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1417971_0 | Examining How the Towers Collapsed | The Bush administration kicked off a vital two-year investigation this week of the factors that caused the World Trade Center towers to collapse last Sept. 11. It is a necessary follow-up to the initial six-month inquiry into the structural collapse, which was hobbled by a lack of resources and legal authority. The onl... |
1417932_3 | Newcomers' Businesses Restore Old Towns to Life | a business can make it. Three bars, Captain Hook's Bait and Tackle Shop and the Genoa State Bank are making it. With its jumble of old desks, the clatter of old calculators and no protective glass in sight, the bank seems an artifact of the typewriter age. That has its virtues, said Geri Fox, vice president. ''In perso... |
1418100_0 | Keeping Bears at Bay | To the Editor: Re ''Killed by a Bear'' (editorial, Aug. 21): It is true that ''the best way for humans to keep bears away is to keep food and garbage locked up.'' But your suggestion that hunting bears would prevent conflicts between humans and bears may in fact exacerbate such problems. Sport hunters tend to take larg... |
1418135_1 | Chinese Hold Their Breath as a Swollen Lake Recedes | in Hubei and Anhui Provinces, were bracing for an oncoming rush of waters, China Central Television reported. Officials and the Chinese news organizations have given wildly varying accounts of the scale of evacuations required so far around the lake, which is surrounded by a lattice of dikes protecting low-lying farms ... |
1413709_6 | A Time of Flux For City's Core Of Greek Life; Others Discover Astoria As Longtime Citizens Exit | blood coming in, it's starting to die,'' said George Alexiou, former president of the Greek-American Homeowners Association. For the newer residents, however, the mood is expansive. On a two-block stretch of Steinway between 28th Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, there are 25 Middle Eastern shops -- selling halal meat, Syr... |
1413708_0 | Brazil's Eye on the Amazon | Last month, Brazil inaugurated a high-tech radar system to keep watch on its two million square miles of Amazon jungle. The American-financed $1.4 billion Amazon Vigilance System will help catch drug smugglers and detect incursions by Colombia's guerrillas. But it was originally conceived and designed for environmental... |
1414115_1 | From Down-Home to Upmarket: Sam Walton's Town Gets Sleeker | gilding this once-humble slice of northwest Arkansas where Sam Walton, the company's founder, first made it his business to cater to rural, cost-conscious shoppers largely ignored by other retailers. The result is not just a population boom, but also a shift from the simple country style that once defined Wal-Mart and ... |
1418814_1 | From Unseemly to Lowbrow, the Web's Real Money Is in the Gutter | to pay for. Those who provide some of the sites that many people object to say they have nothing to hide. ''Obviously, there's a want for this stuff, because there's billions of dollars spent on it every year,'' said David Marchlak, who has brought the world sites like Voyeur Dorm, a Web precursor to the ''Big Brother'... |
1415841_2 | Whither College Lectures? Maybe Right Out the Door | burst of interest in reform pedagogy in the early years of the last century was hardly the first time such ideas were put into practice. The ancient Greeks, notably Socrates, believed in education by interrogating rather than by propounding. That idea faded in the Middle Ages, when teachers were expected to hand down t... |
1417142_1 | Male Hormone Therapy Popular but Untested | younger men with medical conditions that rob them of testosterone, such symptoms disappear when they get the drug. So, some doctors ask, why not give it to older men too? But testosterone can fuel the growth of prostate cancer, and it increases red blood cell production, possibly increasing the risk of clots that can c... |
1417557_0 | Panel Urges Caution in Producing Gene-Altered Animals | Although there is no evidence that cows, sheep and other animals reproduced through cloning are unsafe to eat, more caution is needed on animals engineered to contain genes from other species, a panel of scientists said today. The National Research Council committee, asked by the Food and Drug Administration to examine... |
1417508_1 | A Recipe for a Run-In: More Bears, and More People in Their Path | baby, who died while being taken to the hospital. The bear was shot and killed by a Fallsburg police officer as it tried to climb a tree. In the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg yesterday, dozens of friends and relatives filed into a second-floor apartment to console the girl's parents, Pincus and Rachel Schwim... |
1417534_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | military officers accused of atrocities. A4 White House Denies Meeting The White House vigorously denied that President Bush had summoned his senior military advisers to his ranch in Crawford, Tex., to map out a potential effort to topple Saddam Hussein. A8 Iraq Confirms Terrorist's Death A senior Iraqi official confir... |
1417533_0 | Sharing the Evidence on Iraq | The Bush administration has floated a succession of possible justifications for war with Iraq -- Saddam Hussein's purported links with international terrorism, Baghdad's membership in a worldwide ''axis of evil,'' Iraq's efforts to develop nuclear weapons. Few firm facts have been offered in support of any of these cla... |
1417483_1 | Killed by a Bear | vacation colony in the Catskills this week in broad daylight, grabbed a baby from her stroller and ran into the woods before screaming adults could frighten the bear into dropping the infant, who died from the trauma. The incident, on Monday, left the community in shock -- and observers wondering what to make of this e... |
1413260_0 | A Résumé From Beyond the Job Market | A FRIEND is thinking of leaving her job in order to spend the next few years caring for her two young children. She has all but decided to do this, but is hesitating over one nagging concern. Not finances, although she certainly worries about that. Not the strain of being with two preschoolers all day long, although sh... |
1413600_18 | Tests Are Not Just for Kids | life both as a private individual and as a citizen.'' What Do Employers Want? Mimi Collins Spokeswoman, National Association of Colleges and Employers ''Employers very consistently cite good communication skills as important, both verbal and written. Honesty and integrity are second, teamwork skills are third, interper... |
1413364_14 | Ecoman | array themselves around us like points on a clock. Each of us lies quietly, waiting in vain for the viscous sweat lacquered on our flesh to evaporate. Sleep comes in fits and starts, not from fear of the new predators lurking in the jungle but from the old ones -- the cobras, the tigers, the sun bears, the pythons. By ... |
1413257_2 | Long Island Has Its Own Tall Ship Again | at the stern, the black wooden camera platform mounted in the aft rigging. Other hints are less obvious. To give the film crews a little elbow room, the current Bounty is actually one-third larger than the original His Majesty's Armed Vessel Bounty, a 250-ton converted collier that left England in 1787 with a crew of 4... |
1413444_4 | The World; ... And Click Here For China | to impose stricter registration of cafe users and recording of their online travels. Beyond blocking access via standard Chinese servers to hundreds, perhaps thousands of ''anti-social'' Web sites, the cyberpolice have also learned how to jam e-mail they deem threatening. In an continuing race of offensive and defensiv... |
1418608_3 | Ready to Rebuild, Afghans Await Promised Aid | CARE, one of the largest private aid groups. ''I insist on being cautiously optimistic. But sometimes it gets harder.'' The recovery program was ambitious -- and that, aid officials and diplomats say, is one reason for the disappointment. Pledges for assistance typically outstrip what is delivered, aid officials note. ... |
1418660_0 | The Forest-Fire Excuse for More Logging | To the Editor: You report that President Bush wants to ease laws on logging (front page, Aug. 22). This must be viewed in the context of other environmental actions he has taken during his presidency. Since taking office, he has proposed reversing a prohibition on road-building in 58 million acres of national forest, r... |
1418561_1 | Ideas & Trends: Mixed Medical Messages; So What's a Responsible Sun Worshiper to Do? | of health -- and it's rarely comforting. The details may differ but the general contour is strikingly familiar: something in our daily lives -- sunlight, cellphones, coffee, a commonly prescribed drug -- is implicated as a possible cause of cancer, strokes, heart attacks or other maladies. That is, until the following ... |
1418442_5 | In the Region/Westchester; The Pros and Cons of Owning a Piece of the Dock | to catch on in New York? According to Ms. Piesman at the attorney general's office, few marina owners in the state also own the land under the water, and most have only an easement to the property. It is easier, she said, to become a co-op marina, with a corporation owning or leasing a strip of land, obtaining an easem... |
1418294_8 | A Big Game | bears, which delight in their calves, but it is also the aquatic equivalent of the Napoleonic square, about the worst possible way to elude men with guns. The rush for profits led to unchecked killing. Walrus blubber yielded oil, the ivory could be scrimshawed into ornament and the hide could be cut into products as va... |
1416407_0 | Breast Cancer Study | To the Editor: Re ''What Causes Cancer: Can Science Find the Missing Link?'' (Week in Review, Aug. 11): Serious omissions were noted in the National Cancer Institute's study of possible environmental causes of breast cancer in Long Island women even before the study began, but the most critical was not addressing expos... |
1414720_1 | A Return to Profitability; Big Recall Behind It, Tire Maker Regains Its Footing | Bridgestone would probably have to scrap the Firestone brand and spend years slowly building a new identity in the United States. The company did neither. Instead, it reorganized its American operations, retaining Firestone as a mass-market brand but putting greater emphasis on Bridgestone as a premium brand. And as it... |
1414776_0 | Don't Bug Me: When E-Mail Is Junk Mail | To the Editor: Re ''Did You Get the Check I Sent?'' (editorial, Aug. 6), about the explosive growth of spam e-mail on the Internet: There's a more serious downside looming that the Net marketeers and junk e-mailers have not yet considered. Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems once mentioned that the beauty of e-mail is th... |
1414778_0 | Don't Bug Me: When E-Mail Is Junk Mail | To the Editor: The costs of spam (editorial, Aug. 6) go far beyond the ''twinge of disappointment'' you feel after realizing you've been had. Spam costs Internet users 10 billion euros a year in increased connection fees, according to a 2001 European Union study. It also costs businesses in lost productivity, and becom... |
1414797_0 | World Business Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Apple Dumping Duties | Mexico's economic minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, said the government would impose a 40 percent tariff on fresh apples imported from the United States because American growers were selling the fruit at unfairly low prices, hurting Mexican growers. Consuming $118 million worth a year, Mexico accounts for about 30 percent... |
1414788_0 | Airlines Told to Watch for Uniformed Intruders | The government has issued a warning to airlines to watch for people in stolen uniforms who might try to gain access to airplanes, an aviation expert confirmed tonight. The warning came after aviation authorities received a series of reports about theft of uniforms and identification cards in recent months. The governme... |
1417748_0 | New U.S. Inquiry Set On Towers' Collapse | Standing next to mangled pieces of steel from the World Trade Center, federal officials announced that they were beginning a two-year, $23 million investigation into how and why the twin towers and a third skyscraper collapsed in raging fires on Sept. 11. The announcement is the first clear sign that the Bush administr... |
1419194_1 | To Regulate Prostitution, Iran Ponders Brothels | and the government denied that such a plan was in the works. But the vigorous debate focused new attention to the scale of prostitution in Iran's capital and the government's eagerness to find a solution. Before the Islamic revolution of 1979, prostitutes were confined to separate neighborhoods. The one in Tehran was k... |
1419185_2 | COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: REGIONAL MARKET -- Connecticut; New England Icons Are Serving a Hidden Purpose | fiscal year -- generally involve properties that are not historic, but the commission reviews them all to evaluate the visual impact. In addition to the windmill, some of the more unusual projects that have been approved include the flagpole at Bridgeport's Beardsley Zoo (listed on the National Register of Historic Pla... |
1414450_0 | Examining Why People Go From Here to There | THE ART OF TRAVEL By Alain de Botton 255 pages. Pantheon Books. $23. With his quirky 1997 book ''How Proust Can Change Your Life,'' Alain de Botton hit upon a formula for talking about art and highbrow concerns in a deliberately lowbrow way: the book playfully proposed to read Proust's great masterwork ''Remembrance of... |
1413012_0 | No Headline | Msgr. James M. Ryan, a Roman Catholic missionary from Chicago who was one of the central figures of religious and civic life in the Amazon for more than half a century, died in Chicago on July 12. He was 89 and had lived in Santarém, Brazil, since 1943. The cause of death was cancer, according to church leaders. As the... |
1413051_3 | U.S. to Resume Aid to Train Indonesia's Military Forces | worldwide. The administration skirted the Congressional ban that bars contributions to the Indonesian military from the State Department's foreign operations budget by taking the money from a Pentagon account instead. There is growing support on Capitol Hill for broader aid. Last month the Senate Appropriations Committ... |
1419876_0 | Breast Cancer Mythology on Long Island | The search for environmental causes for a supposed breast cancer epidemic on Long Island is beginning to look like a wild goose chase. The cornerstone study in a $30 million federal effort to unravel the contentious issue reported this month that it could find no link between breast cancer and the prime environmental s... |
1419928_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Russia: No Visa For Catholic Priest | The government has denied a visa to a Slovak Roman Catholic priest, Catholic officials said, in the latest sign of tensions with the Vatican over the church's activities in Russia. The priest, the Rev. Stanislav Krajniak, had worked in a parish in Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, for a year before his visa expired this ... |
1419857_4 | U.S. Approves Water Plan in California, but Environmental Opposition Remains | ways to protect the lake. The proposal, described by the water authority as ''a monumental step forward,'' has not yet been approved, but it appeared to address the main complaints that have been raised by Imperial Valley farmers and environmental organizations. But it is the Mojave deal, pressed forward by Keith Brack... |
1360057_3 | Looted Obelisk Casts a Long Shadow | to the obelisk, the people of Aksum maintain that history needs reversing. In the latest flare-up of the saga, Vittorio Sgarbi, Italy's deputy minister for cultural heritages, announced recently that he would resign if the obelisk were returned. In remarks that prompted rage in Aksum, and in Ethiopia's capital, Addis A... |
1360033_0 | Optimism on Meeting a Baggage Deadline | Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said today that the administration would meet a Friday deadline for improved security for checked baggage. But one of his deputies said the new system could cause problems as airlines put into place the process of matching bags with passengers. Speaking of the potential for dis... |
1360090_1 | Jersey City Apartments Evacuated When Crane Malfunctions | since the Sept. 11 terror attacks just across the Hudson River. City officials said a malfunction in the crane's computerized operating system about 8:30 a.m. caused the arm of the crane to lean backward, away from the incomplete building's steel framework, where the base is anchored. The lower part of the crane was pu... |
1360085_1 | U.S. Agency To Take Over Investigation Into Collapse | by a fuel-laden jetliner would be at risk of catastrophic failure, engineers and fire safety experts say it is still crucial to determine which structures snapped, buckled or otherwise failed and in what order -- all information that could help improve safety in skyscrapers nationwide. Lingering questions about whether... |
1359979_0 | U.S. and Mexico Battle Over Sweetening Drinks | American high-fructose corn syrup has met its death in the Mexican soft drink industry, at least for now. It is survived by its main competitor, Mexican cane sugar. Though corn syrup is much less expensive than sugar on the open market, it is seen here as the main culprit in the decay of Mexico's sugar industry. So on ... |
1362252_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Population Continues To Shrink | Continuing a decade-long trend, Russia's population fell by 781,500 people from January through November of last year to a total of 144 million, the government said. Demographers say that the nation could lose another 10 million people in the next 15 years and that the population could fall to 125 million or less by mi... |
1362165_1 | Birth Control Politics | is considering blocking $34 million allotted by Congress to the United Nations Population Fund because of allegations that the fund has supported forced abortions and sterilizations in China. The money should be released. The allegations are baseless, and the work of the U.N. fund in crucial areas of women's health aro... |
1356467_6 | THE MATERIAL WORLD/Ceramics at the Met; Over Time And Space, The Power Of the Pot | a cluster of smaller jars with similar decorations, minus the red. The Greek Challenge A travel advisory: Keep in mind that the Met's galleries of Greek art amount to a museum-within-a-museum, one of several at the Met, and it can devastate your schedule. The entire history of two-dimensional art seems to have been reh... |
1363697_0 | Shrinking the Cellular Phone, One Component at a Time | A CELLPHONE is more than a few chips and a battery. Those things do lurk under the keypad, but most of a phone's insides are taken up by filters, duplexers and resonators -- passive components that sort radio frequencies so that you get your calls and not someone else's. Made from non-silicon materials -- ceramics, in ... |
1357883_4 | Justices Narrow Breadth of Law On Disabilities | give precision and content to the open-ended phrases of the statute. The law defines disability as ''a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities.'' Disability can also be established by having ''a record of such an impairment'' or ''being regarded as having such an... |
1357792_2 | Pants and profiling: Life on the front lines of checkpoint security at the nation's airports. | airport screening next month, to get behind a new passenger-profiling system that is being proposed as a way to separate the potential non-threats from the potential threats at airport checkpoints. The industry's trade group, the Air Transport Association, has become very candid about the word ''profiling,'' by the way... |
1357795_0 | Archbishop of Canterbury to Step Down This Fall | The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. George Carey, leader of 73 million Anglicans in 160 nations, announced today that he would step down this fall, three years before he was due to retire. ''By the end of October I shall have served 11 1/2 years in a demanding yet wonderfully absorbing and rewarding post,'' Arc... |
1356185_4 | I Hear Your Road Rage: The Sensitive Tracker | plate number are more comprehensive. But they are also less reliable, prone to failures caused by poor weather or illumination, dirty plates and variations in plate design. Further, they require other devices like loop sensors to detect when a vehicle is in place to have its plate read. Spatial systems' estimates of tr... |
1361337_1 | A CONVERSATION WITH/Baruch Blumberg; A Nobel in Medicine, a Second Career in Space | said in an interview at the cancer center. ''You are seeing things that no one has seen before. Indeed, you see things that no one could have seen before.'' Q. When you were a boy, you read of the lives of the great adventurers and you dreamed of someday being Charles Darwin or Sir Ernest Shackleton. At NASA, are you f... |
1361356_4 | Body's Defender Goes on the Attack | activity. Two large studies -- one in men and one in women -- have demonstrated that the higher a person's C-reactive protein level, the greater the risk of a heart attack or stroke. Doctors nationwide are adding the C.R.P. test to cholesterol screening to assess people's risk of atherosclerosis. (President Bush had hi... |
1361404_3 | Scientists Report Genetic Finding That Could Aid Anthrax Inquiry | Research, which specializes in microbial genomes, had been determining the sequence of chemical building blocks in the DNA of the anthrax bacterium. The institute, known as TIGR (pronounced tiger), started the project two years ago at the request of a consortium of agencies, including the Office of Naval Research and t... |
1363106_1 | Hard-to-Miss Box of Scraps Catches F.B.I. Agent's Eye | Enron spokesman said the company is cooperating with investigations about the shredded documents. ''It's a good time to let the facts come from the proper authorities investigating this,'' Mark Palmer, a spokesman for Enron, said. ''We are the ones that called the Justice Department.'' The documents were generally shre... |
1358035_0 | I.S.P.'s Demise Brings A Bumpy Switchover | I AM a freelance writer working from my house, and a high-speed Internet connection over a cable modem is my main link to the world. So word of financial problems last year at Excite@Home, my Internet service provider, worried me. If it died, would I still have my connection? Would I keep my e-mail address? Then, at a ... |
1358069_1 | Protestants' Taunts Again Close Catholic Girls' School in Ulster | to the school. ''It's back to lower than Square 1, if that can be possible,'' said the Rev. Aidan Troy, chairman of the school's board of governors. ''It's beyond anything I could have imagined,'' he told a radio interviewer. ''The whole area is in absolute turmoil.'' He said that the school had been able to bus the st... |
1358127_0 | Kelly Plans to Cut Money For Overtime Police Patrols | Facing a budget crisis, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said yesterday that he planned to significantly reduce the additional patrols that for two years have been financed by a $172 million overtime program in which officers worked on their days off. The department currently has $24 million to pay for the program ... |
1358078_1 | In Rough Times, the Rich Go Yachting | cut back production and offered deals. Sales of the biggest, most expensive yachts, like the one Mr. Fields is buying, continued to rise, though at a slower pace than in 2000. But the industry's outlook is improving, in part because at least some rich Ameri cans consider a new boat a potential haven in the event of ano... |
1359278_0 | Charles Segal, 65, Who Viewed The Classics With a Modern Eye | Charles Segal, a Harvard classi cist who brought a modern literary critic's approach to the study of Greek and Latin poetry, died on Jan. 1 in Cambridge, Mass. He was 65. The cause was cancer, the univer sity said. In a scholarly career spanning al most four decades, Professor Segal, who held the Walter C. Klein chair ... |
1359310_0 | Burton I. Edelson Dies at 75; NASA Space Science Leader | Dr. Burton I. Edelson, a leader in satellite communications who helped start and oversee some of NASA's most popular science programs, died Jan. 6 in New York, where he was visiting family and friends. He was 75 and lived in Chevy Chase, Md. The cause was a heart attack, said his son Daniel. In 1982, President Ronald R... |
1359322_2 | In Cuba, Muted Acceptance Greets Presence of Prisoners | these people come into Cuba?'' Mr. Jiménez asked between sips of a mojito at a bar in the city's El Vedado neighborhood. ''No wonder they don't want them in America.'' According to Granma, the state newspaper, the Cuban government has offered to improve medical and sanitation services in the area around the base and ha... |
1362332_0 | Fly Baggage Separately | To the Editor: Re ''In Search of Security'' (photograph, front page, Jan. 19): Why not eliminate the need for baggage screening by sending all baggage on cargo-only flights? This would provide 100 percent safety from baggage bombs, which all the search people, dogs, machines and ''matching'' schemes could never do. FRA... |
1362471_0 | World Briefing | Africa: Uganda: Disputed Dam Project Begins | Construction has begun on a $550 million dam project on the Nile that will greatly increase electricity in Uganda, where less than 5 percent of the population of 22 million has it. Under consideration since 1994, the plan came under criticism from environmental groups and local residents because it will disturb burial ... |
1362380_3 | A revival of religious traditions sweeps Vietnam. A rejection of modernization? Seemingly not. | may help maintain social ties and even spur productivity in a way that collectivization failed abysmally to do. Not that Vietnam's Communist government has been converted to genuine freedom of religion. Conditions for believers are clearly improving, but the United States State Department and the United States Commissi... |
1362369_4 | Mormons Project Image As Diverse as Olympics | did not share the idea of original sin, a doctrine that she said she had been unable to accept in her Greek Orthodox church. ''This is what I was looking for,'' she said. ''I found out why I am here on this earth and where I came from and where I will go.'' When she was baptized in 1998 at 18, she was among the first s... |
1361224_0 | Arguing Fate of Troubled Bridge Over Czech Water | Bridges across the Vltava River have tended not to last long, but the Charles Bridge has been a magnificent exception -- at least throughout its first six centuries. One story goes that the emperor who laid the bridge's cornerstone in 1357, Charles IV, encouraged peasants to donate eggs, to be mixed into the mortar to ... |
1361212_2 | Gathering at the River To Save an Ailing Park; Ministers Lead East Side Restoration, And Millions of Dollars Follow | was slow. ''We'd never done this,'' Mr. Cruz said. ''Most of us had just preached from pulpits.'' Lower Manhattan Together pressed the city to fix the park's bathrooms, streetlights and emergency call boxes. It took two years to do it. When the work was done, they set their sights higher, lobbying for a complete renova... |
1361227_0 | Gordon J. Stanley, 80; Pinpointed Radio Waves From Space | Gordon J. Stanley, a pioneer in radio astronomy who discovered incredibly powerful sources of radio waves in outer space, died on Dec. 17 in Monterey, Calif. He was 80. The cause of death was complications from progressive supranuclear palsy, his family said. Born in Cambridge, New Zealand, Mr. Stanley, an engineer by ... |
1360540_2 | On First Day of New Rules for Bag Checks, Delays Are Slight | call the baggage room for the suitcase to be pulled off the plane, Mr. Larrabee said. ''You have to crawl in the plane and get it,'' he said, declining to say if any bags had been removed from flights this morning. In San Francisco, Ron Wilson, a spokesman for the airport, estimated that the line of passengers waiting ... |
1359150_5 | Very Big Pipes | an educational purpose? ''Much of it can be perfectly legal and yet still be stressing the capacity of the university network,'' said Mark Luker, a vice president at Educause, the largest technology organization in the higher-education community. Large files of software, like Web browsers, need to be downloaded simply ... |
1359046_2 | In the Pit, Dark Relics and Last Obstacles | a train that never left -- has been exhumed and is visible, listing to its side, the sun shining through its windows, waiting to be lifted from its resting place. Inside the deep, wide-open pit that has been dug -- so deep in spots that the bedrock is all that is left -- a pond of greenish water has collected, some of ... |
1358704_0 | Airlines Seek an E-ZPass For Fast Security Checks | THE long lines afflicting passengers as airlines and airports tighten security seem to pres age a new era of inconvenience as the international war on terrorism intensifies. As ever, the travel industry and regulatory agencies are looking for technology to solve the aviation security riddle. In the past the better mous... |
1359171_2 | The Abyss Yawns | employers in a wide spectrum of industries about their hiring plans for the coming year. In its latest survey, in late December, 20 percent fewer employers said they planned to hire a new college graduate. How to stay in the nest? One way is to go right back in. At times like this, Mr. Fortner says, students go directl... |
1359160_4 | Tricks of the Trade | suit the taste of undergraduates. It may also be a sign of poor quality. To maximize their chances of getting into a college, some students might feign interest in, say, rural sociology, classics or German literature. But remember that applicants suspected of lying will be rejected, and that many institutions do not us... |
1359160_5 | Tricks of the Trade | in the bottom quartile of the applicant pool, making it harder for the average high school student in need of financial aid and easier for those paying full freight. By in effect discounting tuition for desirable students through merit-based scholarships, institutions have opened up a bidding war and invited families t... |
1359164_1 | For the Learning Disabled Only | judged on a 750- to 1,000-word essay describing the positive and negative experiences involved in having a learning disability and detailing scholastic achievement, community involvement and plans. Applicants can submit a videotape or audiotape instead of an essay. ''I was the one who put that in,'' says Ms. Ford, whos... |
1358899_2 | The New M.B.A. Vogue: A Job at a Blue Chip | year ago were consulting and banking, but jobs are now scarce in those areas. At high-tech start-ups, workplace specialists say, they are almost nonexistent. ''Those companies no longer come to campus or place jobs with career centers,'' said Andy Chan, director of the Career Management Center at the Stanford Graduate ... |
1363212_0 | Shuttle's Cameras Offer New Views of the World | It took a while to get them developed, but the pictures all came out fine. Radar images taken two years ago by the space shuttle Endeavour are being processed into the most detailed three-dimensional maps ever made of the earth's land areas. To inaugurate the release of a flood of elevation data for the whole world, th... |
1361593_3 | A Dutch Touch in Flying (Right Down to the Flies) | boarding pass. If a passenger does not get on the airplane, the baggage can be quickly located and removed. No passenger, he said proudly, has to wait more than 15 minutes to get through security checks, while in some airports there have been lines lasting for two or three hours. But Terminal 4 does not yet have Mr. va... |
1361554_3 | A onetime top executive says airline security has often been secondary to not ruffling customers. | got to bear in mind that the world has to be divided into those who represent real risk and those who are not a risk,'' he said. High on the list of nonrisk passengers, he said, are frequent business travelers. ''Those people we need to give a quick once-over, but the intensive security needs to be focused on people wh... |
1361566_0 | Let Education Guide Welfare | WE urge young people to get more education, arguing for example that women with college degrees earn 48 percent more than similar women with only high school diplomas. But such advice did not guide the 1996 federal welfare reform. With a time limit of five years for receiving benefits, the law says that only one of tho... |
1358278_1 | Is the Camera a Reliable Witness? | ''Bloody Sunday'' refers to Sunday, Jan. 30, 1972, when an outburst of political violence erupted in the predominantly Roman Catholic city of Londonderry in British-ruled Northern Ireland. Derry, as Catholics call it, had been a center of political unrest throughout the decades of the so-called Irish Troubles. In the m... |
1363635_0 | World Briefing | Asia: India: Curb On Ultrasound Devices | To reduce the use of ultrasound machines to detect the sex of a fetus -- a practice that has led to widespread abortion of female fetuses -- the Supreme Court ordered states to confiscate ultrasound machines that had not been licensed. The court had earlier ordered manufacturers of the machines to provide names and add... |
1363482_0 | The Drive to Succeed | To the Editor: Re ''Many Ride Out the Recession in a Graduate School Harbor'' (front page, Jan. 24): While grad school is an ideal place to ride out an economic downturn, it is by no means the only reason that young professionals are returning to school. Most applicants to these kinds of programs are by nature fiercely... |
1356064_0 | Don't Shoot! We're Only Shopping | Framed by freshly unloaded stacks of Siberian lumber, thousands of used Japanese bicycles were loaded onto a ship here today, their tires flat, their chains rusted and their once-prim plastic shopping baskets cracked and faded. They are headed to North Korea, gifts from Kim Jong Il, the ''Dear Leader,'' to his nation o... |
1356710_0 | Thailand Development Faces Rare Challenge | When it comes to proposals for gigantic construction projects, environmentalists have complained for years that the authorities in Thailand never seem to say no. But the government's approval of one disputed project, a natural gas pipeline across southern Thailand, has provoked a rare challenge to Prime Minister Thaksi... |
1359733_3 | Fliers could face increased delays starting Friday as the airlines institute new rules for baggage. | procedures wouldn't deter a bomber who accepted suicide as part of the deal, as the Sept. 11 killers obviously did. Nor would it stop, say, a cabbie or a bellhop with access to a passenger's bag from planting a bomb, he pointed out. Despite the flaws, the new system is important because of its symbolism, he said. It sh... |
1361967_4 | Many Ride Out the Recession In a Graduate School Harbor | bubble burst more than a year ago, its effect on professional and graduate school applications was not obvious until this round of applications. When many Internet startups first failed last January, it was already too late to meet the application deadlines for fall 2001 entrance, usually in February or March. But this... |
1360773_1 | After Anthrax, the Law Goes Online | persons entering any of Nassau County's court facilities remains our highest priority,'' the advisory said. ''Recent events in our nation have led us to adopt a proactive approach utilizing available Internet technology.'' Walter J. Sheridan, supervisor of the mailroom at the state Supreme Court building in Garden City... |
1361069_0 | NORTHERN IRELAND PROTESTS | A wave of protests followed the murder of a 20-year-old Roman Catholic mailman by the Ulster Defence Association, a Protestant paramilitary group. Postal services halted as workers ceased deliveries, and thousands of people staged a half-day walkout. Brian Lavery JANUARY 13-19: INTERNATIONAL |
1360993_0 | As Security Tightens, the Race Goes to the Savviest | The three pros advanced confidently along the V.I.P. security line at O'Hare International Airport, identification in hand, Palm Pilots and cellphones packed away, pockets emptied of change and other miscellaneous items, laptops out and ready for X-ray. ''I was flying out of Philadelphia Wednesday night, and you had pe... |
1358606_5 | Wilderness Above, a Mine Below and a Furor | is a good thing,'' Mr. Clark said ruefully. ''You might as well be beating your head against that wall,'' he said, pointing to a massive face of copper-laced rock. But environmentalists say mining companies have always claimed to have the technology to prevent damage, and have often been proved wrong. The Clark Fork Ri... |
1358600_3 | A Monastery Uniting the Old and New | monasteries, Mepkin welcomes women as well as men, members of the clergy and nonmembers, Roman Catholics and non-Catholics. It also has a Web site, www.mepkinabbey.org. Up to a dozen guests at a time stay free -- though donations are encouraged -- for a day, a week, sometimes months. Why? Most cite the code of silence,... |
1360326_0 | Confronting the Possibility of Confrontation | |
1360321_0 | Back on the Homeland Front | The aviation security bill passed by Congress in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks set today as an interim deadline for all checked luggage to be scrutinized, by one method or another. This week Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta pronounced the government and the airlines ready to do so. That will make fly... |
1360329_3 | Screening of All Checked Airline Bags Is to Start Today, but Safety Concerns Remain | are cumbersome to use, sometimes sit idle. Speaking about the requirement that bags be matched with passengers before the first takeoff of a trip, Carol B. Hallett, the chief executive of the Air Transport Association, said, ''We are hopeful there really will not be any change from what has been in existence over the l... |
1355908_2 | The Irish Jump-Start A Movement | and public speaking. He is said to have enforced quality academic standards, while recruiting more black players. He had already turned down his alma mater, Michigan State, and, according to Leland, ''would have been out of here a long time ago'' if money were his primary ambition. So why Notre Dame, where Bob Davie al... |
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