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1183753_5 | Just What's Going On Inside That Head of Yours? | may explain its widespread activation in imaging experiments. Many believe that this part of the brain is responsible for controlled attention or that it responds to errors, Dr. Cohen said. But experiments that could have been done only with F.M.R.I. suggest that its real role is to register conflict. This, in turn, le... |
1183842_2 | Protests on New Genes and Seeds Grow More Passionate in Europe | instance, can produce their own pesticide and reduce the amount used in the fields. The seeds are now used throughout North and South America, China and Australia. Opponents concede that no one has ever been harmed by genetically modified food. But there are questions about environmental threats. Will genes from herbic... |
1183842_5 | Protests on New Genes and Seeds Grow More Passionate in Europe | Belgium. ''They're bred for shelf life.'' Last year, the European Union bought just $1 million worth of American corn, down dramatically from $305 million in 1996. Europe buys 25 percent of the American soybean crop, worth $2.6 billion in good years. Purchases dropped, to $1 billion last year, according the United Stat... |
1183775_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR RISES. Sugar rose almost 4 percent as importers took advantage of low prices to secure supplies. In New York, raw sugar for May delivery rose 0.20 cent, or 3.8 percent, to 5.42 cents a pound. |
1183747_2 | OBSERVATORY | membrane. Pollution Decor How a home is decorated speaks volumes about the people who live there. It may also have a say in how much pollution they are exposed to. A study of benzene pollution in six European cities found that people were exposed to more of the pollutant in their homes than outside of it. Benzene is fo... |
1183593_1 | A Bit Nervously, Theater Row Packs Up | lousy dressing rooms, but there is something that is very actor-friendly and theater-friendly about these spaces,'' said Anita Keal, who performs in ''The Countess,'' a play about a 19th-century love affair. The show plans to move to Lamb's Theater on West 44th Street after its current home, the Samuel Beckett Theater,... |
1183659_0 | F.C.C. TO PROMOTE A TRADING SYSTEM TO SELL AIRWAVES | As the airwaves grow ever more congested with modern wireless communications, the federal government is developing plans to open up the spectrum by in effect treating its frequencies as commodities to be bought and sold as routinely as pork bellies or soybeans in the open market. Officials at the Federal Communications... |
1184996_0 | Giving a Voice to Siblings of the Disabled | WHAT is it like to have a brother who is autistic? Or a sister in a wheelchair? How do you explain a sibling's condition to a child who comes over for a play date? Or how do you deal with stares at the mall? Questions like these weigh on the minds of children with disabled brothers and sisters. ''Siblings of disabled c... |
1184858_3 | The Lower Depths | But that was done with a different co-author. This one, written with Will Hively, a science writer, is more spare. During moments of tension, as a team finds nothing day after day, Ballard says things like ''The level of bickering increased.'' You want more. There's nothing in this entire book as revealing as a passing... |
1185035_5 | The Internet May Be Virtual, But the Jobs It Brings Are Real; Hundreds of Companies Have Moved In. The Trick Is to Keep Them Here. | Internet-business positions. Mr. Jepsen said skilled employees are the most important need of the new technology companies. ''Connecticut has, on a per capita basis, a very highly trained work force, but we need more of those workers,'' he said. In fact, when Priceline.com looked for a new location, having had to move ... |
1184871_0 | Rough Beast | TIGERS IN THE SNOW By Peter Matthiessen. Introduction and photographs by Maurice Hornocker. 185 pp. New York: North Point Press/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $27. ''EVERYONE is connected. Only the tiger is not connected.'' That is what Vladimir Shetinin thinks, and he ought to know. As the commander of a Russian government... |
1185032_0 | Slicing And Dicing Pieces Of the Past | IN Rumson there's an 18th-century house whose owner wants to carve it up, and people are angry. In Piscataway there's a pile of timber that used to be the home of a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and people are downright furious. Two case studies, and a zillion points to ponder. First to Logan Lane in Piscataway, a sli... |
1184934_2 | So They're Muscular: Want to Make Something of It? | an interview in which she eagerly shed her jacket to reveal biceps larger than a reporter's none too small thighs. ''Contemporary museums are used to pushing the envelope, especially in terms of gender and identity issues.'' Ms. Fierstein has pushed a few envelopes herself, sporting a body that in her words inspires re... |
1185540_1 | When Post-Traumatic Stress Grips Youth | In children, the symptoms can impair social development and interfere with learning. The symptoms are repeatedly re-experiencing the trauma, often as nightmares, sometimes as flashbacks; persistently avoiding any thing, situation or place that reminds the person of the trauma; and the hyperarousal of the nervous system... |
1185537_1 | SCIENTIST AT WORK/Birute Galdikas; Saving the Orangutan, Preserving Paradise | because someone in the government suggested it would be helpful.'' But she flies regularly to North America to teach at Simon Fraser University in Canada and to oversee her charity, the Orangutan Foundation International of Los Angeles. Q. Give us a report on the state of the world's orangutans? A. They are poised on t... |
1181156_1 | World Briefing | are ineffective, if all treatment or therapy has failed, if there is unanimous agreement that the situation has become intolerable, then one can envisage euthanasia,'' Dr. Didier Sicard, the committee's head, said. The group's opinions are usually heeded. (AP) POLAND: PORNOGRAPHY BAN -- Parliament narrowly passed a tou... |
1186541_0 | The Past, the Pit, the Plants; Togetherness in the Balkans | From the most raked-over historical fields to the latest technology, scholars and researchers continually manage to ask new questions, rethink old verities and produce fresh insights. Arts & Ideas takes an occasional look at what some of today's thinkers -- the established as well as those who yearn to be -- are workin... |
1186530_5 | Where Is That Super? Try the Web; A New Site Links Co-Op and Condo Tenants to Services | River Terrace Apartments in Riverdale, the Bronx. She was referring to A View From the Terrace, the two-page compendium of news and announcements that hits residents' mailboxes irregularly. ''Now, we can easily create an online newsletter.'' So far, since its start on Feb. 23, EdificeRex has had 4.7 million hits and 69... |
1186455_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | unemployment. (Reuters) THE AMERICAS CANADA: PRESSURE ON PARKS -- Visits to Canada's national parks will double in 15 years to 28 million, according to a government study. Faced with growing pressure from tourists, Sheila Copps, the minister responsible for the country's 39 national parks, vowed ''no new ski hills, no ... |
1184516_2 | REDESIGNING NATURE/A special report.; In the Heartland, Genetic Promises | Europe, where imports of American corn and soybeans have plummeted. If farmers abandoned biotechnology seeds because of the protests, the companies could lose billions of dollars. Some of the world's largest food producers have already shaken things up by saying they will not use biotechnology crops this year. McCain F... |
1184538_1 | America's Natural Abundance | conducted by the Nature Conservancy, the United States provides habitat for more than 200,000 native species of plants and animals -- more than double the previous estimate. At the same time, commercial and residential development are placing those species under continuing pressure. For that reason, the conservancy ann... |
1182674_0 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; On the Road. On the Web. In Danger? | WHEN car phones first became popular, some people asked whether motorists could talk and drive safely at the same time. A decade later, that question seems naive; many new cell phones can connect a laptop computer to the Internet, or the phones themselves have screens that can be used to browse the World Wide Web. Othe... |
1185782_0 | Reckonings; Natural Born Killers | Here's a quiz: Two sectors of the global food industry grew rapidly in the late 1990's. The products of one have been extensively tested, without any evidence of harm. Those of the other are known to pose big health risks -- but nobody knows how big, because lobbying by the industry has blocked effective regulation, te... |
1185776_4 | Hold Resume Truths to Be Self-Evident? No Way | in 1996 for a series of articles on fraud by fertility doctors, remembers wanting to ask the dealership's managers: ''What were you guys thinking? Did you look at his resume and notice that there were six years missing?'' Companies that conduct pre-employment background checks for employers say business has increased i... |
1182477_0 | New Rules on Organic Foods | In late 1997 the Department of Agriculture proposed rules that would have established a nationwide certification program for organic foods. During the 90-day comment period that followed, it became clear just how badly the department had stumbled. Rather than heed the advice of its own National Organic Standards Board,... |
1188091_6 | Big Shoulders, Buffed for Action | whose teachings influenced not only his colleagues but also influential scholars at the university's law school, like Edward H. Levi, who served as attorney general in the Ford administration. Beneath the Stagg Field grandstands, Enrico Fermi and his co-workers achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear rea... |
1188186_0 | Foreign Affairs; Saving The Lost World | In a few weeks many of the Seattle protesters will reassemble in Washington D.C. to throw rocks at the I.M.F. and the World Bank, denouncing them as agents of global corporate greed that is spoiling the environment and leaving the poor behind. The protesters are no doubt sincere, but the truth is the I.M.F. and World B... |
1183080_18 | Patently Absurd | she could see the basic elements in a patent that Lucent Technologies filed just a few months before Amazon, describing ''user identifiers'' sent back and forth on a network. She noticed a comment that the identifiers help a company ''to recognize a returning user and, possibly, provide personalized service.'' Just wha... |
1183193_2 | County Expands Technology Role | Spano's first official acts as county executive was to create the position of chief information officer and fill it with Dr. Norman J. Jacknis, who had held executive positions in the computer software industry. A year later, the Board of Legislators created a Department of Information Technology, which Dr. Jacknis ove... |
1183095_1 | A Flier's Guide To Complaining | does not adjudicate or mediate the individual complaints it receives, although it can fine an airline when it finds violations of the few remaining regulations: deceptive advertising on fares, for example, or failure to compensate travelers whose flights are overbooked and who are not taken to their destinations within... |
1183339_0 | Sex and Work: Can't Have One Without the Other | SITTING in Britain's staid, formal Institute of Directors with Shere Hite is quite an experience. She is ethereal in a tight, stretchy skirt that clings to her slim legs; her tiny, short cardigan accentuates her hand-span waist. Her shoes, impossibly high, are decorated with sparkling jewels. She is as quintessentially... |
1185501_0 | Altered Food: Passion All Around | To the Editor: Re your March 14 front-page article about the controversy over food derived from biotechnology: What is lost in the squabble between the United States and Europe over this issue is the potential for the new technologies to affect food production in the third world. With a billion people going hungry toda... |
1185418_1 | E-Commerce Report; Insurance companies, hampered by the industry's traditions, cautiously enter the Internet waters. | peck away at their bottom line, many mainstream businesses are accepting the fact that they must sell directly to consumers online, while doing what they can to mollify retailers. So it is with insurance. Companies like Allstate have announced plans to sell online, and others are indicating that they may not be far beh... |
1185503_0 | Altered Food: Passion All Around | To the Editor: A March 14 front-page article notes that while Europeans protest genetically altered foods and will not buy them, by contrast, ''in the United States such ingredients are in nearly two-thirds of the products on supermarket shelves, and few Americans seem to have noticed.'' But as the article also notes, ... |
1185502_0 | Altered Food: Passion All Around | To the Editor: Re ''Protests on New Genes and Seeds Grow More Passionate in Europe'' (front page, March 14): You point out that ''in Europe, the debate over genetically modified food is as much about passion as it is science.'' But emotion also motivates the advocates of genetically modified food, who assert that it is... |
1187257_1 | Nuclear Plant in Britain Admits Sabotage | authorities said they, too, had been sent nuclear fuel with falsified documentation. Switzerland suspended contracts over the weekend, halting shipments of spent fuel rods to be reprocessed at Sellafield. Sweden also said it would stop sending spent fuel for reprocessing. Concerned about nuclear contamination of the Ir... |
1187234_2 | 1,500 March in Boston To Protest Biotech Food | He could support the idea of labeling genetically engineered food, he said, but if people took ''an extreme view,'' it might stop the benefits coming from improved crops and pharmaceutical products. ''I'm concerned over unreasonable reaction,'' he said. ''It's not the technology here, it's what people do with it.'' No ... |
1182184_0 | Bringing a Different but Well-Bred Perspective to the Gospel | The Rev. Joan A. Mau, 50, is the pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Decorah, Iowa. She is a seventh-generation pastor; her father was general secretary of the Lutheran World Federation. She was interviewed by Gustav Niebuhr. PRIDE is a word I'm reluctant to use, because it's so easily misunderstood. But there's... |
1187886_1 | Economic Scene; A study backs up what George Foreman already said: the Job Corps works. | 24 years old. A third of the male participants had been arrested at least once before joining the program; two-thirds of all participants had never held a full-time job. If the Job Corps does not improve the prospects of disadvantaged youths, then less-intensive programs are unlikely to help either. The Job Corps is ex... |
1187910_4 | Guyana: Caught in Brazil's Net?; Small Nation, New to Free Markets, Fears Loss of Its Identity | cattle-ranching operation. After exiling the ranchers to Brazil and Venezuela, the army burned every structure to the ground. Looks can be deceiving, though, for while Lethem, and much of Guyana's economy, might show the effects of socialist experiments from the 1960's through the mid-80's, the country has introduced s... |
1187841_1 | For the Well Connected, All the World's an Office | continues to grow. Both Ford Motor Company and Delta Airlines recently announced plans to give their employees personal computers and Internet connections at highly subsidized prices. Many companies, like Cisco Systems, already give employees home Internet connections. Some workers are given high-speed service. Others ... |
1185997_2 | Giving Computers a Sense of Touch | Another haptics tool, developed by Virtual Technologies, of Palo Alto, Calif., is CyberGlove, which can simulate the weight and even the basic texture of objects in a virtual environment. irtual touch is still in a relatively early stage of development. Work on more advanced systems continues in both universities and p... |
1186175_0 | Bear Hunt Is Proposed to Reduce Numbers | A few years ago, black bears had all but disappeared from New Jersey. Now there are so many -- 1,000 -- that yesterday the state's Fish and Game Council proposed a bear hunting season, which would be the first in the state since 1971. Wildlife officials received 1,659 complaints about bears last year, and although no h... |
1185980_0 | Huffing and Puffing to Keep Houses From Falling | Among the most revered houses here are the experimental ones by Charles and Ray Eames (left), Richard Neutra (center) and R. M. Schindler (right). They are fragile, having been built with lightweight materials for as little as $7,500 (the Neutra house). It will cost a great deal to guarantee their survival. The Neutra ... |
1185994_6 | Out of the Mouths of Babes: Wirelessly | Education Association in Washington, said schools should prepare for a possible onslaught of a whole new category of computerized gadgets. ''Schools, at some point, are going to have to develop some system for controlling the use of these devices in schools,'' she said, adding that she presumes that someday soon everyo... |
1187576_4 | On the Global, Faceless Web, Trust Counts for Even More | $60,000.'' What these new businesses seem to be discovering, consultants and scholars say, is the importance of human interactions in business relationships and the need to understand how those relationships work in particular industries. ''Auctions, for example, create a false sense of urgency by leaving no time for d... |
1187664_3 | World Briefing | (NYT) ROMANIA: NEW POLLUTION -- Three weeks after a major heavy metal spill, a new breach in an earthen wall under repair let small amounts of lead-laden water flow down the Tisza River. The environment ministry, in a report, blamed both rainy weather and shoddy work at the Baia Borsa mine. On March 10, 20,000 tons of ... |
1187580_0 | Charities See Web's Potential, but Are Finding It Hard to Afford | BUSINESSES have discovered the power of the Internet for communicating with employees and customers quickly through e-mail or a Web site. Buying automobile parts, selling books or arranging vacations can also be done efficiently online. Nonprofit organizations should find the Internet just as appealing. What better way... |
1186350_0 | The Battle Lines Over Biotech Food | To the Editor: The biotech industry and supporters like Paul Krugman (column, March 22) cling to the emotionally compelling claim that genetically engineered crops will usher in an era of sustainable agriculture and end hunger. But the first crops off the biotech assembly line, like insecticide-producing or herbicide-r... |
1181708_4 | A Thinking Man's Miracle | similar indifference. Both events serve the single narrative purpose of bringing Tom and Sarah together, though their connection seems to be more a matter of theological convenience than of romantic sympathy or sexual attraction. That, after all, would be mere behavior, and ''City of God'' is demonstratively committed ... |
1181352_4 | On the Trail of Pericles' Heroic Soldiers | video screen. After the sorting is finished late this spring, Dr. Agelarakis will try to determine the minimum number of individuals. Then he will probe their skeletal growth, checking whether their physiques were robust or fragile and looking for clues of occupational stress, like changes in the heel bone that might i... |
1181492_3 | Finding Ways to Dabble in Cuba, Legally | The most prominent investments are in biotechnology. The fund, for example, owns about 5 percent of York Medical, a private company in Toronto that tests and licenses Cuban medical breakthroughs like a promising anticancer vaccine. Beta is traded on the Dublin Stock Exchange, but can also be bought through Cedel, a Eur... |
1181497_3 | Squandering A Bundle, In His Mind | loves photography. ''Radio is a powerful medium,'' he said. ''You draw word pictures, but you don't feel the visual side of your brain is working.'' He had warned me that he had to squeeze in a quick radio interview, and we headed downtown to the Municipal Building. ''I shouldn't be so cavalier about live radio, but I ... |
1181262_2 | Warning: This Is a Rights-Free Workplace | Ingrid Nygaard, co-authors of ''Void Where Prohibited: Rest Breaks and the Right to Urinate on Company Time,'' this regulation is only halfheartedly enforced. Professionals and, of course, waitresses can usually dart away and relieve themselves as they please. Not so for many cashiers and assembly-line workers, some of... |
1181640_0 | Strict Rules to Limit Genetic Engineering On Organic Foods | The Department of Agriculture is announcing much tougher rules that prohibit the use of genetically modified ingredients in products carrying the organic label. The rules also prohibit the use of irradiation to decontaminate the products and the application of sewage sludge as fertilizer. The new rules, which could tak... |
1181603_0 | Consecration of Two Splits Anglicans | In this pleasant coastal community, a place of lush golf resorts and second homes, there is little to evoke Rwanda, a densely populated East African nation, the site of a devastating ethnic conflict in 1994. But the two places have a link, a spiritual one, which became abruptly apparent a month ago in an event that sen... |
1181421_1 | Her Brother's Keeper | that's a very guilt-making feeling to admit it.'' Jack is in his late 60's. Cared for by their mother until the age of 37, he has been living since then in a group home in Florida where Mrs. McHugh visits him regularly for trips to places like Disney World. But getting to where she is now -- a place of acceptance and l... |
1181287_2 | The Way We Work Now: 3-5-00: Questions for Alexis M. Herman; Married to the Job | Eastern Region conference in Atlantic City. So I was running all over the Philadelphia train station. I found a great peach cobbler. In fact, they have a wonderful soul food place if you're ever there. I got fish and some sweet potatoes too. Chuck likes sweet potatoes. I told him it may not have been home-cooked, but i... |
1181387_2 | Peter Singer Settles In, And Princeton Looks Deeper; Furor Over the Philosopher Fades Though Some Discomfort Lingers | is exactly what happened, and has continued to create a public relations nightmare for his new employer. It would seem that Josef Mengele rather than Dr. Singer -- the grandson of Holocaust victims himself -- was being described by the shrieking headlines: ''Philosophy of Death'' (The Washington Post), ''The Dangerous ... |
1189864_0 | AT THE MOVIES | Hollywood, Back When . . ''My mother was great friends with your mother,'' Leatrice Gilbert Fountain told Budd Schulberg as they shook hands in a suite at the Drake Hotel in Manhattan. The occasion was the annual New York visit of the Turner Classic Movies Archival Project, an ongoing initiative of the cable channel to... |
1194751_1 | Once Scorned, Far West 42nd St. Is Now Much in Demand | brick-and-glass complex with 921 rental apartments. And there are a half-dozen other residential or commercial projects planned along 42nd Street at every intersection from 12th to Eighth Avenues. Behind the shift is the rapid expansion in recent years of Wall Street, communications and dot-com technology firms, all of... |
1191804_3 | Rural Flouting of One-Child Policy Undercuts China's Census | that China needs to do.'' With the census approaching, top government officials and the state news media are all clearly anxious about a simmering rural population problem. Last month, President Jiang Zemin called on cadres to ''strengthen population and family planning work,'' to achieve a stable, low-level birthrate.... |
1191747_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR CLIMBS. Sugar rose as Brazil, the world's biggest grower, withheld supplies from the world market to lift prices. In New York, sugar for July delivery rose 0.18 cent, or 3 percent, to 6.21 cents a pound. |
1193154_0 | Many Are Called, and More Than a Few Are Women | Step into a confessional booth to unburden yourself and you will talk to a man. But while the Roman Catholic Church still requires that its leaders be male, most other religious groups in the United States have flung their doors open to women. The percentage of women in the clergy almost tripled from 1983 to 1999. Thei... |
1193014_0 | Those Who Do Their Jobs Religiously | Last year, Our Lady Help of Christians, a Roman Catholic church in Newton, Mass., was host to 155 baptisms, 110 funerals and more weddings -- 96 -- than any other church in the Boston Archdiocese. Add in the Masses, support-group sessions, prayer meetings and school plays and scheduling becomes an administrative juggli... |
1192993_0 | The Approach Is Holistic; The Sites, Holy | My grandfather was a master builder in Italy. My father trained under him. I was trained in the Old World sense of how buildings stand up, how materials interact. From the time I was 5, I was learning how to read and understand blueprints, how to appreciate the inherent characteristics of natural materials. Wood and st... |
1191567_0 | A Closer Look at Rampage Killings | Next week marks the first anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., which left 15 dead and 23 wounded. The massacre, carried out by two Columbine students, generated intense debate about access to guns, the effect of violence in movies and video games, and the failure of schools and fam... |
1191544_2 | William Kaula, 73, Who Drew Maps of Earth Using Satellites | from Ohio State University in 1953. Despite his later prominence in academics, he never obtained a Ph.D., instead learning the tools of advanced research on his own. ''He was very proud of that -- that he got there without the ticket of admission,'' said Dr. Margaret Kivelson, a professor of space physics at U.C.L.A. H... |
1191592_0 | What Goes Around | To the Editor: What a great new idea: more powerful car batteries (''Higher Voltage for High-Tech Cars,'' April 6). The starter/chargers will be just like the one my Gravely Commercial 10 two-wheel tractor. That was a 1964 model, recently retired. And, yes, the system (starter/charger) was very efficient. Old ideas are... |
1191433_3 | Tales From the Crypt: Storing E-Mail to Be Sent After Your Death | a kidney transplant recipient who was familiar with the site's online organ donor consent forms. Now she takes solace in making her own wishes available to her family and friends. In messages intended for her two grown sons, she writes that she is proud of how they have brought up their own children and tells them, ''Y... |
1189158_1 | Maps Show Earth and Seas in Unprecedented Detail | times as detailed as a 1991 version. Fourteen new views of the earth are included in the images released last month by the National Geophysical Data Center in Boulder, Colo., part of the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The center gathers and exchanges geophysical and geological in... |
1189265_4 | Excerpts From the Ruling That Microsoft Violated Antitrust Law | consumers with a viable alternative to existing Intel-compatible PC operating systems. From these facts, the court has inferred that if a single firm or cartel controlled the licensing of all Intel-compatible PC operating systems worldwide, it could set the price of a license substantially above that which would be cha... |
1189198_1 | Industry Moves to Defend Biotechnology | to open a Pandora's box for them,'' Mr. Rifkin said. ''When people watch these ads they're going to say, 'What? What are genetic foods? Why are they in our stores?' In Europe, when people heard about genetically modified foods they became more skeptical.'' Last December, Mr. Rifkin and some of the nation's most promine... |
1189284_2 | City Finds a Fiber-Optic Solution Underfoot, in Old Pipes | included because of the amusement park. ''This is a great find,'' said William G. LaPerch, a senior vice president of Metromedia Fiber Network, one of the largest cable fiber-optic companies. ''My only disappointment is that we didn't find it sooner.'' Built over six years, the water mains actually constitute three sys... |
1194451_1 | Health Advice: A Matter of Cause, Effect and Confusion | they did -- that high-fiber diets protected against colon cancer. Now, however, preliminary data from a large federal study indicate that at least initially hormone replacement therapy is not protecting postmenopausal women from heart disease and may even be leading to a tiny increase in heart attacks, strokes and bloo... |
1194444_1 | Looking for Crops That Clone Themselves | say, it would greatly simplify crop breeding. A high-yielding corn, wheat or rice plant could reproduce itself unchanged for generations. ''Once this occurs, the ramifications could well dwarf the green revolution in terms of its impact,'' said Dr. David M. Stelly, a professor of soil and crop sciences at Texas A&M Uni... |
1194442_2 | OBSERVATORY | until the crop matures before harvesting it. This can mean that much of the crop -- up to 50 percent in some cases -- is lost to pod shatter. Shatterproof varieties could greatly increase yields of canola oil. Amazon's Vanishing Trees There is a divide-and-conquer chain of events being played out in the central Amazon.... |
1194542_1 | Dispute Could Warm U.S.-Cuba Relations | case could propel in some ways. Close to 200,000 Americans, both legal and illegal travelers, visited Cuba last year, nearly double the number from 1998, according to Julia Sweig, the deputy director for Latin American affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations. According to the Cuban government, Americans now accoun... |
1190928_2 | The Well-Marked Roads to Homicidal Rage | fire in a suburban Philadelphia shopping mall in 1985, killing three people and wounding seven. In response to the recent spate of rampage-style mass shootings in schools, workplaces, stores and other public places, The New York Times re-examined 100 such violent incidents that occurred in the United States over the la... |
1193713_1 | Online Therapy: An Arm's-Length Approach | from doctors with high-brow credentials. Because of the free-form world of the Internet, the therapists are not subject to the rigorous system of interstate licensing that governs conventional, in-office counseling. The phenomenon is so new that the major professional organizations are just working out their policies. ... |
1190312_8 | The Triumph of Burbopolis | at the Walt Whitman Mall would have rearranged its shelves accordingly. Later on, the more time you spent in the city, the cooler you were, because you had personally bathed in coolness's headwaters, at the Fillmore East, say, or the Thalia, or the Eighth Street Bookshop. It doesn't seem as though Long Island's cultura... |
1190284_10 | To Teach, or Merely Accommodate | of the country, attention deficit disorder has become a frequent diagnosis for an unfocused child, and any stigma attached to the label has all but dissipated. In Greenwich, Conn., according to a report in The Hartford Courant, nearly one in three high school students in 1997 were in special education, most of them lea... |
1190284_12 | To Teach, or Merely Accommodate | whether or not you could read. But for middle-class families today, there is little discussion of not going to college. When Jonathan Mooney graduates from Brown, he will move to New York to be director of Eye-to-Eye, a charitable organization that matches learning disabled college students with learning disabled eleme... |
1190807_2 | Private Sector; Selling Natural Food to the Crowd | weight on the diet,'' he said. ''And I was amazed at how few of them kept the weight off.'' Slim-Fast had no comment. He and Slim-Fast parted company in 1992. But by then, Mr. Simon had figured out the niche market he wanted to address: the nutritionally-aware consumer who might spend a little more for potato chips tha... |
1190587_11 | Organic Farming, Seeking the Mainstream | before long. Some organic farmers say genetic engineering has already created some products that they should be allowed to use, like Ecogen Inc.'s pesticides extracted from genetically-altered bacteria grown in fermenters. Such products, the proponents say, are simply more efficiently produced forms of sprays that orga... |
1190601_5 | CORRESPONDENCE/Little Havana; A Look at Cuba's Exiles From Both Sides of a Great Divide | by how much they despise Fidel and Communism, not by where they stand on education and Social Security. You grow up meeting former political prisoners who spent 15 years in Cuban jails for showing their disillusionment with the revolution, and thousands of others who broke Cuban law and jumped on teeny, tottering rafts... |
1190498_0 | How Much Proof Is Needed On Cell Phones and Cars? | To the Editor: Driving a car in New Jersey under the best conditions (itself a contradiction), requires constant vigilance and unlimited patience. ''Talking and Driving: Growing Road Menace?'' (Cover March 26), will, I hope, result in a call for responsible action on the part of our legislators. While no law can ever b... |
1190599_0 | THE WORLD: Uganda's Trauma; A Deadly Cult Stirs Lively Questions About a Nation's Soul | THE news out of Uganda has been very bad, and that nation's two daily newspapers have spared their readers none of it. For three days running, the state-owned paper, The New Vision, ran front-page, full-color photos of rotting corpses -- a sad few of the perhaps 900 victims of a deadly cult, the Movement for the Restor... |
1190637_2 | A Plan to Preserve Giant Sequoias, World's Biggest Trees | national forest would cost millions of dollars in lost jobs and would also be shortsighted. They say timber operations protect the sequoias by thinning out the undergrowth and smaller trees surrounding them and protecting them from fire and pest infestation. Under Mr. Glickman's proposal, any future arrangements for lo... |
1190602_5 | IDEAS & TRENDS: Reading, Writing and Ritalin; Fury, Not Facts, in the Battle Over Childhood Behavior | Gopnik, a developmental psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley, said many aspects of behavior -- like impulse control, the ability to focus and empathy -- vary greatly from child to child, and develop at different ages. Dr. Gopnik said she was disturbed by ''the idea of doing this in preschoolers, whe... |
1190298_2 | Airlines, F.A.A. Agree To Agree on Weather | available on the Web, through the home page of the F.A.A.'s strategic command center in Herndon, Va., www.atcscc .faa.gov. An advisories database, updated frequently, shows various problems around the country. But it is so thick with acronyms and jargon that most viewers will find it hard to understand. The agency inte... |
1190577_2 | PrivateSector; Selling Natural Food to the Crowd | weight on the diet,'' he said. ''And I was amazed at how few of them kept the weight off.'' Slim-Fast had no comment. He and Slim-Fast parted company in 1992. But by then, Mr. Simon had figured out the niche market he wanted to address: the nutritionally-aware consumer who might spend a little more for potato chips tha... |
1190806_15 | They Threaten, Seethe and Unhinge, Then Kill in Quantity | book, documented two cases of soldiers running amok with a tank in Germany in the 1980's after a widely publicized tank attack there. Army security was increased, and ''tank amok never happened in Germany again,'' Dr. Adler said. An angry, depressed, unstable, perhaps mentally ill person picks up a gun because it has b... |
1190296_3 | The Big Choose | of course, but do not sell yourself to the highest bidder. Do not conclude without asking that parents will not, cannot or should not spend more on your first choice. Above all, weigh large loans and sticker shock against the dividends of learning with first-rate faculty and socializing with smart, stimulating students... |
1190669_15 | They Threaten, Seethe and Unhinge, Then Kill in Quantity | book, documented two cases of soldiers running amok with a tank in Germany in the 1980's after a widely publicized tank attack there. Army security was increased, and ''tank amok never happened in Germany again,'' Dr. Adler said. An angry, depressed, unstable, perhaps mentally ill person picks up a gun because it has b... |
1188385_2 | Foreign Conservationists Under Siege | incur the wrath of governments or powerful groups are protests aimed at large, lucrative projects -- such as oil production in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon and Ecuador, toxic waste dumping in Cambodia, logging in Kenya and Mexico and new dam construction in China and India. The activists tend to emerge from the same isolate... |
1192777_2 | Threat of Testicular Cancer Increasing | 30's, is occurring in younger men more often now than in the past. Men at every age, from infancy onward, are at risk, with a second rise in incidence occurring after age 65. Similar increases in incidence have been noted in Canada and Europe. For unknown reasons, no rise in incidence has occurred among African-America... |
1193278_0 | A Bid for Compromise in Ulster | With Northern Ireland's season of emotional anniversaries and marches nearing, the Good Friday peace agreement remains stalled. The Irish Republican Army refuses to commit itself to giving up its arms, and the province's hopeful experiment in self-rule stands suspended. But amid this bleakness, one positive development... |
1193369_0 | Again in Ethiopia, Faces of Death | To the Editor: Re ''Ethiopian Hunger: Another Disaster Ahead?'' (news article, April 17): You report in the opening scene of your account that 4 of 10 children in one family died in the last three months in southeastern Ethiopia. This is not an isolated circumstance. The impending famine in this devastated country is n... |
1193231_0 | To Catch the Wind, to Call a Friend . . . | To the Editor: Re ''Company Aims to Reap the Wind as a Clean Source of Electricity'' (news article, April 14): There is other demand for high wind-swept sites: cell phone towers. Granted, this demand is currently located in high population areas, likely without such enviable winds as occur in Madison, N.Y., which was f... |
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