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1756304_0 | French Protests' Effect | The abolition of a much-disputed youth labor measure in France two weeks ago largely brought an end to two months of protests and strikes that threatened to hurt tourism. During the upheaval, some Americans crossed France off their vacation list this year. Susan Tanzman, of Martin's Travel and Tours in Los Angeles, sai... |
1756502_1 | To Hire Sharp Employees, Recruit in Sharp Ways | discuss the virtues of various blends with applicants. A ''candidate bill of rights'' emphasizes that recruiters use phone calls and handwritten notes over form response letters, sets goals for how quickly applicants should hear back and encourages recruiters to send out Starbucks gift cards in nominal amounts as goodw... |
1756715_0 | What Would Plato Do? | PHILOSOPHY MADE SIMPLE By Robert Hellenga. 277 pp. Little, Brown & Company. $23.95. The quarrel between philosophy and literature has been around so long that even Plato referred to it in ''The Republic'' as ''ancient.'' The rivalry not only has a history as old as Western civilization itself. It also circles around on... |
1757875_2 | Forests in Southeast Asia Fall to Prosperity's Ax | order for a million cubic yards of a prized reddish-brown hardwood, called merbau, to be used in construction of its sports facilities for the 2008 Olympic Games. Merbau wood, mostly prevalent in Papua's virgin forests, has been illegally logged and shipped to China since the late 1990's, stripping large swathes of for... |
1757832_1 | An Airline's Inner Thoughts Get Unintended Exposure | the airline could definitively answer like whether customers are entitled to a second helping of a meal, if it is available? (They are.) Mr. Edelman, who found a similar security glitch on Buy.com six years ago, said he promptly shared the information on Flyertalk.com, an online discussion forum for frequent travelers.... |
1754971_0 | Finding Art, Not Crowds, in New York | VISITORS who have stood in the main hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gaping at a floor plan and realizing that they could never, ever see everything inside, should know this: New York museums come in all sizes. While you could spend an entire weekend in the Greek and Roman section of the XXL Met, you could also ... |
1754787_1 | I'm O.K., You're Biased | received special consideration for government contracts. Voters, citizens, patients and taxpayers can barely keep a straight face. They know that consultants and judges are human beings who are pulled by loyalties and pushed by animosities, and that drug reps and lobbyists are human beings who wouldn't be generous if g... |
1752121_2 | I.M. Generation Is Changing the Way Business Talks | to interrupt your call.'' Its I.M.-based model has allowed IntelliCare to hire staff members without worrying about where they are based, and to train them using chat sessions that provide instant feedback. ''Using these tools is like raising your hand in class and asking for help, except you are working from home,'' M... |
1752175_0 | French Premier Refuses to Bow To Protests by Angry Youths | Waves of demonstrations, strikes and violence hit France again on Tuesday as Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, weakened but defiant, refused to bend to the demand that the government scrap a disputed youth labor law. It was the fifth nationwide protest since February against a modest initiative that was aimed at en... |
1751074_0 | Rescuing Reform in Paris | After weeks of mounting protests, President Jacques Chirac bowed to reality yesterday and promised to soften two key clauses of France's new youth employment law. Far more important, he resisted pressure to withhold his signature from this economically necessary but politically unpopular piece of reform legislation. Mr... |
1751158_3 | Interest in this leading artist faded long ago. Why? A good question, for critics and theologians alike. | links Jesus with all humankind (''a second Adam''), and his disciples with him and with one another, in an intimate identity that means the acts of each have consequences for all. This can be taken in relatively common-sense terms, as every appeal for responsible citizenship or planetary consciousness testifies. But th... |
1751171_0 | Why the French Take to the Streets | To the Editor: Re ''Protests in France Over Youth Labor Law Turn Violent'' (news article, March 29): Despite the fact that Tuesday's demonstration enjoyed wide public support, your article does not include the perspective of a single protester. You write, ''The political stakes are high'' since Prime Minister Dominique... |
1751083_1 | China and U.S. Are World's Growth Engines and Its Market Laggards | China and the United States, should be laggards. But there are explanations. The Chinese market has gained an unfortunate reputation for a lack of effective investor protection, and the best-quality companies in China are more likely to list their shares in Hong Kong, New York or London. As for the United States, much ... |
1751102_1 | A Fool There Was | touring England, they had themselves made up in ''oriental'' garb and sent a telegram to the mayor, announcing the sultan's imminent arrival. The Cambridge town clerk met their train at the station and escorted the royal party, with full pomp, to the Guildhall, where the mayor gave them a formal reception. Cole and Ste... |
1751170_0 | Why the French Take to the Streets | To the Editor: Re ''France's Misguided Protesters'' (editorial, March 27): The students demonstrating against the new labor law are not ''protesting what they see as an assault on the job security that they consider their birthright.'' They are protesting against a law that not only will have no positive effect on the ... |
1755312_0 | MEMO PAD | SECURITY SURPRISES AHEAD -- Security screening procedures at airports are ''overly rigid, static and predictable,'' Kip Hawley, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, told the Senate Commerce Committee recently. As a result, the agency plans to build more ''flexibility and unpredictability'' into the s... |
1755328_0 | Drug Found to Help Lower Breast Cancer Risk | A drug already in widespread use to prevent bone thinning in women past menopause can also reduce their risk of invasive breast cancer, researchers reported yesterday. The drug is raloxifene, sold as Evista, which half a million American women take for osteoporosis. It is the second drug found to reduce the risk of bre... |
1755368_5 | STORM EVACUEES FOUND TO SUFFER HEALTH SETBACKS | a psychiatrist who visited the shelter she was in four months ago. No doctors visit the trailer park in Slidell, La., where she has been staying, she said. Ms. Taylor said that her daughter, Ariana Rose, needed a referral to see a psychiatrist, but that her primary care physician had moved to Puerto Rico. ''She has hor... |
1753935_5 | Studies Challenge Traditional Breast Cancer Treatments | relief of menopausal symptoms? The new report does not apply to most menopausal women, just to those who have had hysterectomies, the only women in the study. The difference is important because women who have had hysterectomies can take estrogen alone. But other women cannot because it can cause uterine cancer. For th... |
1753951_2 | From Bombs to Bricks to Bombs Again | in a local newspaper. Dissident republicans said they put the bomb at the complex because it had been the site of conventions for a predominately non-Catholic police organization. Had it gone off, the bomb -- two large gas cylinders that had been vented so that with windows shut the car itself became the bomb -- would ... |
1753911_2 | As Levees Rise Near New Orleans, Skepticism Falls | workers and fleets of heavy equipment swarming over the landscape, which gave the visitors greater confidence that the work could be completed by the beginning of this year's hurricane season. ''This is a whole 'nother project since January,'' Professor Seed said. To Col. Lewis F. Setliff III, the commander of the corp... |
1755691_0 | Not Out Of the Woods Just Yet | OUR forests are the heart of our environmental support system. And yet, in the 36 years that have passed since the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, we have lost more than one billion acres of forest, with no end in sight. The people most vulnerable to the disappearance of forests are the poor: nearly three-quarters ... |
1755796_1 | Learning to Savor a Full Life, Love Life Included | them. A generation ago, young adults like Ms. Graham and Mr. Ruvolo were generally confined to institutions, with no expectation of a normal life. All that changed in 1975, when a court order closed the notorious Willowbrook State School on Staten Island and moved its residents, and others like them across the country,... |
1755745_5 | Big Tires In Short Supply; A Struggle to Keep Equipment Going | crude oil and natural gas prices are also adding a burden to tire companies, which use petroleum in large amounts to produce the carbon black needed for tire carcasses and threads. ''The larger the tire, the more difficult it is to source,'' said Shawn Rasey, executive sales director for off-the-road tires at Bridgesto... |
1755779_2 | More Satellites to Explore Clouds' Most Intimate Secrets | Colorado State University, the principal investigator, told a news conference on Wednesday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., that although just 1 percent of Earth's water existed in the atmosphere, little was known about its overall role in climate. ''The new information from CloudSat will answer ba... |
1754536_1 | Bear Mauls Three in a Family, Killing Girl, 6 | that ticks away makes us concerned that it may travel outside of this area,'' Mr. Hicks said in a phone interview from the forest. On the other hand, ''it may be territorial, and not have traveled at all; it may be laying down here 20 feet from where I'm standing.'' Both the woman and her son were hospitalized in Chatt... |
1752419_1 | In Bid to Rebuild Razed Bridge, Recovery and War Vie in Iraq | return. Though the orders from Washington are to clear, hold and build, accomplishing that on the ground is proving difficult. The centerpiece of the nationwide effort, announced by the State Department last year, was supposed to be 18 provincial reconstruction teams in cities and towns around the country. But security... |
1752390_1 | As a Sea Rises, So Do Hopes for Fish, Jobs and Riches | of villages and cities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan that once lived off its bounty. The sea has even split in two, creating the small Aral and the large Aral. Hoping to save the small northern Aral, the World Bank and the Kazakhstan government commissioned the Kok-Aral Dam and a series of dikes designed to create spill... |
1751920_6 | Iran Joins the Space Club, but to What End? | Mr. Vick said, would go further. Dr. Cordesman and Khalid R. al-Rodhan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington said in a recent report that advanced models, if perfected, would ''enable Iran to target the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.'' Tehran has been more open about its satellite program, making ... |
1751999_0 | Report Sees Confusion Likely In a Sea Attack by Terrorists | Potentially disastrous confusion could arise during a terrorist attack on a cruise ship or ferry because of a power struggle between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Coast Guard over who would be in charge, a report released Monday by the Department of Justice inspector general warned. After the 2001 attacks... |
1751925_1 | Siblings of Disabled Have Their Own Troubles | age by their disabled siblings, and many feel neglected by their often overburdened parents. Some children say they fear ''catching'' their siblings' disabilities. Others may wish that they, too, were disabled, so that they could get all the attention their siblings do. And many suffer embarrassment about their sibling... |
1757030_14 | THE MONEY PIT: Sinking in the Tigris; Rebuilding of Iraqi Oil Pipeline As Disaster Waiting to Happen | indicated otherwise. Hoping to start a conversation with them during his visit, Mr. Sanders said the geology around the area looked as if it could be tough on a drilling operation. The men did not hesitate. ''They agreed that it was just the wrong place for horizontal drilling,'' Mr. Sanders said. ''They didn't see any... |
1756946_1 | MEMO PAD | lanes to ensure that their cards are compatible with all competing programs and that cardholder privacy measures are in place. ''While the combination of benefits and security measures available at each participating airport may vary,'' the agency said, all members of the program ''should receive an expedited and more ... |
1756917_0 | REALLY? | THE CLAIM -- Artificial light can increase breast cancer. THE FACTS -- Scientists have known for some time that night shift workers are prone to sleep disorders and trouble staying awake. But when epidemiologists compared people who worked at night with daytime workers several years ago, they found something unexpected... |
1756918_0 | Elderly Patients Draw a Line at Mental Impairment | A study published yesterday suggests that, over time, elderly people who suffer from terminal illnesses become more willing to accept a life-preserving treatment resulting in further physical disability or more pain. But they remain unwilling to accept a treatment that causes mental impairment. Researchers led by Dr. T... |
1755136_2 | China's President Says Economy Rose 10.2% in Quarter | are comfortable with higher growth,'' said Frank Gong, the chief economist for greater China at J. P. Morgan Chase. ''They will keep growth like this for a while.'' Transportation bottlenecks ranked among the biggest problems that alarmed Chinese officials in the spring of 2004, as bulk cargo vessels carrying iron ore ... |
1755106_2 | It's a Complicated Dance Between Strong Leadership and the Popular Will | did our ideas of demagoguery and leadership arise (a subject considered by Melissa Lane of Cambridge University, who spoke about notions of the demagogue in Plato and Plutarch)? And how do examples of admired political leadership differ from examples of tyranny or demagoguery? Simple formulas will not suffice. After al... |
1753605_1 | With Big Boost From Sugar Cane, Brazil Is Satisfying Its Fuel Needs | as corn-based options, according to scientific data. Yet heavy import duties on the Brazilian product have limited its entry into the United States and Europe. Brazilian officials and scientists say sugar cane yields are likely to increase because of recent research. ''Renewable fuel has been a fantastic solution for u... |
1753521_3 | How to Lose the Brain Race | full legal and political rights. Because H-1B workers depend on employer sponsorship to remain in this country, unscrupulous employers can blackmail them into working longer hours for lower pay than American workers. Skilled workers admitted under a points system, by contrast, would be able to quit their employers in t... |
1751785_0 | Chirac Signs Jobs Bill; More Protests Are Planned | President Jacques Chirac on Sunday signed into law a fiercely contested measure meant to make hiring more flexible, even as students and unions vowed to carry on nationwide strikes and demonstrations against it. The main opposition Socialist Party joined the country's largest union syndicates in urging people to partic... |
1751819_1 | The Abortion-Rights Side Invokes God, Too | join me in prayer: We praise you, God, ruler of time and space, for challenging us to bring healing and comfort to your world.'' ''Amen,'' the audience responded. The Interfaith Prayer Breakfast has been part of Planned Parenthood's annual convention for four years. Most ministers and rabbis at the breakfast have known... |
1753325_1 | French Unrest Reflects Old Faith in Quasi-Socialist Ideals | he said, he will be on the street again, looking for a job. ''We only want to work,'' he muttered, as younger men in hoods charged past toward a confrontation with riot police. The demonstration soon deteriorated into flying bottles, stones and tear gas and clubs. France's government has argued that the hotly contested... |
1753310_0 | Completing an Irish Peace | Prime Ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Bertie Ahern of Ireland gave a timely and constructive push to Northern Ireland's politicians on Thursday by summoning the elected assembly back into session and giving it a new November deadline for agreeing on a new cabinet. That was the right response to the Irish Republican... |
1754187_5 | A Crystal Ball Submerged In a Test Tube; Genetic Technology Reshapes The Diagnostics Business | chemotherapy, which can cost $20,000 or more. In deciding to finance Genomic Health and similar companies, Mr. Byers, the venture capitalist, said, ''we went and looked at decisions that would lead to expensive treatments and for which there is little information.'' Another company Mr. Byers is backing, XDx, offers a $... |
1755519_1 | A New Breast Cancer Option | other experts as a more mixed result whose value is not yet clear. Either way, it is good news that women may soon have two drugs to choose from, thanks to a head-to-head clinical comparison of their effects on almost 20,000 postmenopausal women with a higher-than-average risk of invasive breast cancer based on persona... |
1755926_2 | The Greenest Generation | in science and engineering develop their own comprehensive plan to reduce fossil fuel consumption.'' They can turn to more efficient lighting, heating and cooling; more hybrid vehicles; and better building design, including renewable energy technologies like solar panels. After a college reduces its carbon emissions as... |
1748549_0 | Mr. Spammer: Pay Up or Go Away (or Both) | To the Editor: Esther Dyson believes that paying fees to send e-mail will help the growing problem of unwanted e-mail. I'm sure that it will discourage spam just as effectively as postage discourages junk mail and unwanted catalogs. Michael Maltenfort Chicago, March 17, 2006 |
1748548_0 | Mr. Spammer: Pay Up or Go Away (or Both) | To the Editor: Aya Kakeda Re ''You've Got Goodmail'' (Op-Ed, March 17): Esther Dyson's belief that spam can be reduced by Goodmail (e-mail sent for a fee) flies in the face of history. Postal mail today costs the sender, yet 90 percent of the mail that we receive is junk. E-mail fees might halt the fly-by-night spammer... |
1748490_0 | Pastors' Get-Out-the-Vote Training Could Test Tax Rules | Weeks after the Internal Revenue Service announced a crackdown on political activities by churches and other tax-exempt organizations, a coalition of nonprofit conservative groups is holding training sessions to enlist Pennsylvania pastors in turning out voters for the November elections. Experts in tax law said the se... |
1748482_0 | Opponents of New French Labor Law Step Up Protests | French students and unions stepped up pressure on the government on Monday, calling for a day of demonstrations and strikes on March 28 to fight a hotly contested new labor law that makes it easier for companies to fire young employees. Students also planned to march in Paris again on Tuesday, continuing the protests t... |
1748552_0 | Mr. Spammer: Pay Up or Go Away (or Both) | To the Editor: Goodmail and similar paid e-mail services sound like a great idea, and I hope that they become widely available soon. Anyone who thinks that e-mail is free now doesn't value the time spent deleting unwanted messages and searching for important messages the spam filter may have trapped. Dorlene Kaplan New... |
1747739_11 | Memories of the Future | that they have used to restore two more steam engines. They recycle and melt scrap metal to make parts. So far, the locomotives are used only for social occasions and for tourists. But the long-term plan is to obtain diesel engines and restore the railway to commercial use. Memories of the Future I am standing outside ... |
1748073_0 | This Essay Breaks the Law | The Earth revolves around the Sun. The speed of light is a constant. Apples fall to earth because of gravity. Elevated blood sugar is linked to diabetes. Elevated uric acid is linked to gout. Elevated homocysteine is linked to heart disease. Elevated homocysteine is linked to B-12 deficiency, so doctors should test hom... |
1747803_0 | Wonderful World? | We live in a world that is objectively more dangerous than the one we knew at the outset of the millennium; whatever our disagreements, since 9/11 both our foreign policy and our domestic politics have pivoted around this ineluctable fact. And because the terrorists who struck us represent a global phenomenon, we assum... |
1748128_3 | French Protests Over Youth Labor Law Spread to 150 Cities and Towns | measure is welcomed by unemployed youth in the suburbs, who are also worried that it does not provide any long-term job security. ''It's stupid,'' said Mariam Sidibe, a 17-year-old student of Malian descent from Les Mureaux, a working class suburb of Paris rocked by last fall's riots, who marched in Paris. ''There's go... |
1748037_3 | Served as King of England, Said the Résumé | of Human Resources at Authoria, a staffing company in Waltham, Mass., described as stretching the duration of employment to eliminate gaps. ''A candidate might say they worked at a company 'from 2004-5,' but in fact, that person only worked at the company from November 2004 to January 2005, which is hardly a full year,... |
1747769_4 | Who's the Man? | a statement.' '' And: ''The old man is portrayed as thinking for himself.'' After a section on the history of ''the great explosion of manliness that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries''(an image that gives even me, a straight man, erotic chills), it's time for Mansfield to stop preheating the oven an... |
1746659_3 | A Rare Predator Bounces Back (Now Get It Out of Here) | recently, this time about a female panther and two of her year-old cubs that it said were getting too close to residences, campgrounds and an education center on an isolated road in Big Cypress National Preserve. The tribe, which monitors some of the 33 or so collared panthers, wants the mother cat removed. Federal off... |
1746656_0 | Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course | The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and chondroitin to stem the pain and progress of arthritis, and a low-fat di... |
1746802_0 | The Browns And Coaching's Brotherhood | BIG BROTHER is watching, and he can't help but wonder. Could he have made a difference last season, contributed to a more stable work environment and had an impact on what now can irrefutably be called a series of unfortunate events? Could Herb Brown have mentored Larry Brown through the minefield in Detroit, helped hi... |
1746654_0 | Nasal Sprays Can Bring On Vicious Cycle | Very few drugs relieve a symptom as speedily as an over-the-counter decongestant nasal spray clears a stuffy nose. A couple of squirts can shrink swollen tissues in seconds to minutes, letting in an exhilarating rush of fresh air. With some sprays, a single dose works for as long as 12 hours. But relief provided by nas... |
1749949_0 | Bear Population Continues to Grow | The number of black bears in the state has grown by 10 to 20 percent over each of the last two years, an official with the State Department of Environmental Protection said on Tuesday. Hal May, the director of the department's Wildlife Division, said that 300 to 500 black bears live in the state. He said many of them w... |
1749673_1 | Waiting for G.E. | first phase of the PCB cleanup, which G.E. submitted to the E.P.A. last Tuesday. The report, in 370 pages, with 606 pages of attachments, is the long-awaited nuts-and-bolts description of exactly how the company plans to attack the project, which is likely to be the biggest and most complex industrial cleanup in Americ... |
1749593_0 | A Wrongful Birth? | Regardless of how many studies have been conducted, only the parent of a special-needs child can truly understand the difficulties and heartbreak of being in such a situation.Two of my three childrensuffer from a genetic neuromuscular disease that causes significant physical and cognitive delays. Spend a couple of hour... |
1749776_3 | On the Ethanol Bandwagon, Big Names and Big Risks | ethanol operations, too, though ethanol is but one of many businesses for these giants. Two mutual funds that focus on alternative energy include some ethanol companies among their holdings. The New Alternatives fund holds shares of Abengoa and Acciona Energía, two Spanish companies investing in ethanol production. Ano... |
1749926_1 | Nips and Tucks for a Guardian | Long Island Sound a few miles to the south. But their toll has been more brutal than many realized. The monument, and especially its cone-shaped tip, had deteriorated to such an extent that the statue was in some jeopardy of falling down, according to those overseeing the rehabilitation, which includes the New Haven De... |
1749682_4 | For Instant Notice, and Worry, E-Mail Is Replacing Snail Mail | according to its headmaster, Walter Johnson, but only 40 of the school's 700 families attended. Both he and Dr. John J. Russell, superintendent of the Hastings schools, said they ultimately relied upon the news media to disseminate the updated information to parents. Dr. Russell, for his part, expressed wariness of ins... |
1749530_0 | Modern Greek | THE COLLECTED POEMS OF C. P. CAVAFY A New Translation. Translated by Aliki Barnstone. 264 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $25.95. Maybe loneliness comes not only in varying degrees but also in different varieties, and the unprepossessing man seated in the corner of the cafe -- thin, neatly mustached, bourgeois-looking -- s... |
1749794_20 | Retraining, But for What? | find themselves working in sales or as office administrators, or taking jobs in hotels and restaurants, or becoming carpenters, flight attendants and word processors. The number of jobs that require a bachelor's degree has indeed been growing, but more slowly than the number of graduates, according to the Labor Departm... |
1749592_0 | A Wrongful Birth? | Weil quotes the bioethicist David Wasserman, who, citingresearch,claims, ''Families with severely impaired children do not differ significantly in stresses and burdens from families with normal children.'' Try telling that to the mother of a blind childwith congenital heart failure whose mental age will forever be 6 mo... |
1744892_0 | Global Warming: The Will to Act | To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof rightly calls for immediate conservation and rapid shifts to cleaner and renewable energy sources to address global warming. But honest and informed attention to human population growth must be part of any solution. Global population now increases at the rate of 200,000 a day, or more... |
1744799_4 | Rain Forest Gets Too Much Rain, and Animals Pay the Price | people. ''I never saw toucans here before, but they were fighting outside my office because we have banana trees,'' said Marleny Jimenez, who owns the Drake Bay Wilderness Resort, a tranquil getaway at the headwaters of the Río Agujas, about five miles up the coast from Corcovado. At Bosque del Cabo, a 650-acre private... |
1750928_6 | Blacks Turn to Internet Highway, And Digital Divide Starts to Close | because her school-age children needed to use the Internet for research. And then there is e-mail. ''No one really wants to take the time anymore to pick up the phone and keep in touch,'' lamented Mrs. Johnson, who said that so much of the communications with her children's school was done through e-mail correspondence... |
1743754_3 | Captain of Your Destiny, Rented by the Weekend | the wind, the feeling of the wind's power was exhilarating. The Briskmans live in Clearwater, Fla., where Mr. Briskman, who used to own a large office-cleaning company, does some consulting work. Mrs. Briskman, a transplant from New York, is a fine wildlife painter and an avid tennis player. They used to own a powerboa... |
1743812_0 | Loss of Antarctic Ice Increases | Two new satellite surveys show that warming air and water are causing Antarctica to lose ice faster than it can be replenished by interior snowfall, and thus are contributing to rising global sea levels. The studies differed significantly in estimates of how much water was being added to the oceans this way, but their ... |
1750258_2 | Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web, And Search Is On | he wanted to ''unleash the power of the Net'' to do translation and analysis that might take the government decades. ''People today ought to be able to have a closer look inside Saddam's regime,'' he said. Mr. Hoekstra said intelligence officials had resisted posting the documents, which he overcame by appealing to Pre... |
1750178_3 | A Chance Find, and Voilà! Goodbye, Hot Flashes. Hello, Sleep. | hot flash frequency and severity.'' They recommended that the drug ''be considered for treatment of hot flashes in women with breast cancer.'' Dr. Pandya undertook this study after Dr. Thomas J. Guttuso Jr., a neurologist then at the university's medical center, published findings in February 2003 in Obstetrics & Gynec... |
1745482_0 | On a River's Frozen Falls And Twists | ON a bright and below-zero February morning, in the deep gorge of a white-water river, eight bundled figures skied downstream in a line. The Manitou River, flowing fast under thin surface ice, was in its final mad descent from the hills of Minnesota's steep North Shore. Lake Superior, a swelling, frigid mass at the riv... |
1747423_0 | Art in Review; Kelley Walker | Paula Cooper Gallery 521 West 21st Street, Chelsea Through March 25 Kelley Walker's work has appeared on the cover of Artforum magazine, and he has paintings in this year's Whitney Biennial. Pondering the repellent riffs on Koons and Warhol that comprise his second New York solo exhibition, you may wonder why. The most... |
1747432_0 | Police Memos Say Arrest Tactics Calmed Protest | In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used ''proactive arrests,'' covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002, and recommend that those approaches be employed at future gatheri... |
1747433_2 | Not '68, but French Youths Hear Similar Cry to Rise Up | Large protests were also held in Marseille, Montpellier, Lyon, Lille, Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges, Angers, Nantes and Strasbourg. It is a moment of street theater and fierce debate, with sweeping commentaries about watersheds and crossroads and references to the unrest that shook Paris in May 1968. That was a time of stu... |
1747359_1 | You've Got Goodmail | quality of the mail through a system that makes it easy for recipients to complain about unwanted messages. Too many complaints and the senders lose their accounts. This all sounds perfectly sensible to me, but Goodmail has been met with a barrage of criticism and calls for a de facto boycott from several nonprofit and... |
1744022_1 | Iran Softens Tone, but Talks With Europeans on Nuclear Program End in Bitterness | Douste-Blazy, and John Sawers, the political director of the British foreign office, who had taken the place of the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, who was ill. The Iranians, according to participants in the talks, were visibly rattled. Mr. Larijani had come in with a new conciliatory tone. Gone was the combative talk a... |
1743979_2 | Digital Methods Help Replicate Artworks | the work. The process can be seen on a documentary at the Artexpo exhibit. This project is not the only one trying to preserve fading Kyoto treasures through replication. Nijo Castle, which includes Ninomaru Palace, has had numerous 17th-century works restored and replicated over more than two decades. Hitachi, another... |
1744634_0 | Drive Time Increasingly Means Talk Time | A recent study confirms a fear long held by radio broadcasters: cellphone use is cutting into radio listening by commuters. The study, done by the firm Bridge Ratings, found that commuters who use their phones in the car and drive an hour or more a day listened to the radio for 32 minutes a day in 2003, compared with 2... |
1746933_1 | Ice Shortfall in Arctic for 2nd Year Raises Fears of a Wider Melting | much of the Arctic shift is from the region's large natural variations and how much is being driven by the global buildup of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted mainly by smokestacks and tailpipes. Some experts on the region, including Jamie Morison of the University of Washington, say they ... |
1747041_1 | Elder Posada's Voyage: From Cuba to a Box Seat in Puerto Rico | the athleticism of Yulieski Gourriel and the swagger of Pedro Luis Lazo, but it bothers him that fans cannot get near the players. ''The players have no communication with anyone,'' Posada said. ''They can't do what they want.'' What Cuba and Puerto Rico want now is the same thing: one more victory. The Puerto Ricans u... |
1746918_0 | French Students Step Up Protests Against New Job Law | Tens of thousands of students marched through Paris and other French cities on Tuesday, stepping up their opposition to a new law that makes it easier to hire -- and fire -- young workers. In Paris, university and high school students, joined by teachers, workers, union members and Communist Party members, marched acro... |
1750053_0 | North of the Border | ''Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,'' wrote Emma Lazarus, in a poem that still puts a lump in my throat. I'm proud of America's immigrant history, and grateful that the door was open when my grandparents fled Russia. In other words, I'm instinctively, emotionally pro-immigrati... |
1750080_3 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Remaking Diesel's Image a Lap at a Time | valves, capable of delivering multiple injections for each combustion cycle. Once these features are in place, remaining emissions must be dealt with using devices further down the exhaust stream, known as aftertreatment. When it became clear that regulators in the United States intended to hold light diesels to the sa... |
1750074_2 | Pork That's Good for the Heart May Be Possible With Cloning | pads for beds. Pigs with their own omega-3 fatty acids exist in nature, notably a Spanish breed called Ibérico. But Dr. Jing X. Kang, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the lead author of the new paper, said pigs were only the beginning, adding that he was also developing cows that made om... |
1748303_1 | Dr. Lawrence M. Brass, 49, Leader in Research on Stroke | safety, although several pharmaceutical companies maintained that it had been used for decades without evidence of significant harm. Yale's study was financed by drug companies, but the results, published in 2000 in The New England Journal of Medicine, were startling. The researchers found ''a substantially increased r... |
1748278_2 | Are We Having a Conversation Yet? An Art Form Evolves | whose subject is conversation itself. Cicero gave advice about conversation (It ought ''to be gentle and without a trace of intransigence; it should also be witty''). Montaigne hailed its pleasures (''I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives''). Henry Fielding praised it (''This grand Busines... |
1747542_2 | Telling You So, Again | says, ''has really kept the U.S. out of poorhouse, if only until now.'' ''Not only did we fail to predict the housing bubble as the Fed's answer to the stock market bubble collapse, we argued that the Fed would never allow one to develop. Wrong.'' Despite the retro design, the site has features not there in its first i... |
1746226_4 | Thanks to Detroit, China Is Poised to Lead | the development center, said companies must bring their best technology here if they are to build and sell the advanced models needed to compete in China. He acknowledged that this ''provides a training ground for local talents in auto design and engineering for future sustainable development of China's automotive indu... |
1746036_3 | Twelve Easy Pieces | hassle-free junk foods that blazed into this era of hyperconvenience. Some marketers say that the reformation of our venerable apple -- and the sense that this improvement was necessary -- suggest that we may soon buy most of our produce this way. Presliced plums, celery, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, mangoes and star frui... |
1746030_19 | A Wrongful Birth? | that the raising of children with impairments is on the whole a lot less difficult and a lot less different from raising so-called normal kids than we imagine it will be. ''Families with severely impaired children do not differ significantly in stresses and burdens from families with normal children,'' Wasserman, the b... |
1745985_0 | Still Breaking the Spell | To the Editor: Leon Wieseltier's jeremiad against Daniel Dennett avoids the issue. His claim that the work is not based on empirical evidence is simply false, as is his characterization of Dennett's uses of Hume. This work deserves to be debated on its merits. Wieseltier's angry defense of a narrow brand of humanism an... |
1744180_4 | American World Order | was its suppression of piracy in the 18th century and of the slave trade in the 19th. Even with the world's largest and most technologically advanced navy, the United States is no longer effectively policing the world's seas. Piracy is rife in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and around the Strait of Malacca, and America'... |
1744513_0 | Jitters About Who's in Charge on the Waterfront, in 1917 and Today | IN retrospect, the efforts to thwart foreign control of the waterfront seem almost inevitable. There was, after all, a toxic brew of elements: foreign port management in time of war, broad cultural antagonisms, the terrifying explosions that rattled people on both sides of the Hudson and made everyone wonder what would... |
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