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1355806_0 | On Record: Conflicting Obligations | My new patient was a slim middle-aged woman, elegant in nylons, earrings and a silk suit. But when she sat down, suddenly something was wrong. I looked at her more carefully. Her hands were big. Her feet were big. Her jaw was chiseled. She had a definite 5 o'clock shadow. While she chatted on about her bunions, I leafe... |
1355834_0 | Defiance by Rebuilding | To the Editor: I would recommend against Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's advice (front page, Dec. 28) and, if financially feasible, rebuild the twin towers. Majestic lobbies in each of the towers filled with artifacts, photographs, archival recordings and artistic remembrances should themselves serve as memorials to those ... |
1355848_2 | M.B.A. Schools Shift Focus to Jobs | terrorist attacks, has cast them in sharp relief. The top priority this year is finding jobs for graduates, most of whom have never seen a market this tough. ''We've reached out beyond the traditional recruiters,'' like consulting firms and investment banks, Mr. Harker said. This year, there is more activity by smaller... |
1355816_0 | A Gain From Hormone Replacement | Women who undergo hormone replacement therapy after menopause appear to enjoy better mental functioning. The gains were noted in a group of women, monitored for three years, who were given the hormone replacements for a variety of problems, including hot flashes and bone loss. The researchers -- from Johns Hopkins, Uta... |
1357252_2 | The Nation; Class Consciousness Comes to Airport Security | balance the demands of law enforcement and customer service in a new era of increased airport security. Soon, they say, travelers will have the option of enrolling in a national identification program that will expedite check-ins using a high-technology system to essentially vouch for one's trustworthiness as a securit... |
1356995_5 | When Smart People Get Dumb Ideas | proposed a separation between philosophy and politics -- inclines towards Jaspers's view, and beyond that toward a more Platonic conception. Philosophers must venture into the political realm: not necessarily to rule but to defend against tyranny, to illuminate ''the shadow realm of public life,'' where reason can too ... |
1357116_3 | As Cell Antennas Rise, So Do New Barriers | hired a consulting firm four months ago to help in amending its code on cellular antennas, said Thelma Neira, a town attorney. Though the Huntington Zoning Board of Appeals can rule on applications for antennas on private property, the town has to deal with requests to put antennas on town-owned land. The placement of ... |
1357080_0 | Unhappy Meals | Q: Your activism -- against a local McDonald's, most famously -- has made you a national hero in France. But it has also gotten you in trouble. Last month you were sentenced to six months in jail for helping to destroy genetically modified rice plants. What are you trying to accomplish? Listen, the best answer I can gi... |
1357101_1 | Start-Ups Tailored to the Times Thrive | A substantial number of industries and professions are either flourishing in, or at least weathering, the post-Sept. 11 recession, economists say. These include pharmaceutical companies, mobile-phone makers, munitions suppliers, security specialists, bankruptcy-related services, secondary education, fast food, public t... |
1357096_0 | When Office E-Mail Misfires | SEVERAL weeks ago in this column I wrote about a young executive in Minneapolis who arrived at her office to find a voice mail from her fiancé, breaking off their engagement. Just last week, I received an e-mailed Christmas ''card'' topped by the addresses of 200 other recipients, a list I had to scroll through to find... |
1359428_8 | Joy in Rwanda: Signing On With the Gorillas | rare acts of violence are usually triggered by something that makes sense,'' Dr. Weber said. Chimpanzees may like to work themselves into aggressive frenzies just for the fun of it, he said, ''whereas with a gorilla you can find a reason for its aggression -- competition for food, or a serious threat to its well-being.... |
1359444_0 | Aspirin's Heart Benefits Are Endorsed | An influential government task force today granted its highest endorsement to the practice of taking aspirin to help people at increased risk of heart attacks. The United States Preventive Services Task Force, an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, said that for many people, the benefits of regular aspi... |
1359516_2 | Airlines Say They Are Set To Meet Screening Deadline | on to that plane. And, as Norman Y. Mineta, the transportation secretary, observed last month, 100 percent bag matching would do nothing to deter a suicidal terrorist. Transportation officials have been emphasizing that the important deadline is not the 18th, but Dec. 31, 2002, when all bags will have to pass through e... |
1359509_3 | Winter Garden At the Attack Site Looks to Spring; Rebirth for a Skylighted Hall Recovering From Its Scars | collisions. Chunks of tempered safety glass are prone to crash down unexpectedly among the hard hats, fracturing cohesively like slumped Dali watches in a surrealist landscape. Yet the soaring windows facing the Hudson are curiously undamaged except for the odd pane or two. Much of the pedestrian-bridge vestibule atop ... |
1362587_2 | Cuba, So Close, Remains Distant for Cruise Lines | anybody's guess when and if Cuba will become fully accessible to American travelers, despite sentiment in Congress to lift or relax the embargo -- not so much for the sake of vacationers as to aid the nation's agriculture sector by lifting trade sanctions. ''Until the ban is lifted, we can't plan anything,'' said Micha... |
1362557_2 | An Artist Beyond Isms | the pictures are about. The abstractions sometimes perversely turn improvisational gestures into deliberate, mechanical-looking, freeze-dried marks. They have the quality of blue ice, pristine and cool. Richter's paintings are disciplined, contradictory, strange, melancholic, even sometimes morbid. And they are among t... |
1362584_4 | At Airports, New Watchdog Is Taking Over | a target for closer scrutiny, he said. ''We need to find a way that the American public will find that we're doing what is constitutional and what they would want us to do, but at the same time, not give away all of these things.'' But other changes are obvious. Already the security personnel, along with pilots and oth... |
1398006_2 | PANEL RECOMMENDS DISMISSING PRIESTS IN NEW ABUSE CASES | said that the committee consulted with bishops and experts who ''wanted a lot of wiggle room in all of this so that individual cases would be looked at.'' The draft rules, entitled a ''Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,'' also call for bishops to turn over any new allegation of sexual abuse of min... |
1398003_4 | Excerpt From Recommendation by Bishops' Committee on Sexual Abuse | and young people, will be clear and well publicized. These standards need to give due consideration to the allegations of sexual misconduct by clergy involving young women and men who have recently attained legal adulthood. ARTICLE 7: Each diocese is to develop a communications policy that reflects a commitment to tran... |
1401156_0 | Educational Support Exceeds Language Barrier | To the Editor: There is no doubt that Hispanic immigrant parents have to deal with many hardships as they and their children become acclimated to our American culture, with navigation of our educational system being a major hurdle. However, parents of preschool children with special needs, such as the family included i... |
1400873_0 | Airport Security | To the Editor: Regarding ''At Airports, a Search for Better Security,'' by Matthew L. Wald (May 26): A very simple step that would somewhat alleviate the overtaxed security resources at airports would be to avoid searching the same passenger more than once at each leg of a trip. For a recent flight out of La Guardia, I... |
1401216_0 | June 9-15: NATIONAL; BISHOPS' NEW POLICY | At a meeting in Dallas prompted by the pedophilia scandal, America's Roman Catholic bishops adopted a policy on abusive priests: any priest known to have abused a child, no matter when, will not be allowed to dress in clerical garb or say Mass in any public setting, be it in church, school, a nursing home or a hospital... |
1401163_3 | Disabled Children Get to Share in the Summer's Fun | the arts and crafts hut, parents joined their children in making candles and shaping multicolored tissue paper into flowers that they ''planted'' in freshly decorated earthenware pots. In the dining hall, games to promote team-building, like hot potato, sparked laughter. Meanwhile, at the camp's model farm, the residen... |
1401032_0 | Flight School Screening | To the Editor: Re ''Foreigners in Flight Schools Must Undergo New Screening'' (news article, June 12): If fingerprinting and background checks can reduce the risk that terrorists will learn to fly large jets, why restrict these measures to foreigners at United States flight schools? Perhaps the transportation security ... |
1401123_0 | Ulster Violence Prompts a Call For Crisis Talks | Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, have ordered emergency talks for this week with the political parties in Northern Ireland over rising violence and deepening political distrust in the province, the British government said today. A spokesman for the Northern Ireland office said the two ... |
1399705_4 | Baby Boom? Nobody Told the Stork; Little Evidence Seen Yet of a Post-9/11 Surge in Births | the world steadies itself. ''Am I more family-oriented or more scared?'' Mr. Morgan wondered. ''I would believe it will wash out.'' He added: ''I really think that 9/11 could depress fertility rates as easily as increase them. If I'm a 23-year-old, I'm going to let this shake out a little bit before I have a kid.'' Dem... |
1399730_0 | Hour of Reckoning in the Church | To the Editor: I found it interesting that Cardinal Avery Dulles says a married priesthood ''would bring in'' a host of problems like ''contraception'' (''The Bishops and the Vatican,'' Op-Ed, June 10). Is it possible that the celibate clergy of the church cannot imagine being married without wanting to control the tim... |
1399640_0 | Airports Bracing for Bigger Problems | HERE in a sun-dappled realm of gated communities, where security guards see to it that tranquillity reigns, the men and women who run operations at some of the world's airports seemed singularly anxious. Dozens of airport executives had gathered within the serene perimeters of the Boca Raton Resort and Club for an even... |
1399608_4 | Restoring an Ecosystem Torn Asunder by a Dam | cubic feet per second in any one day. Power revenue fell $30 million a year. The daily pulses of water flattened out, making the river safer for rafting and fishing. A year later Congress passed the Grand Canyon Protection Act. Dr. Gold's research center was formed in 1995. ''We were asked to figure out how to use the ... |
1402647_2 | A User's Guide for Those Who Choose Hormone Replacements | Five years is a cut-off that many doctors recommend, because that is when studies start detecting an increased risk of breast cancer. About 80 percent of the women who start taking hormones stop on their own within a few years. How do women who decide to try hormone replacement sort through the bewildering array of pre... |
1402611_1 | You Get the Ideas | our research institutions. There the stage was crowded, with stars like Joseph Scaliger, who never lectured or taught but bred a brilliant generation of textual and historical scholars by his example and table talk, and the philologist Justus Lipsius, whose vast explorations of the ancient world led him, almost by chan... |
1402951_5 | Ideas & Trends: Hand-Me-Downs; When Parents Leave a Bequest of Hatred | professor of politics at Queens University in Belfast. ''But it took a generation to realize that no side was going to win and there was an impetus towards compromise.'' Indeed, said Professor Murray of the Irish Peace Institute, violence itself plays an ambivalent role. If it reaches levels of horror, as in the Balkan... |
1402614_0 | Unsolicited Manuscript | THE DREAM OF SCIPIO By Iain Pears. 398 pp. New York: Riverhead Books. $25.95. In his essay ''De Republica,'' Cicero digressed to tell the story of the great general Scipio, and the dream he had of being taken up into the heavens to meet his ancestor Africanus, who shows him the machinery of the cosmos and teaches him a... |
1402921_3 | Menopause Forever | Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life From 30 to 50'' (Warner Books, 1999); ''Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause'' (Harper San Francisco, 1999); ''The Change Before the Change: Everything You Need to Know to Stay Healthy in the Decade Before Menopause'' (Bantam 2002); ... |
1402738_0 | Stourhead Vistas | To the Editor: Gary Krist's article on the gardens at Stourhead, ''In England, a Tranquil Landscape by Design'' (June 9), recalled a family visit many years ago. On the one hand, Stourhead's Pantheon, Temple to Apollo, and ''descent to the underworld'' struck us as slightly ersatz; and indeed, as Mr. Krist points out, ... |
1402930_0 | Ideas & Trends; Deep in Brazil, a Flight of Paranoid Fancy | PUT reason aside, for a moment, and imagine this: American students are taught that the Amazon should be taken away from Brazil and made into an ''international reserve'' under United Nations administration. United States Army special forces are training in Florida to seize control of that zone once it is established. ... |
1402818_0 | Good Bug, Bad Bug | DON PACHNER is clearly the sort of person who is happiest in the woods. A big, loose-limbed man with a purple sweat band holding tufts of reddish hair back from his forehead, he is an e-commerce consultant by profession, but he often spends his weekends leading groups of novice hikers or bird watchers around the Mianus... |
1402960_0 | Private Sector; From Fossil Fuels to Solar Panels | Robert C. Stempel spent the bulk of his career selling a very traditional power source: the internal combustion engine. But since his resignation as General Motors' chief executive nearly 10 years ago, his energy has gone into more environmentally friendly alternatives. Tomorrow, he dives even deeper into that realm by... |
1402777_7 | Raw Nerves On Fire Island | Project, to go forward. The interim project, which was developed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1995, faltered when New York declined to be its required ''local sponsor'' and pay a share of project costs. The Interior Department also opposed dune and beach rebuilding within undeveloped areas of the national seashore... |
1402669_3 | Exotic Options Tested For Airport Screening | works on the same principle. It can be moved around in a van. The company's Web site says the device can be used after a bomb blast to analyze the explosive used, and has a picture of a site where that was done: the World Trade Center after the 1993 bombing. Such systems have several challenges. One is to run reliably ... |
1404319_0 | Distilling Dionysus from the Ancient Greeks and Bringing His Power to Life | When a group of Florentine composers invented opera at the turn of the 17th century, they imagined that they were reviving the spirit, if not the letter, of ancient Greek drama. Many of their works had librettos based on Greek myths, and because Greek theater was known to have been sung rather than spoken, the early op... |
1404343_4 | Textbook Publishers Learn: Avoid Messing With Texas | produces gas and oil. ''The oil and gas industry should be consulted,'' she told The Austin American-Statesman, a daily newspaper, at the time of last year's board vote. ''We always get a raw deal.'' One Dallas publisher, J. M. LeBel Enterprises, after having Jane L. Person's ''Environmental Science: How the World Work... |
1404446_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Sharp Rise In Violence | Deaths and injuries from guerrilla activity rose sharply last year despite cease-fires by paramilitary groups that have ended the systematic sectarian violence that cost 3,600 lives over three decades before the 1998 peace agreement. Police figures said gunmen killed 18 people compared with 7 in 2000 and so-called puni... |
1398827_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Accord Against Bioweapons | An informal grouping of 33 countries from Europe, the Americas and the Pacific urged new measures to prevent the spread of chemical and biological weapons. Meeting in Paris, the so-called Australia Group, which was formed in 1984 in response to the use of chemical weapons in the Iran-Iraq war, said the nonbinding measu... |
1397349_0 | Ulster Leaders Give Pep Talk To 2 Sides In the Mideast | A group of Israeli and Palestinian politicians have met for unusual talks in the English Midlands, joined by figures who negotiated Northern Ireland's breakthrough peace accord of 1998. ''We are able to meet here because it is impossible to meet back home with the siege and the checkpoints,'' said Yasir Abed Rabbo, the... |
1397022_3 | A Historic Gem Hiding in Plain Sight | Auctions, one of New England's premier auctioneers. Their sales (others are held in Manchester, N.H.) manage to combine world-class lots with the atmosphere of a country auction. Attendance is scarcely ''shopping,'' in the usual sense of strolling through Portsmouth's many hip boutiques and galleries. I would describe ... |
1397359_0 | Airports Urge Delay in New Security Rules | The top officials of 39 airports, which handle most of the nation's air travelers, have warned the secretary of transportation that air travel will be seriously disrupted in January unless Congress delays the Dec. 31 deadline for screening all checked bags, a major defense against terrorism. In a letter dated May 29, t... |
1397362_1 | FOLLOWING UP | in harbor festivals and tall-ship events in Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland and other ports. This year, the Bat'kivshchyna (pronounced bat-keev-SHIN-a and meaning fatherland) has been sailing since April through the West Indies and the Caribbean. On Friday the captain's son-in-law, Roy Kellogg, a Canadian, reported by e-ma... |
1397341_0 | Burned Rubber and Other Not-So-Natural Hazards | ''You're never going to see a bigger pile of rubber than this,'' said Jay Harris, a security guard at the closed Gibson Recycling plant in the dense pine forests just south of this East Texas town. With 30 million to 40 million shredded tires and 3 million whole ones, the 150-acre Gibson site is the largest tire gravey... |
1397029_0 | Ports That Reflect a Grand Era | OUT of the thick fog swirling around Winter Island, a lone brown pelican soared into sight, flew silently past the small sailboats anchored offshore and disappeared back into the mist. Nearby, a solitary fisherman cast his line at the foot of the Fort Pickering Lighthouse as small waves lapped the rocky beach. Winter I... |
1397353_0 | Following All the Rules in a Close Encounter With a Grizzly | As the grizzly approached, taking his sweet time, Abigail Thomas tried to practice good bear etiquette. She stood still as a tree in her dark gray jogging outfit. She did not look the bear in the eye. She silently told herself, as she later recalled, that if the bear did not feel challenged, he would ''leave me alone.'... |
1397390_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | New Delhi, where diplomats, journalists and business people come to relax, was largely deserted because most everyone was home packing a day after the State Department urged Americans to leave India because of fears of a war between India and Pakistan. 10 Israeli and Palestinians Meet A group of Israelis and Palestinia... |
1397282_2 | Ubiquitous Ads Devalue All Messages | advertiser desperation abound. Television executives worry about new technologies that allow people to skip commercials, and the Internet is littered with increasingly frantic pop-ups and other sales pitches. As the costs go down, the number of pitches multiplies -- something that Lloyd might have predicted. Every morn... |
1404765_0 | Marriages Made in Culinary Heaven | UNTIL now, when the term ''fusion'' was applied to food, it meant culinary creations with multicultural roots -- dim sum marinara, say, or pastrami sushi or ratatouille tacos. The latest fusion trend, however, has more to do with merchandising than with gourmandise. Judging by some recent business reports, licensing ag... |
1404762_3 | Personal Business; Learn Now, Pay Back (Somewhat Less) Later | monthly student loan payment was about 7 percent of a graduate's monthly gross income, just below the 8 percent that many lenders use as a threshold for manageability. A separate study conducted last March by the State Public Interest Research Groups, however, estimated that 39 percent of student-loan payers exceeded t... |
1404868_2 | Students' Private Records Found Outside City School | ''A violation of children's privacy has most certainly occurred,'' Mr. Sawyer said, adding that he planned to meet with school officials on Monday to discuss the matter. Police officials were contacted by The New York Times early yesterday after neighborhood residents called the newspaper to report the presence of the ... |
1404656_2 | Designing Buildings To Resist Earthquakes | conference on this topic, sponsored by the center, drew about 100 engineers last week to the CUNY Graduate Center in mid-Manhattan. Specifically, Dr. Bruneau referred to dampers that absorb and reduce damaging vibrations and to structures in which surviving columns take up the additional load if other columns are lost ... |
1398284_0 | Handling Foreign Visitors | This need to balance tolerance and vigilance applies also to immigration policy. It is important that the country police its borders and enforce its immigration laws in a way that is both fair and effective. Unfortunately Mr. Ashcroft announced a plan yesterday that seems to lead in the wrong direction. He proposed to ... |
1398170_1 | The Cat, the Mouse And the Keyboard | mice can also be prone to cat woes, so if you are experiencing erratic mouse behavior, clean the rollerball or optical lens on the bottom of the mouse as well. Finally, if you find that Kitty is tromping across your keys and accidentally editing your documents while you are away from the computer, a $20 shareware progr... |
1398200_4 | 'Dear Doctor' Meets 'Return To Sender' | be reading the message, refrain from sending group e-mail on which other recipients are listed, establish with patients what method of communication they prefer and archive the messages. The demand among patients for e-mail contact with their doctors is pronounced. According to the recent Harris Interactive survey, 90 ... |
1398274_0 | Some European Catholics Find Fault With U.S. Bishops' Proposal on Abuse Problem | The Vatican had no formal reaction to the American bishops' proposals for dealing with sexual abuse by clergy members, saying the text presented on Tuesday was a working draft. But church officials here and in other European countries indicated today that at least some of the proposals were expected to be viewed critic... |
1403811_1 | Spam: An Escalating Attack of the Clones | the breast enhancement,'' announces another. Spammers are like fruit flies. They multiply. They are elusive. Worst of all, they evolve quickly. The most aggressive spammers have become very sophisticated, constantly varying subject lines, ''from'' addresses and body text. Joe Long, a war room employee, remembers when t... |
1403816_0 | From Filters to Forwarding: Ways to Fight Junk E-Mail | Internet service providers and filtering companies like Brightmail are on the front lines of fighting spam. But there are many things that consumers can do on their own. Prevention * Set up multiple e-mail addresses. Use one for personal e-mail and one or more disposable ones -- those you would not mind abandoning if n... |
1403970_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Effort To Ease Tensions | Britain's Northern Ireland secretary, John Reid, left, and Ireland's foreign minister, Brian Cowen, met with leaders of Northern Ireland's political parties for six hours outside Belfast to try to calm rising tensions in the province that have produced rioting and charges of violations of the peace agreement under whic... |
1403842_0 | A Violent Death Exposes Fish Piracy in Russia | The ports are quiet in the remote Russian island of Sakhalin, just north of Japan. Fishing boats return home empty. Most canneries stopped operating years ago. But further out in the waters off the narrow, green island off Russia's eastern coast, boats jockey for position to catch the region's valuable crabs and fish. ... |
1400650_10 | SCANDALS IN THE CHURCH: The Bishops' Decisions; The Bishops' Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People | general secretary of the conference. ARTICLE 9. The work of the Office for Child and Youth Protection will be assisted and monitored by a review board, including parents, appointed by the conference president and reporting directly to him. The board will approve the annual report of the implementation of this charter i... |
1401536_3 | Hotels Learn the Importance of the Expectations Built Into a Brand Name | Hyatt International, are moving to burnish their image abroad. Hyatt International has been opening its top-level Hyatt Grand hotels in world ''gateway cities,'' especially in Asia, while at the same time opening more boutique-like Hyatt Park hotels in other prime locations, said John Wallis, Hyatt International's seni... |
1401620_1 | On Minefields of Khmer Rouge, Wilderness Is Preserved | provide Cambodia with about $500 million in assistance each year. In 1993, a decree by King Norodom Sihanouk gave some protection to the western and eastern ends of the range, but the central mountains have remained open to development. Now the Cambodian prime minister, Hun Sen, and his council of ministers are conside... |
1399946_0 | Foreigners in Flight Schools Must Undergo New Screening | The Justice Department announced a new screening program today for international students who want to learn to fly large jets in the United States, and it will require fingerprinting and background checks before they can climb into a cockpit. The program had been required by Congress as part of the transportation secur... |
1399895_0 | Resilience, Reflected in Marble; At Winter Garden, Workers Answer Terror by Rebuilding | One stone at a time. Day by day, for more than a month now, this has been the meticulous response of Bobby Power and Tom Teaman to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Marble craftsmen by trade, they are working in the first building construction at the World Trade Center void, reviving the Winter Garden of the World Financ... |
1402055_0 | Research Clinic Opens in Ohio for Genetic Maladies That Haunt Amish Families | ''We've been waiting 16 years for an answer,'' said Mark Kauffman, an Amish farmer whose four profoundly handicapped children thrashed spasmodically in wheelchairs and a crib before the watchful gaze of the visiting physician. As Dr. Heng Wang tended to his helpless patients, their mother, Esther Kauffman, hovered lovi... |
1402074_1 | Boston Airport, Sept. 11 to Live Down, Aspires to Big Changes | employees' identity cards to their handprints, facial features or retinas. *Computer software and closed-circuit cameras in airport passageways that match the faces of known terrorists and other criminals to travelers arriving and departing from Logan. *Wireless handheld computers that allow state troopers patrolling t... |
1401950_3 | For Fans, Wry Footnotes to the Funny Page | said. ''The blog serves as a footnote, essentially. ''In an ideal world, everyone would be reading the cartoon on an interactive tablet and the links would be right there.'' But ''that's not really an ideal,'' he added. ''I like newspapers.'' Among widely distributed cartoonists, Bill Amend, the writer and illustrator ... |
1402063_2 | ImClone Is Told That Charges May Be Filed Against It | Waksal, who resigned from the company last month. Lewis D. Lowenfels, a New York lawyer and expert on securities law, called the possible charges ''a serious black mark'' against the company. He said that the government would most likely seek an injunction against the company barring it from violating securities laws b... |
1396804_0 | Keeping a Forest Safe | To the Editor: In ''Protecting Forests'' (letter, May 25), Mark Rey of the Department of Agriculture says the Bush administration deserves applause for its plan for the Chugach forest in Alaska. But only 1.4 million acres would be permanently protected, which doesn't even match the low standard set by the Reagan admini... |
1399218_5 | Taboo Against Nuclear Arms Is Being Challenged in Japan | program, meanwhile, has developed rockets that could be converted into missile launchers. Japan's mastery of these two technologies already makes it a ''virtual nuclear power,'' arms control experts say. Japanese conservatives have long been frustrated by a Constitution that was written by the United States during the ... |
1399001_6 | Almost Everyone Gets a Piece Of the U.S. Open Business Pie | An additional 2,000 people were hired for trash pickup, to help build tents and bleachers, to help direct traffic and to wait tables or tend bar. And even though many of the companies providing services at the event are from out of town, plenty of business is done right here. ''We buy everything locally,'' said Susan L... |
1399219_1 | Hopes and Doubts Over Bush Plan | delicacy of a grizzly bear. Inefficient searches are driving customers away and slowing operations, they said. The new department could smooth that out and coordinate security efforts by all government agencies operating at airports, including the Customs Service and the I.N.S., the airlines said. ''Bringing these scat... |
1399077_0 | The Politics of Bears, As Tricky as the Biology | WHEN a 608-pound black bear was struck by a minivan in Warren County two months ago, it was more than an abrupt death for New Jersey's largest recorded bruin. The accident signaled an even messier collision in the making -- that of a soaring bear population and rising complaints from residents set against the state's s... |
1399083_0 | Personal Business; First the College Diploma, Then the Internship | FACING one of the worst job markets in years, many recent college graduates are heading directly to graduate school or biding their time with volunteer work or temporary jobs outside their fields. An increasing number, though, are discovering another fallback: post-graduate internships. The arrangement seems to make se... |
1398915_3 | In Alaska's Bear Country | postcard Alaskan wilderness. We hiked 800 vertical feet down to the valley floor, a wasteland of sand, ash and pumice gouged into unlikely shapes by the glacial waters of the Ukak River. In 1912, the Novarupta Volcano exploded in one of the most powerful eruptions in recorded history, 10 times more violent than Mount S... |
1398874_1 | You Know That Space-Time Thing? Never Mind | The normal thing would have been to dispatch regular reports from the field -- unreadable papers published in fashionable zines like Physical Review Letters or Physica D. Instead, Wolfram decided to do what Darwin did (and he would not shun the comparison). He is springing loose his vision all at once, in a book intend... |
1399208_3 | Baggage Bomb Detector Is Unreliable, Experts Say | result can sound an alarm over harmless materials. Airports like bulk detectors because they can process hundreds of bags per hour, compared with 20 or 30 an hour using the trace method. Another problem for the Transportation Security Administration is that it is supposed to use certified machines. A certification stan... |
1399060_0 | Jennifer Heyman, David Millstone | Jennifer Laura Heyman, a daughter of Ronnie F. Heyman and Samuel J. Heyman of New York, is to be married today at her parents' weekend house in Greens Farms, Conn., to David James Millstone, a son of Margaret A. Cotter of Potomac, Md., and Robert J. Millstone of Chicago. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein is to officiate. The brid... |
1399246_2 | Evangelical Christians And Jews Unite for Israel | a plan for mobilizing the Christian grass roots. Although Rabbi Eckstein half-jokingly described Stand for Israel as ''the Christian Aipac'' -- referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the principal lobbying organization in Washington for Israel -- the group's charitable tax status will not allow it t... |
1399528_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Ramallah before dawn today, surrounding Yasir Arafat's headquarters and putting the whole city under curfew. Israeli tanks moved through the streets with loudspeakers warning people that anyone who left their homes would be shot. House-to-house searches were under way and the army reported that it had arrested suspecte... |
1404118_0 | Breast Cancer Drug Is a Uterus Cancer Risk | The drug tamoxifen, widely prescribed for women with breast cancer or at high risk for it, may cause a rare but aggressive cancer of the uterus, the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday. The labeling of tamoxifen will be changed to add a ''black box'' warning about the newly identified risk for uterine sarcoma, ... |
1404118_3 | Breast Cancer Drug Is a Uterus Cancer Risk | that the new warning would not come as a surprise to cancer specialists. He said studies were under way to compare tamoxifen and another drug, raloxifene, which is now approved to prevent bone loss but is being tested to see if it can also prevent breast cancer, without causing uterine cancer. Besides women who have no... |
1402474_0 | Senate Votes To Let Soldiers Overseas Pay For Abortion | American servicewomen overseas would be able to pay for abortions at military hospitals under a proposal approved today by the Senate. By a vote of 52 to 40, the Senate voted to repeal the current ban on such payments as part of a defense spending bill, putting it in opposition with the House, which last month rejected... |
1403324_0 | Bolstering Women's Bones | Osteoporosis has been linked to the loss of teeth as well as broken hips. But a study published yesterday has found that calcium and vitamin D supplements can bolster bone density in the jaws of postmenopausal women, and that hormone replacement therapy can increase it even more. Dr. Roberto Civitelli of the Washington... |
1403333_1 | On Hot Trail Of Tiny Killer In Alaska | the world's most visible monuments to climate change. On the Kenai, nearly 95 percent of spruce trees have fallen to the beetle. Now, conditions are ripe for a large fire and could lead to bigger changes in the ecosystem, affecting moose, bear, salmon and other creatures that have made the peninsula, just a few hours' ... |
1403327_4 | Biologists Try to Follow Well-Traveled Turtles' Journeys | of eggs,'' he said. ''Then she went north again and took up residence off New Jersey and Delaware. She was off North Carolina in November when her transmitter went dead.'' Whatever the cause of the failure, a corrodible link on the harness would eventually break, freeing the turtle from it, he said. In spring 2001, wit... |
1401400_0 | Lessons of the Loya Jirga | For the past week some 1,600 delegates from across Afghanistan have been meeting in an air-conditioned tent in Kabul, debating their country's future and shaping a new transitional government. This re-creation of a traditional grand council, or loya jirga, has had some conspicuous problems, including a clumsy American ... |
1397685_4 | NASA Presses Its Search for Extraterrestrial Life | All this is leading up to the Terrestrial Planet Finder, planned for 2015, whose goal is to detect distant planets directly, using an occulting disk or interference techniques to separate the planet's dim light from that of its much brighter parent star. Dr. Beichman compared the challenge to ''finding a firefly next t... |
1397670_0 | OBSERVATORY | Ants' Demolition Derby A community can be at its most vulnerable when its members quarrel among themselves, allowing an enemy to exploit the infighting to its own advantage. (There is a reason, after all, that the aphorism ''United we stand'' starts springing up everywhere in times of trouble.) What is true for people ... |
1397669_0 | Standing Up for Nature | ''The Hormone Solution,'' by Dr. Erika Schwartz, Warner Books, $13.95. When the author was in medical school, she was led to believe that estrogen replacement in menopause consisted exclusively of the synthetic version. Now, she specializes in a treatment that many doctors do not offer: natural hormone supplementation.... |
1397671_0 | Begonias and Beyond: A Voice For the Tropical Forests | The soft-spoken woman shaking off a monumental case of jet lag at a Manhattan apartment one recent morning was Dr. Ruth Kiew, 56, the keeper of the herbarium and library of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, and one of the world's great experts on tropical begonias. Dr. Kiew had traveled to the United States to speak on th... |
1397763_1 | In New York, Change Is Traditional | homes and buildings. People don't realize it, but New York is the most historic place in the country. It's the oldest major city -- more happened here than anywhere else.'' Shortly after Sept. 11, there were calls to rebuild the towers exactly as they were and to preserve the financial services industry downtown. There... |
1397858_0 | National Briefing | Northwest: Washington: A Concern For Special Education | Nearly two-thirds of special education teachers in the state said they plan to stop teaching handicapped students in the next five years, according to a survey by the state branch of the National Education Association, the teacher's union. The teachers complained of massive paperwork requirements, staff meetings and un... |
1400082_1 | Room for a Travel Guide? Sizing Up Palm Memory | 8MB, and most have expansion slots, too.) You can find many city guide programs and other travel-themed software at most of the big Palm shareware sites on the Web. PalmGear has a good selection in its Travel category at www.palmgear.com/software, and Handango (wwwhandango.com) has a wealth of information about Palm ha... |
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