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1284730_5 | Raw Sophistication: The Great Cooks Discover Noncooking | and devised his vapor technique: ''Place thin, translucent slices of garlic on a sheet of plastic wrap on top of a pot of water warmed to 100 degrees. Drizzle them with truffle oil, add another layer of plastic wrap, and let them warm for about six hours. The resulting melted garlic tastes roasted but isn't.'' Like oth... |
1284768_2 | Gene Therapy Is Performed In Bid to Halt Alzheimer's | clump of cells, the nucleus basalis, found deep in the brain just under each frontal lobe. About the size of a human thumb nail, the nucleus basalis makes a substance, acetylcholine, which is sent to target cells all over the brain. Acetylcholine modulates the excitability of distant neurons, increasing or decreasing t... |
1284769_0 | Jerusalem Journal; Women Seize Counseling Role on 'Family Purity' | Curled up on a desk chair in her home, a phone cord wrapped around her shoulder, Tova Ganzel was deep into a conversation about panties and rabbis. A blue velvet hat primly covered her hair as she made a suggestion: ''Multicolored underwear.'' A petite, brainy Orthodox Jewish woman, Mrs. Ganzel, 26, was hard at work on... |
1350522_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Gendarmes' Protests Pay Off | Is the French government giving in too easily to protesters? Critics of Lionel Jospin's government are accusing the prime minister of buying social peace before the presidential election next year, in which he is expected to run, and of ignoring the long-term consequences. On Saturday, the government gave in to the dem... |
1350523_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Northern Ireland: Protest Turns Violent | More than 100 demonstrators attacked two British Army watchtowers and a police barracks on Sunday night, leaving 21 police officers and 3 British soldiers injured, some with serious head injuries and burns. The attacks, in the Armagh area near the border with the Irish Republic, began as protests demanding faster Briti... |
1353841_11 | A Mittenless Autumn, for Better and Worse | Coasts, which are lined with low-lying barrier islands. A rise of one to three feet in the sea level, which many scientists predict by the end of this century, could send sea water 100 feet or more inland on these stretches of coast, in communities where the federal government is spending tens of millions of dollars a ... |
1353553_3 | At the Airport, Nothing Remains the Same | search with an electronic wand -- are common after passengers pass through metal detectors. Elsewhere, body searches are only sporadic, and the choice of which passengers to frisk can appear arbitrary or unrelated to security. A reporter for The Times noticed on a recent visit to the airport in Rochester, that an inspe... |
1353849_4 | Brazil Moves to Protect Jungle Plants From Foreign Biopiracy | knowledge'' was negotiated at a United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro. The United States, however, has yet to ratify the accord, in part because of lobbying in Congress by the pharmaceutical lobby. Legislation to regulate ''bioprospecting'' in Brazil was introduced in 1995. It passed the lower house of Congress i... |
1355036_0 | Selling the Forests | Trees are an important natural resource for many poor countries. A well-managed forest can provide permanent income and environmental protection. But unlike resources like oil and gas, timber is easy to steal. In too many nations, illegal loggers protected by corrupt officials are selling off forests for personal gain.... |
1349398_2 | 7 in Brazil Are Charged With Murder Of Yachtsman | Zealand and sailed across the South Pacific to Antarctica and South America. Sir Peter had been named a special envoy of the United Nations and was attempting to focus attention on the world's water resources, from the Amazon to the North Pole. His expedition first arrived in Brazil in September, and had sailed the mos... |
1349351_0 | Population Growth | To the Editor: Re ''Getting at the Roots of Arab Poverty'' (Op-Ed, Dec. 1): Even if all the political and economic reforms suggested by Alan Schwartz could be instituted, Arab poverty, despair and the resultant terrorism will not go away unless another factor is addressed: out-of-control population growth. No economic ... |
1349415_3 | European Cell Of Al Qaeda Cited in Killing Of Massoud | Gross, an Afghan-American from Washington and a proponent of Afghan women's rights, who was also there, said Mr. Sattar had stood out for his dapper dress. ''We were the grunge of the world,'' she said in an interview. ''He was dressed to a T.'' Though both men said they were Moroccans, Mr. Sattar did not betray a Moro... |
1349453_2 | Congress' Bomb-Screening Deadline Called Unrealistic | a system to screen checked luggage at the airport in Manchester, England, said a British consultant involved in the process, Roger W. Rimington, of Glenealy International Ltd. If screening equipment is available, Mr. Rimington said, it can be set up in airport lobbies, but the screening works best when luggage passes t... |
1349409_2 | European Critics of U.S. Find That the War Gives Them Little Ammunition | easier to accept.'' The fact that the pact between Afghan factions on an interim government was signed in Bonn did not hurt, said Gert Weisskirchen, the foreign policy spokesman for Mr. Schröder's Social Democratic Party. In Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could hardly have been more supportive of President Bus... |
1349392_2 | Confessions of a Traitor | only one week after President Bush signed the security bill to abandon all hope of meeting its 60-day deadline for screening checked baggage for explosives. Nor did he call for any stopgap measures to help in the meantime (like enlisting the cosmetically deployed airport national guardsmen to do at least some such scre... |
1347709_4 | Keeping an Eye on the Potatoes | in by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the biotech company that made the soybean, to address the allergenicity of their new product. As a result of Dr. Taylor's findings, they abandoned the project. Mr. Zimmerman said that in that case, the nut allergens were well known, but that assessing allergens when genes come from ... |
1347707_9 | Scarce Jobs and Dashed Hopes For the Class of 2001 | companies are now asking students to work for free. To be sure, not every field is in trouble, Ms. Queen-Hubert said. Pace held a very successful career fair for nurses last spring, and the market is still strong for education, nursing and human services. At Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, graduates historically ... |
1347771_2 | Planes, Heirs and Automobiles | huge business opportunity, has installed a new president and is spending at least one day a week at the company, though he is not planning to interfere with the staff. ''I'm leaving this to the professionals,'' he said. He did, however, change the company's name back to Pentastar, as it was known before the merger of D... |
1347684_4 | When Desert Bounty Fills a Dinner Plate | its fast food frenzy. He has written 14 books on ecology and natural history and for several years, he served as director of conservation and science at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. He is now director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff. His efforts to... |
1347668_4 | When Desert Bounty Fills a Dinner Plate | its fast food frenzy. He has written 14 books on ecology and natural history and for several years, he served as director of conservation and science at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. He is now director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff. His efforts to... |
1347639_0 | Some Foreign Airlines Step Up Security | In the wake of the Sept. 11 hijackings, airlines around the world are voluntarily adopting a variety of stricter security strategies, many of them the same as those the United States requires of domestic carriers. Austrian Airlines and its Lauda Airlines subsidiary took the most aggressive measures, putting armed sky m... |
1347553_4 | Lord of the Ring | became stuck in the middle of writing the third of his four Ring operas, ''Siegfried.'' His reading of Schopenhauer had stimulated the idea for a different sort of work -- one that would embody the very restlessness and heartaching desire that are the primary qualities of the sentient world, according to the philosophe... |
1347703_4 | When Desert Bounty Fills a Dinner Plate | its fast food frenzy. He has written 14 books on ecology and natural history and for several years, he served as director of conservation and science at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. He is now director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff. His efforts to... |
1347744_4 | Hunting, Gathering, Growing in the 21st Century | its fast food frenzy. He has written 14 books on ecology and natural history and for several years, he served as director of conservation and science at the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson. He is now director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff. His efforts to... |
1347720_1 | Razed or Praised? | for Historic Preservation, as well as donations from members, Preservation New Jersey also helps organizations from around the state to promote historic sites and navigate the complex process of applying for historic certification. In 1995, the group started to publish its annual list of the 10 most endangered historic... |
1355523_0 | BOAT MYSTERY | North Korea denied any connection to a boat with a crew of 15 sunk by Japan after it fired on Japanese Coast Guard ships in the East China Sea. But the touchy, secretive government in Pyongyang certainly got worked up, accusing Japan of ''brutal piracy and unpardonable terrorism of a modern brand that could be committe... |
1355376_1 | The World; A Business Plan For Islam Inc. | while Tunisia has led a reform drive in North Africa (it now has a women's day to promote equality in the work force). Indonesia and Malaysia today have more in common with East Asia than the Middle East. Egypt recently passed laws giving women some economic rights they never had before. Even Syria and Iran are to vary... |
1355409_1 | Security Technology, With an Eye on a Slice of the Sky Marshal Pie | billions of dollars that the new Transportation Security Administration will soon begin spending. The Transportation Department agency, created by Congress last month, is to overhaul safety procedures at airports and in the skies, and it is committed to hiring 28,000 federal workers to screen passengers and luggage. It... |
1355435_3 | RULES WILL ALLOW AIRPORT SCREENERS TO REMAIN IN JOBS | alarm.'' The Association of Flight Attendants, the largest flight attendants union, has also protested the lack of an education requirement, saying it fears the government will hire too many of the same screeners who allowed terrorists on the planes in the first place. Security screeners now working for private compani... |
1355446_0 | Camera Captures Crisis on Flight 63 | Jean-Claude Joly was sitting a few rows behind Richard C. Reid on American Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami on Dec. 22 when the plane erupted in confusion after Mr. Reid tried to light a fuse coming out of his sneaker. Mr. Joly, 62, the owner of a technology company in Toulouse, grabbed his digital camera and cap... |
1355195_5 | Order of Magnitude | Surely it was bad enough that many children did lose one parent, but that sort of loss seemed to leave fewer options for outsiders to set things right. As long as there were thousands of orphans to rescue, there was something to be done; that comforting thought alone held the myth aloft for a time. Some real people rep... |
1355366_3 | In Mexico, Bitterness Is Sugar's Legacy | added to Nafta at the last minute to protect the American sugar industry and to win crucial votes in Congress to assure the trade agreement's passage, limits Mexico's exports to 116,000 tons. The United States contends that the language is lawful, but Mexico disputes that. This means that the 11 sugar mills in and arou... |
1355191_0 | The Radical Do-Gooder | In 1972, David McTaggart, a Canadian badminton champion, sailed his yacht to the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific, where France had been conducting nuclear tests for six years. The French rammed his boat and detained him and later claimed to have rescued him after an accident. The following year McTaggart repeated th... |
1355341_9 | What New Yorkers Want From Their Next Mayor | new administration should also be vigilant about guarding open space downtown. Projects like Hudson River Park and parkland in a reused Governors Island should not be threatened by fiscal cuts and political uncertainties. John Wang, president of the Asian-American Business Development Center in Manhattan. The Sept. 11 ... |
1355427_3 | For Many Burmese, China Is an Unwanted Ally | 1991 but has spent seven of the last 11 years under house arrest. In early December, several fellow Nobel laureates, meeting in Oslo, Norway, issued a fresh call for the release of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, known here as ''the lady.'' More American companies are severing ties to Myanmar, while those that keep them are com... |
1355175_5 | The Actors Who Make History Live | In the gardens of Colonial Williamsburg, the capital city of pre-Revolutionary Virginia, where the year is always 1774, Col. George Washington gravely discusses the colonies' prospects for independence. A visitor begins to question him with undue familiarity: ''George . . .'' Colonel Washington turns with the easy dign... |
1355349_3 | In Mexico, Bitterness Is Sugar's Legacy | added to Nafta at the last minute to protect the American sugar industry and to win crucial votes in Congress to assure the trade agreement's passage, limits Mexico's exports to 116,000 tons. The United States contends that the language is lawful, but Mexico disputes that. This means that the 11 sugar mills in and arou... |
1355442_1 | Slowing the Search, Reading the Tea Leaves, Securing the Skies | been warnings: the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, a 1996 State Department dossier that spelled out Osama bin Laden's intentions, the arrest of an Algerian entering the country last year with a trunk of explosives. Some in government recognized the threats. There were proposals to tighten borders and airport se... |
1348576_0 | Army Decides Not to Back Breaching Of Four Dams | Putting itself in line with the Bush administration's stance on a contentious environmental issue, the Army Corps of Engineers said today that it would recommend against breaching four large hydroelectric dams on the Snake River in eastern Washington State. Environmental groups had favored the idea as the most effectiv... |
1348571_0 | Whitman Says PCB Dredging Will Proceed | The federal Environmental Protection Agency's administrator, Christie Whitman, said yesterday that the agency would move forward with a nearly $500 million dredging plan to remove PCB pollution from the upper Hudson River. In doing so, the agency rejected General Electric's efforts to scale back the cleanup. The E.P.A.... |
1348499_1 | A Philosopher Explains Wagner's Third Element | American title is evocative but falsely implies a concentration on the opera ''Tristan und Isolde'' or its unresolving, always yearning first chord, perhaps the most famous chord in musical history. The core of this book is Mr. Magee's effort to trace in some detail Wagner's shifting philosophical convictions. This is ... |
1348524_1 | Seeking a Business Degree, Across the Pond | a cash squeeze as cost-conscious governments stem the flow of subsidies. So for the first time, they are starting a sustained recruiting effort in a place where they can hope for a long-term financial payback: the United States. ''For Americans, the tradition of alumni donations is very strong, it's a very generous com... |
1354131_5 | F.B.I. TESTS FIND EXPLOSIVE IN SHOES OF JET PASSENGER | under suspicion in Paris on Saturday for several reasons, including the fact that he was reportedly turned away from boarding the same American Airlines flight the day before. Massachusetts Port Authority officials said they had been told that the man was detained on Friday at the Paris airport and questioned after rai... |
1354128_0 | French Authorities Wonder: How Could It Have Happened? | The French border police opened an inquiry today into how a man with no baggage, a possibly forged passport and shoes loaded with plastic explosives could have boarded an American Airlines flight for Miami unchallenged. Passengers checking in for long-distance international flights without baggage are supposed to trigg... |
1354086_4 | You've Got Mail. Lots of It, and It's Mostly Junk. | protect the privacy of an in-box trump the free speech rights of marketers? ''If you're saying 'unsolicited' is the problem, I would ask you to think about my favorite example: Here's a one-dollar coupon on Tide sent to everyone in America,'' said Bob Weintzen, president of the Direct Marketing Association. ''I don't t... |
1354100_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | in the same region as Zimbabwe, with a food shortage unfolding there, are finding their own urgent needs overshadowed by their neighbor. Zambia and Malawi, like Zimbabwe, are desperately short of cornmeal, a staple in the region, where farming has been disrupted by both drought and flooding. A4 NATIONAL A12-13 Internet... |
1354091_2 | Koizumi Calls for Vigilance After Japan Sinks Suspicious Boat | North Korea had not responded by this evening, the sinking and loss of life are a further blow to relations between two countries that last had direct talks on normalizing ties 14 months ago. On Friday afternoon, just before sunset, a Japanese maritime patrol plane spotted a 100-ton vessel built like a fishing boat, bu... |
1354124_4 | A 'Strange' Traveler Acted, And the Passengers Reacted | under control,'' said Mr. Bissen, 31, who works for a software company and lives in Toulouse, France. ''We just waited for the plane to land. People were talking about it, but again the flight crew did a good job letting people feel like things were under control, so I think the mood swung.'' Mr. Bissen said that becau... |
1351731_5 | By Land and By Sea: All in a Day's Lesson | at sea. ''These are aspects of the program you just can't get in the typical classroom setting,'' he said. Dr. Ivar Babb, director of the National Undersea Research Center, developed the technology for the broadcasts and also obtained the necessary financing. He plans to implement a two-way video connection on the boat... |
1351843_3 | Managing Danger Responsibly: How Much Do You Tell? | previously worked as head of security at Xerox and as an F.B.I. agent specializing in fighting terrorism, said no one in the security business wants to leave things to chance. ''But,'' he said, ''the bottom line is that companies cannot do business from inside of a safe.'' If companies have a plan, their response to ac... |
1351815_8 | What's Wrong in Toms River? | time period. A lot what has been done historically has just been drawing circles around a point.'' The institute also looked at the dust found in attics of houses in Dover Township while seeking evidence of historic air pollution. Though nothing unusual was uncovered, methods developed during the study aided researcher... |
1351748_0 | Finding a Connection, Though a World Away | ACCORDING to an environmental mantra, one must think globally and act locally. Some Connecticut residents, however, have the means to turn that mantra on its head by thinking globally and then acting on their thoughts. Because of this, Connecticut residents have had an impact on the environmental health of the planet. ... |
1351911_2 | The Early Application Frenzy | have adopted early-decision plans, and some prestigious schools fill 40 percent or more of their freshman slots before Christmas. At elite secondary schools, half to three-quarters of the graduating class may apply for early decision. It is easy to see why many colleges like this system. It lets them know which student... |
1351903_4 | Personal Business; Nest Eggs Have Shrunk. But Tuition Bills Haven't. | as well as $5,000 scholarships to students who have SAT scores of 1,350 or more. Although tuition keeps climbing at most colleges, some have actually reduced their costs. Examples are on the Web site of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which tracks its more than 900 members (www.naicu.... |
1351622_1 | Sins of the Father | of the University of Freiburg in 1933, he served as teacher and sage to four gifted students of assimilated German Jewish backgrounds. Hannah Arendt, who at 18 began a three-year love affair with Heidegger, achieved fame as a political thinker. Herbert Marcuse, denounced by the pope in the late 1960's, became a philoso... |
1351624_1 | Expecting the Worst | Gladiators; having their weapons pointing, and their eyes fixed on one another; that is, their Forts, Garrisons and Guns upon the Frontiers of their Kingdomes; and continuall Spyes upon their neighbours; which is a posture of War.'' If Hobbes's imagery suggests the landscape of an Elizabethan tragedy, you've grasped th... |
1352356_0 | Preventing AIDS | To the Editor: The recently passed House bill authorizing increased spending to combat AIDS (news article, Dec. 13) is a step in the right direction. It is mystifying, however, that an AIDS bill emphasizing prevention fails to mention, even once, one of the most critical weapons in the battle: condoms. Condoms, combine... |
1352470_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Ireland: Weapons For Ulster | The Irish Army prepared to send weapons and ammunition to Northern Ireland republicans after riots in Belfast and Londonderry in 1970 drove thousands of Roman Catholics from their homes, according to newly released documents. They show that the prime minister at the time, Jack Lynch, and the defense minister, Jim Gibbo... |
1350717_1 | Internet Piracy Is Suspected As U.S. Agents Raid Campuses | ring dubbed itself the DrinkOrDie network and that members were so brazen that they had their own public Web site. They appeared to be motivated more by the thrill of piracy than by the opportunity for profit, the agents said, adding that the activity crossed international borders. Raids were also carried out today in ... |
1352847_0 | Bluetooth Defies Obituaries | BLUETOOTH took a beating in 2001. The fledgling standard with the funny name, Bluetooth had stirred enthusiasm in technology circles for more than two years. It promised to simplify communications among cellphones, hand-held computers and other wireless devices by streaming information back and forth over short-range r... |
1352998_0 | Listen, Officeholders | To the Editor: Re ''E-Mail Gets the Rare Ear in Congress'' (Dec. 13): It is appalling to learn that Congress finds e-mail to be such a challenging form of communication, particularly when its members have experienced specific incidents with United States mail. If corporations and small businesses can accept e-mail and ... |
1352846_0 | Using E-Mail to Count Connections | THE ''six degrees of separation'' theory has been used to explain everything from why it is likely that your neighbor went to school with your doctor to why every film actor in Hollywood is closely linked to Kevin Bacon. The theory was developed in the 1960's by Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist who suggested that... |
1347413_0 | City Island Is Alive With Sound of Radio; A Broadcaster Wants More Power, But Close By, Even Radiators Talk | On City Island, you don't need a radio to listen to the radio. A telephone will work just fine, although an answering machine is much better. Toaster ovens have been known to talk. Radiators are also chatty; on clear days, some of them pick up ''Imus in the Morning.'' And through the electrical wiring in some utility s... |
1347483_0 | World Briefing | Americas: Belize: Inquiry Into Border Killings | The Organization of American States will investigate the killing last week of three Guatemalans in a disputed border region between Guatemala and Belize. According to local press reports the three were part of a group of settlers who attacked a patrol from the Belize Defense Force inside a zone that had been set up as ... |
1348777_0 | In the Future, the Fax Machine May Fall Victim to the Advances of E-Mail | ASK any expert to speculate on the future of e-mail, and you are bound to hear two words: versatility and mobility. E-mail is already becoming more and more portable. BlackBerry pagers that send and receive e-mail are increasingly standard issue not just for corporate executives but for members of government as well. C... |
1348797_0 | Billions Served Daily, and Counting | IT wasn't an accidental invention, exactly, but it was certainly one that followed an unexpected trajectory to glory. Thirty years ago, give or take a month or two, Ray Tomlinson, an unassuming computer scientist at Bolt, Beranek & Newman, an engineering firm in Cambridge, Mass., sat down at his computer and wrote a re... |
1348925_0 | More Than Technology | To the Editor: Re ''In the Bronx, an Ounce of Connection'' (Nov. 29), Montefiore's Children's Hospital and the technology they offer children and families is impressive, but your article was remiss in not also mentioning that children need professionals to help them sort through the information they are given about the... |
1354650_0 | If We're Serious About Air Safety | To the Editor: Re ''F.B.I. Tests Find Explosive in Shoes of Jet Passenger'' (front page, Dec. 24): The sneaker bomb on the Dec. 22 American Airlines flight and the box cutters carried by the Sept. 11 hijackers illustrate that it is futile to focus too much energy on trying to anticipate and detect the implements that t... |
1354547_2 | Protecting the Macintosh, A Lesser-Known Victim | Internet files, cookies and other clutter that can accumulate on the Mac during Web browsing. The package of programs, which runs on Mac OS 8.1 and later, costs about $100. Other firewall options include NetBarrier by Intego ($60, at www.intego.com) and Brickhouse, a $25 shareware program for Mac OS X (www.apple.com/do... |
1354591_0 | North Korea Calls Japan's Sinking of Mystery Boat 'Brutal Piracy' | Drawing on its best cold war oratory, North Korea today denounced the sinking by Japan of an unidentified boat in a high seas gun battle last Saturday as ''a crime'' that is ''nothing but the brutal piracy and unpardonable terrorism of a modern brand that could be committed only by samurais of Japan in defiance of inte... |
1354673_7 | Passenger With Shoe Bombs First Raised Only Eyebrows | ''There was no panic,'' Mr. Debry said. ''I think that very little people realized, actually, what was happening.'' When they had finally pinned him, two doctors injected him with a sedative. Mr. Reid shrieked. Mr. Bessin, in business class, finally got up to look back. He saw passengers standing around a man and a co-... |
1354651_0 | If We're Serious About Air Safety | To the Editor: Re ''F.B.I. Tests Find Explosive in Shoes of Jet Passenger'' (front page, Dec. 24): The recent crisis on American Airlines Flight 63 underscores the need to place a sky marshal on every flight to, from and within the United States. The passengers on Flight 63, as well as their counterparts on United Airl... |
1354561_0 | Now a Satellite Radio Signal Follows You From Car to House | The subscription-based digital radio service that XM Radio beams down from satellites was initially intended for listening while on the road. A new radio system from Sony, however, will allow users to pull the XM Radio tuner from the car and carry it into the home or office. The device, the DRN-XM01, is about the size ... |
1354652_0 | If We're Serious About Air Safety | To the Editor: Re ''F.B.I. Tests Find Explosive in Shoes of Jet Passenger'' (front page, Dec. 24): Since Sept. 11, I have flown out of airports in Albany, Cincinnati, Madison, Wis., and Los Angeles, and I have yet to go through a security check as thorough as the one at the hip-hop show I attended at a New York City ni... |
1354653_0 | If We're Serious About Air Safety | To the Editor: Re ''Naked Air,'' by Thomas L. Friedman (column, Dec. 26): It seems virtually impossible to eliminate the ability of terrorists to smuggle a bomb aboard an airplane given today's detection technology and the suicidal imperative of terrorists. The best form of prevention and deterrence would be vastly imp... |
1351564_0 | World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Firmly Tilting, Tower Of Pisa Reopens | The Leaning Tower of Pisa will reopen to the public today for the first time since 1990 after major efforts to prop it up. The $25 million in repairs were designed to straighten the building enough to keep it from toppling over but without taking away its trademark tilt. Pisa officials said they planned a low-key cerem... |
1351587_0 | Euripides' Philosophy Survives, but a Princess Doesn't | Like most Greek tragedy, Euripides' ''Iphigenia at Aulis'' puts the television soaps to shame in terms of intrafamily craziness. And the Greeks have it all over contemporary theater with the grand gesture. Both elements are clear in the Pearl Theater Company's current production of this 2,400-year-old play. Young Iphig... |
1351409_0 | Euripides' Philosophy Survives, but a Princess Doesn't | Like most Greek tragedy, Euripides' ''Iphigenia at Aulis'' puts the television soaps to shame in terms of intrafamily craziness. And the Greeks have it all over contemporary theater with the grand gesture. Both elements are clear in the Pearl Theater Company's current production of this 2,400-year-old play. Young Iphig... |
1351420_4 | Grounded by an Income Gap | Washington, said the earning advantage for those who attend college over those who do not has doubled to about 60 percent from 30 percent in the early 1970's. ''Even finishing high school improves your income by about 30 percent,'' Mr. Heckman said. One of the biggest reasons people fail to finish school is teenage pre... |
1351578_4 | Grounded by an Income Gap | Washington, said the earning advantage for those who attend college over those who do not has doubled to about 60 percent from 30 percent in the early 1970's. ''Even finishing high school improves your income by about 30 percent,'' Mr. Heckman said. One of the biggest reasons people fail to finish school is teenage pre... |
1351476_2 | Demand Rises For Widening Investigation Into Collapse | their occupants -- as well as firefighters and other rescue workers -- at risk in fires, terrorist attacks or other disasters. Preserving the steel, he said, would allow investigators to reconstruct crucial parts of the buildings, as the National Transportation Safety Board sometimes does with crashed airplanes to dete... |
1354294_2 | For Airlines, Yet Another Vulnerability | the suspect, Richard Colvin Reid, is believed to have had in his sneakers, aviation experts said. Detonators, too, can be sheathed in plastic, and even when their explosive charges contain metal compounds they are typically too scant to set off alarms, said Cathal L. Flynn, a former director of security with the Federa... |
1354282_5 | Experts Urging Broader Inquiry In Towers' Fall | Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco. Mr. Wyllie, who has investigated many building collapses after earthquakes, said the work would involve ''a critique of our building practices'' in search of greater safety after Sept. 11. He added that intensive studies of building failures in disasters like the Northridge earthqu... |
1354271_1 | From the Rubble, Icons of Disaster and Faith | said Archbishop Demetrios, the spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in America, who has visited ground zero at least half a dozen times. Yet, out of utter destruction, the archbishop envisions not just a rebuilt parochial church on its old 22-by-55-foot site but something greater: a memorial shrine open to all... |
1354283_0 | Passengers Are on the Alert | As passengers moved through the nation's airports, just about everybody seemed prepared to take a part in the war on terrorism. Page B1. |
1354284_2 | Few Shoes Shed In Airports' Lines | in 50 was selected for a thorough inspection. In those cases, a screener hand-searched carry-on luggage, and ran a cloth swab around the outside of bags and the sides of shoe soles. The swab was then inserted in a machine that can detect traces of explosives. Many airports seemed to follow a pattern similar to that in ... |
1354255_3 | Trying to Keep Young Internet Users From a Life of Piracy | group reported, although this amount assumes that any illicitly used software would otherwise have been bought by users. The greatest incidence of software piracy, according to industry experts, occurs in business, where many employees of a firm will share a single copy of a program. Internet trading pales by compariso... |
1354287_2 | Sigh of Relief On Flight 63 And Its Effect | it took off from Kennedy Airport in New York would be a serious blow to the industry. But investigators quickly declared the crash an accident, and bookings only dipped for a few days. One theory holds that with passenger traffic down about 25 percent, nervous fliers are already staying on the ground while those who ha... |
1354247_1 | Security Steps Are Tightened At Airports In Europe | are retrained if any new danger is found. But he admitted being overwhelmed. ''Yes, they work,'' he said of the dogs. ''But the number we have doesn't allow us to inspect everyone.'' Officials at several airports said that they had security priorities for checking different flights, and flights to the United States and... |
1354288_0 | A Nation Challenged | Airport Anxiety THE SUSPECT -- The man who tried to ignite explosives in his shoes on a flight from Paris to Miami on Saturday had no known address, and investigators in the United States and Europe struggled to determine his identity, nationality and motive. Authorities were still uncertain whether the man was acting ... |
1354297_1 | Securing the Skies | Airports around the world are slowly deploying machines capable of detecting non-metallic explosives. After much delay in this country, the aviation security bill signed into law last month set an accelerated deadline of Dec. 31, 2002, for all checked luggage to be scanned. Interim measures must be in place next month.... |
1354290_0 | New Jitters in the Air, Critics at Ground Zero and Christmas in Kabul | Airport security, or lack of it, once again preyed on the minds of travelers, as well as political leaders, airline officials and law enforcement agencies, both here and abroad. This new wave of jitters, at holiday season, followed the bizarre case of the ''shoe bomber,'' who might have blown up an American Airlines fl... |
1354274_0 | Air Passengers Are Watchful, But Still Flying | In the unnerving new world of air travel, where the gentleman across the aisle may be a mad bomber and every passenger is a potential hero, Eddy Donis was steeling herself for action. Slipping into a beige pair of leather mules (easier to remove for security), Ms. Donis, 39, scanned her fellow travelers at La Guardia A... |
1352185_0 | International Business; Globalization Stirs Asian Dreams, But Rural Poverty Grows Endemic | Suhendi can see the far-reaching effects of the global economic slowdown from his dinner table. Mr. Suhendi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, has worked the rice fields around this village for 30 of his 54 years. Between planting and harvesting, while the rice ripened under the tropical sun, he took part-t... |
1352223_0 | Cuba Receives U.S. Shipment, First Purchase Since Embargo | The first shipment of American goods to be purchased by the Cuban government since the trade embargo was imposed nearly 40 years ago arrived in Havana harbor today. The shipment -- including more than 55 million pounds of corn -- is the first of several expected in the coming months after the Cuban government bought $3... |
1352199_1 | Some (Modest) Proposals to Reform Airlines, With a Special Emphasis on Those Movies | taxpayers paid for the bailout, and since a lot of taxpayers are a bit on the chubby side, fairness dictates that the airlines do this as quickly as possible. *Empower airport security immediately to detain and, where possible, arrest anyone who boards the plane with a steamer trunk as carry-on luggage and then tries t... |
1348243_0 | Experts' Eyes Focus on 'the Bathtub' as Debris Is Cleared | Working their way through dirt and gloom and twisted steel like archaeologists sifting layers of lost civilizations, sidestepping random collapses, steam, smoke and dark crevasses, workers and engineers are slowly transforming the World Trade Center from a nightmarish mountain of debris to something resembling an ordin... |
1348267_0 | Put Airlines on Notice | To the Editor: There is a simple solution to the problem of foreign airlines that do not transmit passenger manifests to the Customs Service (front page, Nov. 27). An embargo should be placed on any airline that refuses to cooperate -- a refusal that could put American citizens and institutions in life-threatening jeop... |
1348250_5 | Wounded Buildings Offer Survival Lessons | said. Instead, what he observed soon lifted his spirits a bit. Both fire stairwells had been surrounded by four to six inches of heavy tile fireproofing and were virtually untouched by the blaze. Most of the dozens of steel columns holding up the building were encased in four-inch-thick blocks of tile much like the mat... |
1349776_0 | Saving for College, With the State's Help | LIKE many grandparents, Edward and Linda Fernand of New Milford want to put away money for their grandchildren's college educations. But unlike many other investors, they have chosen a rather untraditional place to put their money: with the state. Connecticut is one of 47 states to offer the 529 college savings plans, ... |
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