tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61220022012-02-16T19:14:00.741+08:00Articles JunctionThis is a series of interesting articles on various issues such as politics, economics and society in general.Tnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10791100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128069575210655722005-09-30T16:39:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:39:35.213+08:00NYT September 30, 2005 Have I Got a Fund for You By ERIC DASH Hedge funds are not meant to be for everyone. But that has not stopped Christian Baha from using the mass media to promote his fund. A new commercial for his fund, Superfund, which is technically not a hedge fund but a managed futures fund, is expected to make its debut in a number of large markets. But there is just oneTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128069536288166652005-09-30T16:38:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:38:56.296+08:00NYTSeptember 30, 2005 Way North of the Border By EDUARDO PORTER and ELISABETH MALKIN ST. PAUL - At first blush, Mexico's newest American consulate might appear out of place. Far from the Mexican border, this prosperous state capital, along with Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs, form a sprawling metropolis with Scandinavian overtones. Yet by the time the Mexican government Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128069468238990852005-09-30T16:37:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:37:48.243+08:00NYT September 30, 2005 EU Tries to Unblock Internet Impasse By TOM WRIGHT International Herald Tribune The United States and Europe clashed here Thursday in one of their sharpest public disagreements in months, after European Union negotiators proposed stripping the Americans of their effective control of the Internet. The European decision to back the rest of the world in Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128068996201427052005-09-30T16:29:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:29:56.206+08:00NYT September 30, 2005 Trying to Imprint 'That's Classic' in Younger TV Viewers' Minds A CABLE network specializing in vintage movies known for classic lines like "Here's looking at you, kid," is hoping to get more kids looking at it. The network is TCM, formally Turner Classic Movies, which since its introduction in 1994 has presented films like "Casablanca," the source of the line Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128068774155833622005-09-30T16:26:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:26:14.160+08:00NYT September 30, 2005 Times Reporter Free From Jail; She Will Testify By DAVID JOHNSTON and DOUGLAS JEHL WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 - Judith Miller, the reporter for The New York Times who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to testify in the C.I.A. leak case, was released Thursday from a Virginia detention center after she and her lawyers reached an agreement with a federal Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128068751639717102005-09-30T16:25:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:25:51.640+08:00NYT September 30, 2005 Leveling the Freedom Center To almost no one's surprise, Gov. George Pataki banished the proposed International Freedom Center from ground zero on Wednesday, a day before he announced plans to build a half-million square feet of retail space at the World Trade Center site. Any orderly, open process for creating a vibrant, meditative space there has been discarded.Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128068723203201582005-09-30T16:23:00.000+08:002005-09-30T16:25:23.213+08:00NYT September 30, 2005 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 the proper therapy and attention has led doctors to abandon huge institutions and give patients care in their communities, living with or near their families. Electric shock Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128045130782450022005-09-30T09:52:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:52:10.786+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 What's Cool Online? Teenagers Render Verdict By JULIE BOSMAN MARKETERS spend a lot of time figuring out what teenagers want. Teenagers are their most desirable and fickle demographic, the arbiters of cool who set trends, influence brand health and part with their discretionary income most freely. So as part of Advertising Week 2005, interactive advertising Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128045108659091802005-09-30T09:51:00.001+08:002005-09-30T09:51:48.663+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 Students Discover Economics in Its Natural State By ROBERT H. FRANK WHY do the keypad buttons on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? It is an interesting question, since the patrons of these machines are almost always drivers, none of whom are blind. The answer, according to my former student Bill Tjoa, is that because A.T.M. producers make keypads with Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128045086218193152005-09-30T09:51:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:51:26.226+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 Romance Made Electric By DANNY HAKIM DETROIT, Sept. 28 - Alexandra Paul, a former star of "Baywatch," is not a satisfied General Motors customer - to put it mildly. In 2002, G.M. sent a tow truck to her house to reclaim a car she had leased from the company. When it was done, she went inside and cried. "I've never had any emotional feelings toward a car in myTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128045056605921532005-09-30T09:50:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:50:56.610+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 A Part-Time Office Puts On a Good Face for Clients By MELINDA LIGOS Andrea Westmeyer, president of Relationship Marketing Inc., a communications consulting firm, knows how to make a good first impression with Fortune 500 clients. She has a well-appointed office in Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. She has a secretary who answers the phone on the first ring. And Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128044880345417302005-09-30T09:47:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:48:00.346+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 Chevron Oil Platform Is Adrift in the Gulf By JAD MOUAWAD Five days after Hurricane Rita made landfall, the extent of the damage to offshore oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico sharpened yesterday after Chevron indicated that one of its three large platforms had capsized after losing its moorings. The deepwater platform, called Typhoon, was spotted Sunday Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128044686659609812005-09-30T09:43:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:44:46.663+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 After Hurricane Katrina, a Bank Turns to Money Laundering By KEN BELSON GULFPORT, Miss. - The scene would make a mob boss proud: workers in a windowless hallway scoop armfuls of grimy cash out of plastic garbage bags and sling them into a washing machine. Others fill the dryers and iron the clean bills. Nearby, a half-dozen women count the freshly pressed bills Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128044154900475912005-09-30T09:35:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:35:54.916+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 A Mogul Who Would Rebuild New Orleans By GARY RIVLIN BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 28 - Many of the business elite of New Orleans seem preoccupied these days by what some here simply call The List - the chosen few Mayor C. Ray Nagin is expected to name on Friday to a commission to advise him on the rebuilding of the stricken city. Almost certain to make the grade is Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1128044179555755982005-09-30T09:28:00.000+08:002005-09-30T09:36:53.830+08:00NYT September 29, 2005 Tom DeLay Behind the Curtain The criminal conspiracy indictment of Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, remains to be tested in a court of law, and Mr. DeLay adamantly says he is innocent. He is also loudly denouncing the prosecution as baldly political. But it might be easier to take that seriously if the Republican leadership in Congress had not staged such a Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127894627903034452005-09-28T16:27:00.000+08:002005-09-28T16:03:47.906+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits By LINDA GREENHOUSE WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 - The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether a popular tax credit, which most states use to encourage businesses to make capital investments, violates the Constitution. The case is an appeal by the State of Ohio and the DaimlerChrysler Corporation, which Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127895063024469062005-09-28T16:10:00.001+08:002005-09-28T16:11:03.030+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 As Natural Gas Prices Rise, So Do the Costs of Things Made of Chemicals By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH In one sense, chemical industry executives should be sighing with relief. Hurricane Katrina damaged some of their plants, but repairs are proceeding quickly. Hurricane Rita left barely a physical mark. For the next few months, orders will drop but, the executives say, Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127895038199261932005-09-28T16:10:00.000+08:002005-09-28T16:10:38.206+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 Texas Tea From a Russian Sea By JAMES BROOKE YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Just north of Japan and across the Pacific from California, a long-forbidden Siberian island is about to join the global energy map. On Oct. 1, three decades after vast pools of oil and gas were discovered off the lonely shores of this former Soviet-era prison colony, a consortium led by Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127894975863622502005-09-28T16:09:00.001+08:002005-09-28T16:09:35.866+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 Cleveland Pulls Back From the Edge By LISA CHAMBERLAIN As the presidential election of 2004 was in full swing and John F. Kerry and George W. Bush seemed to be holding events every other day in northeast Ohio, Cleveland was declared the poorest big city in America. The hemorrhaging of manufacturing jobs and exodus of Fortune 500 company headquarters had finallyTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127894954163859222005-09-28T16:09:00.000+08:002005-09-28T16:09:14.166+08:00NYTSeptember 28, 2005 Hollywood Writers Union Fires Its Executive Director By DAVID M. HALBFINGER LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 - A week after new leaders swept into office at the Writers Guild of America West, promising a more aggressive posture in organizing and negotiating with Hollywood employers, the guild has fired its executive director, saying he had resisted its change of directionTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127894840294966222005-09-28T16:07:00.000+08:002005-09-28T16:07:20.300+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 Dreaming of Bras for the Modern Woman By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH MAIDENFORM ladies are dreaming again. Many of those too young to remember probably know about the ad campaign that Maidenform ran from the end of World War II up through the mid-1960's. It was the one with gorgeous ladies, their bottoms modestly clad but their tops ensconced only in their bras, dreamingTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127894727361779042005-09-28T16:05:00.000+08:002005-09-28T16:05:27.366+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 A Deal for DreamWorks Unravels Over Price By LAURA M. HOLSON LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 - The script was almost finished, the production was in its final stages, but in the end, the DreamWorks-NBC Universal deal could not be done. Late Monday, DreamWorks SKG, the movie studio that the director Steven Spielberg helped found, called off talks to be acquired by NBC Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127894251423975832005-09-28T15:57:00.000+08:002005-09-28T15:57:31.436+08:00NYT September 28, 2005 As Bodies Mull Retirement, 2 Aging Baseball Stars Play On By ALAN SCHWARZ Mike Piazza has used the same bat model his entire career, a 32-ounce club that his arms and wrists have whipped through the hitting zone with lightning quickness and thunderous results. But as he has walked back to the dugout after some at-bats this season with the Mets, he has Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127809108087416832005-09-27T16:17:00.000+08:002005-09-27T16:18:28.090+08:00NYT September 27, 2005 The Old Laws and the New Following are some of the differences between the current law and the new law: The current law: ¶Was enacted in 1978 and became effective in 1979. ¶Lets individuals chose between two forms of bankruptcy. The more popular, Chapter 7, lets people discharge unsecured debts, such as medical bills and credit card debt. But they can lose assetsTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127808825950139622005-09-27T16:13:00.000+08:002005-09-27T16:13:45.956+08:00NYT September 27, 2005 A Schwab Campaign Steeped in Personality By STUART ELLIOTT MOVE over, Two-Buck Chuck, as the Charles Shaw wines sold by Trader Joe's are called. Here comes another Chuck, seeking a lot more than a couple of dollars. This Chuck is Chuck Schwab, a k a Charles R. Schwab, who is the centerpiece of a campaign started this week by the brokerage firm he founded. The Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127808747784921352005-09-27T16:12:00.000+08:002005-09-27T16:12:27.786+08:00NYT September 27, 2005 DVD Fight Intensifies: Microsoft and Intel to Back Toshiba Format By KEN BELSON Microsoft and Intel are throwing their full weight behind one side in the long-running battle over the format for the next generation of high-definition DVD's. Today, the two companies will announce that they are backing the HD-DVD format developed by Toshiba over the Blu-ray Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127809029568889302005-09-27T16:10:00.001+08:002005-09-27T16:17:09.576+08:00NYT September 27, 2005 If Parks Offer Free Internet, Why Can't Costly Hotels? By JOE SHARKEY I'M no cheapskate, but I watch costs carefully even when I'm traveling on the company dime. And I'm here to tell you, I am getting fed up with being charged $9.95 or more in an expensive hotel for broadband Internet service. Lots of business travelers tell me they feel the same. Recently, my Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127808692556205662005-09-27T16:10:00.000+08:002005-09-27T16:11:32.566+08:00NYT September 27, 2005 Yahoo Signs On Business Writers By BLOOMBERG NEWS By Bloomberg News Yahoo, the most-visited Web site, said yesterday that it had hired nine financial writers to supply columns on topics including personal finance, investments and economics. Ben Stein, TV personality, lawyer and economist, will write the Common Sense column on personal investing, Yahoo, based Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127800474826699362005-09-27T13:54:00.000+08:002005-09-27T13:54:34.833+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 New Level of Competition: When a Supplier Gets Into Its Customers' Business By BOB TEDESCHI Business competition on the Web just got more interesting. As online sales of everything from TV's to cases of Châteauneuf-du-Pape have exploded in recent years, manufacturers and service providers have generally shown great restraint in going head to head against their Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127800444384925442005-09-27T13:53:00.000+08:002005-09-27T13:54:04.386+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 He Said. She Said. And Then What Did the Therapist Say? By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON For years, George Gurley has chronicled his alcohol-fueled, socialite-offending nights on the town in The New York Observer. But starting in early August, he has been venturing into more perilous territory: couples therapy. In the process, he has made something of a minor celebrity of Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127800317032308772005-09-27T13:51:00.000+08:002005-09-27T13:51:57.036+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 J.C. Penney Decides T-Shirts With Beer Logos Are for Men By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN The back-to-school sales push did not turn out to be happy hour for J. C. Penney. In the company's Aug. 28 sale circular that was inserted in Sunday newspapers across the country, a "Back to School 2005" logo is superimposed on a T-shirt promoting Guinness beer. It's next to other Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127799784399108952005-09-27T13:42:00.002+08:002005-09-27T13:43:04.403+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 Paying Homage to the Era of Housewifely Slogan-Writing By STUART ELLIOTT A NEW film from DreamWorks seeks to return moviegoers to a time when milk was delivered to the doorstep, toys came inside cereal boxes and advertisers gave away cars, appliances, trips and cash to consumers who won contests writing jingles, slogans and advertisements. The film, called "Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127799762109950812005-09-27T13:42:00.001+08:002005-09-27T13:42:42.113+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 Oregon Wine Enters Magic Kingdom in China By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:51 a.m. ET PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon wine has won the keys to the Magic Kingdom -- in the People's Republic of China. When the new Disney theme park opened in Hong Kong last week, Oregon wine was featured on the exclusive wine list. The deal helps put Oregon wine ''on the Asia map,Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127799740753516512005-09-27T13:42:00.000+08:002005-09-27T13:42:20.873+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 Going Deep for Digital By DAVID M. HALBFINGER LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 - Last March, executives from the Walt Disney Studios approached the visual-effects wizards at George Lucas's company, Industrial Light & Magic, with an audacious request. Could they convert the forthcoming Disney animated film "Chicken Little" into 3-D? In less than four months? "We gave it Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127799691675506482005-09-27T13:40:00.000+08:002005-09-27T13:41:31.686+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 A TV Channel Takes Aim at Toddlers By ELIZABETH JENSEN Today, parents looking for "Sesame Street" for their toddlers have a new outlet. Cable and satellite systems nationwide will carry "PBS Kids Sprout," a national 24-hour channel aimed at the very young. The programming may be familiar - it is being fashioned out of reruns of some of public television's most Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127796664273297472005-09-27T12:50:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:51:04.276+08:00NYT September 26, 2005 GE Developing Bomb - Sensing Ticket Machine By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:33 p.m. ET STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) -- General Electric Co. is responding to recent terrorist attacks on European rail lines by developing a machine that would scan for explosives at train or bus stations while collecting a passenger's fare. The Fairfield-based conglomerate announced a Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127796080029705972005-09-27T12:41:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:41:20.036+08:00NYT September 25, 2005 Don't Blink. You'll Miss the 258th-Richest American. By NINA MUNK THE latest Forbes 400 list of the richest people in America has just hit the newsstands. The idea for the Forbes 400 - rather than, say, 300 or 500 - was inspired by Mrs. Astor's 400, the definitive list of New York high society in the 1890's. It's rumored that Mrs. William Backhouse Astor Jr. Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127795922058082882005-09-27T12:38:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:38:42.060+08:00NYTSeptember 25, 2005 Hanging On, and Saluting the Past By BRENDAN I. KOERNER ASK bus or subway riders born after 1980 to explain the etymology of the word "straphangers" and they may respond with a mystified shrug. Leather or fabric loops, designed to be grasped by standing passengers, have largely disappeared from American public transportation systems; sweat and skin oils Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127795886453901572005-09-27T12:34:00.001+08:002005-09-27T12:38:06.456+08:00NYT September 25, 2005 How to Sell a Mustang (or Anything Else) By BEN STEIN IT is a basic truth that much of the world of business is the territory of selling. Selling touches almost every corner of the world of economics, but it is rarely discussed in business magazines and the business sections of newspapers. Still, every scrap of paper you hold in your hand was sold. So were your Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127795674083637252005-09-27T12:34:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:34:34.093+08:00NYT September 25, 2005 Stay Calm and Wear Black As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN I GREW up outside Cleveland, the middle child of five. My mother was one of my role models. She had been an actress in New York. When we moved to Ohio she got a master's degree and a Ph.D., which was fairly uncommon during that time. In grade school I was always the smallest in my class, but I was the fastestTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794854814232822005-09-27T12:20:00.002+08:002005-09-27T12:20:54.820+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 Leader of the F.D.A. Steps Down After a Short, Turbulent Tenure By ROBERT PEAR and ANDREW POLLACK WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Lester M. Crawford, the commissioner of food and drugs, resigned abruptly on Friday, causing further upheaval at an agency that has been in turmoil for more than a year. Dr. Crawford, who was confirmed just two months ago, on July 18, after Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794831203977792005-09-27T12:20:00.001+08:002005-09-27T12:20:31.206+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 China Loosens Limits on Trading Against Other Currencies but Keeps Rein on Dollar By KEITH BRADSHER HONG KONG, Sept. 23 - China made a technical but important adjustment Friday to its currency trading rules that underlined the country's reluctance to permit the yuan to rise significantly in value against the dollar. The announcement by China's central bank came Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794815594772672005-09-27T12:20:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:20:15.600+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 For Wolfowitz, Poverty Is the Newest War to Fight By EDMUND L. ANDREWS WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 - Three months into his new job as president of the World Bank, Paul D. Wolfowitz caused heartburn this week for some former colleagues in the Bush administration. As finance ministers from around the world began three days of discussions here on Friday, officials closed Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794771635798152005-09-27T12:19:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:19:31.640+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 Pride in a Vintage Cellphone By M.P. DUNLEAVEY I AM the proud owner of a five-year-old cellphone that I've nicknamed Sparky. He's a hulking vintage Samsung, and when I pull him out of my bag, people tend to gawk. "Oh, my God," they'll say. "How old is that?" Occasionally, because Sparky seems too big to be just a cellphone, some folks mistake him for one of Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794743166082022005-09-27T12:18:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:19:03.170+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 It's Not Her Father's Playboy By ROBEN FARZAD In the era of bachelor-oriented magazines like Maxim, Details and Stuff, the notion of stealing your father's Playboys sounds, well, antiquated. Christie A. Hefner would respond that this is not your father's Playboy. Or hers, for that matter. Ms. Hefner, the chief executive of Playboy Enterprises and the daughter Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794666585677372005-09-27T12:17:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:17:46.590+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 Great Job, Vacation Is on Us PAUL B. BROWN HOW does this sound: Your company pays for your next vacation, and the flight you take to get there is actually enjoyable. It could happen, if the trends that Executive Travel foresees come true. The idea of companies offering cash, merchandise or travel incentives as motivation is spreading beyond the sales team and isTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794628728341062005-09-27T12:16:00.001+08:002005-09-27T12:17:08.733+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 Today's Lesson: Rethink College Funds By DAMON DARLIN It seems miserly, immoral and guaranteed to make your children more resentful than they normally would be, but saving for their college education is the last thing you should be doing. Save for your own retirement and, then, if there is anything left, put something aside for them. It may sound like crazy Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794574890270732005-09-27T12:16:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:16:14.893+08:00NYT September 24, 2005 Living in the Trees, and Raising a Few to Boot By KRISTINA SHEVORY EATONVILLE, Wash. - All Richard and Donna Gleason wanted was five acres in the country with a good view. They got a lot more than they bargained for. In January, the couple bought a 20-acre mini-tree-farm for $200,000 from the Weyerhaeuser Company, the timber company based in Federal Way, Wash. Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794028331692962005-09-27T12:06:00.002+08:002005-09-27T12:07:08.336+08:00NYT September 23, 2005 Houston, You Have a Problem By VIKAS BAJAJ and CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH Facing a potentially devastating hit from Hurricane Rita, the Houston-area economy ground to a halt yesterday as more than four million residents evacuated the city and other nearby coastal areas on clogged highways, which were made worse by motorists stranded as gasoline ran short. From Corpus Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127794000663842802005-09-27T12:06:00.001+08:002005-09-27T12:06:40.670+08:00NYT September 23, 2005 For Hotelier, Crisis Is Another Word for Opportunity By GARY RIVLIN BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 21 - For the first few days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, F. Patrick Quinn III did what he could to help the displaced. He carted food and water to guests stranded at a hotel he owns on the edge of the French Quarter. He even ventured out on a dinghy to help a Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127793978257756912005-09-27T12:06:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:06:18.260+08:00NYT September 23, 2005 Oprah's Book Club to Add Contemporary Writers By EDWARD WYATT Oprah Winfrey said yesterday that she was expanding her highly influential television book club to include the works of contemporary authors, reversing a policy of choosing only classic novels and once again offering authors and their publishers the hope of huge sales resulting from her picks. "I Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127793726151418492005-09-27T12:01:00.000+08:002005-09-27T12:02:06.153+08:00NYT September 23, 2005 Freedom or Not? The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will soon decide whether ground zero will continue to include an International Freedom Center, or whether families of some 9/11 victims will be able to censor those plans. Yesterday, the Freedom Center submitted a report that specified in greater detail how it would be run and what it hoped to present inTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127793175017187362005-09-27T11:52:00.000+08:002005-09-27T11:52:55.023+08:00NYT September 22, 2005 New Vatican Rule Said to Bar Gays as New Priests By IAN FISHER and LAURIE GOODSTEIN ROME, Sept. 21 - Homosexuals, even those who are celibate, will be barred from becoming Roman Catholic priests, a church official said Wednesday, under stricter rules soon to be released on one of the most sensitive issues facing the church. 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While they are one of the country's favorite foods, they are soaked with trans fats, loaded with sodium and full of simple carbs, the bad kind. And, it turns out, they are also full of a chemical called acrylamide, which is known to cause Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127792324637239872005-09-27T11:38:00.001+08:002005-09-27T11:38:44.640+08:00NYT September 21, 2005 OPEC Drops Cartel Role and Says Pump All You Can By JAD MOUAWAD VIENNA, Sept. 20 - Oil prices slipped Tuesday on signs that the direction of Hurricane Rita was shifting away from America's energy heartland and OPEC formally agreed to lift all restrictions on its oil sales for the next three months, in a move aimed at further reassuring markets still on edge overTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127792299414346602005-09-27T11:38:00.000+08:002005-09-27T11:38:19.426+08:00NYT September 21, 2005 It's a Game. No, It's an Ad. No, It's Advergame. By STUART ELLIOTT THE online games that were embedded in ads sponsored by the Internet travel agent Orbitz are coming back, this time on a Web site of their own. The Web site (orbitzgames.com), scheduled to go live today, revives games that have proved popular since they began appearing inside Orbitz online ads inTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127789676436172732005-09-27T10:54:00.000+08:002005-09-27T10:54:36.446+08:00NYT September 21, 2005 Deep Flaws, and Little Justice, in China's Court System By JOSEPH KAHN ANYANG, China - For three days and three nights, the police wrenched Qin Yanhong's arms high above his back, jammed his knees into a sharp metal frame, and kicked his gut whenever he fell asleep. The pain was so intense that he watched sweat pour off his face and form puddles on the floor. OnTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127789649164298752005-09-27T10:53:00.000+08:002005-09-27T10:54:09.176+08:00NYT September 21, 2005 Microsoft Shuffles Leadership By STEVE LOHR Microsoft reshuffled its management team yesterday in an effort to make it more nimble as the company tries to lift its growth and compete with fast-moving rivals like Google. Under the plan, seven business units will be collapsed into three divisions, each led by an executive who will carry the title of president. Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127199272144953192005-09-20T14:54:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:54:32.150+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 To Bed or to Bar? By JANE L. LEVERE Ben Cukier, a New York investment banker, favors Starwood's W hotels. "They have really comfortable beds, really comfortable rooms and a hip atmosphere," the 33-year-old Mr. Cukier said. "They always have a great bar and a good lobby where you can hang out and read a book." Eric Thunem, also a New York investment banker, is Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127199245188022562005-09-20T14:53:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:54:05.196+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 Navigation Systems: Obsolete Before Their Time? By CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT KAREN GREENWELL says she can get lost in her own backyard. Which is why Ms. Greenwell, a clinical researcher in Blue Bell, Pa., always insists on renting a car with an onboard navigation system. "I have stood at the rental counter and said, 'Look, you have to find a car with a navigational Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127198888133940782005-09-20T14:47:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:48:08.136+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 Europe Considers New Charges Against Microsoft By PAUL MELLER BRUSSELS, Sept. 19 - Almost 18 months after the European Commission ruled that Microsoft had abused its dominance in the software market, Europe's antitrust authority is considering opening new cases against the company, Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner, said Monday. The commission rulingTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127198629042193142005-09-20T14:37:00.001+08:002005-09-20T14:43:49.050+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 Cash Now, Questions Later By GARY RIVLIN BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 19 - In the period that some simply call "before," employees working at the Liberty Bank and Trust Company headquarters, a six-story glass box in eastern New Orleans, sat at brand-new workstations in a building they had occupied only this past spring. Now, the head office for this $350 million Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127198493825863602005-09-20T14:37:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:45:03.403+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 File-Sharing Services Seek Pact With Record Studios By SAUL HANSELL At least five online file-sharing companies have started trying to reach an accord with the music industry to convert the free trading of copyrighted music on their networks to paid services, according to several recording industry and file-sharing executives. The most advanced discussions Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127197957845314612005-09-20T14:32:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:32:37.850+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 A Late Start Isn't Stopping Gator Harvest By SIMON ROMERO KAPLAN, La., Sept. 15 - Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans and killed hundreds of people across the Gulf Coast region. The storm left a million others at least temporarily homeless. But where Louisiana's alligators are concerned, the hunt must go on. The annual one-month alligator hunt, which opened Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127197878235957922005-09-20T14:31:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:31:18.250+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 Fighting to Get in on the Next Little Thing By GARY RIVLIN San Francisco FOUR months to six months. Only a year or two ago, that was how long start-up companies generally had to cajole, fret and act nonchalant while waiting for venture capitalists to part with money - if they proved willing to write a check at all. Even during robust times, the period between aTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127197781591343482005-09-20T14:29:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:29:41.596+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 Financially Illiterate? A Nonprofit Foundation Wants to Help By JANE L. LEVERE A NONPROFIT group dedicated to financial literacy says it thinks many Americans could manage their personal finances better, and it plans to introduce an advertising campaign this week to give them some ideas. "We have an economy, a society, where people are encouraged to buy today, Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127197637865344102005-09-20T14:26:00.000+08:002005-09-20T14:27:17.873+08:00NYT September 20, 2005 Norsk Hydro Buying Spinnaker Exploration By REUTERS OSLO, Sept. 19 (Reuters) - Norsk Hydro said Monday that it had agreed to buy the Spinnaker Exploration Company of Houston for $2.45 billion in cash to expand oil and gas output and add potential for new discoveries. 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The drink, which comes in a brown bottle and is advertised with the Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127117920734728972005-09-19T16:18:00.001+08:002005-09-19T16:18:40.736+08:00NYT September 19, 2005 A Photographer Gets His 15 Minutes as the President Requests a Quick Break By JULIE BOSMAN Three weeks ago, Rick Wilking, a photographer for the Reuters news service, was in New Orleans taking photos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The American Red Cross even used his work in television commercials soliciting donations. Now he's best known for a Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127117895754395452005-09-19T16:18:00.000+08:002005-09-19T16:18:15.760+08:00NYT September 19, 2005 More Horrible Than Truth: News Reports DISASTER has a way of bringing out the best and the worst instincts in the news media. 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HALBFINGER LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18 - The six major Hollywood studios, hoping to gain more control over their technological destiny, have agreed to jointly finance a multimillion-dollar research laboratory to speed the development of new ways to foil movie pirates. The new nonprofit consortium is Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127117802007507802005-09-19T16:16:00.000+08:002005-09-19T16:16:42.010+08:00NYT September 19, 2005 A Company Looks to Wean Computers Off the Wires By MICHEL MARRIOTT While snaking cables are still a long way from becoming the buggy whips of the 21st century, a Silicon Valley technology company recently said that it had developed a wireless technology that might hasten their obsolescence. Conventional wired networks that link devices like personal Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127117715271868042005-09-19T16:15:00.000+08:002005-09-19T16:15:15.273+08:00NYT September 19, 2005 Making Sure Drivers Have Little Room to Skirt Audio Books By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN Audio book publishers have long known that listening to books is popular with commuters, but have never quite managed to crack this nut: how to breach all those locked garages and sophisticated car alarms to put samples of their goods inside vehicles. Simply Audiobooks, a Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127117691743245772005-09-19T16:13:00.000+08:002005-09-19T16:14:51.746+08:00NYT September 19, 2005 Fashion Site to Try an All-Purpose Portal By BOB TEDESCHI WHEN some of Silicon Valley's best minds pool their collective intelligence and millions of dollars to create a Web site for people who want to read about and buy everything in Lindsay Lohan's closet, you know the Internet industry is ready to party again. Glam.com, a fashion site scheduled to make Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127117453293738022005-09-19T16:10:00.000+08:002005-09-19T16:10:53.346+08:00NYT September 19, 2005 Even a Darling of the Newspaper Industry Is Starting to Sweat a Bit By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE HALF MOON BAY, Calif. - Joseph Kieta can still hardly believe his good fortune. He is 33 years old and edits The Merced Sun-Star, a tiny daily in California's fast-growing Central Valley. The McClatchy Company bought the paper a year and a half ago, and overnight, Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113905964169932005-09-19T15:11:00.001+08:002005-09-19T15:11:45.966+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 The Disaster Behind the Disaster: Poverty By DANIEL ALTMAN IN the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people watching images of poverty along the Gulf Coast may have wondered, "How many poor places like this are there in this country?" The easy answer is, quite a few. But why poverty persists in certain areas is a complex problem, and what can be done to help Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113880201507102005-09-19T15:11:00.000+08:002005-09-19T15:11:20.206+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 If the Boss Has a Problem, Maybe You Do, Too By MATT VILLANO Q. Your boss has begun to display a pattern of irrational behavior, and it is putting a strain on people in the office. What should you do? A. A shift in your boss's ordinary workplace behavior should arouse concern, said Gerald M. Groe, an organizational psychologist and professional developmentTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113853658142162005-09-19T15:10:00.000+08:002005-09-19T15:10:53.666+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 Psst: Want to Know My Net Worth? By ELIZABETH HARRIS APRIL was a stellar month for Jim Wang, 25, a software engineer who has kept a scrupulous record of his struggle to save for a down payment on his first home. Mr. Wang, who lives in Columbia, Md., pared down his spending on groceries to just $53.98 for the entire month. He cut back on meals at Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113751885503192005-09-19T15:09:00.000+08:002005-09-19T15:09:11.896+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 Disney Moves Away From Hand-Drawn Animation By LAURA M. HOLSON Burbank, Calif. ON April 4, 2003, Glen Keane, one of the Walt Disney Company's most respected animators, summoned about 50 of his colleagues to a third-floor conference room on the lot here to discuss the war brewing at the studio. Disney's animators had settled into two opposing camps: those Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113660485188032005-09-19T15:07:00.001+08:002005-09-19T15:07:40.493+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 Help for Aging Parents, and for Yourself By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH ELINOR GINZLER knows that her parents were lucky - and that she was, too. Her mom died in her sleep at the age of 73 - "20 years too early, but she died the way she wanted to," Ms. Ginzler recalled. Her dad died at 83 - and, even though he had battled cancer for five years, he did not suffer much. "Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113631986192562005-09-19T15:07:00.000+08:002005-09-19T15:07:11.990+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 A Vacation Isn't All Fun and Games for the Nanny By JULIE BICK A FAMILY vacation is an oxymoron," says Tracy Nordhoff of Bellevue, Wash., outside Seattle. "It's just living with kids in a different place." So, when Ms. Nordhoff, her husband and their blended family of seven children, aged 3 to 18, travel, they make sure that they have a flexible, reliable Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113233254602312005-09-19T15:00:00.000+08:002005-09-19T15:00:33.263+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 Wrigley Battling for Candy Supremacy By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:00 p.m. ET CHICAGO (AP) -- When W. Wrigley Jr. Co. bought the popular Life Savers and Altoids candy brands earlier this year, many analysts said the top chewing gum maker was going on a buying spree to take a bigger bite out of the candy market. But at the recent opening of a $45 Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113160368820552005-09-19T14:59:00.000+08:002005-09-19T14:59:20.370+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 World Mobile Subscribers Top 2 Bln: Study By REUTERS Filed at 6:11 a.m. ET HELSINKI (Reuters) - The number of mobile phone subscribers in the world has surpassed the 2 billion milestone Wireless Intelligence, an information service set up by industry body GSM Association and consulting firm Ovum, said on Sunday. ``The bulk of the new growth now is Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127113112740812482005-09-19T14:58:00.000+08:002005-09-19T14:58:32.746+08:00NYT September 18, 2005 Student - Run Businesses Get Sophisticated By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:37 p.m. ET MASON, Ohio (AP) -- When Alex Zamojski forgets his lunch money, it's not a problem. He can just stroll into the bank at Mason High School and withdraw the money from his savings account. 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The player is Matt Birk, a Harvard graduate and four-time Pro Bowl center for the Minnesota Vikings. Last season, despite three hernia operations and chronic pain, he played in most of his team's Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1127112607077132212005-09-19T14:49:00.000+08:002005-09-19T14:50:07.090+08:00NYT September 17, 2005 Going to the Hospital? Don't Forget to Pack a Nurse By ALINA TUGEND A FEW years ago, a friend having major surgery was advised to hire a private nurse to be at her bedside in the hospital. When I heard this, I mentally rolled my eyes. Was this one more example of baby boomer excess - the regular nurses aren't good enough that we need someone at our beck and callTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126860036252589322005-09-16T16:40:00.000+08:002005-09-16T16:40:36.256+08:00NYT September 16, 2005 Mississippi Sues Insurers Over Damage From Storm By JENNIFER BAYOT Mississippi sued the state's property-casualty insurers yesterday in an attempt to compel them to pay for a greater share of the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina, firing a legal salvo that could drive away insurance providers even as it gives hope to homeowners displaced by the storm. In a Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126860002188181402005-09-16T16:39:00.000+08:002005-09-16T16:40:02.193+08:00NYT September 16, 2005 Law Firms Decide Branding Is Not Just for Soap By JONATHAN D. GLATER IF Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft were a tree, which tree would it be? One can only imagine the reactions - let alone the answers - from partners at Cadwalader, one of New York's oldest law firms, when confronted with a question like that. But that decidedly nonlegal line of inquiry is Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126859968869912232005-09-16T16:37:00.000+08:002005-09-16T16:39:28.873+08:00NYT September 16, 2005 Seinfeld Who? NBC Pursuing the Heartland By JACQUES STEINBERG KENNESAW, Ga., Sept. 12 - The cash register at Goody's clothing store here flashed $106.01 - for a dress shirt and three pairs of Levi's - but as Lori Smith reached for her credit card, a nearby voice brought the transaction to a halt. "Tell you what, why don't you let me take care of it?" said Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126859531494468102005-09-16T16:31:00.000+08:002005-09-16T16:32:11.500+08:00NYT September 15, 2005 Gillette Is Betting That Men Want an Even Closer Shave By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH LET regulators worry whether Gillette's proposed merger with Procter & Gamble poses antitrust problems. Let investors worry about how that merger will affect the fused companies' stocks. The people at Gillette have a far more immediate challenge: persuading men that they need to buy Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126847004405397202005-09-16T13:03:00.000+08:002005-09-16T13:03:24.410+08:00NYT September 15, 2005 Illinois Pizza Farm Draws Tourists By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:36 a.m. ET DOW, Ill. (AP) -- Walt Gregory found a way to make dough harvesting pizza. The retired insurance agent and his business partner have carved up quite a tourist draw near the Mississippi River town of Alton, educating people with a half-acre circular plot divided up like the slicesTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126846961985482082005-09-16T13:02:00.000+08:002005-09-16T13:02:41.990+08:00NYT September 15, 2005 Latin American Exporters See Opportunity By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:14 p.m. ET SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- From Mexican cement to Brazilian plywood, Latin American makers of construction materials see a business opportunity in the rebuilding efforts following Hurricane Katrina -- and a chance to breach trade barriers that limit U.S. sales of their goods. Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6122002.post-1126846617003814052005-09-16T12:56:00.001+08:002005-09-16T12:56:57.006+08:00NYT September 15, 2005 Microsoft Said to Be in Talks on A.O.L. Link By REUTERS Filed at 12:06 p.m. ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) are discussing cooperation between their Internet search and advertising networks, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. ``There have been talks on ways Microsoft and AOL assets can be better Tnoreply@blogger.com