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1252219_0 | Playing Your Career Against the Market | IN choosing their investments, most people regard balance and diversification as a matter of choosing the right mix of stocks, bonds and mutual funds to match their goals. But a growing number of economists say investors are overlooking one of the most important elements of their financial portfolios: their jobs. Worke... |
1252080_3 | Breast Cancer Groups Question New Study | biphenyls, toxic chemical compounds once widely used in viscous liquid form as insulators in electrical equipment; for chlordane, a chemical once commonly used for termite control; and for seven organochlorine pesticides including DDT and its breakdown products. The pollutants, which remain in body fat for long periods... |
1252080_5 | Breast Cancer Groups Question New Study | Riverhead and Westhampton Beach areas. At the same time, the Stellman study has raised concerns among the Long Island groups about other studies, part of the Long Island breast cancer project, that have yet to be completed. ''I am starting to become very leery of these studies,'' said Geri Barish of Baldwin, the presid... |
1252352_0 | Learning With a Difference, One Step at a Time | Sarah, a fifth grander, remembers watching her classmates learn to read and spell while she was left behind. ''It's like trying to climb a mountain,'' she says. ''I had all the equipment I needed, but I couldn't get over the mountain without help.'' George (above), also in fifth grade, recalls his frustration: ''I used... |
1251993_0 | At Some Hotels, It's Adults Only | NO national law bars a hotel from refusing to take children as guests. According to Kara Peterman, a spokes woman at the Department of Justice, Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act says hotels may not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity or national origin, but makes no mention of family status or ag... |
1259319_0 | Check the Tires? Few Remember | MOST consumers seem to have decided that their tires are maintenance-free, according to a telephone survey by the Rubber Manufacturers Association. In the survey of 400 households, 32 percent of respondents volunteered a tire-related task -- checking the pressure or the tread, or rotating the tires, for example -- when... |
1259443_0 | Mega-Cats Compete In Race Around World | Starting today from Barcelona, Spain, six mega-catamarans will set out upon a round-the-world challenge called, simply, The Race. The only real certainty is that a gun will sound and the boats will go. But what happens afterward is anyone's guess, for in the 30-year history of globe-circling sailboat racing, no one has... |
1259393_0 | China and the Environment | To the Editor: Re ''Wall St. Goes Hunting for Treasure in China'' (Dec. 17), which brings to light many aspects of Wall Street firms' escalating interest for lucrative business deals in China: Some deals could have disastrous effects on China's environment. A case in point is the underwriting of $830 million of bonds b... |
1259071_4 | Hanging Up the Past | with what had always been the glamour associated with displays of contemporary art.'' Though Haskell does not stress the point, it is evident that his subject here is part of the story of the displacement of contemporary art as the primary reference for art appreciators by the art of the past, and so part of the story ... |
1259139_0 | Trading In Junk Bonds for a Charter School | I NEVER believed in tarot cards or astrology,'' Dawn Zimmerman said. ''Reincarnation is another story. Now I'm on my second life.'' The 40-year-old Ms. Zimmerman said her transition from hawking junk bonds in Beverly Hills to championing disabled children in East Hampton ''is proof that no one knows what life holds in ... |
1253994_0 | LEAF RECYCLING | Through an expanded program this fall, the county's recycling of leaves is expected to double to 20,000 tons this year over last. Leaves are being recycled at commercial composting sites, where they are turned into topsoil, potting soil and other natural reusable gardening products. So far, 12 municipalities have chose... |
1254128_0 | Care for the Mentally Ill | To the Editor: Re ''Concern Rising Over Use of Juvenile Prisons to 'Warehouse' the Mentally Ill'' (news article, Dec. 5): Instead of warehousing children in juvenile justice settings, it would behoove the nation to focus on improving the quality of treatment for children and provide the necessary financial and organiza... |
1254039_0 | Special-Needs Departments Do Not Work in Isolation | To the Editor: Regarding ''From Classrooms to the Trenches,'' the cover article on Nov. 5, about special education directors, the writer ended up with the same limited focus most people -- and school districts -- have when looking at the special services department. Why is it that lawyers, state officials, parents and ... |
1254090_0 | Swarthmore vs. Sparta | To the Editor: Re your Dec. 5 Sports pages article about the decision of Swarthmore College to discontinue football: The comments of alumni decrying the decision were articulate and passionate, no surprise for Swarthmore graduates. But it is hardly the case that athletics is undervalued in American society or higher ed... |
1253934_1 | One-Stop Information On Learning Issues | extensive collections on special education issues. But the Learning Center, which was developed largely by parents in the community like JoAnne F. Steiner and Karen Mendelowitz, is the only place where all the information is collected in one place. Mrs. Mendelowitz, who has two children and is a teacher with a special ... |
1253958_0 | In the Region/New Jersey; Edgewater Mixed-Use Project Has Traditional Look | PILES will soon be driven deep into a patch of former industrial land along the Hudson River here for a mixed-use enclave called the Promenade that is being designed as a throwback to an old-fashioned downtown Main Street replete with residences above shops. When completed by 2002, the development, which is to cost mor... |
1257213_1 | The Big City; Gabby Drivers Have Nothing On Regulators | risk of serious accidents may not be so high, but researchers don't doubt there is some risk. Whatever the toll may be, politicians operate on the principle that one death is one too many if they can get on the evening newscasts by promising to prevent it. The remedy becomes irresistible if it costs them nothing (no mo... |
1257199_0 | Tomorrow's Education Made to Measure | A growing number of America's children are being identified as having learning disabilities that affect their ability to use written or spoken language. In 1987, a federal task force concluded that approximately 5 to 10 percent of the population had this sort of condition. Today about one out of every eight school chil... |
1258533_5 | Going Online To Build a Family | a family so badly, and if that's what it takes, they'll do it.'' Ms. Searle said caseworkers in Utah had the discretion to list children who were too young or too disabled to make such decisions. ''Some part of the public is really against public recruitment, and all of us are innately against it,'' she said. ''But we ... |
1258622_1 | For All Russia, Biological Clock Is Running Out | and size, winnowing the nation's population by millions -- and likely to continue for years. Europe's highest-fertility country just a decade ago, Russia today is right down there with Spain and Italy as the lowest. New births last year in Russia occurred at the rate of 8.4 per 1,000 people, compared with 13.4 in 1990.... |
1258169_0 | Of Men, Estrogen and Brittle Bones | After menopause, it is common for women to begin taking estrogen to prevent osteoporosis, the potentially disabling disease characterized by bone loss. But should men follow suit? A new study by Mayo Clinic researchers, published in this month's Journal of Clinical Investigation, reports that loss of estrogen, the domi... |
1258254_4 | Two Grades, One Record | goal of preserving a million acres of land, and say that on her watch about 60,000 acres have been lost to development each year. Still, more than 250,000 acres of open space and farmland have been protected since 1994, nearly as much as in the prior three decades combined, officials say. Governor Whitman has spoken fr... |
1258228_0 | Efforts to Restrict Sprawl Find New Resistance From Advocates for Affordable Housing | Until this year, Habitat for Humanity affiliates in Arizona and Colorado never felt a need to get involved in a political fight. But in the fall they jumped into a battle against a seemingly unlikely foe: the environmental movement. In one of the most far-reaching efforts yet to curb suburban sprawl, ballot initiatives... |
1258238_1 | Curbs in Immigrants' and Inmates' Rights, Too | rights, that fundamentally takes away from their civil liberties.'' Taken together, said Lucas Guttentag of the American Civil Liberties Union, the laws passed in 1996 added up to ''the most sustained attack on immigrants' rights in modern times.'' Other laws from the same year have sharply curtailed prisoners' opportu... |
1255148_4 | First Complete Plant Genetic Sequence Is Determined | differences between its sequence and the public one. But for many companies, the real emphasis is to find the function of the genes, which could provide the basis for patents. Ceres Inc., a biotechnology company in Malibu, Calif., says it has filed for patents on many thousands of Arabidopsis genes. ''It's a significan... |
1255234_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA CHINA: PLACES OF WORSHIP DESTROYED -- Local officials and newspapers in the southeast city of Wenzhou said hundreds of unauthorized churches and temples in the surrounding region had been demolished or closed this month. Officials say they are fighting dangerous and illegal superstitions in this area, where unregi... |
1255092_3 | Artists vs. Dot-Coms: Fighting San Francisco's Gold Rush | of the San Francisco Partnership, a pro-business nonprofit group, defended the dot-com industry, saying that the slow-growth advocates unfairly vilify an industry that helped pull San Francisco out of a punishing recession in the 1990's and created some 40,000 local jobs. ''The Internet industry has become a scapegoat,... |
1255104_0 | Spy Agency In Brazil Is Accused Of Abuses | First came accusations of domestic spying, then the firings of top officials said to have been involved in the torture of political prisoners many years ago. Now the Brazilian government's intelligence agency is coming under increasingly heavy fire for what appear to be violations of its charter and a return to some of... |
1255136_3 | Clinton, in Ulster, Confronts Warring Passions Head-On | did say that the United States would work more closely with Ireland and Britain to coordinate counterterrorism efforts. On the second day of his trip to the region, Mr. Clinton held several hours of closed-door meetings on the future of the peace effort with David Trimble, the Protestant first minister in the new North... |
1255053_0 | Bluetooth, Addresses And Irksome Warnings | Q. What is Bluetooth? I keep hearing the term but have no idea what it means. A. Bluetooth is a radio-technology standard developed in 1998 that allows electronic devices that are equipped with it to wirelessly share information. It has been possible for a few years now to ''beam'' files between hand-held computers or ... |
1255153_2 | Two Continents, Disconnected; Europeans Are Finding New York To Be a Backwoods for Cell Phones | some of the hardest square miles to provide service in the country,'' said Adam Zawel, a senior analyst with the Yankee Group, referring to the blocking and dropping of radio signals caused by the city's high-rise buildings. ''It is up there with the Grand Canyon.'' The canyon effect is the most commonly cited explanat... |
1253167_0 | 29 More U.S. Deaths Linked to Firestone Tires | Government investigators have received complaints linking 29 more deaths to the failures of Firestone tires, including 4 people killed since the company announced a huge recall four months ago, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today. The agency said it had reports of 148 fatalities involving tire... |
1253267_0 | Bishop George W. Barrett, 92; Fostered Women's Ordination | Bishop George West Barrett, a former leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, who ordained four women as Episcopal ministers in 1975, before the Episcopal Church had approved ordaining women, died on Sunday at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 92. The cause was renal failure after he decided to take himself... |
1253278_13 | RISKY DECISION/A special report.; Study of Ford Explorer's Design Reveals a Series of Compromises | Explorer's center of gravity actually rose slightly. The Trade-Offs Along With Benefits, Design Liabilities Automobile design is a matter of trade-offs. And often, dealing with one problem only adds to another. For instance, using the Ranger's underbody for the Explorer gave Ford the image it wanted, with the budget it... |
1253232_3 | Ease Up, Top Colleges Tell Stressed Applicants | new round of SALT -- changing the acronym's meaning to Strategic Admissions Limitations Talks -- to deal with the pressure created by increasing numbers of students' applying under early action programs. Duke rewrote its application this year, giving students less room to list the number of their extracurricular activi... |
1253123_1 | Sorry for Your Loss, But Not That Sorry | from Egreetings Network (www.egreetings.com). ''My one-night stands last longer than your relationships!'' Cybercards, however, give some people pause. Isn't it just a bit callous to send a dressed-up computer message in the wake of a sorrowful occasion or for a special one like a marriage proposal? The companies that ... |
1256583_5 | Firestone Engineers Offer a List of Causes for Faulty Tires | each other very well when vulcanized, a process in which a tire is heated and squeezed to fuse the various layers. Decatur's machinery for mixing rubber compounds produced pellets, the engineers said; the machinery at Firestone's other factories produced sheets of rubber. In each case, the pellets or sheets would be sp... |
1256595_0 | Gene-Altered Food | To the Editor: Two articles (''Gene Altered Foods: A Case Against Panic'' (Dec. 5) and ''Golden Rice in a Grenade Proof Greenhouse'' (Nov. 21) state that genetically engineered golden rice will help alleviate vitamin A deficiency, a common cause of blindness among children in developing countries. Nutrition science, ho... |
1256469_0 | New Assignment for Satellite System | Motorola spent billions to create the Iridium satellite telephone system, allowing anyone almost anywhere to make a phone call. Unfortunately, not many people found much reason to lug a cumbersome phone to a remote place and pay several dollars a minute for the service. Scientists, however, found a very good use for it... |
1256481_0 | What's Next for Biotech Crops? Questions | Last week, more than a decade after the federal government allowed the first release of a genetically engineered organism into the environment, researchers concluded that scientists still cannot say with any precision what the ecological effects -- either good or bad -- of such genetically modified organisms might be. ... |
1254872_4 | Changes of Scenery Taken to the Ninth Degree | and countertops made of recycled tires and soda containers. He sometimes also works on SoundWaters' 80-foot schooner. ''I ended up doing something which I dreamed about,'' he said. Another client, W. C. Bird, said farewell to his responsibilities as vice president for human resources at S. D. Warren, a division of Scot... |
1254761_3 | Using the Internet to Sell Their Love of a Canyon | most of the public land in Utah. ''We can quickly put out an e-mail alert and energize people around the country and ask them to react in some fashion,'' Mr. Reberg said. About 10,000 people are hooked up to the alliance's e-mail alert system. The group usually sends out at least one alert a month, although in crises t... |
1254766_0 | Marketers Turn to a Simple Tool: E-Mail | SETH GODIN remembers when the dot-com people laughed at him. Mr. Godin had formed Yoyodyne, one of the early companies trying to promote Internet start-ups through the online equivalent of direct mail, which is usually referred to as junk mail. A lack of glamour and a stench of spam -- the dreaded mass-e-mailed sucker ... |
1256962_3 | More Experienced Applicants at Business Schools | the past 10 years,'' said Jay S. Stowsky, associate dean for school affairs and initiatives at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. In particular, he said, the number of applicants with engineering backgrounds has risen, to 27 percent last year from 18 percent the year before. ''That... |
1256900_3 | A Sense of Taste Online, But First Take a Sniff | will probably be preceded by the relatively simple smell experience. A handful of companies, including Trisenx and DigiScents of Oakland, Calif., are working on peripherals that will emit synthesized scent. The taste business will be a logical offshoot of the scent business, Mr. Ivey said. Dr. Carol Christensen, a vice... |
1256964_0 | Oil and Mining Leaders Agree to Protect Rights in Remote Areas | Several big oil and mining companies have agreed to principles meant to safeguard human rights while protecting employees and property in remote parts of the world, the State Department said today. The department announced that the companies, human rights organizations and the governments of the United States and Brita... |
1257005_2 | Women Taking Active Role To Study Orthodox Judaism | a long-held suspicion that at least two Orthodox women in Israel had been secretly ordained as rabbis in private ceremonies conducted by supportive Orthodox rabbis. One of the defining features of Orthodox Judaism, compared with the other, more liberal branches, is the insistence on strict distinctions between men and ... |
1257029_0 | U.S. Imposes Standards for Organic-Food Labeling | The Department of Agriculture today announced final adoption of the first standards that the federal government has ever imposed for the labeling and processing of organic foods. The new standards, which were ordered by Congress and then took the department more than a decade to produce, ban the use of irradiation, bio... |
1254356_1 | In Search for Online Success, 'Easy Does It' Is Good Theme | set up as a graduate school project by Jerry Yang and David Filo. And yet typing www.yahoo.com today elicits a Web site that looks remarkably similar to their first draft. ''From the very beginning, we saw the Web as a tool and wanted to let users get the information they wanted in the quickest, most straightforward wa... |
1258824_0 | The 4th Day of Christmas: 3,000 Philosophers Thinking | When 3,000 philosophers get together in one place, you might expect them to focus on some of the hotter philosophical issues of the day: Bush versus Gore as seen through the eyes of Kant; a post-empiricist critique of the validity of counting dimpled chads; an Aristotelian analysis of the chances of a recession. But a ... |
1252639_0 | Q & A | Stroller Potatoes Q. I see children old enough to walk being pushed around in strollers. Can this stunt development? A. Experts suspect that the problem is not that tired parents are using strollers while shopping, but rather that they may be preventing their children from moving enough the rest of the time. Child deve... |
1252731_0 | Preserving A Landmark | |
1252676_2 | Old Clothing Never Dies, It Just Fades Far, Far Away | pays between $3,000 and $10,000 for a container with 25 tons of clothes that might yield $14,000 once the truly unusable goods are sifted out and shredded for rags. Mr. Schefren describes his company as a small-margin ''penny business.'' If so, the pennies add up. The sale of used clothes for export accounts for at lea... |
1252640_0 | Gene Altered Foods: A Case Against Panic | Ask American consumers whether they support the use of biotechnology in food and agriculture and nearly 70 percent say they do. But ask the question another way, ''Do you approve of genetically engineered (or genetically modified) foods?'' and two-thirds say they do not. Yet there is no difference between them. The tec... |
1257579_0 | Now, Airline Check-In At Car Rental Counter | Alamo Rent A Car's center at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas has added a new service: travelers returning their cars can pay an extra fee to check their bags and get boarding passes for certain airlines' flights at the counter before riding the van to the terminal. The service is available now for only Amer... |
1257543_1 | The Making of an 8-Year-Old Woman | says as she sets up a slide projector and dims the lights. ''We don't know anything if we don't know why.'' She takes the remote control in hand and runs through the prevailing theories. Click. ''Obesity. Our kids are getting too fat.'' This is the only cause on which researchers seem to agree -- that heavier girls ent... |
1257630_8 | Hands Off! | England Journal of Medicine found that talking on a phone while driving quadrupled the risk of an accident and was almost as dangerous as being drunk behind the wheel. But many law enforcement agencies do not yet collect data on whether use of a cell phone contributed to an accident. Ronald Silber of Bellport needs no ... |
1257955_4 | The Wickedest Man in Oxford | him a success out of all proportion to its sales of just over 1,000 copies (64 years later, the book still sells 2,000 a year in Britain: a 1945 reprint in the United States has sold 300,000). It was one of those books that galvanize a whole generation. Ambitious undergraduates commonly read it at a sitting. Their elde... |
1257873_5 | In China's Heartland, the Fertile Fields Lie Fallow | for a highway to the tourist resort under development at nearby Lake Chaohu -- a project that is unlikely to benefit Yuejin. ''I couldn't pay it, and now I still owe them $179,'' Mr. Lei said, displaying the tax card for 2000 on which his debt was listed. ''I already told the village I'm going to have to delay payment ... |
1257791_1 | Those Black Holes in Your Mobile Phone Service | coverage that are all sources of aggravation for consumers,'' Mr. Richman said. Most of the problems reflect an industry that is still in flux. The networks and infrastructure of the wireless service providers, analysts say, cannot fully support the vast and rapidly increasing number of customers. A cell phone customer... |
1257780_0 | It's Time to Screen For Brain Cancer | To the Editor: Re ''Two Studies Report No Links to Cancer in Cell Phones' Use'' (front page, Dec. 20): As a neurosurgeon who has operated on nearly 6,000 brain tumors in a 25-year career, I hope that the new studies showing no correlation between cell phone use and cancer are correct. But the occurrence of brain tumors... |
1255564_1 | New Europe's Changing Landscape Strains French-German Ties | decade ago, its population has been 20 million larger than France's and its economy a third bigger. It also stands at the heart of what is sometimes called the new Europe, a continent no longer divided that is engaged in a long-term quest to draw all countries into the European Union. Whereas Berlin will be situated sq... |
1255657_0 | Scientists Say Estrogen Belongs on Cancer List | All forms of the hormone estrogen, including those used in birth control pills and in hormone replacement therapy for post-menopausal women, should be included on the government's list of cancer-causing substances, a panel of scientific advisers said yesterday. The recommendation reflects information that has been know... |
1255614_4 | NEWS SUMMARY | received by Pope John Paul II in 1994. Aides said it would not conflict with Senate ethics rules. B5 Religion Journal B6 Neediest Cases B2 EDUCATION Bilingual Class as an Option Chancellor Harold O. Levy will ask the New York City Board of Education to end automatic assignment of students with limited English skills to... |
1254575_2 | After Violence, Possibilities Of Renewal; As Conflict Recedes in Northern Ireland, Economy Tries to Wean Itself From Britain | Catholic Falls Road for a groundbreaking public encounter with Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. Even the bakery has changed in a way that gladdens those seeking to coax entrepreneurship from a region still dependent on handouts from London. In the president's honor, the ba... |
1254651_0 | Clinton Due in Ulster Where Both Sides Will Petition Him | There were funerals here this weekend for a Protestant taxi driver and a Catholic construction worker killed in tit-for-tat sectarian murders, grim evidence on the eve of President Clinton's return to the province that the promise of the peace settlement he helped broker is still far from fulfilled. Mr. Clinton will ma... |
1254678_0 | When Food Is Modified | To the Editor: The Personal Health column on Dec. 5 correctly notes the potential of genetically improved food to help feed the world and reduce the need for pesticides. But many are needlessly concerned about negligible risks posed by this technology. Genetically engineered food is thoroughly regulated by at least thr... |
1254576_1 | United Airlines is reviewing its two agencies to choose one for a global outlook. | of Roche Holding, for Xenical, while losing clients like H & R Block and the United States Army. At the same time the United review starts, Y.& R. Advertising is beginning a search for a successor to Ted Bell, who has served as worldwide creative director since 1993. Mr. Bell, 53, officially left in May to pursue inter... |
1254677_0 | When Food Is Modified | To the Editor: The Personal Health column on genetically modified foods promotes the misconceptions it warns of. The portrayal of current genetic ''engineering'' as precise and well defined is inappropriate today. Few genes are ''known quantities'' and the process of introducing a foreign gene into an organism produces... |
1256373_2 | The Neediest Cases; Learning How to Live, and How to Thrive, One Step at a Time | could get better care if they let him go to a specialized program -- but not without reservations. ''Both our mother and father had ambivalent feelings about putting Jerry in a group home,'' Ms. Banegas-Nobles said. ''They felt that no one could provide the level of care that they had.'' Eventually they knew they had n... |
1256255_0 | Post Office Is Full of Ideas to Survive an E-Future | If snail mail is an endangered species, what happens to the post office? That is a question that alarms the United States Postal Service, which is watching as the world of mail delivery is transformed before its eyes, thanks to the rapid spread of e-mail messages and other Internet transactions. Its answer -- that the ... |
1256352_1 | Cuba and Russia Abandon Nuclear Plant, an Unfinished Vestige of the Soviet Era | for a visit to Canada today, appeared to have fared no better in talks on how Russia might recover past investments in Cuba by taking stock positions in Cuban enterprises. Russian officials have concluded that the most profitable of Cuba's industries -- oil, nickel, cigar exports and telecommunications -- already have ... |
1256329_0 | Panel Backs Stronger Rules For Some Food | A blue-ribbon biotechnology committee formed by the United States and the European Union is expected to recommend that Washington strengthen regulation of genetically modified foods and move toward mandatory labeling, according to some panel members. The report, scheduled to be made public today at a summit meeting in ... |
1256305_6 | TALKING BIOTECHNOLOGY WITH: George Rathmann; An Industry Patriarch at the Forefront As Genomics Science Comes of Age | a George Rathmann version. On the other hand, when we go into the clinic and we find out that 30 percent of the patients don't respond, if we can find out what the genetic link is, wow! You take a study of 10,000 patients that might be required when you've got a 30 percent noise level, and you can get it down to 500 pa... |
1256328_2 | For Air Travelers, a Holiday Survival Guide | great ally in the event of a problem -- and may save you time and money. Day of Departure * Be informed. Check your flight's status before heading to the airport. Automated telephone services or airline Web sites often provide more up-to-date information than do ticket agents. The Federal Aviation Administration's Web ... |
1256277_0 | At Firestone, Recall, Then Inquiry | When Bridgestone/Firestone announced the recall of 6.5 million tires on Aug. 9, it set off a panic. Most of the tires had been installed as original equipment on Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles, and Explorer owners mobbed tire dealers across the nation. Firestone, a unit of Bridgestone of Japan, initially said it ... |
1256837_1 | Two Studies Report No Links to Cancer In Cell Phones' Use | can emit. In a published statement, the commission explained that while the federal government continues to assess research on cell-phone safety, studies have led ''expert organizations to conclude that typical RF exposures from these devices are safe.'' The cancer institute's study, directed by Dr. Peter Inskip and Dr... |
1251586_0 | World Briefing | EUROPE VATICAN: CRITICIZED ON HAIDER VISIT Israel criticized John Paul II's plan to receive the Austrian far-right leader Jorg Haider at the Vatican, calling the head of the Freedom Party ''a politician who is ostracized by the enlightened world.'' Mr. Haider, who has spoken favorably about some Nazi policies, is expec... |
1251727_0 | Corrections | An article by The Associated Press on Monday about conservative Anglican archbishops from around the world who gathered in Pennsylvania to express disagreement on social issues with liberals in the denomination's American branch, the Episcopal Church, misstated its position on homosexuality. Last July the American chur... |
1252933_0 | Federal Panel Is Wary On Gene-Altered Corn | A federal advisory panel concluded yesterday that there was a ''medium likelihood'' that the genetically engineered corn known as StarLink is a potential allergen, a finding that could hurt the food industry's quest to have the corn temporarily approved for human consumption. But the panel of outside scientific experts... |
1258415_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Israelis and Palestinians Weigh Clinton Peace Plan The Clinton administration expects to receive answers to its Middle East peace proposals that will be qualified but positive enough for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, to go to Washington for talks. The pr... |
1258415_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | soldiers had been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation from depleted uranium ammunition used by American warplanes in Kosovo last year. Spain said initial findings were negative. (AP) Rebels May Get a Second Zone The Colombian government said it was pursuing a plan to establish a second demilitarized enclave for le... |
1255384_0 | Firestone and Ford Make Progress on Tire Inquiries | Firestone and Ford Motor have made considerable progress in their investigations into the tire-related crashes that have killed more than 100 Americans, mostly in Ford Explorers, but they remained divided on some basic issues as they presented their results to regulators this week, people close to the inquiries said. F... |
1255480_0 | Workers Get Greater Drug Test Protection | The Transportation Department announced new rules yesterday to protect the rights of 8.5 million workers who undergo drug testing that the government makes mandatory as a safety measure. But critics, while welcoming the changes, said they did not go far enough. The new rules were made public on the same day that the De... |
1255405_0 | A Russian Return to Havana | President Vladimir Putin is in Cuba this week, on a visit rich in symbolism. But Mr. Putin, the first Russian leader to visit Havana since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, brings a substantive agenda as well. He seeks to repair political and economic ties that have frayed in recent years. The days are past when ... |
1255381_2 | Putin Feels Whiff of Soviet Era in Cuba | ''from the new boss, we expect little.'' Mr. Castro, seated next to Mr. Putin at a news conference, challenged Washington's ''preoccupation'' with increasing its military spending after the cold war and criticized Mr. Bush's support for erecting an antimissile shield over the United States. In the Palace of the Revolut... |
1182106_3 | Missile Contractor Doctored Tests, Ex-Employee Charges | ''It's not a defense of the United States,'' she said, eyes flashing. ''It's a conspiracy to allow them to milk the government. They are creating for themselves a job for life.'' According to court records, Dr. Schwartz was hired as a senior engineer by TRW on Sept. 5, 1995, joining the company's space group in Redondo... |
1181965_2 | OBSERVATORY | event that created the tektites would have caused wide burning and destruction of forests, exposing cobble outcroppings. The early humans then eventually came to make use of the available stone. Advancing Fish Surveys In order to manage and conserve the world's fish stocks, it helps to know where they are and in what n... |
1186643_0 | You've Got an Attitude | On The Emotions By Richard Wollheim. 269 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press. $25. Modern philosophy has been much concerned with what we know and little with what we feel (though Descartes, whose theory of knowledge got things started in the 17th century, also wrote a book about what he called ''the passions of the s... |
1186722_0 | The Dionysian Drama of Today's Design | DESIGN has abandoned Socrates for Nietzsche. This is the take-away idea at the first edition of the National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. No more pure geometric shapes. No more strict correspondences between form and function. No more efforts to refine materials and production methods to their pure Pla... |
1186672_8 | Things Fall Together | the bowels of a volcano. Geryon himself, who also happens to be red, is pulled straight from one of Carson's own translations of the Greek poet Stesichorus, who, she writes with her usual flair, ''came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.'' The poem fleshes out what is known about Ger... |
1186796_1 | Keeping Mosquitoes At Bay | ''But it's not too early for homeowners to start their mosquito prevention efforts.'' Pest control authorities say that the best way to reduce the number of mosquitoes around a home is to remove any standing water. Dr. Michael Potter, an urban entomologist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, said that the kind ... |
1186958_2 | E-Mail Is Treacherous. So Why Do We Keep Trusting It? | their electronic correspondence is private. (It may also highlight the misconception that historians no longer have paper trails to follow.) It was Lt. Col. Oliver North who proved that e-mail, so apparently ephemeral, is harder to expunge than paper documents comfortingly run through a shredder. In the 1980's, Mr. Nor... |
1186718_1 | Who Is That Man Posing As Richard Foreman? | that caused her severe pain, Ms. Manheim was Mr. Foreman's leading stage interpreter, and scattered through the loft are cardboard and balsa-wood valentines he has made for her, one a train with the words ''Richard Loves Kate'' on it and the figure of Mr. Foreman leaning out the window. But dominating the space and lin... |
1187045_1 | In a Replica of a Famed Slave Ship, Lessons From the Past | the tolling of a bell 53 times in honor of each of the captives held on the Amistad. A ceremonial chain was cut, a bottle of water broken across the bow and six white doves released. Then, with the push of a button, automated winches lowered the lift-dock holding the Amistad into the water. As it reached a depth of 10 ... |
1186876_0 | Where the Jobs Are | College seniors dusted the sand off their resumes earlier this month in Panama City, Fla., and headed to the Spring Break Career Expo 2000. For a short time, fun in the sun took a back seat to the real world of wages and work. Recruiters from 50 companies offered annual salaries of $30,000 to $65,000 for high-technolog... |
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1187046_0 | Companies Try Dipping Deeper Into Labor Pool | Unable to find enough workers in the booming economy, American corporations are trying to expand the labor pool. Until recently, employers had met their labor needs by hiring people who were already employed or at least wanted to work. But as this pool shrinks, they are increasingly recruiting from among the 36 million... |
1186833_5 | Talking and Driving: Growing Road Menace? | Mark Burris, a research associate at the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Mr. Burris and an associate set out to determine what data was available, and issued a report last spring saying that cell phone use had ''an adverse effect'' on driving performance, though so ... |
1186948_0 | Alleviating Famine | To the Editor: In ''Natural Born Killers'' (column, March 22), Paul Krugman overlooks two important points when offering genetically modified foods as an ''escape'' from poverty and starvation in developing countries. First, the economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has demonstrated conclusively that famine does not... |
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