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1831439_1 | Memos Tell Officials How to Discuss Climate | range as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because the warming climate is causing a summertime retreat of sea ice that the bears use as for seal hunting. Environmentalists are trying to use such a listing to force the United States to restrict heat-trapping gases that scientists have linked to global warming ... |
1829924_4 | Google Courts Small YouTube Deals, and Very Soon, a Larger One | make videos of themselves trying on clothes. YouTube's deal with the BBC is to include specially created clips, blogs from celebrities, behind-the-scenes video, and popular shows like ''Fawlty Towers,'' ''Doctor Who'' and ''Life on Earth'' by David Attenborough. Still, many of the agreements that YouTube highlighted su... |
1834872_0 | BREAKING GROUND | Wildhorse Meadows WHAT -- Resort community at a ski destination. WHERE -- Steamboat Springs, Colo. AMENITIES -- Access to skiing and swimming pools, among others. PRICES -- Condominiums from nearly $400,000. Prices for other residences, including loft apartments and town houses, are not yet available. STATUS -- Expecte... |
1832126_4 | They'll Do It Themselves, Thanks | on to. At the time, there were 26,000 people living in 20 state institutions for the retarded in New York and just 1,570 in state-financed group homes. Today there are 32,722 developmentally disabled New Yorkers in community residences, and fewer than a thousand -- the most severely disabled -- in a handful of institut... |
1832168_4 | They'll Do It Themselves, Thanks | on to. At the time, there were 26,000 people living in 20 state institutions for the retarded in New York and just 1,570 in state-financed group homes. Today there are 32,722 developmentally disabled New Yorkers in community residences, and fewer than a thousand -- the most severely disabled -- in a handful of institut... |
1832189_1 | Run-Flat Tires: Solving a Problem or Creating One? | Tom L. Chubb, the vice president for original equipment marketing for Michelin North America, which makes several types of run-flat tires. He sees that growing to 4 percent by 2011. Run-flat tires are most often found on luxury vehicles. BMW has been the most enthusiastic proponent among the leading automakers, and see... |
1832141_4 | They'll Do It Themselves, Thanks | on to. At the time, there were 26,000 people living in 20 state institutions for the retarded in New York and just 1,570 in state-financed group homes. Today there are 32,722 developmentally disabled New Yorkers in community residences, and fewer than a thousand -- the most severely disabled -- in a handful of institut... |
1831973_0 | Muscle Man | When the lights came on at the Dolce & Gabbana spring show, the scene resembled a cattle call in Sparta. ''The classical Greek aesthetic is a strong influence in men's fashion,'' Domenico Dolce says. ''We were definitely inspired by the spirit of the ancient Olympics, of a healthy mind and body -- a mental and sensual ... |
1832108_4 | They'll Do It Themselves, Thanks | on to. At the time, there were 26,000 people living in 20 state institutions for the retarded in New York and just 1,570 in state-financed group homes. Today there are 32,722 developmentally disabled New Yorkers in community residences, and fewer than a thousand -- the most severely disabled -- in a handful of institut... |
1832316_0 | Corrections | The Career Couch column last Sunday, about the risks of office e-mail messages, referred incorrectly to Jefferson Wells, a firm that employs Don Ulsch, a lawyer who said that all information on a company's work computers normally belongs to the company. It is a consulting firm, not a law firm. |
1832272_5 | A New Battery Takes Off In a Race to Electric Cars | in a novel, nano-structure -- the particles used were 100 times smaller than conventional oxides and eight orders of magnitude more conductive than conventional phosphates. The new combination offers high power, stability and longevity. Shifting to the new technology seems to have been a wise, if hard, decision. Today,... |
1832190_0 | Hey, Why Not Stop And Smell the Tires? | AS automotive gimmicks go, few can stir the senses like Kumho's new scented tires. Kumho, a South Korean manufacturer that has been selling tires in the United States since 1966, said it hoped to build better brand recognition here by selling tires made with lavender-scented oil. The company said the smell of its Ecsta... |
1842240_1 | When The Group Is Wise | workplace rampages, big and small), forensic experts quickly and properly cautioned that no profile of a rampage killer exists. Most predatory killers score very highly on the most rigorously tested measure to predict violence, the so-called psychopathy checklist; but many who do not commit crimes also score high. Yet ... |
1842325_0 | Certifying Coffee Aids Farmers and Forests in Chiapas | Miguel Moshán Méndez's troubles have piled up over the past two years. Like other coffee growers here in the impoverished state of Chiapas, he suffered devastating losses when Hurricane Stan passed through 18 months ago, tearing coffee trees from hillsides. He lost half his trees, then borrowed money to get by. Now, he... |
1842297_0 | Certifying Coffee Aids Farmers and Forests in Chiapas | Miguel Moshán Méndez's troubles have piled up over the past two years. Like other coffee growers here in the impoverished state of Chiapas, he suffered devastating losses when Hurricane Stan passed through 18 months ago, tearing coffee trees from hillsides. He lost half his trees, then borrowed money to get by. Now, he... |
1842069_0 | Too Much Information | When parents sit down to fill out their child's application for federal financial aid, they come across a page with a long list of questions about their income. In one box, they must write down the amount of money they received the previous year from the Earned Income Tax Credit. In another, they have to report income ... |
1843384_0 | That Car in the Next Lane? It's Radioactive | Something in the silver Mercedes sport utility vehicle was potentially dangerous, at least if the police lieutenant's radiation detector was any guide. The device's alarm went off as the lieutenant, who works with the Police Department's counterterrorism unit, was driving to work yesterday around 8 a.m., heading west o... |
1843359_3 | The A-B-C's Of Calculating Financial Aid | do that by tallying the free money the school is offering. Do not include any form of loans in this category. Loans are money the student or parents must pay back. ''They mention them to seem like they are giving you more than they are,'' said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the FinAid.org and EduPASS.org Web sites and a... |
1839272_4 | A Lively Libido Isn't Reserved for the Young | in sex diminished by a fear of interruption or being overheard by children or an elderly parent. It can take some effort -- and perhaps a lock on the bedroom door and background music -- to reduce the risk of distractions that blunt the flame of desire. Women may think that the decline in estrogen at menopause is respo... |
1839275_2 | Search for the Female Equivalent of Viagra Is Helping to Keep Lab Rats Smiling | making its way through clinical trials. The compound, called bremelanotide, is a synthetic version of a hormone involved in skin pigmentation, and it was initially developed by Palatin Technologies of New Jersey as a potential tanning agent to help prevent skin cancer. But when male college students participating in ea... |
1839135_1 | A Plastic Wrapper Today Could Be Fuel Tomorrow | to eat through the shiny surfaces of tree leaves, so the parasite can suck nutrients out of the inner parts. A gene-splicing company, DNA 2.0, has taken some of the DNA from that parasite and spliced it into an e. coli bacterium, to mass produce the enzyme. The e. coli was chosen because it reproduces more readily than... |
1837680_2 | A Mutinous Group of Cells On a Greedy, Destructive Path | and do their job, as though innately aware that only the gametes can jump ship and live to tell about it. So what gives with metastases? What turns them into such oblivious, self-important, suicidal fools? Biologists know quite a bit about the steps that transform a normal cell into a cancer cell, a cell that lawlessly... |
1838019_0 | Health Risk to Older Women Is Seen in Hormone Therapy | A new analysis of combined data from two parts of a large federal study of hormone therapy has found that women in their 50s do not appear to have an increased heart attack risk if they take the drugs. But it also found that women in their 60s and 70s who still had hot flashes and night sweats were at increased risk fo... |
1837969_1 | Very Young Populations Contribute to Strife, Study Concludes | extractive industries. You put all that together, and you've got the makings of trouble.'' One strategy is to reduce the birthrates and the mortality rates of infants and younger children, according to Population Action, which hopes its research will improve contraception programs, education for girls and health servic... |
1837874_2 | No Longer Waiting for Rain, an Arid West Takes Action | river cannot meet the demand for water, a prospect that some experts predict will occur in about five years. ''What you are hearing about global warming, explosive growth -- combine with a real push to set aside extra water for environmental purpose -- means you got a perfect situation for a major tug-of-war contest,''... |
1838003_2 | U.S. Accuses Part of Tax Chain of Fraud | Hewitt stores were filing too many fraudulent returns.'' Jackson Hewitt did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment. The company's shares plunged 18 percent yesterday, or $5.87, to $26.53. The I.R.S. and Justice Department typically increase their crackdown on fraudulent tax-return preparers close to the federa... |
1837990_1 | What About Those Other Iraq Deadlines? | have promised the Iraqi people. In calling for a specific withdrawal date, the House and Senate versions of the supplemental spending bill send a clear message to the Iraqis (even if they do face a certain veto). The worst mistake now would be to provide money for the war without sending the Iraqis any message at all a... |
1840983_2 | E-Mail and Prozac | was a useful thing in the environment natural selection designed it for: the hunter-gatherer landscape of clear communication. But the landscape of e-mail is full of noise and imagined signals. Serotonin can gyrate dysfunctionally. Hence the Prozac temptation: Just open that serotonin throttle and cruise through your i... |
1840999_4 | Chasing a Dream Made of Waste | partly of sugars, but they are linked tightly in a more complicated chain. Breaking them up requires several enzymes. Most processes start with using steam and sulfuric acid on the feedstock, which can be corn stems and leaves, switch grass, wood chips -- or bagasse, the material left when sugar cane is processed and w... |
1840918_8 | Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter | honey with a long stick required the most effort and risk, with termite fishing having ''the highest element of success.'' Dr. Sanz, who has worked with her husband, David B. Morgan, on some of the research, described mother chimps' carefully withdrawing from a hole sticks swarming with black termites while their infan... |
1842768_1 | China Sets Out To Cut Secrecy, But Laws Leave Big Loopholes | in a decree signed by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, were announced with fanfare on Tuesday but will not become effective until May 1, 2008. And the caveats suggest that the new regulations may represent only measured steps in fulfilling promises by top leaders to create a more transparent and accountable government. Presi... |
1842717_1 | Foie Gras Makers Struggle to Please Critics and Chefs | of beef, pork and chicken, who can respond to criticism of their practices by returning to kinder, preindustrial methods of raising cattle, pigs and chickens, foie gras producers have no such bucolic past to fall back on. Since the time of ancient Egyptians, making foie gras has involved doing something unnatural to du... |
1841750_1 | Getting Out of Hedge Funds | that you do not want to invest in a mutual fund that trades frequently, because each trade adds a commission, which is deducted from potential returns. That is one main reason that most financial experts recommend a buy-and-hold investment approach. ''But some overlooked research from the University of Maryland notes a... |
1841792_0 | Pacific Miracles | The trouble with modernity is how efficiently it obliterates the troves of age-old knowledge otherwise known as wisdom. The good news from Palau, a Pacific island nation near the Philippines, is that some wise old ways have reasserted themselves to the great benefit of that tiny republic's fish and reefs, and the peopl... |
1841333_2 | Sharp Drop in Rates of Breast Cancer Holds | a quarter century. And it involved women age 50 and older, not younger women, and nearly all the decline was in the common type of breast cancer, fed by estrogen, the so-called estrogen-receptor-positive tumors. The hormone connection came because the Women's Health Initiative, a large federal study examining the healt... |
1839845_2 | Inside Art | at Sotheby's in New York. The proceeds will go toward the creation of the Barbara and Eugene Schwartz Contemporary Art Acquisition Endowment Fund. The auction house estimates that the painting will bring $6 million to $8 million. ''In the last 20 years we have worked with a really modest budget based on annual contribu... |
1839945_4 | MISSING E-MAIL MAY BE RELATED TO PROSECUTORS | not only applies in the Oval Office, but to the R.N.C. as well. There is absolutely no basis in law or fact for such a claim.'' Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat who is spearheading the Senate inquiry into the prosecutors' dismissals, said the Fielding letter ''can be summed up in three words: 'We are s... |
1840057_0 | Reginald H. Fuller, 92, New Testament Scholar | Reginald H. Fuller, a prominent British-born New Testament scholar who used his knowledge of Hebrew and Greek to hunt for the historical Jesus and his fluency in German to debate the nuances with theologians, died on April 4 in Richmond, Va. He was 92. The cause was complications of surgery for a broken hip, said the V... |
1840122_1 | Sales Abroad Propping Up The Economy | was entirely because of an increase in petroleum and food prices; elsewhere in the economy weakening demand appears to be taking pressure off prices. The more expensive food reflected the increasing price of corn, now that so much of the crop goes into ethanol production. Other than food and energy, there was no increa... |
1843083_0 | Baseball Looks to Create A Possible Portal to Cuba | Major League Baseball officials are quietly preparing to re-establish a relationship with Cuba if the United States lifts its trade embargo. Fidel Castro, 80, has experienced serious health problems in recent years, and his brother Raúl is Cuba's interim president, a situation that has prompted speculation about the co... |
1840794_0 | The Lengths We Go for Toiletries | FREQUENT fliers are an adaptable bunch because they need to be. The evolving restrictions on what can and cannot be carried on airplanes -- particularly rules involving liquids, gels and aerosols -- have forced them to find new ways to take what they need to look and feel their best on business trips. As travelers on a... |
1840718_4 | New Form of Impulse: Shopping via Text Message | Torrey, director of communications strategy and business development for New York magazine, which is considering adding ShopText's codes. Text-messaging is not the only way to use cellphones for purchases. MasterCard is testing mobile payment in New York with Nokia phones that can be used to shop at stores like CVS and... |
1840817_2 | Russia's Strategy: Save Polar Bears With Legal Hunt | they are on the shore, they are in danger of being killed,'' said Mr. Kochnev. Although the number of bears killed illegally here is unclear, given the clandestine nature of poaching, the government estimates that as many as 100 are killed each year. Mr. Kochnev said the number could be twice as high, an unsustainable ... |
1840717_0 | E-Mail Innovator Plans to Enlist in the Wireless Campaign of the Patent Wars | Nicholas Fodor is about to dive into the patent wars that have tangled up the business of wireless e-mail. But his weapon of choice is not a lawsuit. It is a new e-mail service he is developing using the knowledge gained from years of experience with e-mail software. Mr. Fodor, 43, a French computer programmer, said th... |
1840734_0 | Amid Turbulence at CBS Radio, an Old Hand Is Back | Five years after leaving a top post at CBS Radio, Dan Mason officially returns today to lead the unit again. He is likely to find that the headaches have worsened. Almost by default, this week promises to be a quieter one at CBS, which suspended and then ousted the talk-show host Don Imus from his longtime home station... |
1842519_0 | Breast Cancer Not Linked To Abortion, Study Says | There is no association between abortion and an increased risk for breast cancer, scientists reported yesterday in a large study. There has been considerable debate over whether abortion, induced or spontaneous, is linked to breast cancer -- a debate that may intensify with last week's 5-4 Supreme Court ruling, which s... |
1838093_0 | Irish Inquiry Faults Handling of Day of Attacks in 1974 | Although the decades of violent conflict over Northern Ireland have ended, an official report issued here on Wednesday demonstrated how the past still haunts the landscape. The report addressed the deadliest day of the conflict -- May 17, 1974, when 33 adults and children were killed in coordinated bombings in Dublin a... |
1838095_0 | An Army of Housewives Battles TB in Bangladesh | In the golden haze of dawn, Mohammed Salim Sheikh walked slowly through the paddies, so frail and thin that the lungi wrapped around his waist looked like a clown's oversize trousers. Carrying a treatment chart in one hand and a stainless steel water glass in the other, he crossed the threshold of a house. The housewif... |
1838169_3 | COLLEGE OFFICERS PROFITED BY SALE OF LENDER STOCK | Michael Dannenberg, director of education policy at the New America Foundation, a public policy institute in Washington. ''What we're finding out now is that some colleges and some financial aid administrators may not be so impartial.'' The 2003 government filings show that Lawrence W. Burt, associate vice president an... |
1838824_1 | How to Confine the Plants of the Future? | their product innovations. On the other, suspicious citizens demand that regulators challenge that evidence. The side whose expertise is accepted as ''official'' calls the shots. So far, the business sector has tipped the scales in its favor. Despite science-based concerns voiced by farmers, environmentalists and even ... |
1838909_0 | U.S. Envoy Visits Somalia And Urges Truce for Capital | The highest-ranking American official to set foot in Somalia in more than a decade returned from a trip there on Saturday conceding there were ''significant problems'' but saying ''we have to have faith in the people of Somalia.'' The official, Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, spent fiv... |
1839017_10 | New Tricks | have indicated that the leading cause of dog abandonment is behavioral problems. A team of researchers for the National Council on Pet Population Study and Policy, headed by Dr. Mo Salman of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University, surveyed nearly 4,000 dog owners at 12 s... |
1838728_2 | Special Education Enrollment Up Again in '06 | agreed. ''The educated awareness that parents have about the developmental stages of children has increased,'' he said. But alternative explanations for the growth abound. For instance, state financing formulas create a potential incentive for classifying students in special education. Because the state gives districts... |
1839038_0 | Q & A | I am returning to the United States after a lengthy stay in Germany and wonder how best to transport the things I have acquired. Books, for example, are heavy, and last time Lufthansa made me take stuff out of my bags to meet the weight limit. But it's expensive to mail packages. Would it be cheaper to take these thing... |
1839024_38 | Keeping the Faith | diocese of Ferns, O'Gorman was repeatedly abused and raped by the local priest. In 1998, he filed a lawsuit against the diocese as a way to get the church to recognize the problem of pedophilic clergy. In 2003, the diocese agreed to pay $325,000 to settle the suit. Meanwhile, as attention built, the Irish government op... |
1843911_0 | INSPECTORS FIND REBUILT PROJECTS CRUMBLING IN IRAQ | In a troubling sign for the American-financed rebuilding program in Iraq, inspectors for a federal oversight agency have found that in a sampling of eight projects that the United States had declared successes, seven were no longer operating as designed because of plumbing and electrical failures, lack of proper mainte... |
1843801_2 | Sizing Up Your Skills For a Return To Work | will remember you,'' Ms. Cohen said. Job boards can help you put feelers out broadly and see what jobs are in demand. Professional recruiters will probably be of little value, because they generally place executives with traditional work histories, said Lisa Kojis, a managing partner at PrincetonOne, an executive searc... |
1843944_3 | Lingering Fog of Chemotherapy Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion | many factors affect cognitive function, and the kinds of cognitive problems associated with cancer treatment can be caused by many other things than chemotherapy,'' said Dr. Ahles, the director of neurocognitive research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The new interest in chemo brain is, in effec... |
1842426_3 | His Own Pope Yet? | to stand pat. In one of Benedict's first moves, he issued a long-awaited policy stating that homosexual men cannot be ordained priests, even if they are able to live a chaste life. The action was cast as a response to the clergy sexual abuse crisis, based on the argument that the abuse was largely inflicted by a growin... |
1839487_3 | School Records on Special English Classes Are Called Works of Fiction by Critics | not receive the education they are mandated -- one of their most basic human rights -- it is a citywide and nationwide problem,'' she said. ''Entire generations of immigrant Americans are kept in a cycle of poverty. They do not have a means to move up in society, participate fully in society or fulfill their life's dre... |
1840582_2 | The Age Of Darwin | literary criticism. Confident and exhilarated, evolutionary theorists believe they have a universal framework to explain human behavior. Creationists reject the whole business, but they're like the Greeks who still worshiped Athena while Plato and Aristotle practiced philosophy. The people who set the cultural tone tod... |
1840302_4 | Local Culture as Part of the Green Experience | rain forest at the top of the island's volcano.'' The big lure of a jungle ecolodge is, of course, the jungle. The Amazon remains one of the world's most undisturbed wildernesses, and some of its most remote tracts are in southeastern Peru. The area is notoriously tough to reach, but the Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica Lod... |
1840270_0 | The Talk; Let's Get Genetical | It is possible to get many things at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, Calif., but a blood-and-urine panel that analyzes the condition of your DNA is a relatively new development. The panel, offered through the California WellBeing Institute as part of several luxury-lifestyle packages, including a $2,800 exe... |
1840270_4 | The Talk; Let's Get Genetical | when patients were allowed to track their viral load -- to see how it went up or down, based on their behavior -- they took their medication more reliably. Conrad dreamed up a corollary: if ordinary people could watch the genetic damage that accrues from eating Ho Hos, they would change how they ate. ''It's like a bath... |
1840304_3 | Safety Records a Click Away | to board the plane of another. The safety audits involve five days of inspections by a six-member team. Any findings must be addressed, and there are follow-up audits. The audit program was not created to allay (or confirm) the anxieties of passengers. Instead, it is supposed to save airlines money. American carriers c... |
1843167_1 | Walter Bareiss, 87, Dies; Specialist in African Art | of Art in Ohio. He put together a distinguished collection of classical Greek ceramics that the J. Paul Getty Museum, then based entirely in Pacific Palisades, Calif., purchased in 1984. The collection included a superb sixth-century B.C. black-figure vase decorated with narrative scenes by an anonymous artist; such wa... |
1838360_0 | Correction | An article on Wednesday about an analysis of studies on the effects of hormone therapy for menopause misstated the results of a study on the risks of taking estrogen alone as hormone therapy. Estrogen alone increased the risk of stroke; it did not also increase the risk of breast cancer. The article also omitted the na... |
1838338_3 | A Bumpy Ride on a Brazilian Highway, and Long Waits at Either End | moving a ton of soybeans from Mato Grosso to port was $88 in February, much higher than Brazil's $48 average cost for soybean transport, and nearly six times the average cost of $15 a ton in the United States, according to the Brazilian Vegetable Oils Association. ''We recognize that we are coming close to a real bottl... |
1838374_2 | China's Appetites Lead to Changes In Its Trade Diet | market for land, a competition between several different products for the same amount of land,'' said Sergio Barroso, president for the Brazil operations of Cargill, the biggest grain trader in the world. Brazil's soybean industry is losing acres to sugar cane for ethanol production in some areas, he said, and is compe... |
1837047_0 | The Mind Reader | Q: As a professor of cognitive science at Indiana University who spends his time thinking about the process of thinking, what do you make of Descartes's famed pronouncement, ''I think, therefore I am''? Who knows what that means? It's a tiny, little aphorism. You can interpret it any way you want and say, ''What a wise... |
1836980_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths KAREKEN, LYNNE MARCUS | KAREKEN--Lynne Marcus, March 30, 2007, at age 70. Predeceased by her brother, David Marcus. She is survived by her loving husband of 46 years, Ronald; sons, David (Ann Kosobud) of Indianapolis, Jeremy (Gail Griffin) of NYC; grandchildren, Daniel, Michael and Benjamin; cousins, nieces and nephews. Lynne was a former sol... |
1841510_3 | Classical Treasures, Bathed in a New Light | There are garden-variety sculptures from Roman baths and archaeological fragments more meaningful to specialists than to the rest of us, along with imperial portrait busts, funerary reliefs and the Badminton sarcophagus, whose reputation belies the fact that it's a bit over the top. The Met's Greek and Roman collection... |
1841681_1 | Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Decidedly Mixed Reviews | a woman to give up her monthly menses,'' said Ronny Gal, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. But if the new pill, called Lybrel, is approved, Mr. Gal predicts an onslaught of advertising meant to persuade women to do just that. The drug's maker, Wyeth, said yesterday that it was expecting F.D.A. approval in M... |
1841511_1 | Riffing on Modernism: Through the Roof, Brancusi! | discussion included in the catalog (and, in part, on the gallery walls), the concept for ''Philosophy of Time Travel'' began not with a desire to recall acts of recent terrorism, but with a wish to create an installation that would symbolize the clash of African and Western cultures, a concept the artists thought appro... |
1839697_3 | Advisers' E-Mail Accounts May Have Mixed Politics and Business, White House Says | the ensuing uproar. In January, an assistant to Mr. Jennings used a gwb43.com account to circulate a document discussing Democrats who are being singled out for defeat in 2008. ''Please do not e-mail this out or let people see it,'' the e-mail read, adding, ''It is a close hold, and we're not supposed to be e-mailing i... |
1841220_3 | Word by Word, the World Becomes a Little Less Mystifying for Illiterate Adults | who runs the city's special education program, with 180,000 students, acknowledged that the program had been troubled until recent years by misclassification of children and ineffective approaches. But she said that four years ago, under Chancellor Joel I. Klein, new efforts were begun to step in as early as kindergart... |
1845856_1 | Report on Child Deaths Finds Some Hope in Poorest Nations | dying each day is just plain wrong,'' said David Oot, a public health expert on the team that produced the Save the Children report, ''State of the World's Mothers: Saving the Lives of Children Under 5.'' Despite many hopeful stories, broad progress against infant and child mortality has flagged since international hea... |
1845903_2 | Answering Al Qaeda | or in their clothes that screeners often miss. Deploy at every airport checkpoint multiview X-ray machines that automatically rotate passengers' carry-on bags so screeners can see them from every angle, improving their ability to spot concealed weapons. Install explosive-detection technologies at every airport checkpoi... |
1845905_4 | Sounds of Silence in Northern Ireland | province's most distant extremes. The Democratic Unionist leader, the Rev. Ian Paisley, once said that he would be ready for talks only ''when you marry Christ to Beelzebub.'' So what happened? Did he and Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams just grow up? Were they able to understand the terror of fathers and grandfathers -- that o... |
1844443_1 | Chemotherapy and the Brain | a clinical professor of psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. To the Editor: Your article about ''chemo brain'' brings up two points: post-chemotherapy neurotoxicity is just a part of a constellation of issues that we as oncologists are helping our patients cope with; and let's stop using the term ... |
1844372_2 | A Luscious Taste and Aroma From India Arrives at Last | for thousands of years, and produces half of the world's crop, but inadequate infrastructure and pest quarantines have limited its exports to less than 1 percent of the global mango trade. Besides hoping for lucrative sales to affluent expatriates, Indian mango growers are eager to export to the United States because t... |
1844372_3 | A Luscious Taste and Aroma From India Arrives at Last | price is going to be an issue,'' said Erwan Landivinec of Baldor, a distributor to high-end markets in New York. Shipments could be less expensive by sea, but the fruit might not survive the 18-day journey. Florida mango growers long ago imported trees or seeds of the best Indian varieties, including Alphonso, but thes... |
1844455_1 | New Accents in the U.S. Economy; Latin American Companies Make Big Gains North of the Border | gather for potluck dinners at the Masonic Lodge. ''As Latin America lowered its own barriers to trade and investment, its firms began to look at the world in a very different way,'' said Robert Pastor, vice president for international affairs at American University in Washington and a former adviser on Latin America to... |
1844394_3 | Try Shopping Around For Student Loans | with residents. Their umbrella group is the Education Finance Council, which offers a Borrower Benefits Book, Outreach Book and Financial Aid Guides, at www.efc.org/cs/root/resources/resources. The federal Department of Education also offers a guide to student loans: ''Funding Education Beyond High School,'' which is a... |
1850883_0 | Pondering Some Old, Familiar Questions on the Road Across Country | The tires whine, and sometimes they moan. Sometimes they send up a whistle I don't even hear until it stops. Now and then the asphalt runs smooth and true. But mostly the interstate is a series of discontinuities -- a sharp thump as we hit a shallow overpass, a few miles partly paved with recycled rubber, a long sequen... |
1850912_0 | How We're Animalistic -- In Good Ways and Bad | The odd thing is that conservatives wear pinstriped suits. They love the ancients so much that they really should be walking around in togas. The main contribution of the Greeks to modern American politics may have been Michael Dukakis, who once climbed the Acropolis in wingtips. But that doesn't stop conservatives -- ... |
1850813_0 | Saffron Power: Yellow, Yet Not Necessarily Mellow | AT a symposium on Spanish cuisine last November, I anticipated two days of deconstructed, itsy-bitsy food, the hallmark of molecular cuisine that has captivated top chefs worldwide. But amid the clouds of garden soil foam (no lie) and quivering plates of clam jelly, what captured my attention was the sweetly pungent pe... |
1846527_3 | To Raise a Down Syndrome Child | correct most of these problems, many of these children are still left with a lifetime of significant illness. This is on top of the myriad other problems that are realized to some degree in all Down syndrome children. Medicine is often said to be ''in the business of putting itself out of business'' by promoting preven... |
1849320_1 | A Voyage to Olympus For Young Mortals | first major exhibition about antiquity,'' Andrew S. Ackerman, the museum's executive director, said in an interview, ''and the first time we've displayed ancient archaeological artifacts.'' Those antiquities, ranging from coins to a sixth-century-B.C. amphora, or vessel, with an image of Athena driving a chariot, were ... |
1850658_0 | With Hurricanes in the Lab, They Can Blow the House Down | Over the years, many people have tried to simulate the winds of hurricanes and measure the effects. They have set up model wind tunnels. They have used the equivalent of airbags to simulate wind gusts. They have even used jet engines. But according to Stephen P. Leatherman, director of the International Hurricane Resea... |
1849611_2 | INSURERS AGREE TO PAY BILLIONS AT GROUND ZERO | and possibly a hotel. ''The train is now moving down the tracks,'' said Larry A. Silverstein, the 76-year-old developer who had leased the World Trade Center complex six weeks before the Sept. 11 attack. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the land at ground zero and built the trade center, will g... |
1849556_0 | Chinese Police Arrest 28 in Riots Against Family Planning Laws | The police in southwestern China arrested 28 people for instigating riots over family planning controls over the weekend, but officials were also dispatched to the affected regions to ''deal with complaints'' about the area's strict measures to enforce limits on family size, state news media said Wednesday. Seven towns... |
1849583_3 | Prisoner of Her Desires | embrace the Islamic Republic. The mullahs, in a very personal, Iranian way, have replied. Since the Germans and the French first introduced the idea of ''constructive engagement'' with Tehran in the early 1990s, Iran has consistently checked any Western effort to have a meaningful ''dialogue of civilizations.'' Little ... |
1849579_1 | When They Say You Are a Spammer | e-mail that was flagged as spam. Mr. Madlener's company was guilty by association, as are many companies that use outside e-mail service providers that offer shared servers. ''It happens a lot,'' said Shar VanBoskirk, senior analyst with Forrester Research. ''There's so much spam out there and it's so expensive to mana... |
1849513_0 | ROOM TO IMPROVE | Q. I'm tired of granite countertops. What are some alternatives? A. It is surprising that most high-end kitchens are finished off with slabs of granite when you consider the multitude of countertop materials available. There is a lot to like about granite, but there are many other options that offer different looks and... |
1847679_2 | Study Finds College-Prep Courses in High School Leave Many Students Lagging | the case that many high school courses are not providing the necessary quality that he described. ''Course titles don't matter nearly as much as what is taught and how it is taught,'' said Michael Cohen, president of Achieve, a Washington-based organization that works with states on academic standards. ''There is treme... |
1847765_2 | Time for Iced Tea And Summer Internships | executive suite.'' A good way to find interns is through universities, he said. ''It is a personal reward to an employer to be a mentor,'' Mr. Sullivan said. ''You feel like you make a difference in someone's life.'' ''Interns have an opportunity to network, develop relationships and gain experience,'' Mr. Sullivan sai... |
1847706_0 | U.N. Emissions Program | To the Editor: Re ''Clean Power That Reaps a Whirlwind'' (''The Energy Challenge'' series, Business Day, May 9): There are problems with the Clean Development Mechanism, to be sure. The most troubling aspect of it is not that China has used it effectively, but that it has so far failed the countries, like those in Afri... |
1844283_0 | Food Imports Often Escape Scrutiny | Early in the 20th century, the safeguarding of food at American ports often amounted to inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration prying open containers of molasses or sugar and examining them for mold or insect parts. The F.D.A. has come a way since then. But not much more. Last year, inspectors sampled just 20... |
1848122_0 | Giorgio Cavaglieri, Urban Preservationist, Dies at 95 | Giorgio Cavaglieri, an architect who took his fascination with how buildings and cities change over time from his native Italy to New York, where he helped start and define the city's preservation movement, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 95. His nephew Andrew Tesoro announced the death. Mr. Cavaglieri designed ai... |
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