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1328407_3 | Airline Pilots Adopt Their Own Security Measures | the security checkpoints. Many pilots say they are also uncomfortable with the idea of armed off-duty pilots on their airplanes. ''The danger from the gun would be greater than the safety,'' said one Lufthansa pilot as he arrived at Logan International Airport in Boston from Germany. A pilot based at La Guardia Airport... |
1325413_2 | Country Music, Above the Mason-Dixon | a New Jersey Country Music Association board member whose Internet handle is Cowboy MC. ''You can dance with someone else's date or wife and it doesn't mean anything. At a rock place or club you have to put your mouth up to the person's ear, cup your hands, and scream to be heard.'' New Jersey's largest country hangout... |
1325286_0 | A Famous Tower Leans a Little Less | After 11 years and almost $26 million in restoration, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is scheduled to reopen to the public in November. Its famous tilt, which was 13 feet off perpendicular when the current renovation work began in 1990, has been reduced by 15.95 inches -- invisible to the naked eye but enough to stabilize th... |
1325261_4 | Midnight's Children | her time knitting. Twelve-year-old Collin Cassinat, a small, reedy boy with a rash of unusually dark freckles down the sides of his face and neck, comes from a less far-flung place: Arizona. Around 1 a.m., Collin and some other campers venture over to West Point's military museum and begin wandering around its darkened... |
1325658_5 | On The Seine, A Houseboat Of One's Own | and terra firma. When boats go by, making waves, you feel them on your houseboat. The big Bateaux-Mouches as they head downriver on the far side, near the Right Bank, cause some motion, but when they have rounded the Allee des Cygnes and head upriver, hugging the Left Bank, they come quite close to the barges tied up t... |
1327828_0 | Defending Against Microscopic Threats | |
1327771_2 | Straining communications systems to the limit. | voicemail messages that could be converted to compressed digital files and delivered as conditions allow. Cellphones were put to heroic uses, from under the rubble and from hijacked planes. Rescuers were issued free ones to aid their efforts. It seems hard to imagine how after this experience people would ever want to ... |
1327771_4 | Straining communications systems to the limit. | backbones functioned well, if slowly at times. Making voice phone calls over the Internet worked surprisingly well. But the Internet showed its limitations as a mass medium, when the masses logged on, as the most popular news Web sites were all but inaccessible in the first hour after the trade center attacks. The less... |
1327767_1 | Remote Rendezvous | consider supplementing travel with teletechnology as a general practice. ''We said, 'Dang, we should be doing this more often,' '' said Mr. Engel, who held his San Diego Adidas meeting at a videoconference center in San Francisco that was booked solid last week. ''I was amazed at how there was no lag time.'' No one exp... |
1327793_2 | Bigger Brother in the Wireless World | sent in North America last year, a large number yet less than 5 percent of the 20 billion text messages worldwide in 2000, according to Mobilestreams, a British research company. Regardless of where they originate, most text messages sent on cellphones are necessarily terse. Still, the market for such communications is... |
1327798_3 | Changes Called Likely In Policy on Immigration | already have access to some databases. And for most international flights, she said, airlines electronically transmit the passenger manifests to a data system in the United States to be checked against a lookout list while the planes are in the air. New investments, some officials said, should be made to keep technolog... |
1322578_1 | Compassion Is Told to Take A Walk | a board's transportation policy may not be made based upon the personal challenges facing individual parents,'' he wrote in a seven-page decision. ''The use of objective standards and the application of a consistent policy assure that all pupils will be treated fairly and eliminate the possibility of discrimination or ... |
1329326_0 | Keeper Of the Flame | I was eager to see how you would present the advances that women have made in religion (Samantha M. Shapiro). It was a surprise to discover that your representative woman was Doba Levin, whose role, important as it may be, is clearly ancillary to that of her husband. In an age when increasing opportunities and status a... |
1329740_0 | A Monument to the Towers of Pain and Might | To the Editor: Some leaders in the architectural world urge rebuilding the World Trade Center towers as a symbol of our strength -- a way of standing up to the terrorists. I beg the architectural community to unite and assist in the ideas to rebuild not with an eye toward terrorism but toward us. Help balance war with ... |
1329279_0 | Last Tango | THE BEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. By Anne Carson. 147 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $22. The writing of poetry is regularly deemed a dead art, so it is little wonder that its living practitioners are a somewhat petty and xenophobic bunch -- or that the enterprise itself has come to seem, except... |
1329741_0 | A Monument to the Towers of Pain and Might; Low-Income Workers | To the Editor: You have called our attention to the plight of low-paid and unskilled workers -- many, people of color -- affected by the tragedy (editorial, Sept. 23). But your Sept. 24 editorial ''Rebuilding Downtown'' ignores them in its proposed solutions. As New York prepares to spend the roughly $20 billion pledge... |
1329463_9 | Near Ground Zero, Unbowed Spires | across America. St. Paul's bell had survived but there was no power for the electric clapper. ''I saw an iron piece of metal and I picked it up and I crawled up to that bell and I beat the hell out of it,'' Mr. Borrero was quoted as saying by Dr. Matthews. On hearing the peal, rescue workers near the chapel held their ... |
1329595_3 | Word for Word/Islam's Argument; 'You Expect Us to Help You?': Iran Gets Its Two Cents' Worth | now expect everyone to respect yours? In today's world, is the possession of cannons, guns and missiles a permit for a government to say: It has to be what I say and nothing else. . . . It is these things that have made America detestable. . . . Many times they have trampled on the interests of different countries, inc... |
1329335_1 | Air Travel: Routine No More | subway. But since Sept. 11, what seemed routine now seems dangerous, freighted with terrifying images of hijacked airliners sent crashing into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. The federal government and the nation's airlines have responded to the attacks with what they describe as the t... |
1329300_1 | Travel Advisory: Correspondent's Report; Security Is Tightened At Canada's Airports | has been imposed governing every aspect of a trip from arrival at the airport entrance to takeoff. Gone is the curbside check-in that allowed passengers to move their bags from car or shuttle to plane with minimal lugging or searching for baggage carts. In general, people seeing passengers off or meeting them will no l... |
1329278_2 | Klieg Lights and Magnolias | the war. Or, in keeping with the ''brothers' war'' theme of numerous movies, two brothers (or a father and son) are reconciled and become part of one big happy family again. These films represent both sides as fighting courageously for what they believed was right. That the Confederacy fought for slavery and the destru... |
1323291_4 | SHARON DOUBTFUL TALKS CAN BRING TRUCE IN MIDEAST | by a period of ''confidence-building measures.'' For the Palestinians, he said, that would mean collecting tens of thousands of weapons stockpiled in the West Bank and Gaza in violation of past agreements. For Israel, he said, it would mean agreeing during that phase to freeze new settlements in the territories. But he... |
1323275_2 | A Cycle of Hatred Is Visited on a New Generation in Northern Ireland | the quarrels falter. Since July, the home-rule government in which Protestants and Catholics share power under the 1998 peace agreement has been in limbo. The generally Protestant Unionists, who want to keep Northern Ireland part of Britain, say the Catholic guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army have done nothing to ... |
1323282_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''In the past it has been the United States that made all the specific proposals, and the Mexicans who said 'yes,' but never said when. This time, President Fox made all the proposals, and it was his good friend President Bush who had to say 'yes,' but couldn't say when.'' ROBERT A. PASTOR, a former official of the Nat... |
1321842_3 | Claptrap, Not 'Jaws' | sharks is at an all-time low, with some species having declined by 80 percent in the past 25 years because of overfishing. ''Considering the shark populations are as low as they are, the chances of a shark attack in New Jersey these days is outrageously low,'' Mr. Burgess said. Despite the statistics, the public has be... |
1322027_1 | Drive Talking: Cell Phone Debate Set to Heat Up | states, the measures stalled amid lobbying by the wireless phone industry and by other industries that depend on mobile phones. About 121 million cellular phones are in use in the United States. Opponents of the bans say they will work just as hard next year. ''Those are some pretty strong lobbyists -- AT&T, Ameritech,... |
1321747_6 | An Unlikely Prodigy in an African New World | And that's my teacher's uncle. He wrote the Togolese national anthem.'' A large, gray-haired prelate in a long white robe, a gold necklace and a purplish skullcap moved into the crowd. ''That's my teacher's other uncle,'' Kheli explained. ''He used to be archbishop of Lomé, and now he's in the Vatican. I think he's a m... |
1321941_2 | In Contrarians' Eyes, the Bears Have Room to Run | Nasdaq index first dropped to 1,800 in early April, the average exposure among these timers plunged to an incredibly pessimistic level of minus 85 percent, according to figures compiled by The Hulbert Financial Digest. (The negative reading indicated that the average recommendation of these timers was to be short the m... |
1321746_4 | Falling In, Falling Out: Love's Cycle Of Rebirth | love occurred after those marriages. CHARLES MEE -- People can fall in love for the first time when they're 8 years old or when they're 16 or 30 or 77. It's just what they were capable of at that point in their lives. I'm afraid I wasn't capable of it until I was 57. I don't think my heart was open enough. MANDELL -- I... |
1322047_2 | Rescuing a World-Famous but Fragile House | Jr., after which it was opened to the public. The conservancy has not decided how much it will raise the admission price for viewing the work in progress. For any other architect, a gorgeous interior and an incompetent structure would be evidence of feet of clay. Wright's followers might call it a terra cotta base. For... |
1327189_6 | Austro Turf | not stuffy. It is the Britain of navy uniforms, country wear, sports attire: the same sources that inspired Coco Chanel, in fact. With her scissors, Chanel once said, she had cut away all that was inessential in the creations of others. Loos might have made the same claim for his pencil. In fact, he was keenly interest... |
1327518_2 | Personal Business; A Revised Set of Rules for the Road | objects like disposable razors and nail files.) For those who expect delays, Pieter Rieder, vice president for strategic markets at Rosenbluth International, a corporate travel management company based in Philadelphia, suggests checking your luggage on each flight segment, not all the way through, if you have a flight ... |
1327507_0 | On a Frantic Day, the Fear of Not Knowing | WIU-SHI TIAN lives in Chinatown and saw the burning towers firsthand. But she had to rely on secondhand and thirdhand sources to get the news. ''I thought it was a bombing,'' Ms. Tian, 78, said in her native Mandarin. New York, a city of immigrants, is full of people who speak neither English nor Spanish. Language barr... |
1327569_0 | Bill in Brazil Would Allow More of Jungle To Be Razed | A joint commission of the Brazilian Congress has approved a measure that would more than double the amount of the Amazon jungle that ranchers, loggers and miners would be permitted to raze. The measure, sponsored by a ''rural caucus'' of legislators, would weaken many restrictions on Amazon land use and eliminate other... |
1327504_0 | Many Buildings Stood Fast on Shaky Ground | THEY mobilized the afternoon of Sept. 11, a team of engineers that now totals more than 200, dispatched across Lower Manhattan to quickly, but responsibly, evaluate the structural soundness of more than 400 buildings near what is known as ground zero. The results so far: despite the destruction at the World Trade Cente... |
1327284_0 | Rio Is Easing the Way To Corcovado's Summit | THIS city's most renowned landmark, the 98-foot-high statue of Christ the Redeemer that stands atop Corcovado Mountain, celebrates its 70th anniversary next month. In conjunction with the event, the municipal government has begun building a new system of elevators and escalators to make it easier to reach the 2,308-foo... |
1327200_4 | It's Not So Good to Be the Queen | more moderate revolutionaries in 1789, Marie Antoinette further enraged her subjects by openly opposing any curbs on the monarchy, and declared that the Constitution of 1790 was ''monstrous'' and ''a tissue of absurdities.'' Marie Antoinette's personal life was equally open to criticism. The endlessly kind, notoriously... |
1329203_1 | Injunctions to Pray and Orders to Kill | Justice Department, was found in the luggage of Mohamed Atta, who officials said was on the American Airlines flight that was the first to hit the World Trade Center. The other letters appeared to be photocopies of the one in Mr. Atta's luggage. One was found in the wreckage of the United Airlines flight that crashed i... |
1329164_0 | WAITS INCREASING FOR AIR TRAVELERS | More rigorous screening procedures and an increase in business and leisure travelers have produced daunting lines at airports around the country in the past two days. At Philadelphia International Airport today, a line almost a quarter of a mile long stretched to a hotel where clerks sold water, juice and coffee to pas... |
1324207_1 | Russian Defense Chief Stresses Opposition to Antimissile Plan | leaders in both countries have said they are taking steps that reflect a decline in trust. On Sunday, the United States and Canada announced that they would send fighter jets and surveillance aircraft to monitor routine Russian military exercises in the Arctic region and the North Pacific. ''This is an issue where we'r... |
1325058_1 | The Working Life of Two Towers | successful at it. Up against tough competition from the much larger Chicago exchange, how we celebrated when our oil futures market turned out to be the one that actually worked! We were probably far from ideal tenants. But the Port Authority, which built and owned the World Trade Center, tolerated our outbursts and ou... |
1325106_1 | More Planes Take to Skies, But Plenty of Kinks Remain | is between the White House and the Pentagon, remained closed, but officials in Boston, where two of the hijacked planes originated, said the airport would open at 5 a.m. Saturday. Officials at Massport, which oversees the Boston airport, said in a statement that security measures would ''exceed the new security directi... |
1325046_1 | At 20, a Conservative Gadfly Can Still Bite | fooled an academic journal, Social Text, into publishing his parody of a postmodern, relativistic and politicized treatise. ''It was important to us,'' Mr. Kimball said, ''because the case demonstrated that the editors who fell for the hoax couldn't distinguish between deliberate nonsense and the inadvertant nonsense t... |
1325142_0 | Construction in City Stalled After Attack | Building in Midtown Manhattan has been stalled and some of the premier New York projects on the drawing board have been thrown into doubt because of the devastation wreaked downtown by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, officials and construction executives said. The biggest question mark, arts executives... |
1325104_1 | Nations Step Up Efforts to Watch Radical Muslim Elements | to the United States was diverted to Canada. Among the documents was a photograph of him in front of the World Trade Center dressed as a flight attendant, the Globe and Mail reported today. The French government has ordered that all flight schools be investigated for potential suspects. The government has held a series... |
1328592_1 | Talk of Chemical War Grows Louder on TV | also explored the potential for biological and chemical attacks. But television, in which people speak off the cuff, sometimes bluntly and often with dramatic flair, gives the discussion an added intensity. Some people are questioning whether television is going too far in causing needless fear, contributing to the sor... |
1328569_3 | For Students, Unexpected Doubts | job search. She has prepared a binder with copies of the cover letters she has written, for example, to keep track of the jobs she is pursuing, and she is putting a lot of effort into networking. ''That's what's really going to help a lot of people this year, rather than what people are used to,'' Ms. Leichtfuss said. ... |
1328557_4 | Military Families Turn, Gingerly, to the Net | on topics like financial planning and education, but the mobilization of reserves has created new needs. ''The kinds of things we're worrying about now are operations security but also who's getting called up and what's going to happen,'' said Mr. Michel, a lieutenant commander in the Reserves. ''People being called up... |
1328711_0 | World Briefing | The Americas: Bolivia: Coca Growers Demand Land | Coca growers and other peasant union leaders have threatened another wave of road blockades if President Jorge Quiroga does not stop eradicating the coca fields and grant them land. President Quiroga has promised to continue the aggressive coca eradication policies of the former president, Hugo Banzer, who resigned to ... |
1328548_3 | In the Next Chapter, Is Technology an Ally? | of ballistic missile defense systems in which response times may be slower but the spectrum of phenomena requiring analysis will be broader. Attempts to control the use of cryptography and other security measures will make the development of improved command and control networks more difficult and may impede this task ... |
1328651_4 | The Excavation: Planning, Precision and Pain | that are doing the heavy work in each of four quadrants mapped on the site: Bovis Lend Lease, Amec Construction Management, Turner Construction Company and Tully Construction Company. They all have extensive and impressive accomplishments in building: Euro Disney to the International Arrivals Terminal at Kennedy Airpor... |
1322802_1 | Target of Attack in Belfast: Little Girls Going to School | after the explosion. ''I want to walk away from it, and even leave this country,'' said Mr. Hutchinson, whose Unionist, or loyalist, camp wants Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain. ''It isn't worth fighting for any longer. This is not about children going to school any longer; this is about people hellbent on ca... |
1321545_0 | Stephen Gorove, 83, Leader in Field of Space Law | Stephen Gorove, a jurist who was among the first to tackle the legal angles of the conquest of space, died on May 20 in Oxford, Miss., where he was a professor emeritus at the University of Mississippi. He was 83. His scholarship in international and space law became a cornerstone of the NASA-financed National Remote S... |
1326584_1 | Beyond Water's Edge, Coast Guard's Armed Patrols Assume Vital Importance | Richard E. Bennis of the Coast Guard, who holds the title of captain of the port (essentially the harbor master), said that the harbor itself was the scene of dramatic rescues that dreadful Tuesday, as virtually every boat in the harbor -- tugs, police patrol boats, the Coast Guard, pleasure craft -- nudged up to the s... |
1326583_0 | I.R.A. Offers to Renew Contact With the Disarmament Panel | The Irish Republican Army offered today to renew contact with the international panel charged with supervising the disarming of Northern Ireland's paramilitary groups. But it made no mention of any disarmament move of its own, a step considered essential to keep the peace accord from coming to a halt this weekend. Last... |
1326515_1 | The Frankfurt Airport Steps Up Its Scrutiny | involving an employee,'' Mr. Uber said. Still, air-travel security in Germany, already rated among the best in the world after Israel, is about to be tightened. In the wake of the terrorist attacks in the United States, the German government today approved a $1.4 billion package of measures to tighten security, includi... |
1326521_1 | Safety Concerns Turn to Closing Gaping Holes in Security of Noncommercial Aircraft | the like. At the rest, he said, ''Our planes just fly in and meet a ground courier service for the package transfer.'' He added that the Federal Aviation Administration was ''concerned about that, particularly during off hours.'' As a result, representatives of aviation businesses will meet tomorrow with federal law en... |
1326473_1 | Gunnar Dybwad, 92, Dies; Early Advocate for the Disabled | developmental disabilities, died last Thursday in Needham, Mass. He was 92 and lived in Wellesley, Mass. Dr. Dybwad, an authority on retardation, autism, cerebral palsy and other disabilities, had retired from Brandeis University, where he was professor of human development and founding director of the Starr Center for... |
1326533_1 | Terror Up Close Gave Air Safety A Lift in Britain | plane -- every piece of checked-in luggage at Manchester Airport is now screened by a sophisticated X-ray machine that airport security says can detect even minute amounts of explosive. X-ray machines used for hand baggage are now equipped with software that can project images of bombs, guns and knives into bags to pre... |
1326488_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | United States. The proposed measures include a common definition of ''terror crimes,'' as well as arrest and search warrants that could be enforced across the Continent and the streamlining of extradition procedures. A11 New American at the U.N. John D. Negroponte, the new United States ambassador to the United Nations... |
1326558_4 | Engineers Say Buildings Near Trade Center Held Up Well | ''One of the big problems there was getting the building clean because there was a tremendous amount of smoke that went through the building,'' said Mr. Hennessy, whose firm worked on the trade center after the bombing and has been hired to rebuild systems in the interior of the Pentagon. The appearance of the resident... |
1326509_2 | Gross domestic product vs. gross domestic well-being. | percent of national income. Buildings and machines can be rebuilt, debris can be swept up; the key to production is people and human knowledge and skill, and a system that allows resources to be put to maximal use. The economic costs are also dampened because output, including services, can be produced using different ... |
1326451_5 | Keeping the Lifelines Open | a likely cause. ''People get emotional about this topic because they think we are intentionally holding back their calls,'' said Mr. Johnson at AT&T. ''The local network in New York City is only going to handle so many calls.'' Locally, Verizon was doing its part to make sure that emergency calls could get through. The... |
1325939_0 | Catholic Leader in Northern Ireland Resigns Party Post | John Hume, a leader of the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland for the last 40 years and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, announced today in Belfast that he was stepping down as head of the province's Social Democratic and Labor Party. Mr. Hume, 64, said the timing of his resignation was dictated by his ... |
1325914_4 | Defending Skyscrapers Against Terror | to keep the jet fuel from entering the interior of the building. At the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a professor of structural engineering, has been developing a new construction technique -- bolting half-inch steel plates to six-inch concrete walls -- to create buildings that can b... |
1326002_0 | One Week Later: How to Answer the Horror? | To the Editor: Re ''In One Vote, a Call for Restraint'' (news article, Sept. 16): Representative Barbara Lee of California believes that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. Although she was a minority of one in the House, she may turn out to be the most pr... |
1325984_1 | Securing the Skies | to arrive at the airport 30 minutes before departure or check in at an automated kiosk that handles security questions the way A.T.M.'s ask if you want a receipt. The Federal Aviation Administration has banned curbside check-in and will allow only ticketed passengers to go to the gate. It has called for more uniformed ... |
1325983_2 | All of a Sudden, A Jittery Nation Of Checkpoints | 60th floor of the company's main tower. ''Every year, more than 400,000 people, virtually all of them unknown to us, visit the observatory,'' said John Heavey, director of security for Hancock. ''Unfortunately, once they are inside, it is very difficult to control or limit their access to other parts of the building.''... |
1326062_4 | Technology's Role to Grow In a New World of Security | agencies could be directed to infiltrate groups suspected of aiding terrorists. The agencies could also, after a showing of probable cause to judges, vastly increase monitoring of telephone and Internet communications, wire transfers of money and tax records. Terry F. Lenzner, chairman of Investigative Group Internatio... |
1325901_3 | Worn Spacecraft Takes On Another Challenge, Comet Borrelly | began when it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Oct. 24, 1998, crammed with 12 advanced technologies not common on spacecraft. The mission: to demonstrate promising or unique components considered too risky to use on other spacecraft. Among the components are a miniature integrated camera and imaging infrared ... |
1324518_1 | Families and Friends Hoping for Reassurance Find Frustration and Anguish | the World Trade Center, as soon as news of the terrorist attack interrupted the ''Today'' show, which she had been watching. For two hours, she was unable to reach him on his cell phone or his office phone. As she watched the videotaped images of collapsing buildings, she became increasingly desperate. ''You have that ... |
1324475_0 | Dispatches From a Day of Terror and Shock; A Flawed Air System | To the Editor: It is quite clear that the systems being used for screening passengers and their baggage are totally inadequate if several civilian airliners can be hijacked on one day. It is the failure of these systems that has led to the monumental tragedies we have seen this morning. How many more lives have to be l... |
1324460_0 | Security Long a Concern At United States Airports | The terrorists who hijacked four airplanes from three airports yesterday exploited one of the best known and most extensively documented security weaknesses in the United States, experts said. For more than a decade, federal investigators have been warning that the precautions against the hijacking or bombing of airpla... |
1324421_0 | Pirate Militias From Somalia Spill Into the Gulf of Aden | Somalia's political instability has spilled into the surrounding seas, where armed militias have been terrorizing ships in the waters off the Horn of Africa. A research vessel operated by Columbia University that was monitoring ocean currents narrowly escaped capture this month. The crew of a fishing vessel has been he... |
1279134_2 | Bill on Student Bullying Is Considered in Colorado | ''As we learn more and more about school violence, states are focusing more and more on prevention,'' she said. ''Many have had time to pass safety and security measures. Now, they are looking at a broad spectrum of prevention approaches like conflict management, mental health services and training for teachers to iden... |
1279488_0 | A Setback for Forests | To the Editor: Re ''U.S. Offers Further Delay to Forest Rules'' (news article, March 17): The Bush administration has seen fit to deliver two devastating blows to the environment in one week. President Bush's concession to industry by filing notice to suspend implementation of the roadless area conservation policy is r... |
1279508_4 | Documents Allege Abuse of Nuns by Priests | authorities about harassment by priests, they simply are not heard,'' she wrote. She went on to discuss a case in Malawi, where 29 sisters in a single congregation ''became pregnant by priests in the diocese.'' When the sisters' superior general complained to the archbishop, Sister O'Donohue wrote, she was replaced. Si... |
1279514_0 | Study Links Estrogen Use to Cancer Risk | Women who took the hormone estrogen after menopause for 10 years or more starting in the 1970's or early 1980's had a higher risk of dying from ovarian cancer than women who did not use it, a study has found. But alarming as the findings may seem, their significance is unknown, because researchers do not know which est... |
1275971_4 | I.B.M.'s Sales to the Nazis: Assessing the Culpability | as the Nazis took formal power in 1933 that they were bad: they were rearming, engulfing neighboring territories, building concentration camps and savagely mistreating the Jews. Still, it was not clear until at least 1942, even to many Jews, that genocide was not only the Nazis' goal but also a goal they were determine... |
1276082_0 | Gene Research Finds New Use In Agriculture | As the controversy surrounding genetically modified foods intensifies, scientists are trying to use the rapidly growing knowledge about genes to enhance conventional breeding of crops and livestock rather than implant genes from one species into another. Many say such an approach is less likely to arouse the public obj... |
1276062_0 | BUSINESS DIGEST | F.T.C. Accuses Big Lender Of Defrauding Customers Federal regulators sued Associates First Capital, one of the nation's largest consumer lenders, contending that it has routinely tricked customers into costly loan refinancings and purchases of expensive credit insurance that are of little benefit to borrowers. The suit... |
1280868_5 | The Deliberate Calculation of Autumnal Accounting Endangers Happiness | so habitually alert to coincidence that the word itself seems inadequate. In novels in which the coincidences show up, they will usually be described and read not as haphazard coincidence but as devastating or farcical destiny. From the time of Hesiod and Sappho, Catullus and Li Po, lovers of literature as well as writ... |
1277761_0 | Business Travel; Airlines may be providing passengers better information. | ON the theory that satisfied customers are far less likely to go to the trouble of writing letters than dissatisfied ones, the mail suggests that perhaps some airlines are starting to deliver better on promises to provide passengers with information that is better and more timely about flight status. Last week, after t... |
1276656_2 | Eros and Its Dizzying Masks | some unchanging foundation in nature? Does the erotic have any intellectual and philosophical importance? Can it ever lead to knowledge? There are, certainly, wide variations in how the erotic is perceived. Shadi Bartsch, a professor of classical languages at the University of Chicago, argued, for example, that ideas a... |
1279833_0 | Slips of the Fingers | To the Editor: Re ''A Little E-Mail (Or a Lot of It) Eases the Workday'' (March 8): I was a little surprised that so many employees in the 24/7 workplace have the time to socialize in this way, but I am glad they do because the office routine is more grueling than ever. The average white-collar worker is entitled to ev... |
1274968_0 | Studies Point Up Racial Discrimination in Special Education | Black students are three times as likely as white students to be labeled ''mentally retarded'' or ''emotionally disturbed'' and put in special education classes, where they are less likely to end up with high school diplomas or a quality education, according to a set of studies released yesterday. The 14 studies, commi... |
1274975_0 | Religion Journal; Church Leaders Gather in a Divided Communion | The area around Hendersonville, N.C., is known as a tourist-friendly place, nestled in the Appalachian Mountain foothills. But since yesterday, it has also been the site of a high-level religious meeting, as the heads of the 38 churches that make up the Anglican Communion gathered at an Episcopal Church retreat center.... |
1276575_5 | Minorities Changing Landscape of New Jersey | state plan,'' Mr. Simmens said, referring to the state's attempt to concentrate its growth in compact, often existing communities. ''I think if you look at the eight urban centers in the plan, you see some really dramatic turnarounds.'' Mr. Hughes, the Rutgers dean, said, however, that the continued spread of people in... |
1276488_0 | I.R.A. Says It Will Resume Contact With Disarmament Panel | The Irish Republican Army said today that it would resume talks with the commission supervising the turnover of guerrilla weaponry, a move that its political wing, Sinn Fein, said was aimed at ''creating space'' in crucial negotiations in Belfast to keep the shaky power-sharing provincial government from collapsing. Th... |
1282011_3 | Religion Journal; Reading Signposts on Church Unity | the agreement,'' said the Rev. Eric C. Schafer, the denomination's spokesman. Mr. Schafer said the church's top official, Presiding Bishop H. George Anderson, has proposed amending church law to allow seminarians who strongly object to being ordained by a bishop -- a feature of the agreement -- to be ordained by someon... |
1275235_1 | Delivered to the Door, Wherever the Door Is | strong competition, the company took off, and that select group of videos ballooned into what Mr. Paper thinks is one of the biggest collections of rare videos in the country. As the collection grew, so did the number of out-of-town and eventually out-of-state visitors. ''We've always had people who went the extra mile... |
1275530_3 | The Overwhelming of Angkor | Angkor now, because the temples are not ready to receive the increasing tourists,'' said Tamara Teneishvili, a program specialist at Unesco, which has designated the temples a World Heritage Site. ''At the beginning, the big challenge was the conservation of the collapsed temples and, of course, the problem of looting,... |
1275091_6 | Blooms Under The Volcano | on the kuaiwi. They planned to use the leaves to make costumes for a school performance, and right before I left, they rehearsed a few of the dances on the sunny lawn near the candlenut tree. On the drive out, I spotted a small white sign reading Kona Coffee Living History Farm across the highway. Though not technicall... |
1275129_0 | The Way We Live Now: 3-04-01; The Great Yellow Hype | Unless I'm missing something, the aim of the biotechnology industry's audacious new advertising campaign is to impale people like me -- well-off first worlders dubious about genetically engineered food -- on the horns of a moral dilemma. Have you seen these ads? Over a speedy montage of verdant rice paddies, smiling As... |
1280463_3 | Taking Phones Out of The Hands Of Drivers | to have problems with other drivers using their cell phones,'' he said. Second, there is a growing trend to load technology in motor vehicles, equipping them with everything from navigational systems to computers that allow drivers to check their e-mail, he said. ''Five or six years ago you didn't see anything in the c... |
1280750_0 | March 18-24; Abuse of Nuns Reported | Five confidential church reports by senior members of women's religious orders and an American priest allege widespread sexual abuse of nuns by priests in developing countries. Most of the examples cited in the reports, written over the last seven years, occurred in Africa, where about 12 percent of the world's billion... |
1280589_0 | Estrogen and Cancer | To the Editor: Much attention has been given to a recent study of the association between postmenopausal estrogen use and ovarian cancer mortality (news article, March 21). The study raises important questions that cry out for further research. As the study's authors point out, most of the women in the study likely use... |
1278452_2 | China Struggles to Ride Herd on Ever More Errant Media | chat rooms. [And at the close of China's annual legislative session on March 15, Prime Minister Zhu Rongji felt compelled to promise that he would pursue a thorough investigation of the charges.] At their fringes, at least, China's news media are looking more and more like a free press -- although one whose reporters l... |
1278486_0 | Addressing The Undercount | To examine growth in population during the last decade, The New York Times compared the newly released 2000 census counts with adjusted 1990 census figures provided by the United State Census Bureau to improve accuracy after the completion of the 1990 census. The adjusted 1990 figures were based on a second detailed su... |
1278451_3 | World Briefing | Vatican Radio unless it reduced electromagnetic output from its transmitters. Vatican Radio, which has been charged with breaking Italian environmental laws, said it was ''astonished'' by the threat, which would effectively shut down the station, which broadcasts Pope John Paul II's words around the world. (Reuters) IR... |
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