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1225820_0 | U.N. Reports Afghan Curbs Hurt Populace | As some Security Council members, led by Russia and the United States, move toward increasing sanctions on the militant Islamic government of Afghanistan, a report by the United Nations' relief coordinator there says that the existing economic embargo is having ''a tangible negative effect'' on efforts to help the Afgh... |
1225666_2 | FIVE QUESTIONS: for BOB TASCA Sr.; On the Front Lines of the Tire Recall | car with a Firestone tire.'' There are people just scared stiff of the name Firestone, which is unfortunate. I've always had good experience with Firestone. I'm driving an Explorer Sport Trac with Firestones. Of the 200 [vehicles] we checked, we changed about 36 sets, or 144 tires. I had to change ones that didn't have... |
1225654_0 | A Stay of Execution For the State's Black Bears | To the Editor: Recently Russian leaders chose to ignore the pleas of their people to accept help on a sunken submarine. I'd like to think we are not like that in New Jersey. However, our state's leaders, namely Governor Whitman and Jack Collins, the speaker of the Assembly, appear to be following suit. By ignoring the ... |
1225642_0 | Electromagnetic Radiation Is Causing Ill Health | To the Editor: I was deeply disturbed to read the article ''Cell Tower Plans Stir Neighbors'' on July 23 and more deeply disturbed to read a response advocating a ''wireless master plan'' for Westchester [Letters, July 30]. I am one of many persons suffering ill health from the effects of electromagnetic radiation. The... |
1225760_0 | Ideas & Trends: Like a Placebo; How Estrogen Gained A Healthy Skepticism | IT seemed so clear a decade ago. Hormone replacement therapy would protect women's hearts after menopause. After all, their risk of heart disease rises in middle age, around the time their ovaries stop making estrogen. And there was indirect evidence that the drug was working: women who chose to take it lived longer an... |
1220290_3 | Cruise Ships and The Disabled | big cruise vessel sometimes may. Old Ships vs. New Mr. Beatty and others note that market forces have brought improved accessibility, mainly on new vessels, built with an awareness that future customers are to be found among graying baby boomers. Elevators, selected cabins with extra-wide entrance and toilet doors, rol... |
1220289_2 | A Taste for Frequent-Flier Miles | Canada,'' I said to the person at TWA's 800 number. ''Ontario, California,'' she said. ''It's an airport 46 miles from Los Angeles.'' I kept telephoning but TWA steadfastly declined to put me on a flight to San Francisco, where I had four interviews in four days. I also had an interview in central Los Angeles on July 1... |
1219421_0 | Conquistadors' Loot, in a Watery Grave | To the Editor: Re ''Court Ruling on Spanish Frigates Foils Modern-Day Treasure Hunt'' (front page, July 31): Spain has every right to lay claim to its sunken ships, but the Spanish are not the legitimate owners of the treasures -- gold, silver, emeralds, diamonds and other precious stones -- that these ships were carry... |
1219560_1 | Scientists Warn of Inaction As AIDS Spreads in China | allowed H.I.V. to transform from an fairly rare condition among intravenous drug users in 1990, to a rapidly growing problem that now affects an estimated 600,000 Chinese, the scientists say. And in another 10 years, they warn, China could have one of the world's largest populations of H.I.V. carriers, unless the gover... |
1221008_1 | A Big Push for Learning 'Differences,' Not Disabilities | of America, the most powerful advocacy group for the learning disabled, nervous. It is concerned that children with learning disabilities will not get the services they need if they are redefined under the broader term learning differences. What's more, the group is worried that the federal financing for which it has f... |
1220943_0 | Ignoring the Message of Brittle Bones | Doctors routinely overlook a serious sign of osteoporosis, the condition that leaves older people -- primarily women -- susceptible to repeated, often immobilizing bone breaks, according to a study being released today. The study, which looked at 1,162 postmenopausal women who had broken one or both their wrists, found... |
1221037_1 | The Big City; The Negatives Of Recycling In New York | extra $13 for each of the nearly one million tons that are to be recycled instead of buried. The city's recycling program was begun in 1993 with the expectation of saving money. The City Council formally declared recycling to be ''economically desirable'' and even issued a five-year plan mandating precisely how many to... |
1226217_3 | Bridgestone Asks Venezuelan Dealers to Return Some Tires | rejected higher-pressure tires on a prototype of the Explorer because they tended to cause rollovers. Ford ended up choosing a different, lower-pressure tire and a different suspension. Ford says that rollovers are the main cause of crash deaths for occupants of all brands of midsize sport utility vehicles. Explorer oc... |
1226107_4 | Open Water at Pole Is Not Surprising, Experts Say | focused new attention on the collection and analysis of more data about polar ice conditions. The end of the cold war, for instance, has brought to light important sonar measurements of Arctic ice collected by United States Navy submarines. They are being analyzed by Dr. Drew Rothrock at the Applied Physics Laboratory ... |
1226168_4 | Russians Put Out the Fire In Gigantic Broadcast Tower | pulling tight an elastic cord, and they make it both taut and flexible in the wind. Engineers said the structure was built to withstand the damage it endured, but government officials also said it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to repair it -- money this nation can ill afford. Eduard Sagalayev, the presiden... |
1226093_4 | The 'Women's Disease' That Also Strikes Men | home without receiving bone density tests and without hearing any prevention strategies, even though they may be at risk for further bone loss and fractures, he said. Treatment of osteoporosis in men has also lagged behind that for women. ''Until the last few years, there haven't been data that actually demonstrate the... |
1226176_1 | New Jersey Offers Tips For Hunting Black Bears | state's estimated 85,000 hunters have had little or no experience with bears. After the last hunt, the bear population was nearly extinct. Now, however, the population is robust, and in recent years there have been steadily increasing complaints about bears breaking into houses, intruding on campgrounds and picnic area... |
1224646_1 | To Build a Better Plum, Start With an Apricot | called a plumcot and can be traced back more than 100 years to the famous botanist Luther Burbank. Pluots evolved out of that early hybrid, but most are about three-fifths plum and two-fifths apricot. The Pluot was developed and named by Zaiger's Genetics, a plant breeder near Modesto, Calif. Leith Zaiger, the company'... |
1224694_1 | British Arrest Protestant Militant After Violence in Belfast | ordered out of the car and told to lie on the ground before being driven to a prison outside the city. British officials depict the fighting between the loyalist paramilitaries as a narcotics-fueled turf war tied to what Peter Mandelson, the senior British official in the province, today called ''the dark side of North... |
1221686_2 | Tire Recall Brings Some Panic and a Large Need for Patience | about tires blowing out on the highway.'' The replacement program calls for most but not all of the replacement tires to be sent to authorized dealers in Southern and Western states, where the most serious accidents have occurred. As word of the recall spread, so did the rumors. Many vehicle owners with tires that were... |
1221663_3 | Tire Technology Has Bred Consistency and Compatibility | and other materials. Most tires have high-tensile steel wires, called beads, that keep tires seated against the metal wheels. Each line of tires has a slightly different tread designed for hugging the road better in wet weather, but all of them operate loosely on the principle that the placement or depth of grooves on ... |
1221668_0 | When Tires Start Blowing Apart | There are too few public facts to know for sure whether Bridgestone/Firestone or Ford Motor Company waited too long to recall tires that may have caused hundreds of accidents, 80 injuries and 46 deaths in the United States alone. But what is known is deeply troubling. Bridgestone/Firestone recalled about 6.5 million ti... |
1221639_1 | Bridgestone To Register Record Charge | 27 percent since news of the tire troubles emerged on Aug. 1. On Wednesday, Bridgestone/Firestone, the American subsidiary, said that it was recalling 6.5 million tires that were the subject of a government investigation into 193 accidents that have caused 46 deaths in the United States since 1995. Bridgestone said tha... |
1222971_1 | Tire Deaths Are Linked To Rollovers | as they try to satisfy customers. For example, putting nylon coatings inside would help hold the tires together when the tread peels off, as has happened with the Firestone tires. But that produces a bouncier ride, which few drivers choose at showrooms, so automakers seldom request the nylon from tire makers, said Broo... |
1224874_4 | Revenge Among the Nerds | to know you're stepping out of the normal bounds of behavior. On the Internet, the action is consistent with a million other actions you take in the course of a day. You click to sell stock, to transfer money, to e-mail a friend, to e-mail an enemy.'' Although many revenge sites emphasize that they are to be used only ... |
1225009_0 | Quest for Free Energy | To the Editor: The idea of capturing energy by having cars depress plates on the road, as suggested by a recent letter writer, would not work. But if someone could develop a technique to reuse the kinetic energy that is lost when a car stops at a light, that would be a different story. CARSTEN SAAGER New York |
1224859_2 | Video Dresses Up E-Mail Ads | wow and gives them a reason to open their e-mail.'' That factor is what Michele Slack, a senior analyst with Jupiter Communications, based in New York, says will add to the proliferation of video e-mail. ''We're seeing more and more companies utilizing e-mail for marketing,'' Ms. Slack said. ''With more than 268 billio... |
1224870_5 | Whose Intellectual Property Is It, Anyway? The Open Source War | all. How do programmers eat if they don't sell their software? In most cases, they are paid for the work their software performs rather than for the software itself. Many are programmers who use the software for their projects. The Apache Web server, for instance, is produced by a team of people who design Web sites. T... |
1224995_0 | Estrogen Heart Study Proves Discouraging | A new study finds that estrogen replacement therapy, which doctors have long hoped will prevent heart disease in postmenopausal women, does nothing to slow the disease's progression in those whose arteries have already been partly blocked by it. The study is being reported in today's issue of The New England Journal of... |
1224969_0 | Senate Panel Plans to Hold Tire Hearings | The Senate Commerce Committee is planning to hold hearings on the Firestone tires that were the subject of a safety recall, a Congressional aide said today. The committee, which oversees regulation of interstate commerce and highway safety, will convene hearings next month to examine the recent problems that caused Bri... |
1220097_0 | Addicted to Talking | While sitting in a coffee shop the other day, I had an epiphany. Surrounded by men and women cuddling their cell phones, it struck me that these little metallic instruments are this millennium's cigarette. Just a few years ago my fellow coffee drinkers would have been smoking. Back then, too, Manhattanites would have s... |
1220082_0 | The Dream of College | To the Editor: Re ''Pupils Prosper From an Investment'' (news article, Aug. 2): Not to rain on Merrill Lynch's parade -- it ought to be lauded for making college a financially viable option for hundreds of students -- but isn't it a sad commentary on our society that it takes such extraordinary efforts to make college ... |
1235638_0 | Why What Goes Up Doesn't Fall Down | Small wonder the American Society of Civil Engineers has endorsed ''Building Big,'' PBS's five-part documentary series about bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels. These terrific programs trumpet the scientific derring-do of the creators without ignoring their equally compelling quixotic foolhardiness. There's ... |
1235660_2 | Taco Bell's Core Customers Seem Undaunted by Shell Scare | the recall to have much impact. Of course, unlike Kraft's product, the Taco Bell shells did not test positive for the genetically altered corn known as StarLink, which has only been approved for animals. But that may be beside the point. Analysts say the restaurant's clientele, overwhelmingly male and usually between t... |
1235651_4 | The Birth, Death and Rebirth of a Novel Disease-Fighting Tool | treatment being developed jointly by Genentech, Novartis and start-up Tanox Inc. In clinical trials, some asthmatic children using it have been able to reduce or eliminate steroids, which have undesirable side effects. Another is Imclone's C225 for colorectal cancer and head and neck cancer. ''I have patients who respo... |
1235690_0 | Conflagration in the Middle East | The violence that has convulsed the Middle East since late last week has given Israelis and Palestinians alike a frightening replay of the bloodshed that scarred the region for so many years. The question now is whether the fighting will prove to be a temporary setback in the drive to make peace or a terminal point in ... |
1237444_0 | New Venture Aims to Guard Genetic Data | For two years, Arthur L. Holden has led an unusual consortium of pharmaceutical companies aimed at finding genetic differences among individuals. Now, with that effort winding down, Mr. Holden is starting a new company aimed at helping people keep such genetic information private. The new company, First Genetic Trust I... |
1237540_42 | CAMPAIGN 2000: The New York Senate Debate; Excerpts From Second Debate Between Mrs. Clinton and Lazio | 602-P. I'm going to actually tell you what it is. CLINTON -- I have no idea. KRAMER -- I'm going to tell you what it is. Under the bill that's now before Congress, the U.S. Postal Service would be able to bill e-mail users 5 cents for each e-mail they send, even though the post office provides no service. They want thi... |
1237474_4 | Belem Journal; In Acts of Faith on Amazon, Middle Ages Live On | physical toll, or to take home a piece of it if they can, as if it were a trophy.'' Indeed, the cord has been a source of conflict between church authorities and worshipers almost since it was first used in 1855 to pull the cart carrying the image of the Virgin out of the mud. In 1926, a new bishop here, offended by bo... |
1243397_1 | Venezuela Will Sell Cuba Low-Priced Oil | deepening relationship between the two countries. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said before the visit that ''we have no choice but to form an axis of power'' with Cuba and other like-minded countries that ''permits us to relate to the rest of the world.'' Mr. Chavez returned repeatedly to that theme after Mr. Cast... |
1243494_4 | Ship Attack Suspects Seemed Out of Place | 1999, when United States warships, for the first time in the decades since Yemen fell into chaos and civil war, began using Aden for brief refueling visits. Beyond that, the twin windows in the front of the flat, looking out from the sparse, felt-carpeted room that did double duty as a living space and bedroom, gave a ... |
1243417_0 | Support for a Moratorium In Executions Gets Stronger | Rod Autrey, a Republican city councilman here, is a supporter of the death penalty in a state where it has long been entrenched. But even in reiterating that support, Mr. Autrey urged the Council in September to approve a resolution favoring a moratorium on executions in North Carolina. The Council adopted the measure,... |
1243450_1 | World Briefing | Bhaba Atomic Research Center in Bombay that the five nuclear weapons tests India conducted in 1998 were ''completely successful'' and gave India the ability ''to design and fabricate weapons from low yield to around 200 kilotons.'' Some experts in India and abroad have doubted the efficacy of the 1998 nuclear tests. Ce... |
1237599_0 | Scientists Say Aging May Result From Brain's Hormonal Signals | Could it be that aging, like puberty and menopause, is a programmed life-cycle event set off by hormonal signals from the brain? A new study suggests that in the laboratory roundworm, and maybe people too, youthfulness is maintained by hormonal signals from the brain. When the neurons that transmit the signal suffer da... |
1237685_0 | METRO BRIEFING | NEW YORK BROOKLYN: MAN SHOOTS INTRUDERS Two would-be robbers were thwarted yesterday when the owner of a Brooklyn card shop drew a pistol and shot them both, the police said. The authorities said the owner, Ming Chen, 43, fired several shots at the men inside Joe's Card Store on Cortelyou Road after one pointed a semia... |
1242404_8 | Looking for That Brain Wave Called Love; Humanities Experts Use M.R.I.'s to Scan the Mind for the Locus of the Finer Feelings | different areas of the students' brains would light up depending on what kind of dilemma they were asked to solve. Mr. Greene said he could not discuss the findings because the study was under consideration for publication in a major scientific journal, but he described them as promising. ''When a technology comes alon... |
1242426_0 | Selling Evolution in Ways Darwin Never Imagined; If You Can Build a Better Gene, Investors May Come | Novo Nordisk is designing better enzymes for detergents. Dow Chemical is trying to cut the cost of food processing. Pioneer Hi-Bred is aiming for better crops, and MedImmune a stronger version of its main drug. What these works-in-progress have in common is their reliance on a new version of a process that is as old as... |
1242493_2 | How a Mighty Power Was Humbled by a Little Skiff | harbor-front at the Cole's hull. Remarks like that one, from old and young, from men calloused from lifetimes spent stevedoring to unemployed youngsters playing at open-air pool tables, reflect a perception of something frequently debated in war colleges in the United States. A cause of sneaking pride in the developing... |
1240705_0 | Air Security | To the Editor: My wife and I just completed a two-week trip to South Korea. I found security lapses at Kimpo Airport in Seoul troubling, however. On a Korean Air domestic flight from Seoul to Cheju Island, one person was able to obtain boarding passes for our group of four adults. At no time were any of us asked for id... |
1241005_0 | 150 Nations Move to Curb Tobacco Use | In an atmosphere of unexpected harmony, officials representing nearly 150 governments laid the groundwork this week for a new global treaty that aims to control tobacco use and stamp out adolescent smoking. The World Health Organization is pushing for a strong international accord with the goal of finalizing a treaty b... |
1241030_2 | Yemeni and U.S. Teams Focus On Boat Used to Attack Cole | From the tour, and from disclosures in Washington on Friday, a new picture emerged of how it was possible for the attackers to sneak up on one of the Navy's newest and most sophisticated warships and detonate an explosion that, in addition to killing 17 crew members, wounded 39 others and did extensive damage. The boat... |
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1241076_0 | The Beginning of the End For the Cuba Boycott | The Senate decisively approved legislation relaxing nearly 40 years of sanctions on the sale of food to Cuba. The measure, endorsed 86 to 8, now seems assured of becoming law, but anti-Communist opponents of Fidel Castro's regime were successful in winning prohibitions on United States government credit and private fin... |
1240950_1 | When That Corner Office Is Also a Dorm Room | Now based in Boston, Lobby 7 has obtained venture capital from i-Group, an affiliate of Softbank, and is now working to raise its next round of financing. Greg Y. Tseng, 20, a senior at Harvard, started FlyingChickens.com, a price-comparison Web site, after finding that he could save $40 by buying a physics textbook on... |
1241081_0 | Another Kind of E-Book | No, the Internet isn't everywhere, but it will be by next year. That's when when Verizon Communications, the corporate successor to Bell Atlantic, sends out its new phone books, in which people will be able to list e-mail and personal Web page addresses, along with their phone numbers. The annual cost is $36 for each l... |
1240604_0 | Freud KO's Plato | HAPPINESS, DEATH, AND THE REMAINDER OF LIFE By Jonathan Lear. 189 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $24. Philosophy and psychoanalysis are related as fusion is to fission. Philosophers seek commonalities, psychoanalysts idiosyncrasies. Ever since Plato, philosophers have been trying to answer the question... |
1240686_11 | A Rare Opportunity For Real Architecture Where It's Needed | City, for example, the four towers are variously crowned with a pyramid, a ziggurat, a dome and a mastaba. Pelli's use of these symbols reflects the formalist idea that they have been cleansed of their original meanings by subsequent usage and can now be appreciated as abstract geometric shapes. I never bought this ide... |
1241669_1 | In the World of the Deaf, Hearing Poses Dangers | are deaf. His daughter, Heather, decides she wants an implant. He is opposed. Chris Artinian, Peter's brother, is not deaf, but he and his wife soon learn that their newborn son is. And they very much want him to have the implant surgery. The opposing viewpoints make for painful family confrontations. ''It's not intend... |
1241760_0 | Liberties; Boys Going Batty | Baseball isn't only about testosterone, of course. It can be about estrogen. A girlfriend of mine in New York decided to root for the Mets because she knows more cute guys she wants to date who are Mets fans. ''Some women pick their team based on the reproductive possibilities,'' she says. But on the subway to Yankee S... |
1241767_1 | METRO BRIEFING | and Lexington Avenue subway station, where the lighting is poor and flooding has caused structural damage. State Senator Roy M. Goodman and E. Virgil Conway, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said yesterday that the four-year project at the station, one of the busiest in the city with 64,000 pa... |
1241674_3 | Job Seekers Are Looking Out for No. 2 | trend. ''People don't operate today out of fear and trepidation,'' said Mordean Taylor-Archer, an associate provost at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., who deals with career issues. ''They are more willing and open to talk about their needs -- their spouse, their kids.'' And their standard of living. The eco... |
1241608_6 | Internet Radio Offers a Wide Choice to a Slim Audience | has listened to Internet-only radio. But radio stations have had 75 years to build a following; Internet-only stations have had less than three years. Three years is like three centuries for video game fans. After ''Totally Intense'' starts, the program's host, Pete Hallen, enters the fray on Eyada.com's game server, a... |
1241790_0 | Gene Modified Corn Is Found in Japan | The Consumers Union of Japan said today that it has found traces of a controversial genetically modified corn from the United States in snack foods and animal feed sold here. The results of the group's tests are likely to kick off a firestorm of protest here, where opposition to genetically modified foods is strong. Of... |
1241698_0 | Ford Shows Off Devices for Improved Safety and Mileage | Seeking to restore its reputation for safety and respond to high gasoline prices, the Ford Motor Company announced today a half-dozen high-technology approaches to improving traffic safety and gas mileage. Among the devices demonstrated at a news conference were tiny cameras that will send images from all around a vehi... |
1239492_0 | Where U.S. Power Is Beside the Point | The recent history of United States engagements in the Arab-Muslim lands is best told through the names of American battleships and destroyers. That history of sorrow and heartbreak telescopes easily. A generation ago, in 1984, it was the battleship New Jersey, off the coast of Lebanon, with its 16-inch guns shelling t... |
1239484_1 | China Plans to Divert Rivers to Thirsty North | huge Three Gorges Dam now under construction along the Yangtze, intended to produce power and reduce floods, the river diversion scheme will not require the resettlement of large populations. But its high cost and possible environmental effects have long been subjects of debate. The third, longer-term part of the plan ... |
1239494_0 | Reminders Issued on Firestone Tire Replacements | Concerned that consumers are not getting the word that Bridgestone/ Firestone would replace some 700,000 suspect tires outside of the 6.5 million it has recalled, several states issued public reminders of the offer today. Some of the states, including Michigan and New York, also said they had won a promise from the tir... |
1239490_0 | Farmers Cite Scarce Data In Corn Mixing | Some farmers who planted a variety of bioengineered corn unapproved for human consumption say they were not adequately warned about restrictions on how it was to be planted, stored and sold, despite suppliers' claims to have done so. Farmers in several Midwestern states have said they were not told that the corn, known... |
1239474_2 | Editorial Observer; A Reassuring Scorecard for Affirmative Action | that affirmative action appointees perform badly or diminish the overall performance of the economy. Women hired under affirmative action, they say, largely match their male counterparts in credentials and performance. Blacks and Hispanics hired under affirmative action generally lag behind on credentials, such as educ... |
1235890_0 | FOOTLIGHTS | NEWS Time Travel What might it have been like to dine nearly 2,000 years ago in the great city that bestrode the trade routes between East and West in the Roman Empire? That city was Antioch, now Antakya in southern Turkey. Then the capital of ancient Syria, Antioch ranked with Rome, Carthage and Constantinople in the ... |
1235960_0 | Suffolk Votes to Ban Cell Phones on the Road | The county that could be considered Cell Phone Central -- home of the Hamptons and other enclaves where the phones are as popular on playgrounds as at poolside -- moved last night to curb the use of the phones in cars. In a 12-to-6 vote, the Suffolk County Legislature made driving with a hand-held cell phone a crime, c... |
1235952_1 | Judge Upholds F.D.A. Policy On Genetically Altered Foods | genetic engineering did not change food in a ''material'' way. The lawsuit, filed by the Alliance for Bio-Integrity and by some scientists and clergy members, said that lack of labeling and mandatory safety testing violated food safety laws. The suit also asserted that the F.D.A. had not allowed for proper public comme... |
1238392_0 | Aventis Gives Up License To Sell Bioengineered Corn | The Environmental Protection Agency effectively revoked the license yesterday for the genetically engineered corn that has now been linked to the nationwide recalls of two brands of taco shells. The agency said the developer of the corn, Aventis S.A., had agreed to voluntarily cancel its marketing license ''at the stro... |
1239938_4 | New Media Meets An Old Medium In the Phone Book | 550-1222. Still, there's a time lag that makes many people postpone ordering. The next Manhattan phone book, for example, does not come out until early fall of 2001. The e-mail address, which Verizon calls an ''e-dress,'' is by far the most popular feature offered, said Cedric Brown, the only operator currently assigne... |
1239978_1 | Ford Says 3rd-Quarter Results Fell Because of Tire Troubles | has prompted Bridgestone/Firestone to undertake a broad reorganization, with Japanese executives taking control of key operations, the companies announced today. Ford's third-quarter profit from continuing operations dropped 16 percent, to $994 million, compared with $1.19 billion in the 1999 period. Ford estimated tha... |
1240060_2 | SENATE APPROVES EASING SANCTIONS ON FOOD TO CUBA | allow pharmacies and wholesalers to reimport cheaply priced American-made prescription drugs that had been exported, with certain restrictions. In addition to the provision on Cuba, the bill permits the sale of food and medicine to Iran, Sudan, Libya and North Korea, transactions that are in large part already permitte... |
1239907_2 | Drive-Time Radio On 100 Channels; Digital Transmissions Could Transform Radio In the Car and at Home | of automobile owners indicated that they would probably subscribe to a digital satellite radio service in the next two to three years, according to Michael Reid, a Paragon Research senior vice president who conducted the study. With 200 million cars on the road and 4 million more added each year, just a 1 percent subsc... |
1239963_1 | Shanghai Journal; In This Job, the Suspense Might Really Be Killing | their living here by climbing over lofty precipices and into thin air with buckets of soapy water in hand. Lean and leathery Zhai Xiang yang, taking a break from the facade of Shanghai's New World Department Store, said his ''heart was terrified'' the first time he stepped off the edge of a tall building. His palms swe... |
1239923_3 | In Modern E-Mail Romances 'Trash' Is Just a Click Away | transporting nuclear weapons across a rope bridge. You have to be on your toes: funny but not obnoxious, charming yet not hammy, deep but not psychotic, all on the spot. An e-mail message, however, can go through multiple drafts; wording and tone can painstakingly be thought out, reviewed, edited and, if it's not quite... |
1240434_2 | Maili Suu Journal; Living at Ground Zero of Possible Atomic Disaster | littering Central Asia as a legacy of Soviet domination. Some are well known, like the former nuclear testing site at Semey in northern Kazakhstan, known as Semipalatinsk in Soviet times. Others are obscured by decades of secrecy. No one knows how many Soviet-era repositories of uranium waste and toxic chemicals are sc... |
1240418_0 | Modern and Postmodern, the Bickering Twins | Where are the manifestoes of yesteryear? There was a time when declarations of aesthetic commitment were commonplace. There was Futurism (as foreseen by its prophet, Filippo Marinetti, in 1909): ''Except in struggle, there is no more beauty.'' There was Cubism (as proclaimed by Apollinaire in 1913): ''We are moving tow... |
1240496_4 | Skiff That Bombed U.S. Destroyer Now Said to Have Moved In Alone | the officials said, raising questions about the crew's security procedures as the destroyer was refueling in a port considered dangerous. A senior Navy official said the ship's captain, Cmdr. Kirk S. Lippold, had reported by telephone to commanders in the region in the hours after the attack that the crew believed the ... |
1240527_1 | U.N. Assembly Adopts Resolution Condemning Israel for an 'Excessive Use of Force' | Arafat, to agree. ''We are not yet certain whether or not normalcy will be restored,'' Mr. Annan said. ''We can only wait and hope. The next few days are vital.'' After the secretary general left, 47 speakers asked to address the emergency session, before the resolution was overwhelmingly adopted late tonight by a vote... |
1242076_0 | E-Mail Bridges | To the Editor: As the principal of P.S. 287, I would like to add my voice to the discussion about the benefits of e-mail mentoring (''E-Mail Gives Students More Choices for Career Advice,'' Oct. 12). Our elementary school began an e-mail mentoring program with the employees of the Securities Industries Automation Corpo... |
1242069_0 | Hold That Listing | To the Editor: Verizon's decision to let people list personal e-mail addresses in the phone directory is ill conceived (''New Media Meets Old Media in the Phone Book,'' Oct. 26). Anyone who has unfortunately listed an e-mail address in a newsgroup or other public forum has been the victim of people who troll for e-mail... |
1241968_1 | Saudi to Direct U.N. Program Aimed at Controlling Population | of cutting population growth worldwide. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who announced the appointment at a news conference, also nominated Ruud Lubbers, a former prime minister of the Netherlands, as the new United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Mr. Lubbers's appointment goes to the General Assembly for approval... |
1242012_2 | Bioengineered Corn Reportedly Detected in Japan | consumer group released test results showing traces of StarLink in chicken feed. The tests on the cornmeal were conducted by Genetic ID Japan, an affiliate of the Iowa-based research lab that found StarLink in store-bought taco shells in the United States last month. Those tests were conducted on behalf of groups oppos... |
1242027_2 | Clinton Almost Blames Arafat for Not Controlling Violence | those proposals, saying they did not go far enough. Although Mr. Clinton stopped short of attacking Mr. Arafat -- with whom he had what one American diplomat called ''an inconclusive'' telephone conversation on Tuesday -- he pointedly omitted the Palestinian leader this morning from his short list of those who seek to ... |
1241978_0 | Corn Developer Appeals to E.P.A. | Aventis CropScience, the developer of StarLink corn, asked government regulators today to allow its use in food for four years, saying new studies demonstrated ''reasonable certainty'' that consumers would not be harmed. The request by the developer, a unit of Aventis, was made as a coalition of environmental groups an... |
1241952_0 | China Says Huge Dam Project Is Going Smoothly | Stung by torrents of criticism of the giant Three Gorges Dam being built on the Yangtze River, Chinese officials announced today that construction and population resettlement were proceeding smoothly, and that costs were well within budget. The dam, which will create the world's largest hydroelectric project and a huge... |
1241972_0 | Proceedings Are Consolidated In Federal Tire Recall Cases | A panel of federal judges decided today to consolidate in Indianapolis the pretrial proceedings in all but one of the 64 federal lawsuits against Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and the Ford Motor Company involving the failure of Firestone tires on Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles. The panel's decision is a victory for ... |
1238630_0 | Judge Overturns Lead-Paint Control Law, Citing 'Perfunctory' Review by City Council | The lead-paint control law that New York City enacted last year has been overturned by a judge who faulted the City Council for not making a required review of the law's environmental impact. The decision, by Justice Louis B. York of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, said that although state and city procedures require... |
1238633_1 | Case Illustrates Risks of Altered Food | the advisory panel examining StarLink concluded earlier this year that ''there is no evidence to indicate'' that the protein ''is or is not a potential food allergen.'' StarLink, made by Aventis SA, is one of several genetically modified corn strains known as BT corn, so named because they contain a gene from the Bacil... |
1238649_0 | NEW CONCERNS RISE ON KEEPING TRACK OF MODIFIED CORN | Efforts to trace shipments of a bioengineered corn unapproved for human consumption have raised concern among food and grain industry officials that the corn -- which has already been discovered in two brands of grocery products -- may have made its way more widely into production channels for the nation's food supply.... |
1238640_1 | Superpower Suddenly Finds Itself Threatened by Sophisticated Terrorists | war. ''But there is no magic bullet to solve the asymmetric method.'' Certainly, terrorist attacks are not a new phenomenon. A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, killing 241 American troops. In 1996 a truck bomb attack at the Khobar Towers housing complex near Dhahra... |
1236655_0 | On the Phone, at the Wheel (Watch Out!) | To the Editor: Re ''Suffolk Votes to Ban Cell Phones on the Road'' (news article, Oct. 4): Perhaps Suffolk County's move to curb the use of cell phones while driving will be the breakthrough that will have a domino effect. I hope that we will follow the lead of other countries and make this a federal act. It is remarka... |
1236727_2 | China Rushes to Adopt Genetically Modified Crops | world and set them working on seven broad areas. Genetic engineering was at the top of the list. Since then, the double helix has replaced the atom as the symbol of the modernization drive. Laboratories around the country are aiming their gene guns at pig and goat cells in hopes of developing pharmaceutical proteins an... |
1236724_1 | Clinton Demurs on Drug Imports and Cuba | other countries. The pressure to act was acute among farm state Republicans. But two Republican Cuban-American lawmakers from Florida, a major battleground in the November election, managed to win major concessions from Republican leaders on financing and on travel to Cuba. Mr. Clinton said today that he was not sure t... |
1236241_3 | Europe Finds Abortion Pill Is No Magic Cure-All | establishment. The abortion is a two-step process. A woman first takes mifepristone tablets, which blocks the action of progesterone, a hormone required to maintain a pregnancy, and then 36 to 48 hours later takes a second drug, misoprostol, which makes the uterus contract, expelling the fetal tissue. Both sets of the ... |
1241449_1 | Yemeni Supply Firm Emerges as a Focus of Inquiry Into Ship Attack | Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf and the Far East. That meant that at least some of the staff at Al Mansoob's offices knew at least 48 hours in advance about the Cole's progress through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea, that the ship was a guided-missile destroyer and that its arrival here would be the signal for ... |
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