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1606444_2 | New Therapy On Depression Finds Phone Is Effective | telephone a powerful ally, said the study's lead author, Dr. Gregory E. Simon, a psychiatrist at the Group Health Cooperative, a 500,000-member health plan in Washington. ''This represents an important change in the way we approach treatment,'' Dr. Simon said, ''not only using the phone, but being persistent, proactive... |
1606513_3 | Junk E-Mail And Fraud Are Focus Of Crackdown | cases on more than 50 of the most active spammers. Prosecutors had hoped to announce some prominent convictions earlier this summer. But the cases have proven to be more complex than expected, in part because of new evidence turned up at each step. ''These cases never end,'' said Steve Linford, the director of the Spam... |
1604591_0 | Ambitious Cleanup for a Sea of Tires | |
1604506_1 | Over-the-Counter Menopause Test Kits Offer Few Answers | What is more difficult to discern is the time before menopause when most women begin experiencing symptoms. Known as perimenopause or the climacteric, this typically lasts two to three years, but it can stretch out in some women to as long as eight years before menopause. It is during perimenopause, rather than menopau... |
1604517_2 | Brazil Starts to Crack Down on Counterfeit Goods | Washington trade group that has lobbied the Bush administration to revoke Brazil's benefits under the preferences program. Despite the arrest of a handful of suspected smuggling kingpins like Mr. Law, critics say Brazil's enforcement of intellectual property rights has worsened in the 19 months since President Luiz Iná... |
1604517_4 | Brazil Starts to Crack Down on Counterfeit Goods | they are as interested as the United States in enforcing intellectual property rights, citing the effect that piracy has on Brazil's own economy. According to the congressional report, counterfeiting and smuggling costs the country the equivalent of close to $10 billion a year in lost tax revenue. The Brazilian music i... |
1604603_0 | Nice Guys Are Not Finishing First | A CYCLIST revealed what it's like to perform without feeling the burden of the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, without thinking about hostility by political association, without checking the preset limits on her freedom to express herself. The cyclist didn't censor her emotions at the end of Saturday's women's ro... |
1604621_2 | Battling Tire Mountain, Armed With a New Cleanup Fund | New York has been on a much slower pace in cleaning up its scrap tire problems than other states. Since 1990, the nation's stockpiled tires have been cut by 75 percent, to 275 million, and West Virginia, South Dakota and Ohio have gotten rid of all of theirs. ''New York has been stagnant,'' Mr. Blumenthal said. Old tir... |
1602962_1 | A New Weapon in the Battle To Make a Convention Secure | than the ping of traditional sonar. ''It becomes sort of intuitive, what you're looking at,'' said Scot T. Tripp, a Coast Guard project manager for research and development. ''The software allows you to walk around it and see it on any side.'' The equipment, called the Mobile Inspection Package, was developed at the Ce... |
1602935_2 | In These Days of Insecurity, Stick to Itinerary Is the Rule | while or never,'' said Bruce McIndoe, the chief executive of iJet Travel Risk Management, a company in Annapolis, Md., that provides electronic reports on conditions that affect travelers throughout the world. Now, Mr. McIndoe said, companies realize that ''the world is a much more dynamic place'' and that ''the risks ... |
1602923_0 | Into the Mind of the Autistic | ''Through the Glass Wall: Journeys into the Closed-Off Worlds of the Autistic'' by Dr. Howard Buten. Bantam Books, $23.95. ''Asperger Syndrome and Your Child: A Parent's Guide'' by Dr. Michael D. Powers with Janet Poland. Quill (Harper/Collins), $14.95. At on time or another, every child experiences sadness, anger and ... |
1607140_0 | National Briefing | Southwest: Texas: Cuban Refugees Reach U.S. | Six Cuban refugees suffering from malnutrition and dehydration from two months at sea landed on Mustang Island, about 22 miles southeast of Corpus Christi. The refugees, five men and one woman, left Manzanillo on June 25 aboard a raft; five days later in the Cayman Islands they bought a 30-foot boat and set out again, ... |
1605562_0 | Virginia Underground | THE temperature was in the 90's, and I was at the boiling point. The sewer pipe had broken in the dining room wall. The house painters had been on the job three weeks. Three copperheads had been spotted in a flower bed, and my husband was on the golf course. ''You need to chill out,'' said the sage 19-year-old handyman... |
1605640_1 | Looking for Mr. Right Whale | a Sayville resident and president of Cresli, which is based at Dowling College in Oakdale. ''Having the public on board, we can show them what diversity we have and what's happening to that, and explain human and marine interaction in the coastal region.'' And not least, the paying passengers -- $200, plus meals -- all... |
1605738_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1605805_2 | It's Who You Know. Really. | matter as much,'' said Harry J. Holzer, professor of public policy at Georgetown University. Honors graduates of Harvard Law School will probably receive a host of job interviews, regardless of how many partners they know at how many law firms. But, Professor Holzer said, when it comes to relatively unskilled jobs, suc... |
1605714_0 | Bear Tales | Smokey Bear, the beloved national forest-fighting icon, turned 60 early this month. But who knew that New Jersey, home of the black bear hunt, once had its very own Smokey counterpart? Actually, this one used ''the'' as part of his name: Smokey the Bear. He died last year, after living the last few years of his life in... |
1605582_0 | Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece Is Virtually Complete | WHEN the revolutionary Catalan architect Antonio Gaudí died in 1926, a battle broke out here among politicians and architects over whether to complete his spectacular Sagrada Familia church. He began work on it in 1883, but at the time of his death it was only 15 percent complete. Purists asked if anyone but the archit... |
1601344_1 | Water, Water Everywhere. And When It Shifts, So Does Earth's Gravity. | that water doesn't stay in one place. It evaporates here, condenses there, freezes up north and melts down south. And because gravitational force changes with mass, as Earth's water goes, so goes its gravity. Measurements of tiny changes in the Earth's gravitational field have given the clearest picture yet of where th... |
1601441_1 | As Public Adjusts to Threat, Alerts Cause Less Unease | incorporated into their lives the periodic shifts in alert status from orange to yellow and back again. The most recent warnings also contained something that psychologists say can make a threat less anxiety provoking: specific details. In experiments measuring the impact of different kinds of threats on anxiety levels... |
1602799_7 | When the Games Were Everything | so invitations to participate in the first modern Olympics were issued to ''gentlemen'' only. But a young Greek shepherd named Spyridon Louis, who was allowed on the Greek team at the last minute, won the first modern marathon. Afterwards, he turned down all honors -- gold, cash, jewelry, free meals, free haircuts, fre... |
1602772_1 | It's Not Just The Jobs Lost, But the Pay In the New Ones | 30 years. The trend is most striking in factories, which accounted for the bulk of job losses in the last three years and tended to pay above-average wages. In contrast to previous recoveries, when companies rehired a large proportion of laid-off workers, manufacturers have added only 91,000 jobs this year, having elim... |
1607957_0 | Portraying 9/11 as a Katzenjammer Catastrophe | IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS By Art Spiegelman Unpaged. Pantheon Books. $19.95. The central image in Art Spiegelman's new book of comics is that of the north tower's glowing skeletal form, incandescent and ghostly in the fleeting seconds before its collapse: a searing image, witnessed by the author himself, that sunny mo... |
1607972_0 | Agony of the Sleepless Night (It May Go Back to Goliath) | ''A Woman's Guide to Sleep Disorders,'' by Meir H. Kryger, M.D. McGraw-Hill, $14.95. ''Restless Nights: Understanding Snoring and Sleep Apnea,'' by Peretz Lavie. Yale University Press, $27.50. Sophocles wrote that sleep was the only medicine that ''gives ease.'' But not everyone can fill the prescription. While some of... |
1607992_2 | When Checked Bags Are Checked by Thieves | or a special tool, and then relocked as the bag continues into the hands of airline baggage handlers. But problems have dogged the program. Many passengers have complained that T.S.A. inspectors, unable to open the locks under the prescribed system, simply break them to get access. And of course the locks have no value... |
1617212_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Plutonium Shipment Arrives | Defying protestors, a heavily guarded cargo of 300 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the United States docked at the port of Cherbourg in the dead of night. The shipment was unloaded and will eventually be transported in armored trucks under heavy security 700 miles overland to the southeastern town of Cadarache t... |
1622135_0 | NASA Prepares to Spy on a Satellite | Scientists are about to get their first really close and revealing look at Titan, the invitingly mysterious giant moon of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft is on course to pass within 750 miles of Titan at 12:44 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Its cameras and imaging radar system are expected to break through the moon's opa... |
1622155_1 | Big Fish, Little Fish Battle Over the Amazon's Bounty | stocks of the most popular species diminish to worrisome levels, tensions are growing between subsistence fishermen and their commercial rivals, who are eager to enrich their bottom line and sate the growing appetite for fish of city-dwellers in Brazil and abroad. In response, peasant communities up and down the Amazon... |
1622131_5 | Not Just Another Pretty Face | annals of crocodilian research, and would probably take years to gain general acceptance and appropriate nomenclature. The researchers also would like to know which of the two crocodiles is the ''true'' Nile crocodile, that is, the crocodile so-named by the ancient Egyptians, who worshiped the reptile, modeled their ri... |
1619063_0 | Finding a Mother Lode in Mongolia | In the table-flat vastness of the Gobi Desert, the Canadian-owned mining camp looks unimpressive: a gray gravel landing strip, two clusters of traditional ger shelters and a few warehouses, their zinc roofs glittering to the rare airplane passing through an otherwise empty sky. Only a dusty spider web of roads linking ... |
1619066_2 | Smaller Can Be Better (Except When It's Not) | ''especially if you are using the phone in a car, or in a hurry.'' Jim Wicks, vice president and director of the consumer-experience design group at Motorola, said he understood such frustrations. He said that up until about two years ago, the conventional thinking was to make products smaller while trying to see how m... |
1619130_1 | What's the most cost-effective way to encourage people to turn out to vote? | and other voter mobilization strategies. To evaluate the efficacy of these methods, Professors Green and Gerber conducted a remarkable series of experiments in which potential targets of voter mobilization drives were randomly assigned to one of two groups: a treatment group that received a mailing, say, and a control ... |
1620370_9 | Bush vs. the Laureates: How Science Became a Partisan Issue | into its analysis, he said; by contrast, the Bush administration drew contorted conclusions but never revealed the details. ''The Clinton administration got these lowest possible costs by taking every assumption that would bias them down,'' he said. ''But they were very clear about what the assumptions were. Anybody wh... |
1618909_5 | A Small Island, a Big Exporter of Energy; Trinidad Is Supplying Most U.S. Imports of Liquefied Natural Gas | help guide the policies of large gas-exporting nations. It has held talks with Algeria and Indonesia to interest them in joining the Louisiana terminal venture. And next year, Trinidad is seeking a more active role in the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, a group of more than a dozen nations that also includes Qatar, Iran... |
1618804_3 | Planting-Time Soy Quandary for Brazil | some farmers have ended up producing both the traditional and genetically modified varieties, which are sometimes harvested and marketed with no distinction between them. ''We are awaiting a definitive solution to the biotechnology issue in Brazil, so that growers will have clarity and the ability to choose the technol... |
1616524_4 | Internet Grants to Schools Halted As the F.C.C. Tightens the Rules | John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, sent a letter on Friday to Mr. Powel, seeking an explanation. The Universal Service Administrative Company was set up to provide money to the states for phone and Internet services in four areas -- schools and libraries; rural health care; remote or underserved areas t... |
1616438_0 | The Ethics Of Biotechnology | To the Editor: ''The Travels of a Bioengineered Gene'' (editorial, Sept. 30) argues that the study demonstrating the unexpectedly broad spread of recombinant genes from a creeping bentgrass developed by Monsanto and Scotts -- one that can tolerate Roundup herbicide, which is made by Monsanto -- raises broader questions... |
1616428_0 | Church and State Clash, Noisily, in Spain | Missionaries used to leave this southern Spanish port for the Americas to preach Christianity, and now, centuries later, the Sunday morning Roman Catholic Mass can still draw a crowd here. On Sunday, men and women, dodging the Andalusian sun, came in their finery. Some of the fine baroque churches here were filled with... |
1619747_4 | An Eye on China's Not So Rich and Famous | screams at exciting moments in the game. She got up and smashed the picture tube to smithereens with his remote control. In western China, another soccer fan got himself into trouble when he dreamed he had won four million yuan ($481,000) betting on the sport. Elated, he fell out of bed, bumped his head, promptly faint... |
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1618204_0 | Little-Tested Law Is Used Against Journalists in Leak | In 1974, a magazine called Counter Spy identified Richard Welch as the C.I.A. station chief in Athens. Eighteen months later, he was shot to death outside his home there. Whether the magazine helped set the stage for Mr. Welch's murder, by a terrorist group called November 17, has never been established. But the practi... |
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1621057_1 | In the End, Emotions, Not Cleverness, Truly Stir the Soul | and Koma three times this season. What I long to see in the world around me today is more of the ''changeless basic material'' used by all truly brave artists: the changeless basic material of passion. So much self-declared new art touts its intellectual credentials. There are elaborate displays of technique, anti-tech... |
1617765_0 | Report on Iraq Arms Deals Angers France and Others | The Bush administration's handling this week of a report on Saddam Hussein's attempts to purchase weapons and buy influence has angered French officials and set back a year of American efforts to repair the rupture caused by the Iraq war, French and other European officials said Friday. The anger of France and others i... |
1615940_0 | U.S. Takes a Closer Look at Visitors | TOUGHER entry requirements for visitors to the United States are making sweeping changes in the way visitors from Europe, Japan, Australia and other industrialized nations are being received at American airports. Starting last Thursday, travelers from 27 nations -- including Britain, Germany and Japan, which are the th... |
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1615968_6 | This Diverse Realm, This Melting Pot, This China? | important at the time. We also learn something of international commerce and movement of peoples during the early centuries of our era. Look at the sudden naturalism and realism in Luoyang in the 6th century. It's like the Greek miracle, and can be attributed only to Westerners in China. Artistic developments reflect t... |
1615992_1 | WLNG Found Its Style, And Is Sticking With It | hours to tell a story if I need it, and that's how it should be.'' It helps, Mr. Sidney said, that the station owns the land and building where its studio is located, and its broadcast towers, and does not have to answer to any corporate headquarters. Second, the station has worked hard to solidify ties to the local bu... |
1623386_1 | Artistically Speaking, It's All Greek to Me | clean and old. ''For earlier composers,'' said Steven Blier, who assembled the New York Festival program, ''their idea was a sense of classical purity, of spareness.'' In more recent music, a quality of Greekness can be evoked by the use of slightly unbalanced meters, like 5/4 or 7/8. But Mr. Blier kept feeling that th... |
1623613_4 | The World: Nuclear Secrets; If Brazil Wants to Scare the World, It's Succeeding | claim is not true. In the past, Brazil made similar statements about its space program, trying to hide the role of French and Russian technology obtained through exchange programs or on the international black market. ''There is foreign assistance, and they carefully mislead people or spin it in such a way that it fits... |
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1618725_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Expert On Indians Shot Dead | The police said the death of Apoena Meirelles, one of the country's leading anthropological experts on contacts with primitive Indian tribes who was shot on the street over the weekend in the Amazon boom town of Porto Velho, may have been an assassination ordered by criminal smuggling gangs. Mr. Meirelles, a former dir... |
1618593_0 | Snooze Alarm Takes Its Toll on a Nation | When his clock-radio goes off at 7 a.m., David Epstein's latest wake-up strategy roars into high gear: he stumbles out of bed, walks across the room and pushes the snooze button. Then he climbs between the sheets. A few minutes later, his travel clock rings. He presses snooze and rolls over for more sleep -- until the ... |
1620239_0 | An Old Church's New Tilt Inspires Tourists and T-Shirts | Few famous cities are as conspicuously defined by a single building as is Cologne. Yet this city's glorious cathedral, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture and Germany's most popular tourist attraction, is being shunted aside these days by a church so humble and disfigured by war that it does not show up on local maps ... |
1620713_0 | Chinese Groups Seek to Halt a Dam and Spare a Treasured Place | Environmentalists in China who earlier this year helped persuade Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to suspend a dam project in southwest China are now fighting plans for another hydropower project that they say would endanger one of the world's deepest gorges and force the relocation of 100,000 people. The new dam proposal, fo... |
1620745_0 | Study Suggests Design Flaws Didn't Doom Towers | After the most sophisticated building analysis in United States history, federal investigators have arrived at the clearest picture yet of the sequence of events that led to the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, largely ruling out a design flaw in the buildings as a central factor in the catastrophe. Since the... |
1622451_0 | In Reply to Tightening of Sanctions, Castro Bans the Yankee Dollar | In a televised address, President Fidel Castro of Cuba announced Monday night that United States dollars, which have kept his country's ailing economy afloat for the past decade, would be banned from all commercial transactions in two weeks. In his speech, Mr. Castro called the measure a response to the Bush administra... |
1619437_4 | Brazilians Battle Indians: 'This Land Is Our Land' | trying to stitch together a majority in both houses of Congress, continues to pursue the support of Roraima's three senators, all of whom oppose the reservation. Lucio Flavio Pinto, editor of Amazon Agenda, a newsletter, cited an additional factor in Mr. da Silva's turnabout. As leftists, he said, the president and his... |
1615800_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Cabinet Clears Way For Gay Marriage | The government kept its campaign promise and approved same-sex marriages, and also cleared the way for homosexuals to adopt children. If the proposed change in the civil code is approved by Parliament, which is expected, Spain will become the third country in Europe, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to fully legalize... |
1617371_2 | Town Hall Tonight! | gay parents and grandparents, or are in mixed-race families. How can we make the lives of these ''new'' families better? How will you use your bully pulpit to promote acceptance of all kinds of families? JACK MILES, author of ''God: A Biography'': The United States cannot defend itself against Islamist terrorism withou... |
1618438_1 | Caged in Disney in Beijing, Yearning for a Better Life | other performers, leaving her to tend to the first of many such wounds. Loosely constructed, ''The World,'' which plays today and tomorrow at the New York Film Festival, drifts along pleasantly for much of its two-and-a-half-hour running time. Mr. Jia has a terrific eye and an almost sculptural sense of film space (esp... |
1622952_2 | How the Ancients Became Trendy: The Road From Euripides to Revolution | of a later era's gleefully discarded rules and radical rebellion? The exhibition is mute about this; neither does it explore its own premises too deeply, leaving its characterization of the avant-garde somewhat wispy. It also provides no historical context, no hint of the roles Classical Greece has played in modern Wes... |
1623026_4 | China's Bank, In Transition, Raises Rates | at MG Financial Group in New York. The Peoples Bank said in a statement that its moves were partly aimed at keeping money in the banking system. Economists at the International Monetary Fund and elsewhere have watched with concern in recent months the slowing growth of deposits at Chinese banks. Affluent urban Chinese ... |
1623038_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: U.N. Opposes U.S. Embargo | For the 13th consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly against the four-decades-old United States commercial embargo of Cuba. The Cuban foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, accused Washington of unleashing a ''worldwide genocidal economic war'' against his country and a State Departmen... |
1623024_0 | Radar Images Suggest a Saturn Moon's Landscape Contains Basins of Ice | The Cassini spacecraft's first radar images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, have revealed a diverse frozen landscape of bright streaks that may be ice ridges or wind-driven deposits, and dark regions that are probably smooth basins filled with dirty ice -- or, in some places, lakes of exotic liquid, perhaps methane. I... |
1622911_1 | Noguchi's Exploration of the 3-Dimensional World | wood, these bony-looking vertical articulations, whose cleverly joined parts are notched to fit exactly into each other (without benefit of glue, nails or other fixatives) add up to surreal abstractions of body traits and attitudes. They are a quintessentially Noguchi synthesis (with some borrowings from artists like Y... |
1622907_0 | Socking It to Dan Rather: A Nonpolitical Whodunit | On an October evening in 1986, the CBS anchor Dan Rather was accosted and beaten up while walking on Park Avenue by a stranger who repeatedly demanded, ''Kenneth, what is the frequency?'' This mysterious attack immediately became part of pop culture lore. (The rock band R.E.M. recorded a song called ''What's the Freque... |
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1621518_1 | What's So Gay About American Music? | Carson Kressley of ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,'' who can say? And if it does exist, just how is a gay sensibility expressed in music? Especially purely instrumental, or ''absolute,'' music? The latest to enter the discussion is Nadine Hubbs, a professor of music and women's studies at the University of Michigan, ... |
1621814_3 | Spain Is Seeking to Integrate Growing Muslim Population | one of several initiatives, Spain recently announced that 2005 will be The Year of Morocco, while Morocco has declared 2006 to The Year of Spain. The culture ministers of the two countries said that events and themes would include theater, contemporary art exhibitions, translations of literature and restorations of art... |
1621451_1 | Freedom Philosophers | of postwar liberalism? Especially when so many people claimed not to be suffering at all, but having a good time? To answer questions like these, neoconservative intellectuals required a ''sociology of virtue.'' Demanding it was one thing; producing it, another. Geopolitics remains the field over which the neocons send... |
1619619_0 | Airports of America Arise: Free the Baggage Trolleys | This is a complaint. It's time for the people who run America's airports to give a little consideration to the poor overburdened traveler whose suitcase is too heavy, its wheels warped inconveniently somewhere in midtrip. Europe's airports offer trolleys at no cost. In Switzerland, the cart for suitcases can even go on... |
1619655_2 | Bear Baiting As a Way of Life Is on the Ballot | hunter from Eagle River, a suburb of Anchorage. Mr. Norby, who heads a coalition of organizations that is fighting the ballot measure, said: ''Every hunter's goal is to make a quick, clean kill. The chances of accomplishing that are much greater at a bait station. A dead bear doesn't care if it was shot at a bait stati... |
1616664_5 | Slow Learner on Energy-Efficiency Front; While U.S. Backslides, France Offers Lessons in Cutting Oil Use | diesel engines, which burn 30 percent less fuel than regular engines. Two-thirds of cars registered in France are diesel-fueled, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. That compares with diesel sales of less than half of 1 percent in the United States. One hurdle to diesel sales in the United ... |
1616645_0 | World Business Briefing | Asia: Malaysia: Exports Rise | Malaysia's exports rose 23.7 percent in August, compared with the same month a year ago, led by demand from the United States for electronics, petroleum products and chemicals. The growth was slower than expected, but was enough to push the country's monthly trade surplus to a record 8.06 billion ringgit ($2.12 billion... |
1616660_2 | U.S. Regulator Threatens Action Against A.I.G. On Press Releases | A.I.G. said in its initial press release that the authorities were investigating ''certain transactions'' involving one of its subsidiaries, ''including three transactions'' with ''PNC between June 2001 and November 2001.'' The authorities, according to A.I.G., said the company should have specified that it also carrie... |
1616604_2 | U.S. Nuclear Cargo Draws Protests in France | official protest with the White House, French officials said. By contrast, France's economy minister -- and a presidential hopeful -- Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday described the atmosphere between the United States and France as ''more serene'' after he left a meeting in Washington with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. ... |
1615277_4 | Venezuela's government seeks to show that its oil riches are well spent. | after an economically devastating antigovernment strike last year, the government mounted a l public relations effort aimed at winning hearts and minds abroad. From the summer of 2003 until last summer, the government has spent more than $1.6 million on lobbying in Washington, according to the Center for Public Integri... |
1609813_0 | Out of the Horror in Russia, Lessons for the World | To the Editor: Re ''Grief in Russia Mixes With Harsh Words for Government'' (news article, Sept. 7): The entire world weeps with the Russian people for this recent unspeakable tragedy. Remorse and sympathy alone will not put an end to what has become a global epidemic of terrorism and senseless mass homicide. What will... |
1608446_1 | Sorry, E.T., but Parcel Post May Beat Phoning Home | be found. ''Our results suggest that carefully searching our own planetary backyard may be as likely to reveal evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations as studying distant stars through telescopes,'' they wrote. In an accompanying commentary, Dr. Woodruff T. Sullivan of the University of Washington said that although... |
1608446_2 | Sorry, E.T., but Parcel Post May Beat Phoning Home | Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI. Dr. Paul Horowitz, a Harvard physicist and SETI expert, called it ''a fun and an enjoyable read, but I wouldn't turn off my radio telescope and go out with my butterfly net.'' The new argument is based on a simple observation. The farther a light beam or radio wave is sent, the m... |
1608490_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | be necessary for women over age 70 if they take the cancer drug tamoxifen. A19 NEW YORK/REGION B1-5 U.S. Agrees to Restore Planned Housing Aid Cuts The federal government agreed to restore almost all of the $55 million in housing aid to New York City that had been slated to be cut under a change to the government's mai... |
1608550_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Another Try | At the start of political talks in Belfast aimed at restarting a joint Catholic-Protestant legislature, Protestant parties insisted negotiations were pointless unless the Irish Republican Army fully disarmed. The sides are to meet with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, in two... |
1615034_1 | Vetting Those Foreign College Applications | the largest company in a little-known field. Perhaps 80 companies nationwide evaluate educational credentials, producing about 175,000 reports yearly. Without them, the vast American export market in education would grind to a halt. Empire State College, part of the State University of New York, sends all its internati... |
1611799_3 | Russians Cite Porous Security in Terror Bombings of 2 Planes | the women arrived from Dagestan, a republic adjacent to Chechnya, at the Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow at 7:45 p.m., accompanied by two other Chechens. They were promptly stopped. ''Police officers spotted them, confiscated their passports and handed them over to a police captain responsible for antiterror... |
1611728_0 | Michael Jameson, 79, Expert on Antiquity | Michael Hamilton Jameson, a scholar of Greek antiquity who in the 1960's helped unearth the relics of battles fought more than two millenniums ago, died on Aug. 28 in Stanford, Calif. He was 79 and lived in Palo Alto, Calif. His family said his death followed a brief illness. Previously associated with the University o... |
1613727_3 | Surfing the Northwest, Where the Winds Are | people sprawled in the aisles between the rows or on the rocky shore affixing sails to boards. ''What are you rigging?'' was a common question; the sizes of the sail and board to use depend on wind speed and the sailor's weight and skill level. Windsurfing isn't easy to learn, but recent changes in board design have he... |
1613737_1 | Jews in the New Wilderness | a 1516 Genoese multilingual edition of the Psalms), its interest is not primarily antiquarian. Instead, its curator, Michael Terry, who is the chief librarian of the Dorot Jewish Division at the library, has done what a consummate collector does: gather unusual materials from disparate places and juxtapose them, reveal... |
1609304_2 | Does a Tiger Lurk in the Middle of a Fearful Symmetry? | based in the United States that is dedicated to preserving the zone. ''It's probably the only good thing to come out of the Korean War and cold war. So we have to preserve this as a nature reserve.'' The DMZ Forum recently held a conference in Seoul to gather support for designating the zone a Unesco World Heritage Sit... |
1609067_2 | Casinohampton | agency only recently accepted the Shinnecocks' complete application for federal recognition, which has been brewing in some form or other since 1978. Agency officials say it is ready for review, which means that a decision might come sometime in the next decade. Unfortunately, a federal district judge, Thomas Platt, do... |
1609095_0 | Jennifer Katz, Evan Lipson | Jennifer Lynn Katz, the daughter of Kay Jacobs Katz of Rockville, Md., and the late Dr. Barry Stephen Katz, was married last evening to Evan Jacob Lipson, the son of Frank Lipson of Potomac, Md., and the late Helaine Orkin Lipson. Rabbi M. Bruce Lustig performed the ceremony at the Washington Hebrew Congregation in Pot... |
1609073_4 | In Sea Cliff, the Battle of the Tower | really it is a fiberglass stealth tower that would dwarf everybody in the neighborhood,'' Ms. Seiden said. The cellphone works on basic radio technology. When a cellphone call is made, its signal is usually picked up by a local antenna operated by the subscriber's company. If a caller moves out of range -- one to seven... |
1609323_0 | As Population Rises, So Does Poverty | To the Editor: Your Aug. 29 article about declining fertility (''Demographic 'Bomb' May Only Go 'Pop!,''' Week in Review) seems to dismiss that 99 percent of human growth is projected to occur in the world's poorest countries. For example, 24 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the most impoverished region on earth, are e... |
1609116_0 | Here We Are Again | For five years, environmental and public advocacy groups in the Hudson Valley have been fighting a proposal from St. Lawrence Cement to build an immense new coal-fired cement plant just south of Hudson, N.Y. As it stands, the proposal is moving with excruciating slowness through the Department of Environmental Conserva... |
1609324_0 | As Population Rises, So Does Poverty | To the Editor: Re ''Old, in the Way and Hard at Work'' and ''Demographic 'Bomb' May Only Go 'Pop!''' (Week in Review, Aug. 29): The problems of countries where the population is aging and growing more slowly may be difficult, but they are problems of adjustment for mostly industrialized and wealthy nations, not problem... |
1608204_0 | World's Caviar Faces a Ban | THE United Nations agency that controls trade in endangered species has halted exports of caviar until the countries where it is produced comply with an agreement to protect sturgeon, an official of the agency said yesterday. The main exporting countries, those that border the Caspian Sea, have failed to provide an acc... |
1608211_0 | U.N. Cites Gains for Women Worldwide, but Health Issues Linger | The number of girls in school and women in parliaments has risen, and their overall access to contraception has improved in the past decade, according to a new report by the United Nations Population Fund. The report cites 23 countries, including Zambia, Bangladesh, Guatemala and Paraguay, as having made especially sig... |
1612210_0 | In Stricter Study, U.S. Scales Back Claim on Cuba Arms | The Bush administration, using stringent standards adopted after the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq, has conducted a new assessment of Cuba's biological weapons capacity and concluded that it is no longer clear that Cuba has an active, offensive bio-weapons program, according to administration officials. The la... |
1610948_2 | Reservation Comes Into Play as Officials Make Water-Management Decisions | effort of agencies to compensate for them -- will help, or hurt, or both, depending on which part of the ecosystem is involved. ''We're trying to mimic natural systems,'' said Dan Kimball, the superintendent of Everglades National Park. ''And you know hurricanes are part of the natural system here.'' Mr. Kimball added,... |
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