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1114688_3 | Researchers Shine a Night Light on a Possible Link to Cancer | the same effect as removing the pineal gland: The animals sprouted many malignant breast tumors. Now a soon-to-be-published study in the journal Cancer Letters provides the strongest support yet for a connection between nocturnal light exposure and cancer in animals. Dr. David Blask, an oncologist at Bassett Research I... |
1114681_2 | When Medical Science Called, Why the Heck Did I Answer? | article, I participated for a day in a metabolic study conducted at the hospital, which is known for its metabolic research. Last year, my name apparently surfaced. Someone must have done the math and realized that I was just about the age (48) to be a candidate for a ''menopause transition'' project. I got a call and,... |
1114676_0 | F.A.A. Gives Computers Bigger Role in Security | IT may not be obvious to passengers, but the Federal Aviation Administration is trying to close three weak spots in airline security: relying on human judgment to spot suspicious passengers, allowing checked bags to catch a connecting flight when the suspicious passenger doesn't, and permitting baggage screeners to gro... |
1114697_9 | In the Cook Islands, Ukuleles and Hymns | ''sinful'' music and dance, and tried to ban it -- fortunately, they didn't succeed. Like West Indians at a carnival ball, the Aitutakians at Ralphie's Bar know how to throw a world-class party. The next day things got even better. I'd booked a daylong lagoon cruise ($35, but it included snorkeling equipment and a huge... |
1115185_0 | Young Athletes With Old Bones | Six months ago the very thin ballet student limped into Dr. Jordan Metzl's office at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, complaining of pain in her left shin. ''She seemed healthy, except that she had never gotten her period,'' Dr. Metzl recalled. After diagnosing a stress fracture, he made a more serious dis... |
1114879_0 | Enhancing a House Through Color | FOR most homeowners, choosing the color for interior walls, ceilings and moldings is largely a matter of taste. The only considerations are whether a color may look good or where a particular hue might be used to create a desired effect. The decision is more complicated for homeowners who live in historic houses if the... |
1116530_2 | Steal This Book: What the Bible and the Beats Have in Common | Dover Classics books, which sell for $1 or $2, are also popular. He says that art and travel books that can be sold on the street are stolen by professionals. At Powell's Book Store, in Portland, Ore., one of the largest chain stores, the general manager, Miriam Sontz, said that people who take books fall into two cate... |
1116575_0 | Dingjiaergou Journal; Remains of a Day, Unearthed, Enrich Another | In Ding Yaohong's tiny sitting room, mud walls are etched with deep cracks and two tattered chairs vie for space with roosting chickens, signs of this remote region's desperate poverty. But the new centerpiece of the room, displacing a small, rotting table, is the valuable fossilized spine of an ancient spade-toothed e... |
1116588_0 | 3 Months of Family's Life In Gorge With 5,000 Others | For more than a mile, they line the hillsides of this narrow gorge in the heart of Kosovo: makeshift shelters put together from tree branches and plastic sheeting that gave shelter to more than 5,000 Albanians fleeing Serbian attacks during the last three months. Faik Thachi came here in late March with his wife and fi... |
1115291_0 | Patents; Vegetable oil lubricant is biodegradable and said to be more efficient than petroleum-based oils. | EFFORTS to make cars more environmentally sound have centered on designing cleaner-running engines, and eliminating the need for gasoline in favor of electricity. But presumably any car will still have an engine made up of some moving metal parts, and that requires lubricants. Cars, like trains, lawn mowers or chain sa... |
1115325_0 | Wilmina Rowland Smith, 91, Guest Chaplain in Senate | Wilmina Rowland Smith, who in 1971 became the first woman to serve as a guest chaplain of the Senate, died on June 5 at a retirement home in St. Petersburg, Fla. She was 91. Billie Rowland, as she was known, was born in Augusta, Ga., on March 17, 1908, and received bachelor's degree from Wilson College in Chambersburg,... |
1115373_0 | Playing With Our Food, Risking Our Future | To the Editor: John Micklethwait (Op-Ed, June 7) states that genetic modification ''has taken place in fields for centuries without any harm to human beings.'' True enough. This modification is a process that nature has followed for millions of years to nurture and challenge living species. The ones that adapt survive;... |
1115374_0 | Playing With Our Food, Risking Our Future | To the Editor: John Micklethwait (Op-Ed, June 7) asserts that there is no credible scientific evidence to support the concerns that Europeans have about the possible dangers of genetically modified food. Whether or not this is true, no one can predict the long-term effects of a diet consisting of genetically modified f... |
1113377_0 | Europe's Profound Fear of Food | For anybody from General Motors who is even slightly insecure about his or her position, a trip to London has become a distinctly Kafkaesque experience. Pick up a tabloid newspaper, flick on a television talk show, study the graffiti on street walls and you are greeted by a constant refrain: ''G.M. is evil.'' At Nottin... |
1112309_0 | Breast Cancer Study on Alternative Therapy | Women with breast cancer who seek alternative therapies like herbs or acupuncture in addition to standard treatment may be unusually worried and depressed and in need of extra help in coping with their fears about the disease, a study says. The findings suggest that doctors should ask patients whether they are using al... |
1112209_0 | Listening To Sounds Of a Wave | AMERICANS bought more than 58 million radios for the home last year. In fact, the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association reports that most homes have at least eight of them. If car radios are included, that number rises to 9 or 10 per home, making radios easily the most ubiquitous consumer electronics device in... |
1112234_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR SOARS. Sugar prices rose to a two-month high as Russian importers accelerated purchases to avoid a tariff increase on Aug. 1. In New York, sugar for July delivery rose 0.25 cent a pound, or 4.8 percent, to 5.49 cents. |
1113852_0 | A Study Plays Down Estrogen Link to Breast Cancers | Whether to take estrogen or not is the dilemma faced by millions of women at menopause who want the hormone's protection against heart disease and osteoporosis, and yet fear that it may also increase their risk of breast cancer. A new study of 37,105 women offers some reassurance, finding little evidence to link hormon... |
1113773_0 | A Time for Calm in Ireland and a New View of Friel | After 26 years of neglect, the Abbey Theater is enthusiastically reviving Brian Friel's most political play, ''The Freedom of the City,'' set in the sectarian warfare of contemporary Northern Ireland. The play has been well received by audiences and critics in a Friel festival at the Abbey and will move to the Lincoln ... |
1113889_0 | INSIDE | Reassurance on Estrogen Women debating whether to take estrogen as they enter menopause received reassurance that the greater risk of breast cancer linked to the hormone involved types that respond well to treatment. PAGE A24 Serious About Sprawl Officials in the Portland, Ore., area have reached an agreement to grant ... |
1119292_0 | In Ulster, Hints of a Shift to Save Peace Effort | David Trimble, the First Minister of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said today that the stalled peace effort in Ulster could be saved by a simple statement from Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, that the I.R.A. is committed to disarming by May 2000. In a television interview this morning, Mr. ... |
1119355_0 | Are the Rights of the Disabled in Jeopardy?; Children Will Suffer | To the Editor: The Supreme Court's hard-line approach to those seeking employment who have correctable disabilities may have a devastating impact on the millions of children who may now be denied protection under the Americans With Disabilities Act in public and private schools (front page, June 23). Simply because a c... |
1119254_1 | TECHNOLOGY: E-Commerce Report | click on a button and communicate with a customer service representative via a one-on-one, text-based chat. If that doesn't suffice, customers will be able to speak to a representative through their computer, using Internet telephony technology. ''Especially as the Internet moves into the mainstream, consumers are look... |
1119310_2 | Morocco's King Loosens His Grip, and Holds On | $500-a-month compensation payments to families of prisoners who disappeared or died. With the leftist parties now co-opted into government, Islamic radicals who have a strong power base on college campuses and among millions of unemployed youths pose the most severe challenge. Restrictions Remain On Longtime Foes One a... |
1117520_4 | Tri-fold Ailment Stalks Female Athletes | by shutting off systems that are not essential, like the reproductive system. ''In women who are training intensely, as many as 40 or 50 percent may be amenorrheic,'' said Dr. Anne B. Loucks, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Ohio University. ''It may be even higher for cross-country runners and b... |
1114166_0 | Engineering Food, And Our Future | To the Editor: John Micklethwait's June 7 Op-Ed article on Europe's fear of genetically modified food suggests that this fear is unrealistic. However, genetically modified crops in the United States have been documented as producing herbicide-resistant ''superweeds'' in related plants; causing the death of monarch butt... |
1114138_0 | To Enter the World of E-Mail, Just Insert Batteries and Plug In | A simple and inexpensive device will now let the computerless get E-mail, too. That, at least, is the thinking behind the Mail Station, a $99 E-mail appliance, the size of a small laptop, from Cidco (www.cidco.com). Like the network computer desktops of old, the Mail Station is a stripped-down computer with a simplifie... |
1116074_2 | Black Clergy Press Whitman Over State Police Nominee | 1995. Mr. Fedorko initially dismissed his remarks as an attempt at humor, but today he issued a formal apology. ''In retrospect and in viewing my remarks outside the window of that evening in 1995, I can understand that my statements could be viewed as inappropriate and potentially insensitive,'' he said. ''I regret th... |
1118317_2 | China to Get World Bank Loan Despite U.S. Objections | quell the dispute over the project. ''China didn't need our $40 million to resettle these farmers,'' he said, referring to the portion of the loan that would go to this move. ''But now they have agreed to a further study, and to allow foreign visitors into the area, unattended by Chinese officials, to assess what is ha... |
1112656_1 | Without Detail, China Curbs Foreign Transfers of Its Currency | to time. A currency devaluation could theoretically help China's economy by making its exports cheaper and more competitive. But a devaluation could also could set off another wave of financial instability in Asia, just as signs of recovery have started appearing in some countries whose economies were devastated. The n... |
1112463_0 | Kosovo Peace Accord: 10 Steps to a Verifiable End of Violence | Following is the text of the international proposal to end the Kosovo conflict that was accepted today by President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia. The text was provided by the State Department. Agreement should be reached on the following principles to move toward a resolution of the Kosovo crisis: 1. Immediate and ... |
1112444_2 | U.S. and Canada Agree on a Plan to Restrict Catches of Endangered Salmon | but there are few signs that that process will be contentious. By itself, the agreement will not necessarily revive the nine different salmon runs declared threatened or endangered earlier this year under this country's Endangered Species Act. But it will be a major element of an overall plan to restore the salmon popu... |
1151241_8 | Go Form a Company, Mamet Said, So They Did | approach of the 1986 ''Practical Handbook.'' This difference raises the question: Does Mr. Mamet still approve of the acting technique passed on by this new generation of Atlantic instructors, now that it has, in both Mr. Pepe's and Ms. Hinckle's word, ''evolved''? Mary McCann, who from 1985 to 1986 was the company's f... |
1151299_1 | One Man's Trash Is Another's Museum | replica of a dinosaur, made of trash. The Trash-O-Saurus exhibit is intended to illustrate how solid waste can grow to monumental and unmanageable proportions. ''It's awesome how they used everyday garbage to make such a cool-looking dinosaur, and how they turned trash into art to send us a message that I won't forget,... |
1151383_3 | But Does It Work? | smaller class increased average test scores. Students did not score higher when their classes had teacher's aides; and the teacher's experience and whether he or she had an advanced degree were also irrelevant to scores. Two recent follow-up studies showed that students assigned to smaller classes were more likely to g... |
1151155_0 | Assisi Church, Shattered by '97 Quake, to Reopen | On Nov. 28, a commemorative mass will reopen the Upper Church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, which was badly damaged in an earthquake just over two years ago. Extensive restorations have taken place during this time. The bell tower and the tympanum of the left transept were repaired, the main vault was reinf... |
1151463_1 | Order in the Court! A Revolution Is on Trial. | a confiscated mansion, beside an empty swimming pool, that the ruling clerics convened a trial that has become a tableau for the wider struggle going on across Iran. In the dock was Abdullah Nouri, himself a cleric and until recently a vice president of the Islamic republic. But it was hard not to notice a second trial... |
1151508_1 | France Presses For a Power Independent Of the U.S. | missiles to keep its own nuclear forces from being marginalized. France, Germany and Britain all have strong reservations about amending the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Moscow to permit more anti-missile defenses, and Russia has said that changing the treaty could destabilize the global strategic balance. T... |
1151385_10 | Financial Aid for the Bourgeoisie | comes to aid. If a given year's income is extraordinary, consultants recommend writing a letter of explanation to the college's financial aid office, and including a tax return from the previous year to demonstrate the point. ''You've got to hit them over the head with your special circumstance,'' Mr. Chany said. ''You... |
1151298_1 | Q&A/Charles Atkins; Exploring The Mind In Office And Word | harming oneself or others. He said recent studies show that about one in five high school students will consider suicide during the year, and eight percent will attempt suicide. ''This is mind blowing,'' he said. Last year, a Waterbury coalition including the hospital, was formed to address local youth problems. Dr. At... |
1151242_14 | Those Were the Good Old Days, and So Are These | little alley downtown is not that relevant. When I look to the theater as an artist, I don't look to those definitions as much as I look to where can I go as a creator and have an exciting new vigorous connection with an audience? In the case of ''The Donkey Show,'' it is happening in a nightclub on 21st Street on the ... |
1151448_0 | For Employers, Pitfalls in Treating Workplace Depression | ASK an experienced manager about the ''reasonable accommodation'' that employers must provide under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and you are likely to hear about wheelchair ramps, Braille signs in the elevator and other physical changes to assist workers with physical handicaps. But what does ''accommodation'' ... |
1153002_1 | 20/20 Hindsight | of the claim that the Internet will produce a new kind of participatory democracy is just as shrewd and sly: ''To call a train an 'iron horse,' as we once did, may be picturesque, but it obscures the most significant differences between a train and a horse-and-buggy.'' Postman provides another example of the abuse of l... |
1153013_1 | Are We There Yet? | technologically ingenious (they fix their own burner valves, pilot lights and navigational equipment, which are constantly on the blink) and meticulously civilized (they make a pact to tell each other when bad breath or body odor sets in). The two take turns as narrator, and the result isn't so much a ''Rashomon'' effe... |
1153354_2 | Returns to Senders; Snail Mail: It's Alive! And It's Mutating! | Already, according to Jupiter Communications, Americans are sending 122 billion e-mails annually, more than half the number of pieces of mail that the Postal Service handles each year. And that shift promises enormous changes for the largest civilian employer in the United States and one of the few institutions that ev... |
1153029_10 | Cross-Country at Lake Tahoe | now $120). There is a two-night minimum on weekends, three or four nights during holiday periods and special events. The cafe serves breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, although on Mondays and Tuesdays during the winter there is a limited dinner menu. Dinners run from $12 to $20, and the children's menu is $... |
1153444_5 | Finds in Egypt Date Alphabet In Earlier Era | of these signs just jump out at you, at anyone familiar with proto-Sinaitic material,'' said Dr. F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, who teaches at the Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and is a specialist in the languages and history of the Middle East. ''They look just like one would expect.'' The symbol for M in the ins... |
1153081_0 | Q & A | Classes in Cuba Q. I am a Spanish teacher and would like to get information about travel to Cuba for language courses. -- Jim Rodgers, Philadelphia. A. You may see a few Cuban cigars and baseball pitchers around, but the 1963 embargo on trade and travel with Cuba is still in effect. So, travel by Americans to Cuba is l... |
1153156_6 | Best Buys: $1 and Elbow Grease Give Old Buildings New Lives | tower has a very important place in the eyes of the village,'' said Les Arstark, president of the society. ''It's right smack in the middle of our historic district that includes more than 60 buildings on the national registry,'' he said. ''It is the most visible structure in the village, and has become such a symbol o... |
1153414_0 | Furor Rises In Canada Over Hunt For Grizzly | Harry McCowan, a grizzly-bear hunting guide, looked harassed. Boatloads of nature tourists were buzzing up and down this coastal rain forest waterway. Mr. McCowan's taciturn Austrian hunting client was emitting signals of impatience, and while a helper loaded rifles and supplies into a seaplane, a black bear started pa... |
1156340_0 | PATENTING LIFE: A special report.; Biological Products Raise Genetic Ownership Issues | For generations, tribes in the Amazon rain forest have used secretions from the skin of a frog to make poison blow darts. Now Abbott Laboratories is developing a painkiller modeled on the active chemical in the frog secretion that seems as effective as morphine but without damaging side effects. This does not sit well ... |
1156340_4 | PATENTING LIFE: A special report.; Biological Products Raise Genetic Ownership Issues | year, the government of China halted a project, partly financed by the National Institute of Health, that sought clues to longevity by studying the genes of 10,000 elderly Chinese. The project resumed after organizers promised that the samples would stay in China and local scientists would share in patents and publicat... |
1156371_3 | Quake-Hit Assisi Basilica Restored, but the People Aren't | sites, approving blueprints and granting building permits. ''Italy is the land of paper,'' complained Giuliano Ricci, head of the Colfiorito reconstruction committee. ''Every time you try to present your building proposal, they ask you for your Social Security number 50 times.'' Nor has fraud been totally eliminated fr... |
1156313_1 | WORLD BRIEFING | year will balloon to a record $367.6 billion, making it one of the most indebted nations. (AP) CHINA: FALUN GONG CRACKDOWN -- China has sent 12 members of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement to labor camps as part of a crackdown, a Hong Kong-based rights group said. The Information Center of Human Rights and Democ... |
1156313_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | samples from the tankers and were awaiting results, Serbian officials said. Carlotta Gall (NYT) FRANCE: BOMBINGS IN CORSICA -- Two bombs exploded in Ajaccio, the capital, minutes after a warning from an anonymous caller. Thirteen people were slightly injured in the blasts at the Social Security offices and the headquar... |
1155209_2 | Hidden Risk That Science Saw | is being compressed like a spring.'' When the spring finally breaks free of the snag, the region will suffer a subduction-zone earthquake, a more potentially destructive type than California usually experiences. Most quakes there occur along faults where the ground moves laterally, and severe damage is fairly localized... |
1155157_0 | Ms. Eidlin, Mr. McCarthy | Lisa Beth Eidlin, the daughter of Howard Eidlin of Forest Hills, Queens, and the late Marlene Eidlin, was married yesterday to Matthew Evan McCarthy, a son of Diane and Richard McCarthy of Bass River, Mass. Rabbi Roger Ross officiated at Troutbeck, an inn in Amenia, N.Y. The Rev. Neil O'Connell, a Roman Catholic priest... |
1155001_2 | Taking a Hike Around New Haven | a revolt to seize the ship. With sculptures designed by George Hamilton, the monument marks the spot where the Africans were tried for murder and piracy. The Africans were eventually acquitted, and then freed in 1841. I continued my walk through the back of City Hall to Federal Square, down Olive Street to Wooster Squa... |
1155235_2 | Ideas & Trends: After the Baby Boom; For the Jobless Rate, The Forecast Is Hazy | improvement sticks, the result would be more job creation and downward pressure on unemployment rates with less risk of inflation -- what some analysts call the ''new economy.'' The problem now is that growth and unemployment are straining against the limits of what even the new economy would permit. ''You can have an ... |
1154913_0 | Who Needs Philosophy? | Back when she was the star of her high-school drama club, the philosopher Martha Nussbaum wasn't interested in playing Emily in ''Our Town.'' Her favorite role was Robespierre -- in a five-act, French-language production she wrote herself. Decades later, she still speaks fondly of the meandering walks she would take ar... |
1154913_12 | Who Needs Philosophy? | a linguist she met in a class on Greek prose composition. But she was an eager convert. ''I had an intense desire to join the underdogs and to fight for justice in solidarity with them,'' she has written. For Nussbaum, Judaism offered a sense of community lacking in her own upbringing. ''I read Martin Buber and underst... |
1155089_0 | Man Against Nature, And Nature Is Winning | Man and nature are in a turf war. This is not a new concept. Now consider this. Humans took the territory through urbanization, but nature has sent in the ground troops in the form of skunks, squirrels, raccoons and bears to win through siege. All over the state, deer have taken to manicured lawns, golf courses and pla... |
1155361_0 | November 14-20; Movement Toward Peace In Northern Ireland | The politicians of Northern Ireland have never had problems talking. For five years they have been at it, in marathon negotiating sessions seeking a lasting peace plan. But this time the words were different -- conciliatory, accommodating and thought out -- where before they had always been obdurate, insulting and impu... |
1154920_0 | Galileo's Universe | I traveled to Italy the first time as a tourist, the second time attached to the unglamorous end of a documentary film crew and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth times in search of the ghost of Galileo. At work these past five years on a book about the legendary father of modern science, and naturally infatuated with ... |
1154919_10 | Over the Top at Victoria Falls | is called ''high-siding.'' When a raft is pushed up by a wave, you jump on that high side and attempt to lower it, and quickly. Above our heads in this practice pool hung two bungeed women. As they were slowly winched back up to the bridge, I thought of how our own evangelical Jonathan Edwards (I attended Yale) had put... |
1154862_2 | Rational Explanation | a computer analogy: the tripling of human brain size over the last four million years resulted in an expanded hard disk, a more powerful central processing unit and an enhanced program provided by reason. Current neurological research is consistent with some of Calne's contentions. It is highly likely that reason devel... |
1155242_0 | Online, or Else | The latest advice on cyber-etiquette: unplug your old office equipment if you're dealing with people who make their living from the Web. Brewster Kahle, chief executive of Alexa Internet, which he recently sold to Amazon.com for nearly $300 million, recently told the New York Infotech Forum that he communicates with hi... |
1154883_1 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS: Books in Brief | therefore, utterly horrifying when Theo witnesses the execution of his brother by a Nazi firing squad. Now, alone in the world, Theo is taken in by the village priest and his wife, Patir Alex and Kyria Maria. These saintly people perform countless good deeds, from administering church rites to prescribing medicinal her... |
1154537_0 | 2 Sides Square Off on Genetically Altered Food | The Food and Drug Administration, while maintaining that its policy regarding bioengineered foods is safe, opened the first of three public meetings on the subject today and was greeted with both heated criticism and staunch support of genetically engineered products. Scientists and biotechnology industry officials arg... |
1154512_0 | Food for the Future | C orn that is genetically modified to include a natural insecticide, cotton that has been engineered to tolerate herbicides -- if you've been reading about such new transgenic crops, you may be asking yourself, ''Why do we need this stuff?'' After all, American farmers already turn out plenty of high-quality food at lo... |
1154449_6 | Cocktails Can Wait; Lectures Offer Mental Refreshments | transforming an existing culture. They admitted how little they knew of modern architecture before their travels. In one instance they were given a tight time limit to design and build a sports club before the season opened. As a solution they took their own house and expanded the plan to make it a public building. For... |
1154547_3 | Bill Expands Health Benefits for Disabled People Who Work | threatening to veto the underlying bill. Under another section of the bill, states could provide Medicaid to workers who are not actually disabled, but have physical or mental impairments that are ''reasonably expected'' to become severe disabilities in the absence of treatment. This could be a boon to people who have ... |
1152883_0 | Both Sides Reminded of Stakes In 11th-Hour Effort in Ulster | With his mission to salvage the Northern Ireland peace settlement at a crisis point, George J. Mitchell abruptly adjourned talks this morning and urged negotiators to spend the weekend focusing on ''the gravity of what is at stake.'' The effort by Mr. Mitchell, the American mediator, was shaken Thursday night by word t... |
1150556_0 | Women Make Rapid Gains in the Chase for Doctoral Degrees | The annual total of women receiving Ph.D.'s has increased by more than 50 percent in a decade, growing at over twice the rate of the number of men getting those degrees, a new study has found. As a result, a record 40.6 percent of more than 42,000 research doctorates awarded by United States universities in the 1996-97... |
1150580_0 | Rejecting Some Taxes And Limits On Growth | In wide-ranging referendums around the United States, voters on Tuesday rejected the strictest antigrowth measures in the country, approved the nation's most sweeping antitax proposals, rejected proposals to allow murder convictions based on nonunanimous jury votes and to ban a type of late-term abortion and prohibited... |
1150535_5 | The Computer as Post Office | costs $1.99 a month on top of the face-value cost of the postage, up to $25. A 15 percent service fee is assessed on the amount of postage bought that exceeds $25 a month, up to a maximum fee of $19.99. A variation on the personal plan replaces the $1.99 monthly service fee with a single yearly fee of $19.99, with the ... |
1150507_5 | Van Gogh Print Or Original Oil: The Web Has It | of Christie's Internet Auctions. Most art e-commerce sites, including PaintingsDirect, belong to a middle category, offering lower-priced original works of art, most of it from unknown and emerging artists. The average price of art that has sold on PaintingsDirect is $600; the highest price was $3,800, but there are ma... |
1154024_0 | Pledges by Ulster Rivals Break the Deadlock at Talks | Northern Ireland's rival parties exchanged unusually conciliatory statements and pledges today, raising expectations of an imminent break in the stalemate blocking progress in their peace agreement. In a long-conflicted corner of northern Europe where politics is normally articulated in snubs and taunts, the companion ... |
1154006_1 | Thinning Sea Ice Stokes Debate on Climate | thickness made by upward-looking sonar aboard naval submarines operating under the ice sheet. The first period of data began in 1958 with the first nuclear submarine, the United States' Nautilus, and concluded with a cruise by H.M.S. Sovereign in 1976. The second data set was collected by American vessels from 1993 to ... |
1154059_2 | Foreign Affairs; Next, It's E-ducation | in the last six months hasn't said to himself: ''Oh my God! This Internet thing is real. Somebody call me an Internet doctor and wire me up.'' Once a C.E.O. understands that absorbing the Net into every aspect of his or her business ''is the only way they are going to survive,'' said Mr. Chambers, ''they are going to b... |
1156104_1 | Storing Your Life in a Virtual Desktop; Web-Based Storage and Software Reinvents an Old Idea, the Network Computer | their convenience, but they take ''personal'' a step further: users have constant access to their files, their address books, their calendars. ''All the information you ever wanted to look at will be available at any time, anywhere,'' said Kevin Herrboldt, director of engineering for Cyrus InterSoft of Minneapolis, whi... |
1156192_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-16 Israel Allows Excerpts From Trial of Nuclear Spy The government allowed a newspaper to publish censored excerpts from the classified transcript of a treason trial 12 years ago. The excerpts, published by the daily Yediot Ahronot, contained no earth-shattering revelations, but their release signaled ... |
1155560_0 | Altered Foods: Future Can Wait | To the Editor: Gregg Easterbrook (Op-Ed, Nov. 19) may be right that the real benefits of genetically engineered crops will probably come in later versions of transgenic crops. However, genetic engineering is not necessarily the solution to world hunger. The main reason for food scarcity is simple: governments, especial... |
1155561_0 | Altered Foods: Future Can Wait | To the Editor: Gregg Easterbrook (Op-Ed, Nov. 19) missed an important point concerning genetically engineererd food. Human beings have an inalienable right to know what they put in their bodies. If genetically engineered food is so safe, why prevent the public from being able to exercise free will? The labeling of such... |
1155559_0 | Altered Foods: Future Can Wait | To the Editor: Gregg Easterbrook (Op-Ed, Nov. 19) sidesteps the more profound issues embedded in the debate over genetically modified food. How can he acknowledge the ''risk of unwanted ecological effects'' and then state that independent testing and federal oversight might safeguard against these risks? Is he suggesti... |
1155462_0 | Images of Mental Illness | To the Editor: A Nov. 15 front-page article on jobs and the mentally disabled notes a ''change in societal views of the mentally retarded.'' The change includes policies to foster mainstreaming and job preparation. Mental illness, however, is different from retardation, and so are society's expectations. Too often, pol... |
1156842_2 | Having A Fit Over Carry-ons | -- generally dislike the idea of restrictions. Consumer advocates say the airlines created the problem by reducing storage space, cramming customers into planes, reducing connection times between flights and allowing checked-baggage service to deteriorate to the point where 1 out of every 200 passengers reports lost or... |
1156602_6 | Walking Wapping's Streets | of Thomas Jefferson was baptized, and 18th-century shipmasters repose beneath worn, elegant tombstones. Let us go back another stage in time. Fully 200 years before the docks began to be laid out, Wapping was a ramshackle village that was established on the marshy riverside meadows below the ''cliff'' of the Highway du... |
1156920_8 | M.B.A. Boom Fades as Candidates Seek Instead the Rewards of the Internet | concern,'' Ms. Spreen said. ''When you have a larger applicant pool, you're able to attract a higher-quality class.'' But business school can be a tough sell in the current, frenzied Internet environment. Many potential students hope to be among the early employees of a company, who typically receive a larger batch of ... |
1156850_1 | Is the Sun Setting on Farmers? | Collins, chief economist at the Agriculture Department. With a new array of scientific and technological processes lifting crop yields and tailoring food products to individual companies and specific markets, farmers are producing more food on fewer acres in less time. And therein lies both the promise and the perils f... |
1156862_5 | The World: Big Blur; Meet Your Government, Inc. | ban genetically modified foods, or the argument that we can't ban products made by child labor because it violates some trade agreement,'' said Mr. Nader, the longtime consumer advocate who years ago moved beyond auto safety to make the case that a global economic rule-setter like the W.T.O. is unsafe at any speed. ''P... |
1156698_2 | The Way We Live Now: 11-28-99: Expert Opinion; Parents Just Don't Understand | and emotional engagement. Children identify with the characters' strengths and weaknesses. They see the struggle. It feels like their own. Silverman: Harry Potter is extremely popular with adults, but I think children see something different. The books are about a child who is learning and gaining magical powers. He's ... |
1152258_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about the resumption of direct flights from New York to Havana misstated the views of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council on the American trade embargo on Cuba. The council takes no position; it does not advocate lifting the embargo. The article also misstated the council's statistics on Unite... |
1152255_3 | Longtime I.M.F. Director Resigns in Midterm | right he can be tough,'' former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen once said of him, though he added, ''Sometimes you have to lean on him real hard to get things done.'' But when Washington appealed for help, Mr. Camdessus was almost always there -- particularly in 1995, when an early-morning telephone call from Treasury... |
1152228_2 | Board Blocks Student Access To Web Sites | May, senior product manager for Symantec of Cupertino, Calif., said yesterday that the program has a setting that allows selected categories, from sports to pornography to stock trading, to be filtered. He said I-Gear has ''absolutely no preference of one group or another,'' like those favoring or opposing abortion. Th... |
1152034_2 | A Mirage of Amazonian Size; Delusions of Economic Grandeur Deep in Brazil's Interior | his favorite shipyard in Japan and then towed 17,800 miles across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. He also installed 3,000 miles of road, 37 miles of railway, a deep-water port and a company town that now has 9,500 inhabitants. More than 260,000 acres were planted with Burmese melina and Caribbean pine trees, which did ... |
1150313_2 | Business Travel; At least one airline is bucking the trend toward further restrictions for carry-on luggage. | the same time, flights became increasingly crowded, and flight attendants often found themselves unhappily adding baggage handling to their growing list of chores. Meanwhile, more passengers, especially business travelers, began carrying all of their luggage on board because they no longer trusted the checked-baggage s... |
1150354_0 | Talks on Ulster Stop to Let Mediator Seek Counsel | George J. Mitchell today suspended his nine-week-old mission to unblock the deadlocked Northern Ireland peace accord, saying he needed to brief President Clinton and the British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, before reconvening talks in Belfast on Monday. Mr. Mitchell, a former United States se... |
1150491_6 | REDESIGNING NATURE: A special report.; Squash With Altered Genes Raises Fears of 'Superweeds' | the field and to abide by a number of safety procedures. If deregulated, the squash could be freely sold or planted anywhere in the United States. So in 1992, Dr. Quemada and Mr. Tricoli petitioned the Agriculture Department, the main government body overseeing genetically modified plants, requesting that the squash be... |
1150271_3 | Rewriting the Resume Rules of the Road | format eliminates many worries, like what typeface or kind of paper to use for a resume, the company says. The one-page paper resume is hardly on the brink of extinction, of course. Many job seekers now keep two versions on file: one for the Web, the other for actual interviews. Still, online resumes seem to be the wav... |
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