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1652591_0 | Port Authority to Improve Airport Security Inspections | The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, embarrassed by a recent series of security gaffes, agreed yesterday to spend an additional $105 million to try to make its three major airports safer and to speed the journey from the curb to the gate. The bulk of the money, $80 million, will go toward strengthening the bo... |
1652673_0 | Anglican Leaders Seek Move to Avoid a Schism | Leaders of the global Anglican communion have asked the Episcopal Church U.S.A. and the Anglican Church of Canada to withdraw their representatives temporarily from a key governing body of the denomination, in an unprecedented move to avoid a schism over the American church's consecration of an openly gay man as a bish... |
1652623_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Bush Prods Russia On Democratic Effort President Bush expressed concern over Russia's commitment to democracy in a tense encounter with President Vladimir V. Putin. Mr. Putin refused to yield. Mr. Putin said he would listen to some ideas but not comment on others, and that debating ''whether we have... |
1650558_0 | Biologists Oppose Road Planned by Oil Company in Ecuador Park | Some of the world's leading tropical biologists are calling for a halt to oil company road-building projects in and around Yasuní National Park in Ecuador, an Amazon tract harboring an extraordinary array of plant species and rare wildlife. In letters this week to the Ecuadorean government and to oil company officials,... |
1650675_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: 2,000 Troops To Amazon Region | Responding to widespread indignation at the shooting death of an elderly American nun on Saturday, the government ordered 2,000 soldiers deployed to the Amazon jungle state of Pará. The nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, was known throughout the region for her work with the poor and landless and for her efforts to preserve the... |
1647270_0 | I.R.A. Delivers New Warning On Ulster Talks | Despite a fresh warning on Thursday from the Irish Republican Army not to ''underestimate the seriousness'' of its actions, the group's decision to withdraw from peace negotiations in Northern Ireland is not expected to lead to a resumption in violence, government and law-enforcement officials said. ''We are clear that... |
1647008_4 | The U.N. aims to cut poverty in half, even as the experts wonder how to measure it. | time. But continuing past practices can prolong the use of misleading poverty counts that are not comparable across countries. Clearly, there is a need for Latin American countries, which usually measure poverty by income rather than consumption, to collect reliable household consumption data because consumption is a b... |
1646978_0 | I.R.A. Says It Will Quit Peace Negotiations in Northern Ireland | The Irish Republican Army announced on Wednesday night that it was withdrawing from peace negotiations in Northern Ireland and rescinding its proposals to disarm and cease paramilitary activities, because of what it called false accusations and bad faith by the British and Irish governments. ''At this time it appears t... |
1646976_0 | It's Germany. Dead of Winter. And It's 95degrees in the Lagoon. | In the department of unlikely juxtapositions, this one has to be right up there: an artificial tropical lagoon built on a former Soviet air base in a small town in Germany that looks like something from ''The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.'' But here in Brand, a place of no discernible distinction about an hour's drive... |
1648575_2 | When A Factory Is a Foundry For Art | around its cushions. Mr. Parzybok told the show's organizers that he was inspired by the way the company's headquarters on Water Street brushed up against an elevated highway. The company has a long history of supplying the car industry, yet the highway is now encroaching on its turf, he said. The organizers borrowed t... |
1648758_0 | Open-Source Practices for Biotechnology | The open-source movement, which has encouraged legions of programmers around the world to improve continually upon software like the Linux operating system, may be spreading to biotechnology. Researchers from Australia will report in a scientific journal today that they have devised a method of creating genetically mod... |
1648730_2 | Cellphones Get a New Job Description: Portable Scanner | 10 page images in the space that it would take to store one digital photo. Xerox researchers believe the technology will be useful for just about anyone with a job that requires research in the field. The theory is that someone attending a trade show or conference, for example, could capture and store pertinent documen... |
1651911_1 | MEMO PAD | the Middle East on Air France flights out of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. Code-sharing arrangements allow passengers of one airline to book through to destinations served by a partner airline, using a single ticket. The destinations in France include Biarritz, Bordeaux, Marseille, Montpellier, Nantes, Strasbourg... |
1651999_4 | Latin America Fails to Deliver On Basic Needs | Inter-American Dialogue. ''It builds a great resentment and rage that things so essential to people, like water, like electricity, are not being delivered in a fair and equitable way. That's a formula for rage that leads to mobilization, and that's why we're seeing a convulsed region.'' In Uruguay, a referendum in Octo... |
1651883_2 | It's Just Like Oz, With You Behind the Curtain | Ms. Katz said, who receives her order two days after she places it. Even if you have outsourced most of your work cross-country to make your company look bigger, the Internet makes it easy to create a virtual water cooler around which to congregate. Using tools from office.com, for example, work teams can gather and co... |
1651936_0 | The Next 9/11 Could Happen at Sea | AN unsuspected bit of good news related to the Indian Ocean tsunami was revealed this month when the International Maritime Bureau released its annual report on pirate attacks against international shipping. The new figures showed a 27 percent decline in 2004, to 325 incidents from 445 in 2003, and noted that there had... |
1652834_0 | The Cell Tower Blight: Text-Message Calder, ASAP | All it takes is a visit to the Museum of Modern Art to remember that ordinary things like chairs or bottle openers can be beautiful. Which brings us to the other side of the design world, where some ordinary things can be extremely ugly. High on that list of dreadful objects are cell phone towers, all 170,000 of them. ... |
1652847_2 | As Autistic Children Grow, So Does Social Gap | bullied or ostracized by the time they reach middle school. Dr. Sandra L. Harris of Rutgers University, a pioneering educator and researcher in autism, said advances might have fed false hopes. ''The intellectual skills of some of these children may lead people to expect more than is possible socially,'' Dr. Harris sai... |
1649921_0 | Recycled Design For a New S.U.V. | FOR families whose garage has room for another retro-style vehicle -- perhaps to park alongside one of the recent revivals of the vintage pony car, pickup truck or Le Mans racer -- Toyota is bringing back the look of its classic S.U.V. The FJ Cruiser, a flashback to Japan's 1960's-era interpretation of the Jeep, will a... |
1649922_0 | Brazil Promises Crackdown After Nun's Shooting Death | An American nun and environmental activist was shot to death in the Amazon jungle on Saturday, heightening tensions between land speculators and peasant settlers in the region and bringing a government pledge to crack down on lawlessness. The nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, 74, was shot four times in the chest and head by a... |
1649997_3 | Between Truth and Lies, An Unprintable Ubiquity | interested in philosophy because of two things,'' he said. ''One is that I was never satisfied with the answers that were given to questions, and it seemed to me that philosophy was an attempt to get down to the bottom of things.'' ''The other thing,'' he added, ''was that I could never make up my mind what I was inter... |
1648133_4 | NEWS SUMMARY | Americans for Legal Reform, were charged with disorderly conduct after telling lawyer jokes outside a Nassau County courthouse. The two are heading to court today and have planned a rally outside the Nassau County Courthouse to protest the charges. B4 FASHION B6-7 SPORTSMONDAY D1-12 Patriots Win Super Bowl The New Engl... |
1648145_0 | Hip-Hop Review; Give Them What They Want but Keep It Sort of Cool | M.I.A. was raised in Sri Lanka and lives in London, and she has established herself as one of hip-hop's most exciting new voices, rapping and chanting and sometimes singing over hard-thwacking electronic beats. Sounds exotic, right? Yet the thrill of her hugely anticipated sold-out concert at the Knitting Factory on Sa... |
1649654_1 | How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp | send all my messages sequentially through three separate filter systems. Then I must remember to check the three junk folders to see what failed to get through that should have. Recipient pays. Do not despair. We can now glimpse what had once seemed unattainable: stopping the flow at its very source. The most promising... |
1649736_4 | Brazil, Bowing to Protests, Reopens Logging in Amazon | to introduce legislation this month that would all but end the practice of letting public lands in the Amazon be occupied by private interests and then sold. Instead, companies and individuals would be granted concessions to lots for fixed periods, during which logging and other activities would be permitted but strict... |
1649419_2 | At an Island Sailing Resort, Nobody Jumps Ship | rum. There are also no roads -- the Bitter End is accessible only by boat. Most guests fly to San Juan, then take a half-hour puddle jumper to Beef Island Airport on Tortola, followed by a 45-minute ferry to the resort. The Bitter End -- so named as the last outpost of civilization before the open waters of the Atlanti... |
1651119_2 | F.D.A. IS ADVISED TO LET PAIN PILLS STAY ON MARKET | companies build their defenses against lawsuits filed by patients or their survivors. Merck is already a defendant in hundreds of such suits, with some cases expected to go to trial this spring. The panel was far more comfortable with the safety of Celebrex, particularly at low doses, than with that of Vioxx or Bextra.... |
1649024_0 | Biology's New Forbidden Fruit | IN the early 19th century, received chemical wisdom held that organic compounds were beyond the creative powers of the laboratory's furnaces and alembics -- that they could be fashioned only by the vital forces in living beings. Then, in 1828, while trying to do something else, Friedrich Wöhler discovered that urea, an... |
1652149_0 | Colorado Still Waits For Its 'Gates'; As New York Took Priority, The River Project Was Held | While New York basks in the orange glow of ''The Gates'' in Central Park, some Colorado residents are idly wondering when the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude might turn their gaze back on them. In the ''artworks in progress'' section of the artists' Web site, www.christojeanneclaude.net, the only project listed besid... |
1652222_2 | Cramped Fordham Plans to Expand at Lincoln Center, Mostly Skyward | or six years, a new 16-story Law School and five-story campus center would be built, the library would be expanded into an eight-story structure and the Amsterdam Avenue parcels would be sold or leased. The plan outlines the potential for a 47-story apartment building and 26-story dormitory at 60th Street and a 57-stor... |
1652233_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: President Vows Hunt For Nun's Killers | In his first public remarks on the murder of an American nun in the Amazon on Feb. 12, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised that his government ''will not rest until the killers are caught.'' Mr. da Silva had been criticized for failing to attend the funeral of the nun, Dorothy Stang, or send a senior governmen... |
1648275_1 | New Signs of Awareness Seen In Some Brain-Injured Patients | more suggestive than conclusive, and that it did not mean that unresponsive people with brain damage were more likely to recover or that treatment was yet possible. But they said the study did open a window on a world that has been neglected by medical inquiry. ''This is an extremely important work, for that reason alo... |
1646821_0 | Fed Up With Spam, and Fighting Back | To the Editor: There is a simple and effective way of dealing with junk e-mail: tax it. The revenues would easily finance the war on terrorism, ensure the future of Social Security and cover the expenses of reversing global warming. Paul Nordberg Ipswich, Mass., Feb. 1, 2005 |
1652468_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Environmentalist Gunned Down | A volunteer patrolling a rain forest reserve near Rio de Janeiro was killed by a shotgun blast Tuesday night, and environmentalists blamed poachers for the killing. Colleagues of the slain man, Dionisio Julio Ribeiro, told Brazilian news services he had been threatened by trespassers in the Tingua nature reserve, part ... |
1650401_3 | C.I.A. Is Seen as Seeking New Role on Detainees | role in their interrogation. Bureau officials said they knew of no such discussions and would oppose any move to involve the F.B.I. Other possibilities include more active efforts to hand over some of the detainees to third countries. Neither the C.I.A. nor the F.B.I. would comment for this article, and the current and... |
1650889_3 | A Bridge Too Fat; Bronx-Whitestone Is Set to Lose 6,000 Tons | Bronx-Whitestone was stable, but its pendulum-like movement alarmed drivers and pedestrians and Mr. Moses ordered it stiffened. ''He felt that the risk of losing motorists and therefore revenue far outweighed what the engineers said and that this perception of instability was unacceptable,'' said Darl Rastorfer, the au... |
1649336_1 | Yankees Can't Smooth Over Deal They Helped Rub Raw | sends a draft of guarantee language to a player's representative and the representative sends it back with the word steroids crossed out, it would not be farfetched to think that someone should be suspicious. But, the Yankees said, it wasn't like that. ''There were at least 20 changes made,'' Trost said in reference to... |
1649281_0 | Gridlock on India's New Paths to Prosperity | Anxieties over the United States economy have receded and worries about the political backlash have ebbed. But India's $17 billion outsourcing industry has a new dread: the poor infrastructure in the country's crowded cities is taking a big toll and may even curb the growth of the fast-expanding industry. Inadequate ro... |
1651559_2 | Confusing Rules Deny Vote To Ex-Felons, Study Says | their prison terms, parole or probation, the sponsors said. The Sentencing Project said its study was the first to survey how frequently felons were denied voting rights in states with restrictive policies. It examined 14 states that do not automatically restore voting rights to felons after they complete their sentenc... |
1646468_0 | Don't Speak the Language? Live With the Locals | For years, Rebecca Koladycz traveled all over Latin America for the International Planned Parenthood Federation, visiting the organization's affiliates -- and mangling the Spanish language. In her first week on the job, she had an especially grueling trip to Peru. As an icebreaking exercise in a group meeting, people w... |
1646566_0 | Visiting the Cosmos, From Home | To the Editor: Re ''Space Probe Makes Science Fiction Wonders of Childhood Real'' (Jan. 25): The article reminds me of how silly it is to cut back on unmanned space exploration to begin manned programs. If NASA shuts down its manned flight programs it can focus on promising robotic and remotely controlled machines like... |
1646606_3 | Law Barring Junk E-Mail Allows a Flood Instead | to shut down illegal advertising from six companies accused of profiting from thousands of X-rated spam e-mail messages. But so far, the spam trade has foiled most efforts to bring it under control. A growing number of so-called bulletproof Web host services like Mr. Gillespie's offer spam-friendly merchants access to ... |
1647739_3 | Out of Sight, Out on Strike | contract with 3 percent annual raises each year. It also wants increases in pension and welfare benefits. In its final offer on Dec. 17, the company offered a lump-sum payment of $750 in the first year of a three-year contract, with 2 percent increases in the second and third year, and it did not meet the union's pensi... |
1647592_5 | Philosopher King | not dealing with a mythological figure -- in the 1820's, ''British scholars at the Asiatic Society in Calcutta still thought that the Buddha had been Egyptian or Ethiopian, or perhaps was another name for the Norse god Woden'' -- but a human being who had lived once upon a time in India, as real as Plato or Aristotle. ... |
1653191_2 | Doing Well in Your Career By Doing Good Outside It | a leading global online career site, joined with two Web sites -- Idealist.org, which matches people with nonprofits, and boardnetUSA.org, which connects nonprofit boards with potential members -- to start an online volunteer center that allows users to search for opportunities. A poll released in January by Monster sh... |
1653055_9 | Where You Live Can Hurt You | York City area. In second place was Nassau, with 52.1 percent, followed by Westchester with 53.6 percent. In Bergen County, N.J., 55 percent of residents reported being overweight or obese. In Hudson County, the numbers were about the same, with 56 percent reporting that they were overweight or obese. The other four bo... |
1650090_1 | MEMO PAD | With good reason, apparently: more than a third believe it is either ''somewhat'' or ''quite'' common for business travelers to submit expense accounts with ''one or more completely false or bogus charges.'' But most road warriors also disapprove of such fraud. Those in the United States expressed the strongest support... |
1673639_0 | Bush Says Patience Is Needed As Nations Build a Democracy | President Bush called Wednesday for patience in assessing the progress of Iraq and other nations toward democracy. He said the United States had gotten off to a rocky start after its independence and that it could take years for newly free countries to establish the institutions necessary for stability and prosperity. ... |
1672020_0 | Therapies Cut Death Risk, Breast-Cancer Study Finds | A large new study is providing good news about long-term survival for women with breast cancer. Standard chemotherapy and hormone treatment work even better than researchers had expected, the study found. For middle-aged women with an early stage of the disease, combining the treatments can halve the risk of death from... |
1672038_1 | A Push for a Central American Trade Pact | and terrorists,'' Mr. Rumsfeld said. ''It is increasingly clear that they can be effectively combated and are being combated only by close cooperation among nations.'' The visit with the president on Thursday was the high point of a unusual weeklong lobbying effort by the nations' leaders who traveled around the United... |
1670579_1 | Suozzi to Ask for Funds to Help Prevent Unwanted Pregnancies | Specifically, Mr. Suozzi, who supports abortion rights, wants to funnel $3 million over the next three years into a plan for education and prevention programs and for homes for pregnant women who want to give birth, said Judith A. Jacobs, a Democrat who is the County Legislature's presiding officer. ''I believe he beli... |
1670568_1 | She's Winning Her Drug War | the company's clinical trials. A cancer specialist by training who is invariably described as smart, friendly, level-headed and attuned to the feelings of patients, she is one of the few women in the uppermost echelons of the pharmaceutical business and on Fortune magazine's list of the 50 most powerful women in busine... |
1675397_2 | The Farm-Subsidy Model of Financing Academia | earmarks than others because they receive more generous supplementary funds from the federal government on top of their grants. Those extra funds, known as overhead, can be used by universities to subsidize activities not directly supported by grants, like hiring administrators. Analyzing differences in lobbying expend... |
1672239_1 | City Pushing To Clear The Debris By Monday | workers labored into the night yesterday, carefully removing the unstable parts of the wall, one section at a time. ''We could just push this thing over onto the Henry Hudson and make a mess, which we don't want to do,'' said Mr. Burney. ''We're doing this as gingerly as we can.'' After the demolition, about half the w... |
1671313_2 | A Web of Sensors, Taking Earth's Pulse | this technology, we can start to understand what is an event and what is normal. We're recognizing more and more how different processes in the environment operate at different frequencies. To comprehend that, you need to take measurements all the time.'' Scientists hope to learn more about soil contaminants, land chan... |
1671423_2 | A Dining Hall Where the Students Try to Sneak In; Cuisine at Yale's Berkeley College Puts a Healthful Flair Into Institutional Fare | with the hostess. ''If you stand there and look disappointed enough, she'll take your card and swipe it,'' said Patricia Herrmann, a senior, who got in fair and square on Wednesday as a guest. Yale officials credit Alice Waters, the innovative chef from Berkeley, Calif., for dreaming up the sustainable food project fou... |
1674538_4 | In Exam of 126 Walls, Cracks, Bulges and Leaks | the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. ''We had started on a plan to repair the wall well before the collapse.'' After the collapse, workers removed trees that might have put pressure on the section that gave way, Mr. Katz said. They also shored up the wall with dirt. The cathedral plans to replace the wall, wh... |
1674472_4 | Want Your Letter to Stand Out? Here's a Tip: Write It Yourself | is widely accepted and even considered a smart career move by many job seekers and employers. While she finds nothing unethical about helping a job seeker put together a résumé, she says that hiring someone to write the document blurs the line between what is and is not original work. Mr. Hansen, who in addition to his... |
1674464_1 | Put This on Your Tortilla Chip | product can be cut into tiny pieces without becoming a watery mess. That chopability led the company to name the product the Fresh Salsa, aimed at customers who prefer to top their tortilla chips with a condiment that approximates the look and feel of newly picked tomatoes, rather than marinara. Burpee, based in Warmin... |
1674651_12 | Can You Catch Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? | one point her parents found her curled in a ball in the laundry room, her eyes crammed shut and her hands over her ears. Sehic mentioned to Maury's parents that the strep might be the cause of her symptoms. She prescribed a longer course of antibiotics, to eliminate any lingering strep bacteria, which might signal the ... |
1674487_0 | Ideas & Trends; Enron Offers An Unlikely Boost To E-Mail Surveillance | AS an object of modern surveillance, e-mail is both reassuring and troubling. It is a potential treasure trove for investigators monitoring suspected terrorists and other criminals, but it also creates the potential for abuse, by giving businesses and government agencies an efficient means of monitoring the attitudes a... |
1671168_3 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Design; A Wealth of Materials That Say 'Material Wealth' | aluminum finishes does not necessarily mean there is more metal in the car, any more than the return of chrome to auto exteriors did. New techniques for exactly matching colors and patterns make it possible to produce plastic interior trim pieces that look like aluminum or other substances. Industrial surfaces -- like ... |
1671178_1 | Before the Flood | cases, entire nations will disappear; a harbinger of this is Tuvalu in the Pacific, whose government has asked Australia and New Zealand to accept its citizens as the sea swallows their island. What we can do to prevent this is limited: the world's oceans have an enormous amount of what is called thermal inertia -- a p... |
1671242_0 | Adventures in Opera: A 'Ring' in the Rain Forest | Richard Wagner set his fantastical world of Valkyries, gnomes and giants along the Rhine, not the Amazon. But this is a city with a long history of thinking large and even outlandishly, which is how the Amazonas Opera Festival here has ended up staging Wagner's sprawling four-part ''Ring of the Nibelungen'' cycle in th... |
1669563_0 | Modified Rice May Benefit China Farms, Study Shows | Genetically modified rice could bring huge benefits to Chinese farmers, lowering their costs, improving harvest yields and greatly reducing the use of pesticides, according to a report published in the journal Science last week. The study, conducted by American and Chinese scientists who have long backed the crops, com... |
1669511_4 | Lessons of Climatology Apply as a Vicious Front Moves In | five years, and once it does, it's hard to get rid of. Why don't we prevent that by doing routine maintenance with Rituxan?'' I eventually won that round. Q. Did some of your doctors really consider you the patient from hell? How did this happen? A. Some felt that way. Sandra Horning was supportive, and whenever Terry ... |
1669617_0 | No Cellphone Surprise | To the Editor: The Danish study finding no relationship between cellphone use and brain tumors comes as no surprise (''Disconnecting Phones and Tumors,'' April 26). From what I've observed of most users -- be they driving; riding on trains, buses or planes; walking down the street; or in places like libraries, theaters... |
1669628_1 | A Top Official At Ground Zero Quits His Post | of millions of dollars from the government to address the security concerns. The decision by the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs to shelve plans for building a headquarters near ground zero was another setback. And to this day, three and a half years after the destruction of the two towers, a number of the architects... |
1676640_0 | The Amazon at Risk | Even the government of Brazil seemed shocked by the news that despite efforts to curb deforestation -- including a $140 million package of conservation measures announced last year -- the destruction of the world's largest tropical forest, the Amazon, proceeds apace. In the 12-month period ending last August, farming a... |
1676637_0 | A New Battle Over Free Trade | The next trade dogfight is gearing up on Capitol Hill, this time over a trade pact with six Central American countries that altogether have a combined economy smaller than Connecticut's. The Central American Free Trade Agreement, or Cafta, would open up trade between the United States and El Salvador, Guatemala, Hondur... |
1676569_0 | The Fish Are Few and the Fishermen Fewer, but the Dory Will Not Die | As long as I was in Nova Scotia, I went looking for dories, old-fashioned boats built on this island for cod fishing on the Grand Banks. I hadn't come to Nova Scotia for dories. I was on the island to attend a meeting about tsunamis, and the drive from Halifax to Lunenberg was a side trip to indulge an interest in old ... |
1676561_0 | REALLY? | THE CLAIM -- Hair dye causes cancer. THE FACTS -- Hair salons everywhere can reassure their graying customers. For more than 30 years, scientists have warned that potent chemicals in hair dyes heighten the risk of developing cancer, but new research may now help to put those fears to rest. Much of the concern stems fro... |
1673280_0 | South Korea Says It Doubts That the North Plans an A-Test | A day after the Bush administration warned North Korea against conducting a nuclear test, South Korea said Monday that it saw no clear evidence that the North was preparing to explode a weapon. Officials in South Korea, which resumed bilateral talks with North Korea on Monday, said they had not changed their position t... |
1673314_5 | Study of Breast Cancer Patients Finds Benefit in Low-Fat Diets | breast cancer but not her chance of surviving it. The national study had a long and thorny path. There had been hints that women on low-fat diets might have better survival rates. Japanese women, for example, not only have a lower risk of getting breast cancer but also have better survival rates than Americans have. Bu... |
1675585_0 | A Crescent of Water Is Slowly Sinking Into the Desert | At the bottom of the mountainous dunes once traversed by traders and pilgrims on the ancient Silk Road, Wang Qixiang stood with a camera draped around his neck. He was a modern-day pilgrim of sorts, a tourist. He and his wife had traveled by train more than 2,000 miles from eastern China to the forbidding emptiness of ... |
1675608_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Bolton Confirmation Vote Delayed by Democrats Democrats forced the Senate to postpone a vote on John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations, demanding that the White House first hand over classified information about Mr. Bolton's conduct that it has refused for weeks to provide. A1 Sectarian ... |
1672676_2 | What Goes Up | full answer may prove complex. But the basic principles of a collapse are not hard to grasp. In structures of all types, water is public enemy No. 1. It seeps through hairline cracks and scampers by capillary action in any direction. At Castle Village, for instance, water seepage behind the wall could fatten the slope,... |
1672363_1 | The Empire Strikes Back | unchanged from the day in 1797 when the last doge took off his hat. We start with Venice because Venice is our home. The information network was born there, at almost precisely the moment that Columbus stepped into the New World. That event precipitated the slow decline of Venice as a maritime power. The opening of Atl... |
1672363_2 | The Empire Strikes Back | turn, produced independence of mind. People of moderate means now had access to the ideas of Aristotle, Plato, Herodotus, Aristophanes and other classical authors who made up the core of Aldine's list. The Inquisition was not pleased, but the Venetians didn't care as long as the inquisitors agreed to pay for all the bo... |
1672434_9 | In Nicaragua, Chasing the Unsurfed Wave | surf, eat, sleep and wait to surf some more. In the morning the waves were mediocre and the water crowded, and the vibe around La Tica became surly. So we headed north to the fishing village of Astillero, where we hired two fishermen to deliver us to a remote beach. Even there, though, we ran into another group of Amer... |
1672789_4 | Officials Hope To Reopen 2 Traffic Lanes At Collapse Site | accusing him of reneging on his promises to upgrade the apartments and make other improvements. Mr. Sonn had an apartment in the complex until he died in a plane crash in 2002. It was during the conversion that the new co-op shareholders first raised concerns about the wall they were inheriting, residents said. An engi... |
1672778_0 | Studies Find 2 Drugs May Prevent Cancer | A drug now used to treat breast cancer might be able to prevent prostate cancer in men with a precancerous condition, doctors said here Saturday. Another study suggested that the widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins might stave off breast cancer. But experts cautioned that more studies were needed befo... |
1672461_0 | Rescuing Modernism | In 2002, the Los Angeles architect Richard Neutra's landmark 1963 Palm Springs Modern Maslon House was bought for $2.45 million, then bulldozed within a week by its new owner. Mies van der Rohe's iconic glass-fronted Villa Tugendhat, completed in 1930, was restored in the mid-80's, but the restoration did more harm tha... |
1670265_0 | Robert N. Colwell, 87, Forester Who Studied Land From the Air | Dr. Robert N. Colwell, a forester and specialist in remote sensing who helped adapt the military's aerial image-reading techniques to forestry, mapmaking, land planning, agriculture and other fields, died on April 14 in a hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Walnut Creek. The cause was respiratory fa... |
1670313_3 | Earth Has Become Brighter, but No One Is Certain Why | led by Dr. Bruce A. Wielicki of NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia reports that measurements from the agency's Aqua satellite show a slight decrease in the amount of light reflected off Earth since 2000, which corresponds to a brightening on the surface. The NASA findings conflict with measurements, reported la... |
1669235_4 | SECURITY ISSUES FORCE A REVIEW AT GROUND ZERO | and chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. ''I wish they had called attention to the seriousness of the problems earlier, rather than at this late stage.'' All of the principals involved at ground zero, from the politicians to the builders, remain keenly determined to make the Freedom Tower as secure ... |
1669040_1 | Waste Not Wanted | treated sewage effluent. The plan seemed simple enough, and in 2002 the New York City Department of Environmental Protection agreed to earmark millions of dollars for the so-called ''sewage diversion'' project. With County Executive Andrew J. Spano also expressing support, the project seemed destined to win approval fr... |
1669238_1 | First Come Cellphone Towers, Then the Babel | in many towns. The towers, sometimes disguised as fir trees, cacti or flagpoles, were once confined mostly to sparsely populated stretches of highway or industrial zones. More are being planted in residential areas as the wireless companies -- responding to subscriber demands -- race to build their networks for seamles... |
1671739_0 | Like a Girdle for Your Credit Cards | THERE was a time, before the advent of fanny packs, messenger bags and the man-purse, when you knew what a wallet stood for. In the 1960's my father's scuffed brown leather wallet contained all the important things a man needed to navigate the world: cash, his driver's license and a claim check to retrieve the radio fr... |
1671885_2 | Low Cost and Sweatshop-Free | Cham Prasith, the Cambodian minister of commerce who reached the deal with Washington in 1999, said the benefits had gone beyond anyone's expectations. ''We are extending our labor standards beyond the end of the quotas because we know that is why we continue to have buyers,'' he said in an interview. ''If we didn't re... |
1671901_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Approval For Highway Near Ancient Site | The environment minister, Dick Roche, issued licenses for the excavation of archaeological sites around the Hill of Tara, effectively approving construction of a highway that will run adjacent to Tara, the 4,000-year-old site that is the burial place of 140 kings. Hundreds of historians and archaeologists, and the gove... |
1671891_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Surgeons Protest On The English Seaside | About 350 French surgeons have gone off for a week to Camber Sands, a beach resort in southeast England, to demand higher operating fees and to protest rising insurance premiums in France. French health care has long been the envy of the British, who complain of long waits to see a doctor and of poor hospital condition... |
1673413_0 | Diet as a Treatment for Breast Cancer | In this supermedicated nation of ours, it is heartening to learn that dietary changes can also have an impact on cancer. People have long suspected that diet plays a role in malignancies, but they lacked definitive proof that changing one's diet could reduce the risk of cancer. Now, for the first time, a large study ha... |
1673457_0 | Beasts Rearing Up On Two Legs | THEY can attack at any moment, appearing as if from nowhere, leaving the victim bloodied and battered if he survives at all. There is no remorse, no mercy, no way to stop the primordial urges once the assault begins. But enough about the animal rights faithful, let's talk about the black bears of New Jersey. We jest, o... |
1673874_0 | More European Air Data Sought by Security Chief | The secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, said on Thursday that he would ask European leaders to share more data about air passengers and cargo headed to the United States, arguing that providing such information could increase privacy and avoid travel delays. The objective, Mr. Chertoff said as he prepared... |
1673912_1 | Warming Is Blamed for Antarctica's Weight Gain | sea level caused by the melting of ice and snow in other parts of the world. The finding also matches expectations that the earth's warming temperatures would increase the amount of moisture in the air and lead to greater snowfall over Antarctica. ''It's been long predicted by climate models,'' said Dr. Curt H. Davis, ... |
1674916_2 | Airport Screeners Could Get X-Rated X-Ray Views | security. The technology is available, he said. ''It's a question of the decision to deploy it and to try to balance that with legitimate privacy concerns,'' he added. ''We haven't put it out yet because people are still hand-wringing about it.'' Steve Elson isn't exactly hand-wringing. Let's just say he is mighty skep... |
1674980_1 | OBSERVATORY | their vision, the activity in Cluster N disappeared. Cluster N is near a visual pathway that transmits information from the retina to other parts of the brain, so the researchers suggest that the cluster is probably processing visual information as well, although at much lower light levels. Stars are very dim, of cours... |
1674980_2 | OBSERVATORY | looked at 639 events from 1920 to 2002, most involving a single animal. Their findings, reported in Biology Letters, show that strandings peak every 11 to 13 years. These cycles correspond well to periods of persistent westerly and southerly winds, which may have two consequences for cetaceans. First, they may cause mo... |
1674917_2 | In Brazil, Sugar Cane Growers Become Fuel Farmers | executive at CrystalSev, a large sugar and ethanol conglomerate that is putting the finishing touches on a $10 million ethanol terminal at the port of Santos. ''People have money to invest, and both domestic and external demand is on the rise,'' added Mr. Biagi, whose family has been in the sugar business since 1920. '... |
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