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1332127_0 | Truth and Justice, by the Blip of a Brain Wave | Since the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, Dr. Lawrence A. Farwell has been arguing that terrorist operations can be investigated through careful monitoring of the brain waves emitted by suspects during interrogation. The claim did not get very far with the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any other major law enfo... |
1332138_6 | New Ideas In the War On Bioterror | to identify which genes in human cells are turned on or off in response to exposure to different agents. ''We do know that gene expression patterns change very quickly in response to an infection,'' he said. Other projects aim at preventing infections or treating them once they occur. Dr. James R. Baker Jr. at the Univ... |
1332126_1 | Under the Towers, Ruin and Resilience | at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers, which is advising New York City's Department of Design and Construction on the trade center basement and is compiling the survey of structural damage. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, firefighters, police officers, engineers and others have crawled, floated, climbed, waded and rappel... |
1332145_0 | Beyond Car-Pooling | To the Editor: Re ''Officials Pleased by Morning Traffic With Car-Pooling Rule'' (news article, Oct. 2): New York has been forced into a successful experiment with car-pooling, and should try other long-proposed solutions to congestion. Closing high-traffic areas to private cars, mandating electrichybrid taxi and bus f... |
1332218_0 | From Torn Steel, Cold Data of Salvage | When the twin towers fell, the two buildings that had once been admired for their endless structural and architectural complexity suddenly became a heartbreaking mass grave, a symbol of terrorism's reach, and -- at a coldly physical level -- 1.2 million tons of tangled debris. But engineers and government officials und... |
1330438_3 | Debate on Air Security Fixes on Federal Role | said Lior Zouker, president and chief executive of International Consultants on Targeted Security. ''Let us train the right people.'' Along with competitors, Mr. Zouker asked that his company be hired by the federal government, not the airlines, and be brought up to higher standards of training and performance instead ... |
1330399_3 | Earlier Hijackings Offered Signals That Were Missed | and take appropriate action in the separate field of flight safety field. Safety officers say the technique could help security, too. In September 1996, when many people suspected that the crash of T.W.A. Flight 800 two months earlier had been caused by a bomb, the industry's trade association set out to establish prin... |
1331678_1 | Taking the Pulse of Landmark Buildings Caught in the Collapse of the Towers | chairwoman of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, told preservationists Thursday that engineers have found no structural damage to any landmark buildings or buildings being considered for landmark status. ''None of them are going to fall down or need to be knocked down,'' said Peg Breen, president of the New ... |
1331359_0 | Analyze This, Pronto | OUT OF ITS MIND Psychiatry in Crisis: A Call for Reform. By J. Allan Hobson and Jonathan A. Leonard. Illustrated. 292 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing. $26. Hippocrates, in the fifth century B.C., declared that mental illness was a medical problem based on an organic dysfunction of the brain, which could best b... |
1331347_0 | Why So Many Creatures? | THE TAPIR'S MORNING BATH Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them. By Elizabeth Royte. 328 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $25. The biodiversity in my temperate-zone neighborhood is pretty much limited to squirrels, mosquitoes and sparrows, though downtown it broadens ... |
1331335_0 | Getting E-Mail | To the Editor: There's a much easier solution to e-mail on the road abroad than searching for cybercafes or Internet kiosks (''Spinning a Web Link on the Road'' by Bob Tedeschi, Aug. 26). It's called PocketMail: a nine-ounce device about the size of a checkbook that contains an acoustic modem. (Although lots of phones ... |
1331390_0 | Trip Insurance: Refunds Vary | MOST insurance policies are designed to provide coverage if certain well-defined circumstances come to pass. Yet consumers who buy insurance are often surprised to discover -- sometimes too late -- the myriad exceptions lurking in the fine print. That lesson was recently delivered to travelers who bought insurance to c... |
1331801_1 | G-7 Leaders Pledge To Work In Concert to Thwart Terrorists | Bush has said that initial efforts to seize assets of 27 individuals and groups thought to be connected to Al Qaeda have netted $6 million in 50 bank accounts worldwide. But economic ministers are hoping that by tightening laws and recruiting a broader array of nations to cooperate in asset tracking, allies could not o... |
1331640_0 | Tweezer, an Airplane Risk | Before checking their luggage and heading toward the metal detectors, women should search one more place for possible contraband: makeup bags. In addition to confiscating disposable razors, scissors and Swiss Army knives, security officials at airports have been taking eyebrow tweezers, cuticle clippers and metal nail ... |
1331582_0 | Is Gold Relevant? Quiet, Please! | THE debate over the role of gold in investment portfolios may boil down to just a few percentage points. But you would never know that by listening to the fervor with which the two sides disagree. In one corner are those who say gold funds should play a permanent part in diversifying a portfolio, despite gold's 21-year... |
1331372_3 | Travel Advisory: Correspondent's Report; A Security Patchwork At European Airports | Middle East by 5 percent on Oct. 16, said Hugo Baas, a spokesman for the airline. Besides price increases, there will also be tighter restrictions on cabin baggage. At most European airports, sharp articles like knives, box cutters, knitting needles and scissors are likely to be removed from hand baggage. In Frankfurt,... |
1331815_0 | Letting Nature Ease the Pain | In early fall, I am always moved to leave my home on tourist-glutted Martha's Vineyard and visit the Second College Grant in northeastern New Hampshire. For a few days, I can revel in the sweet silence of the North Country and see no lights at night save those of the stars or the gas lamps shining through the windows o... |
1333939_0 | Hijackers, Beware: We Are Ready | To the Editor: Re ''A Weak Spot: The Luggage Hold,'' by Steve Samuel (Op-Ed, Oct. 11): People not so long ago used to have the luxury of traveling with trunks full of personal effects. Why not limit luggage now to one carry-on suitcase that can be thoroughly scanned and searched? Larger suitcases can be shipped in carg... |
1333542_1 | Fall/Winter Cruises; Ships Go Trolling for Passengers | stop providing trip cancellation coverage for cruises of American Classic Voyages, parent of the Delta Queen Steamboat Company, United States Lines and American Hawaii Cruises. Although cruise lines contacted on Monday, after the first attacks on Afghanistan, said it was too soon to say if business would be affected fu... |
1333482_1 | Against Love | loved. This injunction to achieve maturity -- synonymous in contemporary usage with 30-year mortgages, spreading waistlines and monogamy -- obviously finds its raison d'être in modern love's central anxiety, that structuring social contradiction the size of the San Andreas Fault: namely, the expectation that romance an... |
1333502_4 | Goodness, Graciousness | reappears as the ability to calculate risks. Topical applications of this virtue that never occurred to the Greeks include those raised by pollution and its effect on the future. Comte-Sponville may draw heavily on traditional wisdom, but he is rarely bound by it. In his discussion of fidelity, a remark of a divorced w... |
1333613_10 | A Creeping Sensation For Fire Island Owners | dime from anybody,'' Mr. Cohen said. ''We're just trying to help ourselves.'' Homeowners in Fair Harbor are also united in their desire for beach replenishment, said Erica Fried, the erosion control district commissioner. ''The feeling in the community is, we'll all pay what we have to pay,'' she said. ''Each time we k... |
1333489_7 | A Brief History of Bad Advice | apparently obsessive-compulsive author of the best-selling ''Surrendered Wife: A Practical Guide to Finding Intimacy, Passion and Peace With a Man,'' the work of marriage is mainly finding a way to keep yourself from micromanaging your husband's career, his household chores, even his choice of socks. A how-to book has ... |
1337186_3 | An Economy Keeping Its Guard Up | the real cost of air travel by $20 billion. Still, many superficially unrelated factors have mitigated the impact on business in general. The economic slowdown has cut demand for most items, making it less troublesome if an order takes longer to process, or a product takes longer to make. Companies are increasingly com... |
1337096_2 | China Repeats Terms for Ties Pope Seeks | take part in the official church while as many as eight million worship in the unapproved church, their leaders sometimes facing harassment or prison. Officials of the state-run church have been told by the state religious authorities not to speak to the media, and today they declined to comment on the pope's entreatie... |
1337222_4 | An Overloaded Hoist Is Suspected in Scaffolding Collapse | any previous problems with worker safety, according to OSHA records. But one of the principals of Nesa was convicted of disorderly conduct earlier this year after he was accused of having had someone pose as him to take a test to be licensed as a rigger. The principal, Constantine Stamoulis, pleaded guilty in June. He ... |
1335959_0 | October 14-20; Irish Protestants Resign | In a feint-and-dodge move characteristic of the crisis-ridden Northern Ireland peace process, Protestant leaders pulled out of the power-sharing government but said they would return if the Irish Republican Army began to disarm. Sinn Fein, the party representing the I.R.A., has been hinting that the long-sought start o... |
1335611_0 | A Half-Monument | To the Editor: The debate about what should be done with the World Trade Center site presents some difficult choices. Sculpture park or building? Contemplative monument or office tower? Perhaps there is a solution that can make everybody happy. Why not rebuild the twin towers as high as before, but leave them empty abo... |
1335652_1 | In the Region/Long Island; Adapting to Change, Boatyard Owners Hang On | mile village of Babylon, which borders the Great South Bay, according to E. Donald Conroy, the mayor. ''All have been here for a long time, and there is not much turnover,'' he said. He added that one sold recently, but to an adjoining boatyard. ''Those who have found a way to meet current demands as well as meet old b... |
1335855_4 | Brazil Searches for More Energy | delicate environment and to address local concerns, for instance, redesigning the project so the area to be flooded has fallen by more than two-thirds, to 155 square miles. They also dispute local complaints about environmental damage that construction might cause. ''The truth is that a lot of the area that is going to... |
1335955_0 | October 14-20; Russia Closes Cuba Station | Russia's eavesdropping station at Lourdes, Cuba, is a cold war jewel: 28 square miles of antennae and computers that message Russian embassies, submarines and spies, and vacuum up U.S. satellite and radio communications. But with Russia's superpower status a thing of the past, and no threat from America, President Vlad... |
1335545_2 | Carry-On Rules: List Grows Long | airports are requiring that material confiscated at the checkpoints be turned in at the end of the day. Asked if the airports are holding onto it so passengers can retrieve it on their return, he said from what he is hearing ''most of them are not.'' Each airline has been issued the new safety directives (which are not... |
1335554_0 | Curbside Bag Check-In Makes a Limited Return | Curbside check-in is being restored for domestic flights as quickly as the airlines can demonstrate to federal regulators that their security measures at individual airports meet new standards issued after the Sept. 11 hijacking and destruction of four airliners. The resumption of curbside check-in began Sept. 27 at O'... |
1335074_2 | Protestant Leaders Pull Out Of Group Governing in Ulster | of tonight's brinksmanship was to give Britain's Northern Ireland secretary, John Reid, seven days before he must mothball the Northern Ireland Assembly and restore direct rule over the province from London. It will likely set off a week of feverish activity aimed at avoiding suspension, a step that neither Ulster's Pr... |
1333477_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths YORK, KEVIN P. | YORK-Kevin P. 41. On September 11 at the World Trade Center. Of Princeton, NJ. Visitation Sunday October 14 from 7-9PM at the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, 40 Vandeventer Avenue, Princeton, NJ. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, October 15 at 10AM at St. Paul's R.C. Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton. In... |
1333290_1 | A philosopher-priest's new look at the old question: God in a world of so much evil. | analytic philosophy. It takes on the questions raised by David Hume in the 18th century, by John Stuart Mill in the 19th and by a host of contemporary thinkers whose names would be little recognized outside their trade. It surveys their arguments, parsing them out in numbered propositions, seeking hidden premises, insi... |
1333413_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Cease-Fire Setback | Straining Ulster's shaky peace, Britain ruled that cease-fires called by the Ulster Defense Association and the Loyalist Volunteer Force no longer exist, after months of attacks on Catholics and the police. This means that members of the two Protestant paramilitary groups freed under the 1998 Good Friday agreement coul... |
1333340_3 | Slowed by Site's Fragility, the Heavy Lifting Has Only Begun | World Trade Center. When the 110-story north tower collapsed, the huge beams holding up its north facade, a section of colonnade about 150 feet across, weighing perhaps 1,000 tons or more, fell against the south wall of the Customs House, where the colonnade remains precariously tilted. Debris from higher up the tower,... |
1333410_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Brazil: Four-Day Week To Save Energy | Responding to the failure of the northeastern region to cut electricity consumption by 20 percent, as required in the emergency rationing plan that went into effect four months ago, the government has ordered a four-day work week in the nine-state area beginning later this month. The 50 million residents have cut elect... |
1319652_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | that will be used in trying to raise the nuclear submarine Kursk from the Barents Sea next month. A3 NATO Mission May Lengthen Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany acknowledged that NATO troops could end up staying in Macedonia beyond the 30 days now planned for their mission to disarm ethnic Albanian rebels there. A... |
1319644_0 | LAW SCHOOL CALLS AS ECONOMY SLOWS | When Kevin Haeberle graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in English literature two years ago, the last thing on his mind was law school. He caught the dot-com wave and rode it well until he was laid off last month. But now he is one of a growing number of relatively recent college graduates who have decid... |
1319681_3 | Food Shortage in Mountains Sends Hungry Bears to Town | month early, on Sept. 1. But bear advocacy groups argue that increased hunting could further endanger black bears that are already struggling to find food. Wildlife officials have resisted suggestions to drop food in the mountains, saying an artificial supply would not solve the problem and would lead to dependency. Sc... |
1317585_1 | Mystery DNA Is Discovered In Soybeans By Scientists | its safety. Products made from Roundup Ready soybeans have been eaten by people and animals for five years with no reports of health problems. Still, the findings could cause some embarrassment for Monsanto and the agricultural biotech industry because they raise questions about how well the molecular makeup of the pro... |
1314833_4 | Business; Airlines Are Clearing a Nonstop Path to the Plane | informs passengers by pager of the next available flight, even if it is on another carrier. Privacy and security, of course, are potential problems in systems that assume that passengers will use credit cards at kiosks or have personal information stored on a database. ''For something to be successful, you have to have... |
1314640_11 | Battlefield: Space | bank in a library the differences among, say, Honduran swamps and Libyan deserts. ''And by the way, water vapor is terribly opaque and will cause the special signature to be completely invisible.'' However, Cooley continues, another project will be to gather data in order to ''correct for water vapor that may blur some... |
1315010_2 | A Justice Champions a Witness to History | anecdotes and occasional humor, the memoir conveys a sense of the historical significance of the events Mrs. Harlan witnessed. But what captured Justice Ginsburg's interest was the deeply personal story of a girl's transformation from a 17-year-old bride to a confident woman, a mother of six, who offered food and drink... |
1314877_1 | Tropics Meet Arctic, Sweetly, in Pushcarts | 10 carts, Alfredo Thiebaud opened Delicioso Coco Helado at 849 St. Ann's Avenue in Morrisania in 1978. Since then, the business has expanded greatly, building to nearly $1 million in yearly sales. These days, 110 pushcart vendors sell the ices, and there are many more flavors, like mango, passion fruit, pineapple and c... |
1314629_0 | . . . Or Is There? Moral Brainteasers | Case studies from the 2001 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl 1. You are a lawyer representing a rock group, which wants to get out of its recording contract to take advantage of a much better offer. The group's contract is a ''new kid'' agreement, and the terms heavily favor the recording company. For example, although the c... |
1315565_3 | New Ulster Setback: Protestant Chief Rejects I.R.A. Offer | February through June 2000 -- over the same arms dispute that still dogs the process. Another option has come under discussion in recent days -- a possible one-day suspension of the assembly, which would then put into motion another six-week waiting period. That means the battling rival politicians would not have to re... |
1315573_4 | Management | and compliance at Raytheon, which began a companywide rollout of LRN training modules in March. Cynthia Estlund, who teaches employment law at the Columbia University Law School, says such training is a strong ''affirmative defense'' to lawsuits. ''The employer can escape liability for the conduct of supervisors and pr... |
1315748_4 | Management: New Guards To Lessen Liability; Software Trains Workers to Avoid Improper Behavior | and compliance at Raytheon, which began a companywide rollout of LRN training modules in March. Cynthia Estlund, who teaches employment law at the Columbia University Law School, says such training is a strong ''affirmative defense'' to lawsuits. ''The employer can escape liability for the conduct of supervisors and pr... |
1314122_0 | World Briefing | Asia: Nepal: 10 Villages Inundated | The village of Lumbini, which is believed to be Buddha's birthplace, has been endangered by floodwaters in southwestern Nepal. Monsoon rains have inundated 10 villages near the historic site with waist-high water, though Lumbini itself has yet to be submerged. Barry Bearak (NYT) |
1313944_1 | In the Airport Fast Lane, With Your Eyes as a Passport | another image of the passenger's iris, converts it to code and compares it with codes stored on the server's database to find a match. No passport need be shown. Bill Willis, chief technology officer at Iridian Technologies in Moorestown, N.J., which licenses the iris-scanning technology to EyeTicket, said that it held... |
1314127_0 | World Briefing | The World: Population Forecast | The human population is likely to stop growing by 2100 as sharp drops in birthrates in some countries make up for continued growth in others, a new scientific analysis has found. The research, described in Nature, adds credence to predictions that explosive growth seen in recent decades will not persist much beyond the... |
1314015_2 | The mainstream can't or won't recognize some basic facts about world poverty. | mainstream -- reduced government spending, privatization, unrestricted capital flows and completely free trade -- are not the policies that gave rise to the rapid growth of developing nations in the recent past. Had South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand or Brazil been restricted to the policies considered acceptable today, the... |
1314027_1 | Britain and Ireland Present 'Final' Ulster Rescue Plan | said. ''That, more than any action of politicians, is a sign of hope for the future of this society in Northern Ireland. All of us politicians and governments owe it to them and to the hundreds of young people like them that we have the courage and maturity to work together.'' Five days of inconclusive talks last month... |
1321217_0 | World Briefing | Asia: Indonesia: Hostages Seized | Separatist rebels in Aceh Province were reported to have kidnapped six Indonesian crewmen from a Honduran-registered ship in the Malacca Strait. According to news reports, they threatened to kill their hostages and demanded $33,000 for their release. Seth Mydans (NYT) |
1321130_2 | United States Backs Plan to Help Chinese Evade Government Censorship of Web | in almost all the languages. Voice of America has been developing an Internet strategy to reach an audience in China with a daily newsletter in Chinese that is e-mailed to 180,000 people and a Chinese-language news Web site. In addition to a Chinese-language Web site, Radio Free Asia also maintains Web sites aimed at e... |
1316253_0 | How My Electric Car Saves the World | My father would have had a few things to say to those automakers grumbling about government-mandated gas-mileage standards. He would have waved his fist in the direction of Detroit and thundered: ''Global warming! Alternative energy!'' But I've learned there's more to getting good gas mileage than that. I now drive the... |
1316270_1 | Britain Suspends Ulster's Home Rule, Stirring Concerns for Fragile Peace | named for former President Bill Clinton on the Catholic Falls Road, gave voice to the general nervousness: ''There's a certain worry at the moment with what's going on.'' ''Nobody wants to go back to war, for want of a better word,'' he added. The suspension of home rule followed weeks of crisis since the province's fi... |
1319363_0 | Biotech Food Alert | To the Editor: The news of Monsanto's ignorance of its own product (''Mystery DNA Is Discovered in Soybeans by Scientists,'' news article, Aug. 16) comes at an important time for genetically engineered foods. Currently, all genetically engineered crops designed to produce their own insecticides are being reviewed for e... |
1319335_8 | Take-Home Test: Adding PC's to Book Bags | distract students from their classwork, like playing video games and sending instant messages. Although few studies have been done yet with younger students, a recent Cornell University study of laptop-toting college students showed major distractions among users in some classes, particularly those that did not require... |
1319349_0 | Nestlé Says Emerging Markets Help It Show Rise in Profits | Nestlé, the world's biggest food company, said today that sales of its packaged food increased in emerging markets, compensating for slower growth in the United States and in Western Europe and helping to lift first-half profit 13 percent. Nestlé, based in Vevey, Switzerland, also said that sales growth in regions like... |
1319327_3 | Beaming Data Holds Promise, With Limits, for Networking | networks open the possibility of eavesdropping, perhaps by someone sitting in the parking lot with a laptop and an antenna. But infrared's inability to pass through walls and other objects may also be its downfall. The technology requires at least one receiver and transmitter in each room to be connected to a wired net... |
1319384_0 | Giant Pipeline From Canada Hits a New Snag | The proposed Millennium Pipeline, the longest natural gas line under review in the nation, has suffered another setback with the announced withdrawal last week of its Canadian backers because of the project's repeated delays in winning approval in the United States. In a letter to Canadian energy regulators, the sponso... |
1320891_0 | She Chases a Life of Wind and Water and Sail | SURE, Samantha Heyman runs a tight ship, but the Hudson River sloop Clearwater is hardly an autocracy. ''I don't wear epaulettes,'' says Ms. Heyman, who is, nevertheless, the captain. There is no saluting. Never has there been a mutiny on, or off, the bounty. And no one has ever walked the plank. ''We don't have a plan... |
1320873_0 | Alas! Is Nothing Sacred? Even Cubbies' Shrine? | For some people here, it is akin to adding a few teeth to Mona Lisa's smile. Or adjusting the Tower of Pisa to fix that lean. Or putting billboards behind the altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Tribune Company wants to tinker with Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs: to expand the bleachers, add a few luxury... |
1320501_0 | John Ralph Apel, 71, Physicist; Surveyed the Oceans From Space | John Ralph Apel, a physicist and oceanographer who three decades ago began surveying the seas from orbiting perches in the sky, died Aug. 16 in Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He was 71 and a resident of Rockville, Md. The cause was pancreatic cancer, his family said. Working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... |
1320495_2 | Vicki Hearne, Who Saw Human Traits in Pets, Dies at 55 | always make the distinction between a pit bull and related breeds and, further, that, despite myths about lethal double jaws, pit bulls bit people less often and less seriously than many other common pets like Labrador retrievers and cocker spaniels. In her poem ''The Bull Terrier,'' she wrote: Their legs and backs Sho... |
1320530_1 | A Reality Check for College Rankings | from a woman who once supervised them. Her criticisms may not make a dent in the list's popularity. But they should give some pause to the institutions that have been taking their cues from these rankings for over a decade. In an article in The Washington Monthly, Amy Graham takes her former employer to task for rating... |
1317332_4 | I.R.A. Withdraws Its Disarmament Proposal | Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, called it a ''body blow'' for peace. But Sinn Fein officials were at pains today to say they remained committed to peace talks. ''We will resolve these issues, these problems, new ones and old ones, through the political process,'' said Mr. McLaughlin, the Sinn Fein chairman. Today, Protest... |
1315249_2 | An Autism Specialist, But She's in Real Estate | ago for a locale a bit closer to the city, she considered the villages along Long Island Sound as well as in central Westchester. ''The first thing I did was to go to the special education departments directly and ask them how they would handle a kid like my son,'' she said. ''I heard very different answers.'' Ms. Berm... |
1315152_0 | Online businesses are supplementing their fleet e-mailings with an old warhorse: direct mailings. | EVER since e-commerce executives had their allowances yanked by the capital markets and venture capitalists, e-mail marketing has been hailed as a savior of sorts -- a low-cost way to reach consumers and bring customers back for more. The only problem, of course, is that the more time people spend on the Web, the more ... |
1313765_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR DROPS. Sugar fell on increased shipments from the new crop in Brazil, the world's biggest exporter. In New York, raw sugar for October delivery fell 0.42 cent, to 7.93 cents a pound. |
1317988_2 | Must People Lie? Yes, Absolutely. Or Is That a Lie? | implicitly distance themselves from the strictures of Sissela Bok's 1978 book ''Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life.'' Ms. Bok is not a complete absolutist about the need always to tell the truth, and she provides examples where that need should be tempered, but unlike the two recent authors, she tends to se... |
1318018_1 | Luxury Fleet Grows Nimble | increase capacity at its yards in France and in Marion, S.C. But the challenge may soon change. Competition is growing just as slowing economies and the global stock market slump dry up some of the extra income of the well-to-do, who buy most boats. Still, Beneteau may be better situated to weather the coming storm, fo... |
1318108_0 | World Briefing | Asia: India: Law To Aid Christian Women | The cabinet approved the introduction of legislation next week that would give Christian women greater equality with men in pursuing a divorce. A woman would be able to seek a divorce on grounds of adultery, as a man has long been able to do, without proving bigamy, cruelty or incest. Celia W. Dugger (NYT) |
1316717_2 | Ideas & Trends: Modern Preservation; It's Still All About Form and Function | repeating -- often created buildings that seem resistant to change. The problem is compounded when opinion is divided over a building's merits. The lattice-facaded museum by Stone is a good example of a work derided from the outset, but that many historians now feel warrants preservation. Or consider if Walter Gropius'... |
1316843_0 | August 5-11; Britain Buys 6 More Weeks | The British government restored direct rule in Northern Ireland, but only, it hoped, for the weekend. After weeks of crisis, John Reid, the Northern Ireland secretary, said he chose to close down the three-year-old power-sharing government to make time for more peace talks. Facing a deadline to act by midnight Saturday... |
1316454_0 | Antiquity's Enduring Power | TWENTY years ago my wife, children and I spent a night in a charmless hotel in a smelly Athens sidestreet. Then we took a taxi to the grim old port city of Piraeus, had an unconventional breakfast -- as I recall, ''milk bowels'' was on the menu -- and took a boat to the island of Poros, 40 miles south. And suddenly our... |
1316504_8 | Postcards From the Old World Gone Global | realms. The SEG tower, completed in 1998, is in Donau City, a new development created when plans for a world's fair collapsed with the Berlin Wall in 1989. Donau City, across the Danube Canal from the old inner city, is a kind of edge city, similar to La Défense in Paris. Though well served by public transportation, it... |
1316794_0 | After One Day, British Restore Home Rule in Northern Ireland | After a fraught one-day suspension of Northern Ireland's home rule government, Britain restored the province's power-sharing authority tonight, saying the maneuver provided ''a platform for us to go forward'' toward resolving deadlocked peace efforts. The largely technical suspension and restoration of local power allo... |
1316771_0 | 15 Antimissile Protesters Face Felony Charges | A federal grand jury has charged 15 Greenpeace activists and two foreign journalists arrested in a protest of the Star Wars program last month with felonies in the disruption of the Pentagon's antimissile defense test at the Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, Calif. Their arraignment is scheduled for Monday in a Lo... |
1316593_0 | Hung Up Over Law On Phones | To Senate Majority Leader John O. Bennett, there simply is a disconnect. How else to explain that despite a growing body of evidence, a change in sentiment among drivers and legislative action just over the state line, New Jersey has not taken any firm steps to limit or ban the use of cell phones on the state's highway... |
1316453_3 | Down Lousios Gorge To Old Arcadia | when all the water-powered industries here were at work. The noise must have overwhelmed the sound of sheep bells for miles around. Both the tannery and the powder mill have excellent videos with English subtitles, showing how hides were tanned and gunpowder was manufactured. Just outside the powder mill, a sign points... |
1316453_11 | Down Lousios Gorge To Old Arcadia | left open. It is customary to leave a donation in the church offering box. Visitors should not wear shorts or sleeveless shirts, and women not wearing skirts will usually be given a tablecloth to wrap around themselves. The monks do not always answer the phone and usually speak only Greek. It is possible to enter the L... |
1318714_3 | 'Best' List For Colleges By U.S. News Is Under Fire | said that while she was happy to see information about colleges made available to the public by U.S. News, she disagreed with the idea of rating colleges. The things that make up a college's appeal are not factors that can be numerically measured, she says. ''But we know the answer to that,'' she said. ''It sells magaz... |
1318715_3 | Bluetooth Wireless Stumbles at the Starting Gate | networks allow computer users to connect to the Internet wirelessly from Starbucks coffee bars, as well as from some shops, airport and hotel lounges and corporate offices and college campuses. Supporters of both technologies say there is room for both in the marketplace. But if Wi-Fi succeeds in adopting Bluetooth's m... |
1318692_0 | Don't Bypass College | To the Editor: Re ''One Answer on College Doesn't Fit All Graduates'' (Lessons column, Aug. 16): All the recent data suggest that the jobs increasing in number most rapidly are those that require some college. Even with increased rates of college attendance, given the retirement of the relatively well-educated baby boo... |
1316138_0 | 'Origamic Architecture' | American Craft Museum 40 West 53rd Street Manhattan Through Sept. 2 Origamic architecture, invented 20 years ago by a Tokyo-based professor of architecture, Masahiro Chatani, uses the traditional Japanese craft of paper folding and strategic cutting to produce remarkable little pop-up representations of famous building... |
1316098_4 | At One Resort in China, Two Distinct Worlds | maintain their own exclusive guest houses in Beidaihe, along with their own private beaches. While American presidents are wont to invite the press to go jogging at Camp David, events at Beidaihe are so secretive that even official media are allowed in only for formal photo sessions and are not permitted, for example, ... |
1319228_0 | National Briefing | Southwest: New Mexico: Black Bear Kills Woman | A 93-year-old woman was killed in her rural home near Mora, N.M., by a black bear, a species not generally known for attacking humans. After finding the body of Adelia Maestas Trujillo on Saturday, the authorities said that an autopsy determined she had been mauled to death. Such attacks are exceedingly rare in New Mex... |
1319134_4 | Fred Hoyle Dies at 86; Opposed 'Big Bang' but Named It | II he led a radar development group at an Admiralty Signal Establishment center in West Sussex, near the south coast. Working under him were two refugees from Vienna: Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi. During the day the trio worked on radar. At night they discussed astrophysics, developing the steady-state cosmology. They... |
1319163_1 | Commercial Real Estate: A Tower's Big-Time Restoration; MetLife's Immense Clock Gets a Detailed Overhaul | of Building Conservation Associates, which worked with the Graciano Corporation, a masonry restoration concern. ''This is an immensely manual, labor-intensive process using techniques that are centuries old. We had to recreate a lot of that ability.'' For instance, the new slabs had to be droved; that is, chiseled into... |
1314287_1 | A New Irish Peace Bid | to revive the now-stalled peace accords. An important response is likely to come today, at a meeting of the executive committee of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army. The I.R.A. has balked at disarmament, insisting that it will give up its weapons only in a ''context'' of concessions that include... |
1315873_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Macedonian Peace Pact Overshadowed by Ambush The leaders of Macedonia's divided ethnic communities approved a peace plan that commits the country to step toward greater political and cultural rights for ethnic Albanians. The pact was overshadowed by the killing of 10 Macedonian soldiers in an ambush... |
1315856_3 | ULSTER ASSEMBLY FACES SHUTDOWN | provide all the participants in the crisis-ridden talks another six weeks of review time to try to work out their differences. The current breakdown has persisted despite intense efforts at resolution. Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, spent five days with the parties and when that peri... |
1315809_0 | Irish Peace at a Crossroads | The chief protagonists in the Northern Ireland peace process are now so weary, petulant and frustrated with each other that the great prize they are working toward could slip through their fingers. Over the three years and four months since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, the bare-knuckled unionist and republ... |
1321324_0 | Bears on Your Doorstep | To the Editor: By liberalizing the restrictions on the trophy-hunting of black bears and opening the season a month earlier (front page, Aug. 24), New Mexico wildlife officials may exacerbate the conflict between bears and humans. Sport hunters tend to kill large adult male bears, thus skewing the bear population in fa... |
1321292_19 | ART GUIDE | Flavin; and a gorgeous, glossy red, thick plank shape by John McCracken. It also embraces more conceptually motivated works, like words on the wall by Lawrence Weiner that say ''Around the bend,'' a square of typewritten concrete poetry by Carl Andre and photographs of framework houses by Bernd and Hilla Becher (Johnso... |
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