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1692320_1 | '04 Report Faulted Application of Shuttle Foam | engineering at the Johnson Space Center here, said it was obvious that Lockheed's external tank engineers ''did not do a thorough job'' of identifying the quirks and variations that can occur when foam is applied by hand. And despite the space agency's insistence that it would not allow scheduling pressures to dictate ... |
1692238_2 | Three Groups Join in Effort to Save Wright's Ennis House | was approved for a $3.1 million FEMA grant in May 1999, provided that it fulfilled the criteria. But it was able to raise only a portion of the matching money, and only $1 million of the FEMA grant was released, an agency spokeswoman said. The remaining $2.1 million is to expire on Sept. 10 unless the matching funds ca... |
1692362_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Unionists Reject Talks | After the Irish Republican Army's decision last week to end its guerrilla war against Britain, Northern Ireland's political parties began a series of meetings with the British authorities who manage the province in the hope of resuscitating its local government. But the hard-line Democratic Unionists, Ulster's largest ... |
1698605_2 | Navy Ships and Maritime Rescue Teams Are Sent to Region | 10 teams of search-and-rescue crews and other personnel, but in some cases they were delayed in getting to the most devastated zones, because of the flooding and impassable roads. ''It is not as simple as driving right up into the city of New Orleans and starting a rescue as we might be able to do in other disasters, s... |
1691984_3 | The Grades That Vanished, And Some Other Threats To Students' Data | combined Ms. Johnson's bill with another by State Senator Kate Brown, another Democrat, to cover compromising pictures taken with cellphone cameras. Public scrutiny of such incidents contributed to support for a federal measure, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, which became a law in December 2004. The act prohibits ... |
1692007_3 | You Think You've Got Tomatoes | I finally caught up with him by telephone, Mr. Yasuda said he had two workers in his office who needed his attention and he really had to go. Pressed to comment on what makes his store unique, he said: ''I don't know. All the markets are pretty good. We do the same thing.'' Reminded that his customers seem to think the... |
1691996_2 | It's Not Just for Cold Nights Anymore | days. ''Something chocolate is standard on every American dessert list, and port is one of the few wines that go with chocolate,'' he said. OTHER changes are coming from Portugal. ''This region has turned upside down in the last 15 years,'' said David Guimaraens, the winemaker for Fonseca Guimaraens and the other brand... |
1698050_0 | Seeking Nobility Through Architecture | To the Editor: I applaud the efforts to save the Glenwood power station in Yonkers (''Supporters Rise to Defend a Cherished Power Station,'' Aug. 7). Any society that believes in the idea of disposable buildings can never be expected to build with timeless nobility in mind. Those in opposition to saving the building sh... |
1697654_0 | Starting With Orpheus | THE FIRST POETS Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets. By Michael Schmidt. 410 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Ancient Greece is the fountainhead of Western culture and politics. As Michael Schmidt demonstrates in ''The First Poets,'' the evolution from aristocratic rule to democracy in Greece was accompanied by the emergence of ... |
1697689_5 | The Cult Of the Cycads | shifts, volcanic eruptions and various mass extinctions, many species of cycads are either endangered or extinct. What nature failed to achieve in millenniums, humans have accomplished in barely 100 years. In the 20th century, destruction of habitat and what euphemistically might be called ''overcollection'' have decim... |
1697947_3 | Call of the Wild, Or, Rather, The Grim Reaper? | 15 years, mostly of farmers and villagers, including many children. In North America, however, the problem looms more in the imagination. There have only been a handful of deaths from attacks by cougars in the past two decades. And a study of bear attacks in Alaska from 1900 to 2002 showed that there were an average of... |
1697848_6 | Attack on the Commuter Tomatoes | a share, with leftovers sold at a Friday market, according to Jack Algiere, the farm manager. The most local of produce, of course, is one's very own. But there is the wildlife problem to consider. ''We have a very limited garden because the deer come and eat everything,'' said Evelyn Miller, a lawyer in Briarcliff Man... |
1697857_4 | How Green Will the Garden Be? | In April, department officials said they were not satisfied with Hovnanian's water testing. The builder sued, accusing the Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell of the Department of Environmental Protection of a ''penchant for political pandering'' that was causing unjustified delay. (The exemption available to the project ... |
1697916_1 | King Kong vs. the Pirates of the Multiplex | films. If that happens, they will stop being made,'' said Mr. Jackson in an e-mail message from New Zealand, where he is putting the final touches on his version of ''King Kong.'' ''No studio is going to finance a film if the point is reached where their possible profit margin goes straight into criminals' pockets.'' F... |
1697690_0 | Killer Tomatoes | Douglas Heath, Ph.D., says he is on the verge of perfecting what he hopes will be the defining fruit of his career, one with a trifecta of rare and attractive qualities. It is a seedless tomato; it delivers the robust, sweet-and-tart flavor most supermarket tomatoes lack; and it has all the disease resistance the comme... |
1693772_2 | A Ruling of Import to Hunters, and Bears | public comment next month. ''We will only proceed with a hunt after the public process is complete,'' Mr. Campbell said. From Jan. 1 to July 8 this year there were 677 damage and nuisance complaints involving black bears in 17 of the state's 21 counties. During the same period last year there were 424 complaints, accor... |
1694499_0 | Under Pressure | A few weeks ago at Per Se, Thomas Keller's four-star restaurant in New York City, a waiter set a salad of diced watermelon and hearts of peach palm in front of me. ''This is watermelon that has been Cryovacked,'' he explained. ''It's something new we're doing. I think you will like it.'' This was a watershed moment on ... |
1694789_14 | Awash in Information, Patients Face a Lonely, Uncertain Road | said Mr. Rich, a high school guidance counselor. ''They do one thing, and then you call them and they're doing something else.'' Finally, Mrs. Rich narrowed her list to six. Then, the very process that had helped her feel in control now made her feel more helpless than ever. She had come to the end of her research, wit... |
1694597_5 | Fixer-Uppers That Need Love And Concrete | for the dining room -- let alone millions of dollars for further repairs and conservation work. ''We still don't even have a phone,'' she said. Still, Barnsdall's condition is far less dire than that the later Ennis and Freeman Houses. These houses were built using the experimental textile-block method of concrete cons... |
1694717_3 | The Past, in Pixels | that her innocence should be thoroughly established by a strict search of the room, where, as she well knew, none of the valuables would be found. Recollections of a New York Chief of Police By George W. Walling. 1890. In order that the reader may understand just what confinement in Ludlow Street Jail means, let us sup... |
1694782_1 | Patients Turn To Advocates, Support Groups And E-Mail, Too | graduate program at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. Insurance companies also want to help patients manage their health care more efficiently, in order to keep costs down. Many companies use ''disease management teams'' who contact patients directly, largely bypassing the physician, a gesture that some patien... |
1694702_0 | East Village West | CONTRARY to popular belief, Las Vegas is not, in fact, a city where you can find everything. True, you can gorge on prime rib for breakfast or play blackjack at 3 a.m. And not far from the city limits you can engage in the kind of adult activities that have been made illegal in 49 other states. However, according to Ma... |
1697414_3 | Energy Prices Vex Americans On All Fronts | twice that. Ms. Andersen, 57, a senior administrative assistant for a health care provider, said she and her husband had cut back on television channels and now subscribe only to basic cable service. They have not taken out their 18-foot fishing boat this summer because of the higher fuel costs. She does not know yet w... |
1697297_2 | Avast! Pirates Steal Hearts | and moves, quite rapidly, to the Barbary pirates of North Africa, whose raids in the Mediterranean did not end until the 1830's. Each era had its own brand of pirate and its own definition of piracy. The English pirates of the 16th century seized enemy ships with royal permission. They were, Mr. Earle writes, ''the ill... |
1693057_1 | The Bicycle Thief | eco-friendly bar and restaurant opened this spring on Fulton Street, at South Portland Avenue, décor included not only an awning made of solar panels, cups made of a biodegradable corn-based plastic, plates made of sugar cane fiber and tables made from recycled soda bottles, but also a bicycle-powered blender that sat ... |
1692801_3 | NONFICTION CHRONICLE | hearing on the scientist quickly became a kangaroo court. With Oppenheimer safely out of the way, the real arms race could begin, following Teller's dubious strategy of ever-bigger weapons. (Teller covered up the fact that his own big bomb never worked; it was the brilliant Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam who provi... |
1693093_0 | Where First A-Bomb Fell, Prayers Ask 'Never Again' | At 8:15 a.m. Saturday, as tens of thousands of Japanese bowed their heads here to mark the instant when an atomic bomb fell 60 years ago, only the loud, telltale buzz of the summer cicadas broke the respectful silence. In an hourlong ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park, participants, as in previous years, laid wreaths,... |
1692802_13 | The Irascible Prophet: V. S. Naipaul at Home | in the notion that Western civilization is in decline. ''That's a romantic idea,'' he said brusquely. ''A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying. . . . It's a university idea. People cook it up at universities and do a lot of lectures about it. It has no substance.'' The ''philosophical ... |
1693079_0 | The Old Man and the Boat | I WENT to Havana earlier this summer partly for the reason that I suspect almost any American without a loved one there would wish to go: to drink in the lost world -- so close, so forbidden to our eyes (at least, mostly forbidden) for nearly half a century. So, yes, I wanted to smoke a Cohiba cigar, an authentic one -... |
1696393_4 | South Korea, in Turnabout, Now Calls for More Babies | late 1990's, but we had been focused on decreasing the birthrate for 40 years and it was hard to change directions,'' he said. But some of the measures aimed at reversing the trend have done little more than suggest the government is still out of step with the times. A campaign earlier this year urged women to have at ... |
1696445_1 | In Catskills, Learning to Live Near Bears | recent years, more and more residents have complained about encounters with bears in their yards. The only recorded fatality from a bear in the wild in state history occurred in Sullivan County three summers ago, when a 5-month-old died after a bear snatched her from a stroller in a bungalow community. After the death,... |
1696402_4 | U.S. Trade Pact Divides the Central Americans, With Farmers and Others Fearful | experiment in free trade with the United States has depopulated much of the countryside and sent waves of migration north of the border. With that in mind, perhaps no Costa Rican region has more at stake than Guanacaste, where tens of thousands of small farmers like Mr. Elizondo raise beef, pigs, rice and sugar cane. R... |
1696108_1 | Black Flag | speak of, and a Constitution that was skeptical about, if not antagonistic to, the maintenance of permanent armed forces. The two human symbols of this vulnerability were the American sailor seized from his ship and ''impressed'' into the British or French Navy, and the sailor or passenger taken at sea by marauding Mus... |
1696439_7 | For Merck, the Vioxx Paper Trail Won't Go Away | their way through the trove of 7 million papers that Merck has already produced, said Richard T. Evans, a drug industry analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. Meanwhile, federal prosecutors are conducting their own criminal investigation of Merck, and withtheir broad subpoena power they may find documents that plai... |
1694340_1 | Lutherans Reject Plan To Allow Gay Clerics | resolution to remain unified despite deep differences over homosexuality was approved by a vote of 851 to 127. ''We said that we are going to have a communal spirituality, not an issue-driven one,'' said Bishop Stephen P. Bouman of the metropolitan New York synod. ''They allowed us to continue to have pastoral space in... |
1694363_0 | The Growth in Jobs | To the Editor: Re ''Some Caveats on Job Growth'' (editorial, Aug. 6): Three cheers for rejecting the triumphal tone of business and government analysts who are content with a 5 percent unemployment rate because it is perceived as good for stock- and bondholders. Not only would further strong job growth be good for midd... |
1694345_2 | June Trade Deficit Surged As Oil Price Resumed Climb | played significant roles in the surge, which produced a $17.6 billion trade deficit with China -- eclipsing the $12.8 billion June deficit with Europe, in second place. China's lopsided imbalance captures headlines, overshadowing the role of United States exports, which almost always rise. Indeed, they were a record $1... |
1694400_0 | Changes Considered For Flight Screening | A staff group at the Transportation Security Administration has put together a list of possible changes in airline screening that include allowing small knives and scissors and skipping screening all together for members of Congress, governors and airline pilots. The new head of the agency, Edmund S. Hawley, promised i... |
1696721_3 | OBSERVATORY | from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Using genetic analysis, researchers affiliated with New York University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Wildlife Conservation Society discovered that a male humpback sampled in 2002 off Gabon in West Africa was the same whale that had been sampled in 2000 off Madag... |
1698263_0 | Left Behind, Way Behind | First the bad news: Only about two-thirds of American teenagers (and just half of all black, Latino and Native American teens) graduate with a regular diploma four years after they enter high school. Now the worse news: Of those who graduate, only about half read well enough to succeed in college. Don't even bother to ... |
1698234_2 | Arbas Journal; As France Shops for Bears, Shepherds Feel Threatened | a diplomatic gesture, from state to state. Mr. Reynes points to a regional survey earlier this year in which 68 percent replied that they favored more bears as an economic asset. The resistance, he says, is a ''psychological problem, a cultural problem.'' The movement to bring back the bears gained momentum last Novemb... |
1693880_0 | The Movies Are Rated R, But Not On the Billboards | The billboards promoting the latest installment in the Columbia Pictures ''man-whore'' franchise, ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo,'' are about as subtle as the nine-story-tall leaning tower of Pisa rendered to look as if it were poking out of Rob Schneider's pants. For anyone still in danger of missing the point, one ... |
1693977_6 | Alchemy for the Dinner Table; Science's Quest for Tasty, Fat-Free, Life-Preserving Additives | added to foods without an unappealing taste or smell. A specially modified cornstarch and a vegetable protein, usually soy, are mixed with water and fish oil and then cycled through machines that evaporate the water. In the process, the starch and protein molecules attach themselves to the droplets of fish oil, forming... |
1698479_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day on Friday and an entry in the Five Days feature in Business Day on Saturday about Alan Greenspan's tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve misstated his age. He is 79, not 78. |
1698330_0 | MEMO PAD | HURRICANE RIPPLES With Hurricane Katrina pounding the New Orleans area yesterday, shutting airports from the western Florida Panhandle to Baton Rouge and creating mounting delays at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, a central connecting point for the South, here are some ways to plan ahead if you're traveling t... |
1698302_0 | OBSERVATORY | Putting a Lid on It As society pumps more and more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, scientists are trying to determine what can be done to reduce the effect on global temperatures. One area of research is in developing ways to store much of the gas, perhaps underground or in the sea. But nature... |
1698344_1 | A Quest to Save a Tree, and Make the World Smell Sweet | 500 miles northeast of here. But when the exploitation there grew so intense that the tree was virtually wiped out, they turned next to the Brazilian Amazon. But by the late 1980's, the rosewood population in Brazil's eastern Amazon had also been eradicated. Alarmed, Brazil's environmental protection agency responded b... |
1698331_1 | Don't Let That Ticket Out of the Screener's Sight | boss at the Transportation Security Administration, drafted a list of possible rule changes that could, if put in place, do a lot to reduce the hassle factor. One would allow passengers to pack pocket knives and scissors in their carry-on bags. Another would let most keep their shoes on. Another would let laptops stay ... |
1693345_1 | Some Fear Iraq's Charter Will Erode Women's Rights | with authority that would effectively supersede that of civil courts like this one and produce an Iranian-style theocracy. Each individual court, some women fear, would make rulings according to its whim, replacing the set judgments of the existing law -- even though those judgments are rooted in Shariah. ''It's really... |
1691809_0 | Itineraries; Air Boors | New technology and recent economic realities translate into novel etiquette challenges on plane flights nowadays. Like trying to avoid the pornographic film playing on the DVD of the passenger next to you. Or trying to breathe through your mouth for six hours because your seatmate decided that the perfect in-flight lun... |
1691864_2 | Saudis' Leader Is Dead, Ending 23-Year Reign | efficiency -- an assurance that there would not be any major changes in international or domestic policies. Saudi officials said they expected that, if anything, relations with the United States might grow closer, because the new king has a warm relationship with President Bush. For Abdullah, who has fashioned himself ... |
1691787_0 | Rescued From Dustbin, Paper Medical Record Tells Its Tale | ''I wonder if patient could tolerate such a procedure emotionally,'' wrote a doctor about Mrs. E., a 44-year-old breast cancer patient being considered for a last-ditch brain operation called a hypophysectomy. ''I believe she stands a very real chance of another remission by hypophysectomy,'' wrote one of his colleague... |
1691925_0 | Corrections 1/3 | A chart on Friday listing violent incidents attributed to the Irish Republican Army, which announced that it was giving up violence, omitted some that took place in Northern Ireland itself before 1998. With attacks in the province itself considered, the peak of the violence was in the 1970's, not at the end of the 1980... |
1692499_1 | The I.R.A.'s Gift of Gab | Indeed, Mr. Adams would not have been allowed into political talks in 1998 about Northern Ireland's future unless he had subscribed to principles embodying such a commitment. In spite of that pledge, I.R.A. activity, albeit at a much lower level, persisted and pitched the Irish peace process into one crisis after anoth... |
1692497_2 | Too Much Pork and Too Little Sugar | need to reconfigure our cars and mass transit; we need a broader definition of what we think of as fuel. And we need a tax policy that both entices, and compels, U.S. firms to be innovative with green energy solutions. This is going to be a huge global industry -- as China and India become high-impact consumers -- and ... |
1692610_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Blair Resumes Diplomacy | Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain held separate talks in London with the leaders of Northern Ireland's main Catholic and Protestant political parties. But there seemed to be no narrowing of the deep gulf between the sides and no indication that the Irish Republican Army's announcement last week that it had ended its... |
1695241_5 | Fields of Bio-Engineered Dreams; Can Gene-Altered Rice Help Rescue the Farm Belt? | thought gene-altered rice could end up in their bottles of Bud. For Missouri's farm economy, the risk of growing pharmaceutical rice is high. More than half of Missouri's rice is sent abroad, to the European Union and Caribbean countries that are especially sensitive about genetically modified products. ''We are still ... |
1695119_1 | Dubya-Dubya-Dubya.Follies.com | 2001 just a few months after its central bête noire, President Bush, has been a minor triumph of counterprogramming. The administration has not taken the bait (apart from a threatening letter from Vice President Dick Cheney, later gleefully posted and pilloried on the site). But on the evidence of ''Dear Dubya: Patriot... |
1695179_0 | Fighting The Last Hijackers | Here's a question you should definitely not consider out loud the next time you're at the airport waiting in line at the security checkpoint. Suppose you were a terrorist who wanted to kill as many airline passengers as possible. Which of these plans sounds more feasible? 1.Smuggle a pocketknife or scissors on board. T... |
1695185_1 | MEMO PAD | in Latin America. That's according to a new survey by World Travel BTI, the big corporate travel management company. PLAYING CATCH-UP -- Long-haul fliers know that domestic airlines with international routes have lagged behind premier international carriers in the quality of their business-class cabins. Now, American A... |
1696930_3 | Tracing a Mutiny by Slaves Off South Africa in 1766 | perhaps dozens of slaves were killed. The surviving crew went down in ignominy for losing their ship; the Malagasy slaves met bondage and servitude. The Dutch East India Company dispatched the three-masted Meermin from Cape Town in December 1765 to buy slaves on the west coast of Madagascar, nearly 1,700 miles away. Th... |
1695554_1 | Q & A | programmed time for a radio and tape player that you have tuned and cued up in advance. Although it records the audio digitally to a memory card instead of a cassette tape, the Radio YourWay LX AM/FM radio recorder from Pogo Products has a timer that can be set to capture radio broadcasts when you're not around to push... |
1694160_0 | Sugar in the Energy Bill | To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman (''Too Much Pork and Too Little Sugar,'' column, Aug. 5) is right about the potential of sugar-based ethanol to reduce our dependence on oil. But contrary to his suggestion that the recently passed energy bill does nothing to encourage domestic production of ethanol from sugar cane, th... |
1694106_4 | Exploring One Man's Fate In the Alaskan Wilderness | room, a scene that illustrates Mr. Herzog's sense of drama beautifully. Sporting a blue smock and a fixed gaze, Dr. Fallico recounts his version of the attack, a description based on his examination of the bodies and the six-minute audio record found on one of Treadwell's video cameras. (The lens cap was on the camera.... |
1691727_2 | After Saints Preserve Us, She Returns The Favor | with the biggest ad -- Chiarelli's Religious Goods, a religious supply company that goes back three generations. Uncertain of her technical proficiency, Ms. Ferrandi called the owner, John Chiarelli, and offered to repair any broken statues. ''I figured if they were broken and he couldn't sell them, I could use them fo... |
1691678_0 | The Mexican Evolution | WITH nearly six million Mexicans living illegally in the United States, some Americans, particularly those in border states, are greatly worried about the costs of illegal immigration and have demanded that more be done to stem it. Modern-day ''minutemen'' patrol the border. Voters pass measures limiting the rights of ... |
1692728_1 | The Good News Bears | The message I took home was: ''You mess with my habitat, and I'll mess with you.'' Besides their natural charisma, the bears have another crucial asset for a poster animal: location. Because the Arctic is projected to feel the effects of global warming sooner and more severely than temperate regions, the recent shrinki... |
1692743_0 | The Misery in Niger: We Must Act | To the Editor: Niger is only one of many countries that are propelled toward catastrophe by uncontrolled population growth. In our own backyard, Haiti is on the same course. It is not the apathy of rich countries that causes the crisis. It is elementary that nations must be able to sustain their own populations through... |
1694966_0 | Spyware Heats Up the Debate Over Cookies | INTERNET users are taking back control of their computers, and online marketers and publishers are not pleased with the results. But they don't quite know what to do about their conundrum -- if it is a conundrum, since they can't even agree on that. Until recently, Internet businesses could track their users freely, us... |
1695013_0 | Crowds Thin At Heathrow In Recovery From Strikes | British Airways said Sunday that it had almost cleared up the backlog left by strikes last week that forced it to cancel hundreds of flights. Some 95 percent of flights are operating as normal, a spokeswoman said, and the 600 passengers still stranded at hotels near Heathrow Airport have been rebooked on new flights an... |
1697556_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Amazon Deforestation Slows | |
1677493_1 | Pomp and Circumspect | adding figures, searching data. So accountants lose work to TurboTax. And lawyers lose work to legal Web sites that offer uncontested divorces for $249 and articles of incorporation for the price of a pizza. To cope, we'll have to rely on what's harder to replicate in the 1's and 0's of computer code -- inventiveness, ... |
1677503_0 | The gender gap beneath the steeple: One writer is on to something, even if not everything. | ''Why Men Hate Going to Church.'' You can't get a much more straightforward title than that for a book on religion. David Murrow, a television writer and producer, decided to write ''Why Men Hate Going to Church,'' just published by Nelson Books, after years of worshiping in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, mainline Protestan... |
1680802_0 | U.S. Balks at German Chancellor's Call for Global Regulations to Curb Hedge Funds | Germany and the United States are parting company again, this time over Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's call for international regulations to govern hedge funds. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, speaking here Thursday at the end of a five-country European tour, said the United States opposed ''heavy-handed'' curbs on mar... |
1682151_0 | 3-Year Federal Study of 9/11 Urges Rules for Safer Towers | After an exhaustive, three-year study of the collapse of the World Trade Center, a federal panel will call for major changes in the planning, construction and operation of skyscrapers to help people survive not only terrorist attacks but also accidental or natural calamities, according to officials and draft documents.... |
1682107_3 | Six Months After | great damage to rainforests and setting the stage for more natural disasters. Timber needs to be obtained legally, and conservation measures, like replanting mangrove trees rather than developing the land from which they were uprooted, should be part of the reconstruction. The housing problem is further complicated bec... |
1683615_2 | No Pot of Gold In Court Ruling For the Studios | service. With the ruling, movie executives hope they will be able to further develop their online businesses from a position of strength, unlike the music business, which made little effort to create licensed services until piracy was already widespread. Entertainment executives said they believed that the sheer public... |
1679083_3 | Few Visas, Fewer Resort Workers | rely on a glut of college students and high school teenagers to fill in as store clerks, cashiers and other low-paid workers. During the last 15 years, however, fewer American students have been venturing into the summer workforce. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that 67 percent of American 16- to 24-year-olds had ... |
1679087_1 | U.N. Reports Say Poverty Causes Deeper Worry South of Sahara | reduce the mortality rates of children under age 5 by two-thirds by 2015. Experts at the United Nations Development Program said their projections ''reflect current trends, not destiny.'' Secretary General Kofi Annan praised the European Union yesterday for its recent commitment to almost double aid in five years and p... |
1677368_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Arrests On Illegal Logging | Barely a month after incurring international criticism as a result of a large increase in deforestation in the Amazon, the government has announced the dismantling of what was described as the largest illegal logging ring operating in the world's biggest tropical rain forest. Among the 89 people arrested were 49 employ... |
1677288_3 | Gains Made to Contain AIDS, but Its Global Spread Goes On, U.N. Says | greatest risk of infection. A 2004 survey of national AIDS spending in 26 countries found that some countries had used limited prevention resources for less effective initiatives aimed at the general population, including people at low risk. ''This approach misses the critical opportunity to prevent an epidemic that is... |
1677346_6 | A Portal to AOL's Future?; New Free Site May Affect Time Warner Decision on Troubled Unit | of AOL say. AOL.com will draw much of its content and its tone from the AOL service, with its flashy headlines, big photographs and instant polls. But AOL will not give away those aspects of its paid service that its research shows are most appealing: special features for children with access controls for their parents... |
1678327_2 | With Carryout, Bears Find a Life-Changing Experience | referring to the 46 mountains south of Lake Placid and Saranac Lake that are more than 4,000 feet high. In part, he said, the increase is attributable to more building in areas open to development there. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed changing rules in wilderness areas of the A... |
1678310_1 | Don't Let Your Baby Blues Go Code Red | through it. And remember: postpartum depression is beyond your control. Having it does not mean you are not a good mother or that you are crazy. The most important thing is that you don't wait for it to pass.'' This is a very important message, because the consequences of not treating postpartum depression can be quite... |
1678319_2 | Sage Advice in Archaeology: Think Like a Neanderthal | marks could only have come from other cave bears -- a sign of cannibalism or savaging. This is important work. We need to know about how extinct animals lived because we cannot observe them. The same is true for prehistoric humans. Q. Were your cave bears studies connected to your interest in prehistoric humans? A. Abs... |
1678482_10 | Many Demands On New Tower At Ground Zero; Seeking Better Security At a Symbol of Resolve | a big S.U.V. can carry is the equivalent of the charge used in the Oklahoma City bombing. To make underground parking safe, all vehicles entering the subterranean roadways would be subject to inspection at the entrances off Liberty and Vesey Streets, said Stefan Pryor, president of the Lower Manhattan Development Corpo... |
1678398_0 | Real Dangers of Deforestation | To the Editor: Re ''To Save Its Canal, Panama Fights for Its Forests'' (May 24): I recently returned from a trip to Easter Island, where the Rapanui people are noted for cutting down their trees to build their famous monoliths. Today, the island is an ecological disaster. Two weeks ago, The Times clearly noted how the ... |
1680193_0 | Illegal Rice Found Again in China's Food Supply | Genetically altered rice, which is not approved for human consumption anywhere in the world, has been found again in China's food supply, this time in one of the country's biggest cities, the environmental group Greenpeace said on Monday. Researchers for Greenpeace say bags of rice purchased in the southern city of Gua... |
1682940_2 | While Supplies Last: Three Natural Wonders That Are Feeling the Heat | climate. ''There are areas where we used to have rivers flowing in the park, and we don't have them anymore,'' said Gerald Bigurube, director of Tanzania National Parks. Steps are being taken, Mr. Bigurube said, to curb deforestation of the area, which is said to play a part in the loss of cloud cover that has exposed ... |
1683191_0 | Why Now? | To the Sports Editor: Seven Formula One racing teams using Michelins were told the tires might shred because the cars exerted intense downforce at full speed on the banked corner leading to Indianapolis Motor Speedway's straightaway. As an alternative, Michelin and the seven teams proposed installing a series of turns,... |
1683216_0 | Used S.U.V.'s Come Loaded, With Safety Concerns | A COUPLE of years ago, federal regulators invited reporters to an Ohio test track to see how old and more recent model Toyota 4Runners fared on a new federal rollover test. The outcome was sort of like those before-and-after pictures on miracle weight loss commercials. The rollover test is a series of sharp swerving ma... |
1682919_2 | Message in a Bottle | it, it's not the kind of drink that I could make in my kitchen and pound the pavement with,'' Marlin said. ''It would go bad.'' A nutritionist friend referred her to Abe Bakal, a New Jersey-based consultant with 30 years' experience developing foods for clients like Nabisco and Heinz. Marlin told Bakal about her projec... |
1682957_0 | E-Mailapropism | Soon after the world began, the ancients undertook the construction of an ill-fated ziggurat in the land of Shinar. An edifice of ambitious vertical proportion, it began to encroach upon heaven itself until the deity, concerned for the neighborhood, confounded our forebears' language so they could not communicate and s... |
1682008_2 | School Playground Clear? A Bear Must Be Near | arose when an unexpected visitor attempted to pick up a child from the school. Teachers and the school nurse have walkie-talkies and wear identifying tags on lanyards. ''This is the only childhood they get,'' said Joyce DeFrancesco, 53, the assistant principal. It was Ms. DeFrancesco who came up with Brown Alert, based... |
1682004_2 | 2 Columbus Circle Makes Group's List of Threatened Sites | of experts who evaluate the sites' significance, the urgency of their condition and the viability of the nominator's proposal to protect them. Several sites are relisted. Among those that were on the 2004 watch list are Little Hagia Sophia, the oldest preserved Byzantine church in Istanbul, which was converted to a mos... |
1681995_1 | Taking a Cruise? Great, But Don't Read This Book | story of ''what happens when little guys become big guys.'' How big? Put it in perspective. Even though it leaves the colossal new Queen Mary II out of this study, the book's statistics are staggering. The immense Voyager of the Seas, owned by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines (the cruise world's other giant, which, togethe... |
1681184_0 | Paperback Row | THE OUTLAW SEA: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime, by William Langewiesche. (North Point Press, $13.) Langewiesche turns an astute eye to the empty three-fourths of the globe, where 40,000 merchant ships operate with virtually no oversight. The book's centerpiece is the Estonia, a giant ferry that sank in the Baltic... |
1681217_0 | Using Your Cellphone Anywhere in the World | AMERICAN cellphones work fairly well across most of the United States, but what about when you travel to, say, Paris? With newer phones that support international standards, reducing roaming rates and allowing you to take advantage of local rates, it's now easier and cheaper to stay in touch with cellphones when travel... |
1684003_0 | Online Dating? Thin and Rich Works Here, Too | ONLINE dating is one of the most popular paid services on the Internet. A 2003 report by comScore Networks stated that 40 million Americans had visited an online dating site, and JupiterResearch reported early this year that industry revenue will reach $516 million in 2005. Recently, three economists -- Günter J. Hitsc... |
1677121_3 | Fewer Friends In High Places For This Lobby | generally easier -- though not always -- to defend in trade negotiations. Phillip W. Hayes, spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance, rejects the charge that his industry opposes free trade. Rather than the slow dismantling of the American program through bilateral negotiations, domestic sugar producers say they want ... |
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