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1174088_2 | Surfing for options before you sail | .cruisecritic.com. The site contains detailed critiques of selected ships, from the design of cabins and public rooms to the quality of food and entertainment and deportment of fellow passengers; the reviews are by professionals as well as travelers. Frequent cruisers may want to consider a subscription to www.cruise-r... |
1179861_0 | F.Y.I. | Monumental Failure Q. Decades before the Washington Monument was erected in Washington, construction of a similar memorial was undertaken in New York City. What happened to it? A. After a parade from City Hall to a rural hilltop site five miles north, a four-foot slab of marble was lowered into the ground on Oct. 19, 1... |
1179594_1 | Students in West Bank Throw Stones at the French Prime Minister | and to clarify Mr. Jospin's position, Reuters reported. ''We must protest because Hezbollah is a resistance movement, not a terrorist movement,'' said Ziad, one demonstrator, who would not give his last name. ''It's not only a Lebanese matter. It's an Arab matter.'' Israel is a colonial occupation force. If anyone shou... |
1179672_8 | British Columbia's Long Road to the Far North | prowl the campsites, and can be linked to cables and helicoptered out to more remote areas. Bears are a pervasive subtext around here as elsewhere in the north, almost always out of sight, never altogether out of mind. Signs and pamphlets, especially around hot bear habitats like Meziadin Lake, spell out evasion techni... |
1179896_1 | Blind Children Take a Small Step Toward Public School | Monique frowns. ''He keeps jumping,'' she says. But she gets to her feet and, disregarding Joshua, starts up again. Soon the two -- one blind, one sighted -- are bouncing in tandem. The scene is part of an experiment undertaken by Garth White, principal of the preschool at Helen Keller Services for the Blind, 57 Willou... |
1176641_3 | North and South Koreans Meet on a Mountain Path | boats are always on patrol around the cruise ships, and their crews can enter the tour vessels at any time to search them. Changjon is a strategic military port for North Korea, and visitors are forbidden to take photos of any military installation or personnel. If a tourist breaks that rule, the film may be confiscate... |
1179101_3 | FAMILY FARE | Africa, inevitably takes observers away from their own troubles, Ms. Hefley added. ''It's a present you give yourself,'' she said, ''to see the children of Uganda.'' ''Children of Uganda: Tour of Light 2000,'' tomorrow at 3 and 8 p.m. at Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, off Exit 9E of the Grand... |
1179172_7 | An Afghan Mosaic of Misery: Hunger, War and Repression | largely of Pathan students from religious schools popular with refugees and the poor. They were welcomed by the masses who saw them as an overdue answer to the prevailing lawlessness. But the price for this semblance of peace was paid with forfeited rights. The Taliban refused to allow women to work. They banned girls ... |
1177068_5 | Logging On to Find Out What's Going On at School | School in Douglasville, Ga., said that her main job was operating the photocopier and supervising the school's Opportunity Room, a newfangled name for a detention room. Ms. O'Neal said she used her free time to maintain the school's extensive Web site, including typing in the daily homework assignments. Teachers say fe... |
1177137_0 | Bones May Be Those of Ancient Athenians in Pericles' Funeral Oration | Early in the Peloponnesian War, the remains of Athenian soldiers killed in battle against the Spartans were interred in communal tombs outside Athens's west gate, off the road to the academy where Plato taught. It was at this cemetery in 431 B.C. that the statesman Pericles, speaking from a high platform at the funeral... |
1177113_2 | Crisis Session on Ulster Ends, Still Divided on Arms Issue | and British governments could put the peace settlement back on track rapidly with cooperation, but, he added, ''I can't put it back if only one part goes back on the track -- it has to be all the parts.'' His words may go some way toward closing a rift that had developed between Britain and Ireland, the two sponsors of... |
1177047_3 | A High-End Top 30 List: Myths About Nietzsche | the authors stress, among other points, how Nietzsche's extreme irony can often be misleading, they offer ''Nietzsche ad Hominem (Nietzsche's Top 10),'' in which they list both the philosopher's favorite and unfavorite writers, some of whom, like Socrates, Wagner, Kant and Schopenhauer, appear on both lists, as Nietzsc... |
1177098_1 | Havana Journal; To Latin Neighbors, Cuba Plays the Good Doctor | in the long run to help educate a new generation of doctors who would return to their impoverished countries and work in remote communities where medical care was spotty and expensive. ''Life has shown us some lessons that we cannot forget,'' said Juan Carizo Estevez, the school's rector. ''That is the necessity of the... |
1175020_0 | What Labels Don't Tell You (Yet) | FOR nearly a decade, genetically engineered food has been sold in the United States just like any other food. There are no labels telling consumers that their tortilla chips contain genetically altered corn -- about a third of the total crop -- or that almost all canola oil is made from genetically altered rapeseed. Bu... |
1175037_1 | Wonders Old And New | three-dimensional rendering of the Parthenon, an accompanying book by Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor of classics who is one of the on-camera academics. A digital videodisc will contain ''much more material, a sort of virtual museum,'' Mr. Geffen said. Perhaps the most unusual computer aid attached to the film is... |
1175408_3 | Spread of Attacks on Web Sites Is Slowing Traffic on the Internet | a retail site, and eBay.com, an auction site, E*Trade began discussing what steps it might take to defend its site against a similar attack. Though he said unnamed measures were taken, the company was unable to prevent the attack, which hit at 5 a.m. Pacific Standard Time and slowed access to the site for about three h... |
1175310_1 | Faulty Gyroscope Threatens To Doom Science Satellite | sending it into a slow spin before a re-entry maneuver. Another is to rely on Sun sensors and magnetometers, instead of gyroscopes, in orienting the spacecraft for re-entry. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton observatory was not built to be serviced by visiting astronauts in the space shuttle. In December, ... |
1175263_1 | Increasingly, E-Mail Users Find They Have Something to Hide | messages is an issue that has become more complicated with the growing use of e-mail. For those who use e-mail to communicate with groups of friends or business contacts, the question is one of the appropriateness of revealing or of hiding all of the recipients' e-mail addresses. Stories like Mr. Grey's suggest that in... |
1178476_4 | As Iran Counts The Vote, Some Fear Backlash | in an effort to destabilize the country and to give the conservative Parliament an excuse to oust Mr. Khatami. Mr. Valeh's statement about the demonstration is just one sign of the new confidence felt by Mr. Khatami's team to confront their opponents head on. He also spoke of the president's goal of controlling the har... |
1178512_2 | Top Executives Quit Sotheby's As Art World Inquiry Widens | sliding scale ranging from 2 to 20 percent, depending on the size of the sale. Weeks later Sotheby's did the same. Before the auction houses changed the commission for sellers they ran the risk of cutting into their profits by agreeing to cut or eliminate fees to get business from many of the world's most important sel... |
1178415_4 | Seeking Pirate Treasure: Captain Kidd's Sunken Ship | lists Kidd's properties as corresponding to 56 Wall Street, 86-90 and 119-21 Pearl Street, 52-56 Water Street and 25, 27 and 29 Pine Street. In spite of (or perhaps because of) his growing domestic responsibilities, Kidd sailed for London. In 1695 he received a royal commission and investors, including some of King Wil... |
1178408_3 | Breast Cancer in Blacks Spurs Hunt for Answers | cancers are advanced. ''But nobody argues that poor white women are genetically different from rich white women,'' Dr. Brawley said. ''A lot of these problems are related to being poor, and being black may be a surrogate for being poor.'' Yet some disparities may arise from differences in tumor biology. Federal studies... |
1176468_0 | Remembering Landry, the Thinker and Motivator | He became famous for his appearance -- the sideline stoicism, the courtly attire, self-restraint in the midst of a brutal sport and, of course, his hat. But to his players, to his colleagues in National Football League and to the state of Texas, Tom Landry, the longtime Dallas Cowboys coach, represented much more. He w... |
1177566_4 | Concerns on Human Testing Don't Seem to Faze Biotech Investors | would have little effect on its stock. Transkaryotic Therapies is a small, publicly traded company, but gene therapy is not its main attraction for investors. Other companies using the adenovirus, such as Genovo and GenVec, are privately held. The one public gene therapy company that does inject adenoviruses into patie... |
1177591_0 | Oregon's Governor Favors Breaching 4 Major Dams | Lending political momentum to an idea that would have been unthinkable in a different era of Pacific Northwest history, Gov. John A. Kitzhaber of Oregon announced today that he favored breaching four large federal dams on the Snake River in Washington State in an effort to restore endangered salmon populations. Mr. Kit... |
1177550_3 | The Other Oil Economy; Barrel Costs $30 but the Benefits Aren't Trickling Down | gas prices by summer, as inventories have fallen sharply in recent months. Some analysts say that even if OPEC lifts production, oil prices could still rise. Philip K. Verleger, a senior adviser to the Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., said $40 oil would still be feasible later this year i... |
1176256_4 | Secure or Not, the Internet Has Become a Part of Life's Routine | online, the potential toll rises. ''The biggest risk is not what we've seen so far, it's if hackers start to attack business-to-business sites,'' said David Pecaut, head of Boston Consulting's e-commerce practice. That's partly why consultants urge their Internet clients to go the ''clicks and mortar'' route, operating... |
1176100_0 | Noshing for Research | Eating peanut butter or applesauce may not sound like science. But Rutgers is looking for snackers in a study of what tastes good, or not so good, to different people. Cook College's sensory evaluation laboratory first tests whether people are sensitive to a chemical compound called 6-n-propylthiouracil, which 70 perce... |
1176063_0 | The Deep, Dark Secrets Of How We Get Chocolate | PEOPLE in Central and South America have eaten chocolate for more than a thousand years and even used cocoa beans as currency. Local chocolate devotees can celebrate the bean at ''Chocolate, Please!'' week, starting on Saturday at the New York Botanical Garden. One can see the red pods of a live Theobroma cacao plant, ... |
1176268_2 | After Week of Ulster Turmoil, a Glimmer of Hope | would allow the I.R.A. to disarm in a way that did not constitute surrender in its eyes. A subsequent reference in the report to ''the removal of the causes of conflict'' might mean the actual departure of the British from Northern Ireland. Mr. Mandelson said: ''The significance of the latest report is that the I.R.A's... |
1175955_3 | Back in Time In Old Beijing | get lost in meandering alleys, just say ''Houhai?'' (pronounced HO-hi) with a quizzical look and you'll be directed back to the lake's edge, where orientation is easy. For those who prefer organized tours, some of this same territory -- though not Old Pipe Lane, thankfully -- is visited by the Hutong Tours on pedicabs ... |
1176277_2 | U.S. Seeks More Care for Disabled Outside Institutions | and Elaine Wilson, who had been confined to a state institution for years, even though doctors had said they could receive appropriate care for their conditions -- mental retardation and mental illnesses -- in their community. In its 6-to-3 decision last June, the court said ''states are required to provide community-b... |
1176204_0 | Raising Pure Food | To the Editor: Your Feb. 6 Week in Review article ''We Can Engineer Nature. But Should We?'', about genetically modified foods, says: ''Consumers do not yet see the benefits of genetic modification. The products now out, such as insect-resistant corn and Roundup Ready soybeans, which are impervious to Monsanto's Roundu... |
1176201_2 | Weighing the Value of Corporate Largess | to one's private life. THOMAS KOCHAN Co-director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research at M.I.T. As long as employees have a voice in how these kinds of benefits are utilized -- and by that I mean a positive but independent voice -- it will serve everyone's interest. If employers approach it in a paternalis... |
1176337_0 | A Setback in North Ireland After Delay in Disarmament | Only 10 weeks after it began, the power-sharing government of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland was halted, stymied by the continuing conflict over the issue of paramilitary weapons. Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson said he acted because the Irish Republican Army refused to give any sign... |
1178357_1 | The Reform Tide in Iran | the reform coalition that brought Mr. Khatami his landslide upset in 1997 and then won a broad victory in last year's municipal elections is likely to gain control of the legislature. Reform candidates attracted support not just among women and young people, but among more traditional voters in provincial towns and rel... |
1178268_2 | E-Commerce Report: Construction Heads Into the Internet Age; Builders Cut Delays And Lift Efficiency By Online Contacts | Cephren system was proving invaluable, enabling the various parties to communicate ''without all the faxes, without all the calls.'' He estimated the cost savings at $50,000, but said it could have exceeded $200,000 if all the subcontractors and suppliers were online. ''Right now, it's a good tool for us,'' he said. ''... |
1166692_1 | Stage Is Set for Court Debate On Limiting Right to Shelter | who died of exposure in Boston, including 6 turned away from shelters, and grim photographs of limbs blackened by frostbite. City lawyers counter that the rules will help motivate people like Mr. Callahan to move toward work, treatment, training and self-reliance. The rules call for those who fail to comply to be denie... |
1166628_1 | Beijing-Backed Church, Defying Vatican, Installs 5 New Bishops | rites of a traditional Catholic consecration. But the bishops, who range in age from 35 to 73, were appointed not by the Vatican, but by the Patriotic Catholic Association -- a sort of parallel church that answers to the Chinese government. China has not recognized the pope's right to appoint bishops since the country'... |
1166576_0 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY /Safety; Whey (Hold the Curds) For Icy Winter Streets | DEPENDING on the weather for the rest of the winter, highway crews will spread 10 to 15 million tons of salt to melt ice and snow on highways in the United States and Canada. But the salt will also corrode the metal on bridges, guardrails and steel reinforcing bars, as well as break down the concrete itself and damage ... |
1171434_6 | When War Steals a Parent, or a Childhood; Filmmakers Explore How Young Victims Fared in Four of the World's Battlegrounds | to have a lot of patience,'' she said. ''And you have to have respect for them. Children are great. They make a decision. It's black or white. They like you, they don't like you. They're going to talk to you, they're not going to talk to you. They don't have these sophisticated devices of going around a subject. If you... |
1171457_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE BRITAIN: MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE -- A high-ranking Church of England committee recommended that the divorced be permitted to remarry even if former spouses are still living. The move would formalize what is now common practice and would pave the way for the Prince of Wales to marry his longtime companion, Camilla P... |
1171465_0 | Noting Shortfalls, U.S. Renews Health Goals | The Clinton administration released a set of goals today intended to improve the health of the population over the next decade, even as officials acknowledged that the country had failed to meet 85 percent of targets set 10 years ago for such concerns as smoking, obesity and exercise. In releasing the two-volume report... |
1171440_1 | Doubts Cloud Rosy News on Soy | may be an increased risk of cancer associated with consuming the components of soy called isoflavones in supplement form, particularly for post-menopausal women; and for these women, there may also be hazards in adding soy foods to their diets. Isoflavones, particularly genistein and daidzein, are phytoestrogens. These... |
1171523_1 | Chase Bank Agrees to Stop Sharing Data | InfoBeat, a subsidiary of Sony Music that provides e-mail services to nearly 2.5 million subscribers around the world, has acknowledged that a software error last fall caused it to inadvertently forward personal e-mail addresses to advertisers in violation of a privacy policy posted on its Web site. A company official ... |
1171489_3 | Orangina's owner still wants to sell brand, if the price is right. | most dedicated following is in France -- existed much earlier. ''There is no synergy in Orangina sales and spirits sales,'' Mr. Ricard said, adding that the company's goals are to double its size and profit every seven years. At present, wine and spirits sales account for 43 percent of revenue and 63 percent of profit,... |
1171439_1 | Born to Take Things Apart | life?'' I always knew I would go into engineering. Just last year, I saw my high school science teacher. He still remembered the title of my project my junior year: ''Ultra Micro-Miniature Thumb-Sized Digital Calculator With a Novel Nematic Liquid Crystal for the Display.'' I almost got it working. I still have it. My ... |
1168520_0 | U.S. Is Returning 84,000 Acres to Indians | In the largest return of public land to American Indians in the continental United States in more than 100 years, the federal government is giving back 84,000 acres in northern Utah that it took from the Utes in 1916 to secure the rights to oil shale reserves. ''We consider this part of the Clinton-Gore environmental l... |
1168192_3 | Video, Audio and AOL TV | The not-so-good news is that digital televisions are still more confusing and much more expensive than analog sets, and many of them still require a separate decoder box for receiving the handful of available HDTV programs. But the major satellite television services -- DirecTV and the DiSH Network -- announced that th... |
1168338_1 | Accident Makes Japan Re-examine A-Plants | domestic sources of energy, the world's most ambitious user of nuclear energy, providing one-third of its supplies. Strikingly, in a country known for its political quiescence, the sharp movement of public opinion against nuclear power has taken the form of a genuine groundswell, from subway straphangers horrified by s... |
1165895_0 | Kids Need Exercise, but What Kind? | Haley Moran-Wollens is not an elite athlete. She is a 13-year-old who, like lots of other teenagers, wants to be fit. And, like a growing number of teenagers whose parents can afford it, she has a personal trainer. In her case, the trainer is Rodica Vranceanu, who charges $75 an hour for after school workouts at Radu P... |
1165970_2 | Immigrant Smuggling Draws New Attention | both types of smuggling said the containers tended to be more sanitary, with makeshift latrines and better provisions, like bedding and pillows. The detainees in the recent cases were also better dressed, wearing things like Nike tennis shoes. Some had portable phones and compact disc players. But, Ms. Kice said, it wa... |
1165905_5 | A Decade Of Discovery Yields a Shock About the Brain | were created in human brains, Dr. Raastad said. In 1997, Dr. Elizabeth Gould, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Princeton, and colleagues showed that neurogenesis, or the birth of new cells, occurred in the hippocampuses of tree shrews and marmoset monkeys. But Dr. Rakic and others said this was not possible in... |
1165923_0 | Mentally Ill Youth | To the Editor: Bob Herbert's Dec. 30 column on mentally ill children awaiting placement in residential treatment centers exposes a little-known problem, but little known, too, is what happens to children who go to these centers. Some receive very thorough medical, psychiatric and neurologic evaluations and skilled care... |
1171210_6 | Mapping the Earth, Swath by Swath | data. ''The 30-meter data will be available, but I will have to ask for it,'' he said, ''Their only request is that I don't publish the raw data itself with my results. I'm perfectly happy with this arrangement we have.'' Thomas A. Hennig, the military agency's program manager for the project, pointed out that only abo... |
1167583_4 | Russian Troops in Chechnya Find Little Quiet on the Southern Front | attacked the Russian lines. The rebels were repulsed by Russian 122-millimeter self-propelled artillery and tank fire, and the Russians say 150 rebels were killed. ''They did not think we would come here, and we did not think they would try to break through,'' Colonel Budanov said. There are three cemeteries near Duba-... |
1167575_5 | From Lowly Pigeon, Lessons in Birds (and Bees); In Study of Mating Habits, Third Graders Seek Key to the Diversity of a Species | football jersey. ''The pigeon's whole back and rear flanks, where a predator would grab them, are made for the feathers to break away very easily,'' Dr. Fitzpatrick said. ''If you grab a pigeon from the back, you get a big fluff of feathers as the pigeon flies away. It will fill a fox's mouth full of feathers, as oppos... |
1172006_0 | Talks on Biotech Food Turn on a Safety Principle | Around midnight last night, Juan Mayr, who is chairman of the global biosafety talks here, told delegates after a long day of negotiations to go back to their hotel rooms and ''dream about the precautionary approach.'' It was a reference to one of the most important issues remaining in the effort to formulate the world... |
1171963_1 | Havana Journal; On Show in Cuba: Marvels of American Medicine | goal of lifting the embargo that has yet to topple President Fidel Castro. ''Why should we lose out?'' said Tony DeLio, the president of ADM Nutraceutical, a division of Archer Daniels Midland, a sponsor of the exhibition. ''The economic embargo has not worked. It has not accomplished its political objectives. Opening ... |
1171954_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | TO SAINTHOOD Pope John Paul II recognized a miracle by Pope John XXIII, crediting him with curing an Italian nun of a dangerous illness. The move opens the way to beatification of the progressive pope, the penultimate step before sainthood. John Paul also recognized a second miracle by Katherine Drexel, a 20th-century ... |
1167095_0 | Bird-Tower Collisions Are on the Rise Throughout the Country | EACH fall, birds crash by the millions into radio and telecommunications towers as they try to migrate south through the United States, and ornithologists are convinced that many of the collisions happen along the East Coast. As more and more towers go up each year with the proliferation of cellular telephones, the pro... |
1167261_11 | Facing Hard Choices As the Disabled Age | That's very reassuring.'' Apart from setting their child's financial house in order, families should also prepare a letter of intent -- a biographical profile that describes the precise nature of the child's disability, medical history, capabilities and limitations, likes and dislikes, daily routine and relevant behavi... |
1166978_6 | Some Guys Have All the Luck | philosophical knowledge, to impress our friends, to have a good time, to feel secure, etc. It is certainly not the case that all human motives reduce to the desire for offspring. Having children is just one reason to value what we possess. The problem here is that Low is interpreting her biological perspective as a the... |
1167188_1 | Fearing Rads, Cell Addicts Sprout Wires | conversations to and from a cell phone stashed in a pocket. Why? To a certain degree, because people are worried about brain tumors. My friend Bob has been talking about the boiled egg trick for weeks now. ''They put an egg between two cell phones and in a few minutes. . . .'' He pauses dramatically. ''In a few minutes... |
1167164_0 | History: the Condensed Version | In his introduction to ''Souper Tomatoes,'' (Rutgers University Press, $24) Andrew F. Smith writes that he set out to confirm the story that ''Robert Gibbon Johnson ate the first tomato in America on the courthouse steps of Salem, N.J.'' to prove the fruit was not poisonous. Didn't happen, Mr. Smith found. Nonetheless ... |
1167343_1 | The Yield of a Gorge In New Hampshire | hunts in sight. Miscalculations and happenstance were responsible for this. I had planned a hunt with my sons on our newly acquired land in Maine and had canceled a trip to Minnesota because of that. But a visit that I made to the Maine holdings during a snowy, wet and cold week in October revealed that the cavernous l... |
1167211_1 | A Shoulder to Lean On, Via E-Mail | in their fields help students in those areas. But iMentor, which was founded and is financed largely by John Griffin, chief executive of a hedge fund called Blue Ridge Capital, uses the Internet for friendship as well as education. This broader role is a tough one for the Internet. There is the pressing question of the... |
1167264_0 | Planning Ahead | These resources may prove useful to families of children with disabilities: National Institute on Life Planning for Persons With Disabilities 447 E. College Ave. Jacksonville, Ill. 62650-2590 E-mail: refeec.edu. Web site: http://thunder.sonic.net/nilp/ Clearinghouse for information housing, employment, guardianship, wi... |
1166987_8 | O.K., Schools Are Wired. Now What? | to make comparisons. ''Integrating technology's resources and tools means first of all getting it to the classroom,'' Ms. Roberts said. ''You have to drive the technology down to where the teachers and the kids are.'' In his classes, Mr. Nellen is convinced that e-mail provides advantages over traditional discussions w... |
1167119_1 | Cell Phone Towers Are Sprouting In Unlikely Places | distances, between one and about eight miles, so it's possible to look ahead to a time when cell antennas 80 to 160 feet high will stretch a few miles apart throughout the state. The problem for homeowners is that the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 guarantees companies the right to erect antennas. The law says ... |
1167274_1 | Resisting Those Ugly Americans; Contempt in France for U.S. Funds and Investors | who are discovering with a certain anguish the globalization of their economy, these pension funds from abroad are the masters of this new world.'' In the United States, pension funds have been long-term investors in business for decades. They are an accepted, even welcomed, part of the financial landscape, seen as pro... |
1167035_0 | The Troubles That Won't Go Away | John Lloyd's article (Dec. 12) about paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland was deeply disappointing. It consisted largely of four anecdotes, three of which involved horrible acts of violence. While it is true that in recent years there has not been a decline in ''punishment beatings,'' there has been a sharp declin... |
1165798_0 | For Luggage, Whatever Works | |
1172839_1 | E-Commerce Report; Wary of hackers and the courts, e-mail users are turning to services that keep their messages secure. | to security breaches or mishandling by the employees of the company or organization that operates the server. Furthermore, the courts can force Internet service providers to retrieve messages if they are deemed relevant to a case. More menacing than the courts, many employees have found, is the system administrators hi... |
1165058_7 | 2000 and Beyond -- The Shape of an Age to Come | millennium is a new reverence for the environment. Until the most recent moment in human history, our relationship toward nature was always carelessly rapacious. But only since the Industrial Revolution have we been capable of doing irreparable damage to the land, water and air. We are the first generation to accept ec... |
1165217_0 | Science Invades the Pantry | So far, most of the inventions of agricultural biotechnology have been new weapons for farmers in their fight against insects and weeds. A few make processes like making cheese more efficient. One big seller, a cow hormone produced in genetically altered bacteria, increases milk production. But many consumers think tha... |
1165196_1 | A Direct Line to God In an Impersonal Era | and a sign of hope from God. ''The main attraction,'' said Harvey Cox, a professor at Harvard Divinity School who has studied worldwide Pentecostalism, ''seems to be that it holds out the possibility of a very direct experience of the holy, the sacred and the transcendent.'' To Professor Cox, it is ''Everyman's mystici... |
1165048_0 | Works In Progress From All Over; Spartan Women, Liberated | The centruy's turn has been a time of retrospectives: what was the most important event, who was the most influential thinker? Arts & Ideas decided to take a look ahead at what some of today's researchers are working on. From the most raked-over field, like the history of the ancient world, to the latest medical techno... |
1165186_2 | Giving the Globe A Networked Skin | have been widely used to transmit torrents of data between fixed points employing pulses of light rather than pulses of electricity. Now, Bell Labs engineers are trying to perfect a concept largely articulated by British Telecommunications P.L.C.: small wireless communications devices -- essentially antennas -- attache... |
1165136_1 | Fear of Computer Glitch Grounds Thousands of Air Travelers | than half the number of planes that flew last New Year's Eve, as airlines around the world canceled thousands of flights because of low demand. United Airlines and American Airlines, the world's two largest carriers, said they had canceled about one-third of their flights yesterday. As a result, airports across the Uni... |
1165184_0 | In Leading Nations, A Population Bust? | LADIES and gentlemen, welcome to Shanghai,'' said China's president, greeting leaders of the world's powers as they gathered on Jan. 1, 2100. ''A century ago, our predecessors worried that the world was headed for a Malthusian meltdown -- that we could not feed, clothe or find enough energy for an overpopulated earth. ... |
1165115_0 | Internet's Cheering Squad Nervously Watches Clock | As the world slid nervously yesterday through the shadow of its first global technology challenge, many year 2000 experts took special comfort in the relatively stable behavior of one of their principal tools in dealing with the problem: the not-always-reliable Internet. Service in the vast network of networks linking ... |
1167986_2 | DeVry Gives Career Training the Old College Try | in their field find them within six months of graduation. DeVry differs from traditional colleges in other ways, too. It uses market research to help choose the fields it offers and television advertisements to attract students. And its faculty in Queens -- a mix of of 25 full-time and 41 part-time teachers -- is on co... |
1169540_0 | Objections Stall Test to Detect Prejudice in Airport Screenings | The Transportation Department is re-thinking a plan to test whether an airport security measure discriminates against members of minorities after the Arab American Institute complained that the test was worse than the problem it was supposed to detect. The institute objected to the department's plan to ask passengers a... |
1169534_3 | Using the Dollar To Hold the Line; U.S. Currency Becomes Ecuador's | Countries adopting the dollar ''may lose some flexibility in domestic policy issues,'' John S. Reed, the co-chairman of Citigroup, acknowledged in a speech to a Mexican bankers' group last year. But he and several other analysts argue that any relinquishing of autonomy would be offset by increased investment and capita... |
1169568_4 | After Bitter Campus Battles, The 'Great Books' Rise Again | ''in the study of the liberal arts through the great books,'' a rigorous endeavor that requires them to take a two-semester survey course in Western civilization and five courses in ''the great books.'' The program, which withstood a yearlong battle in various faculty committees, emphasizes Homer, Plato and Dante, amon... |
1170012_3 | Ocean Change Making Winter More Volatile | two years old and whether it will last for a full 20 or 30 years remains to be seen. If a longer-term shift has occurred, and La Nina materializes more frequently as a result, this winter's highly variable pattern of weather in the United States would probably become more familiar. In it, the positions of warm and cold... |
1169916_1 | An Ill Wind Gives Versailles the Push It Needs | high. But many had grown to more than 120 feet, and with roots close to the surface because the water table is so high, they were particularly vulnerable to high winds. Still, a lack of funds and a general disinclination to do anything too abrupt that might upset the public had slowed major replanting efforts. Even whe... |
1169884_1 | Brilliant or Plagiarized? Colleges Use Sites to Expose Cheaters | access to the databases of operations that sell term papers, they would be able to spot many commercial term papers because they can check databases that professors are starting to use to keep copies of term papers from past semesters. If the service finds similarities, it notifies the teacher, who must then decide whe... |
1169961_4 | Rise, and Fall, of 'Life Sciences'; Drugmakers Scramble to Unload Agricultural Units | of the lowest in the industry, according to analysts. ''Aventis won't leave life sciences until they get all the savings from the merger,'' said Sergio Traversa, a drug analyst with Mehta Partners. ''But everybody will come to the conclusion that agricultural and pharmaceuticals are good businesses, but they are not go... |
1171843_1 | China Lists Controls To Restrict the Use Of E-Mail and Web | the unwieldy beast that is the Internet, which has rapidly become a means for Chinese to bypass the state-controlled media to obtain and transmit information. The new regulations for the first time extend the state secrets law to the Web, including chat rooms and personal e-mail. For example, the use of e-mail to trans... |
1171661_2 | Sorting Out All Those Ports On the Back of the Computer | because they use a series of cells, or transmission sites, that are spread out to cover each service area. Early cellular phones transmitted low-power analog radio signals on an 800-megahertz frequency. (Analog refers to the process of sending an audio signal in a continuous wave.) Analog cellular networks, which are m... |
1171839_2 | Syria Businessmen Yearn for Reforms | how much he can expand. Purchasing power is low in a country where the average per capita income is estimated by international economists to be about $900 a year. Like other importers of goods besides sugar, oil and other commodities, Mr. Samin has no access to credit and can acquire hard currency to pay his Italian su... |
1171663_4 | Man vs. Beast: Whose Neighborhood Is It, Anyway? | day last summer. Grizzlies have also made their way to areas at the edge of Whitefish, a resort town, to eat garbage, said Tim Manley, who handles problem grizzlies for the Montana wildlife department. Garbage isn't the only feeding problem. In much of the West, new homes are landscaped with plants like arborvitae that... |
1171746_0 | Study Backs Hormone Link To Cancer For Women | A study of 46,355 women has confirmed earlier findings that long-term use of hormone replacement after menopause can increase the risk of breast cancer. Researchers said the new study, done at the National Cancer Institute and published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, provided relevant inf... |
1171816_0 | Technology on the Road | To the Editor: Several technologies are rapidly converging where and when many of us spend several hours a week, in our cars. Internet access, navigation and guidance systems, and traveler information systems are reaching the marketplace now. Recent studies have reported that the incidence of accidents increases when d... |
1171722_0 | Optimism at Global Trade Talks on Genetically Modified Crops | Negotiators trying to forge the first global treaty regulating trade in genetically modified products have tentatively agreed to eliminate some of what the United States government feared would be onerous restrictions on American farm exports. Washington has been opposing a proposal for ''advanced informed agreement,''... |
1168659_4 | South Korea Plans to Begin Rocket Program | South Korea would continue to rely on foreign firms to launch heavier communications satellites that are placed in orbit, he said. ''We don't want to depend on other countries anymore,'' Mr. Choi said. ''We pay a lot of money to outside countries and we have to wait for launching time which is dependent on their schedu... |
1168652_0 | Doubting Pinochet Is Unfit, Spaniard Calls for 2d Opinion | The Spanish judge behind efforts to try Gen. Augusto Pinochet for human rights abuses asked Britain today for a second medical examination of the former Chilean dictator to determine if earlier tests erred in ruling him unfit to stand trial. The judge, Baltasar Garzon, in a written opinion, appealed to Home Secretary J... |
1166358_3 | Cell Phones Ruin the Opera? Meet the Culprit | the Manhattan Hilton, Mr. Cooper decided to attempt a private call before going to a press conference upstairs in the hotel. He picked up the two-pound Motorola handset called the Dyna-Tac and pushed the ''off hook'' button. The phone came alive, connecting Mr. Cooper with the base station on the roof of the Burlington... |
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