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788292_1 | Digital, Sun and Xerox Join To Make Better Printer Link | year and would be intended for machines using the Unix operating system. The software would be embedded in products made by the companies, so users would not have to purchase it separately. The three companies have equipped a laboratory in El Segundo, Calif., where the software would be tested on a variety of computers... |
788423_8 | The Latest on Coffee? Don't Worry. Drink Up. | than do nonconsumers, and thus may be more prone to fractures. Indeed, the nurses' study linked caffeine intake to an increased risk of hip fractures but not wrist fractures in postmenopausal women. Among those who consumed the most caffeine (more than 817 milligrams a day), the risk of suffering a hip fracture was nea... |
788406_0 | France's Nuclear Twin | To the Editor: "Mr. Chirac's Nuclear Blunder" (editorial, Sept. 7) criticizes France for its decision to resume nuclear testing. Many of your points apply to United States nuclear policies. Like France, the United States has "no nuclear-armed enemies" and "no pressing need for a nuclear arsenal." Yet somehow Paris cann... |
788339_2 | At Women's Forum, Peru's Leader Defies Church | men and women by the "power of darkness." Mr. Fujimori, a Catholic and the son of Japanese Buddhist immigrants, said, "We are not trying to confront the church, but rather to help poor women and to express our solidarity to the women's movement." Cardinal Augusto Vargas Alzamora, Roman Catholic Primate of Peru, said, "... |
787159_0 | Despite Wave of Protest, France Defends Pacific Nuclear Test | Battered by a wave of global outrage over its resumption of nuclear tests in the South Pacific, the French Government gritted its teeth today, sniped at the "hysteria" of some of its critics and gambled that short-term damage to its image would be compensated by long-term respect for its firmness. The loudest protests ... |
787122_2 | Cuba Passes Law to Attract Greater Foreign Investment | in, but he expected a "significant" rise this year compared to the total so far, which he called modest. Some experts noted that the law could have gone much further, saying that early discussions had included more free-market enticements. One debate focused on whether to allow foreign employers to hire their workers d... |
787050_0 | Mr. Chirac's Nuclear Blunder | Ignoring majority opinion in his own country and protests around the world, France's new President, Jacques Chirac, has ended a three-year French moratorium on nuclear weapons tests by exploding a Hiroshima-size bomb under the South Pacific. This unjustified blast, and the five to seven expected to follow over the next... |
787124_1 | A Wary France Cracks Down on Its Muslims | student at the prestigious National Superior School for the Arts and Techniques of the Theater, said she was startled, then humiliated, when it happened to her. As she left a Paris train station, three policemen surrounded her, questioning her and checking her background. They detained her for 15 minutes. "They were ve... |
787111_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about a French nuclear test in the Pacific misstated the level of France's diplomatic relations with Australia, which opposes nuclear testing. Australia's ambassador to France was called home briefly for consultations, but not withdrawn. |
787087_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-15 NATO TO PRESS AIR CAMPAIGN NATO officials decided to broaden and intensify the air campaign in Bosnia after three days of bombing failed to persuade the Bosnian Serbs to lift the siege of Sarajevo, senior American officials said. A1 A Serbian leader said again that he may lift the siege. A10 CHINA J... |
787130_0 | French Police Fight Rioters In Tahiti | Anti-nuclear demonstrators stormed the runway at Tahiti's international airport today and tried to set the terminal building on fire as hundreds of foreign travelers fled the frenzied scene. The demonstration, led by a Polynesian political party seeking independence from France, came a day after the French military det... |
788505_2 | Electronic Meeting Places Include Some Dark Alleys | subscribers, but they also enable child pornographers to trade illegal images on a public network. In contrast to the privacy of electronic mail, America Online and other popular computer services, including Compuserve Inc. and the Prodigy Services Company, routinely monitor messages posted to public spaces on their sy... |
791128_2 | At Conference on Links Of Violence to Heredity, A Calm After the Storm | meeting focused far more on the significance of the research into the biology of violent behavior than it did on the research itself. There was much discussion of historical precedents for misuse of science and of the eugenics movement in the United States and elsewhere, including the showing of a movie on the subject.... |
791121_1 | Two to Tango, Especially on a Kitchen Table | presented by Sasha Waltz and Guests on Sunday night at La Mama as part of a North American tour. "Travelogue" borrows from the genre of dance-theater developed by Pina Bausch and her colleagues in West Germany in the 1970's and 80's. It has a similar concern for male-female relations, dramatic details that deal with ev... |
791057_0 | A Dispute On U.N. Post For Women | The international women's conference held in Beijing earlier this month asked the United Nations Secretary General to appoint the organization's first high-level official for women's issues. But the choice is proving difficult, officials say, because it threatens to reopen fissures between rich and poor nations only re... |
788788_2 | Women Carry Hopes As Conference Ends | individualism, in which key relevant provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights are slighted, such as the obligation to provide special care to motherhood." During the conference, the Vatican found itself allied with other states that stress the primacy of religion, like Iran, Sudan and Libya. On the other... |
790716_3 | Hope for Amazon Rain Forest: New Fruit | reach 2,000 to 3,000 tons. Jerusa de Souza Andrade, an agronomist who studies Amazon fruits for the National Institute of Research on the Amazon in Manaus, said the lack of development to support agribusiness was one of the main obstacles to a greater reliance on fruit crops by Amazon farmers. "Our main problem is that... |
790730_1 | Amid Strains, European Chiefs Reaffirm Common-Currency Goal | to say Germany wished the Italian economy well. He avoided pointing out, as Mr. Waigel had apparently done in a closed session of the German Parliament, that it was difficult to see how Italy could meet the criteria laid down by the Treaty on Monetary and Political Union, which European leaders agreed to in the Dutch c... |
790766_2 | Something New in China: Environmental Cleanup | city life is on view at close range. Dozens of low-lying canal boats that transport goods to Shanghai from inland areas are moored against the river bank on any given day, and the families who live aboard let their children play on the flat decks while parents hang laundry to dry on "People who live on these boats wash... |
786777_4 | Hillary Clinton in Beijing as Women's Conference Opens | that it will again take up the issue that has sundered the national politics of many nations of the world: the reproductive rights of women and the issue of abortion. The forum met last in Nairobi in 1985. In part, this meeting appears doomed to debate again policy statements and recommendations that were reached last ... |
786773_1 | British, Irish and Pro-I.R.A. Leaders Discuss Ulster Peace Effort | no assurance that Mr. Adams would accept the proposals or the concessions. Sir Patrick met Mr. Adams in Belfast this afternoon after a morning meeting in Dublin with Mr. Spring. Mr. Spring and Sir Patrick agreed that their meeting had been "very good" but that some issues, which they did not specify, remained to be res... |
786074_0 | Nigeria Had to Act Against Coup Plotters | To the Editor: Re "The Fantasy Coup," Bob Herbert's Aug. 14 column on Nigeria: Gen. Sani Abacha's Government came to office to restore order at the request of Chief Moshood K. O. Abiola and other politicians who were worried by the turmoil of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. After achieving this objective, the... |
786106_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 2-4 BALKAN ENEMIES TO MEET The foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and the Serb-dominated Yugoslav federation agreed to meet in Geneva next week for the first direct meeting of all parties to the war in more than two years. 1 For the first time in 50 years, German planes risked combat. 2 CHINA WARNED ON ... |
787297_0 | Tahiti's Antinuclear Protests Turn Violent | Hundreds of anti-French Tahitian demonstrators rampaged overnight through the streets of Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia, setting parts of the city on fire after gutting the main passenger terminal at Tahiti's international airport. The melee ended years of peaceful protests by French Polynesians against nucle... |
791651_0 | Beijing, Trying to Bully Film Festival, Misjudges | To the Editor: The Chinese Government tried unsuccessfully to bully the New York Film Festival this week (Arts pages, Sept. 27). Two films on China are scheduled: "Shanghai Triad" by the director Zhang Yimou is the opening night film Friday, and "The Gate of Heavenly Peace," an American documentary on the 1989 Tiananme... |
791690_1 | French Premier Sees His Approval Rating Sink | public opinion polls. Only 37 percent of those asked said they were satisfied with his performance now, compared with 63 percent after he took office in May, according to a survey this week by the French Public Opinion Institute. Mr. Juppe is angrily on the defensive. This week, the object of his ire was an anti-corrup... |
791566_1 | Rising Church-State Tensions Threaten Mexico Talks | return to his parish in Yajalon, Chiapas, to pick up his personal belongings. Father Riebe was abruptly detained and expelled in June on charges that, as a foreigner living in Mexico, he had violated the law by becoming involved in the country's politics. Officials secretly tape recorded sermons in which Father Riebe a... |
790279_0 | Religion Journal; A Church Breaks Ranks on Role of Women Ministers | Almost a quarter century after some major Protestant denominations began ordaining women as clergy members, the presence of a woman serving as a pastor of a Protestant church has become progressively less remarkable. Yet barriers to women in the clergy remain. Some are firmly fixed, some more symbolic. For the latter, ... |
788010_0 | Ulster Danger Point; Dublin Cancels Key Meeting With London Over British Demand That I.R.A. Disarm | The failure of the British and Irish Governments to hold a top-level meeting last week is the strongest indication yet that the peace effort in Northern Ireland is at a dangerous low point. Whether the effort grinds to a halt or picks up again after a summer of deadlock and frayed nerves depends upon a willingness to c... |
788080_0 | Ireland: Once More to the Brink | The peace process in Ireland has entered a dangerous stage. Ten days ago, with a summit meeting planned between the Irish and British Prime Ministers, progress seemed possible. The two Governments had arrived at a draft statement that did not mention the irksome issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army, the main ob... |
788007_0 | WOMEN'S MEETING AGREES ON RIGHT TO SAY NO TO SEX | Asserting a woman's right to make sexual decisions free of coercion or violence, delegates to an international conference here agreed tonight to declare for the first time in a United Nations document that a woman has the right to say no. With the Vatican acquiescing, a consensus of delegates from nations on every cont... |
788711_1 | FORUM ON WOMEN AGREES ON GOALS | as a template for national policies and legislation. After a series of key compromises on language relating to sexual rights and cultural and religious differences, delegates from 185 countries debated final sticking points until 4:45 A.M. "We have a platform," said Patricia B. Licuanan, chairwoman of the final draftin... |
788663_0 | Don't Blame I.R.A. for Stalling Talks | To the Editor: Re Henry Laurence's Sept. 9 letter, stating that the Irish Republican movement, not the British Government, is throwing a monkey wrench into the talks process: A mountain of evidence -- the yearlong Irish Republican Army cease-fire in the first place -- suggests that Mr. Laurence is wrong. In a sobering ... |
791289_0 | CUNY Board to Vote on Plea for $94.6 Million Aid Increase | Trying to recoup some of the losses it suffered in this year's austerity budget, the City University board will vote today on a request for $94.6 million more in state aid. The money would not be used to restore academic programs, but to help replace senior faculty members and to expand support programs for students. T... |
791271_5 | Low-Fat Food: Feeding Frenzy For Marketers | single day this month, four giant food companies -- Conagra, Nabisco, Kraft Foods and Hershey Foods -- introduced so-called healthy or good-for-you products in the mushrooming reduced-fat category. Beyond developing their own products, many of the food giants are seizing the opportunity to jump into the reduced-fat bus... |
786985_0 | Snags Postpone Peace Talks Between Irish and British Premiers | A meeting scheduled for Wednesday between Prime Ministers John Major of Britain and John Bruton of Ireland was postponed today because of differences over how to deal with the disarmament of the Irish Republican Army and when to start all-party peace talks that would include Sinn Fein, the I.R.A. political wing. Offici... |
786982_0 | INSIDE | France Begins Nuclear Tests In a long-awaited and widely condemned action, France detonated a nuclear device beneath a remote Pacific atoll today. Page A3. Big Bank Merger in Atlanta Nationsbank, already the largest in Georgia, plans to acquire Bank South of Atlanta for stock worth $1.6 billion and to cut 2,000 jobs. P... |
786906_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-15 NATO RESUMES BOMBING SERBS NATO resumed its bombardment of the Bosnian Serbs after a four-day pause for negotiations failed to achieve the withdrawal of artillery from around Sarajevo. A1 Serbs sought refuge from latest NATO strikes. A12 FIRST LADY SPEAKS IN CHINA At an international women's confere... |
786975_1 | France, Despite Wide Protests, Explodes a Nuclear Device | to perfect computer simulation techniques that would end the need for further testing. Mr. Chirac's decision to resume the tests in the South Pacific -- three years after his predecessor, Francois Mitterrand, placed a moratorium on nuclear testing -- drew criticism from the United States and other nuclear powers that h... |
786987_1 | Chirac Orders French Borders Tightened to Combat Bombings | of Paris. France has reacted by putting in place an extraordinary security and surveillance system. Thousands of uniformed police officers are patrolling the streets of Paris and other major cities. Train stations, airports and border crossings have been placed under a close watch. Today, 13 million students returned t... |
785978_1 | In What Passes for Peace in Ulster, Anxiety Still | last if the politicians continue to creep toward a peace settlement at a snail's pace? "It's been great," Simon O'Hagan, a 22-year-old medical student at Queens University, said of the cease-fire. But of the politicians, he said: "It would be good if they could get something done. They should certainly all sit down and... |
785935_0 | Suspended for On-Line Racism | Three state workers were notified yesterday that they would be suspended for three months without pay for distributing offensive and racist jokes across a computerized mail system at the Department of Environmental Protection, The Associated Press reported. A fourth employee of the department, who officials said was on... |
786059_0 | Nuclear Test Plan Tarnishes France's Image in Pacific | The antique French billboards that once decorated the Restaurant Le Monde are being taken down and hidden away. The brass lamps, meant to create the ambience of a Paris cafe, have been yanked from the ceiling. The French menu has been torn up, replaced by one entirely in English. "We're changing everything, steering cl... |
789806_0 | A Tipping Point in Bosnia | The Bosnian and Croatian Governments yesterday wisely averted a new crisis in the Balkans that could have jeopardized the fragile peace negotiations and even ignited a wider war. The two Governments promised not to attack the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka, which could have disrupted the delicate equilibrium between bat... |
789801_0 | Foreign Affairs; No Guts, No Glory | The lion in "The Wizard of Oz" didn't have it, but at least he knew where to get it. Nelson Mandela had it, and so did F. W. de Klerk, and they used it to good effect. Yitzhak Rabin has it and so does Yasir Arafat, although occasionally they lose it and need help finding it again. It's called "courage," and unfortunate... |
788244_0 | Ireland's Path to Peace | For a year now, there has been peace in Northern Ireland. Not total peace, but peace enough to transform the life of the people, to bring unemployment down steeply, and to create real optimism about the chances of achieving a lasting peace. A summit meeting of the British and Irish Prime Ministers was due to take place... |
788168_2 | Spy Satellites' Early Role As 'Floodlight' Coming Clear | film back from outer space. A dozen more failures occurred through 1961. One gold-plated film pod speeding back from space landed in a Russian forest, where woodsmen chopped it up with axes. *The first successful mission in 1960 covered more than 1.6 million square miles of Soviet territory -- far more that the earlier... |
789368_3 | Scientists Say Earth's Warming Could Set Off Wide Disruptions | northern climes, an increase in rainfall in some regions that need it, and faster crop growth. Grain belts of North America and Russia could expand. Agricultural production worldwide is not expected to decrease much. But some regions -- especially sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia and tropical Latin America ... |
1412539_0 | They Propped It Up. Then It Fell Down. Perfect, They Said. | The Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, an hour's drive from London in West Sussex, England, is a kind of retirement home for medieval barns and other traditional farm buildings. The Downland Gridshell is the museum's first contemporary building. While it adapts one of the world's oldest vernacular building techniques ... |
1415401_0 | Cuban-American Honored for Agriculture Innovations | Pedro Sanchez, a Cuban-American soil scientist who pioneered methods for reviving tropical agriculture while saving threatened rain forests, was named the winner of the $250,000 World Food Prize yesterday at ceremonies in Toronto. Mr. Sanchez, 62, is chairman of the United Nations Task Force on World Hunger, but the aw... |
1415444_0 | College Savings Plans Are a Growing Draw | Despite the plummeting stock market, millions of Americans are opening college savings accounts. They are drawn by new federal tax breaks, a growing array of options and an uneasy awareness of the ever-higher cost of college. Americans created more than two million tax-protected college savings accounts in the last two... |
1416851_7 | Why Isn't Fast Track . . . Faster? | by about 80 percent, to $12 billion from $60 billion. ''I do not see these proposals as a basis for compromise,'' said Franz Fischler, the European Union's commissioner for agriculture, denouncing the plan as ''unbalanced.'' American officials and American farm groups, which back the proposal, say it would simply force... |
1416719_4 | An Old Fleet Under a Dark Cloud | of its fishing boats due to the regulations. ''It's difficult for people who have been fishing their whole life to easily transition to shore side work,'' she said. ''They have a lifetime of unique knowledge about how to do a job well that doesn't translate into going ashore.'' Whaling and sealing were once an importan... |
1416548_3 | The Second-Oldest Profession | doctrine appropriate to the problem under discussion, but together the dialogues do not necessarily cohere into a larger whole. Plato wrote, Hadot suggests, ''because he wanted above all to address not only the members of his school, but also absent people and strangers. . . . His dialogues can be considered as works o... |
1416902_0 | Jobs Scarce, Many Heed Call to Serve In Peace Corps | Emily Halpin had no luck finding a job this spring, so she joined the Peace Corps and will be packing her bags for Nicaragua next month. Ms. Halpin, who has had a longstanding interest in the Peace Corps, joins a record number of people seeking to volunteer. Peace Corps applications nationwide are up 17 percent since l... |
1416583_6 | In the Backbone Of the World | dozen steps out of your car in Glacier National Park without being reminded that the area is home to at least 350 grizzly bears (the densest population in the lower 48 states) and 400 or 500 black bears. Every trailhead we saw was posted with a notice announcing in large letters, Entering Grizzly Country, ending bluntl... |
1416571_2 | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks | focus on religion a bit narrow, but called her account ''engaging, provocative and often persuasive.'' Another offering from the Modern Library Chronicles is The Renaissance: A Short History, by Paul Johnson ($9.95), an unabashedly old-fashioned overview of Renaissance art and literature. McNeill said Johnson's emphasi... |
1416578_26 | Globalization | commodities -- were buying less and less of the high-value-added goods they wanted to import. In effect, they were getting poorer each day. Their solution was to close their markets and develop domestic industries to produce their own appliances and other goods for their citizens. The strategy, which became known as im... |
1416813_4 | The Bionic Brownstone | ''But technological improvements are accelerating to the point that we can do this more now.'' Consider the Cornice Use of these new techniques, supporters say, can prompt waves of preservation. Consider the cornice, the cantilevered ornament often placed atop the facade of apartment buildings. Many landlords once got ... |
1417304_0 | INSIDE | A Test for Palestinians A convoy carrying about 100 armed Palestinian police officers arrived in Bethlehem to begin a trial resumption of Palestinian authority there under an agreement with Israel reached on Sunday. PAGE A3 Amtrak Restores Service Amtrak restored most of its Acela train service, but with half of its hi... |
1417231_6 | MAYOR PROMISING BETTER RESPONSE TO CATASTROPHES | the device actually did work. Mr. Giangola said that the consultant was legally prohibited from commenting on the tapes. But he said that the tape was listened to and that it confirmed their recommendations. ''You do need to ask the question, 'Was there any information that they did not use in compiling the report?' ''... |
1417234_3 | Forget Nature. Even Eden Is Engineered. | 30 years, ''sustainability'' has become the mantra of many private groups, government officials, scientists and, even, a growing number of businesses. Most define the notion as advancing human endeavors without diminishing prospects for future generations. The Johannesburg summit will be the third global conclave in th... |
1417234_4 | Forget Nature. Even Eden Is Engineered. | sift and disseminate on the Web. Communities can track forest loss in Indonesia, sprawl in Indiana and the flow of pollution from state to state, country to country. After disasters like the chemical release in Bhopal, India, in 1984 and the grounding of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in 1989, many companies have shifted p... |
1417234_13 | Forget Nature. Even Eden Is Engineered. | China has expanded the work to 250,000 acres, said Dr. Christopher C. Mundt, a plant pathologist at Oregon State University who helped conduct the research. ''Perhaps more important,'' he added, ''the Chinese are taking the general concept of diversification into related approaches'' to other crops. The key to the next... |
1417208_0 | Experts Scaling Back Their Estimates of World Population Growth | Demography has never been an exact science. Ever since social thinkers began trying to predict the pace of population growth a century or two ago, the people being counted have been surprising the experts and confounding projections. Today, it is happening again as stunned demographers watch birthrates plunge in ways t... |
1417210_0 | Bracing for Economic Changes, When the Population Grows No More | For decades, economic advisers from rich countries have preached the virtues of slower population growth to poor countries striving to improve their standards of living. Intentionally or otherwise, the advisers' own countries may have followed that recommendation too closely. Where a stabilizing population can offer ec... |
1417346_0 | Catskill Bear Snatches Infant From Stroller And Kills Her | A young black bear killed a 5-month-old girl outside her family's summer bungalow in a Catskill resort yesterday afternoon, snatching the sleeping baby from her stroller while the mother took her two other children to safety. The bear ran into the woods of Fallsburg, N.Y., with the girl, but dropped her moments later a... |
1417219_5 | Learning to Live With Logging and (Gasp!) Even Liking It | in the forests. The Wildlife Conservation Society began working closely with C.I.B. in 1999 after the company won rights to the area adjacent to Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which the conservation society runs for the government. The company was seeking to deflect criticism from environmentalists, mostly those in Euro... |
1417250_2 | Aversion to U.S. Airports Is Rooted in Stress Factor | United States senators urgently asking for an extension of the Dec. 31 deadline for ensuring that all passenger luggage be inspected by bomb-detection machines. There is, incidentally, general consensus that the machines, each of which is the size of a sports utility vehicle and costs about $1 million, do not work all ... |
1417224_1 | On an Altered Planet, New Diseases Emerge as Old Ones Re-emerge | areas. Some microbes, like the ones that cause tuberculosis, malaria and food poisoning, have become dangerously drug resistant. In a 2000 report, the World Health Organization identified a half-dozen factors that could affect the distribution and emergence of infectious diseases. The factors include ecological changes... |
1418934_4 | Women Seek Choices When Fibroid Tumors Strike | ''We at the N.I.H. need to encourage research and scientists need to pay more attention to the topic,'' she said. Dr. Phyllis Leppert, chief of the reproductive sciences branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said her agency was seeking additional research on the subject. ''We made it a... |
1419015_1 | Chinese Will Move Waters To Quench Thirst of Cities | of the project as well as the crash timetable. ''We have to sacrifice so that people in Beijing can drink water,'' said Zhang Jize, a 32-year-old farmer and father of two daughters who is among 370,000 people the plan will uproot. Such immense, centrally planned projects have been tried before, notably in Central Asia,... |
1418966_0 | When on the Road Means on the Road | LAST Thursday, my wife and I flew to Phoenix on Continental Airlines, on round-trip tickets that cost $404 each. Because each of us last year flew over 25,000 miles on Continental, we qualify for when-available upgrades to first class. As has happened frequently this year, with so many fewer people buying high-fare sea... |
1416121_4 | A Midtown Skyscraper Quietly Adds Armor | protect against what engineers call progressive collapse -- the kind of sudden, overall structural failures that led to the crumbling of the World Trade Center towers. The problems that the 1.6 million-square-foot Citigroup Center faced in the summer of 1978 were, if possible, even more frightening than the potential f... |
1415963_2 | In Windows 2000 and XP, A Successor to ScanDisk | systems use access points that can transmit signals as far as about 300 feet to devices equipped with wireless receiver cards. The systems are generally used as substitutes or additions to local area Ethernet networks that link several computers so they can share resources like a fast Internet connection and a printer.... |
1416063_2 | Doubts Prompt Reviews of Hormone Therapy | alone, is continuing because the evidence shows neither an overwhelming risk nor an overwhelming benefit. Women who have had hysterectomies generally take estrogen without progestin. For others, taking estrogen alone can lead to uterine cancer. Prempro is approved for the prevention of osteoporosis and for the relief o... |
1415990_2 | Sharing Space? Share E-Mail First | University who has studied transitions from virtual relationships to real ones. ''Of all the kinds of contacts we might manage with e-mail, this probably has the sharpest contrast with how the relationship will eventually be managed, given that these people will be with each other in their most unguarded moments.'' In ... |
1416009_2 | The rich get rich and poor get poorer. Right? Let's take another look. | relatively large populations. The result is that 2.5 billion people have seen their standards of living rise toward those of the billion people in the already developed countries -- decreasing global poverty and increasing global equality. From the point of view of individuals, economic liberalization has been a huge s... |
1413884_3 | Effort to Curb Tax Havens Could Be Costly For Consultant | rate of 36.9 percent paid by the 100 largest publicly traded companies with headquarters outside the United States. The 100 largest United States companies paid 34.2 percent of their profits in taxes worldwide last year, according to the Organization for International Investment, which represents the American subsidiar... |
1413809_0 | Women's Sleep Disorders May Be Tied to Hormones | The debate on hormone replacement therapy has centered on its effects on heart disease and cancer. But at a recent medical conference in Seattle, researchers presented a hormone study that focused on a different question: sleep. The researchers, from Stanford University, found that estrogen improved the breathing of po... |
1413925_0 | L.I. Study Sees No Cancer Tie To Pesticides | A long-awaited federal study on possible links between pollution and high rates of breast cancer on Long Island has failed to show any connection between the disease and pesticides that were once widely used on the island. It also found only a very slight correlation between cancer rates and exposure to other pollutant... |
1413934_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Vatican: Female ''Priests'' Excommunicated | The Vatican announced that it had excommunicated seven women who have been calling themselves priests since an ordination ceremony in late June that the Vatican branded illegitimate. After the ceremony, the Vatican ordered the women -- from Austria, Germany and the United States -- to renounce any claims to being ordai... |
1412855_1 | Earlier Safety Reviews Proposed for Gene-Altered Crops | toxic or would cause allergies. If the crop was deemed not to be harmful, then low levels that inadvertently leaked into the food supply would not be cause for alarm or recalls. The government also hopes that importers of American crops or food would not reject shipments because of a low-level presence of unapproved ge... |
1412886_1 | Booby-Trapped Lunch Box Kills a Worker in Northern Ireland | Caldwell, is the third person to be killed this year in Northern Ireland's continuing sectarian strife. On July 21, a 19-year-old Roman Catholic, Gerard Lawlor, was gunned down by Protestant paramilitaries as he walked home from a pub on the outskirts of Belfast. In January a Catholic mailman, Daniel McColgan, 20, was ... |
1414388_0 | Forever Archived | To the Editor: ''Trying to Elude the Google Grasp'' (July 25) illuminates the issue of having information about you snatched up and used to create a limited portrait. However, rather than attempt to eliminate information and shy away from posting to the Internet, I have found that the opposite strategy, to have many hu... |
1419677_0 | Airlines Allowed to Stop Asking About Luggage | Thomas Flood, a Census Bureau statistician from Bowie, Md., had just finished answering the two familiar questions posed to airline travelers for 16 years when he learned that the inquiries about luggage were ending. ''I won't miss them at all,'' Mr. Flood said as he completed checking in for his flight at Reagan Natio... |
1419713_1 | Administration Seeking to Build Support in Congress on Iraq Issue | called on the administration today to continue to work through the United Nations in its confrontation with President Hussein. President Jacques Chirac of France reiterated his demand that any military action against Iraq be approved by the Security Council and criticized what he called ''attempts to legitimize the uni... |
1419672_4 | Between Famine and Politics, Zambians Starve | however, the fates of millions of hungry people around Zambia grow more dire. Loveness Malupande, who lives not far from Chipapa, in the village of Kabweza, with an extended family of about 24, said her family had sold off all but two of the 20 cattle they had, all to buy stopgap supplies of food, which have since run ... |
1414881_8 | The Odds of That | same leg. The men's sister had still another theory entirely. ''She worried that it was a plot to kill both of them,'' the nephew says, describing his aunt's concerns that terrorists might have made their way to Raahe. ''She was angry. She wanted to blame someone. So she said the chances of this happening by accident a... |
1415351_8 | The Odds of That | same leg. The men's sister had still another theory entirely. ''She worried that it was a plot to kill both of them,'' the nephew says, describing his aunt's concerns that terrorists might have made their way to Raahe. ''She was angry. She wanted to blame someone. So she said the chances of this happening by accident a... |
1414970_3 | What Next? | point out, however, that Dr. Gammon's findings did not prove to them that all pesticides were safe. ''To me it's still a no-brainer that you shouldn't use toxic chemicals on your lawn,'' said Karen Miller, the president of the Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition. ''They don't stop at weeds or rodents. They enter ... |
1415059_2 | Despite a Squeeze from Outsiders, The Jersey Tomato Hangs Tough | Mr. Wuillermin. Michelle Infante-Casella, agricultural agent with the Rutgers University Cooperative Extension Service in Gloucester County, says growing techniques add to their succulence. ''The reason we're so hip on the Jersey tomato is because it's always been a vine-ripened product as opposed to those in other sta... |
1415160_0 | Ideas & Trends: Proof; What Causes Cancer: Can Science Find the Missing Link? | DR. DEBORAH WINN has had breast cancer herself, so when she speaks to women who have just received the dread diagnosis, she understands the nagging question: Why did this happen to me? Many people suspect environmental pollutants like pesticides, for instance, or car exhaust. But Dr. Winn, head of the extramural epidem... |
1419446_2 | France Mutes Its Criticism Of U.S. Stance Toward Iraq | resume weapons inspections in Iraq. He has also said a war could wreck the international antiterror coalition, inflame the Middle East and hurt the world economy. The French attitude towards the United States was reflected in a speech by Mr. Villepin that opened a conference of French ambassadors at the Foreign Ministr... |
1419450_4 | Big Airlines Cut Service And Add Fees | on an earlier flight but had a discount ticket and was not sure whether the airline would let him fly standby. ''I'm not that thrilled with flying anymore, and these things nag on you,'' said Mr. Minor, a 53-year-old business consultant. ''Their business will continue to deteriorate if they don't pay attention to the c... |
1419371_0 | Then Again, Is It a Tool or a Cellular Trap? | A FEW months ago, a friend who is otherwise as technologically well endowed as the next guy explained to me why he had no desire to own a cellphone. He found it irritating, he said, to have his conversations with friends constantly interrupted by nonurgent cell calls. He finally vowed never to join the mobile communica... |
1419449_1 | Buoyed by World's Focus on Terror, Spain Cracks Down in Basque Region | argued that the group and others affiliated with it -- and even social clubs and bars like the tavern in Andoain -- act on E.T.A.'s orders or to finance its attacks. [On Monday, Judge Garzón ordered a three-year ban on political activities by Batasuna, which is widely viewed as E.T.A.'s political wing, and the police b... |
1419456_0 | Pictures as Fighting Words | |
1417927_0 | U.S. Presses to Keep India-Pakistan Peace | In early June, Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage flew to Pakistan and India -- nuclear-armed rivals on the brink of war -- and engineered a détente. From President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, he extracted a promise to end raids into Indian territory. From the Indians, he elicited a willingness to wait and... |
1417960_0 | Amazon Forest Still Burning Despite the Good Intentions | By decree, the official burning season here in the Amazon is supposed to be severely limited in scope and not to start until Sept. 15. Yet the skies south of here are already thick with smoke as big landowners set the jungle ablaze to clear the way for cattle pasture and lucrative crops like soybeans. The Amazon basin,... |
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