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1674928_0 | India's Political Spotlight Burning Bright on Endangered Tigers | On Monday, one year and a day after becoming prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh traveled to Ranthambore National Park, the celebrated sanctuary of India's national animal: the tiger. The visit to Ranthambore was less a warm and fuzzy photo opportunity than an attempt to take on a budding political crisis. The tige... |
1674968_2 | The College Dropout Boom | ago. The American system of higher learning seems to have become a great equalizer. In fact, though, colleges have come to reinforce many of the advantages of birth. On campuses that enroll poorer students, graduation rates are often low. And at institutions where nearly everyone graduates -- small colleges like Colgat... |
1674892_6 | To Save Its Canal, Panama Fights for Its Forests | deforestation continued. Even after the United States arrested General Noriega in 1990, conditions were initially unsettled and Chagres and smaller watershed parks were not adequately protected. But then things began to change. Dr. Heckadon, who became the nation's first environment minister, said one important step ca... |
1674927_2 | In Southern France, Strong Opposition to Europe Treaty | are already celebrating. On Friday night it was a gathering of leftists. They wore badges and carried balloons declaring that to love Europe is to vote no. They bought $5-a-bottle merlot made by a cooperative in the area with custom-designed labels that said no. They sang along to Edith Piaf's ''Non, je ne regrette rie... |
1675014_4 | First Jobs Come Easily for Many but After That ... | Hayes added that majors in fields related to national security, from computer science to engineering, are also having a good year. Even manufacturing companies, which for years have done nothing but shed workers, are picking up graduates. At Wichita State, where job prospects depend heavily on the aerospace companies n... |
1673012_0 | America's Fading Competitive Edge | To the Editor: Despite what Thomas L. Friedman says about American students' lack of math and engineering prowess, what I've noticed most about new hires who are recent college graduates is that they can't write very well. In many jobs, the inability to produce coherent business correspondence is a much bigger handicap... |
1670121_1 | Albany Keeps Back Burner Very Crowded | they have agreed only on elements of it. They have until September 2006 to get things under way or risk forfeiting the money, though even if the money comes through, is there time to install a new system by the November election that year? New York City, for instance, has to replace 7,639 machines -- a process that Joh... |
1669454_0 | On Eve of Nuclear Meeting, Thousands Stage a Protest | In a merger of the nuclear disarmament and antiwar movements, several thousand protesters, including a group of survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marched through Midtown yesterday and rallied in Central Park to call for the end of nuclear proliferation and the withdrawal of United States t... |
1671001_5 | U.S. to Spend Billions More To Alter Security Systems | in the face, and you got to put something out there.'' At airports, similar shortcomings in technology have caused problems. The Transportation Security Administration bought 1,344 machines costing more than $1 million each to search for explosives in checked bags by examining the density of objects inside. But innocuo... |
1671010_1 | Hard-Liners in Northern Ireland Gain in British Voting, Leaving Peace Pact in Jeopardy | seats, and the party's president, Gerry Adams, was easily re-elected in the Roman Catholic neighborhood of West Belfast. His party's performance confounded theories that voters might punish Sinn Fein for recent crimes attributed to the I.R.A., including the robbery of $50 million from a Belfast bank last December and t... |
1670649_7 | Freud and His Discontents | stern kindness toward humanity, for all his efforts to lessen the burden of human suffering, Thanatos seems to be the embittered way in which he universalized his parlous inner state. It hampers the understanding to read ''Civilization and Its Discontents'' without taking into consideration all these circumstances. If ... |
1676500_5 | FRENCH VOTERS SOUNDLY REJECT EUROPEAN PACT | vote in a referendum. The only other rejection was in 1969, when de Gaulle proposed a measure to renovate the Senate, create regions and seek support after the student uprisings of May 1968. De Gaulle pledged to leave office if the ''no'' won, and when it did by a small margin, he resigned the next day. While Mr. Chira... |
1676487_0 | A Race to Save Sudan's Past From Progress | Far north of Khartoum, where modern steel bridges cross this legendary river, the architecture goes way back in time -- thousand-year-old temples, towering pyramids, elaborate cities from civilizations that lived and died and were then buried by the surging sand. The uncovering of these ancient wonders has proceeded sl... |
1676435_1 | Historical Discovery? Well, Yes And No | The newspaper went on to say that, that week alone, new infrared technology had allowed researchers ''to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world.'' Immediately, phone lines were buzzing and e-mail was flying. Important di... |
1676285_0 | Life Without a College Degree | To the Editor: Here's an idea to create an additional incentive for elite colleges to recruit working-class students: Why doesn't U.S. News & World Report revise its highly influential rankings to give greater weight to economic diversity in the student body as a measure of the academic quality of the institution? Most... |
1676163_1 | Famed for What's Up Above, Fixing What's Down Below | completed a $5 million restoration of the tower in 2003. And the reporter's remark, recorded by an engineering student for a thesis that was republished by bayridge.com, a community Web site, seemed like ancient history last week. It was then that the Coney Island Development Corporation, charged with promoting busines... |
1674801_1 | Culture for Ground Zero | hope more than a final contract for exactly what will be built on this crucial site. Thus, it is easy to say the proposal for a dual-museum complex unveiled last Thursday by the respected Norwegian architectural firm Snohetta looks promising in almost every way. The firm has created a shimmering version of a structure ... |
1667772_0 | Consent Forms in Plain English | Parents who are asked to sign consent forms allowing researchers to enroll their children in medical studies often have a poor idea of what they are agreeing to. But when the forms are redesigned and rewritten using graphics and simpler language, the understanding increases, a new study finds. Writing in The Archives o... |
1667789_1 | More Baggage Taboos, but Little Security Enhancement | ''Over the last three and a half years, we have spent billions of dollars creating a Soviet-style centralized bureaucracy that has resulted in great inefficiencies and inflexibility, with little improvement in screener effectiveness,'' Mr. Mica, a long-time critic of the agency, said in a statement last week. In its re... |
1667759_0 | Disconnecting Phones and Tumors | Good news for cellphone users: a new study published in the April issue of the journal Neurology shows no connection between cellphone use and the risk of developing a brain tumor. A Danish survey of 427 people with brain tumors and 822 with no tumors found no difference in their frequency of cellphone use or the numbe... |
1667916_0 | Arts, Briefly; In a Pickle | The plaza around the building nicknamed the Gherkin, a prize-winning skyscraper in the financial district in London, has been cordoned off after one of its giant glass panels plummeted from the 28th floor to the street. Officially opened last May, the 34-story, 600-foot missile-shaped building, formally known by its ad... |
1664777_0 | The intense competition for top students is threatening financial aid based on need. | CONSIDER the awkward decision confronting the admissions director of a highly selective university that is trying to move forward in the academic pecking order (one of, say, 50 institutions that would have landed in the top 10 this year, except for various flaws in the rankings formula). On the director's desk sit the ... |
1664869_1 | Connecticut Episcopalians Defy Bishop Over Gay Issues | the church's softening stance on gay marriage. In the last year, about a dozen churches have broken with the Episcopal Church USA, the American arm of Anglicanism, and joined Anglican dioceses in Africa and South America whose leaders still view homosexuality as an abomination. Many other churches have split in two, or... |
1664716_8 | Panama Calling To Preserve Its Edens | all this?'' A Museum Waiting to Spread Its Wings WHEN Edwina von Gal went to Panama two years ago to help create a park for the $50 million museum of biodiversity designed by Frank Gehry and Bruce Mau, she imagined a park for the people. ''It has to be free, with no lock on the gate,'' Ms. von Gal said last month as th... |
1662960_2 | Sinn Fein Leader Offers I.R.A. an 'Alternative' to Violence | a formal call on the I.R.A. to disband at a time when Northern Ireland's peace efforts are stalled and its power-sharing authority is suspended. He delivered his statement, which some critics said was intended to strengthen his position as a candidate for Parliament, after the I.R.A. was blamed in two crimes in Belfast... |
1662930_4 | Printing on the Road: Portable Solutions | the printer. A user who has routed documents to the printer enters a code to start printing. The cost per page, if any, is determined by the hotel. FedEx Kinko's, which has 1,200 stores in the United States and 10 other countries, can print documents from a number of sources, including floppies, CD-R's and U.S.B. flash... |
1664479_2 | The Continental Dream: Will the French Shatter It? | 10 new members last year -- France has become more anti-European. ''The French believe that their system is the best and that they are the center of the universe,'' Bernard Kouchner, the Socialist former health minister and one of the most popular political figures in France, said in a telephone interview. ''It's not t... |
1664535_1 | Billions of Promises to Keep | from war to peace. The needs are many -- and immediate. More than three million civilians, displaced by violence, can now return to southern Sudan and rebuild their lives. Two million of them need food aid. If people are not fed, if former soldiers are not reintegrated or retrained, peace will quickly unravel. The bill... |
1664457_5 | Strawberries and Dreams | in the United States don't know which varieties they are buying, unlike their counterparts in Europe, where retailers must identify the kinds they sell. At least clamshell containers, introduced by Driscoll in 1989 and widely adopted by other companies, carry brand labels, an imprecise but still significant indication ... |
1666067_4 | Great Engine of China Is Low on Fuel | which rivals the Yangtze River Delta around Shanghai as one of China's two main export powerhouses. Henry Zhang, the general manager of the Shishi Hengyi Textile Product Trade Company in Shishi City in east-central China, said that his factory had already noticed an improvement. The factory was blacked out two days a w... |
1665988_3 | As America Gets Bigger, The World Does, Too | diabetes, Japanese health officials told Dr. Seidell. According to Dr. Kaufman, ''By 2010 more than half the people in the world with diabetes will be Asians.'' Traditionally, in developing countries, the poorest people have been the thinnest, a consequence of hard physical labor and the consumption of small amounts of... |
1666046_5 | Europeans Fast Falling Away From Church | and state, is strictly enforced in many countries in Europe. In 2004, the campaign by some European governments, supported by the pope, to include a reference to Europe's Christian heritage in the draft European Union constitution failed. Later last year, Rocco Buttliglione, a former Italian minister, was rejected for ... |
1666022_0 | Richard Popkin, 81, Historian Of Philosophy and Skepticism | Dr. Richard Henry Popkin, a historian of philosophy and its particular tradition of skeptical thought, died on Thursday at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 81 and lived in Los Angeles. The cause was complications of emphysema, his family said. Skepticism, a hallmark of Western philosophy since ancient Greece, ... |
1666457_0 | The Physics, Philosophy and, Literally, Dirty Laundry of Robert Oppenheimer | American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Illustrated. 721 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. 109 East Palace Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos By Jennet Conant Illustrated. 425 pages. Simon & Schuster. $26.95. Dec. 31, 2025, is the date inadvert... |
1665672_2 | On the Sidelines, Catholic Liberals Still Seek a Ray of Hope | the top.'' ''Or at least no one was listening at the Vatican,'' he said. ''That is what we want to change most of all,'' he added. Like many matters facing the church, the liberal-conservative divide is not clear-cut: some liberals make the case that the conservative viewpoint dominating the Vatican and the College of ... |
1665381_7 | There's Nothing Deep About Depression | expression of the contrasting position -- that melancholy confers special virtues -- appears in the ''Problemata Physica,'' or ''Problems,'' a discussion, in question-and-answer form, of scientific conundrums. It was long attributed to Aristotle, but the surviving version, from the second century B.C., is now believed ... |
1665526_1 | Synergy? Whatever | ''Get rid of those unwieldy land lines of your grandmother and her generation and go wireless!'' Now, I'm the first one to admit that the only reason I passed any science course of any kind was because Mike DeSantis (we sat alphabetically -- Davitt, DeSantis) sat next to me for four years and would do things like slip ... |
1662337_1 | People of All Faiths Recall Pope With Fondness | of sexuality and the so-called sanctity of life dovetailed with the values of the growing evangelical movement in the United States. And over the last few years, conservative Catholics and Protestants have forged a powerful political alliance now shaping American politics. ''In terms of the goals of our organization, t... |
1662350_5 | A GLOBAL AGENDA | at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, said the priest shortage is global: ''Relative to the rest of the world, the United States is in very good shape. South and Central America are very Catholic cultures, but people wait years to get their babies baptized. They may see a priest... |
1662069_4 | His Flock; Catholics in America: A Restive People | There are just under 24,000 diocesan priests on active duty today, down by one-fifth from 1990, and many of those active priests are well beyond retirement age. Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate reckons that more than one-quarter of American priests are now over 75, and in five years... |
1662171_5 | Challenge Posed in Selecting a Successor | Gibson, an American journalist who has worked in the Vatican and wrote ''The Coming Catholic Church.'' ''This College of Cardinals is so diverse, from so many different places, and they have no love for the Italians,'' Mr. Gibson said. ''The Italians put a lot more stake in the Italian claim to the papacy than everyone... |
1662176_8 | Drug Makers Race to Cash In on Fight Against Fat | the code in 1994 with leptin, a protein found to be lacking in some obese rats. When injected with leptin, the rats became thin. Amgen, the big biotechnology company, invested millions in leptin research, but the rodent results could not be duplicated in humans. More recently, Regeneron hoped it had a winner in Axokine... |
1661860_0 | DISABILITIES AND CRUISING | To the Editor: As a partly disabled senior citizen, I embarked on a South American cruise in February. I do not negotiate steps well anymore. When I, walking with my cane, first entered the dining room, the headwaiter saw me and helped me up the one step -- doing so when I entered and left for the entire cruise. The sh... |
1662162_5 | Pope John Paul II, Church Shepherd And a Catalyst for World Change | at his installation on Oct. 22, 1978 -- had a special meaning. In June 1979, millions turned out for the pope's first visit to his native Poland, masses of people acting independently of the Communist government and gaining a liberating sense of their own autonomy. In retrospect, the visit was widely seen as a detonato... |
1662162_16 | Pope John Paul II, Church Shepherd And a Catalyst for World Change | promulgated in 1917 and rendered out of date by many of Vatican II's reforms. In 1992, he also approved a new ''universal catechism'' to guide church leaders around the world in presentations of Catholic beliefs. Both documents set firm limits on what were seen as ambiguities and invitations to further change in the do... |
1661723_2 | Us&Them; Digital Rage | I discovered that men get checked cotton or black nylon, while women are offered floral patterns, the last thing you would want to display in a cool spa hotel. [Suzy, let me take you shopping! There are so many modern, ''gender-neutral'' toilet kits out there -- from Tumi to Brics to Henri Bendel, whose brown-and-white... |
1663429_1 | Made in China. Bought Everywhere.; As Trade Surplus Balloons, So Does Talk of Protectionism | and television sets from China have dominated the shelves of American retailers for years, these and newer products like portable electric lamps and even radio navigation equipment are being shipped in growing quantities to countries ranging from Britain and Spain to Brazil and Indonesia, according to recently released... |
1663374_1 | Settlement Dispute on Bush-Sharon Agenda | ensure that the Palestinians succeed in bringing jobs and stability to Gaza when Israel withdraws from that region. ''We need to have institution-building, and there needs to be an international effort that encourages and fosters economic vitality so that a government which does emerge in Gaza will be able to better sp... |
1663482_2 | In Rare Legal Protest, Chinese Seek Boycott of Japan Goods | steps to exploit reserves of natural gas. China has also accused Japan of approving new history textbooks that gloss over the slaughter of millions of innocent people during Japan's World War II-era occupation of China. Beijing objected to recent moves by Japan and the United States to expand military cooperation and s... |
1663703_0 | Decision Time On Cement | Because the mills of bureaucratic procedure grind exceedingly slow and fine, the bitter struggle over a proposed cement plant on the east bank of the Hudson River just south of Hudson, N.Y., is now well into its sixth year without a resolution. On one side is St. Lawrence Cement, a Canadian-based company with majority ... |
1663842_0 | Let Fathers Be Fathers | Here's my prophecy about the next pope: He will allow married men to become priests. This is simply a matter of survival: all over the world, the Catholic Church is running out of priests. In the United States, there was one priest for every 800 Catholics in 1965, while now there is one for every 1,400 Catholics -- and... |
1663863_0 | Riot Police Called In to Calm Anti-Japanese Protests in China | Mass demonstrations here against Japan turned unruly late Saturday afternoon, with scattered vandalism and confrontations with the riot police intensifying what began as a fully legal and generally peaceful student-led protest. Several hundred protesters tried to storm the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Beijin... |
1663558_4 | Across the River and Into the Trees | fish, by a thousand sharp, blessed little teeth.'' As the Fe em Deus approaches the Serra do Divisor, near the Peruvian border, bitterness infects Campbell's mood. He sees ghosts everywhere: in tapped-out rubber plantations, dirt-poor encampments of naïve colonists, abandoned homesteads, burnt cattle pastures and a san... |
1663833_2 | The World; PRIME NUMBERS | -- developments the Bush administration cites in lobbying against plans to loosen restrictions on arms sales to China. 1 The number of teeth that the earliest known senior citizen had left at the end of his life, according to a report in Nature. Scientists studying the fossilized skull of a man who lived in the Caucasu... |
1668217_1 | Growing Up Denatured | sequestered by their parents against the remote threat of abduction. But a new front is opening in the campaign against children's indolence. Experts are speculating, without empirical evidence, that a variety of cultural pressures have pushed children too far from the natural world. The disconnection bodes ill, they s... |
1666662_5 | 36 Hours | Oak Park, Ill. | dance floor. The cover charge ranges from $5 to $20. Sunday 9 a.m. 9 -- What's the Buzz? The buzz about Buzz Café (905 South Lombard Avenue, 708-524-2899) is that it's a community-minded gathering spot in the Harrison Street Arts District. Paintings and drawings by local artists cover the green and purple walls, artist... |
1665962_0 | As Cardinals Meet to Elect a Pope | To the Editor: Re ''Let Fathers Be Fathers,'' by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, April 10): The gift of apostolic celibacy in the priesthood in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church goes back to its apostolic origins, and the married clergy have always been a pastoral exception. The church has always had the priests it ne... |
1665880_0 | A Mother's Stubbornness Provides a Reason to Run | Everything in life has happened early for Uri Berenguer. When he was 3, doctors in his native Panama wanted to amputate his right leg because of cancer. When he was 17, he started broadcasting occasional Red Sox games on a Spanish-language radio network in New England. And when he was 20, he was on the air full time as... |
1665878_0 | From Rectories and Rec Rooms, for the Environment's Sake | Deborah Blau, a graphic designer, rode into Union Square on her bicycle yesterday morning, carrying a disemboweled VCR in the handlebar basket. She pulled up to a bright red truck full of discarded electronic equipment -- cords, circuit boards and old television sets -- and added the VCR to the pile. ''I knew it was a ... |
1665868_0 | An Ancient Masterpiece Or a Master's Forgery? | A scholar has suggested that ''Laocoön,'' a fabled sculpture whose unearthing in 1506 has deeply influenced thinking about the ancient Greeks and the nature of the visual arts, may well be a Renaissance forgery -- possibly by Michelangelo himself. Her contention has stirred some excitement and considerable exasperation... |
1664218_5 | Truth in the Wild: A Great Dad That Wanders Wide | Colorado. ''Wholesale poisoning probably whacked them,'' Dr. Copeland said. There are none in Michigan, the Wolverine State, he added. Because they are secretive and so little is known about the wolverine, humans have filled in the gaps with myth. The wolverine has earned names like ''devil bear'' and was believed by s... |
1664260_0 | Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, in a Pod at the Airport | Beeping electric carts, a procession of refreshment wagons and a symphony of cellphone chatter could not deter Evens Tremblay. He wanted a nap. On Feb. 26, Mr. Tremblay, a Canadian telephone company employee, was en route from his home in Montreal to Sydney when he saw a sign near Gate 70 of Vancouver International Air... |
1664252_0 | Knit a Building, Weave a Bike: 'Extreme Textiles' Come of Age | A knitted bag holds a weakened heart, helping it pump blood. Electricity flows through the threads of a battery-powered fleece jacket, keeping the wearer warm. Carbon fibers are braided into structures that look like mushrooms, but are actually prototypes of automotive engine valves. Other fibers are shaped into bicycl... |
1664220_1 | Women Struggle for Parity of the Heart | in rehabilitation programs. A recent study at the Mayo Clinic shows that women are less likely than men to participate in postcoronary exercise and health-improvement programs. Among 1,821 men and women studied who had heart attacks from 1982 to 1998, the women's participation rate in rehabilitation programs -- 38 perc... |
1664220_2 | Women Struggle for Parity of the Heart | pressure, Type 2 diabetes and obesity, along with a diet rich in animal fats and sedentary living. Further studies (again, mostly among men) showed that by controlling such factors, the risk of heart disease and sudden cardiac death could be greatly reduced. In fact, the era of preventive medicine was born with the dia... |
1666249_3 | Transportation Security Agency Criticized | silk plants and $13,861 on lamps and other items as ''equipment and tools,'' instead of ''enhancements'' as they had been described on the first invoice, the report said. To avoid a $2,500 cap on purchases made with a special agency buying card, it said, the project manager and two other agency employees also routinely... |
1666261_0 | Chinese Official Orders End to Anti-Japanese Demonstrations | China's foreign minister called Tuesday for an end to anti-Japanese protests, the first signal that the leadership may no longer welcome the sometimes violent demonstrations that have underpinned a new and more confrontational approach to Japan. The minister, Li Zhaoxing, told a meeting of the Communist Party's propaga... |
1662839_1 | Sugar and Spice, and Biochemistry; Food Companies Test Flavorings That Can Trick the Taste Buds | chemical compounds will not be listed separately on ingredient labels. Instead, they will be lumped into a broad category -- ''artificial flavors'' -- already found on most packaged food labels. ''We're helping companies clean up their labels,'' said Senomyx's chief executive, Kent Snyder. Senomyx, based in San Diego, ... |
1662737_0 | Europe Leaves Modified Corn Inquiry to U.S. | Despite public abhorrence in Europe of all things genetically modified, European officials say they will let the United States take the lead in untangling how unapproved corn entered Europe over the last four years. Syngenta, the Swiss biotechnology company that produced the corn, said late in March that it had inadver... |
1662810_1 | Staircases In Twin Towers Are Faulted | 14,000 people -- the report said that it had taken about twice as long to go down a single flight of stairs as had been projected by the current engineering standards for tall buildings. The buildings were only half full, investigators said, and if the attack had come at a time when they were filled to occupancy, the e... |
1664146_2 | Catholics in U.S. Keep Faith, But Live With Contradictions | la carte'' in the practice of their religion, said Diana Gonya, 61, a retired insurance agent in Baltimore whose wedding 36 years ago was officiated by Pope Paul VI. Certainly there are problems. Fewer Americans these days send their children to Catholic schools. Mass attendance in the United States fell during John Pa... |
1666988_1 | Out With the Old, in With the Hybrids; In New Laws, Big Step in Journey to Cleaner City Fleet | fuels,'' said Richard Kassel, a senior lawyer and director of the Clean Vehicles Project at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. ''It was a program that started with good intentions, but outlived its usefulness.'' A local law passed in 1991 mandated that 80 percent of the new cars and light trucks that th... |
1668490_1 | Europe Loses Sugar Appeal At W.T.O. | Pereira de Carvalho, president of Unica, Brazil's largest sugar industry association, said. ''And that opens the door for developing countries.'' Still, it is unclear how the European Union will respond to the ruling. Europe and the United States have argued that their subsidy reductions should be part of continuing ef... |
1668760_2 | The $6.66-a-Gallon Solution; Oil-Rich Norwegians Take World's Highest Gasoline Prices in Stride | ample hydropower resources. Norway not only taxes its gasoline. Norwegians also pay automobile taxes as high as $395 a year for each vehicle, and in Oslo there is even a ''studded-tire'' fee of about $160 for vehicles with all-terrain tires that tear up asphalt more quickly in the winter. Then there are the taxes on ne... |
1662465_7 | Inside the Injured Brain, Many Kinds of Awareness | consciousness much earlier'' than is sometimes portrayed in news media accounts, Dr. Fins of NewYork-Presbyterian said. Researchers know little about how to draw a person out of a minimally conscious state, which itself can last a lifetime. In one study of 124 brain-damaged patients, doctors in Philadelphia and New Jer... |
1662483_1 | MEMO PAD | they expected to travel more in the next six months than they did in the comparable period last year, while a little over half said their travel frequency would be about the same. RADIO-FREE PASSPORTS? -- Corporate travel managers are uneasy about the State Department's plan to introduce passports later this year that ... |
1667079_0 | Access Denied: Economics and the Elite | Equity and Excellence in American Higher EducationBy William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil and Eugene M. Tobin University of Virginia Press, hardcover Review by Karen W. Arenson Since his retirement as president of Princeton in 1988, William G. Bowen has used his post as president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to f... |
1667158_1 | You've Been Sold | number without your written permission; set minimum security standards for companies that do store your Social Security number and require third party audits against that standard; prohibit companies from using your Social Security number as an identifier. Notification: Companies with information about you do not neces... |
1667398_2 | The Hottest Button: How The Times Covers Israel and Palestine | thousands of criticisms (as well as insults, accusations and threats) of The Times's Middle East coverage, I'm still waiting for one reader to say the paper has ever been unfair in a way that was damaging to both sides. Given the frequency of articles on the subject, it would be hard to imagine that such a piece has no... |
1667445_0 | Amid Affluence, a Struggle Over Special Education | ''Legal Issues in School Health Services,'' all 662 pages of it, is a popular read among school administrators in this wealthy town on the Long Island Sound. Parents, however, are more likely to be poring over Gary Mayerson's ''How to Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child,'' or ''Wrightsl... |
1667140_0 | The Natural and the Sacred in China | AT Tiger Leaping Gorge in the Yunnan Province of China, you can hear two forces of nature collide. The Yangtse, with the accumulated might of a 16,000-foot drop from its start on the Tibetan Plateau, hurls millions of tons of water from hundreds of tributaries between the Jade Dragon and Haba Snow Mountains. Squeezing ... |
1667073_0 | Get a Job | TIMOTHY B. LUZADER is director of the Center for Career Opportunities at Purdue and president of the board of the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which represents campus career advisers. He offers tips on getting your foot in the right doors. Q. What does the job market look like for new graduates? A. I... |
1667485_1 | Evidence in Vioxx Suits Shows Intervention by Merck Officials | to Vioxx. As lawsuits against Merck over Vioxx move toward trial, the documents could help plaintiffs paint a picture of the company that is at odds with Merck's public statements that it had no evidence of Vioxx's cardiac risks until last fall. Theodore V.H. Mayer, a lawyer for Merck, said that it had disclosed all in... |
1667389_0 | The World; Off the Reservation | Some prominent Roman Catholic priests, nuns and theologians who were investigated and disciplined while Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was in charge of enforcing orthodoxy for the Vatican. Tissa Balasuriya Sri Lankan priest and scholar. At Issue -- Religious relativism, the view that no faith has a u... |
1665193_1 | Oh, Those Dancing Birds And Long-Tongued Moths! | long, delicate tongue for a nectar snack. ''New Frontiers'' is the first episode in ''Deep Jungle,'' a great-looking three-part ''Nature'' series that begins tomorrow night on many PBS stations. The hour ought to be boring, since its subject is the high-tech tools of science: laser measuring sticks, three-dimensional f... |
1665261_5 | China's Problem With 'Anti-Pest' Rice | efforts in other parts of the world after unapproved varieties of corn, for example, leached into the food supply and black market biotech seeds were smuggled across borders. In the United States, genetically modified corn is a growing portion of the market, and modified soybeans are widely sold and well accepted. But ... |
1665250_0 | Prison Marriage Classes Instill Stability | Marriage anxiety has gripped much of the heartland, and in Oklahoma it has reached into the cellblock in perhaps the most unexpected permutation of the state's six-year effort to bolster wedded bliss. In the Joseph Harp Correctional Center, sprawling across the tawny plains 40 miles south of Oklahoma City, officials ar... |
1665316_5 | Security vs. Rebuilding: Kurdish Town Loses Out | government entity called the Projects and Contracting Office, which is overseen by another office in the United States Embassy in Baghdad called the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, directed by Bill Taylor. Mr. Taylor said in an interview that the investment in training Iraqi security forces had already started t... |
1659418_0 | Holding a Paper Ticket, Bracing for the Irritation | OF all the indignities Laurie Chamberlain thought she might suffer while traveling -- brusque gate agents, security pat-downs, hours spent waiting out a snowstorm -- the last thing she expected was to be nearly undone by her plane ticket. After booking a business flight to Miami, Ms. Chamberlain, who works at a nonprof... |
1659402_2 | Turning Trash Into Gold: A New Urban Alchemy | ''You have to think differently when you use old materials,'' Ms. Flaherty, 30, said. Dressed in blue coveralls, she sat on a footlocker-size ''window seat,'' which she constructed from a found wood-frame window with a cracked pane, plywood planks and a couple of old industrial door hinges. She held up a length of snag... |
1657440_0 | U.S. Lists Possible Terror Attacks and Likely Toll | The Department of Homeland Security, trying to focus antiterrorism spending better nationwide, has identified a dozen possible strikes it views as most plausible or devastating, including detonation of a nuclear device in a major city, release of sarin nerve agent in office buildings and a truck bombing of a sports are... |
1654552_2 | 40 Years Of Character | things, it was the ethos of the school that was crucial: Are expectations high? Is there a nurturing -- and disciplined -- culture? It occurred to several of the editors that they had accepted a simplistic view of human nature. They had thought of humans as economically motivated rational actors, who would respond in r... |
1653882_0 | Sister Dorothy's Killers | Last month, in the Amazon state of Pará in Brazil, gunmen stopped an American nun on the road and killed her. According to her traveling companions, the nun, Dorothy Stang, read to her killers from her Bible before she was shot. Sister Dorothy, born in Ohio but a naturalized Brazilian, had been an advocate for the rura... |
1653960_2 | Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins And E-Mail Me in the Morning | officials and industry leaders say is needed to reduce medical errors and promote better care. Doctors at the clinics of the University of California, Davis, grew accustomed to using e-mail for clinical purposes before the clinics introduced electronic medical records, said Dr. Eric Liederman, medical director of clini... |
1656018_5 | Chasing the Jewels of the Sea | of a deckhand. He and his wife, Cindy Lemas-Gillespie, 42, who is pursuing her own captain's license, bought their own boat five years ago; townsfolk christened the bow with Champagne. The Gillespies' 17-year-old daughter, Nicole, uses a wheelchair, and the Sea Hawk is specially designed for it. Unlike commercial crabb... |
1659326_0 | Port Authority Details Efforts to Save Trade Center Remnants | The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued a legal memorandum yesterday that could help preserve some of the surviving remnants of the World Trade Center at the future site of the transportation hub at ground zero. Preservationists, Sept. 11 survivors and relatives of victims have lobbied energetically to sav... |
1659200_3 | Pakistan Is Booming Since 9/11, at Least for the Well-Off | was smaller in scale and therefore not comparable to the earlier studies. ''The trickle-down effect has not really taken place,'' Mr. Lakhani said. In a working-class enclave pressed against one of Karachi's high-toned neighborhoods, small girls filled up big buckets of water from a neighbor's tap and heaved it home on... |
1660148_2 | What the City Folk Do, And Drama, Too | how to color a leprechaun's pot o' gold were concise, but they seemed almost otherworldly. The voice was coming from four ''audio enhancement'' speakers implanted in the ceiling. Ms. Gelman herself was kneeling by a group of children seated at a table. An iPod-size microphone that dangled around her neck transmitted th... |
1660279_0 | Protecting Aviation | To the Editor: Re ''Security Report on U.S. Aviation Warns of Holes'' (front page, March 14): The government report restated a well-known concern: like many other parts of the national transportation system, general aviation must provide effective security protections. In this regard, it is important to note the work t... |
1660235_2 | The Fax Machine: Technology That Refuses to Die | been seeing an increase in fax sales for the last four or five years,'' said Paul Fountain, marketing product manager at Hewlett-Packard in San Diego. In 1994, Hewlett-Packard left the fax market, believing the predictions of impending obsolescence. But, Mr. Fountain said, ''We came back in 1998 because we realized the... |
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