You'll take a wild guess, punch a likely button, and -- hey! -- you'll be right. When you're typing, you can skip apostrophes and ca... |
1602178_3 | Tension Over Secessionism Seethes on Georgia's Coast | two warning shots over its bow, according to Captain Bochoroshvili and Lt. Badri Ivanadze, the commanding officer of the boat. ''I was trying to talk with them but they did not answer,'' Lieutenant Ivanadze said. The boat then fired 40 times into the vessel's bow, the officers said. Only then did the Izabel use its rad... |
1606687_0 | Fire Testing Is Questioned In Findings On Towers | For more than two years, federal investigators have been struggling to resolve a critical and contentious question concerning the collapse of the World Trade Center towers: was the spray-on fireproofing initially placed on the twin towers' innovative lightweight floors sufficient to protect them in a major fire? Now, a... |
1606596_0 | Who's Knocking at the Door? Check Your E-Mail First | THE Internet is renowned for its ability to create communities of people with common interests, no matter where in the world they are. But a new Web site aims to build a community among users who are not so far-flung. The site, called I-Neighbors (www.i-neighbors.org), seeks to connect people with others nearby, enabli... |
1606705_1 | Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar | of many ways that the technology lubricating the social lives of teenagers is amplifying standard adolescent cruelty. No longer confined to school grounds or daytime hours, ''cyberbullies'' are pursuing their quarries into their own bedrooms. Tools like e-mail messages and Web logs enable the harassment to be both less... |
1606638_3 | Brazil's Problem in a Nutshell: Bolivia Grows Nuts Best | low that production dropped off the map,'' said Zico Bronzeado, a former Brazil nut harvester who now represents Acre in the lower house of Congress. The low prices drove growers to abandon the business, the critics say, selling their lands to loggers and cattle ranchers in a process that deforested vast stretches of t... |
1603564_1 | How the Greek Vase Shaped Many Styles And Western Design | Not all the selections are regularly on view at the Met, so the show may deepen your appreciation of the Met's holdings and its collecting history. (The decorative-arts side of this history is recounted in an essay in the catalog by Heather Jane McCormick, a doctoral candidate at Bard.) Meanwhile the students' spare, i... |
1603535_0 | Shopping | Boating | THERE'S nothing quite like spending a summer day boating with the family. The captain and first mate (a k a Mom and Dad) want to plop down in deck chairs, grab a beer and watch their fishing lines bob in the water. The crew members (a k a their children) threaten mutiny as the shore recedes and pass the next few hours ... |
1603647_2 | Japan's Economy Continues to Grow, but at a Slower Rate | may be putting a damper on consumer spending. Consumption among Japanese households declined a surprising 2.6 percent in June, compared with figures a year earlier, serving as a warning that the recovery remains fragile. Many economists, however, said they were not too alarmed by the fall, given that household spending... |
1604963_2 | Awe (and Maybe Acolytes) From Bold Architecture | Church officials and art experts are eager to see if the same holds true for a more spiritual terrain. The dome of Mr. Piano's sanctuary is second in size in Italy only to St. Peter's Basilica. But the Padre Pio Church is more reminiscent of a sleek airport terminal, and visiting it has become a rite of passage for pil... |
1604953_4 | The 3 R's and Beyond, With a Software Boost | Standard for Students and Teachers (www.amazon.com, $130, ages 8 and up) includes full versions of Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint, and appropriately leaves out Access, Publisher and Outlook, found in the more expensive professional edition. To help students bone up in particular areas, Middle School Advantage 2004... |
1605084_2 | Corzine Says He Won't Push McGreevey Out of Office | had brought upon himself, the ultimate decision about when to leave rested solely with him. With news reporters, photographers and camera crews cameras circling, Mr. McGreevey has governed under a kind of house arrest since returning to work on Monday, making no public appearances other than to wave as his bodyguards e... |
1604970_0 | Spotting Signposts to Higher Education | ON the last day of sixth grade, as my eldest daughter prepared to graduate to the unknown world of middle school, her teacher gave a final assignment: list on a sheet of paper both your short-and long-term goals in life. Then, with the aid of one of those laminating machines that preserves any school project for poster... |
1605425_4 | Mies Villa, Jostled by History, Is in a Race Against Time | not make such big sheets. Mr. Stubbs painted a much bleaker picture. ''It was poorly restored,'' he said. And recent years have brought even more decay. The house is now beset with drainage problems, he reported. At the edge of the stair to the garden, the stucco is falling away. The travertine steps leading to the gar... |
1601603_0 | World Business Briefing | Asia: Malaysia: Exports Rise | Malaysia's exports rose 22.2 percent in the first half of the year, to 39.75 billion ringgit ($10.46 billion), as demand from the United States and Hong Kong for the country's electronics surged more than expected. Malaysia's trade surplus fell to 5.09 billion ringgit, however, as factories imported more raw materials.... |
1601543_1 | Berry Sales to U.S. Offer Security to Amazon Farmers | river to the middlemen, but they always pay the lowest price possible,'' he said. ''Now I have a lot more security because I know what price I'm going to get ahead of time.'' Mr. da Costa's American buyers may be relative newcomers, but they are already helping change the face of the tropical fruit trade in this part o... |
1601572_0 | Editorial Notebook: The Statue of Security; Liberty Is Open Again to the Masses, But Just to the Hem of Her Robes | For anyone who has ever trekked up the spiral staircase of the Statue of Liberty and peered through the crown's narrow windows, the statue's reopening this week, for the first time since the 9/11 attacks, is bittersweet. Its surrounding grounds and facilities have been spruced up, and members of the National Park Servi... |
1601649_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day on July 15 about the licensing of three experimental cancer drugs from Cuba by a California biotechnology company, CancerVax, included an erroneous reference from the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council about the status of another Cuban drug, PPG, which is used to lower cholesterol. The fede... |
1606474_0 | Seeking Peace in a Once and Future Kingdom | Highlighting history's weight in modern Asia, China and South Korea, two of the region's closest economic partners, tried to patch over the sharpest crisis in 12 years of diplomatic relations by agreeing Tuesday to discuss calmly the boundaries of a kingdom that disappeared from maps 1,300 years ago. China may be South... |
1606495_0 | Findings on Abu Ghraib Prison: Sadism, 'Deviant Behavior' and a Failure of Leadership | Following are excerpts from the executive summary of the final report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations, which was released Tuesday. The full text is online at nytimes.com/international. OVERVIEW The events of October through December 2003 on the night shift of Tier 1 at Abu ... |
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