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1430053_4 | Women Can Fight an Almost Secret Syndrome | may also recommend a transvaginal ultrasound examination to reveal ovarian enlargement or cysts or overgrowth of the uterine lining. An endometrial biopsy may be performed to check for cancer. With a syndrome so diverse, the treatments are also varied. Some trial and error may be involved since different approaches wor... |
1405769_0 | The War Against Spam | To the Editor: Re ''Spam: An Escalating Attack of the Clones'' (June 27): Spam isn't really a technology problem -- it's an economic one. Spam has a cost to the network infrastructure and to the recipients, but virtually none of it is charged to the spammer. Whenever a resource is priced below cost it will be overused ... |
1410792_0 | Estrogen and Mood | To the Editor: Re ''Facing the Hormone Dilemma'' (letters, July 22): One of the most neglected benefits of hormone replacement has yet to be mentioned, its effect on mood. Scientific evidence confirms that the decline or absence of estrogen during menopause may be the first step in a sequence of endocrine events that c... |
1410850_1 | Blair Says Northern Ireland's Militias Must All Disband | in criminal law, bail arrangements and police powers to make it easier for the authorities to prosecute acts of terror and organized crime. He added, ''In reviewing the cease-fires, I will give particular weight to any substantiated information that a paramilitary organization is engaged in training, targeting, acquisi... |
1408903_2 | Survey Halted, Drug Makers Seek to Protect Hormone Sales | a higher risk of breast cancer in women who had taken the drug for four years or more and that it had not questioned the drug's ability to relieve hot flashes, night sweats and other problems suffered by women entering menopause. Dr. Kusiak said that the company had asked its sales force to call on all the significant ... |
1408826_1 | I.R.A. Apologizes for Civilian Deaths in Its 30-Year Campaign | fatalities amongst combatants on all sides,'' the group said. ''We also acknowledge the grief and pain of their relatives.'' The apology, published in the Irish republican newsletter An Phoblacht/Republican News, comes days before the 30th anniversary of one of the I.R.A.'s deadliest attacks, known as Bloody Friday. On... |
1408935_0 | Corrections | An article in Science Times on July 9 about sensory integration dysfunction, a new diagnosis being given to many young children who have difficulties processing stimuli that come in through the senses, misstated a comment from Dr. Adrian Sandler, a developmental pediatrician, about effective therapy for children with o... |
1407081_1 | Patients Weigh Quitting Drug After Research Indicates Risk | and blood clots found in the study did not seem great enough to warrant going off hormones. ''I've read the reports,'' said Rosemary Herpel, 59, of Shaker Heights, Ohio. ''We're talking about 8 more people in 10,000 who got breast cancer. I just think that's not significant enough to make me stop. I'm very concerned wi... |
1407109_4 | Hormone Replacement Study A Shock to the Medical System | 1975 in The New England Journal of Medicine indicated that estrogen substantially increased the risk of cancer of the lining of the uterus. Soon, doctors and drug companies found an alternative. They began giving estrogen with progestin, which counteracts the effects on the uterine lining, leading to monthly bleeding t... |
1407082_0 | Wyeth Stock Falls 24% After Report | Shares of Wyeth, the drug company that makes the top-selling drugs for hormone replacement therapies, tumbled more than 24 percent yesterday after news that a large study had found that women taking one of the company's drugs had a higher risk of breast cancer. The hormone replacements are Wyeth's biggest-selling produ... |
1411683_3 | What, Me Worry? | stress, said there was a thin line between denial and ''overlooking.'' ''If there is nothing you can do about the situation, if it is beyond your control, you have the option to either obsess about it or move on,'' he said. ''A lot of these people worried about the stock market may just be moving on in their own quiet ... |
1411705_2 | The Nation; Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid | stations. Despite recent events, American airports and airplanes have not reached a red-alert level, and so many travelers still expect some sense of ''normality'' when they catch a flight. That is, after all, what the White House wants Americans to feel, and air travel for many people still means going on vacation and... |
1411831_0 | July 21-27: INTERNATIONAL; THIS TURBULENT PRIEST | Britain named Rowan Williams, 52, right, the Archbishop of Wales, to become Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of 70 million Anglicans, in October. The cleric is outspokenly against the war in Afghanistan and in favor of gays and women becoming priests. Warren Hoge |
1411598_0 | Criticism of Drug Therapy May Aid Mares, Group Says | THE recent news that hormone replacement therapy may be harmful to women was reason to celebrate for Susan Wagner, president of Equine Advocates, an organization she founded in 1996 to rescue, protect and prevent the abuse of horses. ''We're ecstatic,'' said Ms. Wagner, whose 5,000-member organization is based in Bedfo... |
1411789_6 | At Trade Center Site, A Wealth of Ideas; Competing Interests Are Fighting To Have a Say in Reviving Downtown | a request for proposals from architectural firms to help redesign the trade center site. Port Authority officials quickly swatted down the effort; Mr. Garvin withdrew the request, and soon another call for planners was jointly released by the Port Authority and the development corporation. A further sign of its relativ... |
1411501_4 | Estrogen, After a Fashion | bit as ubiquitous. Television commercials show soft-focus pictures of people on swings, picking flowers, climbing rocks or going to sleep with a smile on their faces, all ending with a very quick list of possible side effects (dry mouth and nausea seem especially popular) and the key line, ''Ask your doctor.'' They see... |
1410293_0 | Facing the Hormone Dilemma | To the Editor: Re ''Survey Halted, Drug Makers Seek to Protect Hormone Sales'' (Business Day, July 17): Before women feel confident to continue hormone replacement therapy for four years or less, they should consider that the follow-up of participants in the Women's Health Initiative study has just begun. It may seem l... |
1410255_2 | Tire Industry Says Warnings On Pressure May Fall Short | not necessarily turn on until pressure falls 30 percent below what is recommended, a safety margin that is potentially much lower than the safe pressure in a fully loaded vehicle. Tire makers say that by raising the recommended tire pressure on some cars, the rule could increase the margin of safety for consumers, ensu... |
1410292_0 | Facing the Hormone Dilemma | To the Editor: Re ''Many Taking Hormone Pills Now Face a Difficult Choice'' (front page, July 15): The findings of the Women's Health Initiative study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health regarding the adverse effects of Prempro are not a call to desert all hormone replacement therapy, but an invitation to in... |
1410188_0 | Ecology in a Can: It's a Jungle Out There | To the Editor: ''An Icelandic Battle of Wildlife Versus Voltage'' (front page, July 16) recounts a conflict being waged in many parts of the world where living river systems and the human and ecological communities they support are sacrificed to satisfy aluminum giants like Alcoa. Alcoa and other energy-intensive partn... |
1410296_0 | Facing the Hormone Dilemma | To the Editor: Re ''Many Taking Hormone Pills Now Face a Difficult Choice'' (front page, July 15): Having achieved three score and 10 -- I admit it -- and having taken estrogen and progesterone for 27 years, and with no family history of breast cancer, I would like to continue my small dose. I attribute my excellent bo... |
1405421_0 | In Poor Nations, a New Will to Fight AIDS | On the eve of next week's International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, a new report from the United Nations AIDS program states that at current infection rates, AIDS, the deadliest epidemic in human history, will kill 68 million people in the 45 most affected countries over the next 20 years -- more than five times the ... |
1405417_2 | Energy Concerns Said to Be Near China Pipeline Pact | in separate talks to buy liquefied natural gas from Australia, Indonesia or Qatar, to be shipped by sea to Guangdong province in southeastern China. In September, the Chinese government authorized the negotiation of a joint venture to develop the huge but remote Tarim Basin gas field in Xinjiang province, near the inte... |
1405457_1 | Hormone Therapy Study Finds Risk for Some | Heart Association. Days before The Journal was published, groups that support some uses of hormone therapy issued statements citing limitations of the study's findings, saying they do not apply to most women approaching menopause, because the women in HERS had an average age of 67 and a diagnosis of heart disease. A do... |
1405487_4 | Report, Reversing Estimates, Forecasts Big Increase in AIDS Death Toll | drug users into the wider population, Dr. Piot said. In Ukraine, nearly one in four new infections now occurs through heterosexual sex. The Caribbean is the second-most-affected area in the world. Infection rates are 6 percent in Haiti and 4 percent in the Bahamas. The epidemic in China is now spreading through heteros... |
1406967_0 | Study Is Halted Over Rise Seen In Cancer Risk | A large federal study of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women was abruptly halted, researchers say, because the drugs caused a slight but significant increase in the risk of invasive breast cancer. An estimated six million women take the drugs, estrogen and progestin, to replace the hormones lost at meno... |
1406820_2 | Debating Diagnosis of a Sensory Malady in Children | into dysfunction, Mrs. Catron and others say, when they interfere with a child's daily life -- his ability to learn, or make friends, or get a good night's sleep. ''You and I can shut out extraneous sounds, we shut out extraneous touch, like when we are sitting in a chair,'' Mrs. Catron said. ''We don't process constan... |
1406817_0 | OBSERVATORY | The Ones That Got Away Throw the little ones back. For recreational anglers, that's a general rule, and it is made more specific for certain fish, which have minimum length restrictions. Commercial fisheries usually are subject to limits too; often they must use gear that will avoid catching fish below a certain size. ... |
1406810_2 | Protecting Monarchs by Trying to Protect Forests | on. ''It sounds strange,'' Mr. Bezaury conceded. ''People say, you'll pay me for what?'' In addition, he said, many of these rural farmers find the legal documents difficult to understand and, accustomed to dealing in cash, are uneasy when handed a check. The new cash-rich program is not without skeptics. Some monarch ... |
1406796_0 | Blindsided By a Tumor Few Study | We were an unlikely group, the three of us, united only by our being blindsided by a medical anomaly that we share with hundreds of other women. Lori Levy, a registered nurse, had never heard of it when she woke up six years ago, temporarily unable to string words together. Neither had Nancy Conn-Levin, a health educat... |
1406816_2 | Painful Signs of Endometriosis Should Be Taken Seriously | The Boston doctors noted that pelvic pain can be incapacitating even when there is minimal endometriosis. The disease process is thought to begin with some of the tissue that lines the uterus, the endometrium. The tissue is shed during menstruation, but in endometriosis travels in the wrong direction -- up through the ... |
1406800_4 | Aid for Farmers Helps Butterflies, Too | gives a tour of his rustic nursery in which he is raising seedlings of native trees to reforest around his home and which villagers plan, in the future, to use to reforest the protected areas of the butterfly sanctuaries. Another man explains how he learned to enclose his chickens and cows, making it possible for him t... |
1412378_0 | Timetable Softened on Gene-Modified Wheat | Monsanto has pulled back from its stated timeline for bringing the first genetically modified wheat to market by 2005, company spokesmen said yesterday. The company, based in St. Louis, is not acknowledging that the crop will be delayed. But it is no longer stating a timetable, saying only that it will bring the crop t... |
1412427_0 | Senate Panel Approves Treaty Banning Bias Against Women | The Democratic-controlled Senate Foreign Relations Committee, over the objections of the Bush administration, approved an international treaty today that is intended to eliminate discrimination against women. The vote set up a politically divisive floor fight pitting women's rights groups against religious and social c... |
1406496_0 | U.N. Coaxes Out the Wheres and Whys of Global Immigration | For years, as the number of people moving legally or illegally across national borders has grown, governments have resisted United Nations efforts to collect reliable statistics and coordinate procedures governing immigration. The United Nations estimates that at least 185 million people -- up from 70 million three dec... |
1406511_5 | Airport Has a No-Nonsense Approach to Security | shoes. ''They found an extra key in my wallet. I guess the magic wands are more effective now. It makes me feel more secure.'' Many people familiar with the new procedures here say the quality of the screeners has greatly improved since the government removed the private contractors, although the airlines still use two... |
1406570_0 | Uganda: Bribe Charge Stalls Vast Dam Plan | Ugandan newspapers have devoted considerable ink to the largest foreign investment project ever in East Africa -- a $550 million dam and power plant on the Victoria Nile. The project, first proposed in 1994, has plenty of dramatic elements -- money, power and, now, corruption. Last week, the project reappeared on front... |
1406478_7 | FATAL CONFUSION: A Troubled Emergency Response; 9/11 Exposed Deadly Flaws In Rescue Plan | said. Bernard B. Kerik, the police commissioner at the time, said he did not believe that any communication problems between the agencies had significantly affected their performance. ''I was not made aware that day that we were having any difficulty coordinating,'' he said. Communications 'Down to the Lobby,' But No O... |
1406451_3 | Ideas & Trends; Science Needs a Healthy Negative Outlook | Kern said. ''At times I would call people and kind of nudge them,'' he added, but to little avail. He thinks it is because scientists do not want to give their competitors an advantage. ''They now know something they're not going to do again and their competitor does not,'' Dr. Kern said. He said a postdoctoral student... |
1411059_0 | Re: Hello Muddah (You've Got Mail) | THIS summer, my son David, 9, went off to camp for the first time, armed with a special correspondence ''minidesk'' that my friend Susan (the expert on all child-related gear) insisted I buy for him. For $24.99, I got a purple plastic box with a clipboard and calculator on the cover and little storage bins inside. Davi... |
1411130_1 | German Church Is Learning From U.S. Mistakes on Abuse | official in the German church, is traveling in Canada with Pope John Paul II, who is not expected to address the scandal in the United States. In April, the pope called American cardinals to an emergency meeting to discuss the issue. In Germany, numerous cases are surfacing in the press, three alone in the diocese of E... |
1407867_5 | Earthen Vessels | as best we can, and begin the process of healing and reconciliation.'' A credible beginning was made on June 14 in Dallas, when the conference of bishops voted overwhelmingly to approve a ''Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People'' that requires every bishop to alert civil authorities to all allegations... |
1408069_0 | F.Y.I. | A Facial for Washington Q. Despite the ongoing restoration of the arch in Washington Square Park, the statues of George Washington on the arch have been neglected, and the father of our country is looking pockmarked. Is a face-lift planned? A. Yes, according to the Parks Department. A team of marble dermatologists will... |
1408112_1 | 'Buena Vista' in a Glass | the mojito's moment, have introduced mojito-flavored rums like Mojito Club and Martí Auténtico: in effect, the ''Buena Vista Social Club'' in a bottle. The mojito is also being knocked off and reinvented -- the sincerest form of flattery. Douglas Rodríguez, the Latino celebrity chef, serves a mojito martini at Chicama ... |
1408203_0 | A Disservice to Women | To the Editor: While we agree that menopause is not a disease, to minimize the existence of perimenopause by implying that it is a marketing technique by ''drug companies, book publishers and herbal supplement makers to exploit the concerns and pocketbooks of millions of health-conscious women over the age of 35'' is t... |
1407947_5 | Lessons of a Humanist Who Can Disturb the Peace | Auditorium. One of the three halls, of medium size, is already in use. I'll be back to review the entire project when it is completed. But it is a rare experience to observe both projects take shape. Piano is a humanist, perhaps the leading exemplar of that tradition in our time. Yet he has attained that place by rever... |
1408067_2 | Why Beats Snapped Their Fingers, Why Captain Kidd Wore a Wig | but they had come to realize that Kidd always did things differently. The captain, peacocking a bit in his waistcoat on the quarterdeck, tucked the Adventure Galley into a neat opening amid the forest of masts of idle merchant ships. His quartermaster barked out orders; the men on deck played out the anchor cables -- r... |
1408283_0 | July 7-13: SCIENCE/HEALTH; HORMONE STUDY HALTED | In a stunning decision, federal scientists announced they were halting a large study of combination hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women because the harm associated with estrogen and progestin exceeded the benefit. The risks -- of breast cancer, blood clots, heart attack and stroke -- were tiny. But so were... |
1408052_0 | Now, the Personal Ethical Assistant | THANKS to technology, gadgets are smaller and quicker, permitting instant communication and remote day trading. But what good are they when we're peeling potatoes at a minimum security prison? Technology may have made our lives more efficient, but the latest developments in corporate America have shown us that we may n... |
1407747_6 | Moral Relativity Is a Hot Topic? True. Absolutely. | arbitrary exercise of power is one of the opponent's charges. In the symposium, Mr. Fish seems to backpedal a bit, arguing that pomo might actually have an effect. It might, he suggests, teach us to understand the opponent not as an evil abstraction but as a fellow human being with his own motivations. Mr. Fish, for ex... |
1409960_5 | A Private Eye Prowls Little Havanna | and Spanish, is in its third printing. And the Lupe Solano books, which are written in English, have been translated into 10 languages, including Italian and Japanese. The books have received warm reviews. ''After five books in a distinctive series set in Miami, the private eye Lupe Solano has developed a snappy style ... |
1410000_3 | Ideas & Trends; For Great Buildings, Get a Great Client | who commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White to design a master plan in the 1890's? Acting as clients on behalf of the corporate good, such individuals defend designs against the idea that architecture is the art of compromise and accommodation. In recent years architectural historians have been rewri... |
1406687_1 | Dr. W. M. Cowan, 70, Scientist With Hughes Medical Institute | their work. Dr. Eric R. Kandel of Columbia University, a senior Hughes investigator and a Nobel Prize winner in medicine in 2000, said Dr. Cowan had ''really elevated the level of recruitment dramatically'' and ''democratized the distribution of the Hughes position so that many new universities had an opportunity to ha... |
1406679_0 | Despite Peace Hopes, 27 Hurt in Ulster Protestant Parade | A parade by the Protestant Orange Order today ended in heated scuffles that injured 27 people, despite predictions by organizers and security forces that the annual event would be peaceful for the first time in nearly a decade. Crowds of Orangemen and their Protestant supporters -- including small children egged on by ... |
1406720_1 | Slowing the AIDS Plague | sex workers, injecting drug users and now, increasingly, young people -- get no information or help with prevention. This week, as the 14th annual international conference on AIDS proceeds in Barcelona, it is increasingly clear that the cost of AIDS rises with each minute that the epidemic grows. AIDS is depleting food... |
1405197_0 | MEMO PAD | Pressing for Change On Airport Security Travel agents have lately been trotting out anecdotal surveys purporting to show that the so-called hassle factor at airport security is overemphasized. But that clearly isn't the way the airlines see it. ''The importance of the hassle factor cannot be minimized,'' said Don Carty... |
1405195_4 | Among Executives, Fear of Kidnapping Rises | insurance also provide travel advisories through Web sites. Kroll Associates, a corporate security firm in New York, offers a service with iJET of Annapolis, Md., that provides a security briefing, tracks travelers' itineraries and automatically e-mails pertinent alerts for $25 a trip. As an alternative, for $8 a day, ... |
1412153_0 | Pope to Visit a Mexico Divided Over His Teachings | It has been 23 years since John Paul II visited Mexico on his first foreign trip as pope, and now he is to return for what many here quietly consider a final farewell. He was the first pope to visit Mexico, one of the largest and most devout Catholic countries in the world. At that time, strict anticlerical laws by the... |
1412271_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Cuba: Ex-Official Defects | Alcibiades Hidalgo, a former Cuban deputy foreign minister, has defected to the United States, saying he does not want to be ''one more peon on Dr. Castro's farm.'' Mr. Hidalgo told El Nuevo Herald in Miami that he arrived Thursday on a raft that sank near the Florida coast. Joe Garcia, executive director of the Cuban ... |
1407273_3 | Pirates on the Web, Spoils on the Street | than self-gratification.'' Mr. Grimes is serving a 37-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to the same charge that Mr. Sankus did. ''It's the same reason that people join gangs,'' said Allan Doody, the Customs Service investigator who led the DrinkorDie investigation, part of a broader anti-piracy campaign calle... |
1407285_2 | Book Parties With Togas | Roman Tourists'' by Tony Perrottet. Many young Romans had the cash and leisure to travel the empire, so a tourist amble of several years wasn't that uncommon, books by Homer in their backpacks, or whatever. Mr. Perrottet retraced a typical journey. There certainly seems a need for some clear thinking in Washington thes... |
1407345_0 | INSIDE | Britain Easing Up on Pot Law Britain, which has a sharply rising rate in marijuana use, announced it would stop arresting people for private use of the drug. PAGE A3 Safety vs. Drug Eradication The American-backed aerial spraying of drug crops in Colombia could be disrupted by a new law on safety and health standards. ... |
1407327_0 | Company Sends Letter to Retain Hormone Sales | Moving quickly to try to prevent women from stopping their hormone replacement treatments because of fear of breast cancer, the Wyeth company has sent 500,000 letters to doctors and other health care providers urging them to consider when they talk to patients the ''critical role'' that one of its products, Prempro, ha... |
1407355_0 | Hormone Therapy Woes | The news keeps getting worse about the value of hormone replacement therapies for postmenopausal women. Less than three months ago an international panel concluded that there was little evidence to support many of the presumed benefits of the treatments. Now federal health officials have halted a large study of hormone... |
1410344_0 | Drug-Free Menopause | To the Editor: Re ''Preventive Medicine, Properly Practiced,'' by Susan M. Love (Op-Ed, July 16): As a woman who has been suspicious all along of using hormones for the perfectly natural state of menopause, I have a suggestion for a study that will surely offer possibilities for a drug-free approach. Find the third of ... |
1410402_4 | Looking at the Realities Of a Damaged Industry | consistent hassle on both ends of the trip.'' The chief executive of Delta Air Lines, Leo F. Mullin, has been one of the chief industry critics of the Transportation Security Administration's performance. In an analysis now being widely quoted in the travel industry, Mr. Mullin said that 27 percent of passengers identi... |
1410470_0 | The Role of Hormones | To the Editor: After five years of a rocky perimenopause, I became menopausal six years ago (''Hormone Therapy: One Size, Clearly, No Longer Fits All,'' July 16). Without the help and support of two distinguished physicians I could not have survived intact the effect that the loss of estrogen and testosterone had on my... |
1410471_0 | The Role of Hormones | To the Editor: Treating menopause with hormone replacement therapy is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer (''Hormone Therapy''). The medical profession has a bad habit of late of grossly exaggerating various discomforts in order to ''treat'' them with extreme methods. ''Menopause is not a disease'' but a phase of l... |
1410403_0 | Population-Control Politics | There is a mind-bending illogic behind the Bush administration's decision yesterday to withhold $34 million from the United Nations Population Fund, which is working in China despite continued practices there of coerced abortion and sterilization. It is precisely because of China's reprehensible policies that the U.N. ... |
1411954_0 | If You Take Hormones | To the Editor: Re ''Facing the Hormone Dilemma'' (letters, July 22): It is disappointing that many women who are taking hormones have been left with the impression that harm has been done or that they are in grave danger. In fact, none of the individual risks in the Women's Health Initiative study, other than blood clo... |
1412077_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths HAMPTON, COLIN CAMPBELL | HAMPTON-Colin Campbell. Of Amelia Island, Florida, a former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of UNUM Corporation, parent company of UNUM Life Insurance Company, died on Wednesday, July 24, 2002, in a local hospital. Mr. Hampton died after heart surgery. He was 79. Under Mr. Hampton's chairmanship, UNUM... |
1410692_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-8 U.S. Rebukes Israel Over Gaza Airstrike The Bush administration condemned as ''heavy-handed'' the Israeli attack on an apartment building that killed the founder of the military wing of Hamas, Salah Shehada, but also 14 civilians. The attack, using a one-ton guided bomb launched by an American-made w... |
1410595_2 | A Believer in Gays and Women as Clerics To Become the Archbishop of Canterbury | central figure in a British television series about a bumbling Irish priest. He has also cited ''The Simpsons'' as ''one of the most subtle pieces of propaganda around in the cause of sense, humility and virtue.'' He is reported to be interested in severing the links between the state and church in Britain, where membe... |
1410693_0 | INSIDE | A New Anglican Leader Britain announced that Rowan Williams, a Welsh churchman who supports gays and women as clerics and opposes Western militarism, will lead the Anglican church as the archbishop of Canterbury. PAGE A3 Girl Abducted, Then Escapes A 7-year-old Philadelphia girl who was abducted kicking and screaming a... |
1408594_1 | MEMO PAD | Putting J.F.K. Within Easier Reach One of business travelers' least favorite airports, the notoriously difficult to negotiate Kennedy International Airport in New York, is about to become easier to reach. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said yesterday that the long-anticipated AirTrain JFK, a $1.9 billion... |
1408553_2 | Hormone Therapy: One Size, Clearly, No Longer Fits All | scientific data behind most menopausal remedies remain sketchy. The study reported last week is the only randomized clinical trial of hormone replacement therapy in healthy women. Women in the study were given Prempro, a combined estrogen-progestin pill that has been the most widely used form of hormone replacement the... |
1408544_0 | The Urgent Search for an AIDS Plan | In theory, AIDS is preventable and treatable. But in reality, AIDS has spread so rapidly it rivals the worst epidemics in history. AIDS has killed more than 20 million people since 1981, when the first cases were discovered in the United States. Today, 40 million people live with H.I.V., the AIDS virus, and most are do... |
1408532_0 | Benefits of Not Staying Sedentary | A new study may offer insight into the reasons that older women who exercise appear to have a lower risk of breast cancer. Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle say they have found that in postmenopausal women, regular exercise seems to lower levels of estrogen in the blood. Older women... |
1408617_1 | An Icelandic Battle of Wildlife Versus Voltage | a fight, Jake Siewert, an Alcoa spokesman, noted that the company had found ''a broad coalition'' welcoming it to Iceland. It had considered other locations, including India, Brazil and Vietnam, he said, adding that it would meet opposition anywhere. ''Where's the clean project?'' he said. ''Do you know of one that has... |
1408546_4 | Where the Bears and the Wolverines Prey | the vast amounts of wildness. Long distance migration patterns are still intact. Moose leave the North Fork and traveling more than 50 miles north into Canada. Wolves are also peripatetic. In 1989, a lone wolf left the Polebridge area and, with a male from Banff National Park, established a new pack 100 miles north. Gr... |
1408581_2 | A Business Changed, Perhaps Permanently | debatable point that large numbers of business travelers are now flying on fares the airlines intended for leisure travelers. Now, with the financial collapse of one or more major airlines no longer an unlikely possibility, those airlines still appear to be dithering and fiddling with selected fare discounts and select... |
1408573_2 | Preventive Medicine, Properly Practiced | down to a lower level for the second half of life. The symptoms of menopause are really not the symptoms of low estrogen but the symptoms of hormonal change -- puberty in reverse. And, as with puberty, the symptoms are transient, usually lasting between three and four years. In one study following women through menopau... |
1405897_0 | Modest Anti-AIDS Efforts Offer Huge Payoff, Studies Say | Wider application of measures known to stem the spread of AIDS would prevent 29 million people in the world from becoming infected by 2010, according to two new studies reported today. In concluding that there is overwhelming evidence that simple, relatively inexpensive steps can greatly reduce transmission of H.I.V., ... |
1405925_5 | U.S. PLAN FOR IRAQ IS SAID TO INCLUDE ATTACK ON 3 SIDES | operation, suggesting that there are several highly classified documents that address different parts of the planning. For instance, the ''Courses of Action'' document does not mention other coalition forces, casualty estimates, how Mr. Hussein may himself be a target, or what political regime might follow the Iraqi le... |
1405922_2 | Japanese Shipment of Nuclear Fuel Raises Security Fears | today's shipment will set a standard for the security of what could be dozens of similar shipments of reprocessed fuels from Britain to Japan, which would create a huge temptation to international terrorist groups. According to Greenpeace, the Japanese government has well over 33 tons of separated plutonium stockpiled ... |
1405873_0 | Meyer Reinhold, 92, Scholar Who Popularized the Classics | Meyer Reinhold, an author and scholar of classical studies, died on Monday in Nashville. He was 92. Dr. Reinhold, who was born in Brooklyn, was a firm believer in popularizing the classics by teaching them in translation. In so doing, he parted company with more traditional scholars. ''The age-old grammar-translation m... |
1405900_1 | Blair Vows to Halt Rioting in Northern Ireland | full transition from violence to democracy.'' In recent months Belfast has been hit by the worst street disturbances in years, with Catholic and Protestant gangs attacking each other's neighborhoods and police officers with stones and firebombs. The police say the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary group... |
1405943_0 | An Attack Where Security Is Probably the World's Tightest | Terrorists usually try to attack strong targets at their weakest point, security experts contend. But if the shooting today at Los Angeles International Airport was terrorism -- as Israeli officials believe, although American officials disagree -- then it was an attack on perhaps the airport's strongest point. El Al is... |
1405843_0 | Terrorism and Talk: The Cycle of Conflict in Ireland | In May a group of Israeli and Palestinian politicians met with the people who negotiated Northern Ireland's breakthrough peace accord of 1998, hoping to learn something from their experience. Perhaps the Mideast crew should find another model. Northern Ireland has been plagued by firebombing and rioting, in direct viol... |
1405894_0 | Energy Companies Agree On Trans-China Pipeline | Eight large energy companies concluded a framework joint venture agreement today for the development of a natural gas field in western China and the construction of a pipeline to carry the gas across the country to Shanghai. Already behind schedule, the high-capacity pipeline is supposed to snake nearly 2,500 miles acr... |
1409112_2 | With Upgrade To Software, MSN May Nip At AOL's Heels | we wanted to have.'' This shift has reduced MSN's costs, but not enough to prevent it from losing money. By contrast, when AOL reached eight million subscribers in 1996, it was profitable. AOL has suffered from a sharp decrease in advertising revenue and has also been losing market share in subscriptions. AOL has 37 pe... |
1409031_3 | A Wireless 911 System Finds Those in Need | solve crimes. In St. Clair County, two bomb threats were phoned in to Collinsville High School using 911. Using phone number and location information, Mr. Forshee said, the caller was found and prosecuted. The new technology is also believed to have helped track down Lucas J. Helder, a suspect in pipe bombings in five ... |
1409134_0 | Peace Gains by the Catholics Embitter Ulster Protestants | Paving stones and gasoline bombs were raining in on a working-class Protestant neighborhood over the high wall separating it from a Catholic enclave. A roof caught fire, boarded-up windows clattered and shook from direct hits, and two residents, Raymond and Patsy Laverty, talked about how the Northern Ireland peace mov... |
1409046_5 | Plastic Gold: Recyclers Find Profit in Printer Ink Cartridges | ''At the end of the day, the quality that you're going to get from a refilled or remanufactured ink cartridge is extremely low in relation to what you'll get from HP.'' Mr. Vaughan said that his company's ink was superior and that the cartridges' print heads and other parts were not designed for reuse. Hewlett-Packard ... |
1409198_0 | Technology Briefing | Hardware: U.S. Orders Equipment From InVision | InVision Technologies said yesterday that the Transportation Security Administration had ordered 50 of its explosives-detection devices for installation in baggage-handling systems at major airports by the end of the year. The agency also ordered parts for 50 more of the devices and adjusted its previous order for free... |
1407580_3 | Companies Rethink What to Shred, and When | as is destroying documents to keep them from being used as evidence in a civil lawsuit. Electronic documents pose special problems, Ms. Nimsger said, because every e-mail message and every document sent may survive on a recipient's computer even after the sender has deleted it. Steps that employers can take include req... |
1407623_0 | A Cloud Over Hormone Therapy | To the Editor: Re ''Study Is Halted Over Rise Seen in Cancer Risk'' (front page, July 9): What has been tested and found risky is one particular drug, Prempro, a pharmaceutical that combines conjugated estrogen with a synthetic progestin. Unfortunately, the study made no provision to follow the risks to women of supple... |
1407624_0 | A Cloud Over Hormone Therapy | To the Editor: Re ''Hormone Replacement Study a Shock to the Medical System'' (front page, July 10): Fourteen years ago, I stopped hormone replacement therapy after seven years on it. Increasingly, I did not feel well. I discussed it with my doctor, and he insisted that I stay on it. He told me that my bones would get ... |
1407620_0 | A Cloud Over Hormone Therapy | To the Editor: Re ''Study Is Halted Over Rise Seen in Cancer Risk'' (front page, July 9): The Women's Health Initiative Study on estrogen-progestin replacement was doomed from the beginning, since the biology of the hormones and their receptors does not seem to have been considered in the design of the clinical trial. ... |
1407545_1 | Refighting the Fires of Sept. 11 | performance on the day the towers collapsed. The report, due in August, will undoubtedly elaborate on some of the deadly lapses in command, communication and control that have been outlined this week by reporters for The Times. With each revelation about the chaos at the site of the disaster, it becomes clearer that th... |
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