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1250955_0 | Guggenheim Gets Backing for New Museum | The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has won the right, and the financial backing of the city, to build a curvilinear outpost on the East River, officials at City Hall said late yesterday, calling the museum's $678 million proposal crucial to an effort to revitalize a large swath of Lower Manhattan. The new 40-story museum... |
1250813_4 | From Jungle to Space in Pursuit of New Drugs | on four later flights focused on crystallizing extracts of an enzyme involved in Chagas' disease and on the development of compounds that might be useful in treating it. One strategy is to find a substance that will bind with a protein made by the parasite and keep it from multiplying. With that hope, Earth University ... |
1250830_1 | British Toy Store Is Offering New Holiday Sale Item: Itself | whose Alchemy Partners came close to buying Rover Cars of Britain from BMW of Germany earlier this year, Mr. Moulton said. With its banks of soft toys, model trains, Barbies and radio-controlled cars, Hamleys has long been seen as the acme of British toy stores, known among children for its wide range of offerings and,... |
1250840_2 | Leticia Journal; Dancing Across an Imaginary Line in the Jungle | and 'my Brazilian wife,' or 'my Brazilian kids' and 'my Colombian kids.' '' As for the local governments, their relationship is perhaps best described as symbiotic. Official talks are under way to build a binational sewage and garbage disposal system, but over the years the authorities have informally devised any numbe... |
1246139_0 | Clearing the Runway | Congestion at La Guardia Airport is more than an inconvenience to local travelers. It has become an unacceptable bottleneck in the nation's air traffic system, accounting for a quarter of all flight delays in September. Before it gets worse, the Federal Aviation Administration has rightly stepped in to alleviate the si... |
1246117_2 | In China, Ancient History Kindles Modern Doubts | culture's primacy and uniqueness, have tried to leapfrog the slow, disorderly march of science. Project researchers resolutely deny anyone told them what to find, but critics say they have forced an illusion of consensus in some cases. ''There's a chauvinistic desire to push the historical record back into the third mi... |
1245832_0 | Indian-Graves Fight Forces Change in Missouri River Power | A federal court has forced a major shift in hydroelectric power operations along the Missouri River, in a ruling intended to provide at least temporary safeguards for Indian graves that are being exposed by record-low water levels. The ruling, issued on Monday night, requires the Army Corps of Engineers to maintain the... |
1244291_0 | Returning to Freud for Help With the Riddles of Philosophy | ''I say this whole picture of striving toward something needs to be criticized,'' said Jonathan Lear. Mr. Lear is talking about nothing less than death and happiness. That may not seem odd for a philosophy professor. Still, at a time when departments are dominated by Kantian abstractions and the narrow logical construc... |
1244306_4 | Protecting a Favorable Image; Biotechnology Concerns in Quandary Over Drug Giants | Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain in March that seemed to question patents on genes knocked $100 billion in market value from the biotechnology industry in a day. Some big drug companies, primarily users of genetic information, have joined in consortiums to help prevent some raw genetic data from being patented. The... |
1249991_1 | Bishops' Visit Shows Rift Over Episcopal Leadership | related to issues of sexual ethics had prompted some Episcopalians to seek support from Anglicans abroad, which in turn has fostered a ''skewed perspective'' overseas about what the church is really like. This year, some heads of church provinces in the Southern Hemisphere have provided ample evidence that they take a ... |
1249128_0 | SCIENTIST AT WORK: Ingo Potrykus; Golden Rice in a Grenade-Proof Greenhouse | In a quiet village on the outskirts of Zurich, a genetically engineered strain of rice that its creator says could save millions of children's lives is locked up in a grenade-proof greenhouse as if it were the Frankenstein monster that some critics contend it is. Unlike any other rice on earth, this so-called golden ri... |
1249237_0 | U.S. Nears Decision on Investigation of Goodyear Tire Safety | Federal officials are in the final stages of studying whether to open a formal investigation into the safety of Goodyear tires on large pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans, a person close to the study said tonight. Goodyear said recently that it had received reports of 15 deaths in crashes attributed to the ... |
1249127_1 | Doctor Plans Off-Shore Clinic for Abortions | place a $50,000 mobile clinic that was being built to be placed aboard a ship. Advance publicity has already generated the kind of controversy and open discussion she is seeking. In Malta, where abortion is strictly illegal, news of the proposed ship set off protests but also drew out the unexpected voices of abortion ... |
1249281_1 | Fujimori Resignation Sets Off Succession Scramble in Peru | that Peru's long roller-coaster of a political crisis may be coming to an end was summed up by the simple banner headline in today's Liberacion newspaper: ''Finally!'' But Mr. Fujimori's resignation, following months of corruption scandals and turmoil in his own ranks, left many questions unanswered, and his country's ... |
1249151_0 | Let Priests Marry | To the Editor: ''No Longer Eager to Say, 'My Son, the Priest'; Religious Careers Lose Luster for Catholic Parents'' (news article, Nov. 19), about the trouble that the Roman Catholic Church is having attracting men to the priesthood, focuses on the lack of financial incentive, the availability of other professions and ... |
1248787_3 | Defiant Chinese Muslims Keep Their Own Time | to display and preserve their cultural heritage. ''Most Uighurs are not very religious, its just that this is the only way they are allowed to express themselves.'' Although Uighurs often accuse the Chinese of actively trying to erase their culture, and for many years the Beijing government transferred state employees ... |
1248519_7 | Hiking: A Prescription for Tranquillity | with county park pass and $7 without, but collected in summer months only. Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Pocantico Hills How kind of the Rockefeller family to let the rest of us traipse around their backyard. The extensive network of trails was originally developed for carriage use. Horses still share the gorgeous p... |
1248400_1 | Practical Traveler; Air Tickets Shred a Barrier | for inter-airline connections. And if something like a cancellation requires the passenger to be put aboard another airline, the original airline must convert the electronic record into a paper ticket and endorse it over to the second airline. Kathie Lia, Trans World Airlines' director of distribution planning, said th... |
1248785_2 | An Amazon Chief Paves Captain's Way | band would play a make-up show at a later date. Decades passed. But soon after Survival dragged anchor and was damaged on the reef, Kelly procured a fax number for Jagger -- the singer owns an estate on the island of Mustique -- and sent a letter asking him to make good on his promise. ''I want to get all the other old... |
1248807_0 | Ideas & Trends; Ebb and Flow of Opinion: Big Dam Projects | IF construction on the mammoth Three Gorges Dam project in central China is completed as scheduled three years from now, a 390-mile reservoir will drive the world's largest hydroelectric plant, providing energy and flood control to a country desperate for both. But the project will also have displaced more than one mil... |
1248376_0 | The Brandenburg Gate: Undercover Again | The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a symbol of a unified Germany, disappeared under scaffolding early this month for a 16-month face lift. The project is aimed at shoring up the monument's unstable 18th-century foundations and using laser technology to strip years of grime from its neo-Classical stonework. The cost of the... |
1245311_1 | Group Reports Genetic Corn in European Food | group, Friends of the Earth, said yesterday that tests that it commissioned had detected a bioengineered corn variety called Roundup Ready, made by Monsanto, in four brands of tortilla chips sold in Britain and Denmark. The corn, made to be resistant to Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, has been approved for consumption in... |
1245246_0 | Cell Phone or Pheromone? New Props for the Mating Game | ''Is that a cell phone you're taking out of your pocket? Well, then, I'm glad to see you!'' That, it seems, is the fondly imagined fantasy of the ambitious young lads of Liverpool, who, a new study shows, regard their mobile phones less as practical business tools than as handy little mate lures. Observing patrons at a... |
1245339_4 | Taming the Chinese Hinterland; Beijing Tries to Lift Economic Standards in Its West | jolting three-hour ride on rough roads to reach Chengdu, the provincial capital. ''For anyone who wants to come to West China, infrastructure is the biggest challenge,'' said the company's Asia-Pacific chief, Henry Leung. Another challenge, he said, is keeping good people. Few educated young Chinese want to live in rem... |
1250126_4 | President at the Re-Creation | happiness' for what would have been a crass reference to property.'' This is, to say the least, a controversial assertion for which Diggins does not provide any evidence. At other places, however, Diggins suggests that Lincoln was reinterpreting the Declaration in the way that some modern Supreme Court justices have re... |
1250235_0 | F.Y.I. | A Sort-of Leaning Tower Q. I'm curious about the steeple of Grace Church at Broadway and East 10th Street, which appears to lean slightly to one side when viewed from Broadway. Has it always been like this, or is there concern it might be getting worse? A. ''It's not an optical illusion,'' said Robert C. Bates, an arch... |
1250119_4 | Bookend; Fold -- No, Click -- Here | the keyboard. It could be altered on the screen -- details added or highlighted, scale and perspective changed and then printed out. Someone sitting at the computer screen could generate a custom-made map in the time it must have taken early chartmakers to draw a single rhumb line as a bearing for mariners navigating a... |
1250426_1 | Bittersweet Tasks in Cereal City | to the grocery store to see how people shop,'' said Tim O'Day, a longtime friend and an executive at the Leo Burnett Company, Kellogg's advertising agency. ''He wants to know what's happening in stores, what people are responding to.'' Indeed, Wall Street analysts say Mr. Gutierrez, 47, has brought a fresh and open app... |
1250297_4 | For Maryknoll Sisters, Some Memories Don't Fade | in the middle of the past century: 650 nuns this year compared with 733 in 1946. But the doors swing in far more frequently now: about 250 sisters live at Maryknoll full-time, back from their work overseas. The convent sees one or two women profess vows each year, yet buries an average of 25 annually. The woman who fou... |
1820729_6 | In Live Bacteria, Food Makers See A New Bonanza | support claims that probiotics could ward off cancer, allergies, high blood pressure and other diseases. ''It's early in terms of the research,'' he said. Mr. Schardt, the nutritionist with the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said the claims of many probiotic foods and supplements were not backed by scientif... |
1820753_0 | Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Newark: Airport Security Official Resigns | Gerard Grandinetti, the federal official in charge of overseeing and hiring 1,100 airport screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport, has resigned. Ann Davis, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration, confirmed yesterday that Mr. Grandinetti resigned on Friday, citing personal reasons. Last w... |
1822208_1 | The Pluses and Pitfalls Of Job-Seeking at Work | employees believe that the office is the most convenient or effective place to do a job search. And people who are unhappy with their jobs sometimes believe that they are entitled to use the workplace to find something better. There are no statistics on the extent of the practice, but according to workplace experts and... |
1822209_5 | From Tech Workers to Nurses, an Employee's Market | need people who can help them get the technology to work.'' Another high-growth area is energy, said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight, a consulting firm. Refinery and drilling jobs have increased, he said, as have jobs in alternative and synthetic fuels. While the overall number of added jobs may be... |
1822086_4 | Someone (Other Than You) May Own Your Genes | to reach a confidential settlement; it allows certain laboratories to continue collecting royalties but lets institutions, doctors and scientists use the patented gene sequences without paying. There are many other examples of life patents causing public concern. One of the most important examples involves patents on f... |
1822060_0 | Raining E-Blows On Egos | THEY pour into your e-mail in-box, as explicit as they are relentless, with subject lines too shameful to share with colleagues. Enlarge your penis! Shrink your waistline! Enhance your sex life! Delete, delete, delete. But they reappear, as relentless as they are explicit, with pop-up pictures embarrassing for the boss... |
1817876_0 | Bush to Propose Restoring Iraqi Factories to Create Jobs | A new effort to revitalize Iraqi factories that make vegetable oil, fertilizer, road signs and sulfuric acid -- among the world's most outdated and decrepit -- is expected to be at the center of the plan for the nation that President Bush will present Wednesday. But even before the measures are announced, Iraqi politic... |
1822800_0 | Accord on Increasing Pell Grants | The maximum federal grant for middle- and low-income students to attend college would increase for the first time in four years under a catchall spending bill that House and Senate Democrats agreed to on Tuesday. The measure would complete budget issues left over from 2006. The increase, announced by the chairmen of th... |
1822791_1 | The Human Rights Of a Disabled Child | parents wanted to make Ashley's body continue to match her mental age. But that treats her as an object to be ''designed,'' not as a natural person to be respected whatever her state. This is where human dignity comes in. The two radically opposed versions are intrinsic human dignity (we have dignity just because we ar... |
1817575_0 | MEMO PAD | MISHANDLED BAGS -- Customer complaints in November about bags mishandled by domestic airlines rose to 6.32 percent per 1,000 passengers, from 5.04 percent in November 2005, the Transportation Department said. Of 20 airlines in the report, the five with the fewest complaints per thousand passengers were Aloha, Hawaiian,... |
1817599_5 | Clean Air or TV: Paying in Pollution For Energy Hunger; India and China Explore Alternatives, but Too Often The Diesel Generator Rules | quickly. A Japanese project in Bhutan was recently destroyed this way. ''The villagers shrugged and said, 'Nobody asked us, we knew every third year there would be a flood,' '' Ms. Mongia, the United Nations energy expert, said. Wind energy has found few applications in rural villages, because the turbines, even though... |
1816131_6 | Fighting Over Gold In the Land of Dracula | tailings in Baia Mare, or Great Mine, roughly 80 miles north of Rosia Montana. Like Gabriel Resources, the company promised a state-of-the-art, self-contained project that would not pose risks to the environment. But less than a year later, the dam holding back a lake of cyanide-laced water burst, sending 100,000 cubic... |
1816141_3 | Political Paper Stolen, Giuliani Camp Says | the document, which includes printed text, handwriting and spreadsheets, The News drew the conclusion that Mr. Giuliani appeared torn between seeking the White House and continuing his business endeavors, which include consulting on leadership and security issues, a law practice and an investment concern. One page in t... |
1816064_8 | Be It Ever So Homespun, There's Nothing Like Spin | consultant, predicted that the fascination with what she called the green identifiers will last about five years longer. Then, she said, green-elite food consumers will push companies for even more information about environmental impact, labor practices and community involvement, and mass market consumers will start re... |
1816344_2 | Mother Wonders If Psychosis Drug Helped Kill Son | that the weight he gained while on Zyprexa caused his heart attack. Zyprexa, taken by about two million people worldwide last year, is approved to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Besides causing severe weight gain, it increases blood sugar and cholesterol in many people who take it, all risk factors for heart... |
1819398_4 | Preservation Commission Turns Down Proposal for Upper East Side Tower | The commission's vice chairman, Pablo E. Vengoechea, an urban planning expert, said the height of the tower ''just overwhelms the Parke-Bernet building.'' Another commissioner, the architect Stephen F. Byrns, argued that ''Madison Avenue must maintain its low scale, with the Carlyle tower's prominence undiminished.'' O... |
1819543_4 | Preservation Commission Turns Down Proposal for Upper East Side Tower | The commission's vice chairman, Pablo E. Vengoechea, an urban planning expert, said the height of the tower ''just overwhelms the Parke-Bernet building.'' Another commissioner, the architect Stephen F. Byrns, argued that ''Madison Avenue must maintain its low scale, with the Carlyle tower's prominence undiminished.'' O... |
1819401_1 | Even for a Tomato, Looks Aren't Everything | are very strict as to the shape and uniformity of Florida tomatoes that can go to other states during the season, from Oct. 10 to June 15. Flavor is not a factor because, in the committee's view, it is too subjective. An exemption granted to the UglyRipe by the committee for three years for the purpose of seeing whethe... |
1820481_0 | Numbers | Jan. 14-20 | 34,000 DEATHS The News -- More than 34,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in violence last year, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday. Behind the News -- The first comprehensive annual count of civilian deaths provided a vivid measure of the chaos there. The Iraqi government called the figure exaggerat... |
1820497_3 | THE WORLD: After Castro; What Was Once Theirs | opinion polls and surveys of Cuban-Americans conducted recently in South Florida and North Jersey show that a declining percentage of the diaspora still dreams of reclaiming houses. This is especially true among the younger generation, whose members never lived in Cuba. Still, some exiles did sneak out deeds and have f... |
1820489_3 | Look Up! It's No Meteor, It's an Arms Race | weapons.'' But Theresa Hitchens, a critic of the administration's space arms research who is director of the Center for Defense Information, a private group in Washington that tracks military programs, said that China's antisatellite test might be ''a shot across the bow'' meant to prod the Bush administration into ser... |
1820207_1 | Low Prices Abound on the High Seas | person for an inside cabin or $239 a person for an ocean-view room. Prices are typically 10 percent less than they were last year for three- and four-night Caribbean cruises, according to Expedia, with a few as much as 30 percent off. And because many cruise lines have been introducing new ships or refurbishing aging v... |
1820502_1 | Vast Pipelines in Amazon Face Challenges Over Protecting Rights and Rivers | pipeline leaks and the collapse of an offshore drilling platform in other parts of the country have damaged Petrobras's reputation, and there was initially strong resistance to the pipeline from local people, environmental and indigenous groups and archaeologists. Some of them preferred that the gas be transported to M... |
1820502_3 | Vast Pipelines in Amazon Face Challenges Over Protecting Rights and Rivers | in an interview in Manaus, the state capital. ''Brazil is going to need that gas over the next 30 years, so it is imperative that we develop those deposits. This is a strategic issue, not just for the Amazon but for all of Brazil.'' The challenges Petrobras has had to confront also raise questions about the viability o... |
1820483_0 | Blinding Ourselves in Space | You don't have to be a space or climate expert to recognize that this country's ability to track climate and environmental changes from space is heading in the wrong direction. At a time when concerns about global warming are rising, the Bush administration is sharply reducing the number of satellites that can measure ... |
1819802_0 | BREAKING GROUND | The Setai, New York WHAT -- Metropolitan residential building. WHERE -- Lower Manhattan. AMENITIES -- A rooftop lounge area and a full-service spa, among others. PRICES -- Residences range from $650,000 to $6.75 million. STATUS -- Expected to open this summer. DEVELOPERS -- Zamir Equities and the Setai Group. CONTACT -... |
1819840_1 | Apology Not Accepted | Last week, Mr. Stimson expressed his ''shock'' that major American law firms would represent terrorism suspects, hinted that they were paid by unsavory characters and suggested that companies should reconsider doing business with them. On Wednesday, Mr. Stimson said he apologized and regretted that his comments ''left ... |
1818404_0 | Martin D. Kruskal Dies; Mathematician Was 81 | Martin D. Kruskal, a mathematician whose wide-ranging research touched on astrophysics, nuclear fusion and the soliton, a unique form of wave that he helped describe in the 1960s, died Dec. 26 in Princeton, N.J. He was 81. The cause was a stroke, his family said. Working on a phenomenon that had been observed in the 19... |
1818465_1 | House Democrats Propose Cut in Student Loan Rates | restraining tuition increases, complained Friday of being shut out of the process of writing the new bill and said they would offer amendments before Wednesday's vote. ''I'm hopeful we can work in a bipartisan way to build upon it, including with reforms that actually make college more affordable and more accessible fo... |
1816905_21 | Happiness 101 | Testing Service is exploring a test that students wouldn't be able to fake.) ''What this is about is building character,'' Seligman says. Currently, the biggest project on positive psychology's drawing board is at the Geelong School. ''As a school, we would like to know how to make all students more resilient, how to t... |
1816905_22 | Happiness 101 | pathways of happiness,'' ''the four ways to promote savoring'' and ''the five ways to overcome'' adversity. To teach savoring, the teacher would explain mindfulness and show the students how to taste their food more thoroughly and then instruct them to try ''savoring with a friend.'' The students would have journals to... |
1816858_2 | HELP | from the above, is a degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology in jewelry making, repair, gemology, etc. The goal would then be to start a business. Carol Tannenbaum, Passaic, N.J. ATTENDING grad school full time is never easy, but there are almost always financial options short of turning to a life of crime. First... |
1817240_1 | Car Boom Puts Europe on Road to a Smoggy Future | percent growth in vehicular emissions in Europe since 1990 has ''offset'' the effect of cleaner factories, according to a recent report by the European Environment Agency. The growth has occurred despite the invention of far more environmentally friendly fuels and cars. ''What we gain by hybrid cars and ethanol buses, ... |
1817290_5 | Bush Plan for Iraq Requests More Troops and More Jobs | because they were discussing internal deliberations about a plan that Mr. Bush had not yet announced. The most immediate element of the new jobs program would amount to a major expansion of what is known in the military as the Commander's Emergency Response Program, which provides money to local officers to put civilia... |
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1818922_0 | Brazil Gambles on Monitoring As Loggers Advance in Amazon | A Brazilian government plan set to go into effect this year will bring large-scale logging deep into the heart of the Amazon rain forest for the first time, in a calculated gamble that new monitoring efforts can offset any danger of increased devastation. The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in an att... |
1818897_2 | The Neediest Cases; Opening Hearts and Checkbooks to Ease the Woes of Strangers | one. I just thought, there but for the sake of God go I,'' she said. The Closes run a consulting company for diabetics, health care providers and others affected by the disease. They set up a matching gift program for the Neediest Cases, inviting their six full-time employees to donate, and have raised $600, she said. ... |
1818851_5 | Magical or Overrated? A Food Additive in a Swirl | researchers asked, was the incidence of heart disease so low among the Inuit of Greenland when they consumed a generally fatty diet? One obvious factor was the fatty fish that the Inuit regularly ate. Subsequent studies demonstrated a link between omega-3 fatty acids and a lower incidence of heart disease. ''People can... |
1821493_1 | A Convenient Truth | which tend to be large in her family, will make her more comfortable whether lying down or strapped across the chest in her wheelchair. All this is plausible, even if it is also true that the line between improving Ashley's life and making it easier for her parents to handle her scarcely exists, because anything that m... |
1821554_1 | A Mystery On the Radio: Stern's Show Is Heard Free | may have been a nearby driver who had subscribed to Sirius, which carries Mr. Stern's show, and had been listening in his or her car -- using an adapter that would have transmitted the show from a portable satellite device onto the car's radio via an unused frequency (typically at the low end of the dial, at or near 88... |
1821588_6 | Colleges Regroup After Voters Ban Race Preferences | candidates to selective private universities. ''We know from colleagues in Texas and California that if we can't take race into account, we're at a competitive disadvantage,'' said Julie Peterson, a spokeswoman for the University of Michigan, where two-thirds of the applicants are from out of state. Since most of Michi... |
1819228_1 | When Being Green Raises the Heat | unquestionably good for the natural environment, new scientific studies are concluding that preservation and restoration of forests outside the tropics will do little or nothing to help slow climate change. And some projects intended to slow the heating of the planet may be accelerating it instead. Trees don't just abs... |
1819323_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Queens: Shortcut Through Airport Screening | For the first time in the New York area, starting today some passengers will be able to pay to bypass an airport security screening line through a program that has come to Kennedy International Airport. But for now, they will still have to take off their shoes. Clear Registered Traveler, a private service that prescree... |
1819186_2 | Scientists Warn of Diminished Earth Studies From Space | Bush's science adviser and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, acknowledged that there were many challenges to maintaining and improving Earth-observing systems, but said the administration was committed to keeping them a ''top science priority.'' The report, ''Earth Science and Applications From S... |
1821125_0 | World Briefing | Asia: China: One-Child Policy Spurred Gender Gap | China's top population official said that a worsening gender imbalance had been complicated by population control efforts and that it would take 15 years to redress. The official, Zhang Weiqing, head of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said 118 boys were born for every 100 girls in China in 2005,... |
1816609_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Blair Cuts Vacation For Talks | Prime Minister Tony Blair cut short a vacation in Miami and returned to London a day early as a new escalation of political hostilities between Northern Ireland's main Protestant and Roman Catholic political parties threatened a timetable for power sharing in the province by March 26. There was no immediate sign of a b... |
1816589_1 | LIVING HERE | Smart Houses; An Online Getaway | always remember to turn off the lights or adjust the thermostat when they leave. They don't get the electric bill. Hard-wiring an existing house with these capabilities would be an electrician's dream. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars. But with these new wireless systems it ran about $4,000 to set up. But mor... |
1822644_0 | World Scientists Near Consensus on Warming | Scientists from across the world gathered Monday to hammer out the final details of an authoritative report on climate change that is expected to project centuries of rising temperatures and sea levels unless there are curbs in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. Scientists inv... |
1822568_3 | Looking to the Hudson for Rockland's Water Needs | farther north along the Hudson -- far from the point where it turns from saltwater to freshwater -- they have to treat their water only for chemicals. Rockland County residents currently use groundwater, but the supply is quickly dwindling. The county's population is rising, having increased to 293,000 in 2005 from 286... |
1822516_4 | In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It | wide variety of berries available in the fall, and those near the coast have spawning salmon in the rivers. But when winter looms in Yellowstone, ''the whitebark pines are about it'' on the bear menu, Dr. Mattson says. The Wind River Pines Because of the close relationship between the pines and the bears, Dr. Logan has... |
1822563_1 | MEMO PAD | and pay an annual fee to receive biometrically encoded I.D. cards and access to a special lane for expedited passage through the security checkpoint. Mr. Zmuda cited early snags with shoe-scanning technology being tested in Orlando by Verified Identity Pass, which already operates a Registered Traveler program called C... |
1822534_1 | Pursuing Happiness, Greeks and Turks Find One Another | are eroding here. Such things are changing faster, perhaps, than the political differences that still divide the two nations. What Greeks say they are learning in this glasnost of food, fashion and travel is that, for good and bad, much still unites the two countries -- one at the edge of Europe, the other at the edge ... |
1822437_0 | 3 Weeks to Pitchers and Molinas | The energetic, young children scampered along a bumpy dirt infield, chased baseballs around an outfield that was missing almost as much grass as it contained and sidestepped a leaning light tower that was a miniature Tower of Pisa. Still, to them, this tattered field in Vega Alta, P.R., is hallowed ground. Actually, Je... |
1822373_2 | Sinn Fein Endorses Plan for Protestant-Catholic Police Force | to Britain. A Protestant-Catholic local government, set forth in the Good Friday peace accord of 1998, last met in 2002 before it fell apart amid widespread distrust between the rival political groups. The Irish Republican Army, an ally of Sinn Fein, fought the Northern Ireland police and the British Army in a military... |
1820871_0 | The Mystery of the Chinese Baby Shortage | ACCORDING to a State Department report released this week, American citizens adopted 6,493 children from China in 2006, a decline of 18 percent from the previous year's total of 7,906. And yet, just over a month ago, this newspaper reported that China had prepared strict new criteria for foreign adoption applications b... |
1820833_0 | Report Accuses Belfast Police Of Collusion In Gang Killings | Northern Ireland's police ombudsman, in a report on Monday, accused the province's police force of collusion with at least one loyalist Protestant gang in a number of killings and attempted killings and serious drug crimes. In the 160-page report, Nuala O'Loan, the ombudsman, indicated that police handlers had turned a... |
1818097_0 | TODAY IN BUSINESS | BACK DOOR FOR CORPORATE E-MAIL -- A growing number of Internet-savvy workers are forwarding their office e-mail to free, Web-accessible personal accounts offered by Google, Yahoo and other companies. Employers, who fearfully envision corporate secrets leaking through the back door of otherwise well-protected computer n... |
1817988_0 | E-Mail Gaffe Publicizes Job Seekers In Albany | Gov. Eliot Spitzer made his name, in part, on indiscreet e-mail messages, as any number of executives who were pursued by the attorney general's office in recent years can attest. Now his administration has sent out an indiscreet e-mail message of its own: An e-mail response to people seeking jobs as spokesmen included... |
1817998_0 | Wonder Where You Wander? This Mobile Phone Can Tell You | Thanks to cellphones, friends and relations can find you anywhere in the world. But can you find yourself? You can if you have the Pharos G.P.S. Phone 600, which has some advanced location-tracking features. This $700 phone comes with Pharos's Ostia navigation software, which calculates directions, calls out turns on t... |
1818121_0 | Companies Fret as Office E-Mail Is Detoured Past Security Walls | Companies spend millions on systems to keep corporate e-mail safe. If only their employees were as paranoid. A growing number of Internet-literate workers are forwarding their office e-mail to free Web-accessible personal accounts offered by Google, Yahoo and other companies. Their employers, who envision corporate sec... |
1819029_5 | Documents Borne by Winds of Free Speech | slightly more absurd side to all this is that attempting to stop the documents from spreading is, by now, a Sisyphean task. ''The court is trying to get the genie back into the bottle until it can sort out what's going on through the course of litigation, which takes place at non-Internet speed,'' said Jonathan Zittrai... |
1821816_6 | For Former Foster Care Youths, Help to Make It on Their Own | was broken,'' Ms. Udow said. The youth boards later issued 15 recommendations for improving the system and lobbied the governor and legislators. Some suggestions were accepted, including making sure that all foster children get a certified copy of their birth certificate and a Social Security card and help obtaining dr... |
1821748_0 | Trying to Keep Divinity Students on a Path to the Pulpit | Depending on the day at her Methodist seminary, Jennifer Wilsford wants to be either a parish minister or a professor. Her seminary, for its part, has tweaked its curriculum, brings in speakers and tries to hold her hand through the logistics of ordination -- all designed to nudge Ms. Wilsford and other seminarians tow... |
1816710_5 | The Vanishing Man of the Forest | feet as they swing through the trees. Yet I am somewhat melancholy. The fragile forests that make orangutan life possible are fast disappearing. Where, I wonder, are the billionaire philanthropists and the international policies that will prevent orangutans -- and all great apes -- from going extinct? Indonesia is a va... |
1816680_0 | Chirac Says Time Proves France Was Right to Resist War | In a scathing attack of the American-led war in Iraq, President Jacques Chirac said Friday that his predictions that the war would spread chaos and more terrorism had come true. ''As France had foreseen and feared, the war in Iraq has sparked upheavals that have yet to show their full effects,'' Mr. Chirac said in his ... |
1816656_1 | Monument to the Planet Suffers a Hard Fall to Earth | around the corner. Just three months old, the $1 million globe, made of 88 chunks of Brazilian quartzite and adorned with raised bronze signifying land masses, lies disintegrated at the university, in Kennesaw, Ga., outside a new academic building praised for its eco-friendly attributes. A bronze statue of David Brower... |
1815814_3 | What Did Hussein's Execution Accomplish? | 2006 To the Editor: Saddam Hussein may have deserved it, but we didn't. By we, I mean the American people, who were forced into being accomplices in the show trial and barbaric execution of Saddam Hussein. Most civilized countries denounced this execution, and even Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain had voiced misgiv... |
1815764_2 | TODAY IN BUSINESS | McLennan Companies, the big New York insurance broker, is planning to sell its troubled mutual fund business, Putnam Investments, to a Canadian company, the Power Corporation of Canada for about $3.9 billion. [C2.] FUROR OVER A WHEAT BOARD -- Plans by the Canadian government to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its mon... |
1819656_0 | Payday Loans Are a Scourge, but Should Wrath Be Aimed at the Lenders? | When a lion achieves alpha male status, one of his first acts is to kill all unrelated cubs in the pride. Is that a bad thing? As biologists have long realized, the question makes little sense. In the bitterly competitive environments in which lions evolved, the dominant male's behavior was favored by natural selection... |
1819714_1 | House Backs a Cut in Interest on College Loans | back where it's needed.'' The measure, which will halve the interest rate over the next five years, is estimated to cost $6 billion, which would be financed by increasing fees that lenders pay to the government and by reducing the 30 or so largest lenders' government-guaranteed profits on student loans. In a statement ... |
1819713_4 | Measures on Global Warming Move to Spotlight in the New Congress | nudge Mr. Bush toward their cap-and-trade model. The White House says that would shift jobs, and emissions from one country to another without slowing worldwide growth in emissions. The president' s opposition to mandatory caps retains strong support on Capitol Hill. Jim Owen, a spokesman for the Edison Electric Instit... |
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