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1394886_1 | Another Flying Season Begins | and airlines have become more sophisticated about identifying passengers who ought to be closely scrutinized, though further improvements are needed. At the same time, the government has wisely opposed such counterproductive measures as allowing pilots to bear arms. Passengers should be heartened when they spot the new... |
1394832_0 | America The Scofflaw | Early in the Reagan administration I spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. While there I got a disillusioning look at how economic policy is really made. But one favorable surprise was how seriously U.S. officials took our international trade agreements. The Reagan administration, despite its f... |
1394609_2 | Severe Water and Land Loss Predicted Over a Generation | the report says, noting that damage to farmland in India is cutting agricultural productivity there by about $2.4 billion a year. The analysis, the third in a series begun in 1997, involved more than 1,000 scientists and a host of international research centers and agencies. It was issued as 140 countries prepared for ... |
1394611_0 | Portland Voters Endorse Curbs On City Growth | Voters in the Portland metropolitan area have turned down an initiative that would have severely weakened how elected officials can determine the shape of new urban areas. It was an endorsement of land-use restrictions that have made Oregon a national model for controlling growth. The ballot measure, brought by develop... |
1394642_0 | An Appraisal; Marginal Role for Architecture at Ground Zero | The selection of the New York architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle to design a master plan for ground zero and the financial district confirms once again that architecture will play no more than a marginal role in the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan. While the firm's remodeling of historical structures has earned hig... |
1396137_2 | They Weren't Careful What They Hoped For | Sheckells was stunned when more than 81,000 responses arrived in just three weeks. ''I was losing vital e-mail from the school,'' she said. Even teachers who have done a better job of segregating incoming e-mail have been unable to keep themselves from being swamped by it. Among many teachers who set out on such projec... |
1396232_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Military Flexes Muscles In Amazon | In what is described as the biggest military exercise ever held in the Amazon, the Brazilian military has begun maneuvers in a remote area that borders Colombia. Colombian guerrillas and drug cartels have occasionally crossed into Brazil, but a government spokesman said the exercise had been planned long in advance and... |
1396117_0 | Bin Laden Inquiry Was Hindered by F.B.I. E-Mail Tapping | An F.B.I. investigation two years ago that was apparently linked to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network was hampered by problems with the bureau's e-mail wiretap system. The system, Carnivore, which was supposed to pick up e-mail from targets of counterterrorism investigations, ''also picked up the e-mails of noncovere... |
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1391305_0 | Tips to Make Flying Easier | Here are some tips for travelers from airlines, airports and the federal government: *Check the airlines' Web sites for updates and advice, including delays, recommended check-in times and items to avoid bringing. *Do not joke about terrorism, bombs or other such topics. *To avoid causing delays, take laptops out of ba... |
1391253_2 | House Panel Approves Measures to Oppose New Global Court | had spoken personally with both Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and that they ''have endorsed this in its entirety.'' Mr. DeLay's press secretary, Stuart Roy, said the measure had been refined after consultation with the White House. Victoria Clarke, assistant secretary of... |
1391255_1 | So God's Really in the Details? | ''Given e and k, h is true if and only if c is true,'' he said. ''The probability of h given e and k is .97'' In plain English, this means that, by Mr. Swinburne's calculations, the probability of the Resurrection comes out to be a whopping 97 percent. While his highly technical lectures may not net Christianity many f... |
1391243_1 | Thai Premier Offers Compromise of Sorts on Pipeline Dispute | be stopped,'' said Penchom Sae Tang, coordinator at the Campaign for Alternative Industry Network in Bangkok. ''It violates the constitutional principle of public participation.'' The proposed Trans Thai-Malaysia Pipeline, a joint venture of the two nations' state-controlled oil companies, PTT and Petroliam Nasional, w... |
1396306_1 | With the World Band in Your Hands | Philips). Learning from my mistakes, I then brought one of the radios along on the trip. Shortwave broadcasters like Voice of America and the BBC's World Service rely on the earth's atmosphere to carry their signals over long distances. The signals used for AM and FM radio and television either pass through or are abso... |
1396409_1 | Plan Sharply Tightens Airport Screening | screening at the gates. A draft plan, dated March 27, calls for making an updated version of a computerized passenger profiling system available at the checkpoints. Before Sept. 11 that system, known as the Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling System, was set up to provide information at the check-in counters and was ... |
1396331_1 | Europe Police Likely to Get Longer Access To Records | of Statewatch, which monitors civil liberties issues in Europe. The compromise language adds a requirement that police surveillance of citizens' phone and Internet use be appropriate, proportionate and limited in length. The draft law now also makes reference to the European Convention on Human Rights, though only in a... |
1396328_1 | Youth Will Be Served, Wirelessly | can build a successful company on teenagers' buying power. Now, as Wildseed's focus-group session demonstrates, cellphone manufacturers are maneuvering in that same tricky terrain, with the goal of making cellphones that are designed expressly for teenagers. Some companies are retooling existing phone models, adding fe... |
1390486_0 | Study Finds Far Less Pesticide Residue on Organic Produce | The first detailed scientific analysis of organic fruits and vegetables, published today, shows that they contain a third as many pesticide residues as conventionally grown foods. The findings, published in the Food Additives and Contaminants Journal, confirmed what consumers of organic food have taken for granted but ... |
1390589_0 | National Briefing | Religion: Woman Will Lead Bishops | Meeting in Bloomington, Minn., bishops of the United Methodist Church have elected their first female president. The new leader, Bishop Sharon Brown Christopher of Illinois, left, will serve for one year as president of the Council of Bishops. With her election, two women now lead the Methodist bishops. Bishop Sharon R... |
1390495_1 | U.N. Prepares For a Debate On Dire Needs Of Children | against child soldiers is an issue around which consensus can be reached, relatively easily. Even though the three-day General Assembly Special Session on Children does not get under way until Wednesday, it is already riven by acrimony. Much of the debate centers on abortion, and how it should be addressed in the final... |
1390495_3 | U.N. Prepares For a Debate On Dire Needs Of Children | session is unlikely to agree to any language in the final document that is seen as an endorsement of the convention on children. If nothing else, the special session has already offered a chilling snapshot of the plight of the world's smallest, most vulnerable citizens to some of the world's most powerful. Among the 3,... |
1388847_1 | The War on Terror Enters Phase 2 | been one key success on the financial front. Money is critical to any large terrorist operation, so the arrest by Spanish police of Mohammad Galeb Kalaje Zouaydi is significant. He has been linked by American and German investigators to Mamoun Darkazanli, the Syrian businessman who had ties to Mohammad Atta. Some of th... |
1371512_0 | In Caucasus Gorge, a Haven for Muslim Militants | Dozens of Afghan and Arab fighters are hiding in this 40-mile-long slash of rock and forest in the Caucasus Mountains, according to Georgian officials. They say at least some of the new arrivals are plotting terrorist strikes in Russia or seeking to reach Europe and the United States, possibly to mount attacks. Officia... |
1371336_0 | Phones in the Drawer or in the Trash, or to a Good Cause | ANYONE who has upgraded to a new cellphone has grappled with the question of what to do with the old one. Stick it in a drawer somewhere? Toss it in the trash can? Every year in the United States, 40 million to 50 million mobile phones face one of these two fates, said Seth Heine, founder and president of CollectiveGoo... |
1371352_2 | Mining Cellphones, Japan Finds El Dorado | into electronics equipment and has given manufacturers the primary responsibility for collecting the used gear. Mining cellphones for gold is, in fact, just one way the Japanese are finding new uses for what they cast off. They are among the world's most avid recyclers, and for good reason. With nowhere near the abunda... |
1369880_0 | Excerpts From Speech On Use of Mammograms | Following are excerpts from remarks prepared for delivery yesterday by Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of health and human services. A complete version is available at The New York Times on the Web: nytimes.com. Over the course of the past few months, and particularly in the past few weeks, there's been renewed discussion... |
1369772_0 | Not Wanted: '02 Graduates Seeking Jobs | When the millions of students who are set to graduate from college this spring started out in the late 1990's, the stock market was on a bull run and the dot-com frenzy was in full swing. At colleges across the country, career-services offices fashioned makeshift interview booths to accommodate the companies on a hirin... |
1369767_0 | Panel Urges U.S. to Tighten Approval of Gene-Altered Crops | The government should more carefully, and publicly, review the environmental impact of genetically altered plants before approving them and, to detect unforeseen problems, should monitor fields even after such crops are being grown commercially, a panel of biologists and agricultural scientists concluded yesterday. The... |
1366413_2 | Those Uncertain Air Connections | volunteers to give up their seats on overbooked flights in exchange for compensation, but would not accept those volunteers to make room for passengers who had missed connections. ''It was like, you're on your own,'' said Carla Aquaro of Paramus, N.J., who missed her connection to Traverse City because her flight to De... |
1366351_1 | Peace as a River | from the 16,000-foot heights of the Tibetan Plateau, the Mekong plunges south through a geological wonderland of dizzying escarpments, hanging valleys and steep gorges for a distance Chinese geographers now calculate at just over 3,000 miles. In 1998, Gargan, knowing there was ''no certain trail along the Mekong . . . ... |
1366621_1 | The Nation: Second Opinion; The Painful Fact of Medical Uncertainty | blanket, people turn to you and say, 'So what am I supposed to do?' '' The mammogram story shows both the uncertainty of scientific progress and the slipperiness of scientific truth. ''There is a great ignorance of the scientific process,'' said Dr. Leon Gordis, a public health expert at Johns Hopkins University. All t... |
1366534_4 | Satellite Radio Comes to Westchester | on the corner to the multi-location auto dealerships, from the regional banks to the local deli.'' And, he said, he is not completely assured that XM will steer clear of local broadcasting and advertisers in the future. ''Any time anybody wants to pick my pocket, I have a concern,'' he said. On Dec. 18, Harrison's zoni... |
1366651_0 | Pretty Poison | Five years ago, Anna Quindlen wrote that there were three stages in the life span of women: pre-Babe, Babe and post-Babe. Now there are four: pre-Babe, Babe, Botox Babe and Cher. Baby boomer babes don't want to be post-anything, even if it means freezing their faces into freakish death masks. The Times's Alex Kuczynski... |
1366473_2 | Helping Hands That Heal Hearts | who need surgery,'' Mr. Donno said. ''This is the driving force for everyone involved. This is our mission.'' In the case of the two Mongolian children, who returned home last month, Marcia and John Henry Gladwish of Stony Brook volunteered to serve as the host family. ''We've had so much help,'' said Mrs. Gladwish, a ... |
1364685_3 | Even Last Year, Option Spigot Was Wide Open | this spring. ''It's a great time to give options,'' said Pearl Meyer, president of the firm. ''They're cheap because they involve no charge to earnings, and that's important at a time when profits are down and boards are trying to make up for the fact that salaries and bonuses are both down.'' But Ms. Meyer and many ot... |
1364490_1 | Can Do | qualified for some state services. The cutoff was a score of 70 on an I.Q.-like exam, and bless his heart, Jamie had doodled after drawing parallel lines in one part of the test even though state law explicitly stipulates -- it really does -- that the lines have to be parallel for two-thirds of their length. Fortunatel... |
1364547_0 | From Jungle Savage to Superhero | 'Finally in Full Color' Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mills Pond House, 660 Route 25A, St. James, (631) 862-6575. Through Feb. 24. Organized by William H. Foster 3rd, a professor of English and avid comic book collector, this show aims to trace the changing image of African-Americans in comic strips and magazines. T... |
1364424_0 | Saber Rattling for Democracy | WARRIOR POLITICS Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. By Robert D. Kaplan. 198 pp. New York: Random House. $22.95. ROBERT D. KAPLAN'S ''Warrior Politics'' praises the wisdom of previous ages, their historians and political philosophers, and recommends their study to modern statesmen as a basis for making good decision... |
1364740_0 | Bush Hires Hard-Liners To Handle Cuba Policy | At a time when Cuba is exhibiting increasing signs of reaching out to the United States, the Bush administration is filling its Latin America policy ranks with officials known for a hard-line stance toward Fidel Castro's government. Several incoming officials advocate an unyielding hostility toward Cuba and the mainten... |
1365021_0 | Bin Laden's Trail Is Lost, but Officials Suspect He Is Alive | A month after United States officials expressed confidence that they had cornered Osama bin Laden in the mountains of Tora Bora, they now acknowledge that they have lost track of the terrorist leader and are increasingly frustrated over the virtual absence of intelligence on his whereabouts. The officials say they have... |
1365077_0 | A Forum for the Formerly Radical | In another time, the panelists speaking about Northern Ireland at the World Economic Forum yesterday might have sent the bomb-sniffer dogs howling at the skies and the metal detectors blaring out alarms. One was once held on a British prison ship and in jail on suspicion that he was a member of the Irish Republican Arm... |
1368566_1 | Sniffing and Tasting With Metal and Wire | to avoid bitterness in medicines, and beer makers to avoid it in their brews. Though the industry is in its infancy, said Jean-Christophe Mifsud, 38, a chemical engineer who is chief executive of Alpha, the advantages of the electronic nose give it extraordinary promise. The device typically sells for $43,000 to $86,00... |
1368290_2 | No More Miracles | and trading genes, bacteria have developed immunity to countless drugs. And the time it takes them to acquire it seems to be shrinking. Linezolid (Zyvox), last line of defense against vancomycin-resistant strains, encountered drug-resistant bugs only a year after its F.D.A. approval. Worse, these two cascades of change... |
1368352_5 | A Faded City Brightens In Nicaragua | and a cosmopolitan air, but also attracted invaders. Several times pirates sacked Granada, most notably Henry Morgan in 1665. In the 1850's the city suffered its most bizarre attack, led by a mad American adventurer named William Walker who not only seized it but also proclaimed himself president of Nicaragua. Walker p... |
1368339_1 | How to Fly As a Courier | on time of year and destination. (In addition to suspending certain routes for security reasons, the F.A.A. has boosted security measures for courier travel; however, the changes affect the companies, not individual travelers, and so are not being publicized, said Rebecca Trexler, a spokeswoman.) Flights can usually be... |
1370663_2 | Passed over for a younger face, the Michelin Man returns as a company icon. | old codger if ever there was one? ''He has always been leveraged on Michelin's point-of-purchase material,'' said Mr. Ludwig, who called him the ''obvious choice'' for the new campaign. Certainly, his behavior in Michelin's new ads is hardly what one would expect from a centenarian. For example, in the first new TV spo... |
1369453_2 | Setting Up a Web Site, Be It Fancy or No-Frills | charges $34.95 for a basic business site that includes software for making a product catalog with an electronic shopping cart feature and secure credit-card forms. If you don't want use the templates from a domain registration or hosting site to create the material for your site, you can hire a Web design company. If y... |
1369509_3 | Editors' Note | Times Magazine, including last Sunday's cover article, ''To Wait or to Flee,'' about a thousand-year-old community stranded by war and starvation in Afghanistan. That article went to press before The Times was aware of the improper narrative techniques in the earlier one. Mr. Finkel has assured the editors that none of... |
1367344_2 | New Evidence of Cancer Risk In Hormone Therapy Study | societal impact.'' ''Even if this raises the risk of one rare breast cancer, over all the picture is improving,'' he said. ''Death rates from breast cancer in the United States are falling.'' Lobular tumors form in clusters of milk-producing cells, unlike most breast cancers, which grow in the ducts that carry milk. Th... |
1367476_0 | World Briefing | World: Ban On Young Soldiers | A global ban on child soldiers has gone into effect, the United Nations said. The treaty bars recruitment of children under 18 by armies and militias, a practice that affects an estimated 300,000 children. Since the pact was approved in May 2000 by the General Assembly, 96 countries have signed it and 14 countries have... |
1368974_4 | Strong Bones, With and Without Drugs | with radiation and certain chemotherapeutic drugs. People with autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis who have to take prednisone for long periods also usually experience excessive bone loss. And premature infants risk osteopenia later because 80 percent of bone mineralization normally occurs in the last third o... |
1369019_3 | Airport Journal; Underwireless, but Wishing for Wings | it full on. You can't put your whole hand on it.'' For security reasons, Ms. Neal declined to explain exactly how the search should be conducted. So did Rebecca Trexler, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. If at all possible, Ms. Trexler said, it might be best for women not to wear underwire bras whe... |
1368989_0 | More Drama Added to Politics of Transplants | The movie ''John Q.'' stars Denzel Washington as John Q. Archibald, a father so desperate to obtain a heart transplant for his son that when his H.M.O. refuses to pay for the operation he takes over an emergency room at gunpoint. This hospital cum hostage drama opened nationwide last week amid some brickbats from revie... |
1365848_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Italy: Phone Concern Considers Bids | The board of Blu, an Italian mobile phone operator, will meet today to consider bids received for all or part of the company. Blu, a consortium of five wireless operators, failed to win a license for the next wave of radio spectrum, and has said it will either be sold or liquidated. Roger Westbury, a spokesman for Brit... |
1367641_0 | Regulation on Tire Safety Rejected by Budget Chief | The head of the White House Office of Management and Budget took the unusual step today of rejecting a tire safety proposal made by the Bush administration's top auto safety regulators and said in a letter that their analysis was flawed. The Office of Management and Budget has not been known previously to return a sign... |
1367610_4 | Cuban Cash Reopens U.S. Food Trade | Miami. Cargill was among the first to close a deal with the Cubans, for 26,400 tons of yellow corn. ''They said the funds were coming out of some type of emergency reserve that was set aside to alleviate the impact of Hurricane Michelle,'' he added Shortly after Cuba was devastated by Michelle last fall, officials in H... |
1367581_0 | Squeezing Ever More From the Cellphone Spectrum | ALTHOUGH talking on a wireless phone the size your palm may seem the image of cutting-edge technology, a cellphone is really nothing more than a radio. And like the FM stereo in your car, a cellphone can suffer from the same limitations: blocked signals and interference. ''When you go behind a mountain or down to the s... |
1367585_3 | Talking More but Enjoying It Less | about service in the area. What is more, executives say, some customers expect too much from a service that essentially depends on radio waves traveling through the air. ''At the end of the day,'' said Dan Wilinsky, a spokesman for Sprint PCS, the country's fourth-largest carrier, ''we're talking about mobile phones, n... |
1367636_4 | Farmers in Peru Are Turning Again to Coca Crop | in November 2000. The suspension last April of a policy that allowed Peruvian Air Force planes to shoot down drug flights has also permitted trafficking to pick up, Peruvian officials say. The suspension came after a Peruvian fighter plane shot down a private plane carrying American missionaries, killing a woman and he... |
1367567_0 | Cellphone Safety: An Update; Tests Continue, but Radiation Risks Remain Unproven | MANY cellphone makers now offer information on the rate at which radiation is emitted by the phones, even as the issue of associated health risks is still being debated. The information is included with new cellphones certified by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, an industry group. More than ha... |
1370869_3 | In Corn's Cradle, U.S. Imports Bury Family Farms | quickly, converging with the free-market price by 1997. This was good news for big companies in Mexico importing corn for animal feed and processed food. But it was hard on the farmers, who have little political clout under the government of President Vicente Fox, an ardent free-trader. The effect of American imports o... |
1368283_0 | Denver Zoo Is Investigated for Bear Fights, Including a Fatal One | Federal officials are investigating why the Denver Zoo did not separate two Asiatic black bears who fought repeatedly over their 14 years in captivity together until the male killed the female in October. As zoo visitors watched, 14-year-old Moktan attacked 17-year-old Sherpa on Oct. 11, crushing her throat, mangling h... |
1368126_1 | A Clergy Ill Prepared to Deal With Scandal | these families, in their own homes and in groups small enough for conversation, to learn how others see what he has done and failed to do. The pedophile scandal in Boston, though gross and costly to the institution, reveals a much deeper, though separate, problem: the massive rift between the clergy and most Catholics ... |
1368132_0 | Secrets Confided to the Clergy Are Getting Harder to Keep | It was while in jail awaiting trial on double murder charges that O. J. Simpson had his famous heart-to-heart chat with the pro-football-player-turned-minister Roosevelt Grier. For weeks afterward, the press was rife with rumors that Mr. Simpson had confessed to the crimes. Questioned on the stand about what he'd heard... |
1368108_0 | A Classicist's Starting Point: Putting Aside Interpretations | Confessions of ignorance are not usually in a critic's best interest. But in this case, perhaps, an exception can be made. Ignorance, after all, is now common when confronting Greek literature. Beginning with ignorance is also an approach recommended by many of these demanding essays by Seth Benardete, a classicist at ... |
1370288_0 | Deer to the Slaughter | ALMOST a century ago, Upton Sinclair, the noted muckraker, repaired to a small cottage in Princeton to write ''The Jungle,'' his classic book about the inhumane treatment of both people and animals in the Chicago slaughterhouses of the early 20th century. No doubt Sinclair would be astonished to know that animals are b... |
1370125_10 | The Power Behind The Cologne | the Wertheimers bought from the Bader family the remaining 20 percent of the house. Chanel kept making headlines: Marilyn Monroe declared the only thing she wore to bed was No. 5, and Jacqueline Kennedy stood solemnly next to her husband President Kennedy's flag-covered casket on Air Force One in a blood-splattered pin... |
1370176_5 | The Parrots of the Pantanal | man. We saw a lot of them. Greater rheas, a South American counterpart of the ostrich, are even bigger. Then there is the improbable toco toucan, flying along pushing a bill that seems to occupy half its body bulk. Cattle-raising has so far coexisted well here with astonishingly rich wildlife, but the Pantanal faces a ... |
1370303_0 | Before Taking Off, Prepare to Stand By | IT has now become a fact of air travel. Tightened security has made getting onto an airplane an arduous process, and not only at the major airports of Boston and New York. Waits average two hours at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, less at Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport. And if you have a hamster in your po... |
1370509_4 | Bush Proposing Policy Changes On Toxic Sites | itself from a ''study, study, study program,'' with endless delays and litigation, to ''a big construction program, and the money goes right into the communities.'' Katherine Probst, a longtime expert on the Superfund and a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, an independent research group, said the drop was part... |
1370204_0 | The Things They Carried | In the absence of a procedure for returning items confiscated by airlines inspectors, the constitutional guarantee of security in one's possessions is gone (photographs by Susan E. Evans, Feb. 10). The pictures in your gallery are evidence that the airlines, at the very least, are guilty of overzealous petty larceny. H... |
1365323_4 | Annan Cautions Business as Forum Ends | you wield.'' Mr. Annan, who comes from Ghana, reminded the audience that a larger, rival gathering was held in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, in parallel with the World Economic Forum. ''Its title, 'World Social Forum,' is intended as a criticism of yours, implying that you are interested 'only in economics, or in profit, and t... |
1365186_0 | Restoration Of a Leonardo Is Ruled Out | Toward the back of an Uffizi Gallery warehouse here, an overstuffed storage closet for minor or damaged works of art, Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished masterpiece ''The Adoration of the Magi'' stands propped against a far wall, where it has been during months of diagnostic tests. The results of these tests, ordered to se... |
1365185_3 | Putting Mammograms to the Test | there are benefits that outweigh the risks. Breast cancer accounts for 1 to 3 percent of deaths among women. Even with the most optimistic estimate of mammography's benefits, a woman who had mammograms every year starting at age 40 would do as much for her life expectancy as she would by losing five ounces of fat and k... |
1365964_0 | Policy With Two Faces | To the Editor: Re ''Bush Hires Hard-Liners to Handle Cuba Policy'' (news article, Feb. 3): Why does the United States continue its 40-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, which it justifies for human rights reasons, while supporting China's membership in the World Trade Organization? China's abuses of human rights are ... |
1365991_2 | Airline Passenger Is Subdued After Trying to Enter Cockpit | cockpit door, and passengers reported seeing him stick his head through the hole. ''Blows were exchanged'' between Mr. Moreira and crew members, Commodore Reta said, before they overpowered and restrained him with seat belts and plastic handcuffs for the rest of the flight. He said that Mr. Moreira later expressed remo... |
1364373_1 | Stressing the Speech of Songs, Each a Poem of Emotion | Most singers try to make their singing as little speechlike as possible, but Mr. Holzmair goes another way. Not only does he emphasize the words by means of rhythm, phrasing and enunciation, but he also lets the breath of speech come through. There is something raw about his vocal quality, especially when he sensitivel... |
1364315_1 | A Search for Clues In Towers' Collapse; Engineers Volunteer to Examine Steel Debris Taken to Scrapyards | towers collapsed on Sept. 11, engineers and other experts have been struggling to answer the monumental questions of exactly why and how the buildings, designed to sustain a jet impact, completely collapsed. But despite promises of a broad federal investigation, and after weeks of calls from victims' families and other... |
1364229_0 | Less Than Perfect | To the Editor: A Jan. 26 letter suggests that flying baggage separately would do away with the need for baggage screening and ''would provide 100 percent safety from baggage bombs.'' I daresay that the pilots and the crews of the cargo planes would find the safety level considerably less than 100 percent. CHRIS CHRISTE... |
1370033_6 | First Tower to Fall Was Hit At Higher Speed, Study Finds | flight management system. But as they approached the city, the hijackers almost certainly had to take manual control of the aircraft, because the automatic pilot in navigation mode is not accurate enough to target the center of building, pilots said. Video of the approach of United Flight 175 to the south tower shows t... |
1366964_2 | MORE APPLICANTS ANSWER THE CALL FOR TEACHING JOBS | lawyers.'' In Chicago, school officials are hoping to lure new teachers with an advertising campaign that depicts teaching as a recession-proof career. They are also playing up job security in presentations to college students. ''The idea is that the economy may be down,'' said Carlos Ponce, chief of human resources fo... |
1368096_0 | Answering Accusations With a Gallic Shrug | It's not as if France were one of the world's superpowers on ice. And it's not as if a judge bending to political pressure is unheard of here. So the French have so far taken with a Gallic shrug the news that a French judge may have thrown her vote under pressure to a Russian figure skating pair at the Salt Lake Olympi... |
1367994_2 | As U. S. Assumes Screening, Little Will Appear Changed | security managers, with oversight for an entire airport. Some airports will have more than one security manager. The department has begun looking for 81 permanent federal security managers, and has had 9,500 applications, Mr. Magaw said. Mr. Jackson said the phased changed was part of a ''deliberately planned, incremen... |
1371110_3 | Despite federal rules, the airlines are still finding ways to speed favored passengers to their flights. | 11, and later established separate reserved lines for premium passengers. Northwest designed its two classes of lines to enable agents to direct passengers at the head of either the elite line or the regular line to any security checkpoint, depending on congestion. This way, passengers in the elite line still tended to... |
1371147_0 | U.S. MAY SEND G.I.'S TO EX-SOVIET AREA | The United States is considering sending a ''sizable'' number of Special Operations forces to the former Soviet republic of Georgia to help train that nation's military in counterterrorism tactics, a senior military official said today. The aim of the training mission, which has not yet been approved by Defense Secreta... |
1371116_0 | U.N. Security Council Debates Worsening Mideast Violence | A debate on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians opened today in a Security Council gripped by a sense of urgency and frustration over rising Mideast violence, with the United States arguing against any Council action and pledging to send its own mediator, Gen. Anthony Zinni, back to the region as soon as p... |
1371192_0 | Testing for Authenticity | |
1365529_2 | PayPal and Other Post-Bubble Signs of Life on the Internet | it, too, had been profitable last quarter. And e-commerce appears to have surged this past holiday season. The 51 million weekly visitors to online shopping sites were a 50 percent increase over the same period in 2000. Those shopping numbers underscore a critical factor that dot-com skeptics overlook: that even if the... |
1365545_0 | A Marble Glory That Was Greece | To the Editor: Your Feb. 2 editorial ''Return the Parthenon Marbles'' is eloquent testimony to the need for Britain and the British Museum to consider returning the historical treasures of the Parthenon to Greece in time for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Not mentioned, however, is that Greece not only can preserve and disp... |
1365506_0 | Circling the Mammography Wagons | As the debate over the value of mammography intensifies, it is disappointing that key organizations and individuals in the cancer establishment have mostly chosen to draw their wagons in a defensive circle. Now that recent studies have raised serious challenges to the value of mammograms, other experts need to examine ... |
1365456_1 | Let Them Profile Me | suspect, he called over an American who questioned me in English and declared me a fellow citizen when he saw that I was using frequent flier miles. In Zurich, transferring on the way home from Egypt, I was pulled out of line and taken to a large, bare hangar where my luggage was taken apart. I eventually found out tha... |
1369209_0 | What If Versace Did Vegetables? | AS spring approaches, the seed companies begin clamoring to provide new and fascinating things. Like fashion designers, they send their latest creations down the catalog runways. And like the annual parades of haute couture, these new fruits and vegetables are designed to stir excitement and desire in the hearts of con... |
1367120_0 | U.S. Seizes Bank Business Of Web Credit Card Issuer | The government last week seized the banking operations of NextCard, a company that issued credit cards over the Internet, saying that it had grown too fast and with scant attention to lending quality and had endangered the safety of its $525 million in government-insured deposits. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporat... |
1367149_5 | Rescuing the Buildings Beyond Ground Zero | more than a keystone for the recovery effort. With nearly four million data and telephone lines radiating from it, the building is also a nerve center for the commercial and residential infrastructure of Lower Manhattan. It took hits on two sides. First, the steel hurled from the collapsing towers smashed into the buil... |
147096_0 | Cancer Drug Therapy Urged For All After Breast Surgery | LEAD: In a major change of a longstanding policy, the National Cancer Institute is urging that all women who have breast cancer should have chemotherapy or hormonal therapy after the initial surgery, even if there is no evidence that the cancer has spread. In a major change of a longstanding policy, the National Cancer... |
144792_2 | G.E. Wins 'Star Wars' Contract | missile warheads before they re-enter the earth's atmosphere; a space-based interceptor, whose high-speed rockets would be fired from orbiting satellites at missiles rising from the earth or at nuclear warheads moving through space; a ground-based system for detecting and tracking warheads in space, or a space-based se... |
146528_2 | Jackson, in Bid to Heal Rift, Meets With California Jews | less than the 25 percent in New York. 'More Conducive Climate Asked why he had not held a meeting like today's when he campaigned in New York, Mr. Jackson said: ''Here you have a climate that is more conducive to meeting. Here you have the contrast to the aggressive and savage attacks of Mr. Koch in contrast to the mor... |
142782_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | LEAD: INTERNATIONAL 2-6, 28 Poland's bishops denounced the Government's use of force to end the strike at a major steel complex near Cracow. The decision to use force indicated divisions in the Polish Communist leadership. Page 1 Lech Walesa spoke to young strikers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk as riot police massed ... |
142939_0 | France Letting Ship Saboteur Return | LEAD: Two days before France's presidential election, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac infuriated New Zealand's Government today by summoning home a secret agent convicted of sabotaging an environmentalist group's ship. France had agreed that the agent would be held on an obscure Pacific island until July 1989. Two days b... |
142918_3 | A Composer's Musings on Life | music to ''Zorba the Greek'' and to the award-winning movie ''Z.'' (The score for ''Z'' was smuggled out of Greece because Mr. Theodorakis was under house arrest. The music for ''Zorba the Greek'' was, financially, the most successful.) The juxtaposition of the ancients and the modern bouzouki style that traces roots t... |
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