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1301440_1 | When the Cubicle Has a Crankshaft | of hot rods, muscle cars, Lovers' Lanes and Inspiration Points, the automobile embodied the romantic ideals of personal freedom, illicit rebellion and limitless possibility. Today, those subversive values have in turn been undermined by technologies that can transform the car into a mobile workplace. The restless desir... |
1301507_0 | U.S. Finds No Allergies to Altered Corn | Government scientists said yesterday that they had found no evidence that any people had had allergic reactions to the genetically modified StarLink corn. The findings could dispel public concern that the corn, which spread through the nation's food supply even though it was never approved for human consumption, repres... |
1304675_0 | Routine Analysis May Detect Heart Risk | A simple urine test may be able to identify postmenopausal women who have an increased risk of heart disease, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, scientists said early heart disease in these women appeared to be linked to high levels of the protein albu... |
1304723_1 | Opening Pandora's Carry-On | result of these questions, which have been mandatory for international passengers for more than a decade and for domestic passengers since 1995. The F.A.A. justifies the policy by pointing to three bombs discovered in the past 15 years, but all of them were at airports overseas. The only domestic incident cited by the ... |
1304840_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Violence Flares Again | After a weekend of relative calm, riots broke out in northern Belfast on Sunday night when about 20 Protestant loyalists threw stones and paint at Catholic homes. Dozens of people were injured in rioting last week and the British Army is sending an additional 1,600 troops to Northern Ireland over the coming days in ant... |
1304679_12 | Love, Anger and Guilt: Coping With a Child's Chronic Illness | want to see other children her age doing developmentally appropriate things. Rachel was recently diagnosed with nonverbal learning disability. These children, like Rachel, are very good communicators; however, they have major developmental delays in many areas, including social skills, fine and gross motor skills. They... |
1304694_1 | Observing the Behavior of Apes, Up Close | evolution of morality. In the new book, Dr. de Waal argues that humans are not the only creatures to develop and transmit culture. Q. You are known for your research into conflict resolution among apes. Why choose this area of study? A. My own history is that I came out of working on the studies on aggression in the an... |
1304769_4 | New York to Be First State to Ban Holding Cell Phone While Driving | after witnessing an accident caused by a woman on a telephone. During debate on the bill, several Republicans in the Assembly raised questions about whether talking on the telephone was any more distracting than dealing with young children, drinking coffee or putting on makeup in a car. Several said that the law would ... |
1299529_2 | Student Writers Try to Duck the Censors by Going Online | flier, and a few teachers posted the address on blackboards in the school. ''We felt it was our responsibility to let students see the work we put into the story and make a decision themselves,'' said Annie Gilsdorf, a junior who was the lead writer of the project. ''We probably would have gotten the story out to stude... |
1303401_6 | U.S. Courts Become Arbiters Of Global Rights and Wrongs | are increasingly willing to stretch their authority. Among the cases that opened the door was a Supreme Court ruling in 1992 that said a Mexican charged with killing an American drug enforcement agent could be tried in this country even though agents had kidnapped him from Mexico. Similarly, in 1991, a federal appeals ... |
1303354_4 | Varadero Journal; Just Watch the Golfers Frolic in Proletarian Cuba | or seven years this would be the in place. Everybody has been everywhere else, but not that many have been to Cuba.'' But that is changing. Last year, more than 1.7 million tourists visited the island, compared with 340,000 in 1990. The government, in joint ventures with a host of companies, is aggressively expanding c... |
1303425_0 | Some Conflicts Arise at Hearing On Ford Replacement-Tire Issue | A government agency briefed members of a House committee this afternoon on the safety of the tires that the Ford Motor Company is using to replace those made by Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. after the committee chairman said the automaker might be using tires with even higher failure rates than the Firestones. On Tuesday,... |
1303336_1 | Jostling on the Highway; Internet Providers, Aspiring to Serve | access or $19.95 a month if one year is prepaid; $9.95 for five hours a month. Bring Your Own Access plan: $9.95 a month. Broadband packages, limited to certain metropolitan areas, include D.S.L. service for $19.95 a month plus the AOL membership fee. All plans include seven screen names, e-mail storage for up to 1,000... |
1303329_2 | To Sea With Planks, Not Plastic | hammer it together; it's like a giant Erector Set. With the other, every piece is handmade. Nothing is measured with a ruler and cut at a right angle.'' He flashed a grin. ''One is stuck in the mud. The other you can sail away on.'' At his shop, I learned to plane long planks of angelique, wana and silver balli, tropic... |
1301271_1 | Education Study Finds U.S. Falling Short | education: college enrollment has grown by 20 percent since 1995 across the group, with one in four young people now earning degrees. For the first time, the United States' college graduation rate, now at 33 percent, is not the world's highest. Finland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Britain have surpassed it. The Un... |
1301353_0 | World Briefing | World: A Pledge On Child Labor | Three countries pledged to end the worst forms of child labor within 10 years, the International Labor Organization said. El Salvador, Nepal and Tanzania agreed to take part in a plan to stop the use of children in commercial sexual exploitation as well as in other perilous situations like mining or scavenging at rubbi... |
1301144_3 | Keeping Their Day Jobs, Dabbling in Dot-Com Dreams | in Cincinnati without Internet communication. Three years old this summer, www.comfortcandles.com has generated an online database of about 2,000 customers and should gross about $32,000 this year, which is right on schedule financially. Although she has trouble saying this out loud, Mrs. Walsh-Burke is hoping to see s... |
1301143_4 | Mining Firms Reap the Benefits of Being Late Adopters | Quadrem, the head of procurement, John McGagh, keeps his sights low in regard to e-commerce, figuring it is only the next step in communications. ''Look, in a lot of ways, what we are seeing with e-commerce is just an evolution of doing business,'' Mr. McGagh said. ''It took people dozens of years to get used to using ... |
1301159_6 | Software's Next Leap Is Out of the Box | computers linked by the Internet instead of writing for individual Windows machines. Since the company announced its .Net initiative last summer, most of the attention has been focused on one aspect called Hailstorm, which represents a set of software building blocks for developing computer services like the company's ... |
1302970_3 | A Suspect in Yale Murder With Top Pentagon Clearance | his contract, citing his status as a murder suspect, say that without any evidence to the contrary, they assume that he is innocent. There are legitimate questions about what, if any, evidence the police have against Mr. Van de Velde. Before he was hired in December 1999 by the Defense Declassification Referral Center ... |
1302811_3 | The Web as Dictator Of Scientific Fashion | themselves around the lodge and its extensive grounds. With the midwifery of the philosophers and historians, unusual exchanges did take place, especially between two competing factions within the physics community, the string theorists and the relativists, who are attempting that unification of physics. ''I was surpri... |
1302819_0 | Spacecraft's Supercamera Captures Earth in All Its Detail | From its orbit 440 miles above Earth's surface, NASA's Terra spacecraft has been providing a clearer, more colorful view of the planet. One of the satellite's six instruments, Aster -- short for the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer -- is in essence a supercamera, capturing 14 wavelengths o... |
1302846_0 | Violence in India | |
1302810_0 | Useful Legacy Of Nuclear Treaty: Global Earphones | Though the Senate voted two years ago to reject a treaty that bans nuclear testing, one of its provisions is alive and thriving: the global network of sensors meant to listen for clandestine nuclear blasts. Though still under construction, the International Monitoring System is already yielding a wealth of science spin... |
1302567_0 | On the Menu: Modified Genes | To the Editor: The biotechnology companies' arrogant, steamroller agenda to force the world to eat genetically modified food is not inevitable (front page, June 10). The amount of acreage planted in the United States with genetically modified corn dropped from about 33 percent in 1999 to 24 percent this year. Competito... |
1302566_0 | On the Menu: Modified Genes | To the Editor: It would be a tragedy if protests and legal challenges destroyed the viability of the agricultural biotechnology industry (front page, June 10). Genetically modified food products must be introduced carefully, but their development should be welcomed and encouraged. Biotechnology offers a new universe of... |
1302149_4 | The Taming of the Lot | would share the central cabin, with two beds lining the passageway that led up to the helm (under a sunroof) and back to the kitchen-dining area. We would all share the bathroom between our two cabins, with a toilet and a sink with a detachable shower head (the whole floor serves as a drain). This time we would surely ... |
1302290_0 | High Praise, Low Pay | For four years, Kim Coligan Bortner has attended Woodcrest Elementary School in Cherry Hill every day with Dan Wrinn. She likes to tell Dan that she is his hands and he is the brains. She sits by his wheelchair and makes sure that he can fully participate in fourth grade, and she plans to be with him when he starts mid... |
1302565_0 | On the Menu: Modified Genes | To the Editor: Re ''As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice'' (front page, June 10): The biotechnology industry rests on a very shaky scientific foundation. Its claim that genetic engineering is specific, precise and predictable and therefore safe depends on the theory that a single gene, transferred fro... |
1302326_0 | Broker Helps Families With Autistic Children | Four years ago, Susan Berman and her husband, Neil, decided to move their family from northern Westchester closer to Manhattan to shorten Mr. Berman's commute. Like most families, they were not only looking for a new home, but also a new school district. But finding the right one was complicated because their son, Eric... |
1304577_0 | Not Quite Your Ancestors' Mayflower | The 102 passengers who set sail on the original Mayflower on Sept. 6, 1620, did not have such an auspicious send-off. There were no Coast Guard boats to protect them, no hand-held G.P.S. instruments to determine their exact location, and worse, they were leaving two months late, heading into the uncertainty of a New En... |
1304576_2 | Artist Emerges With Works in a 'Private Language' | create it. Maybe Ms. Scott, who turned 58 last month -- old for a person with Down syndrome -- wants to make up for lost time. She spent 36 years locked away in mental institutions in Ohio, left to stare at four walls. This started when she was 7 and her condition was misdiagnosed as severe retardation when she was, in... |
1304544_3 | E-Commerce Report; Web sites that reacquaint old classmates gain success with aggressive marketing strategies. | competitors, but we rang the bell. I don't know if they're going to survive.'' Executives of one competitor, PlanetAlumni.com, argue that they will indeed survive, largely because they are taking a substantially different business approach from that of Classmates.com. John Linden, PlanetAlumni's founder, said the compa... |
1304529_0 | We Can Beat AIDS | The world cannot underestimate the threat of AIDS, but it would be equally wrong to fall into despair. The facts about AIDS are stark: Twenty-two million people have died, with last year's total of three million the highest yet. In some African countries a quarter of the population is infected with H.I.V., the work for... |
1298955_0 | New Focus on an Old Nuclear Problem | The nuclear plant here split its first atom in December 1973. Both halves are still here. So is all the other fuel that the twin Peach Bottom reactors have used in almost three decades of making electricity. The same is true at more than 120 other nuclear power plants around the country, even though nearly 20 years ago... |
1298912_5 | Expert Says Windows XP Aids Vandals | methods probably missed many variants of denial of service attacks, and so the estimates were conservative -- perhaps only half of the actual total. ''So-called denial of service attacks are a growing problem, and are particularly difficult to fight,'' said Stefan R. Savage, an author of the report and professor of com... |
1298964_0 | When Doctors Make Mistakes | To the Editor: It is important not to confuse the issues of negligence, adverse effects and errors when discussing the reports required for the National Practitioner Data Bank (front page, May 29). An adverse event is an injury caused by a medical treatment, while medical errors are mistakes that may or may not lead to... |
1298351_6 | You're Getting Colder | sailed under Sir Francis Drake to raid Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. On the way home, they rescued the settlers landed by Sir Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina. That put an end to England's other failed colony in the New World during the 16th century. Like the best Elizabethan mariners... |
1298462_0 | FOOTNOTES | Resources, references and the back story behind the story. |
1298500_1 | Radioactivity Slows Glen Cove Creek Plans | the 1.1-mile creek as part of an Army Corps of Engineers maintenance project to improve navigation. Upper parts of the creek had not been dredged since the 1930's. The project was about half completed. The corps immediately halted the dredging after the discovery, and officials of the corps and the E.P.A. said last wee... |
1298458_3 | The Way We Live Now: 06-03-01; And They Told Two Friends . . . | then, for the e-male of the species to drag his knuckles onto the world stage right about now. This ease-of-excess quality seems intoxicating to followers of the surprisingly durable Maxim aesthetic, which places a greater emphasis on blathering on about hedonism than actually engaging in it. Part of this pose, as calc... |
1298678_2 | The World: Iranian Elections; Where the Victor May Not Win | isn't a prominent conservative among the candidates. Instead, the challengers seem intent on keeping the campaign low-key in an effort to embarrass Mr. Khatami with a low turnout. Meanwhile, they try to win over some of Mr. Khatami's young constituents (the voting age is 15, and seven million people out of a population... |
1300075_0 | House Committee Chairman Faults Inquiry on Firestone | Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who is the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has criticized federal regulators for investigating only the tires in a spate of tire-related rollovers of Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles. Mr. Tauzin asked regulators to study the performance of t... |
1305279_0 | On the Phone, Behind the Wheel | To the Editor: I can remember when radios were introduced in cars; then came air-conditioners. Both were distractions at first. But they were distractions of a different sort. People had not been in the habit of using such devices constantly in their homes and offices. Car phones are quite different. We have been condi... |
1305278_0 | On the Phone, Behind the Wheel | To the Editor: Re ''New York to Be First State to Ban Holding Cell Phone While Driving'' (front page, June 26): As the lead author of the New England Journal of Medicine article on cellular telephones and motor vehicle collisions, I want to set the record straight about a frequent misunderstanding. Specifically, we fou... |
1303611_0 | 2nd Night of Protestant-Catholic Rioting in Belfast | Clashes between Roman Catholic and Protestant residents of Belfast, Northern Ireland, continued for the second consecutive night tonight. The police reported smaller crowds than on Wednesday, when more than 600 people rioted in the city's worst night of street violence in three years. But tonight riot control police us... |
1303616_0 | Relying on Hard and Soft Sells, India Pushes Sterilization | Like a preacher at a tent revival, Chandrababu Naidu, one of India's most powerful politicians, summoned parents with big families to the front of the crowd so he could publicly scold them and urge them along the road to sterilization. Nara Singh, a father of four with a fifth on the way, picked his way through the tho... |
1300576_3 | A Holy Place in China Fights for Its Life, Body and Soul | but from the ancient Naxi town of Lijiang, a World Heritage Site to the south, which the conservancy is also working to preserve. Lijiang's old quarter, she noted, remains quaint but is already overrun with tourists and now has crime and prostitution. ''In China I don't know of any place that is a good example of eco-t... |
1300584_0 | As Biotech Crops Multiply, Consumers Get Little Choice | Despite persistent concerns about genetically modified crops, they are spreading so rapidly that it has become almost impossible for consumers to avoid them, agriculture experts say. More than 100 million acres of the world's most fertile farmland were planted with genetically modified crops last year, about 25 times a... |
1300515_0 | Business; The Corporate Alliance, as a Tightrope Act | BY announcing last month that it would no longer sell tires to the Ford Motor Company, Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. completed the unraveling of a relationship that had spanned nearly a century. But in the arena of business alliances, the surprise was that Firestone's ''Dear John'' letter came so late in the relationship.... |
1300242_0 | Family Hiking In Oregon's Cascades | DEEP in the woods six miles up from the Columbia River in Oregon, the people who made Eagle Creek Trail faced a conundrum. The trail needs to cross the creek at a point where there is a deep gorge, with a torrential waterfall on one side and plunging nothingness on the other. These days, trail makers would probably bui... |
1302720_0 | Sad Tales of the Pacific Islands | To the Editor: Re ''Dark Side of Security Quest: Squalor on an Atoll'' (news article, June 11): In the mid-1950's, as a medical officer in the Navy, I participated with a team from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in examining inhabitants of an atoll who were irradiated by fallout from a poorly planned nuclear test t... |
1300985_0 | Zorba the Euro | Greece provides a wonderful laboratory for the most interesting clash going on around Europe today -- the clash between two grand theories. One is Francis Fukuyama's notion that with the triumph of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism over all other systems, history has ended -- in the sense that if your countr... |
1300981_0 | BUSH'S COMMISSION ON SOCIAL SECURITY MAY PROPOSE CAPS | The co-chairmen of President Bush's Social Security commission said today that they would probably have to propose politically difficult steps like raising the retirement age and reducing cost of living adjustments when they make recommendations to the White House for restoring the system's long-term financial health. ... |
1300899_0 | Birth Control, From 'Womb Veils' to Lysol | ''Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America,'' by Andrea Tone, Hill and Wang, $30. In 1992, Dr. Andrea Tone was finishing her dissertation at Emory University in Atlanta and volunteering at the Feminist Women's Health Center. While her academic labors focused on the history of industry, her work at th... |
1300932_2 | In President's Words: 'A Leadership Role on the Issue of Climate Change' | can say with any certainty what constitutes a dangerous level of warming and, therefore, what level must be avoided. The policy challenge is to act in a serious and sensible way, given the limits of our knowledge. While scientific uncertainties remain, we can begin now to address the factors that contribute to climate ... |
1300900_3 | The Frequent Flier And Radiation Risk | radiation exposure. Dr. Duane E. Woerth, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, said he was concerned with the incidence of the skin cancer melanoma, which is higher among pilots than in the general population. ''We've got this spike that needs to be explained,'' Dr. Woerth said. But a Federal Aviation Administr... |
1298009_0 | Firestone Asks U.S. to Study Ford Explorer | Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. asked the Transportation Department today to open a safety investigation of the Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle, contending that the Explorer's design makes it prone to rollover crashes when a tire fails. It is unheard-of in the auto industry for a parts supplier to seek a federal investi... |
1298004_1 | Aimster Heads Down a Path Already Taken by Napster | by major record companies. In the lawsuit, filed last week on behalf of four major companies, Recording Industry Association lawyers wrote that ''Aimster provides the same functions as Napster, which currently is subject to a preliminary injunction as a result of its contributory and vicarious copyright infringement.''... |
1299392_0 | Energy Crisis in Brazil Is Bringing Dimmer Lights and Altered Lives | At night, the lights on streets and beaches and in parks and tunnels are dimmed. Air-conditioners in the president's office have been turned off; nighttime sports events and concerts have been canceled. Government employees may soon be forced to shift to a six-hour work day, and private companies are talking of moving ... |
1299324_1 | A New Flight Plan | goals in the past. The agency famously wasted several billion dollars in a failed modernization program launched in the 1980's, leading many of its critics to call for the air traffic control system's privatization. The agency, as a result, has preferred in recent years to make changes in a quiet, decentralized fashion... |
1301728_2 | INSIDE ART | on the West,'' Mr. Goedhuis said. ''It's all about showing the best of Chinese contemporary art with the best of Chinese fashion design.'' Other events include a series of jazz concerts in collaboration with Steinway Pianos at $35 a ticket. The next one, on June 27, features the pianist Judy Carmichael. The fall schedu... |
1301766_1 | Ford Has Harsher Words For Latest Recalled Tires | May 11. But Jill Bratina, a Firestone spokeswoman, said that Firestone's own analysis of its data came up with a far lower failure rate. Ford announced on May 22 that it would replace 13 million Wilderness AT tires made in Wilson and at two other Firestone factories in addition to the 6.5 million tires that Firestone r... |
1301787_2 | China Said to Sharply Reduce Emissions of Carbon Dioxide | an international agreement,'' the researchers concluded, China ''has nevertheless contributed substantially to reducing growth in global emissions.'' This achievement has been a welcome side effect of China's shift to market prices for fuels, including an end to coal subsidies, and its programs to encourage energy cons... |
1304980_2 | Palestinians Say Halting All Violence Is Impossible | is ''We're doing the ceasing; they're doing the firing.'' Mr. Sharon, who is telling American audiences that Israel cannot exercise military restraint much longer in the face of continuing Palestinian attacks, told the America-Israel Friendship League in New York on Monday that he was being congratulated prematurely fo... |
1304997_0 | Entrepreneur Envisions a Cat That Doesn't Cause Allergies | Coming next -- genetically modified pets? Transgenic Pets, a small company in Syracuse, says it is developing a genetically engineered cat that will not cause allergies, an effort that could allow millions of people who cannot now do so keep cats as pets. So far, the allergen-free cat is closer to concept than executio... |
1303824_0 | China Announces Extensive Plan To Combat Its Water Shortage | The Chinese government has announced details of a crash, multibillion-dollar plan it hopes will salvage the deteriorating water supply here, which along with other northern cities has suffered from years of unusually low rainfall and decades of unchecked pollution and poorly planned development. The plan includes const... |
1303875_0 | Ulster Troops Enforce End to Riots | The security forces were ready tonight. Nearly 30 armored vehicles and 200 British Army soldiers stood at the ends of Ardoyne Road, where Roman Catholics and Protestants clashed for two nights this week. The trouble centered on a stretch of street where Catholic girls had been harassed, and eventually stoned, as they w... |
1303828_0 | Sripati Chandrasekhar, Indian Demographer, Dies at 83 | Sripati Chandrasekhar, an Indian demographer and government minister who fought a tireless and so far losing battle to reduce his country's soaring population, died on June 14 in San Diego, Calif. He was 83. He died after two strokes, his wife, Ann Downes Chandrasekhar, said. Dr. Chandrasekhar lived mainly in La Jolla,... |
1303867_1 | Time for the I.R.A. to Disarm | it signaled in spirit, if not strictly in letter, that it would do so. Now the peace process may fail if it does not. This week's riots that have injured dozens of people in Belfast offer a taste of what could come in Northern Ireland if the fragile new political institutions break down. Protestants, never as enthusias... |
1303860_1 | Talks on Future Of Government In Ulster Falter | to the Catholic minority. But those arguments have lost force with statements from Bertie Ahern, Ireland's prime minister; Seamus Mallon, the highest-ranking Roman Catholic in the Northern Ireland government; and John Hume, the acknowledged original architect of the peace talks that led to the 1998 agreement. They each... |
1305488_0 | From the U.N.'s Statement on AIDS: 'Prevention Must Be the Mainstay' | Following are excerpts from the Declaration of Commitment on H.I.V./AIDS adopted on Wednesday by the United Nations General Assembly: Leadership by governments in combating H.I.V./AIDS is essential, and their efforts should be complemented by the full and active participation of civil society, the business community an... |
1305476_3 | Mortimer Adler, 98, Dies; Helped Create Study of Classics | Md., became a best seller and proved to be the forerunner of such popular titles as ''How to Think About War and Peace'' (1944), ''Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy'' (1978), ''How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan'' (1980) and ''Six Great Ideas'' (1981). Dr. Adler's popularizing... |
1305454_0 | The Elusive Irish Peace | To the Editor: It is time to demilitarize the conflict in Northern Ireland (editorial, June 23), and a three-year Irish Republican Army cease-fire has laid the foundation for such action. But there are two stumbling blocks. First, the British government has used those three years to present its highest award to the mos... |
1305545_0 | Airport Check-In: Not Just a Nuisance | To the Editor: Re ''Opening Pandora's Carry-On,'' by John Tierney (Big City column, June 26): I wonder whether those who oppose the routine security checks at airports would not be the first to sue the airline or airport security if they were hurt because of an undetected explosive device. The search has indeed become ... |
1300818_0 | Energy Debate: Malthus vs. Big Oil | To the Editor: Evar D. Nering's reminder in ''The Mirage of a Growing Fuel Supply'' (Op-Ed, June 4) that our energy problems cannot be solved by adding to the supply is reminiscent of Thomas Malthus's warning about exponential population growth. In 1798, Malthus argued that since we could not find a way to limit popula... |
1300756_1 | Patents; A new system uses TV instead of mirrors to help drivers see while backing up their cars. | from the direction of travel). When the triple image is combined into one, the picture from the middle camera is compressed -- meaning a certain number of lines in the picture are removed to make the image clearer. ''The compression of the central image portion produces a dead space in the displayed image, which may be... |
1305699_1 | Majuro Journal; A Pacific Puzzle: Connecting Dots Into a Nation | here has been the farming of copra -- dried coconut meat, the source of coconut oil. With world prices badly depressed, it's a huge money-loser. In recent months, like some alarm clock devised by Rip Van Winkle, the coming expiration in October of the 15-year pact has been awakening people here to the yawning chasm bet... |
1299791_2 | The Day the Locks Stood Still | But Mr. Winston cautioned against jumping to conclusions before the inquiry was done. ''Everybody thinks it's got to be the military,'' he said. ''You can't always say that.'' At issue, though, is a bigger question: Can keyless locks -- activated by a button on the key or keychain, which sends a radio signal that tells... |
1299787_2 | Lots of Finger-Pointing Over Mercury in Cars | it's definitely a significant source.'' He points to coal-fired power plants and waste incinerators as the prime sources of airborne mercury in the United States. Mr. Griffith says the mercury in auto switches is released into the atmosphere when steel recovered from scrapped automobiles is melted down in arc furnaces.... |
1298212_0 | Ford May Reshuffle Management in Wake of Tire Problems | Struggling to regain control of tire problems in Ford Explorers that have tarnished the image of the Ford Motor Company, the company plans to announce a reshuffling of senior management, possibly as soon as next week, people close to Ford Motor's leaders said today. The reshuffle will be done with several goals, these ... |
1299073_2 | The Future of an Epidemic | 2050 its population will be 73 million below pre-AIDS forecasts. In Southeast Asia, deaths in several countries are predicted to peak between 2015 and 2025. The Russian Ministry of Health recently predicted that 12 percent of the population of Russia will be infected by 2015. By 2020, H.I.V. will have caused more death... |
1299217_0 | Metro Briefing | Connecticut: Hartford: Children Receiving Psychiatric Drugs | A state-commissioned study to be released today reports that nearly one out of 20 children covered by Medicaid is taking psychiatric drugs like Ritalin, a stimulant; Prozac, an antidepressant; or lithium, a mood stabilizer. The study, conducted by the Yale Child Studies Center with the Connecticut Department of Social ... |
1301980_1 | Religion Journal; Episcopal Dissidents Look to Expand | that is intended to increase membership in the fledgling organization but that also suggests a further challenge to the Episcopal leaders, four more bishops are to be consecrated for the mission. This time, the ceremony is to take place on American soil, at a church in Englewood, Colo., on June 24. The four, all of who... |
1303967_4 | Looking for Health News? A Bikini Belly? There's More to Read | with all the information available now, sometimes they are not getting the whole story,'' she said. For example, when a celebrity like Lauren Hutton endorses hormone replacement for the treatment of menopause, consumers might assume the therapy is right for them. Dr. Pinn said she was troubled by a recent People magazi... |
1304421_0 | June 17-23; No Peace in Ulster | The border dividing Catholic and Protestant areas in North Belfast is called the Peace Line, but it was the scene of shootings, gasoline bombings and rock throwing as violence that injured more than 60 police officers broke out over whether Catholic students would be allowed to walk to school along a Protestant block. ... |
1304166_2 | The Gift of Gab Comes at a Cost | building of cell phone towers -- could hurt the aesthetic and perhaps health qualities of the environment.'' ''What is needed,'' Dr. Katz added, ''is some way to strike a balance between the benefits, which are distributed widely to many people, versus the costs, which are concentrated onto only a few.'' In many cases,... |
1304166_4 | The Gift of Gab Comes at a Cost | Kus said the aggregate loss of value for about 25 properties within sight of the proposed structure would be $660,000, or 10 to 15 percent for each house. On top of that, environmentalists contend the towers are a hazard to migrating birds, who fly into them. But the major fear is electromagnetic radiation from the ant... |
1303970_3 | A Devastating Lack of Awareness | proportions of black and Hispanic women. Last month, a government panel asked for radical changes in medical practices, declaring that deaths from heart disease could be lowered substantially if people with high cholesterol changed their diets or began taking cholesterol-lowering drugs. The recommendations tripled the ... |
1341008_0 | U.N. Says Four Billion Will Be Living in Hunger by 2050 | The world population stands at 6.1 billion, double what it was in 1960, and is projected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050, the United Nations Population Fund reported today in its annual report. All the growth will be in developing countries; industrialized countries will remain stable in population. The report said two bi... |
1340940_0 | One Way to Put an Annex on a Fairy Tale Castle | In 1997, when Aaron Parker, an architect in Minneapolis, was hired to design an addition to the American-Swedish Institute there, he flew to Stockholm to look at how things were built. He saw curvy, sloped roofs ''of wood, cedar shakes and thatch,'' he said. Mr. Parker designed a 65,000-square-foot addition (the left p... |
1339152_2 | INSIDE ART | On the main floor are four new galleries and five refurbished ones. Two years ago, when the Tate Gallery was renamed Tate Britain to distinguish its mission and its collections from those of the Tate Modern, it rehung its permanent holdings thematically. Critics grumbled that the presentation was unsuccessful. Now, cur... |
1347178_3 | Immigrants Offered Incentives To Give Evidence on Terrorists | chain of evidence,'' he said urging aliens to ''give it a try.'' Jeanne Butterfield, the executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, described the move as a welcome step but added that immigrants might be afraid to approach the authorities who they fear might deport them. Ms. Butterfield, a Wash... |
1341768_1 | Art/Architecture; Making Art of Masochism and Tests of Endurance | 18 at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto and through Feb. 17 at the Queens Museum of Art as part of the exhibition ''Translated Acts.'' Mr. Zhang, 36, was born in Henan Province. He grew up poor and often hungry. Breakfast was no more than a handful of cold sweet potato, he said. White bread was a once... |
1341836_4 | Hands in the Dirt, Face to the Sun: Hope in the Garden | how to create topiary and bonsai. At holiday time, they run a small business, creating and selling wreathes. Those who excel at horticulture may eventually go on to more in-depth vocational training at the Eastern Long Island Boces Islip Learning Center in Oakdale. ''I remember one girl who was suicidal,'' Mr. Havens s... |
1342167_1 | Holding the Keys | or ''transportation'' to Australia. The reformers were few, but among them was a former Royal Navy officer named Alexander Maconochie. In 1840, he was appointed commandant of the prison colony on Norfolk Island, a remote speck in the Pacific between Australia and New Zealand. The island was, among other things, the ''s... |
1342056_2 | Indian Woman Is Episcopal Bishop | terrorist attacks, she said, there has been much talk of America as a nation of immigrants. ''There needs to be a voice in there saying, not all of us are,'' she said. A survey of Americans' religious affiliations, published in October by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, found 20 percent of Ameri... |
1341715_5 | Cyberclasses in Session | nurses, including a clinical component. Among online students, group projects are a particular favorite, according to Catherine Garner, the dean of Phoenix's College of Health Sciences and Nursing. For one, the fact that the students are geographically diverse enhances research opportunities. Students can compare notes... |
1341840_0 | Hands in the Dirt, Face Toward the Sun: Hope in the Garden | FOR six weeks every summer, campers at Camp Quinebaug, run by the Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation in Killingly, Conn., spend the warm days doing what generations of campers have done: swimming, boating and arts and crafts. But the 80 developmentally disabled children, teenagers and young adults also partic... |
1342059_3 | In Collapsing Towers, a Cascade of Failures | same height would have, he said. The studies also show that the surviving columns redistributed their load after the initial impacts, saving thousands of lives by preventing an immediate collapse. The studies may also explain why the south tower, struck second, fell first. In describing their structural autopsy, the en... |
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