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1345369_0 | U.S. AIRPORT TASK BEGINS WITH HIRING | Long before Sept. 11, the federal government knew that the nation's system for screening airport baggage was bad and getting worse. Statistics told a dispiriting story. In the late 1980's, when testers ran obvious images of bombs or guns through X-ray machines, screeners missed one in five. Their performance has only s... |
1345299_4 | Biotechnology Venture Hits Unexpected Snags | to regulatory hurdles, it can take 18 months to begin getting a drug from an animal. To produce drugs in a goat or sheep, a gene must first be inserted into an embryo, which can take several months. Then the embryo must be implanted in the womb of a surrogate mother, which will give birth five months later. It then tak... |
1345297_0 | Officials Predict Upturn in Unstable South Korean Economy | The volatile South Korean economy is perking up, new forecasts showed today, just as pessimists were predicting a prolonged slump aggravated by the worldwide economic downturn after the terrorist attacks in the United States. The country's two most influential economic officials both forecast significant economic growt... |
1346831_1 | After U.S. Objects, World Fails To Agree to Curb Smoking Ads | for the deaths of an estimated four million people a year, the World Health Organization has tried hard to encourage its 191 member countries to agree on measures to reduce significantly the use of tobacco. The organization's director, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, said that she was satisfied that progress had b... |
1346815_3 | Andean Trade Renewal Stalls | Bolivia have reduced their coca leaves harvest, though they have not ended the cultivation of coca plants. ''Progress has been made,'' President Alejandro Toledo of Peru said in a recent interview, ''but the problem has not been resolved.'' Ecuador and Colombia cannot report even that modest advancement, and some Unite... |
1346848_2 | In Sept. 11's aftermath, the cure for the economic ills of our democracy is more democracy. | pattern of increasingly less trustworthy disclosures. Many businesses now aggressively ''spin'' their information. Wall Street analysts, often the conduit of that information to the media, are increasingly accused of tailoring reports to please their investment banking clients. Liberal accounting techniques are exploit... |
1346874_4 | H.I.V. 'Explosion' Seen in East Europe and Central Asia | the virus.'' Infection rates have risen sharply in Nepal and Vietnam, and among gay men in Japan. But in Cambodia, infection rates among pregnant women dropped to 2.3 percent in recent months, down almost a third from 1997. However, Dr. Piot said, ''time is fast running out if much larger AIDS epidemics are to be avert... |
1343486_8 | Now, the Battle to Feed the Afghan Nation | of cruelty. In 1979, Soviet invaders brought their tanks through the mountain roads and narrow gorges. A decade of guerrilla combat was required to drive them out. Then came civil war, with its endless loop of revenge. The Taliban added a layer of puritanical purpose to the slaughter. The sorrowful yield can be measure... |
1343465_2 | Workers Shore Up Wall Keeping Hudson's Waters Out | the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Several competing plans to restore PATH services include a part or complete restoration of the station. At the same time, firefighters are looking for any signs of human remains. Yesterday, workers in baskets, lifted by cranes into the air, set up cables that will be used ... |
1343336_1 | China to Divert Waters, at People-Moving Cost | a briefing on Wednesday, also said at least 370,000 people would have to be resettled, the highest official estimate yet for what may be the most incendiary aspect of the diversion scheme. The full plan will take several decades and involve three major diversion routes. One close to the east coast will draw water from ... |
1343556_8 | Now, the Battle to Feed the Afghan Nation | of cruelty. In 1979, Soviet invaders brought their tanks through the mountain roads and narrow gorges. A decade of guerrilla combat was required to drive them out. Then came civil war, with its endless loop of revenge. The Taliban added a layer of puritanical purpose to the slaughter. The sorrowful yield can be measure... |
1340371_3 | Minding Our New E-Manners | learned since then, and organizations like banks and pharmaceutical and aerospace companies, as well as educators and government agencies, are successfully using groupware. An online conversation today may be as simple as hooking up a patent lawyer with a drug researcher, or as complex and multifaceted as a group of ed... |
1340253_3 | A Collector's Item Costs Brazilian Divers Dearly | de Almeida, a former gold miner who works as a riverboat pilot. ''Almost everybody gets hearing damage as a result of their eardrums bursting from the pressure they have to deal with at the depths they are forced to dive in order to find the fish that buyers want.'' Because of their poverty and the remoteness of the ar... |
1338947_0 | 2 Passengers From Tokyo Are Detained In Seattle | F.B.I. agents and customs officials boarded a Northwest Airlines flight from Tokyo at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport today and removed two men in response to a biohazard threat, the authorities said. Passengers were held aboard the plane for two and a half hours. After being questioned, the two men were turned ov... |
1338901_3 | Rich nations have been too insensitive to poverty for too long; the situation can no longer be ignored. | the recent success of many developing countries required an extensive role for government in supporting business. Similarly, neo-liberal policies have done damage. Lance Taylor, a professor at New School University, has edited a new volume of case studies, ''External Liberalization, Economic Performance, and Social Pol... |
1343848_5 | Into the Outback | barely flinched when we drove by. We saw little traffic: a couple of Toyota Land Cruisers, a group of aboriginals in a beat-up station wagon like ours, and maybe a handful of road trains, 150-foot-long cargo trucks pulling up to five trailers. Much of the banded, iron-rich sedimentary rock in Karijini's striking gorges... |
1344119_3 | Seeking Guideposts to Help in No-Man's Land | principles, said Rabbi Weinreb. The court considers the circumstances -- how much is known about the person's whereabouts before the attack, where he or she worked, the likelihood of survival. In the Roman Catholic tradition, bishops have certain leeway in liturgical questions regarding funerals, said the Rev. James P.... |
1343796_1 | The Philosophy of Love | that emotions like love and grief, far from irrational distractions, are ''intelligent responses to the perception of value.'' They proceed from judgments we make concerning objects and people that are beyond our control but important to our flourishing, and as such are ''part and parcel of the system of ethical reason... |
1343877_1 | A Certain Look The Camera Sold | Look: Images of Glamour and Style, Photographs by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene'' (through Jan. 6). This show, elegant in content and installation, is enormous: more than 70 pictures by Huene (as he was commonly known), more than 170 by Horst, plus some 20 photographs by other fashion photographers -- the two H's influence... |
1344270_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths MUELLER, CLAIRE | MUELLER-Claire. Devoted wife of the late Herbert Mueller. Loving mother of Julian and the late Gladys. Beloved grandmother of Amy, Andrew, Jeffrey, Joel, Jonathan and Nicole, and greatgrandmother of 6, died November 15, 2001 at 87. Graveside service at 11:00 A.M. Monday, November 19th at the New Mount Carmel Cemetery, ... |
1343827_1 | A Landscape in Peril | around Moab that these natural wonders have too quickly become commodities, and that those who want to play among the canyons cannot do so all at once. Moabites complain that their town and surrounding country, dubbed the mountain-biking capital of the world, have been ''Aspenized.'' I'm not exactly sure what that term... |
1344054_0 | November 11-17; The End of the Embargo? | How near is the end of the trade embargo with Cuba? Near, it seems. Havana is negotiating with major American exporters to buy wheat, rice, soy and other products, to replenish supplies lost in a devastating hurricane. The purchases, expected to be completed by mid-December and valued at $3 million to $10 million, woul... |
1342382_3 | Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman; New Yorkers Take Their Mail Cautiously, if at All | want people to be able to see clippings of my articles, which would be reduced to an illegible size in e-mails,'' said Ms. Poitevent, 26. ''That leaves no other choice than hand delivery.'' She added: ''You have to call everywhere to find out if they're accepting hand-delivered mail, and then you have to use shoe leath... |
1342324_0 | Software Helps Workers Start -- and Finish | Smart security experts often say they do not worry as much about hackers as about disgruntled insiders who might commit acts of sabotage against their company's computers. One of the quickest and easiest ways to upset employees is to give them pink slips -- and there are plenty of those going around lately. Business La... |
1342306_0 | In Anxious Times, Faster, Safer Snail-Mail | Even as Americans, newly wary of paper mail, are embracing e-mail with greater gusto, people in places like India are turning e-mail into paper. India's Department of Posts offers a service called e-Post in some Indian cities and towns, enabling customers to hand a postal worker a message meant for a snail-mail address... |
1344614_0 | Women in Afghanistan, and Here | To the Editor: Re ''Mrs. Bush Cites Women's Plight Under Taliban'' (news article, Nov. 18): If Laura Bush is truly interested in addressing the plight of women, she ought not just fixate on their treatment by the Taliban, but should also focus on how women are treated in Saudi Arabia. It is high time that the American ... |
1344481_0 | Something Missing in Fragile Cloud Forest: The Clouds | Bathed in a curtain of life-giving fog and mist, the Monteverde cloud forest in the mountains of Costa Rica is a profusion of dripping green that stands as an international model of conservation gone right. But despite Monteverde's tens of thousands of protected acres, scientists say this tropical luxuriance, beloved b... |
1344616_0 | Women in Afghanistan, and Here | To the Editor: In ''Cleopatra and Osama'' (column, Nov. 18), Maureen Dowd states that American military women stationed in Saudi Arabia are ''angry that they have to wear abayas and sit in the back seat when they leave the base.'' But some of our servicewomen are angry as well at a longstanding United States policy, re... |
1344647_4 | Indictment by Spanish Judge Portrays a Secret Terror Cell | each other. ''The extreme security measures and the cryptic nature of the conversations suggest, circumstantially, that they are referring to the attacks,'' the judge said. If the report is correct, Mr. Yarkas was leading an extraordinary double life. A balding, bearded man of about 40, he married a Spanish woman who c... |
1344489_4 | When a Woman Loses Hair: New Insights | bald pate, but some women develop areas the size of a pencil eraser where there are no visible hairs, not even miniature ones, Dr. Olsen said. In men, male pattern hair loss typically begins in their 20's and 30's and may progress throughout life. In women, the two periods when hair loss is likely to begin are the 20's... |
1346426_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: A Peaceful Walk To School | Catholic children walked to their North Belfast school peaceably yesterday for the first time in three months after Protestants ended a protest that had forced them to seek protection of riot squad police officers and British troops. A pipe bomb was found in the garden of a house 600 yards from the school and dismantle... |
1346294_2 | Scientists Ponder Limits On Access to Germ Research | Maryland. ''This is a real watershed.'' Indeed, within days of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, acting at the government's request, asked all its member companies what technology they had that could be used to create bioweapons and asked them to be on the aler... |
1346376_1 | U.S. Pressuring Foreign Airlines Over Manifests | for the Jordanian airline said it would comply. Other carriers said they did not know much about the new requirement or were still studying it. American officials have said 15 of the 19 hijackers whose planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in September were from Saudi Arabia. For years, the United... |
1343080_0 | U.S. Is Reportedly Prepared To Allow Food Sales to Cuba | For the first time since the United States imposed trade sanctions against Cuba four decades ago, Havana is negotiating a deal with American producers to buy food and agricultural products to replenish stocks destroyed by a recent hurricane. Cuban and American diplomats agreed today to use United States ships to delive... |
1343180_2 | Security Firms Ever Mindful To Cut Costs | Even with the higher pay that Congress is now considering, the industry will need to attract, train and hold onto people who can effectively perform the vital, if monotonous, task of looking for weapons that are almost never there. And the government will have to do something it has never managed to do before: maintain... |
1343173_3 | A Nation Challenged | -- The student, a neighbor of two former students who are being questioned in the inquiry into the Sept. 11 attacks, will face immigration charges in Oklahoma. B6 Foreigners Under Scrutiny CONCERNS ABOUT INTERVIEWS -- Law enforcement officials are preparing to interview more than 5,000 young men from countries with sus... |
1340424_0 | Students Recreate the Towers' Basement | Architectural models are usually visions of the future, but last month Jiri Boudnik, a structural engineer who is working at the site of the World Trade Center, realized that a scale model of its ruined basement could be an invaluable aid to New York City's engineers as they planned to excavate debris from the 7-story,... |
1340417_5 | Traumatic Moments End, But the Reminders Linger | stress hormones, studies by Dr. McGaugh and others have shown, promotes the formation of memories that are long-lasting and easily recalled in the amygdala, a brain structure centrally involved in emotional response. ''I know what I was doing the day that Kennedy was shot,'' Dr. McGaugh said. ''I remember what I did th... |
1340546_1 | South Florida Spared as Storm Hits Bahamas, Losing Punch | rain caused minor flooding on some streets in the South Beach section of Miami Beach, and some oceanfront stores farther north, in Hollywood, reported flooding from high surf. In Miami, schools and businesses that were closed today were expected to reopen on Tuesday. In the Keys, there were no reports of serious damage... |
1339743_2 | Frank Craighead, 85, an Outdoorsman and a Protector of the Grizzly, Dies | to India after reading their article about falconry. The National Geographic paid their expenses, and they chronicled falconry during the last days of the rule of maharajahs. They joined the Navy in World War II and were assigned to set up a survival training program. After the war, the brothers returned to Wyoming, wh... |
1340039_3 | Hoping That Children Won't Feel Her Pain | users and appearing at younger ages. Some people have an underlying arthritic condition or a genetic predisposition toward musculoskeletal injuries, Dr. Spagnoletti said. ''There are people doing the exact same job the exact same number of hours, and one will develop numbness and pain, and another won't,'' he said. ''I... |
1345941_1 | Australia Wants More People, but Without More Immigration | and do not lend themselves well to quick action. But Australia is not alone in facing this problem. Such themes are also emerging on the political and economic agendas of developed nations elsewhere, particularly in Western Europe and Japan. In the Nov. 10 election here, in which governing conservatives won a third thr... |
1345997_1 | Concerns About Heading by Youth Soccer Players Set Off Debate | games and practices for players under age 10. The proposal was narrowly defeated in May during a vote of the executive committee members of the A.Y.S.O., which oversees more than 650,000 players on 50,000 teams. In October, the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences held a one-day conference. Experts... |
1345943_0 | Ulster Protestants to End Demonstrations Against Schoolchildren | Protestant residents of a Belfast neighborhood have decided to end a 12-week-old protest that has forced Catholic schoolchildren to walk to their classes under the protection of riot squad police and military escorts. The daily demonstrations and the scenes of young children and their parents becoming targets of scream... |
1345693_0 | Safety First | To the Editor: Airlines would benefit from Betsy Rubiner's article ''Flying With Kids and Qualms,'' (Oct. 28). Perhaps after reading the interviews with concerned parents and children, airline industry heads will finally understand that people will fly again once they feel safe, not because fares are low. Show me exten... |
1341551_2 | Despite Mail Tumult, Pitney Bowes's Long-Term Outlook Is Strong | domestic prospects. Every time postal rates go up, Pitney's meter customers must pay the company to have meters recalibrated. And because customers rent the equipment on long-term contracts, Pitney has a protected stream of recurring revenues. But mainly, Mr. Critelli is not panicking because he has been preparing for ... |
1341656_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Germany: Fearing A Nuclear Disaster | Environmentalist groups said they would stage large protests next week to block a trainload of nuclear waste on its way to a storage center near the northern town of Gorleben. The 370-mile journey of the six containers from a treatment center in western France is expected to begin on Monday. A similar trainload in Marc... |
1341505_0 | China's Record in Tibet | To the Editor: Re ''China's Upbeat Governor in Tibet Promises Investment'' (news article, Nov. 7): China spends enormous sums trying to convince the world that it is developing Tibet for the benefit of the Tibetans. But Beijing's record of investment in Tibet is dismal. The main beneficiaries of many projects, includin... |
1341660_0 | To Rebuild a Place That Lost So Much | To the Editor: Re ''State Plans Rebuilding Agency, Perhaps Led by Giuliani'' (news article, Nov. 3): The important value of preservation as a stabilizing force must be part of the discussion of redevelopment and growth. Preservation's track record for revving up the economic engine of rehabilitation through adaptive re... |
1341654_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Switzerland: Practicing For Nuclear Disaster | The government said it would conduct mock exercises next week to test how its civil defense system would cope with a simulated nuclear accident that contaminated a wide area of the country and forced millions of people into bomb shelters. Although the drill has been in preparation for a year, it coincides with new conc... |
1346638_5 | Shore Leave Is Casualty, Too; Foreign Sailors Must Stay Aboard Ships in New York | the Scotland sea buoy and on the east by the Ambrose Light Tower. This is where cargo ships flying under foreign flags, or American ships having made an overseas trip, must anchor to take on a Sandy Hook pilot, one of those 85 men with keen knowledge of the local waters who are charged by the States of New York and New... |
1346578_0 | Landmarks Group Approves Bold Plan for Hearst Tower | The Landmarks Preservation Commission gave its blessing yesterday to a remarkable architectural union that would permit the Hearst Corporation to complete the mid-Manhattan headquarters it began building 74 years ago. Under the plan approved by the commission, Hearst would construct 36 floors atop its landmark six-stor... |
1345073_0 | English Pot Smokers' Pub May Prove a Model | Until the Dutch Experience cafe opened here earlier this fall, providing marijuana by the bag instead of beer by the pint, Stockport never loomed particularly large in the greater British imagination. ''I read in the newspaper that the only thing Stockport is famous for is the hat museum,'' said Darren Ince, 32, a reta... |
1345029_1 | Radio E-Mail Connects Ships to Shore | convenience of being able to send and receive e-mail at little or no cost from anywhere in the world -- even the middle of an ocean -- has proved irresistible. Modems capable of sending data over radio connections and laptops loaded with AirMail are now considered essential equipment by many long-distance cruisers. ''R... |
1339602_3 | Unionist Bloc Stalls Latest Ulster Peace Bid | and Catholic factions. Paradoxically, it was that feature that produced the result today, where Mr. Trimble and his running mate, the incoming leader of the moderate Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party, Mark Durkan, lost even with the support of 70 percent of the Assembly, including all the Catholic members. Tha... |
1339461_3 | Stalemate in Congress Irks Security Experts | stumbling block,'' Mr. Wascom said. ''It's always been our belief that we have trained and deployed screeners based upon the perceived level of security risk identified by the federal government.'' One measure advocated by some security experts -- matching checked bags to the passengers who actually board domestic flig... |
1341409_1 | A New, Experienced Protector For the Navy in Home Waters | the Navy, military officials say, lacks something the Coast Guard has: the legal authority to board ships in domestic waters, and the experience in doing so. Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard said, ''We've been doing it since 1790, when Alexander Hamilton made the first appropriation for 10 cutters to enforce ... |
1341343_6 | A Trade Agenda Tempts Murphy's Law; U.S. Sees Talks as a Test of Leadership, But the Road to Qatar Was Rocky | accused Washington of hypocrisy for insisting that poor nations honor patents while it bent the rules at home. The Bush administration calls that nonsense. W.T.O. regulations already allow nations to seize patents in times of crisis, officials in Washington say. But along with Japan, Canada and Switzerland, the adminis... |
1341423_2 | Once Busy, An Airport Is Awaiting A Revival | assortment of knives and pepper spray in his carry-on bag. Though not considered a terrorist, the man is a timely debating point in the legislative struggle to solve the inconsistencies that still mark airport security. In Minneapolis, Terry Trippler, an aviation writer and consultant, was delighted to be singled out f... |
1340829_2 | U.S. TAKES STEPS TO BOLSTER BLOC FIGHTING TERROR | fly food and other relief to nations near Afghanistan. NATO nations might also take the food by truck into areas controlled by the Northern Alliance and American forces. There are already plans for American C-17 transport planes to fly relief supplies from a base near Pisa, Italy, to Turkmenistan, which neighbors Afgha... |
1340733_2 | The nation's airline security system continues to come up short in its basic responsibility. | it, and we've given them a bigger budget.'' Mr. Aviv, who said that in the 1960's he was a part of the Israeli intelligence team that developed the much-admired security and training standards used by El Al Airlines, has long been a colorful figure in the sometimes murky world of international security. A frequent corp... |
1340724_1 | E-mail won't soon replace regular mail in the direct marketer's reach for new customers. | among direct marketers. E-mail has its advantages -- incredibly low costs, for one, since it requires no postage or paper or printing to pay for. And e-mail works well for retaining and marketing to existing customers who have given permission to be reached electronically (logically enough, this is called permission e-... |
1342789_2 | Assessing Money's Role In Making Schools Better | The dilemma is stark in large, diverse districts where resources of schools attended by the rich should, in principle, equal those of other schools. The Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., for example, prohibits affluent schools from hiring additional regular teachers with private money. But wealthier parents ... |
1342884_0 | Reducing the Fear That Arrives by Mail; The Electronic Solution | To the Editor: Re ''Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman: New Yorkers Take Their Mail Cautiously, if at All'' (news article, Nov. 12): With biological weapons being sent through the Postal Service, people are refusing to open even the mail sent by a best friend who forgot to write a return address on the envelope. The simple sol... |
1342768_1 | Jobs That Recession May Never Touch | use of computers to organize huge amounts of biological data into useful information -- now emerging as a tool to help fight bioterrorism. But a large number of more typical occupations -- from high school teachers to health care workers to computer engineers -- are also likely to flourish, as far as labor market progn... |
1342611_4 | A House Divided Against Its Will; Separation Adds to Firefighters' Sense of Loss and Grief | a.m. Some of them heard the explosion and looked up to see the fiery debris crashing down and the billowing tornado of black smoke. They rolled. As they pulled up, ''There were people on the street burning head to toe,'' Firefighter John Moore said. ''It was so out of control. We had to go around all these people all b... |
1342499_5 | Growing Old, With the Bones in One Piece | bone density and reduce stress on fragile bones. For those seeking written guidance, Margie Bissinger, a physical therapist, has produced the book ''Osteoporosis: An Exercise Guide,'' available for $9.95. Drugs That Help The osteoporosis crisis has spawned a number of medicines designed to tip the balance in favor of b... |
1342570_1 | From 70's Relic, a Possible PATH Station | Applied Science at Columbia, also offered fresh details on the causes and technical implications of the collapse of the trade towers. Both the presentations and the questions from members of the audience, many of them engineers, exposed the roiling uncertainty that the collapses have produced in the technical community... |
1342492_3 | Studies Aim to Preserve Fertility of Women in Chemotherapy | percent higher than in mice that did not get the drug. Though his studies have focused on radiation, Dr. Tilly believes the research sheds light on fertility-preserving techniques for patients undergoing chemotherapy. Ms. Nohr's quest for help led her to Stanford University, where she joined a study for young women hav... |
1306742_1 | New Findings Likely to Prompt More Study of Cancer Drug | that counteracts the hormone estrogen, has been shown to reduce the death rate in women who had breast cancer by as much as 34 percent. Studies also showed that if women who had breast cancer take the drug for five years, their chance of developing cancer in the other breast is reduced by as much as 47 percent. The new... |
1306760_5 | Ford Wants to Send Drivers of Sport Utility Vehicles Back to School | company's decision on May 21 to stop selling tires to Ford. Ford executives have been reluctant to mention publicly mistakes by drivers, for fear of antagonizing customers and appearing to be blaming the victims of rollover accidents. Richard Parry-Jones, Ford's group vice president for global vehicle development and q... |
1312046_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | Tire Used as Replacement By Ford to Be Investigated One model of tire that Ford is using to replace Firestone Wilderness AT's has a higher rate of damage claims than the Firestones do, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said as it opened a defect inquiry into the tire. The tire, the General Ameri*550 AS... |
1311995_0 | White House In No Hurry With Options To Kyoto Pact | The 178 countries that completed a treaty on Monday aimed at curbing global warming may have to wait a very long time before President Bush, who rejected the pact, puts any alternative on the table, some American officials say. Mr. Bush and members of his administration have repeatedly said that they consider climate c... |
1312042_2 | A Continental Tire Is Under Scrutiny | of the tires under investigation, the company said. The tire in question is size P235/70R16. The traffic safety agency also said that changes had been made since the tire was first manufactured, in 1995, that are likely to reduce the rate of tread separation. A spokesman for the committee, Ken Johnson, said, however, t... |
1312085_1 | Solution Lies Tenth of a Mile Out of Reach | ''A miss is as good as a mile,'' said David M. Cohen, a lawyer for the Merrick Union Free School District on Long Island. If the standards movement has reduced academics to a numbers game, busing still has it beat. Merrick buses elementary school students who live half a mile or more from school, as measured from the s... |
1309952_0 | OBSERVATORY | Marine Motion Detectors The harbor seal is one of the marine world's cuter creatures, and part of its appeal, no doubt, is that it has the snout of a dog and the long whiskers of a cat. But the harbor seal is more than just a pretty face. Those whiskers perform a valuable function: helping the animal track down meals i... |
1310027_1 | La Guardia Flight Curbs Are a Help, Official Says | expected to handle anticipated growth at the airport in the next few years ''unless you bring them in by seaplane.'' Mr. DeCota said the Port Authority would spend money to improve taxiways and terminals, but he added, ''Clearly, we're going to have to do something to make more efficient use of those facilities.'' Mr. ... |
1310014_1 | Like Politics, Except the 400-Pound Gorilla Is Real | blamed by conservationists for damaging the environment. ''My core fascination always comes back to people,'' Dr. Sanderson wrote in an introductory letter in Wildlife Conservation, the group's magazine. ''How do people live in fragile ecosystems? How can impoverished populations contribute to conservation? ''The value... |
1308267_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Blair and Ahern Meet | Prime Minister Tony Blair, far left, and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, began two days of talks with leaders from Northern Ireland to push for resolution of an impasse over Irish Republican Army disarmament that threatens the power-sharing government in Belfast. The talks are being held at a secluded hotel near W... |
1308182_8 | U.S. Farmers Look Back...; ...and See Soy Growers In Brazil Shadowing Them | But the project that causes the greatest anticipation among Brazilian growers and the greatest fear among American producers like Mr. Burrack is the eventual paving of a 1,200 mile stretch of highway from the Mato Grosso state capital, Cuiabá, to Santarém, on the edge of the Amazon River in the northern state of Pará. ... |
1312721_0 | Leaders Draft 'Last Ditch' Package to Rescue Ulster Accord | Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, said today that they had agreed on a take-it-or-leave-it package of proposals to rescue the faltering Northern Ireland peace agreement and that they would present it to the province's warring politicians next week. Mr. Blair said there would be no furth... |
1312715_0 | E.P.A. Rejects Use of a Gene-Altered Corn in Human Food | The Environmental Protection Agency has decided not to let even trace amounts of genetically modified StarLink corn into human food, officials said yesterday. The decision follows the release yesterday of a report by an agency advisory panel that concluded that there was not enough evidence to rule out possible allergi... |
1311252_3 | Commercial Property/430 Park Avenue; Redesigning and Upgrading a Faded Office Building | box, with all floors a uniform 16,400 square feet except the 19th floor penthouse, which is set back from the perimeter and has 14,500 square feet. ''That makes for very efficient offices,'' he said. And because the building's core, containing the elevators, stairs, rest rooms and mechanical functions, is offset from t... |
1311511_6 | Farm Unrest in Mexico Challenges New President | Mr. Perdomo said, the Mexican sugar market is steadily shrinking because of increasing imports of less costly high fructose corn syrup from the United States. The syrup is preferred by Mexico's important soft drink industry. ''We were betrayed,'' Mr. Perdomo said. ''We are being forced to sell our sugar wherever we can... |
1311233_2 | In Suburbs, a Move to Put Bears in Their Place | removing bird feeders in the spring when hungry bears emerge from hibernation, securing garbage and protecting livestock or beehives with shelters or electric fencing. With bears now taking up residence throughout Connecticut and the rest of the Northeast, relocation of problem animals is no longer an option. Other sta... |
1311470_3 | Cast of Star Wars Makes Comeback in Bush Plan | technologies is dangerous, because it forces our adversaries to do the same thing,'' said Tom Z. Collina, director of the global security program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Mr. Collina said that the advanced sensors, which if they work as designed would make it possible to track warheads from space for the f... |
1311428_0 | Ferocious Hunters, in Need of a Friend | When 600 pounds of growling, salivating grizzly bear is bounding toward you as if you're her next meal, your gut instinct may be to run. But not Joel Sartore (above), a National Geographic magazine photographer who journeyed to Alaska last year to track down these formidable hunters and throw himself, literally, into t... |
1311454_2 | Drag Racing 21st-Century Style | Asian-Americans in Southern California, but has become increasingly mainstream and multiethnic as it has spread across the country. Its pioneers were ''carheads'' like Mr. Shiue's cousin Edward Wu, 25, who grew up in Gardena and now sounds like a geezer. ''Back then,'' Mr. Wu said, meaning the mid-90's, ''it was a big ... |
1311508_2 | ALLIES TELL BUSH THEY'LL ACT ALONE ON CLIMATE ACCORD | global warming issue did not come up in meetings Mr. Bush held today with President Chirac and Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany. Twenty-four hours after the death of the protester, Mr. Bush spoke about it briefly today, saying, ''It's a tragic loss of life.'' But he insisted that protesters who ''claim to represe... |
1311100_5 | The Secret History of Birth Control | of reach of the many women who did not have access to physicians or who were embarrassed to submit to internal examination. While used by a quarter of middle-class women in the late 1940's, they were over all the least popular method of birth control. Women continued to rely mostly on over-the-counter items sold for ''... |
1306522_0 | International Ulster Panel Blames I.R.A. for Unresolved Issue of Disarmament | The international commission responsible for disarming Northern Ireland's paramilitary groups issued a bluntly worded report today saying the Irish Republican Army had taken no steps to dismantle its arsenal and would not indicate how it planned to do so. The panel, headed by a retired Canadian general, John de Chastel... |
1308045_0 | Army and Police Keep Order at Protestant March in Ulster | British troops and police officers in riot gear mounted a huge security presence in this most volatile of all Ulster towns today, and marching Orangemen limited their procession from Drumcree Church to a token protest. With last-ditch talks to rescue the faltering Northern Ireland peace accord set to begin on Monday, t... |
1308013_0 | So Is It or Isn't It a Museum? Only the Web Suffix Knows | This is a tale about what it means to be a museum in the age of cyberspace. The Tigertail Virtual Museum is a Web site containing 5,000 famous works of art that Robert Uzgalis, the museum's director, has ''virtually restored.'' The works now look as he imagines they did at the time of their creation. Using software to ... |
1313527_0 | Protestants In Ulster Kill Youth, A Protestant | Protestant paramilitary groups killed an 18-year-old Protestant and wounded a Catholic friend of his in a drive-by shooting on Sunday night aimed at a group of teenagers as they talked outside a Catholic Gaelic football park in North Belfast. A banned guerrilla group, the Red Hand Defenders, took responsibility for kil... |
1313495_1 | Hidden Cameras Capture World of the Rare and Wild | months or years studying wildlife in dense greenery and hardly ever see their quarry, said Dr. Ronald L. Tilson, the conservation director of the Minnesota Zoo and an expert on tigers. ''These cameras are going to revolutionize the study of tropical rain forest biology,'' Dr. Tilson said. ''You see so many more animals... |
1313545_0 | Moving Beyond the Kyoto Impasse | Much is being made of the Bush administration's exclusion of the United States from an agreement reached by 178 countries last week to move forward on combating global warming. But both those who deplore the Bush administration's snub and those who agree with the president that America couldn't afford to join in are lo... |
1313514_1 | Car Calls May Leave Brain Short-Handed | while someone is talking to them. Dr. Jordan Grafman, a neuroscientist at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke in Bethesda, Md., said that while the study did not involve cell phones, it was relevant to public policy. ''Lawmakers need to know there is a cost whenever people try to do multiple task... |
1307347_1 | What Is The Next Big Idea? The Buzz Is Growing | equally eminent Slovenian political philosopher Slavoj Zizek has declared it ''nothing less than a rewriting of the 'The Communist Manifesto' for our time.'' During the same period, Mr. Hardt has given 21 academic talks and received tenure from Duke (a year early). And the compliments keep coming. ''He's definitely hot... |
1307373_3 | German Loggers to Leave 'African Eden' Untouched | up part of a forest with great value.'' The company, the largest employer in Congo, with 1,200 workers, is privately held and does not release its earnings. Mr. Stoll said the decision was part of an intensifying effort to shed the longstanding image of tropical loggers as despoilers of fragile ecosystems. Like most lo... |
1307341_3 | They, Too, Enjoyed Watching Violence And Death | of society by the glamour of public entertainment figures and the extravaganzas of the cinema and sports field represents a deep-seated human desire, familiar to the Romans, to be distracted from serious and troubling matters. And it was an effective tool to keep power in a few hands. You were a consultant for the movi... |
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