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1388135_2 | Losses Persist As BlackBerry Gains Rival | a cellphone. ''The road is quite long and there are some pitfalls ahead,'' said Alex Slawsby, a research analyst at the International Data Corporation in Framingham, Mass. The BlackBerry's initial success was based on its appeal to the so-called enterprise market -- users in big companies and government agencies. The B... |
1386407_1 | In Public Health, Definitive Data Can Be Elusive | to contradict findings in observational studies, the estrogen studies are leading to a problem. Some would call the disparity a crisis. The conclusions that hormonal therapy may have important benefits arose from observational studies that were models in medicine. If those studies were wrong, then why? How many other w... |
1386507_0 | A Delicate Week for the Church | To the Editor: Re ''John Paul II and His Cardinals'' (Op-Ed, April 22): John L. Allen Jr. characterizes obligatory celibacy for Roman Catholic priests as a matter of ''church doctrine.'' In fact, it is a matter of changeable church discipline only. It cannot be a doctrinal issue when thousands of Catholic priests in Ea... |
1386372_0 | Dispelling the Fictions That Can Keep Women Weak | ''The Frailty Myth,'' by Colette Downing, Random House, $13.95 In an 1879 textbook, an American gynecologist advised that girls ''spend the year before and two years after puberty at rest.'' Each menstrual period, he added, should be endured in ''the recumbent position'' until the girls' systems could adjust to ''the n... |
1383128_1 | Privacy Policy On Web Shifts As Profits Ebb | to their users, both by e-mail and by older means, is an important source of revenue that can help make up for the rapid decline in sales of online advertising. ''It has been our orientation from the beginning to be straightforward with the user,'' said Bill Daugherty, the co-chief executive of the Excite Network. ''Th... |
1383007_1 | The Bell Is Tolling For the Beeper | technology,'' said Adam Guy, a senior analyst at Strategis Group, a telecommunications research firm in Washington. ''No one wants to send a page when you can just call someone on their cellphone.'' But if one-way pagers are a dying breed, some people plan to hold on to theirs to the bitter end. As a pager owner wrote ... |
1388330_0 | MEMO PAD | Delta Executives Get an Earful A shareholder activist, Evelyn Y. Davis, gave Delta Air Lines executives an earful about boorish airport security guards and how they are scaring air travelers away. Mrs. Davis, a philanthropist who flies to dozens of corporate annual meetings a year to share critical observations with co... |
1388283_0 | Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience | I vividly remember the first time I was hijacked on the radio. I had agreed to participate in a debate for a Florida radio program that specialized in alien visits and U.F.O. sightings. My better judgment suggested that I should be wary. But I thought if I kept my focus purely on the physics challenges involved in spac... |
1388295_3 | NASA to View Interaction of Earth's Water and Climate | would help resolve scientific conflicts about global warming and how much of it could be attributed to human activity. The comprehensive, uniform information provided by this system will give policy makers more confidence in making decisions about influencing global warming that can have worldwide economic impact, he s... |
1388458_0 | Public Health by the Numbers | To the Editor: In the article ''In Public Health, Definitive Data Can Be Elusive'' (April 23) an important point was left out. We do not yet know the reason for the apparent inconsistency between the early results of the continuing randomized Hormone Replacement Therapy, or H.R.T., trial of the Women's Health Initiativ... |
1388278_1 | OBSERVATORY | barnacles, mollusks, worms and hydroids. Some of these organisms have no other apparent means for being dispersed than by debris or ships. Above 60 degrees latitude (north or south), no debris was found to carry organisms, probably because of the persistently low water temperatures. But many climate models predict that... |
1388307_1 | A Detective-Story Approach To the Twin Towers' Collapse | those images over and over on computer screens, as they hope to learn from the sequence and manner of the collapse. The head of the engineering team, Eugene Corley, performed the same task in Oklahoma City, after the bombing there. ''I have now looked at two terrorist attacks,'' he says, ''and I never want to look at a... |
1388325_2 | Both Economies Drained. Palestinians' Is Worse. | officials estimate that 50 percent of Palestinians now live below the poverty line and that up to 60 percent are unemployed. There is a glut of tomatoes and cucumbers, products that Palestinians normally sell to Israelis, while prices soar for products imported from Israel, like sugar and flour. ''Basically, the Palest... |
1388306_2 | Weighing Risks and Benefits of Hormone Therapy | higher in women who already have coronary artery disease. Estrogen increases the risk by stimulating the liver to produce more of the substances that it normally makes to promote clotting. Estrogen's risks have long been recognized, but until recently many doctors and patients assumed the risks were outweighed by benef... |
1380716_0 | Hunting for Elusive Terrorists Off Somalia's Coast | A tiny blip appeared on the radar screen of a German surveillance plane patrolling the Somali coastline. It was a faint green dot, which meant something small was out there on the water. Was this a boatload of fleeing Al Qaeda fighters? The pilot maneuvered the plane for a close look. Two spotters with high-powered bin... |
1380696_4 | Conquering France: A Briton Makes Town Council | twice a day to collect the fees. It is a job that he does not like much. But Mr. Parfitt said a lot of the people in town thought that, as an Englishman, he would know a lot about fishing. He does not. Mr. Parfitt and his wife, who taught high school, discovered Montrollet through Mr. Parfitt's childhood pen pal. One s... |
1380662_0 | 'Hands Free' Cellphones May Still Be Road Risk | Drivers distracted by a task devised to simulate using a ''hands free'' cellphone sometimes failed to stop properly at red lights and, when they recognized the light in time to stop, braked much harder than usual, increasing the chance of accidents, researchers report in a new study. In the study, 36 drivers on a test ... |
1380736_3 | Tower Disaster Echoes Lessons Of Earlier Fires | time to work.'' After the city fire code was changed in 1968, allowing a widespread shift from masonry fireproofing to a light, spray-on product, Mr. Winberry said, ''we could not understand how this was going to work; we had no faith in it.'' Over the past century, calls for reform in the byzantine world of fire prote... |
1380736_5 | Tower Disaster Echoes Lessons Of Earlier Fires | fireproofing, which at some point had been knocked away, left steel supports for the floors exposed to the blaze. They twisted and pulled away from their connections, initiating collapses that stopped only because the concrete slabs of the floors refused to give way. Although the building stood, the fire burned for mor... |
1382421_5 | TOWERS' COLLAPSE RAISES NEW DOUBTS ABOUT FIRE TESTS | the institute's work is successful, Dr. Sunder said, ''we'll have the tools for engineers to design and retrofit for fire safety.'' ''Fire and emergency service personnel will have a better understanding of the performance to be expected from buildings,'' he added. A draft of the FEMA report, which has been obtained by... |
1382349_0 | Rights of Women | To the Editor: Re ''Washington Is Criticized for Growing Reluctance to Sign Treaties'' (news article, April 4): Among the treaties that the United States has signed but not ratified is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, which is regarded as an international bill of rights fo... |
1381384_0 | This Quaker Had Rich Tastes | Though we think of the early Quakers in Pennsylvania as modest people leading modest lives, there certainly were exceptions. An outstanding example of that was James Logan (1674-1751), a Philadelphia gentleman, merchant, politician, justice, botanist, astronomer, scholar and book collector. Logan may have been a Quaker... |
1384562_0 | Unapproved Canola Seed May Be on Farms, Makers Say | Monsanto and Aventis CropScience said yesterday that some genetically modified canola seeds that have not been approved in the United States might have found their way to farmers' fields. The two companies are now seeking regulatory approval of those seeds to prevent possible recalls of seeds or food. The canola does n... |
1384509_3 | Hidden Danger of Long-Haul Flying, or Sitting | on their awareness of the malady. ''I think we've done more than enough to properly inform the traveling public,'' said Michael Wascom, a spokesman with the Air Transport Association, a trade group in Washington that represents major United States airlines. Whether the plaintiffs' lawyers have a good case is questionab... |
1384532_0 | F.D.A. Approves Allergan Drug for Fighting Wrinkles | Botox, a wildly popular treatment for wrinkles, was approved yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration for cosmetic use to treat frown lines. The approval permits Allergan, the maker of Botox, to begin a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign aimed at doctors and consumers. Until now, because Botox had received reg... |
1386718_1 | Adams Delays Testifying in U.S. About I.R.A. Action in Colombia | committee chairman, Henry J. Hyde, Republican of Illinois, offering to meet legislators the next time he was in Washington. Mr. Adams said he was satisfied with the I.R.A.'s denial that it had sent anyone to Colombia ''to train or engage in any military cooperation with any group.'' He added, ''Irish Republicans pose n... |
1386731_0 | Students' Placement in Special Education Is Leveling Off | New York State education officials reported yesterday that the proportion of public school students placed in special education has been leveling off in recent years, to 11.9 percent last year, although black and Hispanic minority students are still more likely than whites to be placed there. A report released by the S... |
1394046_1 | Guides to Help Revive The Sexually Inactive | and her health educator co-author, direct their attention to women. Through interviews with women and professionals in human sexuality, and with unabashed instructions on how to wake up sexually (''Go to bed naked.''), they cover a wide range of subjects including which drugs encourage sexual response, whether cosmetic... |
1391978_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.'' RICHARD POWER, on computer crime and security. [A14] |
1393417_0 | A Town Wrestles With Development | NORTH CASTLE, the sprawling 27-square-mile township that embraces urban North White Plains, suburban Armonk and the Vermont-like rural East End of Banksville, has a reputation for being McMansion-friendly. ''This town has a big red bull's eye painted on its forehead,'' said Rod Christie, executive director of the Mianu... |
1393764_0 | Analyze This, This and This | THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy. By Colin McGinn. 241 pp. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. $25.95. SOCRATES always insisted that what he knew was worth little or nothing, even though no less an authority than the Delphic oracle said that there was no one wiser than he. Phi... |
1393471_1 | Labors of Love (if Not of Current Fashion) | is a musician, and he hopes to raise a family someday. As an estimated 1.2 million new college graduates enter one of the bleakest, most competitive job markets in a decade, they may want to pay attention to Mr. Cohen's story. Some people can be satisfied in an ordinary job. A recent report by the National Association ... |
1393399_4 | Nasal Academy | particular odor. ''An odor that is associated with a stressful circumstance has the potential to activate stress when it is smelled even under different circumstances,'' Dr. Dalton said. ''If people can overcome this type of odor-stress association, maybe it will help them overcome the stress.'' Monell was hired by the... |
1393753_2 | Pursued by a Man | a stiff-legged walk, marked with urine, and approached me with a soft repetitive moan. I greeted her, nose to nose, and offered her a bag of kibble.'' The book is at its best in describing such encounters and the behavior of bears. At times it can be slow going, as when Kilham lists his many theoretical questions about... |
1392201_1 | In Fight Over Turf In Montana Valley, It's Man vs. Grizzly | the cubs are players in a new kind of turf war in the Rocky Mountain West, one that pits the soaring population of humans against a recovering population of grizzlies. Similar battles between people and resurgent predators are taking place in many parts of the country, but nowhere else are the risks so great. If startl... |
1395338_10 | A Line in the Water | Island, a large, dimly lighted room where about 20 black-and-white video screens and 16 color monitors track every vessel that enters the port. ''We're taking a look at the risks associated with each vessel, and basically on that information -- where they're coming from, what was the last port of call, what cargoes are... |
1395360_11 | A Line in the Water | a look at the risks associated with each vessel, and basically on that information -- where they're coming from, what was the last port of call, what cargoes are on there, who are the shipping companies, where are the crew members from, are they from a country that we're concerned about, Middle East countries, somewher... |
1395377_11 | A Line in the Water | and cargo at least 96 hours before docking. A new office within the Coast Guard, the National Vessel Movement Center in Martinsburg, W. Va., -- created after Sept. 11 to track vessels -- receives the information, which it shares with Coast Guard intelligence in Maryland and checks it against criminal and immigrant data... |
1395647_0 | May 19-25: INTERNATIONAL; TOUGH ON CUBA | President Bush refused to lift a 40-year-old trade embargo against Cuba unless Fidel Castro undertakes democratic and economic reforms. In Miami, in front of thousands of wildly cheering Cuban-Americans -- voters critical to the president's reelection -- Mr. Bush also called Mr. Castro a brutal dictator who had done no... |
1395579_2 | At Camp, Survival Skills Include a Solid Résumé | want to be a doctor,' but they wouldn't know what to do.'' The fund helps students with the college- application process, with preparing for the College Boards and with seeking financial aid. ''We help them find out what interests them and what they need to do. It empowers them.'' About 500 participants have graduated ... |
1395233_0 | At Airports, a Search For Better Security | EIGHT months into the war on terrorism, airport security guards treat everyone as a possible terrorist until proved otherwise -- unless the traveler is selected for additional inspection, in which case previous inspections are irrelevant. The procedures have become so cumbersome that some travel experts are calling for... |
1395389_0 | Is the Coast Clear? | EACH day, thousands of cargo ships and tankers from around the globe glide into and out of ports from Delaware Bay to Napatree Point in Rhode Island -- each with the capacity to be the vehicle of the next terrorism disaster. In the Port of New York and New Jersey alone, about 11,000 vessels haul three million shipping ... |
1395527_1 | FIVE QUESTIONS for JOHN S. KAVULICH II; Room for Whom on Cuba's Ground Floor? | commodities companies like Archer Daniels Midland, Riceland Foods, Gold Kist Inc. and about 18 others that have sold food to Cuba since late last year. There also are branded food companies that haven't sold anything yet but are likely to do so. They include RJR Nabisco, PepsiCo and Mars, which owns Uncle Ben's Rice, a... |
1390251_0 | How the Towers Collapsed | The federal investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11 has been unable to pinpoint what engineering elements were critical in the disintegration of the buildings or how best to resist a recurrence. Even so, the six-month study -- conducted by the American Society of Civil Engineers and... |
1390218_0 | High Cost of College | To the Editor: Re ''Greater Share of Income Is Committed to College'' (news article, May 2): The rising cost of running a university has little to do with ''bidding wars'' for the best professors. Yes, there are well-paid stars at many universities, but their salaries are more than balanced by the highly underpaid grad... |
1390193_3 | Biologists Sought a Treaty; Now They Fault It | are harming the most basic field work, even observational studies of wildlife in which nothing is taken away. The restrictions not only affect northern scientists' probing southern forests, but also local scientists. Dr. Ricardo Callejas, a professor at the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, specializes in ... |
1390178_4 | Beyond Birth Control: The Pill Tackles New Duties | research on low-dose estrogen is mostly positive, Ms. Allina said, girls and women still need to know the benefits and risks of hormonal contraception so that they can then make informed choices. While adolescents seem to suffer from menstrual pain more than older women, it is not clear whether that is because dysmenor... |
1390328_14 | At Last, Colleges Answer, And New Questions Arise | students. These early letters and spring receptions are increasingly popular among college admissions officers, as yet another way to improve their yield and look better in college rankings. The Ivy League and other select colleges moved their notification date from mid- to early April a decade ago to give them more ti... |
1390239_1 | Washington Accuses Cuba Of Germ-Warfare Research | when American farm groups, who view Cuba as a natural market, and their allies advocate loosening the four-decade American trade embargo. He added that Mr. Bolton had produced no evidence to substantiate his allegations. Mr. Bolton's office would not elaborate on the charges. But other administration officials say the ... |
1390239_2 | Washington Accuses Cuba Of Germ-Warfare Research | He compared the United States to a dragon and Cuba to a lamb, warning that the dragon would find its meal poisoned if it tried to eat the lamb. Cuba, in fact, is one of the few developing nations to play a significant role in drug and biotechnology activities. The Web posting calls Cuba's effort ''unmatched elsewhere i... |
1390169_0 | Camera Is Left Behind to Zoom In on North Pole's Weather | After melting holes through the floating ice at the North Pole last month to retrieve an array of instruments tethered to the sea bottom a year ago, a team of scientists left an observer behind. It is an automated digital camera linked by satellite to the Web, allowing the researchers -- and anyone else -- to keep trac... |
1396575_10 | Away From the Uproar, Before a Strong Wind | future World Trade Center. The day after the shooting, an armada of 70 canoes sailed from Pavonia to New Amsterdam, where rampaging Indians killed the landowner and burned the village before moving on and destroying a struggling Dutch settlement on Staten Island. A different sort of terror stalked the waterfronts of Ne... |
1396682_0 | New Climate Sensors for Earth Malfunction on Aqua Satellite | A vital instrument on a new billion-dollar satellite designed to resolve questions about the changing climate is malfunctioning, NASA officials said today. The satellite, called Aqua, is the centerpiece of NASA's Earth Observing System, a suite of satellites and projects intended to improve forecasting and gather data ... |
1389171_6 | Catholics Back Strong Steps on Abuse, Poll Finds | gays in the priesthood than in other walks of life. But American Catholics were divided over whether a gay man should be ordained at all, even if he remained celibate. Men were more likely than women to oppose such ordination, and Catholics older than 64 more likely to oppose it than younger people. American Catholics ... |
1389117_2 | Where 'Living While Black' Means Living in Fear | to be organized; Mr. Gebre said many of his attackers were dressed in black with swastika insignias on their arms. And they have been common enough to hold many of Moscow's non-white communities in fear. In April two African-American marine guards from the American Embassy were attacked by skinheads in downtown Moscow.... |
1389096_0 | Women and the Church | To the Editor: ''A Nun Feels Betrayed in a Male-Led Scandal'' (news article, April 27) leads me to ask: Where are the thousands of religious women in the church crisis? They are respected teachers, witnesses and leaders for many in the church. We need to hear their collective and individual voices, calling for healing ... |
1390843_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about preparations by the United Nations for its special session to discuss the needs of children misstated the number who died of preventable diseases in the 1990's. It is estimated at 130 million, not 10 million. The article also misstated the number of countries that met their pledge to devote a... |
1390715_8 | In Satellite Piracy War, Battles on Many Fronts | people are up and running again. With a PC and an Internet connection, anyone can now be a pirate. The price of hardware has plummeted as competing manufacturers have flooded the market. Equipment that used to cost several thousand dollars has dropped to $100 or $150. ''Everybody and their neighbor has a programmer the... |
1390689_3 | An E-Mail Affliction: The Long Goodbye | who isn't expressive,'' she said. '' 'Got your information.' Well, was it informative, was it what you wanted, am I hurting your feelings?'' Not hearing back certainly concludes the exchange. ''Silence is one way we judge that any conversation is over,'' said E. Sean Rintel, a graduate student in sociology at the State... |
1395882_1 | OBSERVATORY | lead to new kinds of specialized crystals that could have applications in industry. Thick or Thin Crust? Oddities of topography, not topology, concern a researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. Specifically, he is interested in impact craters on Jupiter's moon Europa and what they say about the thick... |
1395955_0 | Scientists Measuring Martian Ice Detect Oceans' Worth | Scientists this week are publishing a wealth of detail about the discovery in March of what could be the frozen remains of once vast oceans on Mars. The finding, by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, lends support to theories that early in its history Mars was wet and warm -- and possibly amenable to life. It could also s... |
1395892_2 | Cancer and Childbirth: Mutually Exclusive No Longer | issues from the 25-center study, soon to be published in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the researchers found that while higher rates of miscarriage and lower birth weights were observed among the offspring of former patients, ''there are a large number of live births, births of healthy children, a ... |
1395890_4 | Why Angry People Can't Control the Short Fuse | that others feel hostile or critical toward them and tend to defend themselves, in the process actually provoking hostility and a vicious cycle of anger. Others operate from a misperception that the world should be other than it is and become enraged when beset by the ordinary hassles and inconveniences of everyday lif... |
1394320_1 | Chicago Cardinal Proposes Selling His Mansion | clergy leaders, a process that could take years, comes as Catholic dioceses around the country are facing fund-raising shortfalls in the wake of the growing sexual abuse scandals. Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston, who is at the center of the crisis, has been pressured to sell the chancery's 15-acre compound, including... |
1392921_0 | Charles M. Rick, 87, Botanist; Helped Create Tastier Tomatoes | Dr. Charles M. Rick, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the evolution and genetics of the tomato enabled him and other botanists to produce healthier and tastier tomatoes through crossbreeding, died on May 5 in Davis, Calif., where he was a professor emeritus at the University of California. He was 87. Dr. Rick specialize... |
1392902_1 | José Lutzenberger, Brazilian Environmentalist, Dies at 75 | chemical company, selling the same products he would later castigate. Long afterward, Mr. Lutzenberger recalled the incident that transformed him into an ardent, unrelenting defender of the ecosystem. It occurred while he was visiting a 250-acre apple orchard that had been repeatedly sprayed by its French owner with pe... |
1393005_0 | On Crossing the Strait to Cuba | To the Editor: Re ''Bush Plans to Tighten Sanctions on Cuba, Not Ease Them'' (news article, May 15): We trade extensively with China. We have full diplomatic relations with dictatorships. Even in the days of the Soviet Union, we did not let competing ideologies stop the flow of goods. It's time to let go of this 40-yea... |
1395019_1 | A Subject That May Appear, Stupidly, to Need No Explanation | the study of stupidity in this book. But Professor Ronell actually risks very little, for though the contemporary academic milieu suffuses every aspect of this work, she does not examine the concept on her home turf. ''Stupidity'' is almost defensively academic in its advocacies and oppositions. It is also ornately opa... |
1389336_2 | Enrolling Economic Diversity | and the University of California campuses, a fourth or more of the students receive federal Pell grants, which are limited to students whose family income is roughly in the lower third nationally. If top-ranked colleges, public and private, really want to encourage upward mobility rather than recycle prestige, they mig... |
1389317_0 | Mental Health Parity | To the Editor: President Bush is to be commended on his recent statement in support of mental health parity (news article, April 30). He joins the majority of Americans who now realize that mental illnesses are very real illnesses that are also quite common. Fortunately, they are also very treatable. We can now help mo... |
1390068_1 | Between Voting Days, Le Pen's Fiery Image Returned to Spotlight | for France to drop the euro, revive the franc and shut its European borders. He seemed to remind voters of his racist image. In recent remarks, he suggested that illegal immigrants be put in ''transit camps'' and then be sent to Britain on ''a special train'' -- language immediately recognized as an echo of the Third R... |
1390096_0 | For the Young, Scars of Sept. 11 | To the Editor: I am heartened to see the New York City Board of Education identifying children in need of mental health services because of trauma-related disorders from 9/11 (front page, May 2). However, we should not limit these services to children suffering trauma from terrorism. Approximately 30,000 New York City ... |
1392418_5 | Bush Plans to Tighten Sanctions on Cuba, Not Ease Them | should engage Cuba at all levels just as it has worked with China and North Korea to improve conditions in those countries. The administration also intends to find new ways to help Cuba's dissidents. The goal is to make resources available for the disparate opposition groups -- including independent journalists, labor ... |
1392488_0 | U.S. Regulators Are Requiring Full Details Of Energy Sales | A new rule adopted by federal regulators will force electricity traders to report individual transactions in detail beginning in July, preventing them from concealing the sort of fake ''round-trip'' trades that have allowed large energy producers to inflate their volumes and revenue, regulators say. Separately, Senator... |
1392406_4 | Half of New Teachers Lack Certificates, Data Say | is using the study to guide recruitment. It is focusing on some of the colleges that produced many of last year's teachers, said Joyce Coppin, head of recruitment. The study, by Fred Smith, a retired data analyst for the board, found that 62 percent of this year's recruits attended colleges and universities in New York... |
1392533_0 | Applications for Urban Teaching Jobs Rise | Teach for America, the nonprofit group that places new college graduates in urban schools after a summer of training, received 14,000 applications this year -- nearly three times the number it received last year. Interest was especially high at Yale, where 7 percent of the senior class applied to participate in the two... |
1395755_0 | What every new car needs: snow-melting tires, a pet seat, a partition for squabbling children. | AMERICANS are often accused of having a love affair with their cars. Millions of people spend hours of every day behind the wheel, commuting to work or driving their children to and fro. Most cars, sport-utility vehicles and minivans come equipped with the same standard options, which leaves it to independent inventors... |
1395731_1 | To Build a Country, Build a Schoolhouse | people are no different from the Americans or Europeans of today; it is all a matter of education or lack of education.'' By 1910 Japan was almost fully literate, at least for the young, and by 1913, though still very much poorer than Britain or America, Japan was publishing more books than Britain and more than twice ... |
1395808_6 | Flight Schools See Downside To Crackdown | to Russ Bergeron, a spokesman for the immigration service. The service will consider changing a tourist visa to a student visa, but only if the prospective student had announced an intention to study when applying for the tourist visa. In November, even before the visa rules were changed for all foreign students, Congr... |
1393947_5 | Born of Hell, Lost After Inferno; Rodin Work From Trade Center Survived, and Vanished | not deceived her. Most of ''The Three Shades'' had made it to the landfill, although barely: a severed foot and two headless bodies. Several months later, in March, a firefighter taking part in the recovery effort in Lower Manhattan found the bust of Jean d'Aire. It was turned over to the Port Authority of New York and... |
1393911_1 | For Now, Medical Advisory Panel Rejects Switching to a New Drug for Breast Cancer | drugs. The panel unanimously agreed that the Arimidex findings were encouraging but that 33 months was not long enough to judge the safety and effectiveness of aromatase inhibitors as a standard prevention for recurrence of breast cancer among postmenopausal women. The society said the report, which will be published i... |
1393941_0 | Perils of the Pipeline | A proposed natural-gas pipeline across New York has been under federal and state scrutiny since 1997. After all that, it's disheartening to hear that the plan has suddenly stumbled against unexpected environmental and safety problems when it seemed close to getting the go-ahead. Every effort must be made to resolve the... |
1393144_1 | Ford Is Said To Reappoint Ex-Executive | Ford, he never discussed his sexual orientation, but was open about the matter after his retirement and has been active in fund-raising endeavors, including overseeing an investment fund that supports gay and lesbian groups. ''It is certainly one more milestone and a testament to how some corporations value diversity,'... |
1391677_4 | Writing in Circles To Arrive at the Truth | (''The Dadshuttle'' and ''Down the Shore'') and two full-length plays (''Minutes From the Blue Route'' and ''The Beginning of August''). These plays, along with ''Northeast Local,'' revolve around family dynamics, suburban life and listless young people with dead-end jobs. A roofer's son, Mr. Donaghy is especially attu... |
1391868_1 | Menus Behaving Badly | But as we head north, stations programmed into the radio start to fade. I spend the next hour trying to tune in other frequencies, using the car's iDrive controller to scroll through menus on a screen. Eventually, I figure it out: Pull the iDrive knob back to select the ''entertainment'' menu. Scroll to the bottom of t... |
1391563_6 | Death by Drowning | would presumably be cut off from the outside world, and the rapidly fading frescoes are in urgent need of conservation. Small wonder that the Turkish Chamber of Architects has complained, in an Internet publication, with some bitterness, that the entire project was planned without consideration of its cultural and envi... |
1391717_1 | A Parched Job Market Greets New Graduates | York City area are facing what recruiters, personnel executives and college career counselors agree is one of the most competitive job markets in more than a decade. And they are advising graduating seniors who haven't found work to redouble their efforts and lower their expectations. In the current labor market, they ... |
1388558_2 | Taking the Long View, The Present Is Epilogue | who has served as Latin secretary to three popes and who remains an ardent Latin missionary in the face of the precipitous decline that the language has experienced in the wake of the Second Vatican Council's decision in the mid-1960's to try to modernize certain aspects of the Catholic Church. And there's an equally e... |
1388557_0 | Mainstreaming Children | To the Editor: New York State should be commended for reducing the amount of growth in special education (news article, April 24). When children are mistakenly classified with disabilities, it does a tremendous disservice. The article says ''special education students are more likely to perform better academically when... |
1388636_0 | Report on Towers' Collapse Ends Mostly in Questions | When federal investigators began their study of the collapse of the twin towers in October, they planned to evaluate exactly how structural steel, floor supports, fireproofing and other building components gave way in a deadly sequence of failures after hijacked jets first rammed the towers and set them on fire. But si... |
1389469_5 | The Best Fellows in the World | dripping woods, bluebell dells and towering elms, he suffered a gradual and finally spectacular breakdown. When war was declared, he made well-meaning but largely ineffectual efforts to play his part, such as taking a team of bloodhounds to Belgium to search out wounded men. His health betrayed him: manifestly unafraid... |
1389532_4 | Rethinking New York's Patch of Athens | -- Lincoln Center inscribed this potentially unstable set of values into the cityscape with some clarity. Airport terminals on the Campidoglio: not bad. Even critics who attacked the architecture as retrograde understood this intentionality. It's harder to perceive it now, partly because the physical plant is so shocki... |
1389502_3 | What Doctors Don't Know (Almost Everything) | the garb of science has taken so long to acknowledge a principle that every small-town carny understands. When I started practicing medicine in the early 90's, one of my enthusiasms was hormone-replacement therapy. At that time, the observation had been made, repeatedly, that postmenopausal women who happened to take e... |
1389850_3 | From Towers' Rubble, a Place for Memories | wreckage, and I thought about marrying that to the bells, to form some sort of memorial where people could come for peace and healing,'' he said. ''We wanted to build something positive and hopeful from something very evil.'' As the weeks passed, his idea made more and more sense to him and to those at the retreat, not... |
1389481_6 | Machine Dreams | all brought up. Of course, cultures vary in many respects, but there are also ways in which our environment is invariant -- just consider our common subjection to gravity, for example. Third, it is not at all clear that we need to take a stand on the existence of an innate universal human nature in order to evaluate th... |
1392682_1 | Journey to Havana | this week doesn't mean relations with Havana are about to come out of the ice age, but his trip has shown why it makes far more sense to engage in an open dialogue with Mr. Castro and his nation than to shun them as ideological lepers. It is a shame that President Bush still seems to think that preventing American trad... |
1392602_1 | Cellphone Chats, Courtesy of the Television Airwaves | they can be remedied. To get even this far, the technology has had to overcome several major obstacles. The biggest is the ''big signal, little signal'' problem. Although a television station puts out a big signal, one that is easy for the phone to receive, it is so big that it could overload the phone, causing a call ... |
1392587_1 | 'Ha-Ha, I'm in Hawaii': Automatic E-Mail Replies | do to block the spam? A. Spam filters are lists of rules and conditions under which an incoming e-mail message is screened. In addition to scanning for certain words or phrases, spam filters can be written to look for and reject messages that have invalid return addresses, fake domain names or forged headers, or messag... |
1392619_2 | Family Politics Shift to the Keyboard | keyboard. Following the pattern of television and telephone ownership, millions of American households own two or more PC's. But for parents who cannot afford to buy each child a computer or who prefer to keep an eye on Internet activity by having just one in a shared room, a technological tool has turned into an old-f... |
1394826_1 | Water Crisis Grows Into a Test of U.S.-Mexico Relations | the water,'' said Enrique Martínez governor of the state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. He added a sober prognostication: ''I think the struggle for water will be the gravest problem of this century.'' This same struggle is simmering worldwide: rivers and reservoirs are running dry as a growing population fights ove... |
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