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852107_0 | Pulsing Magnets Offer New Method Of Mapping Brain | A PSYCHIATRIST presses a small, hand-held device over a patient's skull. There is a clicking sound and the patient feels what has been described as a "clawlike" sensation or skin being "drawn up." Usually it is not uncomfortable. But bizarre experiences may follow. If the device -- a powerful, fluctuating magnet -- is ... |
853422_0 | Ecologists Criticize First Steps in Latin River Plan | Plans to begin blasting rock formations in the Paraguay-Parana rivers this June, a preliminary step in a proposed 2,000-mile water highway linking five South American countries, have prompted sharp criticism from environmentalists. They say this violates pledges that the waterway's construction would depend on the outc... |
853422_1 | Ecologists Criticize First Steps in Latin River Plan | will blast rock formations at Remanso Castillo, a narrow point on the Paraguay River 10 miles north of Asuncion, in June, and expand the area that it has traditionally dredged. The Government is also planning to install new signals the length of the planned waterway within its borders, said Ramon A. Cabrera, director o... |
853321_0 | Unsnarling the Snarl | NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT |
853094_4 | When the Dog Tags Along | cabin-sized pets, who must travel under the seat in front of you, like carry-on luggage, a fabric carrier is a good investment, as it is for auto travel. Kathi Travers, the A.S.P.C.A.'s expert on animal travel, takes her Yorkie, Kookie Monster, along in a Sherpa Bag, a popular soft-sided carrier that comes in three siz... |
853418_0 | Steel Union Uses Indy 500 To Press Its Boycott | Displaying some of the labor movement's newfound aggressiveness, the United Steelworkers of America hopes to turn today's Indianapolis 500 into something more than a car race. Through demonstrations, banners, a blimp and a new country-music song, the 700,000-member union is seeking to transform the speedway into a soap... |
853371_0 | Cancer Gene Patent Hurts Prevention Effort | To the Editor: Human genes should not be turned into commodities for sale or corporate profit. Any attempt to patent breast cancer gene mutations (news article, May 21), which may play a role in only 5 percent of breast and ovarian cancer cases, is a diversion of funds and focus from prevention programs. It makes more ... |
853449_1 | French Fail To End Unrest Disrupting Central Africa | a Western diplomat. In the devastated city center, French soldiers crouched in defensive positions behind the bullet-pocked walls of businesses destroyed in the looting while hundreds of anti-Government protesters marched today for the third day, defying a ban on public gatherings and angrily denouncing the French pres... |
850515_5 | Next Wave of Electric Cars: Hybrids | Partnership for the Next Generation Vehicle, seeks to do the same work more cleanly, with three times the fuel efficiency. That will require something different. "It seems like every major auto manufacturer has come to the conclusion that if we're able to market a vehicle that will meet what consumers want from their v... |
850501_0 | Tortoises Get Some Unusual Help From the Military's Spy Satellites | WHEN not focused on other nations' military bases, American spy satellites have been studying a dusty habitat of the humble desert tortoise in an effort to help scientists preserve this threatened species. As peaceful as that may seem, a report on the satellites' findings, completed in March, was designated as secret b... |
848974_6 | Study Details CUNY Successes From Open-Admissions Policy | to 1972. *The study estimated that during one year in the 1980's, graduates admitted under open admissions earned a total of almost $67 million more than they would have if the university's program had not been instituted. Their additional lifetime earnings were estimated at about $2 billion. "The benefits of the polic... |
848008_3 | SENATE VOTES BILL TO REDUCE INFLUX OF ILLEGAL ALIENS | agents arrest more illegal immigrants, the bill also orders the Immigration Service to increase its detention space to at least 9,000 beds, a 66 percent increase in current capacity. The bill also increases the maximum criminal penalties for document fraud to a $500,000 fine and 15 years in prison, from $250,000 and 5 ... |
847983_3 | Transit Chiefs Fault Riders In Shutdown | power shut-off or where they were. Mr. Hofmann disputed that. The transit superintendent at the station, Vanessa Pettiford, could have obtained that information with a single telephone or radio call, he said, adding he did not know if anyone had asked her for that information. City and transit officials agreed that com... |
849316_0 | Thousands Protest Against Transfer of Nuclear Waste in Germany | Demonstrators in northern Germany fought running battles with the police today in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent a container of atomic waste from reaching a storage depot that has become a symbol of environmentalist opposition to nuclear energy. About 3,000 protesters -- some throwing rocks, steel ball-bearings, fl... |
854343_2 | 75 Years Later, Tulsa Confronts Its Race Riot | made much the same point. "You cannot know where it is you are going unless you know where it is you have been," she said. Ms. Savage, a Democrat who is white (Tulsa has never had a black mayor), said that although she grew up here it was not until she was an adult that she learned about the rioting. "It just wasn't so... |
854321_1 | In America;Brutal Cops -- a Long View | are being sought. In Mr. Giuliani's words, "It was a horrible thing that happened." It appears that the attack was racially motivated and fueled by large amounts of alcohol consumed by the detective and his companions, all of whom are white. The man who was attacked, Shane Daniels, is black. He was with a group of frie... |
854326_3 | Women's Group Seeks Place at Irish Bargaining Table | in London. If Sinn Fein is eventually admitted, the talks will mark the first time that all parties involved in the Northern peace effort, plus the British and Irish Governments, will face each other across a table to seek an end of the intermittent guerrilla violence that has killed more than 3,100 since 1969. Without... |
854307_0 | Ex-Im Bank Refuses Loan Backing for Big China Dam | Citing environmental concerns, the Export-Import Bank refused today to help finance a huge dam in China that is intended to be the largest hydroelectric project in history. The agency's board voted unanimously not to issue letters of interest -- a preliminary step in subsidizing loans for foreign countries to buy Ameri... |
854363_0 | INSIDE | Sales of New Homes Surge Sales of new homes jumped in April, especially in the Northeast, providing further evidence of an increasingly strong economy. Page D1. Candidates on Social Ills President Clinton urged localities to impose curfews on youths, while Bob Dole said the welfare system magnified domestic violence. P... |
853772_1 | Konstanz Journal;Old Catholic Church Offers New Catholic Ways | 48, a teacher. They took their vows as priests of a denomination founded to protest the First Vatican Council's declaration of papal infallibility in 1870. Part of the deliberations that led to the founding of the Old Catholic Church were held in this town in 1873. "Is it not truly painful that the church has taken alm... |
853735_0 | Critical Days for Northern Ireland | The next few weeks are critical to the prospects for peace in Northern Ireland. Elections there this week will produce delegates to attend all-party peace talks that are scheduled to commence on June 10. With the help of some good will on all sides, the days ahead could bring real progress toward ending this long and t... |
853701_0 | Satellite Orients Itself, Shuttle Astronauts Find | Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour crept up on a small self-orienting satellite for a final check today, taking precise laser measurements before abandoning the craft to burn up in Earth's atmosphere. The shuttle's third rendezvous with the 80-pound aluminum cylinder was a relief for scientists who were near... |
853760_0 | Sports of The Times;Photos, a Scam and the Police at Yankee Stadium | THEY would enjoy the best and endure the worst of what baseball in New York can be. Two young women from Moses Lake, Wash., 19-year-old Jessica Ferguson and 18-year-old Michelle Ferraro, work as nannies for the Wolfe and Mangiarotti families on Long Island. When their team, the Seattle Mariners, was here two weeks ago,... |
853704_0 | A Catholic Politician, and Northern Ireland, at a Crossroads | Twenty-four years ago, John Hume was a French teacher and fledgling politician leading a march to protest discrimination against this city's majority Catholics by the Protestants who still controlled local government. When he tried to negotiate a nonviolent standoff between angry demonstrators and British paratroopers,... |
852299_0 | Digital Cell Phone vs. Pacemaker | People with heart pacemakers should be aware that carrying a digital cellular telephone could cause the devices to shut off, causing the heart rate to speed up, a researcher says. The first large study on the subject, released last week, found that these phones interfered with pacemakers in more than half of the 975 pa... |
852352_1 | U.S. Warns 3 Nations Against Sale of Soviet Missile Technology | and the Ukrainian Government." He told The Washington Times that the protests to China were "more general," but that the messages to Moscow and Kiev were "very specific on action they might take," presumably to control the companies or officials who may have been negotiating with Beijing. The President of Ukraine, Leon... |
852976_0 | College Needn't Be the Impossible Dream | To the Editor: While it's true that, as Russell Baker states in his May 21 column, community colleges and state universities provide good educations as well, it's naive of him to ignore the door-opening advantages that a degree from Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Harvard and the like convey. Plenty of businesses hire only ... |
852960_0 | Central Africa Leader Vows To Govern With His Critics | With hundreds of French troops patrolling the streets of this devastated city to enforce a 6 P.M. curfew, the embattled President announced today that he would form a new government that would include his critics, so as to blunt opposition to his rule. But President Ange-Felix Patasse's televised bid at reconciliation ... |
852969_0 | Computers Can Help Schools Find Solutions | To the Editor: Clifford Stoll (Op-Ed, May 19) cited many problems that schools face, but bringing communications technology within the grasp of every child and teacher is not one of them. Connecting classrooms is not a complete solution to schools' problems, but it is an essential means of finding solutions. It can pro... |
851205_0 | British Would Yield to I.R.A. on Arms if Cease-Fire Is Revived | Prime Minister John Major of Britain said today that if the I.R.A. restored its cease-fire, the British and Irish Governments would not insist on the group's immediate disarmament when a conference to discuss peace and the political future of Northern Ireland started on June 10. Mr. Major's statement was an important c... |
848180_3 | China's Transport Gridlock: Cars vs. Mass Transit | paved road per one million Americans, 5,457 miles per one million Japanese and 1,070 miles per one million Indians. One of China's leading physicists, Prof. He Zuoxiu, who worked on the country's first atomic bomb, has thrust himself into the transportation debate by trying to persuade the Communist Party leadership to... |
1338316_4 | Particles Are Tiny, but Damage Can Be Great | But a particle that makes it all the way to the alveoli can, under the right circumstances, cause more mischief. Each sac is often guarded by a single scavenger cell, or macrophage. There, a bit of coal dust could insinuate itself into lung tissue, potentially leading to a stiffening of the lungs called fibrosis. Unles... |
1330039_4 | Debating Patients' Capacity to Decide | a fair amount of trouble making their decisions,'' Dr. Appelbaum said. These groups may make up a larger proportion of the patient population than physicians have realized, he said. ''In our experience, we are more likely to see errors made in the direction of assuming competence on the part of people who may be fairly... |
1330058_5 | Scarred Steel Holds Clues, And Remedies | survive the blast, reducing the collapse as much as 85 percent. At the Pentagon, the society's investigation, led by Dr. Paul F. Mlakar, an engineer with the Army Corps of Engineers, is interested in studying blast-resistant walls, added during a recent renovation, to see how well they fared. The jetliner hit at a spot... |
1330072_1 | In a Rapid Evolution, Regulations for Air Travel Are Being Rewritten Almost Daily | executive pondered how the airline would serve wine in first class if crew members could no longer carry corkscrews on board. That problem resolved itself when the Federal Aviation Administration agreed that corkscrews could be packaged with other catering supplies, Continental said. But new riddles present themselves ... |
1330091_0 | Twisted Logic On Improving Air Security | AIRLINE officials and politicians on Capitol Hill have a favorite remedy to the security lapses at airports: a new federal work force to run security operations. But would it do any good? Before delving into that question, I should probably address a lapse of my own. Three months ago, in a column ridiculing the ''Did y... |
1331974_1 | Protestants' Threat to Quit Imperils Power-Sharing in Belfast | rule could last for weeks or months. Mr. Reid could also call for new ministers, an action that would create an unworkable executive branch dominated by Catholics, or disband Parliament and hold new elections. Since this summer, the peace effort has suffered a serious series of setbacks, mostly centered on I.R.A. disar... |
1332083_0 | Metro Briefing | Connecticut: Hartford: Special Education Questioned | A new state study reports that Hispanic, black and American Indian students are far more likely than whites to be identified as having intellectual disabilities and emotional disturbances. They are then placed in special-education classes at a higher rate than that of whites, the report said. Officials are investigatin... |
1331939_2 | Financing has dried up for biotechnology start-ups with big dreams for fighting disease. | before companies can seek approval from the F.D.A. to go to market. As many as 60 could reach the market in the near future, according to R. Nelson Campbell, an investment banker specializing in biotechnology for Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company in Arlington, Va. ''The industry could double in the next two years,''... |
1338109_2 | In aftermath of Sept. 11, direct mailers try to adjust and online mailers try to take advantage. | in some catalogs. (A recipient of a Lands' End catalog in Denton, Tex., was being tested for anthrax late last week after finding an unusually large amount of white powder in a catalog earlier this month, the company said.) To allay fears about direct-mail advertising, the Direct Marketing Association recently sent gui... |
1336296_1 | Terror in the Mail | aftermath of Sept. 11, under a new set of stringent security measures. Likewise, public resources must also be marshaled to safeguard the nation's stream of mail, and Americans' trust in it. The Postal Service is sending cards this week to 147 million addresses advising people on how to recognize and deal with suspicio... |
1336322_1 | Sinn Fein, for First Time, Asks I.R.A. to Begin Disarming | settlement to the brink of breakdown. But the events of Sept. 11 cast doubts on the peaceful intentions of groups that insisted on maintaining the capacity for armed conflict. Until today, the party had always argued that people had unfairly singled out the disarmament issue as the chief impediment to bringing peace to... |
1332693_0 | For High-Speed Access to the Web, a Dish-to-Dish Route | FRUSTRATED with the four and a half hours it took to download Microsoft Internet Explorer, Ronald Marshall of Parkville, Mo., decided last spring to investigate high-speed Internet options. Like most bandwidth-hungry consumers, Mr. Marshall, 65, thought that his only alternatives were a digital subscriber line, or D.S.... |
1332742_0 | A Weak Spot: the Luggage Hold | Now that Tom Ridge has moved into the White House as the new director of homeland security, Americans will be looking for firm new measures for air travel safety. The events of Sept. 11 proved that air travelers need the protection of steel-reinforced cockpit doors, sky marshals and better transponders. But while we co... |
1332702_4 | Bird's-Eye Views, Made to Order | coverage of high-risk areas, but they don't always cover every region where problems come up,'' said Gilbert D. Rye, president and chief executive of the Orbital Imaging Corporation, another satellite photography company. Commercial companies sometimes pick up what they call ''pretty picture'' orders, like a photo of a... |
1332842_0 | Networks Agree to U.S. Request To Edit Future bin Laden Tapes | The five major television news organizations reached a joint agreement yesterday to follow the suggestion of the White House and abridge any future videotaped statements from Osama bin Laden or his followers to remove language the government considers inflammatory. The decision, the first time in memory that the networ... |
1332695_4 | 7 Formats? Sorting Out The Camcorders | use the camera as a playback unit connected by cable to the television set. Digital8, introduced in 1998, offers compatibility with earlier systems. Though it is a digital format, it uses the same tapes as the analog 8-millimeter and Hi8 systems. So those who have analog 8-millimeter libraries can still play them throu... |
1332743_0 | After Meeting, Asia-Pacific Health Ministers Vow to Fight AIDS | After their first meeting on the issue, health ministers from nearly all Asian-Pacific countries pledged today to devote more resources to the problem of H.I.V./AIDS, which has recently exploded in the region. ''The epidemic affects all people, and infection rates are likely to increase unless stronger action is taken,... |
1332922_0 | Cashman's Status Near Resolution | The Yankees' general manager, Brian Cashman, and principal owner, George Steinbrenner, could soon resolve Cashman's uncertain contract negotiations. Cashman will either settle with Steinbrenner on an extension of his contract, which expires Oct. 31, or he will join the lengthy list of Yankees executives who have pursue... |
1332722_0 | Slower Growth and Wider Deficit Are Seen for Indonesia | Underscoring how security concerns have clouded Indonesia's economic outlook, the International Monetary Fund agreed today that the country's government would be forced to run a wider budget deficit than planned next year. A visiting team of I.M.F. officials, led by the fund's Asia-Pacific assistant director, Daniel Ci... |
1332741_4 | Passenger-Screening Companies Lobby for Expanded Role | that, as in Europe, there would be no commercial incentive to scrimp. Whether any of the screening companies were lax in their duties in the four hijackings of Sept. 11 is not clear. The planes may have been hijacked with weapons, like small knives and box-cutters, that the Federal Aviation Administration's rules tell ... |
1334353_5 | In Mail, a New Meaning For 'Handle With Care' | and were augmented on Friday. For the first time, he said, packages need invoices, and customers must present identification. The same themes echoed yesterday in corporate mailrooms, too. In Reno, where a Microsoft employee received a letter over the weekend that contained a white powder, Fred Hamilton, publisher of Th... |
1334240_2 | With consumers concerned about unexpected mail, direct marketers will try new approaches. | reconsider every aspect of that.'' Indeed, the Direct Marketing Association, the industry trade organization, began yesterday to distribute -- through e-mail messages -- wide-ranging guidelines to its 5,000 member companies, suggesting responses to security issues. The 13 suggestions include advice to ''avoid using pla... |
1336663_0 | On the Bioterror Front: Fear and Vigilance | To the Editor: Re ''Terror in the Mail'' (editorial, Oct. 23): Many of the current problems could be mitigated if we used the tools of high technology. For example, much of the mail stream could be rapidly replaced by electronic mail, easing the cost of disinfecting and inspecting mail. Unless we do this, we face extre... |
1330883_9 | For Rebuilders, Inspiration All Around | were mutually reinforcing. Egos are on display here, but why shouldn't Le Corbusier have displayed his ego? He was Le Corbusier! And egos have a place in the service of high ideals. New York's provinciality, its indifference to what has been going on in the sphere of urban architecture around the world, has been the st... |
1329836_2 | Safer Borders | for a long struggle, we must acknowledge some basic realities. There will continue to be anti-American terrorists with global reach. These terrorists will have access to the means to carry out catastrophic attacks. And future terrorists will draw inspiration from this black Tuesday. We must find a way to reduce the pot... |
1329968_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | despite the possibility of American air strikes. A12 Fruit Cakes, Chinese Style Moon cakes, small round pastries that are the traditional food of today's midautumn festival, have suffered in popularity as the range of food available to the Chinese people has expanded. This year, moon cakes have another problem: exposés... |
1329917_4 | G.E. Is Accused of Trying to Undercut Order to Dredge Hudson River | already spent tens of millions of dollars advertising and lobbying against the plan, and was surprised when Mrs. Whitman said that the federal government was sticking with the Clinton plan. The company and its allies vowed to fight the proposal nonetheless. Environmentalists and others believe that G.E.'s new approach ... |
1329956_0 | Mountains of Twisted Steel, Evoking the Dead | If somewhere on earth there has ever truly existed a rag-and-bone shop of the heart, as in Yeats's dreamy phrase, that shop is open for business here, now, on a colossal and grotesque scale. Rather than old clothes and tattered furniture, acres of misshapen girders and beams from the wreckage of the World Trade Center ... |
1335282_2 | A Lethal Web With No Spider | (1998, Blackwell), that the development of computer networks, the Internet and banking networks has begun to affect the world order. As has been argued by other scholars, Mr. Castells says that these networks are creating new social structures. Once commerce and communication take place beyond national control, the sta... |
1335312_1 | Israeli Airport Security Chief Hired to Help Tighten Logan | ''Sept. 11 has certainly made a point that from now on the situation must be different.'' It was at Logan where hijackers boarded two planes that they later flew into the World Trade Center. Mr. Ron's hiring is part of $20 million worth of changes being made at Logan in the wake of the terrorist attacks. The security c... |
1333111_0 | A Spinoff of Afghanistan: Is Iraq Next? | To the Editor: Bill Keller compares the fight against terrorism to the cold war (column, Oct. 6), but I believe that the best analogy is to the 19th-century conflicts fought by our Navy to enforce the law of nations: the defeat of the Barbary pirates, the African Slave Trade Patrol and the suppression of Caribbean pira... |
1333032_3 | Amazon Populist's Killing Exposes Bitter Conflicts | region, and God knows there is plenty to fight about.'' After a two year respite, largely the result of a national economic crisis, the destruction of the Amazon seems to be heading back toward the record levels of the mid-1990's. The current dry season, which will end in about a month, has been one of the most parched... |
1333071_0 | Bush To Bin Laden | The White House has asked U.S. networks to limit broadcasts of statements by Osama bin Laden. I wish that instead of censorship, the president would respond to him. Here's what Mr. Bush could say: Dear bin Laden: I've listened to the statement you released through Al Jazeera TV. Since I know that no Arab or Muslim lead... |
1333155_3 | Senate Votes to Federalize Job of Airport Screening | measure. The legislation is intended to renew consumer confidence in air travel by requiring steps to prevent hijackers from boarding and taking control of planes as on Sept. 11. Chief among the requirements is the federalized work force. Under the legislation, its members could be fired or suspended by the Justice Dep... |
1334826_4 | Coast Guard's Gunboats On Watch Against Attack | consequences of a liquefied-gas explosion, either on land or a ship. ''We're interested in knowing, 'Is it enough to take out a bridge? Or to level a neighborhood?' '' said Edwin A. Levine, NOAA's scientific support coordinator. Maritime experts and Coast Guard officials say they do not want the waterways to become a t... |
1334897_1 | Egypt and Saudi Arabia Shield Passenger Lists | cooperating with federal law enforcement authorities send data electronically to the United States when international flights depart for this country. The Customs Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service check the names against ''watch lists'' of suspected terrorists and criminals. Inspectors from the two... |
1334801_3 | Agencies tread carefully, rounding all the edges to produce messages that soothe and reassure. | and Empire State Buildings at night. The headline is one typically found in a public service ad, too: ''Volunteers needed.'' Under that headline, though, are activities like ''to grab a bite,'' ''to catch a show,'' ''to jog in the park'' and ''to laugh.'' The last line is ''to be New Yorkers again.'' In the television ... |
1334763_4 | 'Please Don't E-Mail My Dad, Mr. Weatherbee' | After teachers began storing information on Web sites, they began giving secure access to students and teachers, as well. Parents rave about the program, said Ms. Krist, who said that many other teachers in her school, Bell Junior High in San Diego, were also using the product. Ms. Krist remembers one spring day last y... |
1334077_1 | Making It Safer to Fly | marshal program, directs airlines to fortify cockpit doors and calls for better intelligence-sharing between airlines and law enforcement agencies. The legislation includes a number of good White House proposals. But on the critical issue of airport screening, it goes further than the administration had suggested. The ... |
1334053_1 | U.S. Businesses Taking Steps To Protect Company Mail | it is unclear how the prospect of potentially lethal letters might affect the way American companies do business. Much of the vital correspondence that was once sent by mail is now handled over fax machines and e-mail, and by express-delivery services that typically require more information about senders than the posta... |
1337334_0 | Cybersleuths Take On the Mystery of the Collapsing Colossus | A newspaper headline in the northern French town of Beauvais put the question bluntly: ''Will the Americans Save the Cathedral?.'' The Americans in this case are a team of architectural historians and computer scientists from Columbia University. The cathedral is the local behemoth: a 700-year-old, extravagant experime... |
1331271_0 | Puzzling Piece of Wreckage | Rummaging through hills of steel wreckage from the World Trade Center at a Jersey City scrapyard, a structural engineer has found what appears to be a few pieces of the south tower that were directly hit by the Boeing 767 jetliner. Notably, one piece is one of the huge steel columns that formed the core of the tower, w... |
1331269_0 | World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Fewer Tire Replacements Expected | The Bridgestone Corporation said its Firestone subsidiary in the United States would probably replace fewer than 400,000 tires, about half of those covered under its latest recall, because most of the affected tires are already off the roads. Japan's largest tire maker said it would spend about $30 million to replace t... |
1330681_5 | NEWS SUMMARY | with vats of artificial butter flavoring, doctors say. A20 Advance in Fighting Plague Biologists have decoded the full DNA, or genome, of the bacterium that causes plague, a disease that has caused three world epidemics in recorded history and killed some 200 million people. The decoding of the genome is widely expecte... |
1330717_4 | Suspect's Will Suggests a Longtime Plan to Die | Mr. Atta's will made clear that he wanted his funeral to be carried out according to strict Muslim tradition. ''The people who will prepare my body should be good Muslims because this will remind me of God and his forgiveness,'' he wrote. ''Those who will sit beside my body must remember Allah, God, and pray for me to ... |
1330609_0 | Loss of Net Halts An Online Ritual | FOR Neil Tow, a 23-year-old student at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights, the Internet serves a religious function. Asking acquaintances and friends for forgiveness before Yom Kippur as a way to atone for sins committed against people is an age-old Jewish practice. Mr. Tow and many of his fellow st... |
1330794_0 | National Briefing | West: Hawaii: Fighting Frogs With Caffeine | State agriculture officials said they had obtained preliminary federal approval to begin spraying an unlikely pesticide, concentrated caffeine, in wooded areas to kill hundreds of noisy tree frogs rarely found outside the Caribbean. The tiny frog, the coquí, is ubiquitous in Puerto Rico, and is believed to have arrived... |
1330754_0 | Making a Case Against bin Laden | To the Editor: Re ''Debate on Air Security Fixes on Federal Role'' (news article, Oct. 3): In the discussions on increased airline security, placing strict limits on carry-on baggage should be seriously considered. Carry-on baggage slows down security checks and boarding and leaving the plane. It costs airlines money b... |
1334491_3 | From Fighting the Taliban To Battling Blazes in Idaho | heat) in emergency situations. And he describes how fires occasionally rage out of control, when drought conditions combine with sudden changes in the wind or other anomalies in the weather. As for the article on the whale harpooner Athneal Ollivierre -- who lives on the Caribbean island of Bequia and is one of the las... |
1334537_0 | Altered Corn Is Cleared | The Environmental Protection Agency said today that it would allow companies to sell a genetically modified corn for seven more years after finding the gene-spliced crop posed no risk to monarch butterflies, birds and animals or human health. The corn, which is known as Bt corn, is engineered to produce the pesticide b... |
1334544_4 | Concern over anthrax could be a distraction from fundamental flaws and gaps in airline security. | on board the plane. ''These are usually prepared in unsecure, off-site locations, and loaded directly onto the aircraft without ever being screened or looked at by security,'' she said. ''We feel that anything that gets onto the aircraft needs to be screened or secured. It's a very simple concept.'' She added: ''We fin... |
1336864_3 | Security on the Brain, Solutions in the Eyes | eye structure. Some airports are using iris scanning to make sure that only flight crews and airport employees can enter restricted areas. In Europe, tests have been underway for some time in Frankfurt and at London's Heathrow airport. A spokesman at Heathrow said the service may be offered in December to North America... |
1336874_0 | Fliers Voice Their Concern Over Security | Seasoned, confident professionals who are technically skilled and accustomed to being in control, airline pilots are becoming frustrated and worried about security. Seventy of them, and about 20 other aviation officials, are gathered here at an International Aviation Security Academy, trading views of the post-Sept. 11... |
1336805_2 | Tracing the Steps (and Near Success) of a Taliban-Trained Attacker | Canada, says here, ''Many people who are genuine refugees fleeing persecution come with false documents.'' In Montreal Mr. Ressam blended into a large Algerian population. ''I lived on welfare and theft,'' he testified, and was photographed with members of the Armed Islamic Group, known as the G.I.A., which hijacked an... |
1336770_0 | The News and the Score Wherever You Go | EVEN before Sept. 11, the average amount of time adults ages 18 to 64 reported listening to the radio last year was three hours a day, with 90 minutes devoted to news, according to a study by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. It seems reasonable that people are spending even more time tuned in now -- and... |
1336836_5 | After I.R.A. Move, British to Dismantle Base and Towers | against the perils of ''euphoria'' and told the Commons, ''It takes two to tango, and in a complicated dance like Northern Ireland, it takes a lot more than two to get through it.'' The impasse over disarmament had become the principal obstacle to putting the 1998 peace agreement into effect even though the accord did ... |
1336201_0 | When Vigilance Leads to the Absurd | To the Editor: ''A Tweezer Defense Shield?,'' by Thomas L. Friedman (column, Oct. 19), about his attempt to board a plane with tweezers in a carry-on bag, shows the absurdity of our response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Granted that even a tiny tweezer can be pressed into service as a weapon; the same is also true of keys,... |
1336202_0 | When Vigilance Leads to the Absurd | To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman (''A Tweezer Defense Shield?,'' column, Oct. 19) describes being asked to check tweezers at an airport security checkpoint. However, the Federal Aviation Administration explicitly lists tweezers as being permitted in aircraft cabins under its new security rules. His experience would se... |
1337525_1 | The Gagman Cometh | the evolution of comic drama in the West. From the ancient Greek countryside to the theater of the absurd, it's a story of general decline punctuated by brilliance, and it ends with a startling obituary. Comedy is dead, Segal says, weakened as early as Aristophanes and finally murdered in modernity by the likes of Geor... |
1337852_1 | Word for Word/Pentagon Science Fair; Wanted: Tools to Fight Terror. All Suggestions Welcome. | a White Paper (not to exceed 12 pages) from responders with qualifying Quad Chart evaluations. The White Paper shall include supporting information for data submitted in the summary Quad Chart and shall summarize the problem/threat addressed, provide a more detailed proposed solution/approach, identify deliverables, de... |
1337868_0 | The World; The Terror Prompts an Outbreak of Peace | THE pieces were already falling into place for Northern Ireland, however tentatively, last summer. It was then that the mostly Catholic Irish Republican Army, in a stunning break with its own history, proposed to begin dismantling its arsenal of weapons and bombs in order, it said, to restore life to the dying peace pr... |
1337891_1 | China Lets Foreigners Back Into Rail Business | rail. Railroads are also the primary means of long-distance travel for most of the population, since China has yet to complete a national network of long-distance, high-speed highways. As a result, China's railroads, whose trains were largely powered by steam locomotives well into the 1980's, are overburdened by demand... |
1337692_0 | Kind Strangers | To the Editor: David Margolick's account of his experience in Italy reminded me of my own experience in Italy in November 1963 after President Kennedy's assassination. We were spending a sabbatical year in Pisa, living a few blocks from the Leaning Tower. We had no television, only an ancient and unlistened-to radio in... |
1332459_1 | The F.A.A. has spoken on carry-on items. Now let's hope airport screeners get the message. | it open to interpretation, but frankly we're counting on the flying pubic to help us with that interpretation and not to abuse it. We're hoping they don't bring duffle bags disguised as laptops.'' Fair enough. Now let's also hope that the airport screeners manning those checkpoints, some of which are starting to look l... |
1332394_0 | Four Spoons, Please, And Plenty Of Syrup | Each of these desserts requires a group effort, friends with especially sweet teeth. As they settle in at a table in the lounge or bar or finish dinner at Asia de Cuba, 237 Madison Avenue (37th Street), they face the task of choosing among five oversize extravanganzas with names like Latin Lover (chocolate cake, mousse... |
1332512_3 | Faraway Events Hit Home For Town in Eastern Oregon | in the Pentagon, was killed when Flight 77 rammed into the building. Time has hopscotched over Pendleton, once a stopping-off point on the Oregon Trail that celebrates its past with one of the nation's biggest rodeos. It is the kind of town that ''if somebody waves to you when you drive by and you don't wave back, they... |
1332389_2 | Roads Are Safer; Cars Are Safer. Drivers? Forget It. | a false belief that technological improvements in cars prevent accidents or save passengers from the worst effects. Recent research has tried to measure the role cellphones and other distractions in cars play in driver behavior. Two traffic researchers in Spain last year observed drivers as they tried to simultaneously... |
1338660_0 | A Curriculum Bent by the Prism of Preservation | When a group of building-preservation experts met recently to discuss how the attack on the World Trade Center had affected nearby landmarks, among those who paid particularly close attention was a curriculum developer for a new Brooklyn high school. Kate Burns Ottavino listened intently to a discussion on the composit... |
1338618_2 | Airlines are increasingly using a profiling database to select passengers for extra searches. | a profiling database called the Computer-Assisted Passengers Screening program. The program, which uses information from airline reservations systems and other databases, was introduced in 1997, partly as a way to deflect charges of ethnic or religious bias stemming from profiling people by sight. The system has 26 sec... |
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