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1737964_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Colombia: Rebels Kill 7 Coca Eradication Policemen | Marxist guerrillas killed seven policemen providing protection for peasants hired by the government to uproot coca plants manually from Macarena National Park in the south. ''They are heroes of the fatherland,'' President Álvaro Uribe declared. He vowed to continue the manual cull in the park, which has been a haven fo... |
1739567_0 | After Hysterectomy, Estrogen May Help Heart | A new report suggests that for women who have had hysterectomies, taking estrogen does not increase the risk of heart disease and may even protect the heart in those who are younger, from 50 to 59. The findings, being published today in The Archives of Internal Medicine, concern the use of estrogen alone and differ fro... |
1739663_0 | Biotech's Sparse Harvest; A Gap Between the Lab And the Dining Table | At the dawn of the era of genetically engineered crops, scientists were envisioning all sorts of healthier and tastier foods, including cancer-fighting tomatoes, rot-resistant fruits, potatoes that would produce healthier French fries and even beans that would not cause flatulence. But so far, most of the genetically m... |
1742475_0 | Guilin | WHY GO NOW -- The name Guilin may not have a familiar ring to many Westerners, but among Chinese this city in the southern China province of Guangxi is legendary for its beauty. The limestone cliffs that surround the city and line the Li River have provided backdrops for countless Chinese paintings. Long a favorite des... |
1742824_0 | Women's Health: State of Confusion | To the Editor: Re ''Health Puzzle Faces Women'' (news analysis, front page, Feb. 19): What do women do now? They can insist that the National Institutes of Health undertake an impartial outside review of the $400 million Women's Health Initiative that has produced report after counterintuitive report with conclusions t... |
1742603_3 | The Greening of the Gold Coast | Paul Fireman. Adjacent to the golf course, the project will also include the Residences at Liberty National: three condominium towers of 33, 45 and 50 stories set to open in late 2008, billed on Applied's Web site as a ''super premium luxury condominium community.'' But while it makes sense to view development of the t... |
1742553_0 | What's So Hot About 50? | Daphne Merkin's musings (Feb. 12) about the sexuality of post-menopausal women not only deftlydeflate the received wisdom that is being (profitably) proffered, they're also refreshing, brilliantlyarticulated and funny. Bill and Ziva Naumann Los Angeles |
1742430_3 | Great Minds Don't Think Alike | chains and whipped with a rod'' and the Jewish community of Amsterdam, which excommunicated him. The mystery that grips Stewart is whether Leibniz himself believed in Spinoza's God, cribbed his teachings (while pretending unfamiliarity with them) and cynically invented his own philosophy in reaction to Spinoza's, to ma... |
1742471_4 | Mystery at Sea: Who Polices the Ships? | said Paul S. Edelman, a maritime law expert with the New York firm Kreindler & Kreindler. ''I wouldn't think that the chances of something happening to you on a ship are greater than if you were just staying at a hotel.'' The crimes can be different, though. Altercations between guests or between guests and staff membe... |
1742599_0 | Making Public Colleges Affordable | AS any college student or parent can tell you, the cost of public higher education in New Jersey has skyrocketed. Over the last 15 years, average tuition increased 181.6 percent at state colleges, or about 7.1 percent a year. The average tuition at community colleges rose 98.9 percent, or 5 percent a year. These number... |
1741358_5 | To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me | for me an indication of a blind spot, that the student didn't get it,'' said Austin D. Sarat, a professor of political science at Amherst College. College students say that e-mail makes it easier to ask questions and helps them to learn. ''If the only way I could communicate with my professors was by going to their off... |
1741290_2 | Stem Cells May Be Key To Cancer | not yet sure how cancer stem cells are generated. It may be that the stem cells themselves suffer a mutation, or a change in their DNA instructions, that deranges the strict controls on their self-renewal. Or possibly their immediate progeny, known as progenitor cells, suffer some genetic damage after which, instead of... |
1741334_0 | MEMO PAD | WARNING ON AIRLINE CAPACITY -- The world airline industry has lost $42 billion since 2001 and continues to lose money, even as passenger traffic and cargo is expected to grow in Asia, Giovanni Bisignani, the director of the International Air Transport Association, said at a news conference at an aviation industry meeti... |
1741345_0 | An Age-Old Salt Lake May Yield a Washday Miracle | In generations past, the people who lived around this most unusual of lakes attributed mystical powers to its water. Chilly in some points and scalding in others, Lake Bogoria could supposedly wash away an array of maladies from skin ailments to stress. Goats were, and sometimes still are, slaughtered at the edge of th... |
1741345_1 | An Age-Old Salt Lake May Yield a Washday Miracle | uses for the microbes trumpets as innovative science, Kenyan authorities are decrying as ''bio-piracy.'' Developing countries seek to share in the profits made from their biological riches, whether from a fungus found in giraffe dung, an antibiotic discovered in a termite mound or an appetite suppressant derived from a... |
1741279_3 | When One or Two Companies Are Not Enough | ''a natural skill shared by all humans,'' he said. ''People can adapt to anything.'' If more people knew how adaptable they are, he added, ''they might drive themselves to achieve more.'' Eleven years ago, Sunil Paul, 41, was an engineer working for America Online in Vienna, Va. His unvested stock options were worth a ... |
1741343_3 | Danger of Philippine Landslides Often Ignored, Critics Say | But the government declined to act, said Crispin Beltran, a member of Congress. ''Why was there a severe lack of massive reforestation program and disaster response system?'' he asked. ''Why was it that only a measly 0.1 percent of the national budget was allotted to calamity funds despite all the signs of impending tr... |
1741278_3 | Rewarding Recyclers, and Finding Gold in the Garbage | goods generated by a household and credit that amount to participants. Through Web searches and phone calls, the men identified Cascade Engineering in Grand Rapids, Mich., which provided free several thousand 35- and 64-gallon bins embedded with RFID (radio frequency identification) technology as part of its research a... |
1740982_0 | Health Puzzle Faces Women | So what do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast and colon cancer. Should women abandon hope, since it looks as if no... |
1737022_2 | Oilmen Meet With Cubans in Mexico, but U.S. Intervenes | and Mexico's stock exchange. The oil-importing Port of Corpus Christi and American shipping and oil field equipment companies also sent representatives. ''They're sensing a lost opportunity in their own backyard, less than 100 miles from the Florida coast,'' said Mr. Jones. Although Cuba has suffered from energy shorta... |
1737049_2 | Online Trail Can Lead To Court | -- and, if a court issues a search warrant, what they are writing and reading in their e-mail. (Not surprisingly, the interpretation of voluminous computer records can be error-prone, and instances of mistaken identity have also come to light.) AOL, for example, has more than a dozen people, including several former pr... |
1736957_3 | Russia Inc. | In some OPEC countries it has survived for a third of a century; in Venezuela, for half a century. It can survive even without high prices for energy. Cuba and North Korea have even more impressive models, and they don't even have oil. And then, of course, there was the Soviet version of this model. So from a historica... |
1740410_2 | Welfare Agencies Seek Foster Children's Assets | fully identified, it was clear as he visited the house recently that it represented not just money but also a precious link to his troubled past and an unknown future. ''This is my childhood,'' John, now 15, said as he climbed through a broken window to explore the boarded-up structure for the first time since he fled ... |
1743184_2 | Ending Tariffs Is Only the Start; In Poorest Lands Like Laos, Limited Markets, Skilled Labor and Banks | why?'' he asked. ''That is what they are paying in China.'' At the same time, the W.T.O. agreement to dismantle trade barriers is drawing criticism, particularly from groups in the United States fearing low-wage competition. American textile companies and farmers of long-protected crops like tobacco and sugar, which ar... |
1743120_1 | Itineraries; MEMO PAD | Coast, which he described as a ''low-density, high-service-level product that we find people are very willing to pay for.'' MORE SEATS, ESPECIALLY OVERSEAS -- At the same J. P. Morgan conference last week, Continental Airlines said it was adding seating capacity this year, both domestically and internationally. Most ot... |
1743230_0 | OBSERVATORY | Better End of Life for Polystyrene From an environmental standpoint, polystyrene is far from a dream product. Close to 80 percent of the three million tons of the petrochemical plastic in the United States each year (much of it as foam coffee cups and takeout food containers) ends up in landfills, where it doesn't brea... |
1743136_0 | Plan for Fees on Some E-Mail Spurs Protest | A group of nonprofit and public interest groups is beginning a campaign today to protest plans by America Online and Yahoo, which each offer e-mail services, to charge high-volume senders of e-mail fees to guarantee preferred delivery of their messages. AOL and Yahoo are working with Goodmail, a Silicon Valley company,... |
1743086_4 | Beyond Rivalry, a Hidden World of Sibling Violence | womb. Piglets are born with a special set of temporary ''needle teeth'' to attack their littermates in the struggle for the mother's prodigal frontal teats; the runts kicked back to the hind teat sometimes starve on its thin milk. On the Serengeti Plain of Tanzania, spotted hyena pups, who are usually born in pairs, bi... |
1738545_0 | Debate on Abortion Pill in Australia Becomes Personal | The continuing debate here over the so-called abortion pill RU-486 -- the Senate voted Thursday to make it more easily available -- has revealed many of the same fierce emotions as abortion debates do in the United States. But it has also produced some moments unfathomable in the United States. ''I bring to this debate... |
1738640_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Support For Plan To Ordain Women As Bishops | The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, secured strong support within the fractious Church of England for a plan that could lead to the ordination of women as bishops. The plan, which could take several years to put into effect, was backed by the General Synod, the Church of England's governing body... |
1738335_1 | A Plug for the Unplugged $100 Laptop Computer for Developing Nations | because the demand for wireless communications services is strong and growing. As he suggested, there are proven uses for cellphones in developing countries: migrant workers use them to call relatives back home and farmers use them to check crop prices. There are also successful business models like the one pioneered b... |
1736269_1 | Loan for Foreign Mining in Ghana Approved | three-quarters built, will create 620 permanent jobs, I.F.C. officials said, and, depending on the price of gold, generate $300 million to $700 million for Ghana over the next 20 years. Newmont could have finished the project without the loan, Mr. Kaldany said, but wanted the agency's stamp of approval for meeting soci... |
1741126_3 | U.S.-German Flare-Up Over Vast Nazi Camp Archives | restored German sovereignty. That treaty says the facility must ''take all reasonable steps to avoid divulging information about a person or persons which might prejudice the interests of the person or persons concerned or of their relatives.'' In essence, it confines access to information to the persecuted themselves,... |
1739102_3 | A Hobby That Yields A Harvest | the reimbursement is tax-free if the course is job-related, improving your skills, but not if it prepares you for a new career. People who pay for job-related courses but are not reimbursed can include the costs as employee business expenses in miscellaneous itemized deductions -- again, provided that the education doe... |
1739255_0 | Sending E-Mail? Pay the Toll | To the Editor: As the director of a nonprofit built on the power of the Internet and free e-mailing, I am outraged by the idea of a fee for sending e-mail. This contradicts the premise of the Internet and will not only hamper communications, but also give preferential treatment to those who can afford such fees, notabl... |
1739168_0 | The Allure of Law School | To the Editor: Why are law school applications declining (news article, Feb. 9)? The answer is very simple. Thousands of college graduates from several years ago could not find decent jobs coming out of school. Law school was a highly desirable alternative to underemployment. Matthew Keay San Francisco, Feb. 9, 2006 |
1739370_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... |
1739254_0 | Sending E-Mail? Pay the Toll | To the Editor: Re ''Postage Due, With Special Delivery, for Companies Sending E-Mail to AOL and Yahoo'' (news article, Feb. 5): I believe that many more like me would be more than happy to pay a few cents more per day for a service that verifies the identity of an e-mail sender, and reduces the spam coming into my mail... |
1739256_0 | Sending E-Mail? Pay the Toll | To the Editor: You report that AOL and Yahoo are planning to issue the equivalent of electronic stamps so that corporations and institutions may create priority e-mail that is differentiated from spam. It is an excellent idea. But the rest of us who are inundated with electronic trash can use the same protection. I pro... |
1738889_1 | Oh, Joy | one that takes us on a leisurely Great Books-style tour of Western thought, ranging from Herodotus and Aristotle through Locke and Rousseau down to Darwin, Marx and Freud. The musings on happiness of these and dozens of lesser thinkers are lucidly presented in fine, sturdy prose that is, on the whole, a delight to read... |
1738933_3 | The Way We Live Now: Idea Lab; What Carried the Girls Away | number-crunching can significantly challenge cultural myths. Yet others fear that such findings are based on flimsy data and could help governments turn a blind eye to gender discrimination. Amartya Sen argues that when it comes to hepatitis B and the gender gap, Oster is ''saying that a connection exists, rather than ... |
1738913_3 | Barefoot in the Caribbean? Not on These Hikes | and steamy hot springs, the preserve offers countless routes, ranging from a short gentle walk to the Emerald Pool for a cooling dip, to challenging day hikes on well-marked rocky trails. Hiring a guide is recommended for more arduous excursions like the six-to-eight-hour (round-trip) trek to Boiling Lake. The 200-foot... |
1739849_2 | China Says Web Controls Follow the West's Lead | the Chinese police have arrested or prosecuted people for using the Web to circulate views. Rights groups maintain -- and court documents show, however -- that legal authorities have cited e-mail messages and postings on domestic and foreign Web sites as evidence against Chinese dissidents accused of ''incitement to ov... |
1742955_0 | Graduates Versus Oligarchs | Ben Bernanke's maiden Congressional testimony as chairman of the Federal Reserve was, everyone agrees, superb. He didn't put a foot wrong on monetary or fiscal policy. But Mr. Bernanke did stumble at one point. Responding to a question from Representative Barney Frank about income inequality, he declared that ''the mos... |
1742918_6 | Another White House Briefing, Another Day of Mutual Mistrust | a New York Post headline proclaimed that ''Bush Knew'' in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks. ''That was a vicious explosion that lasted a week,'' he said. ''But thepresident calculated the press would go too far, and they went so far in their accusations that the country was far more inclined to believe the president ... |
1737630_0 | Trade Ruling Is Expected To Favor Biotech Food | The battle over agricultural biotechnology could reach a tipping point this week, when the World Trade Organization is expected to render its verdict on charges by the United States that Europe is illegally restricting imports of genetically modified crops. Even if the United States wins -- that is the prevailing rumor... |
1737695_2 | In Indicting Boat's Captain, U.S. Tries to Send a Message | a skipper's responsibility at sea was used prominently after a Staten Island ferry, the Andrew J. Barberi, slammed into a concrete maintenance pier in 2003, killing 11 people and injuring dozens of others. The ferry pilot, Richard J. Smith, passed out at the helm, officials said. He pleaded guilty and was given an 18-m... |
1736506_3 | When No. 1 Has a Hard Time Hiring a No. 2 | Some owners of small businesses have gone to creative lengths to find new talent. For instance, Mark Henson, whose unusual title is chief imagination officer of sparkspace, a company in Columbus, Ohio, that rents rooms for corporate meetings and conferences, wooed interns and recent college graduates by promising to in... |
1736551_1 | Budget Measure Increases College Loans and Rates | rise to 6.8 percent from 5.3 percent. ''With this bill we were able to reduce spending through changes in the way lenders operate, but at the same time we shielded the direct impact to students and actually increased student opportunities,'' Senator Michael B. Enzi, a Wyoming Republican who is chairman of the Committee... |
1736452_1 | Who Is the Modern Man? What Will He Wear? | the rock music world. Certainly formality is the news of the Paris men's season, with a strong debut from Lanvin and its creative director, Alber Elbaz, who showed a delicate silhouette of grape velvet blazers, floppy ties, a long black dressing gown and tuxedos. ''I think people want something that looks like you had ... |
1736504_1 | I.R.A. Still Involved in Crime, Report Says, but Has Halted Terrorism | when it said its members would cease all paramilitary activity and engage in ''purely political and democratic programs through exclusively peaceful means.'' Peter Hain, Britain's secretary of state for Northern Ireland, said the report ''shows that the I.R.A. is moving in the right direction and is closing down -- no ... |
1738087_2 | No More Mr. Tough Guy | recently retired as chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Jan. 3 about his New Year's resolutions: ''Everyone hates taxes, but the government needs to fund its operations, and some taxes can actually do some good in the process. I will tell the American people th... |
1741873_0 | Students E-Mail the Oddest Things | To the Editor: The annoyance of excessive e-mail should be viewed as the birth pangs of a revolution that has the potential to transform how we learn. The existing model of groups of students obtaining knowledge from an expert's words, tailored to a composite of student's interests and abilities, all delivered at the s... |
1741839_2 | Pope Picks 15 Cardinals, One a China Critic | diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the mainland. Raymond Tai, Taiwan's ambassador to the Holy See from 1996 to 2004, said Vatican diplomats would have discussed Bishop Zen's elevation with mainland officials in advance. Born in Shanghai in 1932 and later sent to study in Rome, Bishop Zen returned to mainland China i... |
1741870_0 | Students E-Mail the Oddest Things | To the Editor: My observation, partly supported by the anecdotes in your article, is that students e-mail their female professors more than their male professors, are bolder in their questions (shopping) and requests, and they assume a first-name basis. As a family sociologist, I think that some of the assumptions and ... |
1740097_1 | Big Study Finds No Clear Benefit Of Calcium Pills | health practices with medical outcomes. But such observational studies, statisticians agree, can yield misleading information because a group that happens to follow certain health advice may differ in unknown ways from groups that do not. Those drawbacks are alleviated in a clinical trial, like those of the Women's Hea... |
1740104_1 | Outsourcing Is Climbing Skills Ladder | researchers overseas, though they are a consideration. Tax incentives do not matter much, it said. Instead, the report found that multinational corporations were global shoppers for talent. The companies want to nurture close links with leading universities in emerging markets to work with professors and to hire promis... |
1740028_0 | British Clinic Is Allowed to Deny Medicine | When her local health service refused to treat her breast cancer with the drug Herceptin, 54-year-old Ann Marie Rogers sued. But on Wednesday, a High Court judge ruled against her. In his decision the judge, David Bean, said that although he sympathized with Ms. Rogers's predicament, the health service in Swindon, wher... |
1742074_5 | A Ship Already Sailed; America Ceded Its Seaport Terminals to Foreigners Years Ago | about colonial intrigue titled ''P&O'') to a rising operator from Dubai. One example is the fact that DP World, P&O or their competitors would not actually run or manage the ports in the United States. Instead, that function belongs to port authorities, the municipal-, county- or state-controlled entities that own and ... |
1737490_0 | INSIDE | Companies Sending E-Mail May Soon Pay Some Postage Companies may soon have to buy something like an electronic postage stamp if they want to be certain their e-mail is delivered to customers using AOL and Yahoo accounts. The two companies say the change will reduce spam. PAGE 25 800 From Ferry Still Missing Rescue work... |
1737448_4 | Postage Due, With Special Delivery, for Companies Sending E-Mail to AOL and Yahoo | The New York Times. Paying senders will be assured that their messages will be delivered to AOL users' main in-boxes and marked as ''AOL Certified E-Mail.'' Unpaid messages will be subject to AOL's spam-filtering process, which diverts suspicious messages to a special spam folder. Most of these messages will also not b... |
1737131_4 | Looking for the Lie | exaggeration, denial. Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or baldfaced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway. To develop a theory ... |
1765593_2 | Report Shows 2005 to Be 'Least Bad Year' of AIDS Epidemic | states in India (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu) showed a drop in new infections, joining Thailand's earlier success. In the Caribbean, the world's second-most-affected region behind Africa, new infections have declined in urban areas of Haiti and in the Bahamas. AIDS is the region's leading caus... |
1758845_2 | SERVICES | than cable or fiber- optic networks and are easier to deploy. According to one study by muniwireless.com, an industry Weblog, more than 120 such networks are up and running around the country, including some that allow public access and others that are exclusively for city services. Nearly 60 other cities and towns hav... |
1758879_2 | Study Finds Few Therapies Work Well on Hot Flashes | and Science University. The report is based on a review of 43 studies of various nonhormonal drugs being used for hot flashes. Most were originally approved for other purposes. The drugs include the antidepressants Paxil (paroxetine), Effexor (venlafaxine), Prozac (fluoxetine) and Celexa (citalopram), the blood pressur... |
1760392_0 | As Cuba Plans Offshore Wells, Some Want U.S. to Follow Suit | In 1977, the United States and Cuba signed a treaty that evenly divided the Florida Straits to preserve each country's economic rights. They included access to vast underwater oil and gas fields on both sides of the line. Now, with energy costs soaring, plans are under way to drill this year -- but all on the Cuban sid... |
1760369_1 | Infants Dying for Lack of Basics, Report Says | Children. While many countries have significantly lowered mortality rates for children younger than 5 in recent decades, the group said, little progress has been made globally in preventing the deaths of newborns and their mothers. But researchers for Save the Children, a nonprofit group that works in more than 40 coun... |
1760483_1 | Compromise Resolves the Fiscal Crisis in Puerto Rico | permanent solution to the island's budget crisis, not a short-term fix, and must choose between solutions already offered by the competing parties. Governor Acevedo-Vilá, a member of the Popular Democratic Party, had been at an impasse with legislators, from the opposition New Progressive Party, over what needed to be ... |
1760332_0 | Sorting Out Pills to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk | If someone invented a pill that could prevent breast cancer, women would line up to take it. Researchers thought they had the next best thing in 1998 when a study found that the drug tamoxifen, already used to treat breast cancer, could also lower the odds of getting it by 50 percent in high-risk women. But the lines n... |
1760325_2 | Shivering and Unsung, Scientists Monitor the Arctic Year After Year After Year | so far have been reflected in readings of sea ice thickness and the area it covers, taken by satellites and nuclear submarines. While satellites have helped track increasing summer retreats of the ice over three decades, they cannot reveal the temperature, salinity and currents of the layered ocean below. Declassified ... |
1760485_3 | OBSERVATORY | or through computer simulations. But sometimes there's no substitute for the real thing. That's why a three-bedroom, 1,800-square-foot wooden town house is being built on two large ''shake tables'' in a seismic laboratory at the University at Buffalo. Between now and November, the town house will be shaken and studied ... |
1765022_1 | Why the Democratic Ethic of the World Wide Web May Be About to End | net neutrality are inspiring growing support from Internet users across the political spectrum who are demanding that Congress preserve the Web in its current form. The Web, which Sir Tim invented as a scientist at CERN, the European nuclear physics institute, is often confused with the Internet. But like e-mail, the W... |
1765001_2 | Dear Graduates: Money Is a Means | find one. (Women's incomes seem to matter less to men, who are much more concerned with a mate's looks.) For those who plan a family, money will largely determine the quality of education that your children receive, because the priciest communities typically have the best public schools. Private schools will require ev... |
1764820_1 | Cruising At a Pace Even Walt Didn't Reach | movies to his credit, and, with the merger, has been designated creative leader of both Pixar and Disney Feature Animation. That Mr. Lasseter has chosen to stake the Pixar winning streak on animated automobiles owes something to a lifelong fascination. ''I've always loved cars, and the idea of cars being alive came up ... |
1760609_0 | U.S. to Auction Frequencies For In-Flight Internet Use | Many fliers look forward to boarding planes so they can get away from their phones and e-mail. That sanctuary will inch one step closer to oblivion today when the Federal Communications Commission begins to auction off frequencies for in-flight Internet service. Nine companies, including Verizon Airfone, which pioneere... |
1760698_0 | Corrections | Two picture captions were reversed in Science Times yesterday with an article about pills that reduce the risk of breast cancer. The pill at the left, labeled ''Lilly 4165,'' was Evista (raloxifene); the pill labeled ''5657'' was Nolvadex (tamoxifen). |
1760590_3 | Romania's Orphans Face Widespread Abuse, Group Says | The country's foster care and adoption programs strain to keep up with the number of children who need their help. As a result, abandoned children with even mild disabilities and some with none at all are being kept in maternity wards or other hospital-associated institutions until they are old enough to be moved to an... |
1762243_2 | Technology's Future: A Look at the Dark Side | bad management and lax regulation to allow new plants to be built. ''The driver of a car has a much bigger impact on safety than whether it's a Volvo or a Yugo,'' said David Lochbaum, director of the nuclear safety project for the Union of Concerned Scientists. But some nuclear critics are reconsidering their positions... |
1762276_3 | Panning E-Waste for Gold | recycled polyethylene. Hewlett-Packard reuses polyethylene (from its inkjet printers and from water and soda bottles) in the carriage covers of some of its Scanjet scanners. One of the most intriguing areas of green design is what some call the hydrocarbon-to-carbohydrate revolution: substituting petroleum-based plasti... |
1764221_0 | Hello, Young Workers: One Way to Reach the Top Is to Start There | IT being graduation time and all, one could almost hear the seeds of an old-style ''eat your vegetables'' commencement address growing out of Hillary Clinton's recent comments to the United States Chamber of Commerce about the need for a better work ethic among the young. She said that ''young people today think work i... |
1764217_4 | A Station With a One-of-a-Kind Campaign: All Snapple, All the Time | that Boston is an important market for Snapple, which already advertises on WFNX. Then, too, a marketer like Snapple with a reputation for cheeky campaigns could hardly resist an offbeat pitch for teas in the city known for the nation's most revolutionary tea party. In fact, one reason the sponsorship is timed for the ... |
1759174_0 | Corrections | An article yesterday about nonhormonal drug treatments for menopausal hot flashes misstated an index of hormone use in the United States. What dropped to 57 million in 2003 from 91 million in 2001 was the number of prescriptions, not the number of users. |
1759074_1 | I Hear Ringing and There's No One There. I Wonder Why. | will fill in the rest,'' said David Laramie, a doctoral student at the Los Angeles campus of the California School of Professional Psychology, who is writing his dissertation about the effect of cellphones on behavior. He plans to send questionnaires this summer to learn when and how often phantom rings happen and who ... |
1763133_0 | Tumble In The Jungle | A quarter of an inch to the left, and my Achilles' tendon would have been severed. But first, how I got to this precarious spot. I had been invited to join an expedition down the remote Lucie River, deep in the South American rain forest. Our team of ornithologists and photographers planned to meet in Suriname and then... |
1763181_0 | Contra-Contraception | Your article quotes ''some commentators'' who say the ''dark side'' of widespread contraceptive use is declining birth rates. In fact, slowing population growth, and even declining populations, are things to be celebrated, not feared. Smaller families, especially in crowded places like Europe and Japan, are a sensible ... |
1763477_2 | A Company Town Contemplates Life Without the Company | was devastating,'' said Melissa McManus, the village's director of community development. A native of Rouses Point, Ms. McManus is fortunate that none of her relatives work for Wyeth, but she feels for her neighbors, her high school classmates and the parents of her children's classmates. ''Nothing has ever caused me t... |
1763500_1 | Hoping to Get on the Fast Track, Students Turn to Career Coaches | find jobs within eight weeks of completing their coaching. Mr. Borden is now an operations assistant at the Spaulding & Slye commercial real estate brokerage firm in Boston. Entry-level job coaching has emerged as an offshoot of traditional career coaching, which is usually reserved for midcareer professionals. In the ... |
1763414_2 | The Fight Against V1@gra (and Other Spam) | douse spam fires from his home office outside Toronto. During a recent meeting at the company's New York office, in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Sergeant and a colleague, Nick Johnson, an antispam developer visiting from MessageLabs' headquarters in Gloucester, England, expressed both amusement and respect over the sheer cre... |
1763459_0 | Agency Plays Down Plan To Speed Airport Security | Allowing frequent fliers to bypass much of the airport security hassle in exchange for giving up some personal information in advance has yet to happen, four years after the idea was first proposed. The concept, first called ''trusted traveler,'' emerged weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and was popular with s... |
1761347_2 | A Bitter Game: Beijing Battles With Vatican | has no formal relations with China, the two sides have had an unspoken agreement in recent years under which Beijing has not objected when prospective bishops quietly sought approval from Rome. Father Heyndrickx said other applications for new bishops were already pending. Yet China could inflame the situation by insta... |
1761725_1 | Russians, Busy Making Shrouds, Are Asked To Make Babies | say: Not quite. There is little doubt that for Russia to be a power through the 21st century its demographic trends must be reversed. There also seems to be no question that Russian mothers, short of feats of fertility unseen in the industrialized world, cannot save Russia alone. ''You have to do this in a variety of w... |
1761473_0 | A Question of Resilience | Bazelon spotlights one of the most abusive research protocols of the last 50 years: the maternal deprivation of infant monkeys. Stephen Suomi and others have spent millions taking these babies away from their mothers. The results, as the article makes clear, are ''fear, panic and aggression.'' How can she cite this res... |
1761684_3 | In a Ghost-Written Résumé, Your Best Incarnation | suggests searching for a company that has a money-back guarantee, instead of an offer to revise the résumé continually. ''I've made plenty of candidates go back and ask for a refund,'' she said. Résumé services abound on Internet job boards. CareerBuilder.com is allied with several companies that advertise on its site,... |
1761482_3 | Literary New York | neither one's a candidate for the next edition of Zagat, but they're not terrible, and God knows they're handy.'' The more adventurous should head to Chinatown for a meal at Oriental Garden (14 Elizabeth Street, 212-619-0085), a noted dim sum place that appears in Pete Hamill's novel ''Forever.'' The main character, a ... |
1764361_0 | BREAKING GROUND | Capella Pedregal WHAT -- Boutique resort with luxury residences. WHERE -- Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. AMENITIES -- Luxury yachts, a full-service spa and a private beach club. PRICES -- From $460,000 for a one-eighth fractional ownership in a three-bedroom unit to $2.9 million for full ownership of a four-bedroom house. STA... |
1759733_37 | Contra-Contraception | of the rest of the world. At least 12 countries have liberalized abortion laws in recent years. Emergency contraception is currently available without a prescription in more than 40 countries. In much of Western Europe, abortion and contraception are available and fully covered by insurance. The dark side of this, acco... |
1760010_1 | Marshmallows and Public Policy | nation's human capital. But when policy makers address these problems, they come up with structural remedies: reduce class sizes, create more charter schools, increase teacher pay, mandate universal day care, try vouchers. The results of these structural reforms are almost always disappointingly modest. And yet policy ... |
1759742_3 | A Star Is Made | are fond of whispering to their children. But these particular clichés just happen to be true. Ericsson's research suggests a third cliché as well: when it comes to choosing a life path, you should do what you love -- because if you don't love it, you are unlikely to work hard enough to get very good. Most people natur... |
1759969_1 | The Gum That Keeps On Giving | Once the sugary base has been manufactured, hints of spice are added to mask any potentially harsh or bitter sensations. The base for spearmint Stride, for example, tastes slightly herbal when left alone; Mr. Keifer and his researchers enhanced the gum's palatability by adding sharper notes of mint, as well as cooling ... |
1759343_2 | Vatican Takes Stern Line Against China for Installing Bishops | its top officials, Ma Yinling, as bishop of Kunming, in the southwest. Then on Wednesday, the association arranged for the consecration of Liu Xinhong as bishop of Wuhu, in Anhui Province. Although it made both appointments over Vatican objections, the association said it intended no slight to Rome and was merely addre... |
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