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1127471_7 | Latest in Technology Keeps a Sharp Eye On a Changing Sea; Five Miles Off the Coast of Tuckerton, One of the Most Intimate Looks at the Atlantic | discovered the Titanic on the ocean floor in 1985. Mr. Grassle and Mr. Ballard were featured in a 1979 National Geographic Society movie called ''Dive to the Edge of Creation,'' in which they explored sea life off the Galapagos Islands in a manned submersible. Using manned submersibles and unmanned vessels that were es... |
1127677_6 | Plan for Elite School in Westchester Divides Haves and Have-Mores | Joyce among them, have volunteered 40 hours a week for two years to coordinate the findings and reports; their ''war room'' is an office in Greenwich lent by Mr. Cameron, whose investment company is based there. The school also did two mass mailings to explain the project. ''We got frustrated with the misinformation,''... |
1127612_6 | The World: Out of Control; The Internet Changes Dictatorship's Rules | apocalyptic tendencies are getting ahead of the deprogramming organizations that try to rescue members trapped in mind-altering sects. But on balance, many experts would bet on more opening of minds through interconnectedness. In the Muslim world, the use of mass communications -- including the Internet as well as a ne... |
1131830_0 | France Voices Dissatisfaction With U.S.-Led Bombing of Iraq | France vented long-simmering uneasiness today over the continuing American-led bombing raids on Iraq, setting the stage for what diplomats here expect to be a confrontation with the United States at the United Nations General Assembly next month. Today was the third occasion on which the French Foreign Ministry has tak... |
1131904_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE RUSSIA: ARMS RACE WARNING -- Russia and the United States ended a new round of arms control talks with Moscow saying American plans for a missile defense system could start a new arms race in outer space. After three days of talks, the two sides appeared to have made little progress, with the main bone of conten... |
1131887_0 | LUTHERAN GROUP APPROVES A LINK TO EPISCOPALIANS | The nation's largest Lutheran denomination voted today to enter an agreement for full communion with the Episcopal Church, under which the two churches, which together represent nearly eight million American Protestants, would fully recognize each other's members and sacraments, exchange clergy when needed and join in ... |
1131428_0 | Business Travel; It's possible to track airlines flights on a nearly real-time basis through the Internet. | AS the number of airline delays in the United States soars, travelers can go on line to track their flights or those of colleagues. Trip.com (www.trip.com) offers a Flighttracker service that lets travelers check the speed and altitude of a specific flight, the direction the aircraft is heading, and the flight's exact ... |
1131437_2 | Rebutting Task Force, Group Urges CUNY to Keep Remediation | Students who require remedial work in one subject graduate at almost the same rate as those who need none. *Although CUNY's six-year graduation rates are below national averages, reflecting financial and other problems of its student body, its eight-year graduate rates are above national averages. The Friends of CUNY a... |
1131430_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA INDIA: NUCLEAR DOCTRINE -- India should adhere to its nuclear arms policy of ''retaliation only'' while building ''credible minimum deterrence'' with the ability to fire its weapons from the land, air or sea, according to a recommendation by the National Security Advisory Board. The 27-member panel was asked by th... |
1130027_1 | U.S. Changes Policy on Searching Suspected Drug Smugglers | customs from overseas flights, were subjected to some form of search on arrival in the United States. Most of those searched were only patted-down, but about 2,000 people were subjected to more intrusive body searches, including X-ray inspections, monitored bowel movements or examinations of body cavities. A class-acti... |
1130064_2 | Returning Gleam To Marble Church; Crumbling Piece of City History Is Getting Its Stones Restored | powder, if it remained at all. Blocks could be rocked back and forth by hand. Through stones in the bell tower, one could see blue sky. Church leaders decided to seize the opportunity provided by a strong economy to undertake a more ambitious restoration of their building. ''We want to make sure it can last for another... |
1131102_2 | A Year After Bombing, Grief Lingers in Ulster Town | in Yonkers in November. A director of the club, Joe Byrne, who is also a mainstream Catholic member of the Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast, said this morning: ''As I drove around the town there was a mood of reflection and sadness. People are subdued today. I went to buy the newspapers. No one else was in the shop... |
1132818_1 | Estrogen May Curb Women's Muscle Pain | of biceps curls. Sex may play an important role in the susceptibility to soreness. ''The animal data are very clear,'' Dr. Clarkson said. In studies, male rats showed much more muscle damage than female rats after exercises that emphasized muscle extensions, which specialists call eccentric contractions. ''Estrogen see... |
1132807_0 | Old Phone Cables Open Seabed to Science | Making use of thousands of miles of discarded telephone cables, scientists have begun to wire remote regions of deep ocean floor to create an undersea network of geological observatories. The old cables will serve as deep-sea extension cords running thousands of miles from land-based power stations to sensors, some of ... |
1128502_0 | Can We Trust Altered Foods? | To the Editor: Diane Johnson (Op-Ed, Aug. 2) laments ''a lack of information'' about the safety of genetically modified plants. In fact, during the past two decades prominent national and international scientific groups have studied the safety of the new molecular methods of genetic modification applied to plants, micr... |
1128423_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | MIDDLE EAST IRAN: REFORM NEWSPAPER BANNED -- The Special Court for Clergy ordered a five-year ban on the country's leading pro-reform newspaper, Salam, and suspended its publisher, Mohammad Mousavi-Khoeiniha, from journalism for three years. Salam, considered close to the reformist President, Mohammad Khatami, was bann... |
1128411_2 | In Days, India, Chasing China, Will Have a Billion People | health care. Despite its considerable problems, often worsened by population pressures, India has increased life expectancy to 63 years, from 39, in less than half a century, and has cut its fertility rate from 6 births for each woman of child-bearing age to 3.1. The latest population estimate is built on an array of s... |
1128440_2 | Monsanto Faces Growing Skepticism On Two Fronts | to improve its standing with investors and the public. The company would like to convince consumers that genetically modified foods are not just safe but critical to feeding a growing population by raising crop yields and reducing waste and the need for harmful pesticides, executives say. In recent weeks, executives at... |
1128361_0 | What I Did On My Summer Vacation; Some Teen-Agers Parlayed Computer Skills Into Jobs With Signing Bonuses, Travel and Executive Perks | WHEN 18-year-old Eamon Walsh and two of his high school friends get together, they chat about summer concerts, the heat and -- more often than not -- their marketing plan. Instead of rising at noon and heading to the pool, Mr. Walsh backs his car out of the driveway before 7 A.M., picks up his friends -- Tamara Metz, 1... |
1128450_0 | North Korea's Dangerous Missiles | North Korea threatens to escalate tensions in Asia and heighten its own isolation if it goes ahead with another long-range missile test in the next few weeks. The Taepodong 2 missile, first tested last August, has a range of 3,700 miles, which makes it capable of hitting Alaska and Hawaii as well as Japan and American ... |
1128501_0 | Can We Trust Altered Foods? | To the Editor: The idea that genetic engineering is somehow ''natural selection, just speeded up,'' is a false and dangerous one that is sure to lead to food crises far more serious than the sick Monarch butterflies that transgenic crops have already produced (Op-Ed, Aug. 2). As a consumer I have a reasonable assurance... |
1134350_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Clinton and Senate Allies Gird for Test Ban Battle The White House and Senate Democrats say they are preparing for a pitched battle with the Republican-controlled Senate to save a treaty banning nuclear testing, one of the top foreign policy goals of President Clinton's Administration. A1 Pressure R... |
1134325_2 | Greens Say They'll Quit French Government if It Plans New A-Plants | plants with new ones, or do we start to opt out of nuclear energy, like Belgium and Germany? If the decision is for new plants, we will pull out of the Government.'' The Greens have also renewed their demand that a national referendum be held on the country's energy strategy and the future of nuclear power. To make sur... |
1134335_2 | Four Youths Threatened By the I.R.A. Flee Ulster | on one another. Fearful that a peace settlement might cost them control of their areas, the paramilitaries have directed brutal enforcement tactics ranging from kneecapping to killings in their own neighborhoods. The parents of the Groogan brothers defended their sons in television interviews tonight, saying that neigh... |
1129075_0 | The Body, Ever the Subject, Never Out Of Style | WHEN the Whitney Museum of American Art dropped ''The Great American Nude'' from its schedule, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield picked it up, renaming it ''The Nude in Contemporary Art.'' (One advantage the Aldrich had over the Whitney is that it can show art from outside the Americas.) Given what l... |
1129068_5 | For the Island's Icon, A New Lease on Life | razed in 1948 and replaced by a steel tower. Other lighthouses suffered from neglect, decay, vandalism, fire and the ravages of storms. Some are still in jeopardy. But as nonprofit groups have mobilized and taken control of lighthouses, they have been refurbished. Lights that were extinguished have been turned on again... |
1129061_2 | A Special Camp Just for Special Children | are having difficulty in an academic setting, they are going to have the same difficulty in a social setting,'' said Cara Greene, founder of the camp and director of Social Services at the Sid Jacobsen J.C.C. in Roslyn, which runs the camp as a beneficiary agency of U.J.A. Federation. ''We really work on helping them d... |
1129127_1 | What's New in Power Tools | charged only for that amount. The only way to erase the memory was by running the tool continuously to discharge the battery, then recharge it. This problem was caused by impurities in the nickle-cadmium electrolyte. Using advanced refining methods, manufacturers are now able to remove these impurities in the nickel ca... |
1128984_11 | ISLAND OF FORBIDDEN FRUITS | year for humanitarian reasons -- can go to Cuba, spending up to $100 a day for expenses. Or travelers can apply for a license to go if they have a religious or educational purpose, for example. Anybody else is banned from spending money under the Trading With the Enemy Act. No more than $100 worth of goods (such as cig... |
1129104_2 | Summer School for Managers | ending: After even more self-improvement, our erstwhile urchin gets his first ''real'' job. As simplistic as it sounds, this short book is an entertaining cultural artifact that offered inspiration to generations of young Americans. Indeed, as Mr. Trachtenberg reminds us, the writer Nathanael West once proclaimed that ... |
1129128_1 | What's New in Power Tools | charged only for that amount. The only way to erase the memory was by running the tool continuously to discharge the battery, then recharge it. This problem was caused by impurities in the nickle-cadmium electrolyte. Using advanced refining methods, manufacturers are now able to remove these impurities in the nickel ca... |
1128994_23 | Prodigy's Return | wouldn't have come. On the other hand, with it, relations among us are strained. Prolonging the suspense, Van Cliburn, unchanged after all these years except grayer, gives a speech, and I'm struck when he says that a musician prepares intensely with nothing tangible to show for it at the end, meaning that one can never... |
1129129_1 | What's New in Power Tools | charged only for that amount. The only way to erase the memory was by running the tool continuously to discharge the battery, then recharge it. This problem was caused by impurities in the nickle-cadmium electrolyte. Using advanced refining methods, manufacturers are now able to remove these impurities in the nickel ca... |
1127813_1 | France's Fickle Appetite | on products like Dijon mustard in retaliation for Europe's efforts to ban hormone-treated American beef. ''No hormones in foie gras country,'' read posters slapped on the windows of a French McDonald's last week by irate farmers. The French say that genetically modified foods are not environmentally safe, that they're ... |
1127829_0 | Patents; Reducing the cost of snail mail by printing advertisements on the outside of envelopes. | ELECTRONIC mail has become an indispensable mode of communication for many people these days. Not only is it speedy, but it is free for frugal souls in exchange for putting up with advertising taglines at the bottom of their E-mails. But what if someone were to take the same concept -- advertiser-subsidized corresponde... |
1132680_1 | Corporations Battling to Bar Use of E-Mail For Unions | particularly the cyberspace surrounding corporate offices and factories -- will be for the labor movement. While some union officials have been emboldened by the settlement and the Government's decision to side with the suspended employees, others say they will tread lightly until there is a greater consensus about the... |
1132722_0 | Genetic Crop Testing Angers Many Britons | British farmers who have offered some of their land to the Government for the test-planting of genetically modified seed crops have become the target of bitter protests. Although the genetic modification of food has been a relatively unquestioned phenomenon in the United States and Canada, there has been widespread opp... |
1132701_2 | Britons Skirmish Over Genetically Modified Crops | of the British public think that genetically modified crop testing of the kind Mr. Fiddaman has agreed to should be stopped. Major food manufacturers, supermarkets and fast food chains have already announced the removal of all genetically modified ingredients from their products sold in Britain. The Government of Prime... |
1132688_2 | Patents; A way to use electric power lines to provide wireless telecommunications in poor countries. | Kline envisions that this could mean clusters of homes or businesses could also be isolated via his wireless telecommunications terminals. The terminals would be able to ''multiplex'' the signals from different buildings, according to his patent filing. Thus, the system could carry more than one user in each transforme... |
1134089_0 | The World: Heartburn; Fearful Over the Future, Europe Seizes On Food | FIST raised, mustache bristling, Jose Bove looked defiant as he handed himself in to French police in the southern town of Montpelier a few days ago. ''My struggle remains the same,'' this farmer declared to an appreciative crowd, ''the battle against globalization and for the right of people to feed themselves as they... |
1134089_1 | The World: Heartburn; Fearful Over the Future, Europe Seizes On Food | in protest against what is seen as American-led globalization have abruptly focused on food. Where it was once the deployment of American nuclear missiles that caused alarm, it is now McDonald's, Coca-Cola, genetically modified American corn and American beef fattened with growth hormones that have Europeans up in arms... |
1134080_1 | Strategies for the Genetically Disposed | volatile, and investors may want to use big movements as trading opportunities, but basically, those who believe the thesis may want to own these stocks almost regardless of how expensive they become. And those who don't believe it, of course, may want to stay away. Shares of two of the biggest gene merchants have been... |
1134143_4 | New Trade Threat For U. S. Farmers | foods are unsafe. But the crops are so new that there is not enough evidence to prove the foods' safety to a minority of scientists who say further studies need to be done. Dan Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture, said that the consumers' concerns seemed to be spreading like ''an infectious disease.'' ''This technol... |
1134085_3 | The Race to Cash In On the Genetic Code | his goal for completion, too; he now expects a rough draft of the human genome by next spring and a complete genome a year later. The acceleration of the public and private efforts has already led to a rough winnowing of the genomics field, with some companies disappearing in mergers and others trading at such low shar... |
1133947_5 | Program for Disabled Children Ends Abruptly | Hamilton. For more information, parents may call the department at (877) 258-6585. Cynthia Newman, the supervisor of early intervention programs in central New Jersey, criticized administrators for failing to warn the state of the closing. ''How an agency after 25 years could operate like that -- just close their doors... |
1129921_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | West African peacekeepers. The kidnappers were former Government soldiers who had been allied with Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front, but said they felt that they had been forgotten in the recent agreement to end the country's eight-year war. Norimitsu Onishi (NYT) ANGOLA: GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN ON RADIO The poli... |
1129902_2 | Business Travel; United Airlines moves to all but eliminate the expiration date for its frequent-flier miles. | members must register and make the specified flights by Dec. 31, 1999. Also under the United program, all miles in a member's account for 1999 will be valid until Dec. 31, 2002, after which they will expire unless the member earns or redeems miles between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2002 Electronic Convenience Airlines ... |
1081437_7 | Tower of Romance, Tower of History | Department of Environmental Protection, the four years before the tower became the property of the state took a great toll. ''There was a lot of vandalism,'' he says. ''A lot of the furnishings were destroyed. To make the interior accessible to the public, the state also had to destroy part of the interior design of th... |
1081346_0 | Cruise Lines' Mantra: More, More | DURING the Persian Gulf war almost a decade ago, cruise lines hastily improvised alternative itineraries while moving their ships as fast and as far away from the war zone as possible. Within days, the Mediterranean was being referred to in cruising circles as the Dead Sea. But last month's bombing of Iraq by the Unite... |
1081569_3 | The World; One Defense Against Quakes: Build Homes of Wood | and the area around Charleston, S.C. The competition to keep home costs low is clearly a reason, though some experts insist that quake-proofing adds only 5 percent or so to the cost of a newly built home. Richard Cardoza, director of architectural production at Kaufman and Broad, the largest homebuilder in the West, sa... |
1081351_5 | Cuba Draws the Curious, Despite the Law | and some seem to be falling apart. Lodging with a family and taking meals at ''paladares'' -- private restaurants in the owners' homes -- can offer higher quality at lower prices than hotels and bigger restaurants. And because of a thriving black market, it is possible to get Cuban cigars at bargain prices. (Almost eve... |
1081504_1 | M.B.A. Magic Is a Fiction | the work done.'' This isn't to say that going after your M.B.A. was a waste of time. ''We would clearly consider people who do not have market research experience,'' said Gary Newman, a human-resources manager at Information Resources Inc. in Chicago. Someone with an M.B.A. who has business savvy and experience in othe... |
1081583_2 | Ideas & Trends; Probing Disease Clusters: Easier to Spot Than Prove | a chance occurrence. And chance is hard to ignore. Clusters will naturally appear even when events occur at random, said Dr. Persi Diaconis, a statistician at Stanford University. ''There was a famous example of this when bombs were hitting London during World War II,'' he said. ''People were sure they were targeting i... |
1081571_2 | Editorial Observer; Brazil's Economy: Moscow on the Amazon? | hidden in that apparent success. The President put off many badly needed reforms. Brazil's public sector is bloated, with too many well-paid employees doing too little, while there remains great poverty in some areas. The Government's debt grew and the real became overvalued. Then the world changed. Foreign investors, ... |
1081584_1 | The Nation: Reprising Zero Tolerance; History Shows That Tough Talk Is Cheap | caught with small amounts of drugs, regardless of whether they were the owners. But within 18 months, the program had been revised three times, evolving into a relatively lenient approach in which people were cited and released without any confiscation of their property. (Federal agents still use forfeiture laws, but m... |
1081555_0 | Rocky Path To Market For Edible Foe Of Cholesterol | TT had all the makings of a fairy tale. A small company in an obscure corner of Finland discovered a natural substance that can lower cholesterol levels. The company devised and patented ways to extract it from wood pulp, make it flavorless and dissolve it in food. A new margarine made with the magic ingredient was an ... |
1074234_3 | Paths of Bears and People Increasingly Crossing | bears,'' especially since hunting would take place just before hibernation, when the animals have grown thick coats and layers of fat. Even as wildlife officials report increasing complaints from lakeside communities like this one, a survey cited in its bear management plan found this vicinity to be overwhelmingly hosp... |
1074387_1 | SOVEREIGN ISLANDS: A special report.; Gaps in Sea Laws Shield Pollution by Cruise Lines | incident occurred even though the company knew it remained under Federal investigation for other discharge incidents. An examination of the criminal investigation, plus new details about the latest incident, shows how difficult it is for authorities to police the booming cruise industry as it launches ever larger ships... |
1074033_0 | In Toulouse, a Blast From Past and Present | TOULOUSE, the city of ancient pink-brick churches and stately homes on the Garonne River in southwestern France, may be noted for foie gras, but it is just as proud to be the aerospace capital of Europe. The first regularly scheduled airline flights in France took off from the Toulouse airport in the 1920's, and now lo... |
1074043_4 | Hello, HAL | present and future. This is a book for computer enthusiasts, science fiction writers in search of cutting-edge themes and anyone who wonders where human technology is going next. But the question must be asked: How seriously are we to take all this breathless compuhype? Will the 21st century really see machines acquire... |
1074343_0 | Word for Word/Help-Wanted Ads; If You're Tired of the Same Old Grind, It's Time to Bone Up on Your Pushtu | WHAT better moment than the dawn of a new year to start scanning the horizon for a new job, a new career, a new life? Sooner or later nearly everybody fantasizes about a fresh beginning. Even the smartest and most accomplished -- executives and academics, government ministers and department heads -- must occasionally f... |
1075720_0 | Unanswered Questions in a Fatal Police Shooting | The last hour of Tyisha Miller's young life in this ''all-American city'' began with a flat tire and a stranger's act of kindness in the early morning darkness three days after Christmas. It ended in a burst of police bullets, Ms. Miller's death and a blizzard of unanswered questions, not only about what happened and w... |
1075648_2 | Very Espresso Philosophy | Roy distributed a sheet with quotes from the Bhagavad Gita, Plato, Aristotle and Mo-Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, along with Hammacher Schlemmer catalogues and a recipe for Omelette Louis XV for 12 (24 ortolans, 18 pheasant eggs, 6 whole black truffles . . .) No one quite agreed on what excess is, but the discussion ca... |
1080746_0 | The Cordless Options | Cordless phones act as small radios, sending signals between the handset and the receiver. For many years, cordless phones operated on frequencies around 49 megahertz in the radio spectrum. When that part of the spectrum grew crowded, manufacturers began making phones that send signals at 900 MHz, a less congested freq... |
1080886_2 | As On-Line Trading Increases, So Do Complaints | are generic to all investing. The majority of them can be addressed through better education and investors insuring that they have done their homework.'' By the end of this year, 10 million brokerage accounts are expected to be able to trade on the Internet, nearly twice the number now. The stunning growth of on-line t... |
1080859_2 | No Currency Devaluation, China Reiterates | money exchanges have been eliminated.'' He said as well that many of China's trust and investment companies would be reorganized. These financial institutions have been blamed for fueling wild speculation in stock and property markets, often creating liabilities that far outweigh assets. Yet Mr. Dai was vague about pla... |
1080754_5 | Lost in Cyberspace: How to Hold On to Your Address | with several students with the same name. * Check out the various E-mail services on the Web. All of them promise free E-mail and forwarding. Of course, promises aren't necessarily permanent in an ever-shifting corporate world. Hotmail, Yahoo, Geocities, Bigfoot and Netscape are just some of the more stable Web-based E... |
1079183_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE ITALY: POLITICAL SHAKE-UP AVERTED -- A new political shake-up was averted after a key member of the ruling center-left coalition failed to withdraw his party's support. Francesco Cossiga had urged his centrist colleagues in government to resign, but Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, left, dissuaded them. ''The Gov... |
1079222_0 | Forest Workers Protest Logging | Hundreds of United States Forest Service employees have signed an E-mail petition calling for strict limits on logging in the pristine back country of the national forests. The petition comes just as the chief of the service, Michael P. Dombeck, a Clinton Administration appointee, is nearing a decision on a hotly debat... |
1075922_6 | The Empty Net; A Strong Back and a Long Memory Won't Help a Bayman if the Fish, and the Freedom to Haul Them In, Grow Scarce | gotta take a nap,'' he told the young feller, who bundled him in a tarp. He left the wheel to the greenhorn and it was dark and the boat was lost and the old man was in a deep sleep. The young man grew afraid. He was a long way from the shores of Ireland. He considered grounding the tri-hull. He thought about what his ... |
1076175_0 | January 3-9; A Tiny Opening to Cuba With Little Political Risk | The Clinton Administration took steps to allow more American money, airplanes, food and mail flow into Cuba, with an eye toward the day when Fidel Castro no longer rules the isolated island. But the White House, which is wary of the political power of anti-Castro Cuban-Americans, rejected calls for creating a national ... |
1077660_0 | BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION | THINKING WITH HISTORY Explorations in the Passage to Modernism. By Carl E. Schorske. Princeton University, $24.95. Carl E. Schorske examines why he thinks we have abandoned history; why, in this modern world, we think without history. For Schorske, a professor emeritus of history at Princeton, the decisive moment came ... |
1077706_5 | Smoldering Emotion Kindled by Motion | choreographer. It sounds pretentious, but I kept a diary, noting down what I would put into future ballets.'' Although virtually all choreographers have been dancers, Mr. Eifman had performed only as a student and started choreographing for a group he formed at 15. In 1966, he entered the newly formed choreography depa... |
1077682_1 | Carry-On Squabbles Plague Airlines | our customers so they can bring aboard the baggage that they have,'' said Julie Gardner, a Continental spokeswoman. Continental is spending $14 million, or about $80,000 a plane, to install deeper overhead bins on all but its oldest planes. The bins are 2.7 inches deeper, and provide enough extra room that most bags wi... |
1077686_0 | Footnotes | Resources, references and the back story behind the story. |
1080124_1 | French Are Gearing Up to Join In Dousing the Flames of Kosovo | take 100,000 European and American troops to impose peace in the war between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serbian forces in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo, according to officials in Paris. Although France is eager to avoid getting dragged into fighting in Kosovo, it has lined up behind the threat of America... |
1080044_0 | Economic Calendar | MONDAY Existing-Home Sales Dec. TUESDAY Consumer Confidence Jan. WEDNESDAY None Dec. THURSDAY Weekly Jobless Claims Durable Goods Orders Dec. FRIDAY G.D.P. 4th Qtr. |
1074532_1 | A Surge in Popularity of Software That Unlocks the Code | ''At the start of 1998, the question was would there be an economic model that would sustain the success of this open-software movement, and I think that question has been answered,'' said Robert F. Young, chief executive of Red Hat Software, which provides services and support for a free computer operating system call... |
1074535_1 | Chips Are Hidden in Washing Machines, Microwaves and Even Reservoirs | the chips that control microwave ovens or Furby, the fuzzy electronic stuffed animal with an attitude. Moreover, the microprocessor is an important consideration for personal computer buyers. Embedded chips, by contrast, barely make their presence known. ''You don't say, 'I bought a new Whirlpool washer with a Motorola... |
1074547_0 | U.S Role as World Savior: A Delicate Balancing Act | Markets and governments around the world operated under an unshakable assumption throughout the economic turmoil last year: if things really got bad, the United States would be there to engineer a bailout. After all, as everyone from President Clinton to Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin kept declaring, the future of ... |
1074546_4 | 5 Problems Tarnishing a Robust Economy | 1970's, productivity has been crawling along at a 1 percent annual clip, taking about three times as long to double. The productivity numbers have improved recently, but there is scant evidence that the new numbers will be permanent. It is one thing for an economy, as is currently the case, to operate close to capacity... |
1074559_2 | 2 Industries Unite to Pave the Way for High-Speed Internet Access | modems rather than the telephone technology known as asymmetric digital subscriber line, or A.D.S.L.) Over all, somewhere around 45 percent of the nation's 100 million homes have computers, and only about half of those, or around 22.5 million, are on line at all. U S West Inc. has been the most aggressive of the Bell l... |
1074543_0 | Good News for Consumers Is Bad for Many Exporters | Oil is about $12 a barrel, near its lowest level in 12 years. Copper is 66 cents a pound, its lowest price in 11 years. Aluminum is $1,241 a metric ton, the least expensive it has been in almost five years, and, like other commodities, still falling in price. The major commodity indexes are at or near their lowest leve... |
1078921_1 | The Big City; Phat City Just a Passing Fashion Fad | layers of Thinsulate and Polartec. Why, in an age that worships thinness, have young males in New York (and their imitators across the country) brought back the obese look? Perhaps the best answer comes from Jose Ysa, a 21-year-old clerk at Dr. Jay's, who is accustomed to customers admiring the jackets by murmuring, ''... |
1078967_2 | Scaffold in Times Square Collapse Was Built Improperly, U.S. Says | other safety violations in the death of a carpenter, Charles Robbins, in an earlier accident at the Conde Nast site, which is known as 4 Times Square. The city's report may not be completed until May 1, said Gaston Silva, the city's Buildings Commissioner. ''We have not completed our investigation,'' Mr. Silva said yes... |
1078944_2 | State Officials Add to U.S. Criticism of New York City's Food Stamp Program | was violating the law by denying poor people the right to apply promptly for food stamps, inadequately screening families for emergency needs and mistakenly requiring the poor to search for work before receiving help. Mr. Wing's letter and the Federal report, which was prepared by the Agriculture Department, were prese... |
1078863_2 | Easy Way to Face Down a Grizzly: On Line | bear species, including the sloth bear of Asia, sun bear, spectacled bear and giant panda, all of them rare; Asiatic black bear, and the more familiar brown, black and polar bears. Links explore such controversial questions as the usefulness of bear bells (are they a warning device or just noise pollution) and pepper s... |
1078980_0 | E-Mail and a Closer Family | To the Editor: The story, ''But Did You Get Her E-Mail Address?'' (Jan. 14), was a good one. I'm experiencing something that I suspect is going on in many families -- a knitting together of relatives who are widely scattered geographically, as a result of almost daily E-mail exchanges. I feel more a part of my family t... |
1078974_0 | Another Portable Way To Get Access to E-Mail | E-mail users who cannot bear to be without the service when they leave the office now have another way for messages to follow them around. Research In Motion, a wireless modem maker, and BellSouth introduced a new E-mail-ready pager called Blackberry this week. Unlike other wireless systems, this one does not require a... |
1078365_1 | Children With Cancer Found Well Adjusted | they seem to function better socially and do as well emotionally as healthy children. This is what a medical team from three universities found when they examined how well or poorly 76 children functioned while receiving chemotherapy for a variety of cancers. The children, 8 to 15 years old, all attended regular school... |
1078366_0 | Q & A | Greek Fire Q. Was there a secret Byzantine naval weapon called Greek fire? A. Historians agree Greek fire existed, but debate its nature. In a new introduction by Bert S. Hall to the classic 1960 book ''A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder,'' by J. R. Partington (Johns Hopkins, 1999), Kallinikos of Heliopolis gets cre... |
1077019_0 | Identity Checks; High-Tech Help for Frequent Travelers Entering U.S. | AFTER a flight to the United States, most travelers want to grab their luggage and go to bed, not wait in line at the airport. But wait they do, sometimes for an hour or more as Immigration and Naturalization Service inspectors check passports and ask questions in their efforts to stop criminals and unauthorized foreig... |
1077111_0 | Overseas Internet Users Protest High Cost of Access | Internet users in Brazil said on Wednesday that they would stage a cyberstrike: They pledged to refuse to log on to the Internet for the day to protest the high cost of Net access. The cyberstrikers in Brazil join Web surfers who have engaged in ''Internet strikes'' in Germany, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, China ... |
1076987_2 | An Art Book For Browsing The Internet | may help (web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman /myth/index.html). Besides a timeline of Greek history, it has images and texts for each Olympian god. Classical Myth's links include the Perseus project (www.perseus .tufts.edu), a digital library of resources for studying the ancient world that includes texts and translations, maps an... |
1080234_1 | Movement May Offer Early Clue to Autism | when rolling over, sitting up, crawling and walking, Dr. Teitelbaum said in a telephone interview. But, he cautioned, the results are still preliminary. Researchers need to look at many more babies, he said, to see exactly which movement abnormalities can predict autism and which suggest developmental disorders like sc... |
1080247_1 | Software to Compute Women's Cancer Risk | sisters, the number of breast biopsies she has had, the biopsy results and the woman's race. The result is a reasonable estimate of risk, researchers say, though they said the program omits some essential questions, which might result in an underestimate of risk for some women in high-risk families. For instance, the p... |
1080244_0 | In Breast Cancer Data, Hope, Fear and Confusion | When they are asked to identify the greatest threat to their health, most American women name breast cancer. Most of them are wrong. Women overestimate their risk of getting breast cancer, researchers say, and they also overestimate the odds that the disease will be fatal. Few feel anywhere near the same dread of heart... |
1080236_0 | OBSERVATORY | Scouring Space for Dust Space may look pristine, but the part of it near Earth, at least, is really quite trashy. In orbit is the weightless flotsam of human exploration -- a used package of Tang here, a spent rocket stage there -- as well as enough dust to make a housekeeper weep. The larger debris is generally accoun... |
1075263_0 | French Premier Assails U.S. Over Iraq Air Strikes | France's Prime Minister criticized American and British air strikes against Iraq in an interview published today and said that France would soon be ready to propose ways for ending the impasse with Saddam Hussein. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin told Le Monde, ''The United States often acts in a unilateral way that underm... |
1075331_0 | Small Changes Could Improve Police Hiring, Panel Says | Though it does a good job weeding out people with criminal backgrounds, the New York Police Department could improve the overall quality of its officers by administering polygraph tests to new recruits and more aggressively investigating their backgrounds, a mayoral panel said yesterday. Current rules require the Polic... |
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