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1783940_7 | Raging Hormones | effects of supplementing declining estrogen and progesterone levels in menopausal women was halted in 2002. Against all expectations, the extra doses of hormones significantly increased the risks of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke and mental impairment.) ''Maybe the body knows what it's doing when it tells you to ... |
1784064_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... |
1784070_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... |
1784239_1 | Hokum on Homeland Security | hardening cockpit doors, arming pilots on some routes and placing many more air marshals on flights. The screening of all passengers, their carry-on bags and their checked luggage has also made it much harder to smuggle standard bombs or metallic weapons aboard. But there is still no system to detect liquid explosives,... |
1784045_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... |
1784095_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... |
1784051_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... |
1782291_0 | Passengers Adjust to New Minimalism in Carry-On Items | Most travelers went to the nation's airports on Friday battened down and prepared. They had packed their bags differently, arrived early and strategized about things that they had given little thought to before. Like drinking water. To chug or not to chug? To stop for a coffee before the security checkpoint or wait it ... |
1782309_0 | After a Long Wait, Boarding Without Drinks, Toothpaste, Hair Gel or Tanning Lotion | Passengers using airports across the New York region yesterday quickly learned the fine art of doing without. Because of heightened security precautions limiting what air travelers are permitted to carry on board, many arriving and departing passengers were forced to do without typical carry-on staples, including iPods... |
1782266_0 | Auto Industry and E.P.A. Agree On Program to Recycle Mercury | The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that a new program paid for by industry groups would help capture up to seven tons of mercury emissions a year from old and out-of-use vehicles. The mercury is primarily found in light switches in cars and trucks built before 2003. Until now, it has been ignored as old ve... |
1782321_3 | Focused on 9/11, U.S. Is Seen to Lag on New Threats | Security Administration has the technology to inspect small objects shipped as air cargo, but does not have the capacity to do so uniformly. Given the long list of possible threats, and the limited budget to buy equipment to defend against them, it is essential not just to look for threats, Mr. Larsen said, but also to... |
1769415_1 | Herr Bruno Is Having a Picnic, but He's No Teddy Bear | bear roaming the Bavarian Alps for 170 years. While Austria has about 30 wild bears, none have been seen here in the state of Tirol for decades. Further complicating matters for the beleaguered authorities, Bruno has become an overnight media sensation -- an outlaw hero whose defenders include the Roman Catholic Church... |
1769379_1 | The Teardown Wars | identified 100 communities in 20 states where sections of older neighborhoods were being demolished. As of last month, it had documented more than 300 communities in 33 states where teardowns were having a significant impact. They included Laguna Beach, Calif.; Nantucket, Mass.; and Ocean City, N.J. But longtime reside... |
1766945_2 | Medicaid Rules Get Tougher About Proof of Citizenship | weeks to make sure the regulations would not undermine the intent of the law. Obviously you need some flexibility so that a 92-year-old woman with Alzheimer's does not get kicked off Medicaid. What's unacceptable is for people to claim benefits or sign affidavits swearing they are citizens without any verification.'' I... |
1772734_5 | As China Ages, a Shortage of Cheap Labor Looms | now 95 percent occupied. ''People were not willing to enter nursing homes in the past, because they were considered places for those without descendants,'' Mr. Zhang said. ''Now, from the standpoint of ordinary people, it is becoming a normal thing.'' The average age of the residents of Mr. Zhang's home is 85, and most... |
1766042_0 | For the Sake of Hunting | To the Editor: Re ''Debate on Global Warming Has Polar Bear Hunting in Its Sights'' (front page, May 27): Nature creates the magnificent polar bear, and the response of the man featured in your article was to kill one simply because it is there. There was no urgency on the man's part for food or warmth to keep himself ... |
1765950_1 | BREAKING GROUND | town houses and stand-alone houses, and start at $3 million. STATUS -- The marina, hotel and about 30 units are expected to be completed in early 2008; other residences will be built by mid- to late 2009. DEVELOPER -- Logwood Hotel Development Company. CONTACT -- 649-941-7480 or www.westcaicosreserve.com. DETAILS -- We... |
1767578_1 | A Sea of Sand Is Threatening China's Heart | at risk. Expanding deserts and a severe drought are also making this a near-record year for dust storms carried east in the jet stream. Sand squalls have blanketed Beijing and other northern cities, leaving a stubborn yellow haze in the air and coating roads, buildings, cars and lungs. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao travele... |
1767499_2 | An Emigrant Stopover Is Now a Cultural Hotbed | of the border by immigrants, he built a giant two-headed wood and metal horse, playfully titled ''Toy an Horse,'' in 1997, directly on the border demarcation. Tijuana's shantytowns perch on mountains of old tires; those wishing to leave build temporary shelters from cast-off garage doors and factory pallets, and mechan... |
1772485_3 | Giving the Artists a Voice In Preserving Their Work | Mancusi-Ungaro recalled, she was talking to Charles Simonds, whose tiny model of a village, called ''Dwellings,'' has been permanently installed in the Whitney's stairwell atop a window ledge. Many museumgoers are unaware that the work includes two other miniature models, made of clay, sticks and other materials, that ... |
1771110_0 | Reason and the Church | To the Editor: Re ''Church Urges Its Dioceses Not to Elect Gay Bishops'' (news article, June 22): Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, has a job ahead that is as challenging as the wording of the resolution that cautions against electing any new gay bishops. Our roots are ... |
1768098_23 | Forgive Us Our Student Debts | the main determining factor. And what you become after college wouldn't matter greatly, either. You would still just pay a percentage of your income. Lately, the word ''Australia'' has almost become a tic among economists who study educational debt issues, an example of both a big idea and a reasonably good idea. Recen... |
1768075_2 | High Maintenance | residence, the foundation and framework of ''Sheetrock & Shellac'' are much the same as in ''The Walls Around Us'': an ongoing narrative about an ongoing narrative. The new book ambles through Owen's house just as its predecessor did (''Studs, Windows, Screens and Porches'' get a chapter, as do ''Walls, Ceilings and Fl... |
1768115_1 | Q & A | because airlines typically oversell flights by up to 50 percent to compensate for people who fail to turn up. For instance, Judith Goldberg of Tel Aviv writes: ''I flew Austrian Airlines from Tel Aviv to Delhi, via Vienna. When I arrived at the transfer desk, two and a half hours before the Delhi flight, I was told I h... |
1768092_4 | The Smugglers' Due | region that sits along the southeast coast of China. The Fujianese being a seafaring people, it seemed only natural that their first means of emigration would be by boat, and in 1993 when the freighter Golden Venture ran aground off the beaches of Queens, their journey became front-page news. What went relatively unnot... |
1768076_0 | Clones Behaving Badly | THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISLAND By Michel Houellebecq. 337 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95. Near the beginning of Plato's Republic, Socrates and Glaucon meet with Cephalus, an aged and respectable Athenian who treats them to a discourse on the nature of old men. The ardors of their youth having fled, and family now visiting t... |
1768498_11 | Pollution From Chinese Coal Casts Shadow Around Globe | liquefied natural gas have more than doubled in the last three years. Environmental objections are slowing the construction of hydroelectric dams on China's few untamed rivers. Long construction times for nuclear power plants make them a poor solution to addressing blackouts and other power shortages now. For the past ... |
1768346_8 | Was Earning That Harvard M.B.A. Worth It? | and no plans to seek a corporate job. He did, however, want to do something in television and film, and rather than start as a gofer in Hollywood he applied to business school to ''round myself off,'' he said. ''When I first got out, people in Hollywood were like: 'Why did you get your M.B.A.? You would have been bette... |
1772215_4 | Debate on Russia and Iraq Follows Killing of 4 Diplomats | citizenship when needed. VEDOMOSTI GAZPROM BUYS INTO ITS MAIN COMPETITOR: Gazprom announced Monday that it would buy a 20 percent stake in Novatek, Russia's second-largest gas company, at market price, which the newspaper says will be over 2 billion dollars. Gazprom will thereby have two seats on Novatek's eight-man bo... |
1772074_2 | The Complaint Department Is Open for Business | Adler started. ''I lost a laptop to a reclining seatback a few years ago,'' she said. ''The screen was sandwiched between the tray table and the suddenly reclining seatback.'' Nice people are in near revolt as crowding worsens. Maxine Hermann says she's 5-foot-7, 73 years old and arthritic. ''I often run into fliers wh... |
1772072_1 | MEMO PAD | Singapore, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Bucharest and Mumbai. FEWER EUROPEANS COMING -- European air passenger traffic to the United States was off more than 9 percent in the first quarter of this year, says Donald N. Martin & Company, citing Commerce Department data. No reasons were suggested for the downturn, after increases... |
1772051_2 | A Triumphant Journey, a Hard-Won Recovery | shows that the brain also has a safety center. This center, in the region called the dorsal striatum, communicates a sense of security. While the amygdala sends off air raid sirens telling you to dive for safety, the dorsal striatum rings out, ''All clear!'' Dr. Rogan has re-envisioned the classic experiment. What if y... |
1767043_3 | A CONVERSATION WITH: Elizabeth Bennett; A Global Advocate for the Meal That Cannot Speak for Itself | difficult to enforce. Bans on commercial trade, however, can work. We've learned a lot from a trade ban enacted in Sarawak. What we saw was that contraband must pass through river ports and towns. With only a handful of police, you can catch dealers at these bottlenecks. In Sarawak, there were only five big towns. So i... |
1767061_5 | A Rain-Forest Census Takes Shape, Tree by Tree (Almost Leaf by Leaf) | the forest, scientists can encounter tropical diseases, toxic ant bites, spitting cobras, smugglers and armed insurgents. More than one scientist from the forest center has had a close call. Corneille E. N. Ewango, monitoring the 100-acre Ituri Forest plot established in 1994 in Congo, received the Goldman Environmenta... |
1765894_0 | World Briefing | Asia: China: Crackdown On Abortion Of Girls | Chinese authorities closed 201 medical clinics in northern Hebei Province and fined several hundred others because they helped detect and abort female fetuses, the New China News Agency said. The government has been trying to cut down on selective-sex abortions, which are partly responsible for a lopsided birth ratio o... |
1765858_2 | A Tower on Times Square Gets New Radio Equipment to Help Emergency Workers | example of corporate good citizenship.'' The poor state of Fire Department communication systems has been discussed for more than a decade, but the effort to improve the systems did not begin in earnest until after the 2001 attacks. There have been several improvements, including the more powerful radios, and a high-po... |
1770476_1 | Army Cancels Contract for New Iraqi Prison | Region Division. ''And when they hold to their schedules, there's no problem.'' In the case of the prison contract, General McCoy said, ''I've got to stop the bleeding.'' The corps says it intends to complete 3,700 rebuilding projects. But that number is much smaller than once planned and there is no independent overal... |
1770540_5 | A McDonald's Ally in Paris | ingredients, employees. Without any cynicism, I thank Mr. Bové for helping us grow into that role.'' He compared it to judo, in which an opponent's thrust is turned to an advantage. ''The French have a way of protesting by struggling,'' he said, picking out the lessons he learned. ''Don't forget, we killed our king; in... |
1770458_1 | Rice Says North Korean Missile Test Would Be 'Provocative Act' | deepen its isolation, determined not to take a path that is a path of compromise and a path of peace, but rather instead to once again saber rattle.'' Her comments came after Japan warned earlier in the day that it would take ''stern actions'' against North Korea if it proceeded with what would be its first important t... |
1770424_0 | Survey Finds Use of Herbs For Menopause Is Common | More than half of women who treat their menopause symptoms take soy supplements or herbs as part or all of their therapy, a new survey has found, and only about half of those women tell their doctors that they use the alternative treatments. As hormone therapy has fallen out of favor, complementary and alternative appr... |
1770406_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths HOLLAND, MARIE DOLORES IANNI | HOLLAND--Marie Dolores Ianni. Born in New York, NY in 1939, passed peacefully from this life at the Holland Farm in Amenia, NY on June 17 after a brief, but intense struggle with cancer. Known within her community--and far beyond--for her tireless energy, community service, and great sense of style, she was active on m... |
1768559_0 | You've Got Someone Reading Your E-Mail | More than a third of American companies with 1,000 or more workers say they employ people to read through other employees' outbound e-mail. And nearly half of those companies regularly go through outbound e-mail in search of rule-breaking, according to a recent survey of 294 companies done by Forrester Consulting for P... |
1770081_0 | Online Party Crashers | All good things must come to an end, including the chance to post lascivious photographs and diary entries on the Internet without repercussions. A generation that has come of age with blogging, Webcams and social networking sites is waking up to the fact that would-be employers are looking over their shoulders -- and ... |
1769845_1 | The Heavy Bag Takes Hits, Then Slims Down | to pay heed. It also may be the time to go luggage shopping. A number of suitcase manufacturers, including Samsonite, Tumi, Delsey and Victorinox, have recently tried to turn the heavy-bag problem to their advantage, unveiling lines of slimmed-down luggage. Heys International is touting its new Xcase-XL series as ''the... |
1769961_2 | Using Ceramics, Brakes Are Light but Cost Is Heavy | hot. But because ceramic discs will last four times as long as iron ones, according to automakers, their use could increase. More important, ceramic discs weigh about half as much as iron discs -- a valuable benefit for handling and acceleration. There are other good reasons to seek lighter, more durable brake disc mat... |
1770137_2 | Young Players Make Splash, Then Run Dry In the Majors | take Tiger and you just throw him out of the equation and the guy never existed and he never played,'' Howell said, ''then you'd look at Sergio and go: 'Wow, you've just played unbelievable. You've had chances to win majors, you've been there so many times, you're ranked sixth or seventh in the world, you're a young gu... |
1770084_0 | New Wording For Catholic Mass | To the Editor: Re ''A Changing Mass for U.S. Catholics'' (news article, June 16): Why is it necessary to change the spoken English of the Mass just to satisfy some Latin purists in the Vatican? Latin has been a dead language for centuries. It is more direct and unequivocal at Communion time to say ''Lord, I am not wort... |
1770055_3 | Immigration Math: It's a Long Story | recent arrivals face competition from successive waves of immigrants from numerous regions. Inequality of income and wealth is another factor that could affect opportunities. ''The second generation of Italians and Poles came of age in an era of historically low inequality,'' Professor Waldinger said. ''The second gene... |
1769789_1 | Paul Zweig's Journeys Into the Self | figures who seemed to raise abstraction to the level of action. Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Robert K. Merton -- these were the men who invented the Morningside Heights style of what you might call dramatic thinking. In books like ''Sincerity and Authenticity,'' ''Darwin, Marx, Wagner'' and ''On the Shoulders of Gi... |
1770864_2 | Bush, Facing Skeptics in Europe, Defends His Iraq Policy | backdrop, the White House is pursuing an aggressive strategy of embracing the war, believing it is better to confront Americans' unease about Iraq than to let it fester. In a sense, then, the president's defiant stance on Iraq in Europe simply echoed the course he is pursuing at home. Mr. Bush's arrival here was greete... |
1772332_0 | The Cry of the Wild | The most memorable thing about the Amazonian rain forest isn't the sights. It's the sounds. Lying awake at night inside a mosquito net at the Tambopata Research Center in the Peruvian Amazon, you hear a symphony playing in the rain forest outside. It sounds like one of those dissonant pieces of modern music: a cacophon... |
1772351_3 | Anglican Plan Threatens Split On Gay Issues | the close of the Episcopal Church's convention last Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. At the convention, the church fell short of the demands in the Windsor Report for an explicit apology and a full ''moratorium'' on ordaining gay bishops. Instead, the church approved a conciliatory statement encouraging American dioceses t... |
1767776_1 | Officials Report Progress In Weather Satellite Effort | that the committee had requested basic information on Tuesday and that it had received some documents an hour before the hearing yesterday afternoon. ''For an agency whose previous cost estimates have been off by more than 66 percent to tell us, 'Trust us' is, on its surface, preposterous,'' he said, ''and we'll not st... |
1767769_2 | LIVING HERE | Houses Near Kayaking Areas; Porch and Paddle | square feet to the original 1930's-era cottage. The house is three levels and has the original hardwood floors and bead board, a rooftop hot tub, an elevator, three and a half bathrooms and some 1,000 square feet of covered porches. Agent: Bonnie Gaster, Prudential Southeast Coastal Properties, 912-355-4171; www.tybeer... |
1766204_0 | Online Throngs Impose a Stern Morality in China | It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of the country's most popular Internet bulletin boards from a husband denouncing a college student he suspected of having an affair with his wife. Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. ''Let's use our keyboard and mouse in our hands as weapons,'' one person w... |
1766850_2 | Surge in Racist Mood Raises Concerns on Eve of World Cup | director of the London-based antiracist soccer organization Kick It Out. He said of Eastern Europe: ''Poverty, unemployment, is a problem. Indigenous people are looking for easy answers to blame. Often newcomers bear the brunt of the blame.'' Yet experts and players also said they believed the racist behavior would be ... |
1766801_3 | Peering Through a Telescope of Time, Myth and History | approached the pavilion from a distance, it didn't look like much. But once inside, I was surprised by its spaciousness and the intensity of the paintings. The canvases depict historic sea battles, and each is swamped with dense accumulations of rusty and soot-colored paint. They also incorporate loops of barbed wire, ... |
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1766602_2 | A CITIZEN'S CALENDAR | (201) 592-5741. Tenafly Board of Adjustment. Monday at 7:30 p.m. Tenafly Town Hall, 100 Riveredge Road. (201) 568-6100. Essex County East Orange City Council. Monday at 6:30 p.m. City Hall, 44 City Hall Plaza. (973) 266-5110. East Orange Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. Wednesday at 5 p.m. City Hall, 44 City Hall Plaz... |
1766674_4 | The Fire That Time | a copperplate hand for Samuel Kaufman, grocer, born in Poland (crossed out) Russia, arrived in 1905; his wife, Polly (surely a mishearing on the part of the census taker of ''Pauline'' uttered in a Yiddish accent), born in Austro-Hungary, arrived in 1900; and my father, Simon (called Sidney most of his life), born righ... |
1766571_3 | Peering Through a Telescope of Time, Myth and History | approached the pavilion from a distance, it didn't look like much. But once inside, I was surprised by its spaciousness and the intensity of the paintings. The canvases depict historic sea battles, and each is swamped with dense accumulations of rusty and soot-colored paint. They also incorporate loops of barbed wire, ... |
1766692_2 | Attention-Juggling In the High-Tech Office | and quantity of work from knowledge workers has proven to be more difficult than managing the work-study processes that added so much productivity to the industrial age. For example, you can assign people to customer relations jobs. They will, if you make them, respond to, say, 120 inquiries a day. The real question is... |
1769676_2 | The Weaker Sex | disease, which manifests itself a decade earlier in men than women; when it comes to cancer, the news for men is almost as bad. Women also have more vigorous immune systems than men: of the 10 most common infections, men are more likely to have serious encounters with seven of them. While depression is said to be twice... |
1769654_3 | News Summary | will be dragged down the Hudson River to a dry dock sometime in the next several months to be patched up and repainted, its owners have told some government officials. A1 Charges in Cliffside Suicide Victor K. Han, whose stepped out of the family minivan before his wife drove it off a cliff in Bear Mountain State Park,... |
1771415_4 | Neocon or Not? | sound a little antiquated, and Smith is right to associate Strauss with cold war liberals like Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Walter Lippmann and Lionel Trilling. But it's a view from the middle of the past century that might profitably be fostered in our own moment of political polarization, when a self-righteous sense ... |
1771795_0 | Editors' Note | On Nov. 29 and Feb. 28, the Op-Ed page published articles co-written by Stephen E. Flynn, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the need to scan shipping containers. An article last Monday in the news pages of The Times reported that Mr. Flynn had earlier been a paid consultant to Science Applications... |
1771796_0 | Editors' Note | On Nov. 29 and Feb. 28, the Op-Ed page published articles co-written by Stephen E. Flynn, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the need to scan shipping containers. An article last Monday in the news pages of The Times reported that Mr. Flynn had earlier been a paid consultant to Science Applications... |
1771587_0 | A New Wrinkle in Hybrids Does Away With Batteries | BY now, hybrid vehicles are familiar enough that buyers find nothing peculiar about a car's gasoline engine getting help from an electric motor. But just as drivers have grown comfortable with concepts like regenerative braking and issues like battery life expectancy, new types of hybrids are emerging -- including one ... |
1771447_0 | Lake Como | WHY GO NOW -- Lake Como has had its share of the spotlight recently. A phalanx of television crews drawn to rumors of celebrity weddings will do that. And perhaps you've heard that George Clooney also lives there. But Lake Como -- 30 miles long and 1,350 feet at its deepest -- is more than the sum of its celebrity inte... |
1770691_0 | MySpace to Add Restrictions To Protect Younger Teenagers | Starting next week, MySpace, the popular online hangout, will make it harder for strangers to send messages to younger teenagers. The site, which has more than 70 million members, has been under pressure because members are frequently subjected to lewd or inappropriate messages and occasionally lured into dangerous rea... |
1770677_0 | For an Episcopal Pioneer, The Challenge Is to Unite | As she talked about her past and her future, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on Tuesday described a life filled with so many unusual steps -- including learning to fly and entering the Episcopal priesthood at age 40 -- that it seemed to suggest an almost congenital appetite for challenge. She now faces one of her grea... |
1770344_0 | WOMAN IS NAMED EPISCOPAL LEADER | The Episcopal Church elected Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of Nevada as its presiding bishop on Sunday, making her the first woman to lead a church in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Many Episcopalians gathered here for the church's triennial general convention cheered the largely unexpected choice of Bishop Jeffe... |
1770292_2 | Migrants, Bound for Spain, Set Off a Boom | owner of a fishing boat and waited for a call to a secret meeting place, he said, eventually boarding a pirogue in Joal, south of Dakar, the capital, in the night. When the sun came up, Mr. Seck could see around him. ''I was astounded at how many people were on the boat,'' he said. ''I counted; there were 102 of us.'' ... |
1770239_2 | No Day At the Beach | in a setting where the only shady spot is under the beach umbrella you didn't bring; consider, too, the reflective surfaces of the sand and water bouncing the incident sunlight back into the surroundings that happen to include your skin. The ultraviolet radiation in sunlight is a known carcinogen. Excess exposure can c... |
1768885_0 | National Briefing | Science And Health: Biologists Note Polar Bear Cannibalism | Providing hints that a reduction in coastal sea ice may make life difficult for polar bears, government biologists from Canada and the United States say they observed three instances of cannibalism among polar bears in a three-month stretch in 2004 along Alaskan and Yukon coasts. In the journal Polar Biology, the resea... |
1768719_0 | Trolling for Cosmic Particles Amid the Fish and Shipwrecks | An international group of scientists is building a new kind of telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, near the coast of France. To be completed in 2007, it will detect light generated by neutrinos, the high-energy cosmic particles that pass directly through the Earth. Because neutrinos pass through most matt... |
1767312_0 | Nations Benefit From Migration, U.N. Study Says | Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that the rapid growth in global migration should help, not harm, all countries but that broad international cooperation would be necessary to ensure it. ''We now understand better than ever before that migration is not a zero-sum game,'' Mr. Annan said. ''In the best cases, it ... |
1767334_3 | Racial Component Is Found In a Lethal Breast Cancer | perhaps preventive surgery if they proved to be at high risk. Basal-like tumors tend to grow fast and spread quickly, and they are more likely than other types to be fatal. They are not fed by the hormone estrogen, and so cannot be treated or prevented with estrogen-blocking drugs like tamoxifen or raloxifene. Hercepti... |
1771939_1 | Trading Up | billion per year. High-income countries, which have about 80 percent of world income, would get almost 60 percent of the $54 billion. Middle-income countries, which have almost 20 percent of world income, would get about 40 percent. Low-income countries, which have only 1.2 percent of world income, would get 1.9 percen... |
1771878_2 | Faith Has Reasons of Which Reason Knows Nothing | the face of riots inspired by the Danish cartoons of Muhammad. He is far from enamored of American policy, but the ''military aspect'' of the battle against Islamist terror, he tells Mr. Moyers, ''clearly needs to proceed.'' ''There are people you have to defeat,'' he says. But he is also wary of conflict, making vague... |
1732717_3 | News Summary | used to monitor more than a dozen defense lawyers, journalists, scholars, political activists and other Americans with Middle East ties. A14 Life Returns After Hurricane In Violet, La., on the banks of the Mississippi River east of New Orleans in St. Bernard Parish, where the houses are nothing more than rotting shells... |
1734521_2 | A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society | machine ''read'' your information than to have a human reading it. Further, as the Electronic Privacy Information Center has pointed out, at epic.org/privacy/gmail/faq.html, Google also has the technical and legal ability to archive and scan registered users' Web searches, to cross-reference that data, and, if it likes... |
1734520_2 | Finding New Connections When Wi-Fi Is Not Enough | the WiMax standard, or 802.16, which can reach longer distances at higher speeds. There are two distinct groups of products, one for fixed point-to-point connections (between two Internet providers or two radio towers, say), and one that connects to mobile users. The fixed products are available to customers now, and t... |
1734536_3 | Moving Out of the Concept Stage And Into Your Shopping Basket | earphone cord using a tiny spool that attaches to a phone or MP3 player with a strong suction cup. Wind the excess earphone cable around the spool and secure it with the built-in clip. The $9.95 cable organizer also comes with a belt clip, so the Pop can be attached to an armband or lanyard. The Pop comes in iPod-match... |
1736009_7 | Rethinking Hormones, Again | trials that will test the hypothesis. It will track markers of early atherosclerosis in 720 women initiating hormone therapy within three years of menopause. Another trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Aging, the Early vs. Late Intervention Trial With Estradiol, or Elite, will follow 504 postmenopausal women ... |
1736012_1 | Basing Choice on Risk vs. Benefit | the shortest duration of time, and many doctors now prescribe products that contain significantly less estrogen (or estrogen and progesterone) than the doses found harmful in the Women's Health Initiative. Many alternatives to oral hormones are on the market. One is the transdermal patch, which delivers hormones throug... |
1729270_2 | Roomy New Jets Leading A Revolution in Long Flights | line intended to serve the world's hub airports. Also, long-range Boeing 777 models are being snapped up by airlines around the world. One of these, the comfortable 777-200LR, which even has a sleeping bay with six beds for the flight attendants tucked into the cabin overhead, recently made a 22-hour demonstration flig... |
1730739_1 | William Haxby, 56, Dies; Mapped Ocean Floors | but detectable with satellites, are generated by variations in earth's gravitational field that are created by seabed features like seamounts, chasms and ridges. Before the gravity maps, three-dimensional charts of the seafloor were drawn largely by using thousands of individual soundings taken over the centuries from ... |
1733996_1 | Pockets of Concern Slow a Strong U.S. Economy | early 1990's, employment jumped almost 8 percent. It surged by more than 13 percent in the same period after the recession of the early 80's. What growth there is comes from a decline in the pace of layoffs, not from employers picking up hiring. In the first quarter of last year -- the last period for which there is pu... |
1733967_14 | THE WOUNDED: THE SURVIVORS -- Surviving Multiple Injuries; Struggling Back From War's Once-Deadly Wounds | he still had traces of an English accent. Today, he is fluent enough that most people would not guess how impaired he was. When he has trouble finding the right word or loses the thread of a conversation, he collects himself and starts again. More than most people, he fills in the gaps with expressions like ''basically... |
1733727_18 | The Animal Self | were devoted to studies of animals and other life forms, titles like ''Population Behavior of Bacteria,'' ''Insect Societies'' or ''The Behavior of Mammalian Herds and Packs.'' There is even a chapter devoted to ''Social Origins and Processes Among Plants.'' But in the 1954 edition of a similar work called ''The Handbo... |
1734042_2 | All the King's Horses, All the King's Men | placed on various parts of the wall, will detect any shifts or significant movement, officials said. But a further cleanup and permanent repairs cannot be made, they said, until engineers find out what made the wall give way in the first place. The city hired an engineering company shortly after the collapse to conduct... |
1731022_0 | Itineraries; MEMO PAD | ZIPPING THROUGH SECURITY -- Indianapolis International Airport is the latest airport to sign on for the federal Registered Traveler Program, which aims to move frequent fliers through security faster. The airport selected the Clear plan, developed by Verified Identity Pass, which introduced it at Orlando International ... |
1731044_3 | Cheers Outside and Senators' Lectures Inside | his sister, a lawyer, had excelled in professions that ''traditionally had been dominated by men.'' His only harsh words were leveled at his alma mater, Princeton, which he called ''a different world'' even though it was 12 miles from his middle-class community. In the turmoil of the late 1960's and early 70's, he said... |
1730966_2 | When the Pill Arouses That Urge for Abstinence | used the pills at some time. Some specialists in sexual medicine say doctors should not prescribe a drug to prevent pregnancy without letting women know that it may decrease their interest in sex. ''I think there's been a serious neglect on the part of the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry,'' said Dr. ... |
1734817_0 | Warring Factions in Sri Lanka Agree to Resume Peace Talks | In a measure of how intractable this country's ethnic conflict is, the warring parties agreed Wednesday to begin talking to each other again, after more than 18 months of deadlock over a site for peace talks and with scores of killings in the meantime. The talks would focus on strengthening an all-but-ineffectual four-... |
1734849_1 | Inmate Convicted of Murdering Defrocked Priest | J. Geoghan, a defrocked priest who was accused of molesting 150 boys. Mr. Geoghan played a central role in the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese here. Judge Francis R. Fecteau of Worcester District Court sentenced the inmate, Joseph L. Druce, to life in prison without parole, in addition to the lif... |
1733482_1 | U.N. Reports Lack of Data On Women In Poverty | conduct a census in the past decade, and 8 in 10 live in countries with inadequate national collection of vital statistics. India and China, home to half of the world's poor, carried out censuses but have weak systems for registering births and deaths, information needed to understand trends in health and sex discrimin... |
1733473_0 | Game Theory | POKER; Once Swept Under the Rug, Now on the Table | Ever since poker began moving up from New Orleans on Mississippi River steamboats about 200 years ago, newspaper and dictionary editors as well as military, business and political chroniclers have tended to devalue its cultural currency or ignore it altogether. They've often done so in the face of abundant evidence tha... |
1731562_5 | Post-Salad-Days Women Agree: They Want 'What She's Having' | for those who can't achieve orgasm. Yet the truth is that women tend to live longer than men, and finding a partner is often difficult. Of all the books, Ms. Juska's is the darkest, especially as she describes her romance at 71, with Graham, 36, with whom she fell deeply in love. But Graham eventually married a woman c... |
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