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1321338_1 | Greenspan Stands Alone | the charter of the European Central Bank requires it to defend price stability -- full stop, end of sentence. And bank officials have disavowed any responsibility for growth and employment. What about fiscal policy? European countries don't have much room for maneuver, given large public debts and the looming burdens o... |
1314418_0 | What the Seas Can Offer | Oceans remain a vast, fluid frontier as multilayered, dynamic and complicated as our atmosphere, but far less known to us. We have mapped the waterless surfaces of Mars, Venus and the moon but only about 5 percent of our own sea floor. Yet some of our most pressing environmental and economic decisions -- about managing... |
1314431_0 | To Butt In or Not In Human Rights: The Gap Narrows | Given all the interest these days in the founding fathers, especially John Adams, it shouldn't be surprising that some writers are citing different Adamses as they wage one of the longest-running debates in American history. What are the respective roles of human rights and the national interest, or morality versus pow... |
1319830_0 | Group Deletes Some Data About Voters From Internet | Responding to public complaints, a nonprofit group that posted New York City voter registration records on a Web site blocked a feature yesterday that allowed people to retrieve voters' home addresses and party affiliations. The group sponsoring the site, e-the People, took the action after receiving dozens of e-mail m... |
1319813_0 | How to Find a Trend When None Exists | The news reports wash in with frightening regularity. Average citizens might be forgiven if they thought that shark attacks were one of the major menaces facing mankind during the month of August. These attacks are a watery nightmare for those involved, but nevertheless they are very rare -- 40 worldwide so far this ye... |
1317760_5 | ART GUIDE | what such complex positioning means. Hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Admission: $3; $1, students and 65+ (Cotter). * ''MIGRATIONS: HUMANITY IN TRANSITION,'' photographs by Sebastião Salgado, International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at 43rd Street, (212) 860-1777 (through Sept.... |
1317851_0 | Loose Construction Scaffold Stops Traffic Near Times Sq. | A wobbly elevator scaffold at the 45-story Westin hotel under construction in Times Square brought traffic to a halt yesterday afternoon as safety officials closed a blocklong stretch of West 43rd Street for about five hours. The block between Seventh and Eighth Avenues was reopened after workers secured the scaffold, ... |
1316953_0 | Weary Ulster's Tortuous Path: Once More to the Brink? | After a weekend of maneuvering, Northern Ireland's politicians have pulled back from another of the brinks to which they seem condemned. But by angering Roman Catholics linked to the Irish Republican Army, the contortions used to rescue the home rule Assembly, made up of both Roman Catholics and Protestants, may have b... |
1316994_3 | The Rust Must Go, But the Ghosts Linger; Restoring Ellis Island's Forgotten Side | for pregnant women, the insane and those with infectious diseases. In half a century, 355 babies were born here, and 3,500 immigrants died, including three suicides. The hospital wards had more than 700 beds, including quarantine areas. There was a giant laundry room, with washing machines large enough to hold 10 peopl... |
1318571_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL 3-17 In Belarus, Making Noise To Make Election News Three weeks before an electoral test of President Aleksandr Lukashenko's hard-line rule, incidents of guerrilla-style protest under the name ''Zubr'' have popped up. The group's sleek materials indicate that a Western nation may be backing Zubr, like the... |
1318166_6 | She Wrote The Book | Avis's roof. But what you do see are terraces leading to other terraces, all of which overlook the bay, a telescope for Mr. Avis to identify his pals on the yachts that come to call, several comfortably furnished marble living rooms and a bullhorn. Mr. Avis needs the horn to call anyone who has wandered off somewhere -... |
1318574_3 | Trees Bind Angkor Temples in Perilous Grip | as a given that the trees grow and die and the ruins, in fact, are also moving slowly but surely in a state of equilibrium,'' Mr. Stubbs said. ''They will all live and die, like us. Nothing lasts forever, the physicists tell us, and we recognize that. The best word for what we are doing is, managing change.'' In any ca... |
1318542_1 | Slow to Yield, Brazil Passes Equal Rights For Its Women | no longer an institution that is the property of the man, but a union in which all members have responsibilities and duties.'' In banner headlines, some Brazilian newspapers hailed congressional approval of the new code on Wednesday as signifying ''the burial of machismo'' in Latin America's largest country. But others... |
1318293_3 | Changing the Board in Boardwalk to Plastic | is common to see city workers replacing weather-beaten planks each summer. ''The challenge is, Southern yellow pine doesn't have a very long useful life,'' Mr. Eaton said. ''Some of the tropical hardwoods last 40 or 50 years, but those aren't the companies we want to deal with. Recycled plastic doesn't splinter, and it... |
1318499_0 | Job Opportunities Expand in Asia | The job market seems to be growing more bleak by the day, but there is at least one bright spot. The only problem is, you have to be willing to move halfway around the world. The demand for talented Americans is growing in offices in Asia, according to survey results released last week. Forty-three percent of human res... |
1318866_2 | An Unlikely Team Solves a Foggy London Murder | Graecorum, and which now lies forgotten in a safe-deposit box, under the trusteeship of an elderly lawyer, Mr. Eugenides. Though Edward assumes that Eugenides, who lives alone in a musty old house in the center of London, is a helpless old man, with no family or friends, Eugenides has been meeting weekly with one Sebas... |
1318842_0 | Turning Down the Phantom Noise Inside the Head | Sidney Kleinman can't get a good night's sleep. The street can be still, the wind calm and the neighbors peaceful, but the racket and roar in Mr. Kleinman's head can become so loud that it jolts him out of the deepest slumber. There may as well be a block full of car alarms clanging through the night. ''It wakes me up ... |
1318893_0 | Learn to Earn | To the Editor: Re ''One Answer on College Doesn't Fit All Graduates,'' by Richard Rothstein (Lessons column, Aug. 15): A four-year college is not for everyone. But there is no mystery as to why so many parents want their children to pursue some form of postsecondary education. Just last week the Census Bureau issued da... |
1318974_0 | Ordinary? Not Tomatoes | To the Editor: Re: ''Altered Tomato Thrives in Salty Soil'' (Aug. 14). The researcher described in the article says the transgenic tomatoes taste the same as ordinary ones. A New Yorker in August shudders to wonder what he considers ''ordinary tomatoes.'' A quick run-through at Union Square will demonstrate that tomato... |
1318849_1 | A Step Forward for Genetic Engineering in New Zealand | environmental, legal, economic and cultural issues, is the first of its kind from an industrialized nation. It is expected to attract interest from other countries grappling with the controversies arising from biotechnology. Prime Minister Helen Clark, who set up the panel in May 2000, said opponents must accept the fa... |
1318858_0 | Interference From a Noisy Planet | Modern radio telescopes are sensitive enough to detect a cell phone if it rings on Mars. But if one actually rings there, the astronomers operating the telescopes may have a hard time recognizing the signal. That is because radio astronomy is heading for a crisis: the cosmic emissions sought by astronomers are extremel... |
1318975_0 | Ordinary? Not Tomatoes | To the Editor: Your article ''Altered Tomato Thrives in Salty Soil'' (Aug. 14) highlighted a promising application of biotechnology but failed to mention two roadblocks. First, industry has shown little interest in commercializing genetically engineered ''minor'' crops like fruits and vegetables. Instead, it has focuse... |
1315367_3 | NEW I.R.A. STANCE ON ARMS IS HAILED AS BREAKTHROUGH | has been a continual stumbling block in the Northern Ireland peace negotiations, and in the three years since the accord was reached there has been a series of crisis talks to try to solve it. Since the de Chastelain commission was created in 1997, it has waited in vain for the I.R.A. and Protestant guerrilla groups to... |
1315384_1 | The I.R.A.'s Disarmament Plan | causes for which their martyrs died. Yesterday was a day for the living. After reviewing the disarmament plan, John de Chastelain, a retired Canadian general overseeing the disarmament commission of Northern Ireland's peace process, said it would put the I.R.A.'s arms completely and verifiably beyond use. The commissio... |
1315288_4 | SCIENTIST AT WORK/Bjorn Lomborg; From an Unlikely Quarter, Eco-Optimism | ''record rates of population growth, soaring oil prices, debilitating levels of international debt and extensive damage to forests from the new phenomenon of acid rain'' -- and lamented that ''we are about to enter a new century having solved few of these problems.'' But in his book, Dr. Lomborg cites figures from the ... |
1315350_1 | Fighting Plans for a Gas Pipeline: Not Under My Backyard | along the Southern Tier, tunnel under the Hudson River and traverse about 32 miles of some of Westchester County's most scenic communities before ending in this densely populated city. Opposition to the plan has loosely linked conservationists, state officials, suburban homeowners and Seneca Indians, and even prompted ... |
1320195_0 | You Say Tomato, I Say Facial | The summer-end bumper crop of tomatoes doesn't just translate to gallons of gazpacho. As the season's harvest draws to a close, retailers are getting creative, with a marinara-esque selection of beauty and home products. For those craving the love-apple scent, votive candles by Christian Tortu and sculptural table cand... |
1319979_0 | The Pro-Choice Extremist | Before she had a ship, before she had any money for a ship or a nurse to go with the ship or a media representative to handle all the reporters who would want to know what she was doing with the ship, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts had an idea. It was 1997, and she was a 31-year-old abortion doctor based in Amsterdam, and to her... |
1320022_1 | Icons and Surprises From Cuba | he had expected. He saw an engagement with the contemporary issues of art and photography in work that would be at home in any metropolitan center, anywhere in the world. And he asked himself, how did this happen? From that response grew an exhibition, ''Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography After the Revolution,'' which M... |
1320233_0 | The Hard Way | NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT |
1320235_2 | The Promise In Selling Stem Cells | telomerase, an enzyme that has been described, with some exaggeration, as an elixir of youth because it may play crucial roles in both aging and cancer-cell growth. Geron also acquired the company with the commercial rights to the technology used to create Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, in 1996. ''It's the m... |
1319989_4 | Spinning a Web Link on the Road | the AOL Time Warner Foundation, the Digital Divide Network and the Benton Foundation. It is a directory of more than 20,000 libraries, community centers and other public facilities in the United States with computers and free Web connections. Dubbed ConnectNet, it is aimed at bringing more low-income youths online. It ... |
1317139_0 | Episcopal Dispute in Maryland Spills Into Federal Court | At Christ Episcopal Church, an elegantly simple red brick building set amid stately oaks, the serenity has at times been misleading. During the Revolutionary War, relations between patriot parishioners and a Tory priest here became so antagonistic that the latter would not preach without pistols at hand. Now, this 303-... |
1317085_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR CLIMBS. Sugar rose 4 percent on buying by importers taking advantage of prices that are close to a 14-month low. In New York, sugar for October delivery rose 0.31 cent, or 4.1 percent, to 7.96 cents a pound. |
1317064_2 | Altered Tomato Thrives in Salty Soil | hypothesized, they could grow in salty environments. ''Some researchers have been trying breeding,'' Dr. Blumwald said, ''but we decided to look for the central mechanism of salt-tolerance in plants. And we discovered that the sodium-proton antiport is essential in getting significant salt tolerance in plants that you ... |
1264817_0 | When the Big Apple Shakes | A small tremor centered on the Upper East Side made news last week. But for years scientists in the region have been studying the possible effects of a large earthquake on New York City. Shaking The devastation of an earthquake is largely determined by the degree of ground shaking. The level of shaking for a large eart... |
1264619_0 | Can Charter Schools Educate the Handicapped? | During the 1989-90 school year, I taught a class of profoundly retarded students from 14 to 21 years old. No one in the class had an IQ higher than 25, but all had to have an individualized education plan. The parents had to be consulted. One mother told me that I was forgetting to put a bib on her son when he ate. She... |
1264411_1 | The Old Days | gallon of Burgundy a day. People only died on one day a year and lovely choruses funneled out of hospital chimneys where every room had a field stone fireplace. Some fishermen learned to walk on water and as a boy I trotted down rivers, my flyrod at the ready. Women who wanted love needed only to wear pig's ear slipper... |
1264681_0 | Global Gag Rule | To the Editor: In your interview with George W. Bush (excerpts, Jan. 14), he said he was willing to impose the global gag rule, which could end virtually all aid for family planning groups in the developing world. This financing is a meager effort to stabilize population and help poor countries build prosperous, democr... |
1262310_0 | Too Many People | To the Editor: Re ''Europe's Demographic Time Bomb'' (editorial, Jan. 7): Yes, changing demographics will strain, if not bankrupt, some European countries' current pension schemes, but there is a larger phenomenon that argues in the opposite direction. Today's capitalist mantra is expansion -- of profits, consumers and... |
1263997_2 | World Briefing | Ecuadorean Air Force base in the coastal city of Manta. Opposition groups that see the American presence as an infringement of Ecuador's sovereignty that will drag their country into the deepening Colombian conflict had asked that the accord be overturned. Larry Rohter (NYT) ASIA CHINA: FALUN GONG PRISONERS A single la... |
1263947_5 | SPARE TIMES: FOR CHILDREN | for the performance: $26 to $74. Box office: (212) 870-5570. MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Tomorrow at 11 a.m., the museum's new 90-minute program, M.C.N.Y. Kids, brings together 7- to 10-year-old visitors with high school students trained as art educators by the museum. The guides lead ... |
1260814_3 | A Showcase Housing Development for Miami Beach | longer views that will variously take in Collins Avenue, nearby residential neighborhoods and the Atlantic Ocean, which is just two blocks away. The apartments, on average 2,000 square feet, will start at $400,000 and rise to prices of, Mr. Robins said, ''several million.'' The town houses, which are in eight structure... |
1261078_0 | South Africa Asks for Help in Cholera Outbreak; Thousands Are Ill and 59 Are Dead | Struggling to contain an outbreak of cholera that has stricken more than 15,000 people along the country's eastern coast, South Africa enlisted the help of the World Health Organization this week after cases surged over the last few weeks. Epidemiologists from the organization, expected to arrive this weekend, will hel... |
1260914_0 | E-Mail, a Virtual Class Ring | Colleges have figured out a newer way to build school spirit -- and perhaps advertise themselves -- than imprinting the school crest on sweatshirts and coffee mugs: free e-mail accounts for life. Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., allows students to keep their e-mail accounts in perpetuity, for no extra charge. Saint J... |
1260913_0 | Help for the Blind and Dyslexic | Technology will be enhancing the lives of the 90,000 members of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic (www.rfbd.org) with digital talking books. They are more than e-books, where text is downloaded onto something easier to handle than a computer. And they are more than a CD with someone reading aloud. They combine text ... |
1260997_0 | SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL NEEDS | A group of parents is raising funds for a new school to meet the needs of students with attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder without relying on medication. The school, called the Round Peg School, will be for kindergartners through fourth graders, and is expected to open in September. Classes of no more than eigh... |
1260672_1 | Bookend; The Big Chill | we may feel stunned, we may feel muted sadness, or even a sense of despair, but we won't feel powerful emotion flooding through us, reminding us of our own vulnerabilities, our own anguish. Instead, we'll find coolness and detachment: in the Robert Stone story ''Helping,'' for example, a character muses: ''He thought o... |
1262645_4 | Battle Over Developing a Scenic Mountain Tract | resort sites beyond building places to stay. Mr. Anthony said sites in Belize and British Columbia would be included sometime in the next two years. The idea is to give owners a choice of winter and summer resorts year-round. Mr. Anthony said that the state's assertion that the property is pristine was disingenuous. ''... |
1262774_0 | A Woman's Status In European Life | To the Editor: Re ''Europe's Demographic Time Bomb'' (editorial, Jan. 7): European leaders concerned about declining work forces have several options. They can accept more immigrants, as you point out. They can also adapt their social security systems to changed working ages for both young and old. Or they can ease wom... |
1262484_4 | The Deluge | when the local librarian, Grace McIntyre (on the run from her own New England past), begins serving as confidante, in turn, to Daniel, Julia and Frank. It helps that Grace finds ''something a little odd, a little funny, in everything.'' It doesn't help that Frank and Grace find themselves attracted to each other. A Pit... |
1262540_2 | The Way We Live Now: 01-14-01; Produce Politics | steadily longer, more intricate and less legible; by now it is all but invisible to most of us. This is evidently the way agribusiness wants it, judging by the vigor with which they fight any effort to tell consumers more about how their food is made. It's not hard to see why: the stories about our food system that do ... |
1266384_0 | Teaching Executives To Make the Most of E-Mail | Before sending off the next corporate e-mail message, make sure the subject line is sufficiently compelling. ''When the subject line is not explicit enough, people tend to delete the message,'' said Joan Rubinstein, president of Nasco Consulting Services. Ms. Rubinstein should know. As president of Nasco, a 12-year-old... |
1266498_0 | Ideas & Trends: Philosophy in Hiding; I Have Tenure, Therefore I Am | IF you walked into a bar late one night and tried to pick a fight by standing up for biodiversity, it's a good bet that nobody would throw a punch. The idea that life, in all its variety, ought to flourish is simply seen by most people as good. Ideas, however, are not regarded with anything like the same reverence. But... |
1266325_6 | Commercial Property/Queens; A Plan for High-Rise Offices in Long Island City | said, which means a developer that meets the conditions stated can claim the incentives without negotiating with city officials. The New York incentives that apply to Manhattan north of 96th Street and the other boroughs include a 25-year exemption from property taxes on the increased value of a property caused by deve... |
1266539_4 | The Busy Bosporus Is Likely to Get Even Busier | pass without any ''formalities,'' including taxes, fees and requirements for local pilots. As a result, only 40 percent of the large ships take on local pilots and authorities say the ships in the worst condition are the least likely to seek assistance. Growing recognition of the potential for an environmental disaster... |
1264963_1 | A Theologian At Fordham Gets Red Hat | be a delicate balancing act. ''I'll wear whatever is prescribed for the ceremonial occasions,'' he said. ''I might very well incur red socks.'' The Laurence J. McGinley professor of religion and society at Fordham University in the Bronx since 1988, Father Dulles called his appointment ''mostly honorary,'' since he is ... |
1261640_2 | M.I.T. Performs A Hat Trick In Recruiting | Anna Pavlova, a native of Russia, who received a Ph.D. in economics from Wharton; and Antoinette Schoar, a native of Germany, who wrote her dissertation at Chicago about the decline in productivity at companies that diversify. They chose M.I.T., they said, because of its faculty and its location. And they chose offices... |
1261649_0 | Business Travel; Trips to Cuba for commercial reasons are increasingly becoming a reality for Americans. | LAST year, about 3,400 business travelers went to Cuba from the United States,'' said John S. Kavulich, the president of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, a nonpartisan business group based in New York. ''The biggest contingent was in January of last year during the U.S. Health Care Exhibition, which was a Unit... |
1267142_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | counter a world leaders' meeting in Davos, Switzerland, joined Brazilian farmers in attacking a farm owned by the Monsanto Corporation, which grows genetically modified soybeans. Larry Rohter (NYT) ASIA PHILIPPINES: PRESIDENTIAL WARNING -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said enemies of the state were plotting to des... |
1259839_0 | Labeling Foods With Designer Genes | MUCH of the processed food in this country contains genetically engineered ingredients. And while surveys show that many Americans would like to decide for themselves whether they want to consume altered foods, they can't, because the federal government does not think such labeling is necessary. So a recently released ... |
1259886_1 | I.R.A. Asserts Onus Is Blair's In Peace Effort | statement offered no encouragement that there would be any imminent moves. It said instead, ''We have honored all commitments given.'' The I.R.A. permitted international arms inspectors to examine two of its weapons storage sites twice last year. But it has had no contact with a special arms monitoring commission since... |
1261491_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Israelis Rally to Protest U.S. Proposal on Jerusalem Thousands of religious and nationalist Israelis poured into the contested heart of Jerusalem to put on a strong but festive show of opposition to an American peacemaking plan that seeks to divide the city. A6 U.N. Report on World Hunger The United ... |
1261490_4 | Ford Plans to Give Explorers' Engines an Electric Assist | be announced on Tuesday have been previously disclosed for one or two models, like anti-rollover devices and front-end designs that reduce damage to cars during collisions. These will now be used on all Ford sport utilities and pickups. Other measures involve broader, more sophisticated applications of technology now f... |
1263432_2 | Report Card Mixed on Free Computers for Pupils | create a ''shift in the culture of the school.'' ''It's my belief that computers aren't something you use like you would a Stairmaster,'' Ms. Stock said. ''You can't get a workout on it in a half-hour. You need to have it as part of your life.'' Sheila Richards, principal of I.S. 409, plans to ask students to do resear... |
1265658_16 | REDESIGNING NATURE: Hard Lessons Learned; Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle | now, rather than trying to address those concerns, Monsanto, the industry and official Washington were dismissing them as the insignificant worries of the uninformed. Under the final F.D.A. policy that the White House helped usher in, the new foods would be tested only if companies did it. Labeling was ruled out as pot... |
1263089_1 | Containing Colombia's Troubles | gradually threaten the stability of its neighbors. Already, nearly two million people have fled battle zones to settle in the slums around Colombia's major cities. Now some are beginning to cross into other nations. Rebels have long crossed into Panama, Ecuador and Venezuela to resupply and rest, but Larry Rohter recen... |
1263053_1 | Britain Allows Over-the-Counter Sales of Morning-After Pill | increase the risk of worsening the current epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases and could result in repeated and unsupervised exposure of young girls to this powerful drug.'' In the last decade, Britain has experienced a steady increase in the number of teenage pregnancies, unwanted pregnancies and abortions. In 1... |
1266106_4 | Colombia, in Risky Move, Plans To Cede Zone to 2nd Rebel Group | a proposal that the Revolutionary Armed Forces has refused. Here in this river valley, a lush land of dense jungles, cattle farms, oil refineries and some of the richest mineral deposits in Latin America, opposition to the plan by officials and residents has not diminished, and it appears to be overwhelming. ''We don't... |
1266032_1 | Galápagos Journal; Isles Rich in Species Are Origin of Much Tension | to office a year ago this week after a military coup, recently said that ''overthrowing presidents is the national sport'' in Ecuador. As the country's fifth president in five years, Mr. Noboa is seen as little more than a caretaker until next year's election, and has not demonstrated much firmness or determination sin... |
1266095_2 | Rice Genome Called a Crop Breakthrough | royalties. But the companies are not going to put all their genome data in the public domain, as publicly financed genome projects do. Dr. Steven Briggs, head of genomics for Syngenta, said the company's data would be like a copyrighted newspaper article -- publicly available but not free for people to use as they see ... |
1260532_0 | Britain Asks How Many the Doctor Killed | When Harold Shipman, the trusted family doctor in a village outside Manchester, was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of killing elderly women in his care, such was the shock that handwritten notices from his patients went up in his main street storefront office saying, ''We don't believe it.'' Last January, people watched... |
1260626_0 | TRADE DISPUTE WITH CHINA | Washington has formally complained to China's ministry of foreign trade that China has not fully carried out bilateral agreements easing the sale of American tobacco, citrus and chicken in China, American and Chinese officials said. The United States is hoping improved market access will increase annual farm exports to... |
1259611_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | shown greater readiness to contemplate even large-scale immigration -- long a taboo -- rather than to provide equal opportunities for women. A4 Challenge to Canada's Chiefs A new movement largely made up of Indian women is taking on Canada's native establishment and to determine how billions of dollars for Canada's one... |
1264341_1 | No Honeymoon Likely for New President's Foreign Policy Team | years, Washington's focus has been on simply keeping sanctions against Iraq in force over growing opposition, especially from Russia and France. In Asia, the first big decision, due in April, will be whether to sell destroyers, advanced weapons and radar systems to Taiwan -- a decision that could prompt China to respon... |
1264259_1 | Amgen Wins Court Battle Over Drug For Anemia | EPO, that can be taken less frequently. Kevin Sharer, Amgen's chief executive, said the ruling ''upholds our breakthrough inventions which made erythropoietin available to the millions of patients around the world who rely on this important therapy.'' He added, ''Meaningful patent protection is fundamental to innovativ... |
1263615_0 | Altered U.S. Corn Found In Samples Sent to Japan | The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry of Japan says it has found traces of a genetically modified corn in samples shipped from the United States to Japan, though the results were negative when the same samples were tested in the United States. The different results are likely to renew concerns here and in other parts ... |
1263648_0 | The Humble Colossi Of a Proud Cityscape | PARIS has its Eiffel Tower. Pisa has one, but of course it leans. And New York? It has towers, too. Here, they hold water. The barrel-chested water tank, iron-cinched and balanced on its spindly platform, is a landmark so common, said one architectural historian, Jacob Tilove, that it doesn't need landmarking. After mo... |
1263687_0 | F.D.A. Plans New Scrutiny In Areas of Biotechnology | Seeking to calm public anxiety, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday proposed rules that would strengthen scrutiny of several biotechnology areas: genetically modified foods, gene therapy and the transplantation of animal organs and tissues into people. The agency said it would make it mandatory, rather than volu... |
1262106_0 | Thrills, Chills, Spills And a Touch-Typist Race | In ''Antitrust,'' Tim Robbins plays Gary Winston, the lank-haired C.E.O. of a giant software company called NURV, who has made a fortune flooding the market with inferior copies of competitors' products and finds himself the target of a Justice Department investigation. The acid-etched resemblance between Winston (whos... |
1262210_0 | Primer on the Popular Instant Messaging Services | Instant messaging has much in common with two other big uses of the Internet: Web surfing and e-mail. Tens of millions of people spend hours using it -- often while at work -- but it remains unclear whether the companies that provide the service can ever make money from it. Although instant message services have yet to... |
1263184_4 | Tuning In to the Microwave Frequency | radar was new then. Radar uses microwave radiation -- this was the great innovation that was devised at M.I.T. in the early days of World War II. The servicemen discovered that if they stood in front of the radar it would warm them up at night, so a lot of them did that. And then they started putting balls of steel woo... |
1263256_0 | CLINTON IS CALLING FOR MORE SCRUTINY OF MAJOR AIRLINES | In the wake of recent deals that would consolidate the airline industry in the hands of a few giant carriers, the Clinton administration plans to issue a last-minute call to police the industry more closely. In a speech this evening in New York and at a news conference tomorrow, the departing Transportation Secretary R... |
1260414_2 | REPORT TO CLINTON ASKS U.S. TO RATIFY TEST-BAN TREATY | comes at a sensitive juncture in the arms control debate. With Mr. Bush's vow to develop an antimissile defense and uncertainty over Washington's position on nuclear testing, there is considerable concern in allied capitals that the broader framework of arms control may be in jeopardy. If Mr. Bush proceeds with the ant... |
1266858_1 | The Humble Résumé Enters Cyberspace | or bolds. This is something that you can send out as an attachment or in the body of an e-mail.'' Today's job seekers (and skilled Webheads) often post their résumés on their personal Web sites, with electronic links to an honors thesis or to published work. The Internet has not changed everything about résumé writing.... |
1266991_0 | Biotech Food: To Be Wary or Not? | To the Editor: Re ''Biotechnology Food: From the Lab to a Debacle'' (front page, Jan. 25): I disagree with the view expressed in your article that ''food biotech is dead.'' The ability to make specific changes and additions to crop genomes presents an enormous opportunity for improving the quality and nutritional value... |
1266871_16 | Luring the Best in an Unsettled Time | their fields to rank the importance of pay, benefits and 13 other workplace attributes. (Some of the categories of employees interviewed included clerical workers, professional-technical, managers and people who earned more than $100,000 a year.) The results showed that men valued compensation above all else, while wom... |
1266860_3 | As Law Firms Scramble for New Talent, The New Talent Reaps the Rewards | not just the Ivies.'' This fall, Ms. King said, at least three national law firms that ''generally don't come over the river'' came for on-campus interviewing. The school also had recruiters from firms in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Calif. At Brooklyn Law School, the number of jobs listed with the career services offi... |
1266992_0 | Biotech Food: To Be Wary or Not? | To the Editor: Genetically engineered crops are just the first altered foods that the biotech industry has pushed through the compromised United States regulatory apparatus (front page, Jan. 25). The industry is awaiting approval to bring genetically engineered salmon to our dinner plates. Marine scientists have warned... |
1266995_0 | Biotech Food: To Be Wary or Not? | To the Editor: Your Jan. 25 front-page article about biotech food confirmed my experiences as a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee member who was part of the deliberations on Calgene's Flavr Savr tomato and Monsanto's bovine growth hormone. As a consumer representative on both committees, I had to be convi... |
1261244_4 | Patents; New devices use cellular phones and the Web to comparison shop and to protect cars and owners. | from anywhere in the world. It could be used to track a stolen car or shut down its engine. A mobile phone switching center would connect a caller to a system where the caller would enter a code for a particular instruction, like turning headlights on or off. The switching center would then connect with a radio receive... |
1259695_4 | Watchful Eyes On a Violent Giant | than 500 years, Philippine scientists called in the disaster assistance program to install a monitoring network. The sensors gave clear warning of a catastrophic explosion, which came two months later. By that time, 75,000 people, including 18,000 members of the American military, had been evacuated. ''We were lucky,''... |
1259667_3 | A CONVERSATION WITH -- Anne Fausto-Sterling; Exploring What Makes Us Male or Female | there are a lot of them. Q. You want a halt to sexual assignment surgeries on infants. Why? A. People deserve to have a choice about something as important as that. Infants can't make choices. And the doctors often guess wrong. They might say, ''We think this infant should be a female because the sexual organ it has is... |
1259713_0 | Sequim Journal; Elk That Call Ahead to Cross the Highway | Led by females, a large herd of Roosevelt elk has been abandoning the colder, higher reaches of the Olympic Mountains in search of mild weather and year-round foliage here in the maritime splendor of the Dungeness Valley. Led by retirees, people have also been abandoning habitats of colder, more hostile terrain in sear... |
1259714_1 | Al Gross, Inventor of Gizmos With Potential, Dies at 82 | ship's radio operator let him listen in. At 12 he scrounged parts from a junkyard to cobble together a ham radio, and at 16 he earned an amateur operator's license. The next step had to be what he called a ''walkie-talkie'' because, he said, ''I wanted to walk around and talk to other hams.'' By 1938, after some experi... |
1266753_0 | Report Is Expected to Outline Persistent Airline Problems | The Congress, the Transportation Department and the airlines are preparing to renew their arguments in the next few days over who is to blame for air travel delays, whether the airlines treat their passengers fairly and how a wave of mergers might affect passengers. This week or next, the inspector general of the Trans... |
1261848_7 | Taking the Offensive Against Cell Phones | scrambled, likely by the presence of radios and mobile phones. Since then, many hospitals have posted signs banning cell phones near intensive care units and some have prohibited mobile phones throughout the building -- although doctors and visitors have complained that they need to be connected, and some experts say t... |
1261880_0 | Treating Mental Illness | To the Editor: The report of Surgeon General David Satcher on the state of children's mental health is long overdue (news article, Jan. 4). We must devote adequate resources to properly identify and appropriately treat mental illness early in young, developing lives. This investment curtails the later results of mental... |
1301465_1 | Swiss Drug Maker Moves to the Brink of a Product Leap | genetically engineered products, a process that has shifted into high gear since Ernesto Bertarelli, 36, took over as chief executive from his father in 1996. Founded in Rome in 1906, Serono profited comfortably for decades from making hormone-based fertility drugs derived from thousands of liters of urine collected fr... |
1301450_1 | 2-Way Radios: Digital Tethers That Cover Miles | let you carry on a conversation at more than twice the distance of standard Family Radio Service models. These radios use the General Mobile Radio Service, which grew out of a standard set up by the Federal Communications Commission for things like family businesses in the 1950's. The General Mobile Radio Service is a ... |
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