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1281054_1 | WORLD BRIEFING | oxygen had not seeped through three layers of oak, cypress and lead. Alessandra Stanley (NYT) FRANCE: NUCLEAR WASTE -- A train returning nuclear waste to Germany left France with thousands of police officers lining the route to guard against antinuclear activists who wanted to disrupt the shipment. The waste came from ... |
1281027_3 | In an Ancient Wreck, Clues to Seafaring Lives; Accidental Find Lends New Credence to Greek Tales of Sailing Feats | voyages across open waters, including Paul's to Rome. Doubts about the veracity of such claims arose mostly in the middle of the 20th century as scuba divers found large numbers of ancient wrecks in shallow waters, and scholars began to deconstruct ancient literature. After all, the experts noted, the old mariners had ... |
1278060_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | EUROPE RUSSIA: MIR PLUNGE The head of Russia's mission control said the splashdown zone for the obsolete Mir space station had been shifted slightly to avoid uninhabited French South Pacific islands. The 15-year-old orbiter, once the pride of the Soviet space program, is being scrapped by being allowed to drop into the... |
1274534_0 | Response on the Arctic | |
1274447_2 | When the Shark Bites, Hit the Web | in 1988, to the Florida Museum of Natural History, where George H. Burgess, a zoologist who is the coordinator of museum operations, is one of its curators. Today, the file holds approximately 3,200 reports of shark attacks, from medieval times to the present, Mr. Burgess said. Only qualified researchers are allowed ac... |
1274634_0 | Civilians at Sea | To the Editor: Re ''New Clues From the Greeneville'' (editorial, Feb. 23), and how civilians were permitted to operate crucial controls on that submarine: I went to sea for a number of years, working my way up to second officer (though not on subs), and from time to time we had civilians aboard the various ships I serv... |
1274639_0 | National News Briefs; Military Satellite Effort Criticized in Report | The Pentagon's program to develop satellites for a missile defense system is in danger of falling behind schedule and going over budget, a Congressional report concluded today. The report, by the General Accounting Office, dealt with an $11.8 billion Air Force program to build new satellites that will use infrared tech... |
1274460_0 | Privacy's Guarded Prognosis | INDIGNATION still rises in Dr. John Sheehan, an endocrinologist in Westlake, Ohio, when he recounts the time a woman promoting pharmaceuticals showed up in his office two years ago armed with juice and bagels for the office staff and a printout from a computer database for him. ''After the preliminary niceties, she ask... |
1278734_5 | For American Indians, a Common Classification | group stands out higher than others is a concern to me,'' Ms. Carpenter said. ''We need to explore it in collaboration with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. What is it that we are missing? This may have something to do with relocation.'' Still, even these students, once they have settled into their classes, are r... |
1278632_0 | Cellular Metastasis | I was reminded of a Garrison Keillor radio skit in which he said that cellular phones are less about communication than about ''announcing one's progress through the world.'' Julie Buckles Washburn, Wis |
1278937_0 | Access to Canal Raises Concerns | For countless international sailors seeing the world from the deck of their sailboats, a transit of the Panama Canal is a highlight of their voyaging lives. Each year about 800 recreational boats negotiate the roughly 50-mile-long canal en route to the cruising grounds of the Pacific or the Caribbean Sea. For any long-... |
1277357_0 | From This, the Cell Phone | |
1279230_5 | Patent on Small Yellow Bean Provokes Cry of Biopiracy | ''Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity'' and adviser to the Rome-based International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, also part of the Future Harvest global network of 16 research centers. To him, the bean patent dispute is all about genes, and germplasm, which in plants is a seed or any plant part that can be use... |
1280241_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | Money' Issue Senate discussions on an overhaul of campaign finance laws shifted from unregulated soft-money contributions, an area in which compromise appears likely, to the raising of limits on the regulated contributions given directly to candidates and their parties by individual donors. A10 Clergy Part Ways on U.S.... |
1280247_2 | Farmers Joining State Efforts Against Bioengineered Crops | patchwork of laws, have lobbied heavily against some bills, say legislators who proposed them. Many other bills, however, fail simply for lack of support. Many farmers like genetically engineered crops because they contain useful traits, like pest resistance. But critics say that they have not been studied thoroughly e... |
1280224_0 | David McTaggart, a Builder of Greenpeace, Dies at 69 | David McTaggart, credited with building Greenpeace into a worldwide environmental movement, died yesterday in a car crash in Italy. He was 69. Mr. McTaggart, a native of Canada, was killed near Perugia, where he lived since his retirement from Greenpeace in 1991. He spent his retirement years running a farm that produc... |
1278357_0 | Chakaia Booker | Marlborough Gallery 211 West 19th Street, Chelsea Through March 24 Black rubber tires, cut up and recycled into sculptures, are Chakaia Booker's tough, aggressive signature medium, and in this show they are given even more expressive power. She uses patterned treads, thicknesses, textures, subtle differences in color (... |
1278221_0 | Academia's Overheated Competition | I teach at Columbia, where I have wonderful students. Every year I read that our incoming students have better grades and better SAT scores than in the past. But in the classroom, I do not find a commensurate increase in the number of students who are intellectually curious, adventurous or imbued with fruitful doubt. M... |
1276197_2 | While Seattle Shook, The Airport Scrambled | ring of fiber optic cable had been installed around the airport last year as part of an F.A.A. project to replace copper wire that had been used since the late 1940's. The loop had nodes that the radar system could be connected to. A spool of cable was flown in from San Francisco along with special fiber optic modems f... |
1276187_2 | A Little E-Mail (Or a Lot of It) Eases the Workday | people engaged.'' In some cases, these technologies even replace face-to-face conversations with co-workers in the same office. Mr. Becker has been studying workplace habits in a small Internet company in upstate New York. Employees there often send one another instant messages instead of talking in person. ''People at... |
1276233_1 | U.N. Agency Sets Its Sights On Curbing Child Marriage | 19 giving birth annually. In Italy, fewer than 1 percent of teenage girls give birth annually, the incidence of AIDS is low and women on average have 1.2 children. A woman's lifetime risk of dying from maternal causes there is 1 in 6,000, according to Population Action International, which was assisted in its report by... |
1276267_4 | Weighing a Demand for Gas Against the Fear of Pipelines | to limit harm. But elsewhere, the objections have been far more vociferous, particularly after gas pipeline accidents in New Mexico and Washington State in 1999 killed 15 people. The Northeast has been home to the loudest opposition, with fierce challenges from property owners and state officials in New Jersey and New ... |
1274808_1 | New Worries Of Planting Altered Corn | After a meeting today of representatives of the seed and food industry and the government agencies overseeing biotechnology for agriculture, Ms. Dansby said the trade association had agreed to canvas its 200 members and find out how many bags of seed were contaminated and the value of that seed. She said the Agricultur... |
1274702_0 | AUTOS ON FRIDAY/Safety; Don't Touch That Dial: Even a Radio Distracts | AUTO safety experts and lawmakers are increasingly talking about the hazards of driving while using a cellular phone, but a survey by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety suggests that drivers do not really need phones to be distracted. The car's radio may be enough. In November, the foundation, an affiliate of the AA... |
1277137_0 | The Nation; And You Thought Germs in the Subway Were Bad | AS if chronic delays, rising fares and the looming threat of disruptive labor disputes this spring and summer weren't enough, put-upon airline travelers have been hearing more lately about another potential source of dismay: the spread of infectious disease. No one is saying airplanes are spreading plague and pestilenc... |
1276837_6 | Shore to Ship: Not So Fast | missed the boat totally, the response was ''few,'' but with no specifics. Ms. Jacoby said the figure at Carnival was 1 percent, but she would not give a passenger total. A not insignificant argument in favor of letting the cruise line make air arrangements emerges when luggage is lost in flight. A cruise line will take... |
1276882_1 | The Way We Live Now: 3-11-01: Salient Facts: Airlines; In-Flight Distractions | its pilots could lead to further delays. Industry consolidation continues to raise the ire of consumer advocates. Rising fuel prices are squeezing profits. So what's a poor airline to do? Cookies, anyone? TASTES GREAT, LESS AGGRAVATING Well, at least Midwest Express delivers freshly baked chocolate chip cookies to the ... |
1277149_0 | Soon, the Cornfed Radial | It has long been said that you are what you drive. But thanks to the growing connections between auto and food manufacturers, now you drive what you eat. Goodyear Tire and Rubber said recently that it would begin making tires containing a starchy filler compound derived from corn. The news came a month after Hormel agr... |
1276945_1 | Parents Protesting Sagamore Proposal | to be able to come back to the mainstream world and not to feel defeated.'' ''That's what is so positive about Sagamore,'' she continued. ''It is safe and provides an atmosphere that encourages children with mental illness to go back and function in the mainstream. It has nice grounds and is in a residential area. I wo... |
1276834_0 | In Britain, Eden Is Built With Geodesic Domes | The Eden Project, a sprawling new horticultural attraction in St. Austell, Cornwall, about 30 miles west of Plymouth and 265 miles from London, is scheduled to open on Saturday. (But officials were monitoring the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain.) Designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, the $116 million ... |
1276840_0 | European Airlines Try To Stave Off New Rules | IN a debate that echoes similar discussions in the United States, European governments and airlines are focusing on ways to improve airline service. Spurred by a swelling wave of passenger complaints, the European Commission is considering legislation that would require airlines to tell passengers which airline's plane... |
1279941_1 | When a Parent's Most Frightening Nightmare Turns Out to Be Just the Beginning | caring for a handicapped child is a lifelong obligation.'' Ms. Salamon focuses on the case of Bob and Mary Rowe, a couple with blue-collar roots who by dint of ambition achieve the middle-class dream: a law degree for Mr. Rowe. A home in an upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, a sailboat, a healthy baby boy. Then comes a sec... |
1279970_0 | Experts Differ On How Flaw Will Affect Coded E-Mail | Security experts have confirmed that the most widely used program for sending encrypted e-mail messages has an obscure vulnerability that could allow a determined intruder to obtain secret codes, as two Czech cryptologists announced on Tuesday. But some experts differ sharply with the cryptologists on the practical imp... |
1281525_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | A spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Ministry said the action was taken because Venezuela is a center for illegal arms dealings. Larry Rohter (NYT) CANADA: HELL'S ANGELS CRACKDOWN A task force of 1,700 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Quebec police officers fanned out across the province and arrested more than 100 member... |
1287139_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL: BAN ON PALESTINIANS EASED Israel eased restrictions on Palestinians' movement inside the Gaza Strip that were imposed earlier in the week. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected Yasir Arafat's suggestion that they appear together on television to denounce violence, saying he wanted to see Mr. Arafat r... |
1287155_2 | INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: That Secure Feeling Of a Printed Document; The Paperless Office? Not by a Long Shot | to Dataquest, a research company in San Jose, Calif., owned by the Gartner Group. And new paper-hungry appliances are coming. Hewlett-Packard, for instance, has a new interactive television printer that it has styled to complement living room decors. To feed all of those devices, analysts forecast that office-paper con... |
1285232_5 | Richard E. Schultes, 86, Dies; Trailblazing Authority on Hallucinogenic Plants | valuable as a botanist doing research on natural rubber, particularly since the Japanese occupied the Malayan plantations that accounted for much of the world's rubber supplies. Dr. Schultes soon became the leading expert in the field, collecting and studying more than 3,500 specimens of Hevea, the tree family that pro... |
1286755_3 | The Voice of the Devils Is No Longer Silent | are giving out a little bit.' '' Steroid treatment brought the voice back a little, but the problems returned when the regular season began. What had been a loud and sometimes thunderous delivery became a faint croak. ''It was apparent I couldn't broadcast much longer,'' Miller said. ''I could hardly talk.'' When a bio... |
1283659_0 | E-Mail Archaeology | To the Editor: Re ''To the Editor, in 3001'' (letter, April 5): The problem is not the evanescent nature of e-mail; it is its prodigious quantity. A high percentage of e-mail is sent to multiple addressees. Inevitably, a number of readers will either print out this correspondence or record it on disks. E-mail sent to o... |
1285410_0 | WORLD BRIEFING | ASIA JAPAN: CULT SAID TO BE GROWING -- The cult behind the 1995 nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subways is growing steadily and reasserting influence through the Internet, a Justice Ministry report said. Aum Shinrikyo membership grew by about 150, or 10 percent, between May and December with at least 1,650 followers by t... |
1288466_0 | Study Links Breast Implants To Lung and Brain Cancers | A long-running study has found that while women with breast implants are not at increased risk for most cancers, they appear to suffer higher rates of lung and brain cancer than other plastic surgery patients, researchers at the National Cancer Institute said today. The study demonstrated only a link between implants a... |
1288466_1 | Study Links Breast Implants To Lung and Brain Cancers | added, ''I think this is very alarming.'' Dr. Brinton's group identified nearly 13,500 women who received breast implants before 1989 and followed them for an average of 13 years. The women were compared with a control group of 4,000 other plastic surgery patients and with the general population. The study results, whi... |
1288365_7 | Punching Holes In Internet Walls | a peer-to-peer system like Triangle Boy is that volunteers may be uncomfortable not knowing whether the traffic passing through their PC's is human rights advocacy material or pornography. Also, governments could set up fake peer servers and trace the computer addresses of people attempting to use the service. ''If the... |
1288395_3 | Economic Scene; At colleges, as elsewhere, employers' prosperity lifts workers' expectations. | than the bare minimum needed to increase productivity. These enhancements, known as efficiency wage effects, cut the cost of rent sharing. Ironically, as an academic economist Mr. Summers clearly identified with the second camp. In an article we wrote together, for example, he emphasized: ''Whether firms share rents be... |
1288489_2 | Campaign Finance and the Campaign of Achilles | her by default. She studied Greek and Latin at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, where she met her husband, Roger J. Bernstein, and went on to major in classical Greek at Barnard. Their two children now attend the school. Ms. Gordon belongs to a book club that is reading ''The Iliad,'' a work she calls ''the greate... |
1288361_1 | For Those Who Would Click and Cheat | in the future. But it also underscored how much today's faculty members are concerned with electronic cheating. While professors across the country have jumped into the digital realm with online syllabuses, Web-based assignments and e-mail discussion groups, most of them are still wary of using computers for final exam... |
1288800_0 | Donald Dorfman, 67, Professor Of Psychology and Radiology | Dr. Donald D. Dorfman, who blended his knowledge of mathematics, psychology and radiology to produce intricate models for analyzing a wide variety of data, including medical diagnoses, died on April 15 in Iowa City. He was 67. The cause was non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, said the University of Iowa, where he held professorshi... |
1288853_2 | Protests Intensify in Puerto Rico As Navy Resumes Bombing Drills | the island's 9,400 residents, whom they say have unusually high rates of cancer and a rare heart ailment that some studies have linked to high noise levels. The governor of Puerto Rico, Sila M. Calderón, won election last November after taking a strong stance against the exercises and the issue has brought about a rare... |
1287661_0 | QUOTATION OF THE DAY | ''India is catching up with other sexist, modern societies like South Korea and China in sex-selective abortions. It's a technological revolution of a reactionary kind.'' AMARTYA SEN, a Nobel Prize-winning economist. [12] |
1287645_3 | The World: Greens and Globalization; Declaring Defeat in the Face of Victory | -- in fact, in another case last year the right of countries to set strict environmental standards won both in principle and, for the first time, in fact. A W.T.O. appeals panel upheld France's right to block Canadian exports of products containing asbestos, a carcinogen. The ruling found that neither the statute nor i... |
1287555_2 | Personal Business; When Online Hearsay Intrudes on Real Life | he said, when he applied for jobs at national newspapers, editors who knew of his online work were wary. He said an editor at The Washington Post told him, ''I expected an angry old guy.'' ULTIMATELY, the Internet column worked in his favor: it brought him to the attention of MSNBC.com, which hired him as a technology ... |
1287362_0 | The Way We Live Now: 4-22-01: Salient Facts; Auto Plants | Last month, the United States rejected the Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to limit global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, because, according to President Bush, it would hurt American industry. But American car makers, copying the methods of their European counterparts, have begun to replace fiberglass with n... |
1287617_4 | Ideas & Trends; Science, Studies And Motherhood | need to discover a mechanism, a plausible explanation for their results. Dr. Forrest points to the case of lung cancer and cigarettes. The initial evidence, he said, was observational. Scientists found a ''dose-response relationship'' between smoking and disease: the more a person smoked, the greater the likelihood of ... |
1287696_0 | The World Asks, 'Can We Talk?' | To the Editor: An April 16 front-page article about the national security need for language skills cites numerous cases where federal agencies cannot find skilled employees. To remedy this, the United States Commission on National Security has urged a greater role for the National Security Education Program, which pays... |
1287597_14 | Braving War and Graft, Coke Goes Back to Angola | the purification system that pumps out water from the Cuanza River are 220 metric tons of sugar, a sizable stockpile even for a business that trades in sweetness. Stacked in row after row of 2,200-pound containers, the sugar was sent by ship from South Africa to Angola, a country that once had a fine sugar industry. Th... |
1287673_4 | BUSH LINKS TRADE WITH DEMOCRACY AT QUEBEC TALKS | give developing nations incentives to improve working conditions and the environment, but not impose sanctions if they failed. ''If other countries resist this or see this as a new form of colonialism and imperialism, we're not going to be successful,'' said Robert B. Zoellick, Mr. Bush's trade negotiator, who was sent... |
1284495_0 | Pregnancy Prevention, the Morning After | Three million unintended pregnancies occur each year in this country, followed by about a million medical abortions. Yet if the women knew about and used emergency contraception, better known as the morning-after pill, at least half of these could be prevented. Experts call it one of the best kept secrets in medicine. ... |
1282862_3 | WORLD BRIEFING | TALKS PUT OFF -- South Korea's unification ministry ruled out any chance for a fourth round of talks next week between representatives of the South and North Korean Red Cross organizations. A spokesman said the North had failed to return a telephone call requesting confirmation of today as the day to begin planning for... |
1282859_0 | Risk to Ancient Ships | To the Editor: The article ''In an Ancient Wreck, Clues to Seafaring Lives'' (March 27) states that modern scholars have doubted accounts of ancient ships crossing open water because of the preponderance of shipwrecks along the Mediterranean shoreline. In my research as a college student (many years ago) on the volume ... |
1282860_0 | Risk to Ancient Ships | To the Editor: I don't know how many of the experts that have categorically denied the possibility of open-ocean voyages by the ancients have been experienced passage-makers themselves, but I doubt that there were many. Even in the face of evidence of long Pacific-island passages by fol with no compass -- or evident ne... |
1282744_4 | Chastened, NASA Readies New Mars Craft | infrared light, is designed to map the minerals, like carbonates, silicates, sulfates and so forth, on and just below the planet's surface. The findings could yield important knowledge about minerals that may have formed in water. The infrared sensors will also scan for hot spots, perhaps where hot springs are or once ... |
1283019_1 | M.B.A. Programs That Look a Lot Like Work | appear to exist (and they were not unheard-of in years past), corporate education experts predict they will become more common. ''We're seeing a huge uptick in interest in these programs,'' said Jeanne Meister, executive director of the New York-based Corporate University Exchange, a research firm. Aside from its educa... |
1283008_1 | Wireless Companies Ask Suppliers to Share the Costs | is evident in the woes of companies like Lucent and Cisco Systems, which sold equipment on credit to dozens of small Internet and telecommunications companies that have since been unable to repay the loans. The companies that Nokia, Ericsson and the others are financing are hardly dot-coms; they are established busines... |
1283051_1 | New Rules Give Teachers More Power | serious stuff that will give teachers more control over their environments,'' Mr. Levy said in an interview. ''It's important for them to have as many tools as possible to exercise authority in their classrooms and to command respect.'' Under the new regulations, which are to take effect in September, teachers will hav... |
1286190_6 | Polar Puzzle Inspires Extreme Acts of Science | planned, the technology left behind on and beneath the ice -- including compact, rugged, computer-controlled instruments similar to space probes -- will create the first continuous profile of changes in the air, ice and ocean depths at the pole itself. The centerpiece of the project is the four-ton chain of instruments... |
1286219_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | corruption charges. Seth Mydans (NYT) AMERICAS PERU: 'SORRY' FOR BACKING FUJIMORI -- The armed forces high command apologized for supporting President Alberto K. Fujimori's suspension of the Congress and Supreme Court in 1992, and promised that they would accept civilian constitutional rule. ''We hope the people recogn... |
1288163_3 | Belfast Journal; In the Ulster Spring, Seeds of Peace Lie Dormant | mainstream paramilitary groups like the Irish Republican Army are in the fifth year of a cease-fire, but splinter groups are active in neighborhood turf wars or actively trying to subvert the peace movement. There have been 60 incidents of Protestant nightriders throwing pipe bombs through the windows of Catholic homes... |
1288234_1 | Sex Differences Called Key in Medical Studies | addition, it said, women are more sensitive to certain types of pain, and a woman may feel more or less pain from the same stimulus at different stages of the menstrual cycle. These differences have important implications for the treatment of illnesses, the panel said. The panel urged scientists to investigate sex diff... |
1288571_3 | Taking Flight, Tension-Free | probably the most famous example. ''The Penguin Book of Kites'' by David Pelham (called simply ''Kites'' in new editions) is full of this sort of fascinating lore. My favorite story in the book involves Samuel Franklin Cody. He was not Buffalo Bill. That was Col. William Frederick Cody. Samuel did imitate the more famo... |
1282237_1 | When Scouts Were Told to Jump in the Lake, They Did It | Price, (privately published, 1941): In 1935 there was a prank organization in camp known as ''The Shark Club.'' Qualifications for membership depended upon the expertness with which the candidates could bite or pinch while in the water. Tests were made on various articles and sometimes on the bodies of unsuspecting swi... |
1282083_2 | Even Baboons Get the Blues | by a host who's overeager to assure you that you're in for a good time -- when you just wish he'd let you size up the territory for yourself. Fortunately, as the book gathers pace, this strained joviality abates and Sapolsky does what he does best, trust his readers and his stories. And with good reason, since his stor... |
1282200_0 | Making It Safer to Go Back on the Water | DURING its 37 years of service, the Point Wells became something of a Montauk institution. If the 82-foot Coast Guard cutter had a highlight film, it would have to include its participation in the investigation of the crashes of TWA Flight 800 off Moriches Bay in 1996, John Kennedy Jr.'s plane off Martha's Vineyard in ... |
1286954_2 | Ford Concludes Tires Caused Rollovers | in which the vehicle rolled over. Federal records showed that the tires were a factor in a tenth of all rollover deaths in Explorers in the 1990's, an unusually high proportion. In a computer analysis by The New York Times last autumn, federal crash data showed that the rate of tire-related deaths per million sport uti... |
1286987_2 | WORLD BRIEFING | properties is the best way to beat the disease. More than 1.2 million have been slaughtered. (Associated Press) IRELAND: BAN ON FOOD EXPORTS EASED A month after Ireland's first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, the European Union lifted restrictions on the export of food products from County Louth, where the disease ... |
1286415_4 | Diners Discover Life After Chardonnay | Of the 381 restaurants polled by Wine & Spirits, 23 were steakhouses, up from 12 the year before. And steak means cabernet. Almost 17 percent of all the wine consumed in white-tablecloth restaurants last year was cabernet. That's up from just over 15 percent in 1999. Merlot, destiny's tot in the early 90's, has been on... |
1286372_0 | Employee Training, Without the No-Doz | EDUCATING and training employees often involves paying for them to travel to a site for a two-day course or hole up in a conference room with an instructor for a day. It can be costly for employers, and employees usually have to pay, too, in work missed that must be made up. As with many other business practices, the I... |
1286376_3 | e-UROPE; How Ducati Roared Onto the Internet | included procurement, so now 40 percent of Pirelli's buying in Europe is done online. Last April, Pirelli joined a project called rubbernetwork.com, an online procurement system operated by Goodyear and five other tire makers, which was similar to online marketplaces being proposed for the automotive, aerospace and ret... |
1284977_0 | THE MARKETS: COMMODITIES | SUGAR FALLS. Sugar dropped as growers in Brazil and other countries took advantage of this month's 11 percent rally to sell supplies. In New York, sugar for May delivery fell 0.18 cent, or 2.2 percent, to 8.18 cents a pound. |
1285003_3 | In Radio Feud, a Higher Kind of Superpower Irks Italy | Italian limits -- which are almost three times lower than most other European countries. Seeking to head off a collision, the Vatican's spokesman, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, said in a statement Tuesday night -- on Vatican Radio -- that it had decided to reduce the emissions. Mr. Bordon, who held a press conference minutes ... |
1284926_0 | The Chair That Took Flight And Never Came Down | Gio Ponti, the man with the trench coat thrown over his shoulders in the 1957 photograph above, was testing a product: tossing the six-pound Superleggera (featherweight) chair into the air at Cassina's headquarters in Meda, Italy, to demonstrate its lightness and strength. It landed in one piece, and has remained in pr... |
1284971_2 | New Mouse Takes Shoulder Off the Wheel | computer engineer could understand: the hand comes with more processing power. Pens were once used in many computers instead of mice, from the earliest corded light pens of the 1950's. A decade ago, Compaq offered its innovative Concerto notebook computer with a pen with buttons instead of a mouse. But production stopp... |
1286133_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | response to recent Hezbollah attacks, the Israeli military said. Lebanese security sources said one Syrian soldier was killed and four others were wounded. A8 Fears for Children on Ship Concern mounted for the welfare of children said to be on a ship that has been roaming the West African coast for more than two weeks.... |
1288011_1 | Regents Study Shows Gains For Students In Special Ed | under high expectations.'' Only about 5 percent of the 402,000 special-education students in New York are mentally retarded. The bulk of them, 54 percent, are classified as ''learning disabled,'' while about 15 percent are classified as emotionally disturbed. Critics say those two categories are often catchalls for dif... |
1287953_0 | Peru Anti-Drug Patrol Reassessed After Downing of U.S. Plane | The downing by Peru of a missionary aircraft from the United States has dealt a severe blow to the two countries' efforts to halt drug shipments between Peru's coca fields and the trafficking cartels in Colombia. Peru's policy of forcing down suspected trafficking planes since the early 1990's has been praised by Washi... |
1283286_1 | A Stinging Office Memo Boomerangs; Chief Executive Is Criticized After Upbraiding Workers by E-Mail | in the Internet age, when all kinds of messages in cyberspace are capable of stirring reactions and moving markets. Late last year, for example, a young California investor pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he made $240,000 by sending out a fake news release that resulted in a sharp drop in the stock of Emulex, a... |
1283282_2 | 2 Approaches To Aftermath Of Tire Recall | production processes and tire design. It has begun having quality control information go directly to Mr. Lampe. The company is stepping up its tracking of safety problems in tires that are installed on new vehicles that are shipped overseas. And the company says it is beginning to use data on tire-related crashes in it... |
1283312_0 | The Lake Effect | |
1283891_0 | The Way We Live Now: 4-08-01; How to E-Mail Like a C.E.O. | Microsoft may be broken up, Nasdaq may never get off the mat, but one artifact of the digital revolution is healthier than ever: e-mail remains the most popular online application, with more than 6.1 billion messages sent daily. Not only has e-mail opened up a whole new medium for personal correspondence, it has also l... |
1284116_0 | Disabled Students | To the Editor: As a former New York City schoolteacher, I empathize with teachers' desire to make schools safe. However, in reading about the Board of Education's plan to give teachers increased power to remove disruptive students from their classrooms (news article, April 4), I was outraged by the suggestion of board ... |
1284096_0 | Peace of Mind, and More, at the Push of a Button | LIKE would-be millionaires on television, drivers can use lifelines now and then. More than a million motorists now have them in the form of hands-free wireless links to central call centers, where operators are standing by to lend a helping hand. The systems, part of a nascent industry known as telematics, include Gen... |
1284166_1 | Less Alarm In Hong Kong Over Disease Of Livestock | does not export pork or other meat, which means it does not have to worry about conforming to the health standards of its trading partners. But other Asian countries, like South Korea and Taiwan do export, and foot-and-mouth disease has devastated their livestock industries. South Korea slaughtered more than 350,000 ca... |
1283969_9 | Holding Back a Human Tide | town board heartily agreed on the importance of the preserving the West Neck Hills land. Last week, despite the planning board approval, it was in negotiations with the owner to set a purchase price. The town's failure to produce regulations also frustrated builders prevented from commencing major projects during the m... |
1283995_2 | Where Westchester Goes to College | lists describing where their students were accepted, but not where they actually enrolled. The survey did provide some surprises. For example, six students from the county went to Palm Beach Community College in Florida, the same number that went to Rockland Community College and Hudson Valley Community College, much c... |
1282605_1 | Opportunities For Workers In Technology Despite Cuts | Technology Association of America, an industry trade group based in Washington. The survey was based on telephone interviews with 685 managers in companies with at least 50 employees. The study projects that demand for new information technology employees this year will be down 44 percent from last year, when the assoc... |
1287768_0 | A Four A's official suggests a defense for slow times; another looks at standards of taste. | THE 83rd annual management conference of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, which ended here on Saturday, closed with spirited discussions of how difficult it can be to walk various fine lines: between being valued by clients and being deemed dispensable, between tastefulness and indecency, between creat... |
1289232_5 | There's More to Racing Than Driving a Fast Car | tire wear in last Sunday's race. Raymond Fox, the 29-year-old car chief, who has always worked for Yates, was at his shoulder. Spilling across the couch was Mike McSwain, the 34-year-old, moon-faced, snuff-dipping crew chief known as Fatback. ''What's cool about all this is I can come in as a nobody, work real hard for... |
1289172_6 | Workers, and Bosses, in a Visa Maze | brightest. Anyone could be packaged by a lawyer and get an H-1B.'' Whether a shortage of high-tech workers truly exists -- statistics are inconclusive -- H-1B visa holders are largely highly educated, government reports show. Many are educated at India's well-established engineering schools and, increasingly, at Americ... |
1289400_7 | A Cruise To the Soul Of Russia | tend to be physically impressive, walk the poorly tended monastery grounds seemingly oblivious to the tourists and apparently focused on their spiritual affairs. Most are tall, solid men, bearded and long-haired, dressed in black gowns with heavy silver crosses hanging on chains to their stomachs. The monks, however, a... |
1284793_1 | U.N. Report Says U.S. Slowdown Is Damaging Other Economies | today. Dozens of economists from around the world, meeting here this week, meshed findings from 79 national and economic models to arrive at global predictions. They said world economic growth is expected to slow this year to 2.4 percent from 4 percent in 2002. Growth in the industrial market economies will slow, the e... |
1284739_1 | Put On a Public Face | soon as possible.'' I responded (politely and briefly), though ''OK NAOMI'' seemed rather casual from a person who was, after all, seeking my help. Of course, the student was part of the answer to his own question. E-mail, like the telephone before it, invites contact from people we don't know or who would be far more ... |
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