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1802952_6 | It May Come as a Shock | to the emergency room for treatment because the magnetic stimulation devices were cumbersome (weighing roughly 80 pounds, they are modified versions of machines used for brain mapping). The California-based company Neuralieve has since developed smaller, portable devices that resemble ray guns and weigh just under thre... |
1807286_6 | Saving the Great Wall From Being Loved to Death | encouraged people to take bricks. They didn't know about tourism. They thought the Great Wall was absolutely useless.'' Today, the new national regulations are part of a government effort to improve protection. Officials concede they still do not truly know how much of the wall remains intact from its western origins i... |
1807485_0 | For the Autistic, a Gift Of Common Ground | ALMOST everyone knows of a family affected by autism, the disorder that can impair a child's ability to form social and emotional connections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says autism-related disorders are more common than cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, blindness and deafness -- some of the other majo... |
1807516_1 | The Education of Robert Kennedy | that had befallen him. ''When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent as to shut out everything else from view,'' Hamilton writes, ''then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.'' Classical scholars often scorn ... |
1804675_0 | South Korea Won't Intercept Cargo Ships From the North | South Korea said Monday that it would not join a United States-led effort to intercept North Korean ships suspected of carrying unconventional weapons or related cargo, raising fresh doubts about Washington's drive to punish the North for its nuclear test last month. The South Korean government of President Roh Moo-hyu... |
1804773_4 | Itineraries; Loading an Airliner Is Rocket Science | be slow boarding and even slower deplaning.'' The recent security crackdown that tightened limits on carry-on luggage serendipitously proved her point. Some airlines said boarding had become noticeably easier because many carry-ons ended up as checked baggage. Perhaps the simplest approach is the open seating plan famo... |
1804714_1 | MEMO PAD | premium cabins are our most profitable segment, and we are reconfiguring our aircraft to increase ClubWorld capacity by 9 percent, moving from 38 to 52 seats on some of our Boeing 747 aircraft,'' said Willie Walsh, the chief executive. Last month, Singapore Airlines announced a $360 million improvement project for its ... |
1778624_0 | Senate Removes Abortion Option For Young Girls | The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would make it a federal crime to help an under-age girl escape parental notification laws by crossing state lines to obtain an abortion. The bill was approved on a 65-to-34 vote, with 14 Democrats joining 51 Republicans in favor. A similar measure passed the House last year, a... |
1778584_1 | Battle for Baghdad Boils Down to Grabbing a Slice at a Time | is tormented by sectarian strife and lawless militias is such an essential task that American commanders are willing to accept a greater degree of risk elsewhere. Sending in additional troops is an implicit acknowledgment of what every Iraqi in Baghdad already knows: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's original Baghd... |
1778679_2 | Leaders of Two Parties for Left-Wing Alliance | Mr. Yanukovichs nomination as Prime Minister while saving face before the opposition. KOMMERSANT PIPELINE COMPANYS ASSETS FROZEN: Russias Federal Tax Service froze the accounts of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) Tuesday, compromising Russias only gas pipeline not controlled by the state-run Transneft. Tax authori... |
1778626_1 | Rangers Take On Urban Woes Spilling Into Wide Open Spaces | been more challenging, Mr. Leveille said. Nationwide, there were more attacks and altercations involving forest rangers last year -- 477, compared with 34 a decade ago -- than any other year, according to government figures released last month by a public employee advocacy group. As the 193 million acres of national fo... |
1778530_3 | Creamy, Healthier Ice Cream? What's the Catch? | But genetically modified foods have yet to gain wide acceptance from the European public, and Unilever has found itself the unwilling center of attention. ''It's unfortunate that this happened to come out during our so-called summer when people are interested in ice cream,'' said Trevor Gorin, head of media relations f... |
1775802_1 | For Freshmen Headed Out of State, New York Is Top Choice | attracting the best and the brightest,'' he said. ''The evidence is, we are failing in keeping them here.'' Mr. Lackman and John Sexton, the president of New York University, have enlisted foundations and public officials, including Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in an effort to promote higher education as a vehicle f... |
1775770_0 | BREAKING GROUND | The St. Andrews Grand WHAT -- Residence club at a golf destination. WHERE -- St. Andrews, Scotland. AMENITIES -- Golf memberships and privileges, a private dining area, a spa and a fitness center, among others. PRICES -- Club memberships range from about $1.3 million to $3.4 million, based on the size and location of t... |
1775869_3 | Experts (Including Patients) Question Day Care's Value | among many other criteria. In addition, the Peninsula program is billed as being run on a ''medical model,'' helping manage medical conditions. ''We do counseling and support services, exercise, medication management if they have any questions about their medication,'' said Ms. Sulik, the hospital official. ''There's r... |
1774267_2 | North Korea Flatly Rejects Protests on Missile Firings | talks, analysts and politicians said. For months it has been demanding that the United States lift a crackdown on North Korean businesses and banks that do business with the country. It has also pushed for bilateral talks, twice inviting Christopher R. Hill, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific a... |
1774256_3 | AOL Said to Be Planning Free Ad-Based Web Access | and make it free to anyone visiting AOL.com in hopes of building its advertising revenue. AOL executives say that the initial signs are that this is working. AOL's advertising revenue in the first quarter was $392 million, up 26 percent from the quarter a year ago. While AOL has had some success promoting its content, ... |
1774208_5 | When Venice Shook the World | stare and bared breast? A young bride? The muse of poetry? A prostitute? His painting called ''Three Philosophers'' is at least as unanswering. Is it a narrative or an emblematic tableau? And what to make of these exotically dressed men? They were once taken to be the Magi, but that idea was discarded. The identificati... |
1774308_1 | White House to Ease Rule On Medicaid Documents | would apply, for example, to ''people with mental retardation who have never worked and to many nursing home residents.'' Critics of the new law had said it would be difficult for many people with mental retardation, Alzheimer's disease and other mental impairments to produce the documents needed to comply. Under the l... |
1775653_1 | Trade Deficit Up; Countertrends Are Seen | The surge in oil prices overshadowed a healthy gain in American exports, which reached a record level of $118.7 billion. Exports of industrial materials like metals and plastics rose, as did exports of civilian aircraft, a more volatile sector but one that contributes heavily to trade figures. ''The underlying trend se... |
1776961_1 | Austrian Wines Have a Voice, And It's Excited | Austrian imports have increased fourfold since 1998. As recently as 1985 the Austrian wine industry was back on its heels, after a scandal in which some winemakers gave their wines added sweetness by adulterating them with diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical. Four-fifths of the country's exports dried up overnight. But... |
1776991_2 | Colleges Make Way for Internships | want to make these career fields accessible to a diverse student population,'' he said. Compounding the problem is that many of these kinds of internships are found in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, cities where the cost of living is high. ''Are they catering to upper-middle-class college students that can affor... |
1778359_0 | Itineraries; Enhanced Entertainment | To many frequent travelers, those blurry movies that most domestic airlines show on overhead screens the size of a college diploma have become as much of a joke as the food used to be. ''By and large, domestic coach entertainment is terrible,'' said Joanne Smith, the vice president for marketing at Delta Air Lines. But... |
1778334_2 | Research Finds Little Proof On Menopause Treatments | participants' own reports. Dr. Anne Nedrow, the lead author of the review, said the study ''did show some benefits, but we had to balance it with studies that showed none.'' The scientists examined nine studies of mind-body therapies, treatments that focus on the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual and b... |
1776607_0 | When Couric Broadcasts the News, Some Radio and Web Sites Will Too | When a network evening newscast passes the anchor's baton, viewers have come to expect an overhauled set, music and graphics. But for Sept. 5, when Katie Couric takes over on ''The CBS Evening News,'' the network is planning more widespread changes, including fanning the newscast out across different media, including r... |
1776663_0 | Report Assails State on Program for Disabled | New York State has prevented thousands of disabled people from receiving equipment like walkers and wheelchairs, by delaying or denying their requests in violation of state and federal rules, according to an investigation by the State Assembly. The situation has improved somewhat since the problems came to light 18 mon... |
1773739_0 | Interest Groups Lining Up To Lobby on Web Gambling | While Internet gamblers lay down big money on World Cup soccer this summer, teams of lobbyists are facing off on Capitol Hill in a contest over whether the United States should choke off the growth of wagering on the Web. Faced with bills to curb online betting, which attracts an estimated $12 billion a year in wagers ... |
1773686_1 | Nationalism Still a Threat In Macedonia | future. The conflict has dismayed European and NATO officials. They say Mr. Krasniqi's candidacy, which appeals to ethnic Albanians who are disgruntled with the how peace has worked out, demonstrates the desperate lengths to which parties are going, even in the face of intense international scrutiny, as they struggle t... |
1773747_0 | Long Sleep Over, He Helps Reveal Brain's Mysteries | Terry Wallis spends almost all of his waking hours in bed, listening to country-western music in a cramped, two-room bungalow down a gravel road off State Highway 263. Mr. Wallis, 42, wears an open, curious expression and speaks in a slurred but coherent voice. He volleys a visitor's pleased-to-meet-you with, ''Glad to... |
1773567_0 | INSIDE | Sailors and Shipowners Fear Piracy Off Somalia After 19 hijackings of ships off the coast of Somalia in 15 months, and 45 attempted hijackings, many ships are keeping their distance from the country. Heavily armed pirates routinely demand ransom from shipowners. PAGE A4 Shuttle Launching Delayed Again NASA scrubbed the... |
1773531_2 | Waters That Prompt Fear From the Toughest of Sailors | collected the crew and ordered the ship to head toward shore. The hostages were held for 101 days before being released in October, after elaborate negotiations involving clan elders. ''I was shocked,'' Mr. Muita said of the attack. ''We'd passed through these waters several times before, and nothing happened like this... |
1774683_2 | An 'A' That's Not a Scarlet Letter | a crane. Now that the van comes each day, we've had an astonishing turnaround. He calmly goes out the door, like, well, a norma -- I mean, a typical child. He attends a class with 12 students, receives motivating points for good behavior, has successes and is accepted and respected for who he is. Suddenly, we are all f... |
1774717_2 | An 'A' That's Not a Scarlet Letter | a crane. Now that the van comes each day, we've had an astonishing turnaround. He calmly goes out the door, like, well, a norma -- I mean, a typical child. He attends a class with 12 students, receives motivating points for good behavior, has successes and is accepted and respected for who he is. Suddenly, we are all f... |
1774922_0 | Top Anglicans Vote to Allow Female Bishops | The governing body of the Church of England voted Saturday to allow women to be bishops, a huge change in centuries of policy for a church that ordained its first female priest just 12 years ago. But officials of the governing body, the General Synod, emphasized that while the theological questions had been effectively... |
1774980_2 | An 'A' That's Not a Scarlet Letter | a crane. Now that the van comes each day, we've had an astonishing turnaround. He calmly goes out the door, like, well, a norma -- I mean, a typical child. He attends a class with 12 students, receives motivating points for good behavior, has successes and is accepted and respected for who he is. Suddenly, we are all f... |
1774732_2 | An 'A' That's Not a Scarlet Letter | a crane. Now that the van comes each day, we've had an astonishing turnaround. He calmly goes out the door, like, well, a norma -- I mean, a typical child. He attends a class with 12 students, receives motivating points for good behavior, has successes and is accepted and respected for who he is. Suddenly, we are all f... |
1774657_12 | The Immigration Equation | Mexicans bring is good for the economy as a whole. They perform services that would otherwise be more expensive and in some cases simply unavailable. The Americans who are unskilled, however, must compete with a disproportionate number of immigrants. One of every four high-school dropouts in the U.S. was born in Mexico... |
1775025_4 | At AOL, a Plan for a Clean Break | Universal McCann, a media buying agency. ''It does not appear to be a home run, but it is directionally positive.'' Despite the loss of audience, AOL's advertising revenue has grown. It is benefiting from rising advertising rates and technology from its Advertising.com subsidiary, which allows it to be more effective i... |
1775027_4 | Democracy's Best Friend Or Antidemocratic Elitist? | in politics and philosophy. Different ideas about humanity were developing, some encouraged by the growing power of science and an increasing faith in the ability of reason to transform the world, others by the dismantling of old hierarchies and the development of democracy. Notions of human progress and political evol... |
1776813_0 | Will Dubai's Money Build Frustration-Free Airports? | Robert D. Johnson, the new chief executive of Dubai Aerospace, the Persian Gulf emirate's richly financed start-up aerospace company, wants to change the way you fly. Mr. Johnson, former chairman and chief executive of Honeywell Aerospace, hopes to build numerous ''passenger friendly'' airports around the world in comi... |
1776802_0 | At Israel Rally, A Word Fails | ON the streets of New York yesterday, there was some talk of peace in the Middle East, but not a whole lot. Peace is never much more than an illusory concept to begin with in that troubled region. Yesterday, it barely received even lip service. Almost by definition, any international crisis reverberates in this city of... |
1776770_0 | Linking Menopause, Weight and Breast Cancer | Women who gain weight shortly before or after menopause may increase their risk for breast cancer, a new study suggests, but losing weight after menopause may decrease their risk. Researchers using data from the Nurses' Health Study followed more than 87,000 women ages 30 to 55 for 26 years, assessing weight change sin... |
1776766_0 | A New Vaccine for Girls, but Should It Be Compulsory? | Around the time report cards came home this spring, federal health officials approved another new vaccine to add to the ever-growing list of recommended childhood shots -- this one for girls and women only, from 9 to 26, to protect them from genital warts and cervical cancer. One of my own daughters, who just turned 9,... |
1775461_4 | U.S. Finance Pulls Biotech Across Seas | name, Osteologix. There may be limits, though, to the immigration trend. Industry executives say it has become more difficult than in the past for very young companies to go public on the Nasdaq. A company now usually needs to have drugs at least close to reaching the market before it can be listed. And some small comp... |
1775428_0 | Yes, College Women Work Harder | To the Editor: Re ''At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust'' (''The New Gender Divide'' series, front page, July 9): Only a few decades after the women's movement, we are simply witnessing what traditionally happens when doors are opened for once-oppressed groups: they take full advantage of it. Even with young... |
1775388_2 | A More Nuanced Look at Men, Women and College | among the African-Americans, women account for nearly 70 percent of the older students. Men represent only about 15 percent of older undergraduates, with little variation among racial groups. The reasons for their absence are a puzzle that is only beginning to be studied. ''In a project on low-income adult students, we... |
1775403_0 | Japan and South Korea Wrangle Over Response to North's Missiles | South Korea angrily accused Japan of arrogant and reckless remarks on Tuesday, a day after Japanese leaders raised what South Koreans consider a chilling possibility: a pre-emptive strike on North Korea that would violate Japan's Constitution. As discord between Washington's major allies in the region worsened, Christo... |
1775372_0 | At the Fancy Food Show, Promoting Everyday Luxuries | WITH items that were once hard to find, like Manchego cheese or French sea salt, now mainstream, it might seem that exhibitors at the 52nd Fancy Food Show would go to extremes to appear cutting edge. But the show, which ended its three-day run yesterday at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, was characte... |
1775391_4 | Square Feet; A Pot of Tax-Free Bonds for Post-9/11 Projects Is Empty | partner in the development of a new headquarters building on Eighth Avenue, applied for Liberty Bond financing for that project but was turned down.) In a more controversial move, the city awarded $650 million worth of bonds for the 51-story Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park, which the Durst Organization and the... |
1777231_0 | Q&A | Getting Online On the Go Q. Is there a way to get online by connecting a cellphone to a laptop computer? A. Many mobile phones can serve double duty as laptop modems these days. This can come in handy when you're nowhere near a wireless hotspot, an Ethernet network or even a telephone landline. If both the phone and th... |
1772906_4 | Iraq's Big Port Has Commerce, Crime -- Even Camels | takes 4,000 to 5,000 trucks to move all of those goods out of the port each week and spread them around Iraq. As a consequence of all that traffic, port fees collected at Umm Qasr have shot up from around $600,000 a month in late 2004 to more than $2.5 million now. But those fees are mostly absorbed in salaries, meager... |
1772968_0 | Weight Rules For Passengers Called Obsolete In Capsizing | The Ethan Allen, the tour boat that capsized on Lake George last year, killing 20 elderly passengers, was overloaded in part because regulators and operators had failed to consider that the average weight of a person had increased in the 39 years it was sailing, according to papers released yesterday. As the fully load... |
1774040_4 | The Myth of the New India | sign that they are being helped by the country's market reforms, which have focused on creating private wealth rather than expanding access to health care and education. Despite the country's growing economy, 2.5 million Indian children die annually, accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide; and faci... |
1774129_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Italy Arrests Two Agents Linked to Kidnapping Two officials with the Italian intelligence agency were arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a radical Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. It was the first indication that Italian intelligence agents may have been directly involved in what Italian... |
1778752_0 | Maker Calls New Bird Flu Vaccine More Effective | A new vaccine against bird flu developed by GlaxoSmithKline is more effective than any previous version and works at a far smaller dose, the company reported yesterday on its Web site. The ability to immunize people with small doses greatly increases the possibility of making enough vaccine to protect much of the popul... |
1776056_0 | It's Often Better to Be Seen in the Summer League Than Heard | Summer-league basketball -- the N.B.A.'s off-season exercise for unproven players hoping to be noticed -- has an attraction that not even the N.B.A. finals can offer. Not only can the games be seen, but they can be heard, as well. Played in a small gym that the Orlando Magic uses for practice, league games, which concl... |
1775311_2 | China Posts A Surplus Sure to Stir U.S. Alarm | billion. This is unprecedented.'' The current account, the broadest measure of trade in goods and services, includes changes in interest payments. China has taken some steps to narrow the deficits. Last year, it allowed its currency to appreciate modestly, and promised to gradually allow more gains, though those have b... |
1775173_3 | A Tale of Two Drugs Hints at Promise for Genetic Testing | a chance to test Dr. Liggett's hypothesis. They could go through the trial data and ask whether the gene variants identified responders and nonresponders to the drug. The gene tests succeeded, as the investigators report this week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Responders not only did well with... |
1775280_0 | Japan Finds Still Sterner Words For North Korea's Missile Tests | Japan ratcheted up the oratory on Monday against North Korea over last week's missile tests when a top government spokesman said Japan should consider whether its Constitution would allow pre-emptive military strikes. A United States envoy called for countries involved to speak with ''one voice'' in condemning the test... |
1775195_0 | Missile Tests Divide Seoul From Tokyo | Soon after North Korea started launching missiles before dawn last Wednesday, Japan's television networks canceled their regular programming to broadcast the news and the government's quick response. By contrast, except for very brief ''news flashes,'' the networks here continued their World Cup soccer coverage until I... |
1775178_6 | Rogue Giants At Sea | height of individual waves, based on the time it took the beams to bounce from orbit to the sea and back to space. The MaxWave team, led by Dr. Rosenthal, examined three weeks of radar data and to its amazement discovered 10 giants, each at least 82 feet high. ''We were quite successful,'' he said. The team even tracke... |
1777854_4 | Grease Is the Word: Fill It Up With Fry Oil | the engine to stall. My trunk is a little -- no, a lot -- less spacious than it used to be, because of the spare cubie of oil I carry, along with a big funnel that lets me fill the tank without spills. The spare tire also takes up space inside the trunk now; the veggie oil tank occupies the well that used to contain th... |
1777776_7 | The Crumbling Of the Casbah | was told at the housing office that he had already been given a new apartment as part of a government plan to ease crowding. None of the residents have been able to get more information on the ghost homes, which they assume were given away in return for bribes. ''They sold our houses to other people,'' the man said. Bu... |
1777945_0 | Will Agriculture Stay a Bright Spot In the Trade Data? | The trade deficit is always a dismaying topic. Every time new statistics come out, it's a fresh reminder that the United States keeps importing far more than it exports, digging itself deeper into this particular hole. The latest numbers from the Census Bureau show a $63.8 billion May deficit, and as always, the gap wi... |
1777857_1 | Restaurant Problem Becomes a Solution | a problem I think the restaurant business has had for a long time,'' he said. ''We need to be more intelligent about dealing with the waste that we generate. Cost and waste make it hard to survive in this business, and I was motivated to do something about it.'' Mr. Selig said he had also tried to find gardeners who co... |
1779174_2 | The Wi-Fi in Your Handset | minute for calls to regular phones, although it has made all domestic calls free through the end of the year. EarthLink plans to sell phones for $50 to $100, then charge roughly $25 a month for unlimited calling. Initially, the service will work only with hotspots where Internet access is provided by EarthLink, either ... |
1774419_0 | China Fights Sanctions To Punish North Korea | Japan introduced a Security Council resolution on Friday calling for sanctions against North Korea for its missile test-firings, but China opposed the move, saying such action could disrupt diplomatic efforts under way in the region. As the diplomacy unfolded, Christopher R. Hill, the top American negotiator with North... |
1773333_9 | On Lake Michigan, a Global Village | changed. For one thing, machinery has supplanted much of the manual labor at the plant, as his own history shows. He has become proficient in a new, computerized warehouse management system, which he mastered after a six-month training course. To help maximize efficiency, he works closely with planners, production-line... |
1773334_6 | Does This Goo Make You Groan? | kernels and takes place in a series of stainless steel vats and tubes in which a dozen different mechanical processes and chemical reactions occur -- including several rounds of high-velocity spinning and the introduction of three different enzymes to incite molecular rearrangements. The enzymes turn most of the glucos... |
1773104_21 | Capitalist Roaders | number of kidnappings for ransom has shot up in China -- the government reported 3,863 abductions in 2004, higher than the 3,000 a year reported on average in Colombia, the previous world leader. ''In one case,'' according to The China Daily, ''police searching the apartment of kidnappers in Guangdong Province found a ... |
1773121_3 | In Turkey, Sailing Into The Exotic | Bodrum. When its native son Herodotus, the father of history, wrote about what was then Halicarnassus, it's doubtful he would have envisioned modern Bodrum, a beautiful old town overrun in high season by vacationing Europeans and Turks. After midnight, the main pedestrian artery is so clogged with people it comes to a ... |
1773386_2 | Last Stop, Lhasa: Rail Link Ties Remote Tibet to China | was delayed indefinitely. That section had to cross the Tibetan Plateau, survive extreme temperatures and stay fixed in the shifting permafrost of the highlands. The plan was revived in 2001, when it was promoted as a crucial element of the Communist Party's Go West campaign. Engineers designed bridges to span the most... |
1773362_0 | Women, Keep Watch | To the Editor: ''Spread of Islamic Law in Indonesia Takes Toll on Women'' (news article, June 27) is a cautionary tale for women everywhere. All religious fundamentalism, including our own home-grown varieties, threatens women's rights. American women who value our hard-won rights would be wise to use vigilance with th... |
1779311_10 | Off the Beaten Path | flying discs in serious club competitions. Who said Carletonians were nerdy and cerebral? ''Carleton is a place where able and intelligent students with a quirky sense of humor would go,'' says Mr. Longanecker of the Western Interstate Commission. Carleton's scholarship is well documented. It ranks behind only Williams... |
1779661_1 | Mel Gibson Apologizes For Tirade After Arrest | a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, declined to comment on the report. But he said the department would eventually disclose details of the arrest. ''Nothing will be sanitized,'' Mr. Whitmore said in a statement. People associated with the case privately acknowledged the report's authenticity, b... |
1779314_1 | A Forking Road | the University of Memphis, and until 2005 I worked for a solo practitioner and learned complex real estate transactions and negotiations. I resigned because of a hostile work environment. I have been searching since then for a law position at various corporations and large firms but have not received any response to my... |
1773923_5 | TESTS PROTESTED | launched at 5 a.m. on Wednesday. American and Japanese officials immediately condemned the launchings. But American officials had never considered it a serious threat to the United States, especially because there was no evidence the missile was equipped with a warhead. Mr. Bush's spokesman, Tony Snow, only went so far... |
1773894_0 | The Age Of Interruption | The best part of this job is being able to step outside of your routine and occasionally look at the world through a completely different lens. The Peruvian Amazon rain forest is such a lens, and looking at the world through this dense jungle has given me new perspectives on two issues -- Middle East violence and the s... |
1778219_0 | Investors Say Flaws At School Are Deeper | The problems at Interboro Institute, one of the largest, fastest-growing profit-making colleges in New York State in recent years, were deeper even than those outlined by the State Education Department last year, according to papers filed late on Friday in a class-action securities fraud complaint against Interboro's p... |
1776467_0 | An Enticing Gorge Poses a Deadly Problem | Huntington River Gorge is one of the most beautiful spots in Vermont. It is also one of the deadliest. At least 20 people, most in their 20's or 30's, have died and hundreds have been injured while swimming in the gorge over the past four decades. Seemingly placid waters mask strong currents that quickly sweep over wat... |
1776566_0 | Learning Disabled, Or Just Atypical? | To the Editor: Re Laura Schenone's article about her son's school difficulties (''An 'A' That's Not a Scarlet Letter,'' Generations, July 9): I have learned during many years of clinical practice that most so-called learning disabilities are in reality hard-wiring differences in acquisition and processing of informatio... |
1776557_0 | Learning Disabled, Or Just Atypical? | To the Editor: Re Laura Schenone's article about her son's school difficulties (''An 'A' That's Not a Scarlet Letter,'' Generations, July 9): I have learned during many years of clinical practice that most so-called learning disabilities are in reality hard-wiring differences in acquisition and processing of informatio... |
1776501_0 | Checklist for Camp: Bug Spray. Sunscreen. Pills. | The breakfast buffet at Camp Echo starts at a picnic table covered in gingham-patterned oil cloth. Here, children jostle for their morning medications: Zoloft for depression, Abilify for bipolar disorder, Guanfacine for twitchy eyes and a host of medications for attention deficit disorder. A quick gulp of water, a gree... |
1776499_3 | U.N. Council, in Weakened Resolution, Demands End to North Korean Missile Program | continue with its missile program, which it considered essential to its self-defense. The Council members had struggled for days over how to produce a firm response to the seven missile firings that North Korea conducted on July 5 despite warnings from all the world powers, including its principal ally, China. Japan pr... |
1790023_0 | An Ancient Play About War Finds a Modern Audience | ''The Persians,'' Aeschylus' elegiac play about an arrogant ruler who rushes into a disastrous war against a seemingly undermanned Greek army, opened to great word of mouth around 2,500 years ago. But until recently, it has rarely been produced. The play, told from the somber perspective of the Persians, has come into ... |
1790075_3 | The Energy Harvest | over an ocean of green sugar cane. The cane is harvested onto big lorries and trucked to the Cosan distillery. There, the juice is extracted and converted to either crystal sugar or ethanol. The remaining cane waste -- called bagasse -- is used to fuel huge steam boilers that produce enough electricity to both power th... |
1793075_4 | Forensic Skills Seek to Uncover Hidden Patterns of Elder Abuse | Nevertheless, Mr. Cazares added, ''we can make borderline cases better'' because of shared information and, most important, the medical expertise to assess physical injury and mental capacity. Confidentiality laws prohibit outsiders at team meetings at the Elder Abuse Forensic Center. But in interviews, members discuss... |
1793041_1 | A Career Seasoned With Cigar Smoke and Revolution | him from selling what he grew. ''Still, I think I'm lucky,'' he said, estimating this year's production at 5.5 million cigars. Mr. Padrón's company has grown steadily over the years, as has its reputation. Industry experts regularly give his full-bodied cigars some of their highest ratings. In Cigar Aficionado magazine... |
1792978_6 | Blogging the Hand That Feeds You | which employees should be careful about how they represent the company,'' he said. Whatever the approach, education must be a big part of the future. A joint study released this summer by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute, an organization that helps companies set up Internet rules for employ... |
1791358_0 | In Search of Grocery Gems | AFTER a summer wallowing in fresh produce and farmers' markets, it's always a shock to come back to the supermarket. Many of New York City's supermarkets are a thing apart from the well-lighted, spacious havens found elsewhere in the country, and like many in the city I avoid them by cobbling together a food supply fro... |
1791444_0 | Dumb as We Wanna Be | I asked Dr. José Goldemberg, secretary for the environment for São Paulo State and a pioneer of Brazil's ethanol industry, the obvious question: Is the fact that the U.S. has imposed a 54-cents-a-gallon tariff to prevent Americans from importing sugar ethanol from Brazil ''just stupid or really stupid.'' Thanks to pres... |
1791444_1 | Dumb as We Wanna Be | purchases than promote antipoverty. ''It's really stupid,'' answered Dr. Goldemberg. If I seem upset about this, I am. Development and environmental experts have long searched for environmentally sustainable ways to alleviate rural poverty -- especially for people who live in places like Brazil, where there is a consta... |
1791385_2 | An Inventive Solution to Save Home of Bell Labs | tower shaped like a transistor, and preserve the original Phase 1 of the Saarinen structure, which is about 500,000 square feet. The vaulted atrium lobby and the glass exterior would be saved -- although the glass itself would have to be replaced with modern thermal panels. This new plan has been greeted joyfully by mo... |
1789371_0 | Help With Your Business, Often Free, on the Web | JENNIFER GORDON, a handbag designer in Chicago, thought it would be easy to promote her business through an e-mailed newsletter. But her first try was a bust. ''If I misspelled one address in the list, not one person received the newsletter,'' said Ms. Gordon, who owns Sojourn Bags. Once the list was corrected, 60 of t... |
1789508_0 | Estelle R. Ramey, 89; Used Medical Training to Rebut Sexism | Estelle R. Ramey, an endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist who came to national prominence in 1970 after she famously rebutted a Democratic leader who pronounced women unfit for important jobs because of the ''raging hormonal influences'' to which they were supposedly subject, died Friday at her home in Bethesda, ... |
1789366_2 | Richer Retirement Accounts Aid Small Employers | in one document. The changes, Mr. Luscombe said, are intended to encourage more employers to offer plans and more employees to join them. Going beyond its name, the pension law also extended the rules that authorize popular Section 529 college savings programs sponsored by states. Many states allow tax breaks for money... |
1789490_2 | Harvard Ends Early Admission, Citing Barrier to Disadvantaged | this.'' Lloyd Thacker, the executive director of the Education Conservancy, a nonprofit group created to lobby for an overhaul in admissions procedures, said his eyes had teared up when he heard the news. ''I'm so glad,'' Mr.Thacker said. ''I can't believe it.'' ''The most powerful institution in the country is saying,... |
1789399_0 | Speed of the Spread of Flu Is Linked to Airline Travel | Airline travel has a significant effect on the spread of influenza, a new study reports, raising the question of whether flight restrictions may be helpful in controlling a pandemic. Although computer simulations have already suggested a link, this study, published online yesterday in PLoS Medicine, offers the first ob... |
1789466_1 | MEMO PAD | priority. Accenture, a global management and consulting firm, said there had been what it called a sustained shift toward more use of major carriers and away from discount carriers since 2004, and a similar shift away from budget hotels to midpriced chain hotels. REMOTE CHECK-IN IN LOS ANGELES -- Passengers flying from... |
1790995_0 | Despair Echoes From the Arms of Defeat | The ruler of a rich and powerful empire leads his countrymen into a disastrous war on foreign soil in ''The Persians,'' a play Aeschylus wrote in the fifth century B.C. It seems the guy was acting on advice from bad counselors. And trying to finish some business started by papa, who ruled before him. Ring any bells? Ma... |
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