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1660177_0 | Sea Glass, Starfish, Beached Ship | I grew up inland. My experience with shipwrecks was limited to what I saw on ''Gilligan's Island.'' That changed 20 years ago when I woke to a foggy dawn on Long Beach Island, looked out my window and saw an empty luxury cabin cruiser beached in front of my house. In the time it took to telephone the police and run out... |
1660344_3 | New Details on F.B.I. Aid for Saudis After 9/11 | remained grounded for days afterward. The three Las Vegas flights, with a total of more than 100 passengers, ferried members of the Saudi royal family and staff members who had been staying at Caesar's Palace and the Four Seasons hotels. The group had tried unsuccessfully to charter flights back to Saudi Arabia between... |
1660092_1 | For Tires, Mean Streets | and other seasonal repairs on the 5,300 lane-miles of roads that the D.O.T. maintains in Nassau and Suffolk. Last year D.O.T. crews put down over 18,000 tons of asphalt to resurface and repair Long Island roads, but this third rough winter in a row hasn't helped to smooth things over. ''With the heavy snowfall and the ... |
1657303_1 | No Need to Stew: A Few Tips To Cope With Life's Annoyances | they must. It is a case study in human inventiveness, with occasional juvenile and petty passages, and the originators of these tips are happy to share them. ''They're an integral part of how people cope,'' said Prof. James C. Scott, who teaches anthropology and political science at Yale University, and the author of '... |
1657125_2 | For Troops, Home Can Be Too Close | cellphone conversations. The capacity for such real-time, interactive communication has unquestionably aided military field operations, but researchers say the emotional and psychological impact on soldiers and their families is less clear. Just as television coverage during Vietnam brought shocking images of war into ... |
1657125_3 | For Troops, Home Can Be Too Close | contrasts with previous wars when letters arrived infrequently, and separations provided opportunities for spouses to master new skills. Finally, there is the problem of technology misfires -- the Iraq cellphone network crashes or e-mail goes astray. These can bring on spikes of anxiety as family members leap to the wo... |
1654780_8 | A Debate Filled With Faith | who are gay, and our church continues to be very inclusive,'' said Sarah Vetter, pastor of Diamond Hill Methodist. ''My sense is that many churches are divided over this issue, and it's more unusual to find a congregation like ours that is unanimous in its approval and acceptance.'' National leaders of the United Metho... |
1654897_0 | Here Comes The Class of 2005. Can It Pay the Rent? | At first, looking into that room is a jolt. One day, it's a reverberating mound of teenage chaos; the next, with its occupant off to college, it's a gaping, eerily silent hole -- a bed, a desk, a stray sock or a T-shirt on the floor. Then, inch by inch, the parents move in. First, it's the overflow books. Then it's a l... |
1654901_4 | So Many Summer Camps, So Much Parental Angst | stepped into the middle ground 15 years ago with Campus Kids. His programs, in Hackettstown, N.J., Middlebury, Conn., and Port Jervis, N.Y., offer a Monday-through-Friday sleep-away experience; the campers return home by bus for the weekend. The camps cost $750 a week; the two in New Jersey and Connecticut are on the c... |
1654983_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-22 C.I.A.'s Antiterror Program The Bush administration's secret program to transfer suspected terrorists to foreign countries to be imprisoned and interrogated has been carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency, under broad authority that has allowed the agency to act without case-by-case approval ... |
1654652_0 | Ruthless People | THE SOCIOPATH NEXT DOOR The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us. By Martha Stout. 241 pp. Broadway Books. $24.95. Judging by book titles, Americans either envy their neighbors (''The Millionaire Next Door'') or fear them (''The Sociopath Next Door''). In some cases, they may very well do both. But just as most of us aren't ... |
1654653_2 | The Joy of Federalism | swing wildly and hard. His big target was Thomas Jefferson, a man of ''intellectual superficiality and insincerity.'' The sage of Monticello, Croly argued, had created a government suited for a bucolic era. But modernity, the birth of the corporation, the closing of the frontier and technological advances had reshaped ... |
1653640_0 | An Ancient City in Harm's Way | To the Editor: Re ''Venice Turns to Future to Rescue Its Past'' (Feb. 22): The article describes large-scale efforts to stop rising tides from flooding Venice. But the city is not only drowning, it is also crumbling. Numerous irreplaceable facades are deteriorating because giant cruise ships, which keep their engines r... |
1653721_4 | Little Advance Is Seen at Ivies in the Hiring of Minorities and Women | special finances to help in the hiring and retention of women and minorities. About three years ago, it began to make special efforts to bring more women to the senior faculty, which is paying off. Penn was the only Ivy in 2003 that hired more women than men into tenured positions: it hired six women with tenure and fi... |
1657873_0 | Pentagon Invites Allies for First Time to Secret Talks Aimed at Sharing Burdens | The Pentagon has for the first time invited foreign allies into classified discussions that will shape America's military missions and combat forces for years to come, with the goal of identifying tasks that would become the responsibility of other nations and no longer the burden of the United States. Senior Defense D... |
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1658312_5 | Bad Connections | for the kinds of music, film and literature that require patience to enjoy fully. As we use these technologies to increase the pace and quantity of our experiences, we might find that the quality of our pursuits declines. Nevertheless, whatever ambivalence we might feel toward these technologies, we end up buying and u... |
1658537_1 | Not Always Clear Sailing | piece of property, the right to take his livestock to an old stone springhouse on the land, and he was doing nothing illegal. It was true. The title company had missed this title defect. They had to buy the rights back from the farmer for about $30,000. A couple of years ago, the accounting department conducted an audi... |
1658625_0 | Seen Any Bears? If You're in New York State, Take a Look in the Backyard | When M. Brad Whitcomb became a forester for Allegany State Park 14 years ago, visitors would often ask where they might glimpse the elusive black bear. Today the bears are far more prevalent. Instead of advising people where to find them, he often has to teach people how to avoid them. ''We have to tell them: 'Please d... |
1658411_0 | Getting in Touch With That Inner El Greco | 'El Greco' Islip Art Museum, 50 Irish Lane, East Islip, (631)244-5402. Through April 3. The premise of this show is to compare eight contemporary artists to Domenikos Theotocopoulos, the 16th-century master known as El Greco, because, like him, they supposedly express their ''inner vision'' in opposition to current tre... |
1660547_5 | A Vast Brazilian Project for Water Diversion Is Greeted by Widespread Skepticism | As things now stand, the project has no foreign financing and will be paid for entirely out of the government budget, unusual for a venture on so grand a scale. The previous administration had contacted the World Bank in hopes of securing its support, but those efforts fizzled after the bank did an analysis that turned... |
1654014_3 | Trouble Lurks Amid the Roses | interior of your architectural component.'' Build decks that naturally extend living space. Plan meandering walkways to lure visitors to hidden parts of the garden. Use an arbor or an archway as a doorway to an outdoor room. ''Decide how you intend people to enter the space, which will determine your lines of sight and... |
1654034_3 | For Drivers, A Traffic Jam Of Distractions | new behaviors. The Washington, D.C., law, for example, not only requires that mobile phones be equipped with a hands-free accessory but also prohibits reading, writing and ''using personal communications technologies.'' Mr. Sundeen said it was hard to gauge whether any of the laws had helped to reduce the number of tra... |
1655602_0 | The Rain Forest, in All Its Endangered Variety | 'A Land of Ghosts' ''The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia'' By David G. Campbell Illustrated. 260 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $25. Far western Amazonia is, in every sense, the end of the line. For impoverished Brazilians seeking a new life, it offers a last chance at economic survival. For th... |
1659655_1 | Weekends With Wolves: Houses Where the Neighbors Bite | One time watching from our house, we saw a huge black bear crossing the river to go into the forest. Usually, though, we have to make sure we don't attract bears, so there is a certain degree of caution that we take with, say, the garbage. We have kids throughout the country, and they'll come up for family get-together... |
1657583_2 | Right Name, Wrong E-Mail In-Box | and a Jeffrey--Heller. ''That was a negotiation,'' Mr. Solomon said. Also in the early days, e-mail names were often limited to a small number of characters. Newer systems, of course, support much longer names. As the number of e-mail users grows, ''you want a longer naming convention that is more accommodating, to avo... |
1657650_2 | Episcopal Bishops Suspend Naming Any New Ones | Church U.S.A. comprises 2.3 million of the 77 million Anglicans worldwide. Last October, an Anglican committee issued a report that urged the American and Canadian churches to adopt moratoriums on the consecration of openly gay bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions. But Bishop John Chane of Washington, D.C., said... |
1656479_2 | The Quality Cure? | for the poor, already account for one-fifth of the federal budget, and their share could double in a generation. Curbing such growth has been the aim of every reformer, and according to Cutler, it is the reason reform has failed. The Clinton team proposed to pay for universal coverage by limiting increases in spending ... |
1658115_0 | The Irish Peace Process | To the Editor: The fury of ''Bullies of Belfast'' (editorial, March 12) is hard to fathom. You have seized on a murder committed by drunken members of the Irish Republican Army to unfairly mock its leader, Gerry Adams, and what remains of the Irish peace process. The references to ''a wave of crimes,'' ''growing fear a... |
1658178_3 | In Life on the Mekong, China's Dams Dominate | their economies. Myanmar shares China's passion for hydropower to supply future growth. ''China seems to be doing this with impunity,'' said Aviva Imhof, director of Southeast Asia programs at International Rivers Network, a nongovernmental group in Berkeley, Calif. ''The Mekong is slowly being strangled to death. Why ... |
1658811_2 | Rice Sounds a Theme in Visit To Beijing Protestant Church | ''There's a peace in my heart that the world never gave.'' Earlier in the day, she met with Prime Minister Wen Jaibao, telling him she wanted to ''address the many problems as well as the many opportunities that are affecting us in the Asia-Pacific region, and also around the world,'' according to a transcript of the m... |
1655228_4 | Killing in Beflast Puts I.R.A. on the Defensive | what the I.R.A. are capable of. They butchered a man and slit his throat. I would be afraid, too.'' ''Republicanism is not what happened to Robert,'' she said. ''They can't call themselves republican if they did that. Certainly not murdering innocent people.'' Many Catholics in the McCartneys' neighborhood, a battle-sc... |
1655127_4 | Radio Tags Can Find Stray Bags, But Can Airlines Afford Them? | oversees baggage handling; some RFID specialists predict that the technology will spread more quickly in Europe and Asia, where decisions about technology investments rest primarily with airports, not airlines. Narita Airport outside Tokyo, for example, has been experimenting with the more sophisticated radio tags. It ... |
1655218_0 | The Digital Doctor Is In (the In-Box) | To the Editor: Three important issues were not mentioned in ''Digital Rx: Take Two Aspirins and E-Mail Me in the Morning.'' First, physicians who elect to correspond with their patients by e-mail should make sure that they are complying with state statutes. E-mail messages are records, and state laws cover records. Sec... |
1659861_0 | Bruce McM. Wright, Erudite Judge Whose Bail Rulings Caused an Uproar, Dies at 86 | Bruce McM. Wright, a retired black judge in Manhattan who denounced what he called racism in the criminal justice system and created a furor in the 1970's by setting low bail for many poor and minority suspects, died in his sleep on Thursday at his home in Old Saybrook, Conn. He was 86. His death was announced by his w... |
1657075_2 | SECURITY REPORT ON U.S. AVIATION WARNS OF HOLES | new aviation assessment, examining dozens of airline incidents both before and after the Sept. 11 attacks, makes clear that counterterrorism officials still consider the aviation industry to be perhaps the prime target for another major attack because of the spectacular nature of such strikes. The assessment, which sho... |
1657043_4 | Ante Up at Dear Old Princeton: Online Poker as a College Major | balance, large withdrawals for what he says were casino trips and even larger deposits from online winnings. His personal account on PartyPoker.com echoes his bank statement, with matching payments and deposits that are specifically for poker. Mr. Sandberg credits his success to two simple principles: know the odds, an... |
1656983_0 | As Cars Become More Connected, Hiding the Antennas Gets Tougher | IT makes sense that automakers borrow model names from the jaguar and impala to evoke speed and gracefulness, yet carefully avoid associating their products with a creature like the porcupine. But with all the antennas in some new cars -- high-tech luxury sedans may carry 18 or more -- it takes a major engineering effo... |
1656983_1 | As Cars Become More Connected, Hiding the Antennas Gets Tougher | or more antennas, as do the short-range Bluetooth communications that link a driver's cellphone or handheld computer with the audio systems of some new cars to permit hands-free phone conversations. Direct-reading tire pressure monitors necessitate still more aerials to keep tabs on the inflation of each tire, includin... |
1727709_0 | Seeking a Public Voice on China's 'Angry River' | Far from the pulsing cities that symbolize modern China, this tiny hillside village of crude peasant houses seems disconnected from this century and the last. But follow a dirt path past a snarling watchdog, sidestep the chickens and ducks, and a small clearing on the banks of the Nu River reveals a dusty slab of concr... |
1727706_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL A3-21 Plan For Chinese River Raises Hard Questions The struggle over law touches every part of China. Now with a proposal for a series of dams that will produce more electricity than even the mighty Three Gorges Dam but would also threaten a region considered an ecological treasure, the Chinese government... |
1724798_3 | Beijing Casts Net of Silence Over Protest | person to answer this question. It's not very convenient to comment on this.'' A link on Sina.com -- the third of the leading portals and the only one to carry even a headline about the incident -- to news from Dongzhou was a dead end, leading to a story about employment among college graduates. Even Caijing, a magazin... |
1724547_0 | REALLY? | THE CLAIM -- Too much noise can increase the risk of a heart attack. THE FACTS -- Scientists have long suspected that too much exposure to everyday noise -- sirens, the din of the office, the jingle of an ice cream truck -- can increase blood pressure and take a toll on health. A few studies over the years have tried t... |
1724699_0 | All About Mother | To the Editor: Re ''Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies'' (A Conversation With Michael R. Rose, Dec. 6): Dr. Rose comments that ''evolution took us in hand, and we lived longer.'' He does not mention how the factors he discusses (we were smarter, deadlier, better fed) led to selection for longer... |
1724590_1 | Senators Criticize Decision to Allow Scissors on Planes | It hurts it.'' Weighing the risk of small scissors and tools against that of bombs, he said, ''If you do the analysis, it is not even close.'' But the committee chairman, Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, said he found that logic ''difficult to follow.'' Mr. Stevens proposed instead that the security agency reduce the num... |
1724569_0 | Ernest Schwiebert, Who'd Rather Be Fishing, Dies at 74 | Ernest Schwiebert, an architect and planner whose lifelong passion for fishing led him to write influential books on piscatorial matters like how trout perceive insects -- all the better to make lures to catch them -- died on Saturday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 74. The cause was renal cancer, said his son, E... |
1724555_3 | Environment And Cancer: The Links Are Elusive | in whom. Some scientists, like Aaron Blair, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute, see hints that environmental pollutants like pesticides, diesel exhaust in cities and workplaces and small particles in the air may instigate cancer. But, Dr. Blair says, there is a huge problem in following up on these hint... |
1724538_0 | Risk and Reality in V-Births and C-Sections | Elective Caesarean sections have become more common in recent years, in part because many women and doctors believe that vaginal birth is a major risk factor for urinary incontinence. But a new study published in the December issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology has found no support for this belief. Researchers sampled 1... |
1724592_0 | Corrections | The Personal Health column in Science Times on Nov. 29, about the rare lung disease lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, included outdated information on medical advice and treatment. While the symptoms may be more noticeable in pregnant women, there is no firm evidence that pregnancy makes the disease worse, as doctors b... |
1726098_1 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Collecting; With Wagons' Comeback, New Interest in Originals | the elements save for a hard roof and canvas side panels. This basic design became one of the industry's earliest crossover vehicles, the car-based station wagon; in 1929, Ford became the first automaker to use the designation, for a version of the Model A. Wood body framing continued in wagons into the early 1950's, b... |
1726081_1 | Trade Officials Agree to End Subsidies for Agricultural Exports | is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said that more negotiations were needed, noting that ''on the toughest issues, it just kicks the can down the road.'' Other provisions in the declaration include a broad agreement to ban fishing industry subsidies that contribute to overfishing; special help for impoveri... |
1726522_2 | Saudi Women See Changes, And Reasons to Expect More | a number of sources. One is the double shock produced here by the fact that most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi and the subsequent wave of terrorism by Al Qaeda that struck this country. Suddenly, the ruling family had reason to push back against some of the more reactionary practices imposed by the powerful cler... |
1726436_3 | A Modern Space in Mexico City's Historic Center | City's historic district. The plaza's main feature is a fountain designed with the Mexican artist Vicente Rojo, a pool populated by more than 1,500 tezontle-colored pyramids. The water reaches halfway up the pyramids and will be kept in constant motion through a series of air injectors. Mr. Legorreta has conceived the ... |
1722470_4 | Let It Ring, or the Call May Cost $100 | in October, a number that Sergeant Berry said surprised officers. ''It's force of habit, or people are just lazy,'' Sergeant Berry said about cellphone use. He said the department had not specifically targeted cellphone use. ''But officers on foot will see people talking while holding their phone, and they'll radio to ... |
1722536_0 | School Placements For Disabled Children | To the Editor: Bravo to the writer of the Nov. 27 letter ''Disabled Children and Compassion,'' which eloquently addresses the need for educators to inculcate basic human respect and tolerance for those who may certainly march to a different drummer. I would also like to state emphatically that contrary to the Nov. 20 l... |
1722260_0 | A Troubling Memo | We already know why the removal of PCB's from the Hudson River promises to be the largest and most complex environmental cleanup in history -- it has to do with the sheer volume of toxic material buried beneath an enormous, flowing river, and the delicacy of removing the mess without leaving a worse one behind. But doe... |
1722215_0 | In Search of the Venus of 37th and Madison | JOHN YANG doesn't make a searing physical impression. Dressed in a button-down flannel shirt and khaki pants, his glasses dangling on a string around his neck, he looks more like a New England professor than an intrepid New York photographer. If you spotted him pointing his Leica at the carved faces on the facades of M... |
1722166_1 | After Attack, Cruise Ships Rethink Security | those ships to determine whether any changes are necessary,'' said Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for both lines. And Dan Grausz, senior vice president for fleet operations of the Holland America Line said, ''We are looking into the specifics of that attack and assessing whether our procedures need to be revised.'' Accord... |
1727224_7 | Tidings of Pride, Prayer and Pluralism | . We will have the dead at our councils.'' Stark declines to acknowledge the debt Christians owe their Islamic, Jewish, Greek, Roman, Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist fathers. He fails to count all the ballots of the dead and does not really care to: in his eyes, the future not only belonged to Christianity --Chri... |
1727387_0 | PHOTOGRAPHERS' JOURNAL | |
1727368_3 | A Massachusetts Moose, Munching Through Mahopac | an effect on children's health, why take it?'' The church that entered into the agreement with Nextel is a few hundred yards from the Meadow Pond Elementary School, and just down the road from Ms. Cassidy's home. Ms. Cassidy, a lawyer who has two children, one a Meadow Pond second grader, first named her group the Alli... |
1727345_6 | Rethinking the Nation's First Suburb | planning group. He pointed to innovations that improved suburbs around Chicago and Portland, Ore., and in Florida. The Island still has ''a second chance to make things work,'' he said. Some newer suburbs have avoided the mistakes of the pioneers. On the outskirts of Washington, some counties have carefully coordinated... |
1727213_3 | The Lives They Lived; The Prisoner | had prepared him for this sort of battle, it was two ancient Greek philosophers. From Aristotle, Stockdale had learned that free will can exist within a state of imprisonment. From Epictetus, the influential Stoic, he had learned about our ability to shape experience by perception: as months of solitary confinement in ... |
1725526_1 | Rough Seas, Rough Sailing and a World of Challenges | won by Mike Sanderson, a New Zealander at the helm of ABN AMRO One, which arrived in Cape Town on Dec. 1. Sanderson and his crew of nine set a world record for a monohull, covering 546 miles in 24 hours. But it was hardly all smooth sailing. Sanderson said that in his e-mail messages, he often described their battles w... |
1725459_1 | Trade Officials Haggle on Issues From Lower Tariffs to Cotton Subsidies | from Bangladesh. Dipak Patel, Zambia's minister of commerce, trade and industry and the leader here of the coalition of least developed countries, said in an interview Friday night that discussions were focused on requiring each rich country to designate 90 to 95 percent of all categories of imports as free from tariff... |
1728053_7 | Eating Your Way to Health; Companies Are Marketing Fortified Foods to the Drug-Wary | of a class of bacteria that already exists in the digestive systems of most healthy people. The company has sponsored four studies showing that among people who are irregular, consumption of one four-ounce container of Activia yogurt a day leads to as much as a 40 percent reduction in the amount of time it takes food t... |
1721877_1 | Bomb Threats Force Closing Of Courts In Connecticut | a serious criminal matter and that's the way we're treating it." Beginning about 9:50 a.m. on Friday, five calls were received in various locations from a caller who said bombs had been placed in courthouses and judicial buildings across the state, Mr. Boyle said. He would not say whether there was one or more callers ... |
1721932_0 | Sharp Objects Permitted? | To the Editor: Re ''Significant Changes in Air Passenger Screening Lie Ahead'' (news article, Dec. 1): It is silly to go back to allowing small scissors and other similar sharp objects in carry-on luggage. After all, people are traveling only for a few hours. Arts and crafts projects and minor repair jobs can wait unti... |
1721509_1 | The State of AIDS | illegal even to advocate needle exchanges. The price of this shortsightedness will be AIDS epidemics that spread into the general population. Unaids reports that a small handful of places are making some progress. Zimbabwe, despite all its problems, is seeing a lower rate of AIDS in pregnant women: from 26 percent in 2... |
1721467_0 | Scientists Say Slower Atlantic Currents Could Mean a Colder Europe | Scientists say they have measured a significant slowing in the Atlantic currents that carry warm water toward Northern Europe. If the trend persists, they say, the weather there could cool considerably in coming decades. Some climate experts have said the potential cooling of Europe was paradoxically consistent with gl... |
1721502_0 | Significant Changes in Air Passenger Screening Lie Ahead | The Transportation Security Administration is making some of the most significant changes in the screening of airline passengers since procedures were revamped after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The changes include a new type of random search, a revision of the pat-down process and the end of a ban on small scissors... |
1725647_0 | Finding Travelers Exposed to Disease | To address problems brought to light by the SARS outbreak in 2003, federal health officials have proposed regulations that would make it easier to contact travelers exposed to infectious diseases. The changes, proposed Nov. 30 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would require airlines and cruise lines to... |
1725970_0 | Recycle Trash, Don't Incinerate It | To the Editor: Hauling trash to distant dumps is an important topic (''A Long, Long Haul From the Curb,'' Dec. 4). The research of our civic organization, Citizens for a Livable Environment and Recycling, suggests that we are better off looking at trash from the perspective of recycling. Much trash now hauled away coul... |
1724499_0 | Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Vernon: Six Arrested At End Of Bear Hunt | Six animal rights activists were arrested on Saturday, the last day of New Jersey's black bear hunting season, according to state environmental officials. The arrests occurred during a protest at Wawayanda State Park in Vernon after protestors left a confined area established by the police, said Martin McHugh, director... |
1724495_2 | MILITARY OFFICER TIED TO KILLINGS IS HELD BY CHINA | gave inaccurate information to higher authorities before getting approval, however, security forces would generally be expected to close ranks and defend one of their own leaders rather than accept responsibility for mistaken killings. It would be especially notable if the detained commander worked for the People's Arm... |
1724387_1 | Trade Talks Now Expected to Focus on Exports of Poorest Nations | Latin America and Africa, industry groups in textile-producing states and their political allies in Congress oppose the elimination of duties on garments from Bangladesh, a poor nation that is one of the world's largest exporters of clothing. Industry groups and some Southern politicians also oppose deep cuts in cotton... |
1726311_1 | Orthodoxies On Trade Worn Down In Marathon | without actually agreeing on any services. But the declaration does require the elimination of industrial nations' tariffs and quotas on almost all exports from the world's poorest countries and does resolve disputes over cotton and other issues among developing countries that had led to the collapse of talks at the la... |
1727802_2 | Scientists Try to Resolve Nuclear Problem With an Old Technology Made New Again | Some scientists argue that recycling is essential. At a recent Washington forum on nuclear waste and its possible uses, Phillip J. Finck, deputy associate director of the Argonne National Laboratory, an Energy Department complex, said that by 2010, long before Yucca Mountain can open (if, indeed, it ever does), the Uni... |
1727882_0 | OBSERVATORY | Promising but With Problems As the world produces more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, scientists are looking for ways to get rid of it. The idea is to create a ''sink,'' a means of storing the gas that will sequester it from the atmosphere permanently. While there are many proposals of how to do this (including ... |
1727910_4 | Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste | revenue for the government. It remains so. Freeport says that it provided Indonesia with $33 billion in direct and indirect benefits from 1992 to 2004, almost 2 percent of the country's gross domestic product. With gold prices hitting a 25-year high of $540 an ounce this month, the company estimates it will pay the gov... |
1727910_7 | Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste | military commanders in Papua saw Grasberg's increasing value as ripe for the plucking. To fortify itself, Freeport, working hand in hand with Indonesian military intelligence officers, began monitoring the e-mail messages and telephone conversations of its environmental opponents, said an employee who worked on the pro... |
1725013_3 | Getting Around, Made Easier | navigating,'' he said. ''The entire trip is downloaded in the first minute of a trip and is stored on your phone or BlackBerry as you're driving. If the G.P.S. goes offline, you will continue to be given guidance. It knows your last known location and speed.'' STMicroelectronics, the Italian-French semiconductor compan... |
1725077_0 | BlackBerry Dispute Aids Rivals | The patent dispute between NTP and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, has become a marketing opportunity for its competitors in the wireless e-mail business. To that end on Wednesday, a wireless e-mail software provider, Visto, joined Good Technology and Nokia in licensing NTP's patents for reasons that appea... |
1725067_1 | Vows of New Aid to the Poor Leave the Poor Unimpressed | are meant to avoid a repetition, but they have created new problems. The biggest difficulties involve plans by the United States, the European Union and Japan to eliminate duties and quota on almost all goods from up to 50 of the world's poor nations, 32 of which are W.T.O. members. Countries on this list complain that... |
1722848_4 | Using Guns and Honey, Hunters Take Aim at New Jersey's Bear Population | that both hunters and those who oppose them have the right to express their beliefs. But Mr. Rogalo said that bears have no rights. ''The United States Constitution says 'we the people, by the people, for the people,' '' said Mr. Rogalo, stopping behind frozen brush to load his gun and sip hot tea from a thermos. ''The... |
1722759_0 | Get Ready, Frequent Fliers, For the 'Random' Pat-Down | THERE'S good news for flying seamstresses, electricians and plumbers. In a policy change, the Transportation Security Administration said Friday that as of Dec. 22, scissors with blades up to four inches long are O.K. in carry-on bags, as are screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers up to seven inches long. The news media hav... |
1722745_0 | In Mongolia, an 'Extinction Crisis' Looms | On a highway west of this capital, roadside signs advertise marmot, fox and other wildlife, and stacks of skins stand on display. In open markets, traders conduct a gritty commerce in furs and hides, much of it illegal. Similar markets flourish elsewhere in Mongolia, especially along the border with China. If the good ... |
1722730_3 | For Aging Drivers, the Signs Sometimes Say 'Stop' | movement disorders like Parkinson's disease could have delayed reactions to traffic dangers. People with insulin-dependent diabetes can experience sudden drops in blood sugar, impairing consciousness and coordination. They may also suffer a loss of sensation in their feet that can interfere with applying proper pressur... |
1723322_2 | Air Marshals Shoot and Kill Passenger in Bomb Threat | a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security. ''He then appeared to be reaching into a carry-on bag, and the air marshals proceeded consistent with their training,'' Mr. Doyle said. ''Shots were fired as the team attempted to subdue the individual.'' Mr. Bauer said that members of the Miami-Dade Police Departmen... |
1721722_1 | China, Reflected in a Chemical Slick | of toxic benzene compounds into a major river, forcing a cutoff of the water supply for nearly a week to a city of several million people, the world paid some overdue attention. People everywhere watched with sympathy as the people of Harbin, a rust-belt metropolis in China's frozen northeast, coped with the challenges... |
1728394_1 | Women's Rights Laws and African Custom Clash | -- to girls who are publicly and perhaps falsely accused of having lost their virginity -- emotionally searing. This month, their arguments persuaded South Africa's Parliament to ban some virginity testing, with violations punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The ban is an example of how sub-Saharan Africa is slowly... |
1728338_3 | Under the Ottomans, Greece at Work | Greek men of letters who lived abroad, some of which are displayed here. And the big bang of the French Revolution reverberated in Greek ears. What's more, although European governments were generally pro-Ottoman, the Greek cause found solid support among their citizens. A movement known as philhellenism gained momentu... |
1724142_1 | The French: Married to the Past, And Thinking of Divorce | on the population of the colonized lands.'' The Gaullists, on the right, stood by the law. Lionel Lucas expressed outrage that a history book for high school seniors didn't mention a massacre of French colonists in Algeria in 1962. Michel Diefenbacher lamented the omission of a list of awful diseases French physicians ... |
1724183_0 | A Record Amazon Drought, and Fear of Wider Ills | The Amazon River basin, the world's largest rain forest, is grappling with a devastating drought that in some areas is the worst since record keeping began a century ago. It has evaporated whole lagoons and kindled forest fires, killed off fish and crops, stranded boats and the villagers who travel by them, brought dis... |
1724091_3 | What's the Return On Education? | advantage over another through greater education, there might be no overall economic benefit. Today, economists suspect that the truth is somewhere in the middle. Jonathan Temple, an economist at the University of Bristol in England, says the research trend is moving back toward the earlier findings. The latest attempt... |
1723774_1 | Myths Made Modern | times to the present. Succinct and cleanly written, it is hugely readable and, in its journey across the epochs of human experience, often moving. For Paleolithic man, it was the hunt, the horror and elation of a kill, the blessing of lifeblood spilled that organized belief and ritual. From about 8,000 B.C., following ... |
1724099_4 | Giving Yourself A Tax Cut on Investments | consider immediately replacing that holding with shares of the Healthcare Select Sector SPDR or the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Sector Index fund -- both exchange-traded funds that track major health care indexes. By investing in a similar but not ''substantially identical'' investment, you avoid the I.R.S.'s was... |
1723962_0 | CUBA WITHOUT CASTRO | To the Editor: I am the general counsel to Global Exchange, a human rights organization that, until the Bush administration's travel crackdown, led hundreds of ''reality tours'' to Cuba. Cuba makes it extremely easy for U.S. citizens to visit, and they are welcomed just as the rest of the world is. If the truth be told... |
1723780_2 | State of the Art | closer, the battle lines are not so sharp as they seem. Here, for instance, is one writer in all-too-familiar high dudgeon: modern art, he says, is ''decadent,'' ''narcissistic,'' ''meaningless,'' ''valueless.'' These are not the words of some primitive from the outer reaches of rural Alabama. They come from a New York... |
1723780_24 | State of the Art | shower-curtain sheets against the dour, flint-gray winter skies, then walking some more, stopping again. ''The Gates'' was the opposite of spectacle. It wasn't one thing. It was each individual's particular accumulation of perspectives, a different work of art for every person who entered Central Park. Seen only in thi... |
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