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1796055_2 | After Tsunami, Intentions To Build but No Road Yet | project that would make a splash, rather than a number of smaller ones. At first, rebuilding a significant portion of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, into a kind of ''signature city'' was discussed. Instead, a well-engineered road from the capital to Meulaboh, the southernmost coastal town, which was nearly complet... |
1795955_4 | Arendt's Insights Echo Around a Troubled World | bureaucrat, then why couldn't it happen anywhere? Particularly if, as was the case in 1963 when Arendt was writing, even Western bureaucratic life had started to be seen by writers as intrinsically tainted? That possibility was also a recurring motif for many speakers at the Yale conference. Of course there are serious... |
1796073_4 | Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights | share their faith. In recent years, some judges have also refused to interfere when religious groups have dismissed lesbians, unwed mothers and adulterous couples, even if they profess the same faith, because they have violated their employers' religious codes. A federal court decision has given religious broadcasters ... |
1794428_5 | Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame | to the brain, Dr. Brugger said. It has been described by people who undergo sensory deprivation, as in mountaineers trekking at high altitude or sailors crossing the ocean alone, and by people who have suffered minor strokes or other disruptions in blood flow to the brain. Six years ago, another of Dr. Blanke's patient... |
1794427_0 | This Plant Has the Sense of Smell (Loves Tomatoes, Hates Wheat) | Like any good parasite, the dodder seedling latches on to its host -- an unfortunate tomato stalk, say, or a carrot top -- and doesn't let go. The dodder's tiny shoot wraps around the plant and taps into it, stealing nutrients. But dodder, which is such a pest that it has made the Agriculture Department's list of the t... |
1794410_2 | Numbers Are Male, Said Pythagoras, and the Idea Persists | were dualistic. For Pythagoreans, reality consisted of two parts: on one side were the mind and spirit and the transcendent realm of the gods; on the other side were the body and matter and the mundane realm of the earth. Like many Greek thinkers, the Pythagoreans associated the mind/spirit side of reality with malenes... |
1794546_0 | Cockpit Recorders Found in Amazon Wreckage | Rescue workers on Monday found cockpit voice and data recorders in the wreckage of an airliner that crashed in the Amazon rain forest last week, killing all 155 people on board. Investigators continued questioning the American pilots of a business jet that the Brazilian authorities say they believe collided with the la... |
1801099_0 | No Gain for Elderly From DHEA or Testosterone | Neither testosterone replacement nor the widely sold anti-aging diet supplement DHEA has any discernible beneficial effects in elderly people, a new study suggests. DHEA, or dehydroepiandrosterone, is a legally sold dietary supplement, although its use is banned by many amateur and professional sports organizations. Re... |
1799892_0 | Prospering May Not Make People Happier, but It May Make Them Healthier | Does money buy happiness? The rapidly expanding literature on what determines ''subjective well-being'' appears to suggest a negative answer to this timeless question. Studies consistently find, for example, that when the incomes of everyone in a community grow over time, conventional measures of well-being show little... |
1799862_0 | Phones for That Other System | MAKING phone calls using voice-over-Internet protocol seems not only inexpensive, but so very modern. Known by the zippy acronym VoIP (rhymes with practically nothing), it lets you make voice calls over the Internet to anywhere in the world for pennies; no old-fashioned phone company required. But as modern as the serv... |
1796976_2 | The Kids Are All Right | overseas. Under prodding from Westerners like Robert McNamara, the head of the World Bank, countries adopted ''fertility targets'' to achieve ''optimal'' population size. When an Indian government official proposed mandatory sterilization for men with three or more children, Paul Ehrlich criticized the United States fo... |
1798199_1 | Iran Seems Unmoved by Specter Of Sanctions Against North Korea | last weekend to punish North Korea for its nuclear test -- other than to say, as they have in the past, that they intend to continue what they call a peaceful nuclear program. On Monday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the sanctions on North Korea would not deter Iran. And on Tuesday, he said efforts aimed at preven... |
1796839_3 | Clock Ticks, Bonus Slips For Recruits | is, you know, a competitive sport, so to speak,'' said John Campbell, a spokesman for Mercer Management Consulting, which offers the declining bonuses to students it wants to hire. ''It's a very competitive world out there for top students.'' Microsoft, another company that offers declining bonuses, said they were noth... |
1796884_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Lawmakers Kill 30-Year Plan For Sicily Span | By a vote of 272 to 232, Parliament scrapped 30-year-old plans to build the world's longest suspension bridge and connect the island of Sicily to the mainland. The bridge across the Strait of Messina had been a pet project of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and had a budget of $5.5 billion. That money is ... |
1796904_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Special-Education Report | Special-education students have been largely excluded from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's efforts to improve the city's high schools, according to a report yesterday by Parents for Inclusive Education, a group of parents, educators and advocates. The report, prepared by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, criticize... |
1786015_0 | Wireless Providers Poised To Win Spectrum Licenses | When the government's multibillion-dollar auction of radio spectrum licenses began two weeks ago, it looked as if newcomers might get the chance to buy their way into the mobile phone business, leading to more choices for consumers. But now the country's biggest cellular providers appear poised to win many of the 1,122... |
1784584_0 | Unapproved Rice Strain Found in Wide Area | An unapproved genetically engineered strain of rice has been found in trace amounts in commercial supplies over a wide area in the nation's southern rice-growing region, the country's largest marketer of rice said yesterday. The marketer, Riceland Foods, a farmer-owned cooperative, said samples from its five-state grow... |
1784620_1 | OBSERVATORY | this week's issue of Science. The researchers prepared nitrogen-containing amidine compounds with long carbon-hydrogen chains attached. They reasoned that these compounds would not be good surfactants, but that bubbling carbon dioxide through them would create bicarbonate salts that would be good at holding oil and wat... |
1784655_2 | As Gumbel Speaks Freely, N.F.L. Watches His Words | announcers never say, which may be refreshing for fans but would be anathema to the league.) Tagliabue said he would discuss the Gumbel matter sometime during his final days with Goodell and Steve Bornstein, the NFL Network's president. Bornstein proudly hired Gumbel and Cris Collinsworth, another person of infinite op... |
1784603_0 | Fly Fairly, or Safely? | To the Editor John Tierney's Aug. 15 column, ''Come Wait With Me,'' about the ineffectiveness of airport security with the present methods of the Transportation Security Administration, is right on. As an airline pilot, I witness the daily frustration of passengers and crew members alike. But Mr. Tierney's suggestions ... |
1784573_0 | Iran Defiant on Nuclear Program as Deadline Approaches | Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Monday that his nation would continue to pursue its nuclear program ''forcefully.'' The remarks came one day before Iran's self-imposed deadline for responding to an international package of incentives intended to persuade the nation to stop enriching uranium voluntar... |
1784664_0 | Officials Seek Broader Access To Airline Data | United States and European authorities, looking for more tools to detect terrorist plots, want to expand the screening of international airline passengers by digging deep into a vast repository of airline itineraries, personal information and payment data. A proposal by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff woul... |
1784558_1 | MEMO PAD | ''It's more than our current food budget,'' Ms. Boda said, ''but a good investment toward our most loyal customers.'' NEVER MIND -- Usually this game plays out on the field of leisure fares. One airline raises them slightly, a few others match, but one declines to join in and they all retreat. This time, with the leisu... |
1786644_8 | Live Long? Die Young? Answer Isn't Just in Genes | any regular pattern, that's the hand wave explanation -- randomness.'' And random can mean more than one thing. ''There are two phases of randomness,'' Dr. Finch said. ''There's the randomness of life experiences. The unlucky ones, who get an infection, get hit on the head or get mutations that turn a cell into cancer.... |
1786586_4 | Pack of Lies | writes. That's a far cry from the dominance model that Mr. Millan attributes to the innate need of dogs by way of wolves. Unlike their wolf forebears, dogs exist in human society. They have been selectively bred for 15,000 or more years to live with people. Studies have shown that almost from birth they are attentive t... |
1780306_5 | A Can-Do Approach to Autistic Children and Athletics | speak fluently, others are mute. The Aqua Pros Swim School in San Diego has a program called Pool PALS (Persons with Autism Learning to Swim). There, teachers incorporate pictures and marker boards into their lessons to demonstrate proper stroke technique to children who have trouble communicating. The school also has ... |
1781684_0 | WHAT'S ON TONIGHT | 8 P.M. (Turner Classic Movies) SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS -- (1954). There's nothing like a day of Jane Powell musicals to put a lift in your midweek, including this frontier extravaganza about a new wife who must marry off her husband's six brothers -- or live with them. Actually, you can start gorging yourself a... |
1780626_1 | U.S. Issues New Rules On Schools And Disability | they begin exploring whether children may need special education, another change that won praise from advocates for children with disabilities. The regulations come after Congress updated laws covering special education for some six million schoolchildren nationwide in late 2004. Comparing intelligence tests with acade... |
1780605_6 | Cuba Perks Up as Venezuela's Lifeline Foils U.S. Embargo | provided more than $2 billion in financing, most of it in crude oil and refined petroleum products. Indeed, the Venezuelan oil accounts for half Cuba's total consumption -- a windfall for a nation that, until recently, was mostly surviving on tourism dollars. Venezuela has also become a major buyer of otherwise uncompe... |
1783426_0 | Unruly Passenger Causes Diversion of a Flight From London | A flight from London to Washington was diverted Wednesday morning and escorted by F-15 fighters to Logan Airport here after an unruly female passenger had to be subdued, officials said. Officials said the incident was not terrorism related. The woman, a 59-year-old American, told the authorities she had felt claustroph... |
1783381_3 | Europe Says It Will Unify Effort in Fight On Terrorism | to organize meetings of Muslim teachers to ''eradicate violence from inside.'' Governments may also work to train imams to attempt to prevent the development of militancy. ''We do want a European Islam,'' Mr. Frattini said. ''That is very important, not only to show to the Muslim communities that we fully respect other... |
1783432_1 | What Baseball Can Teach Those Who Dream of Creating the Next Silicon Valley | in local universities can achieve that goal. This strategy is based on the view that research done by professors can form the basis for local start-up companies and that the graduates of the university can supply the entrepreneurs and employees. But advocates should remember an old maxim of economic development: Beware... |
1783491_1 | Faces, Too, Are Searched as U.S. Airports Try to Spot Terrorists | at most of the nation's biggest airports. ''The observation of human behavior is probably the hardest thing to defeat,'' said Waverly Cousin, a former police officer and checkpoint screener who is now the supervisor of the behavior detection unit at Dulles. ''You just don't know what I am going to see.'' Even in its in... |
1785237_1 | Dutch, Seeing No Terror Link, Free 12 Held After India Flight | after questioning the group, examining their cellphones and searching the plane, they found no evidence that these men ''were about to commit an act of violence.'' The police investigation focused on the passengers' cellphone conversations and on whether their luggage contained explosives, Ed Hartjes, a spokesman for t... |
1785213_0 | Search and Defend | THE profiling of behavioral cues to identify terrorists is the latest trend in American airport security. The Transportation Security Administration began experimenting with the technique last December at a dozen airports, and after this month's reported bomb plot in Britain, agency officials said they wanted to train ... |
1784415_1 | From Their Own Online World, Pedophiles Extend Their Reach | uses the virtual world to advance its interests in the real one. Today, pedophiles go online to seek tips for getting near children -- at camps, through foster care, at community gatherings and at countless other events. They swap stories about day-to-day encounters with minors. And they make use of technology to help ... |
1782723_0 | THE WORLD: Checkpoint; Sizing Up the People Who Tell Us to Take Our Shoes Off | After the Sept. 11 attacks, no item on the federal agenda was tackled as quickly and broadly as aviation security. There were calls to secure cockpit doors, hire armed air marshals, update passenger ''watch lists'' -- Washington was inundated with ideas for preventing a jetliner from being hijacked and destroyed again.... |
1782750_0 | Plan for New Rail Tunnel Takes Turn Toward Reality | It was just a few years ago that New Jersey Transit's executive director would try to explain -- to anyone who would listen -- the wonders of building another commuter train tunnel under the Hudson River. And every time, he would see eyes glaze over. ''People would say, 'Great idea,' '' George D. Warrington, the execut... |
1782443_0 | Where Italy Shows A Rougher Edge | AS soon as we arrived in Abruzzi, a wild, mountainous region in Italy east of Rome, my husband and I were lost. It was October of last year, and we were driving -- or so we thought -- to a medieval village called Santo Stefano. Instead, we found ourselves on a tiny mountain road just wider than a hiking trail, the car ... |
1782721_0 | My Liquid-Free Flight Abroad | MELISSA GRANT, a teacher in suburban London, sat beside her boyfriend at Gate B26 in Kennedy Airport's Terminal 4 and glared angrily at the woman, 20 yards away, who had ducked under a makeshift security perimeter. ''Cheeky!'' she declared. Cheeky it may have been. But it could have been simply another example of someo... |
1782467_10 | Ben Wood, Our Man In Shanghai | Western preservationists. ''He keeps facades, moves pieces around, adds windows where there were none,'' he said. ''If he were doing that with historic properties in the U.S., I would be more critical. But for China saving even bits and pieces is an important leap. Ten years from now when preservation there has become ... |
1782813_0 | Using E-Mail To Keep in Touch | To the Editor: ''Finding the Right Tone, Online,'' by Alice Elliott Dark (July 16), was a welcome piece of praise for e-mail. So many people lament the isolation that supposedly increases whene-mail becomes a substitute for telephone calls or face-to-face meetings. The Internet and e-mail should never be used as the so... |
1782793_0 | Using E-Mail To Keep in Touch | To the Editor: ''Finding the Right Tone, Online,'' by Alice Elliott Dark (July 16), was a welcome piece of praise for e-mail. So many people lament the isolation that supposedly increases when e-mail becomes a substitute for telephone calls or face-to-face meetings. The Internet and e-mail should never be used as the s... |
1782442_2 | For a Tourist Town, Too Much of a Good Thing | the numbers,'' added Daniele Cappellini, the official responsible for transportation here. In a city equipped to handle 60 tour buses comfortably, last year there were as many as 160 on busy days, he said. ''When it's so crowded, tourists don't even get a sense of what San Gimignano is really like,'' Mr. Cappellini add... |
1783759_0 | Pirates Take Sweden | ON May 31, the Swedish police raided the headquarters of a major file-sharing Web site and hauled off hundreds of computer servers along with two men, in handcuffs, they suspected of being movie pirates. The raid was an evidence-gathering exercise, and no charges have yet been filed, but Sweden, it seems, has finally b... |
1783790_0 | Caught on Film: A Growing Unease In Hollywood; The Modern Studio Executive Navigates Wall Street and Piracy | For many here, Stacey Snider was the Hollywood executive who had it all. As chairwoman of Universal Pictures, she hobnobbed with celebrities at the Academy Awards. She was feted at charity events as well as in the fashion pages of Vogue. But after General Electric acquired Universal Pictures in 2004, the bright lights ... |
1783795_6 | Colombia's Coca Survives U.S. Plan to Uproot It | Romero's small farm with defoliants, leaving withered coca plants in their wake. Undaunted, he repeats the tried-and-true strategy of guerrilla farming, replanting his coca on the edge of a forest where it is harder to spray. ''All this was fumigated -- all of it -- and then replanted,'' Mr. Romero, 28, said recently a... |
1782890_1 | Screeners to Be Changed at U.S. Airports | would be trained in psychological profiling under the plan, which he intends to announce in the coming weeks or months. Currently, the contractors who handle the precheckpoint processing of identification documents are hired by airlines. Transportation agency screeners, in addition to handling checkpoint security, also... |
1782943_0 | THREATS AND RESPONSES | CHANGES TO SCREENING -- Contractors who check identifications at airports will be replaced with Transportation Security Administration personnel. The agency eased restrictions on items in carry-on bags. PAGE A18 IMPROVED PERFORMANCE -- The Homeland Security Department's response to the arrests in Britain got positive r... |
1785320_1 | News Summary | on board. A4 Russia Opposes Iran Sanctions Russia's defense minister said it was premature to consider punitive actions against Iran despite its refusal so far to suspend its efforts to enrich uranium. A7 Times Researcher May Appeal Lawyers for a Chinese researcher for The New York Times said they would probably appeal... |
1785354_0 | Jets Grounded in U.S. and Ireland; Alert Raised at Houston Airport | In a sign of continued jitters after the London bombing alert, an Aer Lingus passenger jet flying from New York to Ireland was evacuated and searched at Shannon Airport on Friday after an anonymous caller told the police that a liquid explosive had been planted on board. The alarm was one of several on Friday, two week... |
1785401_4 | Clergywomen Find Hard Path To Bigger Pulpit | ideas and values, men matter most and that by definition, women have to take a back seat,'' said Dr. Alton B. Pollard III, director of black church studies and associate professor of religion and culture at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Several denominations began ordaining women in the 19th centu... |
1783250_2 | Camus Comes To Crawford | extending the administration's lack of transparency to literature. He brushed off suggestions that the supremely unself-reflective W. was going through a Carteresque malaise-in-the-gorge moment: ''He doesn't feel like an existentialist trapped in Algeria during the unpleasantness.'' It takes a while to adjust to the id... |
1783196_0 | For Venezuela, as Distaste for U.S. Grows, So Does Trade | ''Capitalism will lead to the destruction of humanity,'' President Hugo Chávez said this month in a speech in Vietnam, during an overseas tour that included stops in Iran and Belarus. The United States, he added, ''is the devil that represents capitalism.'' Yet even as the talk from Caracas and Washington grows more ho... |
1783267_1 | New York Area Is a Magnet For Graduates | ''It means the labor force in New York is becoming much more educated.'' Mr. Beveridge said the statistics also portended that the next set of census numbers, which are due in two weeks, will reveal a widening gap between rich and poor in the city. ''If a big chunk of the labor force has become more educated, we can ex... |
1783271_0 | Riders Encouraged to Plug In For Transit Service Messages | For thousands of subway riders, it has become an essential commuting tool. Plug in the iPod, and tune out the world. Instead of that overbearing panhandler or a crackling service announcement, the possibilities for these riders range from Debussy to Death Cab for Cutie. And now comes TransitTrax, the New York City Tran... |
1783182_1 | Where the Rubber Paints the Road; Art or Nuisance? In One Seaside Town, Graffiti Is Made by Cars | documentary. The film, which will have its premiere here at the end of the month, was commissioned by Opera House Arts, the nonprofit organization that operates the Stonington Opera House. A landmark originally constructed to satisfy the opera needs of the Italian stone cutters who arrived in the 1890's, the Opera Hous... |
1785041_5 | Africa Adds to Miserable Ranks of Child Workers | has 3,000 students. About 300 work in the quarries. Maureen Chinjenge, the school's stern headmistress, has a word for the quarry children: disoriented. ''Most of these children are orphans,'' she said, ''and in most cases, their performance is not good. For the most part, they don't eat breakfast, and coming to classe... |
1780786_4 | For Diocese, Picking Bishop Means Facing Diocesan Rift | and 7 percent are Asian. New Jersey was 13.3 percent Hispanic, 13.6 percent black, and 5.7 percent Asian in 2000. The diocese covers Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Sussex and Warren Counties, along with Calvary Church, one of its largest parishes, in Summit, Union County. All Saints in Hoboken, which was forme... |
1780186_3 | TODAY IN BUSINESS | dismiss a sexual harassment suit against Ford Motor on the grounds that the plaintiff and her lawyers discussed with reporters evidence that the court had deemed inadmissible. [C6.] AIR FARES ON THE WEB -- An alternative format for displaying air fares, known as a matrix and used by some low-fare carriers, eliminates s... |
1780134_2 | A New Tasting Menu In the Baby Section | and chunky meat stews made with celeriac and bay leaf. A spoonful of carrots from Evie's Organic Edibles, available at Fairway and Whole Foods, delivers a gingery zing. You can taste shallots and herbs lurking in the lentils. HappyBaby, which sells colorful cubes of frozen vegetable and fruit purées through FreshDirect... |
1780175_1 | Rising Interest Rates and Prices Curb Americans' Spending | will find the inflation data discouraging and raise interest rates again. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq composite index all fell. The Fed's main measure of inflation was up 2.4 percent in June from the month a year earlier, the department reported, an increase no... |
1784846_0 | IRAN WON'T GIVE PROMISE TO END URANIUM EFFORT | Iran responded Tuesday to a set of incentives from Europe and the United States aimed at ending its nuclear program, but did not agree to suspend the enrichment of uranium by the end of the month, the West's primary demand. In its response, Iran offered ''serious talks'' over its nuclear activities but did not raise th... |
1786171_0 | Trying to Export the Success of a Maine Seabird Program | On a summer day, this treeless seven-acre island at the seaward edge of Muscongus Bay attracts visitors from around the world. The arctic terns screeching overhead wintered in Antarctica, the puffins flying in out of the fog with herring stacked crosswise in their colorful bills came here to nest from waters well offsh... |
1786193_2 | In Nature's Immigration Fight, Newcomers Battle Natives | in the 1830's. His ''Canary scheme,'' as he called it, was far enough along that he had begun studying Spanish, immersed himself in scientific writings on the islands and prepared to reserve a ticket on a ship bound for them. But months before he was to go, he was appointed to a position on the Beagle and went to the G... |
1786227_2 | Up Against a Stained-Glass Ceiling | country, and virtually no jobs in ordained ministry were available to us. One bishop told me that he ''would never ordain another woman.'' The reason? ''I don't know what to do with the two I already have.'' I am greatly moved that there are so many female members of the clergy now, and the young women in seminaries ar... |
1782110_3 | San Franciscans Try Again to Suicide-Proof the Golden Gate Bridge | one has any control, foremost of which is the wind. A critical factor in any potential barrier design is whether the bridge could handle the added aerodynamic drag it might create. The bridge district's chief engineer, Denis Mulligan, likened the Golden Gate to a giant airplane wing. ''Adding a barrier would be like ch... |
1782159_0 | Crackdown Costs Travelers Water, Lipstick and Time | For millions of passengers, airline employees and security workers, Thursday was a day of getting through, getting by and hoping for the best. Long security lines, missed flights, delayed departures, harried workers and annoyed, sweaty people of every stripe were common in airports across the country as tightened secur... |
1782210_3 | Terror Plot Foiled; Airports Quickly Clamp Down | the security measures that would begin on Thursday. Among the airlines believed to be targets were United, American and Continental, according to officials from the Department of Homeland Security, although it was unclear whether the plotters had bought tickets. Mr. Chertoff said the attackers planned to carry explosiv... |
1782123_1 | Exposed: The Plot Over the Atlantic | and child who does not share their radical, religious fundamentalist worldview. Nicole Samura Chelsea, Mass., Aug. 10, 2006 To the Editor: We are fortunate indeed to have averted an attack of such deadly magnitude as that apparently planned for flights departing London to the United States. Being fortunate, however, do... |
1782160_2 | U.S. Transportation Security Agency Prohibits Carrying Liquids and Gels on Flights | pockets, and women's handbags may not be carried on. The British also banned carry-on liquids, from apple juice to whiskey; passengers had to check their liquid prescription medicine and contact-lens solution yesterday. Women's sanitary items were allowed in the cabin, but only if they were removed from their boxes. To... |
1782171_1 | Immigration And Jobs Link Is Disputed | states with high immigration rates after 1990, including Texas, Nevada and Georgia, also had higher-than-average employment rates for American-born workers. Those 14 states accounted for 24 percent of American workers. But in eight states that had big increases in immigrants in the same period, among them Arizona and T... |
1782203_1 | Liquid Threat Is Hard to Detect | discovered when the bomb makers accidentally set fire to their laboratory in Manila. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who was also involved in the World Trade Center truck bombing in 1993, was convicted in that case. James Jay Carafano, senior fellow at Heritage Foundation in Washington and an expert on domestic security, said that... |
1782126_5 | A Brief Recovery and Now This | abroad is nearly over. Summer family vacations in many parts of the country end by mid-August because children must go back to school. But the fact that the threat involved American carriers serving London is particularly bad news for the big airlines, given the emphasis they have placed this year on international serv... |
1782179_0 | Confusion and Delays at Airports, Taken Mostly in Stride | Thousands of travelers caught in webs of tightened security faced long lines, canceled flights, frustrating delays and screening changes at airports across the New York region and the country yesterday, but most responded with the grudging acceptance of citizen-soldiers in the war on terror. New precautions prompted by... |
1783059_3 | U.S. Officials Say Plot Shows Need for More Sharing of Passenger Data | In an interview on Sunday, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, said the vulnerabilities had existed too long. He said he hoped the British plot might persuade the airlines and European authorities to drop objections to his department's proposal. ''I sure hope this is a great wake-up call,'' Mr. Cherto... |
1783096_0 | Come Wait With Me | Three years ago, officials at Dulles Airport conducted a little experiment to improve security on international flights. They wanted most passengers to spend less time in line at checkpoints. Today, of course, this idea sounds terribly dangerous. Who can afford to worry about passengers' convenience? Let them wait for ... |
1783000_5 | Scientists Begin to Grasp the Stealthy Spread of Cancer | example comes from the understanding of bone metastasis. Breast cancer cells are known to activate normal cells called osteoclasts that break down bone. Bone is a dynamic tissue constantly being broken down and rebuilt. But when bone is degraded, it releases growth factors that incidentally fuel cancer. Many people wit... |
1783144_1 | What Can Be Carried On? | and began permitting four-ounce containers of nonprescription liquid medications like eye drops and saline solutions through security checkpoints and onto planes. And Monday, the British Department of Transport, which had barred all carry-on items except for personal essentials like passports and eyeglasses, said passe... |
1783044_0 | MEMO PAD | SLOWING DEMAND FOR AIR TRAVEL -- United States airlines carried 301.9 million passengers domestically and internationally during the first five months of this year, an increase of only 0.9 percent over the period last year, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. But in May, as higher airfares continued, ... |
1783127_2 | New Data Shows Immigrants' Growth and Reach | for a total of 35.7 million, a number larger than the population of California. Unlike the full census, which measures all population, the American Community Survey covers only what census officials call ''household'' population -- that is, people living in households, rather than in ''group quarters'' like universitie... |
1783145_1 | Practical Traveler; What Can Be Carried On? | and began permitting four-ounce containers of nonprescription liquid medications like eye drops and saline solutions through security checkpoints and onto planes. And Monday, the British Department of Transport, which had barred all carry-on items except for personal essentials like passports and eyeglasses, said passe... |
1783068_2 | Air Travel: The New Facts of Life | if the handling of baggage were improved. James C. Romeo New York, Aug. 12, 2006 To the Editor: Airline security should begin at the time the reservation is made. Sufficient information should be provided -- for example, passport data, address and telephone number -- so that screeners can check on a passenger before he... |
1785522_0 | Moorish Towers and Palaces to Fill a Child's Dreams | SURELY the Moors did not have an energetic 5-year-old in mind when they built Seville's sumptuous palace. But the illustrious inhabitants of this sunny Andalusian city -- from caliphs and conquistadors to flamenco dancers in their frilly skirts -- seem to have conspired over the centuries to turn it into the kind of pl... |
1781125_0 | Criminals, Like Me | ANA was 14 when she and her parents, in from Connecticut, spent the night at my Brooklyn apartment -- 14 years old, and more than 20 weeks pregnant. When I went into the den to let Ana's father know that I had pulled out the living-room couch for him, all three -- father, mother, daughter -- were lined up shoulder-to-s... |
1780900_0 | Tibetans See Threat To Their Culture In Chinese Spending | Six decades ago, the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, was filled with officials of the Dalai Lama's government. Now it is packed with tourists. The Chinese government recently raised the entry quota on the Potala Palace, once the seat of Dalai Lamas and the political center of Tibet, from 1,500 to 2,300 people a day. Dat... |
1781003_0 | Criminals, Like Me | ANA was 14 when she and her parents, in from Connecticut, spent the night at my Brooklyn apartment -- 14 years old, and more than 20 weeks pregnant. When I went into the den to let Ana's father know that I had pulled out the living-room couch for him, all three -- father, mother, daughter -- were lined up shoulder-to-s... |
1780952_0 | Criminals, Like Me | ANA was 14 when she and her parents, in from Connecticut, spent the night at my Brooklyn apartment -- 14 years old, and more than 20 weeks pregnant. When I went into the den to let Ana's father know that I had pulled out the living-room couch for him, all three -- father, mother, daughter -- were lined up shoulder-to-s... |
1781195_2 | For Power or Beauty? Debating the Course of Chile's Rivers | our resources to be used, but in a responsible manner.'' Endesa, the Spanish company that wants to build the dams, declined interview requests. But its Web site describes the project as consisting of six dams, four on the Baker River and two on the Pascua River, that would generate 2,430 megawatts, come into operation ... |
1781192_0 | For a Post-Castro Cuba, Castro Lite | EVEN from his sickbed -- or what delirious crowds in Miami last Monday had for a time believed was his deathbed -- Fidel Castro was obsessed with how history would judge him. In a statement outlining a new provisional government headed by his brother Raúl, he exhorted Cubans to continue the long revolutionary struggle ... |
1781237_8 | Facing Middle Age With No Degree, and No Wife | who never graduated, was unemployed for most of their marriage, and the couple broke up after six years. Determined to find a man who had better prospects, Ms. Rudolph entered a relationship with a basketball player and had three children with him. It ended when she learned he was married to someone else, a revelation ... |
1781114_2 | The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek | fed into the Atlantic. It was that little ribbon of water that made Coney Island an island rather than the peninsula it is today. But by 1929, according to Mr. Denson, that connection was broken as the streams and marshes were filled in and the Sheepshead Bay end was closed. As for the wrecks in the creek, Mr. Andresen... |
1779998_4 | French Beach Requires Full Coverage, From Top to Bottom | manager whose tiny Speedo revealed part of his buttocks. But some sunbathers want limits. ''We are still in the city, and we can be seen by people walking in the streets, especially tourists,'' said Monique Lefranc, a 60-year-old grandmother dressed in a blouse and slacks. ''What kind of impression will they have of us... |
1780009_0 | OBSERVATORY | 'Selective' Logging? Hardly When you think of logging in the Brazilian Amazon, what comes to mind? Most likely, clear-cutting by ranchers and farmers to create land for crops or grazing. But logging companies in Brazil also practice selective cutting, removing only some of the trees with the goal of sustaining forests ... |
1784318_0 | A Big Team Effort In Preserving Forest Glen | I was very pleased to see the article highlighting the preservation of the historic National Park Seminary at Forest Glen, Md. (''Preserving History and a 'Fantasy Feeling,' '' Aug. 6). Rescued from the brink of the Army's demolition by neglect, it's now being reclaimed as a historic treasure. This success would have b... |
1784034_4 | Managing Risk on a Shoestring | protective gear, such as masks and suits, for first responders, and some would probably have to do without for another year. With budget cuts, emergency-management officers say they are getting more sophisticated about how they spend the money. ''We decided to look at what the risks are and, rather than buying toys, to... |
1784086_3 | A Full-Sail Comeback | move. Six more of the boats were built in the 20's, and soon the boats had won so many races that they were segregated into their own class, or group of boats that have similar design specifications so races among them are fairly matched. The class became known as A Cats. The boats were all built by hand at boatbuildin... |
1784035_3 | A Full-Sail Comeback | move. Six more of the boats were built in the 20's, and soon the boats had won so many races that they were segregated into their own class, or group of boats that have similar design specifications so races among them are fairly matched. The class became known as A Cats. The boats were all built by hand at boatbuildin... |
1784246_1 | Keep Pakistan on Our Side | economic and educational opportunities. He solved the country's crippling debt crisis and loosened regulations on businesses, paving the way for an economic growth rate rivaling India's. With mixed success, he has worked to free the judiciary from religious control and to loosen the grip of Islamic extremists on madras... |
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