Selected Articles from The New York Times—
April 2008
(* denotes news of special interest)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008:
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)

* Albert Hofmann, the Father of LSD, Dies at 102 (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Apr. 30, 2008)
NATIONAL: Against Odds, New Orleans Schools Fight Back (By ADAM NOSSITER, Apr. 30, 2008)
* POLITICS: Obama Breaks Forcefully With Ex-Pastor Over Fiery Remarks
(By JEFF ZELENY & ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 30, 2008)
POLITICS: Primary Loss and Furor Over Ex-Pastor Hurt Obama in Poll (By ROBIN TONER & MEGAN THEE, Apr. 30, 2008)
WORLD: Barricades of May 168 Still Divide the French (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Apr. 30, 2008)
NY REGION: From Auschwitz, a Torah as Strong as Its Spirit (By JAMES BARRON, Apr. 30, 2008)
* EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama and Rev. Wright (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2008)
OP-ED: Dumb as We Wanna Be [Excise tax on gas] (By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, Apr. 30, 2008)
OP-ED: Praying and Preying [Obama] (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 30, 2008)
OP-ED: The Hollow Man [Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe] (By JOHN DARNTON, Apr. 30, 2008)
SPORTS: Some Athletes' Genes Help Outwit Doping Test (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 30, 2008)
* SPORTS | BASEBALL: A Sporting Gesture Touches 'Em All (By GEORGE VECSEY, Apr. 30, 2008)
BASEBALL: Scully Awaits Wife1s Cue on Continuing Long Run (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 30, 2008)
BUSINESS: Fed Cuts Rates by a Quarter Point, and It Signals a Pause
(By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 30, 2008)
BUSINESS | The Food Chain: Shortages Threaten Farmers1 Key Tool: Fertilizer
(By KEITH BRADSHER & ANDREW MARTIN, Apr. 30, 2008)
BUSINESS: The Road to a Jumbo Mortgage Was Supposed to Get Easier
(By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 30, 2008)
BOOKS: In Love With the History Our Teachers Never Told Us (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 30, 2008)
THEATER: Faulkner1s Haunted Family, Moving in and Out of Time
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 30, 2008)
FOOD: To Save a Species, Serve It for Dinner (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 30, 2008)
FOOD: The Next Best Things in Sliced Bread (By JULIA MOSKIN, Apr. 30, 2008)
FOOD: An Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for Dinner (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 30, 2008)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: Democrats Divided Over Gas Tax Break (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 29, 2008)
NATIONAL | SIDEBAR: New Look at Death Sentences and Race (By ADAM LIPTAK, Apr. 29, 2008)
NATIONAL | Statehouse Journal: An Irascible Firebrand, Quieted by Term Limits
(By SUSAN SAULNY, Apr. 29, 2008)
* POLITICS: Vexing Issue for the Clinton Campaign: What to Make of Bill?
(By MARK LEIBOVICH, Apr. 29, 2008)
POLITICS | TV Watch: Not Speaking for Obama, Pastor Speaks for Himself, at Length
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 29, 2008)
WORLD: Austria Stunned by Case of Imprisoned Woman (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 29, 2008)
WORLD | Mexico City Journal: Exploiting Real Fears With 'Virtual Kidnappings'
(By MARC LACEY, Apr. 29, 2008)
* EDUCATION: Chinese Students in U.S. Fight View of Their Home
(By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 29, 2008)
* OP-ED: The Pastor Casts a Shadow (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 29, 2008)
* OP-ED: Demography Is King (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 29, 2008)
* OPINION BLOG: Don1t Fact-Check the Soul [song writing] (By Rosanne Cash, Apr. 29, 2008)
BUSINESS: Oil Price Rise Fails to Open Tap (By JAD MOUAWAD, Apr. 29, 2008)
BUSINESS: Consumer Confidence Slips as Home Prices Drop (By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, Apr. 29, 2008)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 29, 2008)
* SCIENCE BASICS: Noble Eagles, Nasty Pigeons, Biased Humans (By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 29, 2008)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK | Francisco J. Ayala: Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God
(By CORNELIA DEAN, Apr. 29, 2008)
Conversation With Arno Motulsky: A Genetics Pioneer Sees a Bright Future, Cautiously
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Apr. 29, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: Cherry Tomatoes Get a Seawater Boost (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 29, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: Hope for Tiger Breeding (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 29, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: The Beetle Factor in a Carbon Calculus (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 29, 2008)
SCIENCE Q & A: Pigeon Pedestrians (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 29, 2008)
* HEALTH: Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 29, 2008)
* HEALTH: College's High Cost, Before You Even Apply (By TARA PARKER-POPE, Apr. 29, 2008)
HEALTH ESSAY: A Great Pox1s Greatest Feat: Staying Alive (By MARLENE ZUK, Apr. 29, 2008)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: You Name It, and Exercise Helps It (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 29, 2008)
* HEALTH BOOKS: Quieting the Demons and Giving Art a Voice (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D., Apr. 29, 2008)
HEALTH: Genes Explain Race Disparity in Response to a Heart Drug
(By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 29, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Perceptions: Go Ahead, Put the Water Bottle Down
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 29, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Nostrums: Study Critiques Antioxidant Supplements
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 29, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | In Hepatitis Trends, Good News and Bad
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 29, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Aging: Depression Tied to Alzheimer1s
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 29, 2008)

Monday, April 28, 2008:
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)

POLITICS: Eyes on Blue-Collar Voters, Obama Shifts Style (By JEFF ZELENY & ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 28, 2008)
NY REGION | Battle in Brooklyn | A Principal's Rise and Fall:
Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School (By ANDREA ELLIOTT, Apr. 28, 2008)
* BASEBALL BLOG: New Film Shows the Zen of Bobby Valentine (By Jack Curry, Apr. 28, 2008)
OP-ED: Hillary Gets No Respect (By WILLIAM KRISTOL, Apr. 28, 2008)
* E-COMMERCE REPORT: Users Demand Expertise at How-To Web Sites (By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 28, 2008)
MEDIA & ADVERTISING: The Four A1s Tries to Rebuild Momentum (By STUART ELLIOTT, Apr. 28, 2008)
MEDIA & ADVERTISING: Murdoch1s ‘Head of Content1 (By TIM ARANGO, Apr. 28, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search
[Google scientists presented a paper describing what the researchers call
VisualRank, an algorithm for blending image-recognition software methods
with techniques for weighting and ranking images that look most similar.]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 28, 2008)

Sunday, April 27, 2008:
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: Bicycle-Sharing Program to Be First of Kind in U.S. (By BERNIE BECKER, Apr. 27, 2008)
* WORLD: Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills (By SAM DILLON, Apr. 27, 2008)
* BASEBALL | Cheering Section: As Players Bulked Up, Value of Memorabilia Weakened
(By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI, Apr. 27, 2008)
OP-ED: Bowling 1, Health Care 0 (By ELIZABETH EDWARDS, Apr. 27, 2008)
OP-ED: How McCain Lost in Pennsylvania (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 27, 2008)
OPINION BLOG: Are You Confused Yet? [health care] (By Jacob S. Hacker, Apr. 27, 2008)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
* BUSINESS: Recession Diet Just One Way to Tighten Belt (By MICHAEL BARBARO & ERIC DASH, Apr. 27, 2008)
BUSINESS: Where Was the Wise Man? [Robert Rubin] (By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ & ERIC DASH, Apr. 27, 2008)
BUSINESS | Everybody1s Business: Wall Street, Run Amok (By BEN STEIN, Apr. 27, 2008)
BUSINESS | COUNT: M.B.A. Students: They1re Not All Business (By PHYLLIS KORKKI, Apr. 27, 2008)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Freer Trade Could Fill the World1s Rice Bowl
(By TYLER COWEN, Apr. 27, 2008)
* FUNDAMENTALLY: A Market That Dashes Assumptions (By PAUL J. LIM, Apr. 27, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | BlackBerry1s Quest: Fend Off the iPhone (By BRAD STONE, Apr. 27, 2008)
TECHNOLOGY | NOVELTIES: Lawyers Open Their File Cabinets for a Web Resource (By ANNE EISENBERG, Apr. 27, 2008)
THE BOSS: Teachable Moments [CEO of Kelly Services] (By CARL T. CAMDEN; As told to AMY ZIPKIN, Apr. 27, 2008)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
ARTS: Cover Story: The King of Visceral Design [George Lois] (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 27, 2008)
* DANCE: Robbins1s Legacy of Anguish and Exuberance (By ALASTAIR MACAULAY, Apr. 27, 2008)
* FILM: The Spirit of 168 (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 27, 2008)
* FILM: Hard Lessons Learned in the Ring [Seven Samurai] (By DAVID MAMET, Apr. 27, 2008)
MUSIC: Material Woman, Restoring Her Brand [Madonna] (By JON PARELES, Apr. 27, 2008)
MUSIC: A Flood of Emotion in a Song ["Louisiana 1927"] (By GEOFFREY HIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
RADIO/TELEVISION: Public Radio Tries to Reignite Its Public (By ELIZABETH JENSEN, Apr. 27, 2008)
TV: Dude! Like, Those Ads Live Forever (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Apr. 27, 2008)
AUTOS | Motoring: Fear, but Few Facts, on Hybrid Risk (By JIM MOTAVALLI, Apr. 27, 2008)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
STYLE: Not-So-Personal Finance (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Apr. 27, 2008)
STYLE: A Literary Critic Drops His Ax and Picks Up His Pen (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Apr. 27, 2008)
STYLE: Through Sickness, Health and Sex Change (By TINA KELLEY, Apr. 27, 2008)
VOWS: Stephanie Pottruck and Aaron Goldman (By DEVAN SIPHER, Apr. 27, 2008)
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Naples, Italy (By JILL SANTOPIETRO, Apr. 27, 2008)
TRAVEL: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Worries (By MICHELLE HIGGINS, Apr. 27, 2008)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
Counting Birthdays: The Short End of the Longer Life (By KEVIN SACK, Apr. 27, 2008)
THE NATION: Rifts Mend, Unless Identity Politics Is a Different Stripe
(By KATE PHILLIPS, Apr. 27, 2008)
THE WORLD: How to Show a Dictator the Door (By GRAHAM BOWLEY, Apr. 27, 2008)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Muslim Rebel Sisters: At Odds With Islam and Each Other
(By BARRY GEWEN, Apr. 27, 2008)
IDEAS & TRENDS: ‘Vert Acres1? France Sees the Joy of Being Stuck in the Sticks
(By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI, Apr. 27, 2008)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
* ON LANGUAGE: Superdel (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 27, 2008)
The Way We Live Now: Drawing Lessons (By ANN HULBERT, Apr. 27, 2008)
* Questions for Ted Sorensen: The Speechwriter (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 27, 2008)
* THE MEDIUM: Sepia No More (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 27, 2008)
IDEA LAB: Inequalities [rich getting richer] (By LARRY M. BARTELS, Apr. 27, 2008)
THE ETHICIST: Singing Falsetto (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 27, 2008)
COVER ARTICLE: Young Gay Rites (By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, Apr. 27, 2008)
* Triple-A Failure [Moody's Bond Rating] (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Apr. 27, 2008)
Where Alaa Al Aswany Is Writing From (By PANKAJ MISHRA, Apr. 27, 2008)
STYLE: Green With Envy (By ARMAND LIMNANDER, Apr. 27, 2008)
FOOD | The Way We Eat: Block Party (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, Apr. 27, 2008)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 27, 2008)
* BOOKS ESSAY: You1re an Author? Me Too! (By RACHEL DONADIO, Apr. 27, 2008)
* BOOKS: Lighght Verse [Aram Saroyan, Complete Minimal Poems]
(By RICHARD HELL, Apr. 27, 2008)
BOOKS: Natural Women [Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King,
Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon Ð and the Journey of a Generation]
(By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK, Apr. 27, 2008)
BOOKS: Odysseus Unplugged [Simon Armitage, The Odyssey:
A Dramatic Retelling of Homer1s Epic] (By JAMES PARKER, Apr. 27, 2008)
BOOKS: Patch Job [By Gary Marcus, Kluge: The Haphazard Construction
of the Human Mind] (By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL, Apr. 27, 2008)

Saturday, April 26, 2008:
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: Superdelegates Say Rest of Campaign Is Crucial (By LARRY ROHTER & CARL HULSE, Apr. 26, 2008)
* WORLD: In Shift, China Offers to Meet With Dalai Lama Envoys
(By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 26, 2008)
WORLD: Questions Linger on Scope of Iran's Threat in Iraq
(By MARK MAZZETTI, STEVEN LEE MYERS & THOM SHANKER, Apr. 26, 2008)
NY REGION: 3 Detectives Acquitted in Bell Shooting (By MICHAEL WILSON, Apr. 26, 2008)
* BUSINESS | The Food Chain: Environmental Cost of Shipping Groceries Around the World
(By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 26, 2008)
BUSINESS: Big Fine Set for Wachovia to End Case (By CHARLES DUHIGG, Apr. 26, 2008)

Friday, April 25, 2008:
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: Lesson on How Not to Build a Navy Ship (By PHILIP TAUBMAN, Apr. 25, 2008)
NATIONAL: For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn't Over (By MONICA DAVEY, Apr. 25, 2008)
NATIONAL: Cutoffs and Pleas for Aid Rise With Heat Costs (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 25, 2008)
* EDUCATION: Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds
(By TAMAR LEWIN, Apr. 25, 2008)
* EDITORIAL: That Book Costs How Much? [college textbooks] (NY TIMES, Apr. 25, 2008)
EDITORIAL: TThe Trouble With Not Being Earnest [John McCain] (NY TIMES, Apr. 25, 2008)
OP-ED: Self-Inflicted Confusion (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 25, 2008)
OP-ED: A Nation at a Loss (By EDWARD B. FISKE, Apr. 25, 2008)
* OP-ED | Heading Home: It Gets Late Early Out There [Baseball]
(By DOUG GLANVILLE, Apr. 25, 2008)
OPINION BLOG: The Mire [charter school] (By Will Okun, Apr. 25, 2008)
BUSINESS: Pain of Foreclosures Spreads to the Affluent (By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY, Apr. 25, 2008)
BUSINESS: For Airlines, Runways Are the Danger Zone (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Apr. 25, 2008)
* ARTS: What Darwin Saw Out Back (By CORNELIA DEAN, Apr. 25, 2008)
FILM | Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008):
Two Buddies, Several Tokes Over the Line (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 25, 2008)
TRAVEL ESCAPES | Activities and Interests > Spas:
Soft-Price Pampering: Spas Reflect the Economy (By SUSAN STELLIN, Apr. 25, 2008)
* SCIENCE: Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices
(By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 25, 2008)
* SCIENCE: Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 25, 2008)

Thursday, April 24, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: North Carolina G.O.P. to Run Ad Using Obama's Ex-Pastor
(By MICHAEL LUO, Apr. 24, 2008)
NATIONAL: For Obama, a Struggle to Win Over Key Blocs (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 24, 2008)
WORLD | Kremlin Rules: At Expense of All Others, Putin Picks a Church
(By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Apr. 24, 2008)
* OP-ED: Visible Man [The Guy Who Got Where He Is Only Because He's Black]
(By COLSON WHITEHEAD, Apr. 24, 2008)
OP-ED: Bring on the Right Biofuels (By ROGER COHEN, Apr. 24, 2008)
* STYLE | Cyberfamilias: How to Live Longer Without Really Trying
(By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Apr. 24, 2008)
* HOME & GARDEN | In the Garden: Humming Praises for the Wild Bee (By ANNE RAVER, Apr. 24, 2008)
HOME & GARDEN: Keeping Watch Where Rocks Abide (By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Apr. 24, 2008)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008:
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: Clinton Wins Primary, Keeping Bid Alive (By PATRICK HEALY, Apr. 23, 2008)
POLITICS | News Analysis: The Bruising Will Go On for the Party (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Apr. 23, 2008)
BASEBALL | Yankees 9, White Sox 5: Yankees Rough Up White Sox Bullpen
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 23, 2008)
EDITORIAL: The Low Road to Victory [Hillary & Obama] (NY TIMES, Apr. 23, 2008)
OP-ED: Wilting Over Waffles (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 23, 2008)
MUSIC: Ban on Solo Encores at the Met? Ban, What Ban? (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 23, 2008)
FOOD | A Good Appetite: You Call That Pudding, Grandma? (By MELISSA CLARK, Apr. 23, 2008)
* HEALTH BLOG: Boy or Girl? The Answer May Depend on Mom's Eating Habits
(By TARA PARKER-POPE, Apr. 23, 2008)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008:
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: In Clinton vs. Obama, Age Is One of the Greatest Predictors (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 22, 2008)
NATIONAL: On Eve of Primary, Clinton Ad Invokes bin Laden (By JEFF ZELENY & JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 22, 2008)
POLITICAL MEMO: Dream Ticket Sounds Good to Many Democrats (Except the Candidates)
(By PATRICK HEALY, Apr. 22, 2008)
NATIONAL: A Developer, His Deals and His Ties to McCain (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK & JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 22, 2008)
NATIONAL: It's Passover. Who's Hiding the Matzo? (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Apr. 22, 2008)
NATIONAL: Talking Veterans Down From Despair (By PATRICIA COHEN, Apr. 22, 2008)
SPORTS: Revival of a River Alters a City's Course in Sports (By KATIE THOMAS, Apr. 22, 2008)
OP-ED: Clueless in America (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 22, 2008)
* OP-ED: The Great Escape [C.S. Lewis & medieval culture] (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 22, 2008)
BUSINESS | Dealbook: Hedge Fund Investing and Politics (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Apr. 22, 2008)
* BUSINESS: Making Your Money Last as Long as You Live (By ROBERT HERTZBERG, Apr. 22, 2008)
BUSINESS: Airlines to Charge for Second Bag [$25/bag] (By MARTHA C. WHITE, Apr. 22, 2008)
* BUSINESS | The Food Chain: Price Volatility Adds to Worry on U.S. Farms
(By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Apr. 22, 2008)
ARTS: A Panoramic Backdrop for Meaning and Mischief (By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 22, 2008)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 22, 2008)
* SCIENCE: The Body in Depth (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 22, 2008)
* SCIENCE: When Language Can Hold the Answer (By CHRISTINE KENNEALLY, Apr. 22, 2008)
* SCIENCE | A Conversation With Daniel Gilbert: The Smiling Professor
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Apr. 22, 2008)
* SCIENCE FINDINGS: This Time, He'll Be Left Breathless (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 22, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: Make a Mindless Goof? Blame Your Brain (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 22, 2008)
* HEALTH | WELL: A Hard Plastic Is Raising Hard Questions (By TARA PARKER-POPE, Apr. 22, 2008)
HEALTH: U.S. Identifies Tainted Heparin in 11 Countries (By GARDINER HARRIS, Apr. 22, 2008)
HEALTH: At 60, He Learned to Sing So He Could Learn to Talk (By KAREN BARROW, Apr. 22, 2008)
* HEALTH ESSAY: At Bedside, Stay Stoic or Display Emotions? (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Apr. 22, 2008)
PERSONAL HEALTH | Hypertension: In Retreat, but Hardly Vanquished
(By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 22, 2008)

Monday, April 21, 2008:
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: Pope Ends Visit With Yankee Stadium Mass (By PAUL VITELLO, Apr. 21, 2008)
NATIONAL: Cat Lovers Appreciate Soul Mate in Vatican [Pope loves cats]
(By ANDY NEWMAN, Apr. 21, 2008)
POLITICS: Obama, Trailing, Sharpens Attack in Pennsylvania (By JEFF ZELENY & KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 21, 2008)
POLITICS | CAUCAS BLOG: A Nixon for Obama [Julie Nixon] (By Michael Luo, Apr. 21, 2008)
POLITICS | The Caucus: In Democrats' Fight, the Numbers Count (By JOHN HARWOOD, Apr. 21, 2008)
NATIONAL: Rash of Shootings Is Seen in Chicago (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 21, 2008)
BASEBALL: Blue Jays Cut Frank Thomas After Sitting Him Down (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 21, 2008)
BASEBALL | Yankees 7, Orioles 1: Pettitte Is in Control as Yankees End Four-Game Skid
(By ADAM HIMMELSBACH, Apr. 21, 2008)
OP-ED: Of Wine, Haste and Religion (By ROGER COHEN, Apr. 21, 2008)
OP-ED: Running Out of Planet to Exploit (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 21, 2008)

Sunday, April 20, 2008:
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: At St. Patrick's, Pope Makes a Call for Unity (By IAN FISHER & SEWELL CHAN, Apr. 20, 2008)
NATIONAL | Message Machine: Behind Analysts, the Pentagon's Hidden Hand
(By DAVID BARSTOW, Apr. 20, 2008)
POLITICS: Clintons Sort Friends: Past and Present (By MARK LEIBOVICH, Apr. 20, 2008)
NATIONAL: Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve (By DANIEL J. WAKIN & JULIA PRESTON, Apr. 20, 2008)
WORLD: Chinese Urge Anti-West Boycott Over Tibet Stance (By ANDREW JACOBS & JIMMY WANG, Apr. 20, 2008)
SPORTS | GOLF: Ochoa's View from the Top [Lorena Ochoa] (By LARRY DORMAN, Apr. 20, 2008)
HOCKEY: Sharks' Marleau Is Battered, Bruised, but Unbowed (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 20, 2008)
EDITORIAL: The Torture Sessions (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2008)
OP-ED: Shoddy! Tawdry! A Televised Train Wreck! [Moderators] (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 20, 2008)
OP-ED: Brush It Off [Obama] (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 20, 2008)
OP-ED: Our Favorite Planet [climate change] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 20, 2008)
OP-ED: Captain Kidd, Human-Rights Victim (By JOHN S. BURNETT, Apr. 20, 2008)
OP-ED: Don't Blame the War for the Economy (By MARTIN NEIL BAILY, Apr. 20, 2008)
BUSINESS: Working Life (High and Low) (By STEVEN GREENHOUSE, Apr. 20, 2008)
BUSINESS: A Star at Toyota, a Believer at Ford (By BILL VLASIC, Apr. 20, 2008)
TECHNOLOGY | Digital Domain: Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami
(By RANDALL STROSS, Apr. 20, 2008)
ARTS: You Bet Your Tintype, Buckaroo (By RANDY KENNEDY, Apr. 20, 2008)
MUSIC: No Fortissimo? Symphony Told to Keep It Down (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 20, 2008)
MUSIC: Running Down a Dream Deferred [Tom Petty & Tom Leadon]
(By ALAN LIGHT, Apr. 20, 2008)
TRAVEL | Summer in Europe: Rome at Night (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 20, 2008)
TRAVEL | Practical Traveler: Even a Weak Dollar Can Be Stretched (By MICHELLE HIGGINS, Apr. 20, 2008)
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in London (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 20, 2008)
REAL ESTATE: Finding Your First Apartment (By VIVIAN S. TOY, Apr. 20, 2008)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2008)
* Ideas & Trends: I Waste People's Time Online. How? Don't Ask Me.
(By STREETER SEIDELL, Apr. 20, 2008)
Barreling Along: The Big Thirst [Oil $116/barrel] (By JAD MOUAWAD, Apr. 20, 2008)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2008)
ON LANGUAGE: In the Tank (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 20, 2008)
THE GREEN ISSUE: Act (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2008)
The Way We Live Now: Why Bother? (By MICHAEL POLLAN, Apr. 20, 2008)

Saturday, April 19, 2008:
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: Clinton Impugns Obama's Toughness (By JULIE BOSMAN & JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 19, 2008)
BASEBALL: Identity of 'Max' Revealed; Rodriguez May Face Questions From Investigators
(By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT & TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 19, 2008)
BASEBALL: Ortiz Breaks Out of Slump With a Slam as the Red Sox Win (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 19, 2008)
BASEBALL: A Catcher and an Ace Build Trust in Each Other
[Brian Schneider & Johan Santana] (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 19, 2008)
OP-ED: Road Map to Defeat [Democrats] (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 19, 2008)
OP-ED: The Fat Bush Theory [Bush on global warming] (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 19, 2008)

Friday, April 18, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL | The Pope's Visit: Benedict Meets With the Victims of Sexual Abuse (By IAN FISHER & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 18, 2008)
POLITICS: Superdelegates Unswayed by Clinton's Attacks (By PATRICK HEALY, Apr. 18, 2008)
POLITICS: Who Lost the Debate? Moderators, Many Say (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 18, 2008)
WORLD: Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger (By MARC LACEY, Apr. 18, 2008)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 7, Yankees 5: Once Again, Ramírez Is an Unwelcome Guest in His Home on the Road
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 18, 2008)
BASEBALL: Flood Lost the Battle, but Won the Free-Agent War (By WILLIAM C. RHODEN, Apr. 18, 2008)
BASEBALL: Investigators to Ask Canseco: Who Is Max? (By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, Apr. 18, 2008)
OP-ED: How Obama Fell to Earth (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 18, 2008)
* BUSINESS: Workers Get Fewer Hours, Deepening the Downturn (By PETER S. GOODMAN, Apr. 18, 2008)

Thursday, April 17, 2008:
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: Clinton Employs Broad Attacks in a Key Debate (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 17, 2008)
NATIONAL: Chinese Student in U.S. Is Caught in Confrontation (By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 17, 2008)
NATIONAL: Justices Uphold Lethal Injection in Kentucky Case (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Apr. 17, 2008)
POLITICS: Book Sales Lifted Obamas' Income in 2007 to a Total of $4.2 Million
(By JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 17, 2008)
WORLD: New Museum Offers the Official Line on Tibet (By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 17, 2008)
WORLD: Chinese Site in India Is Stormed by Tibetans (By AMELIA GENTLEMAN & HARI KUMAR, Apr. 17, 2008)
BASEBALL | Yankees 15, Red Sox 9: Yankees' Bullpen Is the Key in a Slugfest
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 17, 2008)
OP-ED: Divided They Fall [Hillary & Obama] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 17, 2008)
OP-ED: Who's Bitter Now? (By LARRY M. BARTELS, Apr. 17, 2008)
OP-ED: Battle of the Baggage (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 17, 2008)
BUSINESS | The Food Chain: A Drought in Australia, a Global Shortage of Rice
(By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 17, 2008)
BUSINESS: Warning on Storage of Health Records (By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 17, 2008)
BUSINESS: G.E.'s Shortfall Calls Credibility Into Question
(By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ & CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Apr. 17, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | BASICS: Turn Those Bytes Into Books (By PETER WAYNER, Apr. 17, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | State of the Art: A Grand (i.e., Cool) Piano (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 17, 2008)
* ARTS: An Image Is a Mystery for Photo Detectives [1790 photo?] (By RANDY KENNEDY, Apr. 17, 2008)
BOOKS: Heroines in the Footlights, From All Sides Now (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 17, 2008)
* STYLE | Faster, Higher, Stronger: Changing Speeds to Go the Distance
(By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS, Apr. 17, 2008)
FASHION & STYLE: Everyone's a Critic (By RUTH LA FERLA, Apr. 17, 2008)
* STYLE | Life's Work: Prepping Children for the 9 to 5 (By LISA BELKIN, Apr. 17, 2008)
HOME & GARDEN | On the Cheap: Don't Hate Me Because I'm Solvent (By JOYCE WADLER, Apr. 17, 2008)

Wednesday, April 16, 2008:
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: Family Recipes, Passed Down From One Site to Another
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Apr. 16, 2008)
NATIONAL | The Pope's Visit: 'The Lord Wants Us Here,' Texas Pilgrims Say of Their Trip
(By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Apr. 16, 2008)
NATIONAL: Fight Leaves Democrats Questioning Prospects (By JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 16, 2008)
NATIONAL: Clinton for Governor? Democrats Dismiss Rumblings (By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, Apr. 16, 2008)
* CAUCUS BLOG: Bruce for Barack: Ohhhh He's the One (By JULIE BOSMAN, Apr. 16, 2008)
CAUCUS BLOG: Campaign Stops: No Whining About the Media (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 16, 2008)
CAUCUS BLOG: Lost Town Blues (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Apr. 16, 2008)
WORLD: Iraqi Unit Flees Post, Despite American's Plea (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 16, 2008)
WORLD: French Bill Takes Chic Out of Being Too Thin (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Apr. 16, 2008)
OP-ED: Eggheads and Cheese Balls (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 16, 2008)
OP-ED: Topics in University Security: Lockdown 101 (By JAMES ALAN FOX, Apr. 16, 2008)
OP-ED: Fear and Learning on Campus (By ALICE MATHIAS, Apr. 16, 2008)
OP-ED: God and Man at Notre Dame (By KENNETH L. WOODWARD, Apr. 16, 2008)
* BUSINESS | Economic Scene: Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Apr. 16, 2008)
* BUSINESS: Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays (By JENNY ANDERSON, Apr. 16, 2008)
BUSINESS: Canada Likely to Label Plastic Ingredient 'Toxic' (By IAN AUSTEN, Apr. 16, 2008)
BUSINESS: Merck Wrote Drug Studies for Doctors (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Apr. 16, 2008)
BUSINESS: Big Tax Breaks for Businesses in Housing Bill
(By STEPHEN LABATON & DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, Apr. 16, 2008)
TECHNOLOGY: Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 16, 2008)
* BOOKS: A Creator of Captain America, Fighting On (By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES, Apr. 16, 2008)
MUSIC: On a New Album, Not Merely Acting Like a Singer (By MELENA RYZIK, Apr. 16, 2008)
TV | Video Games: Exploring Fantasy Life and Finding a $4 Billion Franchise
[SIMS] (By SETH SCHIESEL, Apr. 16, 2008)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2008)
FOOD: One Cook, Thousands of Seders (By JULIA MOSKIN, Apr. 16, 2008)
FOOD: What's for Dinner? The Pollster Wants to Know (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 16, 2008)
THE MINIMALIST: The Everyday Oyster Any Time of Day (By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 16, 2008)
DINING: Too Much Heat in the TV Kitchen? (By PETE WELLS, Apr. 16, 2008)
FOOD: Quinoa With Thai Flavors (By SUSIE FISHBEIN, Apr. 16, 2008)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008:
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)

* Tommy Holmes, 91, Who Set N.L. Hitting Mark, Is Dead (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Apr. 15, 2008)
SPORTS | GOLF: Less Drama Is Linked to Changes at Augusta (By LARRY DORMAN, Apr. 15, 2008)
OP-ED: A Speech About Nothing [Obama] (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 15, 2008)
OP-ED: Some Perspective on 'Bitter' [Obama] (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 15, 2008)
OP-ED: Abolish All 'Taxes' (By RICHARD CONNIFF, Apr. 15, 2008)
OP-ED: India's Game, U.S. Spice (By TUNKU VARADARAJAN, Apr. 15, 2008)
* OPINION BLOG: Teen Beat [song writing] (By SUZANNE VEGA, Apr. 15, 2008)
OPINION BLOG: Right Fight, Wrong Word [Obama] (By DAN SCHNUR, Apr. 15, 2008)
BUSINESS: Retailing Chains Caught in a Wave of Bankruptcies (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Apr. 15, 2008)
BUSINESS: Surprise Loss at Wachovia Stirs Profit-Season Unease (By ERIC DASH, Apr. 15, 2008)
ARTS ABROAD: A Lowbrow in High Office Ruffles France [Nicolas Sarkozy]
(By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Apr. 15, 2008)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 15, 2008)
* SCIENCE: In Weak Rivets, a Possible Key to Titanic's Doom (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Apr. 15, 2008)
* HEALTH: Raves (Yes, It's True) for New Hearing Aid (By TARA PARKER-POPE, Apr. 15, 2008)
* HEALTH: Who Are We? Coming of Age on Antidepressants (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Apr. 15, 2008)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Alternatives for the Final Disposition (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 15, 2008)

Monday, April 14, 2008:
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)

* John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term 'Black Hole,' Is Dead at 96
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 14, 2008)
NATIONAL: Uncertain Church Awaits Pope in U.S. (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 14, 2008)
NATIONAL | This Land: Silence Replaces Bids and Moos at Stockyards in Suburbs
(By DAN BARRY , Apr. 14, 2008)
POLITICS: Views on Money for Iraq War, and What Else Could Be Done With It
(By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 14, 2008)
WORLD | Cairo Journal: A City Where You Can't Hear Yourself Scream (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Apr. 14, 2008)
NY REGION: Despite Tough Times, Ultrarich Keep Spending
(By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY & ERIC KONIGSBERG, Apr. 14, 2008)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 8, Yankees 5: Help Wanted: Yankees Need Catcher After Falling at Fenway
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 14, 2008)
* BASEBALL: In Varitek, the Red Sox Have a Studious and Gritty Leader
(By JACK CURRY, Apr. 14, 2008)
GOLF | The Masters: Immelman Survives Pressure to Win Masters (By LARRY DORMAN, Apr. 15, 2008)
OP-ED: The Mask Slips [Obama] (By WILLIAM KRISTOL, Apr. 14, 2008)
OP-ED: Obama's Indonesian Lessons (By ROGER COHEN, Apr. 14, 2008)
OP-ED: Crisis of Confidence (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 14, 2008)
OP-ED: Home Buyers Needed (By EDWARD E. LEAMER, Apr. 14, 2008)
OP-ED | The City Life: A Day at the Opera, a Snack for the Soul
(By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Apr. 14, 2008)
* BUSINESS | LINK BY LINK: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
(By NOAM COHEN, Apr. 14, 2008)
BUSINESS: Housing Woes in U.S. Spread Around Globe (By MARK LANDLER, Apr. 14, 2008)
TECHNOLOGY: Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft
[Google and Salesforce.com, two of Microsoft's most conspicuous rivals,
are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate
their sales of customer management and office software to businesses.]
(By MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 14, 2008)
* ARTS | Connections: The Relay of Fire Ignited by the Nazis (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 14, 2008)
MUSIC | 'Satyagraha': Fanciful Visions on the Mahatma's Road to Truth and Simplicity
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 14, 2008)
* HEALTH: Co-Payments Soar for Drugs With High Prices (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 14, 2008)

Sunday, April 13, 2008:
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: Hard-Liner With Soft Touch Reaches Out to U.S. Flock
(By IAN FISHER & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 13, 2008)
POLITICS: On the Defensive, Obama Calls His Words Ill-Chosen
(By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE & JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 13, 2008)
POLITICS: Clinton Seizes on Obama Remarks to Question His Appeal to Working Class
(By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE & JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 13, 2008)
POLITICS: 'Steady Hand' for the G.O.P. Guides McCain on a New Path (By KATE ZERNIKE, Apr. 13, 2008)
WORLD: Secret Iraqi Deal Shows Problems in Arms Orders (By SOLOMON MOORE, Apr. 13, 2008)
WORLD: For the West, Many Tough Calls on China (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Apr. 13, 2008)
SPORTS | TRACK: Witness in Track Doping Case Ready to Name Big Names (By DUFF WILSON, Apr. 13, 2008)
BASEBALL: For Hughes at Fenway, the Past Is a Long Time Ago (By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 13, 2008)
* BASEBALL: Still Charming, but More Costly, After All Those Years [Fenway Park]
(By GEORGE VECSEY, Apr. 13, 2008)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 4, Yankees 3: After the Rain, Papelbon Silences Yankees
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 13, 2008)
BASEBALL | Brewers 5, Mets 3: Santana Struggles in Defeat, and the Fans Let Him Hear It
(By BEN SHPIGEL, Apr. 13, 2008)
OP-ED: Standing by His Woman (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 13, 2008)
* OP-ED: China's Loyal Youth (By MATTHEW FORNEY, Apr. 13, 2008)
* OP-ED: Don't Know Much About Tibetan History (By ELLIOT SPERLING, Apr. 13, 2008)
OP-ED: Israel Can Stand Up for Itself (By ZEV CHAFETS, Apr. 13, 2008)
OP-ED: Faster, Higher, Stronger, No Longer [Olympics] (By BUZZ BISSINGER, Apr. 13, 2008)
OP-ED: My First Day of Freedom (By HUSSAIN ABDUL-HUSSAIN, Apr. 13, 2008)
BUSINESS | THE COUNT: Sign of Distress: More Who Can't Pay Their Bills (By PHYLLIS KORKKI, Apr. 13, 2008)
BUSINESS: It's a Long, Cold, Cashless Siege (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Apr. 13, 2008)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2008)
STYLE: Scavengers on the Urban Savannah (By GUY TREBAY, Apr. 13, 2008)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2008)
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Chiang Mai, Thailand (By JOSHUA KURLANTZICK, Apr. 13, 2008)
TRAVEL | Weekend in New York | Martinis: Places That Put the Proper Prefix on the -tini
(By SETH KUGEL, Apr. 13, 2008)
TRAVEL: Munich Redux: Germany's Hot Spot of the Moment (By NICHOLAS KULISH, Apr. 13, 2008)
TRAVEL | Journeys | Oxford, England: A Pub Crawl Through the Centuries
(By HENRY SHUKMAN, Apr. 13, 2008)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2008)
DISTANCES: The View From My Pew [Roman Catholic faith] (By DAN BARRY, Apr. 13, 2008)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets (By PETER S. GOODMAN, Apr. 13, 2008)
THE WORLD: Long Memories May Ensnare a Dictator [Suriname] (By SIMON ROMERO, Apr. 13, 2008)
* Positively 116th Street: Bob Dylan Finally Gets His Pulitzer. His What?
(By DAVE ITZKOFF, Apr. 13, 2008)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2008)
* ON LANGUAGE: Revanche Is Sweet (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 13, 2008)
The Way We Live Now: Bad Bet [Casino culture in Massachusetts?] (By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Apr. 13, 2008)
Questions for Grover G. Norquist: Tax Exemptor (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 13, 2008)
CONSUMED | The Art of Politics: Obama Art (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 13, 2008)
THE MEDIUM: The Guest-Host Industrial Complex (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 13, 2008)
* IDEA LAB: Total Recall (By GARY MARCUS, Apr. 13, 2008)
COVER ARTICLE: The Aria of Chris Matthews (By MARK LEIBOVICH, Apr. 13, 2008)
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? (By SARA CORBETT, Apr. 13, 2008)
* In Search of the Skeptical, Hopeful, Mystical Jew That Could Be Me
[Kabbalah] (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Apr. 13, 2008)
* FOOD | The Way We Eat: Greek Revival [yogurt] (By JILL SANTOPIETRO, Apr. 13, 2008)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 13, 2008)
BOOKS: War Plans [Philip Bobbitt, Terror & Consent: Wars for the 21st Century]
(By NIALL FERGUSON, Apr. 13, 2008)

Saturday, April 12, 2008:
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)

* NATIONAL: Perfectly Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship
(By JULIA PRESTON, Apr. 12, 2008)
* NATIONAL: Eight Teenagers Charged in Internet Beating Have Their Day on the Web
(By DAMIEN CAVE, Apr. 12, 2008)
* NATIONAL: Even the Whales Have Their Predators: Ships (By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 12, 2008)
NY REGION: The Pope's Visit: Candles, Clergy and Communion for 57,000
(By SEWELL CHAN, Apr. 12, 2008)
BASEBALL | Yankees 4, Red Sox 1: Wang's Stoic Presence Silences the Red Sox
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 12, 2008)
OP-ED: Losing Our Will (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 12, 2008)
OP-ED: Beware of Greeks Bearing Placards (By TONY PERROTTET, Apr. 12, 2008)
OP-ED: The Revenge of Lacey Davenport [age in the Senate] (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 12, 2008)
* OP-ED: The Age of Foreclosure [The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, MA]
(By BROCK CLARKE, Apr. 12, 2008)
BUSINESS: Major Indexes Fall More Than 2 Percent
[Dow -256.56, Nasdaq -61.46] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 12, 2008)
BUSINESS: Charities Devise New Strategies as Donations Wane (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Apr. 12, 2008)
BUSINESS: Fewer Options Open to Pay for Costs of College (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Apr. 12, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | Shortcuts: At a Certain Age, Simplicity Sells in High-Tech Gadgets
(By ALINA TUGEND, Apr. 12, 2008)

Friday, April 11, 2008:
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)

* NATIONAL: Dalai Lama Arrives for a Five-Day Conference in Seattle, Very Much His Kind of Town
(By WILLIAM YARDLEY, Apr. 11, 2008)
NATIONAL: Vermont Towns Try to Find Their Roads Less Traveled (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Apr. 11, 2008)
POLITICS: From Welfare Shift in '96, a Reminder for Clinton (By PETER S. GOODMAN, Apr. 11, 2008)
POLITICS: Powell Has Praise for Obama (By JEFF ZELENY, Apr. 11, 2008)
WORLD: Abuse Trails Central American Girls Into Gangs (By MARC LACEY, Apr. 11, 2008)
* WORLD | Marseille Journal: Clues to the Mystery of a Writer Pilot Who Disappeared
[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry] (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Apr. 11, 2008)
EDUCATION: Lacking Credits, Some Students Learn a Shortcut
(By ELISSA GOOTMAN & SHARONA COUTTS, Apr. 11, 2008)
SPORTS | SWIMMING: Scrutiny of Suit Rises as World Records Fall (By KAREN CROUSE, Apr. 11, 2008)
OP-ED: The Great Forgetting (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 11, 2008)
OP-ED: Health Care Horror Stories (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 11, 2008)
* OP-ED | Heading Home: Way Inside [Roger Clemens] (By DOUG GLANVILLE, Apr. 11, 2008)
OPINION BLOG: Memo to Petraeus & Crocker: More Laughs, Please (By DICK CAVETT, Apr. 11, 2008)
BUSINESS: Market Drops After a Week of Bad News
[Dow -256.56, Nasdaq -61.46] (By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, Apr. 11, 2008)
* BUSINESS: The Face of a Prophet [George Soros] (By LOUISE STORY, Apr. 11, 2008)
BUSINESS: If You Must Fly, Some Suggestions (NY TIMES, Apr. 11, 2008)
* MEDIA: Couric's Fate Was Topic A in CBS Suite (By BILL CARTER & JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 11, 2008)
ARTS | Chasing the News: Mark Twain's Inkwell to Blogger's Slippers
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Apr. 11, 2008)
ARCHITECTURE | Get Me Rewrite: A New Monument to Press Freedom (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Apr. 11, 2008)
FILM | The Visitor (2007): Professor as Student of His Life and Others (By A. O. SCOTT, Apr. 11, 2008)
MUSIC: Opera About a Giant's Life, Complete With Giant Puppets (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 11, 2008)
TRAVEL ESCAPES: Florida's Flows of Clear, Cool Water (By CHRISTOPHER PERCY COLLIER, Apr. 11, 2008)
HEALTH: Public Forum to Address Safety Issues on Vaccines (By GARDINER HARRIS, Apr. 11, 2008)

Thursday, April 10, 2008:
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)

* NATIONAL: Names That Match Forge a Bond on the Internet (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, Apr. 10, 2008)
NY REGION | Our Towns: In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives
(By PETER APPLEBOME, Apr. 10, 2008)
EDITORIAL: Quality Care at Bargain Prices (NY TIMES, Apr. 10, 2008)
BUSINESS: For Pilots, Dreams Run Into Reality (By JEFF BAILEY, Apr. 10, 2008)
HOME & GARDEN | The Kitchen Issue: And Now, the Six-Figure Scullery
(By PENELOPE GREEN, Apr. 10, 2008)
HEALTH: In Shift to Digital, More Repeat Mammograms (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 10, 2008)

Wednesday, April 9, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: Torch Runs for Cover as It Reaches San Francisco (By JESSE McKINLEY, Apr. 9, 2008)
NATIONAL: Petraeus Urges 45-Day Halt in Weighing New Iraq Troop Cuts
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS & THOM SHANKER, Apr. 9, 2008)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 5, Tigers 0: Day of Rejoicing for Red Sox; Emotional Return by Buckner
(By JACK CURRY, Apr. 9, 2008)
BASKETBALL: A Rivalry That Could Blossom in Women's N.C.A.A. Championship (By HARVEY ARATON, Apr. 9, 2008)
BASKETBALL: Summitt and Tennessee Roll to Another Title (By JERÉ LONGMAN, Apr. 9, 2008)
SPORTS: Equestrians' Deaths Spread Unease in Sport (By KATIE THOMAS, Apr. 9, 2008)
OP-ED: Toil and Trouble (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 9, 2008)

Tuesday, April 8, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: Washington Post Wins 6 Pulitzers (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Apr. 8, 2008)
NATIONAL: Obama's Young Backers Twist Parents' Arms (By JAN HOFFMAN, Apr. 8, 2008)
NATIONAL: Growing Pains for a Deep-Sea Home Built of Subway Cars (By IAN URBINA, Apr. 8, 2008)
NATIONAL | SIDEBAR: Power to Build Border Fence Is Above U.S. Law (By ADAM LIPTAK, Apr. 8, 2008)
NATIONAL: U.S. Shifting Prison Focus to Re-entry Into Society (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 8, 2008)
WORLD: Negligent Driving Killed Diana, Jury Finds (By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 8, 2008)
WORLD: Olympic Torch Goes Out, Briefly, in Paris (By KATRIN BENNHOLD & ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Apr. 8, 2008)
BASEBALL: Red Sox' Travels Leave Them in Unusual Spot: Last Place (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 8, 2008)
BASKETBALL: Kansas 75, Memphis 68, OT: Two Minutes to a Title: Kansas Prevails
(By PETE THAMEL, Apr. 8, 2008)
EDITORIAL: Corporate Croesus (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2008)
OP-ED: A Network of Truces (By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 8, 2008)
OP-ED: A Different Kind of Election (By BOB HERBERT, Apr. 8, 2008)
OP-ED: Back From Iraq, Again Facing Fire (By MAX HASTINGS, et. al., Apr. 8, 2008)
BUSINESS: Inflation in Asia Begins to Sting U.S. Consumers (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 8, 2008)
BUSINESS: There's Gas in Those Hills (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Apr. 8, 2008)
* ART: Rothko Kin Sue to Transfer His Remains (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Apr. 8, 2008)
TV WATCH: Familiar Face in a Different Morning Spot [Kathie Lee Gifford]
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 8, 2008)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2008)
* SCIENCE | FINDINGS: And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw (By JOHN TIERNEY, Apr. 8, 2008)
* SCIENCE | Vanished: A Pueblo Mystery (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Apr. 8, 2008)
* SCIENCE: What's Making That Awful Racket? Surprisingly, It May Be Fish
(By NONNY DE LA PEÑA, Apr. 8, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: Researchers Find Bacteria That Devour Antibiotics (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 8, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: Even by Parasite Standards, These Worms Stand Out (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 8, 2008)
OBSERVATORY: Why Wait for the Hive? Honeybees Get to Work in Flight, Study Says
(By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 8, 2008)
SCIENCE: Hermaphrodite Frogs Found in Suburban Ponds (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 8, 2008)
* Q & A: Heading Off a Cold (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 8, 2008)
* HEALTH: A Disease That Allowed Torrents of Creativity
[Ravel's Bolero— a case of dementia?]
(By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Apr. 8, 2008)
* HEALTH: Keeping Priorities Straight, Even at the End [Randy Pausch]
(By TARA PARKER-POPE, Apr. 8, 2008)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Potential for Harm in Dietary Supplements (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 8, 2008)
CASES: My Daughters Are Fine, but I'll Never Be the Same (By HARRIET BROWN, Apr. 8, 2008)
HEALTH: Increasing Obesity Requires New Ambulance Equipment (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Apr. 8, 2008)
* REALLY | The Claim: IPods Can Interfere With Pacemakers (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 8, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Patterns: Heavy Burden for Infants Who Lack Sleep
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 8, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Vision: Study Sees Value in Older Cornea Donors
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 8, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Children: Heredity May Figure Into Breech Deliveries
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 8, 2008)
VITAL STATISTICS: Escalator Injuries Rise in Older Adults (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 8, 2008)

Monday, April 7, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: Top Clinton Aide Leaving His Post Under Pressure [Mark Penn]
(By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 7, 2008)
NATIONAL | This Land: A Natural Treasure That May End Up Without a Country
(By DAN BARRY, Apr. 7, 2008)
WORLD: Bush and Putin, at Last Meeting, Agree to Disagree (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 7, 2008)
WORLD: Possible Nazi Theme of Grand Prix Boss's Orgy Draws Calls to Quit
[Max Mosley] (By JOHN F. BURNS, Apr. 7, 2008)
WORLD | Sfantu Gheorghe Journal: Kosovo's Actions Hearten a Hungarian Enclave
(By NICHOLAS KULISH, Apr. 7, 2008)
WORLD: Is Cuisine Still Italian Even if the Chef Isn't? (By IAN FISHER, Apr. 7, 2008)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Apr. 7, 2008)
NY REGION: Behind the Emperor's Club Escort Service (By RUSS BUETTNER & RAY RIVERA, Apr. 7, 2008)
BASKETBALL | Stanford 82, Connecticut 73: Stanford Finds Openings, Closing UConn's Season
(By JERÉ LONGMAN, Apr. 7, 2008)
BASKETBALL | Tennessee 47, L.S.U. 46: Last-Second Score Lifts Tennessee to Title Game
(By JERÉ LONGMAN, Apr. 7, 2008)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Vatican and Globalization: Tinkering With Sin (By EDUARDO PORTER, Apr. 7, 2008)
OP-ED: Grains Gone Wild (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 7, 2008)
* OP-ED: The Shape of the Race to Come (By WILLIAM KRISTOL, Apr. 7, 2008)
* BUSINESS | America for Sale: When Foreigners Buy Factories: 2 Towns, 2 Outcomes
(By PETER S. GOODMAN, Apr. 7, 2008)
BUSINESS | Health Plans: Medicare Finds How Hard It Is to Save Money (By REED ABELSON, Apr. 7, 2008)
BUSINESS: Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System (By MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 7, 2008)
* BUSINESS: High-Tech Crime Is an Online Bubble That Hasn't Burst
(By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Apr. 7, 2008)
* MEDIA | Sam Zell: A Tough Guy in a Mean Business (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Apr. 7, 2008)
MEDIA: The Book Is Real Enough. It's the Author That's Fake. (By JOANNE KAUFMAN, Apr. 7, 2008)
MEDIA: A Comprehensive PBS Documentary on the Iraq War Becomes a Big Hit Online
(By ELIZABETH JENSEN, Apr. 7, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY: Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital (By BRAD STONE, Apr. 7, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY: Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Apr. 7, 2008)
* ARTS: 2008 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music (NY TIMES, Apr. 7, 2008)
* FILM | An Appraisal: The Man Who Touched Evil and Saved the World
[Charlton Heston] (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Apr. 7, 2008)
* SCIENCE: Trees Block Solar Panels, and a Feud Ends in Court (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Apr. 7, 2008)
HEALTH: Researchers Find Huge Variations in End-of-Life Treatment (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 7, 2008)

Sunday, April 6, 2008:
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)

* Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and Voice of N.R.A., Dies at 84 (By ROBERT BERKVIST, Apr. 6, 2008)
NATIONAL: Chief Strategist of Clinton Campaign Steps Down (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 6, 2008)
NATIONAL: Vocal on War, McCain Is Silent on Son's Service (By JODI KANTOR, Apr. 6, 2008)
NATIONAL: Barbed Remark on McCain Sets Off Campaign Dispute (By LARRY ROHTER, Apr. 6, 2008)
NATIONAL: Drug Makers Near Old Goal: A Legal Shield (By GARDINER HARRIS & ALEX BERENSON, Apr. 6, 2008)
WORLD: Iraqi Forces and Militia Clash in Baghdad (By ERICA GOODE & MICHAEL R. GORDON, Apr. 6, 2008)
* EDUCATION: In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined
(By WINNIE HU, Apr. 6, 2008)
* BASEBALL: Suzuki Is Nearing Milestones at an Unprecedented Pace (By BOB SHERWIN, Apr. 6, 2008)
BASEBALL: Pettitte Told His Story and Now He Wants to Turn the Page (By GEORGE VECSEY, Apr. 6, 2008)
BASKETBALL: Women's Final Four: Lady Tigers Are Hoping the Fifth Time Is a Charm
(By JERÉ LONGMAN, Apr. 6, 2008)
OP-ED: Our Racist, Sexist Selves (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 6, 2008)
OP-ED: Tet Happened, and No One Cared (By FRANK RICH, Apr. 6, 2008)
OP-ED: The Last Wish of Martin Luther King (By TAYLOR BRANCH, Apr. 6, 2008)
* OPINION BLOG: French Theory in America [Derrida & Deconstruction]
(By STANLEY FISH, Apr. 6, 2008)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
MUTUAL FUNDS: First Quarter: Jan. 1-March 31, 2008 (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
* MUTUAL FUNDS: Almost as if the Sky Were Falling (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Apr. 6, 2008)
* STRATEGIES: Picking the Forest or the Trees (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 6, 2008)
* MUTUAL FUNDS: Now at Fidelity, the Stars Share the Stage (By TIM GRAY, Apr. 6, 2008)
MUTUAL FUNDS: Demand May Give Commodities a Long-Run Edge (By ABBY SCHULTZ, Apr. 6, 2008)
BUSINESS: The Mortgage Bust Goes Global (By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ, Apr. 6, 2008)
BUSINESS | Preoccupations: Women, Repeat This: Don't Ask, Don't Get
(By LINDA BABCOCK, Apr. 6, 2008)
CAREER COUCH: Your True Calling Could Suit a Nonprofit (By EILENE ZIMMERMAN, Apr. 6, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY: In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
(By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 6, 2008)
TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Sets Deadline for Yahoo to Make Deal (By MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 6, 2008)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
* ARTS: Keeping His Eye on the Horizon (Line) (By PHILIP GEFTER, Apr. 6, 2008)
THEATER: You May See a Stranger (By JESSE GREEN, Apr. 6, 2008)
* TV: Commercial Fishermen, Battling the Elements Between Commercials
(By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 6, 2008)
TV | Latest Reality TV: Dancing (Along) With the Stars of Nickelodeon
(By EDWARD WYATT, Apr. 6, 2008)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
STYLE: After War, Love Can Be a Battlefield (By LESLIE KAUFMAN, Apr. 6, 2008)
STYLE: Duck and Cover: It's the New Survivalism (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Apr. 6, 2008)
MODERN LOVE: When the Chutney's Gone (By SUZANNE FINNAMORE, Apr. 6, 2008)
VOWS: Francesca Harper and Eric Cohen (By ERIC V. COPAGE, Apr. 6, 2008)
TRAVEL | Choice Tables | Montreal: These Chefs Believe in Sticking Close to Home
(By PETER MEEHAN, Apr. 6, 2008)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
OVER THERE: Generally Speaking (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Apr. 6, 2008)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: How to Turn a Herd on Wall St. (By BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 6, 2008)
They Got Game. It Just May Be the Wrong Game. (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Apr. 6, 2008)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
* ON LANGUAGE: Moral Hazard (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 6, 2008)
THE MEDIUM: Soft Cell (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 6, 2008)
Reconsideration: Our First Black President? [Warren Harding] (By BEVERLY GAGE, Apr. 6, 2008)
COVER ARTICLE: In Search of a Lost Africa (By HELENE COOPER, Apr. 6, 2008)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 6, 2008)
BOOKS | ESSAY: There Will Be a Quiz (By JOE QUEENAN, Apr. 6, 2008)
BOOKS: At the Last Minute [Grace Paley, Fidelity] (By MARY JO SALTER, Apr. 6, 2008)
BOOKS: The Wasted Land [Jorie Graham, Sea Change: Poems]
(By JAMES LONGENBACH, Apr. 6, 2008)
The Unnaturals [Peter Morris, But Didn't We Have Fun?:
An Informal History of Baseball's Pioneer Era, 1843-1870.]
(By BUSTER OLNEY, Apr. 6, 2008)

Saturday, April 5, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: In Massachusetts, Universal Coverage Strains Care (By KEVIN SACK, Apr. 5, 2008)
WORLD: Ethnic Unrest Continues in China [Tibet] (By HOWARD W. FRENCH Apr. 5, 2008)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users
(By ADAM COHEN, Apr. 5, 2008)
OP-ED: Degrees of Matriculation (By ANDY BOROWITZ, Apr. 5, 2008)
* BUSINESS: In a Modern Gold Rush, Can Memories Beat $913 an Ounce? (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Apr. 5, 2008)
* BUSINESS | Your Money: While Alluring, Foreign Currencies Can Be Elusive
(By JANE BIRNBAUM, Apr. 5, 2008)
BUSINESS: Microfinance's Success Sets Off a Debate in Mexico (By ELISABETH MALKIN, Apr. 5, 2008)
BUSINESS | Executive Pursuits: Ping-Pong as Mind Game (Although a Good Topspin Helps)
(By HARRY HURT III, Apr. 5, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | What's Online: At Last, Buffett's Key to Success (By DAN MITCHELL, Apr. 5, 2008)
TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Said to Be Standing Pat on Yahoo (By MIGUEL HELFT, Apr. 5, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | Saturday Interview: Making It to the Major League of Fantasy Sports
{Christopher J. Russo] (By JACK BELL, Apr. 5, 2008)

Friday, April 4, 2008:
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)

* NATIONAL: 81% in Poll Say Nation Is Headed on the Wrong Track (By DAVID LEONHARDT & MARJORIE CONNELLY, Apr. 4, 2008)
NATIONAL: St. Helena Island Journal: Through Trying Times for Blacks, a Place of Peace
(By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 4, 2008)
POLITICS | CAUCUS BLOG: Clintons Say They Earned $109 Million Since 2000
(By Mike McIntire & Lisa Tozzi, Apr. 4, 2008)
WORLD: More Than 1,000 in Iraq's Forces Quit Basra Fight (By STEPHEN FARRELL & JAMES GLANZ, Apr. 4, 2008)
WORLD: Rising Leader for Next Phase of Al Qaeda's War (By MICHAEL MOSS & SOUAD MEKHENNET, Apr. 4, 2008)
EDITORIAL: There Were Orders to Follow [Bush] (NY TIMES, Apr. 4, 2008)
OP-ED: Voodoo Health Economics (By PAUL KRUGMAN, Apr. 4, 2008)
OP-ED: The View From Room 306 [King shot at Memphis Lorraine Motel]
(By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 4, 2008)
OP-ED: Stay in It to Win It [Hillary Clinton] (By ROBERT SHRUM, Apr. 4, 2008)
LETTERS: Hillary Clinton, Fighting to the End [6 letters] (By David Hyland, et. al., Apr. 4, 2008)
BUSINESS: Investors Stalk the Wounded of Wall Street (By LOUISE STORY, Apr. 4, 2008)
ARTS | Takashi Murakami: Art With Baggage in Tow (By ROBERTA SMITH, Apr. 4, 2008)
FILM | Shine a Light (2008): Only Rock 'N' Roll, but They're Still at It
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 4, 2008)
THEATER | 'SOUTH PACIFIC': Optimist Awash in the Tropics (By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 4, 2008)

Thursday, April 3, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL | White House Memo: In Economic Drama, Bush Is Largely Offstage
(By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Apr. 3, 2008)
POLITICS | The Ad Campaign: A Reprise of the 3 A.M. Call (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Apr. 3, 2008)
POLITICS | CAUCUS BLOG: Clinton Jokes About Her Tuzla Tale (By John M. Broder, Apr. 3, 2008)
CAUCUS BLOG | Primary Argument: A Non-Executive Decision (By MATT BAI, Apr. 3, 2008)
* EDUCATION: In Test, Few Students Are Proficient Writers (By SAM DILLON, Apr. 3, 2008)
NY REGION: Playing a Sport With Balls and Bats, but No Pitcher [cricket]
(By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, Apr. 3, 2008)
BOXING: The Tale of the Tape and the Talmud (By ZACHARY BRAZILLER, Apr. 3, 2008)
OP-ED: A Black Hole Rating System [CERN's Hadron collider] (By GAIL COLLINS, Apr. 3, 2008)
OP-ED: The Politics of the Shoe Shine (By ROGER COHEN, Apr. 3, 2008)
* OP-ED: A Not-So-Fine Romance [China & America] (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Apr. 3, 2008)
BUSINESS: Unsold Homes Tie Down Would-Be Transplants (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Apr. 3, 2008)
* TECHNOLOGY | State of the Art: A Camera for the Shot You Missed
(By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 3, 2008)
ARTS: New Bill May Speed U.S. Visas for Artists (By FELICIA R. LEE, Apr. 3, 2008)
DANCE: Ballet's Classical History, the Kirov Edition (By ALASTAIR MACAULAY, Apr. 3, 2008)
MUSIC: Jay-Z Deal Offers New Model for Music Sales (By JEFF LEEDS, Apr. 3, 2008)
FASHION | Skin Deep: A Girl's Life, With Highlights (By CAMILLE SWEENEY, Apr. 3, 2008)
* STYLE | Life's Work: Dilbert the Inquisitor (By LISA BELKIN, Apr. 3, 2008)
STYLE | Fitness: 60-Plus, Ripped, and Natural Competitors (By ABBY ELLIN, Apr. 3, 2008)
HOME & GARDEN: A House Not for Mere Mortals (By FRED A. BERNSTEIN, Apr. 3, 2008)
* HOME & GARDEN | In the Garden: Proof That Spring Can Keep a Promise
(By ANNE RAVER, Apr. 3, 2008)
SCIENCE | The DNA Age: Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly (By AMY HARMON, Apr. 3, 2008)

Wednesday, April 2, 2008:
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)

NATIONAL: A Grim Tradition, and a Long Struggle to End It (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Apr. 2, 2008)
NATIONAL: U.S. Alarmed as Some Exports Veer Off Course (By ERIC LIPTON, Apr. 2, 2008)
NATIONAL: '03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations (By MARK MAZZETTI, Apr. 2, 2008)
NATIONAL: A Bipartisan Bid on Mortgage Aid Is Gaining Speed
(By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN & VIKAS BAJAJ, Apr. 2, 2008)
NATIONAL: Immigration Issues End a Pennsylvania Grower's Season (By PAUL VITELLO, Apr. 2, 2008)
NY REGION: Manhattan Apartment Prices Hit Record High (By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY, Apr. 2, 2008)
EDITORIAL: How Immigrants Saved Social Security (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2008)
EDITORIAL: Overpromoted Cholesterol Drugs (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2008)
* OP-ED: Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind [willpower] (By SANDRA AAMODT & SAM WANG, Apr. 2, 2008)
OP-ED: The Hillary Waltz (By MAUREEN DOWD, Apr. 2, 2008)
* OPINION BLOG: To the Letter Born [Obama's type design] (By Steven Heller, Apr. 2, 2008)
* OPINION BLOG: The Three H's [Song Writing: Honesty. Humanity. And hooks.]
(By Darrell Brown, Apr. 2, 2008)
* ARTS: Watch Out, Warhol, Here's Japanese Shock Pop (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 2, 2008)
MUSIC:  Ms. Jones and Guitar in the Spirit of the Place (By NATE CHINEN, Apr. 2, 2008)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2008)
THE MINIMALIST: You Use It Every Day. But Can You Make It Cook? (By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 2, 2008)
FOOD | The Curious Cook: On Food and Zapping (By HAROLD McGEE, Apr. 2, 2008)
* FOOD: Some Good News on Food Prices (By KIM SEVERSON, Apr. 2, 2008)
FOOD: The Phantom of the Menu: Chatham Cod (By JULIA MOSKIN, Apr. 2, 2008)
FOOD: Steamed Chocolate Pudding (Adapted from Barbara Kafka, Apr. 2, 2008)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008:
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: Carrying Primary Scars Into the General Election
(By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE & JULIE BOSMAN, Apr. 1, 2008)
* EDUCATION: Elite Colleges Reporting Record Lows in Admission (By ALAN FINDER, Apr. 1, 2008)
NY REGION | NYC: In the World Series Chase, Cashing in on Hope and Nostalgia
(By CLYDE HABERMAN, Apr. 1, 2008)
* OP-ED: Pitching With Purpose [Focus only on the strike zone]
(By DAVID BROOKS, Apr. 1, 2008)
DANCE: Kirov's Travel Plans Exclude the Director (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 1, 2008)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 1, 2008)
* SCIENCE BASICS: Blind to Change, Even as It Stares Us in the Face
(By NATALIE ANGIER, Apr. 1, 2008)
SCIENCE: Inside the Black Budget (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Apr. 1, 2008)
* OBSERVATORY: The Little Tingle Tells You It's Working [plants] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 1, 2008)
* SCIENTIST AT WORK | Steve C. Wang: Professor Puts a Face on the Performance of Baseball Managers
(By ALAN SCHWARZ, Apr. 1, 2008)
MIND: April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks (By BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 1, 2008)
* SCIENCE Q & A: Singing and Fitness (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 1, 2008)
* HEALTH: New Therapies Fight Phantom Noises of Tinnitus (By KATE MURPHY, Apr. 1, 2008)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Seeking Answers to Stop Another Stillbirth (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 1, 2008)
* REALLY | The Claim: A Fever in a Baby Is a Sign of Teething (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 1, 2008)
VITAL SIGNS | Patterns: Another Reason to Choose a Mate Wisely (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 1, 2008)