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1372191_0 | When There's No Place Else | IT is almost dinner time in Kendall Cottage at Children's Village, a sprawling residential treatment center for boys. Broccoli is bubbling on the stove, and a game of Scrabble is under way in the dining room. Jason, 14, who arrived more than two years ago after drifting through five foster homes and a psychiatric hospi... |
1372030_10 | In Iceland, Challenged By The Crafty Salmon | by anglers in 1877, when an English aristocrat, Charles H. Akroyd, arrived by steamer from Edinburgh with two friends, three small boats and a nine-gallon cask of whiskey. According to Mr. Akroyd's memoir, the men rowed up to Nes and got the farmer's permission to fish, but struggled to find any salmon. Two of them the... |
1372171_1 | Make 'Em Laugh, Even From a Distance | involved. ''At first, we were terrified that the meeting would be deathly dull,'' he said. He had reason to be concerned. Before Xerox turned to Web conferences, executive gatherings were held in convention center ballrooms and cost more than $1 million. An event in San Antonio in 1998, for example, featured Champagne,... |
1372430_6 | A Ghost of Westway Rises Along the Hudson; An Old Idea for the Waterfront, Pared Down, Still Provokes Passions | an opportunity to address, if on a small scale, what many people are coming to see as one of the major shortcomings of the diminished waterfront project. ''I believe we should actually depress the highway someplace south of Canal Street,'' said Manfred Ohrenstein, a former Manhattan Democratic state senator and a Westw... |
1372193_5 | Keeping It Confidential | Typically to study patterns of demographics: do we need a new store in some other area to better serve that area and make more money? Q. Where do you see this going? What kind of world are we moving into? A. Sept. 11 added a new dimension to the concern and debate about businesses and governments gathering information.... |
1372082_0 | A Wild Road Follows A Wild River | THE D952. This is the most dreaded cliffside road in the high country of Provence. The narrow two-lane hairpin route is a 13-mile window on the vast natural wonders of the Gorges du Verdon, France's wild, rugged, remote Grand Canyon, 66 miles west of Nice. In travel books, the few descriptions of the D952 that we could... |
1377771_2 | Arthur Andersen Employees Circle the Wagons | directly control its fate -- the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission -- instead of Congress. The company, however, did set up an internal Web page that made it easy for employees to send e-mail messages to their congressmen, and Andersen employees began circulating long lists of e-mail address... |
1377714_0 | How Old Fashioned: Cars Built on Frames | RETRO, a hot design trend for several years, may be more than skin deep. To make niche models at reasonable prices, General Motors is reviving a car-building method -- bolting bodies onto solid frames -- that had almost disappeared. What's more, the change could revive the frequent restylings that gave pizazz to cars o... |
1377739_1 | At the Winter Garden, The Rebuilding Begins | being quarried near Carrara, Italy, then cut and polished in the town of Forte dei Marmi. ''They bring it to a high hone, then it'll be further polished in place,'' Ms. Kanner said. Stone setters are to install the first shipment on April 15. The quarry workers are toiling seven days a week to make a seemingly impossib... |
1377735_1 | The Middle East's Failed Leaders | and public commitment to the proposals made at Taba, Egypt, in January, 2001, we might already have an agreement on a just peace. Unfortunately, Mr. Arafat, if he did not exactly choose violence, has accepted and used it. Ever since the second intifada began in September 2000, he has never truly led in seeking a meanin... |
1379364_2 | A Golden Reign of Tolerance | philosophy to architecture. Christian palaces and churches, like Jewish synagogues, were often built in the style of the Muslims, the walls often covered with Arabic writing; one synagogue in Toledo even includes inscriptions from the Koran. And it was throughout medieval Europe that men of unshakable faith, like Abela... |
1379455_2 | Saudi in Strong Plea to Israel and Arabs | to be the last Arab state to recognize Israel. ''Allow me at this point to directly address the Israeli people, to say to them that the use of violence, for more than 50 years, has only resulted in more violence and destruction,'' he said. ''Israel, and the world, must understand that peace and the retention of the occ... |
1379466_0 | World Business Briefing | Asia: India: Modified Seeds Approved | The Indian government said it would allow commercial planting of genetically modified seeds under certain limits. Three varieties of disease-resistant cotton developed by Mahyco, an Indian affiliate of Monsanto, won approval for three years. Modified mustard seeds are also being considered. Farmers and environmentalist... |
1379297_4 | Don't Point, Just Think: The Brain Wave as Joystick | is very encouraging for future use, especially with paralyzed people.'' Dr. Heetderks believes that the path to long-lasting implants in people would involve the recording of data from many electrodes. ''To get a rich signal that allows you to move a limb in three-dimensional space or move a cursor around on a screen w... |
1379302_0 | Terror's Confounding Online Trail | FOR all the sophisticated electronic tools the United States government has at its investigative disposal, tracking the activities of suspected terrorist groups online has proved to be not unlike the search for Osama bin Laden and his operatives on the ground. In essence, even against a superior arsenal of technology, ... |
1379376_0 | The Population Slowdown | Demographers from around the world met this month at the United Nations to discuss and celebrate the surprising finding that the world's population has not grown as fast as had been feared. Just a few years ago, the expectation was that the planet would have 10 billion people by the end of the 21st century. Now it look... |
1374860_1 | AIR TRAVEL REVIVES AS FEAR RECEDES | for most Americans, of the terrorist attacks six months ago on Monday. Many in the industry say that for all the visible security measures -- National Guard members with their rifles, the painstaking searches for nail files -- aviation is not yet secure enough. They say that a terrorist with a bomb or knife could still... |
1374577_4 | Rare Cancer Found in Workers | glasses, as they are now. Deb Belancik, chief health and safety representative for the union, said she believed trichloroethylene, which has been proven to cause cancer in laboratory animals and which the Environmental Protection Agency continues to study as a possible cancer-causing agent in humans, was one of the sol... |
1374736_1 | If Truancy Is the 'Gateway to Crime,' An Attempt to Nip Problems in the Bud | attorney in Manhattan, the four-month-old program is part of a federal effort to eliminate crime among juveniles. Working with the Police Department, Board of Education and the Bronx Y.M.C.A., the center operates in the basement of the Church of the Revelation on White Plains Road. Posters with Bible passages and illus... |
1374378_0 | SWISS YES | Switzerland took a giant step away from its isolationist history when voters approved joining the United Nations. Switzerland will soon apply to become the 190th member and East Timor the 191st, leaving the Vatican the only nonmember state. Elizabeth Olson MARCH 3-9: INTERNATIONAL |
1374604_1 | Postings: Landmarks Conservancy's Awards; Honoring Preservation Projects | New York, whether they are official or personal landmarks. Sometimes we appreciate them unconsciously until they are not there. Then we realize how much they meant.'' Giorgio Cavaglieri, 90, an architect known for adapting old buildings to new uses, including the transformation in the 1960's of the Astor Library on Laf... |
1374833_1 | Population Estimates Fall as Poor Women Assert Control | that if they had control over their reproductive lives, lower fertility rates would be a given. Women's health organizations now say that is happening. ''From Delhi to Rio, women's health advocates have stood fast against top-down population policies, and have stood for women's rights -- and abilities -- to make decisi... |
1376541_0 | Cuba Trade Helps Texas Port | The oldest seaport in Texas is getting a boost from a customer that has returned after a 40-year absence -- Cuba. About 5,000 tons of Texas rice from American Rice Inc. was shipped to Cuba last week from Freeport as part of a new trade agreement between the United States and Cuba for humanitarian food trade, exempt fro... |
1376506_0 | Holding Up Money For Family Planning | To the Editor: In ''Population Estimates Fall as Poor Women Assert Control'' (news article, March 10), you say, ''A few demographers are venturing to say that the trend may have little to do with government policies on family planning or foreign aid.'' Yet the rest of your article demonstrates that stabilizing the worl... |
1376525_3 | The Nation: Calculation vs. Conscience; The Church Breaks Faith With the Faithful | example of Ireland is compelling for another reason, as well. For generations, the Catholic Church in America was an immigrant church defined by the history of its largest ethnic group, the Irish, who often looked to their priests as political as well as spiritual leaders. Priests in Ireland suffered the same oppressio... |
1376575_3 | Coalition Widens Its Ocean Manhunt | few weeks, the coalition has become more aggressive about boarding the small fishing boats, known as dhows, that crowd the coastline and that are popular vehicles for smugglers. Since February, the coalition has also expanded its presence in the Gulf of Oman, which smugglers from Iran can cross in less than a day. Amer... |
1376708_1 | Ship of Floozies | colony. The book opens with vivid scenes of London lowlife. Rees conjures the squalor of three-in-a-bed boardinghouses, a world ''where people moved from job to job with their possessions in a box on their back, looking constantly for an extra sixpence a week, a warmer bed or better food.'' The supply of prostitutes sw... |
1376502_2 | A Management Revolution Still in the Making | factories. Companies began using electric motors in production, replacing steam engines, in the 19th century. But the real breakthrough in productivity came only with Ford's managerial innovation in 1913 of organizing production in moving assembly lines. The Internet, Ms. Cairncross writes, still awaits the business in... |
1376602_1 | Going 50 Knots on a Wing and a Catamaran | the circumstances. There're always a million things that can go wrong.'' McKeon, whose standard sailing gear includes a motorcycle helmet, knows what he is talking about. ''There's a risk every time we take the boat out that it's going to crash,'' he said. ''The only real issue is whether it's going to be a big one or ... |
1376333_0 | Theater; Revisiting The Ancients For Renewal | THE Greeks (and their Roman interlocutors) are much among us. There is Mary Zimmerman's fanciful gloss on Ovid, ''Metamorphoses,'' newly on Broadway. There are, or have been, two versions of the Hippolytus and Phaedra legend, about the woman lusting after her stepson. One is Charles L. Mee's ''True Love,'' which ended ... |
1378694_1 | Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, Who Questioned Fixed Truths | March 13. He was 102. A student of Martin Heidegger and the successor of Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg University, Dr. Gadamer was the author of ''Truth and Method'' (1960), one of the most influential works in the field of hermeneutics, the study of the understanding and meaning of texts. In the book, he confronted the s... |
1378664_0 | Choosing Celibacy | By almost any measure, the wave of pedophilia scandals sweeping through the country represents the greatest crisis ever to face the Catholic Church in the United States. Not surprisingly, the scandals have prompted widespread anguish among American Catholics. The discussions taking place around the country -- in homes,... |
1378735_1 | Brazil's Prized Exports Rely On Slaves and Scorched Land | I was ordered to burn the identity cards and work documents of workers who I had last seen walking down the road, supposedly on their way out,'' he said. ''We also found heaps of bones out in the jungle, but none of us ever talked about it.'' Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, in 1888, and ... |
1378658_0 | Poverty and Population | To the Editor: In your discussion of ''The Plagues of Poverty'' (editorial, March 19), you do not mention an underlying cause: the population explosion. There is scarcely a problem that is not affected -- directly or indirectly -- by ever more people producing ever more people on a finite planet. Physical and mental il... |
1372894_3 | U.S. PLANES POUND ENEMY AS TROOPS FACE TOUGH FIGHT | said today that as many as 1,000 fighters belonging to the Taliban and Al Qaeda took refuge in the town for about a month in late November and early December. Then, under pleas from the local population, who feared American bombing, the fugitives packed up and moved with their families into the mountains about 15 miles... |
1384214_5 | A Chávez Comeback More Astounding Than His Fall | Venezuelan oil. He began a friendship with President Fidel Castro of Cuba, and in August 2000 visited countries like Libya and Iraq. ''It was the trip which gave him a first-hand view of how despots of all stripes manage to run their countries by virtual decree, and I think it affected him deeply,'' said Eric Ekvall, a... |
1383766_2 | A Better IDEA | educating a child with a disability. While we have made significant progress in recent years toward meeting this goal, the federal government still only provides approximately 17 percent of the cost, placing the balance of the financial burden on states and local school districts. This must be fixed. MR. BOLICK: The pr... |
1384015_1 | Recalling the Day The Towers Fell, In Words and Pictures | main concourse area, and he takes the worst of it. Dominick and I and the sarge just make it around the corner, but Antonio doesn't. Everything just starts hitting us, and then the wall comes down on top of me. I am flabbergasted. My friend Dominick is crushed down in the push-up position, and my legs are pinned comple... |
1384098_2 | China Evades U.N. Criticism of Rights Abuses | list of 17 sponsoring countries on Friday. As an observer, Washington can still co-sponsor a resolution, although it cannot vote. For weeks before, Cuban officials accused the United States of behind-the-scenes maneuvering to craft a hostile resolution. Mr. Moley, who is also the American ambassador to the United Natio... |
1383765_4 | A Tryout for the Real World | at a prestigious place, be it the Central Intelligence Agency or the Culinary Institute of America, commands the attention of prospective employers and professional school admissions committees. It demonstrates that the applicant had the intellect, drive and maturity to win a much-coveted position. But on the whole, su... |
1384063_2 | Ideas & Trends; The Architecture of Air Travel | screen passengers and luggage before they reach the counter. As a result, passengers wait in snaking queues, often outdoors, just to get into the building. New airports are already being designed to accommodate such preliminary inspection stations and older airports reconfigured for this reproportioning of activity -- ... |
1383998_0 | You Can Toss Away That Quill Pen, Sir. E-Mail Arrives for the City's Workers. | A robust new communications tool is transforming city business. It promises to cut waste, shorten menial tasks, and make City Hall more nimble. ''It's cheaper, it's faster, and it saves us money,'' said Judy Duffy, the assistant district manager for Community Board 1 in Lower Manhattan. ''The only downside is that a lo... |
1387347_0 | U.S. Panel Backs a Risky Effort to Save a Grand Canyon Fish | A federally appointed panel has approved a risky experiment that would flood part of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in an effort to save an endangered fish, rebuild beaches and kill part of a trout population that many experts contend is out of control. The panel, composed of representatives of every major inte... |
1387302_1 | Devastated Women | failed operations. ''This is a 100 percent preventable problem,'' Dr. Abdullah Kannan, a gynecologist in Khartoum, said of fistula. ''It has disappeared completely from Western countries.'' New York's hospital for fistula patients closed in 1895 because of diminishing cases and now the condition is almost unknown in Am... |
1382094_2 | Drug Makers' New Reality: 'Innovate Or Die' | functional growth option is a merger. Q. Which companies would make the best fit with Bristol-Myers? A. Bristol-Myers Squibb will get taken out, but as a merger of equals. I would be shocked if most of the potential partners don't already have a model of the combined companies up and running right now. Pharmacia is the... |
1381874_0 | High-Tech Identity Checks | ATTEMPTS to improve airport security with new technology have led to tools for identifying people using iris scans, handprints and even cellphones to track movements of passengers and airport personnel. Some innovations also promise customer-service improvements, such as notifying passengers of changes in departure tim... |
1381983_2 | Can We Just Save the Trees? | be ''out of context.'' In an e-mail message to the forester the next day the mayor wrote, ''I toured Douglas Park early this morning and found absolutely no erosion of any kind.'' But by 8 that same morning, I had taken photographs of a new mud slide. The village had stripped vegetation from a ridge and covered it with... |
1382057_2 | Will a Deck Of Options Always Be Stacked? | Mr. Akerlof said. Arthur Andersen's undoing is evidence of the pressure that top executives applied to accountants to approve books that raised profits in false or misleading ways. They had the asymmetric advantage, and their apparent goal was to drive up a company's stock price. Enron's chieftains offered more evidenc... |
1382148_2 | U.N. Agency On Population Blames U.S. For Cutbacks | December charging that the population fund acquiesced in Chinese birth control policies that include forced abortions and involuntary sterilization. The accusation that United Nations money was supporting these Chinese policies was made by the Population Research Institute, an organization that was founded by Human Lif... |
1381823_1 | Afloat on the Seas of the Past | suddenly home. The setting could almost be dreamtime, although Antunes, trained as a psychiatrist, is famously uninterested in psychoanalytic chic; it does accommodate the odd man-eating plant and a few superannuated river nymphs. It could be the literary time that makes good jokes out of anachronism -- like a 15th-cen... |
1381952_3 | Foreign Applications Soar at Universities | more and take those experiences back with me to get a better job.'' Uchechukwu Obianyo-agu, a sophomore at Adelphi from Lagos, Nigeria, believes that an American university can provide valuable contacts and an up-to-the-minute curriculum. ''Computer science is a field that changes all the time,'' she said. ''Going to s... |
1381918_0 | The Pantanal | To the Editor: Regarding Robert O. Paxton's ''The Parrots of the Pantanal'' (Feb. 24): In 1999 we traveled with International Expeditions to this interesting area and stayed at Refúgio Ecológico Caiman, on the Web at www.caiman.com.br. It is a private ranch that now includes a wildlife preserve, four small comfortable ... |
1385988_1 | Ideas & Trends: United We Expand; A Lesson in Détente From the Insect World | Switzerland, France and Denmark and published this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the species of ant involved. It is the Argentine, an invasive bully of an insect, famous for aggressively taking over territory once it is introduced. Argentine ants are cut-throat -- and cut-thorax and cu... |
1385733_13 | The Leonardo Cover-Up | were some strokes of lead white on the head of the infant Jesus and a few more on the head of one of the kings bowing down before the child. Only those marks are contemporaneous with Leonardo's sketch. Throughout the months of testing on the ''Adoration,'' the pressure from both sides of the debate over restoration was... |
1386003_1 | Ideas & Trends: Priests and Sex; Europe Has Problems, But Not Like America's. Maybe. | fewer allegations of pedophilia among priests in most European countries than in America. But it is impossible to know how much of that is due to differences in reporting the problem, rather than in the extent of the problem itself. Pedophilia, like rape, can confer shame on the victim as well as the accused. So cultur... |
1385785_1 | Reading the Mind Before It Could Read | half-million wait in Algeria's Tassili region and as many more in the Sinai peninsula and the Negev Desert. Other sites are awaiting study in Central Asia, Siberia, China, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and Malawi. Today, however, with economic development shaping the landscape everywhere, many graphemes are being des... |
1385832_2 | If a Tall Pine Tree Answers, Hang Up | cell-phone towers across Long Island is often fraught with contention. Some people worry about the high-frequency radio waves. Others object on aesthetic grounds and worry about what a tower will do to property values. Such controversies are largely a suburban phenomenon, since there is no shortage of tall buildings in... |
1385762_3 | Bringing Home The Bacon. Not. | sweet potatoes and yams are not. Hawaiian coconuts are permitted unless you are going to Florida, and breadfruits, chayotes and citrus can be imported from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. As for that great local wine, if you're over 21, you can return with up to one liter of alcoholic beverage for your persona... |
1385411_0 | Vatican Meeting on Abuse Issue Is Set to Confront Thorny Topics | A top Vatican official said today that next week's meetings with American cardinals about the sexual abuse scandals in the church would cover controversial issues like celibacy, the screening of gay candidates for the priesthood and the role of women in the church. The official, Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, an America... |
1383558_3 | Competing Presidents Worsen The Hardships in Madagascar | the Bank for International Settlements, an organization that works with central banks, have suspended regular transactions with Madagascar and are only processing the rare request submitted by both governors, said Mr. Ravalomanana's minister of finance. Most exports, particularly from the capital's textile factories, h... |
1386940_0 | Alphabetic Roulette: Tricks of the Spammer | Q. I have an e-mail address that I have never given to anyone but I get junk mail nonetheless. How did the spammer find me? A. Spammers, or those who send mass amounts of unsolicited e-mail, have many tricks at their disposal to find working e-mail addresses. Many popular methods involve guessing. If a junk mailer has ... |
1381188_0 | Washington Is Criticized for Growing Reluctance to Sign Treaties | Disarmament and human rights experts say in a report to be published on Thursday that the United States' rejection or disregard of a range of treaties is undercutting efforts by many other countries to strengthen the international rule of law. From nuclear testing and proliferation accords to the land mines ban to agre... |
1381156_0 | Tampering With Rivers | To the Editor: Re ''In the Northwest, a Fight to Deepen a Ship Channel'' (news article, April 1): The Army Corps of Engineers' experiment in redesigning the Columbia River is showing its age. The dams, reservoirs and dredging on the Columbia and Snake Rivers have provided benefits. They have also put a dozen salmon spe... |
1381242_1 | With Deadline in Mind, an Agency Orders More Bomb-Screening Machines | be built, and the security agency ordered an additional 100 kits today. The assembly and the new kits will cost $148.6 million, the company said. The Analogic Corporation of Peabody, Mass., which builds most of the InVision machine, meanwhile, said today that it had ''received an open-ended order for up to 1,000'' of i... |
1381155_0 | At Hotels, Who's Minding the Luggage? | To the Editor: Re ''Improving Aviation Security'' (editorial, April 1): The question always asked at airports is ''Has your luggage been in your possession since you packed it?'' A serious security lapse occurs before luggage reaches the airports. It begins in the hotels used by tour operators all over the world. I hav... |
1382536_1 | A New View of Malignancy | that women and their doctors study the issues and decide for themselves, a course of action that others say is confusing. But as the debate over mammography and over other tests, like the one for prostate cancer, burn on, the childhood cancer test is giving some experts pause. The cancer was neuroblastoma, an attack on... |
1382560_0 | I.R.A.'s Illegal Arsenal Reduced In a 2nd Act of Disarmament | The Irish Republican Army has for a second time put a batch of weapons, ammunition and explosives from its illegal arsenal out of action, the international commission charged with guerrilla disarmament in Northern Ireland said today. Gen. John de Chastelain, the Canadian who runs the Belfast-based panel, said his group... |
1382502_1 | Treatments in the Wings: New Drugs Could Replace Even Tamoxifen | to be at least as safe if not safer and at least as effective if not more,'' said Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, chief of breast cancer medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was not involved in the study. Aromatase inhibitors, like tamoxifen, are directed at the hormone estrogen, which is known to stim... |
1382545_0 | ID Cards for 'Trusted Travelers' Run Into Some Thorny Questions | The idea seemed simple: figure out who the good guys are, give them easy-to-recognize and hard-to-counterfeit ID cards and let them breeze past airport security. Everybody would win, advocates say. Holders of the ''trusted traveler'' cards would save time. Screeners would have fewer bodies to inspect -- there were 1.8 ... |
1382516_6 | Telling the Threatening Tumors From the Harmless Ones | markers at once by examining patterns for the genes that are turned off and on in tumors, hoping to find genetic signatures. This is what was done in the breast cancer and infant leukemia studies. They use a new tool called a DNA chip, a small glass slide with pieces of the DNA of thousands of genes. When a gene is act... |
1380985_2 | Peace Advocates in Arafat Compound Hope to Deter Israeli Troops | Arafat's office by more than 40 foreigners took the protests to a new level, because it broke a tightening Israeli ring of armor and gunfire that appeared perilously close to reaching Mr. Arafat himself. The Israelis responded by banning foreigners, including journalists, from Ramallah, and by arresting and deporting a... |
1386241_1 | An Agreement in Principle To Recycle Old Computers | has so far been largely theoretical in the United States. The movement, known as product stewardship, places shared responsibility for recycling products on manufacturers, government, retailers and consumers. ''The message to the consumer when they are buying the product is that responsibility of it is not only in the ... |
1386298_0 | DNA Science Pushed to the Limit In Identifying the Dead of Sept. 11 | A right hand, a forearm and a clavicle, and the DNA they carried, were all investigators had to identify the remains of Timothy Stout, who worked on the 103rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center. Two fingerprints and a dental pattern proved key to confirming the death of David Suarez, who worked a few fl... |
1386285_2 | Yes, Catholics Count. Stand Up, Everybody. | divorce. As a result, the rate of marriage here is declining, the number of children born outside marriage is rising rapidly and women abandoned by their husbands have no practical way to obtain alimony or child support. In addition, during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet 1973 to 1990, abortion laws were actu... |
1388058_0 | A Fitting Tribute to the Victims | To the Editor: Re ''Trade Center Plans Are Speeded Up After Criticism'' (news article, April 24): I was happy to hear that a final plan for the World Trade Center site would be reached by fall. Yet an engineering study has recommended that no building on the site be over 60 stories tall. This would give us a false sens... |
1387985_0 | At Least 100,000 in France Protest Far Rightist | At least 100,000 demonstrators streamed through the streets of Paris and a string of other cities today in a further protest against the strong showing of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of French presidential elections last weekend. The Paris demonstrations drew in an impromptu alliance of human ... |
1387948_0 | Of College and Status | To the Editor: In the column, Mr. Redburn mentioned academic research suggesting that being surrounded by intelligent, motivated students offers a great advantage. As a student who transferred from the University of Colorado at Boulder to an Ivy League school -- Cornell -- I am evidence of this fact. As an English majo... |
1387950_1 | Ire And Brimstone | when the men who usually urge redemption angled for their own. But the leaders of a church built on symbols could not even manage the symbolism. The empty chairs sent an unequivocal message: They hadn't learned a thing. The cardinals chose defiance over deference to the expectations of their devastated flock, which tho... |
1387954_0 | Rethinking Hormone Therapies | The latest verdict on hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women raises disturbing questions, not only for millions of women who have been taking the drugs but also for doctors who have been recommending their use for purposes that now appear inappropriate. Hormones have long been prescribed to relieve sympto... |
1387740_4 | Looking to Be a New Voice on the Yale Board | campaigns have brought him half the publicity that he has received since he started his petition campaign last year to become a member of Yale's board, known as the Yale Corporation. ''With this candidacy, it's taken it to a whole other level,'' Mr. Lee said. Mr. Lee, who grew up in Ansonia, is the 14th candidate in Ya... |
1387914_1 | Where the Jobs Are | recent classified ads: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. M.B.A., C.P.A. Must be able to report one earnings figure while simultaneously looking at another; massage numbers; lobby; move debt off books; rally stockholders; defer income to a later quarter till the end of time. Ability to name holding companies after birds of prey ... |
1382827_1 | Report Finds Fault in Airline Maintenance System | airline maintenance is not working properly because the government has too few inspectors, manages them badly and has not trained them properly, a report by the Transportation Department's inspector general has found. The new method, the Air Transportation Oversight System, is an outgrowth of the 1996 ValuJet Airlines ... |
1382862_0 | Enron Offered Management Aid To Companies | The sales pitch to major corporations went something like this: Having trouble with cash flow or meeting profit forecasts? We can help you manage the numbers, and even put a little cash in your pocket. The financial expert was the Enron Corporation, which until its sudden collapse last year had been widely admired in f... |
1382880_0 | A Path to Change in the Church | To the Editor: Re ''Sins of the Church'' (news analysis, front page, April 8): I am saddened but not surprised by the response of many Catholic officials and theologians to recent revelations of longtime abuse and cover-ups. Many would prefer to debate restrictions that apply to all Catholics (celibacy outside of marri... |
1382863_3 | A Guilty Plea From Andersen's Enron Auditor | wrong, a crime has not been committed if those involved honestly believed the advice to be correct. However, if information was withheld from the accountants, prosecutors can use that as potential evidence of an intent to deceive. That, in turn, would weaken the defense, known as ''professional reliance.'' Regardless o... |
1385511_0 | Aging Is Not an Illness | To the Editor: The study reported in ''Scientists Question Hormone Therapies for Menopause Ills'' (front page, April 18) points to the dangers of adopting medical interventions without scientifically proven evidence of their benefits or balanced assessment of their risks. These interventions become standard practice an... |
1383446_3 | AIRPORT WORKERS FACE NEW SCRUTINY | the eyes of state security officials is investigating the backgrounds of people working in shops and restaurants. A terrorist might not be able to smuggle explosives through a checkpoint, but a confederate at one of the shops could do so easily, state officials said. Even a knife used to cut meat at a restaurant might ... |
1383342_0 | The Graying of the Globe | A United Nations conference in Madrid has been grappling all week with the implications of a startling demographic development -- a world where there will be more elderly people than youngsters in coming decades. The developed nations passed through that transition a few years ago, prompting today's concerns over the a... |
1385013_3 | Rich Firms, Poor Ideas for Towers Site | mission should be considered either desirable or inevitable, except insofar as it enables the private sector to reap a windfall after an international tragedy. It would be useful to go down the list of principles and unpack them one by one. Each represents a significant crisis in the way cities are made. A historical v... |
1384990_0 | A Memorial of Light | To the Editor: Re ''In Morning Sky, Seamless Exit for Twin Beams'' (news article, April 15): You report that there has been a groundswell of public interest in extending the ''Tribute in Light'' and that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has voiced support for incorporating shafts of light into the memorial ultimately constru... |
1385101_0 | Scientists Question Hormone Therapies For Menopause Ills | A new report by a panel of international experts casts doubt on longstanding claims that hormone replacement can prevent or treat a variety of ills in postmenopausal women, including heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, severe depression, urinary incontinence and broken bones caused by osteoporosis. While hormone therap... |
1380554_0 | Improving Aviation Security | Six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, public confidence in the nation's aviation system is rebounding. With the economy recovering as well, air travel is picking up and airlines are reinstating flights and furloughed workers. It's just the sort of moment when a sense of complacency could take hold. That woul... |
1380476_0 | To Control Fertility | To the Editor: ''The Population Slowdown'' (editorial, March 28) emphasized the importance of sustained funding for family planning. But equally fundamental to any declines in fertility is the right of women to determine when and under what conditions they bear children. ELLEN SWEET New York, March 29, 2002 The writer ... |
1381770_0 | Cardinal Argued for Slipping Names to Police | In a private e-mail message, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles called the church's failure to report to the police the names of priests accused of sexual abuse ''a huge mistake.'' He also harshly criticized the church's lawyer for dragging her feet on providing the information. Cardinal Mahony wrote that the chur... |
1384307_0 | Faster, Safer Flying | To the Editor: Any method of separating travelers for security based on identity is subject to compromise (''ID Cards for 'Trusted Travelers' Run Into Some Thorny Questions,'' Business Day, April 9). A separation based on behavior might be better. For example, having security ''express lanes'' for travelers carrying on... |
1384371_3 | Candidate Sees Green Party As French President-Maker | by the spread of mad cow disease, genetically modified crops and industrial accidents like an explosion in September at a chemical plant in Toulouse that left dozens dead. The party's traditional strength has been in big cities among the better educated, he said, but it is spreading fast to the countryside. Mr. Mamére,... |
1384320_1 | Keeping Watch Over Instant Messages | and monitoring instant messages, but over the last several months, scores of companies have taken a similar tack. They are discovering that instant messaging -- once the province of chatty teenagers -- has invaded the work place. Jupiter Media Metrix says more than 15.6 million people send instant messages at work. To ... |
1384314_4 | Cultural Salvage in Wake of Afghan War | (but not buy) artifacts in trust, waiting for the day when they could return to Afghanistan. Other collectors -- in Japan, for instance, where Buddhist art from Afghanistan found a ready market -- may also eventually return some artifacts. ''It is too early to ask for the return of objects,'' Mrs. Dupree said, ''but ce... |
1387441_1 | The Big Old Dam Still Thrills, but From Fewer Angles | bleak Black Gorge, connecting Arizona and Nevada, there are restrictions on trucks, buses and motor homes. Officials here are striving to reopen as much as possible by summer, but they are constrained by the security concerns. Visitors usually dance around use of the word ''disappointment,'' but those who are familiar ... |
1387443_0 | A New Risk To Computers Worldwide | A rogue computer program that is the online equivalent of a quick-change artist is infecting computers around the world via e-mail and clogging computer networks. The program, W32/KLEZ.H, is a ''blended threat,'' combining elements of a virus, which infects machines, and a worm, which transports itself from machine to ... |
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