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1438880_2 | Ringleader of '85 Achille Lauro Hijacking Says Killing Wasn't His Fault | to Mr. Klinghoffer, Mr. Abbas seemed to search for words that would express regret but not an apology, and that would equate the Klinghoffer killing with American and Israeli military actions that have caused civilian deaths. ''Of course, it wasn't my fault,'' he said. ''I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, a... |
1436959_2 | U.S. May Abandon Support Of U.N. Population Accord | away from traditional ideas of family planning and embraced the idea that giving women more control over their lives would provide a check against explosive population growth. The program of action called for stabilizing the world's population at no more than 9.8 billion by 2050 and it urged countries to make health ca... |
1436959_3 | U.S. May Abandon Support Of U.N. Population Accord | traditional ideas of family planning and embraced the idea that giving women more control over their lives would provide a check against explosive population growth. The program of action called for stabilizing the world's population at no more than 9.8 billion by 2050 and it urged countries to make health care widely ... |
1436980_0 | Longing for a Sept. 10 Skyline; Some Vocal Groups Call for Restoring the Twin Towers | On Lafayette Street in SoHo, a little more than a mile from ground zero, the World Trade Center soars resplendently on a billboard that cries, ''Rebuild the Towers, Bigger and Better Than Before.'' Across the street, at the firehouse for Ladder 20, which lost seven firefighters on Sept. 11 and also houses the Fire Depa... |
1436945_0 | Proposal to Reduce Greenhouse Gases Loses Momentum | An international conference on climate change concluded here today with the adoption of a declaration that sidestepped any future commitments by developing countries to curb the emission of the gases that cause global warming. Within a decade, countries like China, Mexico and India are collectively predicted to surpass... |
1444586_1 | Dump Vexes a Real-Life Bedford Falls | Seneca Meadows have paid for many of the public improvements intended to attract visitors and new residents. ''I weigh the pros and the cons,'' said the town supervisor, Peter Same. ''The cons are odor and traffic. The pros are finances.'' But that trade-off is suddenly getting a second look. Last month, when word spre... |
1443428_0 | No Cellphone Ambivalence. Just Pass the Drivers' Ban. | To the Editor: I read with interest George James's article on the use of cellphones while driving (''Say What? Ambivalence Over the Use of Cellphones Keeps Legislators From Cracking Down,'' Nov. 17). I have no such ambivalence. I fully support state legislation banning the use of hand-held cellphones while driving. I h... |
1443502_1 | Snooping Employers | an employee's computer use. If there were a strong suspicion of wrongdoing by an individual -- sexual harassment or illegal music downloading, for example -- then the employer should investigate. But to engage in routine electronic surveillance of employees without probable cause is overreaching. By providing a mode of... |
1443461_4 | Going Their Way | Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee as a prophet with important future influence; Weakland later discredited himself by secretly paying off with church funds an adult homosexual lover. But otherwise this book is as convincing in its analysis as the earlier one was in its statistics. Schoenherr's focus is on the priesthood in... |
1443265_0 | Ideas & Trends; There Goes the Neighborhood | MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG'S new idea for New York City homeless shelters? Retired cruise ships -- the discos and bars removed -- docked at the Hudson or East Rivers. ''In many ways they are ideal,'' said Linda I. Gibbs, the city's commissioner of homeless services, who was dispatched to the Bahamas last week by the ma... |
1443538_2 | Old-Time Vaudeville Looks Young Again | thoughtful and accused of being New Vaudevillians more than a decade ago, despise the term.) What could be new about acts as ancient as jugglers brilliant at bumbling? The answer is attitude. Today's performers are clearly younger, the intellectual riffs on seemingly old-fashioned acts are green-apple fresh and, in som... |
1443213_0 | It May Not Be the Bois de Boulogne, But a Chelsea Cafe Feels Like Home | OUTSIDE, cold rain pelted a bleak stretch of Avenue of the Americas. Inside the King and I, a Chelsea plant store and cafe, a group of 20 or so New Yorkers, mostly Parisian transplants, sweated among palm and orange trees and gnawed on cold crab legs. Catherine Malandrino, the fashion designer, had rented the place fro... |
1443309_3 | As Andean Glaciers Shrink, Water Worries Grow | vanishing at a particularly rapid pace in recent years. At the huge Quelccaya Ice Cap, which stretches across Peru, the largest glacier, Qori Kalis, is retreating at a rate 44 times as fast today as it was from 1963 to 1978, when American scientists determined it was melting by about four yards a year. Glaciers in Vene... |
1443153_1 | Millennium Pipeline Bodes Ill for River | by New York's Department of State, Millennium is looking to the United States Department of Commerce to override the state agency's decision. Critics argue that the need for Millennium's gas has not been sufficiently demonstrated, in light of other projects like the Eastchester Expansion and the Northeast ConneXion Pip... |
1441020_1 | Tradition as Healer | the bishops voted overwhelmingly for a policy that they insist amounts to zero tolerance, although victims of abuse are not convinced. Phase 2, for which many prelates began laying the groundwork at the meeting, is to lead the church back to ''holiness'' by proclaiming core doctrine and discipline. A corollary is shunn... |
1440994_0 | A Prospect Delayed In Canada's Arctic | The streets of this town above the Arctic Circle and alongside the Mackenzie River are lined with heavy construction equipment and dormitory trailers for drilling workers, all poised for a long-expected natural gas bonanza. Seventy-three trillion cubic feet of proven and potential natural gas reserves -- three and a ha... |
1437972_1 | Tough Issues on Baggage Screening Remain | the original flight, are particularly concerned with who would pay if the missed flight was the fault of security and not the airline. But another issue is the new procedure for searching bags, largely out of the owner's presence. The issue is so sensitive that there is even debate over who will tell the public. The ai... |
1437940_2 | China and Neighbors Move Ahead on Trade and Island Issues | labor is cheaper. Analysts said the Southeast Asian nations had little choice but to enter into the agreements with China because of its economic and military power. ''We are fully conscious that China is a superpower,'' said a senior official with Cambodia's Ministry of the Environment. ''Maintaining economic ties wit... |
1437899_0 | Museum's Goal: Save the World's Wild Places | The verdant mountains and high-altitude wetlands of northern Peru nurture a dazzling variety of plants and animals. Few humans live there, so nature has been allowed to flower. That seemed about to change two years ago. Lumber companies developed plans for large-scale logging in the area. Conservationists feared it wou... |
1452789_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A2-7 White House Backs Away From North Korea Policy The Bush administration has backed away from a longstanding declaration by the United States that it would not tolerate a North Korean nuclear arsenal, as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and other officials insisted that making demands of the governme... |
1445297_1 | Black Market For Software Is Sidestepping Export Controls | software from Intelligent Light, which in licensed versions typically sells for $12,000, was being sold by Chinese entrepreneurs for $200. The posted advertisement for the wares promised that a ''step-by-step install guide and crack file make it easy to install and use!'' Which means that anyone with a modem and a litt... |
1445292_3 | Making Philosophy Matter to Politics | to a new era in which these principles seemed increasingly radical -- he did insist that the American system of campaign financing was distorting the right to vote. Another change was Mr. Rawls's growing interest in justice for women. Unlike some of his younger colleagues -- Robert Nozick, for example, who also died th... |
1445369_6 | With No Answers on Risks, Steroid Users Still Say 'Yes' | elsewhere were using them. Jan Todd of the University of Texas at Austin became a competitive lifter in the 1970's when she married Terry Todd and began tagging along when he went to gyms. ''I got caught up in this quest for strength,'' she said. Soon she was smashing world records. By the 1980's, however, many female ... |
1445315_0 | Arrests Illustrate a Growing Concern Over Bootlegged Recordings | From all appearances, the store on Deer Park Avenue in North Babylon, N.Y., nestled between shops and restaurants, looked like any other music store along a strip mall. But if law enforcement authorities are right, the Long Island store, Spin Music, was one of the biggest bootlegging operations on the East Coast, takin... |
1446722_2 | Fliers Will Soon Be Able To Go Online On Board | JetConnect puts a server computer on the airplane, like the servers that are at the heart of office computer networks. The server connects to the Internet once every 15 minutes, meaning it uploads and downloads information in batches. Plans are to add high-speed e-mail later. Initially JetConnect will have news, weathe... |
1446849_4 | When Autism Strikes | last decade. During this period, the definition of autism was expanded to include more able children on one end and more mentally impaired on the other. Using the new definition, one in 250 children were labeled autistic. Despite the changing definition, Dr. Crimmins said, ''When you compare apples to apples we're now ... |
1446681_2 | A Noteworthy Collection | ruminates on a year in her garden's life. Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart By Steven Bach. Da Capo, $19. A portrait of the hugely popular Broadway entertainer. THE DEATH OF SWEET MISTER By Daniel Woodrell. Plume, $13. Pulpish fiction about jealousy and fury in the Ozarks. The devil's larder By Jim Crace. Picado... |
1446988_0 | Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest | Manuel López Gómez is watching the green world around him disappear, ravaged by people whose only path from starvation lies in slashing and burning the jungle to plant a patch of corn. ''We are out of balance here,'' said Mr. López, 60, a local farmer turned conservationist. ''We are trying to stop the destruction. If ... |
1446919_8 | A New Eurofestation | Chelsea Market that is the future site of Zukabar, a tribal theme bar and restaurant to be operated by the owners of Buddha Bar, Aymeric Lombard, a French-Italian investment banker, took in an exhibition called ''Lost Worlds.'' A mostly European crowd made dinner plans on cellphones below the new agey photomontages of ... |
1446731_2 | Tchaikovsky | may be what interests us, but it mainly distorts if you only look through that lens.'' Although Babbitt doesn't share Taruskin's enthusiasm for Tchaikovsky's work, he certainly agrees on this point. ''I understand that Tchaikovsky suffered terribly and that he was a homosexual, but that doesn't interest me. It would ne... |
1446726_2 | If the Holidays Aren't at Home | alternate airport -- John Wayne in Orange County instead of LAX, or Hartford, instead of Boston, each about an hour away from the bigger airport. Or, if your travel dates are flexible, try flying at ''off'' times like Christmas Day, New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Internet agencies like Travelocity.com or Expedia.com... |
1446938_0 | Why the Right Rules the Radio Waves | THE traffic is murder out there, and Ed on the car phone wants to know: Why can't those liberal weenies mix it up? Translation: when you're backed up on the expressway and a radio voice is howling at you, why isn't that voice ever a liberal? For much of the last decade, conservative talk radio hosts built carnivorous e... |
1446670_56 | Notable Books | A. Talese/Doubleday, $45.) A prodigiously researched history that is neither top-down nor bottom-up but cross-sectional: shunning traditional chronology and players (aristocrats are scarce), Ackroyd instead offers a London defined by a set of recurring motifs -- smell, sound, speech, fog, fire, ghosts and plague are so... |
1452220_0 | Keeping an Eye on the River View | GREAT things are happening along Westchester County's waterfront. Projects in communities from Yonkers to Sleepy Hollow and Peekskill are connecting people to the river and with recreational, residential and commercial projects that will invigorate local economies while improving the quality of life of residents. Westc... |
1452329_0 | Finding the Hydrogen For Hydrogen-Powered Cars | To the Editor: Aside from the question of where the hydrogen for a hydrogen fuel-cell car will come from, there is another problem. In my town, Los Angeles, most of the land surface is paved in dedication to automobile driving: roads, freeways, driveways, parking lots, parking structures, curbside parking, home garages... |
1452208_25 | Full Lives, Captured In Memory And Words | baseball. In 1996, he was inducted into the university's Sports Hall of Fame. Mr. Suchodolski began teaching in Stratford, then moved to Rocky Hill where he spent 25 years as a teacher, coach and principal. In 1969, he became a special education supervisor in the Hartford schools. Mr. Suchodolski was also a high school... |
1452035_5 | Good News From Bad | does tragedy produce pleasure? ''It is not just that we feel glad and grieved at the same time,'' Eagleton says, ''but that we feel glad about our grief.'' Perhaps we should get rid of the old association of tragedy with high morality and be content to think that, since we are human, a certain sadism is involved in the... |
1452144_0 | More Screening At the Airport | AS the Dec. 31 deadline approaches for the nation's 429 commercial airports to begin screening all passengers' luggage for explosives, travelers checking bags can expect a new round of security procedures. Until now, most of the changes implemented by the Transportation Security Administration have focused on improving... |
1451064_3 | In Latest Concepts for Ground Zero, It's Reality vs. Renaissance | landmarks preservation. Over the years relationships among these agencies have become stale, frozen, inimical to change. Is this a reality or a status quo? What has become clear in the past week is that this state of affairs is light-years away from the aspirations of the public these agencies represent. Six teams of a... |
1451114_0 | For U.N. Labor of Hercules, A Talk- and Walk-Through | When United Nations inspectors entered the Baghdad space research and development center this morning to carry out their first inspection at the site, they queried the scientists heading the various laboratories there about potential links between creating Iraq's prototype satellite and making weapons. ''They asked us ... |
1449179_3 | Carried From the Couch on the Wings of Enchantment | that I was out beyond myself, had almost lost all touch with who I even was, and it was . . . bliss. After that Sabbath afternoon of rapture among the Forms, it was philosophy for me, and I eventually got my doctorate in the field. During the period of intense concentration when I was writing my Ph.D. dissertation, I h... |
1449230_0 | South Korean Candidates Focus on the North | North Korea's nuclear program dominated the debate in the South Korean election campaign today, four days before voters cast ballots for a successor to President Kim Dae Jung. Although both Lee Hoi Chang, the presidential candidate of the conservative Grand National Party, and Roh Moo Hyun, the candidate of the governi... |
1445964_3 | Volunteers Are Virtual, but Connections Are Real | Kim, executive director of iMentor, put it: ''It's a flexible way to be a mentor, but it's still a commitment. You can't just flake out and not show up.'' Sarah Jane Rehnborg, a consultant in volunteerism and community service at the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community at the University of Texas at Austin, which ... |
1446097_0 | Achille Castiglioni, 84, Modern Design Leader | Achille Castiglioni, the Italian architect and designer whose infusions of wit into domestic objects like lamps and stools helped establish Italy as a leader in sophisticated modern design after World War II, died on Monday in Milan at age 84. He is survived by his wife, Irma, two daughters, Giovanna and Monica, and a ... |
1445971_0 | Online Diary | URL of Sandwich What's your favorite sandwich? For some that question is simply too personal. But those willing to share favored fillings should visit the Sandwich Project (www.iliveonyourvisits.com/sp). The site now lists more than 520 submissions from around the world (but mostly Britain and North America), and that ... |
1446076_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Switzerland: Biotechnology Venture | The agricultural chemicals company Syngenta of Switzerland will team up with an American pharmaceuticals developer, the Diversa Corporation, in a research deal that Syngenta hopes will keep them ahead of the competition in the biotechnology business while giving them a presence in the market for making drugs from plant... |
1444858_2 | Uncovering PT-109 And Family History | ways,'' he said. ''At any moment they could have been killed.'' The future President Kennedy, then a 26-year-old Navy lieutenant j.g., had been given command of PT-109 in the spring of 1943. The small boats were designed to spy as well as to attack enemy ships and then make a speedy escape. Assignment to a PT boat was ... |
1444838_0 | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks | THE ROYAL PHYSICIAN'S VISIT, by Per Olov Enquist. (Washington Square, $14.) Set in the Danish court in the 1770's, this fact-based yarn by a veteran Swedish novelist and playwright tells of how the German physician to the young king becomes Denmark's de facto ruler, and of how the idealistic doctor's affair with the qu... |
1444981_0 | One More Rescue Attempt For a Battered Landmark | Like a patient on life-support, the old Towers Nursing Home, a chateau-style landmark at 106th Street and Central Park West, has long teetered on the brink. But this time, some preservationists were afraid that death was near. Built in 1884 as the nation's first cancer hospital, the building had sat dormant for 27 year... |
1444932_0 | A Play Has a Second Life as a Stage for Discussion | ''THE LARAMIE PROJECT,'' the play that the director Moisés Kaufman and his Tectonic Theater Project created about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student in Wyoming, had its world premiere in 2000 at the Denver Center Theater Company. The production moved directly to New York for a respectfully receiv... |
1450131_5 | The Holiday Spirit Taken Out for a Spin | plate. If the wreath is lighted, the lights should be designed specifically for outdoor use on an automobile and the bulbs should be white and nonflashing to avoid mimicking emergency vehicles. In most cases the wreath will not block air intake enough to overheat the engine. But while putting a wreath on a car is doabl... |
1450160_0 | Transmission Of West Nile In the Womb Is Confirmed | A baby girl born infected with the West Nile virus in Syracuse a month ago is the world's first documented case in which the virus was transmitted in the womb, health officials said yesterday. The baby was born with severe brain defects and is being treated for a respiratory infection in a hospital, said Dr. Lloyd F. N... |
1450197_0 | Agency Gives Revised Rules For Air Travel | Air travelers should avoid putting food or undeveloped film into packed bags, and should not lock them, the Transportation Security Administration said today. The agency is already screening some checked bags for explosives, and is to screen all checked bags by Dec. 31. Some equipment for detecting explosives does so b... |
1447891_2 | Sticks and stones can break bones, but the wrong name can make a job hard to find. | black women were not uncommon; they represent 7.1 percent of all names listed on Massachusetts birth certificates for black girls from 1974 to 1979. The 50 percent advantage in interview requests for white-sounding names held in both Boston and Chicago, and for both men and women. This discrepancy complements findings ... |
1447912_4 | Warnings From Al Qaeda Stir Fear That Terrorists May Attack Oil Tankers | axes and hoses to be fair defensive weapons, unlike guns, for which they often punish ship crews. The axes are used to sever the pirates' grappling hooks, and the hoses spraying water off the stern are supposed to make the pirate boats wet and slippery platforms from which to mount an attack. The pirate boats are typic... |
1449640_5 | Taking French Children's Fashion Global | added, Jacadi expects global revenue of about 135 million euros ($138 million), or 3 percent more than 2001. That would follow a 9 percent increase from 2000 to 2001. About 55 percent of revenues are generated outside France, compared with 35 percent five years ago, he said, with the United States contributing about 20... |
1449681_1 | Mission on the Mekong: Save the Giant Catfish | fish caught a couple of miles upriver from Phnom Penh on the Tonle Sap, represented a routine catch for the conservation program, which is sponsored by the University of California, Davis, and the National Geographic Conservation Trust. The really big scores, both for Mr. Hogan and for the fishermen, are the giant catf... |
1449666_0 | Over U.S. Protest, Asian Group Approves Family Planning Goals | A United Nations regional conference on population issues closed contentiously today, with Asian nations overwhelmingly rejecting efforts by the Bush administration to insert anti-abortion provisions into an international agreement on family planning. The head of the United States delegation also stirred controversy at... |
1449102_0 | Finding Rewards in the Job, Not the Pay | IF you know how to find out how much money was spent last year on advertising aimed at children or how many foreign students are enrolled in American universities, you might -- just might -- be able to work at Harper's Magazine for a few months. That is, if you could also successfully complete the rest of an elaborate ... |
1448713_0 | The Year in Ideas; Remote-Controlled Rats | The grand 21st-century movement toward industrialized biology took a rapid scurry forward this year with the invention of a remote-controlled rodent. The ''ratbot,'' created at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, is a lab rat wearing a tiny radio-controlled backpack, operated by a h... |
1448892_0 | Personal Business; As Screening Increases, Travel Light to Travel Best | THE new baggage screening rules being phased in at the nation's 429 commercial airports are creating a host of concerns for holiday travelers, with many wondering about delays, thefts and even whether they should carry wrapped gifts. Congress set a Dec. 31 deadline for the federal Transportation Security Administration... |
1448550_3 | A Philosopher in Full | to cultivate disdain for talking, laughing, swearing, dinner-party attendance, sex before marriage and theatergoing, unless they were able to focus on the moral of the drama to the exclusion of all other pleasures. All this makes Stoicism an astringent tonic for a society afraid of its own eager submission to the reign... |
1448575_0 | Attention Holiday Shoppers: Pack Carefully | With strict post-Sept. 11 airport security rules in effect as the heavy holiday travel season draws millions of passengers to airlines, the Transportation Security Administration has issued advice on how to get through the ordeal as smoothly as possible. One important consideration is the increase in the amount of X-ra... |
1449010_1 | U.S. Raises Abortion Issue At Conference On Families | methods, officials said. But an array of Asian and European diplomats attending the conference, as well as representatives of nonprofit organizations observing the event, asserted on Friday that the United States delegation was virtually isolated in its position. These observers said the administration was opposed by t... |
1448692_0 | Cell-Tower Anthranx-Detection Network, The | Cellphones were sometimes called ''wingless angels'' after the tragedies of Sept. 11. They helped save trapped people and quickly reunited disaster survivors. They enabled the captive uprising that kept a fourth hijacked plane from attacking Congress or the White House, thus saving America's political leadership from t... |
1448982_0 | A Coming Flood Erodes the Life of a Chinese City | Anyone who has money, a good job or a friend in the right place has long since abandoned this riverside city. Banks and government offices have drawn their shutters. The medical clinic will close its doors for good next week. Empty buildings have been taken over by squatters. The people who remain here are poor, desper... |
1448631_0 | The Year in Ideas; Whitelisting | The dream of e-mail has always been that of an open world. It was to be a revved-up cognate of the telephone and, hearkening to a simpler age, shouting across the village square. With a few keyboard strokes, Jimmy or Timmy in Brisbane, Australia, could easily shout out to another Jimmy or Timmy in Sandusky, Ohio. Those... |
1448588_0 | The Year in Ideas; Genetically Modified Saliva | The human mouth is home to more than 300 species of bacteria living in a mucky film of proteins, carbohydrates and germs known as a biofilm. Swirling around in our saliva, this biofilm contains one particularly nasty bug, named Streptococcus mutans, that secretes an enzyme that attacks tooth enamel and causes cavities.... |
1448585_0 | The Year in Ideas; Intellectual Magnet Cities | American cities used to become rich and important by attracting high-energy, low-skilled workers from abroad or from farm states. Now they do the same thing by luring brainy young people away from less livable American cities. Austin, San Francisco and Seattle are sparkling with newly arrived smarties who recently fled... |
1448954_1 | The Nation; To Save the Forest, The Trees Must Go | mismanagement -- including the practice of putting out every single fire -- have left dense thickets of undergrowth. Often these projects are aimed at protecting small communities at the forest edge. But rarely do they involve cutting so many trees, or such big ones, especially in sensitive wildlife habitat deeper in t... |
1446188_5 | A Miniature Joy Ride on 1,000 Feet of Toy Track | music halls. This year Mr. Busse has added more sites than ever before: Grant's Tomb, the New Amsterdam theater and several Central Park structures, including Bethesda Fountain, Belvedere Castle, the bandstand, the dairy and the Bridle Path Arch. The landmarks are not literal; they are projections of a fantasy New York... |
1446350_2 | California Dioceses Brace for New Abuse Suits as Law Allows Litigation of Old Cases | settlement of a sexual abuse case she brought in 1991 and now works for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, said that she was trying to telephone all 400 Californians on a list of those who had contacted the organization over the last 10 years to tell them about the new law. She is working from a de... |
1445831_0 | Danger Ahead: Driver on the Phone | To the Editor: The Harvard study on cellphones and drivers illustrates how cost-benefit analysts can miss the forest for the trees (''The Pros and Cons of Car Cellphones Are Called Equal,'' news article, Dec. 2). The real issue is not whether the perceived benefits to the cellphone-using drivers equal or exceed the cos... |
1445756_1 | Kenya's Porous Border Lies Open to Arms Smugglers | Kenyan coast. American and Kenyan officials have pointed to a Somali group called Al Itihaad, which is believed to have links to Al Qaeda. Both groups have been named as possible suspects in the attacks. The attention on the illegal traffic across the Kenyan-Somali border casts a new light on the historic smuggling rou... |
1445765_1 | THE MARKETS: Market Place; Five Brokerage Firms Fined For Not Keeping Messages | favored clients, securities regulators began to see how haphazard the retention of e-mail messages was at some brokerage firms. For example, regulators found that some firms discarded, recycled, or wrote over the e-mail tapes that should have been kept, sometimes after less than a year. While some firms relied on their... |
1449441_3 | Japan Says Nuclear Effort In Korea Merits Hard Line | in a 1994 accord with the United States and other countries in the region. At first, for example, Japan joined with South Korea, Russia and China in quietly arguing that it would be better to continue economic assistance to North Korea while resolving the nuclear crisis. American allies in the region, too, are said to ... |
1450603_3 | Flight Check-In: Do It Yourself | not handle seat changes or passengers checking luggage. Now, travelers checking luggage can indicate how many pieces they are checking; their luggage tags will print out at a nearby customer service agent who attaches the tags and take the bags. (With some airlines, passengers checking luggage need to use dedicated mac... |
1450715_3 | A Silver Lining to Scandals: More Are Drawn to Accounting | publicity'' over accounting scandals. ''When students read that accountants are so important to the economy, they wonder whether they should go into it,'' Mr. Hollander said. ''The effect has been positive.'' The scandals may be helping in another way. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires more stringent procedures f... |
1450840_3 | The Nation: Moving Target; The Shifting Lexicon of Race | responsible for feelings you didn't know you had. ''I'm not a racist'' came to sound a bit like ''I don't have any homosexual anxiety.'' ''Racism'' and the other terms of the 60's blurred the distinction between thoughts and deeds. The social scientists of the 50's had insisted that ''prejudice'' and ''discrimination''... |
1450716_0 | It Just Stinks. But Don't Take It Away. | A FEW weeks ago, just when the warnings that there might be a transit strike had begun to permeate our collective shield of denial, I rode Metro North back home. The man in the seat behind me talked nonstop into his cellphone, complaining to his unseen listener (who listened and listened and listened) about how he hate... |
1450783_3 | Word for Word/Play Ball!; How Finders Keepers Turned Into a Joint-Custody Case | may run for a distance before falling. The hunter acquires possession upon the act of wounding the animal, not the eventual capture. Similarly, whalers acquire possession by landing a harpoon, not by subduing the animal. In the salvage cases, an individual may take possession of a wreck by exerting as much control ''as... |
1450658_6 | On the Hunt, Cupid's Arrow In His Quiver | has never married. She said she has felled her share of elk and caribou and knows how to handle a rod and reel. Mr. Barta took her goose hunting. ''I am absolutely upside-down crazy about her,'' Mr. Barta said. ''I am in full courtship and would love to marry this woman.'' The question is whether she wants him. ''There... |
1450634_0 | POSTINGS: 2 New Reports on New York City Published; Analyzing Housing Trends | Two reports offering data and analysis of housing trends in New York City have recently been published. ''The State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods, 2002'' -- a community-by-community look at indicators like housing prices, mortgage originations, foreclosures, tax delinquencies and vacancy rates -- is bein... |
1450849_0 | Doubling of Close Encounters Between Bears and Humans at Yosemite Worries Park Workers | The black bears here are acting up again, popping out car windows and ransacking campsites, and park officials are struggling to understand why. After three years of extraordinary declines in bear encounters, the number of incidents has more than doubled this year from last year. No one has been hurt, but park official... |
1450875_6 | Chasing Youth, Many Gamble On Hormones | then how can you be giving it to people? Get a grip.'' Dr. Livesey and Dr. Raffaele, at the Anti-Aging Medicine clinic in Manhattan, had expected most of their patients to be old people trying to gain enough strength to rise from a chair unassisted, or middle-aged people wanting to look young. Instead, they tend to be ... |
1450688_2 | Toys Afoot From Here to Eternity | she said. ''This kitchen looked like it should have had a price tag on it,'' she said. ''It was gorgeous. It wasn't even soiled. I washed it down, of course, but I didn't really even have to. We wrapped it up and gave it to my daughter for her birthday the next day saying it was from our neighbor.'' The kitchen has a s... |
1450872_4 | A Rockefeller Cafe? Big Plans for Estate, And a Few Murmurs | the farm to a new nonprofit foundation, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, which will lease space to the restaurant. The Stone Barns plan was first broached to the Rockefeller families who live on the estate, then to a larger group of about 50 to 60 Rockefellers, said Ms. Dulany, who raises grass-fed cattle i... |
1451970_0 | In Europe, No Room for the Kids | To the Editor: Re ''Persistent Drop in Fertility Reshapes Europe's Future'' (front page, Dec. 26): The main problem is the woeful inadequacy of the ''science'' of economics to imagine a way for a society to decrease in population while increasing per capita income (or at least, through technology, providing a better li... |
1451972_0 | In Europe, No Room for the Kids | To the Editor: The flip side of Europe's low fertility rate (front page, Dec. 26) is the high fertility rate in developing countries. There are right now one billion people between the ages of 10 and 19 in these countries, and some demographers have settled on a human population estimate of nine billion by the year 205... |
1451974_6 | A Year Later, Blake's Widow Searches for Strength | call at 6 a.m. from Sefton, Blake's business manager. ''I thought nothing of it because I'm quite used to getting phone calls from boats on the other side of the world,'' she said. ''And then he said: 'Pippa, I'm downstairs. Can you let me in?' And I thought, 'Something's not right.' '' In a telephone interview from En... |
1447352_0 | Offering a Sense of Stoicism And Sounding a Bit Like Dad | Jakob Dylan ended his set on Thursday night at Irving Plaza by acknowledging the least enthusiastic members of the audience. ''We are the Wallflowers, if you got dragged along,'' he said. This wasn't a crowd full of drag-alongs: the concert had sold out long ago, even though it seemed as if the snowstorm had persuaded ... |
1447360_4 | Flurry of Satellites to Monitor Earth and Examine Galaxy | Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. H. Jay Zwally, said the measurements would help determine the effects of global warming on the ice sheets and their role in rising sea levels. Historically, he said, about three inches of ocean surface water is transferred to the ice sheets as snowfall every 10 years, and the same amoun... |
1447442_0 | New Rule to Limit Boarding Passes From Gate | The Transportation Security Administration will require nearly all airline passengers to obtain boarding passes before they arrive at the security checkpoint rather than at the gate, the agency said today. The goal is to free workers to screen checked bags rather than screen passengers. Under the current system, travel... |
1447530_0 | Technology Briefing | Internet: Study Focuses On Unsolicited E-Mail At Work | Despite a sharp increase in the amount of unsolicited e-mail flooding in-boxes on home computers this year, many American workers say they receive few of the messages on their office computers, according to a report released Sunday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in Washington. Most of those surveyed said... |
1447375_6 | After Long Hiatus, New Contraceptives Emerge | control available over the counter. High-dose birth control pills, sold under the names Preven and Plan B, offer immediate backup for women who have had unprotected sex. As an interim measure, Dr. Finer said, California, Washington and Alaska already allow pharmacists to provide the pills to women without a prescriptio... |
1452890_0 | MEMO PAD | Deadline at Hand For Baggage Screening When the ball drops at midnight tonight, a new era in air travel will begin. That is the deadline for the Transportation Security Administration to begin screening all checked bags for explosives at all 429 domestic commercial airports. The bag-screening law imposed by Congress wa... |
1452973_2 | By Midnight, All Will Be Set For Screening Checked Bags | and access to conveyors. The ad hoc arrangements have strained already cluttered airport lobbies and required travelers to wait in as many as three lines before boarding. Officials acknowledge, moreover, that the screening machines can generate false positive readings for explosives up to 30 percent of the time. In suc... |
1452951_2 | Amid Brutal Poverty in Iraq, A Favored Few Enjoy Riches | to others' suffering in a society where a vast majority of people have been reduced to penury by two decades of war and sanctions. The sanctions, requiring United Nations approval for Iraq's imports of medicines and other goods, were imposed after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and have continued until now, pending ... |
1452949_1 | Peering Into a Billion Bags | panels clamored throughout the 1990's, to little avail, for all checked bags to be screened. Only after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was the call heeded. The T.S.A. deserves credit for making up for years of inactivity by hastening the production and installation of more than 1,000 of the million-dollar CT-scan-like ... |
1447212_2 | In Spam Fight, the Opposite of a Filter | Anne P. Mitchell, chief executive of Habeas. ''We're helping you pick out the good mail.'' The company, which introduced its products just 13 weeks ago, said it expected to have 20 customers by today, including Harris Interactive, which performs online polling. Another concept, equally new, comes from IronPort, a compa... |
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