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1762037_0 | Frankencotton, the Shirt: Coming Soon to a Wardrobe Near You | Genetically modified foods have caused no end of anxiety and distrust. But not genetically modified shirts. Why? Readers may imagine the reason is that there is no such thing as a genetically modified shirt, and they would be half right. The shirt genome has yet to be mapped, and the heritability of sleeve length is no... |
1762066_3 | Delays in an Effort to Avoid Delays | the program to corporate customers. The American Civil Liberties Union opposes Registered Traveler as an unacceptable risk to privacy. The Air Transport Association, a trade group for airlines, has questioned whether the program's benefits will outweigh its cost. The T.S.A. itself slowed the program's momentum when it ... |
1762130_1 | From Russia, With Dread | open to renegotiation. It provides a view of the wobbly understanding of ownership that still prevails. In Russia's early transition days, amid the collapse of authority and resulting lawlessness, organized crime groups wielded great influence. Teams of armed thugs used to carry out takeovers, arriving at a businessman... |
1762057_0 | For Men, Low Estrogen Level Puts Hips in Peril | Older men with low levels of estrogen are at greater risk for hip fractures, a new study reports, and those with low levels of both estrogen and testosterone are at the greatest risk of all. Researchers at Boston University and the Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston examined 793 men with an average age of 71 at the beginning ... |
1762047_0 | A Core of Despair, a Shadow of Nemesis | I don't think I will ever eat Greek pastry again without thinking of Mr. Z., or of his wife's expression as the nurse and I left Mr. Z.'s house for the last time. He was not a complainer, and even during his final days, Mr. Z. seemed grateful to the nurse and to me, his psychiatrist. Plainly, he was astonished that we ... |
1763970_2 | With Costly Fuel, Boaters Are Cutting Back on Plans | boating.'' Most pleasure boats are smaller than the behemoths at high-end marinas; 95 percent are shorter than 26 feet. But the trend has in recent years been toward bigger and bigger boats, and, so far, higher fuel prices have not dented that trend. The sales of individual boats have held steady in recent years, about... |
1763765_0 | Exploring Women's Health and Double Duty | For women, combining work and family may be a healthier choice than staying home, recent research in Britain suggests. The researchers studied 1,171 women born in 1946, interviewing them in each decade from their 20's on to collect information about their health, work, marriage and children. They then had the women rep... |
1763874_2 | OBSERVATORY | and Technology, Jochen Heidler, Amir Sapkota and Rolf U. Halden analyzed effluent and sludge from a large treatment plant that serves 1.3 million people. A special chromatography technique, developed by the researchers and used by Dr. Halden in the earlier stream study, was used to detect triclocarban. The researchers ... |
1763772_3 | Home on the Range: A Corridor for Wildlife | fencing will be added. The effort is motivated not so much by concern for animals, the researchers note, but to avoid injury to the drivers of cars and trucks that would otherwise hit them. In fenced areas, hardly any animals die on the road, but they are trapped on one side or the other. A project a few miles south of... |
1763796_0 | Clergy Group Aims to Block Gay Marriage Amendment | An interfaith coalition of clergy members and lay leaders announced a petition drive on Monday aimed at blocking a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill on a vote along party lines last week, and the full Senate is expected to vote on it the week of J... |
1765287_5 | Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip For Sub Missiles | and less well-protected targets over a broader area. As currently configured, the weapon would not have the capability to destroy facilities that are buried deeply underground. The system would use satellite tracking to improve its accuracy. General Cartwright asserted that a test demonstrated that a nonnuclear version... |
1765300_1 | Unto the City The Wildlife Did Journey | their days pursuing four-legged fugitives. The pit bulls and tomcats in the city pound in East Harlem have been forced to make room for white-tailed deer. This spring, the New York metropolitan area depicted on the evening news has come to resemble an episode of ''Animal Precinct'' filmed at a big-game preserve. What i... |
1765286_2 | Somalis Brave a Sea of Perils For $50-a-Month Jobs Abroad | trying to make the trek from Somalia's northern coast across the sea to Yemen. And that is just an estimate, since nobody really knows how many boats, all of them grossly overloaded, attempt the trek from the shores of the remote Puntland region in northeastern Somalia. The only way to gauge the horrors is to count the... |
1760805_0 | Police Kill Bear Cornered At Urban New Jersey Home | To Alexis Simms, a custodian at Augusta Elementary School, it was ''just a cub, the cutest thing you had ever seen.'' But to animal control officers and the local police who had tracked it for more than an hour through the closely packed backyards of this Essex County town, it was an addled and frightened black bear th... |
1760877_0 | Ground Zero Staircase Is Put on List of Most Endangered Sites | The last piece of the World Trade Center still standing aboveground -- a battered but recognizable staircase used by hundreds to flee the inferno of 9/11 -- is one of the most endangered historical places in America, the National Trust for Historic Preservation said yesterday. That is because it stands in the way of an... |
1760847_0 | PUTIN URGES PLAN TO REVERSE SLIDE IN THE BIRTHRATE | President Vladimir V. Putin directed Parliament on Wednesday to adopt a 10-year program to stop the sharp decline in Russia's population, principally by offering financial incentives and subsidies to encourage women to have children. Mr. Putin's instructions, issued to a compliant Parliament that follows his orders alm... |
1765408_3 | Take This Internship and Shove It | we can do a quick-and-dirty calculation: according to Princeton Review's ''Internship Bible,'' there were 100,000 internship positions in 2005. Let's assume that out of those, 50,000 unpaid interns are employed full time for 12 weeks each summer at an average minimum wage of $5.15 an hour. That's a nearly $124 million ... |
1765379_4 | Police Are Criticized in Wave of Gang Violence in Brazil | corruption and incompetence. The recording that Mr. Camacho obtained held the testimony of two senior police officials summoned to a congressional inquiry in Brasília, the capital, into organized crime activities. The session was held behind closed doors so that the information would not leak to the gangs. But a sound ... |
1765353_1 | Intelligent Beings in Space! | for themselves. ''These technologies are already in operation on specific missions,'' said Steve Chien, a computer scientist who heads the artificial intelligence group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Scientists discussed some of the recent progress last week at a meeting of the American Geophys... |
1765405_1 | Poisonous Tree Frog Could Bring Wealth to Tribe in Brazilian Amazon | knowledge of indigenous people. ''Traditional knowledge can help modern medicine and generate significant economic benefits, too,'' said Bruno Filizola, technical coordinator of the project and a biologist at the environment ministry in Brasília, Brazil's capital. The indigenous dimension is also crucial because Brazil... |
1758656_3 | 19 Months More in Prison For Professor in Terror Case | underscored the complexities of obtaining convictions under the USA Patriot Act and other recent laws that criminalized aiding organizations that the United States has deemed to be based on terror. For example, in the 30 previous efforts to convict a defendant of conspiring to contribute money to a terrorist organizati... |
1759498_0 | Financial Plan: Don't Graduate Without One | THE college commencement season is upon us, raising an always tricky question: What's the best gift for a new graduate? A trip abroad, a new car, the basement studio you'd been hoping to rent out to a paying tenant? Parents who understand the financial hurdles their young adult is about to encounter might be tempted to... |
1764619_3 | It's Not Easy Being Organic | tons. Yet such ''Frankenfood'' is anathema to the very people who are the strongest proponents of organic food. Oddly enough, Monsanto achieved this apparent miracle by taking a page out of the organic playbook. For years, organic farmers have been using sprays containing Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, a naturally occu... |
1764677_4 | Debate on Global Warming Has Polar Bear Hunting in Its Sights | Bay, between Canada and Greenland. ''In other areas, polar bears appear to be overabundant,'' he added. ''People have to quit thinking of polar bears as one big continuous mass of animals that are all doing the same thing.'' In Canada, a committee of scientists recommended in 2003 that the government list the polar bea... |
1762927_0 | Panel Reverses Bush Cuts in Family Planning Aid | A House appropriations subcommittee yesterday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that would reverse the deep cuts President Bush proposed for international family planning programs he himself once described as among the best ways to prevent abortion. The Republican chairman of the subcommittee, Jim Kolbe, of A... |
1762955_1 | Putin's Baby Love | resolve the love question capitalistically; to use financial incentives to raise the birthrate. Thus a woman who decides to have a second child will get about $10,000. And the president underpinned his concern for motherhood with a military concept, arguing that a dwindling population would leave the country unprotecte... |
1762491_2 | One Man's Musical Tastes As Fodder for a Flame War | attacks on Mr. Merritt were based on ''the dangerous and stupid notion that one's taste in music can be interrogated for signs of racist intent the same way a university's admissions process can: If the number of black artists in your iPod falls too far below 12.5 percent of the total, then you are violating someone's ... |
1762504_0 | Where AIDS Galloped, Lessons in Applying the Reins | Kenya is a rarity in Africa, a nation where experts say the AIDS epidemic shows signs of easing. So this land of safaris has become a hunting ground of a different sort, attracting policy makers and researchers looking for keys to slowing the relentless spread of AIDS elsewhere on the continent. The trends are hearteni... |
1762570_0 | Huge Chinese Dam Nearly Finished | |
1760990_0 | BREAKING GROUND | Le Paradis WHAT -- Oceanfront resort and residential development. WHERE -- St. Lucia. AMENITIES -- Golf course, spa, tennis club and marina. PRICES -- $835,000 to more than $1.3 million for two- to three-bedroom hotel condominiums; three- and four-bedroom villas, about $1.9 million to $2.8 million, will be added. STATU... |
1760994_6 | HAVENS | White Salmon, Wash.; The Windsurf's Up On the Columbia River | eviction notices to make room for White Salmon's first cottage-style development, which is scheduled to break ground in 2007. Mr. Florek, who said he stays in White Salmon almost every weekend, used to postpone a trip there until he and his wife had time off together. ''Now I'm so addicted, I even go alone,'' he said. ... |
1761131_4 | Shift in Treating Breast Cancer Is Under Debate | of medicine we're practicing in is kind of a high wire act,'' said Dr. Michael Lee, an oncologist in private practice in Norfolk, Va. ''It is more comfortable to adopt things that are aggressive.'' But most of those studies were done at a time when doctors did not distinguish between the 70 percent of women with breast... |
1761171_0 | El Al Asks U.S. to Let It Do Extra Screening at Newark | Federal airline officials are considering a request by the Israeli national airline, El Al, to screen its own baggage at Newark Liberty International Airport, as it does at four other major American airports, a government spokeswoman said on Thursday. Since February 2002, when the newly created Transportation Security ... |
1761076_0 | Mr. Putin's State of the Union | The art of the state of the union address is to rouse the faithful, deflect critics and identify a problem for which your administration is not to blame, but which you will selflessly combat. President Vladimir Putin's contribution to the genre on Wednesday was a fine example. He regaled his rubber-stamp lawmakers with... |
1761066_1 | Higher Learning In France Clings To Its Old Ways | the private sector. If we don't reverse this trend, we will kill the new generation.'' It was student discontent on campuses across France that fired up the recent protests against a law that would have made it easier for employers to dismiss young workers. College students were driven by fear that their education was ... |
1758483_0 | Dimitri Hadzi, 85, Sculptor Who Modernized the Mythic | Dimitri Hadzi, an internationally known sculptor whose most famous work is at once mythic and modernist, died on April 16 in Boston. He was 85 and lived in Cambridge, Mass. The cause was kidney failure, his wife, Cynthia, said. At his death, Mr. Hadzi was emeritus professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvar... |
1758527_1 | Arts, Briefly | statement made public by Olivier Le Ray, the French translator of her works, Ms. Jelinek said she was ''horrified'' that the Comédie-Française had acted like a ''censor.'' ''By not putting on this play,'' she said, ''the Comédie-Française, with its rich past, is following in the worst tradition of cultural institutions... |
1794308_2 | Weighing Early Admission's Merits | students with fewer resources are generally less informed about early-decision programs results in a de facto advantage for the advantaged. Gerald Feigin Croton on Hudson, N.Y. Sept. 28, 2006 To the Editor: Filing for income tax refunds in January is not ''an analogous situation'' to applying to early admission program... |
1794289_1 | U.S. to Cut Guatemala's Debt for Not Cutting Trees | these countries alternatives.'' In the latest deal, the United States government contributed about $15 million toward the cancellation of Guatemala's debt, said Clay Lowery, assistant secretary of the Treasury for international affairs. The groups Conservation International and the Nature Conservancy each contributed a... |
1795586_0 | What's in a Name? Plenty | Names do more than convey information. They can also be fraught with meaning. That is why the State Department of Mental Retardation is tiptoeing through an emotional minefield in discussing a possible name change. There has already been heated debate for months, and the agency will have to report to the legislature on... |
1795789_0 | Speedy Lines for Trusted Fliers | Programs that offer faster airport security check-ins to travelers who pay an annual fee and pass a background check seem poised to expand after a trial run in Orlando, Fla. Advance applications are now being taken for Registered Traveler programs at four additional airports, including Kennedy Airport in New York. As m... |
1795481_9 | An Elephant Crackup? | herds in places like Amboseli National Park in Kenya, as control groups, Bradshaw and her colleagues analyzed the far more fractious populations found in places like Pilanesberg in South Africa and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. What emerged was a portrait of pervasive pachyderm dysfunction. Elephants, when l... |
1795771_1 | A Bet on Ethanol, With a Convert at the Helm | produce corn. Ethanol has been a boon to A.D.M.'s fortunes, helping it to achieve record earnings last year of $1.3 billion on sales of $36.6 billion. While the company does not break down the sources of its profit, analysts say ethanol could make up 40 percent of A.D.M.'s net income in fiscal 2007, about double what i... |
1800914_1 | Translating Virgil's Epic Poem Of Empire | at his home near Princeton University, from which he recently retired, after teaching comparative literature for more than 40 years. ''My feeling is that if something is timeless, then it will also be timely.'' But he went on to say that ''The Aeneid'' did speak to the contemporary situation. It's a poem about empire, ... |
1800905_1 | When Outside the Loop, A Quicker Way to Get In | breakthrough service,'' said Chuck Richard, an analyst with Outsell Inc., an information industry consultancy in Burlingame, Calif. The service, which is being previewed starting today on Hoovers.com, requires little effort, but it does take a little trust. Users who visit Hoovers.com are shown the site's typical colle... |
1796442_1 | Philanthropy From the Heart Of America | town's history and sells it at school reunions -- so they will not grow up to think the only job opportunities are at big companies in Omaha or St. Louis. Graduates of Ord High School who have moved elsewhere receive mailings telling them about job opportunities back in town. None of this happens naturally in a free-ma... |
1796396_4 | Religion-Based Tax Breaks: Housing to Paychecks to Books | housing allowance, whether they spent it on renting an apartment or buying their own home. But the rules the I.R.S. adopted in 1971 limited the deduction to the smallest of three amounts: the ''fair market rental value'' of the home, the housing allowance paid to the minister or the minister's actual housing expenses. ... |
1796389_0 | RICE ASSERTS U.S. PLANS NO ATTACK ON NORTH KOREA | Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the United States did not intend to invade or attack North Korea, but she warned the North's leaders that they now risked sanctions ''unlike anything that they have faced before.'' Even China, North Korea's most important ally, said Tuesday that tough measures were ... |
1796464_0 | National Briefing | Science And Health: Dust Linked To Storm Frequency | Scientists studying 25 years of satellite images have found that the frequency of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean was substantially reduced in years when sandstorms and trade winds combined to send millions of tons of dust streaming west over the sea from the Sahara Desert. The correlation, measured by a team of scien... |
1796395_0 | No Undergrad Left Behind | LIKE it or not, the No Child Left Behind Act passed under President Bush has transformed the conversation about American public education. The law has its flaws, but the nation has benefited from its focus on results and its willingness to confront gaps in educational achievement. Now the administration has extended th... |
1800655_0 | Florence Kane, Michael Mraz | Florence Leigh Kane and Michael John Mraz were married yesterday in San Diego. The Rev. Sam L. Greening Jr. performed the ceremony at the Congregational Church of La Jolla. The bride and bridegroom met at New York University, from which they graduated, she cum laude and he magna cum laude. The bride, 27, is keeping her... |
1799274_1 | Connecticut Episcopal Bishop Will Bless Gay Unions | have enacted policies allowing the blessing of same-sex couples, according to Integrity, a national Episcopal gay organization based in Rochester. Kansas used to have the same policy, but it was rescinded there in 2003, when the diocese ordained a new bishop, Dean E. Wolfe. ''What happened in Connecticut is great news ... |
1799499_1 | Offering Perks, Lenders Court Colleges' Favor | the dean of admissions and financial aid at the University of Southern California, which she said had no financial ties to lenders. ''I'm not in the business of generating outside-fee revenue'' for the university, Ms. Harrington said. ''Nor am I in the business of recommending a particular lender because of what they d... |
1799491_3 | OBSERVATORY | the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, affiliated with the College of William and Mary. Well-known dead zones include those in the Gulf of Mexico, the Baltic Sea and the Chesapeake Bay. But the researchers say they found new ones in the Mersey estuary in Britain, the Archipelago Sea in Finland and the Pearl River es... |
1797594_2 | One of Florence's Renaissance Prizes to Go on U.S. Tour | a corrosive action that Mr. Radke described as an ''electric charge'' between the gold and the bronze underneath. A result was bad blistering, which also put holes and bubbles on the surface. Conservators began with four panels that had fallen off in the 1966 flood, but had then been reattached. ''Initially we cleaned ... |
1794946_0 | U.S. Warns North Koreans About Nuclear-Weapon Test | The Bush administration sent a direct message to North Korea on Wednesday, warning it not to set off a nuclear test, and later declared that the United States was ''not going to live with'' a nuclear-armed North Korea. The later statement came in a speech by Christopher R. Hill, the assistant secretary of state for Eas... |
1794861_1 | Hold the Mojito and Margarita, Nicaragua Has el Macuá | 1990 leveled the country's economy, but exports are now growing faster in Nicaragua than anywhere else in Central America. More and more visitors are arriving to climb the volcanoes and navigate the island-filled lakes. Soon those tourists may be able to sidle up to a bar on a sweltering evening and order a uniquely Ni... |
1794977_0 | Commission Says I.R.A. Has Halted Terror Activity | The Irish Republican Army has all but ceased its terrorist operations and is no longer sponsoring criminal enterprises, the independent group monitoring the cease-fire in Northern Ireland said in a report on Wednesday. The report by the group, the Independent Monitoring Commission, potentially removes an obstacle to th... |
1794156_2 | Think a Boat Is Safe From Spying? Think Again, Experts Say. | could be the guy out there bobbing around fishing.'' Mr. McKeever noted that watercraft are often used for ''other than the intended family purpose,'' though he made clear that under the law, pictures can be taken only of those who cavort in plain sight. ''Having a boat is like having a secret apartment,'' he said. ''Y... |
1793832_0 | COMINGS & GOINGS | The Transportation Security Administration announced last week that liquids and gels purchased in secure areas of airports -- that is, items purchased in airport stores beyond security checkpoints -- are now allowed on planes. The agency also said that toiletries like lotion and lip gloss, packed in three-ounce sizes, ... |
1794152_2 | Often Parched, India Struggles to Tap the Monsoon | in India's rapid and unruly development. As water demand has soared, the natural sponges of Indian cities -- lakes, ponds, marshes, mangroves -- have been lost to construction. Only a handful of city and state governments have lately begun to mandate rainwater harvesting to slowly replenish groundwater. Moreover, the c... |
1796559_1 | It's Good Advice, and the Price Is Right | study two of the suggested industries -- oil services and the military -- and eventually, to go after them. Now, according to Mr. Pachl, about 10 percent of the company's $7 million in revenue is from sales to those areas, and he expects that number to rise to 25 percent over the next two years. The experience was such... |
1796681_1 | China Makes a Commitment to Achieving Social Harmony | rates than most developed countries to absorb tens of millions of surplus workers, and even the plans for addressing environmental woes and creating a sounder welfare system assume surging tax revenues to pay for them. ''A harmonious society above all needs development,'' the statement said. But the ''harmonious societ... |
1798085_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Paisley-Adams Meeting Off | A first face-to-face meeting between the Rev. Ian Paisley, the Protestant leader, left, and Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, was called off. The British Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Hain, postponed the meeting at Stormont, the first between the sides since they reached an agreement last week to restore Northern ... |
1798433_3 | CHINA MAY PRESS NORTH KOREANS | nuclear program there, the experts said. China has opposed military action or an embargo to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to its Korean War ally and has subsidized Mr. Kim's its government despite gross human rights violations. But it is also wary that Mr. Kim may set off an arms race in Northeast Asia and prom... |
1798376_1 | South Korea Tells Rice It Won't Abandon Industrial and Tourist Ventures With North | into effect sanctions under a United Nations Security Council resolution as a multinational effort to press North Korea to return to six-party negotiations and end its nuclear program, she said. ''I did not come to South Korea, nor will I go anyplace else, to try and dictate to governments what they ought to do in resp... |
1798467_2 | What Time Do They Turn the River On? | powerful for novices: the Ocoee River in Tennessee, the New River in West Virginia, the Arkansas River in Colorado. And after a few forays on them, some new rafters inevitably ask, ''What's the biggest commercially rafted river around?'' In the East, there are the Gauley in West Virginia and the Upper Youghiogheny in M... |
1798442_0 | North Korean Ploy Masks Ships Under Other Flags | When helicopter-borne Australian commandos stormed a freighter three years ago after it was spotted unloading 110 pounds of high-grade heroin, the ship proved to be registered in Tuvalu, a tiny island nation in the South Pacific. When a Spanish warship stopped a freighter carrying cement to Yemen four years ago, the ca... |
1800065_1 | Corruption Inquiry Grows, and China's Leader May Profit | office and arrested or sidelined leaders in Tianjin, Fujian and Hunan, among other places. Nearly all of those implicated to date are viewed as loyalists to China's former top leader, Jiang Zemin, or as having resisted the policies of Mr. Hu, the party boss since 2002. As such, the crackdown serves two purposes, the pe... |
1800032_3 | On the Trail of Wisconsin's Icy Past | a 78-year-old retired schoolteacher from Cumberland, Wis., leaned on a bamboo hiking stick to peer into the drilled depths. ''I'm looking for the original grinding stone,'' he said. Beyond the potholes, a few feet past the terminus plaque at the end of the Ice Age Trail, a deep gorge of dark stone stood testament to th... |
1797418_2 | Church and State: Tipping a Delicate Balance? | Editor: If those pushing for taxes to be applied to tax-exempt nonprofits get their way, it will ultimately cost Americans far more than the present arrangement. One of the reasons taxes are higher in many European countries is that they do not have the same vigorous nonprofit sector America has. Taxing nonprofits in A... |
1797352_5 | A Battle Over 'Juice of Youth' | started to work with a molecular biologist to refine what has since become the Wiley Protocol, which consists of a bioidentical estradiol and progesterone preparation in a topical cream (she holds the patent) that is ''dosed to mimic the natural hormones produced by your body when you were 20 years old,'' she said. Dr.... |
1797419_2 | A Moral Philosophy for Middle-Class America | Adam Smith nearly 250 years ago. In ''The Theory of Moral Sentiments,'' Smith based his theory of morals on the intense sociability of human beings (rather than on divine law or the idea of maximum individual autonomy). His approach is a starting point for social traditionalists today. Smith argued that more than just ... |
1797453_3 | Restraints Fray and Risks Grow As Nuclear Club Gains Members | by 1975, 15 or 20.'' That timetable proved to be inaccurate. But in recent years there has been a sense around the globe that President Kennedy's prediction is about to come true, three decades late. Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, said this year that ''the international community seems almost to be s... |
1795092_0 | U.S. Reviews Response Options for North Korean Nuclear Test | The Bush administration is developing an extensive list of possible new sanctions against North Korea in the event that it carries through with its threat to conduct a nuclear test, senior officials said Thursday. The measures under consideration include renewing efforts that have been unsuccessful in the past -- persu... |
1795037_0 | Afoot in a Forest That's Partly Primeval | IF I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature,'' the naturalist John Burroughs wrote in 1908. ''And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.'' Tell that to New Yorkers. The city may have more than its share of green spaces, b... |
1794724_0 | North Koreans Say They Plan A Nuclear Test | North Korea announced Tuesday that it intended to conduct its first nuclear test, prompting warnings from Tokyo to Washington that an underground explosion would lead to a sharp response and could undermine the security balance in Asia. North Korea did not say when it would try to test a weapon, and experts inside and ... |
1794651_0 | Brazilian Judge Detains Pilots in Midair Collision | A Brazilian judge ordered the police late Monday to confiscate the passports of the two American pilots who were flying the business jet that apparently collided Friday with an airliner. The airliner crashed, killing all 155 people aboard, but the business jet was able to land safely. The order is part of a judicial an... |
1794681_0 | Iran's Proposal to End Nuclear Standoff Is Rejected by the West | Iran has proposed that France organize and monitor the production of enriched uranium inside Iran, complicating negotiations over the fate of its nuclear program. The United States, France and Britain rejected the proposal on Tuesday, saying it was a stalling tactic and fell far short of the United Nations Security Cou... |
1794701_4 | Extensive Tests Led to New Carry-On Rules, Officials Say | nor security officials would describe in detail the strength of the explosions or the quantities of liquids tested. But Mr. Romero said the blasts were of considerable force. ''There are liquids that will detonate and can cause a significant amount of damage,'' he said. The critical next question was how much liquid re... |
1799634_1 | The Brave World Of Haley, 10 | barriers to early recognition and treatment of mental illness. Public education about the brain is the first step toward 21st-century attitudes and policies. I applaud Haley for starting this discussion about children with mental illness, and our urgent need for services to help them. Thanks, Haley. Susan M. Scherer, M... |
1799611_0 | Pair of Satellites Will Document Sun in 3-D | Two satellites are scheduled to lift off on Wednesday night on a $550 million mission to observe the Sun in three dimensions. Carrying 16 instruments each, the satellites are to help scientists predict the billion-ton eruptions of electrified gas and deadly particles known as coronal mass ejections that cause the North... |
1799660_0 | Editors' Note | The Gowanus Journal on Thursday, about the Empty Vessel, a boat that provides a floating meeting place and performance hall on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, reported that the boat has had trouble finding harbor rental space. The article included comments from Ben Pironti, a co-tenant at one waterfront lot, who said he... |
1797738_6 | Preschool Puberty, and a Search for the Causes | he attributed largely to stonewalling by chemical industry representatives who serve on an advisory committee for the program. Now the proposed rollout is December 2007, but Dr. Cooper said, ''They may be dreaming.'' Critics cite the program's high potential costs and lack of reliable laboratory tests. Protecting child... |
1797728_1 | New Devices and Effective Options in Contraception | birth control pill by the Food and Drug Administration. These early high-dose pills were soon linked to a high incidence of serious health problems, including blood clots and strokes, leading to a gradual and eventually drastic reduction in the hormone levels used for contraception. Reduction in Doses Today, instead of... |
1796200_2 | As Religious Programs Expand, Disputes Rise Over Tax Breaks | the only one. Lawmakers and judges have also approved what amounts to special tax treatment for religious organizations and some of their employees, including exemptions on personal-income and payroll taxes, and have made it easier for them to get tax-exempt construction loans for purely religious projects. Like the ex... |
1796220_1 | Engineering Food at Level Of Molecules | agents, has quietly entered the market. The commercial uses of the technology now add up to a $410 million sliver of the $3 trillion global food market, according to Cientifica, a British market research firm that specializes in nanotechnology coverage. Cientifica forecasts that nanotechnology's share will grow to $5.8... |
1796203_2 | Mutually Assured Disruption | perfect -- but they are something. Until now this lack of perfection has been allowed to block full deployment of the technology. But missile defenses do not need to be perfect to complicate any aggressive action by a comparatively weak power like North Korea against the United States or its allies. And deploying a mis... |
1796276_0 | Bush Rebukes North Korea; U.S. Seeks New U.N. Sanctions | The United States proposed tough new United Nations sanctions on North Korea on Monday after its reported test of a nuclear device, and President Bush warned the North that he considered its activity a potential threat to American national security. At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Un... |
1796243_0 | Tough Talk From Seoul, If Little Will For a Fight | South Korea warned on Monday that it would ''sternly deal'' with North Korea's announcement that it conducted a nuclear test, saying the action could lead to a ''nuclear arms buildup'' in the region. President Roh Moo-hyun said South Korea would coordinate its response with other countries, though he did not give detai... |
1796136_0 | Friends for Life: An Emerging Biology of Emotional Healing | A dear friend has been battling cancer for a decade or more. Through a grinding mix of chemotherapy, radiation and all the other necessary indignities of oncology, he has lived on, despite dire prognoses to the contrary. My friend was the sort of college professor students remember fondly: not just inspiring in class b... |
1796242_0 | BUSH REBUKES NORTH KOREA; U.S. SEEKS NEW U.N. SANCTIONS | The United States proposed tough new United Nations sanctions on North Korea on Monday after its reported test of a nuclear device, and President Bush warned the North that he considered its activity a potential threat to American national security. At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Un... |
1798980_1 | An Elephant Crackup? | In winter, Winkie was housed in a concrete room about the size of a two-car garage with iron bars, one ankle chained, a couple of bales of straw strewn across the floor. I watched her watch us as she swayed from side to side. It seemed a sad place for a social animal. Her caretaker at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennesse... |
1798972_11 | An Unwelcome Discovery | the differences measured are because of age, menopause or individual variation. Poehlman's longitudinal study on menopause collected the same measurements from each person twice over a six-year period. This enabled him to show, for the first time, that some metabolic changes were from menopause, not aging. Published in... |
1798771_0 | F. Y. I. | Treachery on the Low Seas Q. I've loved pirate stories ever since I was little, and I always wondered: When did the last pirates roam New York Harbor? A. You might guess it was Captain Kidd in the 1600's -- and you'd be off by 250 years. Piracy in the harbor lasted well into the 20th century: not plank walking and cutl... |
1798837_4 | The Chinese Go After Corruption, Corruptly | the provincial capital of Yinchuan. He added: ''People are in search of material comforts now. That spirit of helping each other is not as strong.'' The government responds largely with propaganda campaigns, like the recent ''Eight Honors and Shames'' theme promoted by Mr. Hu to encourage upright behavior and discourag... |
1798814_1 | O.K., Which Way To Financial Success? | ''You Can Complain, or You Can Make Money'' (Everybody's Business, Oct. 15), in which Ben Stein suggested paths to financial success: I was a lawyer-lobbyist in Washington until the end of 2005. I was able to accumulate a comfortable nest egg and retire after 20 years. I spent this year traveling in Mexico and Central ... |
1800314_1 | Speeches and Arson Recall Last Year's Unrest in France | assailants broke the bus's windows and threw firebombs into the vehicle. A spokeswoman for the RATP said that she was unsure if the bombs were thrown before or after the passengers had left the bus. The spokeswoman, who could not be identified by name under the transportation authority's ground rules, said she did not ... |
1800365_1 | Gone but Not Forgotten | ''Here was an American car that was scoring so well with American consumers.'' In its 20 years on the market, Ford sold more than seven million Taurus cars, and millions more of its sister model, the Mercury Sable. While they look almost mundane now, both Taurus and Sable boasted a revolutionary aerodynamic styling at ... |
1795993_0 | A Battle for Hearts and Minds Sets Off a Building Boom | Until just over two months ago, the Kodori Gorge was a far-flung outpost where local militiamen ruled and its 2,500 residents lived simple but isolated lives, growing grapes and tending pigs far from the government's concerns. But with Georgia locked in a bitter struggle to control the mountainous regions south of Russ... |
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