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1401742_6 | A Vigorous Skeptic Of Everything but Fact; His Target: The Paranormal on TV and in Film | and refused to return to the Soviet Union at the end of the war. As an undergraduate at New York University in the 1940's Mr. Kurtz came under the influence of the philosopher Sidney Hook and pragmatism. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University on value theory, on whether there can be a science of ethics. He is... |
1401889_4 | ISRAEL ACTS TO SEIZE ARAB LAND AFTER BLAST; BUSH DELAYS TALK | don't have a prison,'' said Nabil Aburdeineh, a senior aide to Mr. Arafat. ''If we arrest someone, where should we put him?'' Mr. Aburdeineh said Hamas and the Israeli government were both intent on destroying the Palestinian Authority. Members of Mr. Sharon's government, for their part, held Mr. Arafat responsible. ''... |
1402322_11 | Excerpts From Decision and Dissents on Executing the Mentally Retarded | whose mental retardation has been found an insufficiently compelling reason to lessen their individual responsibility for the crime. The court pronounces the punishment cruel and unusual primarily because 18 states recently have passed laws limiting the death eligibility of certain defendants based on mental retardatio... |
1403587_4 | Airport Improvements Are Adrift After Sept. 11 | trying to make it a relatively pleasant experience, assuming the T.S.A. doesn't kill off the whole industry.'' Since its establishment on Nov. 19, the Transportation Security Administration has started a pilot program at five airports for baggage screening, and has said that all checked bags must be screened by Dec. 31... |
1433797_0 | Organic Gets an Additive: A U.S.D.A. Seal to Certify It | Beginning on Monday, the Department of Agriculture's new seal labeling food organic will appear in grocery stores, making clear to consumers for the first time what produce has been raised without conventional pesticides or fertilizers, antibiotics or growth hormones. For more than 12 years organic farmers, environment... |
1433067_2 | Many Leaders of U.S. Church Say Rome's Stance Is a Relief | policy, such as setting up lay boards to review abuse cases, or appointing a diocesan coordinator to handle accusations. David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, said, ''Fundamentally, we're almost back to square one, where each bishop handles it however he deems best, whic... |
1433055_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-7 U.S. Seeks to Build Consensus on North Korea American officials opened a diplomatic drive across Asia and Europe to build international pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. A6 Japan's plan for billions of dollars in aid to North Korea's rickety economy is being shelved in l... |
1433066_0 | A Miracle at Assisi | The great basilicas of Italy house some of the most important sculpture, painting and craft work in Western art. One of the most prized holdings -- a series of 13th-century ceiling frescoes by the ground-breaking painters Giotto and Cimabue -- was thought to be forever lost when an earthquake ravaged the basilica of St... |
1433049_2 | A Vulnerable Time to Be Moving Oil by Sea | commercial vessels like tankers almost never mount deck guns to ward off attackers themselves, because many ports prohibit the weapons. About all the ships can do is stay far from shore when possible and take the basic precautions commonly used in areas with piracy problems, said Chris Horrocks, secretary general of th... |
1431273_4 | Shipshape | These cabins were at the two farthest ends of the boat, one forward, just behind the fo'c'sle (which was also the workshop and sail locker), and one aft, below the cockpit. In between was a small but perfectly formed galley kitchen and the boat's saloon -- a generous, wood-paneled room with a table that folded out to s... |
1431357_0 | Dog Bites Dog | Aren't the citizens of Indianapolis concerned that this kind of antisocial conduct will build up over time? Psychiatric studies of serial killers show a pattern of childhood cruelty to animals. It is a derogation of common sense to call this cruel and cowardly activity a sport. John Alan Cohan Los Angeles |
1431437_8 | The Halls of Ivy, The Smell of Beer | eating clubs at the start of second semester, the number of emergency calls triples. ''Because of the club system, Princeton is a more welcoming environment to drinking than say, Harvard or Yale, which Princeton would like to associate itself with,'' said David Goldfarb, a borough councilman. Mr. Goldfarb, the most voc... |
1431658_6 | With Few Jobs Being Created, Pain Is Felt Far and Wide | Adams, an accounting manager in Cupertino, Calif., who was laid off early this year, has sat in a few job interviews in which an executive has described being overwhelmed by the response to a job advertisement. ''I think the number of choices are fewer,'' said Mr. Adams, 55, who has a graduate business degreee and was ... |
1431331_0 | New Reasons To Travel Light | AIRLINE passengers accustomed to checking excess or overweight baggage without penalty may soon start to feel like teenagers whose long-flouted curfew is suddenly being enforced. Over the past several months, many airlines have begun enforcing frequently ignored restrictions on the number, size and weight of the bags p... |
1431902_4 | The Troubles in Ulster Shift From Street to the Assembly | portraying masked gunmen and militant slogans. Paramilitary gangs enforce street discipline among their own by vigilante attacks and punishment beatings that can leave victims permanently maimed. Some Protestant housing projects have become the scenes of violent turf wars and drug disputes. But these areas are increasi... |
1435046_1 | The development of modern Buddhism is traced to a mix of Eastern and Western influences. | by an American, Col. Henry Steel Olcott. In 1875, Olcott co-founded, with Helena Blavatsky, the Theosophical Society for the study and propagation of an esoteric religious knowledge drawing on spiritualism, Eastern religions and 19th-century science. Five years later, Olcott and Blavatsky went to Ceylon where he embrac... |
1429889_3 | Software that 'hijacks' links to online merchants is at the center of a war for sales commissions. | Instead, if the customer configures the WURLD-Morpheus software a certain way, the service flashes a red or green light on the computer's toolbar, signaling whether the customer could earn a WURLD-Morpheus rebate by clicking directly to the merchant. The signal would also offer a link to instructions on how to earn a r... |
1429908_3 | Northern Ireland Peace Accord Is in Danger, Britain Warns | negotiator, Martin McGuinness, today dismissed the raids and the arrests as ''a contrivance,'' promoted by Protestant unionists to bring down the Northern Ireland Assembly and other institutions created by the 1998 peace agreement aimed at enabling Catholics and Protestants to share power. Unionists, most of whom are P... |
1430341_2 | Cuba's Bittersweet Move to Trim Its Sugar Crop | about half what it was during the 1970's and 1980's when the Cubans sold sugar to the Soviet Union. (Before the 1959 revolution, similarly favorable trade with the United States fed Cuba's sugar industry.) The deal with the Soviets meant there was no attempt to diversify crops or industrialize more fervently. Thus, whe... |
1430426_10 | Excerpts From House Debate on the Use of Military Force Against Iraq | and chemical weapons and his nuclear program ongoing. For this reason I cannot unequivocally count future military action out in the face of this legitimate threat, however I strongly believe that the most effective way of combating this menace is by solidifying the support of the international community and acting wit... |
1428681_3 | From Humble Materials, a Burst of Power for Batteries | material's enhanced conductivity. Dr. Chiang has jointly founded a battery technology company that has licensed the process from M.I.T. and is working on commercializing it. ''The raw materials that go into the compound are about a quarter of the cost of those for lithium cobalt oxide,'' he said. George E. Blomgren, a ... |
1428708_3 | Excerpts From Remarks by President and Lawmakers on Iraq Resolution | do everything necessary to protect and defend our country. In accepting this responsibility, we also serve the interests and the hopes of the Iraqi people. They are a great and gifted people with an ancient and admirable culture, and they would not choose to be ruled by violence and terror. The people of Iraq are the d... |
1433995_0 | Help for Sudan | THREATS AND RESPONSES |
1433923_1 | OBSERVATORY | Sure enough, the researchers then isolated another enzyme, which they named lachrymatory- factor synthase. This acts on the intermediate compound to form thiopropanal but is not involved in the production of thiosulphinate. The researchers suggest that by cutting back on this second enzyme (perhaps by modifying the gen... |
1433919_2 | Separating Gold From Junk in Medical Studies | studies were poorly designed, the conclusions of a meta-analysis are likely to be erroneous. Even the so-called gold standard of medical research -- the placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind clinical trial -- sometimes produces spurious results or results that apply to a limited group or only under certain condi... |
1434017_3 | Expert Report Disputes U.S. On Collapse | undamaged ones, and the towers stood even though seriously damaged. But as the heat increased, the columns weakened and became less able to hold up the top of the towers, even with all floors intact. The core of the north tower, hit dead center by the first plane, held out the longest, because the undamaged columns on ... |
1434033_3 | The Science and Politics of Super Rice | we will not develop faster than the rest of world. We are not going to be first.'' That would amount to a decisive shift for China, which until recently seemed to want to become the developing world's leader in biotechnology. It has invested large amounts -- as much as $100 million annually, according to a survey team ... |
1434001_0 | Bush Sees Korean Nuclear Effort as Different From Iraq's | President Bush said today that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, had to disarm his nation ''for the sake of peace,'' but indicated that he saw a significant difference between North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and Iraq's pursuit of them. In his first public remarks about North Korea since the White House... |
1435781_0 | More Hormone Perplexities | The National Institutes of Health held a two-day conference last week to explore what women and doctors should think about hormone replacement therapy in the wake of test results showing that prolonged use can do more harm than good. By the end of the event, it seemed clear that women are faced with even more perplexin... |
1430688_3 | 3 Whose Work Speeded Drugs Win Nobel | biochemistry at the University of Maryland and an associate editor of the journal Analytical Chemistry, said Mr. Tanaka's and Dr. Fenn's work had given biologists a much more direct view of the chemical processes going on in a cell. Previously, for example, scientists studying an anticancer drug could look only at the ... |
1430648_2 | Even without law, contracts have a way of being enforced. | his debt?'' The answer was the community responsibility system, in which every member of a community was liable for every other member's debts. If someone in Community A didn't pay what he owed, Community A had the choice to either cease trading with Community B or compensate it for the damage and seek retribution from... |
1430611_6 | Wired, Yes, but Drawing the Line | serpentine sculpture from Zimbabwe. The only technology is sight is on two-and-a-half-pound notebook computer with a wireless connection to the Internet. As much as Ms. Mathews links her Treo to a particular way she sees herself, Dr. Gonick Links his technical spareness to his view on the role of technology in the worl... |
1432606_0 | Panel Questions Value of Hormone Therapy | A medical panel that helps set government policy has joined the growing ranks of experts registering doubts about the value of hormone replacement therapy in preventing many of the chronic diseases associated with aging. Stating that the risks of the hormones outweigh their benefits, the group recommended ''against the... |
1432573_1 | U.S. Is Putting Heavy Pressure on France and Other Skeptics for a U.N. Resolution | Chirac said in the interview in the Beirut-based, French-language newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour. ''Even if certain terrorists could have been able to find refuge in Iraq, we must not mix up the issues. The first objective of action by the international community is Iraq, and that means disarmament.'' Last month, Mr. Bush ... |
1432647_2 | Lumpectomies Seen As Equal in Benefit To Breast Removals | radiation treatments usually given after a lumpectomy may cause cancers themselves. ''We know it takes 15 years or so to begin to see radiation-induced cancers,'' said Dr. Patrick Borgen, chief of breast surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. ''These papers put that concern to rest.'' Not every woman will w... |
1432642_2 | 3 Rivals in Brooklyn Race See Council Issues Alike | and Red Hook. And each discusses the need to develop the area along Brooklyn's waterfront to add housing for moderate-income residents and create more commercial space. Mr. Martinez, who often identifies himself as ''the only candidate who was born and raised in this district,'' also talks about the need to ''fight the... |
1432602_0 | A Tricky Maze for Consumers | Businesses, responding to lawmakers and consumers, say they are giving customers more ways than ever to control how their personal information is used and sold. But, in fact, many companies all but frustrate their customers' attempts to exercise that control. Barbara Bechtold of Sacramento recounts the unending process... |
1434795_0 | Drug Agency Weighs Role Of Hormone Replacements | The Food and Drug Administration said today that it was still wrestling with questions about how to regulate hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women after a study raised questions about its safety. The issues for the agency arose when a large federal study of what was the most popular hormone treatment, Pr... |
1434831_3 | U.S. and Its Asian Partners Strain to Form United Stand on North Korea | the 1994 accord. On the other hand, he said the Bush administration had no interest in negotiating yet another agreement with North Korea similar to the 1994 pact, now that it has proven it would not live up to the previous one. ''We bought that horse one time before,'' he said. Nonetheless, the official's comments app... |
1434717_4 | 36 Hours | Ithaca, N.Y. | named for Carl Sagan, who taught at Cornell and lived in Ithaca. If you'd rather do some shopping, try the Commons, a few blocks of State Street, between Cayuga and Aurora Streets, that have been turned into a pedestrian mall. Most of the shops are independent, and many of the buildings are from the 19th century. Look ... |
1434733_0 | 10 Hours in Coach? Pack to Make Time Fly | LIGHTEN up, pare down and go fly. Or, more likely, go stand and wait. Be ready to be searched, to remove your shoes and to suffer the indignity of seeing your personal belongings strewn about a security checkpoint. All this to get on a fully booked plane with tightly compressed seats, short-tempered fellow travelers, a... |
1434822_0 | A Synthetic Hormone Outdoes Estrogen in Mice Bone-Building | A newly identified synthetic hormone worked better than estrogen to strengthen bone when tested in mice, researchers are reporting today. Unlike estrogen, it did not increase the risk of breast or uterine cancer, they said. The new compound, estren, is years away from human tests, but researchers say it is of great int... |
1428964_0 | AIDS as a Threat to Global Stability | The AIDS epidemic is a humanitarian catastrophe. But as the virus spreads insidiously around the world, it is becoming something else -- a threat to global and regional stability, because of its potential to disrupt the economic, political and military structures of key countries. Until now the main impact of AIDS has ... |
1429394_0 | Ineffable Sounds in a Haunted Place | FEW corners of Germany are more remote. The Usedom Music Festival, already out of the way, opened its season last weekend with a major commemorative performance of Benjamin Britten's ''War Requiem'' in this village at the northern tip of the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea, within shouting distance of Poland. But mo... |
1429411_2 | No Labels, No Boundaries: An Artist of the Moment | level, all of my work is related to what I see as certain new tendencies in the culture,'' Mr. Aitken said in a recent phone conversation, a follow-up to an extended face-to-face interview two years ago. ''Accelerated nomadicism, self-contained, decentralized communication -- these things are at the core of this space ... |
1429726_1 | In China, Catholic Churches Flourish, but Under Controls | to money from international Catholic organizations. The changes, however, have heightened tensions between the ''official'' churches, which register with the government and allow the Communist Party to govern church affairs, and the clandestine ''underground'' churches, which cling to the supremacy of the pope at the c... |
1429346_5 | 'The Greatest Englishman Since Newton' | mechanical invention''; there is no ''necessary progression,'' so it ''is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another.'' Most disturbing was his recognition that because natural selection gave a contingent, materialist explanation for the existence of the moral capacity, it removed any divine or cosmic endor... |
1429384_0 | The Small Stuff Can Save a Trip | TRAVEL can sometimes feel like losing control: One is confined for hours in speeding machines, obliged to sleep in strange surroundings and eat food prepared by unseen hands. So it's not surprising that seasoned travelers have a trick or two to defeat the forces of discomfort and carve out a bit of individual privilege... |
1432025_0 | For Women, Separating Truths From Beliefs | ''The V Book: A Doctor's Guide to Complete Vulvovaginal Health,'' by Dr. Elizabeth Gunther Stewart and Paula Spencer, Bantam Books, $13.95. Every year in the United States there are 10 million doctor's-office visits for vulvo-vaginal complaints. The women who seek help have unusual discharge, constant itching, yeast an... |
1432010_0 | Ferreting for Facts in the Realm of Clinical Trials | Millions of women discovered a basic in medicine, much to their dismay, this summer when the Women's Health Initiative study showed that postmenopausal hormone replacement did not prevent heart attacks. Only clinical trials, they learned, can establish a definitive fact about the effectiveness and safety of a diagnosti... |
1432007_0 | Gene Jugglers Take to Fields for Food Allergy Vanishing Act | The soybeans growing on a test plot in Hawaii look, grow and taste like other soybeans. But some people who eat them will notice a big difference, because the beans have been genetically engineered to cause fewer allergic reactions. The project is one of several efforts to use genetic engineering to reduce allergies fr... |
1432054_2 | Britain Reasserts Ulster Rule, Suspending Elected Assembly | the republican movement to politics,'' Mr. Reid said in an interview. ''But we now have charges in three different jurisdictions that stand in complete contrast with those intentions, and it is undermining everyone's confidence. The time it is taking to rein in this kind of activity is taking longer than any of the oth... |
1432061_4 | The Need to Know Who, What, Where and When | ahold of them?'' said Thom Nulty, the president of Navigant International, the travel-management company. Navigant and other big corporate travel-management companies are all working with their clients to encourage travelers to book business trips on internal company travel sites. This is mostly for cost savings and fo... |
1435456_0 | Replacing Replacement Therapy | IT'S official: no longer will the hormones many women take at menopause be called ''hormone replacement therapy.'' As the National Institutes of Health announced last week, treatment with estrogens and progestins is now to be called ''menopausal hormone therapy.'' The hormone treatment never was a replacement and never... |
1435227_1 | Securely Lost | plane door closes. There is hope. In recent months airports have reported that the pace of lost articles has slowed considerably. ''Now, people are paying more attention at the checkpoints,'' said Monique Bond, a spokeswoman for Chicago's airports, ''and the screeners are more cognizant that people leave things behind.... |
1435361_1 | In Land of the Jobless, The Extreme Approach | in the technology field. Armed with an M.B.A. in finance and information systems, Mr. Sawicki had been job hunting since his graduation from Fordham University in August 2001. Novantech's offer of a future salary when the company became profitable seemed attractive. Mr. Sawicki will be learning a new field and gaining ... |
1435175_9 | Bill on Bill | on Fifth Avenue photographing the Easter parade. So I got on my bike and went up to the Sheep Meadow, and there before me were all the kids -- the flower children. All these kids dressed in everything from their mother's and grandmother's trunks, lying on the grass. It was unbelievable. It was all about the fashion rev... |
1435536_0 | U.S. and 2 of Its Allies Warn North Korea on Atomic Arms | The United States, Japan and South Korea issued a joint statement here today calling on North Korea to dismantle its clandestine nuclear weapons program ''in a prompt and verifiable manner'' and warned Kim Jong Il, North Korea's leader, that his ''relations with the international community'' hinged on his quick complia... |
1435281_0 | THE GUIDE | Interpreting Bears In the mid-1980's, Dr. Lynn Rogers began living with wild black bears, after some 15 years of research in the Minnesota forests seeking to understand bears' fears of people as opposed to humans' fears of bears. Mr. Rogers has published 100 articles on the subject and has appeared on many television p... |
1435642_0 | Travelers Elect a Real Best-Dressed List; TOUGH SHOES FOR THE WARRIOR | The first thing you notice is the sandals. All the Masai warriors wear them -- 10,000-mile shoes they call them. Because they are made from old car tires. The way the Masai walk, they'll do another 10,000 easy before they wear out. Martin Margiela would love them. Consuelo Castiglioni of Marni has already used a variat... |
1435526_2 | France Is Set to Offer the U.N. A Separate Resolution on Iraq | changes to the draft or formally discuss anyone else's draft. United Nations procedures can be complicated, and by formally and publicly introducing a resolution, instead of keeping it in the corridors where it can be discussed in private, the United States was clearly signaling its Council partners that it had taken t... |
1433535_1 | I.R.A. Rejects Blair's Disarmament Demand | Republican Army was still engaged in military activity while Sinn Fein was taking part in government. In a surprise visit to Belfast on Thursday, Mr. Blair used unusually forthright language to demand that the I.R.A. disarm. Today's statement was the first public I.R.A. response. ''The crunch is the crunch,'' Mr. Blair... |
1433367_2 | When to Err on the Side of Disclosure | note pads or ink cartridges -- and he had received word that a recent batch of the products was deemed defective, his actions might seem reasonable. But given that his company repairs parts for jet engines that, if they malfunctioned, could result in passenger deaths, is it fair to hold him to a higher ethical standard... |
1433458_2 | Business; HSBC's New Loan: 2,000 Environmentalists | botanical education programs. The first group of HSBC employees to go on Earthwatch expeditions included 16 from the United States and was selected from nearly 2,200 applicants. Of HSBC's 170,000 employees, about 110,000 speak fluent-enough English -- a requirement -- to be eligible. Earthwatch chose the fellows; the b... |
1433173_2 | The Consolation of Philosophy | into the other's possessions, unearthing, in each case, a forbidden secret. The second, longer section of the book, involving Vernor, is stronger than the first. Here Oates luxuriates in a favorite terrain: doomed, illicit love. ''I'd fallen in love with a man I did not know . . . and that love is a kind of illness; no... |
1433611_1 | More Priests Are Now Likely To Challenge Dismissals | conformity with the church's canon law. American church officials said they hoped to see that work finished in time to take it to the next meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting in mid-November for their approval. Several church officials in the United States and in Rome said that some dism... |
1433175_6 | Reverse Engineering | mountainous slopes breathing smoke and flame, roamed by diesel dinosaurs and filled with the human dead. The pile heaved and groaned and constantly changed, and was capable at any moment of killing again.'' It takes a brave writer to tackle the mechanics of ''slurry wall'' reinforcement -- these are the walls that kept... |
1431149_0 | Ulster's Fragile Peace | Northern Ireland's Good Friday agreement, which has brought four and a half years of peace to that troubled province, faces a grave crisis. The British and Irish governments must do everything possible to maintain the momentum of peace while trying to re-establish some trust between the province's leading Protestant pa... |
1432911_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Blair Pushes Peace Effort | In a surprise visit to Belfast, Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the 1998 Northern Ireland peace accord is the only way forward for the British province and that the Irish Republican Army must cease all paramilitary activity for it to proceed. Britain resumed direct rule of Northern Ireland on Monday after the local... |
1432833_1 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Microsystems announced that it would lay off 4,400 employees, and it reported a loss of $111 million, or 4 cents a share, for the quarter. Revenue was $2.7 billion, down 4 percent. [C3.] Foreign Sales Help Philip Morris Earnings at Philip Morris increased in the third quarter, largely on the strength of sales in foreig... |
1432848_4 | ROME WITHHOLDING FULL ENDORSEMENT OF U.S. ABUSE PLAN | creation of a committee of American and Vatican representatives to resolve differences between the American initiatives and universal church law. Already today, advocates for victims of sexual abuse by priests began raising concerns about the impact of the Vatican response. ''If due process rights are the crux of the V... |
1428167_1 | Learning the Etiquette of Patting Down Passengers | the campus of the Federal Aviation Administration's training academy here, in rooms commandeered by the Transportation Security Administration, hundreds of students were learning to spot guns and knives on X-ray screens, to pat down people in wheelchairs and when to request a passenger's shoes for inspection. Under new... |
1428112_6 | New Era of Consumer Genetics Raises Hope and Concerns | necessary to test genes. Other tests, like those for cholesterol, can help guide diet decisions. Still, despite skepticism about some early applications, interest is growing. Several companies, some still operating in their founders' living rooms, have sprung up: Galileo Laboratories in Santa Clara, Calif.; Alphagenics... |
1428261_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: A Cash Cow For U.S. | Officials said they expected to buy $112 million of United States agricultural products as a result of a four-day trade fair that ended yesterday. American executives have signed contracts for everything from corn and soy meal to cattle and poultry, much of which will be shipped to Cuba by this year. Organizers said th... |
1428254_2 | U.S. IS DISMISSING RUSSIA'S CRITICISM OF STRIKES IN IRAQ | Baghdad thwarted the inspectors' work. The Russian and Chinese foreign ministers conferred by telephone today on Iraq, and both emphasized the importance of working within the framework of the United Nations and giving priority to winning Iraq's compliance through diplomacy. France's foreign minister, Dominique de Vill... |
1428196_0 | A New Intrusion, of Soldiers, Threatens an Amazon Tribe | The Yanomami Indians have lived precariously in the most remote reaches of the jungle here for thousands of years, hunting with bows and arrows, and warring among themselves and with the few white intruders who have appeared in recent years. But now they are facing a threat to their very existence as a people: the Braz... |
1428096_0 | Cellphone: A Convenience, a Hazard or Both? | When a new technology takes off, it seems to fly with the speed of light. So it is with cellphones, now owned by well over half the population and soon to be found in more than 90 percent of American households. The latest trend is to replace one's land line with a cellphone, but that action seems a bit premature, give... |
1429178_0 | An Appreciation Day Passes Quietly | The Rev. Ronald Emery has never heard of Clergy Appreciation Day. He has never received a ''Thank you, Pastor'' greeting card, a testimonial dinner from church members or a car wash for his 10-year-old Mercury. His name does not appear on an engraved Bible, free ticket to Hawaii or Clergy Appreciation Day potted plant.... |
1432235_4 | A Definition at Last, but What Does It All Mean? | advertise local products, whether organic or not. ''We have to educate the public about the value of locally produced,'' said Peter Martinelli, an organic farmer in Bolinas, Calif., who is working with the Marin program, which has developed a label to mark local products. The Amherst group has been running a public awa... |
1432352_0 | Suit Says 42 Were Abused by Clergymen | A lawyer representing 42 adults who say Roman Catholic clergy members in Brooklyn groped, raped and abused them when they were children filed a civil complaint in State Supreme Court yesterday. The suit, against 12 priests, one religious brother and the Diocese of Brooklyn, is thought to be one of the largest clergy se... |
1434556_1 | Americans and Vatican Officials to Revise Policy on Abuse | policy as written. Church officials said the new American protocols ignored the church's canon law on statute of limitations, failed to protect the due process rights of accused priests and defined sexual abuse too broadly and ambiguously. The American bishops' plan is subject to approval by the Vatican because some of... |
1434598_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | for involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks detailed his relationship with five other alleged members of the Hamburg Qaeda cell. The defense maintains that he supported friends and acquaintances among the terrorists while remaining ignorant of their plans. A15 French Anti-Crime Bill The French cabinet, as part of a sweepin... |
1434607_0 | Technology Briefing | Biotechnology: Application On Modified Grass Is Withdrawn | Monsanto and the Scotts Company have withdrawn their application to sell the first genetically modified grass because the Agriculture Department had questions. But the companies said they intended to resubmit the application with the questions answered in a few months. The grass, intended primarily for golf courses, ha... |
1434473_1 | Thinking of Radio as Smart Enough to Live Without Rules | on technology of 70 years ago, when radios were not able to differentiate well between different types of signals. But the problem of signal interference -- the bane of broadcasters and the rationale behind licensing -- is not some immutable law of physics. ''Radio waves are like light waves -- and light doesn't mess u... |
1434582_1 | Cancer Risk Of Hormones May Linger | to rigorously test whether the cancer risk occurs with shorter term use scientists will have to conduct another study, with some women taking the drugs for one year, some for two, some three, and so on. Dr. Richard Hodes, the director of the National Institute on Aging, said, ''People who are presuming that there is no... |
1435907_3 | New Skills, and Paying for Them | colleges can also be sources for career information. ''Community colleges see that as their job,'' said Kay McClenney, an adjunct professor of the community college leadership program at the University of Texas. Ms. McClenney said that community colleges receive state tuition aid, and they can help students apply for f... |
1436054_9 | In Data Trove, a Graphic Look at Towers' Fall | people jumped or fell from the windows of the north tower than from the south. Steadily, the fires weakened the structure of the towers. The Weidlinger analysis created a series of diagrams for the towers, showing how stresses were distributed before they were struck, then after. Immediately after impact, the stress on... |
1436020_1 | Want Bills By Snail Mail? It Might Cost You Money | their finances online. After all, not everyone owns a computer or has a fast Internet connection. About 60 percent of American households have a computer at home and Internet access. Though many more people can use a computer with a fast link at the office, several said they were uncomfortable transmitting sensitive fi... |
1436013_3 | With Allies Likely and Unlikely, U.S. Navy Stems Flow of Iraqi Oil | which fears that oil revenue can be used by Iraq to develop nuclear, chemical or biological arms, Iraq continues to send oil illegally by pipeline to Syria and by truck to Turkey. But the combination of Australian bravado, advanced United States military technology and indirect Iranian cooperation has enabled Washingto... |
1435915_0 | Big Job Sites Try to Think Small | LIKE many products of the technology boom, online job boards have not exactly gone bust, but they are reinventing themselves. Many are evolving from sites where jobs and résumés were posted into ''career management'' sites that offer expanded services and a more hands-on approach to matching job seekers and employers. ... |
1435912_1 | Soon-to-Be Graduates See the Need for Plan B | cautious investor buys a stock these days, said John A. Blackburn, the dean of admissions at the University of Virginia. ''They're looking for more of a blue chip or something's that's going to run them through the turmoils and the ups and downs of the markets,'' he said. Like the stock market, the job market may get w... |
1434180_3 | No Tapes, No Discs, No Top-10 Limit | variation in the hard-drive-based car stereo MP3 player category, although in this case the whole unit slides out from under the dashboard and can be attached to a home stereo system, Windows-based PC or Macintosh computer. The Neo Car Jukebox comes in three storage capacities: 20 gigabytes (about $400), 40 gigabytes (... |
1434241_1 | Scientists Debating Future Of Hormone Replacement | about its hormones studies, and why. The decisions on whether to continue hormone studies were made by independent committees that oversee studies. The questions about hormone replacement arose last spring, when an independent group of experts that periodically examined accumulating data from the Women's Health Initiat... |
1434257_6 | Comparing 2 Sets Of Twin Towers; Malaysian Buildings Offered as Model | of: if a catastrophe in one tower somehow blocks escape, the bridge opens an alternate route. He recommends finding new ways to put this kind of redundancy into high-rise escape plans. Another idiosyncrasy of the Petronas Towers, one that may make them more stable against catastrophic collapse, could be hard to emulate... |
1434175_0 | Junkyards Discard an Image, and the Scary Dogs, Too | IT used to be that only the most dedicated car-parts scrounger would set foot in a junkyard. The popular conception of these automotive graveyards was of a field filled with scrap metal, old tires and burned-out car bodies, oil and other automotive fluids mingling underfoot to form a slippery ooze, with a pack of free-... |
1434184_1 | A Couple of Detroit Doyens Go From Gas to Electric | I followed the baby boomer,'' he told The Detroit News earlier this year. Mr. Iacocca, a founder and president of Lido Motors USA, based in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., is building and selling the battery-powered Lido, a so-called neighborhood electric vehicle, or N.E.V. The fiberglass-bodied, street-legal, emission-fre... |
1430970_2 | Contractor Faces Charges In Collapse | failed to abide by a provision in his contract with the general contractor requiring a review of the scaffolding plan by a licensed engineer. The 130-foot scaffolding, which weighed about 90,000 pounds, was improperly designed and far too heavy to support itself, Mr. Morgenthau said. The load far exceeded manufacturers... |
1430918_0 | Halt Paramilitary Activity, Blair Tells Irish Republicans | Prime Minister Tony Blair told Sinn Fein's president, Gerry Adams, today that Irish republicans had to abandon their ''dual strategy'' of combining paramilitary activity with politics if peace in Northern Ireland was to be assured. ''We still in Belfast and elsewhere have got pockets of real and totally unacceptable vi... |
1436203_0 | Oil Pipeline Forges Ahead in Ecuador | Environmentalists in this cloud forest of northern Ecuador still dream of halting construction of a new oil pipeline that the builders said could bring spectacular wealth to this poor Andean country. But with the 300-mile-long, privately financed pipeline now 70 percent complete, and long green tubes replacing the palm... |
1436244_1 | As U.S. Seeks a Trade Accord, Brazilians Recall Discord | quotas but also establishing common principles for regulating investment, labor practices and the environment. But here in Brazil, home to 175 million people and Latin America's biggest economy, a large swath of business and political leaders are disillusioned and suspicious about their giant trading partner to the nor... |
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