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1599734_0 | Study Shows Air From 9/11 Didn't Inflate Cancer Risk | After the World Trade Center collapsed, air samples collected nearby showed that levels of some cancer-causing chemicals had soared but had fallen so quickly that the pollution spike was unlikely to increase cancer risks in nearby communities, researchers reported yesterday. The chemicals, called polycyclic aromatic hy... |
1599645_0 | OBSERVATORY | Some Erosion, and Voilà! It's common to think of the processes that shape the Earth as acting on time scales of millions of years, but some things can happen in the equivalent of the blink of an eye. Like cutting a gorge, for instance. Scientists at the University of Vermont and other institutions have dated gorges on ... |
1599660_4 | Wi-Fi Service Expands Its Reach | have hooked up with T-Mobile to offer Wi-Fi in their airport lounges. Northwest Airlines has begun to install Wi-Fi at its domestic airport lounges and charges $6.95 a day. Continental and Alaska Airlines both offer the service free to airport lounge members. For information on the availability and pricing of Wi-Fi, ex... |
1597216_2 | U.S. Cuts Off Financing Of U.N. Unit For 3rd Year | its one-child policy -- have long been criticized by American social conservatives and some religious groups for dictating family size and forcing women to have abortions by threatening their jobs or imposing special taxes. The United Nations agency's leaders counter that they in no way condone abortion. In fact, they ... |
1599256_0 | Aside From Politics: Colonial History, Old Masters, Funky Jazz | ''GAMES FOR THE GODS: The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit,'' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, may not be quite as snugly tailored to a national convention as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Childe Hassam retrospective in New York, with its paintings of American flags and pristine New England churches. Still, a... |
1599257_4 | Boston Rises Above Unflattering Stereotypes | say that he was raising his own son with a different set of values than those he had grown up with,'' said Mr. Landsmark, now president of the Boston Architectural Center. Today's Boston is more complex politically, too. Mr. Grogan, of the Boston Foundation, said the ''Irish domination of politics'' had been diluted. T... |
1599172_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1599315_2 | Brazil Carries the War on Drugs to the Air | with foreign correspondents last year, he expressed annoyance that some pilots of drug-running aircraft were so confident of their immunity from retribution that they would make obscene gestures at the Brazilian Air Force pilots tracking them. The United States had been cooperating with operations to shoot down drug-ru... |
1599014_0 | A Plan for Screening At Airports Is Dropped | AFTER the attacks of Sept. 11, one of the first things the government said it needed was a better way to decide who should be screened more closely at the airports, so it would spend less time on harmless grandmothers and more time on people who might actually pose a threat. But almost three years later, travelers are ... |
1599118_0 | All Aboard, for a Security Check | COULD fighting terrorism really be this hassle-free? Last Monday, the federal Department of Homeland Security began screening passengers on the Shore Line East rail line that goes from New Haven to New London, part of a 30-day security trial the agency has also run in other parts of the country. Passengers must board t... |
1594116_1 | Students Seek More Than Just Summer Cash | was not a directive, Mr. Galant emphasized, but rather an opportunity to get a head start. Unfortunately, that head start conflicted with final exam study time. What to do? He said yes to Mr. Fialkov. Mr. Galant says working for Newlight has been an invaluable experience. Phoning chief executives twice his age and olde... |
1594201_0 | PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL | |
1594208_0 | Ah, the Beauties of Genetic Engineering, and Other Sculptures | FOUNDED in 1988, the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group has more than 150 members throughout Northern and Central California. Around three-dozen of them are showing in ''Off the Rim: Selections From the Pacific Rim Sculptors Group,'' a jaunty if not entirely satisfying exhibition at Grounds for Sculpture here. This is the fir... |
1594398_18 | THE LOST YEAR: Classes in Crisis; City Retools Special Education But Pupils Slip Through Cracks | she said, adding that a summer workshop would be held for principals. Paper Children As children in preschool who get special ed services start to turn 5, they are evaluated to determine what kind of help they will need in kindergarten in the fall. This early intervention is meant to ensure that the children are prepar... |
1594050_0 | Against Happiness | Jim Holt's essay (The Way We Live Now, June 20) made me consider again what my own thoughts are on the subject of happiness, and one thing it is not is the goofy, giddy, smiley-face-on-the-bumper-sticker version. How about Aristotle's idea of happiness (eudaemonia)? If I remember correctly, he boils it down to the habi... |
1594062_3 | De Gaulle Airport Acts to Ease Crowding | checking in at Terminal 2E would then ride buses to their planes). But that decision depends on government approval, which depends in turn on various expert assessments, all of which takes time. An investigation into the collapse has focused on the added stress that three walkways may have placed on the elliptical conc... |
1594027_0 | Goodbye, Columbus | HISTORY LESSONS How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History. By Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward. 404 pp. The New Press. $26.95. HAD you gone to high school in Norway, your textbook would have taught you Columbus was old news: the most important arrival in America was the Viking Leif Ericson's in the early 10th... |
1595323_1 | As Bird Flu Persists, Global Leaders Prepare for the Worst | A(H5N1) strain of bird flu, and they have been racing to develop an effective vaccine. Laboratories working with the W.H.O. have used genetic manipulation to develop tiny quantities of a possible vaccine, and the organization said Thursday that two American companies had been able to grow small batches of vaccine from ... |
1595359_0 | NASA Rescue Plan Is Reported to Have High Risk of Failure | NASA's emergency plan to use the International Space Station as a safe haven for shuttle astronauts whose craft cannot safely return to earth would carry a high risk of failure if it were ever tried, according to internal space agency documents. The documents say the space station lacks adequate support systems and sup... |
1599905_1 | Panel Sees No Unique Risk From Genetic Engineering | not recommend changes to existing regulations, but rather deals more with the science needed to determine whether food from genetically engineered crops and animals might be harmful. It does not, for instance, explicitly recommend mandatory reviews of new genetically engineered foods by the Food and Drug Administration... |
1599860_2 | A Writer Is Back in the Saddle After His Fall From Grace | always a good way to sell books, gave way to crisis after he wrote ''The Last Brother,'' a 1993 book about Senator Edward M. Kennedy that was panned by some as a worthless bit of fakery. The experience left him depressed and embittered. In the fall of 1997, his car slid off an icy New York State road and landed on him ... |
1599889_3 | A Spitting Image Of Cuba | as an afternoon snack. In a country where milk, cigarettes, coffee and pork chops were marked off on a ration card -- with only so much allotted to each family and only so much in the store (so that my grandmother awoke before dawn to go stand in line with her card) -- the fruit trees offered rare abundance. In America... |
1598408_4 | For Some Beta Testers, It's About Buzz, Not Bugs | day testing World of Warcraft on weekdays and five to six hours a day on weekends. Early testing also gives him a chance to influence the game's development. Mr. Swaney recalls telling developers that Ironforge, the capital city of the dwarves in this massively multiplayer online role-playing game, felt like a ghost to... |
1598411_3 | On the Trail of a Persistent Pest | computers will also be outfitted with Global Positioning System receivers, which will allow health officials to pinpoint specific areas where virus-carrying mosquitoes live and breed. J.Barry DuVall, director of East Carolina's Center of Wireless and Mobile Computing, said the hope is that eventually those positions wi... |
1595577_1 | Albany Impasse Is Felt in Wallet And Town Hall | in the balance because it is unclear if lawmakers will restore any of the money. And homeowners in New York City do not know whether they will get $400 property tax rebate checks that the mayor and the City Council have already approved, but Albany has yet to sign off on. In New York's system, the governor proposes a b... |
1595537_3 | MAJOR PORTION OF ISRAELI FENCE IS RULED ILLEGAL | had ''the right, and indeed the duty, to respond in order to protect the life of its citizens,'' the court said the path of the barrier could work toward creating a ''de facto annexation'' of Palestinian land by Israel through the creation of ''a fait accompli on the ground that could well become permanent.'' The court... |
1595583_0 | World Briefing | The Environment: Gender Identity Problems In Britain | Male fish are changing sex because of female hormones in British rivers polluted by sewage, the government said. In a survey of 1,500 fish at 50 spots, some 500 of the males showed female characteristics, raising concerns about their ability to reproduce, the Environment Agency said. Even though the sewage had been tre... |
1595501_2 | Those Who Were Inspired To Hate the Modern World | traditionalist organizations and Web sites in 34 countries. Even the arts now reflect traditionalist influence. The British composer, Sir John Tavener, whose seven-hour work, ''The Veil of the Temple,'' will receive its United States premiere on July 24 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, writes religious minimalis... |
1596550_2 | In the Ballroom, A Redefinition Of 'Couple' | Mr. Halley, 40, who runs a talent agency that books stylists and makeup artists. The International DanceSport Federation, which oversees competitive ballroom dancing worldwide, says that allowing all-male couples alters the fundamental nature of the sport. ''Just as the Hopak dancers do not have to start adding other e... |
1596688_0 | National Briefing | Science And Health: Study On Soy Supplements | Menopausal women who took soy supplements for five years had an increased risk of a uterine problem that can sometimes lead to cancer, researchers reported. The supplements, which contain a form of estrogen found in plants, have been promoted as a safe alternative to hormone therapy to treat menopausal problems. But a ... |
1599478_3 | Trade Talks in Geneva Offer More Hope This Time | down, while the United States, which in the past tended to blame Europeans for intransigence, is on defense. Seeing the writing on the wall, the European Union gave in to demands of poor nations this year and, while retaining other features of its Common Agriculture Policy, has offered to eliminate all export subsidies... |
1599498_0 | Some Steps Put in Place To Aid Border Security | Immigration officials said they had already started taking some of the urgent steps recommended last week by the Sept. 11 commission to enhance border security, but with intelligence reports describing the threat of a new attack as extraordinarily high, the effort remains far from complete. The Department of Homeland S... |
1599564_3 | Lifting Grand Central's Shroud; Restoration Returns a Landmark's Luster | ago, but by the time officials got around to inspecting the exterior again last year, serious problems had begun to emerge. The most pressing concerns were problems in the building's skin that might lead to more water leakage and structural damage. Consultants from Building Conservation Associates, a firm specializing ... |
1594861_2 | U.N. Report Shows Concern Over Rise of H.I.V. in Asia | than 1 percent of a country's population is living with H.I.V., the country is in a general epidemic that is much harder to stop than if the prevalence is less than one percent, Ms. Cravero said. In Asia, she said, ''many countries have prevalence rates less than one percent, and some are hovering around one percent.''... |
1594894_6 | Pondering China's Rates Through a Central Prism | is very worried -- it has slowed down dramatically,'' the executive added. Investment accounts for nearly half of all economic output in China, while consumer spending remains anemic. So what appears to be a nationwide decision by developers and road contractors that they have enough excavators could be an early sign o... |
1594920_0 | Saw Your E-Mail. Gotta Run. Signed, Big Brother | To the Editor: Re ''Intercepting E-Mail'' (editorial, July 2): For years, we've seen employee privacy in the workplace disappear as new monitoring technologies have proliferated. As the lines between home and work continue to disappear, these technologies have encroached even further into the private lives of working A... |
1594918_0 | Saw Your E-Mail. Gotta Run. Signed, Big Brother | To the Editor: The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to permit third-party eavesdropping on e-mail content is a painful blow to American citizens' freedom of speech (''Intercepting E-Mail,'' editorial, July 2). Thanks to the Patriot Act, the government has already been given expanded ... |
1596351_1 | The Old Man Has Begun to Fear His Old Friend the Sea | continue to search the seas for the marlin that ends up on dinner tables across the nation. Born just as the commercial fishing of marlin began here in the 1930's, the old men, like the one in Hemingway's story, used to fish alone in skiffs. Now the boats are bigger and have engines, but the fishing remains the same. T... |
1596308_0 | When the Brain Says, 'Don't Get Too Close' | A century ago, neurologists noticed that when ladies wearing big feathered hats ducked through entryways, they would align their bodies just so. It was as if they could feel the tops of doors with the tips of the feathers. From this and other observations, the scientists concluded that each person holds within the brai... |
1596417_0 | Britain's Stiff Upper Lip Is Being Twisted Into a Snarl | Once Britons wore their stoicism on their sleeves, acting almost as if they would rather die than complain. ''For my own sake I do not regret this journey,'' the great failed explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott wrote in the journal found beside his frozen corpse in Antarctica in 1912, ''which has shown that Englishmen c... |
1596312_2 | Driving? Maybe You Shouldn't Be Reading This | cellphone to two or three other friends, managing it all so skillfully -- under the table, during a bathroom break -- that none of us has even noticed. I talk to my brother on the telephone and hear him clicking at his computer in the background, or to my mother and hear her loading the dishwasher. Is it any wonder tha... |
1628551_0 | It's Easy Being Green | Though nobody seemed to notice, Republican and Democratic voters seemed to be of similar minds on one issue this election: the environment. Across the country, in red states and blue states, Americans voted decisively to spend more money for natural areas, neighborhood parks and conservation in their communities. Of 16... |
1628532_3 | Breaking Ground With a Gay Movie Hero | life, and not just based on sex,'' said Robin Lane Fox, an Oxford historian who was a consultant on the film. ''They'd been together since boyhood, 25 years. That's what Oliver, with the Hephaistion scenes, was trying to present.'' But historians of cinema said the depiction of a gay or bisexual leading man in a major ... |
1628640_8 | China Widens Economic Role in Latin America | America is finding it difficult to obtain the capital it needs to finance its own growth. As a result Brazil, like neighboring Argentina, has been forced to court Citic, the state-controlled China International Trust and Investment Corporation, in hopes that at least a small part of China's estimated $500 billion in fo... |
1628578_0 | U.S. Drops Effort for Treaty Banning Cloning | Faced with polarizing division in the 191-member General Assembly, the United States on Friday abandoned its aggressively pursued attempt to obtain a United Nations treaty banning all human cloning, including that done in the name of medical research. The outcome -- an agreement to come up with a nonbinding declaration... |
1626634_3 | Lions in Winterization; Weather-Beaten for 93 Years, Library Sentries Get a Makeover | of detail in the lions' carving, a roughness in the overall finish and the development of some hairline cracks. Furthermore, Fortitude has a crack three-sixteenths of an inch wide in its northward mane that has been enlarged by the freeze-and-thaw cycle. ''If we don't stabilize it, a two-foot chunk could fall off,'' Mr... |
1626604_4 | Using a New Language in Africa to Save Dying Ones | Xhosa, Venda, Tsonga and other South African languages. One of Microsoft's motivations in localizing its software is to try to head off the movement toward open-source operating systems like Linux, which are increasingly popular. South Africa has already adopted Linux, which it considers more cost efficient and more li... |
1628249_0 | Conferees Pass Compromise for 6.5 Million Special Education Pupils | A House-Senate conference committee gave near unanimous approval to major changes in the law that governs special education for 6.5 million disabled students, charting new ways for schools to identify children for extra help more swiftly, reduce legal challenges by dissatisfied parents and make it easier for schools to... |
1628128_4 | Empty Maternity Wards Imperil a Dwindling Germany | 1970's are now in their childbearing years. ''It's simple arithmetic, but even the hospitals don't realize it,'' said Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development. Dr. Klingholz drew attention here last spring when he calculated that without new immigrants, Germany's population woul... |
1628179_0 | U.S. Catholic Bishops Agree to Join New Ecumenical Group | The top hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States decided yesterday to join the broadest alliance of Christian churches in the country so far, a new ecumenical group that would bring the church to the same table as conservative evangelicals and liberal Protestants. Members of the United States Confere... |
1623818_3 | Did the F.D.A.'s approval of Applied Digital's implantable chip help its long-term outlook? | about Applied Digital's vision for VeriChip. The company's executives have told investors that VeriChip is addressing markets worth hundreds of billions of dollars. VeriChip, they have said, could become the theft- and loss-proof successor to the credit card, a device to monitor the whereabouts of children and mentally... |
1624930_0 | Renewing Their Vision by Mining Ancient Worlds | New civilizations make it their business to feed on old ones. They use ancient ideals to help them define or justify themselves. During the 19th century, for instance, both regions of the United States laid claim to an impeccable Greco-Roman lineage. The South chose to pretend it was ancient Greece, while the urban Nor... |
1627432_0 | Glasses, Scalpels, Bikes: Turning Waste Into Help | EVERY year, Americans throw away millions of items that would be welcomed in poorer countries, and a wide range of groups make it their mission to recycle them. Some of these campaigns are decades old and well known, others are more spontaneous, and still others fill special niches. Here are three organizations that il... |
1627420_0 | Discarded in America, a Life Changer in Mongolia | FIVE-YEAR-OLD Gersenz Orkhon's brow furrowed. His plastic tools were arrayed on his wheelchair work tray, and with a screwdriver he pried the tracks off his yellow toy bulldozer. Ignoring visitors to his apartment, he grumbled to his grandfather, ''This screwdriver's not very good.'' A little more than a year ago, Gers... |
1630242_2 | Report Faults F.A.A. Action On Handling Risky Cargoes | the Office of Hazardous Materials and the Office of the Chief Counsel must develop acceptable alternate ways of doing business,'' said the report, which was signed by Alexis M. Stefani, the principal assistant inspector general for auditing and evaluation. The aviation agency stepped up its enforcement of hazardous car... |
1630256_0 | Arts, Briefly; Aga Khan Awards | Temporary housing built from earth-filled sandbags and a tilting disc shaped library in Alexandria, Egypt, are among the seven winners of this year's Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The recipients of awards, which are presented every three years and amount to a total of $500,000, are to be announced today in Delhi, In... |
1630206_1 | Good News About Poverty | people in the East Asia and Pacific region living on less than $1 a day. By 2001, there were 271 million living in extreme poverty, and by 2015, at current projections, there will only be 19 million people living under those conditions. Less dramatic declines in extreme poverty have been noted around the developing wor... |
1629507_3 | Many Women Say Airport Pat-Downs Are a Humiliation | security, who are automatically wanded. Under the previous rules, travelers were randomly selected for secondary screenings or taken aside if they set off metal detectors. Security would ask travelers to remove their shoes and coats, and then use a magnetometer to scan their bodies. Carry-ons were inspected by hand. Wi... |
1629432_0 | REALLY? | THE CLAIM: Alcohol kills brain cells. THE FACTS -- When ancient Greeks wanted to reassure guests that their wine had not been spiked with poison, they toasted to good health. While that may be less of a worry today, there remain hazards from indulging in too much alcohol -- including, of course, hangovers. But one thin... |
1626391_0 | Close Encounters of the Ursus Kind | To the Editor: Re ''Bigger and Bolder Population of Bears Incites Fear in Japan'' (news article, Nov. 7): If those bears attacking humans in Japan were not fazed by noisemakers and rubber bullets, they will not be deterred by shouting at them, as posters advise. My Catskill mountain acquaintances, farmers and hunters, ... |
1626420_4 | Warning: Military service can be a drain on later earning power in civilian life. | this advantage persisted for at least a decade. A possible explanation for this racial disparity is that a record of military service may be a positive signal that helps minority workers to (at least partially) overcome the discrimination they face in the labor market. For white veterans, however, military service main... |
1631043_3 | Board Accepts Nuclear Vow By Iranians | to reflect Iran's insistence that it was freezing its programs as a voluntary confidence-building measure, not because of outside pressure or coercion. The face-saving solution for both sides was celebrated with Champagne last night at the residence of France's ambassador to the agency, one participant said. The Irania... |
1631081_2 | Congress Trims Money for Science Agency | imaging and PET scans, depend heavily on physics, just as research on the human genome depends heavily on computers to catalog and analyze billions of bits of data. Dr. Harold E. Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health, said the budget cut was ''very distressing.'' Dr. Varmus, now president of Memo... |
1631089_0 | Bacteria Enlisted For New Trials On Dental Health | Can genetically engineered bacteria prevent tooth decay? A small biotechnology company is about to take the first step toward answering that question. The company, Oragenics, is expected to announce today that it has received permission from the Food and Drug Administration to conduct the first clinical trial in which ... |
1624032_0 | MEMO PAD | BAGGAGE THIEVES BAGGED -- After police staged a months-long undercover sting, five baggage handlers at Kennedy Airport were charged last week with stealing laptop computers, cameras, compact discs and cash from the checked bags of passengers, according to the Queens district attorney's office, which estimated the total... |
1624099_4 | Peering at the Sticker on a Cleaner Car; California's New Emissions Standards Ignite a Debate Over Price | day are characterized by boxiness, from the Hummer to the Chrysler 300C. ''It's been decades since the auto industry showed you could produce vehicles that had half the drag coefficient than vehicles do today,'' he said. ''But look at them. To most people, they're not the kind of cars they want to drive.'' Ms. Bedswort... |
1625724_0 | Driving Without Air, but Driving | KNOWING that a tire is losing air may be useful, but it doesn't solve the essential problem. Sooner or later, the leak must be plugged or the tire replaced. That repair can be much later -- more than 100 miles down the road -- if the tire is a ''run flat'' design that lets a driver keep motoring, though at a slower spe... |
1625723_1 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; A Car's New Job: Checking Its Own Tires | loads. About 10 percent of new vehicles sold in the United States today have pressure monitors, either as standard equipment or as an extra-cost option. Among other applications, the monitoring systems are needed in vehicles that use ''run flat'' tires, a type that can be driven even after a puncture has allowed all th... |
1627648_1 | Unused PC Power to RunGrid for Unraveling Disease | of far-flung machines that can take on daunting scientific problems. A comparatively simple but well-known distributed computing effort is the SETI@home program, begun in 1999, which uses the spare power of personal computers to scan radio signals for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Grid computing technology co... |
1627690_1 | Kraft Foods Will Sell Altoids And Life Savers to Wrigley | sold primarily in Europe. Kraft's reorganization plan, announced last January after a year of disappointing sales and earnings, includes the elimination of 6,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its global work force, and the shuttering of 20 manufacturing plants worldwide. ''This divesture is part of our strategy to transform Kr... |
1627627_0 | Another Way to Fight Breast Cancer Relapse | Most women who have breast cancer and are past menopause should take a type of hormone-blocking drug known as an aromatase inhibitor to prevent cancer recurrence, experts said yesterday. The recommendation, by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, applies only to postmenopausal women who have breast cancers that a... |
1627642_1 | MEMO PAD | the highest score among the top 12 airports for ''healthy entrees.'' Miami topped the rankings with ''85 percent of its restaurants offering healthy choices,'' said the report, which defined healthy as low-fat and vegetarian. But in a statement yesterday, another group, the Center for Consumer Freedom, criticized the c... |
1627679_1 | Klein Apologizes After Student Records Are Left on Street | protecting the privacy of our students.'' The office on East Tremont Avenue coordinates home-schooling services for children assigned to District 75, a citywide special education district for the most severely handicapped and mentally or physically ill children. The records included files for children with cancer, cere... |
1629654_0 | Food Imports Close to Matching Level of Exports, Report Says | Next year, for the first time in nearly five decades, the United States could import as much food as it exports, the Department of Agriculture said. Until now, the United States exported more food than it imported. One out of every three acres in the United States is planted for export and agriculture has been one of t... |
1627275_1 | Ivory Coast Says France Caused Crisis | here. ''They were organizing with Charles Taylor and mercenaries from Sierra Leone. So we launched a counterstrike with aircraft on specific targets.'' The attacks, which began on Nov. 4, hit a French peacekeepers' camp in the rebel-held North a week ago, killing nine French soldiers and one American civilian. France r... |
1627204_1 | Tested in Translation | Eiffel Tower out the living room window. For the first six weeks, I went to French language classes from 8 in the morning to 5 at night. It was one-on-one with a female teacher in her 40's who didn't speak any English. Every day we'd go to lunch and the waiter would ask me for my order. One day, I said I wanted riz ave... |
1626970_27 | Box Office in a Box | through it again.'' Chapek, like most of the other video executives I spoke with, has high expectations for what either format could do for the content. The sound and picture would be better, but the new discs would also have far more capacity and be more interactive. The games on current-technology DVD's, for instance... |
1626953_1 | Hold the Rum | by real pirates with a walk on the plank. Roger presents a familiar figure in children's books and sitcoms: the goofball who saves the day. The illustrations might seem familiar, too -- Brett Helquist is the illustrator for the studiedly strange ''Series of Unfortunate Events'' books by Lemony Snicket. Here his work is... |
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1630080_1 | Africa Needs a Million More Health Care Workers, Report Says | of nurses and doctors from poor African countries to Europe and North America. By the group's calculations, Africa needs a million more health workers. Wealthy nations must educate enough of their own nationals, the group says, rather than rely on doctors and nurses whose training has been paid for by African countries... |
1630109_4 | 3-D Maps From Commercial Satellites Guide G.I.'s in Iraq's Deadliest Urban Mazes | taking individual images and adding multiple layers of data, including information from a super detailed interpretation of the picture, a traditional topographic map, weather reports, spies or soldiers in the field or intercepts of telephone calls or e-mail messages. The commercial satellites now in orbit have about a ... |
1630122_2 | Hi, I'm Your Car. Don't Let Me Distract You. | holding the cellphone to make the call. Drivers using a cellphone headset had to redial their calls 40 percent of the time because of mistakes, compared with an error rate of 18 percent for drivers who held the phone. The study concluded that in most cases, drivers ''overestimated the ease of use afforded by hands-free... |
1630022_2 | Ancient Conqueror, Modern Devotees | antiquity, he is commonly considered a founding father of Western civilization and history's most brilliant military tactician. That there are few undisputed facts about his life and personality has made him an easy target for wild theories and has added to his near-mythic luster. In ''Alexander the Great,'' his 1973 b... |
1630042_0 | W.T.O. Ready to Take Action Against U.S. Over Trade Law | The World Trade Organization was expected to approve the imposition of $150 million in trade sanctions against the United States by the European Union, Japan, Canada and four other countries Friday in response to an American antidumping law that was declared illegal in 2003. As a result, tariffs could be imposed on Ame... |
1630071_0 | At the Airport: Indignity vs. Security | To the Editor: As a frequent traveler between Newark Liberty International Airport and Tel Aviv, I have been singled out for special security procedures several times. But I have never felt at all demeaned or humiliated by the pat-downs, even though I have been asked to lift my shirt, expose my bra, or even unzip my je... |
1625313_0 | Airwaves Are Abuzz Over Wesleyan | IT'S 6 p.m. Monday. Benjamin Michael is at the mike at WESU-FM (88.1), Wesleyan University's radio station. Broadcasting from a modest studio over Broad Street Books in Middletown, he and his co-host, Garnett Ankle, knock around issues involving politics and equal rights. Then, as they do each show, they open up the ph... |
1625183_8 | Beyond 'Sweetie' | her. (Previously, the emphasis was only on abnormalities in pregnancy.) ''It wasn't very hard to convince them that we needed this,'' Ms. Rabiner says. The course director of physiology, who chooses materials for the class, as well as the senior associate dean for education are women. ''Sometimes, it's just very hard f... |
1625519_3 | Bigger and Bolder Population Of Bears Incites Fear in Japan | their droppings.'' But with tourism the economic lifeline of this corner of Hokkaido, officials are discussing a quintessentially Japanese solution: building an elevated footpath designed to allow tourists to walk through bear country without risking a scratch. Bear-human conflicts are more violent hundreds of miles so... |
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1625206_0 | Impromptu Classroom | TO Brazilians, the boats that chug up and down the Solimões River are the Greyhound buses of the Amazon: the only affordable way to visit relatives or travel on business. In that land of few roads and expensive air fares, the Solimões, as the Amazon River is known there, is the local highway. But for me, the Fernandes ... |
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1629059_4 | City and F.B.I. Reach Agreement on Bioterror Investigations | will try to wave this document around to assert authority in a spirit that was not intended.'' The effort to draft such rules actually predate the 9/11 and anthrax letter attacks of 2001, some officials said. William A. Zinnikas, the weapons of mass destruction coordinator for the F.B.I.'s New York office, said he and ... |
1628983_4 | The Castro Collection | third party that Sotheby's had the painting for a number of years,'' Pepe Fanjul said. ''I'm sure they have their side of the story.'' Alfonso Fanjul Jr., the steely, 67-year-old entrepreneur known as Alfy who rebuilt the Fanjuls' Cuban sugar empire in the United States, was more direct. ''I have been surprised by the ... |
1628743_0 | Spend $150 Billion Per Year to Cure World Poverty | No plan can ignore that in African and other less-developed countries population already outruns the present means of support yet goes on rapidly expanding. This eats up any increments in production, keeps wages low and strains agricultural resources. The necessity here is to cut the birthrates directly. Edwin Reubens ... |
1628755_6 | A Village Preserves A Shangri-La | a trickle of scraggly backpackers who made a three-day bus trip from Yunnan's capital, Kunming. But in 1995, Lijiang opened an airport with direct flights from several Chinese cities, and the trickle grew to a flood. Last year, the city had more than three million visitors. The rapid influx has affected local customs. ... |
1629025_3 | THE READING FILE | the aim of economic development is to benefit humanity rather than to destroy the natural world. It is important to remember that richer societies are in a much stronger position to create a positive environment for human beings than poor ones. Even in the developed world there is still a long way to go before material... |
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