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1426221_0 | Chinese Uprooted by a Dam | |
1426196_2 | Here They Are, Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments | -- about one-fiftieth. Estimating from travel time that the towns were 5,000 ''stadia'' apart, Eratosthenes concluded that the earth must be 50 times that size -- 250,000 stadia in girth. Scholars differ over the length of a Greek stadium, so it is impossible to know just how accurate he was. But by some reckonings, he... |
1426233_0 | Getting Ready for Combat | THREATS AND RESPONSES |
1426199_5 | A Wild, Fearsome World Under Each Fallen Leaf | The idea is fairly simple. While areas of nearly 25,000 acres are needed to have a good chance at preserving most large forms of life, plants and insects can sometimes be preserved in plots of 25 or even 2.5 acres. In the Amazon, for instance, Dr. Wilson said, where the land is being savaged, ''You'll see hanging on th... |
1426046_1 | At Airport In Boston, A Closer Look At ID Papers | quickly determine whether the person is who they say they are, or whether they have purchased on the market, which we all know are available, a document that is falsified.'' In a test this summer, the system evaluated the passports of 225,000 departing passengers at the international terminal, he said, and picked up se... |
1426050_1 | A Brazilian Campaign That Is All About the Jungle | modernization, and we need to learn how to exploit the forest without destroying it,'' Mr. Viana said. ''If we treat the forest like a garden, as a renewable resource, we will grow faster than if we cut it down.'' During the 1980's, Mr. Mendes, a leader of the rubber tappers' union, argued in favor of a similar approac... |
1426087_0 | Decision Time on the Everglades | Two years have passed since Congress approved a $7.8 billion measure to restore the Florida Everglades. The bill commanded overwhelming bipartisan support and provided the framework for what could be the most ambitious environmental restoration project in history. This extraordinary undertaking, a joint project of the ... |
1426013_0 | DVD's have found an unexpected route to a wide public: snail mail. | IT has been a long-cherished dream of the digital age: video on demand. That's the term used for the delivery of cinema-quality movies to television households, with each consumer choosing what to watch and when to watch it. But the technical challenges have been a deterrent. The main obstacle for cable systems has bee... |
1427358_0 | When Politics Is Personal | Whether the comparison was Sontag's or the senator's, the assertion that the family of a 19-year-old in a serious car accident would not face the predicament of forgoing treatment or being crushed by debt is, unfortunately, dead wrong. Our 19-year-old son was catastrophically injured in a high-speed head-on collision w... |
1427387_2 | An Ancient Tragedy Lands in the Present, Pain Intact | very much on Ms. Shaw's mind. ''It's not like the production has moved on, as much as that the world has moved on,'' she said. ''Two years ago, we lived in a world where Greek tragedy had to justify its position, but that has changed now. What was marked yesterday is a televised shocking example of people coping with u... |
1427825_8 | The Struggle of All Against All | to require the SAT. But a nice byproduct of their virtue, as Zwick points out, is that when the test becomes optional, candidates who choose to submit their results are likely to have high scores, so the school's average SAT score goes up, and U.S. News approves. And as Steinberg somewhat gingerly suggests, financial a... |
1422760_6 | Investigating 9/11: An Unimaginable Calamity, Still Largely Unexamined | landed on a roof and removed people stranded on the upper floors. The firefighters, whose department has no helicopter, saw the police as showboats taking risks. Afterward, the Port Authority, with the agreement of the Fire Department, decided to lock the roof doors as a security measure. On Sept. 11, some 200 people t... |
1422814_2 | The Strains Are Showing in Air Travel | president. ''But unless you keep the law enforcement focus and add customer service and efficiency to it, you will kill aviation.'' Delta has been one of the most outspoken airlines about scrapping certain security procedures, like searching carry-on bags at the boarding gate. The chief executive, Leo F. Mullin, made s... |
1422685_2 | Steel From Fallen Towers Is Reborn in Sculptor's Hands | called ''Pages of Expression,'' will be scattered on the ground between the two gates. Among those Mr. Gallucci will use is by 11-year-old Brannon King of Summerfield, N.C., who wrote: ''When tragedy struck at the Twin Towers, all of the heroes used their powers. They tried to rescue people in trouble, from all of the ... |
1422646_6 | For Towers' Refugee Businesses, a Year of Struggle and Change | located all but 90 of their 2,000 clients, whose premiums the company continues to pay. The office's newest arrivals, in addition to a framed photo of Mrs. Espinoza's infant son, are two file drawers nearly full of thin manila files. ''Look at all we've got,'' Ms. Murray said. ''It's amazing.'' Intera Corp. His old lon... |
1422758_1 | Transcript of News Conference by Ashcroft and Ridge on Increased Alert | East are preparing for a suicide attack or attacks against U.S. interests. At this time, we have no specific information as to where these attacks might occur. The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that the most likely targets of Al Qaeda attacks are the transportation and energy sectors and facilities for gath... |
1427938_0 | As Digital Radio Stumbles, New Products Fill the Gap | Sensing an opportunity in the radio industry's slowness to adopt digital broadcasting, a number of chip makers and radio manufacturers have introduced products that use software in receivers to sharply improve the quality and reach of broadcasts transmitted in the analog format. The latest contributor to the trend, Mot... |
1427984_0 | A Nation Facing Disaster | No country in the world has been struck as hard by the AIDS epidemic as Botswana, an arid, thinly populated land of 1.6 million inhabitants in southern Africa. An astonishing 39 percent of the adult population is infected with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, prompting President Festus Mogae to warn, ''We are threat... |
1428016_0 | Man With Box Cutters Is Arrested at Atlantic City | A 21-year-old student from Bulgaria who had worked the summer in New Jersey was arrested at Atlantic City International Airport yesterday after federal screeners examining his backpack found a small pair of scissors embedded in a bar of soap and two box cutters inside a lotion bottle, the authorities said. The suspect,... |
1421757_40 | The Height of Ambition | steel, 44,000 windows and enough concrete to build a sidewalk from New York to Washington, D.C. When the job caught its stride, the buildings shot skyward, rising two or three floors every week. The steel in the central core always led the exterior walls by a few stories. The cranes, which stood in the core like prayin... |
1421759_7 | Don't Rebuild. Reimagine. | For the team, the violence of last year exposed the need for new instruments of cultivation, tools for interpreting raw data on world events. This is why this project devotes key space at ground zero to cultural institutes of learning, buildings designed by Richard Meier and Steven Holl. The group also decided that the... |
1421701_0 | Light From the East | To the Editor: I wonder whether Pierre Hadot, whose opus ''What Is Ancient Philosophy?'' you reviewed on Aug. 18, has ever heard about the contributions of philosophers in ancient China and India. It looks as though the title of his book should have been ''What Is Ancient European Philosophy?'' V. K. Balakrishnan Orono... |
1421758_0 | A Feat of Engineering, and Its Consequences | Spandrels To keep the towers from swaying in the wind, the exterior columns were linked with wide steel plates called spandrels. Each plane sliced through dozens of load-bearing exterior columns; in differently constructed buildings that might have caused the upper floors to tip over toward the entry hole, triggering a... |
1422054_1 | Engineering Food for Africans | of modifications, but lately has dropped its objections. But behind the protests, Africa has been developing genetically modified foods of its own, with the help of countries like the United States that see them as an important development tool. Scientists at the front lines of Africa's biotechnology revolution, in Ken... |
1421973_0 | It's Time to Turn Off Those Bells and Whistles | PUT down that SkyMall catalog. You do not need a juicer that has e-mail access. While you're at it, shove your cellphone, BlackBerry and other gadgets into the sock drawer. You can pick them up again on Thursday. That's the day after the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, a day that, among its many facets, lets us r... |
1422031_0 | A Fight Against Junk E-Mail | Many consumers have long been annoyed by junk or ''spam'' e-mail. But complaints have risen considerably over the last year, along with the number of unwanted messages. Consumer groups worry that the flood of get-rich-quick schemes, pornography, work-at-home opportunities and other unwanted offers could lead some peopl... |
1421869_2 | A Neighborhood Watch Along the Shoreline | one case, a man in a recreational boat was trying out a new video camera on the Thames River near a long-established restricted zone around the Navy submarine base at Groton. In another instance, a man said he wanted to go fishing and tried to rent a boat from a Fairfield County marina that did not offer rentals. The m... |
1421937_0 | Free the Cuba Libre! | THERE'S no way to be absolutely sure, but the Cuba Libre may be the only cocktail invented by a gang of bored revolutionaries. The scene was during the Spanish-American War, when Cubans were fighting for their independence from Spain with the help of the United States, which joined the fray after the sinking of the bat... |
1422053_2 | People-to-People Diplomacy on a Japanese Ship | interviews with aging survivors of a Japanese massacre at a Philippine village, encounters with Korean women who worked as sex slaves for Japanese military units. ''I am very worried that Japanese young people are becoming very nationalistic,'' said Tatsuya Yoshioka, 41, who helped found Peace Boat almost two decades a... |
1420557_1 | Judges Seek to Ban Secret Settlements In South Carolina | years later,'' he wrote. ''Arguably, some lives were lost because judges signed secrecy agreements regarding Firestone tire problems.'' Lawyers say the proposal, which was widely discussed at the American Bar Association's conference in Washington last month, is likely to be influential in other federal courts and in s... |
1420519_3 | Israelis and Jordanians Cast an Accord Upon the Dead Sea's Waters | concrete programs as opposed to supporting targets and deadlines that may never be met. Meanwhile, poor countries have been resisting efforts by American and European officials to link aid to steps on their part to fight corruption and improve human rights, delegates said. Today leaders urged the negotiators to find a ... |
1438673_0 | World Briefing | Asia: China: Yangtze Closed For Huge Dam Project | With patriotic fanfare, engineers fully closed off the Yangtze River, a crucial step toward completion of the Three Gorges dam and hydroelectric project. All the Yangtze's waters now pass through discharge channels. Electric production is to start next year as the reservoir is partly filled. The $25 billion project wil... |
1438605_0 | Court Papers Depict Image Of Savagery In Girl's Death | A Connecticut judge yesterday unsealed hundreds of pages of court documents that include detailed evidence and incriminating statements by the eight men and women charged last month in the 1997 rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in New Milford. The documents, filed by prosecutors, include transcripts of conversation... |
1443803_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | CRUDE OIL FALLS. Prices fell as the market awaited the start of work by United Nations weapons inspectors who arrived in Iraq. In New York, oil for January delivery fell 65 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $26.11 a barrel. |
1443812_3 | Holiday Travelers Can Look to the Web for Advice | site, www.customers-first.org, with useful information. Airports, meanwhile, are breathing more easily now that Congress and the T.S.A. have sent clear signals that the much-feared Dec. 31 deadline imposed by Congress for bomb-detection screening of all checked luggage will not be strictly enforced in airports where ad... |
1443867_0 | 100 Computers of U.S. Midshipmen Seized | In the most severe crackdown yet on online piracy at a college campus, the United States Naval Academy has seized 100 computers from students who are suspected of having downloaded unauthorized copies of music files over the Internet. School officials confiscated the computers when students were in class on Thursday, a... |
1443898_0 | Rushed Airport Security | To the Editor: I agree with your assertion in ''Airport Security, 14 Months Later'' (editorial, Nov. 19) that Congress should resist the temptation to extend the baggage-screening deadline for 30 of the nation's busiest airports by an entire year. One means to the end of screening all checked luggage is simply to reduc... |
1443946_0 | World Briefing | Asia: Koreas: Delay In Transit Project | The project to build a railroad and roads through the demilitarized zone between the Koreas has been halted temporarily, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. The North said it would not complete work on its side after the United Nations Command insisted on final word on which North Korean inspectors could go... |
1443787_4 | When the Eyelids Snap Shut at 65 Miles an Hour | of their seats. I.B.M. has been working on a dashboard-mounted device that shoots a jet of cold water at sleepy drivers and, at the same time, rolls down windows, sounds an alarm and switches radio stations. The device detects drowsiness by asking the driver questions and monitoring the responses for speed and clarity.... |
1440578_0 | World Briefing | Ecology: Good News For Sea Horses | Proposals to protect mahogany forests and sea horses passed, but an effort to further control harvests of the Patagonian toothfish failed at a meeting in Santiago, Chile, attended by the 160 nations that are party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Trade in bigleaf mahogany from Central and... |
1440429_1 | Flying Solo, in the Extreme | Now drones are starting to edge their way into civilian life as well, and not just in Alaska. They have been used in Hollywood to film high-flying action scenes, in Hawaii to look for the ripest coffee crops and in Japan to drop rice seeds into paddies. The drones face significant hurdles, however, before they can beco... |
1440589_0 | Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Trenton: Anti-Bear Attack Law Signed | Gov. James E. McGreevey signed a law yesterday intended to reduce bear attacks on humans by banning the feeding of black bears. This year, the number of incidents where bears tried, and sometimes succeeded, to break into homes to scavenge food has nearly doubled to 55. An estimated 1,900 black bears live in Sussex, Pas... |
1440274_0 | The Ways to Confront Menopause | To the Editor: Re ''Menopause Without Pills: Rethinking Hot Flashes'' (front page, Nov. 10): It is important to emphasize the difference between treating symptoms and preventing future conditions. If a woman is experiencing severe hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms, treatment with estrogen is appropriate. She is... |
1440233_1 | Airport Managers Say Deadline for Screening All Checked Bags Can't Be Met | was done, potential employees had been identified and screened, and machines and personnel would be rolled out quickly. ''The number of places where there are really difficult problems is but a small handful, for a small percentage of the bags,'' the official said. The transportation secretary, Norman Y. Mineta, respon... |
1440275_0 | The Ways to Confront Menopause | To the Editor: Re ''Menopause Without Pills: Rethinking Hot Flashes'' (front page, Nov. 10): I took estrogen for more than 15 years after a severe bout of depression and hot flashes. Concerned about the possible negative effects of this therapy after such a prolonged period, I decided on an alternative approach. With t... |
1440255_2 | Growth Hormone Changed Older Bodies, for Better and Worse | in men, declines, too, and, in women, estrogen levels plummet after menopause. The hypothesis was that the effects of aging -- shriveling muscles, thinning bones, increased body fat, especially in the abdomen, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, might be linked to hormone deficiencies, and, in particular, a lack of growth... |
1440276_0 | The Ways to Confront Menopause | To the Editor: The reason so many doctors ''turned on a dime'' and recommended that patients try to live without hormones after a study found that the risks outweighed the benefits is the threat of lawsuits (front page, Nov. 10). Most gynecologists who, like me, have large menopause practices, realize that the Women's ... |
1440192_0 | Ecotourism Is All Very Well, but $3 a Day Isn't | Even now, many people in this remote patch of Andean cloud forest celebrate the day in 1997 when they burned down the mining camp and ran its owners out of town. ''We had tried for months to get them to listen to our concerns about things like contaminated water,'' said Alirio Ramírez. ''Once we had a pile of ashes, th... |
1440277_0 | The Ways to Confront Menopause | To the Editor: It is inappropriate to apply the findings in the Women's Health Initiative to withhold treatment for the symptoms of menopause (front page, Nov. 10). Women in the study were, on average, more than a decade older (63.2 years) than most women on hormone replacement therapy and, sadly, unhealthy. They were ... |
1441888_0 | In Lieu of Hormones, Questions | Alternatives to hormone replacement therapy like herbal remedies and dietary supplements to fight the symptoms of menopause seem to have mixed effects, a study being published today in Annals of Internal Medicine says. The authors, Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman of George Washington University and Dr. Fredi Kronenberg of Colu... |
1441951_3 | The Lull Before the Storm For the Nation's Airports | to do. (This impression, incidentally, gives legs to the wisecrack currently being passed among business travelers that the acronym T.S.A. in fact stands for ''Thousands Standing Around.'') But don't get used to the calm. Business travelers looking ahead to trips this winter need to be prepared for some rougher times, ... |
1441898_1 | Adding Some Heft to the Ideal Feminine Form | dissection has caused widespread self-loathing among growing girls and women of all ages, sometimes bringing on eating disorders that grow out of a poor body image. But yet another downside arises from the current ideal: difficulties in making babies. As Joann Ellison Rodgers, a medical correspondent for Johns Hopkins ... |
1441929_0 | MEMO PAD | The New Buzzword For Airport Security Get ready to hear a lot more about ''biometrics,'' the buzzword for electronic verification of identity through biological characteristics of the iris, face or fingerprint. Biometrics will be the cornerstone of the proposed trusted-traveler (also known as the registered traveler) p... |
1441954_1 | Some Busy Airports to Miss Deadline for Scanning Bags | agency's phrase for matching bags and passengers on each leg of a flight. In January, the agency began a simpler form of bag matching: making sure that on domestic flights, if a bag was put on a plane, the passenger who claimed it was also on board, at least for the first leg. That matching did not extend to connecting... |
1442003_0 | Airport Security, 14 Months Later | In a notable departure from the lumbering performance of many federal bureaucracies, the new Transportation Security Administration met its deadline today for replacing private security guards at all airport checkpoints with better-trained and better-paid federal officers. Hiring and training the roughly 45,000 passeng... |
1442566_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: New Talks To Start Today | Representatives from the British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland's political parties are to hold their first talks today since the home rule Assembly created by the 1998 peace agreement was suspended last month in a dispute over continuing paramilitary activity by the Irish Republican Army while its politica... |
1437675_2 | A Surplus of Ideas for a Budget Deficit | tax increases is likely. While spending cuts can be harmful, raising taxes in a high-tax city like New York can also have negative repercussions. At least two principles should guide our consideration of potential tax increases: fairness and long-term competitiveness. The tax increase that comes closest to meeting both... |
1443643_0 | Discontent in France | |
1441459_0 | Ansley Johnson Coale, 84, Expert on Population Trends | Ansley Johnson Coale, a demographer and former director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, died on Nov. 5 in Newtown, Pa. He was 84. Dr. Coale was an internationally recognized expert on population trends and the demographic statistics that document them. He directed the population center, an... |
1441383_1 | Signal Performance: Turf War On the Left Side of the Dial | their signals. WFUV, which broadcasts at 90.7 FM, is sandwiched between the 8-watt WHCR (at 90.3 FM), and the 1,250-watt WFMU (at 91.1 FM). ''It would create static and make my signal unlistenable in areas where we've had very good reception for decades,'' said Ken Freedman, WFMU's station manager, who said he based hi... |
1441312_7 | Say What? | no supportable data saying cellphones contribute to accidents,'' insisted Mr. Carrellas of the National Motorists Association, who said state lawmakers should wait until a legislative study group on distractions reported its findings. ''Are you going to ban playing with the radio, talking to another passenger, or shavi... |
1439556_1 | Italians Study Ways to Safeguard Buildings Against Earthquakes | in San Giuliano di Puglia, a town of fewer than 2,000 people. ''When one asks a mother, 'Where is your child?' and she says at school, it's the safest answer and it should be the safest place,'' Mr. Ciampi said. Italians have been asking why the school, built in 1953, collapsed. Blame fell as much on ill-advised renova... |
1439596_4 | Scandal Is Stirring Lay Catholics To Push Church for More Power | and laity. While some of those involved in Voice of the Faithful have been pressing for liberalizing changes for years, others say they are moderates or conservatives who only want a say in church governance. Of four Voice of the Faithful leaders interviewed around a dining room table in Indianapolis, two volunteered t... |
1439214_1 | Borne on the Winds of War | been imagining such attacks and considering ways to blunt them with the tools of antiterrorism and with medical science -- renewed vaccinations, new medicines, swifter diagnoses. But few of the resulting news reports and books, however informative, portray the immediacy of our predicament with the passion of Preston's ... |
1439234_12 | The Not-So-Crackpot Autism Theory | to vomit!'' What comes through in an examination of the documents uncovered by Safe Minds is less a coverup than an impression of scientists anxiously watching over their shoulders as they work. One document, for example, records comments made by Robert Brent, a Philadelphia pediatrician who served as a consultant for ... |
1439209_4 | Bleeding Ireland | of internees devising a new strategy for the I.R.A. Force was still favored to drive the British out but, to achieve something ''during our lifetimes,'' Adams called for a long war that, to retain the essential support of Catholics, meant open political activity as well. In this, Moloney says, lay the germ of the I.R.A... |
1439417_4 | Personal Business; Suddenly, State Universities Have More Allure | Hill, where in-state tuition is $3,856, outsiders pay $15,140. In some cases, out-of-state students may eventually be able to establish residency, to qualify for the lower in-state tuition. Each state has its own requirements, though many will demand proof that a student has had permanent ties for at least a year. Evid... |
1439592_0 | Menopause Without Pills: Rethinking Hot Flashes | In the few months since a study of a widely used hormone regimen found that its risks outweighed its benefits, the prevailing view of menopause has undergone a momentous shift. For decades, women have been told that the symptoms of menopause -- hot flashes and night sweats as well as vaginal dryness that could make sex... |
1439529_0 | The World; France and America, Perfect Together | FOR eight tumultuous weeks, the French and the Americans played a magnificently elegant diplomatic game. They feinted. They sparred. They shared their feelings and pledged their trust. But they never threatened. And they never leaked the secrets of their talks. In the end, just days after elections in which President B... |
1439300_4 | If You Can't Draw This ... | responses are necessarily brief -- sometimes just a preprinted sheet with boxes checked off (''Needs work in color,'' ''Needs work in line'') or a few handwritten sentences. John Gordon, who received his master of fine arts degree in painting from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, is the only teacher at his Gordo... |
1444284_2 | Science or Serendipity? Unlocking the Alchemy of Ceramics | through space until your phone detects the radiation,'' she said. At the receiving end in cellphones, ceramics are used as passive devices to select the operating frequency so that people can receive messages meant for them rather than their neighbors. Only a few ceramic materials are known that meet the demands impose... |
1444326_3 | Thanksgiving Travelers Tell a Different Story, One With Shorter Lines | educated traveling public, trained to arrive hours before flights to avoid the problems that previously bedeviled the system. In addition, airline agents said today, more people were flying earlier in the week to beat the usual crush. Since Sept. 11, the most anxious part of a trip for many air passengers has been the ... |
1444248_4 | First, Drive Your S.U.V. Over 1 Cup Walnuts | so we did just that, lining them up one by one in front of my Subaru's front tire. The tire crushed each hull perfectly, with an alarming pop. I could hear my mechanic asking me, ''What are these nuts doing imbedded in your radial tires?'' No matter. We lined up hulls in front of both tires. Then we pulled the nuts out... |
1442781_0 | Do Triple Majors Stifle Curiosity? | To the Editor: We seem to have forgotten that the word ''school'' comes from a Greek word for leisure (front page, Nov. 17). The notion of leisure from business or professional concerns, for the purpose of developing a mind as something valuable in itself, used to be at the heart of a liberal arts education. Now everyt... |
1442800_4 | A MAJOR SUSPECT IN QAEDA ATTACKS IS IN U.S. CUSTODY | of weapons, and plotted a new wave of attacks in the region. American and Moroccan officials have said that Mr. Nashiri had planned an operation earlier this year to blow up American and British warships in the Strait of Gibraltar, off the northern coast of Morocco. The plan was thwarted by Moroccan intelligence agents... |
1442762_2 | Regulators Say Morgan Stanley Did Not Keep E-Mail Records | years. The records must be preserved ''in an accessible place'' for two years after they are written. Prosecutors say that under New York state law, a firm that deleted e-mail messages that it was required to maintain could be found guilty of falsifying business records. If the destruction of the e-mail messages was fo... |
1442774_8 | Madison Ave. Has Growing Role In the Business of Drug Research | accuracy of the transcript of their conference call. Novartis said the article was not intended to conclude that one product was better than the others. Instead, the company said, it was a review of the available medications in which the authors could suggest theoretical advantages. Mr. Beitler said that Intramed was u... |
1442743_0 | Energy Dept. Finances Effort to Create Living Cell | The Department of Energy has given a $3 million grant to Dr. J. Craig Venter, leader of the private effort to decode the human genome, to develop the best possible approximation to an artificially created living cell. Under the grant, which was first reported by The Washington Post yesterday, scientists at an institute... |
1437459_3 | Climate Talks Shift Focus to How to Deal With Changes | machines. Conservative policy analysts said proposed curbs on fuel use were thus unrealistic and unjustified, while making countries more resilient to extremes of weather made sense for many reasons. One goal, Mr. Ebell said, should be to enable low-lying countries like Bangladesh to respond to typhoons the way Florida... |
1437399_2 | Outside Halls Of Power, Many Fear Free Trade | Americas, has become a big topic in local newspapers and among ordinary people. ''Our companies are not efficient enough to compete,'' said Tomás Iglesias, a retired accountant who now drives a taxi part time. Ordinary Ecuadoreans have experienced both the benefits and costs of greater global integration. In a bid to h... |
1439041_0 | Slowing the Spread of AIDS in India | India is well on its way to becoming a global economic superpower. Its economy has significantly outpaced much of Asia in recent years, its internationally competitive information technology and pharmaceutical industries are projected to grow dramatically this decade, and the country's purchasing power is now the fourt... |
1441710_0 | Flash Points Loom In War on Hunger | OVER the last decade, the news about world hunger has not been all bad. On the plus side, the number of people who are chronically undernourished or starving dropped by 20 million during the 1990's, according to a recent report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. On the minus side are two grim fa... |
1441710_4 | Flash Points Loom In War on Hunger | third of Eritrea's population -- are said to be threatened by the current crisis. North Korea's long slide into widespread malnutrition began in 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and its satellite states stopped providing food and economic aid. Since 1995, floods, droughts and tropical storms have multiplied the co... |
1441840_2 | Team Conner and Swiss Advance in Impressive Fashion | ''I had a personal ambition to sail on that boat,'' Ellison said. ''But the fact of the matter is that my personal goals and ambitions have to take second place to the team's goal to win.'' Ellison is leaving Auckland for three weeks to tend to Oracle business. When he gets back in December, Dickson swears that his bos... |
1441794_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''It's important to remember that cellphones are glorified radios. They're subject to interference from a lot of things, from building walls to sunspots to the weather. There will always be a tradeoff between mobility and call quality.'' TRAVIS LARSON, a spokesman for the wireless industry's main trade group. [A17] |
1441783_1 | Attempted Hijacking Foiled Aboard an Israeli Airliner | ''He had a little knife, a switchblade.'' Ms. Arnon said the suspect would probably not have made it inside the cockpit. ''Our cabin doors are locked,'' she said. Turkey's state-run news agency, Anatolia, identified the suspect as Tevfik Fukra, a 23-year-old Israeli Arab. Mr. Fukra was led off the plane and taken into ... |
1441695_3 | After the Non-Revolution, Nonprofits Tiptoe Online | in efficiency and less spoilage. But a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to develop the technology fizzled as the enormous undertaking grew increasingly expensive. ''Before we got very far, we had to start over,'' said David Prendergast, vice president for technology at America's Second Harvest. The nonprofit now works ... |
1439931_1 | Beyond Anger: Studying the Subconscious Nature of Rage | anger management course and get a grip. But what many people don't realize is that the human brain comes hard-wired for anger and rage. There is strong recent evidence from neuroscience that people share this ancient emotional neural circuitry with all kinds of animals. For example, one can experimentally induce rage i... |
1440024_1 | A Sight That Inspires Ambivalence; Ruins of a Religious Park Await Restorers or the Bulldozer | Greco, a Waterbury lawyer, has deteriorated so badly that the nuns, from Religious Teachers Filippini, are not sure what to do with it. In February, church officials announced that the archbishop of Hartford, Daniel A. Cronin, had approved a $10 million restoration project and $25,000 to kick things off. But those plan... |
1439924_3 | Deer Draw Cougars Ever Eastward | exploring east across the Great Plains, with confirmed sightings or roadside carcasses in Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. Within the past decade, a thriving population has established itself in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Depending on where they live, mountain lions are also called cougars, pum... |
1442348_0 | Prison Looms for French Farmer, an Anti-Globalization Gadfly | A star of anti-globalization has fallen. José Bové, the sheep farmer and convicted vandal whose mission is to save France from fast food and free trade, is to serve 14 months in prison after the country's highest court today threw out his appeal. The media-savvy Mr. Bové, 49, protests against globalization at economic ... |
1442348_1 | Prison Looms for French Farmer, an Anti-Globalization Gadfly | of Roquefort cheese, he also has opposed American trade tariffs against French luxury foods and multinational corporations. The court's decision means that Mr. Bové must also serve a separate eight-month sentence for a similar attack on gene-modified crops in France in 1998. He also faces a $7,600 fine. His fall actual... |
1444106_1 | Students Learning to Evade Moves to Protect Media Files | at her community college in Des Moines. ''There's not much they can do to stop you.'' Nevertheless, university administrators are trying, spurred on in part by a barrage of letters from entertainment companies notifying them of student abuses. Many entertainment concerns have hired companies to search popular file-trad... |
1444025_4 | An Indian Food Company Expands | emergency rule, the Maiyas had their workers prepare food mixes. The offerings of MTR Foods have since grown to include a variety of snacks, pickles, ice creams and ready-to-eat vegetarian dishes, competing in the highly segmented food market with products from multinationals like Hindustan Lever and Nestlé. In 2000, M... |
1444101_4 | Women With H.I.V. Reach Half of Global Cases | ''Fields are more likely to be left fallow and smaller areas kept under cultivation,'' the United Nations said. ''Weeding is neglected, infrastructure (such as fences and irrigation ditches) falls into disrepair, and pest control becomes too expensive.'' And, Dr. Piot said, ''communities become less resilient and weake... |
1444100_1 | Strikes Jolt France, but It Has Seen Worse | let off clouds of smoke, marched from the Montparnasse area into the heart of the chic Seventh Arrondissement. The official estimate by the police put the crowd at 30,000; union organizers estimated it at 50,000 to 80,000. ''We are saying no to privatization in public service,'' said Thierry Victoire-Feron, a postal wo... |
1444028_0 | A Shaft of Sunlight | To the Editor: Re ''Designers Draw Praise for Trade Center Ideas'' (news article, Nov. 22): I was glad to hear of the creativity of the new design proposals for the World Trade Center site. A suggestion: The tallest new building could contain a full-length atrium or external vertical channel. Fix a mirror at the top of... |
1438176_3 | Study Suggests Long-Term Hormone Therapy May Reduce Alzheimer's Risk for Women | to take estrogen were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. One problem is that women who take hormones after menopause are different from those who do not take the drugs. Hormone users tend to be more educated, for example, and healthier. Some of the very features that make them likely to take hormone therapy ar... |
1438129_2 | Say Cheese, For Airport Insecurity And for Art | of a woven floor mat and a scratched-up table leg. An even blurrier picture of someone's orange vest, shot at point-blank range in Halifax. Ms. Devos hoped to find patterns, like similarities in airport décor. A lot of airport interiors have gray and pink color schemes, she observed. She expected to see pictures of sec... |
1438769_0 | Downtown: Just Do It! | To the Editor: Re ''Longing for a Sept. 10 Skyline; Some Vocal Groups Call for Restoring the Twin Towers'' (news article, Nov. 2): Rebuild the old towers, put up new ones, design something innovative and breathtaking. Lay out a splendid park and public space with nightly beams of light, but do something. For those of u... |
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