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1610641_4 | Buildings Fit For a Parliament And a President | torch to America. It will also take a close look at the creative relationship between the talented husband-and-wife team, who produced a wide array of classic modern designs -- from furniture to textiles and greeting cards -- and who rarely collaborated on artistic ventures. Oct. 1-Feb. 27. Cooper-Hewitt National Desig... |
1610652_4 | Trumpologies | as his gatekeeper and gal Friday, and within a couple of days I found myself sitting across from Trump in his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower. One of the remarkable things about Trump, at least from a reporter's point of view, is that he does not require an actual interview; he just starts talking. That morning... |
1610909_3 | The World; Hostage-Takers Teach the French the Limits of Diplomacy | public diplomacy and even appeals to logic was unpredictable in dealing with hostage-takers. If the dashing of French hopes proved anything, many commentators here say, it is that France was right in opposing the Iraq war. Where anarchy rules, and faceless thugs operate, it can be futile to try to figure out what might... |
1610650_2 | The Lessons of Classroom 506 | including an occupational therapist, a speech therapist, an ''augmentative communication'' expert and several other aides -- had greeted them at the door. Even those who were arriving as kindergarten parents for the first time could sense that this class was different. ''Inclusion,'' said Suzanne Blank, the head teache... |
1611587_3 | Memos on Bush Are Fake But Accurate, Typist Says | came forward and said they had been consulted by CBS. One, a forensic document examiner from Texas, Linda James, said in a telephone interview with The New York Times that she noticed indications that the two documents she inspected were the product of a word processor and relayed that to the producers. ''I had questio... |
1611590_2 | Radio Failure In West Disrupts Air Traffic | were told there was a communications problem through much of the West Coast. ''Everyone freaked out,'' Ms. Zeidan said, ''and there were all these rumors flying around.'' As airlines were given the all-clear to use the Los Angeles airport again around 9 p.m., airplanes began appearing on the horizon, their lights shini... |
1611576_2 | The Waves Don't Care That You're Autistic | daily with problems that reduce soccer scores, tests results and other obsessions of contemporary child-rearing to triviality. Autism remains not just a puzzle but a series of interlocking ones -- not one disorder, it seems, but many that affect at least 425,000 Americans under 18. Scientists and advocates disagree on ... |
1614698_0 | The Secret Trade Courts | In Ecuador, residents of the country's eastern rainforest are suing ChevronTexaco. They say that the methods Texaco used to drill for oil in the 1970's and 1980's caused billions of dollars in environmental damage and health problems that continue today. ChevronTexaco, which stands a good chance of losing the lawsuit, ... |
1609517_3 | Even in an Age of Terrorism, Towers Are Sheathed in Glass | reduce carbon emissions. It's the age of terrorism but it's the age of sustainable design. They're coexisting.'' They can coexist because of advances in the design of framing systems and in the treatment of glass. ''The level of performance is phenomenal compared with glasses of only 15 years ago,'' said Cesar Pelli of... |
1609449_2 | In Trying Time, Scaling Down Expectations Of Job Growth | jobs created in the last three months are hardly enough even to keep up with population growth, which on its own adds about 150,000 people to the labor supply each month. Though wage growth picked up in July, salaries are still treading water. Average hourly wages of production workers and nonmanagerial service employe... |
1612045_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Peace Talks Open | The Protestant and Roman Catholic political leaders of Northern Ireland gathered at Leeds Castle in England under strong admonition from the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland to resolve the differences that led to the collapse of the power-sharing accord known as the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Prime Minister T... |
1611982_3 | The Sixth Borough | without anxiety -- the jumper had to reach out his arms and grab at the Sixth Borough fully extended, and then, sadly, he couldn't touch it at all. The eight bridges between Manhattan and the Sixth Borough strained and finally crumbled, one at a time, into the water. The tunnels were pulled too thin to hold anything at... |
1614036_5 | Eternal Rest With the Fishes, As a Part of an Artificial Reef | concrete, fearing that might tempt divers. The artificial reefs may be one of the latest developments in memorializing human remains, but it is hardly the most unusual. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of ''Star Trek,'' and Timothy Leary, pioneer in alternate universes, had lipstick-sized vials of their ashes shot into ou... |
1614800_1 | MEMO PAD | and economy. The fare structure has been simplified and the need eliminated for round-trip purchases and Saturday night stayovers to obtain the best fare. Fares in business class have been permanently cut by 50 percent or more, and those in economy reduced by 20 to 30 percent. ''The strategy is basically to say, the lo... |
1614804_0 | Katharina Dalton, Expert on PMS, Dies at 87 | Dr. Katharina Dalton, a British gynecologist who did early work establishing a link between fluctuations in the menstrual cycle and changes in behavior and who advocated using progesterone to treat premenstrual syndrome, died on Sept. 17 in Britain, The Associated Press reported. She was 87. Beginning in the early 1950... |
1614776_0 | Sharper Minds With Bustling Feet | Just going out regularly for an easy walk appears to help elderly people ward off a decline in their mental abilities, two new studies have found. One of the studies, which tracked the health and exercise habits of more than 18,000 women over a period of about 12 years, found that those who walked regularly had the men... |
1613267_4 | Diagnosing Democracy's Ills In Light of the Effects of 9/11 | to a ''wall'' rather than a ''barrier.'' But his point is not just polemical; he is looking for strands of a culture of democracy, traces of the elements he found in the American tradition. If his factual claims are left to the specialists (and polemicists), what is striking is the recurrent assumption that there exist... |
1613428_4 | U.S. Wants All Air Traveler Files for Security Test | a spokesman for the agency, said that in every hearing where screening had been discussed, members of Congress asked how the security agency would ensure that travelers were using their real names. Lisa S. Dean, the agency's privacy officer, said under the proposed system, ''we're not looking for every passenger as a p... |
1610316_2 | U.S. to Pay Fliers $1.5 Million for Pilfering of Checked Bags | wanted a system in which they would have processed the claims, using their adjusters and historical databases, which can help track passenger fraud. They also wanted to know whom the government would be paying, so that customers could not try to collect twice. But government officials said that letting the airlines kno... |
1610080_0 | North Korea Says Seoul's Nuclear Experiments Stoke Arms Race | North Korea warned on Wednesday that a recently disclosed South Korean experiment with uranium enrichment could ''accelerate a northeast Asia nuclear arms race,'' and accused the United States of applying a ''double standard'' to the nuclear programs of the two Koreas. In North Korea's first public reaction to reports ... |
1609994_0 | Europe Rejects Looser Labels for Genetically Altered Food | The European Commission changed its mind Wednesday and abandoned its earlier plan to permit laboratory-made seeds in food without being labeled as such. But, for the first time, the commission did include genetically modified corn in its authorized catalog of seeds -- a move that could speed the spread of such foods. T... |
1609586_1 | OBSERVATORY | shady, with few insects. (In 200 hours of observation, they never saw any insects touch the anthers or stigmas.) So the self-sliming approach may be an evolutionary adaptation to an environment that lacks external pollinators. Another Threat to Tigers The Siberian tiger has suffered more than most other members of the ... |
1609611_2 | Drowned, Not Downed, Trees in the Amazon Get Nasty | agency's recent decision to raise the water level of the reservoir, making their work harder. But they too cite the environment in their own defense. ''Every dead tree that we cut down at the bottom of the reservoir is one less live tree being felled in the forest,'' said Rogério Corte Leal, owner of the main company h... |
1609686_2 | South Korean Scientist Calls Uranium Test 'Academic' | available for interviews, adding, ''They would just say what I have been saying.'' He did say they were in their 30's and 40's, not members of ''the Park Chung Hee generation.'' In the 1970's, the second half of Mr. Park's presidency, South Korea reportedly embarked on a secret attempt to make a nuclear bomb. Dr. Chang... |
1611263_0 | Preserving an Old-Forest Wilderness at the Ends of the Earth | Tierra del Fuego is a harsh, desolate and unyielding place, hostile to most human endeavors. But from the ruins of a failed logging venture here at ''the uttermost part of the earth,'' an innovative effort to manage and preserve the world's southernmost old-forest wilderness is about to begin. The origins of the projec... |
1611264_2 | OBSERVATORY | an international group of scientists shows the extent of the problem. The researchers, led by Lian Pin Koh of the National University of Singapore and Robert R. Dunn of Curtin University of Technology in Australia, designed a mathematical model and applied it to data on more than 12,000 plants and animals currently lis... |
1611350_0 | A Beast Is Unleashed | |
1611399_2 | Storm, Just Grazing Cuba, Crawls Toward Gulf Coast | Islands, which the storm grazed on Sunday, said that the country had suffered ''no reported casualties.'' In a news release it added, ''There has been extensive water damage to a number of buildings, but the vast majority remain structurally sound.'' The western half of Cuba, known for producing some of the best cigars... |
1611288_1 | MEMO PAD | flights to Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland and Seattle. Hawaiian Air says it also offers the service for flights to Hawaii originating in Los Angeles and plans to expand to other mainland cities. ''We believe this will rapidly take hold throughout the industry,'' said Jim Brown, a spokesman for Kinetics... |
1614311_0 | Love and Other Myths | GODS AND GODDESSES IN LOVE Making the Myth a Reality for You By Agapi Stassinopoulos Paraview Pocket Books, $13. HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys By Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $19.95. I TOOK the quiz in Agapi Stassinopoulos's second book, ''Gods a... |
1614390_0 | Ideas & Trends; Can Biotech Crops Be Good Neighbors? | TOIVO LAHTI grows papaya on the Big Island of Hawaii. Over the last few years, he watched other growers start planting trees that were genetically engineered to resist a devastating virus. But Mr. Lahti stuck to conventional varieties for his organic orchard, and thought it would remain free of biotechnology, which he ... |
1614293_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1614384_2 | Getting Parenthood a Place on Résumés | this book agreed that being a parent made them more proficient in their professions. But did they dare list child-rearing among their credentials? I have their résumés, and not one did.'' Certainly a few parents out there have bucked the trend, but both men and women need to articulate their pride in parenthood if it i... |
1614145_0 | Introduction | Readers were riveted by Lisa Belkin's account of the ''inclusion'' of a disabled boy in a public-school kindergarten class. Many called the efforts of his father heroic, though some said his advocacy insured special treatment. Other letter writers weighed in on the pros and cons of ''getting over'' 9/11. |
1613190_4 | Genes From Engineered Grass Spread for Miles, Study Finds | is encountering delays at the Department of Agriculture, which must decide whether to allow the plant to be commercialized. After hearing public comments earlier this year, the department has now decided to produce a full environmental impact statement, which could take a year or more, according to Cindy Smith, who is ... |
1613047_3 | Second Thoughts for a Designer of Software That Aids Conservation | a Marxan-generated optimal plan over 10 years to the results of following simpler rules, which were to buy, and protect, property if it harbored the richest biodiversity available at the time, if it encompassed irreplaceable habitat, or if it was home to some species that conservationists wanted to protect. The compute... |
1613140_0 | Trade Center Buildings Exceeded Wind Resistance Requirements | It is one of the most critical calculations in designing any skyscraper: can the building withstand the tremendous forces created by the wind that accompanies the worst possible hurricane? The engineers who designed the twin towers, it turns out, made them exceed the wind load requirements in New York City codes, inves... |
1613083_0 | REALLY? | THE CLAIM -- Cellphones increase the risk of brain cancer. THE FACTS -- As the number of Americans using cellphones has soared in the past few years, concerns about a link between the phones and cancer have continued to grow. According to the American Cancer Society, about 30 percent of the population believes there is... |
1613042_1 | Only in Quantum Physics: Spinning While Standing Still | past about the possibility of supersolid behavior,'' said Dr. Anthony J. Leggett, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics last year for theoretical work on superfluids. ''I would have bet at least 100 to 1 against it.'' In an article published this month on the We... |
1612748_2 | Yawning in the Uffizi | wince with embarrassment. Did I have to be so smug about my lack of interest? To keep my attention from waning so quickly, my mother had cannily invented games designed to make looking at art fun -- and rewarding. Count the Dominican Friars was one that I seemed to find particularly compelling. ''We went to see frescoe... |
1612540_0 | INSIDE | Northern Ireland Talks Falter, Despite Pressure Three days of negotiations among the leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties failed to bridge crucial differences over how to share power and end paramilitary violence, despite pressure from the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland. But the prime ministers, Tony... |
1612774_2 | China Pulls Up The Drawbridge | (since disproven) that it had been canceled outright. In August the government said it was halting construction on the Olympic stadium so that it could be reconceived at a significantly lower budget. September has brought more of the same. Reports in The People's Daily and elsewhere said the government was weighing a p... |
1612534_0 | Northern Ireland Talks Falter, Despite Blair and Ahern Nudges | Despite pressure from the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland, three days of negotiations among the leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties failed to bridge important differences over how to share power and end paramilitary violence. But the two prime ministers, Tony Blair or Britain and Bertie Ahern of Irel... |
1612386_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1612544_1 | Screening Plans Went Beyond Terrorism | showed ''how the government was planning to expand the use of Capps data for a wide variety of purposes unrelated to passenger profiling, at the same time restricting the individuals' access to that information.'' ''It's the best documentation of a post-9/11 'mission creep' that I think we've seen,'' Mr. Rotenberg said... |
1612826_2 | For the Disabled, a Showplace of a School | 10 districts extending from Hampton Bays to Montauk, says that is just one of many challenges they must meet if it is to fulfill its unusual mission: to fully integrate children with a diversity of disabilities into everything that happens there. This year, the third since the school received its charter, about 60 perc... |
1598596_2 | When They Leave the Road, Some Lucky Tires Go Into Art | words, Ms. Booker means for viewers to find social and political significance in her works. She has said she was drawn to tire treads because their designs remind her of textiles from the Africa of her ancestors and ritual scarification, and she has related the way tires wear down to the way people can be worn down by ... |
1598681_5 | How Drought Just Might Bring Water to the Navajo | treatment facility proposed for the city. It would skim the water's surface for impurities, and it was called a scalping plant. Mr. Edwards, the city consultant, all but jumped from his seat. ''Please, please,'' he begged the engineer. ''Isn't there anything else you can call it?'' Indian and non-Indian politicians say... |
1598706_0 | Looking Back and Looking Ahead, Panel Assesses the Opportunities for Prevention | Transportation Security The nation's investment in improving transportation security has been too focused on passenger airlines, the commission said, arguing that the Transportation Security Administration was trying ''to fight the last war.'' ''Opportunities to do harm are as great, or greater'' in maritime or surface... |
1598727_23 | Excerpts From the Report of the Sept. 11 Commission: 'A Unity of Purpose' | includes support for public education and economic openness. Develop a comprehensive coalition strategy against Islamist terrorism, using a flexible contact group of leading coalition governments and fashioning a common coalition approach on issues like the treatment of captured terrorists. Devote a maximum effort to t... |
1598692_1 | Who's Getting the New Jobs? | of employment and immigration policies in the U.S. But he warned against using the statistics for immigrant-bashing. ''We need a serious, honest debate about where we are today with regard to labor markets,'' said Professor Sum, whose work has frequently cited the important contributions immigrants have made. The stark... |
1598704_0 | Looking Back and Looking Ahead, Panel Assesses the Opportunities for Prevention | Immigration Controls With thousands of agents patrolling the borders and scrutinizing foreign visitors, the nation's immigration service could have helped deter the attacks, the commission said. But it said that time and time again, the dysfunctional and poorly resourced agency failed to detect the hijackers as they pr... |
1600208_3 | After Layoff, a Start-Up | shocked at what passes for 'unbiased' equity analysis in Asia.'' The Internet was crucial to starting his company. A Buenos Aires company, the NetMen Corporation, created his logo, business cards, letterhead and a static Web page for the soon-to-be-announced company in six weeks, for $550. AmbitionWeb in Houston design... |
1595778_0 | Despite More Bear Sightings, Little Stir | NOTHING in his police training had prepared Sgt. Joseph M. Yarchak for the call he received this summer to roust a 100-pound black bear out of a residential neighborhood near Windham Hospital in Willimantic, not far from four city schools. ''We tried not to make too big a deal of it as far as the community was concerne... |
1595977_0 | Oved Shifriss, 89, a Plant Breeder and Geneticist, Dies | Oved Shifriss, a plant breeder and geneticist whose development of hybrid vegetables in the 1940's, particularly for W. Atlee Burpee & Company, helped ignite the national boom in hobby gardening, died June 25 in Bloomington, Ind. He was 89. The cause was congestive heart failure, his son, Jordan Uzi Shifriss, said. Fro... |
1595845_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1595730_0 | The Way We Live Now, 7/11/04: Consumed; Hot Wheels Function or Fashion? | The influence of MTV's ''Pimp My Ride'' -- the car-makeover show in which ugly junkers are revived, tricked out and otherwise transformed into flamboyant mobile spectacles under the watchful eye of a rap-artist host -- can be felt, among other places, at Sprewell Motorsports near Los Angeles. The car-culture landmark s... |
1595796_6 | The Girded, The Bland And the Prickly | test cars across Westchester, examining their own and competitors' phones, counting the number of dropped calls and failed attempts to make calls. Each cellular provider has its own unique surveillance system, but they are all searching for spotty service and ways to improve it. Whether Mr. Fleissner is driving in the ... |
1595999_2 | Opening Eyes at Work to Abuse at Home | but only 20 percent said they knew of any way to deal with it. ''Men were telling us they wanted to have a role,'' said Esta Soler, the executive director of the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a San Francisco group that is coordinating the Founding Fathers campaign with Mr. Waitt's foundation. Memberships, for indivi... |
1596033_2 | Keeping Symbol Standing Is Challenging San Juan | seizing Puerto Rico in 1898, did not. Edwin Colón, the site's chief of maintenance for the last 25 years, said the Army had repeatedly patched the wall -- including the part that fell in February -- with concrete. That sealed in moisture and added weight, Mr. Colón said, hastening deterioration of the wall's innards. W... |
1600348_2 | Cellphone Antennas to Sprout Atop Light Poles and Signs | antennas and Internet relay boxes will start appearing on city poles before the end of the summer, said Gino P. Menchini, the city's commissioner of information technology and telecommunications. About 18,000 spots will be leased. The pole-mounted antennas will allow the city to shift away from the larger cellular base... |
1600347_0 | At 72 Feet, a Big Thorn in This Wealthy Town's Side | Five years and $15 million ago, the residents here in Marin County, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, agreed to build a state-of-the-art radio communications system linking police, fire and other emergency services countywide. Today only half the county has the service, and no one is predicting when the... |
1595069_7 | Destination Wi-Fi, By Rail, Bus or Boat | a day near or on the ferries if they travel during rush hours. Therein lies the calculation that when it comes to Wi-Fi, if you build it, they will come. One route in PointShot's trials is the Altamont Commuter Express in California, an 84-mile line between San Jose, the hub of the Silicon Valley, and Stockton, in the ... |
1593767_0 | World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Record Trade Surplus | Brazil posted a record trade surplus of $3.8 billion in June, leaving it with a surplus of $15.1 billion this year. The result beat the surplus of $3.1 billion in May, the first time the country registered a monthly trade surplus of more than $3 billion. Exports continued to boom in June, totaling $9.3 billion, while i... |
1593760_3 | An Engine That Could? This One Took 526 Years to Move . . . | for the History of Science in Florence and the official coordinator of the project to build the car, the Da Vinci-mobile was designed to be used in some form of drama or spectacle where a self-propelled vehicle would be required to move from one part of a courtyard or arena to another. (The vehicle is on the museum's W... |
1593674_10 | On Patrol In Playland | and took off in pursuit. ''You don't want to have your children or really anyone on the bow of the boat,'' Petty Officer Third Class David Carson, the boat's boarding officer, told the man behind the wheel. The man, looking slightly embarrassed, brought his daughter astern. ''Sometimes people don't understand what they... |
1593680_6 | Landlocked Mongolia's Seafaring Tradition | 30 years old. Also in November, Irish police boarded the MV Unique, a Mongolian-flag vessel that had been moving around the high seas of Europe for one month without apparent destination or cargo. Although an international police task force suspected that the ship was involved in moving illegal immigrants into Britain,... |
1593656_1 | A Watery Wonderland Carved by Nature | of a Civil War colonel, Robert B. Ricketts, is such that it was approved for national park status by the federal government in the 1930's. (That plan disappeared when World War II crowded everything else out of the national consciousness.) A popular place to start the trail is at Adams Falls, the most accessible, near ... |
1593716_0 | Intercepting E-Mail | When you click on ''send'' to deliver that e-mail note to your lover, mother or boss, you realize that you are not communicating directly with that person. As you well know, you have stored the e-mail on the computer of your Internet service provider, which, as you also know, may read, copy and use the note for its own... |
1594591_4 | China's Boom Brings Fear of an Electricity Breakdown | -- simultaneously pushing for the same kind of growth, based on industrial parks and manufacturing zones. The municipalities that boast of becoming China's Silicon Valley, to take one common example of this trend, are almost too numerous to count. ''China will definitely be facing a huge, huge challenge in a decade or ... |
1594543_1 | Expendable Women | 141 countries to advance poor women's reproductive health, reduce infant mortality, end the sexual trafficking of women and prevent the spread of H.I.V. and AIDS. Yet under pressure from conservative religious groups, the administration is expected to withhold the $34 million that Congress appropriated this year for th... |
1597097_2 | U.S. 'Reshaping' Airport Screening System | in 1998 in response to the possibility of a bomb in a checked suitcase like the one that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Another requirement was to develop a better screening tool to pick which passengers, with their carry-on luggage, should be scrutinized. The new system is supposed to rely on go... |
1598831_3 | To Make a Snake, You Boil a Goose . . . | Alchemy is concerned with the character of that change. It thus pays attention to categories, differences and boundaries. If one substance is changed into another, does it change its essence or only some of its properties? Is nature being revealed or overturned? Of course, much of the change that alchemists believed wa... |
1598025_1 | Europe Approves Genetically Modified Corn as Animal Feed | trade. European consumers have protested what they call ''frankenfoods'' and have said that American multinationals cannot force them to accept a product they consider unsafe for human consumption or for the environment. The European Union has sought to ease consumer fears by passing stringent labeling rules in April t... |
1598005_3 | France Wants Sharon to Explain His Call for Jews to Flee | a must and they have to move immediately.'' Shortly afterward, the French Foreign Ministry called his words ''unacceptable'' and demanded an official explanation. On Monday, the official French criticism of Mr. Sharon became more pointed, as French officials defended their policies to eradicate anti-Semitism and other ... |
1597629_0 | Surrender in the Forests | The Bush administration has taken apart so many environmental regulations that one more rollback should not surprise us. Even so, it boggles the mind that the White House should choose an election year to dismantle one of the most important and popular land preservation initiatives of the last 30 years -- a Clinton adm... |
1597703_0 | Health Department Readies For West Nile Virus Season | In preparation for the peak season for West Nile virus next month and in September, the Westchester County Department of Health has completed two programs: the annual collection of old tires and the application of larvicide to catch basins. The department collected about 1,100 tires, which if left in yards and driveway... |
1597362_1 | House of Games | is festive -- you watch young people competing for fun at the brief height of their power and form.'' The Greeks were not so indifferent to winning. The gods smile on victors, they believed. And so do we. Even so, the Greek notion of contest had as much to do with the union of opposites as with the triumph of one side ... |
1597402_2 | Curing Casanova | through simple genetic therapy -- or, better, a pill -- could Casanova-ism be cured, the incidence of male adultery reduced and thousands of troubled marriages repaired? And assuming that such feats were possible, would they be wished for? Unlike depression or bipolar disorder, a tendency toward promiscuity isn't neces... |
1597378_4 | A Day Away From the Races | especially for Athenian weekenders, so there is no dearth of shops filled with everything from baubles to arts and crafts. Mesogeia-Sounion On leisurely weekends I like to go for a drive in Attica, the province in which Athens is situated. The roads have changed quite a bit, and as of this writing it was impossible to ... |
1597475_0 | Where Stands the Pipeline? | The public has a naturally short attention span when it comes to policy issues, even when they are controversial. The other players -- state bureaucrats, corporate lawyers -- are in for the long haul. Once the original debate calms down, they occasionally manage to work out solutions that leave everyone reasonably happ... |
1597384_0 | Introduction | Our report on China's economic advances prompted some to wonder what impact population control may have on its workforce. Also: a Beach Boy in autumn; a sex-toy- seller's sex talk; politics and package tours; and playing safe with fireworks. |
1597361_25 | Office Messes | public-school system, a child's diagnosis is like an admission ticket; districts are obligated to help students whose learning is impaired by their A.D.D. In the world of work, the burden is on the A.D.D. employee to help himself. That did not stop Vivienne Sales from asking her employer for help. The day after her arg... |
1597385_0 | The Chinese Century | I think that Ted C. Fishman (July 4) was correct in identifying China's large, docile and productive labor force as a major source of its economic progress. He may want to consider how that labor force is likely to change over the next few decades, though. As China's generally successful population-control policies slo... |
1597490_2 | When Plastics Make Perfect | the waste stream.'' James Hogan, head of recycling for the county, defended Hastings's primacy by saying that gray cardboard represented only a small part of what the village was recycling and most likely did not make a difference in the outcome. Hastings residents have the privilege of lumping their empty pizza boxes ... |
1597527_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1597647_0 | A Question of Interference | To the Editor: Re ''Is Broadband Out of a Wall Socket the Next Big Thing?'' (Techno Files, July 11), which described possible moves toward B.P.L., or broadband over power lines, technology: It should be noted that B.P.L. is the subject of controversy these days, with rule-making procedures currently before the Federal ... |
1596195_2 | Trade Agreement May Undercut Importing of Inexpensive Drugs | next week or two. Last Thursday, the House Ways and Means Committee endorsed the pact, which promises to increase American manufacturing exports by as much as $2 billion a year and preserve jobs here. Health advocates and officials in developing countries have intensely debated the effects of trade deals on the ability... |
1596199_1 | Slow to Start, the Promise of Bluetooth May Be Kept After All | the speakers of the car's sound system and the built-in microphones that serve voice-controlled navigation systems. Some models allow numbers stored in a mobile phone to be copied to the car's system using the Bluetooth link. Tens of millions of consumers already rely on Bluetooth technology to synchronize hand-held co... |
1596250_4 | Foothold for the Freedom Tower; Dismantling the Last Major Ground Zero Remnant | of soil (at this particular location) and 35 feet of rock. The hole ends in a steel mouthpiece called a trumpet. Through it, a bundle of 18 steel cables is slipped all the way down to a socket drilled in the bedrock. Grout is squeezed through a tube in the middle of the cable bundle. It fills the cavity in the socket. ... |
1594735_2 | Spanish Seek Oil Off Cuba; Potential Shift In Gulf Output | officials in Havana to allow foreign companies to explore for oil in Cuban waters, starting in the mid-1990's. In the meantime, new technology to squeeze more oil from the small existing fields on the island's north coast has increased output to about 75,000 barrels a day from about 10,000 in the early 90's. More than ... |
1594662_2 | NASA's New Eye on Sky To Watch Earth's Ozone | major contribution to determining the causes, extent and consequences of global change, he said. The spacecraft carries four instruments that will survey the atmosphere from top to bottom, including monitoring ozone in its good and bad forms. In the upper atmosphere, ozone in the stratosphere provides a protective barr... |
1594686_0 | The House of Lords Restrains The Hand That Hits the Child | The House of Lords the upper house of Parliament -- resolved Monday to limit, but not forbid, the right of parents to punish their children by slapping or spanking them, changing a 144-year-old law that gave parents the right to hit children as ''reasonable chastisement'' for misbehavior. The vote represented a victory... |
1594731_6 | 15 Miles Offshore, Safeguarding Iraq's Oil Lifeline | did not turn back until a patrol boat fired 10 warning shots over its bow. ''To me it looked like someone testing us,'' he said, ''to see how far we'd let him go.'' The boat never got close enough for him to be authorized to fire his gun. ''At 500 yards is where we take 'em out,'' he said. Elsewhere on the platform, in... |
1596900_2 | U.S. Permits 3 Cancer Drugs From Cuba | Cuba during the developmental phase would be in goods like food or medical supplies, to avoid providing the Cuban government with currency. Any payments after drugs reach the market, Mr. Hale said, could be half in cash. The agreement comes shortly after the Bush administration put into effect new restrictions on visit... |
1596750_3 | Halting Cultural Evolution; Along the Silk Road, China Begins to Guard Its Heritage | water and salt damage to the murals. To save the wall paintings, the Getty has developed a process that removes some salt from the cave walls and readheres the mural plaster. Even after years of work, only about 40 caves are accessible, on a rotating basis of 10 to 12 a day, to tourists whose numbers have grown to more... |
1596812_1 | On Bastille Day, France Buzzes Over a Hoax and Racism | mentioned. He vowed that France would enforce the ban on Muslim head scarves in schools this fall, and admitted that the country's effort to integrate people of different religions and ethnic backgrounds into the fabric of French society was not succeeding. ''We are currently in a situation where integration doesn't wo... |
1596771_1 | Outcry Greets Europe's Plan To Overhaul Beet Subsidies | concerns that the move might lead to a collapse in sugar prices in the union, the Committee of European Sugar Manufacturers said in a statement. About 100 sugar beet growers descended on the commission's offices here. The proposals aim to lower the price of sugar by about a third and reduce the quantities of sugar prod... |
1599700_2 | Scrutinizing the Saudi Connection | the Federal Aviation Administration and the F.B.I. denied that any such flights had taken place on the 13th, and the first day of travel was the 14th. Now the report of the 9/11 Commission finally admits the flight was on the 13th -- but it fails to quell the controversy. Rather, the report says the flight only took of... |
1599780_0 | Technology Briefing | Hardware: I.B.M. To Build New Supercomputer | Blue Ocean, the supercomputer I.B.M. built in 2001 at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Miss., for the Defense Department's Naval Oceanographic Office, will get a neighbor nearly three times more powerful. Named after Kraken, a sea monster, the new 20 teraflop (20 trillion calculations a second at peak speeds... |
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