Selected Articles from The New York Times—
April 2007
(* denotes news of special interest)

Monday, April 30, 2007:
On This Day: April 30 (St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle 4/30/1651-4/7/1719, Eugen Bleuler 4/30/1857-7/15/1939, Franz Léhar 4/30/1870-10/24/1948, John Crowe Ransom 4/30/1888-7/4/1974, Joachim von Ribbentrop 4/30/1893-10/16/1946, Simon Kuznets 4/30/1901-7/8/1985, Eve Arden 4/30/1912-11/12/1990, Robert Shaw 4/30/1916-1/25/1999, Richard Farina 4/30/1937-4/30/1966, Princess Juliana 1909, Al Lewis 1910, Cloris Leachman 1926, Willie Nelson 1933, Gary Collins 1938, Burt Young 1940, Bobby Vee 1943, Jill Clayburgh 1944, Perry King 1948, Merrill Osmand 1953)
Communists Take Over Saigon; U.S. Rescue Fleet Is Picking Up Vietnamese Who Fled in Boats
(By George Esper, April 30, 1975)
Theodore Schultz, 95, Winner Of a Key Prize in Economics
[4/30/1902-4/30/1998] (By PETER PASSELL, March 2, 1998)

Polly Hill Is Dead at 100; Tested Hardiness of Plants (By DENNIS HEVESI, Apr. 30, 2007)
* NATIONAL: A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith [Barack Obama]
(By JODI KANTOR, Apr. 30, 2007)
NATIONAL: Quiet Bush Aide Seeks Iraq Czar, Creating a Stir (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Apr. 30, 2007)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 7, Yankees 4: Yankees Go to Bat for Torre After Another Loss
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 30, 2007)
* OP-ED: Who's Watching Your Money? (By ROBERT M. MORGENTHAU, Apr. 30, 2007)
LETTERS: Moms and Fiction (1 Letter) (By Catherine Chatham, Apr. 30, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Filler in Animal Feed Is Open Secret in China (By DAVID BARBOZA & ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, Apr. 30, 2007)
* MEDIA & ADVERTISING: After Virginia Tech, Testing Limits of Movie Violence
(By MICHAEL CIEPLY, Apr. 30, 2007)
HEALTH: P.E. Classes Turn to Video Game That Works Legs (By SETH SCHIESEL, Apr. 30, 2007)

Sunday, April 29, 2007:
On This Day: April 29 (Alexander II 4/29/1818-3/13/1881, Henri Poincaré 4/29/1854-7/17/1912, William Randolph Hearst 4/29/1863-8/14/1951, Sir Thomas Becham 4/29/1879-3/8/1961, Harold Urey 4/29/1893-1/5/1981, Sir Malcomm Sargent 4/29/1895-10/3/1967, Duke Ellington 4/29/1899-5/24/1974, Fred Zinnemann 4/29/1907-3/14/1997, George Allen 4/29/1922-12/31/1990, Celeste Holm 1919, Carl Gardner 1928, Keith Baxter 1933, Rod McKuen 1933, Zubin Mehta 1936, Jerry Seinfeld 1954, Kate Mulgrew 1955, Michelle Pfeiffer 1957, Uma Thurman 1970)
Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted In Taped Beating of Rodney King
(By Seth Mydans, April 29, 1992)
Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan, Is Dead at 87
[4/29/1901-1/7/1989] (By SUSAN CHIRA, January 7, 1989)

* Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 29, 2007)
NATIONAL: For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Apr. 29, 2007)
NATIONAL: A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key (By HELENE COOPER & JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 29, 2007)
Overpass Near San Francisco Collapses After Fire (By JESSE McKINLEY & CAROLYN MARSHALL, Apr. 29, 2007)
WORLD: Inspectors Find Rebuilt Projects Crumbling in Iraq (By JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 29, 2007)
* NY REGION | Parenting: Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Apr. 29, 2007)
NY REGION: Unstoppable [Bicycles] (By JOCKO WEYLAND, Apr. 29, 2007)
SPORTS: For Colt and His Owner, a Long Ride to the Derby (By JOE DRAPE, Apr. 29, 2007)
BASEBALL: Yankees 3, Red Sox 1: Igawa Provides Necessary Relief for Yankees
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 29, 2007)
ON BASEBALL: No Savings in Cutting Out the Middle Men (By MURRAY CHASS, Apr. 29, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Still Waiting for Answers [Bush] (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* OP-ED: Boris the Fighter (By BILL CLINTON, Apr. 29, 2007)
OP-ED: A Drive From Wet to East (By JONATHAN RABAN, Apr. 29, 2007)
OP-ED: In Michigan, Not Even the Dead Are Safe (By THOMAS LYNCH, Apr. 29, 2007)
The South Under Siege, Yet Again (By LEE SMITH, Apr. 29, 2007)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood (By BRAD STONE, Apr. 29, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Novelties:ÊThe Little Projectors That Pack a Punch (By ANNE EISENBERG, Apr. 29, 2007)
REAL ESTATE: So, Do I Make the Cut? (By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY, Apr. 29, 2007)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* ART: Giving Life to Found Objects, Two by Two (By JORI FINKEL, Apr. 29, 2007)
MUSIC: At Home Again in the Unknown (By JON PARELES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* THEATER: Surprising Herself, a Class Act Returns [Angela Lansbury] (By JESSE GREEN, Apr. 29, 2007)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
STYLE: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, Apr. 29, 2007)
FASHION: Shades of Truth: An Account of a Kabul School Is Challenged (By ABBY ELLIN, Apr. 29, 2007)
DJ AM: His Life, Times, Shoes (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Apr. 29, 2007)
* MODERN LOVE: How My Plumber Turned Water Into Wine (By ALICE FEIRING, Apr. 29, 2007)
POSSESSED: Goodbye, Newton, Hello, Childhood (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 29, 2007)
ON THE STREET: Look East (By BILL CUNNINGHAM, Apr. 29, 2007)
VOWS: Sara Galvan and Luke Bronin (By STACI SEMRAD, Apr. 29, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
TRAVEL | Choice Tables | Paris: Steak Frites: Seeking the Best of a Classic
(By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 29, 2007)
TRAVEL | Next Stop | Vilnius, Lithuania: After a Dark Era, a City Looks West and Sees a Future
(By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Apr. 29, 2007)
TRAVEL | Surfacing | Minneapolis: A Foodie Scene in the Twin Cities (By SUNSHINE FLINT, Apr. 29, 2007)
TRAVEL | 36 HOURS: Key West, Florida (By CINDY PIERCE, Apr. 29, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* GLOBAL COOLNESS: Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green? (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Apr. 29, 2007)
* Dear Virtuoso, I Wrote This One Just for You [Mstislav Rostropovich]
(By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 29, 2007)
The Perfect Weapon for the Meanest Wars (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Apr. 29, 2007)
* Ideas & Trends: Walling Off Your Enemies: The Long View (By TIM WEINER, Apr. 29, 2007)
World View Podcast [Calvin Sims & Steve Weisman discuss Paul Wolfowitz]
(NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* THE BASICS: Oh, for a Chance to Whitewash a Fence (By TOM KUNTZ, Apr. 29, 2007)
* THE BASICS: Just 120 Trillion Miles From Home (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 29, 2007)
GRAPHIC: Week of April 22-28: Exit Strategies (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
The New Passport: Stars and Stripes, Wrapped in the Same Old Blue (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Apr. 29, 2007)
READING FILE: A Security Contractor Defends His Team, Which, He Says, Is Not a Private Army
(By TIM WEINER, Apr. 29, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Fall Guy (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 29, 2007)
The Way We Live Now: The Post-Money Era (By MATT BAI, Apr. 29, 2007)
* Questions for Russell Simmons: Hip-Hop Guru (Interview By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 29, 2007)
CONSUMED: Buzz Factor (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 29, 2007)
* PHENOMENON: Catalytic Converters ["Shiitization"] (By ANDREW TABLER, Apr. 29, 2007)
THE ETHICIST: Teacher, Jeweler (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 29, 2007)
COVER ARTICLE: The Confessor [Charlie Hess] (By CHIP BROWN, Apr. 29, 2007)
A Disciplined Business (By JON MOOALLEM, Apr. 29, 2007)
Islamic Democrats? (By JAMES TRAUB, Apr. 29, 2007)
SLIDE SHOW: Acid Reign (By ALAN ALDRIDGE, Apr. 29, 2007)
Food | The Way We Eat: Stalk of the Town (By AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 29, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2007)
BOOKS: The Chosen Frozen [Michael Chabon, Yiddish Policemen's Union]
(By PATRICIA COHEN, Apr. 29, 2007)
* HEALTH: Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion (By JANE GROSS, Apr. 29, 2007)

Saturday, April 28, 2007:
On This Day: April 28 (James Monroe 4/28/1878-7/4/1831, Marie-Joseph Chenier 4/28/1764-1/10/1811, Tobias Asser 4/28/1838-7/29/1913, Erich Salomon 4/28/1886-7/7/1944, Johan Borgen 4/28/1902-10/16/1979, Bart Jan Bok 4/28/1906-8/7/1983, Kurt Gödel 4/28/1906-1/14/1978, Ferruccio Lamborghini 4/28/1916-2/20/1993, Carolyn Jones 4/28/1929-8/3/1983, Harper Lee 1926, James A. Baker III 1930, Saddam Hussein 1937, Ann-Margret 1941, Jay Leno 1950, Mary McDonnell 1953, Chris Young 1971)
* Kon-Tiki Trip Ends on Pacific Reef; Party Safe After 4,000-Mile Drift
(By Thor Heyerdahl, April 28, 1947)
* Lionel Barrymore Is Dead at 76; Actor's Career Spanned 61 Years
[4/28/1878-11/15/1954] (NY TIMES, November 16, 1954)

BASEBALL: On Night of Firsts, a Second Win Over the Yankees for Matsuzaka (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 28, 2007)
BASEBALL: An Ugly Month Gets Even Uglier for Rivera (By PAT BORZI, Apr. 28, 2007)
* OP-ED: Planet of the Apes [Where are the advanced civilizations?]
(By ROBERT WRIGHT, Apr. 28, 2007)

Friday, April 27, 2007:
On This Day: April 27 (Claude Gillot 4/27/1673-5/4/1722, Nikolay Novikov 4/27/1744-7/31/1818, Mary Wollstonecraft 4/27/1759-9/10/1797, Samuel Morse 4/27/1791-4/2/1872, Herbert Spencer 4/27/1820-12/8/1903, Edward Whymper 4/27/1840-9/16/1911, Rogers Hornsby 4/27/1896-1/5/1963, Wallace Hume Carothers 4/27/1896-4/29/1937, Walter Lantz 4/27/1900-3/27/1900, Jack Klugman 1922, Coretta Scott King 1927, Anouk Aimee 1932, Casey Kasem 1932, Judy Carne 1939, Sheena Easton 1959)
* 58,339 Acclaim Babe Ruth in Rare Tribute at Yankee Stadium
(By Louis Effrat, April 27, 1947)
* The Career of a Soldier: Ulysses S. Grant Dies at 63
[4/27/1822-7/23/1885] (NY TIMES, July 24, 1885)

* NATIONAL: Dean at M.I.T. Resigns, Ending a 28-Year Lie (By TAMAR LEWIN, Apr. 27, 2007)
NATIONAL: Ex-C.I.A. Chief, in Book, Assails Cheney on Iraq (By SCOTT SHANE & MARK MAZZETTI, Apr. 27, 2007)
WORLD: China Reveals Olympic Route; Taiwan Rejects Its Place in Line (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 27, 2007)
* OP-ED: Talk to the Chos (By DAVE CULLEN, Apr. 27, 2007)
* OP-ED: China Needs an Einstein, So Do We (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 27, 2007)
OP-ED: Politics During Wartime (By MICHAEL DELONG, Apr. 27, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Takahashi: A guru for Zen of office pile-up [David Allen]
(By Dean Takahashi, SJ Mercury News, Apr. 27, 2007)

Thursday, April 26, 2007:
On This Day: April 26 (John James Audubon 4/26/1785-1/27/1851, Friedrich Flotow 4/26/1812-1/24/1883, Alfred Krupp 4/26/1812-7/14/1887, Frederick Law Olmsted 4/26/1822-8/28/1903, Harold Rothermere 4/26/1868-11/26/1940, Ma Rainey 4/26/1886-12/22/1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein 4/26/1889-4/29/1951, Anita Loos 4/26/1893-8/18/1981, Cass Canfield 4/26/1897-3/27/1986, Morris West 4/26/1916-10/9/1999, Carol Burnett 1933, Duane Eddy 1938, Bobby Rydell 1942, Claudine Auger 1942, Joan Chen 1961)
Soviet Announces Nuclear Accident at Electric Plant at Chernobyl
(By Serge Schmemann, April 26, 1986)
* Bernard Malamud Dies at 71; Chronicled Human Struggle
[4/26/1914-3/18/1986] (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, March 19, 1986)

NATIONAL: War Bill Passes House, Requiring an Iraq Pullout (By CARL HULSE & JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 26, 2007)
WORLD: In Pomp and Symbolism, Yeltsin Is Buried From a Cathedral (By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, Apr. 26, 2007)
BASBEBALL ROUNDUP: Passed Ball Helps Marlins Topple Braves (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 26, 2007)
FOOTBALL: Johnson Has No Baggage and a Seat in First Class (By JUDY BATTISTA, Apr. 26, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Ranting at Reality on Iraq (NY TIMES, Apr. 26, 2007)
OP-ED: The Danger Downwind (By DAVID C. EVERS & CHARLES T. DRISCOLL Jr., Apr. 26, 2007)
LETTERS: As War Grinds on, So Does the Sparring (4 Letters) (By Ronald I. Spiers, et. al, Apr. 26, 2007)
BUSINESS: Dow Bursts Through 13,000 (By VIKAS BAJAJ, Apr. 26, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: Looking Perfect, One Pixel at a Time (By PETER WAYNER, Apr. 26, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: In TV Games, Preschoolers Learn as They Pedal (By WARREN BUCKLEITNER, Apr. 26, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: The Robot in Your Pool Doesn't Need Sunscreen (By JOHN BIGGS, Apr. 26, 2007)
ART: Room With a View of an Architect's Retired Ideas [Richard Meier]
(By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 26, 2007)
* DANCE | New York City Ballet: A New Season Begins With a Celebration of a Master
[George Balancine] (By ALASTAIR MACAULAY, Apr. 26, 2007)
* FILM: Hollywood's Shortage of Female Power (By SHARON WAXMAN, Apr. 26, 2007)
MUSIC | Midori: The Forgotten and Offbeat, With Dashes of Ludwig Van (By STEVE SMITH, Apr. 26, 2007)
MUSIC | Donny Osmond: Star of a '70s Singing Family, Still Spreading the Puppy Love
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 26, 2007)
* THEATER: The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV's Q & A (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Apr. 26, 2007)

Wednesday, April 25, 2007:
On This Day: April 25 (Oliver Cromwell 4/25/1599-9/3/1658, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 4/25/1840-10/25/1893, John Frank Stevens 4/25/1853-6/2/1943, Howard Garis 4/25/1873-11/6/1962, Guglielmo Marconi 4/25/1874-7/20/1937, Wolfgang Pauli 4/25/1900-12/15/1958, William Brennan 4/25/1906-7/24/1997, Claude Mauriac 4/25/1914-3/22/1996, Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/1917-6/15/1996, Paul Mazursky 1930, Meadowlark Lemon 1932, Al Pacino 1940, Talia Shire 1946, Hank Azaria 1964, Renee Zellweger 1969, Emily Bergl 1975)
Two Soviet Armies Inside Berlin; 46 Nations Ready to Organize Peace; Only Poles Absent
(By James B. Reston, April 25 , 1945)
* Edward R. Murrow, Broadcaster And Ex-Chief of U.S.I.A., Dies at 57
[4/25/1908-4/27/1965] (NY TIMES, April 28, 1965)
The Final American Tour of Charles Dickens (Harper's Weekly, April 25, 1868)

NATIONAL: White House Sees Strident Tone in Debate on Iraq Bill (By CARL HULSE & JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 25, 2007)
NATIONAL: Virginia Tech Sets Out to Preserve Objects of Grief, Love and Forgiveness
(By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Apr. 25, 2007)
NATIONAL: Hispanics Reshaping U.S. Catholic Church (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 25, 2007)
NATIONAL: OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry (By STEPHEN LABATON, Apr. 25, 2007)
NATIONAL: For Indian Victims of Sexual Assault, a Tangled Legal Path (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Apr. 25, 2007)
WORLD: Presidential Pick in Turkey Is Sign of a Rising Islamic Middle Class
(By SABRINA TAVERNISE, Apr. 25, 2007)
* EDUCATION: Billionaires Start $60 Million Schools Effort (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Apr. 25, 2007)
SPORTS: For N.F.L. Draft, the Biggest (XXXXXXL) Sleeper (By LEE JENKINS, Apr. 25, 2007)
Devil Rays 6, Yankees 4: Yankees Find Themselves in Last Place They Expected
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 25, 2007)
* OP-ED: Off to Work She Should Go (By LINDA HIRSHMAN, Apr. 25, 2007)
LETTERS: Yeltsin's Legacy Is Like Russia Itself (2 Letters) (By Randy Recklaus, et. al., Apr. 25, 2007)
BUSINESS: Sales of Previously Owned Homes Plunge to 1989 Level (By JEREMY W. PETERS, Apr. 25, 2007)
* BOOKS | Mommy Books: More Buzz Than Buyers (By MOTOKO RICH, Apr. 25, 2007)
* DANCE: Recalling Kirstein, Endearing Monster (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 25, 2007)
* MUSIC: Don't Blame Hip-Hop (By KELEFA SANNEH, Apr. 25, 2007)
* FOOD: Farmer, Cookie Maker, Ecologist and, Yes, the Future King
[Prince Charles] (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 25, 2007)
FOOD: Preserving Fossil Fuels and Nearby Farmland by Eating Locally
(By MARIAN BURROS, Apr. 25, 2007)
FOOD: Foie Gras Makers Struggle to Please Critics and Chefs (By JULIET GLASS, Apr. 25, 2007)
* SCIENCE: 'New Planet Could Be Earthlike, Scientists Say (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 25, 2007)
* SCIENCE: 'Goldilocks' planet may be just right for life (By Hazel Muir, New Scientist Space, Apr. 25, 2007)

Tuesday, April 24, 2007:
On This Day: April 24 (St. Vincent De Paul 4/24/1581-9/27/1660, Giovanni Battista Martini 4/24/1706-10/4/1784, Robert Bailey Thomas 4/24/1766-5/19/1846, Anthony Trollope 4/24/1815-12/6/1882, Henri-Philippe Petain 4/24/1856-7/23/1951, John R. Pope 4/24/1874-8/27/1937, Willem de Kooning 4/24/1904-3/19/1997, J. D. Cannon 1922, Shirley MacLaine 1934, Sue Grafton 1940, Barbra Streisand 1942, Richard Sterban 1943, Michael O'Keefe 1955)
Spain Declared War on the U.S. (NY TIMES, April 24, 1898)
* Robert Penn Warren, Poet and Author, Dies at 84
[4/24/1905-9/15/1989] (NY TIMES, September 16, 1989)

* Boris N. Yeltsin, Reformer Who Broke Up the U.S.S.R., Dies at 76 (By MARILYN BERGER, Apr. 24, 2007)
NATIONAL: Virginia Tech Struggles to Return to Normal (By CHRISTINE HAUSER & IAN URBINA, Apr. 24, 2007)
BAEBALL: Replays of Red Sox' Homer Feat Tell Different Story (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 24, 2007)
ON BASEBALL: In the Bronx, a Team Perhaps Thrown Into Panic (By MURRAY CHASS, Apr. 24, 2007)
* OP-ED: Boris Yeltsin, the Early Years (By JACK F. MATLOCK Jr., Apr. 24, 2007)
OP-ED: Terror in the Weather Forecast (By THOMAS HOMER-DIXON, Apr. 24, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Top Hedge Fund Managers Earn Over $240 Million (By JENNY ANDERSON & JULIE CRESWELL, Apr. 24, 2007)
BUSINESS: In Las Vegas, Too Many Hotels Are Never Enough (By GARY RIVLIN, Apr. 24, 2007)
BUSINESS: Carbon Gas Is Explored as a Source of Ethanol (By LAWRENCE M. FISHER, Apr. 24, 2007)
* THEATER: ÔVirtue Is Not Its Own Reward' and Other Lessons for a Life in Art
[Edward Albee] (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Apr. 24, 2007)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 24, 2007)
* SCIENCE: If You Want to Know if Spot Loves You So, It's in His Tail (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Apr. 24, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons (By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, Apr. 24, 2007)
* First Mission to Explore Those Wisps in the Night Sky (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 24, 2007)
* SLIDE SHOW: Noctilucent Clouds (By John Boardman, Apr. 24, 2007)
FINDINGS: At Trial, Pain Has a Witness (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 24, 2007)
A Conversation With Susan L. Lindquist:
On the Trail of Parkinson's, Through Yeast Cells (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Apr. 24, 2007)
* OBSERVATORY: That New Car Bouquet Is Intoxicating, Not Toxic (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 24, 2007)
SCIENCE Q & A: Propeller Puzzles (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 24, 2007)
* HEALTH: Treating the Awkward Years (By JAN HOFFMAN, Apr. 24, 2007)
CASES: Wiping Out a Parasite, Not a Spirit of Adventure (By CLAIRE PANOSIAN DUNAVAN, M.D., Apr. 24, 2007)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Weight-Loss Drugs: Hoopla and Hype (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 24, 2007)
HEALTH BOOKS: Medicine and the Drug Industry, a Morality Tale (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D., Apr. 24, 2007)
HEALTH: Clue to Huntington's Is Found (By REUTERS, Apr. 24, 2007)
Breast Cancer Not Linked to Abortion, Study Says (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 24, 2007)
* BEHAVIIOR: Understanding Empathy: Can You Feel My Pain? (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Apr. 24, 2007)
* REALLY? | The Claim: Gain a Child, Lose a Tooth (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 24, 2007)
* VITAL SIGNS | Remedies: Dark Chocolate Similar to Blood Pressure Drugs
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 24, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | On the Scales: Swedes Are Tracking a Rise in Fatter Children, Too
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 24, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Resistance: Bacterium Linked to Ulcers May Lower Risk of Asthma
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 24, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Prognosis: Predicting Heart Disease Among the 20-Somethings (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 24, 2007)

Monday, April 23, 2007:
On This Day: April 23 (William Shakespeare 4/23/1564-4/23/1616, St. Catherine 4/23/1522-2/2/1590, Sir William Penn 4/23/1621-9/16/1670, J.M.W. Turner 4/23/1775-12/19/1851, James Buchanan 4/23/1791-6/1/1868, Stephen Douglas 4/23/1813-6/3/1861, Edwin Markham 4/23/1852-3/7/1940, Johannes Fibiger 4/23/1867-1/30/1928, Michel Fokine 4/23/1880-8/22/1942, Sergey Prokofiev 4/23/1891-3/5/1953, Lester Pearson 4/23/1891-12/27/1972, Roy Halston 4/23/1932-3/26/1990, Janet Blair 1921, Shirley Temple Black 1928, Alan Oppenheimer 1930, David Birney 1939, Lee Majors 1940, Sandra Dee 1942, Blair Brown 1948, James Russo 1953, Judy Davis 1955, Valerie Bertinelli 1960)
Sirhan Sentenced to Gas Chamber on 5th Jury Vote (By Douglas Robinson, April 23, 1969)
* Max Planck Dead; Noted Physicist, 89
[4/23/1858-10/4/1947] (NY TIMES, October 5, 1947)

* NATIONAL: Climate Change Adds Twist to Debate Over Dams (By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Apr. 23, 2007)
NATIONAL: Virginia Tech Struggles to Recover From Shootings (By IAN URBINA & MANNY FERNANDEZ, Apr. 23, 2007)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 7, Yankees 6: Five Home Runs, One Big Sweep for Red Sox
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 23, 2007)
BASEBALL: Francona Uses His Power of Suggestion to the Benefit of the Red Sox (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 23, 2007)
BASEBALL: After 44 Years, Pitcher Gains a Partner in the Record Book
[Chase Wright allows 4 homers in a row] (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 23, 2007)

Sunday, April 22, 2007:
On This Day: April 22 (Isabell I 4/22/1451-11/26/1504, Henry Fielding 4/22/1707-10/8/1754, Immanuel Kant 4/22/1724-2/12/1804, Germaine de Stael 4/22/1766-7/14/1817, Emily Davies 4/22/1830-7/13/1921, Vladimir Ilich Lenin 4/22/1870-1/21/1924, Vladimir Nabokov 4/23/1899-7/2/1977, Dorothy Alexander 4/22/1904-11/17/1986, Yehudi Menuhin 4/22/1916-3/12/1999, Charles Mingus 4/22/1922-1/5/1979, Eddie Albert 1908, Aaron Spelling 1923, George Cole 1925, Charlotte Rae 1926, Glen Campbell 1936, Jack Nicholson 1937, Jason Miller 1939, Mel Carter 1943, John Waters 1946, Peter Frampton 1950, Joseph Bottoms 1954, Chris Makepeace 1964, Sheryl Lee 1967)
Land Rush: Into Oklahoma at Last (NY TIMES, April 22, 1889)
* J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atom Bomb Pioneer, Dies at 62
[4/22/1904-2/18/1967] (NY TIMES, February 19, 1967)

NATIONAL: Before Deadly Rage, a Life Consumed by a Troubling Silence (By N. R. KLEINFIELD, Apr. 22, 2007)
* WORLD: 50% Good News Is the Bad News in Russian Radio (By ANDREW E. KRAMER, Apr. 22, 2007)
* EDUCATION | Community College: For Achievers, a New Destination (By BETH FRERKING, Apr. 22, 2007)
* EDUCATION | Community College: Dream Catchers (By JOHN MERROW, Apr. 22, 2007)
* EDUCATION | Community College: The Smart Transfer (By JOHN MERROW, Apr. 22, 2007)
* EDUCATION | Community College: Lifelong Learning (By JOHN MERROW, Apr. 22, 2007)
* NY REGION: Lower Manhattan, Higher Testosterone (By SAM ROBERTS, Apr. 22, 2007)
* NY REGION: Monks Who Play Punk (By JOHN MITCHELL, Apr. 22, 2007)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 7, Yankees 5: Ortiz Powers Red Sox Over Yankees (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 22, 2007)
BASEBALL: Yankees' Rodriguez Is Hot. Why? Listen Up. (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 22, 2007)
SPORTS | On Baseball: He Was Lost, and Now Reds Have Quite a Find [Hamilton] (By MURRAY CHASS, Apr. 22, 2007)
* OP-ED: How the Worm Turns (By AMY STEWART, Apr. 22, 2007)
OP-ED: France Looks Ahead, and It Doesn't Look Good (By TONY JUDT, Apr. 22, 2007)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
BUSINESS | Slipstream: From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet (By JASON PONTIN , Apr. 22, 2007)
DATABANK: For the Dow, Three Record Highs in Five Days (By JEFF SOMMER, Apr. 22, 2007)
* SPENDING: Winning the Nutrition Game, With Help From a Coach (By EILENE ZIMMERMAN, Apr. 22, 2007)
BUSINESS: Goal! He Spends It on Beckham (By GRAHAM BOWLEY, Apr. 22, 2007)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
FASHION: Did Somebody Say Indiana Jones? (By STACEY STOWE, Apr. 22, 2007)
STYLE: Eco-Socialites Make Cleaning Green a Priority (By RUTH LA FERLA, Apr. 22, 2007)
MODERN LOVE: An Adopted Child Is a Riddle. Now I Have a Clue. (By NONA MARTIN STUCK, Apr. 22, 2007)
The Age of Dissonance: When You Meet an Imus (By BOB MORRIS, Apr. 22, 2007)
VOWS: Bonnie Byalick and Neil Levine (By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER, Apr. 22, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
TRAVEL: Paris Chic, on the Cheap (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Apr. 22, 2007)
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Dublin (By WENDY KNIGHT, Apr. 22, 2007)
TRAVEL | Affordable Europe: City Guides (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
TRAVEL | Affordable Europe | Choice Tables London
On a Budget in London? Think Small (By JANE PERLEZ, Apr. 22, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
THE RIDDLE: Say It Loud. Improvise. Keep 'Em Guessing. (By EDWARD WONG, Apr. 22, 2007)
* THE NATION: When the Group Is Wise [Virginia Tech killer] (By BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 22, 2007)
GRAPHIC: An Accounting of Daily Gun Deaths (By BILL MARSH, Apr. 22, 2007)
GRAPHIC: Those Young People, They're So Unpredictable (By JANET ELDER, Apr. 22, 2007)
THE WORLD: Where Russians Still Think Boldly (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 22, 2007)
TETHERED: It Don't Mean a Thing if You Ain't Got That Ping (By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 22, 2007)
THE BASICS: A Lot of Money From Not So Many (By GRIFF PALMER, Apr. 22, 2007)
Clearing the Air in the Land of Guinness (By CHRIS CONWAY, Apr. 22, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Varmints! (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 22, 2007)
* The Way We Live Now: You Are What You Grow (By MICHAEL POLLAN, Apr. 22, 2007)
* Flight Patterns [European birds] (By JONATHAN ROSEN, Apr. 22, 2007)
COVER ARTICLE: A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves [Philippines Workers]
(By JASON DePARLE, Apr. 22, 2007)
* The Amis Inheritance [Writers Martin & Kingsley Amis] (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 22, 2007)
HEALTH: In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 22, 2007)
HEALTH: Oversight of Nursing Homes Is Criticized (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 22, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2007)
BOOKS: Life of the Party [Stephen Pascal, Grand Surprise: Journals of Leo Lerman]
(By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Apr. 22, 2007)
* The God Disillusion [Darcey Steinke, Easter Everywhere: A Memoir]
(By STEPHEN METCALF, Apr. 22, 2007)
* Possibly Maybe [Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable]
(By GREGG EASTERBROOK, Apr. 22, 2007)
* Black Mountain Breakdown [Edward Dorn, Way More West: New & Selected Poems]
[For Dorn, the American West, with which he had already developed
a fascination, was to become the laboratory for his poetic project.]
(By AUGUST KLEINZAHLER, Apr. 22, 2007)
Do No Harm [Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance]
(By PAULINE W. CHEN, Apr. 22, 2007)

Saturday, April 21, 2007:
On This Day: April 21 (Lodovico Carracci 4/21/1555-11/13/1619, Friedrich Froebel 4/21/1782-6/21/1852, Charlotte Bronte 4/21/1816-3/31/1855, Joss Billings 4/21/1818-10/14/1885, Max Weber 4/21/1864-6/14/1920, Billy Bitxer 4/21/1874-4/29/1944, Randall Thompson 4/21/1899-7/9/1984, Marcel Camus 4/21/1912-1/13/1982, Anthony Quinn 1915, Queen Elizabeth II 1926, Elaine May 1932, Charles Grodin 1935, Paul Davis 1948, Tony Danza 1951, Andie MacDowell 1958, Hohn Cameron Mitchell 1963)
* Mark Twain is Dead at 74 (NY TIMES, April 21, 1910)
* John Muir, Aged Naturalist, Dead at 76
[4/21/1838-12/24/1914] (NY TIMES, December 25, 1914)
* Octavio Paz, Mexico's Literary Giant, Dead at 84 (By JONATHAN KANDELL, April 21, 1998)

NATIONAL: U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun (By MICHAEL LUO, Apr. 21, 2007)
WORLD: U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart (By EDWARD WONG & DAVID S. CLOUD, Apr. 21, 2007)
* EDUCATION: Colleges Relying on Lenders to Counsel Students (By JULIE BOSMAN, Apr. 21, 2007)
NY REGION: Health Inspector Calls and Chef's Pride Cracks (By ERIC KONIGSBERG, Apr. 21, 2007)
NY REGION: Pushing Co-ops to Explain Why You Can't Buy (By JANNY SCOTT, Apr. 21, 2007)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 7, Yankees 6: Rodriguez Adds to Hot Streak, but Rivera Lets Lead Slip Away
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 21, 2007)
Yankees Notebook: In Boston, Yanks' Rotation Often Has Unfamiliar Face (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 21, 2007)
EDITORIAL: The Medicare Privatization Scam (NY TIMES, Apr. 21, 2007)
OP-ED: A Terrorist Goes Free (By BERNARDO ÁLVAREZ HERRERA, Apr. 21, 2007)
OP-ED: Don't Assume the Worst (By DAVID J. GARROW, Apr. 21, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: The Perils of Being Suddenly Rich [David Hayden] (By KATIE HAFNER, Apr. 21, 2007)
* ART | Sol LeWitt: Drawing Series: Parting Thoughts From a Master of the Ephemeral
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Apr. 21, 2007)
* MUSIC: Rostropovich and Shostakovich: Voices of Spiritual Russia in Soviet Times
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, Apr. 21, 2007)
THEATRE: Sometimes Not Just Curtains Fall Onstage (By STUART MILLER, Apr. 21, 2007)

Friday, April 20, 2007:
On This Day: April 20 (Johann Agricola 4/20/1494-9/22/1566, Odilon Redon 4/20/1840-7/6/1916, Daniel Chester French 4/20/1850-10/7/1931, Charles G. Curtis 4/20/1860-3/10/1953, Harold Lloyd 4/20/1893-3/8/1971, Joan Miro 4/20/1893-12/25/1983, William Dollar 4/20/1907-2/28/1986, Lionel Hampton 1908, John Paul Stevens 1920, Nina Foch 1924, George Takei 1940, Ryan O'Neal 1941, Jessica Lange 1949, Carmen Electra 1972)
Supreme Court, 9-0, Backs Busing to Combat South's Dual Schools, Rejecting Administration Stand
(By Fred P. Graham , April 20, 1971)
Hitler Fought Way to Power Unique in Modern History, Dies at 56
[4/20/1889-4/30/1945] (NY TIMES, May 2, 1945)

NATIONAL: University Explains the Return of Troubled Student (By IAN URBINA & MANNY FERNANDEZ, Apr. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: NBC News Defends Its Use of Material Sent by the Killer (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: In Shadow of a Tragedy, Longing for Normalcy but Enveloped by Grief
(By NEELA BANERJEE, Apr. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: Anger of Killer Was on Exhibit in His Writings (By MARC SANTORA & CHRISTINE HAUSER, Apr. 20, 2007)
SPORTS | Baseball Roundup: A Show of Power for Ramírez (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 20, 2007)
Yankees 8, Indians 6: Rodriguez Caps Two-Out, Six-Run Rally (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 20, 2007)
BASEBALL: For Rodriguez, Each At-Bat Is the Focus, and That's the Difference
(By JACK CURRY, Apr. 20, 2007)
SPORTS: Yanks Valuable, Even at a Loss (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 20, 2007)
* BASEBALL: Red Sox throwing big three at Yankees (By Sean McAdam, ESPN.com, Apr. 20, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Gonzales v. Gonzales (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2007)
BUSINESS: Profits Soar 69% at Google
[Google said revenue for the quarter was $3.66 billion, up from $2.25 billion
in the quarter a year ago. Net income was $1 billion, or $3.18 a share,
compared with $592.3 million, or $1.95 a share, in the period a year ago.]
(By MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 20, 2007)
* ART: Classical Treasures, Bathed in a New Light (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Apr. 20, 2007)
* TRAVEL: Tales of Yosemite's Fatal Attraction (By BRAD STONE, Apr. 20, 2007)
HEALTH: Pill That Eliminates the Period Gets Mixed Reviews (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Apr. 20, 2007)
HEALTH: Doctors Try New Surgery for Gallbladder Removal (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 20, 2007)

Thursday, April 19, 2007:
On This Day: April 19 (Roger Sherman 4/19/1721-7/23/1793, Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre 4/19/1832-9/4/1916, Ole Evinrude 4/19/1877-7/12/1934, Richard von Mises 4/19/1883-7/14/1953, Sir Thomas Hophinson 4/19/1905-6/20/1990, Glenn T. Seaborg 4/19/1912-2/25/1999, Jayne Mansfield 4/19/1933-6/29/1967, Hugh O'Brian 1925, Don Adams 1926, Dudley Moore 1935, Tim Curry 1946, Ashley Judd 1968)
At Least 31 Are Dead, Scores Are Missing After Car Bomb Attack in Oklahoma City Wrecks 9-Story Federal Office Building (By David Johnston, April 19, 1995)
Vargas Adopted 'Strong Man' Role, Brazilian President Dies at 71
[4/19/1883-8/24/1954] (NY TIMES, August 25, 1954)

NATIONAL: Officials Knew Troubled State of Killer in '05 (By SHAILA DEWAN & MARC SANTORA, Apr. 19, 2007)
NATIONAL: Professor's Violent Death Came Where He Sought Peace (By COLIN MOYNIHAN, Apr. 19, 2007)
NATIONAL: Laws Limit Options When a Student Is Mentally Ill (By TAMAR LEWIN, Apr. 19, 2007)
NATIONAL: Justices Back Ban on Method of Abortion (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Apr. 19, 2007)
WORLD: Iran Exonerates Six Who Killed in Islam's Name (By NAZILA FATHI, Apr. 19, 2007)
WORLD: Bombs Rip Through Baghdad, Killing 171 (By KIRK SEMPLE, Apr. 19, 2007)
* BASEBALL: White Sox 6, Rangers 0: Buehrle Almost Perfect in Season's First No-Hitter
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2007)
* BASEBALL: Buehrle Bucks Superstitions in No-Hitter (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2007)
BASEBALL: Wright's Hitting Streak Has a Power Shortage (By BEN SHPIGEL, Apr. 19, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Denying the Right to Choose (NY TIMES, Apr. 19, 2007)
* OP-ED: The Killer in the Lecture Hall (By BARBARA OAKLEY, Apr. 19, 2007)
BUSINESS: BlackBerry Shuts Down for Hours (By IAN AUSTEN, Apr. 19, 2007)
WORLD BUSINESS: Eastern Europe Becomes a Center for Outsourcing (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Apr. 19, 2007)
WORLD BUSINESS: Harvard's Former Lightning Rod Is a Hit in Asia (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Apr. 19, 2007)
Entrepreneurial Edge: Let's Put on a Show for China (By JAMES FLANIGAN, Apr. 19, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY | Basics: Moving Day for That Vista Machine (By LARRY MAGID, Apr. 19, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: EBay Profit Climbs 52 Percent (By SAUL HANSELL, Apr. 19, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: Software by Microsoft Is Nearly Free for the Needy (By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 19, 2007)
ART: Redesigning the Met's Home for Greek and Roman Art (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 19, 2007)
DANCE: Democracy in Action, That's Cunningham (By ALASTAIR MACAULAY, Apr. 19, 2007)
DANCE | Les Ballet Jazz de MontrŽal Latin-African Textures, and Ballet Dismantled (By ROSLYN SULCAS, Apr. 19, 2007)
MUSIC | Karen Akers: So Lucky to Be Loving (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 19, 2007)
TV | 'Struggle for the Soul of Islam: Inside Indonesia'
In Indonesian Tug of War, Radical Islam Thrives on Democracy and Despair (By MARK BOWDEN, Apr. 19, 2007)
* THE TV WATCH: Amid Chaos, One Notably Restrained Voice (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 19, 2007)
* THE WEB: Online, Students Say 'Reach Out to Loners' (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 19, 2007)
STYLE: But What if You Get Hit by a Taxi? (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 19, 2007)
STYLE: The Biggest Sell Is the Audition (By ALLEN SALKIN, Apr. 19, 2007)
* STYLE | Online Shopper: Who Charged This? You, That's Who. (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Apr. 19, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Asteroid Jiggles Like a Jar of Mixed Nuts (By Ker Than, Space.com, Apr. 19, 2007)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007:
On This Day: April 18 (Lucrezia Borgia 4/18/1480-6/24/1519, Gaeetano Vestris 4/18/1729-9/23/1808, George Henry Lewes 4/18/1817-11/28/1878, Max Weber 4/18/1881-10/4/1961, Leopold Stokowski 4/18/1882-9/13/1977, George H. HITCHINGS 4/18/1905-2/27/1998, Little Brother Montgomery 4/18/1906-9/6/1985, Barbara Hale 1921, James Drury 1934, Hayley Mills 1946, James Woods 1947, Cindy Pickett 1947, Melody Thomas Scott 1956, Conan O'Brien 1963)
* Over 500 Dead, $200,000,000 Lost in San Francisco Earthquake (NY TIMES, April 18, 1906)
Clarence Darrow, Famous Criminal Lawyer Is Dead at 80 in Chicago
[4/18/1857-3/13/1938] (NY TIMES, March 14, 1938)
* Cartoon about the latest shoe fashion fad (Harper's Weekly, April 18, 1885)

* Kitty Carlisle Hart, Actress and Arts Advocate, Dies at 96 (By MARILYN BERGER, Apr. 18, 2007)
NATIONAL: Gunman Showed Signs of Anger (By MANNY FERNANDEZ & MARC SANTORA, Apr. 18, 2007)
NATIONAL: Gunman Sent Photos, Video and Writings to NBC (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Apr. 18, 2007)
NATIONAL: Victims of Virginia Tech Shooting (NY TIMES, Apr. 18, 2007)
NATIONAL: Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Abortion Procedure (By DAVID STOUT, Apr. 18, 2007)
* NY REGION: Maybe Only God Can Make a Tree, but Only People Can Put a Price on It
(By DAVID K. RANDALL, Apr. 18, 2007)
OP-ED: Hounded by Insurgents, Abandoned by Us (By KIRK W. JOHNSON, Apr. 18, 2007)
BUSINESS: Yahoo's Earnings Are Down 11 Percent (By MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 18, 2007)
* ECONOMIX: The Advisers Are Writing Our Future (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 18, 2007)
* WORLD BUSINESS: China Leans Less on U.S. Trade (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 18, 2007)
BOOKS: Less Reading, More Schmoozing at London Book Fair (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 18, 2007)
* FILM: A Role About Winter for Julie Christie, a Star in Eternal Spring (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 18, 2007)
* MUSIC: Remaking Old Hits to Earn New Money (By JEFF LEEDS, Apr. 18, 2007)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 18, 2007)
FOOD: Looking for Solace in a Slice of Pie (By JULIA MOSKIN, Apr. 18, 2007)
FOOD: Veal to Love, Without the Guilt (By MARIAN BURROS, Apr. 18, 2007)
FOOD: Delhi Snacks Move Up From the Street (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Apr. 18, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Sun's Atmosphere Sings (By Jeanna Bryner, Space.com, Apr. 18, 2007)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007:
On This Day: April 17 (Samuel Chase 4/17/1741-6/19/1811, William Simms 4/17/1806-6/11/1870, J. P. Morgan 4/17/1837-3/31/1913, Sir Leonard Woolley 4/17/1880-2/20/1960, Artur Schnabel 4/17/1882-8/15/1951, Isak Dinesen 4/17/1885-9/7/1962, Thornton Wilder 4/17/1897-12/7/1975, Sir Vincent Wigglesworth 4/17/1899-2/11/1994, Harry Reasoner 4/17/1923-8/6/1991, Lon McCallister 1923, Jan Hammer 1948, Olivia Hussey 1951, Liz Phair 1967)
Anti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Won't Intervene (By Tad Szulc, April 17, 1961)
* Khrushchev's Human Dimensions Brought Him to Power and to His Downfall, Dies at 77
[4/17/1894-9/11/1971] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, September 12, 1971)

NATIONAL: 32 Shot Dead on Virginia Tech Campus (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 17, 2007)
Gunman Is Described as Quiet and 'Always by Himself' (By GRAHAM BOWLEY and MARIA NEWMAN, Apr. 17, 2007)
Victims of Shooting Are Remembered (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 17, 2007)
BLOG: Massacre in Virginia: The Day After (By Mike Nizza, Apr. 17, 2007)
NATIONAL: Drumbeat of Shots, Broken by Pauses to Reload (By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 17, 2007)
NATIONAL: A Friend, a 'Good Listener' and a Victim (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ, Apr. 17, 2007)
THE TV WATCH: Deadly Rampage and No Loss for Words (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 17, 2007)
* WORLD: No Spitting on the Road to Olympic Glory, Beijing Says (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 17, 2007)
EUROPE | Westcombe Journal: Paint Drying? Sorry, Wrong Link. This Is Cheddarvision.
(By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 17, 2007)
NY REGION: Storm Leaves a Toll of Flooding and Hardship (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 17, 2007)
SPORTS: More Than a Handshake Deal for Japanese Baseball Players (By DAVID PICKER, Apr. 17, 2007)
ON BASEBALL: The Start Has Been Tough, and Steinbrenner Hasn't (By MURRAY CHASS, Apr. 17, 2007)
BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Even With a Delay, Beckett Stays Strong on Patriot's Day
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 17, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Eight Years After Columbine (NY TIMES, Apr. 17, 2007)
* OP-ED: A Black Day in the Blue Ridge (By LUCINDA ROY, Apr. 17, 2007)
LETTERS: A Need for New Options on Iraq (6 Letters) (By William Jolitz, et. al., Apr. 17, 2007)
LETTERS: Turks and Armenians, Still Not Eye to Eye (2 Letters) (By Baki Ilkin, et. al., Apr. 17, 2007)
LETTERS: Don Imus and Free Speech (3 Letters) (By, Apr. 17, 2007)
* LETTERS: The Older Husband (1 Letter) (By Jocelyn Ruth Krieger, Apr. 17, 2007)
BUSINESS | Energy Challenge: A Renewed Push for Ethanol, Without the Corn
(By MATTHEW L. WALD & ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, Apr. 17, 2007)
BUSINESS | On the Road: Maybe a Lavender Web Site Wasn't How to Attract Women
(By JOE SHARKEY, Apr. 17, 2007)
* BUSINESS | Frequent Flier: Karma, Karma, Karma Comes and Goes (By MARK PELTIER, Apr. 17, 2007)
BUSINESS: Tyson Foods and ConocoPhillips to Produce Diesel Fuel From Animal Fat
(By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Apr. 17, 2007)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 17, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 17, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Computer Science Takes Steps to Bring Women to the Fold (By CORNELIA DEAN, Apr. 17, 2007)
* BASICS: Green, Life-Giving and Forever Young (By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 17, 2007)
SCIENCE: No-Fishing Zones in Tropics Yield Fast Payoffs for Reefs (By CHRISTOPHER PALA, Apr. 17, 2007)
OBSERVATORY: In Arctic Foxes, Clues to Effects of Shrinking Habitat (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 17, 2007)
Q & A: Hiccups in Hounds (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 17, 2007)
HEALTH: How (and How Not) to Battle Flu: A Tale of 23 Cities (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 17, 2007)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: When a Brain Forgets Where Memory Is (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 17, 2007)
* HEALTH: A New Look at Impressionists' Failing Vision (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 17, 2007)
HEALTH ESSAY: In a Hospital Hierarchy, Speaking Up Is Hard to Do (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Apr. 17, 2007)
* HEALTH: Teaching Doctors to Teach Patients About Lifestyle (By KATE MURPHY, Apr. 17, 2007)
* HEALTH: Most Doctors See Religion as Beneficial, Study Says (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 17, 2007)
CASES: After Suicide, a Window on a Patient's Other Self (By ELISSA ELY, M.D., Apr. 17, 2007)
REALLY | The Claim: Acupuncture Can Help You Stop Smoking (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 17, 2007)
* VITAL SIGNS | Treatments: Study Sees Little Benefit in Chondroitin for Arthritis
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 17, 2007)
* VITAL SIGNS | Exercise: A Little Tai Chi Can Go a Long Way Against Shingles
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 17, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | At Risk: Availability of Guns Raises Suicide Rates, Study Finds
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 17, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Hazards: Niacin to Pass a Drug Test Can Have Dangerous Results
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Apr. 17, 2007)

Monday, April 16, 2007:
On This Day: April 16 (Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun 4/16/1755-3/30/1842, Sir John Franklin 4/16/1786-6/11/1847, Ford Madox Brown 4/16/1821-10/6/1893, Anatole France 4/16/1844-10/12/1924, Wilbur Wright 4/16/1867-5/30/1912, John M. Synge 4/16/1871-3/24/1909, Nikolay P. Akimov 4/16/1901-9/6/1968, Sir Kingsley Amis 4/16/1922-10/22/1995, Henry Mancini 4/16/1924-6/14/1994, Spike Milligan 1918, Barry Nelson 1920, Peter Ustinov 1921, Herbie Mann 1930, Bobby Vinton 1935, Queen Margrethe II 1940, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1947, Gerry Rafferty 1947, Ellen Barkin 1954)
Blasts and Fires Wreck Texas City of 15,000; 300 to 1,200 Dead (Associated Press, April 16, 1947)
* Chaplin's Little Tramp, an Everyman Trying to Gild Cage of Life, Enthralled World
[4/16/1889-12/25/1977] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, December 26, 1977)

NATIONAL: Donors Linked to the Clintons Shift to Obama (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ARON PILHOFER, Apr. 16, 2007)
NATIONAL: Public Rebuke for Wolfowitz, but He Digs In (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 16, 2007)
WORLD: Russia Tries to Save Polar Bears With Legal Hunt (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 16, 2007)
NY REGION: East Coast Storm Breaks Rainfall Records (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Apr. 16, 2007)
SPORTS | Athletics 5, Yankees 4: For Ailing Yankees, Most Painful Pitch Comes From Rivera
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 16, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Cleaning Up the Alternative Tax (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2007)
EDITORIAL: China's Signals on Warming (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Time for Mr. Wolfowitz to Go (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2007)
Editorial Observer: A Woman Wrongly Convicted and a U.S. Attorney Who Kept His Job
(By ADAM COHEN, Apr. 16, 2007)
OP-ED: The Winning Card (By DORIS MEISSNER and JAMES ZIGLAR, Apr. 16, 2007)
OP-ED: Puzzles: Tax Break (By MIKE SHENK, ROBERT LEIGHTON & AMY GOLDSTEIN, Apr. 16, 2007)
OP-ED: A Few Good Lawyers (By DAVID M. SCHIZER, Apr. 16, 2007)
* BUSINESS: In a Troubled Time, a New Business Magazine [Portfolio] (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 16, 2007)
BUSINESS: I.R.S. Audits Middle Class More Often, More Quickly (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Apr. 16, 2007)
BUSINESS: Negotiators Say Sallie Mae to Be Sold for $25 Billion (By, Apr. 16, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: AOL Founder Hopes to Build New Giant Among a Bevy of Health Care Web Sites
(By MILT FREUDENHEIM, Apr. 16, 2007)
ARTS: Exploring the 'Imprint' of Black Americans (By FELICIA R. LEE, Apr. 16, 2007)
ART EXHIBITION: Resisting the Nazis Despite the Odds (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 16, 2007)
* ARTS | GRAPHIC: Face-Lift for an Aging Museum [Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim]
(By, Apr. 16, 2007)
* MUSIC: Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Britten and Me (By JEREMY EICHLER, Apr. 16, 2007)
* SCIENCE BLOG: For a Change, Good News on Dating (By John Tierney, Apr. 16, 2007)

Sunday, April 15, 2007:
On This Day: April 15 (Leonhard Euler 4/15/1707-9/18/1783, Charles Wilson Peale 4/15/1741-2/22/1827, Walter Channing 4/15/1786-7/27/1876, Henry James 4/15/1843-2/28/1916, Hohannes Stark 4/15/1874-6/21/1957, Max Wertheimer 4/15/1880-10/12/1943, Thomas Hart Benton 4/15/1889-1/19/1975, Bessie Smith 4/15/1898-9/26/1937, Arshile Gorky 4/15/1904-7/21/1948, Nilolaas Tinbergen 4/15/1907-12/21/1988, Ed O'Brien 1968, Roy Clark 1933, Claudia Cardinale 1939, Lois Chiles 1947, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason 1948, Michael Tucci 1950, Amy Wright 1950, Heloise 1951, Emma Thompson 1959, Samantha Fox 1966)
* Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish;
Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing (NY TIMES, April 15, 1912)
A. Philip Randolph Is Dead at 90; Pioneer in Rights and Labor
[4/15/1889-5/16/1979] (Associated Press, May 17, 1979)

Don Ho, Hawaiian Musician, Dies at 76 (By NATE CHINEN, Apr. 15, 2007)
* NATIONAL: For Some Hispanics, Coming to America Also Means Abandoning Religion
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 15, 2007)
NATIONAL: McCain Sees 'No Plan B' for Iraq War (By MICHAEL R. GORDON & ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 15, 2007)
WORLD: Eye on Iran, Rivals Pursuing Nuclear Power (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 15, 2007)
WORLD: Marines' Actions in Afghanistan Called Excessive (By CARLOTTA GALL, Apr. 15, 2007)
EDUCATION: Lenders Sought Edge Against U.S. In Student Loans (By JONATHAN D. GLATER & KAREN W. ARENSON, Apr. 15, 2007)
NY REGION: A Road Not Taken, Much [Brooklyn's Jamaica Ave.] (By DAVID McANINCH, Apr. 15, 2007)
* BASEBALL | Keeping Score: Why 100 Pitches Don't Go as Far as They Used To
(By JOE SHEEHAN, Apr. 15, 2007)
* BASEBALL: The Short and Happy Career of Ron Wright [3 at bats, 6 outs] (By LEE JENKINS, Apr. 15, 2007)
BASEBALL: Farnsworth Again Fails to Set Up Strike Zone (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 15, 2007)
BOSTON MARATHON: First Woman's Strides in Boston Still Echoing (By KATHRINE SWITZER, Apr. 15, 2007)
OP-ED: A Safe Haven in New Haven (By MICHELE WUCKER, Apr. 15, 2007)
OP-ED: Witnesses for the Persecution (By JAMES ZUMWALT, Apr. 15, 2007)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
BUSINESS: Stung by Indictment, a Power Broker Punches Back (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Apr. 15, 2007)
* BUSINESS: The Pilotless Plane That Only Looks Like Child's Play (By CHARLES DUHIGG, Apr. 15, 2007)
THE GOODS: Paste on the Brush, Not on the Sink (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Apr. 15, 2007)
ECONOMIC VIEWS: Parsing the Truths About Visas for Tech Workers (By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 15, 2007)
MEDIA FRENZY: A Soft Sell With Cold, Hard Cash in Mind (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Apr. 15, 2007)
* EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS: Yes, Wall St. Still Gets Some Things Right (By BEN STEIN, Apr. 15, 2007)
* EARNING: Baby on Board, and a Photography Business, Too (By HANNAH FAIRFIELD, Apr. 15, 2007)
NOVELTIES: The iPod and the Vacuum Tube Sing a Warm Duet (By ANNE EISENBERG, Apr. 15, 2007)
* PING: Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Parade (By G. PASCAL ZACHARY, Apr. 15, 2007)
* STRATEGIES: Catching a Second Wind at Quarter's End (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 15, 2007)
* INVESTING: This Time, Rate Cuts May Not Work Magic on Stocks (By NORM ALSTER, Apr. 15, 2007)
* MARKET WEEK: Retail Sales Could Set the Tone on Wall St. (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Apr. 15, 2007)
THE COUNT: A Two-Day Reprieve on Taxes (Thank President Lincoln) (By PHYLLIS KORKKI, Apr. 15, 2007)
HOME FRONT: Willy Wonka? Not Exactly. But He Does Change Lives. (By LOUISE KRAMER, Apr. 15, 2007)
CAREER COUCH: Danger Signals at Work, and How to Handle Them (By EILENE ZIMMERMAN, Apr. 15, 2007)
* THE BOSS: Start-Ups and Catch-Ups [Enrique T. Salem, Symantec] (As told to AMY ZIPKIN , Apr. 15, 2007)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
* ART: When Picasso and Braque Went to the Movies (By RANDY KENNEDY, Apr. 15, 2007)
ART: A Cube, Like Mecca's, Becomes a Pilgrim (By R. JAY MAGILL Jr., Apr. 15, 2007)
DANCE: No Rest for a Russian Renegade (By JOY GOODWIN, Apr. 15, 2007)
FILM: Where Raymond Carver Is Now Calling From (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 15, 2007)
FILM: A Gumshoe Adrift, Lost in the '70s [Robert Altman] (By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, Apr. 15, 2007)
MUSIC: Just Feist. Just Wait. (By JON PARELES, Apr. 15, 2007)
* MUSIC: Passing the Baton: Be Bold, New York (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 15, 2007)
THEATER: A West End Name, a Broadway Debut (By MELENA RYZIK, Apr. 15, 2007)
THEATER: Grown-Up Chorus Boy's Big Leap Forward (By JESSE GREEN, Apr. 15, 2007)
TV: Cartoons With Heart ... and a Little Mandarin (By MICHAEL DAVIS, Apr. 15, 2007)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
FASHION: The Designer Who Liked Models [Anand Jon] (By SHARON WAXMAN, Apr. 15, 2007)
POSSESSED: Citizen Bertolt Brecht Puts on His Happy Face (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 15, 2007)
* MODERN LOVE: La Vie en Rose, the Takeout Version (By DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN, Apr. 15, 2007)
On The Street: Promenade [Easter Parade] (By Bill Cunningham, Apr. 15, 2007)
VOWS: Laura Shoop and David Milowitz (By, Apr. 15, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Portland, Oregon (By DAVID LASKIN, Apr. 15, 2007)
FRUGAL TRAVELER | Puerto Rico: A Cheap Room Puts Old San Juan Within Reach
(By MATT GROSS, Apr. 15, 2007)
PRACTICAL TRAVELER | Online Fares: If It's Good, Is It Too Good to Be True?
(By MICHELLE HIGGINS, Apr. 15, 2007)
TRAVEL: Have Spatula Will Travel (By TAYLOR HOLLIDAY, Apr. 15, 2007)
TRAVEL | Next Stop | Luxembourg: A Former Fortress Draws Crowds as a Cultural Capital
(By ANN M. MORRISON, Apr. 15, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
* RADIO DAYS: Hey, That's (Not) Funny (By RANDY KENNEDY, Apr. 15, 2007)
Campaign 2008: The Unsure Bet of the Heir Presumptive (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 15, 2007)
THE WORLD: Asking for Money Is So Appallingly American, Dahling (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 15, 2007)
Islam and Democracy: North Africa: Under Attack, and Relying on Repression (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 15, 2007)
Islam and Democracy: Indonesia: Gambling That Tolerance Will Trump Fear (By CALVIN SIMS, Apr. 15, 2007)
Tough Sell: Preventing H.I.V., but at What Price? (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Apr. 15, 2007)
* THE BASICS: A Leading Cause of Death, but Less So (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 15, 2007)
READING FILE: Accusations, Words in Defense: The Mounting Storm Over Wolfowitz (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
GRAPHIC: Indonesia: A Muslim Democracy in Formation (By CALVIN SIMS, et. al., Apr. 15, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Bundling (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 15, 2007)
The Way We Live Now: Who's Watching the F.B.I.? (By JEFFREY ROSEN, Apr. 15, 2007)
* Questions for Mohsin Hamid: The Stranger (Interview By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 15, 2007)
CONSUMED: Pop-Culture Evolution (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 15, 2007)
* IDEA LAB: Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? (By DUNCAN J. WATTS, Apr. 15, 2007)
THE ETHICIST: Patient Privilege (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 15, 2007)
COVER ARTICLE: The Power of Green (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 15, 2007)
Shannon Briggs Say Nyet [heavyweight boxing] (By CARLO ROTELLA, Apr. 15, 2007)
Battle Over the Banlieues [French architecture] (By DAVID RIEFF, Apr. 15, 2007)
STYLE: Space Craft (By PILAR VILADAS, Apr. 15, 2007)
FOOD | Recipe Redux 1939: Ceylon Curry of Oysters (By AMANDA HESSER, Apr. 15, 2007)
T: STYLE MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
T STYLE: Late Bloomer (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Apr. 15, 2007)
Designed for Living (By LESLIE CAMHI, Apr. 15, 2007)
Vision Quest (By ALICE RAWSTHORN, Apr. 15, 2007)
2007: A Face Odyssey (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Apr. 15, 2007)
Samurai Shopper: Fake 'n' Bake (By S.S. FAIR, Apr. 15, 2007)
Biblio File: Starved to Perfection (By HOLLY BRUBACH, Apr. 15, 2007)
The Originals | Christiaan | Hair Rebel (By ARMAND LIMNANDER, Apr. 15, 2007)
The Talk: Let's Get Genetical (By JENNIFER KAHN, Apr. 15, 2007)
The Jeté Set (By MARY TANNEN, Apr. 15, 2007)
Baby Album: The Preface (By MARISA MELTZER, Apr. 15, 2007)
Ask and You Shall Receive (By HOLLY SIEGEL, Apr. 15, 2007)
Case History/Shu Uemura Lipstick (By PILAR VILADAS, Apr. 15, 2007)
Haute Rocks | You'll Always Have Paris (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, Apr. 15, 2007)
Dirty Tricks (By CHANDLER BURR, Apr. 15, 2007)
SLIDE SHOW: My Life in Pictures (By Kelly Klein, Apr. 15, 2007)
The Talk: The Nez Sayer (By CHANDLER BURR, Apr. 15, 2007)
The Connoisseur: Beam Me Up (By JILL SCHUCK, Apr. 15, 2007)
TIMELESS: Celebrity Endorsement (By JOSH PATNER, Apr. 15, 2007)
GRAPHIC: Overheard at the Makeup Counter (By MARISA MELTZER, Apr. 15, 2007)
GRAPHIC: The Remix: Your Feet (By FIORELLA VALDESOLO, Apr. 15, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2007)
BOOKS: The Visceral Realist ["The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolaño] (By JAMES WOOD, Apr. 15, 2007)
BOOKS | DATA: Comparative Literature [PDF] (By Jascha Hoffman, Apr. 15, 2007)

Saturday, April 14, 2007:
On This Day: April 14 (Christiaan Huygens 4/14/1629-7/8/1695, Augustus Pitt-Rivers 4/14/1827-5/4/1900, Gerhard Rohlfs 4/14/1831-6/2/1896, James Branch Cabell 4/14/1879-5/5/1958, Arnold Toynbee 4/14/1889-10/22/1975, Juan Belmonte 4/14/1892-4/8/1962, Francois Duvalier 4/14/1907-4/21/1971, Rod Steiger 1925, Bradford Dillman 1930, Loretta Lynn 1935, Julie Christie 1940, Pete Rose 1941, John Shea 1949, Sarah Michelle Gellar 1977)
* Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin (NY TIMES, April 14, 1865)
Mrs. Macy Is Dead at 70; Aided Miss Keller
[4/14/1866-10/20/1936] (NY TIMES, October 21, 1936)

* NATIONAL: Wellesley Class Sees 'One of Us' Bearing Standard [Hillary Clinton]
(By TAMAR LEWIN, Apr. 14, 2007)
NATIONAL: E-Mail Identified G.O.P. Candidates for Justice Jobs (By DAVID JOHNSTON & ERIC LIPTON, Apr. 14, 2007)
NATIONAL | News Analysis: Wolfowitz Fight Has Subplot (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 14, 2007)
* NATIONAL | San Francisco Journal: In a Filmdom Premiere, a Foe for Gore
(By JESSE McKINLEY, Apr. 14, 2007)
NY REGION: Corzine Facing Severe Hurdles in Intensive Care (By DAVID W. CHEN & DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI, Apr. 14, 2007)
BASEBALL: Red Sox Give Wakefield Something to Work With [Beats Angels 10-1]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 14, 2007)
* OP-ED: Breaking the Truth Barrier [Jackie Robinson's 1st game] (By STUART MILLER, Apr. 14, 2007)
BUSINESS: Report Accuses CA Founder Wang of Overseeing Accounting Fraud (By ALEX BERENSON, Apr. 14, 2007)
BUSINESS: Combat, With Limits, Looms for Hybrid Aircraft (By LESLIE WAYNE, Apr. 14, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion
[The sale offers Google access to DoubleClick's advertisement software and,
its relationships with Web publishers, advertisers and advertising agencies.]
(By LOUISE STORY & MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 14, 2007)
ARTS: Building a Paris Hall Around Its Audience (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 14, 2007)
ARTS: Museum Honors Hispanic Culture (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Apr. 14, 2007)
DANCE | 'Dance Party!': A Portrait of the Big City, Painted in Little Moments (By ROSLYN SULCAS, Apr. 14, 2007)
MUSIC: Chinese Composer Talks Cello, All Dialects (By ALLAN KOZINN, Apr. 14, 2007)
* TV | 'America at a Crossroads': The World Since 9/11, in Detail and Sorrow
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 14, 2007)
TV: Direct Any Hate Mail to Imus, His Wife Says (By MOTOKO RICH, Apr. 14, 2007)
HEALTH | Patient Money: Hip Surgery With a Future (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 14, 2007)

Friday, April 13, 2007:
On This Day: April 13 (Peter Faber 4/13/1506-8/1/1546, Thomas Jefferson 4/13/1743-7/4/1826, Sir Thomas Lawrence 4/13/1769-1/7/1830, Eli Terry 4/13/1772-2/26/1852, Sir William Benett 4/13/1816-2/1/1875, Martinez Gonzalez 4/13/1871-2/19/1952, Gyorgy Lukacs 4/13/1885-6/4/1971, Sir Robert Watson-Watt 4/13/1892-12/5/1973, John Braine 4/13/1922-10/28/1987, Eudora Welty 1909, Howard Keel 1919, Stanley Donen 1924, Lyle Waggoner 1935, Paul Sorvino 1939, Bill Conti 1942, Jack Casady 1944, Tony Dow 1945, Ron Perlman 1950, William Sadler 1950, Gary Kasparov 1963, Page Hannah 1964)
Power Failure Imperils Astronauts; Apollo 13 Will Head Back to the Earth (By John Noble Wilford, April 13, 1970)
* Samuel Beckett Is Dead at 83; His 'Godot' Changed Theater
[4/13/1906-12/22/1989] (By MEL GUSSOW, December 27, 1989)

* NATIONAL | Diplomatic Memo: Darfur Collides With Olympics, and China Yields (By HELENE COOPER, Apr. 13, 2007)
* BASEBALL: A Gesture of Respect Grows Into a Movement (By BILL PENNINGTON, Apr. 13, 2007)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Kurt Vonnegut (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 13, 2007)
* OP-ED: Our Prejudices, Ourselves (By HARVEY FIERSTEIN, Apr. 13, 2007)
OP-ED: Next Up for the Yankee Dynasty (By ANDY BOROWITZ, Apr. 13, 2007)
* POEM: Worship (By KURT VONNEGUT, Apr. 13, 2007)
BUSINESS | The Media Equation: Flying Solo Past the Point of No Return [Don Imus]
(By DAVID CARR, Apr. 13, 2007)
BUSINESS: Off the Air: The Light Goes Out for Don Imus (By BILL CARTER & JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 13, 2007)
BUSINESS: For Many Big Banks, Investing in India Is No Longer Optional (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Apr. 13, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: Apple Says It Will Delay OSX Release for 4 Months (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 13, 2007)
FILM | 'YEAR OF THE DOG': In a Lonely Place, Saved by Puppies (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 13, 2007)
* SCIENCE: In Startling Advance, Study Identifies Dinosaur Protein (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 13, 2007)

Thursday, April 12, 2007:
On This Day: April 12 (Edward de Vere 4/12/1550-6/24/1604, Henry Clay 4/12/1777-6/29/1852, Sir James Mackenzie 4/12/1853-1/26/1925, Imogen Cunningham 4/12/1883-6/24/1976, Lily Pons 4/12/1904-2/13/1976, Pete Desjardins 4/12/1907-5/6/1985, Ann Miller 1923, Jane Withers 1926, Charles Napier 1936, Herbie Hancock 1940, Frank Bank 1942, David Letterman 1947, Scott Turow 1949, David Cassidy 1950, Andy Garcia 1956, Vince Gill 1957, Suzzanne Douglas 1957, Shannen Doherty 1971, Claire Danes 1979)
* President Roosevelt is Dead at 63; Truman to Continue Policies (By Arthur Krock, April 12, 1945)
* Jan Tinbergen, Dutch Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 91
[4/12/1903-6/9/1994] (By PETER PASSELL, June 14, 1994)

* Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture's Novelist, Dies (By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 12, 2007)
NATIONAL: All Charges Dropped in Duke Case (By DUFF WILSON & DAVID BARSTOW, Apr. 12, 2007)
NATIONAL: In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud (By ERIC LIPTON & IAN URBINA, Apr. 12, 2007)
NATIONAL: Massachusetts Offers Details on Health Coverage (By PAM BELLUCK, Apr. 12, 2007)
* BASEBALL: Rivera's 42 Is Far More Than a Number to Him (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 12, 2007)
* BASEBALL: MARINERS 3, RED SOX 0: In Fenway Park Debut, Matsuzaka Is Upstaged
(By JACK CURRY, Apr. 12, 2007)
BASEBALL: TWINS 5, YANKEES 1: Already Thin Rotation Takes Another Hit (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 12, 2007)
* OP-ED: Unnatural Selections (By BARRY SCHWARTZ, Apr. 12, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY | STATE OF THE ART: A Faster Wi-Fi World Is Coming (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 12, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Music Device That Can Play, Oh, 2 Million Songs or So (By STEPHEN C. MILLER, Apr. 12, 2007)
BASICS: Feel the Vibe, Literally (By ERIC A. TAUB, Apr. 12, 2007)
ARTS: A Bitter Spat Over Ideas, Israel and Tenure [Alan Dershowitz & Norman Finkelstein]
(By PATRICIA COHEN, Apr. 12, 2007)
* STYLE: Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?/A> (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Apr. 12, 2007)
* STYLE: He's Not My Grandpa. He's My Dad. (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Apr. 12, 2007)
STYLE: The Headmaster of Fashion (By ERIC WILSON, Apr. 12, 2007)
STYLE | ONLINE SHOPPER: Colleges Need a Reply. May I See Your Notes? (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Apr. 12, 2007)
HOME & GARDEN: Reinventing the Clubhouse in the Sky (By ELAINE LOUIE, Apr. 12, 2007)
HOME & GARDEN: To Fight Global Warming, Some Hang a Clothesline (By KATHLEEN A. HUGHES, Apr. 12, 2007)

Wednesday, April 11, 2007:
On This Day: April 11 (Margaret of Angouleme 4/11/1492-12/21/1549, Edward Everett 4/11/1794-1/15/1865, Sir Charles Halle 4/11/1819-10/25/1895, John Davidson 4/11/1857-3/23/1909, Charles Evans Hughes 4/11/1862-8/27/1948, Gustav Vigeland 4/11/1869-3/12/1943, Quentin Reynolds 4/11/1902-3/17/1965, Attila Jozsef 4/11/1905-12/3/1937, Leo Rosten 4/11/1908-2/19/1997, Dale Messick 1906, Oleg Cassini 1913, Hugh Carey 1919, Ethel Kennedy 1928, Johnny Sheffield 1931, Joel Grey 1932, Louise Lasser 1939, Ellen Goodman 1941, John Milius 1944, Bill Irwin 1950)
* Truman Relieves MacArthur of All His Posts; Finds Him Unable to Back U.S.-U.N. Policies;
Ridgway Named to Far Eastern Commands (By W. H. Lawrence, April 11, 1951)
Architect of Postwar Policy, Acheson Advocated Containment of the Soviet Union, Dies at 78
[4/11/1893-10/12/1971] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, October 13, 1971)

Elizabeth Jolley, 'Australian Gothic' Writer, Dies at 83 (By MARGALIT FOX, Apr. 11, 2007)
NATIONAL: Panel Said to Alter Finding on Voter Fraud (By IAN URBINA, Apr. 11, 2007)
NATIONAL: No Cutting in Line for Puget Sound Ferries, Under Penalty of Law (By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Apr. 11, 2007)
WORLD: Sea's Rise in India Buries Islands and a Way of Life (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Apr. 11, 2007)
WORLD | London Journal: The Perfect Bacon Sandwich Decoded: Crisp and Crunchy
(By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 11, 2007)
* NY REGION: Columbia to Receive $400 Million for Student Aid (By TAMAR LEWIN, Apr. 11, 2007)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Letter From California: A Late-Night Seminar on Lewis Thomas
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 11, 2007)
OP-ED: When the Cure Is Not Worth the Cost (By MAIA SZALAVITZ, Apr. 11, 2007)
REAL ESTATE | Economix: A Word of Advice During a Housing Slump: Rent (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 11, 2007)
MUSIC: A Lost 'Boris Godunov' Is Found and Staged (By PATRICIA COHEN, Apr. 11, 2007)
MUSIC | Iggy Pop and The Stooges: Chaos at the Line Where Performer and Audience Blur
(By BEN RATLIFF, Apr. 11, 2007)
FOOD: Simple Pleasure, American Style (By JULIA MOSKIN, Apr. 11, 2007)
FOOD | The Pour: To Study Wine, Buy and Drink (By ERIC ASIMOV, Apr. 11, 2007)
FOOD | Recipe: Supernatural Brownies (By Nick Malgieri, Apr. 11, 2007)
FOOD | Recipe: New Classic Brownies (By Alice Medrich, Apr. 11, 2007)
FOOD | Recipe: French Chocolate Brownies (By Dorie Greenspan, Apr. 11, 2007)
FOOD | A Good Appetite: Taking Back a Childhood Favorite (By MELISSA CLARK, Apr. 11, 2007)
* SCIENCE: SWF, SBM, SBF, SWM: Who's seeking whom? (By John Tierney, Apr. 11, 2007)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007:
On This Day: April 10 (Hugh Grotius 4/10/1583-8/28/1645, Benjamin H. Day 4/10/1810-12/21/1889, Lewis Wallace 4/10/1827-2/15/1905, William Booth 4/10/1829-8/20/1912, Frank Baldwin 4/10/1838-4/8/1925, George Arliss 4/10/1868-2/5/1946, Vladimir Lenin 4/10/1870-1/21/1924, Frances Perkins 4/10/1882-5/14/1965, Robert Burns Woodward 7/8/1979, Harry Morgan 1915, Liz Sheridan 1929, Max von Sydow 1929, Omar Sharif 1932, John Madden 1936, Don Meredith 1938, Steven Seagal 1951, Peter MacNichol 1954, Haley Joel Oset 1988)
* Dodgers Purchase Jackie Robinson, First Negro in Modern Major League Baseball (By LOUIS EFFRAT, April 10, 1947)
* Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly at 64 [4/10/1847-10/29/1911] (NY TIMES, October 30, 1911)

OP-ED: Trash Talk Radio (By GWEN IFILL, Apr. 10, 2007)
BUSINESS| Never Too Early: Training to Be Old (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Apr. 10, 2007)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Birds Do It. Bees Do It. People Seek the Keys to It. (By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 10, 2007)
The Search for the Female Equivalent of Viagra (By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 10, 2007)
* FINDINGS: Romantic Revulsion in the New Century: Flaw-O-Matic 2.0 (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 10, 2007)
Scientist at Work | Randall White: Falling in Love
With France and Its Troves of Ancient History (By MICHAEL BALTER, Apr. 10, 2007)
OBSERVATORY: Scientists Project How Dust Affects the Martian Climate (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 10, 2007)
Thin Carbon Is In: Graphene Steals Nanotubes' Allure (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 10, 2007)
* Q & A: Calcium Calculus (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 10, 2007)
* HEALTH: Pas de Deux of Sexuality Is Written in the Genes (By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 10, 2007)
Personal Health: A Lively Libido Isn't Reserved for the Young (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 10, 2007)
A Conversation With Pepper Schwartz
A Sociologist of Sex, for the Benefit of the Masses (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Apr. 10, 2007)
Long-Term Therapy Effective in Bipolar Depression (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 10, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Patterns: Smokers Take More Sick Time Than Nonsmokers, Study Says
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 10, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Prevention: Meningitis Vaccine Provides Immunity to Ear Infections
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 10, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | On the Scales: Findings Challenge Guidelines for Weight Gain in Pregnancy
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 10, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Referrals: Few Breast Surgeons Steer Patients to Reconstruction
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 10, 2007)

Monday, April 9, 2007:
On This Day: April 9 (Isambard Brunel 4/9/1806-9/15/1859, Charles Baudelaire 4/9/1821-8/31/1867, Leon Blum 4/9/1872-3/30/1950, Frank King 4/9/1883-6/24/1969, Sol Hurok 4/9/1888-3/5/1974, Mary Pickford 4/9/1893-5/28/1979, Paul Robeson 4/9/1898-1/23/1976, Curly Lambeau 4/9/1898-6/1/1965, J. William Fulbright 4/9/1905-2/9/1995, Antal Dorati 4/9/1906-11/13/1988, Hugh Hefner 1926, Jim Fowler 1932, Jean-Paul Belmondo 1933, Dennis Quaid 1954, Paulina Porizkova 1965)
* Hang Out Your Banners; Union Victory! Peace! [Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox] (NY TIMES, April 9, 1865)
Dr. Pincus, Developer of Birth-Control Pill, Dies at 64 [4/9/1903-8/22/1967] (NY TIMES, August 23, 1967)

* Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78 (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Apr. 9, 2007)
NY REGION: To Close Gaps, Schools Focus on Black Boys (By WINNIE HU, Apr. 9, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Another Layer of Scandal (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2007)
Editorial Observer: For Obama, Estranged in a Strange Land, Aloha Had Its Limits (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Apr. 9, 2007)
OP-ED: The Presidency's Mormon Moment (By KENNETH WOODWARD, Apr. 9, 2007)
BUSINESS: In a Television Carnival, Buy, Sell or Cringe (By LIA MILLER, Apr. 9, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: Silicon Valley Moneymen Make a Play for Airwaves (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 9, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: H.P. Tries to Create Printers That Love the Web (By DAMON DARLIN, Apr. 9, 2007)
E-Commerce Report: Online Booksellers Face Higher Costs for Shipping Abroad
(By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 9, 2007)
* ARTS | Connections: Sampling, if Not Digesting, the Digital Library (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 9, 2007)
* BOOKS: The Scale of Einstein, From Faith to Formulas (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 9, 2007)

Sunday, April 8, 2007:
On This Day: April 8 (Giuseppe Tartini 4/8/1692-2/26/1770, David Rittenhouse 4/8/1732-6/26/1796, John Loudon 4/8/1783-12/14/1843, William Welch 4/8/1850-4/30/1934, Harvey Cushing 4/8/1869-10/7/1939, Albert I 4/8/1875-2/17/1934, Sir Adrian Boult 4/8/1889-2/23/1983, Sir John Hicks 4/8/1904-5/20/1989, Carmen McRae 4/8/1920-11/10/1994, Michael Bennett 4/8/1943-7/2/1987, Betty Ford 1918, Franco Corelli 1923, Fred Ebb 1933, Seymour Hersh 1937, John Havelicek 1940, Julian Lennon 1963, Robin Wright Penn 1966, Patricia Arquette 1968)
* Picasso is Dead in France at 91 (NY TIMES, April 8, 1973)
* Sonja Henie, Skating Star, Dies at 57 [4/8/1912-10/12/1969] (NY TIMES, October 13, 1969)

* WORLD: Fans Sour on Sweeter Version of Asia's Smelliest Fruit [durians] (By THOMAS FULLER, Apr. 8, 2007)
OP-ED: Still Guilty After All These Years (By SCOTT TUROW, Apr. 8, 2007)
OP-ED: More Than an Easter in Common (By DEMETRIOS, Apr. 8, 2007)
OP-ED | Public Editor: The Times's Picture of TV Viewing Is Fuzzier Than It Appears
(By BYRON CALAME, Apr. 8, 2007)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
* BUSINESS | The Goods: Form, Function and Controversy (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Apr. 8, 2007)
BUSINESS | Framing: How to Confine the Plants of the Future? (By DENISE CARUSO, Apr. 8, 2007)
BUSINESS | Has the Exit Sign Ever Looked So Good? (By ERIC DASH, Apr. 8, 2007)
* SLIPSTREAM: A Giant Leap Forward in Computing? Maybe Not (By JASON PONTIN, Apr. 8, 2007)
* FUNDAMENTALLY: A Caution Signal on Profits. A Red Light for Stocks? (By PAUL J. LIM, Apr. 8, 2007)
MARKET WEEK: What G.E.'s Profit Says About the Planet (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Apr. 8, 2007)
THE BOSS: Women's Health, in Focus [Dr. Paula Johnson] (As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN, Apr. 8, 2007)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
* ART: The Stuff That Creativity Is Made Of (By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO, Apr. 8, 2007)
* ART: Travels Abroad Lead to Journeys Within (By MIA FINEMAN, Apr. 8, 2007)
ARTS: Is the U.S. Protecting Foreign Artifacts? Don't Ask (By JEREMY KAHN, Apr. 8, 2007)
DANCE: The War of the Russes, Ballet's Fabled Troupe (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Apr. 8, 2007)
FILM: Wandering in Weimar Purgatory [Fassbinder] (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 8, 2007)
MUSIC: Unsettling History of That Joyous 'Hallelujah' (By MICHAEL MARISSEN, Apr. 8, 2007)
MUSIC: A Mutual Inspiration Society in Action
[guitarist Pat Metheny & pianist Brad Mehldau] (By NATE CHINEN, Apr. 8, 2007)
MUSIC: Pilgrim With an Oboe, Citizen of the World
Liang Wang, 26, is the principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic.
(By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 8, 2007)
THEATER: Tolstoy Was Right: Flop Musicals Are All Unique (By JESSE GREEN, Apr. 8, 2007)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
STYLE: Rise of the Takedown (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Apr. 8, 2007)
The Age of Dissonance: Knowing the Score (By BOB MORRIS, Apr. 8, 2007)
* STYLE: Selling Himself and Prints, Too (By ALLEN SALKIN, Apr. 8, 2007)
MODERN LOVE: A Father on Poster Board Just Won't Do (By ALISON BUCKHOLTZ, Apr. 8, 2007)
POSSESSED: Chained to His Desk (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 8, 2007)
VOWS: Amy Knapp and Myron Walden (By JENNIFER TUNG, Apr. 8, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
TRAVEL | Africa > Morocco > Fez: The Soul of Morocco (By SETH SHERWOOD, Apr. 8, 2007)
TRAVEL | Surfacing | Los Feliz, Los Angeles: No Wheels? No Problem (By ADAM BAER, Apr. 8, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
DO OVER: Iraq Plan's Elusive Target: Fear Itself (By EDWARD WONG, Apr. 8, 2007)
ON FASHION: What They Wore to the Post-Revolution (By CATHY HORYN, Apr. 8, 2007)
THE WORLD: Stateless, With Borders All Around (By SETH MYDANS, Apr. 8, 2007)
The Early Birds: About That Political Traffic Jam in Iowa (By JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 8, 2007)
THE NATION: Latte Laborers Take on a Latte-Liberal Business (By DANIEL GROSS, Apr. 8, 2007)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: Can Man Improve on Nature's Fishbowl? (By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 8, 2007)
* THE BASICS: Miracles and the Fast Track to Sainthood (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 8, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Existential (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 8, 2007)
The Way We Live Now: The Undeparted (By NOAH FELDMAN, Apr. 8, 2007)
Questions for Nathan Englander: The Fabulist (Interview By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 8, 2007)
CONSUMED: Not Necessarily Toast (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 8, 2007)
THE ETHICIST: Game-Time Decision (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 8, 2007)
COVER ARTICLE: Keeping the Faith (By RUSSELL SHORTO, Apr. 8, 2007)
Tween on the Screen (By JONATHAN DEE, Apr. 8, 2007)
New Tricks [Animals] (By CHARLES SIEBERT, Apr. 8, 2007)
SLIDE SHOW: Sugar Shock (By MARTIN PARR, Apr. 8, 2007)
FOOD | The Way We Eat: Canned Heat (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, Apr. 8, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2007)
* The Poet of Exile ["Selected Poems" by Derek Walcott] (By WILLIAM LOGAN, Apr. 8, 2007)
* Hearing Voices ["Muses, Madmen, and Prophets" by Daniel B. Smith] (By PETER D. KRAMER, Apr. 8, 2007)
What Kind of Car Is a Ford Madox Ford? ["Cultural Amnesia" by Clive James]
(By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Apr. 8, 2007)
Sociable Darwinism ["Evolution for Everyone" by David Sloan Wilson] (By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 8, 2007)
In Her Fashion ["A Model Summer" By Paulina Porizkova] (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Apr. 8, 2007)
Long Player ["The Label: Story of Columbia Records" by Gary Marmorstein]
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Apr. 8, 2007)
An F for W. ["Second Chance" By Zbigniew Brzezinski] (By JACOB HEILBRUNN, Apr. 8, 2007)
* Proceed to Checkout ["Consumed" by Benjamin R. Barber] (By PAMELA PAUL, Apr. 8, 2007)
* VISUALS: Instant Messages (Reviews by STEVEN HELLER, Apr. 8, 2007)
Magic Words ["Framing the Debate" by Jeffrey Feldman] (By EVE FAIRBANKS, Apr. 8, 2007)
ESSAY: Fancy Meeting You Here (By JOE QUEENAN, Apr. 8, 2007)
HEALTH: Lessons of Heart Disease, Learned and Ignored (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 8, 2007)

Saturday, April 7, 2007:
On This Day: April 7 (St. Francis Xavier 4/7/1506-12/3/1552, William Wordsworth 4/7/1770-4/23/1850, Jens Peter Jacobsen 4/7/1847-4/30/1885, W. K. Kellogg 4/7/1860-10/6/1951, John McGraw 4/7/1873-2/25/1934, Sir David Low 4/7/1891-9/19/1963, Allen Dulles 4/7/1893-1/29/1969, Walter Winchell 4/7/1897-2/20/1972, R. G. Armstrong 1917, Ravi Shankar 1920, James Garner 1928, Wayne Rogers 1933, Ian Richardson 1934, Hodding Carter 1935, Jerry BRown 1938, Francis Ford Coppola 1939, David Frost 1939, Bill Kreutzman 1946, John Oates 1949, Janis Ian 1951, Jackie Chan 1954, Tony Dorsett 1954, Victoria Adams Beckham 1975)
General Grant defeated Confederates at Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee (NY TIMES, April 7, 1862)
* Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence
[4/7/1915-7/17/1959] (NY TIMES, July 18, 1959)

BUSINESS | Your Money: Sifting Data to Uncover Travel Deals (By DAMON DARLIN, Apr. 7, 2007)
ART | 'The Disappeared': Unresolved Chords Echo for 'the Disappeared' (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 7, 2007)
SCIENCE: Scientists Detail Climate Changes, Poles to Tropics (By JAMES KANTER & ANDREW C. REVKIN, Apr. 7, 2007)

Friday, April 6, 2007:
On This Day: April 6 (Raphael 4/6/1483-4/6/1520, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 4/6/1671-3/17/1741, James Mill 4/6/1773-6/23/1836, Rene Lalique 4/6/1860-5/5/1945, Louis Raemaekers 4/6/1869-7/26/1956, Walter Huston 4/6/1884-4/7/1950, Anthony Fokker 4/6/1890-12/23/1939, Lowell Thomas 4/6/1892-8/29/1981, Lonald Douglas 4/6/1892-2/1/1981, Gerry Mulligan 4/6/1927-1/20/1996, André Previn 1929, Merle Haggard 1937, Billy Dee Williams 1937, Roy Thinnes 1938, Barry Levinson 1942, Michelle Phillips 1944, John Ratzenberger 1947, Marilu Henner 1952, Janet Lynn 1953, Ari Meyers 1969)
* Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years (NY TIMES, April 6, 1909)
Dr. Clarence E. McClung Zoologist, 75, Dies [4/6/1870-1/17/1946] (By ROBERT LINDSEY, January 19, 1946)

NATIONAL: 22 Brands of Dog Biscuits Are Added to Pet Food Recall (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Apr. 6, 2007)
* SPORTS: Throwing Batters Curves Before Throwing a Pitch (By ALAN SCHWARZ, Apr. 6, 2007)
FILM | 'THE TV SET': From the Soundstage, Episodes of Vanity (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 6, 2007)

Thursday, April 5, 2007:
On This Day: April 5 (Thomas Hobbes 4/5/1588-12/4/1679, Elihu Yale 4/5/1649-7/8/1721, Jean-Honoré Fragonard 4/5/1732-8/22/1806, Vincenzo Gioberti 4/5/1801-11/26/1852, Joseph Lister 4/5/1827-2/10/1912, Algernon Swinburne 4/5/1837-4/10/1909, Lincoln Filene 4/5/1865-8/27/1957, Chester Bowles 4/5/1901-5/25/1986, Bette Davis 4/5/1908-10/6/1989, Herbert von Karajan 4/5/1908-7/16/1989, Chaim Grade 4/5/1910-6/26/1982, Gregory Peck 1916, Arthur Hailey 1920, Gale Storm 1922, Roger Corman 1926, Nigel Hawthorne 1929, Colin Powell 1937, Tommy Cash 1940, Michael Moriarty 1941, Peter Greenaway 1942, Jane Asher 1946)
Rosenbergs, Atom Spy Couple Sentenced to Die; Aide Gets 30 Years (By William R. Conklin, April 5, 1951)
Dr. B. T. Washington, Negro Leader, Dead at 59 [4/5/1856-11/14/1915] (NY TIMES, November 15, 1915)

* TECHNOLOGY: More PC Protection, Less Time Looking at an Hourglass (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Apr. 5, 2007)
* STYLE: Exercisers Slow It Down With Qigong (By NORA ISAACS, Apr. 5, 2007)
HOME & GARDEN: From Europe, a No-Chlorine Backyard Pool (By STEVEN KURUTZ, Apr. 5, 2007)

Wednesday, April 4, 2007:
On This Day: April 4 (Grinling Gibbons 4/4/1648-8/3/1721, Edward Hicks 4/4/1780-8/23/1849, Dorothea Dix 4/4/1802-7/17/1887, Pierre Monteux 4/4/1875-7/1/1964, Arthur Murray 4/4/1895-3/3/1991, Robert Sherwook 4/4/1896-11/14/1955, Antony Tudor 4/4/1908-4/20/1987, Marguerite Duras 4/4/1914-3/3/1996, Anthony Perkins 4/4/1932-9/12/1992, Elmer Bernstein 1922, Elizabeth Wilson 1925, Maya Angelou 1928, Clive Davis 1932, Richard Lugar 1932, Kitty Kelley 1942, Steve Gatlin 1951, Robert Downey Jr. 1965)
Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis; A White Is Suspected (By Earl Caldwell, April 4, 1968)
Muddy Waters, Blues Performer, Dies at 68 [4/4/1915-4/30/1983] (By ROBERT PALMER, May 1, 1983)

* EDUCATION: A Great Year for Ivy League Schools, but Not So Good for Applicants to Them
(By SAM DILLON, Apr. 4, 2007)
OP-ED: The Rich Are More Oblivious Than You and Me (By RICHARD CONNIFF, Apr. 4, 2007)

Tuesday, April 3, 2007:
On This Day: April 3 (Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau 4/3/1778-2/18/1862, Washington Irving 4/3/1783-11/28/1859, Mary Carpenter 4/3/1807-6/14/1877, Edward Everett 4/3/1822-6/10/1909, Alcide De Gasperi 4/3/1881-8/19/1954, Bud Fisher 4/3/1884-9/7/1954, Leslie Howard 4/3/1893-6/1/1943, Stanislawa Walasiewicz 4/3/1911-12/4/1980, Virgil I. Grissom 4/3/1926-1/27/1967, Marlon Brando 1924, Doris Day 1924, Miyoshi Umeki 1929, Helmut Kohl 1930, Don Gibson 1932, William Gaunt 1937, Marsha Mason 1942, Wayne Newton 1942, Tony Orlando 1944, Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948, Alec Baldwin 1958, Eddie Murphy 1961)
Aid Bill is Signed by Truman as Reply to Foes of Liberty (By Harold B. Hinton, April 3, 1948)
* Henry R. Luce, Creator of Time-Life Magazine Empire, Dies in Phoenix at 68
[4/3/1898-2/28/1967] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, March 1, 1967)

Monday, April 2, 2007:
On This Day: April 2 (Charlemagne 4/2/742-1/28/814, Giovanni Casanova 4/2/1725-6/4/1798, Hoffmann von Fallersleben 4/2/1798-1/19/1874, Erastus B. Bigelow 4/2/1814-12/6/1879, Frederic a. Bartholdi 4/2/1834-10/4/1904, Nicholas Butler 4/2/1862-12/7/1947, Walter Chrysler 4/2/1875-8/18/1940, Kurt Adler 4/2/1905-2/9/1988, Buddy Ebsen 1908, Sharon Acker 1935, Leon Russell 1941, Linda Hunt 1945, Emmylou Harris 1947, Pamela Reed 1949, Debrlee Scott 1953, Ron Palillo 1954)
President Wilson Declares War on Germany, Stronger Navy, New Army of 500,000 Men (NY TIMES, April 2, 1917)
* Max Ernst, Catalytic Figure in 20th Century Art, Dies at 85
[4/2/1891-4/1/1976] (By JOHN RUSSELL, April 2, 1976)

Sunday, April 1, 2007:
On This Day: April 1 (William Harvey 4/1/1578-6/3/1657, Jean-Etienne Portalis 4/1/1746-8/25/1807, Otto von Bismarck 4/1/1815-7/30/1898, Jorge Isaacs 4/1/1837-4/17/1895, Edwin Austin Abbey 4/1/1852-8/1/1911, Edmond Rostand 4/1/1868-12/2/1918, Sergey Rachmaninoff 4/1/1873-3/28/1943, Edgar Wallace 4/1/1875-2/10/1932, Lon Chaney 4/1/1883-8/26/1930, William Manchester 4/1/1922-6/1/2004, Jane Powell 1929, Grace Lee Whitney 1930, Debbie Reynolds 1932, Jim Ed Brown 1934, Don Hastings 1934, Ali MacGraw 1938, David Eisenhower 1947, Jimmy Cliff 1948, Gil Scott-Heron 1949, Annette O'Toole 1953, Magdalena Maleeva 1975 )
Americans Invade Okinawa in Ryukyus; Seize 2 Airfields (By Bruce Rae, April 1, 1945)
Colonel Florence Blanchfield, 87; Ex-Head of Nurse Corps, Dies
[4/1/1884-5/12/1971] (NY TIMES, May 13, 1971)

* NATIONAL: For Girls, It's Be Yourself, and Be Perfect, Too (By SARA RIMER, Apr. 1, 2007)
NATIONAL: Ex-Aide Says He's Lost Faith in Bush (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 1, 2007)