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1349893_4 | Radicalism: Is the Devil in the Demographics? | In some cases, politics affects demography as much as demography affects politics. In 2015, Israel's population is expected to increase by only 20 percent, compared to 56 percent in the West Bank and 72 percent in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian birth rate is so high that if it continues at current levels, in a decade ... |
1349995_0 | Where Buddhas Fell, Lives Lie in Ruins Too | The giant Buddhas perished in this storied valley. For 1,500 years, the two statues stood in their sandstone niches and stared across the rugged plain toward the snowy peaks of the Baba mountains. The Taliban destroyed them last spring, making precise incisions to strategically place the explosives. But the Buddhas wer... |
1349674_0 | Genetic Pollution | The way we think about and deal with pollution has always been governed by the straightforward rules of chemistry. You clean the stuff up or let it fade with time. But what do you do about a form of pollution that behaves instead according to the rules of biology? Such a pollutant would have the ability to copy itself ... |
1349947_2 | Veni, Vidi, Voldemort | have been getting very fashionable lately. In America, there's been a dramatic increase in the study of classics in high schools and a surge at colleges as well, according to Adam Blistein, the executive director of the American Philological Association. ''Metamorphoses,'' a play drawn from Ovid's myths, is a hot off-B... |
1349646_0 | Artificial Chromosomes | In the last decade, the genetic revolution in American crops has brought us corn that grows its own pesticide thanks to a lab-inserted bacterial gene, and tobacco that makes its own antifreeze using DNA from a North Atlantic flounder. This year, however, a University of Chicago biologist, Daphne Preuss, appears to have... |
1349687_0 | Old Masters Cheated | The exhibition ''Thomas Eakins: American Realist,'' on display this winter at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, celebrates the 19th-century artist as a painter of genius. But a close look at the exhibition's placards reveals a disconcerting truth: some of history's great painters relied on more than just inspiration. Com... |
1349688_0 | One E-Mail Message Can Change the World | When the Internet first began to insinuate itself into the public's consciousness around a decade ago, proselytizers made grandiose claims for its ability to revolutionize communications. It has since become fashionable to scoff at such predictions, but the recent experience of one California man shows that it's now be... |
1349843_1 | O.K., O.K., I'm Going Cellular | other lives in our subconscious. I have witnessed cellphone calls in the middle of business meetings, baseball games, funerals and weddings. The slightest announced delay in a train schedule causes the simultaneous opening of 100 mobile phones on the platform. No moment of silence is too profound not to be broken by a ... |
1350060_0 | BANDITS KILL YACHTSMAN | A gang of masked robbers known as the Water Rats boarded a 130-foot research vessel anchored near the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil and fatally shot its captain, Sir Peter Blake. At 53, Sir Peter was a larger-than-life sailing figure who had twice led New Zealand to victory in the America's Cup and then become im... |
1355669_1 | Reluctance in Greece to Let Go of the Coin of History | coin of antiquity, and its name is said to have originated on the island of Aegina, a major commercial center from 570 to 540 B.C. Its use soon spread to emerging city-states like Athens and Corinth. Commerce and conquest, particularly by Alexander the Great, took the coin as far east as Afghanistan, where tribes in th... |
1355736_0 | Finding a Way to Say No to Spam | To the Editor: The common-sense solution for unwanted junk e-mail (front page, Dec. 24) is for Congress to force Internet service providers in the United States to charge a modest fee, perhaps a penny, for each outgoing e-mail message. The executive branch could pressure other countries to follow suit. E-mail would the... |
1355648_0 | Confident to Fly | To the Editor: Re: ''As Security Demands Grow, Street Smarts Take to the Air'' (news article, Dec. 28): Airlines and the public will need to sort out what we require from flight personnel. With the decrease in in-flight meals and the increase in unruly or dangerous passengers, our needs are shifting from comfort provis... |
1350181_2 | Concepts that once seemed far-fetched suddenly have a tantalizing whiff of attainability as chip researchers meet. | his experiments in Munich trying to link microchips to brain cells. Many futurists have speculated about the potential benefits of monitoring or controlling brain behavior electronically -- not to mention the more mind-stretching reverse concept of machines being driven directly by human perceptions or thoughts. But Dr... |
1354788_0 | Unconventional Tourist | To the Editor: Re ''Air Passengers Are Watchful, but Still Flying'' (news article, Dec. 25): You report that airline travelers are checking out their fellow passengers for weirdos and people who are ''too quiet,'' and also looking at their shoes. Are we encouraging profiling by an army of watchful but inexperienced and... |
1354889_2 | A Nation Challenged | delivered to an Arab television network from Pakistan by the DHL express package company, in an apparent break with the terrorist leader's past practices of using personal couriers to deliver messages to the outside world. B2 THE MEDIA -- The major news networks showed only still frames or short segments of Mr. bin Lad... |
1354848_0 | U.S. Drops Threat to Cut Aid to Russia For Disarming | After nearly a year of threatening to end programs aimed at helping Russia stop the spread of nuclear weapons, the White House announced today that it remained committed to an effort to help Russia dispose of hundreds of tons of military plutonium. The Bush administration, its concerns about the availability of nuclear... |
1354865_2 | As Security Demands Grow, Street Smarts Take to the Air | helpful, because flight attendants taught each another. ''Someone else brings something in they've learned from a different flight,'' she said. '' 'O.K., watch for this.' '' Pilots and crew members at Reagan National Airport in Washington said that after the confrontation Saturday on Flight 63 pressures and on-the-job ... |
1354831_2 | Study of Police Recruiting Cites Discipline and Academic Faults | The incoming police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, also declined to comment on the report, saying that although he had received a copy he had not yet had time to read it. Through a spokesman, Patrick J. Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the union representing most of the city's 40,000 off... |
1353351_2 | A Fairer Sort of Harvard | These rates are based on what the committee felt collective bargaining would have produced absent the threat of outsourcing to lower-wage contractors. The recommended pay levels exceed the levels in the living wage law that the City of Cambridge applies to municipal employees and city contractors. Contrary to the fears... |
1353398_2 | With Viewing Platforms, a Dignified Approach to Ground Zero | professional groups already organized to prepare a coordinated response by New York architects to the terrorist attack. Materials, labor, design and engineering services were donated. Focus Lighting and the Atlantic-Heydt Corporation, a Queens hoisting and scaffolding concern, led the project's realization, which also ... |
1354390_0 | Former Colleagues Reconnect, If Briefly | Friendships born around a water cooler tend to fade when people leave their jobs and no longer have office gossip to share. While the Internet has not exactly overturned that pattern, it has created a forum for hundreds of e-mail lists and Web sites that enable former colleagues to keep in touch, plan reunions and shar... |
1354387_0 | Passenger Searches | To the Editor: Regarding improved air safety, you assert in your Dec. 19 editorial that ''airlines have improved their own profiling computer programs.'' From my own experience the past two weekends, I seriously doubt it. Flying round trip from San Francisco to Dallas, I was searched both going and coming -- four searc... |
1354416_0 | A Russian Military Journalist Is Convicted in an Espionage Trial | A military court in Vladivostok issued a surprising and unusual guilty verdict today in the espionage trial of Grigory Pasko, a journalist whose work on the Russian Navy's handling of nuclear waste led to an internationally contested charge of treason. Mr. Pasko, 39, a military journalist for the navy's Pacific Fleet, ... |
1354409_2 | How much is that in euros? Navigating the new Europe without francs, marks or lire. | be officially out of circulation, but some national banks and currency exchanges will continue to change bills for an indeterminate period. But here's a better idea: The United States Fund for Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, would love to have those foreign coins and bills from all of those stashes lying ar... |
1354473_2 | South Asian Brinkmanship | gotten off to a good start by reaching out to the disparate groups within his country. It would be nice to see the leaders of Pakistan and India act with the same good judgment. As Indian forces have cracked down on an uprising in disputed Kashmir, India's only Muslim-dominated state, Pakistan has too freely permitted ... |
1351326_0 | Since the Beginning, Questions Dogged the Trade Center's Fireproofing | Engineering experts involved in studying the World Trade Center disaster are now closely examining the spray-on fireproofing used on much of the steel framework of the twin towers to determine whether it contributed to their collapse. The federally financed experts hope to determine whether faulty or scanty fireproofin... |
1351167_0 | America's Tires: Worn Down, Overlooked and Underinflated | THIRTEEN months after Congress required new tire safety measures, out of concern over Ford Explorer rollovers caused by the failure of Firestone tires, studies by the Transportation Department show that there is still much to be done to improve the safety of the small but crucial patch where rubber meets the road. And ... |
1351231_0 | An Illinois Tire Plant Closes and a Way of Life Fades | Steve Collins is a skilled tire builder. For 17 of his 22 years at the Firestone plant here, he worked nights. His wife has not worked for 13 years, since the second of three children was born. On his wages, now $23 an hour or about $46,000 a year, he said, ''I built the house, got the toys -- the boat, the cars.'' But... |
1351227_1 | Cuba Leads Latin America in Primary Education, Study Finds | said Jeff Puryear, the co-director of the Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas, which helped organize the task force. ''This is a good, solid, reliable comparison.'' The task force highlighted the results of the first region-wide test of primary students, which was administered in 1998 by the Unit... |
1351197_8 | Rebuilding a Day at a Time; Law Firm Pushes 2 Steps Forward for Every Step Back | to me.'' After getting others out, Mr. Connelly urged Mr. Rembert and Mr. Wippons down the stairs as the fire raged above. When the men reached the ground floor and began to sprint away from the building, they suddenly heard the unearthly roar of the tower's collapse. Still within the range of the falling debris, Mr. R... |
1351334_1 | Times Goes Forward on Plan for Tower on Eighth Avenue | to office tenants, asking rents of $75 to $85 a square foot annually. There are to be restaurants on the 40th and 41st Street sides, stores at the Eighth Avenue corners and a 350-seat auditorium with views of a courtyard filled with birch trees across its stage. At the summit will be a small grove of maples outside a r... |
1349160_2 | Peter Blake's Legacy Spans the World | of the race aboard his maxi-ketch Steinlager 2, he won in spectacular fashion, taking all six legs and vanquishing a fleet of 23 competitors. In 1992 he got his first taste of the America's Cup imbroglios when he was hired to manage the New Zealand challenge in San Diego at the competition's 11th hour. The New Zealand ... |
1349168_0 | Little Progress Seen on Quality Of Air in Planes | The airlines and federal regulators have done little to address mounting questions about the air quality in commercial planes since smoking was banned on domestic flights more than 10 years ago, a government study has found. The report, released yesterday by the National Academy of Sciences, urged the Federal Aviation ... |
1349153_1 | Renowned New Zealand Yachtsman Killed in Amazon | for the Federal Police in Macapá, said the attack occurred about 10 p.m., after a small boat pulled up alongside Sir Peter's yacht. Two armed men came aboard, leaving one behind on their boat. The police said the robbers escaped in their craft with a motor and various personal possessions. The Brazilian television netw... |
1350872_2 | Pooh-Poohing the Purists, a Scholar Revels in Netspeak | as other texts in their fluidity, simultaneity and availability on an indefinite number of machines,'' he said. ''They do things the other media can't do.'' In his new book, Dr. Crystal examines the flexibility and future of this medium, noting linguistic practices ranging from the surprising survival of the Anglo-Saxo... |
1351008_1 | Al Qaeda's Leaders May Use Ships to Escape Capture, Intelligence Agencies Warn | weapons used in other terrorist attacks, including the 1998 embassy bombings in East Africa. American officials said the ships were coastal merchant vessels that are common in the warm, relatively shallow waters around Pakistan. Mr. bin Laden and his followers are likely to travel through Pakistan if they escape allied... |
1350889_3 | E-Mail Finds the Rare Ear in Congress | effect. The ease with which e-mail can be sent and the push by advocacy groups for supporters to send e-mail to Congress have raised the public's expectation of being heard, the study said. Instead, the report concluded, the ''conflicting practices and expectations of all the parties are fostering cynicism and eroding ... |
1350924_0 | Report Calls Ulster Police Force Inept in Fatal-Bombing Inquiry | The police officers investigating the 1998 terrorist bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland -- from the chief constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, to the detectives -- hampered the inquiry by ineptitude, poor judgment, lack of communication and constant delays, according to a report published today. The scathing report, by the ... |
1352594_1 | Brazil Takes a Trade Stance and Offers a Warning to U.S. | to the authority granted by Congress for the president to negotiate trade pacts that Congress can either pass or reject but cannot amend. The House passed the measure early this month, and last week the Senate Finance Committee endorsed it with minor modifications, paving the way for Senate approval early next year. Bu... |
1352612_1 | Despite some improvements, post-Sept. 11 flying is still a chore, especially at security checks. | reassuring as that might be, there appear to be exceptions, by the way. On Sunday, aboard an American Airlines plane taxiing toward takeoff from San Diego, a passenger removed a jacket from what she thought was her carry-on bag -- and a dummy hand grenade fell out into the aisle. After a three-hour delay back at the ga... |
1352669_0 | Verdict Near on Mother of Dead Children | Marilyn Lemak sat inside Courtroom 4000, her legs shaking and her body rocking as it has throughout the three weeks of her trial on charges that she murdered her three children. On this day of closing arguments at the county courthouse here, Mrs. Lemak stared blankly as prosecutors painted the portrait of a cold and ca... |
1352679_0 | Flying Home for the Holidays | The holiday season and bargain fares will draw many reluctant travelers back into the air. The anticipation of vacation trips or family reunions is bound to be at least slightly diluted by concerns over safety. Happily, since Sept. 11 the federal government and the airlines have taken some important steps toward protec... |
1353188_0 | Lining Up for Traveler Checks | A NATION CHALLENGED |
1353248_0 | World Briefing | Asia: Japan: Fighting Child Sex Trade | The governments of 134 countries pledged to increase efforts to stamp out the thriving child sex trade by adopting tougher laws and coordinating police action against child trafficking. The pledges came in Yokohama at the end of the an international conference on the sexual exploitation of children. Meeting five years ... |
1353191_1 | A Promise on Baggage Screening Deadline | said on Nov. 27, however, that the matching of bags, once considered to be foolproof, would be ineffective in deterring a suicide bomber. The law also requires all bags to be scanned by machine by the end of 2002. That will mean about 1,000 machines nationwide; about 160 are now in operation. In some cases, installing ... |
1293412_2 | Wanted: A Few Good Women Looking to Go Somewhere | Search of Elvis (Memphis) and the Jazz, Jambalaya and Beignets Tour to New Orleans. ''Think about what estrogen makes you do,'' Ms. DeLillo said at home one evening while a frozen chicken whirled in the microwave. ''Estrogen makes you nest and compete for men. It holds you back. You're consumed with the biological cloc... |
1293421_11 | Toward a Smoother Flight | what you think you're due. On domestic flights, airlines accept a maximum liability of $2,500 for lost luggage, but that's not a given. ''It's adjusted, like any other claim would be,'' said Emmet Schwartzman, an aviation lawyer with Carlton Fields, a Florida firm that represents airlines. ''You've got to itemize what ... |
1293510_0 | Demonstration for Disability Rights | |
1293440_4 | The Green Revolution Yields to the Bottom Line | Peru, which is supported by governments and charities. ''Why is there no malaria vaccine? Because there's no one to pay for it.'' Dr. Zandstra said seed companies hesitated to develop virus-resistant potato seeds because the harm done by viruses forced farmers to buy new seeds. But with his center developing such seeds... |
1296909_4 | Mott Haven Journal; For Generations, a Sanctuary for Immigrants in the Bronx | building was basically safe for now but that the roof, dome and north tower urgently needed to be fixed to save the interior from further water damage. Acting on the report's recommendations, church officials had several pews roped off because of the leaking water and risk of falling plaster. When the church opened in ... |
1291057_8 | . . . And to Penny-Pinching Wizardry | Credit Suisse First Boston and Intel, are trying to keep the payroll from swelling by asking the graduating students to whom they had made job offers to delay their starting dates -- or not to come at all. THE reasons for the penny-pinching vary widely. At companies that have cut whole swaths of employees, it appears u... |
1291209_2 | SUGAR RULES DEFY FREE-TRADE LOGIC | by limiting imports and making loans to growers. But in recent years, helped by technology and weather, production has exploded. And government policies and price supports, on balance, encouraged farmers to abandon even more seriously depressed crops in favor of sugar beets and cane. Overproduction sent prices tumbling... |
1291122_3 | Business; Can Entrepreneurs and Environmentalists Mix? | One issue involves air-conditioners. The Bush administration wants to lower the federal efficiency standard required for residential air-conditioners, but the council says that proposal would increase electrical consumption nationally by 14,000 megawatts -- equal to what is generated by more than 50 midsize power plant... |
1290881_8 | LOCATION: NEW YORK; The Estrogen Alternative | safe over the long term. But the Schaper & Brümmer findings were compelling enough to lure GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical giant, into a partnership with the German firm; Glaxo recently acquired the rights to market RemiFemin as a dietary supplement in the United States and is now waging a promotional blitz, comple... |
1291259_0 | Learning Disabled, Or Maybe Not | To the Editor: Re ''Progress on Special Education'' (editorial, May 1): You say recent data from New York State suggest that some learning-disabled students ''could have been mainstreamed all along.'' As a child, I was tracked into remedial classes. But by junior high school, I found that the lowest tracked classes wer... |
1291105_1 | In a Bull Stampede, They Hear the Bears' Growl | over the years in judging investor psychology: the market sentiment of investment newsletter editors. They are extremely sensitive to changes in how the wind is blowing -- and are not above changing their tunes accordingly. If greed rather than fear is predominant among investors, for example, then a significant number... |
1290883_7 | LOCATION: EVERYWHERE; Together, in Sickness and in Health | Africa, compared with the $2.5 billion estimated as necessary to do even a perfunctory job. ''When you see $9billion going into the response to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, where you would expect a few hundred or maybe a few thousand cases at the most, while other, far greater public health problems are seriously neglect... |
1291260_0 | Learning Disabled, Or Maybe Not | To the Editor: When special-education students succeed on standardized tests and by other mainstream measures (editorial, May 1), they do so precisely because they have received special services. Their success results from their own hard work and from the unremitting efforts of the dedicated special-education staff who... |
1290922_5 | A Conquest Whose Daring Matched Its Cruelty | Inca army was forced to retreat and, as the conquistadors give chase, Mr. Wood again follows them on foot, with a train of llamas carrying his equipment, past the sacred city of Machu Picchu, down to the lost city of Vilcabamba and finally to the Incas' last retreat at Vitcos, where Manco was murdered in 1544. A hunger... |
1291136_3 | The World; Modern Asia's Anomaly: The Girls Who Don't Get Born | has added a new and definitive means for acting on a prejudice against girls -- and statistics reflect the results, experts say. NORMALLY, women around the world give birth to 105 or 106 boys for every 100 girls. But according to China's latest census, there were 117 boys born for every 100 girls in 2000, up from 114 i... |
1291136_4 | The World; Modern Asia's Anomaly: The Girls Who Don't Get Born | had they received treatment equal to that of boys and men. Each country has its own policies or customs that may well have intensified the problem. In China, pressure to abort girls has been increased by family planning rules that limit couples to one or two children. In India, the sizable dowries that families pay to ... |
1289668_0 | Progress in Special Education | The federal government has long criticized New York State for segregating too many children with alleged learning disabilities -- especially black and Latino children -- in special education classes, where they learn little and rarely graduate. The state responded by creating an early-intervention program for children ... |
1289638_1 | Brazil Bounding Forward As Genomics Powerhouse | with a group that is sequencing human cancer genes, financed in part by the Ludwig Institute in Switzerland. In another unusual turnabout, the United States Department of Agriculture recently contracted Fapesp to sequence the gene of a bacterium that afflicts vineyards in California. ''What they are doing is science of... |
1289635_2 | Using X-Rays to Measure the Elusive Spin of a Black Hole | a spin. ''You know the mass of the black hole,'' Dr. Psaltis said. ''You have measured a very high frequency. And the only way you can make it work is if the black hole spins.'' Another astrophysicist familiar with the results, Dr. Virginia Trimble of the University of Maryland and the University of California at Irvin... |
1289674_1 | A Top Sinn Fein Leader Says He Was No. 2 in I.R.A. | twice in the Republic of Ireland of I.R.A. membership. But he has never publicly admitted his involvement in the organization. Over the last three years, Mr. McGuinness has pulled off a dramatic transformation, from a scruffy guerrilla leader who did not attend college to the polished politician who helped negotiate th... |
1295051_2 | Dam Project in Paraguay Mirrors Rift Over Riches | move to the city's outskirts, leaving behind their homes and livelihoods, ''To this date, we have not received a single cent of compensation,'' said Heriberto Cabral, an ironworker and leader of a local organization of displaced residents. ''All they have done is create a belt of misery around the city that is growing ... |
1294850_4 | Stepping Down After 40 Years | financed by the state but run by a Board of Education selected from the hospital's trustees. After school, patients take part in a therapeutic recreation program that includes activities like swimming, painting with rollers attached to wheelchairs, off-campus trips, on-site carnivals and visits from animals. ''In most ... |
1294731_6 | Uneasy Being Green: Tourism Runs Wild | federal regulation that whale-watching boats keep a certain distance, and stay out of the way of the big humpbacks as they go through mating rituals in the warm Pacific. Only an exhaustive search of Coast Guard records would turn up repeat violators. But who wants to spend a vacation going over public documents in a ba... |
1295069_0 | The Fresh Air Fund; A Camp That Caters to Special Needs | At the first sign of summer, many parents begin getting shorts and swimsuits ready for overnight camp. Between sewing names on clothing and buying insect repellent, they also worry about how their children will manage while away from home. But for the parents of disabled children, there is another concern: finding a ca... |
1294698_5 | Hanging Out With Butterflies | with no compensation. Logging, a source of income and fuel, was severely restricted. Butterflies threatened to be their undoing. Developing a tourist-based economy seems to be the answer. Diego, a shy swarthy man from Angangueo, drove us up to El Rosario in his pickup; halfway up the mountain we paid a toll to pass thr... |
1294770_0 | Canadians Proclaim A Year of the Bear | The national parks of the Canadian Rockies, home to perhaps 200 black bears and 200 grizzlies, are serving as host for a yearlong tribute to their majestic and fearsome inhabitants. Throughout this year, parks, museums, galleries and hotels across Alberta and British Columbia will hold more than 500 events to commemora... |
1295054_2 | W.H.O. Says More Donations Can Bring TB Under Control | as a major target in the coming year. Nearly all tuberculosis deaths occur in developing countries, the agency reported. W.H.O.'s plan offers a blueprint for the 22 hardest-hit countries, including Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa. For each of the countries, the report lists the actions, from training to f... |
1294296_2 | Ford Is Said To Consider Seeking Recalls Of More Tires | tires than were recalled in August. ''We've got another problem that might be bigger than the last one,'' said one person close to Ford's review. The tires in question have problems at rates double the usual level, but have not yet caused a rash of rollovers and other crashes, another person close to the review said. B... |
1295891_0 | Wireless Wanderer: A Field Study | I'M not much of an apostle for the wireless cause. Whether it's because I feel my life is busy enough or because of my upbringing in rural New Mexico -- my family didn't get a telephone until I was 8, and then it was a party line -- I seem to have an inherent skepticism of new devices. So up to now I've gotten through ... |
1295916_4 | Being Met At the Airport By New Art; Big, Bold Installations For a Rebuilt Kennedy Arrivals Terminal | her husband and partner, Ricardo Scofidio, who teaches architecture at Cooper Union, to the project. ''We were very enthusiastic about the banality of these very long corridors,'' Ms. Diller said. ''It is a space of limbo, which is very compelling.'' Diller + Scofidio have tackled many challenging conceptual projects, ... |
1295990_0 | Widespread Doubts Among Drivers on Firestone's Future | J. A. Tipps drove his Lincoln Continental to the Rose Tire shop today to check out a problem tire. He ended up changing all four of his tires, just to be safe -- four Michelin tires. ''As far as I'm concerned, Firestone's had it,'' said Mr. Tipps, an 82-year-old retired salesman who lives in this suburb northeast of Na... |
1290724_0 | Decision on Forest Rules Spurs Concern About Implementation | The White House's decision to put in place a Clinton administration rule to protect national forests but allow changes to be made locally kindled a tense and unsettled debate today over how the rule would be carried out. The decision was made public this afternoon by Ann M. Veneman, the agriculture secretary, and it pr... |
1290781_0 | World Briefing | The World: Less Money For Contraceptives | The head of the United Nations Population Fund said that donations to international agencies for the distribution of contraceptives in poor countries had fallen to the lowest level in five years -- $875 million for this year -- just as AIDS experts are urging wider distribution of condoms as a way to slow the spread of... |
1297475_3 | In Cuba, Clashing Voices Over Ideals and Reality | to travel to Mexico where she buys bogus designer shirts for $2 apiece to sell back home for $8 or more. ''You can't compare it to Cuba,'' she said of the Soviet Union in which she grew up. ''Russian society was stronger. But not in ideology, because in ideology Cuba is stronger.'' Joel, a family friend, dropped in for... |
1289900_2 | On Free Trade, Castro Sees U.S. Guile and Latin Dupes | on exports of basic products and clamored for the suppression of United States tariffs,'' Mr. Castro said. ''For Cuba, it is clear that the so-called Free Trade Agreement of the Americas in its conditions, time frame, strategy, objectives and procedures imposed by the United States, inexorably leads to the annexation o... |
1291497_0 | After Heart Surgery, an Added Concern | No one is sure why, but researchers say it appears that women who have heart surgery are at greater risk of having strokes and other neurological problems afterward than are men who have the same operation. Writing in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, the authors speculate that the problem may lie wit... |
1297286_5 | NEWS SUMMARY | the police said. B3 SCIENCE TIMES F1-12 On Sex, the Same Language A comparison of studies on sexual behavior in the United States and France found a few intriguing differences between the two cultures, but in most areas of sexuality the distinctions were negligible. F1 Fireball Over the Pacific American space and groun... |
1297220_3 | Scientists View New Wave of Cancer Drugs | Dr. Varmus said the Gleevec trials and similar results from mouse experiments suggested that turning off a hyperactive signaling protein could be a general way of forcing cancer cells to trigger the self-destruct mechanism all cells possess. This could mean the downstream signaling proteins, as well as the hyperactive ... |
1297192_1 | Secrets of Keeping Aging's Effects at Bay | in a less-than-ideal position. My main complaint is hot flashes. I was treated for breast cancer two years ago and since my cancer cells were estrogen-sensitive, I had to abandon hormone replacement and take the anti-estrogen tamoxifen, which causes hot flashes, for five years. I now dress in layers, the first being a ... |
1295823_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day yesterday about an employee at the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, who was forced to resign after boasting in an e-mail message about his sexual exploits and lavish lifestyle misstated his given name. He is Peter Chung, not Paul. |
1295634_2 | Art Scholars Protest Plan To Restore A Leonardo | is in a position to make these judgments.'' The petition has stirred a longstanding debate about the advisability of restoring aging works of art, in which each side accuses the other of advocating malpractice. ''We cannot accept the idea that masterpieces cannot be touched,'' said Ms. Petrioli, who uses her maiden nam... |
1295683_1 | Foreign Graduates Ask, 'What Now?' | only as a new beginning but also with anxiety, tension and divided loyalties. Families in home countries beckon, while graduates juggle questions that their American classmates need never consider: Will the distant, perhaps less developed, economy they left have a place for them? How will they adapt after immersion in ... |
1295692_5 | Ford Intends to Replace 13 Million Firestone Wilderness Tires | that decision, according to a person close to Firestone, was to free Firestone to denounce the Explorer as an unsafe vehicle while insisting that the tires were of good quality and caused few crashes when installed on other vehicles. In Congressional testimony last September, Mr. Lampe questioned the safety of sport ut... |
1295631_4 | Architects Building Castles in the Clouds | ''We looked at the cloud,'' Ms. Medvedow said. ''Who could look at that building and not have your breath taken away?'' On a windy morning in mid-April Ms. Diller and Mr. Scofidio arrived on the lakefront of this city of 25,000, an hour's train ride from Geneva to see if sustaining the cloud over the water for the five... |
1295655_1 | Business Travel; Even experienced and prepared travelers can find themselves caught up short from time to time. | doesn't like to check luggage and instead manages to get everything into a carry-on bag that is regulation-size to fit in overhead bins. But she recently developed some painful tendinitis, and when she boarded the T.W.A. flight with a first-class ticket, she politely asked the flight attendant for help with stowing the... |
1295224_1 | Schools Get Tool to Track Students' Use of Internet | United States to choose a ''technology protection measure'' to protect minors from inappropriate online materials, or risk losing Internet financial support from the federal e-Rate program. Debate over the law, which was opposed by libraries and civil liberties groups, focused on whether the most common technology for ... |
1295249_2 | Kazakhs Take Strong Issue With Bush's Missile Project | decided in 1991 to close the nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk, the world's largest such site. In an interview explaining the step, Vladimir Shkolnik, the minister of energy and mineral resources, said the action was tantamount to ''the governor of Nevada announcing that he would close Nevada's nuclear test site.'' So... |
1295269_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | Alan García, above left, tried to link his opponent, Alejandro Toledo, above right, to the use of cocaine in a televised debate. Mr. Toledo responded with accusations of his own. The presidential campaign has alienated many Peruvians, with a recent poll reporting 31 percent of voters are planning to spoil their ballots... |
1294475_0 | Ah, the Good Old Days, Even Those That Were Pretty Awful | Memory, Svetlana Boym points out in this remarkable book, is born of trauma. The legend is that the Greek poet Simonides attended a banquet where he sang lyrical hymns to the gods and his host. He was called away by a mysterious messenger, but no sooner had he left than the roof collapsed. The guests were so mangled un... |
1293128_0 | U.S. Nurtures Growing Bond With India On Defense | Unlike most of the world, India has reacted positively, if somewhat ambiguously, to President Bush's proposal for a missile defense, and in response the Bush administration is continuing the warming trend in American-Indian relations that began under Bill Clinton. On the third anniversary of India's nuclear tests, whic... |
1292730_13 | Naturally | successful. This is just lunch for most people. Just lunch. We can call it sacred, we can talk about communion, but it's just lunch.'' In the years after the Alar bubble burst in 1990, the organic industry recovered, embarking on a period of double-digit annual growth and rapid consolidation, as mainstream food compani... |
1293098_1 | Study Suggests Overuse of Chemotherapy Near Life's End | in Massachusetts and Medicare billing records. The researchers used standard textbooks to classify whether different cancers were generally responsive or unresponsive to chemotherapy. Responsive cancers included in the study were breast, colon and ovarian. Unresponsive cancers included gallbladder, kidney, liver and pa... |
1293090_0 | Sunday Q & A | Sunday Q & A appears in this section weekly. Readers are invited to send in questions about national or international affairs; those selected will be answered by Times correspondents who specialize in those issues. Information about submitting questions appears below. Genetically Modified Food Q. What percent of our fo... |
1291383_0 | Learning-Disabled Kids | To the Editor: Re ''Progress in Special Education'' (editorial, May 1): I am the father of two special-education children. Both have made great progress in their special-education classes. One is now ready to enter a mainstream setting; the other is not. This difference results not from any philosophical bias but rathe... |
1293307_5 | E-Commerce; Vicinity's low stock price, despite its high traffic, shows how hard it is to make money solely on monthly visitors. | commerce with it, it has the potential to create value.'' Indeed, among Vicinity's competitors, those that are thriving have done so by creating a broad range of services. Take Mapquest. Aside from its mapping site, the company also has a business locator service similar to Vicinity's that Mapquest licenses to clients ... |
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