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1447313_0 | Corrections | An article on Nov. 13 about the graphic arts in Cuba referred imprecisely to Cuban artworks sold in the United States. They are not banned under the American embargo on Cuban goods; like publications and other informational materials, they are exempt, and Americans who go to Cuba on authorized travel can buy them. |
1445471_0 | South Korea's Bane, in One Word: Plastic | Traffic crawling down expressways, shoppers thronging glittery new malls, and apartment prices taking the elevator are all signs that South Korea's economy is expanding this year at 6 percent, a growth rate second only to China among Asia's biggest economies. Breaking with the Japanese model of sacrificing consumers on... |
1445606_2 | Doing Business by Cellphone Creates New Liability Issues | said. For example, an employee crossing the street might be typing so vigorously into a two-way pager that he would never notice an approaching bus. Would that employee be covered by workers' compensation? Probably, unless a company policy forbade wandering around typing into pagers, said Lawrence Lorber, a partner at ... |
1445624_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Italy: New School Where Quake Killed Pupils | A new school has opened in the tiny southern town of San Giuliano di Puglia, a month after an earthquake made a schoolhouse collapse, killing 26 pupils. A 27th died of injuries yesterday. The new school has canvas walls and ceilings to ease the nerves of residents, many of whom lost relatives in the disaster. The trage... |
1446531_0 | Spread of Gene-Altered Pharmaceutical Corn Spurs $3 Million Fine | A biotechnology company will pay the government about $3 million to settle charges that it did not take proper steps to prevent corn that was genetically engineered to produce pharmaceuticals from entering the food supply. The company, ProdiGene, agreed to pay a civil fine of $250,000 and to reimburse the government fo... |
1448361_5 | The Selective Conscience | his most genocidal. During the so-called Anfal campaign of 1987-88, when tens of thousands of Kurds were slaughtered in mass executions or fumigated with lethal gases, the U.S. regarded Iraq as a bulwark against Iran. Even after the gas attacks were documented the U.S. continued to ladle out credits for Iraq to buy Ame... |
1448488_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Proposal To Recognize Sex Changes | The government proposed legislation granting transsexuals the right to be legally recognized and to marry under their chosen sex. Under the plan, the country's 5,000 transsexuals would also be given the right to birth certificates noting their new sex and could claim pensions at the appropriate age: 60 years for women ... |
1451658_0 | A Plaque for Pete Rose | To the Editor: Re ''Keep the Ban on Pete Rose'' (editorial, Dec. 22): Deterrence, not punishment, is the paramount issue in Pete Rose's ban from baseball. Big-time sports and gambling have a mutual relationship in which one activity benefits the other. However, these worlds must never intersect lest the integrity of th... |
1451625_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-19 Declining Fertility Rates Reshape Europe's Future Italy, Spain, Sweden, Germany and Greece are now feeling the consequences of decades of low fertility rates: less-competitive work forces, surfeits of retirees and pension systems that will need to be cut back deeply. A1 New U.S. Radar for Qatar The ... |
1451610_2 | Persistent Drop in Fertility Reshapes Europe's Future | 31.3 million in 2050 from about 39.9 million now. According to the World Health Organization, Spain's fertility rate last year was 1.1, the lowest in Western Europe. Many provinces in Italy's wealthy, well-educated north have rates well below that. The rate in the province of Ferrara, which includes the city of Ferrara... |
1450465_0 | Trying to Fill A Horrible Void | To the Editor: ''They Rise, but Do They Soar?,'' by Witold Rybczynski (Op-Ed, Dec. 20), about the latest designs for the World Trade Center site, refers to ''repairing the Manhattan skyline.'' A skyline cannot be repaired or restored any more than we could ''repair'' the ''skyline'' of a garden that had lost a towering... |
1449968_2 | Breast Cancer: Genes Are Tied To Death Rates | Mass. The study, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, had its origins a few years ago when the researchers, led by Dr. Rene Bernards, a professor of molecular carcinogenesis at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, began searching thousands of genes from breast tumors. They were asking wheth... |
1449979_1 | Thais Impose Wide Ban on Smoking and, Surprise, It Works | stores or shopping malls, restaurants, barber shops, buses, taxis, elevators, libraries, gymnasiums, beauty salons or even in public toilets. Smoking is banned in most areas of hospitals, airports, banks and museums. In a land where cigarettes have long been the only vice widely practiced by Buddhist monks, it is now i... |
1450087_0 | For Foreign-Language Learners, the Web Unties Tongues | AS an inexpensive, decentralized way to connect people around the world, the Internet presents a wealth of opportunities for students of foreign languages. From dipping into a chat room where the conversation is in Italian to skimming a magazine in Japanese or translating a word from Hindi, the Internet offers a trove ... |
1449967_1 | Visions for Ground Zero | relieved the designers of any obligation to produce ponderous office buildings while freeing them to focus on a more imaginative treatment of the skyline and the trade center towers' footprints. To their credit, these new plans also reimagine downtown Manhattan as a hub of cultural activity. For the next six weeks, the... |
1450028_0 | Online Advertisers Adopt Guidelines | The Interactive Advertising Bureau in New York, a trade group for sellers of online advertising, has adopted guidelines for the use of e-mail mailing lists by its members. The suggested guidelines for companies that provide e-mail lists include guaranteeing that every recipient on the list has agreed to receive e-mail ... |
1449891_0 | For Foreign-Language Learners, the Web Unties Tongues | AS an inexpensive, decentralized way to connect people around the world, the Internet presents a wealth of opportunities for students of foreign languages. From dipping into a chat room where the conversation is in Italian to skimming a magazine in Japanese or translating a word from Hindi, the Internet offers a trove ... |
1449910_2 | Reassembling Sundered Antiquities | elegant, energetic Parthenon frieze is now split among the British Museum in London, which has more than half of the surviving slabs; the Acropolis Museum in Athens, which has most of the rest; the Louvre in Paris, which has one slab; and five other European museums, which have fragments. In several cases, pieces of a ... |
1448178_1 | U.S. Delay on Proposal For Mideast Irks Allies | were due in Washington for the meeting on the Middle East were said to have been so upset about the delays in the drafting of the document map that they threatened not to attend. An official said the meeting was firmed up only today, with word that Mr. Bush would meet with the group. Administration officials assert tha... |
1373590_3 | New Rules Proposed To Help High-Rises Withstand Attacks | the designs of the future.'' This call for design changes to prevent what the experts call progressive collapses -- chain reactions of failures that multiply the direct effects of triggering events like a bomb, a plane crash or a major fire -- is among the first recommendations to emerge from the six-month investigatio... |
1373565_2 | A Crisis of Clergy, Not of Faith | much more open about their policies. These institutional flaws, unfortunately, reach far beyond Boston. A culture of control and complacency reaches all the way to Rome. In the church, a pervasive authoritarian mentality hurts the clergy and laity both. Church staff members and parishioners unquestioningly accept cleri... |
1373472_3 | New Rules Proposed To Help High-Rises Withstand Attacks | the designs of the future.'' This call for design changes to prevent what the experts call progressive collapses -- chain reactions of failures that multiply the direct effects of triggering events like a bomb, a plane crash or a major fire -- is among the first recommendations to emerge from the six-month investigatio... |
1373589_3 | A Nation Challenged: The Terrorist; Al Qaeda May Be Rebuilding In Pakistan, E-Mails Indicate | senior Al Qaeda leaders were involved. It is unclear whether the communications represent a central command structure trying to control various elements of the organization or simply Al Qaeda members speaking to each other. American officials added that they were still not certain, for example, where Mr. bin Laden was,... |
1373396_1 | Fox Suspends Mexico's Tax On Fructose From U.S. | tax on American high-fructose corn syrup used by the soft drink industry. Mexico's Congress created the tax in January to help the sugar industry battle a growing surplus amid repeated refusals by the United States to increase its quota on sugar from Mexico. A spokesman for the Mexican government said the tax would be ... |
1373536_0 | Trash Heap? Not in My Backyard | To the Editor: Re ''Vatican Weighs Reaction to Accusations of Molesting by Clergy'' (news artirdained.'' Then whom are the church authorities to ordain: people with heterosexual inclinations -- and then tell them that they cannot act upon their sexual feelings? It's time for married men and women to be allowed the oppo... |
1373471_3 | A Nation Challenged: The Terrorist; Al Qaeda May Be Rebuilding In Pakistan, E-Mails Indicate | senior Al Qaeda leaders were involved. It is unclear whether the communications represent a central command structure trying to control various elements of the organization or simply Al Qaeda members speaking to each other. American officials added that they were still not certain, for example, where Mr. bin Laden was,... |
1373387_0 | The Real Tomato, You Can Tell By the Stamp | Intensely flavored, thin-skinned San Marzano plum tomatoes, named for the village of San Marzano sul Sarno but also grown elsewhere around Naples, are considered the best canned tomatoes. Experienced home cooks would not use any other in a pasta sauce. This prestige, unfortunately, has attracted unscrupulous shippers, ... |
1373621_1 | Fox Suspends Mexico's Tax On Fructose From U.S. | tax on American high-fructose corn syrup used by the soft drink industry. Mexico's Congress created the tax in January to help the sugar industry battle a growing surplus amid repeated refusals by the United States to increase its quota on sugar from Mexico. A spokesman for the Mexican government said the tax would be ... |
1375969_2 | In Many Investigations, the Church Is Often the Sole Authority | Bronx district attorney, Robert T. Johnson, has been among the most assertive. ''What we would like the church to do,'' his spokesman, Steven Reed, said yesterday, ''is report to law enforcement allegations of sex abuse; allegations that a crime has been committed.'' ''We don't think it is in the best interests of the ... |
1379240_0 | World Briefing | World: No Progress On Tobacco Curbs | Negotiators meeting in Geneva to draft a global treaty curbing tobacco use wrapped up their fourth round of talks without making progress on any issues, including a ban on advertising, compensation for people with tobacco-related illnesses and incentives for tobacco farmers to shift to other crops. The treaty, which th... |
1379086_0 | Chinese Protests Ebb as Officials Talk Tough, but Give Ground | The giant protests by displaced workers from state-owned factories in northeastern China have dwindled in recent days as officials responded with a dual strategy, meeting some of the workers' monetary demands while detaining several organizers and threatening still more demonstrators with arrest. In the rust-belt city ... |
1377239_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR DECLINES. Sugar prices fell on expectations of a bumper crop in Brazil, the world's largest grower. In New York, raw sugar for May delivery fell 0.19 cent, or 3.1 percent, to 6.03 cents a pound. |
1377249_1 | A Tragic Crisis for the Church | current scandal are bound to force hard choices, and the question of whether the church can continue to attract enough qualified candidates for the priesthood while barring women and married men is not likely to go away. The official newspaper of the Boston Archdiocese published an unprecedented editorial earlier this ... |
1377265_0 | Father Knows Worst | Here's a nice story about a priest: Once, in grade school, I was late, and afraid to go in and face the wrath of Sister Hiltruda. The charming Father Montgomery found me crying in the schoolyard and offered to bring me in. As I entered the classroom, holding his hand, I smiled triumphantly at a glowering Sister Hiltrud... |
1375077_7 | Peering Through the Gates of Time | space would be infinitely curved, and as Dr. Wheeler likes to say, ''smoke pours out of the computer.'' Space, time and even the laws of physics themselves would break down at this cosmic dead end, called a singularity. Dr. Wheeler made it his mission to alert the rest of his colleagues to the paradoxical vision of phy... |
1375058_2 | Lifelong Concerns For a Special Child | their child will end up in the street. But the government generally does not pay for enhancements that parents view as crucial for their children -- special camps, visits with relatives, private health insurance, therapeutic recreation like horseback riding and hundreds of other things. And, of course, many parents do ... |
1375225_0 | National Briefing | Rockies: Colorado: Fine Over Bear's Death | The Department of Agriculture has fined the Denver Zoo $700 over the death of a bear last fall. The female Asiatic black bear was killed by a male bear after years of fights between the two animals. The federal agency determined that the zoo had violated ''animal compatibility'' regulations by continuing to house the b... |
1375190_0 | Flying Safer (if Not Friendlier) Skies | To the Editor: Re ''Air Travel Revives as Fear Recedes; But Industry Experts Conclude That Security Gaps Remain'' (front page, March 10): Given that the highest risk of future airplane disaster comes from checked bags and that it will be several years before we can expect a high degree of safety from checked bags, why ... |
1375141_5 | Is Recycling's Future Behind It?; Bloomberg Puts Doing Well Ahead of Doing Good | recycle,'' said James Thompson Jr., the president of Chartwell Information Publishers, a San Diego company that tracks the waste industry. ''It will force communities and people to rethink the whole waste problem. The corner is turning right now, especially in the Northeast.'' The turning of that corner is when the big... |
1376836_1 | British Store Gives Women Emergency Pill, Igniting Debate | be sold over the counter a year ago. Pharmaceutical companies have been aggressively promoting the pills, with one of them, Schering, placing eye-catching advertisements this month for its Levonelle tablets in magazines aimed at women, and in women's toilets in bars and nightclubs. The ad reads ''Missed pill. Ooops. Em... |
1376882_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | A3 Post-Coital Pills in Britain A decision by Britain's largest supermarket to give emergency contraceptives known as the morning-after pills free to teenagers has sharpened a national debate over efforts to curb youth pregnancy. Britain has the highest rate in Western Europe. A9 Indonesia Bans Journalist The Indonesia... |
1376868_2 | In Testing, One Size May Not Fit All | than 12 percent of the nation's schoolchildren now identified as disabled -- some with physical problems, but most with learning disabilities -- concern is growing that some students say they have learning disabilities just to win easier testing conditions. In recent years, half the states have enacted laws requiring t... |
1371646_0 | A Second Screening for Passengers | A NATION CHALLENGED |
1371710_0 | U.N. Report Shows Rapid Aging Of Populations Around Globe | While many countries worry about a bulge in the number of restless young people with no jobs and too much time on their hands, the United Nations said today that the world's population is in fact steadily getting older everywhere. ''The changes that are going on are not paralleled in any century before the 20th century... |
1371708_0 | New Rule on Tire Safety Is Near, Government Says | The government is close to issuing a regulation that will require automakers to install tire-pressure warning systems in new cars and trucks starting with 2004 models, the Bush administration told a House subcommittee today. The rule is among tire safety measures ordered by Congress in 2000 after a spate of Ford Explor... |
1371618_1 | Experts Cast Doubt on Report Finding High Magnetic Fields in Volvos | -- as high as 17.8 microteslas around the driver's left foot. A microtesla is a unit of measurement for magnetism. Citing recommendations by the National Institute for Working Life, a Swedish labor group, the magazine said that was about 80 times the level considered safe, which it defined as 0.2 microteslas. The Swedi... |
1372975_2 | Rescued H.I.V. Babies Face New Problems as Teenagers | affected. Now, as these children live longer and the first wave is moving out of the teenage years, these problems can become more acute. The sometimes devastating effect of the virus on the brain, along with the stress of living with a long-term illness is running headlong into the emotionally turbulent adolescent yea... |
1372980_2 | A Proud Renovation (Aside From That Falling Glass) | over the flying panel. ''We were just saying on the way over here that that's just something that can happen,'' said one man in the audience, Maurizio Zarini. ''It's not a problem.'' City officials are still bragging that the renovation was completed in record time and at a remarkably low cost. The project took 27 mont... |
1373001_1 | U.S. and Argentina Fight Over Honey | the emergence of a flourishing honey industry belies that notion. In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half of it going to the United States. The United States, however, has not greeted this with prais... |
1373087_0 | Panel to Review Readiness Of Agencies Before Attacks | Congressional hearings in the House-Senate investigation of the government's handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are likely to begin in late April or early May, a lawmaker said here today. Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in an intervie... |
1373118_0 | 7th Evacuation in 8 Days Snarls Air Traffic | For the seventh time in eight days, a security alert prompted the evacuation of terminals at Los Angeles International Airport this morning, temporarily stranding thousands of travelers, delaying flights and causing wonderment all around. ''This has been a really bad week for us,'' said Nancy Suey Castles, a spokeswoma... |
1373067_1 | Tinderbox of a Texas Port Points to a Threat by Sea | boats sent here to patrol the harbor have left. Federal officials call port security the largest and most glaring weakness in the nation's security network. A presidential advisory commission concluded in August 2000 that ''the state of security in U.S. seaports generally ranges from poor to fair, and in a few cases go... |
1376166_0 | LONGTIME CLIENTS ABANDON AUDITOR | Longtime clients, the federal government and even some of its own foreign affiliates abandoned Arthur Andersen yesterday, a day after the accounting firm was indicted for destroying Enron documents. Several of the firm's most loyal clients, including the Sara Lee Corporation and Abbott Laboratories from around its home... |
1376160_2 | Some in Albany Want to Make Clergy Report Possible Abuse | guarantee you. They will see it as an intrusion.'' Dennis Poust, spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference, the lobbying organization for the state's bishops, said that as far back as anyone there could remember, the bishops have never taken a public position on whether priests and nuns should be required to... |
1376088_0 | Safer Airports | To the Editor: Re ''Air Travel Revives as Fear Recedes'' (front page, March 10): One can hardly imagine the devastating effect of a commercial aircraft exploding over our nation's sky, yet, as you report, ''the Congressional goal of a more reliable bomb-detection system for baggage by the end of the year'' has been ''v... |
1378261_0 | The Greek Response | To the Editor: It's worth noting that crisis played a key role in the inception of many ancient Greek plays. Sophocles' ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' took its cue from the devastating plague that struck Athens in the early years of the Peloponnesian War; Aeschylus' ''Oresteia'' from controversy over changes that had recently be... |
1378471_3 | For Europeans, Love, Yes; Marriage, Maybe | in a recent position paper that there were many alternatives to the classic family structure. At the same time, groups representing single parents -- generally far better off economically than their counterparts in the United States -- have become a potent political force across Europe. Welfare policies in many countri... |
1378439_1 | Under Pressure, Chinese Newspaper Pulls Exposé on a Charity | news media in recent weeks. But editors reversed that decision on Wednesday night, after the printing of this week's newspaper started, because of new instructions from the ministry that proscribed any reporting about the scandal as well as new signals that the government was determined to stand behind the charity. Tha... |
1379684_6 | A Nation Challenged: The Trade Center; Towers Fell as Intense Fire Beat Defenses, Report Says | building and the emergency lighting in the stairwells, escaped. More than 400 firefighters, police officers and other rescue personnel and dozens of tenants who stayed behind during the evacuation were also killed when the buildings finally collapsed. An estimated 2,830 people are considered dead or missing in the coll... |
1379585_1 | The Perils Of Reform At Church | been common in churches with non-celibate clergy, like the Anglican Church in Canada. It is possible that the Catholic Church seems to be a hotbed of illicit sex, not so much because of its policies on celibacy but because it is such a large and newsworthy institution. The more people you have working with children and... |
1377986_1 | Advocating Tobacco, On the Payroll Of Tobacco | these articles might be written by R. S.,'' the memo continued, referring to Mr. Scruton, ''we would do our best to get other journalists to join in.'' The Financial Times responded to the article by dropping a weekly column on country life that Mr. Scruton wrote for it. The Wall Street Journal, for which Mr. Scruton h... |
1377989_0 | Police Department Takes Steps to Modernize Its Technology | Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has ordered an overhaul of the way the Police Department uses computers and other technology after determining that its current systems were woefully inadequate and lagged behind innovations of other police agencies. This past week, Mr. Kelly took several steps toward upgrading the departm... |
1378008_0 | Tales of Mutiny and Murder Unfold After a Missing Taiwanese Ship Is Found | A dramatic tale of murder and mutiny on the high seas unfolded yesterday in Honolulu as the authorities accused a Chinese seaman of killing his captain and first mate and taking over a 195-foot Taiwanese fishing vessel that disappeared for three days last week in the vastness southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. In a cas... |
1374875_2 | Tiny Technologies Slip Unseen Into Daily Life | Motors is offering optional running boards for its Safari and Astro vans made from plastics reinforced with nanoscale bits of clay. The new materials are stronger and lighter than the traditional polyolefin plastic panels they replace, which have been reinforced with calcium carbonate, talc or other minerals. Although ... |
1379793_0 | Brazil's Exports | To the Editor: I take issue with ''Brazil's Prized Exports Rely on Slaves and Scorched Land'' (front page, March 25). Forced labor is perceived in Brazil as an extremely serious problem because of its inherent evil and incompatibility with a fully democratic society. As such, it is aggressively combated by the authorit... |
1379805_0 | Plastic Recycling Is a Work in Progress | At first glance, plastics recycling looks like an economic and environmental success story. Consider, for example, that about 25 percent of the polyethylene fiber in Tyvek -- a DuPont product used in envelopes, disposable medical suits and insulation -- comes from jugs that once held milk or water. Fleece garments are ... |
1379924_0 | Corrections | Because of a production error, credits were illegible in some copies yesterday for a diagram showing structural causes of the collapse of the World Trade Center. It was made by Baden Copeland, Mika Grondahl, William McNulty, Sarah Slobin and Archie Tse of The New York Times. The source was a draft report by the Federal... |
1371975_6 | Burning Diesel Is Cited in Fall Of 3rd Tower | what their spaces contained. The huge steel transfer trusses ran mostly through the fifth, sixth and seventh floors where the fires burned. The purpose of the trusses, which included zigzagging and horizontal members and were concentrated around the building's core, was to allow 7 World Trade to be built over two Conso... |
1373952_1 | More Graduates Mired in Debt, Survey Finds | college, and 4 out of 10 face unmanageable debts as they finish college and enter the job market, according to a report released today. The report, by the lobbying arm of State Public Interest Research Groups, a nonprofit organization that studies social policy, found that debt among students doubled between 1992 and 2... |
1373877_0 | A Preference For Mingling Old and New | Axel Vervoordt is not like most antiques dealers. First, he sells many of his wares by appointment out of Kasteel van 's-Gravenwezel, a 14th-century castle outside of Antwerp, Belgium. Second, he sells contemporary art along with ancient artifacts and antiques. And he has a staff of nearly 100 who scour the world for a... |
1377587_0 | Scandal in the Church: A Time of Anguish | To the Editor: Maureen Dowd (column, March 20) unfairly lumps the Roman Catholic Church with the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the leadership of Saudi Arabia. Before making such comparisons in the future, Ms. Dowd ought to keep a few things in mind: *The Catholic Church is hardly the only religious denomination that limits ord... |
1377655_0 | Corrections | A sports article on Tuesday about YES, the new cable sports channel, misidentified a client served by Zenith Media, a media buying company whose vice president was quoted analyzing the price for 30-second commercials on the channel's Yankee broadcasts. The client is Toyota, not General Motors. |
1377061_2 | KPMG and Andersen Are Discussing a Deal | justice for destroying thousands of Enron documents, partnerships in Spain and Chile said they had begun to sever ties with the worldwide practice, and those in Italy, Portugal and Switzerland said they were considering doing the same. The intent of the negotiations with KPMG is to keep as much of Andersen's global net... |
1376987_4 | New Satellites to Map Gravity More Precisely | precise distance between a car in Los Angeles and one in San Diego to within the thickness of a particle of smoke,'' Dr. Watkins said. Variations in distance caused by gravity difference on earth produce data points for the gravity map. As the satellites move in their orbit, the first one senses a mass change caused by... |
1375408_5 | Andersen Widens Effort To Find Buyer | better off to stay together as a global firm,'' Mr. Robertson said. ''We do a lot of business through the global network.'' Partners in some European countries are considering going their own way. ''We are looking at a lot of alternatives, one of which is speaking with Deloitte, or KPMG or others,'' said Eves Van Durme... |
1375449_0 | Technology Briefing | Hardware: Brightening Outlook For PC'S And Chips | Sales of personal computers and the chips that power them will increase this year after a steep drop in 2001, according to two reports scheduled for release today by the International Data Corporation, a market research concern. Citing better-than-expected demand in Western Europe and in American stores, International ... |
1375375_2 | Parents Play Crucial Role In Expanding Universities | high school degrees, more young graduates were still being hired. Employers apparently took advantage of this surplus in professional, technical and managerial workers by reducing wage offers. A steady drop in average pay for college-educated workers from the 1970's to the mid-1990's is evidence of this. In the late 19... |
1375341_0 | Second Thoughts on Mercury in Fish | WAS the Food and Drug Administration overly sensitive to the commercial interests of the tuna industry when it established guidelines on fish consumption and mercury contamination? Documents released this month by a watchdog group are raising that question as well as others about the decision-making that went into the ... |
1375645_1 | F.D.A. Considers New Tests For Environmental Effects | way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said. The $14-million-a-... |
1375585_2 | Wide-Screen or Boxy, TV Is a Numbers Game | Explorer allow users to drag their favorite Favorites onto a bar on the browser window for one-click access. Windows users should go to the View menu while using Internet Explorer, then to Toolbars and to the Links option on a submenu. The Links toolbar can display a row of Favorites underneath the Address box. If the ... |
1375616_0 | Greenery to Import If Drought Strikes | Five months ago, Material ConneXion added FieldTurf, a synthetic lawn with ''dirt'' made of recycled tires and sneakers, to its collection. Billed as the ''closest to nature'' grass substitute, it was invented for tennis courts and picked up for other sports fields by teams like the Seattle Seahawks and the University ... |
1375599_0 | Smarter Call Centers: At Your Service? | CAN new technology make calling customer service less frustrating? Enable call center representatives to answer your question quickly? Prevent you from getting disconnected, or lost in a thicket of voice-mail options? In an unmarked building here in a nondescript industrial park, one company, the electronic brokerage E... |
1375687_1 | North Korea Denounces U.S. Nuclear Plan, Promises 'Response' | and humankind,'' the commentary carried an implicit threat of a retaliatory strike by North Korea. ''A nuclear war to be imposed by U.S. nuclear fanatics,'' it warned, ''would mean their ruin in nuclear disaster.'' The commentary did not specify how North Korea would respond, but it seemed to have been intended to play... |
1375699_0 | Piracy, or Innovation? It's Hollywood vs. High Tech | Leaders of two of the nation's most prominent industries, entertainment and technology, have begun publicly sniping at each other over how to stop consumers from illegally copying digital movies, music and television programs. The feud grows out of Hollywood's frustration with the illicit flow of copyrighted works over... |
1379011_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Haverstraw: Power Plant Cleared For Construction | State regulators have approved the construction of a third power plant at Bowline Point that will burn natural gas and oil and deliver 750 megawatts of electricity. The plant was cleared by the State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment. Known as Bowline 3, the plant will join two 621-megawatt plants... |
1378895_0 | Albany Bills Would Require Clergy to Report Any Abuse | The Republican-led State Senate announced plans today to pass a bill on Tuesday that would add members of the clergy to the list of people who would be required to report suspected child abuse. The Assembly introduced a similar measure today, but will not vote on it immediately, Assembly officials said. The Senate Repu... |
1378976_0 | An Engine for a New Age of Ocean Research | Studying the ocean with ships and buoys is like reading a book by staring at single scattered letters. Buoys are stationary, so the information they collect lacks context; ships rarely take readings in the same place twice, so their data lack continuity. But this summer, engineers at Webb Research Corporation in Falmou... |
1373637_3 | Shrinking and Rethinking the Old Vertical Antenna | of your windshield into an antenna.'' Or manufacturers could build an antenna into the surface of a boat's deck. The United States military has taken a similar approach by building metal antennas into the structural frame of airplanes. SkyCross, a company based in Melbourne, Fla., that has developed commercial applicat... |
1373687_0 | As recovery builds, the less educated go to the end of the employment line. | ''EVEN if the economy is on the road to recovery,'' Alan Greenspan warned last week, ''the unemployment rate, in typical cyclical fashion, may resume its increase for a time.'' Mr. Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, who will appear before the Senate Banking Committee today, did not mention that the lingering effe... |
1379993_3 | An Unsentimental Education | bath -- that Oddjob (as I've taken to calling him) has a natural affinity for water. He gets left in the wading pool on the lawn the next morning while we head for the beach (I know, I know), returning nervously in the dark to find him shivering and wrinkled like a 90-year-old, but otherwise happy as a clam. My dad was... |
1380282_6 | An AIDS Skeptic in South Africa Feeds Simmering Doubts | ''I think it's completely explainable,'' Helen Schneider, director of the Center for Health Policy at the University of the Witwatersrand, said of the persistent questioning about AIDS. ''There's a very recent history of direct conspiracy against black people in this country.'' Besides that, she said, ''People can't co... |
1380261_0 | The Effectiveness Of Global Lenders | To the Editor: Re ''As Global Lenders Refocus, a Needy World Waits'' (March 17), which discussed the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund: Aid is more effective today at reducing poverty than ever before. Developing countries are making strong progress. The article missed these important trend... |
1380288_0 | FOLLOWING UP | Long Before Sept. 11, A Terrible Toll of One With more than 3,000 people killed in the terrorist onslaughts of Sept. 11, it is often difficult for those who did not know any victims to focus for long on the individuals among them. But it often took an effort to put aside the image of the lone victim of an attack by Pal... |
1379997_6 | Volterra's Past Speaks In Its Stones | a grotesque humor in some of the faces that decorate the capitals, but there is again the need for closeness, for huddle, what seems almost a fear of space -- flowers, foliage, beasts, human heads jostle promiscuously together, not an inch is untouched by the chisel. A relief in a way to look upward from this to the Re... |
1380034_3 | The Invitation a Dying Mozart Could Not Refuse | a voice that was new and could not be ignored. The score was completed by various musicians. Mozart's pupil and assistant Franz Xaver Süssmayr did the bulk of the work (with lapses for which he has been criticized ever since, though his is still the standard version, and it will be used by Kurt Masur for the Philharmon... |
1374132_0 | Paul Carbone, 70, Researcher Of Cancer and Its Prevention | Dr. Paul Carbone, a cancer researcher who was honored for his work involving Hodgkin's disease, chemotherapy and other aspects of the treatment and prevention of cancer, died on Feb. 22 in Singapore, where he had gone to encourage cancer research. He was 70 and lived in Middleton, Wis. The cause was apparently a heart ... |
1374213_2 | U.S. Is Called Ready To Indict Audit Firm Over Enron Papers | been sharing with the government a written report -- prepared by its lawyers from Davis, Polk & Wardwell and Mayer, Brown & Platt -- describing the events last fall that led to the destruction of documents at the firm's office in Houston. It was not immediately clear whether Andersen could be charged in coming days or ... |
1372059_0 | Travel Advisory; The Michelin Star Shuffle for 2002 | Changes for the 2002 French Michelin red guide include the addition of three restaurants to the three-star category. Guy Savoy, long considered a three-star chef despite his ongoing two-star status, finally received the top award. The Paris restaurant that bears his name, two blocks north of the Etoile in the 17th Arro... |
1372256_0 | A Restaurant Says Ciao, but a Mural Is Forever | First, a calming note to those who grew to love it over the years: It's still there. And the landlord says it's there to stay. When the Italian restaurant Palio, on West 51st Street near Seventh Avenue, closed in January, many Midtown office dwellers worried that they had lost something spacious and special in their li... |
1372426_3 | 9 Hijackers Drew Scrutiny On Sept. 11, Officials Say | Boston; the one that struck the Pentagon took off from Dulles just outside Washington, and the jet that crashed in Pennsylvania left from Newark International. The agency is reluctant to talk about the criteria that lead to the inspection of baggage, but some of them have become well known -- paying for a ticket with c... |
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