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1734229_4 | Bolivia Indians Hail the Swearing In of One of Their Own as President | ''We expect a complete change.'' ''The government needs to favor the poor, suffering classes,'' he said. ''We have to control the wealth here in Bolivia.'' Gustavo Torrico Landa, 46, a congressman from Mr. Morales's Movement Toward Socialism Party, said: ''The government has to show that it has begun to function But it... |
1734189_3 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Turbos: 100 Years Young And Still Pushing Hard | took root in ships, trucks and locomotives; by the 1960's, it was ready for glamorous assignments in racecars and performance models. In 1962, the first turbocharged production car, the Oldsmobile F-85 Jetfire, took advantage of a water-injection system developed by the military to avoid detonation. The advent of emiss... |
1735654_1 | READING FILE | the crucibles of the worst of times, develop an agenda for a post-scarcity society? The growing conflation of the economic and the cultural in the minds of voters has been a cause of great perplexity for thinkers who have long seen the two realms as distinct, and the cultural realm as the secondary concern of unserious... |
1735782_0 | No Cigar for Bush | To the Sports Editor: The latest example of the longstanding and vengeful United States foreign policy toward Cuba was the proposed prohibition of Cuba's baseball players, arguably the world's best, from competing in the World Baseball Classic. Finally, amid near-universal dismay at the hypocrisy of the United States p... |
1735679_7 | The Neediest Cases; Three Who Work Tirelessly To Help Poorest New Yorkers | to behavior problems. By the end of the session, she usually leaves with a list of things to research for her clients and their families, and with access to the Neediest Cases, she knows she can take care of some of their worries. Recently, for example, she used funds to buy an exercise bike for an overweight girl with... |
1735660_2 | 'No Messages on This Server,' and Other Lessons of Our Time | longest you've gone without checking your e-mail in the past two months? Anything longer than a broken night's sleep is good. I blame my e-mail addiction, in part, on the United States Postal Service. Seeing the mail lady pull up to our rural mailbox in her red station wagon with the flashing amber light on top is one ... |
1735408_8 | The Call | intend, gradually, to hold more and more Christian services not under a roof but under the acacia trees amid the manyattas. They want the sparsely attended church down the path from their house to be superseded. And they plan to teach the lessons of the Bible not through the preaching of written verses but through an e... |
1731265_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Son Ordered To Bury Or Cremate His Frozen Parents | The Council of State, the country's top administrative court, ruled that Rémy Martinot-Leroy, whose parents' bodies have been frozen for years in the hope that they might one day be brought back to life, had to remove them from a refrigerated crypt in the basement of their chateau in the Loire Valley and bury or cremat... |
1730571_0 | Maybe the Bird Had Cataracts | GOOGLE EARTH allows people to see satellite images of the entire world, from the Egyptian Pyramids to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when users open Google Earth, a free computer program, they seem to fixate on one site first: their own homes. For many Connecticut users, that experience has been a disappointment, becau... |
1729108_1 | Commander of Sea, Myth and Tea Towel | Horace, to use his baptismal name -- came out of nowhere, one of 11 children of a colorless Norfolk parson and the only one who distinguished himself. He went to sea at 12, and his talent was quickly recognized, but his advance also depended upon luck and a judicious amount of bootlicking. The British navy in those day... |
1729628_2 | New (and Sometimes Conflicting) Data on the Value to Society of the Job Corps | program earned $220 more than the control group, on average, according to the Social Security data; $5,804 versus $5,584. The earnings gain from the Job Corps was twice as large for 20- to 24-year-olds, who make up around a quarter of participants. On the other hand, the new data raise several puzzles and paint a less ... |
1729664_0 | Need Medicaid? Show Your Passport | Buried in the nearly 800-page federal budget bill is a nasty little provision, ostensibly aimed at immigrants, that will make it difficult for many poverty-stricken U.S. citizens to get the health care they are entitled to under Medicaid. Advocates believe that the provision, which will require Medicaid applicants to d... |
1732494_2 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Fancier Wrappers for Next-Wave Hybrids | show to highlight the two-mode hybrid it is developing with BMW and DaimlerChrysler. The system, to be used first in the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon, uses electric motors mounted inside the transmission to augment a 300-horsepower V-8. The two drive modes, one for slower city driving and the other for highway cruisin... |
1734265_2 | This Is Your Brain on Schadenfreude. Do You Feel Bad About Feeling Good? | in her paper, either, but in an interview she defended the idea that the emotion she was viewing came under the heading of schadenfreude. She did acknowledge that the word included other feelings. When someone slips and falls on the ice, celebrities have wardrobe malfunctions and rich people lose money, your reward cen... |
1734302_1 | MEMO PAD | travelers a year. A WORD OF CAUTION -- The Association of Corporate Travel Executives has urged frequent fliers to look carefully at how the Registered Traveler program will operate. The group supports the program but has expressed concerns about whether procedures and ID cards issued by various companies will be inter... |
1734270_0 | Bad News for Nerves of Aging Fans of Heavy Metal | Longtime exposure to loud noise may increase the risk of developing a benign nerve tumor called an acoustic neuroma, Swedish research suggests. The tumor, which grows inside the skull, can cause constant ringing in the ears, affect balance and result in deafness. It occurs mainly in people over 50. The findings, publis... |
1733336_0 | Gideon Rodan, 71, Scientist Who Researched Bone Loss | Gideon A. Rodan, a biomedical researcher who studied the destruction and formation of bone cells in important work used to develop treatments for osteoporosis and bone loss, died Jan. 1 at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 71. The cause was cancer, his family said. Dr. Rodan (pronounced roe-DAN) studied the relationshi... |
1733326_0 | Chirac Hints at Nuclear Reply To State-Supported Terrorism | President Jacques Chirac said Thursday that he would consider a nuclear response to a large, state-backed terrorist strike against France. ''The leaders of states who would use terrorist means against us, as well as those who would consider using in one way or another weapons of mass destruction, must understand that t... |
1732885_1 | A Bear's Necessities | Park, parts of six national forests and some other lands under public and private ownership. That ecosystem, so far as bears are concerned, is an island. It's surrounded by landscape inhospitable to grizzly bears: farms, ranches, fences, Interstate highways, golf courses, trophy houses, malls, railroad lines and towns ... |
1731421_0 | China Proposes Fewer Dams in Power Project to Aid Environment | A government environmental review has recommended reducing the number of dams included in a controversial hydropower proposal on the Nu River in southwestern China in order to limit environmental damage and decrease the number of people who would be resettled, a Hong Kong newspaper has reported. The newspaper, Wen Wei ... |
1731312_2 | Are They Here to Save The World? | and Ms. Tober define the phenomenon. Indigos, they write, share traits like high I.Q., acute intuition, self-confidence, resistance to authority and disruptive tendencies, which are often diagnosed as attention-deficit disorder, known as A.D.D., or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or A.D.H.D. Offered as a guid... |
1731419_3 | China Chemical Spills Spur Plan to Guard Water Supply | that tests had initially showed that cadmium levels at city intake pipes were five times above the national safety standard. But he said the water was treated at municipal water quality plants so that it would be safe for public consumption. Mr. Jiang said the toxicity of the river water now met quality standards. He a... |
1731377_0 | Frog Killer Is Linked to Global Warming | Scientists studying a fast-dwindling genus of colorful harlequin frogs on misty mountainsides in Central and South America are reporting today that global warming is combining with a spreading fungus to kill off many species. The researchers implicate global warming, as opposed to local variations in temperature or oth... |
1728973_1 | Gunmen Take Over Palestinian Office in Gaza, Seeking Jobs | without interference on Saturday. The various groups of armed young men, some affiliated with political parties and movements and others with powerful families or clans, make up the street-corner society of Gaza. President Mahmoud Abbas has promised to give many of these men -- especially those affiliated with Al Aksa ... |
1729046_0 | Trash Disposal: Recycling Isn't Enough | To the Editor: Your article about Long Island's looming trash disposal crisis (''A Long, Long Haul From the Curb,'' Dec. 4) and subsequent letters emphasized the need for solutions beyond long-hauling waste to a landfill. But substantial waste will still remain for disposal even after recycling. We need to focus on whe... |
1728860_1 | F. Y. I. | The East River, though open to traffic, was choked with floating ice. Only with the greatest difficulty was a channel kept open in the Hudson. Once-Sparkling Streets Q. Some time ago, the city was using recycled glass in asphalt to create new streets. So for a time, our streets glistened with glass. Is it still in use?... |
1729013_6 | Aid Lets Smaller Colleges Ask, Why Pay for Ivy League Retail? | awarded both kinds of scholarships, Michelle Bartol, the dean of enrollment, said. The scholarships have helped Juniata attract more and better students. But they carry a steep price. Juniata's discount rate -- the amount of potential income it forgoes by offering students merit and need-based assistance -- is nearly 5... |
1729037_3 | Stepping Onto a Career Path Lighted by a Seasoned Guide | on that.'' John C. Braddock, an investment management executive, says that the international students he mentors often face language and cultural challenges. Students from Asian countries, for example, are often uncomfortable marketing themselves and making cold calls seeking jobs. When a student from Mumbai, Vishal Kh... |
1729914_1 | Microsoft Shuts Blog's Site After Complaints by Beijing | called MSN Spaces after the blog discussed the firing of the independent-minded editor of The Beijing News, which prompted 100 journalists at the paper to go on strike Dec. 29. It was an unusual show of solidarity for a Chinese news organization in an industry that has complied with tight restrictions on what can be pu... |
1732266_6 | In Tiny Arab State, Web Takes On Ruling Elite | satellite television outside its reach, the government resorts to tactics like tossing Mr. Abdulemam and two of his fellow Web masters into jail for a couple of weeks, as it did last year. At the time, the opposition orchestrated repeated demonstrations and international intervention to help win his release, but legal ... |
1732422_6 | Preservation: Sure, It's a Good Thing, but | so they double the entry fee and build an airport next to it.'' He recalled being horrified at what had become of theJiuzhaigou Valley, a natural reserve in Sichuan Province, China. ''The entire valley is spoiled by mass tourism.'' In 2001, the World Heritage Center established its first sustainable tourism program, an... |
1732220_1 | On Not Wanting to Know What Hurts You | quickly kill. News reports tend to focus on its gruesome aspects. And it often occurs in hospitals. ''You're never less in control of your own life than when you're in the hospital,'' Dr. Sandman said. ''You're wearing PJ's open at the back. You're at the beck and call of orderlies and other people who in your regular ... |
1732323_0 | College Advantage | To the Editor: As a high school teacher, I want to add another issue to ''The Two Faces of A.P.'' (Education Life section, Jan. 8). In an age where colleges have added economic diversity to their pursuit of ethnic and regional diversity, does the national explosion of Advanced Placement courses actually undermine intel... |
1732146_4 | Web Sites for the Brave New Electronic B@by | to actually e-mail the baby.'' She added, ''I just thought that's absurd.'' (She confessed, though, that she sometimes sends e-mail messages to friends from the point of view of her dog, a mixed-breed shepherd, whom she declined to name.) But for those looking for e-mail addresses or Web sites in their children's names... |
1806972_0 | Catholic and Anglican Leaders Vow United Effort | ''Serious obstacles'' continue to divide Roman Catholics and Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI and the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, said Thursday after meeting at the Vatican. But the two men, separated less by belief than by history and issues like gay priests and female bishops, pledged to work ... |
1806959_0 | Arts, Briefly | Some Old-Time Loving on Display Some very erotic art will be on display at Somerset House in London when a new exhibition, titled ''The Triumph of Eros: Art and Seduction in 18th-Century France,'' opens today. The works, on loan from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, include a recently discovered group of rare Fr... |
1806995_2 | In Trials for New Cancer Drugs, Family Pets Are Benefiting, Too | Wilbers enrolled Basil in a study of a drug developed by Sugen, a biotechnology company, being conducted at the University of California, Davis. Enough tumors disappeared so that the rest could be removed surgically, and Basil has been free of cancer for three and a half years. Not all 57 dogs in the trial were as luck... |
1802260_1 | Students on the Spectrum | People like Miss Kaplan have a disability, but to others they can seem merely gifted, or difficult, or odd. Of course, high-functioning people on the spectrum have long attended college. Tony Attwood , a psychologist and author of ''The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome,'' tells of trying to spot the professor with... |
1802722_1 | In The Holy Caves of India | scratched graffito that he left high on a basalt pillar in one of these caves, with, in perfectly legibly incised copperplate, his name and the date, April 1819. This small moment of recorded vandalism marks this otherwise unsung soldier as the first European discoverer of an ancient construction that still, nearly 200... |
1802243_3 | Spending Time, Not Killing It, on a Layover | Everglades ($11 to $16 for a 15-minute ride) to Las Olas Boulevard to shop, people-watch, or sip a cappuccino at an outdoor cafe. Some passengers leaving cruises can pay a service like Baggage Airline Guest Services in Orlando, or Bags Inc. to take care of their bags. The company has agreements with major cruise lines,... |
1802670_2 | A Woman Is Installed as Top Bishop of the Episcopal Church | and the full-throated singing of the traditional hymn ''Holy, Holy, Holy.'' But the ceremony's true beginning came minutes later, when Bishop Jefferts Schori, who was outside, knocked three times on the cathedral's western doors with her staff. She entered in violet and green vestments and was greeted by the departing ... |
1802359_0 | The Brushwork Is the Message | The reasons that contemporary audiences think abstract painting is boring are many and varied -- and most have little to do with the merits of the individual artists. Art historical fashions and fads come and go, and quickly; inevitably, certain types of art do not generate the same audience reaction that they did, say... |
1802256_7 | The Overconnecteds | with classmates once deemed unapproachable. If friendships do not follow, at least there's the basis for a hello in the hallway. ''Even if there's still the social hierarchy,'' Ms. Marani says, ''at least it's more flexible. I.M., MySpace, that's where our friendships start, and who knows how they'll develop.'' Ms. Coh... |
1802663_9 | The Neediest Cases; Help Meeting the Challenges of Parenthood and Poverty | her job as a manicurist at a beauty salon. ''I really wanted to work, but it was too much for one person,'' Ms. Taveras said. To address Ms. Taveras's emotional strain, Ms. Andrejcisk found her counseling and put her children in the center's day care. They also received medical checkups and were evaluated for mental di... |
1802191_5 | Ship to Shore | telegrams flew back and forth over the ocean, and the news was then forwarded by telegraph cables until ''the front pages of newspapers around the world'' were following the story of the oblivious fugitive couple and the pursuit of their ocean liner by a detective from the Yard, aboard a fast steamer. For readers, Lars... |
1802233_1 | In the Of Holy Caves India | scratched graffito that he left high on a basalt pillar in one of these caves, with, in perfectly legibly incised copperplate, his name and the date, April 1819. This small moment of recorded vandalism marks this otherwise unsung soldier as the first European discoverer of an ancient construction that still, nearly 200... |
1802205_0 | Up Front | I didn't even touch on the impact of the Internet,'' Michael Kinsley noted in an e-mail message about his cover essay, ''Election Day,'' evidently as surprised as we were. Kinsley is, of course, one of the founders of the Internet news revolution, and still writes a column for Slate, the online publication he started i... |
1802258_3 | 'Just a Normal Girl' | absorb. ''The students have intellectual disabilities, but their chronological age goes along normally, and they want the same kind of social experiences,'' says Linda Hickson, who coordinates programs on mental retardation and autism at Teachers College at Columbia. ''The challenge is to find ageappropriate experience... |
1801618_2 | What Makes a Nation Wealthy? Maybe It's the Working Stiff | that if variations in the quality of labor across nations are taken into account, other productivity factors need differ by only 27 percent to explain differences in per capita income. Professor Clark argues that as late as the 18th century, most Europeans had not exceeded the standard of living in hunter-gatherer soci... |
1801674_3 | Junk Mail Is Alive and Growing | for direct mail. But since 2000, direct mail has just gained speed. ''The Internet has actually been a trigger of direct mail,'' said Peter A. Johnson, vice president of research and market intelligence for the Direct Marketing Association. ''With every company now basically having a customer-facing Web site, suddenly ... |
1801591_1 | Ending Fight for U.N. Seat, Guatemala and Venezuela Back Panama | language.'' Venezuelan diplomats had positioned the race largely as a contest between Mr. Chávez's foreign policy and that of the Bush administration, describing efforts by the United States to support Guatemala's candidacy as ''gross blackmail.'' The presidents of Bolivia and the Dominican Republic said they had been ... |
1808315_3 | The Immigration Answer? It's in Mexico's Classrooms | immigrants from Mexico and other Latin countries, and require higher levels of education. Young Mexicans would see greater reason to invest in education, to the benefit of all Mexican society, not just those who cross the border. Sixteen percent of the Mexican labor force is working in the United States at any point in... |
1808314_0 | A College Education Without Job Prospects | The job market for Indian college graduates is split sharply in two. With a robust handshake, a placeless accent and a confident walk, you can get a $300-a-month job with Citibank or Microsoft. With a limp handshake and a thick accent, you might peddle credit cards door to door for $2 a day. India was once divided chie... |
1808261_0 | A Simple, Compact System for Opening Up The Dead Zones That Block Cellphone Signals | Cellphone carriers often crow about having fewer dropped calls than the competition, but high-rises, brick walls and plaster lead to blind spots in some homes. Wi-Ex has created a compact system for amplifying cellphone signals without the need for much high-tech mumbo-jumbo. The zBoost Dual-Band grabs cell signals and... |
1803893_0 | Navigating the Amazon Region in Search of a Big One | Early morning is the finest part of the day in Amazonia. The air is sweet and dewy. The temperature is as cool as it will get for the next 24 hours. Freshwater dolphins breach the calm surface water. An assortment of tropical birds calls raucously. And, each day, a pink-to-orange rising sun ball bathed the rain forest ... |
1803860_1 | Clearing a Path From Desktop To the Recycler | agency. Every old computer monitor contains about four pounds of lead, and other parts are filled with heavy metals like mercury, arsenic, cadmium and chromium. They have toxins that hover in the air after incineration or leach into the water supply when buried in landfills. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in... |
1803875_10 | What's Wrong With a Child? Psychiatrists Often Disagree | nor his mother expect that bipolar disorder will be the last diagnosis they hear. In Search of Clarity The specialists who manage children's psychiatric disorders are trying to bring more standards and clarity to the field. Harvard researchers are completing the most comprehensive nationwide survey of mental illness in... |
1803825_0 | A Crackdown on Newborns | A new crackdown on Medicaid fraud is forcing states to follow the letter of the law to a harsh and dismal place. Under orders from the Bush administration, they are erecting unnecessary paperwork obstacles that could deny medical care to poor newborns in the crucial first weeks and months of life. This development is a... |
1806792_2 | Thanksgiving's Moveable Feast | the rainy Eastern seaboard. Forests are in trouble, as snowpacks melt and stop nourishing them, and insect-deterring resin under pine bark dries up, leaving trees vulnerable to bark beetles, which now stay the winter, thanks to newly hospitable climes. Sorry about the native chestnut, now making such a promising comeba... |
1808077_0 | U.S. Clears Faster Airport Security Checks | After almost five years of discussion, federal authorities cleared the way yesterday for a program giving travelers who volunteer for background checks an easier passage through airport security to begin next month. A company called Verified Identity Pass, which already operates a pilot program called Clear at Orlando ... |
1808025_1 | Chinese Art Is as Hot in the East as It Is in the West | any Chinese painting. Titled ''Slave and Lion,'' it is a Western-style oil painting that depicts a scene from a story set in the Roman Empire. Even more startling were the prices paid for works by living Chinese artists, especially the painters and installation artists who began working in the 1980s, including Wang Gua... |
1808187_0 | Metro Briefing | New York: Parsippany: Group Plans To Ordain Married Priests | A group of priests who oppose the requirement of celibacy for Roman Catholic priests announced yesterday that it would ordain at least three married men as priests on Dec. 10. The Vatican excommunicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia in September for ordaining four married men. He said yesterday that celibacy sh... |
1807722_1 | Very Rich Are Leaving the Merely Rich Behind | to the 20th-year reunion and saw that somebody else who was 10 times less smart was making much more money.'' The opportunity to become abundantly rich is a recent phenomenon not only in medicine, but in a growing number of other professions and occupations. In each case, the great majority still earn fairly uniform si... |
1807664_0 | Xerox Seeks Erasable Form Of Paper For Copiers | During the 1970s, researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center explored a software technique called ''garbage collection'' used for recycling computer memory. The technique allowed the automatic reuse of blocks of memory that were storing unused programs and data. Today an anthropologist at the center, Brinda Dalal... |
1807694_2 | A Layered Look Reveals Ancient Greek Texts | was an orator who made speeches at public meetings of the citizen assembly. A contemporary of Aristotle and Demosthenes, he wrote speeches for himself and for others and spoke at important political trials. In 322 B.C. Hyperides was executed by the Macedonians for participating in a failed rebellion. ''It's a spotlight... |
1804928_2 | The Storm in the Mind of a Child | assigned a label and to undergo biochemical manipulation. There remains a role for the clinician who takes the time to know a patient and who recognizes complexity. That clinician will recognize the major role that can be played by neuroscience and pharmacology in the care of certain psychiatric patients, but will not ... |
1804868_3 | Why Roots Matter More | buying might be safer or healthier than conventionally produced food. Although some studies have found advantages to organically raised food, especially regarding pesticide residue, environmental impact and increases in certain nutrients, food scientists and farmers still argue the point. The nation's appetite for orga... |
1804938_0 | U.S. Bishops Adopt Guidelines on Gays | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to support initiatives based on traditional teachings that call for gay and lesbian Catholics to remain celibate and for married Catholics to reject artificial contraception. At a semiannual meeting in Baltimore, the United States Conference of Catholi... |
1804965_0 | A New Push To Raise Cap On H-1B Visa | A coalition of business and education groups is making a renewed push to persuade Congress to raise the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the United States this year. The coalition, which calls itself Compete America and whose members are drawn heavily from the technology industry, sent a letter to every m... |
1802801_4 | The Package May Say Healthy, But This Grocer Begs to Differ | School who was part of the advisory panel that developed Hannaford's formula. V8, for instance, which says it has ''essential antioxidants'' and is ''vitamin rich,'' is ''like drinking a vitamin with a lot of salt on it,'' she said. Ms. Sutherland said that the F.D.A.'s guidelines for labeling, including its definition... |
1801356_1 | Pause for Peace | foreign as it might seem. After all, the Irish Republican Army agreed to halt its military struggle to free Northern Ireland from British rule without recognizing British sovereignty. Irish Republicans continue to aspire to a united Ireland free of British rule, but rely upon peaceful methods. Had the I.R.A. been force... |
1801354_3 | The Taxi Driver | talking to his parents in Africa. How wonderful! But that meant the two of us wouldn't talk at all. And we were sitting two feet from each other. When I shared this story with Linda Stone, the technologist who once labeled the disease of the Internet age ''continuous partial attention'' -- two people doing six things, ... |
1801342_1 | NASA Plans Manned Flight To Fix Telescope in 2008 | provoked an outcry from scientists, politicians and the public in 2004 by canceling a scheduled fifth and final repair mission in the wake of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its crew. Mr. O'Keefe cited the risk to astronauts and the need to use the remaining shuttle flights to finish the International Space ... |
1801394_1 | For North Korean Resort, Symbol of Engagement, Nuclear Test's Fallout Is Financial | to finance its nuclear program. As a result, the resort has become a diplomatic battleground following North Korea's nuclear test on Oct. 9. The United States has been pushing the South to close the resort. South Korea's leaders have refused. The resort has also become something of a touchstone for the South's increase... |
1804342_0 | Frustration Grows at Carousel As More Baggage Goes Astray | Since Aug. 10, when a ban on most carry-on liquids sent the amount of checked luggage soaring, airlines have been misplacing many more bags, and the fumbling could well escalate during the busy holiday travel season. The Transportation Department reported that 107,731 more fliers had their bags go missing in August tha... |
1804240_4 | The Business of Negotiating for More College Aid | ''A good fit upfront is paramount,'' Mr. Rapp said. ''My first goal is that she graduate in four years. If they can make that happen, it's worth the money.'' But finding a good fit is not only about money. ''They came to me, and said, 'Hey, what are you interested in, what do you want to do with your life?' '' said Kel... |
1804340_1 | ENTREPRENEURS SEE A WEB GUIDED BY COMMON SENSE | or educational consulting, with the Web helping a high school student identify the right college. The projects aimed at creating Web 3.0 all take advantage of increasingly powerful computers that can quickly and completely scour the Web. ''I call it the World Wide Database,'' said Nova Spivack, the founder of a start-u... |
1803586_0 | Antiques | A British Pioneer Of the Greek Revival Manhattan design mavens are in for a treat. On Thursday the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture opens an exhibition about James Stuart (1713-1788), called the Athenian, the first British architect to pioneer the Greek Revival style that late... |
1807861_1 | Church on the Edge of Rome Offers a Solution to Smog | now being tried in buildings, squares and highways in Europe and Japan. Hailed by some scientists as a breakthrough, the process is still being evaluated by others. The question, said Melanie L. Sattler, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, is ''whether coatings on b... |
1807882_0 | MEMO PAD | FREQUENT-FLIER REPORT CARD -- As airlines reduce domestic capacity and take off with unprecedented percentages of their seats filled with paying customers, it is increasingly difficult for consumers to book mileage award travel at standard published rates or even to ''compare frequent-flier programs in a meaningful way... |
1807865_0 | Bebe Moore Campbell, Novelist of Black Lives, Dies at 56 | Bebe Moore Campbell, a best-selling novelist known for her empathetic treatment of the difficult, intertwined and occasionally surprising relationship between the races, died yesterday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 56. The cause was complications of brain cancer, said Linda Wharton-Boyd, a longtime friend. Along ... |
1806592_3 | AIDS Is on the Rise Worldwide, U.N. Finds | the previous year. Also, there are signs of an increased H.I.V. prevalence in some of Uganda's rural areas. Cause for concern was also found in Thailand. Despite a falling overall H.I.V. infection rate there, a large percentage of new infections are among people previously considered at low risk, Dr. De Lay said. ''A t... |
1801757_3 | Shifting Sands and a Slow Pace on the Georgia Coast | is only by boat. Once this stretch of coast was a dynamic place, a center of commerce and adventurism. More than a half-century before the English arrived at Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, the Spanish had missions and fortifications here, the largest and most important on nearby St. Catherines Island. The Spanish foothol... |
1803477_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Falling Population 'Cannot Be Halted' | Germany's population could drop to about 70 million by 2050, from 82.4 million now, because of low birth rates, the Federal Statistics Office said. The country already has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe. ''The population decline cannot be halted,'' said Walter Rademacher, the vice president of the statistics o... |
1803361_0 | GARDEN Q.&A. | Planter-Box Genetics Q. Last year I saved seed from supermarket grape tomatoes, even though I assumed they were hybrids and would not breed true. I started them indoors, selected the three largest seedlings and grew them on my balcony. They produced tasty medium-size fruit, so I saved some seeds. Will those seeds breed... |
1802039_0 | Seeing the Climate Policy for the Trees | THERE is a little recognized but vital element to re-engaging the United States in solving the problem of global climate change: forests. Creating financial incentives to protect forests and promote tree planting would be attractive to poor nations but also to American companies and farmers, giving the United States go... |
1807101_2 | Despite Setbacks, Blair Is Hopeful on Ulster Local Rule | on the divided parties resolving crucial differences over power sharing and support for the police. ''What is clear is this: If Sinn Fein agrees to the proper and full support of policing in Northern Ireland by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and to the rule of law, then the Democratic Unionist Party will share ... |
1805349_0 | Vatican Reaffirms Support of Celibacy for Clergy | The Vatican reiterated its position on Thursday on celibacy for the clergy, addressing the challenge from a renegade archbishop who has been lobbying to persuade the church to accept marriage for Roman Catholic priests. ''The value of the choice of priestly celibacy, according to the Catholic tradition, has been reaffi... |
1805459_2 | Myanmar Is Left in Dark, an Energy-Rich Orphan | the government, not of the people,'' one woman said. ''They are like brother and brother-in-law.'' The Bush administration has pledged that it will not let up on its sanctions against the government until it releases the opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for 11 of the past 17 year... |
1804541_2 | A Decline in Foreign Students Is Reversed | this year the graduate school sent a vice dean to a recruitment fair in Shanghai. ''In my eight years as graduate dean at N.Y.U.,'' she said, ''this was the first time we have sent a graduate school official outside of the United States and its territories explicitly for recruiting.'' Officials at the institute, which ... |
1805737_13 | Out of This World | through deep gorges. An extraordinary set of events ensued. In order to block the dams, the Tasmanian Wilderness Society proposed protecting the riverine lands within a national park that would be included in the World Heritage area. Though the federal government in Canberra supported the Wilderness Society's proposal,... |
1806105_5 | U.S. Signals New Incentives for North Korea | launder money from drug smuggling and other illicit activities and to pass counterfeit $100 bills manufactured by the North's government. Officially, American diplomats say they will lift the restrictions when North Korea stops counterfeiting American currency. But privately, they acknowledge that they hope to find way... |
1805853_0 | Correction | An Op-Ed article last week incorrectly described the status of the nuclear reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The lab's three reactors are all inactive; there are not two reactors still operating. |
1805756_10 | China's African Adventure | life expectancy is 38, where cholera, polio and hemorrhagic fevers like the Marburg virus flourish -- a country that ranks 160th out of the 177 countries on the United Nations' Human Development Index. How, and when, will the cataract of oil money flow down the hill from Luanda Sul to improve the lives of Angola's impo... |
1805765_2 | The Real Marriage Penalty | on the rise. In a 2004 study of couples wed in the 1970s through the early 1990s, the researchers Megan Sweeney and Maria Cancian found an increasingly strong association between women's wages before marriage and the occupational status and future earnings prospects of the men they married. Why is this happening? For o... |
1806063_1 | CROSSCURRENTS: The Yellow River; China's Path to Modernity, Mirrored in a Troubled River | billion, is in crisis, as scientists warn that the glaciers and underground water system feeding the river are gravely threatened. For the rest of China, where the economy has evolved beyond trading rings for sheep, it is the latest burden for a river saturated with pollution and sucked dry by factories, growing cities... |
1806109_0 | Mayday! Some Cars Will Lose OnStar Link | FOR the last decade, OnStar has promoted itself as a paragon of convenience and peace of mind for car owners. Best known for its ability to bail out customers in a jam -- and even make an automatic call for help when an air bag has been deployed in an accident -- the service has about four million subscribers. OnStar m... |
1806090_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL 3-25 China's Yellow River in Crisis With the sources of China's Yellow River threatened by climate change, and drought and pollution growing, the river is becoming a symbol of the dire state of the country's limited resources at a time of soaring economic growth. 1 Sunni Sheiks Denounce Cleric Sunni Arab ... |
1806418_3 | Studying Autism Isn't Enough | that early and intensive intervention is critical. The core of most intervention plans, it is generally agreed, should be a cognitive method engaging the child's intellect and emotions and sociability. Insurance companies and others often deny coverage by arguing that treatment methods are experimental, but that assert... |
1806363_0 | The Coastline Is Retreating. Should the Montauk Lighthouse Stand Its Ground? | Lighthouses speak to the imagination. They illuminate the darkness, remind us of a vanishing maritime heritage and embody what it means to make it safely home. So when erosion threatens to send a lighthouse toppling into the sea, people want to save it. But how? The way we answer that question involves more than engine... |
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