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1307434_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | INTERNATIONAL A3-5 Senate May Be Final Stop For Nuclear Test Ban Pact President Bush, who has long opposed the still-unratified Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, has resolved to let it languish permanently in the Senate, administration officials said. Supporters of the treaty concede they do not have the votes to revive i... |
1312334_3 | As Flight Delays Ease Off, New-Runway Push Begins | is better behaved this year.'' But ''weather is not the be-all and end-all of the story,'' Carol Hallett, president of the Air Transport Association, said in an interview, praising what she described as ''fine-tuning'' of a system of cooperation that began in the spring of 2000. Still, Ms. Hallett and the president of ... |
1309138_1 | Misguided Sanctions | has been delayed by presidential waiver, Title IV is in full force. The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act bars the government from issuing trading licenses and financing assistance to any company with significant investments in Iran's or Libya's oil industry. These sanctions are difficult to enforce and are opposed by Ameri... |
1309114_0 | Ulster Talks Resume, but Riots Dim Hopes | Last-ditch high-level talks on Northern Ireland were to continue today in an atmosphere of tension and gloom after rioting in the province left more than 100 police officers injured and hope for peacemaking by the province's Roman Catholic and Protestant politicians fading. Catholic protesters bombarded the police with... |
1309134_0 | President, With a Variety of Steps, Addresses Climate Change | President Bush today promoted a number of studies and other measures intended to address the impact of greenhouse gases, including a $120 million NASA research project to examine more thoroughly the relationship between them and climate changes. In a statement, Mr. Bush called the initiatives ''important steps'' that w... |
1309157_2 | Environmental and Transportation Improvements Could Send Price Soaring | rising on the Yangtze River in central China at a cost of more than $30 billion. All told, the government spends $100 billion a year on public investments. ''The infrastructure projects in Beijing could draw resources away from other parts of the country, because China is still fiscally constrained,'' said Dong Tao, a ... |
1308869_2 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Technology; If You Simply Must Call From a Car | Plantronics, offer cordless headsets (about $80 to $150) that communicate by two-way radio with small transmitter-receiver modules that fit selected phones. In the next year or so, phones are likely to appear that have similar radio links built in, using Bluetooth, an emerging wireless standard that will enable cell ph... |
1308909_0 | Experiments in the Vineyard; Some Fear Modified Plants Will Hurt Sales and Mystique | Some of the world's most tradition-minded manufacturers are confronting one of its most modern technologies. Genetic engineering is coming to the wine business. Scientists are working on genetically modified grapevines that are resistant to disease, and genetically altered yeast to improve fermentation. Researchers at ... |
1310468_4 | Looking For Clues In Junior's Keystrokes | illegal. In Pew's study, about 9 percent of boys ages 15 to 17 reported that they had sent prank e-mail or an ''e-mail bomb,'' which clogs people's e-mail In boxes with dozens or hundreds of copies of the same message. Even when their teenagers seem to have no inclination toward computer mischief, parents have another ... |
1310498_1 | There are fewer summer jobs for teenagers, but that might not hurt long term. | June 2000, considerably more than the 0.5 percentage point increase for all workers. The continued slowdown portends tougher times ahead for young workers. What impact will reduced employment this summer have on teenagers? A draft study by Public-Private Ventures, a nonprofit research organization based in Philadelphia... |
1310983_0 | Laura Bush Enjoys Globalization's Lighter Side | Because her plane had to land in Pisa anyway, Laura Bush took a detour from her duties today to get a close look at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. A few yards away from the marble monument, which began tilting almost as soon as it was finished in the 14th century, she stopped in her tracks, stretched out her right arm and ... |
1310921_0 | Listen to the Irish | To the Editor: Re ''Ulster Talks Resume, but Riots Dim Hopes'' (news article, July 14): The deteriorating situation in Northern Ireland demands immediate attention from the United States and President Bush, who has to date seemed uninterested in the problem. On numerous trips to Northern Ireland, I have heard many peop... |
1307798_1 | I.R.A. Guns and the Irish Impasse | which overwhelmingly endorsed it. That date arrived without the body set up to supervise the process, the International Independent Body on Decommissioning, being able to report any progress. A new date -- June 30, 2001 -- has now passed without positive result. In response, Unionist leader David Trimble, first ministe... |
1307848_0 | Move to Curb Biotech Crops Ignores Poor, U.N. Finds | Opposition in richer countries to genetically modified crops may set back the ability of the poorest nations to feed growing populations, according to a new United Nations survey. A movement against these crops, genetically changed for various reasons -- including higher yield, more nutritional value and pest or diseas... |
1307848_1 | Move to Curb Biotech Crops Ignores Poor, U.N. Finds | ban the use of the industrial pesticide DDT worldwide, which has allowed a resurgent population of mosquitoes to devastate tropical countries with several virulent strains of malaria. Still, the United Nations remains concerned about the consequences of genetic advancements, too. In Geneva on Friday, the World Health O... |
1307790_4 | The World: Disarm, or Else; In Northern Ireland, Saving the Toughest Issue for Last | arrangement led last year to the only movement the I.R.A. has made on weapons. Two monitors, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and Martti Ahtisaari of Finland, were allowed to conduct two inspections of arms dumps and certify that the weapons were stored and inoperative. And in a significant change in its public attitude... |
1307673_4 | Where Mosquitoes And Tires Breed | Tabernacle Township with a million tires, isn't sold on reusing tires. ''Shredded tires have a pretty limited application,'' Ms. Moore said. ''There are only so many playground surfaces that need soft pads, landfills that need drainage material, and roads that need resurfacing -- some of the variety of reused tire. Bur... |
1307800_3 | Ideas & Trends: Dear World; Loose Lips Sink More Than Ships | of composing e-mail occurs within your private mindspace,'' she said. ''The only place where people are quiet and not being bombarded is in front of the machine.'' But the recipient is often in a completely different state of mind. ''A hundred messages come up; the experience of receiving this thing is that you are bei... |
1307853_1 | Army Builds Defenses for Ulster Parade Today | field empty except for the thick lattice of barbed wire strewn across it. Walking is difficult, owing to the wide swath of bumpy plowed-in earth, not to mention the deep trench filled with water and still more barbed wire. The barricade is to prevent a parade by the Protestant Orange Order from marching down Garvaghy R... |
1306363_1 | Ulster Leader's Resignation Shakes Fragile Government | acted first. There were disturbances overnight in Northern Ireland, where pipe bombs exploded without harming anyone outside two homes in North Belfast, the scene of sectarian rioting a week ago. There were also barrages of bricks and bottles between Protestants and Catholics observing this year's first march, a parade... |
1306404_4 | On Land and Sea, Florida Plans For Turmoil After Castro's Death | down to Cuba to pick relatives up, celebrate or reclaim property,'' said Mr. Mendieta, the county spokesman. ''One of the things we can do under the plan is close the marinas.'' To discourage civil unrest, the mayors of the City of Miami and of Miami-Dade County would meet with members of the clergy and exile groups to... |
1308507_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Sinn Fein Leader's Warning | Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, said make-or-break talks aimed at achieving I. R. A. disarmament would fail if they continued ''making all other issues secondary to the issue of I.R.A. arms.'' Mr. Adams spoke before the negotiations, being conducted at a secluded Eng... |
1308442_0 | No Altered Corn Found in Allergy Samples | Virtually all the food samples collected from consumers who complained of allergic reactions to StarLink corn did not contain the genetically modified corn at all, government tests have found. The results could further allay concerns that StarLink had caused the reactions. StarLink contains a bacterial gene that produc... |
1308372_3 | Rock Hard and Tasteless: You Call These Heirlooms? | to ethylene gas. A ''vine ripe'' label is no indication that a tomato was raised in a field rather than a greenhouse or hydroponically, with none of the flavor derived from the minerals in soil. The latest marketing move is to sell tomatoes on the stem, but again they can come from a greenhouse. Heirloom, though, is a ... |
1312956_5 | Those Charming Steeples Aren't So Quaint Anymore | yet, but the Church of the Sacred Heart on Wolcott Street has received a permit to allow AT&T Wireless to install some.) Mr. Crosbie said many churches cannot afford to restore their old steeples, so turning to the phone companies for the money may be the best move. ''A lot of churches are strapped,'' he said. ''They'v... |
1312907_2 | The Way We Live Now: 7-29-01: Questions for Andrew Spielman; Once Bitten | role in certain kinds of sites. When a tree has been sawed down, and the branches come up out of the stump, there's often a cavity in which water accumulates. Well, that's the tree-hole environment, and mosquitoes are very dominant in it. So if we had people who cared about the fauna that are in an old tree or abandone... |
1312858_2 | Overcoming Repeatedly | nationalist movement of the 1920's was the first mass coalescence of working-class blacks, threatening enough to embark J. Edgar Hoover on a vendetta against its Jamaican-born chief. But Hoover had unlikely accomplices among mainline black leaders, whose ''Garvey Must Go'' campaign was as critical of his followers (''u... |
1313024_1 | The Graduate Meets the Slowdown | containing phrases like ''entry level,'' ''college grad,'' ''receptionist'' or ''no experience required.'' I figured that I could always fall back on a temporary-employment agency. During my summer and winter breaks from school, I used to find work that way. I'd come in one day, fill out some paperwork and take a typin... |
1313089_0 | For This Restaurant Owner, There's Politics in a Glass | At first glance, Liquors, a dimly lighted restaurant decorated with sequined tapestries and oil paintings, does not seem unusual. Soft music wafts past a bar displaying liquor bottles from around the world. But don't try to order a Grand Marnier. The owner, Jean Christian Dennery, objects to the conditions under which,... |
1313194_2 | The Bondage of Poverty That Produces Chocolate | Coast, the world's top cocoa exporter, have generated accusations and anger, all the way to Europe and the United States. In Britain, groups have tried to organize a consumer boycott of chocolate. And in Washington, the House passed a bill that proposed a voluntary labeling system identifying the origin of the cocoa in... |
1313212_0 | Sunday Q & A | Sunday Q & A appears in this section weekly. Readers are invited to send in questions about national or international affairs; those selected will be answered by Times correspondents who specialize in those issues. Information about submitting questions appears below. Becoming a Priest or Nun After Marriage Q. Can wido... |
1312883_1 | Primates Barely Hanging On | stop on my trip -- 500 miles south of Caratinga off Brazil's coast. Numbering fewer than 300, they seem poised to be wiped out in a storm. The chance of seeing them without a scientific researcher using radio-tracking equipment is virtually nil, so when Wildlife Trust, a United States-based conservation group, arranged... |
1309799_2 | The Coming AIDS Crisis in China | switch to an attitude of openness about this epidemic. Confronting it would require acknowledging problems, like rural poverty, drug abuse, prostitution and unsanitary blood collection, that defensive local and national leaders would rather underplay or keep hidden. The government's shortsighted attitude has often reve... |
1306960_4 | You've Got Maelstrom | too.'' But that isn't how it should be, experts say, as the electronic age speeds people along. ''The problem is that now, with e-mail and the Internet, you can accumulate so much more so quickly,'' said Catherine M. Beise, an associate professor of computer information systems at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort ... |
1306214_0 | Q and A | A Brazilian Wildlife Haven Q. Do you have information on the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park in Brazil? What is the best way to get there from Brasília and are there nearby hotels? -- Janice Korson, Brooklyn, N.Y. A. In recent years, the 150,000-acre Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, in the state of Goiás, about... |
1306149_0 | June 24-30; Landmark Cell Phone Ban | Despite scant evidence that talking on a cellular telephone causes traffic accidents, New York banned using handheld cell phones while driving. Forty-one other states have considered the issue in the last three years, but New York is the first to adopt a ban. The law does allow drivers to talk with a headset or earphon... |
1306059_1 | Talk Radio | trucker's life, it also adds a down-home touch to urban life. ''There's always been a strong strain of rural culture in the big city,'' said James Katz, a professor of communications at Rutgers University who is writing a book on the effects of mobile communications on society. ''A few years ago it was blue jeans, cowb... |
1306006_1 | Watt by Watt, Brazilian Industry Makes Do With Less | energy efficient. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil warned in mid-May of a large-scale energy crisis. By then, it had become obvious that paltry rainfall this year would not fill the reservoirs that feed the country's hydroelectric power grid, the main source of electricity in Brazil. The government then de... |
1310202_0 | A Credible Soy Stand-In for Caviar | The tiny black and gray beads glistening invitingly atop squares of toast could fool the eye -- but the price tag would not trick any true lover of caviar. Royal Caviar's Kaviar, made in Glendale, Calif., from soybeans, costs under $15 for 4.4 ounces, compared with $100 or so an ounce for the best Caspian Sea sturgeon ... |
1310253_0 | Chechen Warlord Fights Rebels for Mother Russia | Raybek Tovzayev is a Chechen warlord who fights on the side of Mother Russia against the rebels of his homeland whom he calls bandits. He was born in a red brick house perched on a mountaintop where three ancestral villages of his clan look out over the Vedeno Gorge, a narrow slash of valley cut since prehistory by the... |
1308622_0 | Biogen Fights Rival Over Drug Claim | Two major biopharmaceutical companies faced off in court today, as Biogen of Cambridge, Mass., sought to convince a panel of judges here that Serono's claims of a superior multiple sclerosis drug were misleading and should not be publicized. At stake is the $1 billion American drug market for treating multiple sclerosi... |
1308747_0 | Disturbed Children, Lacking Care | To the Editor: Re ''Children Trapped by Mental Illness'' (front page, July 9): In recent years, we have made great progress in recognizing and accepting that children and adolescents can and do suffer from very real and debilitating psychiatric illnesses. The good news is that we can help most of them. The real tragedy... |
1308643_0 | After Three Unavailing Days, Ulster Negotiators Take a Breather | Efforts to rescue the faltering Northern Ireland peace accord were put on hold tonight after three days of intensive talks led by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, failed to make progress on the central issue of Irish Republican Army weapons. The talks, held at a country mansion hotel i... |
1308621_0 | Cell Phone Companies Are Raided | European regulators raided the offices of Vodafone and eight other mobile phone operators today and combed through documents they believed would offer evidence that the companies had set artificially high prices for some services. The coordinated, surprise inspections cap a 17-month inquiry into roaming prices -- the f... |
1310797_0 | U.S. May Order Mandatory Recall of Some Firestone Tires | The Transportation Department said today that it had asked Bridgestone /Firestone to recall additional tires but the company insisted its tires were safe and said it would state its case at a public hearing and in court. As a result, the government said it would start a proceeding to begin a mandatory recall, only the ... |
1310710_0 | Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Gently, Gently) | I had my heart set on a Swampscott dory. Of course, I hadn't actually been in one, but I had seen photographs. And it had such a salty New England name, with a sturdy work-boat heritage. I had a clear image of myself on the Hudson River, face lined by long years of wind and sun, hands and muscles hardened by work, pull... |
1310913_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths OSBORNE, PHILIP BARRY | OSBORNE-Philip Barry, 66. On July 18, at his home in Chappaqua, NY. Mr. Osborne, a former assistant managing editor at Reader's Digest, previously had been an editor/writer for Time, CBS, and Business Week. Beloved husband of Frances Mary Paczka, devoted father and grandfather of Leicia Osborne Milano and Morgan Osborn... |
1312441_0 | FAMILY FARE | Bears, Bears Everywhere Very few people have ever come nose to nose with a grizzly. But these days the experience can be had -- safely -- in the American Museum of Natural History, where the Imax movie ''Bears'' recently opened. In one of the last frames, a powerful grizzly, well, bears down on you at amazing speed, as... |
1312442_0 | To Reflect On Or Simply To Admire | ''O sweet mirror, invented in order to know that which our own gaze cannot see,'' wrote a French poet five centuries ago. The mirror occupies a special place in the imagination. From ancient times, it has played a role in human society and has been a favorite subject for philosophical, psychological and religious debat... |
1309641_0 | Sunday Q & A | Sunday Q & A appears in this section weekly. Readers are invited to send in questions about national or international affairs; those selected will be answered by Times correspondents who specialize in those issues. Information about submitting questions appears below. Two Cultures in Conflict Q. Coverage of Northern Ir... |
1309646_2 | Ulster Talks Fail to Solve Problem of I.R.A. Weapons | the party says, that the British government had an obligation to make more progress on the removal of British troops and watchtowers from the province and on reforming the Protestant-dominated police force to make it more acceptable to Catholics. It seemed clear that the package would embrace those issues as well as di... |
1309657_1 | Demonstrators at U.N. Accuse Priests of Abusing Nuns In Africa | a Free Choice and an organizer of the rally. The Vatican publicly acknowledged the problem of sexual abuse against nuns in March when confidential reports, compiled by senior members of religious orders for women, appeared in the news media. An article about the reports first appeared in The National Catholic Reporter ... |
1309581_0 | Help for the Vulnerable | To the Editor: Re ''Children Trapped by Mental Illness'' (front page, July 9): Across the country, children with psychiatric illnesses are at the mercy of systems of care that are difficult to access and lack essential resources. Adequate financing of inpatient services and residences, when needed, and outpatient and h... |
1309594_4 | The Nation: Your Data, Yourself; A Protective Path Paved in Granola | technology is making information and images easy and inexpensive to collect, sift and transmit. In a study released last week, the Privacy Foundation, an educational and research organization, found that 14 million employees -- over a third of the nation's workers who use the Internet on the job -- have their Web use a... |
1309715_0 | July 8-14; Ireland's Hopes Fading | The British and Irish governments want the Irish Republican Army to put its guns far away, but it's balking until Britain acts to remove its troops from Ulster -- and on that all-too-familiar note of impasse, peace talks stalled yet again. Negotiators reconvened -- after riots broke out in Belfast -- but the British pr... |
1309604_0 | Confessions of Workers At Play on the Computer | When your colleagues at work aren't looking, maybe you play a game or two of computer solitaire. Or perhaps you fire off a few e-mail messages to friends or make an online purchase on company time. Many people are guilty of using their work computers for personal use, and the findings of a technology-and-ethics survey ... |
1307261_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Summit Meeting Next Week | Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, will hold a two-day summit meeting beginning Monday with political leaders from Northern Ireland to push for resolution of an impasse over Irish Republican Army disarmament that threatens continuation of the power-sharing Catholic-Protestant government ... |
1329015_0 | Support From Italy | The tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at 155 Cedar Street, destroyed during the collapse of the twin towers, received a pledge of $500,000 on Wednesday from Italy for repairs and reconstruction. The Italian foreign minister, Renato Ruggiero, who announced the pledge at a news conference with Mayor Giuliani, said ... |
1328882_0 | For Nicaragua's Atlantic Indians, Autonomy Means Neglect | For generations, the Miskito Indians nestled in the remote jungles along the Atlantic Coast have been cut off from the rest of the country by distance, culture and even the weather. Other parts of Nicaragua have been parched from drought in 2001, but unrelenting rains swelled the Prinzapolka River here, turning it into... |
1328926_0 | Progress on Airline Security | President Bush unveiled a package of sensible proposals yesterday that would expand federal oversight of airport security and boost public confidence in the safety of air travel. But as he engages Congress on the issue, Mr. Bush needs to take another step and press for creation of a federal transportation police force ... |
1328846_4 | Asia Casts a Wary Eye to the West | What sets this downturn apart is its potential effect on China, Asia's most populous country. It came through the regional crisis with scarcely a scratch, mostly because China is less dependent on exports than its neighbors. But many analysts say it will not weather this one without damage. Yiping Huang, a China econom... |
1328874_0 | Business Travelers Balk at 'Hassle Factor' on Electronic Tickets | As business travel starts to pick up, some regular travelers have been reluctant to fly because of confusion about airport security procedures for the use of electronic tickets, the National Business Travel Association said yesterday. ''There are a couple of things that have been keeping some business travelers away,''... |
1327026_2 | Clerics Answer 'No, No, No!' and Invoke Fates of Past Foes | the clerics. The Kabul decree, issued by an emergency conclave of a body known as the Supreme Council of the Islamic Clergy, was ''only a recommendation,'' the envoy said, and Mr. bin Laden would not be asked to leave Afghanistan. ''There is no compulsion,'' he said. Almost lost in the confusion over what the Taliban i... |
1323722_4 | Together at Last: Cutting Pollution And Making Money | the profit side of the ledger is a big financial surprise. ''When they substitute chemicals or processes, they often have to put in expensive equipment, retrain workers, do lots of costly things,'' said Gaytha A. Langlois, professor of ecology at Bryant College in Smithfield, R.I. ''But then they find that the new equi... |
1323762_1 | Plan for Web Monitoring in Courts Dropped | Times, Mr. Mecham wrote, ''Concerns for the need for privacy appear to have, at least temporarily, taken precedence, for the most part because of widespread misunderstanding and, indeed, worry among judges.'' The conflict produced an extraordinary and sometimes nasty political battle over the last few weeks within the ... |
1322347_0 | Mexico Seizes 27 Sugar Mills | Mexico's government took over nearly half the nation's sugar mills today in an attempt to save a dying industry subsidized for decades by the old government. Officials said they would expropriate 27 of Mexico's 60 privately operated and deeply indebted sugar mills, spending at least $110 million to acquire them. The go... |
1322309_6 | Adoption Medicine Brings New Parents Answers and Advice | adopted another Hungarian child this year, they consulted with Dr. Aronson before and after bringing the boy home. For some new parents, the children's medical problems can feel overwhelming. Thais Tepper of Washington, Pa., adopted an 18-month-old boy from Romania in 1991 and quickly realized that he had severe proble... |
1322363_0 | 1999 Survey on Gene-Altered Corn Disclosed Some Improper Uses | The government and the company that developed genetically modified StarLink corn had at least some indication that the corn might be entering the human food supply more than half a year before environmental advocates discovered it in taco shells, according to a government document. StarLink was approved for use as anim... |
1322447_0 | OBSERVATORY | Killer Radio Waves In 1989, when the United States military was trying to persuade Gen. Manuel Noriega, Panama's dictator, to surrender, troops blasted loud music at the Vatican compound where the general was holed up in Panama City. Reports at the time were that he had an aversion to rock 'n' roll and that the militar... |
1325750_2 | Editors Rush to Revise Long-Made Plans | collections were so hurt by the disaster,'' she said, referring to the cancellation of the annual Fashion Week, which was to have been held around Manhattan. And she said this issue would have an article on Berry Berenson Perkins, who was a passenger aboard the first jetliner to hit the World Trade Center last week. Ms... |
1325746_2 | The terror in Lower Manhattan tests the fabric woven from a variety of strands of the communication network. | heal themselves. But there may be enough interwoven layers to make a difference in how quickly damaged portions of the wider social and economic network can be patched. It was largely because of the multiple communications options available to them, for instance, that executives and other professionals who found themse... |
1328007_0 | Beauty From Evil: Preserving Felled Tower Facade as Sculpture | WHAT do we do with the facade in the ruins? That twisted aluminum remnant of the south tower of the World Trade Center has become the most revered shape in the city. The sightseers snapping pictures from two blocks away can't help calling it beautiful. Even the workers at the site, the ones eager to take it down before... |
1328008_1 | The Iconic Power of an Artifact | agonizingly -- being hauled from the remains of the World Trade Center, a debate is under way about what might be built on the ravaged site of the almost incomprehensible destruction of Sept. 11. From many in the business community has come a plea to summon our most defiant optimism and erect a new skyscraper, perhaps ... |
1327949_1 | OBSERVATORY | tell whether the fish were obtained unlawfully from these protected areas. The researchers added that the technique could easily be expanded to other cod populations (like those in the northwestern Atlantic, which are also under pressure) and to other fish as well. Finding a Swiss Fault As earthquakes go, the one that ... |
1326817_2 | Afghans Coaxing bin Laden, But U.S. Rejects Clerics' Bid | attacks in the United States. ''The ulema,'' they said, using an Arabic term for Islamic clergy, ''voice their sadness over American deaths and hope America does not attack Afghanistan.'' This, too, was immediately followed by a harsh warning of retaliation. ''If infidels invade an Islamic country and that country does... |
1326786_0 | Many Travelers on Airlines Appeal for Tighter Security | Despite efforts by government agencies and the airlines to make flying safer in the aftermath of last week's hijackings and terrorist attacks, many passengers say the authorities have still not done enough to improve airport security. At large airports around the country, like those in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denv... |
1326726_0 | Singapore's Line, Debt Free, Is in Relatively Good Shape | Considered against the dire forecasts and drastic cutbacks announced by airlines in the United States and Europe, the outlook at Singapore Airlines is still relatively good -- which is to say it is merely dismal. The company said today that it would trim back its flight schedule to some destinations to help cope with f... |
1324619_0 | Traditional Spirits Block a $500 Million Dam Plan in Uganda | The churning rapids that surge past a hillside lookout here explode into a ferocious storm of water, beckoning with thrills for some, and power and profit for others. Just six miles from where the Nile begins its journey north, Bujagali Falls, with its wild stretches of nature, may soon become the site for East Africa'... |
1324725_0 | A Rending Scream That Spoke for All | Those who were there when the scream was sounded offstage said they could still hear it decades later. The voice belonged to Laurence Olivier, who was playing Oedipus at the Old Vic in London in 1946. He was crying out at the moment when Sophocles' mighty king of Thebes, undone by the last of too many blows of cruel re... |
1324696_0 | Arabs and Muslims Steer Through an Unsettling Scrutiny | On a quiet block in Brooklyn Heights yesterday, a small cluster of men and boys gathered inside a mosque for afternoon prayers. Outside, a man drove past slowly and yelled, ''Murderers.'' In Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, during the peak late-morning shopping hours, just a few women visited stores in their long gowns and veils... |
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1326259_5 | At the Site, Little Hope Of Uncovering Survivors | separated workers from the base of the downed tower, the southernmost of the two 110-story twin towers that were pierced by hijacked airliners last week. The rubble stands as high as a six-story building, said Peter Marchetto, president of Bovis Lend Lease, a New York City construction company that has been assigned th... |
1326210_0 | Airport security is more intrusive and intensive than anyone has ever seen in this country. | I HAD progressed barely 100 yards from the ticket counter toward my departure gate at Newark International Airport when I had to show my photo identification for the third time. A United States marshal wearing a black uniform and a gun wanted to see it. ''Where are you going?'' he asked as he studied my papers. ''Chica... |
1326248_7 | Rethinking The Security At Airports | all, Mr. Wascom said: ''This is not a task we ever requested. And now it is an issue of national security.'' Even as the group of terrorists boarded four airliners last week and hijacked them, a team of investigators from the F.A.A. was going into airports and checking for weaknesses in their security shields. Often, w... |
1326233_1 | Exploring Technology to Protect Passengers With Fingerprint or Retina Scans | Ralph S. Sheridan, the chief executive of American Science and Engineering, a vendor of X-ray machines that scrutinize luggage, trucks and other containers. ''We have to throw up a gantlet.'' Investors clearly expect just such a broad investment, even though there is no information to suggest that explosives in luggage... |
1326295_0 | Design Goal: Keeping Jets From Misuse As Missiles | In the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center, aviation experts have begun considering changes in aircraft design that would help prevent terrorists from turning passenger airplanes into kamikaze weapons. In the short term, doors to the cockpit may be strengthened. In the long term, some envision a system in... |
1323121_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Macedonia Peace Plan Parliament voted for constitutional changes to grant the ethnic Albanian minority more rights, an action that let NATO resume collecting weapons from ethnic Albanian rebels. A3 Russian Stance on Defense Moscow is willing to consider amendments to the ''present-day system of agreements on strategic ... |
1323105_5 | Florida Curbs the Operators Of Popular Shark Excursions | coast each year,'' Governor Hodges wrote in a letter to Paul Sandifer, director of the state Department of Natural Resources. He ordered a report within 30 days. ''We've turned the governor's request to our marine resources division,'' Mr. Sandifer said today. In Virginia, where a 10-year-old boy was mauled to death Sa... |
1323145_0 | Snapple Picks Agency For Fruit-Flavored Soda | The Snapple Beverage Group in White Plains, a unit of Cadbury Schweppes, has named Decker in Glastonbury, Conn., as the first agency to handle assignments for its Stewart's line of fruit-flavored sodas. Spending was estimated at $3.5 million. Decker will work on a national consumer marketing campaign to be introduced i... |
1323141_2 | World Bank Presses Inquiry On Economist Who Dissents | advisers have pressed the bank to rethink its antipoverty strategy. Mr. Bush proposed replacing as much as half of the bank's loans to developing countries with outright grants, a change that the World Bank leadership has resisted. Two influential opinion journals, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, have lengthy artic... |
1324910_0 | The Big City; Restore the Skyline, but Do It the New York Way | ''THE skyline will be made whole again,'' Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said, and it was one of the finer moments this week. The skyline is our pyschic equivalent of the cathedrals and temples and mosques that other cities rushed to rebuild after other attacks. Civic symbols are crucial at times like this. But just how do ... |
1325004_3 | BUSH AND TOP AIDES PROCLAIM POLICY OF 'ENDING' STATES THAT BACK TERROR; LOCAL AIRPORTS SHUT AFTER AN ARREST | two hours. ''Anyone with dark skin or who spoke with an accent was taken aside and searched,'' said the passenger, Mike Glass, 43, of Seattle. ''And then they went to any male with too much facial hair.'' Around the same time, at the American Airlines terminal at Kennedy, officers were seen detaining a man in handcuffs... |
1324961_2 | Grief Is Lessened by Sharing and Solace From Strangers | the ground with the words, ''We Will Always Remember You.'' She was, she said, mourning the buildings as well as the victims. ''It's the loss of so many people, and the loss of something that's been considered such a sign of stability.'' On the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, people stared at the spot where the two towers ... |
1324902_1 | First Inspections Show Most Buildings Are Structurally Sound | to exteriors and heating and ventilation systems fouled with ash and soot, the inspectors said. ''There has been too much speculation by people not directly involved, predictions of buildings falling,'' said Richard Tomasetti, president of LZA/Thornton-Tomasetti Group, an engineering firm the city has hired to inspect ... |
1324885_1 | New Perspective on the Issue Of Cell Phone Use in Planes | and operate on analog networks, can be used at a maximum altitude of 10 miles, while phones on newer digital systems can work at altitudes of 5 to 6 miles. A typical airline cruising altitude would be 35,000 feet, or about 6.6 miles. ''The fact of the matter is that cell phones can work in almost all phases of a commer... |
1324983_3 | Flights Are Cleared to Resume, but the Skies Remain Largely Empty | to be little consensus on how to handle the new steps, which include eliminating curbside check-in, preventing people without tickets from venturing past security, and banning knives, including cutlery, from airplanes. At the airport in Wichita, Kan., travelers reported, suitcases were completely emptied and searched b... |
1328347_1 | Airlines Adopt Check-Everything Policy | passenger. A flight attendant had telephoned a friend about the passenger, the friend phoned the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which in turn called the airport, which dispatched agents and police cars to surround the plane. The 215 passengers were escorted off one by one, and were put up in a hotel overnight. Kurt E... |
1328266_4 | Strangers Shower Gifts on Schools | County school board in Florida, was directed to District 27 in Queens and District 31 in Staten Island, neighborhoods that were home to many firefighters and thus had a disproportionate number of students who lost parents. Yet another load of stuffed animals, collected by Gloria Buck, a St. Louis resident who lost her ... |
1328220_1 | In Investigation, Internet Offers Clues and Static | online to track a group of criminals depends in part on what those criminals have done online. The organization led by Osama bin Laden, whom President Bush has called the prime suspect in the attacks, is known not to trust high technology for important messages, relying on face-to-face communication instead. At the sam... |
1328212_2 | Why E-Mail Is Creating Multiple E-Personalities | several executives. It used to be virtually impossible for a customer off the street to pester a well-known chief executive directly, since mail and calls to the office would filter through a secretary. But today, as long as people have the correct e-mail address, they can send a message that appears instantaneously on... |
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