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1120044_0 | U.N. Takes Up Plan to Limit Population | The General Assembly today began debating an action plan first drawn up five years ago to limit world population growth, although developing countries remained deeply divided over some aspects of the plan. ''We have to stabilize the population of this planet,'' Secretary General Kofi Annan said in an address opening th... |
1119937_0 | College Prep By E-Mail For the Eager | THE fall term at the University of Pennsylvania does not start until September. But more than 200 incoming freshmen have already met some professors, debated politics and discussed the meaning of poetry -- all by E-mail. Their correspondence is part of an electronic seminar program that the university began this spring... |
1119936_6 | Internet's Chain Of Foolery | to get a generation or two beyond the original and the original is lost. You can't get caught doing it, or I don't think anyone has so far.'' And justice is hard to come by if you or your business has been the victim of an anonymous hoaxer. Internet service providers are not responsible for the information posted on th... |
1119984_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE FRANCE: NEW BLOW TO CHIRAC -- The supreme court rejected an attempt by former Prime Minister Alain Juppe, left, to escape an investigation into corruption charges that have cast a shadow over Jacques Chirac's presidency. The court agreed that Mr. Juppe must be investigated on suspicion of being an accomplice in ... |
1119984_2 | World Briefing | a lower court's decision that Canada's law against personal possession of child pornography is unconstitutional, arguing that the law's invasion of privacy outweighed its benefits in the fight against child abuse. The ruling, in a case involving a Vancouver man, has set off a national political controversy and is now e... |
1119932_7 | Can It Pay to Surf the Web? | on multilevel marketing, which can lead to uncontrolled growth. E-mail makes referral recruiting easier and faster than ever, leading to membership bases that may be wildly larger than expected. Mr. Jorgensen said his business model was built on the expectation of 20,000 members; as of Wednesday, more than 1.72 million... |
1120064_4 | Negotiations Continue for Ulster Accord | voted for this agreement and whether the two Governments' commitment to the agreement is stronger than those who want to tear it down.'' The midnight deadline was set six weeks ago by Mr. Blair, who with Mr. Ahern has been in Belfast since Monday jointly conducting the final talks as they did 14 months ago. Back then d... |
1124695_0 | Stalked by Deadly Virus, Papaya Lives to Breed Again | On the island of Hawaii, on what had been acres of withering, disease-infested plants, farmers this summer are walking among rows of lush green trees, harvesting the world's first crop of genetically engineered papayas. Designed with a gene that allows them to withstand the papaya ringspot virus -- an incurable disease... |
1124291_2 | You've Got Mail. You're Being Watched. | not be as disrespectful,'' he said. ''It would be from one employee to another, saying 'We don't want to work in an environment where this kind of thing goes on.' It'd be equivalent to the kind of natural monitoring that would have gone on around the water cooler.'' In reality, though, monitoring is rarely continuous; ... |
1124315_10 | An Urban Shepherd; Harry Theodore Can't Afford to Live Indoors. But He Feeds a Hungry Family of 14. | a rusty bucket and lights a fire. He throws the meat on the grill -- an old steel refrigerator shelf -- and tosses the cooked pieces onto the cardboard. ''They like it medium,'' he says, putting two large salmon heads on the grill. Afterward, each dog picks an empty parking space and flops down. Mr. Theodore walks arou... |
1124053_3 | God Exists, Philosophically | his own optical instruments. Many of Spinoza's friends in his not-so-solitary years of study were members of the various dissident Christian groups collectively known as Collegiants. These small sects, which were sometimes little more than discussion groups, typically rejected all religious ceremonies. They dismissed t... |
1123758_3 | One Agreement in Ulster: Assembly Session Is a Farce | evidence yet that the province had put behind it the sectarian violence that has taken more than 3,200 lives in favor of a political path. In London Mo Mowlam, the Secretary for Northern Ireland, said that the British and Irish Governments were reviewing the entire peace process and that Prime Minister Tony Blair and h... |
1123697_3 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; New Seat Belts to Get More Give and Take | are clear: More than 85 percent of cellular phone customers say they sometimes use the phones while driving, and 27 percent use them on more than half of their trips. By next year there will be 80 million users, the agency said. So many cellular users call the police when they see highway crashes that seven states are ... |
1123728_0 | Ireland's Precarious Peace | Northern Ireland's main Protestant Unionist party took only 15 minutes on Wednesday to reject London's latest compromise plan for peace. The rejection effectively shuts down the major aspects of the peace agreement signed on Good Friday of last year. For now, there will be no transfer of governing power from London to ... |
1123778_4 | The China Cloud: Is a Bomb Being Waved at Taiwan? | Daily. But no senior leader has emerged to speak publicly on the issue. Tonight, the evening news on state television calmly reported on a trip to Mongolia by President Jiang Zemin and on a meeting held by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji on the economy, without highlighting the neutron bomb. China is thought to have first te... |
1125613_1 | DATA TYING CANCER TO ELECTRIC POWER FOUND TO BE FALSE | top scientific groups such as the National Academy of Sciences have repeatedly found no evidence of danger. And the fears of some such link have generated conflicts between homeowners, especially those with children, and power companies with high-tension lines running through neighborhoods. Critics of the power industr... |
1125631_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | a rally against President Slobodan Milosevic in Pancevo, Serbia, which was badly damaged by NATO bombing and where toxic chemicals have affected health and many people are unemployed. In Belgrade, university students threw thousands of leaflets from downtown buildings calling for Mr. Milosevic's ouster. A4 The Clinton ... |
1125581_2 | French President Stirs Anger During Visit to West Africa | parties were holding important talks, he criticized the opposition for having boycotted the March elections. His remarks were welcomed by Mr. Eyadema, who said he would not run for re-election in 2003. But they caused leaders of the main opposition party, the Union of the Forces for Change, to back out of a meeting wit... |
1125606_0 | Religion Journal; From Witches to Angels, Alternative Spirituality | At times in the past year, people practicing spiritual ideas that fall outside the mainstream of major faiths have made news largely because of their beliefs. Examples include the Wiccans in Massachusetts, modern-day witches who protested a political commercial they considered insulting in last fall's governor's race t... |
1121189_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''The damage from NATO bombs to factories and bridges will have much less effect in the long run on Serbia than the rapid decline in the birth rate.'' DR. SPASOJE PETKOVIC, acting director of the Clinical Center of Serbia. [A6] |
1121193_1 | Editorial Observer; Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Under Assault | their geological mission, taking calcium from the water and ultimately depositing it as limestone skeletons that cement together to form the reef. To a snorkeler or scuba diver, the reef looks like a petrified undersea garden in muted browns, tans and off-white, with splashes of blue and purple for accent. This living ... |
1126969_0 | Preventing 'Air Rage' | To the Editor: Physical violence like that recently displayed by an aggravated customer at Newark International Airport should never be perceived as acceptable behavior, but in their treatment of passengers, airlines exacerbate passengers' anger (news article, July 25). If this weren't the case, there would be no need ... |
1120187_3 | At Henley, Classic Boats To Cherish | Navy fashion, including how to come up alongside the yacht.'' The Albatross is estimated to sell for $4,750 to $7,900. Vintage racing boats are another favorite collecting category. The rarest boat in the sale, Mr. Klein said, is Batboat II, a 21-foot-long hydroplane lake racing boat built in 1912 that is named for its... |
1120249_2 | On My Mind; Saving Public Colleges | its economic growth. For me, the most valuable qualities of the report were three varieties of respect. Perhaps the most important: the tone of belief in what students could do for themselves and the city if CUNY gave them the dignity of higher goals of achievements, not the sub-college standards that are good enough n... |
1120324_0 | Women's Groups Oppose Vatican on Family Planning | Frustrated by the Vatican's efforts to thwart a plan to limit world population growth, 126 women's organizations from around the world presented an open letter to the Roman Catholic Church today at a conference here. Expressing their disagreements in a series of questions, the women's groups, led by 57 Latin American o... |
1120267_0 | I.R.A. Talks Halt, to Much Teeth Gnashing | Marathon talks to resolve the disarmament impasse that threatens the province's peace settlement broke off early today. But a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said they would resume this morning and end with a statement on the ''way forward.'' It was the second day that the grinding negotiations had gone into th... |
1121760_0 | Common Ground Elusive as Technology Have-Nots Meet Haves | FOR the average Internet user in the United States, life is a never-ending stream of dilemmas: Upgrade now or later. Order I.S.D.N. or wait for cable modem service to arrive. Buy the Palm V organizer or go with the one that connects to the Web. Check E-mail while on vacation or leave the laptop at home. But a conferenc... |
1121803_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR PLUNGES. Sugar fell more than 6 percent amid weak demand from Russia and ample supplies from Brazil and Europe. In New York, sugar for October delivery fell 0.37 cent, to 5.37 cents a pound. |
1121765_1 | You've Got Mail: Hello Muddah (and CC: Faddah) | a result of the deluge of faxes and E-mails from parents last summer, he established a limit of two per family per week this summer. ''We had some parents E-mailing their kids stock quotes and entire sports sections,'' he said. ''It completely overloaded us.'' Many parents would like their children to be allowed to sen... |
1126746_0 | Free Hard Drive Space Whenever You Need It | A start-up company in Santa Monica, Calif., is offering a free desktop hard drive service on the Internet. But like many Manhattan apartments, the virtual hard drive does not come with a lot of storage space. Founded this year, X:drive (www.xdrive .com) will give users 25 megabytes of remote hard drive space that is ac... |
1126710_2 | Road Daze: A Hand on the Wheel and an Ear to the Phone | report on cell phone use by drivers. ''The rapid decrease in cost of a cell phone means a lot more people have access to them, and a lot of people are driving. Put the two together and this could be a major problem.'' Cell phones in the car are, of course, a distraction like many others. Reaching for a cell phone is no... |
1126717_3 | Tracking Down Cell-Phone Users | problems for a stand-alone handset is separating out the two parts,'' Mr. Richton said. ''In our scheme, the network handles that for you.'' That is, the towers would constantly send to the handset information that would give the handset a basis for interpreting the satellite signal. The cell phone network, taking adva... |
1126762_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR SOARS. Sugar rose nearly 5 percent on signs that demand is steady though there is an abundance of supply on the world market. In New York, sugar for October delivery rose 0.28 cent, to 6.04 cents a pound. |
1126817_3 | World Briefing | 1991 gulf war to protect the region's Kurdish population. Iraq does not recognize the zone. (Agence France-Presse) IRAQ: NERVE GAS DESTROYED A United Nations disarmament team left Baghdad after destroying samples of VX nerve gas and other toxic materials. On Tuesday, the Security Council gave them the go-ahead to destr... |
1126768_1 | One Miracle, but Can We Hope for More? | was thrilled and felt a special joy. There is no greater moment for an oncologist than to beat the odds and save a young, vibrant life. Yet my feelings were tempered. After two decades, medical science still can't explain why testicular cancer is sensitive to cisplatin but other rapidly growing malignancies, like those... |
1125372_1 | Yield to Innovation Ahead: A Fleet of Democratic Dreams on Wheels | whose contents tend to make the mouth water. After all, Americans are trained from birth to have a Pavlovian response to the look, feel and smell of new cars. A free-range esthetic sense moves through this show, which is to say that the cars don't look alike, feel alike or even sound alike. (Three have the capacity to ... |
1125483_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | the request of British Nuclear Fuels Ltd., which said the group had violated a British court order banning it from protesting a nuclear fuel shipment to Japan. At Greenpeace's international headquarters in Amsterdam, officials called the move ''financial terrorism.'' Marlise Simons (NYT) FRANCE: EX-AIDE PRESSED ON JOB ... |
1125464_2 | I.R.A. Blames Britain for Breakdown of Peace Accord | it is the I.R.A.'s insistence on keeping its weapons and explosives that is the cause of the stall in the talks. Mr. Trimble said it proved that the I.R.A. had no intention of disarming and showed that Mr. Adams had led Mr. Blair ''up the garden path'' during talks in Belfast this month. At that time the British asked ... |
1125448_1 | The Celebrity Who Was a 'Regular Guy' | Jimmy Mulzet, a mail room worker for the City University of New York. Reaching Up, a group that Mr. Kennedy founded in 1987 to provide educational fellowships for people who work with the developmentally disabled, is housed at his college. Mr. Mulzet, who has cerebral palsy, sometimes helps out at their meetings, and t... |
1122475_0 | Q&A: Dr. Shelley M. Klein; Paper Born of Necessity Aids the Disabled | WHEN her second child's hearing problem was diagnosed, Dr. Shelley M. Klein of New Rochelle thought she already knew about disabilities and how to find programs and recreational outlets. Her first child had been born with a developmental disability, and Dr. Klein, who has a doctorate in biomedical science, thought that... |
1122773_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Congo Cease-Fire Signed But Without the Rebels The warring parties in the Congo signed a cease-fire in Lusaka, Zambia, after months of negotiations. But, in a last-minute twist after 13 hours of delay, the two rebel groups fighting to oust the Kinshasa Government were not allowed to sign. 10 Demonstr... |
1122411_19 | The Little White Bombshell | it will be the one recommended by Danco, but Schaff's trials have shown considerable success with at-home use and virtually all patients prefer it.) And opponents may still seek to circumvent the F.D.A.'s decision entirely, although approval is all but certain. ''It's true that the approval process is very far along,''... |
1122735_0 | In Shift, Ulster Approves Protestant March in Belfast Tomorrow | The British Government in Northern Ireland approved today the holding of a perennially contentious Protestant Orange Order parade on Monday near a Roman Catholic neighborhood in Belfast, the capital of the northern province. Despite the Catholic residents' objections that the event could produce violent clashes, as it ... |
1122442_5 | A Garden of Sculpture as an Up-to-Date Eden | a vista of that undulating, gently domesticated order and shimmering charm that central and northern Italy seems to specialize in. Mr. Gori convened an international advisory committee and invited artists to make work that would embrace the land or speak to the building spaces at Celle and then stay there forever, or w... |
1122405_8 | Plugging In Far From Home | portable computer much like a traditional external modem. Connection speeds are usually very slow, but adequate for E-mail and simple Web browsing. Newer wireless modems now being tested offer higher speeds. One of the leading wireless modem companies, Metricom (www.metricom.com) recently began offering service in part... |
1122368_0 | Seaward Ho! | BEFORE THE WIND The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833. By Charles Tyng. Edited by Susan Fels. Illustrated. 270 pp. New York: Viking. $24.95. THE USS ESSEX And the Birth of the American Navy. By Frances Diane Robotti and James Vescovi. Illustrated. 302 pp. Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Media Corporation. $22.95. For... |
1122373_4 | La Difference | brain differences in pursuing its theme. Nature may have made men and women equally good at reasoning, but the sexes do not seem to be equally good at climbing hierarchies of power. Fisher suspects -- quite plausibly -- that this is in part a matter of hormones: ''As testosterone and other male hormones contribute to m... |
1122485_3 | There's Something About Garbage | hard to see how even the most dedicated recycler could get a swimming pool into a Curby Can. In Nassau County, I'm told, residents have an even tougher assignment. They must separate glass, plastic and metal objects, which we throw all together into the same can, and they must carry out a complicated operation on their... |
1122362_3 | Spice Guys | alternately waylaid each other and made common cause against the local inhabitants. One of the most notorious adventurers was a Dutch commander called Jan Coen, a ruthless, sardonic, thoroughly frightening individual who brought the struggle to a murderous crescendo early in the 17th century. Coen and his Dutch crew we... |
1122652_0 | The Hazards of Trying to Sneak It In | IF, like Florida's First Lady, you have been known to skirt the rules when bringing back merchandise from abroad, you may want to mend your ways. The United States Customs Service estimates that each year, hundreds of thousands of travelers break the rules, often saying either that they forgot to pay duties or that the... |
1122726_1 | Despite Low Prestige and Pay, More Answer the Call to Teach | type work,'' said Maureen Tobin, director of the career development center at Kenyon College, the oldest private liberal arts college in Ohio, where about 20 percent of the class of 1998 planned to become teachers. The U.C.L.A. survey, first conducted in 1966, polls 300,000 freshmen at over 600 American colleges and un... |
1135390_0 | Private Eyes | Suppose you had just spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build and launch a satellite and were planning to recoup the investment by selling the satellite's pictures. Chances are you would be pretty good at thinking up reasons that someone might want to buy images from outer space. At any rate, John Copple is. Copp... |
1135584_1 | Job Testing: Multiple Choices | Systems, a Chicago-based company that develops employment tests. For many positions, a basic skills or aptitude test may suffice. For jobs in which security is an issue, a more comprehensive personality assessment may be desirable, Mr. Arnold said. The difference in time and cost can be considerable. According to Roger... |
1135355_4 | After the Trojan Horse | since Hughes did successfully adapt one classical play, Seneca's ''Oedipus,'' stunningly performed by John Gielgud and Irene Worth in 1968. He was perhaps given a strong lead from the fact that the play was prepared for Peter Brook's Theater of Cruelty festival with the National Theater Company. With the ''Oresteia,'' ... |
1135379_13 | Exploring the Amazon, Without the Machete | to New York from Belem via Miami, and a side excursion between Belem and the city of Sao Luis -- cost $1,058, about $800 less than the lowest fare quote directly from the airline. Accommodations and Dining At www.travelocity.com, I reserved a single room at the Best Western, 217 Rua Marcilio Dias, telephone (55-92) 622... |
1135717_1 | Secrecy Mounting As the Cup Draws Near | worth of testing and refinement -- remains a matter of serious concern. The New Zealand Herald recently reported that the America True skipper Dawn Riley was enraged after a local sports television crew broke into the syndicate's Auckland base and climbed over its boat. Unlike America One, which has three boats, Americ... |
1135489_5 | As Economy Continues Surge, Sailors' Dreams Turn to Yachts | with a microwave/convection oven, and two staterooms, one with a queen-size bed. It also has radar, a global positioning satellite system and an auto-pilot device, which allows the owner to program its course and let the boat pilot itself. ''You can steer with your mouse and your laptop computer,'' he said. ''That's th... |
1135462_1 | Mercy College Head Extends Her Hand | less by ivory tower philosophies and esoteric social theories than by dollars and cents and statistical realities. Describing herself as an educator with the dream of giving students a helping hand in the world, she said that that did not necessarily mean she was a bleeding-heart liberal or do-gooder. ''I'm just a very... |
1141353_0 | Business Travel; Alaska Airlines plans to offer a system that allows passengers to check in on the Internet. | ALASKA AIRLINES, which pioneered the airline industry's adoption of electronic tickets, is using the Internet in an attempt to revolutionize checking in at airports, a process that is often arduous. The carrier, based in Seattle, is currently testing a new on-line check-in system, the first developed by a United States... |
1139888_2 | Families of Taiwan's Missing See Little Hope in the Rubble | while the top eight remained intact, though they now lean more distinctly and precariously than the tower in Pisa. ''I was lucky,'' said Mr. Tsai, who said he escaped unhurt from his ground floor apartment with his wife and child after being trapped for 30 minutes. He seemed humbled by the experience. ''I don't know wh... |
1139785_1 | The Office Meeting That Never Ends | shot up, with the number of home users leaping from a mere 500,000 in early 1997 to more than 25.1 million at the end of June, according to Media Metrix. So it was only a matter of time before home computer users started to install instant-message software on their office computers and create informal networks of conve... |
1134819_2 | For One Teacher, a Lesson About E-Mail and Privacy | beginning, I thought it would be a simple one. They could send me papers via E-mail. I could use E-mail to send them back. They could send me questions via E-mail. I could use E-mail to send back answers. Since I teach journalism, I could send them to Web sites to read The Denver Post the day after the Littleton killin... |
1134831_0 | NEWS WATCH | CAR DISTRACTIONS -- And you thought it was dangerous to talk on a cell phone while driving. How about carrying on a videoconference? Brabus, a German auto company, is marketing the Megacar, a fully wired automobile that comes with a 150-kilobits-per-second wireless connection (more than enough for video phone calls), a... |
1136177_1 | Different Genes, Same Old Label | also tested positive for genetically altered ingredients. Consumers Union said it tested breakfast cereals and cooking oils too, but that the results were inconclusive. It also reported that 60 percent of all hard-cheese products are made with a biotech version of rennet, the enzyme from calves' stomachs. And it analyz... |
1136267_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE NORTHERN IRELAND: PESSIMISM ON PEACE Leaders of Northern Ireland's smaller parties gave former Senator George J. Mitchell little encouragement in the second day of his mission to mediate the deadlocked peace settlement. The accord has stalled over Protestant politicians' refusal to let Sinn Fein take part in the... |
1136199_1 | Details on Cardinal's Brain Tumor Are Scant | other organs, like the lungs or breast, are also counted in the brain tumor total, the number of brain tumors rises to about 100,000 a year in the United States. Dr. Ted Gansler, medical editor for patient information at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, said he did not know the details of Cardinal O'Connor's cas... |
1141551_0 | For the People, by the Computer | IN San Diego, comments at public hearings can be submitted by E-mail. Boston residents can use the city's Web site to complain about broken street signs or to pay parking tickets and excise taxes. And in Indianapolis, taxpayers can get electronic copies of the city budget and rework them, then send them to Mayor Stephe... |
1141581_0 | NEWS WATCH | So you want to check your E-mail, but a computer isn't handy. Why not just pick up a telephone and have it read to you? A free service called Mytalk.com permits users to do just that. More than 100,000 people have signed up for the service (www.mytalk.com), which carries ads, since it began this summer, said Kevin Wray... |
1141590_1 | World Briefing | law that allows Italian citizens abroad to vote in Italian elections. Government statistics show that about 3.6 million Italian citizens live outside the country, more than 300,000 of them in the United States and Canada. Alessandra Stanley (NYT) ITALY: WOMEN CAN ENLIST Up to 20,000 women are expected to apply to join ... |
1141576_1 | A Colorful St. Peter's Raises Eyebrows | world'') is in delicate shades of red and green. Renato Nicolini, a former commissioner of culture in Rome's city government, decried the restoration as ''post-modern.'' ''It's the desire to transform everything into a movie set,'' he said. Carlo Bertelli, an architectural historian, was equally dismissive. Belittling ... |
1135876_1 | On Newsstands In Britain, Beer and Babes Are in Decline | in the laddie book's native land, after almost of five years of double-digit percentile circulation growth, demand seems to be flagging. Circulation figures reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations in Britain for FHM declined 9.6 percent from June 1998 to June 1999, a sharp turnaround from growth of 53.6 percent in... |
1135883_2 | The Undiscovered Plan B for Northern Ireland | violence has gone,'' Mr. Blair said. ''That doesn't just mean decommissioning, but all bombing, killings, beatings and an end of targeting, recruiting and all the structures of terrorism.'' The Prime Minister cannot possibly claim that this promise has been fulfilled. Instead, the continuing violence has only added to ... |
1135884_1 | Mitchell Prepares Rescue Effort for Ulster Peace Settlement | ''It is unthinkable to me that after having reached agreement, the parties who support the agreement will permit it to fail. That would be a terrible tragedy, an irony, and I think it would be unforgivable.'' The process of putting the April accord into effect ground to a halt in July, when the Ulster Unionists refused... |
1137923_0 | Protesters Just Say No To 'McDo'; Jospin Glad | When it comes to showing France's refusal to roll over to American-led globalization of the world economy, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin bows to almost no man. But he did Monday night on national television, when he was asked about protests at 40 McDonald's restaurants around the country this summer against extra Americ... |
1137114_0 | Watching Europe And the Theater | BILL T. JONES Dancer and choreographer RIGHT now I am not as interested in pure dance as I am in international forms that are being treated in new ways. That's why I am always interested in seeing what people do with Shakespeare; I'd like to see good Shakespeare brought back to Broadway. I myself am working on a Greek ... |
1136986_1 | Made in the U.S.A. | they? And yet Fingleton is right on a basic fact. Manufacturing is and will remain the central economic activity in world trade. This book is best at its descriptions of modern manufacturing processes -- Nikon's stepper machines, central to semiconductor production, for instance, or Sony's laser diodes -- and for its s... |
1138631_0 | Kennedy Papers' Forger Sentenced to 9 Years | The man who sold hundreds of forged documents supposedly written or signed by John F. Kennedy was sentenced to nine years and seven months in prison yesterday, a stiffer term than usual, and ordered to pay $7 million in restitution to victims of his scheme. The defendant, Lawrence X. Cusack 3d, sat silently as Judge De... |
1138591_1 | Greek Orthodoxy in U.S. Is on the Cusp of Change | roots and fully accustomed to the democratic decision-making style of the American political culture. The crisis became so great that some openly discussed the possibility of independence, or autocephaly, removing the archdiocese from control by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the historic seat of Greek ... |
1139289_0 | Heeding the Ominous Buzz of a Vicious Animal | To the Editor: Re ''Public Beliefs, Global Politics and Pesticides'' (Big City column, Sept. 16), by John Tierney: The world doesn't have time to watch the developed countries debate the safety of malathion and DDT. Even if we use these chemicals without restraint, we will not significantly reduce the millions of mosqu... |
1139244_0 | Eredo Journal; A Wall, a Moat, Behold! A Lost Yoruba Kingdom | Off the main road in this unassuming town, a footpath that snakes through the thick bush and trees of the Nigerian rain forest leads to the remains of what is certainly one of the largest monuments in sub-Saharan Africa: a 100-mile-long wall and moat whose construction began a millennium ago. The monument, called Sungb... |
1134637_2 | Business Travel; A system for a quick pass through immigration at airports has surprisingly few users. | ''the only requirement for eligibility is that you travel on business more than two times a year.'' (Those with criminal records, including tycoons, are not eligible, however.) Besides Americans, Canadians and citizens of the 26 countries participating in the multinational Visa Waiver Pilot Program -- who otherwise mee... |
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1136498_0 | Controlling Students' E-Mail | To the Editor: If Elizabeth Stone had learned a little more about the America Online service, she would have known that each AOL member is allowed to create up to five screen names per account. That would easily have solved the problem of her students knowing when she was on line at night. She could have simply created... |
1136383_0 | Pirate Lore and Salvaged Treasures | READ ''Treasure Island,'' my sixth-grade teacher told the class, because if you discover its thrills now, they will stay with you forever. A lot of people have taken that advice because pirate sites for young and old abound on the Web. But reliable pirate sites? They're as scarce as reliable treasure maps. Yes, with on... |
1136500_0 | Controlling Students' E-Mail | To the Editor: I applaud Elizabeth Stone for being so patient with her students' instant messaging her on line. When I first advised my students at John Jay College of my screen name, I also liked how this new accessibility was empowering many of them to converse with me outside of class. (They were thinking! They were... |
1136497_0 | Controlling Students' E-Mail | To the Editor: I've been using E-mail to communicate with my students for three years now, and it's all the good things mentioned in ''For One Teacher, a Lesson About E-Mail and Privacy'' (Sept. 2). It even saved my class last year when my husband was seriously ill the first half of the semester; I sent and received as... |
1136406_0 | NEWS WATCH | DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL -- Can an even-longer ''director's cut'' of ''Blade Runner'' be far behind? The Sharp Corporation and Japanese Government researchers have developed a new memory disk that can store 200 gigabytes of data, more than 40 times as much as conventional DVD disks. But it will not be available for at lea... |
1136399_0 | Internet Connects Inventors to Information (and One Another) | RODNEY LONG is an Alabama inventor who typically spends 16 hours a day on the Internet, logging on to things like inventor forums and an on-line patent database (www.patents.ibm.com /ibm.html) that has been sponsored by I.B.M. since 1997. Mr. Long, a former maintenance mechanic for U. S. Steel, has already seen one of ... |
1136503_0 | Praising the Virtual Campus | To the Editor: In the article about distance education, Carole S. Fungaroli, who is writing a book about the value of university degrees, states: ''I don't see anything that these people are offering that you can't get better on campus.'' Has it occurred to Ms. Fungaroli that there are many thousands of people all over... |
1139586_0 | Converting E-Mail From Spam to Steak | HANS PETER BRONDMO is building an Internet company squarely astride the most bitter cultural divide in the on-line world -- the war over privacy and E-mail spam. There is possibly no more bitter issue for most Net-smart computer users and Web surfers than the tidal wave of digital junk mail -- known as spam -- that has... |
1141113_3 | Building Robot Aides To Follow Astronauts | data, running speech-recognition and voice-synthesizer software, relaying communications and tracking the devices. The station would also contain docking ports for recharging the P.S.A.'s batteries, and sensors that could be snapped onto the robots, depending on tasks assigned to them. Earlier this month, engineers at ... |
1140291_1 | Ballerina's Ovarian Tissue Transplant Gives Hope to Other Young Women Facing Infertility | noncancerous disorders like cysts or endometriosis, or who face infertility as a side effect of chemotherapy for cancer. Women at a few other medical centers have also had ovaries removed and frozen, but Dr. Oktay's report is the first case in which the tissue was given back to the patient and found to work. ''This is ... |
1140278_0 | Herbert V. Shuster, 75, Consumer Products Tester | Herbert V. Shuster, a food scientist who founded one of the nation's oldest consumer product testing companies, died Monday at a nursing home in the Brighton section of Boston, where he had been for several days. He was 75 years old and lived in Waban, Mass. The cause was complications from a recent stroke, according t... |
1138410_2 | Scientists Point to New Evidence of Liquid Water on a Jupiter Moon | ocean. The Arizona planetary scientists, led by Dr. Gregory V. Hoppa, theorized that Jupiter's huge size, 300 times as massive as Earth, causes tremendous tidal stresses on Europa. According to their model, Europa's ocean tides must rise and fall some 100 feet, compared with Earth tides of about 4 to 6 feet. Europa's s... |
1138768_0 | In the Region/Westchester; Reinventing the Campus of Bedford's Middle School | THE architect of an ongoing construction project at this town's middle school calls it a ''reinvention'' of an unusual campus, which was originally designed as something of an educational experiment. ''It was really an architectural challenge in that we created new spaces, had to link them all together and, at the same... |
1138692_4 | The News of the Day, on Canvas | in company with a gigantic horse that turns its crupper toward us. We have no trouble knowing which side is which. The massed Spaniards, on the right, have their lances intact and upright. The Dutch, on the left, are attentive but not humiliated. (One of them still has a gun on his shoulder.) Above all, we notice the w... |
1138802_3 | Q & A/Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr.; A Doctor at Yale Spends a Lifetime Fighting Cancer | that in women who migrate from Japan to Hawaii the incidence of breast cancer goes up. If they migrate from Hawaii to California the incidence goes up higher. When Italian women who have a relatively low incidence of breast cancer compared to us, migrate to Australia where a lot of Italians do migrate, the incidence of... |
1139100_0 | September 12-18; The Coast Guard Begins Shooting at Speedboats | The Coast Guard got tired of drug smugglers in speedboats racing by its patrols on the open sea at close to 70 miles per hour. So the brass decided to use a tactic last employed against rum runners during Prohibition. Sharpshooters with rifles have been authorized to fire from helicopters to disable the engines of smug... |
1138981_6 | The World; Rethinking Population At a Global Milestone | states of India, moreover, surprising contradictions point up the traps in seeking quick answers for why population control seems to work in some places but not in others. In Bangladesh and Indonesia, which were under military rule, private development and environmental organizations began to flourish, along with succe... |
1138738_2 | An Amazon Cruise Turns Into a Party | The captain took us on a tour of his three-level, whitewashed boat. The Nadson Jeane IV looked reasonably shipshape; it had upper and lower decks outfitted with beams and hooks for hanging hammocks, and an observation deck on top. On level two, adjacent to the first-class hammock area, were a couple of private cabins t... |
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