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1217960_2 | As Cell Phone Use Explodes, Debate Over Health Risk Grows | cancer. Still, a few studies have linked cell phone use to the risk of brain cancer in laboratory animals. One study at the University of Adelaide in Australia showed that mice genetically predisposed to a type of cancer developed twice as many such cancers when exposed to cell phone radiation. The study was published ... |
1217954_2 | Privacy Can Be Elusive In the World of E-Mail | incoming and outgoing messages for legal and in-house security reasons. Employers generally have the legal right to read any employee mail that passes through the corporate mail servers, so you may want to keep that in mind. In general, it is wise to avoid sending personal information like your credit card or Social Se... |
1217974_0 | Biotech Foods Are Safe | To the Editor: Re ''Food Companies Urged to End Use of Biotechnology Products'' (Business Day, July 20): The biotechnology industry fully supports food product labeling that is accurate, informative and not misleading. A rigorous labeling policy for biotech foods is in place today and enforced by the Food and Drug Admi... |
1217990_1 | Wiretapping in Cyberspace | calls, for example, that go through AT&T. But new technology is making it possible for agencies like the F.B.I. to scan, read and record millions of pieces of e-mail on the network of an Internet service provider. Until now, this kind of power and its potential for abuse were not so readily available. Current wiretappi... |
1217948_2 | Divided Data Can Elude the Censor | Usenet system of Internet newsgroups. But Dr. Rubin said that Publius is more advanced because messages on Usenet can expire, and messages put on newsgroups cannot later be reliably deleted from all servers by the author. As more people go online, protecting speech on the Internet is becoming an increasingly popular no... |
1214872_4 | In the 'Greened' World, It Isn't Easy to Be Human | government recently reversed its policy of preventing local residents from entering the forest. ''They designated a certain number of weeks in which people could come in and collect grasses and plants they use for baskets and as building materials, as long as they use traditional and nonmechanized means for doing so,''... |
1214279_3 | MANAGEMENT: Taking at the Office Reaches New Heights; Employee Larceny Is Bigger and Bolder | the fraud examiners' group. ''It makes it easier to rationalize fraudulent behavior.'' Then there is the widening gap between executive and worker compensation. Edward Wolff, an economics professor at New York University, says corporate chief executives made an average 400 times what their average employees did in 1998... |
1214355_2 | Police Hunt Masked Slasher Of Four Men in Prospect Park | Sicilia, commander of the Bias Investigating Unit. ''Then, boom, they are getting slashed and they are getting hit.'' Councilwoman Christine Quinn, former executive director of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, said that representatives from her office planned to meet with police investigators an... |
1214296_3 | Business Travel; Oh joyous day! Virgin Atlantic makes it possible for passengers to use cell phones on flights. | on in-flight aircraft because of some concerns that they could interfere with aircraft navigation systems. The prohibition, which is enforced on aircraft by the Federal Aviation Administration, was instituted by the Federal Communications Commission in landmark 1981 regulations that reallocated certain radio frequencie... |
1214216_3 | Don't Forget the Tetanus Booster | not the hotel's central reservations number. If you are one adult going to Mexico but you are taking a child, even your own, expect to be asked at the airline gate for a notarized letter saying you have sole custody, permission for the trip or that the other parent is dead. If you are traveling with someone else's chil... |
1214391_2 | After 213 Years, A.M.E. Church Elects First Woman as a Bishop | perquisites include paid housing and travel costs, and a car and driver. But some of the candidates who are pastors at large, influential churches already live with such perks. The A.M.E. Church was founded when a group of black worshipers were forced from their knees while praying at a segregated church in Philadelphi... |
1215933_0 | So, How About Those Viruses? | What kind of news are people really interested in? The National Science Foundation, always trying to reassure itself about the public's enthusiasm for taxing itself to support scientific research, has commissioned biennial surveys since 1979. Intended to gauge the level of public interest in science, with other issues ... |
1216270_0 | Food Companies Urged to End Use of Biotechnology Products | A coalition of consumer and environmental groups announced yesterday what they hope will be the biggest and best-organized effort yet in the United States to pressure food companies to abandon the use of genetically modified crops. Starting with the Campbell Soup Company, the coalition said it would target well-known f... |
1216326_3 | Economic Scene; The Internet is lowering the cost of advertising and searching for jobs. | searches. More than a third of professional, managerial and technical unemployed workers used the Internet to search for work, compared with 5 percent of manual workers. Surprisingly, although the Internet allows for faster and cheaper job searches, this might not lower unemployment. If workers can search for jobs more... |
1216361_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-14 Mideast Peace Talks To Continue Without Clinton President Clinton announced that the Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, and the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, decided to remain at Camp David while he flew off to Japan to continue searching for a solution for peace with Secretary of State Madelei... |
1211564_1 | Killings Drive Indonesians Into Risky Boats and Dangerous Seas | fishermen from a separate capsized boat -- their lives saved, perhaps, because of the loss of the Cahaya Bahari. Officials said strong currents might have swept the foundering vessel or its passengers out toward the mouth of the Pacific Ocean in stormy seas where the waves reached nine feet in height. They said the wat... |
1211578_0 | French Pique | Jealousy drives even great nations to do petty things. France offered an embarrassing demonstration of this truth earlier this week when it alone, of more than a 100 countries attending a conference on democracy held in Warsaw, refused to sign a final declaration of agreed principles. France helped launch the worldwide... |
1211593_1 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Are a Billion Chinese Grapefruit Compliant?; U.S. Citrus Growers Are Early Winners In Two-Way Agricultural Trade Accord | The Beijing Morning News, in one of many articles that have appeared recently about the American fruit. ''Once China joins the W.T.O., the story about the boy crying wolf will soon become a reality.'' Indeed, Western companies are drooling at the prospect of China's potentially huge market, aggressively promoting their... |
1211655_0 | Presbyterians Vote to Ban Clergy From Conducting Unions of Gays | In a close vote, the top policy-making body of the Presbyterian Church (USA) approved an amendment to the church's constitution tonight forbidding ministers from conducting same-sex unions. The decision, which will take effect next June if it is ratified by two-thirds of the church's regional jurisdictions, came after ... |
1211627_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-6 U.S. Sees New Threat in Iraq Missile Program Iraq has restarted its missile program and held flight tests for a short-range ballistic missile 18 months after American and British warplanes badly damaged its missile factories, officials said. A1 At Least 8 Killed at Concert Fans rushing the stage duri... |
1213697_3 | Suburban Genetics: Scientists Searching For a Perfect Lawn | are problems with the technology, then it won't come out. But we're following all the rules, taking all the precautions.'' Scotts, which is best known for its lawn fertilizer, Ortho pesticides and Miracle Gro plant food, is far ahead of its competitors in the race to create the raw material for perfect lawns. ''That's ... |
1213694_1 | A.M.E. Church May Elect Its First Woman as Bishop | women bishops, he said. The United Methodist Church became the first American denomination to elect a woman as bishop in 1981, and the Episcopal Church consecrated its first woman bishop in 1989. The A.M.E. Church traces its history to 1787, when black churchgoers protesting segregated worship walked out of a Methodist... |
1213657_0 | Colorfully Reinventing The Wheel | A COUPLE of weekends ago, Low Rider magazine's ''Boulevard'' tour set down at Old Bridge Raceway near Englishtown, N.J. There, owners showed off their sporty compact cars, customized in color schemes that ran from bright yellows and greens to lilacs, aubergines and salmons. But the color coordination sometimes went bey... |
1213584_4 | Ideas & Trends; In the Crowd's Frenzy, Echoes of the Wild Kingdom | Center in Atlanta. Among chimpanzees, he said, adult males often strut around intimidating others, shaking branches in the air or dropping them from trees, swinging from vines and hooting, dislodging stones and rolling them into the river. If the chimpanzees in one community greatly outnumber those of a neighboring tri... |
1212338_0 | Students'-Eye Views From the Classroom | Casey Fowler San Carlos Charter Learning Center It's hard enough to weather sixth grade under ideal circumstances, let alone hobbled by cerebral palsy. What consoles Casey Fowler, 13, whose twisted gait draws occasional titters from his classmates, is that he was not supposed to make it to school at all -- but he has b... |
1212279_3 | A Race to Save Roman Splendors From Drowning | who is coordinating work at the site. ''In Turkey we only employ staff archaeologists.'' The authorities have, however, accepted a $5 million grant from a California-based foundation, the Packard Humanities Institute. Louise Schofield, who represents the foundation here, said it might donate more money in the future. '... |
1212350_4 | Overdue, and Broke, Ukraine's Ship Comes In | to be deterred. On April 7, to a hero's send-off and much news media attention, the Bat'kivshchyna set sail from Kiev, the first boat of the season to test the ice-clogged Dnieper River. The next day, Captain Biriukovich's house was burglarized. On Day 7, the boat slammed aground when the helmsman fell asleep at the wh... |
1219074_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Food Challenged A report by the ABC correspondent John Stossel on ''20/20'' in February cited research that showed organic food seemed more likely than conventional food to be contaminated by E. coli bacteria. He also said that conventional produce did not necessarily have more pesticide residue than organic produce. B... |
1213846_0 | Teaching as a Career | To the Editor: Re ''As U.S. Debate Intensifies, Pay for Teachers Rises 3%'' (news article, July 5): While the difference in earnings between teaching and other professions may seem sufficient to explain America's teacher shortage, a number of other factors contribute to the problem. We need a stronger national effort e... |
1213862_1 | Wireless Unit Makes Sprint A Likely Takeover Target | digital nationwide wireless coverage, because that's where many people are betting the future is at.'' Sprint PCS, the company's wireless subsidiary, operates the largest all-digital wireless network in the country, covering an area reaching more than 70 percent of the population. Aided by revenue from wireless Interne... |
1213887_1 | Protestant Protests in Ulster Begin Peacefully but Turn Violent | an hour after the blocked march as religious leaders offered up prayer and political invective. Despite pouring rain, hundreds of supporters remained at the scene after the rally. Later, the crowd grew again, to about 1,000 demonstrators, who clashed with the soldiers, throwing bottles and stones and trying to break th... |
1216690_0 | Chipping Away at Embargo Reflects a New Vision of Cuba | Successive House and Senate votes on Thursday night to ease restrictions on American travel and certain sales to Cuba are the latest evidence of a gradual but seismic shift toward normalizing ties with the Marxist-run island, according to lawmakers and experts on Cuba. Republicans defected by the score from their party... |
1216711_3 | In Iran, More Women Leaving Nest for University | year is also widely attributed to a backlash from young women against their support for hard-line social restrictions. ''I don't think the conservatives as a whole have begun to really understand what the impact will be of having so many educated young women graduating from our universities,'' said Mohammad Javad Larij... |
1217533_1 | OBSERVATORY | than even the low end of previous estimates, which ranged from about $49 to $1,089. It is also far lower than the rain forest's global worth (which, while seemingly priceless, does have some estimates attached to it, in the range of $1,700 per hectare per year). ''Unless rural people are paid for the nonlocal values of... |
1217522_2 | 2 Flrs, Furn., Nice Vu (But a Little Shaky) | Filiatrault, a professor of structural engineering at San Diego and the project's principal investigator. For the last six months, a consortium of universities has been building, shaking and rebuilding a house atop a hydraulic ''shake table'' that simulates earthquake movements. In the July 11 test, the shake table fai... |
1217576_1 | The Internet Can't Free China | is already monitoring what goes out over the Internet and identifying where messages come from. Ask Huang Qi, if you can: authorities have detained him since June 3 for operating a Web site about human-rights abuses. Or ask Lin Hai, who served prison time for sending some 30,000 Chinese e-mail addresses to a dissident ... |
1217615_8 | POLL FINDS VOTERS RELYING ON ISSUES TO SHAPE THE RACE | person. The Republican strengths, according to those polled, are keeping the military potent and preserving family values. The two political parties that have not fared well are the Reform Party and Green Party. Both are seen negatively by most people. While poll respondents said they had a pretty good sense now of the... |
1217530_0 | Distracted at the Wheel | To the Editor: Re ''Cell Phones and Safety'' (editorial, July 19): It appears that using a cell phone while driving may not be a good practice. However, before any legislation is passed prohibiting the use of a cell phone while driving, the consequence of such legislation needs to be considered. For example, would one ... |
1212533_0 | TRADE FIGHT OVER RUM TRADEMARK | The European Union plans to ask the World Trade Organization to set up a panel to resolve a dispute with the United States over the use of the Havana Club rum trademark. The union is contesting a 1998 American law requiring foreign companies seeking to register trademarks that once belonged to companies expropriated by... |
1212454_1 | E-Signing Law Seen as a Boon To E-Business | new law came after 46 states and many foreign countries had adopted laws encouraging online deal-making, and many online businesses have already incorporated such capabilities. So it may be hard to calculate the immediate financial impact of the federal law on the major companies supplying such technology. ''It validat... |
1216026_0 | Cell Phones and Safety | There was a lot of debate about the safety implications of car radios when they were developed over 70 years ago. A similar debate is under way now about the use of hand-held cell phones in cars. On the face of it, cell phones are a much bigger potential distraction than radios. They require more concentration by the d... |
1216038_4 | British Authorities May Get Wide Power to Decode E-Mail | Angell said. ''They'll be allowed to go on fishing expeditions.'' It is not yet clear how much the measure will cost. The government has put aside 20 million pounds, or $30 million, to help businesses set up the new technology, but as it stands now, Internet service providers themselves would bear most of the costs of ... |
1216103_7 | Freeing a Hydroelectric Giant, California Frets About Control | Commission, which has spent the last several months conducting hearings. The commission has ordered a report, due in September, to examine the potential environmental impact of any hand-over. In the Legislature, one leading Democrat, Fred Keeley, has introduced a bill that would postpone the process, by authorizing the... |
1216020_1 | Business Travel; The air-traffic system approached gridlock over the weekend, with delays of up to eight hours. | overloading the circuits. ''They wouldn't tell us what was going on, which really annoyed me,'' Mr. Canady said. He was flying on Continental Airlines, but his complaint about not being able to get adequate information was echoed by other travelers on other carriers. Most scoffed when asked if their airlines had kept t... |
1216049_0 | Cellular Phones to Carry Radiation Level Label | Moving to ease concern over possible health risks from mobile phones, the largest manufacturers of cellular telephones are planning to disclose on their packages the radiation levels emitted from the devices they sell. Under a proposal submitted by the Cellular Telephone Industry Association, which represents several h... |
1214574_0 | Episcopal Bishops Bar Rites Outside Marriage | The bishops of the Episcopal Church, acting on the most contentious issue facing their denomination's General Convention, voted late today to reject a proposal that church officials develop rites to bless relationships between couples living together outside marriage, rituals that would probably be particularly applied... |
1214464_0 | Wireless Valhalla: Hints of the Cellular Future | IT is time for the ''S.M.S. Dating Game'' on Radio X3M. Romance is in the airwaves and Cupid carries a cell phone. Thumbs ready? In 160 characters or less, use the keypad on your mobile phone to type a description of yourself and your interests, and send it to the disc jockey's phone using the wildly popular Short Mess... |
1214516_0 | Building Peace in Ulster | The summer parade season in Northern Ireland is always a time of volatility, and this year is no different. But even the recent disturbances have been overshadowed by a common desire among Protestants and Catholics to strengthen a still-fragile peace. This year's marchers, who commemorate Protestant victories long ago,... |
1214478_3 | With Project Expanding Net's Reach, There Are No Strangers in Paradise | world to learn how similar problems are solved depending on geographic region.'' The Internet has also provided a wealth of information for the schools, which have few traditional library resources. Tiffany Southworth, an eighth grader at Pago Pago Elementary, said her class used the Internet to learn about protecting ... |
1214526_4 | Lord Runcie, Outspoken Anglican Leader, Is Dead at 78 | religion makes me go pop.'' Lord Runcie was later to describe their marriage as a ''union of duty with delight.'' He is survived by her and the couple's two children, James and Rebecca. In 1962 he became principal of a theological college near Oxford and in 1970 was consecrated bishop of St. Albans. He made himself an ... |
1214468_0 | High-Bandwidth Web Connections Will Let Passengers Surf as They Fly | MANY people have fallen for the lure of high-speed Internet access only to find it hard to get. Now Boeing is promising to make it available to people traveling 500 miles per hour at 30,000 feet. Airplanes stopped being a refuge for business travelers when satellite telephones were installed. On many planes, passengers... |
1214468_2 | High-Bandwidth Web Connections Will Let Passengers Surf as They Fly | Because of that, ground-based satellite users aim their dishes at a single, fixed point in the sky. Airliners, of course, are anything but stationary, so a geostationary satellite becomes a moving target. Space shuttles avoid the problem by communicating with ground-based satellite dishes that move mechanically to foll... |
1217714_0 | Cell Phone Hazards | To the Editor: In ''Cell Phones and Safety'' (editorial, July 19) you mention the debate 70 years ago about safety implications of car radios. Let this reader tell you that the only time he ran off the road was just five years ago -- while changing stations on the car radio. Recently in downtown Greenwich, Conn., I wat... |
1214805_3 | Collapse Dooms Building and Its Treasures | licensed architect or engineer. The inspector can be the same architect or engineer who drew up the plans. He said that no city inspectors visited the building before the plans submitted this week were approved. The younger Mr. Blum is known as a pioneer in the field of architectural salvage, and he has provided antiqu... |
1214722_1 | World Briefing | on Tuesday, is recovering, under police protection, at a local hospital. James Brooke (NYT) HAITI: U.S. WARNING -- The United States warned Haiti that it risked losing international aid if it did not quickly correct the flaws of its recent elections. Haiti held parliamentary and municipal elections on May 21 in which o... |
1214751_1 | Episcopalians In Agreement On Sexuality | relationships, but the church leaders focused almost entirely on its use in acknowledging long-term relationships among gay and lesbian Episcopalians. The resolution, approved by the church's bishops in a lopsided vote of 119 to 19, with 4 bishops abstaining, said the church expects long-term relationships among unmarr... |
1212952_8 | Street of Automotive Dreams | the Empire State Building. This 26-story tower rose atop the earlier three-story Colonnade Building by William Welles Bosworth, seemingly supported by its mammoth, trunklike Ionic columns. They now frame the windows of Coliseum Books. With a series of setbacks, this powerfully spare composition recalled the mesas of th... |
1212987_0 | France and Democracy | To the Editor: ''French Pique'' (editorial, July 1) ignores the main issues raised by the French foreign minister, Hubert Vedrine, when France declined to sign the Warsaw declaration of democratic principles. Mr. Vedrine's statement spoke about the need for democracy to grow from within a country and not be forced upon... |
1247670_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | Ecuador. The measure is intended to control trafficking of contraband weapons back into Brazil, which has contributed to a rising crime rate. It does not apply to the United States, the main market for Brazilian weapons. Larry Rohter (NYT) ARGENTINA: BEEF BAN LIFTED The United States has lifted a ban on Argentine beef ... |
1247611_0 | For People With Disabilities, Self-Expression in the Wool | Call them outsider rugs. At the News Gallery in SoHo, there is an exhibition of 33 hand-hooked, mostly wool rugs made by people who are mentally, physically or emotionally handicapped. The artists are from the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland, Calif., a day school for adults started in 1973. Some of them paint, so... |
1247617_0 | But Does Anybody Really Use This Stuff? | BECKY BREWER never used the Sharp Wizard electronic organizer she bought in 1999, yet in August she spent $250 for a more elaborate hand-held device, a Handspring Visor Deluxe. ''I thought the new look and feel would help me organize my life,'' said Ms. Brewer, a project manager for Matrix Group International, a northe... |
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1249788_1 | Pneumatic Car: Environmental Bonanza or a Lot of Hot Air? | speed of 60 m.p.h., and travel 120 miles on compressed air alone before needing a recharge from a home air compressor (four hours) or a service-station unit (three minutes). The air would be stored in carbon-fiber or fiberglass tanks at very high pressure (4,351 pounds per square inch), then combined with warmer outsid... |
1249824_0 | Company Says Tracing Problem Corn May Take Weeks | It might take weeks to figure out how the insect-killing trait in genetically altered StarLink corn migrated into a variety of corn that was not supposed to be genetically modified, according to the Garst Seed Company, the producer of the corn. Garst, which announced on Tuesday that it had encountered the biological my... |
1244810_0 | The Way We Live Now: 11-05-00: Salient Facts: Antismoking Campaigns; Blowing Smoke | BUTTING OUT Under the auspices of the World Health Organization, representatives of 150 countries got together in Geneva last month for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Aiming toward an international antismoking treaty by 2003, the conference represents an unprecedented effort to limit the use of a drug tha... |
1244804_1 | Traveling to Cuba Is as Tricky as Ever | food and medicine, only Cuba will be barred from paying for them with United States government credits or loans from private United States banks. That prohibition and the codification of the travel restrictions were added at the urging of Cuban-American members of Congress from Florida. And with that state widely regar... |
1244962_1 | From the Classroom To the Trenches | for all disabled students, special education has become one of the most pressing issues in schools today. With the broadening of the federal law, the number of eligible children has also crept upward, and the pressure on special education administrators has intensified proportionately. Yet to Diana Autin, executive dir... |
1244670_3 | Phoenicia Journal; Great Views, and a Peek Into the Past | in one caretaker couple living in a log cabin often heard porcupines gnawing and ''would grab her gun and shoot them while still in bed.'' In 1917, the Hunter tower was replaced by a porcupine-proof, 60-foot-high steel model, with the steel hauled up by horse and wagon. Eventually 23 towers were scattered in and around... |
1251296_1 | For All the Tall Ships, A Single Virtual Port | and is a former Air Force officer, started doing publicity three years ago for the Picton Castle, a 180-foot bark that sails out of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. In researching his task, Mr. Cerchione noticed barnacles on many of the 700-odd tall-ship Web sites he found. ''They weren't pulling a lot of hits,'' he said. Like ... |
1251341_0 | Self-Destructing E-Mail Offers Additional Security | What would Mr. Phelps, the leader of the Mission: Impossible team from the 1960's TV series, need to guarantee that his secrets are safe today? How about self-destructing e-mail? With SafeMessage from AbsoluteFuture, the sender chooses how long an e-mail will hang around before it is automatically deleted from the send... |
1243866_1 | Shinahota Journal; Where the Coca Trade Withers, Tourism Sprouts | troops skirmished just a week ago. Mr. Bakir said he hoped to complete his hotel by April, but a Bolivian bank cut off negotiations for a $2 million loan during the recent road blockades by coca growers hoping to protect their last illicit crops. Now the project is at a standstill. ''No country can prosper without peac... |
1245495_3 | Business Travel; Get as much information as possible before heading to potential trouble spots. | some simple bookings like New York to London, but for ''the complex international reservations, or the reservations to third world or difficult areas, live agents are probably always going to be involved'' because people feel more secure dealing with a professional. Incidentally, besides the State Department site, here... |
1245493_0 | Can Healthier Foods Help the Bottom Line?; Companies Find Gains in Your Loss | Andy and Rachel Berliner founded Amy's Kitchen, named for their newborn daughter, in 1988. Shocked by how much work caring for a baby could be, they decided there must be other people like them craving quick, convenient meals made from natural ingredients. They came up with products like frozen vegetable pot pie -- com... |
1245485_0 | Paths to Learning | To the Editor: Richard Rothstein is correct: while more Americans should attend college, a higher education alone will not solve the growing problems of economic equality (Lessons column, Nov. 1). The increasing demand for workers with precise technical skills has actually led to a growing number of options for high sc... |
1251218_0 | Who Is Winning the Fight for America's Heart?; Democracy Imperiled | To the Editor: Al Gore is right to fight (front page, Nov. 28). When the desire to wield power supplants the right of a voter to be heard -- especially when that vote may change the direction of the country -- then democracy itself is imperiled. The fact that a majority of citizens seem willing to ignore this truth bec... |
1249679_1 | Protests Are Stepped Up at Hague Talks on Greenhouse Gases | affairs, Frank E. Loy, had just begun defending the American stance in the talks, which has been criticized by European officials and environmental groups as too weak, when a woman jumped from her seat and threw the pie in his face. Wiping whipped cream from his lip, Mr. Loy cut short his talk and later issued a statem... |
1249570_0 | Where It Goes; Breaking Down All Those Computers: Glass Over Here, Plastic There | COMPUTER components have changed over the years, but a PC today is typically 40 percent steel, 30 percent to 40 percent plastic, 10 percent aluminum and 10 percent other metals, including copper, gold, silver, cadmium and platinum. A monitor adds glass and lead to the components. If a computer cannot be resold or donat... |
1249591_1 | All Used Up With Someplace to Go | nowhere to go. It has also raised questions about who is responsible for the expensive collection, transportation, dismantling and recycling of old computers. Last year, the National Recycling Coalition, an industry group, conducted the first large-scale survey of America's electronic recycling efforts. The results wer... |
1249657_0 | Luckiest Holiday Travelers Are Happy Non-Campers | On the rapid-transit train to Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, at 4:15 p.m. yesterday, Michael K. McNeil sat calmly with a large suitcase and a rolling carry-on, thinking maybe he should have packed a little lighter for his 5:35 flight to Rome, where he hoped to spend Thanksgiving with his in-laws in nearby Pe... |
1246320_3 | Making Economic Lifeline of a Wartime Trail | have not been asked to help although they have assisted other road projects, for instance repairing the current north-south route, Highway 1. Vietnamese leaders say the four-year, $680 million project will give a badly needed lift to its transportation system and will help develop the Central Highlands. And they are us... |
1246300_3 | Disappearance Under Scrutiny After 18 Years | When she vanished, investigators said they could not be sure whether Mrs. Durst had become the victim of violence or had chosen to flee a failing marriage. But her friends said Mrs. Durst would not have run away. ''I maintain that Kathy would not have left prior to graduation,'' said Gilberta Najamy, a close friend. ''... |
1250714_2 | METRO BRIEFING | against Cornell Cooperative Extension of Washington County and six other defendants. Two people died and hundreds were sickened after being exposed to the O157:H7 strain of E. coli, which had contaminated a well supplying food and drink vendors. An investigation determined that a Cooperative Extension 4-H dorm on the f... |
1245076_1 | E-Mail Part of the Effort To Turn Out the Voters | e-mail -- the cost is zero but the impact is exponential.'' In hundreds of campaigns, e-mail has replaced telephones as a way of lining up volunteers for Election Day. Daily e-mail alerts are being sent to voters, announcing last-minute rallies, rebutting attacks, heralding the latest newspaper endorsement and even hel... |
1245080_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | which advertised the e-tailers' goods in exchange for commissions. But e-tailers must cede control of their brands to their affiliates, and when a visitor clicks away to browse the e-tailer's site, the affiliate loses the visitor. But that is changing as companies create miniature, portable stores online. Through these... |
1243628_1 | Rio Dulce Journal; A Guatemalan Harbor, Away From Life's Storms | ''You make fast friendships, find what you have in common quickly,'' said Sonja Ericson, who arrived here with Dennis Russell a few months ago aboard the Golondrina to take a breather from the third year of an anticipated 10-year sailing adventure. ''Because you're always saying goodbye, you learn to appreciate the fri... |
1243679_3 | Supply, Demand, Wages and Myth | than similar nonunion workers. In 1997, only 21 percent of male workers with no education beyond high school were union members, down from 38 percent in 1978. Other economic changes have also played a role in the growth of the wage disparity. For example, high school graduates were more likely to work in manufacturing ... |
1243625_1 | Business Travel; It's easy to make wisecracks about airport gate screeners, but security is serious business. | who operate the baggage scanners and metal detectors that we all trudge through -- are honest, low-paid working stiffs who tend to encounter the general population in less than ideal circumstances. Given the stress and tension that cling to any airport like clammy weather, hostilities sometimes ensue at the gates. Regu... |
1248931_0 | More Students Are Saying That a Big Paycheck Can Wait | LEE DAVENPORT, a recent graduate of the University of Texas, was headed for a business career. But Mr. Davenport thought he would first do a stint in the National Civilian Community Corps, a unit of AmeriCorps, a government-sponsored program based in Washington that focuses on community service. In the late 1990's, whe... |
1248950_2 | More Than a Name Change: A Foundation Goes Digital | in the form of hard copy, but welcomes proposals by e-mail. In New York, the Russell Sage Foundation, which finances and publishes research in the social sciences, allows grant applicants to submit their proposals by e-mail attachments. ''It saves paper and it's far quicker,'' said Jennifer Nespole, a program associate... |
1246553_4 | Disrupter of Families? A Book Questions Homework | how to complete the project,'' they wrote. ''We have become accountable for our children's learning. To whom, then is the school itself accountable?'' LOREN Pope, who advises families on a college placement, is known as a guru who helps students with B's and C's find the right colleges. He has now expanded a book on th... |
1246748_0 | Canada's 'Gentle Giants' Await Vanishing Winter | Polar bears, their white coats tinged with yellow after a summer of fasting on the tundra, are gathering here on the western shores of the Hudson Bay, waiting for sea ice that once again will free them from land, allowing them to hunt seals. Almost imperceptibly, this timeless tableau on treeless salt marshes is changi... |
1246796_5 | Mentally Retarded Man Facing Texas Execution Draws Wide Attention | would wander around the neighborhood, his mother locked him in his room for long periods without food or water. ''When the poor kid got thirsty,'' his sister said, ''she'd make him drink his'' urine ''out of the toilet.'' Ms. Gonzales added that as a child she had also seen her mother force Johnny, then a toddler, to e... |
1248118_1 | Turning Private And Public Inside Out | e-mail the employees had believed to be private. At a conference on privacy at the New School University last month, the titles of sessions told the story: ''The Rise and Fall of Privacy,'' ''Invasions of Privacy,'' and ''Is Privacy Now Possible?'' As Scott McNealy, the chief executive of Sun Microsystems, recently pro... |
1248118_3 | Turning Private And Public Inside Out | a public life and has no private life seems not fully human. But the citizen whose private life is not fully public also has something to complain about. ''In the modern world,'' Arendt wrote in ''The Human Condition'' (1958), ''the two realms indeed constantly flow into each other.'' How has this come to pass? Conside... |
1249428_1 | WORLD BRIEFING | a consumer scare over mad cow disease. The largest farmers' union called the amount ''clearly insufficient.'' The European Union has agreed to expand testing, but not to ban ground-up carcasses in animal feed, a move adopted by France last week. Donald G. McNeil Jr. (NYT) VATICAN: ROLE OF MARRIAGE -- The Vatican critic... |
1249446_4 | Software That Tracks E-Mail Is Raising Privacy Concerns | more like visiting a Web site, with all the attendant privacy risks. But for many Internet users, such risks may seem more acceptable on the Web than they do in their ''in'' box. Sophisticated Internet users know that when they click on a Web advertisement they are probably exposing themselves to scrutiny, and that it ... |
1249425_1 | U.S. Safety Panel Begins Inquiry on Goodyear Tires | replaced 160,000 tires on Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles and been widely criticized for not having provided more information to regulators during a 1993 inquiry of tires on Ford Bronco II sport utility vehicles. Regulators have been reviewing safety data on tires made by the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company. An... |
1249449_0 | Aventis Says More Genetically Altered Corn Has Been Found | The Aventis Corporation said yesterday that a genetically altered protein unapproved for human consumption had been discovered in a variety of corn that could be headed toward the nation's food supply. The announcement came just two months after Aventis acknowledged that StarLink, a variety of corn that contained the s... |
1250876_0 | Companies Seek Looser Rules on Labeling Genetically Altered Seed | In wake of the latest incident of genetic crop contamination, American seed companies are renewing a push to establish standards that would allow a small amount of genetically engineered material in bags of seeds and still have those seeds considered free of modification. The American Seed Trade Association maintains t... |
1250876_1 | Companies Seek Looser Rules on Labeling Genetically Altered Seed | has been approved for animal use but not human consumption because of concerns it could cause allergic reactions. While the reason for that contamination is not known, one possibility is there could have been a mix-up in seed handling at the Garst Seed Company, which produced both StarLink seeds and the seed containing... |
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