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1819682_1 | Don't Like the Dancing Cowboys? Results Say You Do | ''The ads are like a Monty Python sketch,'' said Dev Ravindran, a software developer from Jersey City who created a blog to track and humorously critique the ads (lowermybillswatch.blogspot.com). ''Some of them are so out of the blue they make no sense.'' Roger Cadenhead, an author and blogger, resorted to tinkering wi... |
1854384_2 | Wall Street to Get Guidelines on E-Mail | it's a modest beginning.'' Though Wall Street has learned the consequences of paying too little attention to messages zipping through its corporate pipelines -- ask Merrill Lynch about Henry Blodget -- other ways of communicating have cropped up faster than regulators have been able to address them. What has emerged in... |
1854387_3 | The Loose Reins on U.S. Teenagers Can Produce Trouble or Entrepreneurs | to spend on starting a business. American labor markets are flexible enough to create a large number of jobs at the lower end of the wage scale. Teenagers are more likely to acquire work experience, and they are more likely to earn a small amount of capital for financing a start-up enterprise. It is a common American d... |
1852727_1 | Saving Trees Is Music To Guitar Makers' Ears | marketplace, the companies have become aware of the significant changes in the availability and price of the best woods. In an unusual alliance, the four guitar makers have joined with Greenpeace in one of many efforts to bring attention to forest management and sustainability. Bob Taylor, president and co-founder of T... |
1852656_2 | Listen Up, Everybody: I'm in Menopause | cashier, Ms. Mahone said she exclaimed to the woman behind her, '''Girl, I'm having a moment here and she's got to hurry so I can get the hell out of here!'' ''I know what you're going through,'' the woman commiserated. Then, two women ahead of Ms. Mahone caught sight of her frantically fanning herself and laughed symp... |
1854113_3 | Socrates as a Woman, and Other Twists on the Ancients | in the 17th century, have featured Socrates as a character. But Target Margin's latest offering, he said, may well be the first one in which a young African-American woman plays the part. She is Stephanie Weeks, but during ''Dinner Party'' all the actors use their first names. So Stephanie, Han Nah and Steven replace S... |
1855559_8 | Radiology Was Young, And So Was I | Radiologists and other medical specialists have a different perspective on patients and their diseases. As one aphorism puts it: A physician sees a patient at the bedside and imagines the disease. A radiologist sees the disease on the film and imagines the patient. As X-ray technology improved, my father often replaced... |
1855622_3 | For the Angler, a Flash of Color Among the Freighters | blue-headed parrot that watched us as it plucked nuts from an almond tree. The Canal Zone watershed, according to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, is a haven of biodiversity, its dense tropical forest a buffer against erosion and silt. Abundant wildlife is a fringe benefit. Ché nudged a bucket of minnows to... |
1855518_3 | Conservancy Buys Large Area of Adirondack Wilderness | yet been determined, Mr. Tepper said. One option is to hold the land until the state can purchase it. The conservancy could also sell some of the property to a timber investment management organization that would oversee the sustainable harvest of the trees but keep out residential development. Eventually some parts of... |
1855601_1 | Sifting the Garbage for a Green Polymer | Novomer has received money from the Department of Energy, New York State and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Coates imagines CO2 being diverted from factory emissions into an adjacent facility and turned into plastic. The search for biocomposite materials dates from 1913, when both a French and a British scientist... |
1855613_0 | Aspirin Linked to Lower Risk Of Cancer and Heart Disease | Regular aspirin use may significantly reduce the incidence of both cancer and heart disease, according to a large new study, but other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or Nsaids, have no effect. Researchers studied 22,507 postmenopausal women, following them for 10 years. All reported their aspirin and Nsaid use a... |
1854942_0 | COMINGS & GOINGS | A message to those who have applied for -- and are eagerly awaiting -- passports: relax. The Departments of State and Homeland Security announced on June 8 that through Sept. 30, United States citizens traveling to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda may enter and depart the United States by air as long as they h... |
1855277_3 | Recycling With a Twist: When Trash Becomes Art | Bill Cypher, 46, a plumber from Washingtonville, N.Y., submitted a pirate ship whose steering wheel is a brass faucet, for display behind velvet ropes at the Stamford mall. ''Most everything on that ship is from an electrical thing like a light fixture or a plumbing-related object,'' Mr. Cypher said. Steve Heller, 62, ... |
1854987_1 | Cellphone Exposes Flaw in 911 System | Pincus said. ''I pleaded with her to be transferred to Connecticut. There were two riders down, bleeding and unconscious. It was a real emergency.'' Another rider called the Bloomin' Metric emergency line, and the Norwalk police were alerted at 8:41 a.m., five minutes after Mrs. Pincus's 911 call. An ambulance was on t... |
1855050_1 | Cellphone Exposes Flaw in 911 System | Pincus said. ''I pleaded with her to be transferred to Connecticut. There were two riders down, bleeding and unconscious. It was a real emergency.'' Another rider called the Bloomin' Metric emergency line, and the Norwalk police were alerted at 8:41 a.m., five minutes after Mrs. Pincus's 911 call. An ambulance was on t... |
1855062_1 | Putting the Wild Back Into the River | in spots, through forests and farms and little mill villages to the Delaware. It joined some grand company recently, though, when more than half its length was designated by the federal government as a ''wild and scenic river,'' the newest addition to a list of 165 rivers that includes the Yellowstone, the Snake and th... |
1855042_1 | Cellphone Exposes Flaw in 911 System | Pincus said. ''I pleaded with her to be transferred to Connecticut. There were two riders down, bleeding and unconscious. It was a real emergency.'' Another rider called the Bloomin' Metric emergency line, and the Norwalk police were alerted at 8:41 a.m., five minutes after Mrs. Pincus's 911 call. An ambulance was on t... |
1854956_0 | THE WEEK AHEAD: June 17 - 23; ART | The big openings of the international shows in Europe end this weekend, which means that in the United States all is still quiet on both the Eastern and Western museum fronts. But the middle of the country is delivering in three exhibitions that become more unusual as you move from South to North. THE KIMBELL ART MUSEU... |
1854932_0 | Milan | MILAN doesn't cater to tourists. Its many pleasures are intended mainly for the Milanese, who are expert at making -- and spending -- money. This is the home, after all, of Armani and Prada. But step outside the central shopping district and you'll find a growing number of stores that showcase young fashion and furnitu... |
1855208_1 | Sweet Stuff | June 10-16 | Hostess decided to bring it back after banana-crème Twinkies flew off shelves in a limited-time offer. LOW ON SYRUP The News -- Maple syrup production dropped 13 percent this year to 1.26 million gallons. Behind the News -- Maine was down 25 percent; Vermont, producer of more than one-third of the nation's syrup, was o... |
1855040_1 | Cellphone Exposes Flaw in 911 System | Pincus said. ''I pleaded with her to be transferred to Connecticut. There were two riders down, bleeding and unconscious. It was a real emergency.'' Another rider called the Bloomin' Metric emergency line, and the Norwalk police were alerted at 8:41 a.m., five minutes after Mrs. Pincus's 911 call. An ambulance was on t... |
1852063_3 | Swimming for Peace in the Middle East, for the Dalai Lama, for Clean Water, for the Rain Forest. We'll Drink to That. | motto of all his swims has been ''Swim for peace, friendship and clean waters.'' He also dedicated his Amazon swim to preserving the rain forest. Also, according to one of his blogs, ''If I can swim that river, then the Palestinians and the Israelis can find a way to live together in peace,'' and ''the Chinese governme... |
1851588_3 | SWIMMING FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, FOR THE DALAI LAMA, FOR CLEAN WATER, FOR THE RAIN FOREST. WE'LL DRINK TO THAT. | motto of all his swims has been ''Swim for peace, friendship and clean waters.'' He also dedicated his Amazon swim to preserving the rain forest. Also, according to one of his blogs, ''If I can swim that river, then the Palestinians and the Israelis can find a way to live together in peace,'' and ''the Chinese governme... |
1851634_1 | Water World | you've just made tends to be felt rather than accurately remembered.'' Whitty's mission is to ''comprehend and then translate the otherworldly marvels under the surface into the alien world topside,'' and her subject is exploring the South Pacific's fertile atolls, going on ''the underwater equivalent of an African big... |
1851633_1 | Pirates of the Caribbean | Virginia, then hung their terrible prize from a pole on the banks of the Hampton River. In its violence and drama, Blackbeard's death was emblematic of the so-called golden age of piracy -- actually a period of unrestrained murder, robbery and kidnapping on the high seas. Although his reign as one of England's most fea... |
1851734_0 | Silent Running | BEFORE a 5-kilometer race here last weekend, a pair of 16-year-old identical twins limbered up among several hundred other runners, looking, at first glance, perfectly ordinary. They had slim builds, sinewy legs and lean faces. Their tank tops bore their race numbers: 46 for Alex Schneider, 47 for his brother Jamie. Bu... |
1853689_0 | Income Inequality, Writ Larger | INCOME inequality is a hot topic in politics and economics. The rising economic tide is lifting a bunch of yachts, but leaving those in simple boats just bobbing along. Two professors -- Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley -- have found that the sh... |
1853691_0 | A Community of Experts | WITH the announcement of new appointments to New York's community boards this spring, membership on these volunteer committees is suddenly on people's minds. Yet, as is usually the case when community boards are discussed, the talk has missed the point, focusing on the wisdom of who has been asked to serve and who has ... |
1853543_0 | She Bought Another Island. People Are Wondering. | THEY have been around since the Ice Age and have been inhabited by some famous people, like Tom Thumb and President William Howard Taft. Legend has it that Captain Kidd may have buried pirate treasure on one of them, and in the early 1900s visitors flocked to resorts on their shores. Most recently, the archipelago isla... |
1855385_4 | Postmodern Thoughts, Illuminated by the Practices of a Premodern Tribe | should be seen, Mr. Rorty said, as having the ''same footing'' as literature or art, and he suggested that physics and ethics were just differing methods of ''trying to cope.'' The Caduveo might have agreed, as long as they were permitted to determine which methods of coping were used. But what place would such a socie... |
1855411_1 | The Supreme Court's Bonus Babies | of view -- focusing on the actual work the clerks will perform, and setting aside the law firms' quest for prestige and bragging rights -- it is difficult to understand why firms fight for the right to shower 26-year-olds with cash. Clerkships tend to attract, and justices tend to hire, academic or intellectual types. ... |
1853982_0 | Menopause, in the Open | To the Editor: Re ''Listen Up, Everybody: I'm in Menopause'' (Thursday Styles, June 7): Congratulations for highlighting something many of us have now realized for several years. That menopause is not a taboo subject, and women have been expressing openly their thoughts, concerns, fears of certain treatments, and yes, ... |
1854024_0 | Children and Their Senses | To the Editor: Re ''The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive'' (June 5): As a teacher I attended workshops on Sensory Integration Dysfunction, and while I was never convinced that it should be labeled a disability, studying the ''symptoms'' allowed me to understand those children better and to help parents see t... |
1851203_3 | In the 21st Century, the Persistence of Tradition | Odysseus'' would register as quirky-cool if moved to a different context (say, further downtown). Here they're merely among the stranger works. There is just one photographic work: Frances Myers's intermittently graphic and heavy-handed series of digital prints on canvas, taken from a video depicting a ''Dead Deer.'' W... |
1852598_0 | World Briefing | Asia: China: Optimism On Pollution | China has reached a ''turning point'' in reversing its runaway pollution problems and expects to see reductions in air and water pollution in the coming months, according to Zhang Lijun, a top official with the State Environmental Protection Administration. Mr. Zhang, left, used a news conference to predict that emissi... |
1854604_0 | Coping With Menopause | To the Editor: Re ''Listen Up, Everybody: I'm in Menopause'' (Thursday Styles, June 7): It's great to see women embracing menopause as a natural stage of life and a universal female experience. Most women don't have symptoms severe enough to need hormone therapy or other prescription medications; in fact, fewer than 1 ... |
1853789_5 | A Spectrum of Disputes | children with autism were tallied in other categories, though no data exist to tell us exactly which ones. Urban planners know that ''if you build a new road, people will drive on it.'' Likewise, in special education, if you create a new counting category, people will use it. At the same time, older counting categories... |
1853762_0 | Both Sides Say Dam Project Is Pivotal Issue for Brazil | The eternal tension between Brazil's need for economic growth and the damage that can cause to the environment are nowhere more visible than here in this corner of the western Amazon region. More than one-quarter of this rugged frontier state, Rondônia, has been deforested, the highest rate in the Amazon. Over the year... |
1853762_1 | Both Sides Say Dam Project Is Pivotal Issue for Brazil | complaint when he learned recently that the government's environmental agency had refused to license the dam projects, according to Brazilian news reports. But the proposal is far from dead, and continues to have Mr. da Silva's support. Additional environmental impact studies are under way, but the dispute now raging i... |
1853774_3 | Warning: Trains Coming. A Masterpiece Is at Risk. | the Holy Family, in 1883 and only 15 percent of it was complete when he was killed in a streetcar accident in 1926. It was eventually decided that the master had left sufficient plans to compete the church. But in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, an anticlerical mob set fire to Gaudí's workshop, destroying blueprint... |
1853779_0 | Economic Life After College | Commencement is a time for idealism. But economic reality is lurking everywhere, and new college graduates are vulnerable to ambush. They have been told repeatedly that a college degree is an open sesame to the global economy. But that's not necessarily so, according to new research by two economists at the Massachuset... |
1853828_0 | Richard Rorty, Contemporary Philosopher, Dies at 75 | Richard Rorty, whose inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers, died Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 75. The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Mary Varney Rorty. Raised in a home where ''The Case fo... |
1851504_4 | Dear Graduate, Please Keep The Change | butter in retirement?'' He said he came to the conclusion that a strategy to reduce retirement expenses ''will be dwarfed by rapidly growing out-of-pocket medical expenses.'' He noted projections based on the Health and Retirement Study, a survey of 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 sponsored by the National Institut... |
1851467_0 | The Wordy Warriors | To the Editor: Re ''How We're Animalistic -- in Good Ways and Bad,'' by Maureen Dowd (column, May 30), about conservatives who are obsessed with ancient Greece: War is an endlessly fascinating subject for those who want to theorize, speculate and analyze. It is quite a different thing for those -- usually poor young me... |
1851406_2 | All Tapped Out, or Maybe Not | 2006.'' IS INEQUALITY GOOD? -- The growing income disparity among Americans can be viewed as a good thing, two professors at the University of Chicago argue in The American. Gary S. Becker, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1992, and Kevin M. Murphy write that the rising inequality has ''accompani... |
1852261_7 | The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive | sensitivities, from smells and tastes (''Lettuce is so bad I almost throw up. Really throw up.'') to a feeling of being cramped or crowded, which kept him in perpetual motion. Spencer is still unusually sensitive, said his father, Roger Cambor, a psychiatrist, but added that after months of occupational therapy, ''ther... |
1852398_0 | World Briefing | Asia: China: 180,000 Displaced After Strong Quake | Rescue efforts continued in southwestern Yunnan Province as roughly 180,000 people were evacuated from their homes after a Sunday morning earthquake that registered a magnitude 6.4 killed at least three people and injured more than 300, according to state news media. More than 1,000 aftershocks have rattled the nerves ... |
1852264_2 | SCIENTIST AT WORK -- Linda J. Gormezano; A Team of 2, Following the Scent of Polar Bears | done on polar bears before,'' Ms. Gormezano said of the research on scat. Other methods for tracking shifts in populations involve chasing the bears in helicopters, sedating them with darts and tagging or collaring them. But such methods can pose risks or alter the bears' behavior, she said. Some Canadian national park... |
1852258_0 | Vitamin D and Calcium Intake Found to Affect Breast Cancer | Consuming high levels of vitamin D and calcium may offer some protection against the most aggressive kinds of breast cancer, a new study reports, but only in premenopausal women. Researchers studied 10,578 premenopausal and 20,909 postmenopausal women, using data gathered as part of a larger long-term study of women's ... |
1852413_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Albany: Monitoring For Acid Rain | Officials with the Adirondack Council, an environmental group, are lobbying to reverse planned reductions in the federal budget that would severely limit or eliminate several acid rain monitoring programs. The proposed budget would cut $1 million, about 25 percent, from one program that measures atmospheric gases. Two ... |
1854769_3 | Home On the Rainforest | disappearance of much of the world's remaining tropical forests and the oxygen and animal habitat they provide. The indigenous people who make the world's forests their home are retreating in the face of agricultural expansion. Their interactions with loggers, miners and ranchers are destroying their cultures and bring... |
1854781_0 | Slashing and Warming | Buried in the final communiqué issued at the recent Group of 8 summit in Germany was an important and overdue pledge to help poorer nations reduce the global warming emissions caused by the slashing and burning of their tropical forests. One of the glaring weaknesses in the 1997 Kyoto Accord was its failure to address ... |
1854806_0 | U.S. Eyes Antiterror Rules For Small Jets and Boats | Acknowledging that the nation remains too vulnerable to terrorist attack by small planes and recreational boats, the Department of Homeland Security is considering new requirements to allow authorities to identify operators and passengers in millions of these vehicles as they ply the coasts and skies. Department person... |
1832602_2 | Data Show How Electronics Mix With Medical Devices | of the surveillance machines involved in both incidents, said in an e-mail message that the company had ''no independent information regarding the two specific cases,'' but that the article reinforced the scientific consensus ''that patients with medical implants like pacemakers and defibrillators should simply walk th... |
1832714_2 | OBSERVATORY | or nearly twice the level found in rice from California. The most likely reason for the difference, the researchers say, is that rice growers in South-Central states are increasingly using old cotton fields, where years of application of inorganic arsenic as a pesticide has contaminated the soils. Arsenic is a carcinog... |
1834145_0 | The Medicaid Documentation Mess | Exaggerated fears that illegal immigrants are fraudulently receiving Medicaid health benefits have led to a crackdown that is preventing tens of thousands of American citizens from obtaining legitimate coverage. Congress, whose mindless actions led to this travesty, needs to fix this injustice. The problem was triggere... |
1834143_0 | History Lessens | EVERYBODY knows how to use a library. You look up the card catalogue in the computer, type in the subject, find the Dewey Decimal System number, walk to the shelf and get the book. It's different with an archive, where unpublished memorandums, reports, notes and letters are organized not by topic but by the agency that... |
1831219_1 | The New Bioplastics, More Than Just Forks | applications where performance, heat resistance and durability are more important. These applications typically require that biopolymers be reinforced with kenaf fiber (similar to jute) or other fillers. Products based on durable biopolymers have begun appearing in the marketplace. Japanese companies like NEC Corporati... |
1832850_1 | Pope Reaffirms View Opposing Gay Marriage And Abortion | Orthodox. The issue was one major block to a visit to Russia by John Paul II, a Pole who often expressed his desire to travel there. Despite invitations from Russian leaders, the Orthodox hierarchy has opposed any papal visit, and on Tuesday, an aide to Mr. Putin said he would not negotiate church issues. ''There are n... |
1832818_1 | Growers Yearn to Be Free Of Mandarin Seeds | Sun Pacific, a large grower, as he watched harvesters clip fruit at a huge planting near Bakersfield. Tom Mulholland, who grows 400 acres of mandarins southeast of Fresno, was even more dismissive of seeded varieties. ''Push 'em out, bye-bye,'' he said. ''That's where your low prices are going to be.'' As growers learn... |
1836178_0 | Paul C. Lauterbur, 77, Dies; Won Nobel Prize for M.R.I. | Paul C. Lauterbur, who shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2003 for developing magnetic resonance imaging into a way to look inside living organisms, died yesterday at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 77. The cause was kidney disease, said the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he had worked for 22 year... |
1831797_1 | Pastor Leaves Door Ajar For Other Black Women | to be on the team. And it also gave me the understanding that having another sister around makes a difference.'' In her clerical life, Ms. Cook, 50, has nurtured black female protégées at all three churches she has led in New York over the last quarter-century. The Rev. Henrietta Carter succeeded Ms. Cook in her first ... |
1836909_2 | Where Millions Entered U.S., a Debate on Letting in More | of several scholars painted a more optimistic outlook -- and a less golden picture of Ellis Island's past. Dan Siciliano, who teaches corporate governance at Stanford Law School, cited recent research showing that the record immigration between 1990 and 2004 had helped to increase wages in the United States, contradict... |
1836856_5 | Too Busy to Notice You're Too Busy | for the days when parents at class events didn't spend as much time tapping on their BlackBerrys as watching their children haltingly recite their poetry; when cellphones were not the background noise of daily life. But instead of bemoaning technology, it is time to make it a tool of good rather than evil. Often, small... |
1836906_3 | Abortion Plan in Mexico City Shakes a Heavily Catholic Land | say, that whether legal or not, many women will seek out underground clinics to keep their condition secret from their friends and families anyway. The bill, tentatively scheduled for a vote on April 19, is likely to pass the 66-member city Legislative Assembly with a solid majority, and the mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, has ... |
1836870_2 | Federal Judge Strikes Down Forest Management Rules | type of consultation, informal or otherwise, prior to making a conclusive determination that there would be no effect,'' she wrote. She sent the management plans back to the Agriculture Department, the parent agency of the Forest Service, to be redone, this time in consultation with the public and with the federal agen... |
1830116_3 | U.S. and Brazil Seek to Promote Ethanol in West | to become a global commodity, and for that to happen, Brazil can't be the only producer,'' said José Luiz Oliverio, vice president for operations at Dedini Industries, Brazil's leading manufacturer of equipment for sugar cane and ethanol mills. ''We've been growing and processing sugar for 500 years, and we are confide... |
1831587_0 | Protocol Is Cited in Limiting Scientists' Talks on Climate | The director of the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the agency requirement that two employees going to international meetings on the Arctic not discuss climate change, saying diplomatic protocol limited employees to an agreed-on agenda. Two memorandums written about a week ago and reported by The New York Times and ... |
1831597_1 | New U.S. Commander In Iraq Won't Rule Out Need for Added Troops | commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, that the greatly enlarged American force remain until February 2008. But he added, ''If you're going to achieve the kinds of effects that we probably need, it would need to be sustained certainly for some time well beyond the summer.'' Military officials in Iraq have indi... |
1830276_0 | The Motherhood Experiment | To the dismay of pundits and politicians alike, women in industrialized countries and elsewhere have been bearing fewer and fewer children. More than 90 states have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman, and the trend, which began in the early 1960s, is already leading to fewer workers, ... |
1830507_3 | The Risk Is All Yours In Office E-Mail | than a few minutes a day, employees may need to reorganize their priorities. ''The secret is to do it sparingly,'' Ms. Kerr said. ''If you have to wonder whether you're writing too many personal e-mails on company time, you probably are.'' Whatever kind of e-mail you are writing at work, it is important to consider the... |
1830351_0 | HANOI'S PROGRESS PRAISED | To the Editor: Regarding ''The Awakening of Hanoi'' (Feb. 18) by Jennifer Conlin: As a young, gung-ho United States Air Force officer during the Vietnam war, I bought hook, line and sinker the Domino theory, and all its associated doom and gloom. I expected Vietnam, and that part of the world, to be a wasteland for man... |
1830628_0 | Budget Would Finance Study Of Bear Population Control | Three months after canceling a bear hunt, the State Department of Environmental Protection received $850,000 in Gov. Jon S. Corzine's proposed budget for researching and initiating nonlethal methods of controlling the black bear population. The methods include bear-proofing garbage bins, expanding public education prog... |
1833486_3 | 'Spiritual Realities' in Service of Science and Vice Versa | and ''spirituality'' are now terms so badly tarnished by association with pop psychology and comfort food for the soul that they do little to convey the body of thought that Professor Taylor has produced. It includes highly technical philosophical jousting about language and knowledge, as well as political theory, anal... |
1833474_2 | Some More Numbers to Juggle In Figuring Out Retirement | plans. Speaking of the wisdom of crowds, Fidelity says that those Americans over age 25 who think they are saving enough save about 7.5 percent of their annual pay. Used Tires and Safety About 30 million used tires were sold in the United States last year, almost 10 percent of all replacement tires sold. Used tires are... |
1833519_2 | Delays and Dangers as Messy Storm Hits Region | government agencies to send workers home early and led some highway agencies to warn motorists not to drive above 35 miles per hour. The National Weather Service said yesterday that the brunt of the storm would hit the region last night and that precipitation would end by this evening. By late last night, US Airways sa... |
1833454_0 | Despite Buildup, China Insists Its Goals Are Domestic | Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China said Friday that his country is still trying to overcome major obstacles to its internal development and suggested that it will not seek to disrupt the world order dominated by the United States. In a nationally televised news conference wrapping up the National People's Congress, Mr.... |
1835412_0 | Preservation and Ecology Clash in Windmill Repair | THE millwrights who built and repaired the 19th-century windmills of eastern Long Island favored white oak for its hardness and durability, sometimes finding what they needed on Gardiners Island. Now the Town of Southampton has gone far afield for what it thinks is a better wood, a tropical rain forest hardwood called ... |
1835702_1 | Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, And Don't Read This in Traffic | are a bad deal from the standpoint of our ability to process information.'' The human brain, with its hundred billion neurons and hundreds of trillions of synaptic connections, is a cognitive powerhouse in many ways. ''But a core limitation is an inability to concentrate on two things at once,'' said René Marois, a neu... |
1835702_4 | Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, And Don't Read This in Traffic | be bad at other companies, too.'' In the computer age, technology has been seen not only as a factor contributing to information overload but also as a tool for coping with it. Computers can help people juggle workloads, according a paper presented this month at a conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research.... |
1835417_0 | Where Expressway-Clogging Cars Meet Their Fate | SOME of us played with toy cars as kids. Kevin Gershowitz helped shred real ones. After college, he and his twin brother, Elliot, began helping run Gershow Recycling, the family business started by their father, Sam Gershowitz, in 1964. It is now one of the largest recyclers in the country and the depository (but not t... |
1835610_0 | Clicking Delete, Without Looking | SENDING an e-mail message is one of the more spontaneous things you can do in modern life, but maybe spontaneous is not great. E-mail marketing experts have developed, if not a science, a highly articulated superstition about the best and the worst times for sending e-mail. Sundays are great for catching up on correspo... |
1835489_1 | Drone From Stevens Lab Will Patrol in the Hudson | conducting for the Office of Naval Research, which oversees science and technology programs for the Navy and the Marine Corps. The underwater vehicle is a drone that can patrol open waters or a confined space in a port or harbor in an effort to protect ships and docks. It can detect other vessels, oil slicks or chemica... |
1836076_0 | ULSTER FACTIONS AGREE TO A PLAN FOR JOINT RULE | After years of hostility and recriminations, the leaders of Northern Ireland's dominant rival groups, Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein and the Protestant leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley, held their first face-to-face talks on Monday and agreed to form a joint administration for the province on May 8. The deal came on the day Brit... |
1830900_3 | The Difficult Patient, a Problem Old as History (or Older) | his first clinical clerkship, transfixed by the misery of a patient everyone else had labeled a miserable old crock years before. He tried to reassure the sick man, but the usual platitudes sounded hollow, and the man became only more agitated, almost incoherent, pain and fury all garbled together. Fortunately, at this... |
1829777_0 | Deutsche Telekom's Annual Net Drops 43 Percent | Deutsche Telekom AG said on Thursday it was seeking acquisitions to fuel growth as Europe's largest telecoms operator blamed fierce competition and staff costs for a 43 percent drop in annual net profit. Hoisting an effective "for sale" sign over non-core assets such as Internet companies in France, Spain and radio tow... |
1829660_5 | Circuits; Coaxing More Bars Out of That Cellphone | I also learned that while cellular companies install repeaters in corporate settings to improve service, they are not quite so sanguine about allowing individual consumers to install their own boosters. And while the two boosters I tested are approved by the Federal Communications Commission, whether consumers are free... |
1834260_1 | Tracing the Cigarette's Path From Sexy to Deadly | the 1960s the cigarette was a cultural icon of sophistication, glamour and sexual allure -- a highly prized commodity for one out of two Americans. Many advertising campaigns from the 1930s through the 1950s extolled the healthy virtues of cigarettes. Full-color magazine ads depicted kindly doctors clad in white coats ... |
1834277_2 | Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior | in the 1960s. He noticed then that after fights between two combatants, other chimpanzees would console the loser. But he was waylaid in battles with psychologists over imputing emotional states to animals, and it took him 20 years to come back to the subject. He found that consolation was universal among the great ape... |
1833742_0 | Zoning Out the Future | THE developer Charles Wang has withdrawn an innovative proposal that would have brought housing, retail, hotel and office space to Plainview. One could have easily found a compromise that would have adjusted the density envisioned by the proposal, but protesters instead quashed it altogether. Sensing no leadership from... |
1833756_0 | Playing Sim City For Real | For much of the past century, the hills and valleys around Los Angeles have been a kind of developers' paradise, a patchwork of expansive ranches, many dating to the 1840s and 1850s, that supplied builders with a seemingly endless stock of raw acreage. As the region boomed, subdivisions and office parks spread steadily... |
1833959_3 | Venezuela to Give Currency New Name and Numbers | of strong economic fundamentals and transparent rules for investment by private industry. In many respects, Venezuela has strong fundamentals, with more than $30 billion in foreign currency reserves and large inflows of revenue from oil exports this year, which are expected to surpass $50 billion. But economists say co... |
1833316_0 | A Huge Hole in Airport Security | While enormous effort is focused on screening airline passengers for explosives or weapons before they can board a commercial flight, it remains shockingly easy for airport employees to sneak into secure areas and carry dangerous materials onto a plane without detection. That frightening truth was underscored by a flag... |
1833372_3 | China Approves Property Law, Strengthening Its Middle Class | gains of corruption, arguing that it will protect only legal property. In the past, Chinese have bought and sold property freely, but doing so in a legal vacuum. Supporters say they hope the law strengthens the rights of property holders, especially middle-class homeowners. China's urban middle class has fueled a real ... |
1835098_0 | Debt and the College Graduate | To the Editor: Re ''Stepping on the Dream'' (column, March 22): Bob Herbert highlights one dimension of a titanic problem on the horizon. The bow is, as he describes, the debt burden carried by increasing numbers of young college graduates. The stern, which is more likely to bring the ship down, is the looming default ... |
1835104_2 | Iranians, Alleging 'Aggression,' Seize 15 Britons on Naval Patrol in the Waters Off Iraq | waters,'' the state TV quoted the official as saying, according to the Press Association, the British news agency. Even before this latest events, relations between Iran and the West were particularly fraught. Iran has refused to end its nuclear program -- which Western powers fear it could use to develop nuclear weapo... |
1836646_1 | HAVENS -- Wellsboro, Pa.; A Quaint Town With 'Quiet Things' to Do | a statue of Wynken, Blynken and Nod sits on the wide town green, across Main Street from the old stone Tioga County courthouse and the equally old brick jailhouse. Real estate prices are low compared with those in many other places in Pennsylvania. Grover and Debra Wolf, who own a tree-care business in Oley, Pa., near ... |
1831434_2 | The Bare Minimum | statistical analysis of welfare recipients in Wisconsin -- the credit seldom influences hiring decisions of participating firms. Many companies wish to avoid preferential hiring, even though the policy is explicitly intended to give disadvantaged job seekers an advantage in the labor market. Is it a good idea to extend... |
1831400_0 | Kazakhstan and China Deadlock Over Depletion of a Major Lake | A conference that convened here this week to address the fate of an ecologically threatened Central Asian basin the size of California has ended in stalemate between Kazakhstan and China, the two countries most reliant on its waters. The heart of the basin is Lake Balkhash, the third-largest freshwater lake on earth, t... |
1831352_3 | Historians Fight Bush On Access To Papers | reforms, clearly gave the American public ownership of presidential papers, said the historian Robert Dallek, whose latest book, ''Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power,'' is being published next month. But Mr. Bush's executive order, he said, has had the effect of returning ownership to presidents and their heirs. Ha... |
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