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1166386_0 | A Child's Mental Health | To the Editor: Re Bob Herbert's Jan. 3 column, ''When Treatment Is Denied'': While we condemn youth violence and fear for our children's safety in schools, we have neglected the mental health needs of children. Yes, mentally ill children are desperately in need of adequate treatment. However, as a clinical psychologist... |
1165330_1 | Colonialism's Latest Foothold in Cuba? | of cultural exchange that it has generated a whole new industry, namely Canada-Cuba Sports and Cultural Festivals, with offices in Toronto and Havana. This is not a sideline enterprise; it is based on Cuba alone. Canadians have an easier time of it here: officially friends, not enemies. Jonathan Watts, president of the... |
1165605_0 | In One of Few Problems, Link to Spy Satellite Fails | A computer failure caused by the arrival of the year 2000 cut communications with one of the nation's secret spy satellites for two to three hours on Friday night and continued to hobble its operations today, Pentagon officials said. A computer system at a ground station of the National Reconnaissance Office, the agenc... |
1166805_0 | Coin Society's Plans Upset Some Members | Since 12 Victorian gentlemen gathered for its first meeting on April 6, 1858, in the New York home of Augustus B. Sage, the American Numismatic Society has grown into a research institution with one of the finest collections in the world, holding nearly a million Greek, Roman, Islamic, Asian and medieval coins. But in ... |
1166853_1 | Assisi Journal; When in Assisi, Don't Feed Saint's Flock | form of anthropocentricity that clashes with the town's animal-loving ethos. ''We respect the mayor's decision, but we do not agree with it,'' said the Rev. Vincenzo Fortunato, the spokesman for the Franciscan order of Assisi. ''We believe there are alternatives that respect animals and the environment.'' But like most... |
1172438_1 | Suit Filed Over Plan For School Antenna | this. It was a stealth deal. When I saw the contract in September 1998, I thought that the compensation the district would receive was too low and that any kind of conflict resolution was solely in Sprint's hands. I felt it was foreclosing possibilities for the district.'' His co-plaintiff, Dr. Leslie Plachta, a doctor... |
1172721_0 | 130 NATIONS AGREE ON SAFETY RULES FOR BIOTECH FOOD | Delegates from more than 130 nations today adopted the first global treaty regulating trade in genetically modified products, setting up an international framework for the increasingly heated and divisive debate about foods made with biotechnology. The biosafety treaty, forged after a week of intense negotiations that ... |
1172678_1 | Boat-Rocking Bishop Sits Down at Last | marked the bishop's retirement last week by gleefully announcing ''good riddance.'' Calling his tenure ''a sad example of misguided potential,'' he complained that the bishop had spent more time on book tours and public speaking than ministering to the desperately poor residents of New Jersey's largest city. As the spi... |
1172339_0 | Q and A | Frequent-Traveler Miles Q. Is there a Web site that calculates one's frequent flier miles on various airlines, or at least gives a formula for doing so? -- Joan Gross, New York, N.Y. A. Among the companies that provide the service you're looking for are MaxMiles and Biztravel.com. Each can be reached directly at its ow... |
1172631_0 | Help for the Aging Disabled | To the Editor: People with all sorts of disabilities -- physical and emotional, as well as developmental -- are living longer. Also, significant advances in neonatal medicine have enabled the survival of extremely-low-birth-weight infants who would previously have died at birth or soon thereafter. These children genera... |
1172304_3 | Catch Willy | and Australian whaling histories with that of the Yankees. Led by Nantucket Quakers, New Englanders dominated the industry from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries, and their story has generally been told by Americans without reference to competitors. Yet whaling was central to Australia's founding, too, and might... |
1172462_0 | Dealing With the Additional Dog | THERE can be repercussions when another dog or puppy enters an existing dog's household. How best to deal with them? Coexistence is complex. Appropriately timed eye contact, and words spoken and mutually recognized can bridge the gap of understanding, but mystery overlays each relationship between the person and a pet.... |
1172162_1 | World Briefing | Kanther, searching for documents linked to the scandal. Victor Homola GERMANY: DAMAGES DENIED -- Munich's High Regional Court rejected an appeal for $7.21 million in damages, plus interest, made by relatives of 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian guerrillas at the 1972 Olympics in Munich . The decision upheld a l... |
1172198_1 | Religion Journal; Buddhism Nears Mainstream in U.S., Author Says | get it.'' Given how decentralized and varied Buddhist groups are in the United States, comprising different traditions and ethnic groups, it is not easy to know how many practitioners there are. Professor Seager said research suggested that two million was a safe estimate, with immigrants outnumbering converts 3 to 1. ... |
1172214_0 | Christie's Says It Is Cooperating With Antitrust Inquiry in Art World | Christie's, the worldwide auction house, said yesterday that it had given federal investigators information about ''possible conduct'' at the firm that was relevant to an antitrust investigation in the art world. In exchange for its cooperation, the company was ''conditionally accepted'' into a Department of Justice am... |
1172193_3 | STANDOFF ON ARMS POSES NEW THREAT TO ULSTER ACCORD | on arms. The Ulster Unionists are in no mood to be conciliatory after the British Government announced last week that it planned to reconstitute the Northern Ireland police force and retire its name, Royal Ulster Constabulary, which is cherished by Protestants. ''Unionists have been stretched to and beyond limit after ... |
1170541_1 | Believe It or Not | vignettes of biography, explaining difficult concepts with well-chosen metaphors. When seen in this perspective, present-day confusion seems almost normal. Humankind has always been asking the same questions, and struggling to find answers in much the same old ways. People in primitive societies are just as capable of ... |
1171109_4 | Talks on Biotech Food Today in Montreal Will See U.S. Isolated | that genetically modified plants, animals or micro-organisms could displace or endanger native crops or microbes. But, much to the dismay of the biotech industry and Washington, the talks have moved well beyond species preservation. The heart of the proposed Biosafety Protocol -- and the biggest sticking point in the n... |
1171124_1 | Subways Trade No. 2 Pencils For 21st-Century Technology | that will essentially drag the system out of the 19th century directly into the 21st. Like electronic fare collection installed over the last six years, new tracking technology -- similar to that used by air traffic controllers -- will take the New York subway to a level that its smaller cousins in Washington, London, ... |
1168831_10 | The Global Willowbrook | is, How do you make the world see? How do you establish a brand new international human right? The mental disabilities group is working on two fronts. First, it is trying to carve out a body of international law. Ultimately this would involve a United Nations treaty guaranteeing the rights and protections of the mental... |
1169095_0 | Ideas & Trends; We're Ready for Our Close-Ups Now | WHEN Jeffrey K. Harris was head of the National Reconnaissance Office in the mid-1990's, his agency's satellites routinely peered down on the world's hot spots from outer space and photographed them for federal intelligence agencies. It was all supersecret and all dedicated to national security. Now Mr. Harris has a ne... |
1169146_1 | France Presses the U.N. to Help Poor Nations Get AIDS Drugs | and testing, would have to be taken into account. He said that for this reason, France was proposing that the companies and countries involved in both buying and selling drugs get together to discuss how to avoid more confrontations over intellectual property rights. He said in an interview Thursday that given the huge... |
1168822_0 | More Money For Lost Bags | THE minimum amount airlines must pay passengers whose luggage is irretrievably lost on a domestic flight will rise this week to $2,500 from its longtime level of $1,250. The Department of Transportation will review the new minimum in July every other year and raise the level in increments of $100 if the rate of inflati... |
1168890_1 | Artists Must Leave a Building They Saved | remain must be out by Feb. 7, a condition imposed by Spinnaker, which is buying the building from Maritime Square Inc. for $3.3 million as part of the city's Reed Putnam urban renewal project. As part of that project, a six-level parking garage with up to 830 spaces will be built on the Maritime Aquarium parking lot ac... |
1169157_1 | Casting, Catching, Eating In the Heat | Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve in northwestern Brazil, part of a triptych of reserves that make up the largest block of protected rain forest on earth, bigger than the entire nation of Costa Rica. According to my friend Marcio Ayres, who studies primates in Mamiraua for the Wildlife Conservation Society, duri... |
1166180_1 | Lijiang Journal; A Dying Culture, as Seen Through Aging Eyes | a retired government official than a shaman. ''But these days, there are no more dongba, and the rituals aren't carried out anymore.'' He said he began studying the writing and scriptures at age 12, in 1935, and after years of apprenticeship to an older dongba became, in the usual pattern, a part-time shaman while he f... |
1166243_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE IRELAND: KILLER'S RETURN BLOCKED -- The High Court temporarily blocked the extradition to Northern Ireland of a former Irish Republican Army man facing a life sentence for killing a British officer in Belfast in 1980. Angelo Fusco, 43, was arrested by the Irish police and was being driven to the border when the ... |
1166121_3 | If Plato Ran His In-Law's Insurance Company... | as a source of personal fulfillment rather than just something they must do. It might sound a little corny, but, he said, studying the works of the ancient Greek philosophers inspired employees at Ohio Casualty to think in new ways about fulfilling their lives in ways that would also have the practical effect of revivi... |
1203831_2 | For the Busy, All Messages in One Basket | recognition systems. In addition to Messagepoint, companies like General Magic, Onebox.com, Ptek Systems and Webley Systems offer unified messaging, and each has its own take on the service. Some let users dial a local number to retrieve messages, while some offer the option, for an additional fee, of a toll-free numbe... |
1203946_0 | HUDSON RIVER PARK ON RESTORED PIERS APPROVED BY U.S. | After more than two years of study, the federal government gave its approval yesterday for the construction of Hudson River Park, clearing what is probably the last major hurdle in the plan to create a ribbon of parkland along five miles of the Manhattan riverfront from Battery Park City to West 59th Street. The approv... |
1203922_0 | Gore Calls for Better Benefits For Children With Mental Ills | Vice President Al Gore called today for legislation that would require health insurance companies to provide children with mental health benefits comparable to coverage for physical ailments. Appearing alongside his wife, Tipper, before a group of mental health professionals and advocates in suburban Washington, Mr. Go... |
1203847_7 | Heading North to the Wireless Future | the volume of bits that are sent and received or on a subscription basis for a fixed monthly fee. The pricing models are still being decided. ''The shift from circuit to packet systems is far more significant to consumers than was the shift from analog to digital,'' said Bjorn Norhammar, manager of market development f... |
1208899_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | accusing him of destroying their political partnership by pressing his strong social conservative positions. A21 NEW YORK/REGION B1-11 Thousands Attend Mass Consecrating Archbishop Edward M. Egan was installed as archbishop of New York during a televised Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral that was attended by 4,000, inclu... |
1208884_1 | Congress's Challenge to Judges Is Upheld | brought by inmates in an Indiana prison who opposed the state's effort to invoke the law, the federal appeals court in Chicago declared the automatic-stay provision unconstitutional. A legislative determination that a specific court order had to be set aside violated the separation of powers, it said. In overturning th... |
1208812_0 | Natural Remedies for Menopause Gain Popularity | When women reach menopause, many struggle with the decision of whether to take hormone replacement therapy. It often comes down to weighing the compelling benefits against the disturbing drawbacks. The benefits are relief of symptoms like hot flashes and insomnia as well as a lowered risk of osteoporosis and of high ch... |
1208150_3 | An Idea of Architecture; an Architecture of Ideas | practice of philosophy. For many, such an enterprise was doomed from the start. After all, the rigor of post-structuralist thought had never been clearly established. Even if that were not in doubt, ANY would have been a quixotic undertaking, at least in the eyes of those who consider architecture an art. Art and philo... |
1208380_1 | The Tortoises and the Hares, in a Dead Heat | from an exclusive reliance on the mail to quicker communication mediums -- their performance before the switch was credited to the second group, their performance after the switch to the first. Such services make particularly good illustrations. Consider BI Research, edited by Tom Bishop, who inaugurated a telephone ho... |
1208404_0 | June 11-17; Troubled Bridge, Troubled Waters | The question was whether the last of the trio of London's riverside millennium projects could have an unembarrassing inauguration, and the answer, for all to see, was blowing in the wind. A new foot bridge, the sleek creation of the noted British architect Norman Foster, opened to the public and closed a day later afte... |
1208551_0 | Corrections | A front-page article on June 4 about the quandary faced by American companies over genetically altered food included an industry analyst's imprecise reference to an ingredient in Heinz ketchup. A company spokesman said the product contained genetically modified corn syrup, not genetically modified tomatoes. |
1208394_1 | As Office Snooping Grows, Who Watches the Watchers? | not merely defensible in court. A key issue, of course, is: Who will do the monitoring? And that is where things get sticky. Two approaches are possible. Monitoring could become a full-time job for a person or department, or could be made a sidelight among other responsibilities. Each presents problems. When policing c... |
1207440_1 | For Car Radio, a Midlife Crisis | ''We're adding a ton of features and still trying to keep the interface as simple as possible, which is a huge challenge,'' said Jim Foley, a technical specialist at Visteon -- now the Ford Motor Company's automotive parts unit in Dearborn, Mich., but soon to become an independent company. Mr. Foley said Visteon tested... |
1210732_0 | Envoys Visit I.R.A. Arms Caches, Advancing Ulster Peace | The Irish Republican Army announced today that two international envoys had inspected a number of its secret arms dumps, a significant step in advancing the Northern Ireland peace settlement. The envoys, Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland, and Cyril Ramaphosa, the former secretary general of the African ... |
1210743_1 | Double Duty for a Microsoft Investigator | Microsoft was a client. ''I'll have to check that,'' he said. ''I can't confirm we've worked for Microsoft or any other client that hasn't been publicly identified, but I'll look into it.'' Mr. Lenzner would not comment on reports that his company had been investigating trade organizations and research groups sympathet... |
1210727_1 | Gerald J. Whitrow, 87, Author Of Philosophic Tomes on Time | declared, ''It is an essential feature of the universe.'' In 1969, Dr. Whitrow was invited to serve as the first president of the newly founded International Society for the Study of Time, which tries to provide a framework for interdisciplinary discussions of the subject. The founder of that group, J. T. Fraser, said ... |
1210726_1 | World Bank Criticizes Itself Over Chinese Project Near Tibet | project pitted James D. Wolfensohn, the politically savvy president of the bank, against the Clinton administration, which recently reappointed him to his post while declaring its opposition to the China project. Mr. Wolfensohn suspended part of the project last year and referred the case to the internal ''inspection p... |
1205157_0 | End the Cuba Embargo | To the Editor: Your June 3 news article reporting that Cuban officials are receptive to negotiating settlements regarding claims about foreigners' seized assets is another indication that this is an opportune time to negotiate ending the United States embargo of Cuba. In Cuba, religious groups are highly active, profes... |
1205180_1 | Man Charged With Forgery in E-Mail Scheme | or not junk e-mail can be considered forgery. ''There is no way this is second-degree forgery,'' said Mark D. Rasch, vice president for cyberlaw at the Global Integrity Corporation, a computer security consulting firm in Reston, Va., and the former head of the United States Justice Department's computer crime unit. ''F... |
1205254_0 | Dangers of Grizzlies | To the Editor: The article ''Grizzly Bears Poised to Make a Comeback'' (May 30) mentions that relatively few bear attacks occur, considering the number of bears in North America. But when these animals do launch unprovoked attacks upon humans, the results can be horrendous. I happen to be a bear hunter. I hunt black be... |
1211524_8 | A Salute to the Fourth; Down to the Sea Again, in Ships Tall and Fleet | completed in 1990. The ship surely seemed authentic enough, though, as I stepped aboard in a downpour, seeking shelter under the canvas-covered main hatch and enviously eyeing the crew in waterproof orange and yellow foul-weather gear. In 1813 a crew of 155 manned the ship, about 100 of them on the guns. Today it sails... |
1205614_2 | No, I'm Not Talking to You | with wearable phones will continue to go up. In London, ''you can walk around the city and see people using them everywhere,'' said Jim Moore, a consultant for McKinsey & Company who recently lived in Europe and who would not even think about using a handheld cell phone. Mr. Moore adopted a headset to avoid the ache of... |
1205628_0 | A Gallery of Glimpses Of the Martian Surface | Mars spacecraft have gotten a lot of bad press in the last year or so, but the Mars Global Surveyor has been a good Boy Scout since it was launched in 1996 (and like a good Boy Scout, it even helped in the search for one of the spacecraft that was lost). Part of Global Surveyor's job is to obtain images of the Martian ... |
1205669_1 | C. D. Atkins, 86, Inventor of Orange Juice Process | provide better juice for the armed forces and make more efficient use of Florida's orange crop. The work was done at a laboratory provided by the United States Department of Agriculture in Lakeland, Fla., and began in 1942. The concentration process, which involves heating the juice so that the water evaporates, was al... |
1205671_0 | Tokyo Journal; In E-Mail Wrinkle, Cell Phones Are Chatterboxes | Suddenly, droves of women on this city's crowded subways are gazing intently into tiny cell phone screens, checking their messages and then laboriously tapping out replies. Just as abruptly, office workers are fumbling with the tiny gadgets to confirm their evening plans the moment they step out of company headquarters... |
1205751_0 | F.D.A. Adds Hurdles in Approval of Abortion Pill | The long-running effort to bring the French abortion pill to women in this country has encountered yet another obstacle: a suggestion by the Food and Drug Administration that it may place tight restrictions on how the drug, RU-486, is distributed and who can prescribe it. Typically, once a drug is approved, any doctor ... |
1205656_0 | Big Board in Talks on Global Equity Links | The New York Stock Exchange is discussing the creation of a single global equity market with a half-dozen other major exchanges from Tokyo to Toronto. The proposed round-the-clock global market would electronically connect the trading systems of the individual markets, the Big Board said in a statement yesterday. Thoug... |
1205651_0 | Jobs in Technology | To the Editor: ''All College Graduates, Please Apply'' (news article, June 4) describes the wonderful opportunities available to today's graduates as they enter the information technology work force. What's missing is that the efforts to draw students, particularly those of diverse backgrounds, to this growing field mu... |
1205740_0 | Tell the Truth About Altered Food | To the Editor: Re ''Modified Foods Put Companies in a Quandary'' (front page, June 4): As a biologist, I see the vast potential of biotechnology to make better food, medicine and even natural resources, but as a consumer, I subscribe to the credo of informed choice. With respect to genetically modified foods, that mean... |
1205633_4 | A Tower Rises Above Trouble | black bears. Uncompromised. At full attention. Lifted up. Nearer to the eternal spirit. Brother of Thoreau. Or maybe just a middle-aged guy and his version of a boy's treehouse. Because I couldn't afford help and my wife wanted nothing to do with the tower, I was going to be one guy alone with lots of lumber and concre... |
1205741_0 | Tell the Truth About Altered Food; Better and Fresher | To the Editor: Re ''Modified Foods Put Companies in a Quandary'' (front page, June 4): The majority of American consumers support foods improved through biotechnology. An International Food Information Council survey conducted May 5-9 shows that 54 percent of consumers are somewhat more likely to buy foods enhanced to ... |
1204213_2 | Report Gives U.S. Education 'A' for Effort | of education to the next varies by gender, by race and by income. For instance, fully 60 percent of black 3-year-olds and 81 percent of black 4-year-olds attend preschool, compared with only 47 percent and 70 percent of their peers among whites, and 26 percent and 64 percent of peers among Hispanics. Women, who a few y... |
1209591_1 | New Jersey Orders Hunt to Reduce Number of Black Bears | official of the Humane Society of the United States denounced the resumption of the hunt. ''We don't want a hunt period,'' said Barbara Dyer, the program coordinator for the society's mid-Atlantic regional office. ''We don't want one black bear killed.'' Patrick Carr, senior wildlife biologist with the state's division... |
1211092_0 | Computers Can Be Set To Handle Special Needs | Q. I have impaired vision and find that the white background and black type used in Microsoft Word documents is hard on my eyes. Is there any way to change the background color of the documents for easier reading? A. Yes, there is a setting within Microsoft Word that will let you create and use documents that have a da... |
1211104_1 | An Electronic Circuit That Draws Its Inspiration From Life | one day help process auditory and visual information for robots as well as the output of bionic implants to help the blind see and the deaf hear. Retinal chips may someday be used as pre-processors that feed into such circuits, just as cochlear implants may one day be linked to these circuits to aid hearing. The circui... |
1211108_2 | Studies Reveal a Rush of Older Women to the Web | Web access, compared with 78 percent of those with incomes over $75,000, despite the drop in the price of a PC or an Internet connection. And although the Web is worldwide in name, it remains mostly an American phenomenon. The United States has more Web users than the next 15 countries combined, Mr. McFarland said. But... |
1211108_4 | Studies Reveal a Rush of Older Women to the Web | billion by the end of 2000. If so, that will be 85 percent more than the group measured during 1999. Online shopping, like the Web itself, is becoming increasingly mainstream, said James Vogtle, e-commerce research director at the Boston Consulting Group, with a steady stream of major retailers like Kmart's Bluelight.c... |
1206313_3 | The Way We Live Now: 6-11-00; The Size Of Things To Come | we heard after his trip to the hospital, but for the rest of the summer, he didn't come back to the stockroom. What's the point of this story? Well, do you know anyone who was injured by a personal digital assistant? The comparison may seem silly, but I'm convinced that in our primitive consciousness, the part of the b... |
1206417_4 | White Faces at the Blackboard | Of the 195 students who received a master's degree, 5 were minorities. Mr. Burke and other education officials said that minority college students, who might think about going into teaching, are sometimes drawn to corporations, which can offer a lot more money. ''An IBM or a Microsoft may knock at the door of a college... |
1206633_2 | Rights Gains Are Preserved At U.N. Forum On Women | families claim have shamed them, so-called ''honor'' crimes that have drawn attention to countries like Jordan and Pakistan. United Nations officials and women's rights campaigners say that this is the first time an international document has specified these activities as crimes. Although the final agreement of the con... |
1206307_3 | Tech 2010: #21 No Surprises; The Bathroom Where You Can Give Yourself a Daily Brain Scan | preventive health measures -- smoking cessation or weight-loss programs, for example. ''Somebody who's 25 and thinks: Hey, what's the problem? I'm paying for my own mammogram, sets into motion a whole chain of things,'' says Dennis Fryback, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin. ''There will... |
1206278_3 | Tech 2010: #30 Healthy Living; The French Fry That Will Save Your Life | unrepentant decadence. In what can only be described as a radical step backward, Nestle suggests forgoing, say, the evil-tasting power bars (the doyenne of nutraceutical food), which are often loaded with sugar and calories along with vitamins, in favor of a really tasty plain old candy bar with a vitamin pill on the s... |
1206287_7 | Tech 2010: #07 Brainpower - Making Contact; The Mind That Moves Objects | was little variation in the lines on the oscilloscope that displays Johnny's brain waves. But as his concentration intensified, spikes appeared, indicating frequency, and grew higher, indicating amplitude. Moore whistled when she saw the height of the waves. ''He can get those things off the screen when he gets going,'... |
1206299_0 | In Cuba, 2 Worlds Bridged by a Dollar Sign | IT was a simple matter of buying gas, but one, like so many things, that was not so simple in Cuba. Three of us had just piled out of a gray Peugeot 306, a cramped little model best driven with the choke full out and the pedal flat down, that we had rented about 50 miles back in Havana. Though he was standing in front ... |
1206603_2 | Conservation, Far From Home | average of $10 an acre. Just two months ago, for example, Conservation International established a trust fund to underwrite a project announced last year to help Suriname, a small South American country, manage four million acres of untouched tropical forests that Asian timber interests had tried to buy. The total one-... |
1207672_5 | Oh, It's Not What It Used to Be | the site of a cattle market connected to the Bull's Head Tavern, the neo-classical Bowery Theater was built in the 1820's. Then the largest theater in the country, it was the first in New York to be gaslit. Its 1826 opening production was ''The Road to Ruin,'' which many later said was prescient of its future, for the ... |
1209747_2 | On Trade, Cuba Is Not China | cannot do business with private citizens. They can do business only with Fidel Castro. It is illegal in Cuba for anyone except the regime to employ workers. That means that foreign investors cannot hire or pay workers directly. They must go to the Cuban government employment agency, which picks the workers. The investo... |
1205008_2 | Americans Enjoy 70 Healthy Years, Behind Europe, U.N. Says | American minorities, the effects of AIDS, tobacco-related cancers, heart disease and violence as factors in reducing a healthy life expectancy in the United States. At the Population Reference Bureau, a private demographic research organization in Washington, Carl Haub, who compiles annual statistics on world populatio... |
1205006_1 | Database Legislation Spurs Fierce Lobbying | of real estate agents visited their senators and representatives to argue that without the Coble bill, their multiple listing services were in danger of being pirated. Tennessee's senators, Bill Frist and Fred Thompson, both Republicans, were so besieged that they had to reserve a committee hearing room so they would h... |
1205059_3 | Metro Briefing | the $1.6 million needed to add to the $5 million federal grant that would pay for homes in the Lost Valley section. A bill that would create a $50 million fund to help communities meet their part of the requirement is being considered by the state Legislature. (AP) TRENTON: BEAR CAPTURED -- A 200-pound black bear was c... |
1204960_14 | Best of Friends, Worlds Apart | friends from Cuba. The men drive delivery trucks. The women, like his wife, work as medical or dental assistants. The men plop themselves on the couch and watch soccer on television. The women cluster around the kitchen table, talking about the pill. They are all in their late 20's, all still childless, focused on the ... |
1205368_6 | Exchange This: Making Sure a Tire Is More Than a Tire | current tires are suitable. Continental insists the prices it received for its tires in the Ford auction were no lower than previous transactions, but Ford disagrees, saying it obtained cheaper prices. Some rival tire makers have gone farther than Continental in objecting to using auctions for tires at all, contending ... |
1205497_0 | Proposed Hunt Brings Out Bear's Fans and Critics | Some speakers hailed New Jersey's black bears as majestic symbols of the state's diminishing wilderness and appealed for their preservation. Others denounced them as risks to children and called for their elimination. Some called them timid, harmless and quick to flee. But others said they were becoming more and more o... |
1205393_1 | Higher Degrees Of Occupation | 30. ''It's nice to know that the incredible amount of work that has gone into this has finally borne fruit. I feel really lucky.'' Luck is only part of it. Larger forces are at work to pry open the door to the ivory tower, the teaching profession's nirvana. Where else can you aspire to earn $100,000 a year playing the ... |
1205392_3 | It's a Whole New Lexicon | for employers by the things that matter to you -- signing bonus, car allowance, stock options, on-site massages, flexible schedules and more.'' One afternoon a few weeks ago I did just that. I logged on as the me I was my senior year, a confused Ivy League political science major who thought she might want to go to law... |
1205435_0 | Britain's Green Prince and His Family Differ on Altered Crops | Britain's royal family has fallen to feuding over a subject on which one would expect them to be solidly united: genetics. Prince Charles, the country's most famous organic farmer, has found his passionately stated views against growing genetically modified crops suddenly under assault from his sister, Princess Anne, a... |
1205371_2 | Change Jobs Like Clothes? Click Here | not be a dream deferred. Currently, the fastest-growing group of job hunters are those with less technical acumen, who are now posting their resumes in far greater number. Their influence is starting to broaden the sorts of career-management tools available online, like salary surveys and certification tests, which sti... |
1207319_1 | Brazil's Rural Violence | the landless such as Mr. Ribeiro de Souza have been killed in Brazil in the last 10 years. Only a handful of the murderers have been tried, virtually all of them low-level hired triggermen. The conviction and sentencing of the powerful Mr. Amorim is one of several recent setbacks for Brazil's ranchers, whose drive for ... |
1207205_1 | On the Anti-Snoop Patrol | ourselves that we really don't know what's going on. If I've found something and say, ''Hey, I know what's happening here,'' I've probably missed other stuff. It's a weird job where you have to do these sorts of things, continually say to yourself, ''I don't have the whole story; I need to learn more.'' Usually, the st... |
1210515_0 | It's About Love of the Game (Not Salaries in the Majors) | Baseball may still have a place in America's heart, but the game is engraved on Cuba's soul. Or so you are told in tonight's earnest PBS documentary ''Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball and the United States.'' As Cuba was trying to free itself from Spanish rule in the second half of the 19th century, ''baseball seemed to r... |
1209112_1 | Senate Kills Plan for Panel To Review Cuban Embargo | indication of just how sensitive the issue of policy toward Cuba remains. Supporters of a commission said American policy toward Cuba was outdated. ''Castro is in no position to export revolution, none whatsoever,'' said Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, alluding to the country's financial crisis. ''According to ... |
1209164_0 | Bush Proposes $2.3 Billion for Math and Science Teaching | In an area often regarded as the cradle of the digital revolution, Gov. George W. Bush warned today that American schoolchildren were not being adequately prepared for the demands of jobs in high technology, and he proposed spending an additional $2.3 billion over five years in federal funds to improve math and science... |
1209051_1 | Mainstream Organics: Britain Stocks Up | chains are also making a point of stocking organic ingredients, but not with quite the same fervor. A number of factors account for the differences between the two countries. The simple answer is a series of food scares there that have made consumers uneasy. ''We have lived in a culture of food scares,'' said Alan Wils... |
1209134_2 | School Board Approval Expected for Plan to Put Disabled Students in Regular Classes | as many students as possible into regular classrooms -- a process known as mainstreaming -- has long been Board of Education policy, but the new plan would speed movement in that direction. The plan is the board's latest response to pressure from the federal government, which has long criticized New York City for placi... |
1207009_0 | Making College Free | To the Editor: You report that President Clinton told the graduating seniors at Carleton College that their degrees would be ''a better investment than anything Wall Street could offer'' (news article, June 11). ''Over the course of a career,'' you quote the president as saying, ''a person with a bachelor's degree will... |
1206984_1 | Celebrating the Book That Ushered In the Age of Science | planet, said that Dr. Gilbert was the first to explain correctly why a compass always points north and the first to propose that the earth itself was a giant magnet. ''He also introduced experimental observations into science in a systematic way,'' Dr. Stern said. While the ancient Greeks and others conducted experimen... |
1208663_0 | After Attack by Hackers, AOL Tightens Data Access | America Online said yesterday that it would take steps to fix flaws in its network that allowed hackers to get access to personal information about some members last week. Richard D'Amato, a spokesman for America Online, said the company did not yet have a specific number of how many member accounts were affected and w... |
1204490_23 | The Smart Set | fetched the Rube Goldberg device from the basement. While setting up the apparatus, they talked about the research they were conducting for their Intel projects. Rube would not have approved. Through an uncle who is an orthopedic surgeon, Daniel had found a position working in a lab at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, tes... |
1204784_1 | Ideas & Trends; Even a Worm Needs Love | been told that men were much more likely to open the 'I Love You' worm than women,'' said George Cybenko, a computer scientist at Dartmouth University and a founder of the Institute of Security Technology Studies. Indeed, the ''I Love You'' message was so simple and beguiling that in some cases it hoodwinked even the m... |
1204776_0 | The Hudson River Park, on Track | New York City residents have long hoped to reclaim their Hudson River shoreline south of 59th Street by restoring rotting piers and replacing the parking lots and other bleak spaces that now exist with an inviting mix of walkways, playing fields and modest commercial development. The last major obstacle to that dream h... |
1204770_5 | The Poseurs of Missile Defense | those of the Republican right. In early 1998, or around the time the Republicans took their impeachment case against President Clinton to the Senate, the Democrats gave way. The previous fall a congressional commission headed by Donald Rumsfeld, a former defense secretary, had concluded that ''rogue states'' could acqu... |
1204828_0 | All College Graduates, Please Apply | The 1.2 million college graduates in the nation's class of 2000 are entering an unusually strong job market that is a result of a flourishing economy and, especially, the boom in high technology. From Northeastern University in Boston to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, from the University of Michiga... |
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