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1699627_0 | THE NATION: The Days After; The View From Abroad | THEY were perhaps a bit slow, but the expressions of sympathy and offers of aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina did materialize in Europe through the week. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder of Germany declared, '''Our American friends should know that we are standing by them.'' The French prime minister, Dominique de Villep... |
1699442_2 | Havana via Woodbridge: Legal Cuban Cigars | the trove of Cuban tobacco, Puros de Armando Ramos has chosen about 200 buyers at stores across the country, 6 in New Jersey. Despite his cigars' scarcity, Mr. Magier, 48, decided to sell them at relatively affordable prices, in the same range as other premium cigars. At the Tobacco Shop, they cost $12.35 to $16.75 eac... |
1699504_1 | Why the Internet Isn't the Death of the Post Office | coming of the paperless office. But the consumption of paper keeps rising. (It has roughly doubled since 1980, with less use of newsprint and much more of ordinary office paper.) And so, with some nuances and internal changes, does the flow of material carried by mail. On average, an American household receives twice a... |
1703914_3 | A Fright Over Fries; California Wants to Serve a Health Warning With That Order | McDonald's, Burger King and Frito-Lay, other companies named in the suit are KFC, a division of Yum Brands; Wendy's International; Lance, which makes Cape Cod potato chips; H.J. Heinz, which produces Ore-Ida frozen potato products; the potato chip company Kettle Foods; and Procter & Gamble, which sells Pringles. The re... |
1703946_3 | Deep Flaws, and Little Justice, in China's Court System | and perfunctory court proceedings to resolve criminal cases instead of the Western tradition of analyzing forensic evidence and determining guilt through contentious court trials. China's criminal laws forbid torture and require judges to weigh evidence beyond a suspect's confession. But lawyers and legal scholars say ... |
1703433_2 | Good Grief | last Thursday, the very same day that he delivered his speech in New Orleans, the World Bank released a report showing that the continued violence in Iraq had frightened away private investors, slowed reconstruction and disrupted oil production. The Times reported yesterday that even in Najaf, an Iraqi city often cited... |
1703418_0 | AUTOS ON MONDAY/Technology; Coming: 95% Recyclable Cars | HOUSEHOLDS across the United States are steadily coming to terms with local laws that require trash to be separated and sorted -- glass bottles divided from aluminum cans, plastic milk jugs isolated from newspapers -- before it is all hauled to the curb to await pickup. Most of Europe, though, already embraces (or enfo... |
1701879_0 | A Healthier Amazon Jungle | Last month, Brazil's environmental officials announced that the burning of the Amazon has slowed. Deforestation this year is half of what it was the year before. This news shows that when Brazil's government musters the political will to protect the Amazon, it can do it. Large swaths of the jungle are still disappearin... |
1701679_1 | A $79.95 Opportunity To Breeze Through Security | and don't charge a fee, are limited to 2,000 members at each participating airport. What they all have in common is the means to let travelers identify themselves with a thin card encoded with their biometric data -- iris and fingerprint scans -- that the T.S.A. has checked against what Mr. Brill's company describes as... |
1701733_2 | Meet The Fakers | of military expenditures. This U.N. summit is meant to review the millennium development goals, such as cutting child deaths around the world by two-thirds by 2015. All the goals, adopted with great fanfare five years ago, are feasible, and some countries -- from Bangladesh to Indonesia, Brazil to Mongolia -- are on tr... |
1701690_2 | China's State Secrets Agency Will Guard One Less: Death Tolls | to the release of data that is not currently available in some form. But the revised regulations may make it more difficult for local officials to cover up accidents on the grounds of protecting state secrets, as they have often done in the past. As recently as this summer, officials were accused of providing a false d... |
1701832_0 | World Briefing | Europe: France: Support For Indian Nuclear Plants | France has agreed to support India's plans to develop civilian atomic energy after winning two multibillion-dollar contracts for the sale of Airbus airliners and conventionally powered submarines to India. India, which tested nuclear weapons in 1998, has already won approval for its civilian atomic energy program from ... |
1701664_2 | OBSERVATORY | provided by the adult albatrosses and their offspring. Temperatures of occupied nests showed that the birds kept the nests at a temperature that is optimal for caterpillar feeding. Remnants of Salt Making In the development of ancient societies, salt was an important building block. It was a crucial trading commodity, ... |
1701732_2 | Necessary Measures | countries where obstetricians are scarce, home births are common and the dead are mourned privately simply do not have the data. That is why in 2000, their most recent assessment, scientists from the United Nations warned that ''it would be inappropriate to compare the 2000 estimates with those for 1990,'' or to ''draw... |
1701691_1 | Mexico Builds Trade Ties With China | flooded with Chinese products, both legal and contraband, from chili peppers to blue jeans to electronics. Last year, Mexico imported $31 in goods from China for every dollar's worth it sent there, according to trade experts here, and that does not include the thriving market in smuggled Chinese goods. ''The real relat... |
1701890_0 | When Food From the Laboratory Leaves a Bitter Taste | The heroes and villains in ''The Future of Food,'' Deborah Koons Garcia's sober, far-reaching polemic against genetically modified foods, are clearly identified. The good guys, acknowledged in the film's cursory final segment, are organic farmers along with a growing network of farmers' markets around the United States... |
1701986_0 | Decision Time on Iran | IN November 2003, Iran averted a crisis when it agreed to suspend activities that could one day give it the capacity to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. The International Atomic Energy Agency had discovered an 18-year pattern of noncompliance by Iran with its obligations to report all its nuclear activities, dur... |
1709234_0 | A Trio More Astringent Than the Sum of Its Parts | Collectivism can be a tricky aspiration for any jazz ensemble. Jazz is a soloist's art -- that's the prevailing presumption, anyway -- and it's not easy to subvert the heroic ideal. Not easy, but possible, especially in the avant-garde. And as Fieldwork proved at the Jazz Gallery on Tuesday, the results are often intri... |
1709373_0 | World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Pirates Seize Another Aid Ship | Days after the United Nations recovered a cargo ship carrying relief food that had been hijacked by gunmen and held for more than three months, another ship carrying food for suffering Somalis has been seized at gunpoint. ''It is scandalous that a small number of profiteers would once again hijack humanitarian food sup... |
1709390_0 | World Business Briefing | Europe: Italy: Contract for Bridge to Sicily | The much-debated plan to build a bridge linking Messina on the island of Sicily with the toe of the Italian boot moved a step closer to realization yesterday after the company organizing the project awarded a 3.88 billion euro ($4.65 billion) construction contract. Impregilo, Italy's largest construction company, heads... |
1712462_0 | Things to Think About If You're Thinking 'Used' | WHEN a car is totaled, that's the end, right? Well, no. Of the estimated 2.5 million cars written off each year as complete losses, nearly half are said to rise from the dead to make it back onto the market for resale. While there are certain risks in buying a used car, it is critical to find out the auto's whole story... |
1712459_4 | Why Look at the Road When There's So Much Going On Inside? | new technology come new problems. One complaint that Jerry Goedicke has about all the gear in his 2005 Acura RL, which offers Bluetooth, the OnStar communications service developed by General Motors and keyless ignition, among other things, is that he is never sure how to diagnose a problem in the systems. For instance... |
1712551_2 | Living Hand to Mouth | is a limit to how long you can do that. China's leaders know this and have been taking steps to reverse deforestation and find alternatives to the coal-powered electricity plants that have turned cities like Shenzhen into just one big gray cloud. One thing the Chinese government is doing is changing how local, state an... |
1712460_2 | More Complex Cars And Stricter Rules Lead to More Recalls | automobile industry's most notorious recalls, faulty tires on Ford Explorers fell apart at high speeds, causing the sport-utility vehicles to flip in some instances. The new law, known as the Tread Act, requires automakers to provide the federal government with quarterly reports on potential safety issues in addition t... |
1712444_1 | Car Manual vs. Repairman: Who Knows Best? | the chart in the back. The subtleties lie within its pages.'' While oil-change shops argue otherwise, few vehicles fall into the ''severe service'' category, which means more frequent maintenance intervals, said Csaba Csere, the editor of Car and Driver magazine. ''It's nonsense to say that severe service is city drivi... |
1712438_2 | After the Loss of Some Shirts, Lenders Are Leasing Again | imposed. Most important, residuals were pumped up to reduce the amount of the lease principal. This was especially true in the case of S.U.V.'s, which were becoming wildly popular in the 90's. It was not a good idea. Inflating residual values might have seemed like a low-risk idea during the mid- to late 90's, when use... |
1712430_0 | ODDS AND ENDS: Picnicking, Defogging and Making Fuel Go Further; Leave the Scraper in the Trunk | WITH the leaves already changing, it won't be long before many people find themselves scraping snow and ice off the windshield on wintry mornings. With that in mind, no doubt, General Motors has introduced two car models for 2006 -- the Cadillac DTS and Buick Lucerne -- that will come equipped with heated windshield fl... |
1707844_2 | G.E. Commits to Dredging 43 Miles of Hudson River | yards of PCB-contaminated sediment. The remaining mud, in which the contamination is lighter but spread over a much larger area, would be dredged in the second phase, a project that would last five years and cost about $500 million. Federal officials said that if G.E. decided not to cooperate in the second phase, the g... |
1707787_5 | Uninvited Guest Turns Up at Catholic Synod: Issue of Married Priests | it to everyone every Sunday,'' Bishop Theotonius Gomes of Bangladesh said in an interview between sessions. ''You try to get it to as many people as you can.'' In many places, lay people lead church services that are not actual Masses, and they cannot consecrate the bread and wine. Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice, the ... |
1706969_0 | The American Church and the Ban on Gay Priests | To the Editor: Re ''Americans Plan Rome Trip Over Ban on Gay Priests'' (news article, Sept. 30): It seems that many monks and priests want to remain gay. But if gays can be allowed as priests, why doesn't the church allow married people to become priests? It seems to me, a Catholic from India, that in the West the prie... |
1708349_0 | IN THE REGION/New Jersey; Building a Town's Future, Ready or Not | THERE is a huge hole in the ground in downtown Montclair, and on one recent Saturday, that seemed a great reason for developers to put on a music show. There was opera; there was jazz; there was dixieland and rock 'n' roll on a stage set up at the long-dormant corner of South Park and Church Streets, attracting throngs... |
1708476_0 | Disabled in Turkey: Ankara Defends Its Record | To the Editor: ''Turkey's Disabled'' (editorial, Sept. 30) attributes Turkey's record in caring for the mentally disabled to its supposed lack of a ''culture of rights.'' To the contrary, Turkey's record over the last two decades has been marked by a steady and dramatic expansion in individual rights and personal freed... |
1708350_3 | Information, Please | first response, several programs to ensure a smooth flow of information have been successfully implemented. Still, communicating effectively with the public will put all this training to the test. And that, in the end, is often how residents judge a government's response. Did they tell me what to do, where to go, how t... |
1708594_5 | In a Classical World, Nerds Walk With Gods | have to stay true to 'The Iliad' and traditional mythology,'' they wrote in one of the 16 community rules listed for the site. ''Cassandra can have a fling with Aeneas, but she can't go to Italy with him, because it didn't happen.'' But why would these stories, written more than 2,000 years ago, appeal to teenagers tod... |
1708178_0 | DEALS & DISCOUNTS | SHOPPING IN DENVER -- The Hotel Teatro, the boutique hotel across from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, has a Fall Shopping Getaway package through Dec. 1. Guests pay $165 a night (normally $235) for a standard room with queen bed or $195 a night (normally $265) for a superior room with king bed. Also include... |
1708142_2 | Hey Hey, We're the Monkeys | to read the book to learn the details. There you'll also find details of chimpanzee violence. Infanticide, de Waal tells us, is a leading cause of death among chimps, both in zoos and in the wild. One reason bonobos engage in so much sex is to prevent rival males from killing their babies. If everybody has sex with eve... |
1708131_2 | Vanished Americans | the significance of everything from haplogroups to glottochronology to landraces. He offers amusing asides to some of his adventures across the hemisphere during the course of his research, but unlike so many contemporary journalists, he never lets his personal experiences overwhelm his subject. Instead, Mann builds hi... |
1708440_0 | Baby Food, Out From the (Very) Cold | ''PALTRY'' may be too kind a word to describe the current sales of frozen baby food. Of the 296 categories of supermarket products tracked by Information Resources, a market research firm, it ranked 295th over the 52-week period that ended May 15. It was behind such supermarket esoterica as soap dishes (292nd), produce... |
1713880_2 | Funds Fade, Deaths Rise and Iraq Rebuilding Is Spotty | the money woes have. ''What you have to keep in mind is the chilling effect of that many deaths and that many injuries,'' Mr. Barton said. ''I think the numbers are huge.'' The report also outlines what it calls ''steady progress'' in parts of the American-financed rebuilding program, despite what is described as ''the... |
1708693_2 | Trade Chief Makes Offer To Reduce Crop Subsidies | is scheduled to be reached by the end of 2006. But Mr. Bush also has received strong pressure from members of his own party and from many Democrats not to touch the politically popular subsidies. As a result, the United States has resisted going first, saying other nations must indicate how much they will cut tariffs t... |
1708738_0 | Pakistani Immigrants Receive Scant Information But Mobilize to Assist Victims of Quake | For 18 hours after a powerful earthquake hit Pakistan early Saturday, Mohammad Javed Iqbal, a livery cabdriver in New York City, tried in vain to telephone his relatives. But phone lines into their town of about 30,000 in the North-West Frontier Province were jammed or not working for hours, he said. Finally, he reache... |
1708808_0 | Guatemalan Village Overwhelmed by Task of Digging Out Hundreds of Dead From Mud | Hundreds of men in the Guatemalan Indian village of Panabáj hacked with hoes and shovels on Saturday at the river of mud about a half mile wide and as deep as 20 feet that hit their town last week. As rescue workers and relatives of the dead arrived Saturday, villagers handed out native herbs and told the visitors to p... |
1713051_1 | Green Dreams in Shangri-La | they are making the cities unlivable, but if it just pushes them into the countryside, they will destroy way too much of China's farmland, and the natural areas that are the home of things like Tibetan culture. The living Buddha, Ang Weng, is right in the middle of this drama, trying to promote a higher living standard... |
1712992_0 | Will Revenue Sharing Survive Mara's Death? | One of the last times that Gene Upshaw, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association, spoke to Wellington Mara was at the Super Bowl in February. Mara, the Giants' co-owner who died at age 89 Tuesday, will be eulogized this morning at St. Patrick's Cathedral as one of the towering figures in National Footba... |
1713104_3 | 100-M.P.H. Winds Crumple Sugar Cane, a Staple of Florida Economy | back to normal.'' In South Bay, population 4,500, and nearby Clewiston, population 15,000, some hardware and grocery stores opened Thursday and several filling stations were selling gas. During the night, the first government food supplies reached Clewiston. On Thursday morning, more than 100 cars lined up for water, i... |
1712223_3 | Enduring Incontinence In Silence | is more common in younger women, abdominal pressure increases pressure on the bladder that leads to leaking. Coughing, heavy lifting, running or even a giggling fit can set it off. Urge incontinence, also known as an ''overactive bladder,'' is more common in postmenopausal women. Patients experience an increased urge t... |
1712246_7 | No Escape: Thaw Gains Momentum | extend far beyond the sparsely populated north, contributing to climate and ocean shifts that could dry the American West and possibly slow north-flowing warm currents in the Atlantic Ocean that keep northern Europe milder than it would otherwise be. The effects could also include a sharp increase in the rate at which ... |
1710370_0 | To Prove You're Serious, Burn Some Bridges | WITH good reason, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences spent a lot of time alluding to apocalyptic nuclear war when it awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science last week and never got around to mentioning local movie theaters or phone plans. The prize winners -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling -- ... |
1707062_0 | REALLY? | THE CLAIM -- If attacked by a bear, play dead. THE FACTS -- As bear populations from New Jersey to Yellowstone rebound, so do reports of tense human encounters with them. Common wisdom holds that the way to react, when all else fails, is simple: curl up in a ball and play dead. But that is not always the best idea. Att... |
1707135_0 | The I.R.A. Disarms | To the Editor: Re ''The I.R.A. Finally Risks Disarmament'' (editorial, Sept. 27): The leaders of the Irish Republican Army were not ''balking'' at delivering on disarmament. In return for the I.R.A.'s destruction of arms, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 required the British to take reciprocal measures of demilitariza... |
1707126_0 | Itineraries; MEMO PAD | REGISTERED TRAVELER TEST -- A 14-month government test of the registered traveler program at five airports ended last week, when the Transportation Security Administration sent e-mail messages to about 10,000 people enrolled in the pilot project, saying that the tryouts were successful and had ''proven the viability of... |
1707215_0 | World Briefing | Africa: Somalia: Pirates Release 2 Ships | Gunmen who held a cargo ship carrying United Nations food aid hostage off the coast of Somalia since June fled the ship in recent days after it ran out of fuel, officials said. The 10-member crew, held for 98 days, has been released, but officials at the World Food Program said they could not yet account for the 850 to... |
1707549_1 | Pillars of Cultural Capital | Americans who enter college has shot upward. The problem is that students who enter college often find that they are unable to thrive there. As enrollment rates have shot up, completion rates have actually drifted down. And it is students from less-educated families who are dropping out most. The new inequality is diff... |
1712880_3 | Mammograms Validated as Key In Cancer Fight | to have had mammograms in the prior two years. In 2000, the figure was 70 percent. At the same time, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy with tamoxifen, which blocks the effects of estrogen that can fuel breast cancer, had come on the scene, and their use had spread rapidly. To develop their estimates, the researchers bu... |
1709687_2 | City Slickers Get Advice On Survival Of Wettest | I would guarantee you'd see at least one rainbow a week.'' It might be harder to sustain such optimism in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya, which the Guinness Book of World Records rates as the rainiest place in the world. Unsurprisingly, Meghalaya means Land of the Clouds. It receives a whopping average of 3... |
1709668_2 | Priests Urged To Recruit Young Men For the Pulpit | Vatican investigators have been instructed to visit each seminary in the United States to look for ''evidence of homosexuality'' and see whether seminarians are being properly prepared to live celibately. Father Burns said polls showed that 90 percent of priests were happy in the priesthood and had no regrets. But many... |
1710505_0 | Bad News for Players Hit in the Head Too Often | The severe blows to the head commonly experienced by professional football players may have long-lasting consequences, according to a new study. Retired National Football League players in the study who suffered three or more concussions in their playing days were five times as likely to suffer mild mental impairment a... |
1710506_1 | Can Brain Scans See Depression? | the technology has been oversold as a psychiatric tool. Other researchers remain optimistic, but they wonder what the data add up to, and whether it is time for the field to rethink its approach and its expectations. ''I have been waiting for my work in the lab to affect my job on the weekend, when I practice as a chil... |
1710506_8 | Can Brain Scans See Depression? | treatment, with drugs or other therapies. ''They increase compliance with treatment and decrease the shame and guilt'' associated with the disorders, he said. At the Brainwaves Neuroimaging Clinic in Houston, doctors use the scans to diagnose and choose treatment for a range of psychiatric problems, according to a clin... |
1710532_2 | How to End Airplane Boarding Bottlenecks | just makes sense. It's quicker and it's more efficient.'' Why is shaving a few minutes off the human cattle herd such a big deal? Any business traveler who has ever rushed seconds too late to a connecting flight will be happy to answer that question. And so will any airline that has found itself at either the top or th... |
1709158_3 | Tucked in Katrina Relief, A Boon for Online Colleges | Higher Education Act in 1992. DESPITE the added protection, news organizations like The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chicago Tribune and ''60 Minutes'' have uncovered continuing misbehavior by proprietary schools -- admitting unqualified students, inflating graduation and job-placement rates, lying about accredit... |
1709016_6 | The Contemporary Dining Scene, Est. 1985 | had pasta and risotto. Union Square was a mirror for many new ways of thinking, and these were reflected as well in such restaurants as Jams, which brought the chef Jonathan Waxman from California to New York in 1984, and An American Place, where the chef Larry Forgione combined French technique with American ingredien... |
1709087_1 | Study Says Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web | the regulations and customs are quite clear. The Digital Freedom Network, a human rights group based in New Jersey, notes that among things forbidden by Myanmar's Web regulations, introduced in January 2000, are the posting of ''any writings directly or indirectly detrimental to the current policies'' of the government... |
1709114_0 | He Doesn't Make Coffee, but He Controls 'Starbucks' in Russia | Sergei A. Zuykov is a lawyer for Starbucks in Russia. Only the Starbucks he represents brews no coffee and owns no shops. Its business consists of trying to sell its name back to the other Starbucks -- the better-known company from Seattle. A tall, strapping 39-year-old former car alarm salesman turned trademark squatt... |
1710981_0 | Rain Forest Jekyll And Hyde? | Please welcome the latest entry to the Chutzpah Hall of Fame: the mighty Chevron Corporation. On Oct. 28, during a gala ceremony at its headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., the company, which until May was known as ChevronTexaco, will honor the latest recipients of the annual Chevron Conservation Awards. The awards are m... |
1706311_1 | Note to Drivers: Lose the Phone (And Lipstick) | many of those states have gone beyond merely regulating cellphone use among drivers, cracking down on distractions inside cars. Tennessee and Virginia, going further than most, have passed laws prohibiting the display of pornographic videos in vehicles. In Nevada, lawmakers recently increased penalties for drivers who ... |
1707285_1 | Helping Victims Of the Storm Stay Connected | he had hooked up the equipment, and evacuees were phoning loved ones. Within a day, 11 families had been reunited. ''There wasn't any better feeling in the world,'' said Mr. Dearman, who is 43. ''After food and shelter, their next need was to get ahold of their families.'' In one swoop, Mr. Dearman not only connected p... |
1707274_5 | The Time Is Now: Bust Up The Box! | emerging optical networks like the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, the National Lambda Rail and Teragrid. These networks not only make it possible to harness the power of multiple supercomputers, but they also allow scientists to create a new class of instruments, in which huge volumes of scientific data are easily ... |
1712064_2 | Poor Nations Are Littered With Old PC's, Report Says | visited Lagos, where it found that despite growing technology industries, the country lacked an infrastructure for electronics recycling. This means that the imported equipment often ends up in landfills, where toxins in the equipment can pollute the groundwater and create unhealthy conditions. Mr. Puckett said the gro... |
1712178_0 | Mayor Seeking Major Changes At Ground Zero | After months of delays and redesign, the intramural struggle over redevelopment at ground zero erupted in public during the weekend as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called for the removal from the project of the commercial leaseholder, Larry A. Silverstein, and an even broader rethinking of plans. ''It would be in the cit... |
1709934_0 | Facebook.com Goes to High School | AS if they needed one, local high school students now have another reason to go online. Facebook.com, a social networking site for college students begun last year by a Dobbs Ferry native, has started a site geared toward secondary-school students. It has been out there only a month, but Westchester youths, like their ... |
1710047_1 | Waiting for the Petrodollars to Trickle Down | 2002. What ultimately happens to this windfall -- whether oil exporters decide to spend it or salt it away -- will help determine how the pain caused by expensive energy is distributed throughout the American economy and the rest of the world. At first glance, the implications are straightforward. If energy exporters s... |
1709952_0 | The North Wind Doth Blow | EVEN those terrified by the ferocity of a great storm may be able to enjoy it from an armchair -- in coffee-table format, of course. James Lincoln Turner of Spring Lake is the author of ''Seven Superstorms of the Northeast'' (Down the Shore Publishing, $32), and he serves up details of spectacular blizzards and hurrica... |
1710259_0 | Cândido and Ted's Excellent Adventure | THE RIVER OF DOUBT Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. By Candice Millard. Illustrated. 416 pp. Doubleday. $26. Theodore Roosevelt was an enthusiastic advocate of the road trip as antidote to the blues. At 25, he lit out for the Dakota Badlands after his wife and his mother died of separate illnesses on the same day.... |
1710136_0 | News Summary | INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Iraqis Vote on Constitution Millions of Iraqis streamed to the polls to vote on a new constitution, joined by what appeared to be strong turnouts of Sunni voters in some parts of the country. But the Sunni turnout, high in some cities like Mosul, low in others like Ramadi, appeared to be insufficient... |
1710100_1 | Loggers, Scorning the Law, Ravage the Amazon Jungle | occurring elsewhere in the Amazon. Despite regulations that are more rigorous, at least on paper, and repeated pledges by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to crack down on those pillaging the world's largest tropical rain forest, shipments of wood from the region are booming as never before. According to government ... |
1709821_5 | Meet the Life Hackers | which had until then been little more than glorified word-processors and calculators, began to experience a rapid increase in speed and power. ''Multitasking'' was born; instead of simply working on one program for hours at a time, a computer user could work on several different ones simultaneously. Corporations seized... |
1709937_1 | A Commitment on PCB's | divides the cleanup into two phases and binds the company to conduct only the first -- a yearlong project to remove the thickest PCB deposits, which make up only about 10 percent of the 2.65 million yards of tainted mud, at a cost of $100 million to $150 million. The other 90 percent of the mud is spread over a much la... |
1709983_1 | Cell Rage Roils a Co-op On a Historic Block | them atop the co-op, an eight-story red-brick building on Carroll Street and Eighth Avenue, within the Park Slope Historic District. The equipment will weigh more than seven tons, and its 15-inch-tall antenna panels will be bolted to the parapet. In exchange, the co-op will receive $1,800 a month from T-Mobile USA. Car... |
1708988_0 | Corrections | An article in Business Day on Thursday about smaller video producers who use the Internet for distribution referred incorrectly to the television program ''Oceans of Mystery'' by Eco-Nova Productions, which has a new diving section on its Web site. Although the Discovery Channel occasionally reruns episodes, the progra... |
1708928_2 | Europe Entertains an American Offer to Cut Farm Aid | groups like Oxfam International say. Oxfam called Mr. Portman's offer ''smoke and mirrors.'' The group said that under the proposal, the United States would have to shave agricultural spending by only 2 percent, to $73.1 billion, while wringing harsh concessions on market access from developing countries. ''This propos... |
1711863_0 | Brazil Makes Progress Against Illegal Logging | To the Editor: Re ''Loggers, Scorning the Law, Ravage the Amazon Jungle'' (news article, Oct. 16): Recent data from the real-time deforestation detection system indicate that a 40 percent drop in deforestation is expected this year from 2004, the greatest drop since deforestation monitoring began in 1988. By August, so... |
1711574_4 | Publish and Perish | he's being jerked around. ''You ask yourself, 'Why am I getting up at 4 a.m. to go to Fort Lee, New Jersey, to be on a business program that no one will see when I wrote a sensitive literary book about relationships on the Internet?' '' said John Seabrook, the author of ''Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace'' and... |
1711902_3 | For Some College Graduates, a Fanciful Detour (or Two) Before Their Careers Begin | professional schools usually do not hold it against them. ''Most graduate and professional schools today would prefer that a student take the time to go away, have different experiences and then come back refocused,'' said Bill Wright-Swadel, director of career services at Harvard College. There are three primary reaso... |
1711569_5 | Where Hubris Came From | ''slugfest,'' ''without a clue,'' ''ethnic fault lines'' and the like. I do not believe the attempt to export Athens's institutions, or ''Athenianism,'' as he calls it, was ''the Western world's first example of globalization.'' Nor was Athens ''hyperdemocratic'': after all, it was a slave society. Nor, I suspect, was ... |
1711819_1 | Manny's Boys | Wandy Salazar, Kelvin Suarez and many other young ballplayers have also finished their mangu, and are approaching the park. The baseball field is jammed between the blaring traffic of Amsterdam Avenue and a bluff that drops down to a jumble of train tracks and highways. Nothing about the field, at 175th Street, seems i... |
1711592_3 | The Catch | fisheries managers in places like the Falklands are trying to wall in their piece of the ocean, building ramparts of regulations to keep enough fish in the water to maintain a sustainable harvest. On the other side, ''illegal, unreported and unregulated'' -- or ''I.U.U.'' -- fishing boats like the Elqui are laying sieg... |
1711869_3 | Web of the Free | allow a site onto the Net, or not, by virtue of its role of maintaining a master list of domain names. Imagine how much certain governments would covet such power. American values caused the Internet to emerge and evolve as a medium of freedom. While there is a standard of transcendent decency that can and should regul... |
1711854_0 | Health Concerns Over Cell Towers | To the Editor: I reside in the building you described in your Oct. 16 article ''Cell Rage Roils a Co-op on a Historic Block.'' The article focused on the conflict within the building, and made mention of members' health concerns, but, oddly, said nothing about the international, national and intra-state attention given... |
1711913_0 | Catholic Bishops Again Reject Married Priests | The first Synod of Bishops under Pope Benedict XVI ended Saturday with an embrace of tradition, acknowledging the severity of the shortage of priests in the Roman Catholic Church but rejecting solutions like allowing married priests. ''There has been a massive restatement of the importance of the tradition in the Latin... |
1711929_0 | COLLEGES OPPOSE CALL TO UPGRADE ONLINE SYSTEMS | The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to monitor e-mail and other online communications. The action, which ... |
1708064_3 | Holding Back the Flood; Looking for a Way to Preserve the Trade Center's Slurry Wall | Port of New York Authority, as it was then known. He was chosen because ''he spoke Italian (the technology was largely Italian, and many of Icanda's workers had come straight from Italy for the job), he had actually seen a completed slurry wall and he was a superb engineer,'' James Glanz and Eric Lipton wrote in ''City... |
1706436_1 | ARMCHAIR TRAVELER | DEEP BLUE SEA: THE DREAMS, SCHEMES, AND SHOWDOWNS THAT BUILT AMERICA'S CRUISE-SHIP EMPIRES By Kristoffer A. Garin Viking, 380 pp., $24.95 The world can be divided into those who regard a voyage on a cruise ship as the epitome of an idyllic holiday, and others for whom confinement on a swaying jail among the ''overfed a... |
1706753_2 | For Mormons in Harlem, Bigger Space Beckons | are bare. The only visual clue to the room's function is the list of hymn numbers posted at the front. But last Sunday, as usual, the 150 chairs were filled and people stood at the back. Also as usual, the room was one of the most racially integrated in Harlem, with about equal numbers of white and black worshipers. (T... |
1706712_0 | Options Open, Top Graduates Line Up to Teach to the Poor | Lucas E. Nikkel, a Dartmouth graduate, wants to be a doctor, but for now he is teaching eighth-grade chemistry at a middle school in North Carolina, one of nearly 2,200 new members of Teach for America. ''I'm looking at medical school, and everybody says taking time off first is a good idea,'' he said. ''I think I'm li... |
1706607_3 | College Still Counts, Though Not as Much | and word processors; and 37 percent of the flight attendants -- to cite just a few occupations that do not seem to require a college education, although at least 10 percent of the jobholders have one. Clearly there are more college graduates than unfilled jobs requiring their credentials. But demand is not the only iss... |
1706537_0 | Katrina Rachets Up Local Sugar Production | ANTHONY SINAPI didn't pay particular attention to a recent bill for sugar until asked to compare it with past ones. The price had jumped $7 per 100-pound bag, and his bakery in Hartsdale, Sinapi's, can go through two tons of it a month. ''Thank God you brought that to my attention,'' he said when asked about the invoic... |
1706625_0 | This Flock Wants The Walls to Tumble Down | For more than a century, Bay Ridge United Methodist Church has stood elegant watch over an unhurried corner of southern Brooklyn, and neighbors find themselves marveling at the distinctive lime-green facade of the turn-of-the-century building. One ardent admirer is Chuck Otey, a columnist for a local newspaper and a la... |
1697161_1 | Insurance Premiums Rise As Threats to Ships Grow | loss, they're building up a reserve to fund a loss, if and when it occurs,'' he said. Bombings in Indonesia over the last several years -- in Bali and at the Australian Embassy and a Marriott hotel in Jakarta -- have focused attention on the country's radical groups. The risk to insurers has been that terrorists might ... |
1697221_6 | Google Gets Better. What's Up With That? | on an open, published standard that the company is making available to all. Already, Google Talk communicates with popular chat programs like iChat, Trillian, Adium, Psi and GAIM, but that's just the beginning. Google is making overtures to Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft about making their chat programs compatible; EarthLink... |
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