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1848130_1 | How to Survive in Cambodia: For a Turtle, Beneath Sand | all the way down,'' said J. F. Maxwell, who has surveyed the lower Mekong. ''China is all wrecked.'' Until recently it was war that saved the turtles, but it is peace that threatens them now. For decades this 30-mile strip of river was a refuge for Khmer Rouge guerrillas, the armed remnants of the regime that cost the ... |
1848129_2 | North and South Send Trains Across the Korean Frontier | now shipped by sea to China and Europe. It would also provide a shortcut for Russian oil and other natural resources transported to South Korea. Such a rail system would save South Korea $34 to $50 a ton in shipping costs, said Lim Jae-kyung, a researcher at the Korea Transport Institute. But creating such a system, tr... |
1848493_1 | Village Vanguard | a new airport in nearby São Joao del Rei, the locals will likely see more foreign visitors in the region, which is dotted with historic hamlets that line the Estrada Real, an 18th-century route through mountains and forest established by the Portuguese crown for the transportation of gold, silver and diamonds. (Minas G... |
1848552_2 | Calling Mr. Green | about the modern book, which is a hybrid of materials. My book is one consistent material throughout. But why would anyone want to hold a book with plastic pages? Think about a catalog that was printed on polymers. You get the L.L. Bean catalog, and you can put it back in the mail so that the plastics industry can diss... |
1848490_2 | The Talk: Icons; Martial Plan | topics relevant to world peace on the anniversary of Lincoln's oration. The clear message was that those who perished at Gettysburg had given their lives not only to restore the Union but also to support the peaceful resolution of conflicts into the future, and on a global scale. Since this concept was consistent with ... |
1848793_2 | Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game | react quickly, remain popular, there are now huge games run in online virtual worlds. World of Warcraft, for instance, has millions of players around the world who must organize themselves into teams to accomplish complex tasks. In some online games like EVE, these teams are actually called companies, and the politics ... |
1848794_0 | Hiring Outlook Shows There Is Life After Finals | As the strains of ''Pomp and Circumstance'' dissolve into the past and the latest batches of college graduates issue forth into the work world, they can expect a warm welcome from the nation's employers. Some companies might view these new graduates as ''cheap labor,'' but in general it is more polite to use the term '... |
1848800_15 | Who Controls Paradise? | paved road, potable water or treatment plant,'' he says. ''This kind of stand-still situation cannot be justified anymore.'' But some conservationists contend that Jalisco coast could attract low-impact, environmentally friendly tourism by building so-called eco-resorts like the Ecolodge in Costa Rica. The Ecolodge is ... |
1850333_13 | Does Coke Need A Refill? | cool.'' -- Roberto C. Goizueta Coke is now available in more than 200 countries, the result of an aggressive global expansion that began in 1906 in Cuba, Panama and Canada. Today, about 70 percent of Coke's sales are overseas. In the first quarter this year, Coke's volume growth in China was 17 percent; in its Eurasia ... |
1850471_1 | Cities, Suburbs And School Aid Plans | Plans Have a Similar Theme'' (May 20) suggests that the suburbs are being favored over the cities. The problem with this analysis is that it looks only at the percentage increases in spending (and not current allocations), and it pays no attention to the source of the revenues that support this increased spending. As a... |
1850349_1 | 'Sicko,' Castro and the '120 Years Club' | a person compared with $6,096 in the United States -- come anywhere near matching the richest country in the world? Statistics from the World Health Organization, the C.I.A. and other sources all show that the people of Cuba and the United States have about the same life expectancy -- 77 years, give or take a few month... |
1850183_1 | Bear Sightings Rising In Residential Areas | the same time last year, more bears are turning up in residential and commercial neighborhoods and cities this spring because the bear population is growing, Mr. Rego said. There are an estimated 300 black bears in the state, he said, up from fewer than 50 in the late 1980s. Twenty years ago, fewer than 100 sightings w... |
1847499_2 | The Right to Paid Sick Days | organizations and activists are lining up behind proposed federal legislation that would give most workers the right to seven paid sick days annually to take care of their medical needs or those of their families. The legislation, sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative Rosa DeLauro, would require employ... |
1847572_2 | Landis Takes Doping Case to Court, Hoping to Keep Title | positive tests for synthetic testosterone stand for themselves. This case is different in at least one respect: USADA is opening one of its hearings to the news media for the first time, at Landis's request. A room with about 100 lawyers, reporters, witnesses and members of the public watched a summary from both sides ... |
1847451_0 | Satellites Show Harvest of Mud That Trawlers Leave Behind | Scientists have known for years that when fishing trawlers drag nets and gear across the ocean bottom they trap or kill almost all the fish, mollusks and other creatures they encounter. And the dragging destroys underwater features like reefs, turning the bottom to mud. Now, scientists have used satellite images to sho... |
1845231_35 | The Older-And-Wiser Hypothesis | turned out to be a vivacious woman with a soothingly enthusiastic voice. After all the abstraction involved in thinking about wisdom, she had turned to a more pragmatic role as a geriatric neuropsychologist, helping families and lawyers determine mental capacity in older people experiencing cognitive declines; in fact,... |
1845361_0 | A Central Stop for All That Hazardous Waste | ONE giant cardboard box held hundreds of power cords, coiled like snakes, and a tower of computer monitors, wrapped in plastic, stood six feet high. Piled on a wooden pallet were electronic relics -- like a Soundesign combination record player-radio-eight-track player. Montclair's biannual electronic-waste collection h... |
1845365_0 | A Central Stop for All That Hazardous Waste | ONE giant cardboard box held hundreds of power cords, coiled like snakes, and a tower of computer monitors, wrapped in plastic, stood six feet high. Piled on a wooden pallet were electronic relics -- like a Soundesign combination record player-radio-eight-track player. Montclair's biannual electronic-waste collection h... |
1845325_0 | A Central Stop for All That Hazardous Waste | ONE giant cardboard box held hundreds of power cords, coiled like snakes, and a tower of computer monitors, wrapped in plastic, stood six feet high. Piled on a wooden pallet were electronic relics -- like a Soundesign combination record player-radio-eight-track player. Montclair's biannual electronic-waste collection h... |
1845413_0 | A Central Stop for All That Hazardous Waste | ONE giant cardboard box held hundreds of power cords, coiled like snakes, and a tower of computer monitors, wrapped in plastic, stood six feet high. Piled on a wooden pallet were electronic relics -- like a Soundesign combination record player-radio-eight-track player. Montclair's biannual electronic-waste collection h... |
1845190_1 | You've Got Trouble | I do almost all of my communicating by e-mail. I've been known to e-mail people who were literally standing next to me, which I know sounds crazy, because at that distance I could easily call them on my cellphone. But I prefer e-mail, because it's such an effective way of getting information to somebody without running... |
1845393_3 | A Close Call, and a Sign of a Thriving Animal World | deer on the 11,000-acre Naval Weapons Station Earle, which stretches from the Leonardo section here to Colts Neck. But an Earle spokesman, Patrick L. Fisher, said there was no record of such an event. Other forest denizens are not so elusive. White-tailed deer, nearly eliminated in New Jersey by 1900 because of defores... |
1849804_1 | China's Leaders Confront Their Own Manic Market | fell 0.47 percent in Shanghai and 0.6 percent in Shenzhen on Thursday as investors responded to the warning. But the warning was not news to Mr. Zhou and other Chinese officials. The central bank, securities regulators and prominent business executives have all been cautioning investors that buying stocks is not a guar... |
1849804_3 | China's Leaders Confront Their Own Manic Market | that new brokerage customers sign forms acknowledging that they understand the risks of stocks. But stocks sailed higher on Wednesday after an announcement by the finance ministry and State Administration of Taxation that the government had no plans to raise taxes on share transactions, an approach the government has s... |
1847958_4 | A Clash of Hope and Fear As Venezuela Seizes Land | for food had climbed more than 30 percent in the last two years with the oil boom, while Venezuela's capacity to produce food grew only 5 percent. He points to inconsistencies in the government's approach, like having one ministry charged with redistributing land to reduce food imports while another is tasked with impo... |
1847938_1 | Troops' Exposure to Nerve Gas Could Have Caused Brain Damage, Scientists Say | gulf war illnesses have a physiological basis, and far more research will have to be done before it is known whether those illnesses can be traced to exposure to sarin. The long-term effects of sarin on the brain are still not well understood. But several lawmakers who were briefed on the study say the Department of Ve... |
1847978_1 | Why Is Income Inequality in America So Pronounced? Consider Education | right time or running successful hedge funds. Arguably, these activities improve the allocation of capital and thus enhance productivity. But even if these individuals perform no socially useful function, their gains reallocate wealth from one class of investors to another. That is, one group of investors reaps profits... |
1849139_2 | Harsh Birth Control Steps Fuel Violence in China | eased the tax burden on peasants and sought to curtail confiscations of farmland for development. But China's hinterland remains volatile compared with the largest cities, which are relatively prosperous and stable. Coercive measures, including forced abortions and sterilizations, were common in the 1980s, when the so-... |
1849130_1 | Itineraries; Meet Your Clothes at the Hotel | all to storage once the trip is over. Although the concept of luggage forwarding dates back at least a decade -- one of the first companies, Luggage Express, started in 1996 -- it will no doubt continue to gain popularity as air travel becomes more difficult. With last summer's adoption of new restrictions on liquids t... |
1849118_0 | Harnessing Methane, Cutting Waste, Recycling Tiles | The urge to conserve is obvious at the Interface Corporation, from slogans painted on the factory floor (''One Planet/Zero Harm''), to prize parking spots reserved for car-poolers, to packing boxes so relentlessly recycled that they sit, wrinkled and battered, festooned with the remains of previously applied masking ta... |
1849106_3 | OBSERVATORY | is eccentric but its rotation is steady, so Saturn's gravity affects it unevenly, creating tidal forces within it. Those tidal forces cause lateral slip along the cracks, similar to the movement of a seismic fault on Earth, report Francis Nimmo of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues in the journal ... |
1849117_1 | As the Grapevine Withers, Spam Filters Take Root | as a violation of the ''notification norms'' that ''constrain the behavior of nodes in social networks.'' Technology now lets us tell everyone everything at once, but we still value a network that existed before the Web: the grapevine. When you pass along gossip to a friend or colleague, you're doing more than just rel... |
1846145_6 | Clean Power That Reaps a Whirlwind | But the negotiators decided against any system for guaranteeing a division of credits by region, preferring one focused on reducing emissions wherever they occurred. ''Those were rejected on the grounds that you wanted to get more bang for the buck and they didn't want this to turn into another U.N. institution with a ... |
1849893_0 | Missile Defense Test Is Halted After the Target Rocket Fails | A highly anticipated test of a new Pentagon system to defend against long-range ballistic missiles was halted early on Friday because the target rocket fell far short of the designated interceptor range in the Pacific, officials announced. Since the attacking rocket and dummy warhead never reached the area to be defend... |
1847345_1 | Divided Over Trade | richer, make tens of millions of Americans poorer. How much poorer? In the mid-1990s a number of economists, myself included, crunched the numbers and concluded that the depressing effects of imports on the wages of less-educated Americans were modest, not more than a few percent. But that may have changed. We're buyin... |
1847042_0 | When a Child Outgrows the Safety Net | LAST year, when my son Sean was 12, he started to shoot baskets, watch too much television and have his first major crush. He said ''my bad'' after forgetting homework and plunged his size-seven feet into sneakers before bolting without a jacket. All of this astonished me -- not because he was growing up, but because h... |
1846996_0 | When a Child Outgrows the Safety Net | LAST year, when my son Sean was 12, he started to shoot baskets, watch too much television and have his first major crush. He said ''my bad'' after forgetting homework and plunged his size-seven feet into sneakers before bolting without a jacket. All of this astonished me -- not because he was growing up, but because h... |
1847219_4 | Today's Face of Abortion in China Is a Young, Unmarried Woman | Had Four Abortions in Six Years!'' a headline on the popular Web portal, Sina.com, declared recently. Abortion inside China became a controversial political issue outside China after the introduction of the country's family planning policy in 1979. The policy, which limits most urban families to one child, had an immed... |
1847008_0 | When a Child Outgrows the Safety Net | LAST year, when my son Sean was 12, he started to shoot baskets, watch too much television and have his first major crush. He said ''my bad'' after forgetting homework and plunged his size-seven feet into sneakers before bolting without a jacket. All of this astonished me -- not because he was growing up, but because h... |
1846965_0 | When a Child Outgrows the Safety Net | LAST year, when my son Sean was 12, he started to shoot baskets, watch too much television and have his first major crush. He said ''my bad'' after forgetting homework and plunged his size-seven feet into sneakers before bolting without a jacket. All of this astonished me -- not because he was growing up, but because h... |
1847180_4 | Clearly, Frankly, Unabashedly Disabled | expanded the definition of disability over time to reflect more conditions and impairments, including mental disabilities. The most recent population survey, in 2002, showed the disabled population to be the country's largest minority: 51 million, or 18 percent of all Americans. Most -- 32 million -- suffer from a disa... |
1848412_6 | New Routes And New Risk To Flee Haiti | even allow one into their homes -- face legal jeopardy, local Haitians say. Residents recall that back in 1998 another boatload of escaping Haitians died off the shore here, after the police fired at the boat. Authorities say they were firing warning shots and did not cause that vessel to capsize. ''We're still human a... |
1848390_3 | Hunt for Fugitive Was Beset By Confusion, a Report Says | vehicle. They called in a canine unit, a Mobile Response Team and an aviation unit. But the troopers had no radio link to the aircraft, foliage obscured the wooded terrain from the air, and when dogs and the mobile team arrived two hours later, Mr. Phillips had disappeared. ''The practice during this manhunt was that m... |
1825964_1 | West Adds to Strains on Iran's Lifeline | he said. To curb demand, which has been driven in part by subsidies that keep the domestic pump price at a mere 35 cents a gallon, the government plans to begin rationing gasoline in March, a measure so unpopular, and potentially explosive, that rationing plans have been put off several times in the past. Iran's energy... |
1825923_0 | MEMO PAD | LATE TO THE GATE -- Airlines last year had the lowest percentage of on-time arrivals since 2000, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in the Transportation Department. In 2006, domestic aircraft arrived on schedule 75.45 percent of the time, compared with 72.59 percent in 2000. The five airlines with th... |
1825856_2 | Pressing To Look Closer At Blood Clots And the Pill | weight gain. Subsequent formulations of the pill sought to balance reduced estrogen levels with increasing amounts of progestins -- hormones that help to suppress ovulation and to regulate the cyclical development of endometrial tissue. The newer progestins in third-generation pills, like desogestrel, were intended to ... |
1825861_0 | Using the Nose to Change Hormone Levels | Smelling a compound in men's sweat called androstadienone raises levels of the hormone cortisol in heterosexual women, a small study has found, suggesting for the first time that human pheromones might be useful in clinical medicine. Smelling androstadienone has previously been shown to improve mood and increase sexual... |
1827375_0 | Rwanda's New Path | To the Editor: Re ''After So Many Deaths, Too Many Births'' (Week in Review, Feb. 11): As President Paul Kagame of Rwanda prepares to embark on an energetic ''population control program,'' he would do well to heed the experiences of many other countries, such as India. Rather than targeted incentives to limit births, a... |
1827803_0 | Shift on Antitrust Issues May Aid Sirius-XM Deal | Mel Karmazin, the chief executive of Sirius Satellite Radio, made a lot of phone calls seeking advice before he entered into a merger deal with XM Satellite Radio on Monday. Maybe he should have called Charles W. Ergen, the founder and chairman of EchoStar Communications. Mr. Ergen could have given Mr. Karmazin an earf... |
1824489_2 | A Tribe Dreams of a Casino, and of a Less Spartan Life | invest in such projects. The Mashantucket Pequot tribe had 200 members the day the Foxwoods casino opened, many fewer when the idea for a casino in Connecticut was developed. Mr. Thomas, who met with the Pequots in his previous incarnation as an art dealer, said they inspired him to begin his quest. Many Indian tribes ... |
1824372_4 | Baghdad Day to Day: Librarian's Journal | second floor and saw a thick black smockrising from a car in al-Bab al-Mudham round-about (200 meters away from the NLA). I asked the security to prevent all members of staff from going outside the building, fearing that there might be another car-bomb.'' Working to replace rare books and documents that have been destr... |
1829056_4 | 2-Year International Study of Polar Changes Set to Begin | on Climate Change said such melting could take a millennium or more. But because of a lack of long-term measurements and poor understanding of the physics of ice, that analysis largely excluded hints of an accelerating flow of ice and meltwater from Greenland into the seas. ''The change of phase from snow and ice to wa... |
1829025_3 | Can Video Help Save the Satellite Radio Business? | to simply download video from satellites to in-car hard drives for later viewing. ''People relate to video, so maybe they make too big a deal of it,'' he said. ''We are not in the video business.'' He does concede, however, that the combined company's future would mean more than just talk and music. ''Our view has been... |
1829155_0 | Some Help in Buying Secondhand | If the idea of stepping off the consumer grid is appealing, but the reality of living the secondhand lifestyle seems daunting. The Compact members say that you are not limited to shopping at Goodwill and yard sales. Plenty of previously owned and lightly used goods can be found at a variety of resources. Some are liste... |
1829553_0 | National Briefing | West: California: Immigration Seen Raising Worker Pay | The huge influx of immigrant workers to California since 1990 generated a 4 percent increase in the wages of the average American worker in the state, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group. American workers moved into higher-paying jobs as immigrants filled low-... |
1829495_0 | Chávez Shares Some Airtime With Castro | ''How are you?'' President Hugo Chávez asked Tuesday in his nightly live radio program after a special guest phoned in from Havana. ''Very well,'' replied Fidel Castro, speaking in what was believed to be his first live broadcast since relinquishing power to his brother last July. That exchange was in thickly accented ... |
1827971_0 | A Google Package Challenges Microsoft | Google is taking aim at one of Microsoft's most lucrative franchises. On Thursday, Google, the Internet search giant, will unveil a package of communications and productivity software aimed at businesses, which overwhelmingly rely on Microsoft products for those functions. The package, called Google Apps, combines two ... |
1827960_4 | The Magic Is in the Tweaking | became worse in the economic downturn after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. ''We realized that it didn't make any sense going forward with our old business model,'' said Alan Shimel, co-founder and chief strategy officer. After further research, however, they discovered that clients were especially interested in the se... |
1823431_4 | Silicon Valley's High-Tech Hunt for Colleague | imagery. Thursday's weather posed a problem for the satellite effort, as a layer cake of clouds hovered over the search area. ''There definitely was a significant cloud cover,'' said Chuck Herring, a spokesman for DigitalGlobe. But because of the high and urgent demand for that particular strip, he said, the shot was t... |
1823437_4 | SCIENCE PANEL SAYS GLOBAL WARMING IS 'UNEQUIVOCAL' | consequences become inevitable.'' ''Since 2001, there has been a torrent of new scientific evidence on the magnitude, human origins and growing impacts of the climatic changes that are under way,'' said Mr. Holdren, who is the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. ''In overwhelming propo... |
1823350_2 | A Study Of Memory Looks at Fact And Fiction | and forgetfulness in Greek literature. The so-called memory wars peaked in the 1980s, when some patients in therapy described long-lost scenes of abuse, often at the hands of their parents. Books and news articles dramatized the experience, and some charges turned into high-profile court cases. The debate died down in ... |
1823339_3 | Uffizi Expansion Is Finally (Well, Maybe) to Begin | Kyoto concert hall, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and buildings for the Olympics in Barcelona and Turin. Mr. Isozaki, who once studied in Florence, envisions the exit as a steel-and-stone echo of the statue-filled Loggia dei Lanzi in nearby Piazza della Signora. The contrast between old and new became, ... |
1824823_1 | WHAT'S ON TONIGHT | The singer Mary J. Blige (left), a nominee in both the record and song of the year categories at the 49th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, does a guest turn as the coach, whose past life is hindering her ability to put a stop to the team's adversities. 8 P.M. (CMT) COWBOY U -- Fallon Taylor, a champion barrel racer, hel... |
1823839_2 | Under Bush's Pillow | encourages rulers to invade foreign lands, to escalate when battles go badly, to scorn critics, to be cocksure of themselves in the face of adversity. The themes of the classics tend to be the opposite. Literature and history invariably counsel doubt and skepticism -- even when you think you see Desdemona's infidelity ... |
1828892_4 | A Divide, And Maybe A Divorce | some churches certainly did depart, but the Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Episcopal churches now ordain women. However, some conservative corners of the Episcopal Church and some provinces in the Anglican Communion still do not ordain women as priests or bishops. When the Episcopal Church elected a woman, Katha... |
1828645_3 | The Heir Bag | the burden of exchanging the Empire (once nearly a quarter of the world's land mass, often pink on classroom maps) for a diminished ''imperial commonwealth.'' And she carried on as if the diminishment were merely the result of smart, modern tailoring, a custom-made global outfit for the ingénue figure she cut. It strik... |
1828552_2 | Sailing With Few Frills or Inhibitions | bathroom, with its mighty shower and gasping vacuum toilet, to a pair of white-sheathed mattresses on a platform mere inches above the floor. The ceiling, the shelves and the entire bathroom were, like much that bears the prefix easy-, orange. The whole setup could have fit inside the bedroom of my Manhattan tenement a... |
1828529_2 | Great Leap Forward | foresight been so at odds with hindsight. When Nixon took office in 1969, he inherited a war in Vietnam that was costing the United States far more in lives, money and reputation than is the current war in Iraq. The strategic arms balance had shifted in favor of the Soviet Union, whose leaders had crushed dissent in Cz... |
1828553_0 | Ships Are Rocking More, and Not From Waves | AS the apparent success of easyCruise demonstrates, cruises aren't just for retirees and families anymore. Shedding its image as a stodgy pastime for old people, the cruise industry is working to attract passengers under 35 with themed party cruises, raves, poker tournaments, beer pong matches and onshore excursions li... |
1828550_0 | Clearing the Decks, And Staterooms, For the Whole Clan | WHEN the Norwegian Cruise Line's Sun sails out of New Orleans for Central America in April, Kelli Darcy, her husband, her two sons and 51 other friends and members of her family, including both sets of her boys' grandparents, will be among the ship's passengers. The group, ranging in age from 2 to 78, will cave dive, z... |
1828580_1 | What a College Education Buys | that ''educators already know how to educate everyone and that they just need to try harder'' is a costly wrong impression, he wrote. Not all schoolchildren have the intellectual capacity to reach ''basic achievement'' levels. In college, similar limitations apply. The number of Americans with the brains to master the ... |
1826790_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL A3-8 House Passes Resolution Rebuking Bush on Iraq A sharply divided House of Representatives passed a resolution formally repudiating President Bush's decision to send more than 20,000 new combat troops to Iraq. The resolution was approved 246 to 182. A1 Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki told President... |
1826713_2 | Chávez Threatens to Jail Violators of Price Controls | baseball reigns supreme, soccer stadiums. In an indicator of concern with Mr. Chávez's economic policies, which included nationalizing companies in the telephone and electricity industries, foreign direct investment was negative in the first nine months of 2006. The last year Venezuela had a net investment outflow was ... |
1826702_1 | Wireless Codependency | The Oprah Magazine. Among the maladies identified: BlackBerry thumb: a pain or numbness in your thumbs caused by constant e-mailing, messaging or Internet surfing on hand-held devices. Cellphone elbow: ''No kidding. Cubital tunnel syndrome can result from constantly holding a cellphone to the ear. In severe cases, it c... |
1829262_0 | MEMO PAD | HIGH FLYING -- More people are going abroad in style. International premium travel -- that is, first-class and business-class flying -- grew 4.3 percent last year compared with 2005, according to the International Air Transport Association. Premium travel on the trans-Atlantic routes, which represent 16.1 percent of in... |
1829334_2 | OBSERVATORY | incinerators. But methods of separating circuit board materials often involve heat or chemicals or both, and that can create additional environmental problems. Jia Li and colleagues at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have developed and tested an environmentally friendly recycling method that uses technology simi... |
1826345_2 | No Apology Needed | 2003, as the U.S. battled France over the second Security Council resolution. Clinton's argument at this point was that inspections were working and should be given more time. ''It is preferable that we do this in a peaceful manner through coercive inspection,'' she said on March 3, but went on, ''At some point we have... |
1823049_4 | Chirac Unfazed By Nuclear Iran, Then Backtracks | an Iranian bomb from ever reaching its target. ''It is obvious that this bomb, at the moment it was launched, obviously would be destroyed immediately,'' Mr. Chirac said. ''We have the means -- several countries have the means to destroy a bomb.'' Mr. Chirac also retracted his prediction that a nuclear Iran could encou... |
1822907_0 | A Witty Welcome, Responsibly Made | Destination Doormats, round welcome mats introduced last month by the home-furnishings retailer Chiasso, do more than just make a statement. They are made of recycled tires, so they are also environmentally friendly. The doormats come in two designs. One, a bright red bull's-eye, has the slogan ''You Are Here'' across ... |
1826920_5 | Her Autistic Brothers | toward deinstitutionalization, more kids with disabilities stayed home, and researchers started investigating what influence that really had on brothers and sisters. At first, they sought to test for the expected negative impacts, interviewing parents and their typically developing children to measure those children's ... |
1826894_7 | Unequal treatment | condemns the distribution of contraceptives to young black women by Planned Parenthood and others, whose practices she links to eugenics. Similarly, the chapter on infectious disease opens with the story of an African-American man who was legally detained to ensure he took his tuberculosis medication. Whatever the ethi... |
1827617_1 | JetBlue to Begin Paying Penalties to Its Stranded Passengers | the program, which he plans to formally announce today. But certain elements have been agreed to. The compensation applies to delays and other problems defined as within JetBlue's control. That excludes weather and air traffic control problems. It includes crew shortages, maintenance problems and also, importantly, the... |
1827611_0 | Airlines Sharpen Sites For Web-Savvy Traveler | ABOUT $170 billion is spent each year on business travel in the United States. Nearly 90 percent of that is ''managed'' -- that is, booked by corporate departments -- in-house or under contract with a travel management company, or both. Managed programs have one great advantage: volume. They negotiate significant disco... |
1827497_8 | Battling Epilepsy, and Its Stigma | day. Families of children with intractable epilepsy often have a hard time getting the constellation of services they need. ''Throughout the years, we've had to find things out for ourselves,'' Ms. Leitner said. ''Nobody ever said to us, 'Nora needs speech therapy,' or 'Nora should see a developmental pediatrician.' ''... |
1827604_2 | Anglicans Rebuke U.S. Branch On Blessing Same-Sex Unions | its dioceses, which have appealed to the Anglican Communion to free them from oversight by the presiding Episcopal bishop, Bishop Jefferts Schori. Several dozen more parishes have aligned themselves with bishops outside the United States whose churches are more conservative theologically. At a late-night news conferenc... |
1827502_0 | Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior | Jett Lucas, a 14-year-old friend, tells me the kids in his middle school send one other a steady stream of instant messages through the day. But there's a problem. ''Kids will say things to each other in their messages that are too embarrassing to say in person,'' Jett tells me. ''Then when they actually meet up, they ... |
1828416_2 | New Airport X-Rays Scan Bodies, Not Just Bags | microRem per scan, according to security agency and company officials. The machine is already being used in some prisons, by United States customs and at Heathrow Airport in London. Dr. Albert J. Fornace Jr., an expert in molecular oncology at Georgetown University Medical Center, said such a low dose was inconsequenti... |
1826594_0 | Bruce Metzger, Scholar and Bible Translator, Dies at 93 | Bruce M. Metzger, an eminent scholar and translator of the Bible who oversaw the publication of a widely used modern edition that eliminated all the thees and thous and many of the hes, died on Tuesday in Princeton, N.J. He was 93 and a longtime Princeton resident. The cause was respiratory failure, his son John said. ... |
1826636_0 | JetBlue Flight Snarls Continue | As airlines and stranded passengers struggled to deal with hundreds of cancellations and delays caused by Wednesday's storm, things got particularly bad for JetBlue Airways last night when police officers were called to one of its service counters to help with irate customers. At Newark Liberty International Airport, t... |
1824709_1 | Security Debate Centers on Tougher Standards for Inspections of Air Cargo | very different from the passenger-baggage inspection system -- were sufficient to prevent a bomb from getting aboard. Mandating physical inspection of all air cargo could actually reduce safety, said Kip Hawley, the security administration's director, because the high cost would require other security measures to be cu... |
1824605_2 | Circuits; If Leonardo Had Made Toys | their bets on a new kind of radio-controlled three-wheeled vehicle it is calling the Tyco R/C Terrainiac. Scheduled to go on sale in the summer for about $80, the Terrainiac is a futuristic-looking vehicle powered by a single rear wheel that is a complex treaded ball, referred to by its makers as a ''sphere drive.'' Th... |
1824729_3 | Olympic Construction Unearths Ancient Treasure Trove | with work. ''In theory, the rules are there to rescue things as they come out,'' Dr. von Falkenhausen said. But, in reality, developers and local officials often sidestep the rules, partly because surveys and excavations can be time-consuming and create costly construction delays. Chinese archaeologists, as a group con... |
1824703_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | nuclear device. A13 More Letter Bombs in Britain A letter bomb exploded at Britain's main motor vehicle agency, extending what the police depicted as a coordinated series of attacks. A6 NATIONAL A10-14 Final Prosecution Flourish As Leak Case Nears End The prosecution in the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr. neared th... |
1823174_0 | Even Before Its Release, World Climate Report Is Criticized as Too Optimistic | In its 2001 assessment, its third, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that in the next hundred years sea level would rise globally by at least a few inches and perhaps as much as three feet, a catastrophe for low-lying coastal areas and island nations. In Paris today the panel will issue its fourth... |
1823196_0 | In Uproar, Chirac Again Retracts Remarks on Nuclear Iran | President Jacques Chirac, seeking to limit the diplomatic reaction over his remarks on Iran's nuclear ambitions, reaffirmed Thursday that France remained committed to preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The statement was issued within hours of the publication of an interview in which Mr. Chirac said that if ... |
1825545_1 | Who's Afraid of the New Economy? | diverse pieces of American reality, and to expose what they call ''the myths of neopopulism.'' The first myth, they write, is the myth of the failing middle class. It's true there are more households headed by young and old people, who tend to have lower incomes. But if you take households headed by people in their pri... |
1825494_0 | Sweet Smell Of Sidewalls | RICK BRENNAN, director of brand management for Kumho Tire USA of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., is candid about his company's name recognition, at least when compared with that of industry giants like Goodyear and Michelin. ''We have very low brand awareness,'' Mr. Brennan said. ''From our perspective, anything we can do to... |
1825556_4 | Can a 15-Year-Old Be a 'Woman Without a Spouse'? | Readers were advised that women living without a spouse -- the new majority -- included ''a relatively small number'' whose husbands were temporarily away from home serving in the military or out of town working, or who were institutionalized. The article never alerted readers, however, to the exclusion of the mostly s... |
1825519_8 | It's Alive! Meet One of Biotech's Zombies | pedigree of many of the other early biotechnology companies like Genentech, Amgen, Biogen and Chiron. Academic superstars started each of those companies. In contrast, Dr. Scannon had just finished his medical residency and, despite his doctorate in chemistry, he remained a neophyte when it came to business. ''I'd neve... |
1825550_1 | After So Many Deaths, Too Many Births | given incentives and detailed disincentives for families to limit themselves to three children. Previous efforts had been opposed by officials who told Ms. Nyiramilimo that education, not population, was the problem. But nearly half of Rwanda's legislators are female, and Ms. Nyiramilimo is among several who have spent... |
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