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1790968_1 | Drink Lots of Fluids, and Save Time for a Frisking | Munich Airport, said: ''We're all part of the European Union and beholden to the same rules and the restrictions as they are at Heathrow, for example.'' Travelers should also prepare for more thorough but varied security screenings. ''There will continue to be differences in approaches,'' said William A. Green III, man... |
1790966_1 | In Europe, Cheap Flights Come at a Price | only available on the EasyJet site. It is not just booking the tickets that takes extra care. Travelers also have to pay attention to which airports these carriers serve. EasyJet's flight from Nice to Berlin, for example, leaves from that city's sole airport, but the two-hour flight does not go to Tegel, the Berlin air... |
1791047_5 | China Competes With West in Aid to Its Neighbors | compared the Chinese aid package to those from other sources, and noted the appealing absence of the expensive consultant fees common to Western projects. After being a favorite of the Bush White House, the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, fell out of favor when she pulled her country's troops out of Iraq... |
1786764_3 | Safety Last | Mobile phones have a life expectancy of about 18 months, making them appear to be immune to catastrophic li-ion battery failure, which they aren't. One might think that we'd be working on safer technologies, and we are, up to a point. Safer lithium-ion batteries are available, but computer and mobile phone manufacturer... |
1786716_0 | Western Grandeur Without the Crowds | GAZING from a granite slab suspended over a glacier-carved gorge, Ed Zihera marvels. Sheer cliffs gouged by ancient glaciers loom high and tight overhead. Conifers carpet the U-shaped hollow below. The rumbling echo of the frothing Kings River fills the canyon. ''This is awesome!'' Mr. Zihera exults, amazed at what he ... |
1787686_2 | Registered Traveler Program Appears Ready to Take Off | as airports can offer the program. Mr. Brill's company also has agreements, pending T.S.A. approval, to begin programs at airports in San Jose, Calif., Indianapolis and Cincinnati, as well as a Canadian version in Toronto. About 20 other airports, like Los Angeles and Atlanta, have filed statements of interest in the R... |
1787699_2 | Scandals Emerging in Shanghai as Political Season Nears | Indeed, three years ago a large team of investigators descended from Beijing to look into collusion between officials and real estate developers, only to be recalled abruptly to Beijing, reportedly at Mr. Jiang's insistence. That scandal began with residents' claims that they had been forced to relocate after developer... |
1790324_3 | Crop Rotation In the Grain Belt | wheat -- and those investments are paying off handsomely. Seeds engineered to resist drought and insects have yielded huge gains and have helped produce record corn harvests the last three years. The more-resistant seeds have made it possible for farmers in colder climates with shorter growing seasons to produce succes... |
1792188_0 | Q & A | I note the hand-baggage restrictions at airports in North America and Britain since the airline bomb scare in August. But is a similar degree of vigilance applied to checked luggage? And will mobile phones be banned as carry-on items in view of their suspected role in terrorist acts in London and Madrid, and their pote... |
1792286_1 | Saying Not in My Backyard, Even to a Proposed Church | 1700's, and the narrow, tree-lined road still offers a glimpse of rural Westchester. In response, the church is scaling back its plans. Mr. Ford said seating has been reduced to about 720, the entrance to the church has been shifted from Buxton Road to Bedford Center Road, which is busier, and the number of parking spa... |
1792328_1 | Saying Not in My Backyard, Even to a Proposed Church | 1700's, and the narrow, tree-lined road still offers a glimpse of rural Westchester. In response, the church is scaling back its plans. Mr. Ford said seating has been reduced to about 720, the entrance to the church has been shifted from Buxton Road to Bedford Center Road, which is busier, and the number of parking spa... |
1792271_1 | Saying Not in My Backyard, Even to a Proposed Church | 1700's, and the narrow, tree-lined road still offers a glimpse of rural Westchester. In response, the church is scaling back its plans. Mr. Ford said seating has been reduced to about 720, the entrance to the church has been shifted from Buxton Road to Bedford Center Road, which is busier, and the number of parking spa... |
1792433_1 | Contemplating Saying Ciao To a Palazzo on Madison | Street. The group, one of the city's oldest advocates for preservation and urban design, promptly sublet some of the space to other civic-minded nonprofit organizations. Since then, the Urban Center, as the space is known, has played host to dozens of exhibitions on everything from Flatbush to ferry terminals. Speakers... |
1792305_1 | Saying Not in My Backyard, Even to a Proposed Church | 1700's, and the narrow, tree-lined road still offers a glimpse of rural Westchester. In response, the church is scaling back its plans. Mr. Ford said seating has been reduced to about 720, the entrance to the church has been shifted from Buxton Road to Bedford Center Road, which is busier, and the number of parking spa... |
1792185_0 | Brilliant Birds and Bright Monkeys | THE blue, yellow and coral facade of the five-star Hotel Saint Louis in Brazil's agricultural boomtown of Luís Eduardo Magalhães rises like an exotic bloom out of newly plowed soy and cotton fields that end in the sky of western Bahia. Americans and others can be heard discussing land deals at umbrella-topped tables ar... |
1792551_2 | Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat | estimate in 2004, but it was not finalized until this year. Part of the reason was that some government officials were unhappy with the structure and focus of earlier versions of the document, according to officials involved in the discussion. Previous drafts described actions by the United States government that were ... |
1792169_0 | The Other Great Wall | Since the end of imperial rule, Chinese leaders have shared a colossal engineering ambition: to dam the mighty Yangtze River. In May, 87 years after Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese Nationalist leader, first proposed locating a dam downstream of the scenic Three Gorges, workers added the last blocks of concrete to raise the Th... |
1792128_3 | Fiction Chronicle | only time I wasn't alone was when I became the other woman. The one who had no past, no connections, no obligations.'' But as the fantasy takes over, Nina must compete with herself -- or a different version of herself -- for her husband's affection. ''The Woman in the Row Behind'' is a small and sophisticated novel of ... |
1793509_4 | Steadfast on the Day After, Pirro Tries Damage Control | the United States attorney's office, said neither Mr. Jacobson nor the office would comment. In her letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Ms. Pirro also asked that the investigation conclude within 20 days, or roughly two to three weeks before the election. She also called the leak to WNBC ''outrageous'' and sug... |
1793442_0 | Let's Face It: There Are Risks to Flying | To the Editor: Re ''A Retreat on Carry-On Liquids'' (editorial, Sept. 27): No amount of inconvenience will deter a terrorist. Unless all carry-on luggage, checked bags and cargo are meticulously screened, airplanes will remain vulnerable to bombs. That isn't to say we can't improve airline security. Recent news that th... |
1789271_3 | Five Years Later, Our Hearts Are Still Heavy | is emeritus professor of planning at the University of Tennessee. To the Editor: Regarding the artist's rendition of the towers for ground zero: Am I the only one who thinks they're a mismatched hodgepodge? Individually I find them lacking in character, and together they conflict. I was hoping for better taste in estab... |
1789212_2 | TODAY IN BUSINESS | has revolutionized the recording industry with iTunes. [C1.] GAMES FOR CASUAL PLAYERS -- Video game makers are starting to go after the casual or coffee-break gamer, who indulges in short-term play and not necessarily of the action-packed genre. [C7.] THE MARKETING OF 9/11 -- Marketers and the news media, acutely aware... |
1789228_2 | Arts, Briefly | popular ''Crocodile Hunter,'' and he will be buried at his family's zoo in Queensland, in northern Australia, Reuters reported, citing local news media accounts. Mr. Irwin, 44, died of a stingray barb to the chest while diving last Monday on the Great Barrier Reef. A public memorial service is expected this month. Musi... |
1793624_0 | Pirates of the Mediterranean | IN the autumn of 68 B.C. the world's only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome's port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together with their bodyguards and staff, kidnapped. The incident, dra... |
1786912_0 | Female Rabbis | To the Editor: Though ''Clergywomen Find Hard Path to Bigger Pulpit'' (front page, Aug. 26) points to a gender gap in American Protestant religious leadership, that gap transcends faith group. In 2004, the Rabbinical Assembly, representing Conservative rabbis worldwide, conducted the first study comparing the careers o... |
1787017_0 | National Briefing | Religion: Guidelines For Selecting Seminarians | The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved guidelines last month for the selection and education of seminarians that would carry out the Vatican's near-prohibition of gay men in the priesthood. Last November, the Vatican issued a document excluding from the priesthood most gay men, with few exceptions. T... |
1788273_6 | A Mélange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities | their exploration of the power of women and the flexible nature of exoticism. Patty Chang's 20-minute video, ''A Chinoiserie Out of the Old West,'' centers on three studious individuals as they haltingly translate into English a German article about the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, written by someone who bec... |
1788328_1 | Mental Activity Seen in a Brain Gravely Injured | bound to raise hopes for tens of thousands of families caring for unresponsive, brain-damaged patients around the world -- whether those hopes are justified or not, experts said. ''One always hesitates to make a lot out of a single case, but what this study shows me is that there may be more going on in terms of patien... |
1788315_2 | Whining Over Discontent | the typical American family hasn't. Third, notice the desperate effort to find some number, any number, to support claims that increasing inequality is just a matter of a rising payoff to education and skill. Conservative commentators tell us about wage gains for one-eyed bearded men with 2.5 years of college, or whate... |
1788352_2 | French Opposition Backs Lebanon Role; Military Has Doubts | deployed troops as impotent as the current force. The Lebanese government opposed giving the enlarged force such broad authority. ''What will a military commander do if there is a pro-Hezbollah demonstration with people carrying Kalashnikovs?'' a senior French official asked. ''Stand on the side and watch them?'' They ... |
1788378_4 | Redesigning Crops To Harvest Fuel; Scientists as Custom Tailors of Genetics | be fermented into ethanol. To get corn to produce its own amylase, Syngenta inserted a gene borrowed from a type of microbe called archaea that live near hot-water vents on the floor of the ocean. The gene -- actually a composite of three amylase genes -- was developed with the help of Diversa, a San Diego company that... |
1789689_7 | The War Over Salt | not moving to create a formal definition. In recent years, financing for the agency's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the division where most food regulation takes place, has declined to a projected $25 million for fiscal 2007, which begins Oct. 1, from $47.6 million in 2003. Food companies say that refor... |
1789859_0 | NASA Scientists See New Signs of Global Warming | Scientists have long suspected that the recent melting of Arctic Ocean ice in the summer might be a result of heat-trapping gases building up in the atmosphere. But yesterday NASA scientists reported that higher temperatures and a retreat of the sea ice over the last two winters offered new evidence that the gases were... |
1789819_0 | No Home Yet for 9/11's 'Survivors' Stairway' | THE plan unveiled last week for three more office towers at the World Trade Center site had a lot to it: colossal dimensions, unusual forms, famous architects, 167 floors of offices and almost 10 acres of retail space. What it did not have was a place for the battered Vesey Street staircase, known as the ''survivors' s... |
1789873_0 | Amnesty Says Hezbollah Committed War Crimes | Matching an earlier condemnation of Israel, Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hezbollah forces of war crimes and ''serious violations of international humanitarian law'' during the Lebanon war, including indiscriminate rocket attacks and ''deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects.'' On Aug. 23 the g... |
1789950_0 | World Briefing | Middle East: Iran: Nuclear Talks Delayed | Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy minister, and Ali Larijani, the Iranian nuclear negotiator, postponed a meeting in Paris on Iran's enrichment program. Mr. Solana's office said both sides would instead hold a meeting ''at expert level.'' ''The meeting between Solana and Larijani was postponed because ... |
1792819_2 | U.S. Eases Rules on Gels And Liquids in Carry-Ons | airport checkpoints will take months, if not years. ''This is not going to go away,'' Mr. Hawley said. ''Let's build ourselves a sustainable level of security.'' The revisions, which are also going into effect for domestic and international flights in Canada and may be adopted in Europe, address many criticisms of the ... |
1788083_2 | The Populist Myths on Income Inequality | has risen by 13 percent while the share of households making less than $75,000 has dropped by 14 percent -- after adjusting for inflation. The median household income of people in their prime working years (25-59) is $63,000. More than half of Americans have no credit card debt, and half of those who do owe less than $... |
1788123_2 | Report Finds U.S. Students Lagging in Finishing College | Card on Higher Education,'' paints a picture of an income-stratified society, with a huge educational gap between low- and high-income young adults. In 12 states, the proportion of 18- to 24-year-olds from high-income families who are enrolled in college is at least twice as great as those from low-income families; in ... |
1788163_7 | Leak, Inquiry and Resignation Rock a Boardroom | used, ''complied in all respects with applicable law.'' Meanwhile, the relationship between Mr. Perkins and Mr. Sonsini's firm has grown strained. A Wilson Sonsini lawyer, Boris Feldman, accused Mr. Perkins of discussing internal Hewlett-Packard deliberations with others last month. The lawyer went on to demand that he... |
1788549_1 | Sept. 11 Has Spurred Only Modest Changes in City and National Building Codes | in the way skyscrapers are designed and built. ''No building is safe from everything,'' said Patricia J. Lancaster, an architect who has been the commissioner of the city's Department of Buildings since 2002. ''It's up to the owners to assess how much risk their building, their piece of land, their edifice, is at. Ther... |
1787340_3 | How to Become a World Citizen, Before Going to College | 19. ''The experience was definitely an eye-opener, and fascinating. And it really changed my life.'' She is now a freshman at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Average costs for a gap year run about $10,000 to $12,000, which includes any consultants' fees you might pay. Foreign trips, of course, can mean... |
1787390_0 | Now Bringing Home the Leaner Bacon; For Those on the Outside, The Urge to Be Here Remains | TO many beyond its borders, America remains the land of opportunity. From October through May, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services received 3.5 million applications from foreigners for employment authorizations, green cards and other immigrant benefits relating to residency or citizenship. Though dow... |
1787135_0 | Heading Off a Headache: Have Bags Shipped | AS travelers adapt to the inconvenience of climbing into airplane cabins without their makeup, toothpaste and mocha lattes close at hand, they are also discovering another consequence of the new security rules: more time lost to the rituals of checked bags. Not only are people who once took pride in packing everything ... |
1787407_2 | Caracas Mayor Lays Claim to Golf Links to House Poor | units were built in the first half of the year. The housing shortage has been decades in the making, created by mass migration to Caracas and other cities from the countryside and natural disasters, like mudslides and Hurricane Mitch in 1998, that left more than 400,000 people homeless and destroyed more than 60,000 ho... |
1787344_3 | E-Mail in Haste, Panic at Leisure | helps to defuse the situation. Deliver this message in person; if you don't work in the recipient's office, pick up the phone. Jennifer Selby, president of the Selby Group, a management consulting firm in San Francisco, says that conversing in real time shows that you are willing to make things right. ''You've already ... |
1791825_2 | Choosing the 'SAT Optional' Road | and not truly ''college preparatory.'' I wonder if Mr. Diver has considered, in his multiple criticisms of the college admissions process, that there might actually be a hint of legitimate ''individual brilliance'' in some of those high grade point averages? He doesn't seem to give high school students much credit! Ave... |
1788787_0 | NEW AIR REGULATIONS | To the Editor: Regarding ''Banning liquids: Forget Legroom. What About More Water?'' (Practical Traveler, Aug. 27), by Michelle Higgins: We flew from Stockholm to Newark on Aug. 14 via Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) shortly after the security alert. Check-in seemed essentially normal, with perhaps a somewhat more stringen... |
1789047_0 | A Ban on Carry-On Luggage | In a directive whose logic is not always apparent, the Transportation Security Administration has spelled out what airline passengers can carry on board with them, what must be placed in checked luggage, and what can't go on the plane at all. Knives must be checked but knitting needles and corkscrews are allowed in the... |
1789000_0 | Stock Tips From Spam Aren't Just Silly. They're Costly. | MANY investors apparently trust spam e-mail -- at least those messages that say a fortune is to be made in a speculative stock. All too often, credulous people buy the shares, only to see them plummet in value. That is the conclusion of a new study, ''Spam Works: Evidence From Stock Touts and Corresponding Market Activ... |
1788666_0 | How Women Think | THE FEMALE BRAIN By Louann Brizendine. Illustrated. 279 pp. Morgan Road Books. $24.95. The worst thing you could do when my mother was in one of her moods was to point out that she got cranky when she had her period. ''I am not just a bunch of chemicals!'' she'd yell. My brother, who even at 12 believed in the sanctity... |
1790885_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Reform Eludes Iraqi Police Shiite militiamen and criminals entrenched throughout Iraq's police and internal security forces are resisting recent efforts by some Iraqi leaders and the American military to root them out and help win the trust of skeptical Sunni Arabs, Iraqi and Western officials say. 1... |
1790638_1 | Too Poor to Graduate | they can't find jobs. A stable and growing economy needs an educated work force, and an educated work force is possible only with investments in our state's system of higher education. Meanwhile, the costs of college tuition, books and fees continue to rise as federal and state financing for higher education has decrea... |
1790514_1 | Too Poor to Graduate | they can't find jobs. A stable and growing economy needs an educated work force, and an educated work force is possible only with investments in our state's system of higher education. Meanwhile, the costs of college tuition, books and fees continue to rise as federal and state financing for higher education has decrea... |
1790561_0 | The Get; Basics Training | The elements of men's style, according to Kevin Harter of Bloomingdale's. 1. Kevin Harter, the men's fashion director of Bloomingdale's, is something of a sartorial missionary. He spends three months a year on the road, preaching the gospel of proper tailoring to Bloomingdale's customers around the country. His advice ... |
1790844_0 | Learning to Fly Without Our Stuff | To the Editor: Re ''A Ban on Carry-On Luggage'' (editorial, Sept. 10): I agree with your suggestions, but feel they are still shortsighted. You write about the inconveniences mainly for business fliers. But there are other passengers who require carry-on bags, not little pouches for pills and documents. Children requir... |
1790757_1 | Too Poor to Graduate | they can't find jobs. A stable and growing economy needs an educated work force, and an educated work force is possible only with investments in our state's system of higher education. Meanwhile, the costs of college tuition, books and fees continue to rise as federal and state financing for higher education has decrea... |
1790775_1 | A Video Business Model Ready to Move Beyond Beta | before the advent of MP3's and downloads. The good news -- and my second point -- is that there's gold in them there hills. Video delivered over the Internet is clearly shaping up to be an actual business that advertisers are interested in. The broadcasting (netcasting?) of television programs and clips on the Web move... |
1792658_1 | Fred N. Spiess, 86; Helped Design Marine Station | and other marine mammals, heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, and the effects of seismic waves on water. Dr. Spiess designed the vessel with two collaborators, Fred Fisher and Phillip Rudnick. The vessel remains in use as ''a wonderfully successful and quiet platform, which was built for virtually nothi... |
1787612_3 | Rules Ignored, Toxic Sludge Sinks Chinese Village | with the paper mills and the local irrigation district. In July, a reporter, photographer and researcher for The New York Times visited the village after being warned it was under official watch to prevent outsiders from entering. After nightfall, a sedan without license plates pursued the Times's hired car and tried t... |
1787551_5 | Many Entry-Level Workers Feel Pinch of Rough Market | or more an hour. ''A few people I work with are living at home with their parents; some are even on food stamps,'' said Mr. Arnold, a Caterpillar worker for seven years. ''I was hoping to buy a house this year, but there's just no way I can swing it.'' With just a high school diploma, he said it was hard to find jobs t... |
428651_0 | Milton C. Nahm, 87, Professor of Philosophy | Milton Charles Nahm, professor emeritus of philosophy at Bryn Mawr College, died Monday at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania. He was 87 years old and lived in Rosemont, Pa. He died of a heart attack, a spokeswoman for the college said. Dr. Nahm joined the philosophy faculty at Bryn Mawr in 1930. He was named a profess... |
428664_1 | Psychiko Journal; 'The Odyssey' and All That: To Greeks It's Greek | comes around every few decades. To be sure, this is not another dispute about the purpose or the rewards of studying the classics. Greeks maintain a robust pride in speaking Europe's oldest written language, and every schoolchild hears of the mighty legacy of Homer, of Aristotle, of Sophocles. All high-school students ... |
427134_4 | Violence and the News Strike: Anger, Blame and Distrust | of a thick black binder listing 2,072 incidents tallied by the paper's security staff through Feb. 21, including 1,427 in the five boroughs of New York City. The police say they have confirmed 586 strike-related incidents in the city, ranging from firebombings and assaults to disorderly conduct on picket lines and thef... |
427164_4 | Beliefs | news conference by announcing, "I don't want to tell you any half-truths unless they are completely accurate." But where these three reviewers converge is in challenging Mr. Bloom's conviction that all the biblical layers in which J is embedded are so much normative varnish. With J, Mr. Miles wrote, "Bloom wants histor... |
433726_0 | RESEARCH ON DRUG FOR BREAST CANCER | Studies are about to begin on 31,000 women at high risk of breast cancer to see whether a drug that blocks the sex hormone estrogen can protect them from the disease. The medicine, tamoxifen, is widely used already to prevent recurrence of breast cancer in women who have been treated for it. Two studies, getting under ... |
432041_2 | Religion Notes | Church in America. "Yet we must also be responsible in maintaining the integrity of our orthodox Christianity." The document, prepared by Bishop William H. Lazareth of the Metropolitian Synod of New York, goes on to say that the use of both "masculine and feminine analgies, similes and symbols" can be appropriate. But ... |
432110_0 | Patents; 5 Millionth U.S. Patent: For Ethanol | Researchers at the University of Florida won patent 5,000,000 this week -- which the Patent and Trademark Office hailed as a landmark advance -- for a genetically engineered microbe that helps convert wastepaper and yard trash into ethanol fuel. The issuance of the five millionth United States patent was celebrated in ... |
432074_0 | Celtic Charged in 2 Deaths | Boston Celtics guard Charles Smith pleaded not guilty to motor-vehicle homicide and drunken-driving charges after a hit-and-run accident that killed two Boston University students early today, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said. Smith, 23 years old, who has a short-term contract with the Celtics, was al... |
433430_0 | Special Education: Sharing the Pain | New York's Board of Regents will now allow slightly larger classes for handicapped children. That's a reasonable step to help ease budget pressures in many school districts. But it also ought to prompt a re-examination of educational services for handicapped children. Since 1975, Federal law has required states to give... |
432560_2 | The Past Is a Foreign Country | can say about it until we have learned its language and understood its assumptions." Pursued with appropriate care, the study of history can teach us about the world by deepening our awareness of our own historical identity and broadening our sensitivity to people quite unlike ourselves. But beyond this strengthening o... |
432620_11 | Perk or Punishment | fax, with the lowest fare in bold type. According to Henry Blinder, Cook's vice president of marketing, "Some companies require employees to staple the fax to their expense reports. If they haven't taken the lowest fare, they have to explain why." Other companies require employees to make all travel arrangements throug... |
432541_1 | India | alienate tourists. On Jan. 15, I was one of 11 Americans flying from Aurangabad to Udaipur. While we waited to board the flight (IC492), many boxes were loaded as cargo, then after we boarded the plane, we learned that there was an overweight problem and that it would be necessary to remove the baggage of the 11 Americ... |
427908_0 | F.D.A. Acts to Halt Claim for Milk Drug | To the Editor: If the opposition of critics to genetically engineered bovine somatotropin is based on fears of the health effects on humans who consume milk from cows treated with this new product of biotechnology ("Monsanto Told to Halt Promotion of Its Gene-Engineered Milk Drug," news article, Feb. 13), those fears a... |
427921_1 | Careers; Two Growth Areas Beckon In Recession | Students realize the broad scope of the field of human resources, he said. Applications for Cornell's two-year program leading to a master of industrial relations degree have jumped sharply this year. but Professor Williams said he did not expect enrollment to increase much beyond the 65 in the program, plus 60 working... |
428033_2 | 3-Telescope Complex Planned at South Pole | pole, where winter temperatures drop below minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit and the air is extremely dry. Another advantage of the pole is that unlike other observing sites, none of the stars seen from there rise and set each night. They move in circles around a point directly overhead. At other sites, when a telescope fol... |
426878_1 | 2 Big Airlines Resuming Service to Middle East | no longer asking people to come two three hours early." She said passengers were now being asked to arrive at Kennedy International Airport in New York and at airports in Germany an hour and half before flight time. Airlines were not, however, changing the stricter security measures they had instituted after the war ha... |
427001_3 | Market Place; Still More Growth In Biotechnology? | money to be made in the group, just not by leaps and bounds," he said. Others are even more bullish. David S. Webber, an analyst with Alex. Brown & Sons, rates Amgen a strong buy. The stock, which was trading at 78 1/4 on Feb. 11, rose as high as 105 1/4 on Feb. 22 before closing at 101 3/4, the day after Neupogen was ... |
426988_0 | On Disputed Land, Paraguay Reaps a Whirlwind | As his five children played barefoot in a manioc field, Cesar Galeano folded and unfolded an eviction order and wondered what the next few weeks would bring. In December, the police arrived at the squatter settlement here and dismantled 70 shanties with chainsaws. In January, just before harvest time, a tractor arrived... |
431071_4 | U.S. Expecting Hussein To Be Out by Year's End | permission to move fixed-wing planes around the country, Administration officials said they knew of no new military missions by Iraqi warplanes. Mr. Bush's his five-day trip included stops in Ottawa to see Prime Miniser Brian Mulroney, in Martinique to see President Francois Mitterrand of France and in Bermuda to meet ... |
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429673_0 | Low Oil Prices Are Bad, Some U.S. Experts Say | American oil experts are closely watching a fractious OPEC as it meets in its first session since the Persian Gulf war, with many hoping for the same things that some OPEC members want: a new agreement that will hold down production, so prices will stabilize or rise. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and other members abandoned ... |
429475_0 | U.S. Proposes Rules on Disabled in the Workplace | The Bush Administration has issued another set of proposed rules for carrying out the new Americans With Disabilities Act, this time on hiring and accommodating disabled workers. For example, the regulations, which like earlier rules seek to eliminate barriers that keep the disabled out of full participation in society... |
429554_0 | Satellite Data Adapted For Everyday Users | IN research for military intelligence, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have developed a new technique that greatly speeds the analysis of satellite images and are now adapting it for use in crop forecasting, land-use studies, pollution monitoring and mineral and oil prospecting. The laborator... |
431391_0 | Detroit Is Getting New Help From Plastics | Automotive engineers have puzzled for years over how to use weight-saving plastics in car and truck engines without losing the strength or heat resistance of metal. Now, new economical ways of reinforcing and molding plastics are providing a solution, and auto makers are using large plastic parts for the first time und... |
431453_0 | Topics of The Times; Saving on Paving | New York City's Planning Commission, the local community board and Claire Shulman, the Queens Borough President, have approved a Transportation Department plan to build a new asphalt plant in Long Island City, to be owned and operated by the city. So should the City Council Land Use Committee, when it takes up the issu... |
431439_0 | Study Links Cancer Deaths And Low Levels of Radiation | Workers exposed to low levels of radiation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, a center of nuclear weapons production and radiation research since 1943, had higher death rates from cancer than workers who were not exposed, researchers say. In a study being published Wednesday in The Journal of the Americ... |
431366_1 | Paris Journal; Vietnam Echo Stuns France: Case of Treachery? | spotted on a list of speakers at a seminar on Indochina organized by the French Senate. A group of survivors led by Jean-Jacques Beucler, a former head of France's Veterans' Office, went along, identified him and denounced him publicly for treason. Now, in the name of 18 former prisoners of Camp 113, a French lawyer, J... |
433039_2 | British Hope Ulster Talks Will Start Before May | agreed to consider replacing the British-Irish agreement of 1985, providing that the Irish and British Governments and Ulster leaders can agree on a replacement. The pact, which gave Dublin a consultative role in Ulster affairs, is anathema to the unionist parties that represent most of Ulster's Protestants. The negoti... |
433044_4 | Researchers Act to Cut Auto Pollution Further | weight penalty, which works against better gas mileage. Car makers watch vehicle weight like wrestlers watch theirs. A few extra pounds can throw a car into the next weight class, which means a different setting on the treadmill used for pollution testing. That makes it harder to pass an emissions test. Some experts th... |
428136_0 | Colleges Often Stymied In Selecting Presidents | Colleges and universities go through a rigorous selection process each year to choose the brightest students. But many are at loss when it comes to choosing a president. "It used to be easy to attract a college president," said Ernest L. Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "But ... |
428157_0 | New Immunex Drug Wins U.S. Approval | The Immunex Corporation received approval today from the Food and Drug Administration to market a genetically engineered drug that increases the growth of infection-fighting white blood cells in cancer patients who have had bone marrow transplants. Immunex will market the drug, granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating... |
427772_1 | Cheapest Heart Attack Drug Found to Be Safest | particularly among individuals 65 and older. Many American cardiologists have been reluctant to prescribe the drugs for older people because of perceived risks from bleeding. "The bottom line is that these treatments are very effective and should be used more often," said Dr. Peter Sleight, one author of the study from... |
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432675_0 | Recycling Is a Way of Life for Russians: To Survive, They Must Scavenge | When her son needed a new shirt, Zoya Begovaya moved up the cuffs on an old shirt of her husband. When she couldn't find sponges in the store, she knotted together old stockings to scrub her dishes. And when the price of newspapers tripled at the beginning of the year, she and her neighbors decided to share a subscript... |
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430836_1 | Noted With Pleasure | at the death and resurrection of a goddess, of Persephone down in the underworld biding her time till she returns to earth. Navigating Among the Memories Memories accumulate in our imaginations rather like untidy piles of magazines. As we age they spill more often into our waking lives. This is from "Living in Time" by... |
430893_2 | Jeremy Irons's Effortless Style | actor to play Charles Ryder, the narrator, we all agreed that maybe that was the part for Jeremy, mainly because when the camera is on him and he is not speaking, something is going on in his head, and with Charles, that was a vital ingredient. "I sometimes think Bill Hurt is my American counterpart," Jeremy said. "We ... |
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