Japan To Fingerprint Foreigners
Japan to start fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors under stringent new security measures that have been criticised by civil rights advocates....
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James J. Fuld, Collector Of Rare Music Scores, Dies At 91
James J. Fuld was a New York lawyer whose love of music inspired him to assemble one of the world’s finest collections of first editions of musical scores....
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Doctors Reap Millions For Anemia Drugs
Two drug companies are paying doctors millions to prescribe drugs that regulators say may be unsafe....
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Sales Of Existing Homes Fall To Lowest Level In 4 Years
Sales of existing homes fell in May to the lowest level in four years while the median home price dropped for a record 10th consecutive month....
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Music Review | Chamber Music At The Y: An Evening Of Piano Quartets, Introspective Yet Commanding
The 92nd Street Y has been trying to liven up its chamber music series by inviting more guest players to perform with members of the core ensemble, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio....
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Science News

Dot Earth: Warming Takes Out Defense Radars
2007-12-09 05:30 - The Pentagon is closing 3 of the 20 Norad early-warning radar sites in northern Alaska because they are in danger of falling into the ocean.

Dot Earth: Bali Update: Pushing for Action, Not Talk
2007-12-09 05:30 - The diplomats and officials gathered in Bali to shape talks leading to a new climate treaty are beginning to feel the heat.

Q & A: Trunk Line
2007-12-08 06:01 - How keen is an elephant’s sense of smell, and where in the trunk is it handled?

Shuttle Mission Is Delayed by Problems With Fuel Sensors
2007-12-08 06:01 - NASA officials delayed the launching of the space shuttle Atlantis at least until Saturday after canceling Thursday’s attempt because of problems with a pair of fuel sensors.

Seymour Benzer, Geneticist, Is Dead at 86
2007-12-08 05:30 - Seymour Benzer made scientific history by discovering that genes were structured like words and went on to do pioneering work on the ties between genes and behavior.

House Sets Higher Goal for Vehicle Fuel Efficiency
2007-12-08 05:30 - Brushing aside a veto threat from the White House, the House passed a package of energy measures that includes a 40 percent increase in fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the United States.

Manatees Retain Endangered Status
2007-12-07 06:01 - Manatees remain on Florida’s endangered species list, for now.

Theater Review | ’Trumpery’: Don?t Dillydally, Darwin, It’s Survival o...
2007-12-07 06:01 - Peter Parnell’s play is a tightly focused study of Darwin, his family and his intellectual circles.

News Analysis: Crossing a Threshold on Energy Legislation
2007-12-07 05:30 - Congress is poised to act on the first bill to increase vehicle fuel efficiency significantly since 1975 and on the first economywide bill to address global warming since scientists raised the alarm in the late 1980s.

Senate Panel Passes Bill to Limit Greenhouse Gases
2007-12-07 05:30 - The bill would be a major step toward passage of a measure that would for the first time slow and then reverse emissions of the gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet.


 
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