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1677105_2 | Vaccine Curbs Shingles Cases And Severity | but they are of limited effectiveness, some experts said. In the trial, which was conducted by the V.A. health system, with help from the National Institutes of Health and Merck, half of the 38,500 participants received a single injection of the vaccine and the other half a placebo. The volunteers, none of whom had pre... |
1677032_2 | From Thousand-Year-Old Sentinel to Traffickers' Booty | trunk. On a recent cold and drizzly Saturday morning, José Darío Cárcamo, 68, and his son and grandson were scavenging for the remnants of trunks in what had once been a grove of alerce trees here. Their plan was to recover as many stumps as they could with their axe and power saw and then sell the wood, either to neig... |
1678548_0 | A Belgian Bad Boy Has Gone Good | WITH his thatch of gray hair, tweedy attire and half-glasses riding low on his nose, Ronald Ferket could pass for a tenured university professor. He is a teacher of sorts, except that his classroom is De Vagant, a pub-cafe steps from this city's soaring cathedral and 16th-century guildhalls, and his subject isn't liter... |
1678651_3 | BUSH AIDE EDITED CLIMATE REPORTS | consequences of climate change. ''Each administration has a policy position on climate change,'' Mr. Piltz wrote. ''But I have not seen a situation like the one that has developed under this administration during the past four years, in which politicization by the White House has fed back directly into the science prog... |
1678567_4 | The System Is Down. Is That a Problem? | year as a result of HSST interruptions. ''It's not even close to fixed,'' he said. Department officials vehemently deny that the HSST program is experiencing unusual difficulty. ''All of what you're describing is incidental and anecdotal,'' Mr. Kroot said in an interview, and he likened those episodes to the periodic b... |
1678566_3 | Teaching the Homeless, and Fighting a Trend | routes as children move, and outreach workers track where the families are living. Most of the students get off the bus in the morning carrying nothing -- no backpack, no books. Teachers know that homework is hard to manage in the students' living situations. ''If a child falls asleep at a regular school, you wake him ... |
1678629_2 | China Tightens Restrictions On Bloggers and Web Sites | systems.'' Signs of the Internet's growing power in China came this spring during a wave of popular demonstrations against Japan in which organizers relied heavily on private Web pages, blogs and mass cellphone messages to mobilize protesters. In the space of a few weeks, as many as 40 million signatures were collected... |
1683814_0 | Sugar Still A Barrier To Securing Trade Pact | President Bush ran into new problems with his trade agenda on Tuesday, as attempts to entice support from the sugar industry for a Central American agreement veered toward collapse. With public anxiety already high about imports and foreign competition undermining American jobs, Republican Congressional leaders are str... |
1683669_0 | Victory at Sea, 200 Years Ago | |
1682364_1 | Brazil's Right to Save Lives | are now beginning to emulate. It has been able to afford this because Brazilian labs make copycat versions of expensive brand-name drugs. Brazil can freely copy any drug commercialized before 1997, when the country began to respect patents on medicines, a requirement for joining the World Trade Organization. But newer ... |
1682308_0 | Basics; Not Just for Talking Anymore | As the market for cellular phone service matures, the wireless industry is counting on creating and filling a new need: data services that allow phones to receive e-mail, navigate the Web and download games, music and video. But many wireless data plans are a smorgasbord of options that can leave customers bewildered. ... |
1682279_2 | Flight Suits | extra scrutiny. Among the 50 or so passengers interviewed this month at airports in New York, Atlanta and Chicago, there was no consensus about whether any clothes attracted extra attention. But there was wide agreement that the simpler and more dressed-down, the more efficient the experience. On its Web site, the secu... |
1682271_0 | Fixed Position; Castles in the Air | On a sunny afternoon last week, life overwhelmed art as tourists and students at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's roof sculpture garden gaped at the skyline beyond a sea of Central Park trees and (if they noticed) also admired Sol LeWitt's whimsically colorful installation ''Splotches, Whirls and Twirls,'' on view thro... |
1682369_3 | From the Ashes | the memorial will begin next spring and it should be completed in September 2009. The Freedom Tower -- which will reach 1,776 feet into the sky -- is being redesigned to make it the safest tower in the world. Yes, work has been delayed by security concerns, but we may make up for this with an expedited construction sch... |
1679309_0 | U.S. and Seoul Try to Ease Rift on Talks With the North | President Bush and South Korea's president, Roh Moo Hyun, tried Friday to shore up an alliance that has shown strains as Washington and Seoul pursue different strategies to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Mr. Roh left saying they had brought ''closure'' to some of their differences, but Mr. Bush's publ... |
1679243_4 | An Expiration Date on a Child Seat? Huh? | years. According to the institute, sweat and ultraviolet rays will not cause your helmet to degrade. ''Your helmet will get a terminal case of grunge before it dies of sweat,'' the group says on its Web site. ''It's marketing overselling,'' said Randy Swart, director of the institute in Arlington, Va. ''There have only... |
1680605_0 | More Privacy Questions for Air Safety Agency | The Department of Homeland Security is investigating whether the Transportation Security Administration again violated the privacy rights of airplane passengers as it experimented with a new antiterrorism screening system, federal officials said Wednesday. The internal inquiry comes only two months before the agency in... |
1680669_0 | In Shift, New Jersey Official Says He May Support Bear Hunt | Last year, New Jersey's top environmental official blocked a planned bear hunt, saying he hoped that a bear contraception program and public safety education would reduce encounters. But that approach has not worked, and he says now that he is considering allowing a black bear hunt this fall. The announcement yesterday... |
1677650_0 | What's a Woman to Believe? The Latest on Shifting Guidelines | THREE years ago, a woman visiting her doctor to discuss the onset of menopause would most likely leave with a prescription for hormone-replacement therapy and the instruction that she stay on it for the rest of her life. Now, unless her hot flashes or other menopausal problems are severe, the same woman could visit the... |
1677923_4 | Unloved, but Not Unbuilt | about some kind of participatory process, how do you have it in that kind of society?'' said Aviva Imhof, campaigns director for the International Rivers Network, an anti-dam group based in Berkeley, Calif. International Rivers Network has other problems with the project, and with most dams. In particular, said Patrick... |
1677648_4 | Something to Consider Before You All Shout, 'Surprise, Grandma!' | England Journal of Medicine. It described 19 patients they had treated -- 18 of them women. Both articles suggested that the condition, although not nearly as common as a heart attack, might not be that rare. It might simply be going undetected, misdiagnosed as a heart attack or other problem. The Johns Hopkins team al... |
1677997_4 | REPORT PRESSES EASY WAYS TO FIX AIRLINE SECURITY | or other items are examined. By adding a single screener to the typical checkpoint, these machines could be used to check the boarding passes, hands and shoes of all passengers. The additional work could be accommodated in part because some manual tasks could be automated, like moving empty bins back to the front of th... |
1677652_1 | Not Tonight | and fitness evaluations. She was encouraged to browse an extensive collection of sex manuals. And she left with a prescription for a low-dosage testosterone cream, a treatment not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for loss of libido, or for any use by women. Not yet, anyway. (Sonja and two other women in thi... |
1676896_0 | Tutors Hold Key to Higher Test Scores, for a High Fee | Adam Fisher remembers walking home from elementary school thinking not about Mister Softee or Ms. Pac Man but about Ms. Grace, his third-grade teacher. Why, he wondered, had she explained a new math concept in such a roundabout way? If only she had laid it out like this, he recalls thinking, reworking the lesson in his... |
1679448_1 | Ethical Hacking? | a story as a means to get at her journal?) Similar heart-rending decisions have been pressed upon some Internet companies recently, including Yahoo, but with different results. When one of Yahoo's e-mail clients, Lance Cpl. Justin Ellsworth, was killed in Iraq, his parents obtained a court order requiring the company t... |
1679741_0 | WiFi Is Everywhere, But Is It Safe? | To the Editor: After reading ''Putting Their Antennas Up: The Search for Profits From WiFi'' (June 5), one can almost conclude WiFi is the best thing since the discovery of fire: you can surf the Internet almost anywhere! You're not tethered to a wall jack, so freedom of placement is nearly unlimited. There are hundred... |
1679643_2 | Ideas & Trends; Who's Mentally Ill? Deciding Is Often All in the Mind | in America over recent decades reflects cultural and political shifts. ''People have not changed biologically in the past 100 years,'' Dr. Kirmayer said, ''but the culture, our understanding of mental illness'' has changed. That evolving understanding can have implications for diagnoses. For example, in 1973, the Ameri... |
1680348_0 | Genes and a Hoe | Every year Kenya's corn farmers lose about 15 percent of their crop to the stem borer, an insect that drills into the corn stalk. Farmers who can afford it douse their corn repeatedly with pesticides, which poison the environment. The stem borer and its relatives steal the livelihood of millions of small corn farmers. ... |
1680483_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths COONEY, JOHN M. | COONEY--John M. John Mason Cooney succumbed to cancer on June 13, 2005. He was 71 years old. This brought to a close a life devoted to education and community service, including 30 years of distinguished service at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Cooney was born in 1933 and raised in McDowell County, West ... |
1683413_3 | U.S. Has Plans To Again Make Own Plutonium | And in 1968, an errant weather satellite crashed into the Pacific, but federal teams managed to recover its plutonium battery intact from the Santa Barbara Channel, off California. Such accidents cooled enthusiasm for the batteries. But federal agencies continued to use them for a more limited range of missions, includ... |
1678195_3 | Grounding a Pandemic | of symptoms. It is essential for the international community, led by the United States, to take decisive action to prevent a pandemic. So what should we do? Recently, the World Health Organization called for more money and attention to be devoted to effective preventive action, appealing for $100 million. Congress resp... |
1678233_6 | A New Scourge Afflicts Haiti: Kidnappings | as among the people they have been sent to protect. Mr. Foley said Haiti -- where most people live on $1 a day, more than 40 percent of children are malnourished, and childbirth is the second leading cause of death among women -- faced myriad challenges as it struggled for stability. But, he said, unless the government... |
1642955_2 | Driver-Cellphone Laws Exist, but Their Value Is Disputed | because it's the cognitive distraction that can compromise driving,'' said Rae Tyson, a spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Mr. Tyson said research from within his agency and outside it, along with driving simulations, found that it was the talking on a cellphone while driving that was dis... |
1642922_1 | Listening for Atom Blasts, But Hearing Earthquakes | seem like an anachronism. But in fact, at least two countries -- India and Pakistan -- broke the ban, and two others -- Iran and North Korea -- have recently been identified as possibly preparing for nuclear tests. Many Western experts worry that the world is entering a second nuclear age centered on Asia. As the scien... |
1643011_2 | U.N. Proposes Doubling of Aid To Cut Poverty | primary education, promote sex equality and achieve sharp reductions in hunger, and in the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day, by 2015. A main focus is also on slashing the millions of preventable deaths among mothers and children. Britain, in particular, has recently seized the leadership on these... |
1643382_3 | Cargo Containers' Electronic Sensor Says 'Do Not Disturb' | forces,'' Mr. Dixon said, for example, if the containers are stacked up to eight high on deck and rolling through 40-foot seas. The group tried a number of approaches to sensing whether the container doors were open at sea, including a pressure sensor. But in one storm the container flexed so much that the pressure bet... |
1643435_0 | Learn for Learning's Sake | To the Editor: Re ''College Degree Still Pays but It's Leveling Off'' (Business Day, Jan. 13): Your analysis of the ''value'' of college degrees once again proves that America has some true learning to do before it can catch up to the intellectual level of the rest of the industrialized world. I am tired of opening the... |
1638762_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Government Approves Gay Marriage Bill | A decision by the government to approve a proposal to allow same-sex couples to marry drew criticism from the conservative opposition and the Catholic Church. The proposal, which must be approved by Parliament, would also allow gay couples to adopt children. Representatives of the Catholic Church said the state lacked ... |
1638700_0 | Trouble in the Forests | The Bush administration is proceeding briskly with its demolition job on the environmental regulations it inherited from previous administrations, especially the rules protecting the national forests against commercial exploitation. Over the last four years, the Forest Service has weakened agreements aimed at preservin... |
1638678_0 | Lilly Shares Fall on Report About Prozac Documents | Shares in Eli Lilly & Company fell yesterday after an article in a medical journal suggested that the drug company had long concealed evidence that its well-known antidepressant, Prozac, could cause violent and suicidal behavior. The accusations were made in the Jan. 1 issue of The British Medical Journal, which said i... |
1638661_0 | Techniques That Might Smile Upon Mona Lisa | Art and science don't often intersect, but Marion Mecklenburg, a Smithsonian Institution engineer who is also a painting conservator, is trying to merge them. His purpose: to find better ways to preserve priceless art works, including those like the ''Mona Lisa'' that are painted on thin wood panels. After two decades ... |
1639824_2 | Disabled Boy Who Fell Into Chute Suffocated | live at the Cooke Health Center, on Fifth Avenue near 106th Street, when he was 2 months old. Officials at the center said that they provided care well beyond the state requirements and that a review by the Office of Mental Retardation last year found no deficiencies. Interviews with state officials, health center staf... |
1645312_0 | Spectrum Sale Draws $1 Billion in Bids | Mobile phone carriers and entrepreneurs bid nearly $1 billion yesterday on the first day of a government auction of radio spectrum, the airwaves that carry wireless data and phone traffic. The auction, for 242 licenses in big and small markets across the country, is scheduled to continue this morning, with 31 of the 35... |
1645213_1 | Will the Spire Survive At the Freedom Tower? | tower that emerged from political compromise. Among the questions the planners are asking themselves are these: With the antennas off to one side, would the building itself create too large a shadow for the broadcast signal? Would the signal be compromised because of the distance the transmission cables have to travel ... |
1642144_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about the policies of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America toward gay men and lesbians referred imprecisely to its stance on ordaining them. The church indeed accepts gay clergy members, but they must remain celibate. |
1642076_4 | In a Small Fishing Boat, Looking to Make Peace With a Punishing Sea | a result, only two people perished. Local fishermen call that a blessing but also a curse, because with so few deaths, little international or national aid has arrived, they say. Already impoverished fishermen are despairing. Even before the tsunami, most of Sri Lanka's fishermen were nothing more than day laborers. Th... |
1642140_0 | Submarine Crash Shows Navy Had Gaps in Mapping System | Sailors on the San Francisco, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, had just finished cleaning the vessel last Saturday as it sped along 500 feet beneath the surface of the South Pacific. Submarines run blind, just listening for sounds of danger. And to the captain and other officers relying on undersea navigation charts... |
1641178_1 | Oil Find Hints at a Less Dependent Cuba | is no panacea. The prospective output by the Canadian companies would cover only about three to four years of oil production by Cuba, which now imports much of its oil from Venezuela on favorable terms. Yet the deposits showed how tantalizingly close Cuba has come to altering the dynamics of oil exploration in the Gulf... |
1641042_4 | Facing Biotech Foods Without the Fear Factor | substance. Citing a conventionally bred potato that turned out to contain an unintended toxin, the report says the hazard lies with the toxin's presence, not the breeding method. Among the foods developed through induced mutations are lettuce, beans, grapefruit, rice, oats and wheat. None had to undergo stringent testi... |
1644282_0 | Recycling Computers | To the Editor: Re ''About That Old Computer'' (editorial, Jan. 9): A generation ago, throw-away bottles and cans were littering the roadsides. British Columbia became the first jurisdiction in North America to require beverage producers to provide cash refunds to consumers who turned in empty containers. The personal c... |
1644381_0 | A Little Late, Trying to Take Flight (Any Flight) From the Storm | The travelers who went to La Guardia Airport yesterday afternoon could see the storm, but thought they could beat it. Their goal was to get out of New York City before the snow got really bad, even if it meant boarding flights that were scheduled to go to places that were not their final destinations. As the ''canceled... |
1638997_4 | Stores Find Good Workers Among Devoted Customers | people, who are working less than ever, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The employment rate for those aged 16 to 24 was about 40 percent throughout the 1990's but has drifted down recently; it was 31 percent in October 2003. Some 26 percent of high school graduates not enrolled in college were unemployed i... |
1639163_4 | A Brawler and a Spy | slept with one another.'' The contemporary attitude toward homosexuality was, to put it mildly, schizoid. ''Love between men was intrinsic to the humanist educational program. Yet the medieval-Christian impulse to demonize homosexual acts persisted regardless. . . . The law too was equivocal on this issue.'' And what o... |
1638815_4 | Heavy Questions | in person, and half met via video link in order to test the efficiency of telemedicine -- that is, seeing a doctor, nurse or nutritionist remotely. (All participants came to the lab in person.) Starr County has 15 physicians; the ratio of residents to doctors is 3,412 to 1. (The statewide ratio is 661 to 1.) There are ... |
1639043_0 | Cuba and AIDS | To the Editor: Cuba has the lowest infection rate for AIDS in the hemisphere (''Cuba Counters Prostitution With AIDS Programs,'' news article, Dec. 26) because of a sound public health policy developed over the last two decades of this global epidemic. Cuba's very low infection rate can be traced back to the 1980's, wh... |
1645880_4 | Poker Nuts and Nudists, Come Aboard | top prize of more than $1.87 million, all while sailing to Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlán, Mexico, on the PartyPoker.com Million IV tournament cruise. The seven-day Holland America cruise sails from San Diego on March 19. Most spots are reserved for those who qualify online through www.partypoker.com, but a limited numbe... |
1645833_5 | It Is About the Bike | with constantly evolving technological innovations, like ball bearings, lighter speed frames and tubing in the front forks. But because of its unwieldy size, it was prone to accidents that plagued even the hearty athletes who rode it (Herlihy notes Mark Twain's arduous, perilous and funny efforts to master the high whe... |
1645830_9 | There Goes the Neighborhood | is a nightmare scenario: defenders of population growth ''nonchalantly'' mention ''adding 'only' 2.5 billion more people . . . as if that were acceptable.'' Population growth has made Los Angeles ''less appealing,'' especially owing to traffic: ''I have never met an Angeleno (and very few people anywhere in the world) ... |
1639715_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: Diplomatic Deadlock With Europeans Over | A thaw in the frosty relations between Europe and Cuba gathered speed after Cuba reopened official contacts with the embassies of eight European nations on Monday, including France, Britain and Germany, Reuters reported. Relations have been tense since the European Union began pressing Cuba to free dissidents jailed in... |
1644548_0 | A Virus Writer Tests the Limits In Cellphones | Marcos Velasco, a 32-year-old Brazilian software developer, enjoys movies with special effects, maintains a vast collection of antique computers in his home and is the proud father of two young children and one mobile phone virus, which he named after himself: Velasco. Computer security experts around the world have gi... |
1644543_2 | Silicon Valley is flush with cash, so why are job and income numbers there still lagging? | index is saying this is reality. The reality is that ours is an economy that will be very productive on the high end but not necessarily this big job generator.'' The main culprit, Mr. Hancock said, has not been that jobs have migrated to countries where labor is cheaper, as one might have expected, but that productivi... |
1644613_0 | Nations Ranked as Protectors of the Environment | Countries from Northern and Central Europe and South America dominated the top spots in the 2005 index of environmental sustainability, which ranks nations on their success at such tasks as maintaining or improving air and water quality, maximizing biodiversity and cooperating with other countries on environmental prob... |
1642525_0 | A New Tone on Cuba? | To the Editor: Re ''Oil Find Hints at a Less Dependent Cuba'' (Business Day, Jan. 11): I have just returned from Cuba as a member of a delegation of religious leaders and university students through Make a Difference, a humanitarian service organization. Most of Cuba's citizens are poor. Cuba has the potential to impro... |
1642191_3 | The Scarith Awakens | to promote a grandly imagined history for his city of Viterbo. ''His intertwining of archaeological artifacts, inscriptions, manuscripts, local topography and well-known ancient sources not only proved difficult to untangle,'' Rowland writes. ''It also set the standard for all subsequent antiquarian writing, sincere as... |
1642187_2 | The Book of Jobs | and expect rewards for performance. The professional ethic gives employees more freedom, flexibility and respect, but it also gives them more responsibility for their destinies. ''Parachute'' is a job-hunting guide for believers in the professional ethic. It starts from an understanding that the employment relationship... |
1642536_0 | The Neediest Cases; For an Only Son, Burdens Beyond Family Expectation | A lot of weight rests on the shoulders of a boy who does not have the strength to stand on his own. Daniel J.S. Kim, 12, is the only son of Dong Kyu Kim, 53, and Chun Jan Kim, 47, who immigrated from South Korea 20 years ago to make their home in Flushing, Queens. ''Especially in our culture, it is quite a distinction.... |
1642210_5 | The Other Legacies: Fac Brats | groundskeeper. Salaries are also no longer paltry, either: full professors earned, on average, $88,591 and associate professors $63,063 in the 2003-04 school year, according to the American Association of University Professors. Still, human resources departments view the tuition benefit, which is tax free, as an essent... |
1642215_10 | 101 Redefined | even believe in this.' It took me a long time to come to peace with it.'' Today, every Tuesday and Thursday, he teaches 1,000 students. First he delivers one lecture to more than 500 students at 11 a.m., then he repeats the lecture at 12:30 p.m. word for word. What changed his mind was the realization that for students... |
1642484_3 | U.S. Jobs Becoming Scarcer For Students From Abroad | are less adept than their American counterparts at selling themselves aggressively. Danielle Hopkins, assistant director of international graduate career development at the Fisher College of Business, said foreign students must work harder to achieve the same goals as domestic students. While internships are always imp... |
1644948_2 | Ford Says '05 Earnings Will Fall, but It Still Expects to Make Money Making Cars | has been a particularly troublesome division for P.A.G., as the luxury group is known. In a worldwide market glutted with millions more cars than there are buyers, financial analysts see Ford's projections as ambitious. At the same time, Ford will have to make more money in its automotive unit if it expects to reach it... |
1641854_1 | Europe's Ambitious Bank Picks a Bold Design | watered down too much during the building process. ''It's quite amazing that they chose it, because there are several risks, both from a building point of view and an image point of view,'' said Hanno Rauterberg, architecture critic of Die Zeit, the German weekly. ''The bank's image is one of stability and solidity, bu... |
1641877_2 | Lutherans Recommend Tolerance On Gay Policy | hoodwink parishioners into believing that policies remained unchanging despite the fact that sanctions may not be enforced. Lutherans Concerned, a group that seeks greater acceptance of gays in the church, contended that the recommendations did not go far enough to dispel the punitive atmosphere around issues of homose... |
1641911_2 | A Chinese Revaluation May Not Help U.S. | yuan more expensive against the dollar would mean that American exporters to China, like Boeing, could sell more goods. Importers like Wal-Mart would have to pay more for the toys, clothes and other goods they buy. That would give Wal-Mart and others an incentive to import from other nations, or even use American suppl... |
1641824_2 | U.S. Tech Exports Slide, but Trash Sales Are Up | up 135 percent. To some extent the technology decline reflects the bursting of the bubble, but imports of technology products are up 28 percent, indicating that it's not just the bubble at work. There are easy jokes to be made about trash and technology, but to make them is to risk overlooking the real importance of th... |
1640083_0 | Tsunami's Ripples, Unnoticed, Washed Along Atlantic Coast | The tsunami that ravaged countries all around the Indian Ocean also hit the eastern United States, though only the tide gauges noticed. A tide gauge at Atlantic City recorded the passage of a ''train'' of waves, just under nine inches from crest to trough, 32 hours after the earthquake struck off Sumatra's west coast o... |
1641578_1 | Under the Moon | of organic molecules -- the stuff of life -- that must continually be drizzling down on the surface. This manna makes Titan a prime exploration target for astrobiology -- the study of life beyond Earth. If terrestrial life started from a primordial soup of complex organics floating in young seas, then the deeply frozen... |
1641544_1 | Beaches for the Svelte, Where the Calories Are Showing | what nutritionists and doctors regard as undeniable proof of an alarming growth of obesity since the mid-1970's, when the survey was first done in its current form. As elsewhere around the world, the main culprits, they say, are an unbalanced diet and a sedentary lifestyle, with some variants that are particularly Braz... |
1641630_2 | College Degree Still Pays, but It's Leveling Off | numerous high school graduates earn. The dynamics, however, do not work that way. For one thing, the wage spread between high school and college graduates is determined by what happens to each side of the equation. During the 1980's, high-school-educated blue-collar workers lost well-paying jobs by the hundreds of thou... |
1643687_2 | U.S. Vows to Attain Global Warning System | of magnitude 6 or over. A major challenge will be to build a system where different nations can get access to data in a rapid and uniform way, said Mark P. Lagon, United States deputy assistant secretary of state. ''NATO has existed for decades and there are interoperability problems, meshing is difficult,'' he said in... |
1644857_0 | World Business Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Trade Deficit Rises | Mexico's trade deficit grew to $8.1 billion last year, the Finance Ministry said, as economic growth of at least 4 percent drove demand for imports. The increase in imports was partly offset by higher prices for Mexico's oil exports and more exports of manufactured goods. An estimated 90 percent of Mexico's $189 billio... |
1644796_0 | Monsanto Buying Leader In Fruit and Vegetable Seeds | In at least a temporary diversification away from genetically modified crops, Monsanto, the agribusiness company, agreed yesterday to pay about $1 billion to acquire Seminis, the world's largest producer of fruit and vegetable seeds. Until now, Monsanto has focused on corn, soybeans and cotton seeds, and on using genet... |
1644693_1 | Antarctica, Warming, Looks Ever More Vulnerable | accelerating sea-level rise, said as the Chilean Navy plane flew over the sea ice here on an unusually clear day late in November. ''Around the Amundsen Sea, we have surveyed a half dozen glaciers. All are thinning, in some cases quite rapidly, and in each case, the ice shelf is also thinning.'' The relationship betwee... |
1642747_0 | Dispute Puts a Medical Journal Under Fire | Last year was an especially bad one for the pharmaceutical industry, which experienced controversies over how drug studies are disclosed and the implosion of the painkiller Vioxx. Now, as a result of the recent publication of an article about the antidepressant Prozac, it appears that the staid, usually methodical worl... |
1642857_1 | Double Duty, and Then Some; Mother of Separated Twins Copes With Medical Needs and New Identities | be the first to perform such a separation without causing brain damage to either patient. Their success, the doctors say, stems from dividing the operations into parts, rather than performing one marathon surgery. So far the boys' doctors say they have not detected any evidence of neurological damage. Still, the boys w... |
1639472_5 | Arts Project Provokes Hong Kong Uproar | with the Eiffel Tower in Paris or the Sydney Opera House. Detractors liken the canopy to the Nike ''swoosh'' and warn that a humid greenhouse effect may develop underneath, and that overhead panels may blow away in typhoons and become scythes. Leslie E. Robertson, a prominent American structural engineer working on the... |
1639449_0 | World Business Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Record Trade Surplus | Brazil posted a record trade surplus in 2004 for the second consecutive year, benefiting from a boom in commodities exports to markets like China. The trade minister, Luiz Fernando Furlan, said the country finished the year with a trade surplus of $33.7 billion, up 36 percent from a surplus of $24.8 billion in 2003. Ex... |
1640447_7 | Manufaketure | design the software and processes that streamline the operations of giant retail chains and global high-tech manufacturers. We engineer advanced engines and the guts of the world's computers. We devise brands, durable corporate identities and fashions. We conjure new ways to move money and put it to work. We turn the m... |
1640467_0 | BUDGET -- Some Central European cities offer a refuge from the mighty euro; South America and China are dollar-friendly, too. | With the dollar plummeting against the euro, the pound and the yen, a budget-minded traveler might assume the only option for 2005 is to stay home. But there are still places where the dollar holds some clout, including Argentina, Brazil, China (where the exchange rate is soothingly predictable) and areas of Central an... |
1640427_5 | Freed | worked to death, above all on the brutal sugar plantations of the Caribbean, that between 1660 and 1807, ships brought well over three times as many Africans across the ocean to British colonies as they did Europeans. And, of course, it was not just to British territories that slaves were sent. From Senegal to Virginia... |
1639255_0 | Chinese Project Pits Environmentalists Against Development Plans | A major dam project suspended last year by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is now the focus of a bureaucratic fight between pro-development advocates pushing to restart the project and environmentalists who want public hearings and further research. The conflict highlights the growing tension between the need for environment... |
1639276_1 | Liberté, Egalité, Absurdité | American voters. French foreign policy in the 1960's was not driven by a leader's personal antipathy for a brash Texan in the White House, and neither is today's. Regime change in the United States might have led John Kerry to slap Mr. Chirac on the back and say, ''Lafayette, we are here!'' -- but nothing would have al... |
1639254_1 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Reinventing the Wheel (and the Tire, Too) | very small market for Michelin, the world's leading tiremaker, but it is an apt demonstration vehicle for the Tweel. The first commercial use of the integrated tire and wheel assembly will be on the stair-climbing iBOT wheelchair, another product developed by Dean Kamen, the Segway's inventor; Michelin said it would an... |
1646307_1 | Fearing Future, China Starts to Give Girls Their Due | parents who wanted to guarantee a boy. Government officials are hardly backing away from population control. But the government is examining various possible changes. Last year, the State Council, China's cabinet, appointed a research group of 250 demographers and other experts to examine issues like imbalance between ... |
1640930_0 | Seeing the Forest for the Peace | TWENTY-FIVE years of dictatorship and civil war, preceded by a century and a half of misrule, have made Liberia one of the world's poorest countries. But Liberia's development failures have paradoxically led to a success. Liberia has something that the world values now more than ever: a vast rain forest. Liberia's stat... |
1640881_2 | Momentum Is Gaining for Cellphones as Credit Cards | with credit card functions, although they could just as easily represent competition for the practice of paying by cellphone. The marriage of cellphone and charge card poses some significant challenges, including security problems. To reduce fraud from stolen phones, consumers may be required to punch an authorization ... |
1643938_3 | Kicking the Tires on the Next Humvees; Stung by Criticism, Army Takes a Long Look at Its Transport Vehicles | who of top Army officers overseeing Humvees and other transport vehicles were present. The contractors were mostly private companies, from family-run businesses like Mr. LeBlanc's General Purpose Vehicles to large companies like AM General, an Indiana company that makes the Humvee. For the contractors, the money at sta... |
1643915_1 | The Neediest Cases; For Those Who Hit Bottom, a Step Up | have faced criminal charges; 20 percent have been homeless at some point. Their problems at home -- wherever it may be -- affect their performance in the program, Ms. Samms said. ''You can say you need to come to class, but if their grandmother is throwing them out, then they're going to focus on that,'' she said. But ... |
1643968_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | good will spread by the American relief efforts could be undermined by resentment and that there could be a violent backlash. A1 A Move to Stop Attacks in Gaza Palestinian security forces in modest numbers took up positions in northern Gaza with orders from their new president, Mahmoud Abbas, to prevent militant groups... |
1645556_0 | The Neediest Cases; Where Children Get Recreation, and Guardians a Rest | Vince Canziani, the director of Wagon Road Camp in Chappaqua, N.Y., has an understanding with Jose Robles, a 17-year-old camper. ''I say hello, and he gets really happy,'' Mr. Canziani said. Set on 53 wooded acres 35 miles north of New York City, Wagon Road offers a retreat for developmentally and physically disabled c... |
1645481_1 | African Crises Take Back Seat to Tsunami, U.N. Relief Chief Says | getting the resources we need.'' He described Africa's predicament as ''a forgotten and neglected quadruple tsunami of AIDS and preventable disease, of ongoing terrible conflicts, of lack of good governance or lack of governance at all in addition to chronic lack of food due to droughts.'' ''There are 40, 50 rich count... |
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