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1407621_0 | A Cloud Over Hormone Therapy | To the Editor: I am a 55-year-old woman who has resisted the scam that all women, regardless of symptoms, should take hormones (''Hormone Replacement Study a Shock to the Medical System,'' front page, July 10). It never made any sense to me that mild symptoms, including hot flashes and night sweats, be treated as an il... |
1409521_0 | From Trash to Bricks | To the Editor: The solution given in ''Trouble With Trash'' (editorial, July 13) looks to the past and not to the future. Technologies exist that can handle all New York City trash, and they do not involve incineration. Gasification takes in trash and sludge and produces only two products: electricity and an inert slag... |
1411316_0 | Brazil Employs Tools of Spying To Guard Itself | For as long as Brazil has been a nation, outlaws of every type, from gold smugglers and slave traders to drug traffickers and gun runners, have taken refuge in the Amazon, the world's largest jungle wilderness, secure in the knowledge that they could not be tracked down. As of today, though, that shelter is no longer g... |
1411289_0 | In 1941, Too, a Wounded, Unprepared America Cast About for Blame | A devastating sneak attack that killed and wounded more than 3,000 Americans. Revelations of intelligence failures and ineptitude. Outraged demands for an independent investigation. That description applies just as well to the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, as it does to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Ind... |
1408507_1 | Why the Hormone Study Finally Happened | capable and good men (liberal ones, too) came before Dr. Healy at the N.I.H. But apparently none of them were moved to take action on an urgent public health problem: one of the most widely prescribed medications in America, hormone therapy -- a combination of estrogen and progestin -- had never been subjected to a pro... |
1408521_0 | Springsteen Protects His New CD's Online in an Old-Fashioned Way | While the music industry scrambles to keep albums off the Internet before they reach stores, one highly successful artist has managed to skirt online piracy with a surprisingly low-technology solution. The artist, Bruce Springsteen -- who has released six CD's of material in the Internet era, with another album on the ... |
1408477_8 | Many Taking Hormone Pills Now Face a Difficult Choice | not been adequately studied,'' Dr. Grossman said. Dr. Richardson said she mostly gives antidepressants or Neurontin to breast cancer patients who have severe symptoms of menopause and are willing to take a chance that the drugs might be safe over the long term. But these are desperate women, she said. ''When you are wa... |
1406038_6 | Is There a Gay Basis To Nietzsche's Ideas? | of one era are easily talked about in the sexual categories of another. But it helps focus attention on the themes of desire, virility, solitude and alienation in Nietzsche's work. And it is consistent with Nietzsche's philosophical mythology, which is in part the tale of a Paradise lost that must be regained. Nietzsch... |
1406045_3 | An Old Amour, More Off Than On | etiquette, and will be encouraged to ''demonstrate that they like France.'')Americans have responded to these events -- particularly the outbreak of anti-Semitism -- with a mixture of anger and anxiety. Concern over reports of fire bombings at French synagogues and of physical assaults on French and Belgian Jews prompt... |
1406057_0 | Crowded Airport Terminals Can Lead to Additional Security Problems, Experts Say | Scrutinizing passengers and bags more carefully before they are allowed near an airplane has resulted in a new security problem, creating vulnerable crowds outside the secure area, experts said today. ''People say, maybe we should move the security line back to the terminal frontage, or some off-airport location,'' sai... |
1425300_0 | Screening Luggage | To the Editor: Re ''Big-Price Screening Machines Are Said to Get Little Use'' (news article, Sept. 18): One reason for the underuse is that people are having trouble getting the machines to work. This is still a fairly new technology, and, as with new computer software, it takes time to get all the bugs out. The old sc... |
1425422_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Population Still Shrinking | The State Statistics Committee reported a population decline of 505,900 people in the first six months of 2002, to 143.4 million. The drop was slightly less than in the same period last year but the population continues to fall by about one million people annually. The number of births grew by 50,000 compared with the ... |
1423232_2 | That Potent Hormone Brings Lots of Trouble | of a celebrity hitchhiking. Maybe that celebrity's well-known sexual and material independence is intended as a symbol of what women can achieve. (But if so, why doesn't she have a car?) J. D. Eames's (that's Ms. Eames) ''Intimate ASCII'' is a two-woman play about e-mail. One woman suspects that an electronic pen pal o... |
1423347_0 | Taking On Junk E-Mail | It will come as no surprise to anyone with an e-mail account that the scourge of spam has reached near-intolerable levels. One new study estimates that this year 7.3 billion e-mail messages will be sent each day, and spam -- bulk, commercial e-mail -- will make up nearly one-third of it. Increasingly, opponents of spam... |
1423279_1 | Indonesia's Forests Go Under the Ax for Flooring | a bribe. The corruption is rampant. Senior government officials insist on payoffs, from companies and big-time traders, in exchange for concessions. Military commanders take a cut or even have their own operations. The local policeman demands a payment to allow the trucks, laden with illegally cut logs, on the way to i... |
1423378_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Archbishop Appeals To Rights Groups | The country's Roman Catholic archbishop, the Rev. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, warned in an appeal to human rights advocates that actions against Catholic priests and parishes in Russia had reached such a peak that they ''to all intents and purposes, throw us back in time to the former regime.'' Five foreign Catholic priests... |
1423502_1 | Fighting the Menace of Unwanted E-Mail | instead replied en masse to each message? Unlike the authors of viruses, who hide in the shadows of the Internet, senders of spam often leave a trail. Faced with hundreds of thousands of responses, the spammer would have to use substantial resources to store the responses, sift through them and identify those registeri... |
1423470_4 | A Philosopher With New Disciples (in Music, Not Philosophy) | too bluntly political (''if we listen to Beethoven and do not hear anything of the revolutionary bourgeoisie . . . we understand Beethoven no better than does one who cannot follow the purely musical content of his pieces.'') But Adorno still succeeded in bringing music back into the world, showing that much was at sta... |
1423533_3 | Plan on Abuse Is Said to Face Vatican Pitfalls | place in the priesthood and religious life for those who would harm the young.'' At the conclusion of the Dallas meeting, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that while he expected the Vatican would approve the bishops' document, ''I would ne... |
1426788_0 | Science May Soon Join Core Courses at Columbia | Even as many other colleges and universities have abandoned their core curriculums, Columbia University has held fast. Established more than 80 years ago, the curriculum has remained firmly rooted in the humanities. But university officials say that a sizable change may be in the offing: a new science course is under c... |
1426774_2 | United Air's Unions Offer Plan to Save Billion a Year | after consulting with their financial advisers, and after having several meetings with United's own advisers. The company had hoped that a proposal would be presented last Friday, but the unions said they would have to work through the weekend. The unions said they had not determined exactly how the cuts would be divid... |
1426826_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Violence On The Rise | Bombings in Northern Ireland increased 80 percent in the year ended March 31, to 318, according to the first report from the province's Policing Board, an independent oversight body formed under the 1998 peace accord to increase public confidence in the police. Most attacks, by paramilitaries or sectarian rioters, were... |
1426784_5 | Paying for a Disability Diagnosis To Gain Time on College Boards | earning more than $100,000 scored 1123. Large inner-city high schools have neither resources nor time for sophisticated diagnosis and services. One psychologist in private practice who used to work in a Bronx public school guessed that half of the students there might have qualified for remediation but said that ''the ... |
1421537_3 | 9/11 Law Means More Snooping? Or Maybe Less? | Barry Steinhardt, the director of technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union. And since the courts tend to hand out pen registers like fliers at a subway stop, privacy advocates have long argued that the Internet needed more protection. Mr. Kerr doesn't disagree that standards for getting a pe... |
1421572_0 | Folly in the Face of Famine | It is tragic that hunger-racked Zambia is rejecting donations of American corn simply because much of it has been genetically modified. Whatever hypothetical risk may exist in genetically modified crops is trivial compared with the very real danger of starvation faced by some 13 million people in six drought-stricken c... |
1420691_6 | NEWS SUMMARY | after three decades outfitting everything from bar mitzvahs and first job interviews to trial lawyers seeking a jury's trust. B3 West Nile Death West Nile virus claimed its first life in New York City this year as a 73-year-old man from Jackson Heights, Queens, died of the disease. B1 SCIENCE TIMES F1-10 Confusion Over... |
1420625_1 | Hot Flashes: Exploring the Mystery of Women's Thermal Chaos | her desk or driving down Main Street, does her body suddenly think it is overheated? The answer is not clear. One basic fact has been known for decades: hot flashes are linked to declining estrogen levels. In women who have their ovaries removed surgically, the effect can be almost immediate. Some actually begin having... |
1420666_0 | MEMO PAD | America West Shifts Baggage-Check Times Flying America West Airlines? Forget about the last-minute dash to the gate with bags to check. Starting tomorrow, passengers need to check bags at least 30 minutes before departure -- and 45 minutes before in Denver and Atlanta. ''We know our customers appreciate our commitment ... |
1420645_2 | Brain Disease Rises in Deer, Scaring Hunters | and tangles in brain and body tissues. In chronic wasting disease, mad cow disease and other so-called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, an errant protein called a prion misfolds. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare fatal disease that occurs in people, is a prion disorder that about 300 Americans develop each ye... |
1420637_6 | Sorting Through the Confusion Over Estrogen | example, two physicians wrote that doctors should tell women about new doubts over the therapy's benefits and evidence of its risks. The message -- from Dr. Sally E. McNagny, a former principal health initiative investigator now working in Wellesley, Mass., and Dr. Nanette K. Wenger, a cardiologist at Emory's medical s... |
1420627_4 | The Search for Alternatives to Hormone Replacement Therapy | of the hormone is absorbed into the bloodstream. A popular remedy is vaginal insertion of an estrogen cream one to three times a week or use of an estrogen-containing vaginal ring. Vaginally applied estrogen can also counter recurrent urinary tract infections in postmenopausal women. Nonhormonal options for temporary r... |
1420692_3 | China Struggles To Cut Reliance On Mideast Oil | increasing again, with coal consumption rising 5.4 percent last year while the use of oil and natural gas also rose. Growth in Chinese oil consumption has accelerated mainly because of a large-scale transition, still in its early stages, away from bicycles and mass transit and toward private automobiles. Car sales jump... |
1422300_5 | 9/11 Prompts New Caution In Design of U.S. Skyscrapers | laid into the concrete that divides the building's office space from public areas, like street-level stores and a subway escalator, a reinforcement of the pure concrete. Lower in the tower, ironworkers have welded heavy steel plates to the original structural columns. ''This serves to stiffen the flange of this column ... |
1422349_8 | THREATS AND RESPONSES: PERSPECTIVES/Jacques Chirac; French Leader Offers America Both Friendship and Criticism | little order are needed to run the affairs of the world. The issue today is to know whether there are any weapons of mass destruction. And to know it, one should go to see. And to see it, the inspectors must be free, without any restrictions or conditions, to visit. . . . This is the objective. If this is fulfilled, th... |
1422324_0 | Chilling News for Speeders: Traffic Cops Astern | A city can post extra signs all over advertising the speed limit, and still motorists ignore it. A city can buy more radar-style guns and assign more men and women to operate them, and still motorists zoom heedlessly from place to place. So when police officers spotted Gino Mazzura barreling down one of Venice's major ... |
1422371_0 | THREATS AND RESPONSES: DOMESTIC SECURITY -- Aviation; Beyond Screening People and Bags | The federal government is trying to meet new deadlines set by Congress to improve the screening of passengers and checked bags, but security experts inside and outside government say that even in the unlikely event that both goals are met this year, they will not make aviation secure enough. The public focus has been o... |
1422303_3 | Government Ready to Fingerprint and Keep Track of Some Foreign Visitors | which are five of the seven countries designated by the State Department as sponsors of terrorism. (The other two are Cuba and North Korea.) He said the other visitors who will be checked are those who are considered security risks by the State Department or by the Immigration and Naturalization Service officers, based... |
1427208_2 | Cuba Treats U.S. Visitors To Cigars and Prime Fidel | Kentucky. Kentucky hopes to export wood and meat to Cuba through the limited cash-only trade program that the United States allows. Another delegation, from North Carolina, was treated on Wednesday night to shrimp, fish, lamb, potatoes, bonbons and mojitos, a traditional Cuban drink made with rum, sugar, lime and mint.... |
1427204_1 | 'Modest' Changes Seen for Special Education | that the coming changes to special education ''will be more modest.'' While neither the Bush administration nor lawmakers have entirely embraced the presidential commission's report, which was released in July, its suggestions have become the springboard for discussions among policy makers about the future of special e... |
1425512_5 | Philippine Officials Detail the Trap, Set With U.S. Help, That Snared a Rebel Leader | When the rebel commander requested a Scrabble game, it was a clue that the Burnhams were still alive. ''The Abu Sayyaf don't play Scrabble,'' Colonel Sabban said. In late May, Mr. Sabaya dispatched his aide to buy a new backpack -- the one that was outfitted with transponders to help track the rebel. The Americans were... |
1425707_0 | Thinking Big | Restoring the skyline is a bold stroke, and the right one. All new buildings in Lower Manhattan these past 30 years have been foothills to Yamasaki's minimalist sculpture. The proposed twin towers restrike the balance. And a 2,100-foot broadcast tower could be a spectacular cap and show New York at its finest. David So... |
1425748_0 | A Child's View | To the Editor: I commend Jonathan Black for taking his sons to Italy. We took our 7- and 3-year-old daughters to Tuscany in 2000 and can report that gelato from Snack Bar L'Angelo on the piazza in Sinalunga, the hill town where we rented an apartment, is something they still talk about. That and the Leaning Tower of Pi... |
1425951_2 | Investing; After the Fall, a Reinvented Janus | After Thomas Bailey, who founded Janus in 1969, stepped down as chairman in July, Mr. Whiston helped broker a deal that will eliminate the holding company and combine all of Stilwell's properties, which include the Berger family of mutual funds, into one company called Janus Capital. The changes take effect on Dec. 31.... |
1425507_2 | Mexico Weighs Electricity Against History | part of the solution.'' Mexico's government says 500 megawatts represents perhaps 2 percent of its energy needs in the coming decade. If the dam threatened ''a jewel of Mayan culture that must surely be preserved, we'll rethink things,'' Mr. Acosta said. ''If a site can be rescued, we'll figure out how.'' ''This is Mex... |
1425521_1 | Irish Protestants Threaten to Quit Power-Sharing Government | be based on whether it had been ''demonstrably established'' that the I.R.A. was making ''a real and genuine transition that is proceeding to a conclusion.'' In answer to a question, he explained that the language meant dismantlement and disarmament. The resignation of Mr. Trimble and the other Ulster Unionist minister... |
1422537_0 | Mixed Estrogen Signals | To the Editor: Re ''Sorting Through the Confusion Over Estrogen'' (Sept. 3): One group still being studied in the controversy over hormone replacement therapy consists of women well past menopausal age who have had hysterectomies. (I am in this group.) I have been taking conjugated estrogens for many years, not for rel... |
1422590_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about an interview with Jacques Chirac including his perspectives on the Iraqi threat of weapons of mass destruction misstated the timing of Israel's destruction of Iraq's French-supplied nuclear reactor. It occurred in 1981, not 1979. |
1422499_0 | For Expressions Large and Small | THREATS AND RESPONSES |
1422474_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | F.B.I. Issues Terror Warning The F.B.I. has issued an advisory to local authorities, warning of possible terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, but senior government officials said they were not based on credible threats. A17 Wiretap Powers In Question A three-judge panel of the nation's most secret appellate court met to cons... |
1422449_0 | Discovering Amazon Rain Forest's Silver Lining | Many Brazilians have regarded the Amazon jungle as a barrier to progress that should be replaced as quickly as possible with ranches and farms. But in this remote corner of Brazil's most isolated state, people increasingly see the rain forest as a solution to the region's chronic poverty. In one sign of that change, pe... |
1424358_1 | What's in a Name? A Good Bit, Really | flee not because he used an alias, Dr. Hermansen said, but because his surname has several legitimate variant spellings. This anecdote and Dr. Hermansen's company are timely right now because of a quiet but forceful undertow in the area of airport security. For a year, business travelers and others have said that the s... |
1424347_0 | Why Japan Steps Gingerly in the Middle East | When OPEC ministers meet in Osaka on Thursday, the world will be reminded not just of the cartel's power on the global stage, but also the group's sway over its Japanese hosts. Despite spending decades developing other sources of energy, Japan, which must import almost all its oil, is more dependent on Middle East crud... |
1424308_2 | Research Brings a New Dimension to 'a Candidate's Voice' | like the hum of bagpipes that underlies the notes. Dr. Gregory runs samples of speech through equipment that performs a kind of wave analysis known as fast Fourier transform analysis, which detects patterns in waves. In earlier research, Dr. Gregory compared the accommodation patterns of 25 guests on the ''Larry King L... |
1424373_0 | David Grene, Colorful Expert On the Classics, Is Dead at 89 | David Grene, whose translations of ancient Greek spoke with such clarity that the writer Saul Bellow suggested he was on a first-name basis with Sophocles and Aristophanes, died on Sept. 10 in Chicago. He was 89. Mr. Grene's two residences reflected his seemingly separate lives: for more than 50 years, he spent half hi... |
1426483_3 | After Storm, Scholar Starts at Princeton With a Whisper | had decided to offer the seminar on evil because he had been thinking about the subject for some time, and he was also writing about it. ''Evil,'' he said. ''Oh, lord. It's a lifetime project.'' He said he had taught similar courses on modernity and the problem of evil to undergraduates and graduate students at Harvard... |
1426587_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Files On The Missing To Be Opened | Responding to longstanding requests from families of several hundred people presumed to have been kidnapped and killed during the military dictatorship of 1964 to 1985, the Ministry of Justice has agreed to open police records from that era. The government has already paid more than $10 million in indemnities to about ... |
1426434_0 | Winners of MacArthur Grants Announced | A photographer who captured images of the World Trade Center from its construction more than 30 years ago to the day the towers fell, 11 scientists whose work ranges from self-changing robots to earthquake-resistant buildings, and an economist who explored executive compensation were among the 24 winners of the $500,00... |
1420838_0 | Ranking Risks of Gene-Altered Animals | A recent report from the National Academy of Sciences has helped clarify the risks posed to human health and the environment by the genetic manipulation of animals to produce food, medicines or other products. The report makes it clear that one issue of great concern to many consumers -- whether genetically engineered ... |
1420829_3 | Brazil Builds Up Its Trade-Talks Team | analysts in the last two years and an additional 95 are due to join the ministry soon. The recruits, all recent graduates, start out by gathering statistics, studying investment regulations, intellectual property rights and antidumping legislation. ''It's a new discipline that never existed before,'' Ms. Spíndola said.... |
1420845_1 | Battle for the Future Swirls Below Soaring Towers | character, they have devised a four-year, $133-million plan, financed by the French state and the European Union, to demolish the causeway and restore the natural flow of currents. This would theoretically reverse the spread of sands that have created salt marsh flats up to about 200 yards from the ramparts that surrou... |
1420885_5 | The 49ers' Uneasy Truce | I talked to him.'' Owens has also been dealing with his grandmother's Alzheimer's disease, an illness that struck Mariucci's uncle as well. For two people in need of connecting, this was a sad, but important, coincidence. During the preseason, Owens filmed a public service announcement for the Alzheimer Foundation. Mar... |
1420905_0 | Broad Accord Reached at Global Environment Meeting | After a week of intensive negotiations, diplomats here at the World Summit on Sustainable Development arrived at a plan early this morning that is intended to reduce poverty and preserve the earth's natural resources. The breakthrough came after diplomats worked late into the night on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over ... |
1420859_1 | Zambian Leader Defends Ban On Genetically Altered Foods | being earmarked for the region is from the United States, where crops genetically engineered for better production are widely grown and the foods produced from them are widely consumed. The United States says that it is donating the same food Americans eat and that in any case, it has nothing else to offer. Last week, ... |
1421374_0 | Keeping Earth Fit for Development | The 10-day World Summit on Sustainable Development, which concluded on Wednesday in Johannesburg, angered both environmentalists and those who dismiss multilateral accords as so much globaloney. But by any standard -- let alone the often debased one of United Nations-sponsored meetings -- the gathering was honorable an... |
1421323_0 | Shipping News: Boat Gear For Foul and Fair Weather | BETWEEN reality and fantasy, boat people can manage to spend most of the year on the water. Even with just about a month of recreational boating left in the Northeast, frostbite fisherman, sailors in warmer climates and determinedly intrepid mariners manage to hang in there and out there a good part of the year. Those ... |
1421323_2 | Shipping News: Boat Gear For Foul and Fair Weather | 12 West 37th Street in Manhattan; a huge paper catalog; and an extremely good Web site for shopping and information (www.westmarine.com; 800-262-8464). These sources carry everything but boats -- all the fun stuff: cooking equipment, clothes, books, videos, hats, wakeboards, clocks and, of course, bells and whistles, a... |
1421302_0 | Digital Link For Car Talk | Techies know about Bluetooth, a digital system that lets electronic devices communicate with each other without a cord running between them (though only over about 30 feet). That's more than enough for the inside of a car, where increasingly there are a lot of devices joining the buzz -- mobile phones, portable hand-he... |
1423640_1 | My Big Fat Greek Gender Identity Crisis | daughter of an entrepreneurial Greek-American family, only to discover at 14, in the office of a Manhattan physician, that she is a hermaphrodite -- or, more precisely, a pseudohermaphrodite, a sufferer of 5-alpha-reductase deficiency syndrome. ''To the extent that fetal hormones affect brain chemistry and histology, I... |
1423962_3 | The World: Changing Places; War Talk Hits Its First Target: The Pivotal Ally | of a country where the army was disciplined, the women didn't have to wear headscarves, bills were paid promptly and, as a senior French official said, ''a state was being built.'' Mr. Hussein, in turn, presented himself as an Arab Charles De Gaulle. France developed a closer relationship with Baghdad than any other We... |
1424050_2 | Expos and Minaya Face Uncertain Future | called the success of the Expos, Minnesota and Oakland an aberration. He would not say whether baseball could survive another year in Montreal. ''I hope this team is moved somewhere,'' Expos third baseman Fernando Tatis said before Friday's game. ''We want to have fans, stability, to stay in one place. You need to real... |
1423740_3 | With Lots of Help, a Special School Opens | at the school. ''As a parent of a child with autism, you feel pretty alone and you struggle,'' Dr. Forman said. After Robert was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, Dr. Forman and his wife, Laura Carinci, an obstetrician-gynecologist, sought out a program using a much-sought-after method called Applied Behavior Analysi... |
1423759_1 | When the News Serves as a Business Textbook | a discussion on business ethics featuring professors from other departments as panelists. One was Stephen Greenfield, a philosophy instructor, who suggested that Plato and other ancient philosophers had dealt effectively with similar questions about decision making, integrity and fair dealing many centuries ago. ''The ... |
1423639_1 | Problem Children | psychoanalytic practice ''keeps every new generation of clinicians blind and deaf to what was originally excluded.'' Her analysis of the ''Caliban syndrome,'' as she calls the psychological condition affecting normal siblings in families with damaged children, is supported with some 60 interviews with siblings of impai... |
1423943_2 | Perks From Tuition to Bodyguards | is the well-publicized case of E*Trade, in which the company agreed to reimburse Christos M. Cotsakos, the chief executive, for ''tuition, fees, books, ancillary expenses including the cost of research assistants, travel, hotels and meals related to completion of Ph.D. program or other executive projects such as speech... |
1423955_1 | The Nation; In Airport Security, Think Low Tech | scurry to tighten security since the Sept. 11 attacks. ''I believe in the human factor,'' said John D. Woodward Jr., a senior analyst who studies security and terrorism issues at the Rand Corporation. ''It can give us bad things like racial profiling. But it can also mean a customs agent at the Canadian border sees som... |
1424096_0 | Bear Warnings | The state last week warned residents of northwestern New Jersey that the summer drought has reduced food supplies for black bears and has advised them to bear-proof their homes. The lack of rain has reduced the number of acorns and other food sources and is partly blamed for bears breaking into 46 homes, mostly in Warr... |
1427002_4 | U.S. Agribusiness Peddles To the Proletariat in Cuba | the money only helped prop up Mr. Castro. But opponents won a major concession: the sales must be in cash to protect the United States from Cuba's bad credit rating and its tendency to default on loans to other countries. At first, Mr. Castro opposed the law, saying it was too restrictive. Last year, after a devastatin... |
1426936_0 | Stale Air In the Tires, Auto Myths Roll On | WARMING up the car on a cold day won't help it run better. Low mileage isn't the thing to look for in a used car. Permanent antifreeze isn't permanent. A compact disc hanging from the rear-view mirror won't foil police radar guns. If any of these realities comes as a surprise to you, you are not alone. The lore of auto... |
1425140_1 | Airport Security, a Year Later | the tough new requirements imposed after Sept. 11. That would be a terrible disservice. With a number of deadlines approaching, the government, airport operators and airlines should be concentrating on how to meet the requirements, not how to dodge them. The new head of the Transportation Security Administration, Adm. ... |
1424577_0 | Chefs Join Campaign Against Altered Fish | IN a pre-emptive strike against the newest genetically engineered food, 200 chefs, grocers and seafood distributors across 40 states plan to announce today that they have pledged not to purchase fish that have been altered through biotechnology. The campaign says it is concerned that if genetically engineered salmon ar... |
1424628_1 | Big-Price Screening Machines Are Said to Get Little Use | identified by the computer system as potential risks. The inspector general, Kenneth Mead, on whose data the letter is based, argued that even before the Sept. 11 attacks the airlines were reluctant to put the machines to full use. Today Michael Jackson, the deputy secretary of transportation, said that the problem was... |
1423004_2 | Afghanistan's Faltering Reconstruction | escorts are necessary. Although America and its allies are helping build an Afghan national army and police force that can one day provide the security needed for economic growth, the growth won't take place for years. Last December, an international military peacekeeping force was deployed to Kabul, under British comm... |
1423125_4 | Europe Pauses and Grieves, But Takes Issue With U.S. | there. One television channel promoted a report from New York on Tuesday about ''why South Asians still say they're victims, a year after Sept. 11.'' In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who at first professed ''unconditional solidarity'' with the United States, is now fighting for re-election and taking exception ... |
1423022_0 | Putin Warns Georgia to Root Out Chechen Rebels Within Its Borders or Face Attacks | President Vladimir V. Putin threatened today to order military strikes in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, saying that Russia had a right to defend itself from what he called terrorist attacks launched from Georgian territory. In a statement that sounded like an ultimatum, Mr. Putin sharply criticized Georgia for... |
1422957_1 | So That a Disaster Isn't a Communications Disaster | emergency scenes with land lines, cellular service, wireless Internet, fax and streaming video, and to allow emergency workers from various agencies to talk via radio. ''The InfraLynx mission is to deliver emergency communications right into the hot zone,'' said Chris Herndon, the director of the team that engineered i... |
1422946_0 | From Symantec, a Hybrid Of Firewall and Spam Buster | It's not true. Despite that promise in the e-mail subject line, the vice president for marketing does not love you. So you won't be fooled again, Symantec has upgraded its Norton Internet Security software suite to intercept more viruses, mass mailers and worms. It also promises to eliminate bandwidth-hogging pop-up ad... |
1420368_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-16 Swedes Say Detainee Was Flight Student in U.S. Swedish authorities said that a man arrested with a gun in his carry-on luggage as he tried to board a London-bound flight had studied at an aviation school in the United States and had a criminal record. Swedish officials denied reports attributed to Sw... |
1420342_0 | Rush to Fill Void in Menopause-Drug Market | In the eight weeks since the fed eral government announced that it had halted a study of a popular hormone therapy used by postmenopausal women, doctors say they have been deluged by an ever-growing tide of promotional material for anything and everything that could substitute for Prempro, the drug used in the study. T... |
1420243_13 | A Guardian of Jobs or a 'Reverse Robin Hood'? | to buy American-made equipment. ''We pounded on this one like hell,'' said Gary Hubbard, a spokesman for the United Steelworkers of America. Still, the bank is considering a $35 million financing to a Mexican company for the purchase of American-made equipment that would increase its automotive crankshaft production by... |
1420412_0 | The World; Taming a Seasonal Swell | DONGTING LAKE, a giant splash of water in central China, plays a critical environmental role that humans only belatedly appreciated. Each summer, as the prodigal flow of the Yangtze River surges, the adjoining lake serves as a vast and vital sponge -- a natural overflow that tempers flooding in the vulnerable, densely ... |
1420374_1 | Detainee Had Studied to Be a Pilot in U.S. | embassy in Europe.'' Mr. Chatty underwent training at the North American Institute of Aviation in Conway, S.C., near Myrtle Beach. He was dismissed from the school's pilot program for poor performance, a top school official said tonight. The flight school specializes in training foreign pilots, particularly students fr... |
1420040_6 | Far From Midtown, She's Fallen in Love With the Sea | scantily clothed in a narrow strip of resin-treated cloth. A single buoyant curve insinuates the sail. Sailing the Annie, or teaching drawing and maritime literature on three-month voyages aboard tall ships for Southampton College's Seamester program, Ms. Scott is well acquainted with the exhilaration and terror of sea... |
1420137_1 | Sailing Lessons | doesn't take long for the gentle rocking aboard our Ranger 22 to turn hypnotic, calming nerves and reducing rivalries. I particularly love the clanking of the halyards against the mast as we bob sideways on our anchor, and if I close my eyes, I'm no longer in New York, but vacationing along the Cape Cod seashore or in ... |
1421040_2 | With a Single Click, a Vast E-Mail Harvest | just one click. It got a lift in recent months as Hotmail and Yahoo imposed annual fees ($19.95 and $29.99, respectively) for certain services, including e-mail forwarding. In other words, users who want to maintain free accounts will have to do plenty of clicking. EPrompter has evolved to include some e-mail functions... |
1421104_1 | Small World After All | poorest communities. ''It's time to end the lofty aspirations and move to action -- to real commitments,'' said one senior American official at the Johannesburg meeting. For nine months leading up to the summit meeting, that official said, government negotiators, private environmental groups, businesses and internation... |
1424163_2 | Immigration Reform and National Security | the millions of foreign-born people who move each year, for example.) Not only do several of these initiatives place undue burdens on hardworking, law-abiding immigrants, but if they were enforced across the board all would run aground among the vast illegal population -- an estimated eight million people -- who would ... |
1424275_0 | You've Got Mail: Enough Already! | To the Editor: The Direct Marketing Association was the first group to require that e-mail solicitations include an opt-out address, disclosure of the marketer's identity and a clear, honest subject line. Our guidelines even require marketers to provide a physical address for consumers to seek redress. ''Taking On Junk... |
1424276_0 | You've Got Mail: Enough Already! | To the Editor: Re ''Taking On Junk E-Mail'' (editorial, Sept. 13): There must be a delineation between business junk e-mail and solicitations from purveyors of pornography and Viagra. The recent daily barrage of the latter is appalling. I pay a flat minimum fee for the pleasure of keeping in touch with friends that all... |
1424277_0 | You've Got Mail: Enough Already! | To the Editor: The problems caused by junk e-mail are even worse than you describe in ''Taking On Junk E-Mail'' (editorial, Sept. 13). Sight-impaired people who must have their computers read their e-mail out loud don't have the luxury of being able to visually separate e-mail from spam. For the deaf, spam is a roadblo... |
1426177_0 | Bottled Baby Octopuses Turn Out to Be Pygmies | In century-old jars of alcohol on museum shelves in Paris and Washington and off the coasts of Indonesia, Senegal and the Caribbean, zoologists are stumbling upon dozens of species of tiny octopuses once believed to be babies of their larger relatives. Described by their discoverers as Lilliputian, some of the pygmy sp... |
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