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1691070_0 | On the Road to an Irish Peace | To the Editor: Re ''After Taste of Calm, Appetite for Peace'' (news article, July 29): It is hoped that the Irish Republican Army's decision to disarm shall mark a significant epoch in both British and Irish history. It is a time for reflection, a time to look back with honesty and openness over the violence that has s... |
1690995_1 | I.R.A. Pledge Seen as Potential Model for Other Conflicts | that aspiration to be fully realized. Yesterday's gathering was organized by a private foreign policy study group, the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, which has played an influential role in the Irish peace process since the early 1990's. The main speaker at the lunch, Martin McGuinness, a former I.R.A. ... |
1691071_0 | On the Road to an Irish Peace | To the Editor: The announcement by the Irish Republican Army that it will renounce violence represents a long-overdue realization that terrorism is an ineffective method of producing political change. Long years of terrorism against Israel have not eliminated Israel. The bombings of American airplanes, embassies and ev... |
1690994_0 | To Some in Ulster, Celebration of I.R.A. Pledge Is Early | If Northern Ireland woke up on Friday morning to a new era in the province's troubled history, few people here were in a mood to celebrate. The Irish Republican Army's pledge to end its bloody 36-year campaign of violence, splashed across Belfast's dozen morning newspapers, did not really change anything, some resident... |
1691069_0 | On the Road to an Irish Peace | To the Editor: The leadership of the Irish Republican Army and Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, are to be congratulated for their courageous and unparalleled announcement. But I am disappointed that Prime Minister Tony Blair's comments and the White House statement, as reported, make no mention of the need for ... |
1684461_2 | They Want The Sharks To Bite; Northeastern Fishermen Have Hard Time Finding Prey | open water. Even in good years, many boats return with empty holds. In this year's tournament season, timed as always to the migration north of big sharks in June, the competition started out slow. The South Jersey Shark Tournament, a premier event held out of Cape May three weekends ago, drew 217 boats competing for $... |
1685090_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | dominates the lives of those in its shadow; while some are repelled by its intrusive nature, others are drawn to the overwhelming might that lies just on the other side. A8 First Gay Marriages in Spain The lines inside the Madrid Civil Registry, where residents apply for marriage licenses, swelled with gay and lesbian ... |
1685138_0 | Plotting to Save the Structure of Those Aging Bones | Osteoporosis is a serious and costly disease. Nearly 30million women and 14million men in the United States already have it or are heading toward it. The numbers continue to rise as the population ages, especially now that far fewer women are taking estrogen, which protects against postmenopausal bone loss. Osteoporosi... |
1689606_1 | Dross Into Gold | few years, the shipping industry in New York and New Jersey has faced the growing problem of what to do with dredge spoils, the mucky, often highly contaminated byproduct dug up from bays and rivers when they are widened and deepened for navigability. Until recently, the most common practice was simply to load the mud ... |
1689700_1 | Scaring Us Senseless | say that as much as we think of ourselves as rational animals, risk avoidance is not governed by reason, cognition or intellect. Rather, it comes chiefly from our emotional system. Patients with brain lesions that prevent them from registering feelings even when their cognitive and analytical capacities are intact are ... |
1689419_5 | The Truth Wars | Many readers will get lost as Blackburn chattily weaves his way through all this. The book ties together material from his lectures and essays, and does not have the unity of his earlier popularizations, ''Think'' (1999) and ''Being Good'' (2001). But several parts of it repay close study, such as a perceptive chapter ... |
1689668_2 | The School That Skipped Ethics Class | to a cheerier theme, Career Education said that Brooks was ''proudly celebrating its 60th anniversary'' and that it had recently received the Innovator Award from the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce. Now, if you were a Career Education shareholder, what would you care more about: a local Chamber of Commerce award or ... |
1689512_0 | Coffee Growers Try to Revive a Toast of Cafe Society | Long before Starbucks and even Sanka, the coffee produced in this cool mountain region was internationally beloved -- so much that Puerto Rico, barely the size of Connecticut, was among the world's largest, proudest coffee exporters. The cafes of Vienna, Paris and Madrid served Puerto Rican coffee in the 19th century, ... |
1687095_1 | Rice Claims U.S. Role in Korean About-Face | Bush's pledge not to improve the existing offer until the North responds to it at the negotiating table. At the same time, the North enters the talks knowing what specific benefits it can gain if it gives up its nuclear ambitions. In the last year, Washington has urged the other parties to the six-nation disarmament ta... |
1687220_0 | Research Changes Ideas About Children and Work | WHEN Americans think about child labor in poor countries, they rarely picture girls fetching water or boys tending livestock. Yet most of the 211 million children, ages 5 to 14, who work worldwide are not in factories. They are working in agriculture -- from 92 percent in Vietnam to 63 percent in Guatemala -- and most ... |
1687248_0 | When Art Imitates Pain, It Can Help Heal, a Therapy Group Finds | The psychologist handed a painting by Frida Kahlo to a woman in a group therapy session for depression recently at a Brooklyn hospital. ''I want you to tell me what you see here,'' the psychologist, María Sesín, said in Spanish. ''What are you thinking about when you see this? How do you interpret it and relate it to y... |
1690098_2 | In Search of a New Energy Source, China Rides the Wind | are expected to deploy huge new turbines with 87-yard-long blades, each capable of generating 1.2 megawatts of electricity, enough to power hundreds of homes, if not more. ''We have huge goals for wind power development,'' Wang Zhongying, director of China's Center for Renewable Energy Development. ''By 2010, we plan t... |
1690126_4 | In Bronx, a Fight for Health and Dignity | should put her complaint in writing. ''I believe they should treat anyone who walks through their doors with dignity,'' Ms. Altieri said. ''I cannot question their medical expertise. But I know about dignity.'' Indeed, she arranged for Ms. Pagan to see a neurologist as well as a trauma counselor at a Manhattan hospital... |
1690070_4 | Restoring Reputation of 'Artist-Citizen of the U.S.' | conservators, experts in Raphael and Michelangelo, helped change her mind. The pair were hired shortly after Dr. Wolanin's arrival to consult on a project to clean and conserve the frescoes in the canopy of the Rotunda. ''They could kind of see through the overpaint and the dirt,'' Dr. Wolanin said. ''Seeing major cons... |
1685529_1 | Do Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Stimulate Employment? | business owners could afford to hire additional workers, they would. But whether owners can afford to hire is not the issue. What matters is whether hiring will increase their profits. The basic hiring criterion, found in every introductory textbook (including those written by the president's own economic advisers), is... |
1685506_0 | Center for Disabled Children Agrees to Improve Medical Care | A center for developmentally disabled children in New Jersey, where a child died three years ago after being placed in restraints, has entered into a legal agreement with the state to improve medical care and training. Under the agreement announced yesterday, the center, Bancroft NeuroHealth, based in Haddonfield, has ... |
1688967_0 | Bruschi Decides to Miss Patriots' 2005 Season | If the New England Patriots are to win a third consecutive Super Bowl, they will have to do it without Tedy Bruschi. Ending months of speculation since Bruschi had a mild stroke in February, the Patriots announced yesterday that he would sit out the 2005 season. The decision was hardly surprising, but it left the Patri... |
1688371_1 | Iraqis Press Donors for Billions More in Reconstruction Aid | of the American rebuilding program, which he said had failed to produce quick results despite the expenditure of about $9 billion, according to Pentagon figures. After formulaic declarations by officials at the United Nations and the World Bank that the first day of the conference had been a success, Mr. Salih gave a b... |
1688411_0 | JUNE REPORT LED BRITAIN TO LOWER ITS TERROR ALERT | Less than a month before the London bombings, Britain's top intelligence and law enforcement officials concluded that ''at present there is not a group with both the current intent and the capability to attack the U.K.,'' according to a confidential terror threat assessment report. The previously undisclosed report was... |
1688457_0 | The Night Before the Morning After | When morning-after pills become more easily available, do women become less diligent about using birth control? Apparently not, reports a new study in the medical journal BMJ, which looked at what happened in Britain after it became legal to buy emergency contraception without a prescription. The pills are intended to ... |
1688508_0 | Arts, Briefly | Italy Protecting Art From Terror Antiterrorism measures to protect Italy's cultural and archeological sites are being drawn up in the aftermath of the London bombings, Culture Minister Rocco Buttiglione said yesterday in Rome. An increase in security guards, surveillance cameras and the use of metal detectors as well a... |
1688063_1 | In Troubled Times, Bring On the Spartans | It's just that they are stoical by nature and are more comfortable publicly with matters of the gut than with matters of the heart. In public life they tend to flee from the politics of family values, believing that government can do little that is productive or good in this sphere. They handle social issues with obvio... |
1688070_0 | In the Matter Of the Bulls, Papa Knows Best | The running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, took place over the week, with the usual scores of bashed heads and bruise knees, as well as the odd goring. Hemingway popularized the event in ''The Sun Also Rises.'' And in his nonfiction work ''The Dangerous Summer,'' opined that it was no place to take a wife (he had tak... |
1687732_0 | A Feminist Classic Gets a Makeover | The unthinkable, though perhaps inevitable, has happened. Long known for its ardent denunciations of society's obsession with image, the feminist health guide Our Bodies, Ourselves (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, paper, $24.95) turned 35 this year and received a drastic makeover, like a contestant on ''The Swan'' concern... |
1687741_0 | Whose Loot Is It Anyway? | THE WRECKERS A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day. By Bella Bathurst. Illustrated. 326 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company. $25. Coast dwellers have always reaped the harvest of the killing seas described in Bella Bathurst's unusual book. In Britain the practice of p... |
1689920_13 | North Korea Nuclear Goals: Case of Mixed Signals | others were predisposed to look for one because of another past intelligence failure: after American officials missed preparations for a 1998 North Korean missile test, they later found that one overlooked signal was the construction of a reviewing stand in the weeks before the test. Analysts also observed other ''V.I.... |
1685003_2 | Girth of a Nation | there is, understandably, a movement to do something about rising obesity, especially among the young. Bills that would require schools to serve healthier lunches, remove vending machines selling sweets and soda, and so on have been introduced in a number of state legislatures. By the way, Britain -- with the second-hi... |
1691377_2 | Millionaire or Not, You Can Find a Financial Planner | so high volume equals high commission,'' said Mr. Wild, whose own clients have portfolios of $100,000 to $1 million. ''Even most fee-only planners who do not take commission tend to work by taking assets under management, which means they're paid a percentage of the assets they manage. There, again, the great advantage... |
1691354_5 | Lofty Goals | team's colors of red and black could be heard throughout the stands as they tried gamely, but in vain, to get the crowd to make some noise. And when the game ended with the MetroStars on the losing end of a 1-0 score, a group of preadolescent girls -- hardened San Jose fans, presumably -- taunted the listless home crow... |
1685846_2 | In Effort to Secure Borders, Iraqis Are Patrolling a River For Smugglers and Pirates | middle of the Shatt. At the port, the lieutenant, a short man in tan camouflage who had served for 12 years in the Iraqi Navy, clambered over three skiffs awash with stolen gasoline that the coast guard had recently seized. He boarded his own boat, which had the word ''police'' painted in Arabic and English on its gray... |
1684687_3 | Warts and All | shudders when she sees the artificial waxy shine on rows of identical vegetables in a grocery store. ''These hybrid tomatoes that are everywhere are only bred for shipping and handling and shelf life,'' Dr. Goldman said, ''so they're just devoid of flavor. But it doesn't have to be that way.'' Dr. Goldman usually start... |
1684634_0 | The Basics; America: Not Their First Choice | Where's the love? The Pew Research Center recently asked nearly 17,000 people from 16 countries: ''Suppose a young person who wanted to leave this country asked you to recommend where to go to lead a good life -- what country would you recommend?'' Only India rated America as its top pick. Except for respondents in Ind... |
1684812_11 | Were the Good Old Days That Good? | late 1950's, life expectancy in the United States was slightly ahead of that of Germany and France, and well ahead of Japan's. Now Japan is far ahead at 80.5 years, compared with 78.5 in France, 77.5 in Germany and 76.5 in the United States. Infant mortality, at more than six deaths per thousand live births, similarly ... |
1689085_3 | Aged and in Wood: Boats From the Gilded Age | and take a rowing lesson. For just $15, visitors can cruise in the Miss Thousand Islands, a triple-cockpit reproduction of a 1929 Hacker runabout. Demand for the rides, which last nearly an hour, is so high that advance booking is recommended. Inside, the museum shows old films of boat races and interviews with boat bu... |
1686139_0 | Report Says Mitterrand Approved Sinking of Greenpeace Ship | Twenty years ago, two French secret service frogmen attached mines to the hull of a ship owned by the environmentalist group Greenpeace as it lay anchored in a New Zealand harbor, and the explosions ripped large holes in it. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior before it could set off to protest French nuclear tests in t... |
1686413_2 | A Freedom Tower Restarted From Scratch; For the Design Team, a Desperate Rush | the trade center site, said: ''We were back to Square 1. But the discouragement led to a new resolve.'' First, the key designers -- including the Skidmore team; Mr. Silverstein's staff; Cantor Seinuk, a structural engineering firm; and Weidlinger Associates, a security consultant -- had to determine whether a wall coul... |
1699735_1 | For Victims, News About Home Can Come From Strangers Online | database of satellite photos. By the end of last week, a grass-roots effort had identified scores of posthurricane images, determined the geographical coordinates and visual landmarks to enable their integration into the Google Earth program, and posted them to a Google Earth bulletin board -- the place ZuluOne turned ... |
1702404_0 | Frayed Nerves and Visions As Two Worlds Compete | IT'S surprising, when you're stuck in traffic because of some 150 world leaders, what you notice about New York. For instance, the Avenue of the Americas in the 30's is the fashion accessories district. It's where people who are called ''trade'' go to buy wallets and gold sequined handbags. There is Kichi Handbags, Ya ... |
1702546_0 | World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Relief Ship Released | Gunmen who held a ship with United Nations food relief for nearly three months released the vessel and 940 metric tons of rice donated for the country's 28,000 tsunami victims. Piracy is common along Somalia's coastline but this was the first instance of a hijacking of a ship working for the World Food Program. Marc La... |
1704518_0 | A ban on same-sex attraction and sexual activity could be a crucial issue for Catholics' attitudes. | News reports surrounding the review of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States that the Vatican has organized have focused on the possibility that Rome plans to bar gay men from ordination to the priesthood, regardless of their readiness to remain faithful to their pledge of celibacy. Such a ban would have serio... |
1704600_0 | World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Hijackers Back Down On Deal | Gunmen who seized a ship carrying relief food off the coast of Somalia on June 27 continue to hold the ship, its 10-man crew and 850 tons of rice despite an announcement last week that the hostage crisis had been resolved. The hijackers had agreed to end the crisis last week in a deal struck with the World Food Program... |
1705750_3 | Abuse of Electroshock Found in Turkish Mental Hospitals | sits on the joint European Union-Turkish parliamentary committee. He said he would bring up the report as part of the membership negotiations, because to join, a nation must be judged to follow democratic principles, respect human rights and be on its way to meeting certain economic and institutional standards. The rep... |
1705904_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Troops Storm Seized Ship | French commandos stormed a ferry off the Corsican coast that was hijacked Tuesday by striking seamen protesting the possible privatization of a government-owned Mediterranean ferry company. No passengers were aboard when it was hijacked in Marseille. Rappelling down ropes dropped from five Puma helicopters, 50 soldiers... |
1704281_3 | West Presses for Nuclear Agency to Rebuke Iran, Despite Russian Dissent | to walk away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty altogether. The treaty, which Iran has generally observed except for failing to disclose certain elements of its program, requires signatories with civilian nuclear programs to submit to international inspections to ensure that they are not also building nuclear wea... |
1704268_1 | Brazil's Lofty Promises After Nun's Killing Prove Hollow | continues as if nothing had happened,'' said Bishop Erwin Krautler of the Xingu, as this region straddling the Trans-Amazon Highway is known. Early this month, representatives of an army unit sent in August to survey the boundaries of every plot of land in the region by year's end met here with leaders of peasant and r... |
1700973_4 | The Codless Seas | finds a way of life barely changed for 400 years: bare-boned houses built by hand, residents happily surviving off caribou and sea birds. Many villages, with ''schools for three and bars for one,'' have no police presence or doctor, and depend on a weekly supply boat. When even that lifeline is canceled, outporters sto... |
1701365_2 | As Recovery Slowly Starts, Some Lights Go On and Some Mail Is Delivered | receive several hours of training and that many would be sent to the Gulf Coast to staff the many shelters in the region. Foreign governments and overseas private organizations have pledged more than $700 million in cash and material assistance to storm victims, including two tons of disposable diapers from South Korea... |
1701234_12 | Laughing All the Way From the Bank | of low-income borrowers, continued even after regulators warned the bank to stop such activities. There were also glaring conflicts of interest that analysts said derived in part from Mr. Weill's relentless desire for Citigroup to produce double-digit financial returns. Glass-Steagall, the hoary law that Citigroup's cr... |
1701216_0 | Dangerous Talkers | Here's a new road game to play when the children start getting restless in the back seat. Get them to count the number of drivers who have one hand on the wheel and the other holding a cellphone to the ear. The game will probably be more fun if you don't spoil it by telling the youngsters what a hazard those one-handed... |
1701122_1 | Dangerous Talkers | you, their harassed chauffeur, must maneuver with extra care and concern because of all those driver-talkers blithely breaking New York State law. Almost four years after New York lawmakers established the first state ban on driving while using a hand-held cellphone, an awful lot of people are routinely flouting the la... |
1701143_1 | Dangerous Talkers | with extra care and concern because of all those driver-talkers blithely breaking New York State law. Almost four years after New York lawmakers established the first state ban on driving while using a hand-held cellphone, an awful lot of people are routinely flouting the law. Even the worst of those flouters knows tha... |
1701236_1 | Thwarting a Cough, With Decorum | product's introduction in 2001, according to Information Resources, the market research firm. Whatever their payloads, all strips begin as vats of syrup. It is only late in the manufacturing process that the syrup is spread out to harden into strips. InnoZen went through 75 to 100 syrup formulations before finding a re... |
1706017_2 | A Letter From the Shores of Iraq | other day, an Iraqi officer suggested to his British adviser that a misbehaving sailor be buried in sand up to his neck. The biggest challenge, explained Capt. John Clink of the Royal Navy, is getting middle-management Iraqis to take the initiative, especially when things go wrong. This requires a huge cultural shift. ... |
1706019_2 | The Way It Is | trip was Representative Bob Ney of Ohio. It's not possible to attribute any one weather event to global warming. But climate models show that global warming will lead to increased hurricane intensity, and some research indicates that this is already occurring. Tyco paid $2 million, most going to firms controlled by Mr.... |
1706049_0 | Turkey's Disabled | The treatment of the mentally disabled has fundamentally changed in recent years. The awareness that people with mental retardation or psychiatric diseases can thrive with proper therapy and attention has led doctors to abandon huge institutions and to let patients live with or near their families and get care in their... |
1705950_0 | Recycled | SOME designers know a good thing when they see it in the trash. Creating attractive items for homes or fashion using everything from recycled glass to used bicycle tire tubes, they're proving that twice-used can look twice as good. So, this fall, green up your getaway in style. BETHANY LYTTLE WASHED ASHORE -- Sea glass... |
1698920_1 | Documenting New York Places, Both Then and Now | Now a recent landmark in rephotography history titled ''New York Changing: Douglas Levere Revisits Berenice Abbott's New York'' is on view at the Museum of the City of New York. The show presents 50 cityscapes from the Modernist photographer Berenice Abbott's 1939 book ''Changing New York,'' each paired with a picture ... |
1698950_0 | Farewell, Octane. Hello, Volt! | GEORGE WESTPHAL'S sky-blue 1985 Nissan Sentra has braved two decades of harsh winters in Pearl River, N.Y. -- and looks it. Spots of rust litter the hood. Door hinges creak. A thick stripe of duct tape holds a cracked dashboard together. But inside, this unassuming old car holds some hidden surprises. Behind the fuel d... |
1700385_3 | Alarm Growing On Storm's Cost For Agriculture | devastation wrought by the storm -- and the ensuing economic impact on farmers both near the gulf and several states away -- could alter the debate in Washington and hamper crucial trade talks scheduled for a December meeting of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong. ''Without question, this makes the reforms that ... |
1700298_3 | Seeking Justice, of Gods or the Politicians | into traditional religious theodicies. But this did not mean, of course, that theodicies faded away. Ms. Neiman argued that for philosophers theology had been replaced by history. The fates of peoples and nations reflected other forces, and disruptions were given other forms of explanation. Hegel saw history as an evol... |
1699898_2 | Is This the Gaze of an Endangered Species or an Evil Croc? | navigate Amazon waters. Asked for an estimate in an interview with the magazine Epoca, Eduardo Braga, governor of Amazonas, replied, ''The only thing I can say is that the presence of the caiman is intimidating and immensely greater than the human population'' of the state, which is 2.8 million. The animals have become... |
1699877_1 | Stunning News of a Tumor Serendipitously Discovered | I'd been feeling wonderful and was back to my full schedule of walking, jogging and teaching yoga. I had no hearing loss, balance problems or other symptoms associated with this rare kind of tumor. Sitting in my doctor's office, her voice seemed far away, and I grabbed onto a few reassuring words: ''noncancerous,'' ''s... |
1699884_6 | High-Tech Flood Control, With Nature's Help | that the $4.5 billion effort will prove ineffective while threatening to kill the fragile lagoon in which Venice sits. In theory, the gates are to be completed by 2010. ''People fight doing things like this,'' said Dr. Bras, of M.I.T. ''But when disaster strikes you realize how important it is to think ahead.'' Planner... |
1702214_3 | Venting Ideas, Then Hiding Them, Turns Out to Be a Tall Order | but a model prepared for internal use, showing the plaza peppered with vents, helped focus their attention. They now estimate that 80 to 90 percent of the potentially intrusive shafts have been relocated. Some shafts will be incorporated within -- and disguised by -- structures like the cultural building at the northea... |
1702302_0 | Global Poverty, Anemic Response | To the Editor: The needs that Nicholas D. Kristof writes about are indeed pressing, and the response of the developed countries is regrettably inadequate to supply the food, water and medical care needed in many parts of the world. But the problems mentioned are in many ways due to the fact that the countries where the... |
1702128_0 | For the Gulf Coast, A Rehabilitation Effort | THE National Trust for Historic Preservation plans to announce an initiative today to send damage assessment teams to the Gulf Coast region to survey neighborhoods and report on what can be saved, according to Richard Moe, president of the trust. After the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of badly damaged hist... |
1702173_1 | Protestants Say Anger and Alienation Are Fueling Riots in Belfast | announced an end to its 36-year armed campaign to drive Britain out of Northern Ireland, prompting Prime Minister Tony Blair to declare a new era of peace. But many people said the clashes were the result of a more significant rift between the British government and Protestants, who are in the majority here. Britain wa... |
1705318_1 | At the Vatican, Exceptions Make the Rule | in Italian cities will appreciate the point. No law, most Italians believe, can capture the infinite complexity of human situations, and it's more important for the law to describe a vision of the ideal community than for it to be rigidly obeyed. Italians have tough laws, but their enforcement is enormously forgiving. ... |
1705251_2 | OBSERVATORY | has become a real headache, particularly in zoology, with its 1.5 million animal species described so far. With the explosion of research in recent decades and the discovery of more new species (15,000 to 20,000 animal species are named every year, for example), it is difficult for biologists to keep up. Descriptions a... |
1705350_0 | The I.R.A. Finally Risks Disarmament | A singular opportunity in the bloody strife of Northern Ireland is at hand with word from an independent monitor that the Irish Republican Army has in fact scrapped its hidden arsenals of war weaponry. Vast amounts of murderous tools from the modern Troubles have been rendered unusable and sealed away, according to Joh... |
1705371_0 | Haves, Have-Nots and College | To the Editor: David Brooks (''The Education Gap,'' column, Sept. 25) is looking at society through the wrong end of a telescope. The gap in college degrees is the outcome of the disparity in wealth, not the cause. The increases in tuition, book costs, and room and board have made college attendance unaffordable for in... |
1701526_2 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Collecting; From Surfer S.U.V. To Classic Treasure | on the wood, and they became too costly to restore,'' Mr. Trulson said. The need for such frequent refinishing hurt the resale values of woodies, which were often the most expensive vehicles in a car line. Too much of an investment to abandon, but still mechanically sound, many sat unused for years. Until, that is, bar... |
1703318_4 | Iranian Leader Refuses to End Nuclear Effort | Iran to the Security Council remains on the agenda.'' France, England and Germany have been negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program. Mr. Douste-Blazy added that he was ''very concerned'' that Mr. Ahmadinejad reaffirmed his country's desire to develop nuclear fuel technology ''without taking into account the worr... |
1702963_1 | The Way We Live Now: 9-18-05: IDEA LAB; Talking in the Dark | In fact, disaster-preparedness experts and high-tech inventors are already developing the idea of blanketing cities with what they call a ''WiFi mesh.'' WiFi, of course, is the technology you may use at home or in a Starbucks to connect a laptop wirelessly to the Internet; a mesh is a vast, self-correcting network of W... |
1702946_0 | Out of the Library | To the Editor: In her review of Michael Schmidt's ''First Poets'' (Aug. 28), Camille Paglia paraphrases, ''In the new Hellenistic world inaugurated by the conquests of Alexander the Great, 'cultural authority' shifted from Athens to Alexandria in Egypt, where poetry now 'lived in libraries.' '' She allows to pass uncha... |
1703187_0 | In the Amazon, Where Our Sister Was Slain | To the Editor: The enormous fight to regain control of the Amazon from gunmen, illegal ranchers and loggers has just begun and is not as rosy as you state in ''A Healthier Amazon Jungle'' (editorial, some editions, Sept. 13). Our sister, Dorothy Stang, tried to halt this robbery, and for this she was murdered in Februa... |
1702941_0 | The Shores of Tripoli | To the Editor: Christopher Hitchens makes an error in his review of three books related to raiding on the high seas 200 years ago (Aug. 21). The Muslim sailors who captured ships and enslaved European and American crews were not technically pirates, because they had official permission from their governments to raid th... |
1703210_4 | To Many in the Amazon, Government Comes on a Boat | boat, the Zona Franca Verde -- or Green Free Trade Zone -- are free, with the government even bearing the cost of laminating the documents. In an environment as wet and humid as the Amazon, no one wants to fall into the river, get their papers so waterlogged that they are illegible and have to go through the process of... |
1698767_2 | For Its Motorists, Only Parts of Rome Prove to Be Eternal | professor and director of the Center for Cultural Heritage, a preservation institute at La Sapienza University. ''I think it's very difficult to balance the technical advantages and safety advantages with aesthetic advantages. Being an engineer, I prefer not to face this kind of problem.'' For some of the millions of t... |
1698866_0 | Senate Panel Plans Hearing Into Reports On Terrorist | The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that it was investigating reports from two military officers that a highly classified Pentagon intelligence program identified the Sept. 11 ringleader as a potential terrorist more than a year before the attacks. The committee's chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, Republi... |
1698792_2 | Millions Said to Be Lacking Phone Service of Any Kind | are in and around New Orleans, where the most equipment is submerged, coverage is only slowly improving elsewhere in the region. In the hard-hit towns along the Mississippi coast, phone company workers -- not to mention ordinary cellphone users -- are having to trek five miles or more inland to get a signal on their ph... |
1698737_2 | Cracks in the Guggenheim Get High-Tech Attention | it's a landmark building, we really can't tear the thing apart to see what's going on there,'' he said. A crucial component of the investigation is studying the cracks, which are typically caused by seasonal temperature fluctuations. To this end, a system of crack monitoring has been designed, using wires that track ev... |
1700575_0 | A Light in the Forests | The Bush administration has largely succeeded in its systematic effort to roll back environmental protections for America's national forests. It has weakened agreements to protect old-growth trees in the Pacific Northwest, persuaded Congress to adopt an industry-friendly plan for fire suppression and overhauled rules g... |
1700552_1 | Rail Line to Tibet Is a Marvel, but China Is Oddly Mum | world's highest. For those bored with the scenery, or perhaps just dizzy, there will be other diversions: first-class accommodations include health spas and fancy restaurants. When China's central government embarked on the $3.1 billion project in 2001, it set aside $240 million for environmental protection. When objec... |
1699221_1 | On Ruined Coast, the Desperate Cry Out for Loved Ones Still Lost | Agency rated them as zero percent searched, Mr. Spraggins said. There were 105 confirmed deaths in Harrison, Jackson, Pearl River and Hancock Counties. So desperate are people to communicate that when a T-Mobile office in Gulfport put out a sign that said ''free calls,'' 1,500 people lined up over two days, the manager... |
1699124_1 | Meeting School Siege Victims' Kin, Putin Deflects Blame From Kremlin | the grief and anguish in Beslan, a small city in the Northern Caucasus, increasingly turned into protest, led by a group called the Beslan Mothers' Committee. The group has challenged the official version of events and accused the government of covering up a botched rescue attack and failing to punish any officials for... |
1705690_0 | Paid Notice: Deaths VLAMIS, STEVE ''STAMATIS'' | VLAMIS--Steve ''Stamatis'' on September 26. Born in Andros, Greece, in the village of Aprovatro, November 2, 1914. He moved to Athens at age 11 to begin his lifetime career in the food business. At 21, he entered the Greek Navy. After his service tour, he joined the Merchant Marine service as Chief Cook. In the late 30... |
1700762_0 | Private Aid To Italian Art Costs an Arm And a Leg | Italians are so blasé about the art all around them that it apparently takes hacking a leg off Michelangelo's ''David'' or rubbing Jesus out of Leonardo da Vinci's ''Last Supper'' to get their attention -- and maybe their money. The images, on television and in newspapers around the country, do require a second look: P... |
1702613_0 | By 2050, an Urban Planet | AT most companies, long-range planning does not typically extend beyond the next 12 months. Corporations that take forward thinking seriously might go out to 2010. That's what makes the current issue of Scientific American so intriguing. The magazine projects what the world will look like in 2050, and it is going to be... |
1704713_2 | Bargain Fares in Europe? Well, Not Exactly | Schönefeld in eastern Berlin, 15 miles from downtown, while most carriers use the larger Berlin International in Tegel, four miles west of downtown. Such secondary airports can be especially inconvenient if you want to make a connection from a major carrier. Last summer, Glenn Cunningham, a management consultant in Bos... |
1704683_5 | Style: The Way We Drive Now: Motoring Toward A Post-Gasoline Age; Cars That Guzzle Grass | be decimated by a widespread popular shift to cars with hybrid engines or hydrogen fuel cells. To Michael Quah, NextEnergy's chief technology officer, the United States (and Michigan's economy, presumably) must pursue a policy of energy diversity so that any of a wide variety of fuels can fill in for another whenever o... |
1704710_3 | A City of Many Pasts Embraces the Future | of European states (talks begin next month on Turkey joining the European Union), or perhaps a land of increasingly fervent Islam. Istanbul's renaissance is one that stretches both high and low. It is a short taxi ride from the narrow streets of the impoverished Fatih quarter, where veiled women avoid eye contact and p... |
1704686_29 | After Life | chief of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1940's and interviewed many family members of those killed in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, defined the phenomenon with absolute specificity in a famous 1944 study: ''sensations of somatic distress occurring in waves lasting from 20 minutes to an hour at a ti... |
1704819_0 | Stark Images of When Steichen Went to War | THE Pentagon's banning of news media photographs of coffins returning from Iraq reminds us that photography plays a pivotal role in a crucial arena of modern war: public relations. Edward Steichen (1879-1973), a successful art photographer and director of the United States' naval combat photography during World War II,... |
1699298_0 | The Breaking Point | A perspective rarely heard in our dialogue on oil concerns the permanent loss of this finite resource by treating it as a ''fuel.'' The best use of petroleum is as a ''material.'' The computer hardware on which I am composing this note and an infinite number of goods we have come to rely on are petroleum products. Most... |
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