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1744536_0 | What Does It Mean to Be Educated? | To the Editor: David Brooks quotes Peter Beinart of The New Republic as saying that Harvard students often graduate ''without the kind of core knowledge that you'd expect from a good high school student,'' and that required courses can be ''a hodgepodge of arbitrary, esoteric classes.'' But Harvard students are in most... |
1744170_2 | The Big Fellow | a few months later took a job as secretary to the Irish National Aid and Volunteer Dependents Fund, an association to help those who suffered for their participation in the rising. This was an ideal job for Collins at that moment, because it kept him in touch with men and women of similar convictions: he used these con... |
1747136_3 | A Candid Dutch Film May Be Too Scary for Immigrants | that matter -- is intended to discourage further Muslim immigration. But they insist that they want all applicants to consider whether or not they would fit into one of the world's most permissive societies. ''This notion that we want to shock Muslims, that is complete nonsense,'' said Maud Bredero, a spokeswoman for M... |
1747135_4 | Report Backs Iraq Strike and Cites Iran Peril | need for ''effective democracies,'' a code phrase, some of its drafters said, for countries that do not just hold free elections but also build democratic institutions and spread their benefits to their populations. ''I don't think there was as much of an appreciation of the need for that in 2002,'' one senior official... |
1748916_3 | No Parent Left Unheard, Klein Says | are provably weaker than others. How can they be improved in time for children in school now? Mr. Klein, who surely realizes that schools do not turn around overnight, said: ''It's a bit of chicken and egg. Yogi Berra had a line: 'Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore. It's too crowded.' '' On the broader suspicion th... |
1750490_0 | Mets Make Bannister's Day; Heilman to Bullpen | In one corner of the Mets' clubhouse, Brian Bannister fired off blissful text messages to friends and family back in Arizona, preparing for his first workout as a genuine major leaguer. In another corner, Aaron Heilman leaned against a locker, arms folded, speaking sotto voce. He arrived at the clubhouse Tuesday mornin... |
1750491_0 | French Protests Turn Violent | |
1750436_1 | Protests in France Over Youth Labor Law Turn Violent | employers to dismiss them without cause within two years. ''It's historic,'' Bernard Thibault, the leader of the Confédération Générale du Travail, a giant left-wing labor federation, said of the turnout. He added, ''For us there is just one outcome, and that is withdrawal of this reform.'' The strikes that formed the ... |
1750428_1 | Robert W. Miller, 84; Studied A-Bomb Effect | said, ''for the exposed unborn child, the closer you were to the bomb's epicenter, the greater the risk'' for health issues. Beyond his service to the casualty commission, Dr. Miller made a wide study of childhood cancer causes, often specializing in the connections between congenital deformities and the development of... |
1750437_0 | Well Exercised and Supple, French Unions Flex Muscles | Armed with hot dogs and baguettes, balloons, buttons, banners and, of course, gallons of red wine, France's major trade unions set out Tuesday to change the law, or to bring down a prime minister trying. Responding to their rallying cry, more than a million people showed up in the streets, marching in the familiar prot... |
1750614_1 | O.K., Knockoffs, This Is War | the Council of Fashion Designers of America has its way in a new anti-copying campaign in Washington. Designers like Diane Von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez and Zac Posen have been journeying there to lobby for copyright protections like those governing books, music and other creative arts. Mr. Posen was in Washington... |
1750658_3 | Violent Youths Threaten to Hijack Demonstrations in Paris | old as 40, who brought sleeping bags and advocated anarchy. ''You are seeing a return to the idea of legitimate use of violence for political means'' by the extreme left and to a lesser extent by the extreme right, Mr. Roché said. The casseur phenomenon is not new. During student protests in 1994 over a plan to cut the... |
1750711_0 | Scans Show Different Growth for Intelligent Brains | The brains of highly intelligent children develop in a different pattern from those with more average abilities, researchers have found after analyzing a series of imaging scans collected over 17 years. The discovery, some experts expect, will help scientists understand intelligence in terms of the genes that foster it... |
1745012_6 | For Trader Joe's, a New York Taste Test | is devoted to trail mixes (dark antioxidant-rich berries are hot, as are raw nuts rich in omega-3's) and energy bars like LäraBar and Clif, which the chain discounts deeply. ''You should have seen it a few years ago,'' Ms. Latta said. ''The bars almost took over the store.'' TraderJoe's has also guided its customers in... |
1743614_1 | Harvard-Bound? Chin Up | And none of them, so long as they absorbed what they were reading, could believe that the best way to divide opinion is between liberals on the one hand and conservatives on the other.'' Read Plato's ''Gorgias.'' As Robert George of Princeton observes, ''The explicit point of the dialogue is to demonstrate the superior... |
1743612_0 | Critics Say Memorial Plan Imperils Towers' Remnants | To a growing chorus of criticism of the World Trade Center memorial and museum -- that it may be unsafe, that it will not properly honor the dead, that it is too much of a fund-raising challenge -- the National Trust for Historic Preservation has added its own concern: that it would cause the ''substantial destruction'... |
1809866_0 | TODAY IN BUSINESS | JUNK E-MAIL MULTIPLIES -- The volume of junk e-mail messages has doubled in the last year. Junk mail, or spam, now accounts for more than 9 of every 10 e-mail messages sent over the Internet. [Page A1.] RULING ON SECURITIES SUIT -- Wall Street banks, accused of manipulating the prices of initial public offerings of tec... |
1809970_2 | Theologians Battle Female Circumcision | 140 million women worldwide are circumcised. Most circumcised women live in 28 African countries, as well as in Asia and the Middle East. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), at least 90 percent of all women are circumcised in developing countries like Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti, Somalia and Sierra ... |
1809892_0 | Study Finds Wealth Inequality Is Widening Worldwide | Experts have long worried about the skewed distribution of the world's income, with vast rewards massing in the hands of a wealthy elite and precious little left over for the vast majority of the global population. But even as income inequality has reached near record levels in many countries, the distribution of the w... |
1809907_0 | From Ruins of Afghan Buddhas, a History Grows | The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face -- a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world. It was in March 2001, when the Taliban and their sponsors in Al Qaeda we... |
1809907_1 | From Ruins of Afghan Buddhas, a History Grows | where in the sixth century tens of thousands of pilgrims flocked to worship at its temples and monasteries and meditate in its rock caves, is attracting new international attention. In 2003, the United Nations designated the Bamiyan ruins a World Heritage site, but also listed them as endangered, because of their fragi... |
1809859_3 | Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself | for companies to rely on blacklists of known junk e-mail distributors. Also, by using other people's computers to scatter their e-mail across the Internet, spammers vastly increase the number of messages they can send out, without having to pay for the data traffic they generate. ''Because they are stealing other peopl... |
1809850_1 | News Summary | Britain to stand trial. A12 Iran Plans to Assess Holocaust Iranian authorities announced plans for an international conference of scholars to examine issues regarding the Holocaust, including whether gas chambers were really used. A5 NATIONAL A22-26 Report Finds Problems In FEMA Aid Distribution FEMA has recouped less ... |
1812065_3 | REVERSING TREND, BIG DROP IS SEEN IN BREAST CANCER | in women ages 50 to 69. That, he added, is the group most likely to have been taking menopausal hormones. In them, the incidence of breast cancer, including the type that grows in response to estrogen and the one that does not, fell by 12 percent in 2003, the latest year for which data is available. The findings of the... |
1811968_1 | Cuba's Rap Vanguard Reaches Beyond the Party Line | not veer too much from the party line qualify for the government aid. ''We don't have songs on a record that speak badly of the revolution,'' Ms. García Amaros said on a recent day. ''That doesn't make sense.'' Not surprisingly, most rappers, who are by definition a rebellious lot, are averse to joining forces with the... |
1814722_0 | World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: 'Rescue' Is Called A Piracy | Tamil Tiger rebels fired shots in the air and forced their way on board a stricken Jordanian cargo ship, the ship's captain said in Colombo, denying the rebels' claim that they had rescued the 25 crew members on Saturday after the ship's engines failed. The captain, Ramiz Abdul Jabbar, said armed guerrillas on six boat... |
1813201_0 | Regulator Says Morgan Stanley Withheld E-Mail in Cases | The NASD, the nation's largest self-regulatory organization for the securities industry, accused Morgan Stanley yesterday of routinely failing to provide e-mail messages to aggrieved customers who had filed arbitration cases against the firm over three and a half years and with making false claims that millions of e-ma... |
1812827_5 | Breast Cancer News Brings a Range of Reactions | of the office of disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health, said there was a sharp drop in prescriptions for estrogen alone, followed ''by a very rapid decline'' in endometrial cancer. Nor did the shift in prescriptions simply delay the onset of endometrial cancers. ''They never showed up at all,'' Dr. Kr... |
1811417_3 | The Cost of an Overheated Planet | the risk to their companies. They say that only with some sort of federal policy in place -- which would probably take the form of a tax on carbon dioxide waste from any source, or a ''cap and trade'' regulatory system -- will it become clear what carbon cleanup or fuel-switching moves their companies may have to make,... |
1811306_6 | Slow Is Beautiful | its goofies, its gargoyles. There is the Indian star tortoise, its shell a vivid basket weave of dark and light veins that dance like spattered sunlight as the tortoise crosses the forest floor; and the Matamata turtle of the Amazon basin, with a flattened, ragged head and neck that look like dead leaves and a bumpy sh... |
1808484_1 | Cardinal Faults China for Installing Bishop Without Approval | speak on issues involving the church on the mainland, also disclosed on Thursday the existence of a secret delegation from the Vatican to Beijing after the spring ordinations. The cardinal said the Chinese government had invited the delegation and had promised that it would not conduct any more ordinations without Vati... |
1809564_0 | Walk and Talk on a Cellphone at Your Own Risk | Much has been written about the dangers of driving while using a cellphone. But how about walking and talking on the phone? Researchers say they have evidence that this, too, can pose a risk, and not just from irritated fellow pedestrians who don't want to hear the details of your personal life. The researchers, Julie ... |
1812183_1 | A Big Drop in Breast Cancer | -- which have been widely used to treat the symptoms of menopause -- had also been hyped by the pharmaceutical industry as an elixir to ward off the ravages of aging. Overly enthusiastic doctors also championed hormone therapy as a way to prevent or mitigate heart disease, Alzheimer's, severe depression and urinary inc... |
1814242_3 | The Neediest Cases; Families Facing Extra Hurdles Find Reasons to Celebrate | All the children have developmental delays. It has been a difficult year for Ms. Ramos, who is on public assistance and lived for a time in a shelter. She recently moved into a one-bedroom apartment in the Bronx, but she had no furniture. New Alternatives for Children drew $1,011.99 from the Neediest Cases to buy beds,... |
1814131_0 | Niche Manufacturing Comes to a Car's 4 Corners | DRIVERS wrestling with choosing winter tires from among the bewildering array now available can point a finger at the rapidly changing economics of the tire-making business. An industry that once depended on huge runs of identical products to make a profit has been overhauled by automated manufacturing systems that mak... |
1814097_0 | Toys for Disabled, Step 1: What Can a Child Still Do? | IT was a busy morning at the John A. Coleman School, a rehabilitation center for children with disabilities. Waiting to greet them in the brightly lighted rotunda was Santa Claus, courtesy of the White Plains Fire Department. Also stopping by was Dr. Steven E. Kanor. The overlap was unintentional, yet somehow fitting. ... |
1814135_0 | Now, at Edison's Tower, More Cash Than Cracks | THE chain-link fence surrounding the Edison Memorial Tower is not there to protect the 1937 Art Deco structure from the public. It is meant to protect the public from the tower. A victim of chronic water damage and neglect, the memorial to the inventor of the lightbulb and the phonograph has been losing chunks of its c... |
1814056_0 | Toys for Disabled, Step 1: What Can a Child Still Do? | IT was a busy morning at the John A. Coleman School, a rehabilitation center for children with disabilities. Waiting to greet them in the brightly lighted rotunda was Santa Claus, courtesy of the White Plains Fire Department. Also stopping by was Dr. Steven E. Kanor. The overlap was unintentional, yet somehow fitting. ... |
1813949_2 | The Rise of the Office-Park Populist | or uneducated workers are the big losers in a high-tech global economy. And indeed they are. What has been far less noted is that there is also a huge and growing amount of inequality among people on the highest rungs of the educational ladder. In other words, even as educated workers are pulling ever further ahead of ... |
1814197_0 | Successful AIDS Policy | To the Editor: While I agree with Nicholas D. Kristof that President Bush's emergency plan for AIDS relief is ''a genuine and historic achievement'' (''When Prudishness Costs Lives,'' column, Dec. 19), he did not spell out the heart of the plan's prevention policy, the evidence-based A B C approach (abstinence; be fait... |
1814132_0 | When Flakes Fly | A wide range of choices has made choosing winter tires, once a simple matter of finding the right size and writing a check, far more complex. As with any purchase decision, trade-offs must be weighed. Matt Edmonds, vice president for marketing at Tire Rack, a large retailer in South Bend, Ind., said shoppers should wei... |
1814133_0 | Tires May Say All Season, But Winter Takes Exception | ADVANCES like electronic traction control and all-wheel drive make it possible for many cars to get through winter on all-season tires, which provide good grip in a wide range of conditions. But in regions with heavy snowfall and prolonged low temperatures, a set of specialized winter tires may be the difference betwee... |
1814034_0 | Toys for Disabled, Step 1: What Can a Child Still Do? | IT was a busy morning at the John A. Coleman School, a rehabilitation center for children with disabilities. Waiting to greet them in the brightly lighted rotunda was Santa Claus, courtesy of the White Plains Fire Department. Also stopping by was Dr. Steven E. Kanor. The overlap was unintentional, yet somehow fitting. ... |
1814072_0 | Toys for Disabled, Step 1: What Can a Child Still Do? | IT was a busy morning at the John A. Coleman School, a rehabilitation center for children with disabilities. Waiting to greet them in the brightly lighted rotunda was Santa Claus, courtesy of the White Plains Fire Department. Also stopping by was Dr. Steven E. Kanor. The overlap was unintentional, yet somehow fitting. ... |
1813834_0 | Corrections | A front-page article yesterday about parents' influence in helping their children overcome psychiatric disorders misstated the age of TJ Van de Wal, whose attention problems have improved in response to parental techniques. He is 7, not 9. |
1813748_0 | Talks End on North Korea's Nuclear Weapons | Talks to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program ended Friday without tangible progress, and Pyongyang quickly renewed threats to ''improve its nuclear deterrent.'' American and Asian diplomats said that during five days of negotiations in Beijing, the North Korean delegation had declined to discuss disarmament in fo... |
1814986_4 | Their Rivalry Was Bitter, Yet Beauty Still Emerged | sometimes life-size, representing young men and women, and symbolizing a new emphasis on the individual. Usually they bore relief images of the deceased and were set on graves as markers and memorials. On view from the sixth century B.C. are two small Attic representations of kourai, dressed statues of maidens, said to... |
1815090_1 | The Seeds Of a Mission; Farmers Are Wooed To Help Food Makers Reduce Trans Fat | The reluctance of farmers is only one part of the problem. Monsanto and its competitors have not been able to create new varieties of trans-fat-free soybeans fast enough to meet the demand for more varied uses. And the situation is only going to get worse: in the three weeks since New York City announced it would ban t... |
1815119_6 | F.D.A. Tentatively Declares Food From Cloned Animals to Be Safe | die during gestation or shortly after birth. Some are born with deformed heads or limbs or problems with their hearts, lungs or other organs. But the F.D.A. said that obviously sick and deformed animals were already barred from the food supply. It added that clones that survived past the first few days ''appear to grow... |
1815042_0 | Murcer Undergoes Surgery for Tumor | Bobby Murcer, the former Yankees outfielder and the team's longest-serving announcer, was awake and watching college football yesterday shortly after a five-hour operation at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to remove a brain tumor. A statement from the hospital did not say whether the tumor was benign or malign... |
1815085_0 | BREAKING GROUND | Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay What -- Luxury hotel and residential development in the Caribbean. Where -- Dellis Cay, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Amenities -- Restaurants and a full-service spa, among others. Prices -- Various residences range from $1.2 million to $6 million. Status -- Construction is set to begin ... |
1815043_0 | TODAY IN BUSINESS | F.D.A. APPROVES CLONES -- After years of delay, the Food and Drug Administration has tentatively concluded that milk and meat from some cloned farm animals are safe to eat. That finding could make the United States the first country to allow products from cloned livestock to be sold in grocery stores. [Page A1.] SAFE L... |
1815115_3 | News Summary | while cleaning a pressure cooker, raising questions from lawyers and the dissenting judges about the basic no-fault tenet of the state's workers' compensation. A16 SCIENCE/HEALTH F.D.A. Says Cloned Food Safe The Food and Drug Administration tentatively concluded that milk and meat from some cloned farm animals are safe... |
1815191_0 | Struggling to Save His Amazon, From the Top of a Death List | EARLY last year, a dubious distinction attached itself to Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva, director of the Roman Catholic Church's Pastoral Land Commission here in one of the most conflict-ridden regions of the Amazon. After the American nun Dorothy Stang was shot to death on a jungle road, he replaced her at the top of the ... |
1815229_1 | Efforts by Coast Guard For Security Fall Short | reach United States shores every week. In 2003, for example, a Cuban patrol boat, armed with two machine guns, landed at a Key West resort, its crew seeking to defect. The Coast Guard is often asked, ''How in the world did they get through?'' Captain Goward said. Quoting a former commandant, he responded, ''With all du... |
1810211_2 | An Ex-Spy's Guide to Spy Museums | set of fake documents that mistakenly suggested I had been born on two different dates in two different years. We proceeded to the Briefing Room, a small, dark auditorium, reminiscent of many in which I and my fellow trainees staved off sleep during lectures on such scintillating topics as Document Classification Desig... |
1808705_5 | Plan for South American Pipeline Has Ambitions Beyond Gas | to remote indigenous communities. ''It will be terrible,'' said Paulo Adario, Amazon campaign coordinator for Greenpeace. ''The environmental impact seems very high.'' There is concern in Güiria, too, a city of 35,000 people. A month after Mr. Chavez broke ground for the gas complex on the environmentally sensitive Par... |
1813449_1 | The Neediest Cases; After Years of Temporary Homes, One to Call Her Own | couldn't imagine Maye with anyone else,'' she said through her translator, Carmen Ugas. ''I decided enough was enough. I wanted to take care of her.'' With the help of Lucy Jones, a senior social worker in the Post Legal Adoption Network program, or PLAN, at New Alternatives for Children, that dream became a reality. N... |
1813428_0 | Mayor's Curb on Smoking Is Credited With Saving Lives | Could Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's antismoking crusade have already saved hundreds of lives? It has, city health officials said yesterday. Smoking-related deaths in New York City fell by more than 800 a year from 2000 to 2005, a drop of more than 10 percent, according to the city's annual Summary of Vital Statistics re... |
1813398_3 | A Taste of Cuba in California | more than $110 million in annual sales. ''We invested in information technology -- you can never spend enough money on that,'' Mr. Rodriguez added. He recalled how his father pressed the children in 1975 to buy one of the first I.B.M. System 32 minicomputers to upgrade Mercado Latino's accounting abilities. ''That comp... |
1811498_4 | The Old-Fashioned Secret Of Holiday Treats? Sugar Cane | Steen said. The Steens still grow 3,000 acres of cane, but the market for refined sugar is more profitable than the one for syrup: the Steen cane goes to the refinery rather than into the syrup kettle. Instead, they buy cane juice by the tanker truck from nearby mills, or from as far away as Central America. The Americ... |
1811551_0 | Pakistan's Support for Militants Threatens Region, Karzai Says | In strikingly strong language, President Hamid Karzai warned Tuesday that a failure to bring peace to Afghanistan would destroy the whole region, and laid the blame squarely on neighboring Pakistan. As if to underscore Mr. Karzai's warning, as he arrived here, a suicide bomber blew himself up in neighboring Helmand Pro... |
1813020_4 | Iraq Insurgents Starve Capital Of Electricity | off explosives at the four support points of a single tower, which would then pull down two or three more towers as it toppled. As repair crews moved in hours or days later, another tower farther up the line might be struck, and then another, in a race the government had little chance of winning. On Sunday, Mr. Abbo re... |
1812939_0 | An Undersea Camera That Won't Scare Away Its Subjects | Undersea creatures can be very sensitive to light, complicating attempts to find and photograph them. Lights on vessels venturing into a world without sunlight drive species away, as can bright lights for video. Infrared light decays rapidly in seawater. But Edith A. Widder, a marine biologist at the Ocean Research and... |
1812954_2 | Finally, a Way to Catch a Flight Without Shedding Your Shoes | with explosives,'' Mr. Brill said. All three technologies -- ID verification, shoe scanner and trace detective -- are built into the compact Clear airport kiosk. In surveys, frequent travelers say that the requirement to remove shoes is the most disliked rule at checkpoints. Having to remove coats and outer garments is... |
1812981_1 | The Declining Rate Of Breast Cancer | Editor: Re ''A Big Drop in Breast Cancer'' (editorial, Dec. 16): You accept a relationship between a decrease in the rates of breast cancer and decreased use of hormones. The decreased incidence of breast cancer may reflect better technology and increased discovery in prior years, lessening the number of cancers found ... |
1811731_2 | Marrying the Cellphone To Cheap Internet Calling | a suitably equipped telephone, Wi-Fi is just another cell tower. Providing calls over Wi-Fi also has the potential to improve voice quality in often hard-to-serve interior spaces in detached homes and apartment buildings. While corporations have used telephone handsets or base stations that route calls exclusively over... |
1811783_1 | Federal Judge Is Asked to Decide If Padilla Is Competent for Trial | from military custody into the civilian law enforcement system earlier this year. But, his lawyers say, he has been unable to assist in his own defense, and mental health experts have been unable to help him or to help them deal with him. ''Jose's experience as a detainee was so traumatic that it's physically and menta... |
1814575_0 | Herbs Found Ineffective for Menopause Symptoms | Black cohosh and other botanicals widely used to relieve the hot flashes and night sweats of menopause are no more effective than a placebo, according to a new study. Researchers tested 351 women over one year, dividing them into five groups. The first took 160 milligrams of black cohosh daily, the second took black co... |
1814555_4 | News Summary | Diabetics in the Workplace Confront a Tangle of Laws While the number of diabetics in America continues to rise, experts say the disease is on its way to becoming a conspicuous fact of life in the nation's labor force, raising all sorts of issues for workers and managers. A1 Reclassified Homicides Rise For reasons that... |
1814471_4 | Hormones And Cancer: Assessing The Risks | the latest analysis indicating that breast cancer is declining because so many women stopped taking Prempro and other menopausal hormones? A. Throughout the 1990s, physicians were recommending that menopausal women take hormone replacement therapy. What happens is that you increased the rate of breast cancer in the who... |
1814493_0 | Boom in Rockies for Skiers, Developers and Immigrants | The title deserves an F.C.C. fine for unoriginality, but ''In the Shadow of the American Dream,'' tonight on NBC, does a decent job of translating one of the year's most bloviated-upon topics, immigration, into human terms. It may also give anyone on a holiday ski trip to Colorado an extra bit of luggage: a small bag o... |
1814482_0 | Family Size Tied to Brain Tumors, Study Suggests | The more siblings you have, the more likely you may be to develop a brain tumor, a new study reports. Researchers writing in the Dec. 12 issue of Neurology reviewed the records of 13,613 Swedish brain cancer patients and found that those with four or more siblings were almost twice as likely to develop a brain tumor as... |
1815593_1 | Why the Pay Gap Persists for Women | University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. To the Editor: In the interesting article about the gender pay gap, you correctly point out that much of it results from different average trade-offs made by men and women between financial and nonfinancial work rewards -- a source of the gap that does not truly result in gender diff... |
1815688_3 | Those Low Grades in College May Haunt Your Job Search | lot of diamonds in the rough,'' said Terese Corey Blanck, founder of College to Career Inc., a company in Minneapolis that offers seminars, publications and consulting to college students and their parents. ''Hiring managers who use G.P.A.'s as a major success predictor do not understand the full capacity of human pote... |
1815410_0 | If You Won't Play the Album, They'll Sing It, From the Top | WHEN was the last time you listened to an album without interruption and from beginning to end? No cheating: fiddling with the ''program'' button on your CD player doesn't count, and no shuffling the track order on your iPod either. Perhaps, then, the occasion was a live show, like when Brian Wilson performed his Beach... |
1808916_6 | Do Immigrants Make Us Safer? | blocks to document every sign of decay and disorder they could spot. The social and ethnic composition of a neighborhood turned out to have a profound bearing on how residents of Chicago perceived it, irrespective of the actual conditions on the streets. ''In particular,'' Sampson and Raudenbush found, ''the proportion... |
1809122_0 | Seeing Distractions and Trying to Stop Them | FOR many drivers, navigating traffic is just one of several priorities. There are cellphone calls to be made, newspapers to be read and hairdos to be fixed. But the distracted driver, it seems, is a dangerous one. Research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Virginia Tech Transportation Instit... |
1809329_0 | Episcopal Diocese Votes to Secede from Church | An Episcopal diocese in California overwhelmingly passed a series of resolutions yesterday that position it to secede from the Episcopal Church and affiliate with conservatives in the global Anglican Communion. If the Diocese of San Joaquin affirms the move in a second vote next year, the small diocese, with 48 parishe... |
1809259_1 | Affirmative Action And Black Lawyers | scores. And going back to the reason for poor undergraduate performance, selective undergraduate programs enroll black students with poor SAT scores, resulting in low grades. There is no magic set of policies, such as better mentoring, that will transform a significant proportion of weakly prepared college students so ... |
1814889_0 | INSIDE | Familiar Road for Iraq Panel Remember the Social Security commission of 2001? Neither do most Americans. Will the report by the Iraq Study Group meet a similar fate? PAGE A26 Twist in Poisoning of Ex-Spy Russian prosecutors are investigating the possible involvement of former Yukos Oil executives in the London poisonin... |
1814856_0 | The Day the Pixels Froze: When a Digital World Was Stopped by a Natural Disaster | It was a natural disaster for the digital age that radiated through much of Asia and beyond after an undersea earthquake late Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan. People awoke Wednesday to find themselves without e-mail or the Internet and, in some cases, without telephone connections, cut off from the rest of the world. T... |
1814855_1 | Agency Proposes to List Polar Bears as Threatened | The scientific analysis in the proposal itself, however, did assess the cause of melting ice. Most of the studies on the Arctic climate and ice trends cited to support the proposed listing assumed that the buildup of heat-trapping gases was probably contributing to the loss of sea ice, or that the continued buildup of ... |
1813668_1 | Parenting as Therapy for Child's Mental Disorders | a transformation in their son. He still has days when he gets into trouble, like any other 10-year-old, but he no longer exhibits the level of restless distractibility that earned him a psychiatric diagnosis. ''People are so stressed out, and it's so much easier to say, 'Here, take this pill and go to your room; leave ... |
1810947_2 | The Hat Trick That Didn't Happen | radio is a vastly more mysterious phenomenon, with very few receivers in homes but some 1,000 new radio channels beaming around the country like space probes searching for alien life. This industry is very much in its infancy and new, less-expensive players are about to hit the market. Digital radio does have a few thi... |
1810620_0 | In the Face of Death | To the Editor: Re Christopher Hitchens's review of ''Point to Point Navigation,'' by Gore Vidal (Nov. 26): As a potential old and ill person, I find Hitchens's view that stoicism in the face of death is what ''we should all want to emulate'' dismayingly typical of the pressure our society places on the old and ill. Suc... |
1810604_3 | A Youthful Intoxication | a sacred music, into a great transfiguration, an apotheosis. In the end, the floods close over the soul, while all and nothing become one.'' In the hundred energetic pages of Walter Kaufmann's translation from the German (Kaufmann was himself a Princeton philosopher), under headings such as ''Ethics,'' ''Humanity,'' an... |
1812350_1 | The Boss's Computer | Without the images, we cannot find and rescue victims or punish the predators. The Ethicist demonstrates a disappointing lack of understanding of how law enforcement works. This is unacceptable, and I urge all Americans to reject this poor advice. A child's life could hang in the balance all because a self-described ''... |
1812310_2 | In Harm's Way | the fantastic and unhealthy superstitions of some sailors -- that ''it was dangerous to bathe because the water might wash away one's good luck; or that blood spilled into the sea would cause a storm to abate; or that a man's tattoos protected him against venereal diseases.'' He shows the almost supernatural bond betwe... |
1812307_0 | The Pragmatist | William James In the Maelstrom of American Modernism. A Biography. By Robert D. Richardson. Illustrated. 622 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company. $30. Philosophy is typically represented as a rigorously impersonal business, its participants engaged in a conversation initiated in ancient Greece and pursued still by men and wom... |
1812367_2 | Traveling the World to Help Save It | initially limited to major donors, but their success made it increasingly obvious that Seacology could raise more money by opening the trips to the public. ''I can speak until I'm blue in the face about our projects,'' Mr. Silverstein said, ''but there's no substitute for having a potential donor see this for themselve... |
1814423_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL A3-15 U.S. Says Iranian Officials Were Seized in Iraq Raid The American military is holding at least four Iranians in Iraq, including men the White House called senior military officials, who were seized in raids last week on groups suspected of conducting attacks on security forces, according to official... |
1814432_0 | COLLEGES | |
1814427_1 | At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian | a violation of geographical boundaries, Archbishop Akinola has created an offshoot of his Nigerian church in North America for the discontented Americans. In doing so, he has made himself the kingpin of a remarkable alliance between theological conservatives in North America and the developing world that could tip the ... |
1814359_0 | Sri Lanka Accuses Rebels of Seizing a Jordanian Ship | Tension between Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tiger rebels has mounted after an episode involving a Jordanian ship that drifted into waters close to a northern rebel stronghold, officials said Sunday. The ship, the Farah III, carrying 14,000 tons of rice, was bound for Durban, South Africa, from India. It developed engine tr... |
1809506_0 | After a Rush to Make Repairs, Pace of Levee Work Slows | For months, the Army Corps of Engineers raced through the city, frantically patching broken levees and building floodgates to prepare for a hurricane season, now ended, that produced no hurricanes here. That repair work is essentially complete and the corps has moved on to the task of strengthening flood protection in ... |
1737904_0 | Driving Along, Less Gas in the Car | To the Editor: There is currently an alternative that gets 1,500 miles per petroleum gallon and uses technology that is 100 years old. I drive an '84 Mercedes diesel on 100 percent waste vegetable oil that restaurants give me for free. This is far more environmentally, socially, economically and politically benign than... |
1737937_0 | Canada to Shield 5 Million Forest Acres | In this sodden land of glacier-cut fjords and giant moss-draped cedars, a myth is told by the Gitga'at people to explain the presence of black bears with a rare recessive gene that makes them white as snow. The Raven deity swooped down on the land at the end of an ice age and decided that one out of every 10 black bear... |
1737780_0 | Cellphones Can Be Advantageous to Your Health | Many hospitals ban the use of cellphones because of the risk that they may interfere with the functioning of medical equipment. But a new study suggests that such bans may actually increase the danger to patients. Using a survey completed by more than 4,000 participants in a meeting of anesthesiologists in 2003, resear... |
1737925_3 | OBSERVATORY | feet from the seafloor, with its summit 4,000 feet from the surface. The area is teeming with marine life, including coral ''gardens'' near the summit. Using a remote vehicle, the expedition studied the seamount habitat and photographed and collected corals. Most important for the armchair explorer, expedition members ... |
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