Selected Articles from The New York Times—
December 2005 (* denotes news of special interest)

Saturday, December 31, 2005:
On This Day: December 31 (Jacques Cartier 12/31/1491-9/1/1557, Charles Cornwallis 12/31/1738-10/5/1805, Robert Aitken 12/31/1864-10/29/1951, George C. Marshall 12/31/1880-10/16/1959, Elizabeth Arden 12/31/1884-10/18/1966, Nathan Milstein 12/31/1903-12/21/1992, Jules Stynes 12/31/1905-9/20/1994, Simon Wiesenthal 1908, Odetta 1930, Sir Anthony Hopkins 1937, Sarah Miles 1941, Diane Von Furstenberg 1946, Donna Summer 1948, Val Kilmer 1959)
Truman Declares Hostilities Ended, Terminating Many Wartime Laws (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, December 31, 1946)
* Art World Mourns Henri Matisse, Dead at Home in Nice at Age of 84 [12/31/1869-11/3/1954] (NY Times, November 4, 1954)

Friday, December 30, 2005:
On This Day: December 30 (John Milne 12/30/1850-7/30/1913, Asa Griggs Candler 12/30/1851-3/12/1929, Rudyard Kipling 12/30/1865-1/18/1936, Ramana Maharshi 12/30/1879-4/14/1950, Alfred Einstein 12/30/1880-2/13/1952, Sir Carol Reed 12/30/1906-4/25/1976, Bert Parks 12/30/1914-2/2/1992, Bo Diddley 1928, Paul Stookey 1937, Davy Jones 1945, Patti Smith 1946, Matt Lauer 1957, Tracey Ullman 1959, Tiger Woods 1975)
Nixon Orders a Halt In Bombing of North Above 20th Parallel (By BERNARD GWERTZMAN, December 30, 1972)
Alfred E. Smith Dies Here at 70; 4 Times Governor [12/30/1873-10/4/1944] (NY Times, October 4, 1944)

Thursday, December 29, 2005:
On This Day: December 29 (Jeanne-Antoinette Pompadour 12/29/1721-4/15/1764, Charles Macintosh 12/29/1766-7/25/1843, Charles Goodyear 12/29/1800-7/1/1860, William Gladstone 12/29/1809-5/19/1898, Pablo Casals 12/29/1876-10/22/1973, Jess Willard 12/29/1881-12/15/1968, William Gaddis 12/29/1922-12/16/1998, Tom Jarriel 1934, Mary Tyler Moore 1937, Jon Voight 1938, Marianne Faithfull 1946, Ted Danson 1947)
Nazis Bombings Set Big London Fires: Flames Leap High (By RAYMOND DANIELL, December 29, 1940)
Andrew Johnson Dead at 66 [12/29/1808-7/31/1875] (NY Times, August 1, 1875)

Wednesday, December 28, 2005:
On This Day: December 28 (Thomas Henderson 12/28/1798-11/23/1844, Edward Burnham 12/28/1833-1/9/1916, Woodrow Wilson 12/28/1856-2/3/1924, William Draper Harkins 12/28/1873-3/7/1951, Sir Arthur Eddington 12/28/1882-11/22/1944, Lew Ayres 12/28/1908-12/30/1996, Manuel Puig 12/28/1932-7/22/1990, Lou Jacobi 1913, Johnny Otis 1921, Maggie Smith 1934, Denzel Washington 1954)
First 'Test-Tube' Baby Born in U.S., Joining Successes Around World (By WALTER SULLIVAN, December 28, 1981)
Earl Hines, 77, Father of Modern Jazz Piano, Dies [12/28/1905-4/22/1983] (By JON PARELES, April 24, 1983)

Tuesday, December 27, 2005:
On This Day: December 27 (Johannes Kepler 12/27/1571-11/15/1630, Sir George Cayley 12/27/1773-12/15/1857, Louis Pasteur 12/27/1822-9/28/1895, Cyrus Eaton 12/27/1883-5/9/1949, Louis Bromfield 12/27/1896-3/18/1956, Inga Swenson 1932, Cokie Roberts 1943, Tracy Nelson 1944, Gerard Depardieu 1948, Arthur Kent 1953)
Afghan President Is Ousted and Executed in Kabul Coup, Reportedly With Soviet Help (By BERNARD GWERTZMAN, December 27, 1979)
* Marlene Dietrich, 90, Symbol of Glamour, Dies [12/27/1901-5/6/1992] (By PETER B. FLINT, May 7, 1992)

Norman Dane Vaughan, Antarctic Explorer, Dies at 100 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Dec. 27, 2005)
NATIONAL: A Veteran's Iraq Message Upsets Army Recruiters (By MONICA DAVEY, Dec. 27, 2005)
One Parish: With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns
(By JERE LONGMAN, Dec. 27, 2005)
WORLD: Ghana's Uneasy Embrace of Slavery's Diaspora (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Dec. 27, 2005)
* Letter From Rome: Vatican Considers Consigning Limbo to Oblivion (By IAN FISHER, Dec. 27, 2005)
The Cost of Gold | The Hidden Payroll: Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste
(By JANE PERLEZ & RAYMOND BONNER, Dec. 27, 2005)
Putin's Senior Economic Adviser Abruptly Resigns (By C. J. CHIVERS, Dec. 27, 2005)
Hometown Snubs Schwarzenegger Over Death Penalty [Graz, Austria] (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Dec. 27, 2005)
NY REGION: In Middle Class, Signs of Anxiety on School Efforts (By SUSAN SAULNY, Dec. 27, 2005)
SPORTS | The 1080: Three Revolutions Have Equaled a Transformation in Snowboarding
(By LEE JENKINS, Dec. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: After Withdrawal, Engagement (By ANDREW ERDMANN, Dec. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: Unwarranted Complaints (By DAVID B. RIVKIN & LEE A. CASEY, Dec. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: No Left Turn (By ÁLVARO VARGAS LLOSA, Dec. 27, 2005)
* LETTERS: To North Korea, on Google (By Peter Hahn, Dec. 27, 2005)
* LETTERS: Teaching the Bible as a Literary Work (4 Letters) (By Matthew Moshen, et. al., Dec. 27, 2005)
BUSINESS: Michigan's Job No. 1: Recovery (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Dec. 27, 2005)
The Day After Christmas, Shoppers Take a Holiday (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Dec. 27, 2005)
* ADVERTISING: Even With No Gold Medal, Michelle Kwan Is Golden to Marketers (By JULIE BOSMAN, Dec. 27, 2005)
* BOOKS | 'Siegfried Sassoon': A Wounded Poet Who Sang the Crucible of a Generation (By CHARLES McGRATH, Dec. 27, 2005)
* BOOKS: A Chance to Meet the Author Online (By EDWARD WYATT, Dec. 27, 2005)
MUSIC: The Net Is a Boon for Indie Labels (By JEFF LEEDS, Dec. 27, 2005)
MUSIC: Unconventional Queen Hit Still Rocks After 30 Years (By DAVID CHIU, Dec. 27, 2005)
TV: Nerds in the Hood, Stars on the Web (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Dec. 27, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 27, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Psychotherapy on the Road to ... Where? (By BENEDICT CAREY, Dec. 27, 2005)
* Quantum Trickery: Testing Einstein's Strangest Theory
[But far from demolishing quantum theory, the 1935 EPR (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen) paper
wound up as the cornerstone for the new field of quantum information. Anton Zeilinger
of the University of Vienna said that he thought, "The world is not as real as we think."]
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, Dec. 27, 2005)
Scientists Try to Resolve Nuclear Problem With an Old Technology Made New Again (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Dec. 27, 2005)
Past Hot Times Hold Few Reasons to Relax About New Warming (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 27, 2005)
COMMENTARY: Helping Out Darwin's Cause With a Little Pointed Humor (By CORNELIA DEAN, Dec. 27, 2005)
OBSERVATORY: Napoleon's Flaw: Lousy Army (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Dec. 27, 2005)
SCIENCE: Aware of Political Ecosystem, Property Rights Advocate Embraces Conservation Plan
(By FELICITY BARRINGER, Dec. 27, 2005)
* Q & A: The Fatal Peanut (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Dec. 27, 2005)
HEALTH: A Deadly Threat to Hearts of Young, Healthy Athletes (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 27, 2005)
* PREVENTING CANCER: Slowly, Cancer Genes Tender Their Secrets (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 27, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: 35 and Pregnant? Assessing Risk Becomes Easier (By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 27, 2005)
* Danger to Kidneys May Lurk in Some Preparations for Colonoscopies (By DEBORAH FRANKLIN, Dec. 27, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: If It Takes a Long Time, It May Be a Boy (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 27, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Mental Health: Serious Depression Raises Risk of Heart Ailments
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 27, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Effects: Dark Chocolate: A Fix for Smokers' Plumbing? (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 27, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: Men With Dysfunction Should Ask About Heart (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 27, 2005)

Monday, December 26, 2005:
On This Day: December 26 (Thomas Gray 12/26/1716-7/30/1771, Charles Babbage 12/26/1791-10/18/1871, Sir Norman Angell 12/26/1873-10/7/1967, George Dewey 12/26/1837-1/16/1917, Henry Miller 12/26/1891-6/7/1980, Robert Ripley 12/26/1893-5/27/1949, Leopold Mannes 12/26/1899-8/11/1964, Richard Widmark 1914, Alan King 1927, Carlton Fisk 1947, Chris Chambliss 1948, Lars Ulrich 1963, Jared Leto 1971)
Churchill Predicts Huge Allied Drive In 1943: Congress Thrilled (By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, December 26, 1941)
* Mao Tse-Tung: Father of Chinese Revolution Dies at 82 [12/26/1893-9/9/1976] (By FOX BUTTERFIELD, September 10, 1976)

* NATIONAL: One Bakery Owner's Dream: Taking Whoopies to the World (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 26, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Indians Find They Can Go Home Again (By SARITHA RAI, Dec. 26, 2005)
High-Tech Industry in Israel Goes From Bust to Boom (By GREG MYRE, Dec. 26, 2005)
* ART: Italy Goes on the Offensive With Antiquities (By HUGH EAKIN, Dec. 26, 2005)
* ART | 'Marks of Distinction': Where Pragmatism Begets Beauty and a Subtle Spirituality
(By KEN JOHNSON, Dec. 26, 2005)
* BOOKS: Move Over, Mondrian: It's Miffy's Turn (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Dec. 26, 2005)
* BOOKS | 'Ice': All About Ice: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It (By NEAL KARLEN, Dec. 26, 2005)
PHOTOGRAPHY | 'The Body at Risk': Picturing Some Shocks That Flesh Is Heir To
(By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 26, 2005)

Sunday, December 25, 2005:
On This Day: December 25 (Sir Isaac Newton 12/25/1642-3/20/1727, Clara Barton 12/25/1821-4/12/1912, Louis Chevrolet 12/25/1878-6/6/1941, Maurice Utrillo 12/25/1883-11/5/1955, Franz Rosenzweig 12/25/1886-12/10/1929, Conrad Hilton 12/25/1887-1/3/1979, Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899-1/14/1957, Cab Calloway 12/25/1907-11/18/1994, Rod Serling 12/25/1924-6/28/1975, Tony Martin 1923, Dick Miller 1928, Jimmy Buffet 1946, Larry Csonka 1946, Barbara Mandrell 1948, Sissy Spacek 1949, Annie Lennox 1954)
Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Resigns; U.S. Recognizes Republics' Independence (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, December 25, 1991)

* ART | The Highs and Lows: Old Masters and New Ethical Lapses (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Dec. 25, 2005)
* BOOKS | Still Looking: Essays on American Art by John Updike: Picture This
(Review by GEOFF DYER, Dec. 25, 2005)
DANCE | Best Dance Performances of the Year: Breathless Duets, and a Giselle for the Ages
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Dec. 25, 2005)
* FILM | Best Films of the Year: Rome in Six Hours and Four Decades (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 25, 2005)
TV Directions: The Most Popular Idea: The New Year's Eve TV Follies in Times Square
(By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Dec. 25, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents [Those Who Died in 2005] (NY TIMES, Dec. 25, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: What's the Meta? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 25, 2005)
Sandra Dee | b. 1944: Gidget Doesn't Live Here Anymore (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Dec. 25, 2005)
Teresa Wright | b. 1918: The Domestic Dreamboat (By ANTHONY GIARDINA, Dec. 25, 2005)
Philip J. Klass | b. 1919: The Debunker (By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE, Dec. 25, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Clone Scientist Relied on Peers and Korean Pride [Hwang Woo Suk]
(By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 25, 2005)

Saturday, December 24, 2005:
On This Day: December 24 (Kit Carson 12/24/1809-5/23/1868, Matthew Arnold 12/24/1822-4/15/1888, Michael Curtiz 12/24/1888-4/10/1962, Howard Hughes 12/24/1905-4/5/1976, Anthony S. Fauci 1940, Sharon Farrel 1946, Ricky Martin 1971)
Bush Pardons 6 in Iran Affair, Aborting a Weinberger Trial (By DAVID JOHNSTON, December 24, 1992)
I.F. Stone, Iconoclast of Journalism, Is Dead at 81 [12/24/1907-6/18/1989] (By PETER B. FLINT, June 19, 1989)

Friday, December 23, 2005:
On This Day: December 23 (James Gibbs 12/23/1682-8/5/1754, Jean-Francois Champollion 12/23/1790-3/4/1832, Joseph Smith 12/23/1805-6/27/1844, Emil Brunner 12/23/1889-4/6/1966, Yosuf Karsh 1908, James Gregory 1911, Emperor Akihito 1933)
Experimental Plane Voyager Completes First Non-Stop, Around-the-World Flight Without Refueling (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, December 23, 1986)
* Wealthiest Negress Dead at 51: Mrs. C. J. Walker, Real Estate Operator, Made Fortune in Few Years [12/23/1867-5/25/1919] (NY Times, May 26, 1919)

Thursday, December 22, 2005:
On This Day: December 22 (James Oglethorpe 12/22/1696-1785, Jean Henri Fabre 12/22/1823-10/11/1915, Frank Kellogg 12/22/1856-12/21/1937, Giacomo Puccini 12/22/1858-11/29/1924, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 12/22/1876-12/2/1944, Giacomo Manzu 12/22/1908-1/17/1991, Lady Bird Johnson 1912, Jim Wright 1922, Steve Carlton 1944, Diane Sawyer 1945, Steve Garvey 1948, Jan Stephenson 1951)
SAVANNAH OURS: General Sherman's Christmas Gift to Lincoln (NY Times, December 22, 1864)
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Acclaimed British Actress, Is Dead at 83 [12/22/1907-6/14/1991] (By PETER B. FLINT, June 15, 1991)

Wednesday, December 21, 2005:
On This Day: December 21 (Masaccio 12/21/1401-1428, Benjamin Disraeli 12/21/1804-4/19/1881, Dame Rebecca West 12/21/1892-3/15/1983, Josh Gibson 12/21/1911-1/20/1947, Heinrich Boll 12/21/1917-7/16/1985, Kurt Waldheim 1918, Paul Winchell 1922, Ed Nelson 1928, Phil Donahue 1935, Jane Fonda 1937, Carla Thomas 1942, Michael Tilson Thomas 1944, Chris Evert 1954)
Terrorist bomb exploded on Pan Am 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 (By CRAIG R. WHITNEY, December 21, 1988)
Joseph Stalin, Soviet Dictator, Dead at 72 [12/20/1881-12/9/1965] (NY Times, March 6, 1953)

NATIONAL: Spying Program Snared U.S. Calls (By JAMES RISEN & ERIC LICHTBLAU, Dec. 21, 2005)
Lobbyist Is Said to Discuss Plea and Testimony [Jack Abramoff] (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Dec. 21, 2005)
* EDUCATION: Judge Rejects Teaching Intelligent Design (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 21, 2005)
EDUCATION: A Town in the Spotlight Wants Out of It [Dover, PA] (By GARY GATELY, Dec. 21, 2005)
* BASEBALL: Yanks Add Centerpiece in Damon (By TYLER KEPNER, Dec. 21, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The Poor Need Not Apply (NY TIMES, Dec. 21, 2005)
* OP-ED: Teach, Don't Preach, the Bible (By BRUCE FEILER, Dec. 21, 2005)
LETTERS: They Walked, We Walked: Tales From the Strike (10 Letters) (By Laura Colby, et. al., Dec. 21, 2005)
LETTERS: The Patriot Act and Our Civil Rights (4 Letters) (By Ronnie Bauch, et. al., Dec. 21, 2005)
* BUSINESS: That Blur? It's China, Moving Up in the Pack (By DAVID BARBOZA & DANIEL ALTMAN, Dec. 21, 2005)
* AOL and Google Formalize Partnership to Include Shared Selling of Ads
[Google beat out Microsoft, which had made an aggressive bid to win AOL.
Google buy 5% of AOL for $1 billion and to provide advertising credits
for AOL to promote its Web sites on Google's search service.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 21, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Take Your Cable Channels With You on the Road (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 21, 2005)
ARTS: A Modern Space in Mexico City's Historic Center (By ELISABETH MALKIN, Dec. 21, 2005)
DANCE | Making Artists: Practice, Practice, Practice. Go to College? Maybe.
(By ERIKA KINETZ, Dec. 21, 2005)
MUSIC Critic: Jazz Gem Made in '57 Is a Favorite of 2005 (By BEN RATLIFF, Dec. 21, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 21, 2005)
FOOD: A Sicilian Christmas With a Nod to the North (By MARIAN BURROS, Dec. 21, 2005)
A Brighter View Astern Than Over the Bow [Louisiana shrimping] (By KIM SEVERSON, Dec. 21, 2005)
Out of the Fryer, Into the Lights [Hanukkah food] (By JULIA MOSKIN, Dec. 21, 2005)
If It's Holiday Time, It Must Be Eel Season (By FRANK J. PRIAL, Dec. 21, 2005)
The Minimalist: Two Sweets in One Pot (By MARK BITTMAN, Dec. 21, 2005)
HEALTH: New Drug Points Up Problems in Developing Cancer Cures (By GARDINER HARRIS, Dec. 21, 2005)

Tuesday, December 20, 2005:
On This Day: December 20 (Harvey Firestone 12/20/1868-2/7/1938, Irene Dunne 12/20/1898-9/4/1990, Robert Van de Graaff 12/20/1901-1/16/1967, Max Lerner 12/20/1902-6/5/1992, Sidney Hook 12/20/1902-7/12/1989, George Roy Hill 1922, Peter Criss 1945)
United States sends troops to Panama to topple General Manuel Noriega (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, December 20, 1989)
Branch Rickey, 83, Dies in Missouri; Leading Figure in Baseball for 50 Years [12/20/1881-12/9/1965] (By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, December 10, 1965)

NATIONAL: F.B.I. Watched Activist Groups, New Files Show (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Dec. 20, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The Fog of False Choices (NY TIMES, Dec. 20, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Governments Tremble at Google's Bird's-Eye View
[Nations have expressed alarm over Google Earth's detailed display of government
buildings, military installations and other important sites within their borders.]
(By KATIE HAFNER & SARITHA RAI, Dec. 20, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads
[Google gives AOL $300 million in advertising on Google's Web sites,
and would begin to test various forms of graphical ads with logos.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 20, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 20, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Judge Bars 'Intelligent Design' From Pa. Classes (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 20, 2005)
* A Mystery, Locked in Timeless Embrace (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 20, 2005)
HEALTH: New Drugs Offer More Choices for Psoriasis (By RICHARD SALTUS, Dec. 20, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: A Year With My New Knees: Much Pain but Much Gain (By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 20, 2005)

Monday, December 19, 2005:
On This Day: December 19 (Edwin Stanton 12/19/1814-12/24/1869, A.A. Michelson 12/19/1852-5/9/1931, Fritz Reiner 12/19/1888-11/15/1963, Sir Ralph Richardson 12/19/1902-10/10/1983, George Davis Snell 12/19/1903-6/6/1996, Jean Genet 12/19/1910-4/15/1986, Edith Piaf 12/19/1915-10/11/1963, Cicely Tyson 1933, Richard E. Leakey 1944, Robert Urich 1946, Jennifer Beals 1963, Alyssa Milano 1972)
Britain and China Sign Agreement on Hong Kong (By JOHN F. BURNS, December 19, 1984)
Brezhnev Dead at 85; Attempted to Advance Soviet Goals Through Detente NATIONAL: Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World (By KURT EICHENWALD, Dec. 19, 2005)
ADVERTISING: AOL's Choice of Google Leaves Microsoft as the Outsider
[Google has supplanted Microsoft as the force to be reckoned with in technology.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 19, 2005)

Sunday, December 18, 2005:
On This Day: December 18 (Sir J.J. Thompson 12/18/1856-8/30/1940, Francis Ferdinand 12/18/1863-6/28/1914, Paul Klee 12/18/1879-6/29/1940, Ty Cobb 12/18/1886-7/17/1961, Dame Gladys Cooper 12/18/1888-11/17/1971, George Stevens 12/18/1904-3/8/1975, Willy Brandt 12/18/1913-10/8/1992, Betty Grable 12/18/1916-7/2/1973, Ramsey Clark 1927, Lonnie Brooks 1933, Keith Richards 1943, Leonard Maltin 1950, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 1971, Christina Aguilera 1980)
Big Atomic Plant near Pittsburgh Supplying Power (By JOHN W. FINNEY, December 18, 1957)
Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92 [12/18/1888-7/29/1981] (By PAUL GOLDBERGER, July 30, 1981)

Saturday, December 17, 2005:
On This Day: December 17 (Ludwig Beethoven 12/17/1770-3/26/1827, Joseph Henry 12/17/1797-5/13/1878, John Greenleaf Whittier 12/17/1807-9/7/1892, Ford Madox Ford 12/17/1873-6/26/1939, Mackenzie King 12/17/1874-7/22/1950, Edwin Cohn 12/17/1892-10/1/1953, Erskine Caldwell 12/17/1903-4/11/1987, William Safire 1929, Bob Guccione 1930, Tommy Steele 1936)
* Orville & Wilbur Wright had first successful man-powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, NC (NY Times, December 17, 1903)
* Arthur Fiedler, 84, Conductor Of Boston Pops 50 Years, Dies [12/17/1894-7/10/1979] (By ALLEN HUGHES, July 11, 1979)

NATIONAL: Senators Thwart Bush Bid to Renew Law on Terrorism (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG & ERIC LICHTBLAU, Dec. 17, 2005)
* OP-ED: Taking Liberties With the Nation's Security (By RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, Dec. 17, 2005)
Time Warner to Sell 5% AOL Stake to Google for $1 Billion
[The loss is a blow to Microsoft, which had sought AOL as a partner
in its advertising venture to undercut Google, its potent rival.]
(By SAUL HANSELL & RICHARD SIKLOS, Dec. 17, 2005)

Friday, December 16, 2005:
On This Day: December 16 (Catherine of Aragon 12/16/1485-1/7/1536, Jane Austen 12/16/1775-7/18/1817, Francois Boieldieu 12/16/1775-10/8/1834, George Santayana 12/16/1863-9/26/1952, Sir Noel Coward 12/16/1899-3/26/1973, V.S. Pritchett 12/16/1900-3/20/1997, Arthur C. Clarke 1917, Liv Ullmann 1939, Lesley Stahl 1941, Sam Robards 1961)
President Truman proclaimed a state of emergency to fight Communist imperialism (By ANTHONY LEVIERO, December 16, 1950)
* Margaret Mead Is Dead of Cancer at 76 [12/16/1901-11/15/1978] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, November 16, 1978)

NATIONAL: Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts (By JAMES RISEN & ERIC LICHTBLAU, Dec. 16, 2005)

Thursday, December 15, 2005:
On This Day: December 15 (Nero 12/15/37 AD-6/9/68 AD, George Romney 12/15/1734-11/15/1802, Joseph Moses Levy 12/15/1812-10/12/1888, Gustave Eiffel 12/15/1832-12/28/1923, Niels Ryberg Finsen 12/15/1860-9/24/1904, Maxwell Anderson 12/15/1888-2/28/1959, Tim Conway 1933, Cindy Birdsong 1939, Dave Clark 1942, Don Johnson 1949)
* French Capture 7,500 in Big Verdun Drive; Smash Six-Mile Front (NY Times, December 15, 1916)
* J. Paul Getty Dead at 83; Amassed Billions From Oil [12/15/1892-6/6/1976] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, June 6, 1976)

Wednesday, December 14, 2005:
On This Day: December 14 (Nostradamus 12/14/1503-7/2/1566, Tycho Brahe 12/14/1546-10/24/1601, Roger Fry 12/14/1866-9/9/1934, James Doolittle 12/14/1896-9/27/1993, Lee Remick 12/14/1935-7/2/1991, Clark Terry 1920, Don Hewiit 1922, Patty Duke 1946)
Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967 (By JOHN DARNTON, December 14, 1981)
* Shirley Jackson, Author of Horror Classic, Dies [12/14/1919-8/8/1965] (NY Times, August 10, 1965)

NATIONAL: British Concern and New Mexico Agree on Building a Spaceport (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 14, 2005)
* ARTS: Earliest Known Maya Painting Found [dating to 100 B.C.] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 14, 2005)
* SCIENCE: American Co-Author Wants His Name Off Stem Cell Paper (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 14, 2005)

Tuesday, December 13, 2005:
On This Day: December 13 (Carlos Gozzi 12/13/1720-4/4/1806, Sir William Hamilton 12/13/1730-4/6/1803, Lawrence Lowell 12/13/1856-1/6/1943, Emily Carr 12/13/1871-3/2/1945, Archie Moore 12/13/1913-12/9/1998, George P. Shultz 1920, Dick Van Dyke 1925, Christopher Plummer 1929, Richard Zanuck 1934, John Davidson 1941)
Poland Restricts Civil and Union Rights; Solidarity Activists Urge General Strike (By JOHN DARNTON, December 13, 1981)
* Carlos Montoya, 89, Flamenco Guitarist, Is Dead [12/13/1903-3/3/1993] (By ALLAN KOZINN, March 5, 1993)

NATIONAL: Governor Rejects Clemency for Inmate on Death Row (By SARAH KERSHAW, Dec. 13, 2005)
WORLD: Iraqi Election Will Not End Threats, Bush Says (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 13, 2005)
BUSINESS: Saudi Arabia Looks Past Oil (By JAD MOUAWAD, Dec. 13, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: The Baltic Life: Hot Technology for Chilly Streets (By MARK LANDLER, Dec. 13, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 13, 2005)
* SCIENCE: It's Sensitive. Really. [narwhal's tusk] (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Dec. 13, 2005)
New Genome Project to Focus on Genetic Links in Cancers (By ANDREW POLLACK, Dec. 13, 2005)
SCIENCE: Spacecraft Stares at the Sun to Stand Guard for the Earth (By WARREN E. LEARY, Dec. 13, 2005)
* FINDINGS: Old, for Sure, but Human? (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 13, 2005)
* ESSAY: Children Learn by Monkey See, Monkey Do. Chimps Don't. (By CARL ZIMMER, Dec. 13, 2005)
* Trace of Human Stem Cells Put in Unborn Mice Brains (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 13, 2005)
As a Face Transplant Heals, Flurries of Questions Arise (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 13, 2005)
When the Sea Destroys a Road, the Question Arises: Is It Worth Saving? (By CORNELIA DEAN, Dec. 13, 2005)
* With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands (By MICHAEL ERARD, Dec. 13, 2005)
OBSERVATORY: Helping Out, 794 Species at a Time (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Dec. 13, 2005)
Q & A: Bone Insurance (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Dec. 13, 2005)
HEALTH | Preventing Cancer: Environment and Cancer: The Links Are Elusive (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 13, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: A Graceful Entrance to the Passenger Seat, When the Road Becomes Too Rough
(By JANE E. BRODY, Dec. 13, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Too Much Noise Can Increase the Risk of a Heart Attack (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Dec. 13, 2005)
Beating Malaria Means Understanding Mosquitoes (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 13, 2005)
Getting a Grip on Being Cool on a Hot Day (By AIMEE BERG, Dec. 13, 2005)
* Risk Reduction: A Spot of Tea May Lower Ovarian Cancer Risk (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Dec. 13, 2005)
HEALTH: Meeting Needs of Aging Drivers (NY TIMES, Dec. 13, 2005)

Monday, December 12, 2005:
On This Day: December 12 (Alvaro de Bazan Santa Cruz 12/12/1526-2/9/1588, John Jay 12/12/1745-5/17/1829, William Lloyd Garrison 12/12/1805-5/24/1879, Gustave Flaubert 12/12/1821-5/8/1889, Edvard Munch 12/12/1863-1/23/1944, Alvin Kraenzlein 12/12/1876-1/6/1928, Edward G. Robinson 12/12/1893-1/26/1973, Bob Barke 1923, Ed Koch 1924, Connie Francis 1938, Dionne Warwick 1940, Cathy Rigby 1952)
Joyful Kenya Gets Independence From Britain (By Robert Conley, December 12, 1963)
* Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop [12/12/1915-5/14/1998] (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 16, 1998)

NATIONAL: Reporter Recounts Talk About C.I.A. Leak [Karl Rove] (By DAVID JOHNSTON, Dec. 12, 2005)
On Gulf Coast, a Conflict Over How to Rebuild (By ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 12, 2005)
WORLD: Boys of Baghdad College Vie for Prime Minister (By DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 12, 2005)
Iraq Prison Raid Finds a New Case of Mistreatment (By EDWARD WONG, Dec. 12, 2005)
* Immigrants' Dreams Mix With Fury Near Paris (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Dec. 12, 2005)
NY REGION: Restoration Project Reveals Map Room's Vivid Palette (By GLENN COLLINS, Dec. 12, 2005)
NY REGION: A New Ceiling for the Plaza, but It Has Plenty of History (By JAMES BARRON, Dec. 12, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Dec. 12, 2005)
SPORTS | FIGURE SKATING: Less Than Her Best, Kwan Is Still a Winner to Fans (By LYNN ZINSER, Dec. 12, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Epstein May Return to Red Sox (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 12, 2005)
FOOTBALL | Colts 26, Jaguars 18: Another Giant Step for Manning and Co. (By CLIFTON BROWN, Dec. 12, 2005)
* OP-ED: The Lion, the Witch and the Metaphor (By By JESSICA SEIGEL, Dec. 12, 2005)
BUSINESS: DreamWorks Deal Played Like a Drama (By SHARON WAXMAN, Dec. 12, 2005)
* Drilling Down: Marketers Search for the Right Keyword (By ALEX MINDLIN, Dec. 12, 2005)
Sesame Street Goes Global: Let's All Count the Revenue (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Dec. 12, 2005)
A New Port in Shanghai, 20 Miles Out to Sea (By DAVID BARBOZA, Dec. 12, 2005)
Advertising: Holiday Themes Sell Everyday Items (By JULIE BOSMAN, Dec. 12, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: AOL Co-Founder Calls for Split of Time Warner (By RICHARD SIKLOS & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 12, 2005)
* It's Time to Take It Apart: My Case for Dividing the Media Giant (By Steve Case, Washington Post, Dec. 11, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: AOL Choice Will Affect Ad Market on the Web (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 12, 2005)
* E-Commerce Report: Is That Item Sold Out? Know Before You Go (By BOB TEDESCHI, Dec. 12, 2005)
* Adobe's Deal for Macromedia May Help It Fend Off Microsoft (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Dec. 12, 2005)
Would You Like Some Fries With That Download? [McDonanld & Disney] (By JULIE BOSMAN, Dec. 12, 2005)
THEATER | 'CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE': You Just Can't Keep a Good Broadway Diva Down
(By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 12, 2005)

Sunday, December 11, 2005:
On This Day: December 11 (Leo X 12/11/1475-12/1/1521, Hector Berlioz 12/11/1803-3/8/1869, Alfred de Musset 12/11/1810-5/2/1857, Robert Koch 12/11/1843-5/27/1910, Max Born 12/11/1882-1/5/1970, Sir Kenneth MacMillan 12/11/1929-10/29/1992, Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918, Jean-Louis Trintignant 1930, Rita Moreno 1931, Donna Mills 1943, Brenda Lee 1944, Lynda Day George 1946, Teri Garr 1948, Jermaine Jackson 1954)
U.S. NOW AT WAR WITH GERMANY AND ITALY (By Frank L. Kluckhohn, December 11, 1941)
La Guardia Is Dead at 64; City Pays Homage To 3-Time Mayor [12/11/1882-9/20/1947] (NY Times, September 21, 1947)

* Richard Pryor, Iconoclastic Comedian, Dies at 65 (By MEL WATKINS, Dec. 11, 2005)
Artine Artinian, French Literature Scholar, 97, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Dec. 11, 2005)
NATIONAL: Newly Bankrupt Raking In Piles of Credit Offers (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Propaganda: Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive (By JEFF GERTH, Dec. 11, 2005)
In Study, a History Lesson on the Costs of Hurricanes (By KENNETH CHANG, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Where Sleigh Bells Gurgle, Santa Swims With Sharks (By CHRIS MAAG, Dec. 11, 2005)
EDUCATION: Home Schools Are Becoming More Popular Among Blacks (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 11, 2005)
WORLD: Record Drought Cripples Life Along the Amazon (By LARRY ROHTER, Dec. 11, 2005)
Politics, Iraqi Style: Slick TV Ads, Text Messaging and Gunfire (By ROBERT F. WORTH & EDWARD WONG, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Accepting Nobel, ElBaradei Urges a Rethinking of Nuclear Strategy (By WALTER GIBBS, Dec. 11, 2005)
News Analysis: Glacial Gains in Global Talks on Cleaner Air (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 11, 2005)
* NY REGION: The Pride of Columbus [Catherine Woods] (By JENNIFER BLEYER, Dec. 11, 2005)
New York Up Close: An Irish Paper Wants the Mother Country to Read All About It
(By JAKE MOONEY, Dec. 11, 2005)
* It Never Sleeps, but It's Learned to Douse the Lights (By ANTHONY DePALMA, Dec. 11, 2005)
SPORTS | ON BASEBALL: Yanks Miss Cutoff in Bypassing Pierre (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 11, 2005)
FOOTBALL: A Quarterback's Personal Rally [Jaguars quarterback David Garrard]
(By DAMON HACK, Dec. 11, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Death of an American City (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Manipulating a Journal Article (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Magical Thinking (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Dec. 11, 2005)
OP-ED: Present at the Disintegration (By KANAN MAKIYA, Dec. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: A Passage to India: Asphalt and Dust (7 Letters) (By Brij Mohan, et. al., Dec. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: Iraq, New Orleans and Bush's Promises (3 Letters) (By Ralph Averill, et. al., Dec. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: Ethics of the Face Transplant: Focus on the Positive (2 Letters) (By Shiri Akrish, et. al., Dec. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: J.F.K. and Vietnam (By Dial Parrott, Dec. 11, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* BUSINESS: The Next Retirement Time Bomb (By MILT FREUDENHEIM & MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Dec. 11, 2005)
Economic View: What's the Return on Education? (By ANNA BERNASEK, Dec. 11, 2005)
Media Frenzy: Satellite Radio: Out of the Car and Under Fire (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Dec. 11, 2005)
* A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 11, 2005)
* EDITORIAL/OPINION: A false Wikipedia 'biography' (By John Seigenthaler, USA Today, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft? [Ray Ozzie] (By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 11, 2005)
* On the Contrary: Unbundles of Joy [anti-convergence] (By DANIEL AKST, Dec. 11, 2005)
SPENDING: Finding Savings Around the Fire (By MICHAEL FITZGERALD, Dec. 11, 2005)
SPENDING: How to Make Your (Accounting) Relationship Work (By ERYN BROWN, Dec. 11, 2005)
DEALBOOK: They're All Paying Customers to Wall Street (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dec. 11, 2005)
FUNDAMENTALLY: Giving Yourself a Tax Cut on Investments (By PAUL J. LIM, Dec. 11, 2005)
THE BOSS: A Tale of Two Streets [Ameritrade CEO Joe Moglia] (As told to Eve Tahmincioglu, Dec. 11, 2005)
CEOs UNDER FIRE | Voices from the Front: My First Day on the Job (By Joe Moglia, Fortune Magazine, Nov. 18, 2002)
THE GOODS: Hawaii Calls, With Clarity (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Dec. 11, 2005)
CAREER COUCH: When a Friend Is Also Your Boss (By MATT VILLANO, Dec. 11, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* ART: Hi, Venice? It's Istanbul. Can You Send a Painter? [Gentile Bellini]
(By MILES UNGER, Dec. 11, 2005)
ART DIRECTIONS: Toy Story 3-D, Next Generation (By CHARLES SOLOMON, Dec. 12, 2005)
ARCHITECTURE: Bilbao? Please, That Was So Eight Years Ago (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Dec. 11, 2005)
DANCE: A New Body Language, for the Present and for the Ages (By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, Dec. 11, 2005)
FILM: Doing the Hollywood Math: What Slump? (By LORNE MANLY, Dec. 11, 2005)
MUSIC: The Broken Chord (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Dec. 11, 2005)
MUSIC: The World's Most Popular Gay Postmodern Harpsichord Nerd (By CARL WILSON, Dec. 11, 2005)
THEATER: Take Off Your Emotional Clothes and Sing (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Dec. 11, 2005)
* TV: TV Stardom on $20 a Day [Rocketboom's Amanda Congdon] (By ROBERT MACKEY, Dec. 11, 2005)
TV | DVD: The Bear Who Was There at the Start of It All (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Dec. 11, 2005)
TV | 'Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team'
There Are Goals and There Are Goooooooals (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Dec. 11, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
What Men Want: Neanderthal TV (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Dec. 11, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: A Surrogate Dries Her Tears (By LISA BAKER, Dec. 11, 2005)
POSSESSED: A Man With a Plan (and Boy, Is It a Plan) (By DAVID COLMAN, Dec. 11, 2005)
Books of Style: Love Advice, Color-Coded With Dollops of Sugar (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Dec. 11, 2005)
VOWS: Grazia Sorice and Gian-Carlo Ochoa (By MARSHA FOTTLER, Dec. 11, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
NEW YORK CITY: 10 Hotels for Under $250 a Night (By DENNY LEE, Dec. 11, 2005)
BUDAPEST | Choice Tables: Budapest's Pendulum Again Swings to the East (By EVAN RAIL, Dec. 11, 2005)
NORWAY | GOING TO: Oslo (By BRUCE BAWER, Dec. 11, 2005)
Weekend With the Kids: Santa Cruz: A Beach Town That Doesn't Shut Down (By TERRY TRUCCO, Dec. 11, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
Judgment Days: From Banality to Audacity (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 11, 2005)
Political Willfulness: New Orleans Is Not Ready to Think Small, or Even Medium
(By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Dec. 11, 2005)
THE NATION: He Says Yes to Legalized Torture (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Dec. 11, 2005)
Case Study: Terrorist Hides Bomb. Terrorist Is Captured, but Won't Speak. Is Torture O.K.?
(By Charles Krauthammer, Dec. 11, 2005)
IDEAS & TRENDS: The Siren Song of Sex With Boys (By KATE ZERNIKE, Dec. 11, 2005)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: The Rich, Sometimes, Are the Best Medicine (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 11, 2005)
* The French: Married to the Past, and Thinking of Divorce (By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Dec. 11, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: The Week: Primary Addresses (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* SLIDE SHOW: Kong Through the Ages [Films: 1933-2005] (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* The Basics: The Tallest, Darkest Handsome Man [King Kong] (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Dec. 11, 2005)
READING FILE: Russia Tries P.R. to Brighten Its Dismal Image (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
DOCUMENT FILE: Sick as a Parrot (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
LAUGH LINES: Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Nobody's Perfect (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 11, 2005)
* The Way We Live Now: Madness About a Method (By JIM HOLT, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Questions for Peter Watson: What's the Big Idea? (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Dec. 11, 2005)
ESSAY: War-Mood Metrics (By NOAH FELDMAN, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Freakonomics: The Economy of Desire (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER & STEVEN D. LEVITT, Dec. 11, 2005)
CONSUMED: Mass-Produced Individuality (By ROB WALKER, Dec. 11, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Politically Blind (By RANDY COHEN, Dec. 11, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: The 5th Annual Year in Ideas (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
Accredited Bliss (By CHARLES WILSON, Dec. 11, 2005)
Dolphin Culture (By AARON RETICA, Dec. 11, 2005)
* False-Memory Diet, The (By JOHN GLASSIE, Dec. 11, 2005)
Fleeting Relationship, The (By VANESSA GREGORY, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Genetic Theory of Harry Potter, The (By STEPHEN MIHM, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Laptop That Will Save the World, The (By MICHAEL CROWLEY, Dec. 11, 2005)
Open-Source Reporting (By ALEXANDRA STARR, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Robot Jockeys (By ROBERT MACKEY, Dec. 11, 2005)
Seeing With Your Ears (By ALISON MOTLUK, Dec. 11, 2005)
Stream-of-Consciousness Newspaper, The (By PAUL TOUGH, Dec. 11, 2005)
Touch Screens That Touch Back (By CATHERINE PRICE, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Why Popcorn Doesn't Pop (By REBECCA SKLOOT, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Yawn Contagion (By REBECCA SKLOOT, Dec. 11, 2005)
* Zombie Dogs (By STEPHEN MIHM, Dec. 11, 2005)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: Sauced in Translation (By AMANDA HESSER, Dec. 11, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)
* COVER ARTICLE: The Great War for Civilisation,' by Robert Fisk: One Man's Arabia
(Review by GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT, Dec. 11, 2005)
* 'The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch': Urban Appetites
[The most notable quality of Koch's lifetime of poetry is not jokiness but
lyricism— a Whitman-like enthusiasm for cataloging sensual experience.]
(Review by EMILY NUSSBAUM, Dec. 11, 2005)
ESSAY: State of the Art (By BARRY GEWEN, Dec. 11, 2005)
ESSAY: The Rise of Illiterate Democracy (By SEAN WILENTZ, Dec. 11, 2005)
HOLIDAY BOOKS: The 10 Best Books of 2005 (NY TIMES, Dec. 11, 2005)

Saturday, December 10, 2005:
On This Day: December 10 (Battista Guarini 12/10/1538-10/7/1612, Adriaen von Ostade 12/10/1610-?/2/1685, César Franck 12/10/1822-11/8/1890, George Macdnald 12/10/1824-9/18/1905, Emily Dickinson 12/10/1830-5/15/1886, Nelly Sachs 12/10/1891-5/12/1970, Mary Norton 12/10/1903-8/29/1992, Morton Gould 12/10/1913-2/21/1996, Mako 1933, Gloria Loring 1946, Susan Dey 1952, Kenneth Branagh 1960, Sarah Chang 1980)
U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights (By JOHN KENTON, December 10, 1948)
* Dr. Melvil Dewey, Library Expert and Educator, Dead at 80 In Florida [12/10/1851-12/26/1931] (NY Times, December 27, 1931)

* Eugene J. McCarthy, Senate Dove Who Jolted '68 Race, Dies at 89 (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Dec. 10, 2005)
NATIONAL: Lieberman's Iraq Stance Brings Widening Split With His Party (By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ & WILLIAM YARDLEY, Dec. 10, 2005)
Smokers Fret, Others Cheer, Over New Ban in Northwest (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Dec. 10, 2005)
WORLD: Protesters Say Police in China Killed Up to 20 (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Dec. 10, 2005)
BOLIVIA: Elections Could Tilt Latin America Further to the Left (By JUAN FORERO, Dec. 10, 2005)
U.S., Under Fire, Eases Its Stance in Climate Talks (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 10, 2005)
NY REGION: Hold the Limo: The Prom's Canceled as Decadent (By PAUL VITELLO, Dec. 10, 2005)
Tracing Shadows (By CONRAD MULCAHY, Dec. 10, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Illegal, Immoral and Pointless (NY TIMES, Dec. 10, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Hugo Chávez and His Helpers (NY TIMES, Dec. 10, 2005)
* OP-ED: The Terrorist in the Art Gallery (By MATTHEW BOGDANOS, Dec. 10, 2005)
LETTERS: Defining the Modern Conservative (6 Letters) (By Joel S. Peskoff, et. al., Dec. 10, 2005)
Why Are We Losing Our Foreign Students? (2 Letters) (By David Martyn, et. al., Dec. 10, 2005)
LETTERS: Torture Is No Path To National Security (By Lefteris Pavlides , Dec. 10, 2005)
* LETTERS: Questioning Evolution (By Bruce Chapman, Dec. 10, 2005)
BUSINESS: Viacom Seals Deal to Buy DreamWorks Movie Studio for $1.6 Billion
(By SHARON WAXMAN & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Dec. 10, 2005)
Off the Charts: The Jobs Recovery Looks Good, Until a Longer Look Is Taken (By FLOYD NORRIS, Dec. 10, 2005)
* GRAPHIC: Economy's Rise and Fall [1949-2003] (NY TIMES, Dec. 10, 2005)
* What's Online: Cuts, Cream, Claus and Coffee (By DAN MITCHELL, Dec. 10, 2005)
What's Offline: Root for $5-a-Gallon Gas (By PAUL B. BROWN, Dec. 10, 2005)
* YOUR MONEY: Matching the Wide Screen With Clear Thinking (By DAMON DARLIN, Dec. 10, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo Acquisition Expands Its Social Networking Services
[Del.icio.us] (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Dec. 10, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Prize in Indian Talent Search Is a Year on Bill Gates's Team (By SARITHA RAI, Dec. 10, 2005)
Saturday Interview | Ed Colligan: Hand-Helds and Palm: What's Next? (By LAURA RICH, Dec. 10, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Live Tracking of Mobile Phones Prompts Court Fights on Privacy
(By MATT RICHTEL, Dec. 10, 2005)
* ARTS: For Online Star Wars Game, It's Revenge of the Fans (By SETH SCHIESEL, Dec. 10, 2005)
ART | 'James Brooks': Abstract Expressionism, on a Modest Scale (By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 10, 2005)
* DANCE: New Fund Is Created for Ailing Tap Legend (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Dec. 10, 2005)
DANCE | 'LineAge': Crossing Lines of Time, Age and Evolution (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Dec. 10, 2005)
MUSIC | 'Miyako Itchu XII': Spirited Songs Inspired by Timeless Japanese Stories
(By JON PARELES, Dec. 10, 2005)

Friday, December 9, 2005:
On This Day: December 9 (John Milton 12/9/1608-1/5/1674, Carl Wilhelm Scheele 12/9/1742-5/21/1786, Comete Claude-Louis Berthollet 12/9/1748-11/6/1822, Clarence Birdseye 12/9/1886-10/7/1956, Emmett Kelly 12/9/1898-3/28/1979, Grace Murray Hopper 12/9/1906-1/1/1992, John Cassavetes 12/9/1929-2/3/1989, Kirk Douglas 1916, Dina Merrill 1925, Dick Van Patten 1928, Morton Downey Jr. 1933, Beau Bridges 1941, Dick Butkus 1942, John Malkovich 1953, Donny Osmond 1957)
Charles and Diana Are Separating 'Amicably' (By WILLIAM E. SCHMIDT, December 9, 1992)
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., a Democratic Power in the House for Decades, Dies at 81 [12/9/1912-1/5/1994] (By MARTIN TOLCHIN, January 7, 1994)

* NATIONAL: When Christmas Falls on Sunday, Megachurches Take the Day Off
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 9, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese (By DAVID BARBOZA, Dec. 9, 2005)
ART: Sartorial Brilliance Before All Was Black (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 9, 2005)
ART | David Milne: Delicate Yet Direct Watercolors of a New York Dazzling Itself
(By GRACE GLUECK, Dec. 9, 2005)
FILM | 'BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN': Riding the High Country, Finding and Losing Love
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Dec. 9, 2005)

Thursday, December 8, 2005:
On This Day: December 8 (Queen of Scots Mary 12/8/1542-2/8/1587, Queen Christina 12/8/1626-4/19/1689, Eli Whitney 12/8/1765-1/8/1825, Aristide Maillol 12/8/1861-9/27/1944, Camille Claudel 12/8/1864-10/19/1943, Jean Sibelius 12/8/1865-9/20/1957, Diego Rivera 12/8/1886-11/2/1961, James Thurber 12/8/1894-11/2/1961, Elzie Segar 12/8/1894-10/13/1938, Josephine Bell 12/8/1897-4/24/1987, Maximilian Schell 1930, David Carradine 1936, James MacArthur 1937, James Galway 1939, Gregg Allman 1947, Kim Basinger 1953, Teri Hatcher 1964)
U.S. DECLARES WAR, PACIFIC BATTLE WIDENS (By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, December 8, 1941)
* Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at 64; Top Showman Broke Barriers [12/8/1925-5/16/1990] (By PETER B. FLINT, May 17, 1990)

* Playwright Takes a Prize and a Jab at U.S. [Nobel laureate Harold Pinter]
(By SARAH LYALL, Dec. 8, 2005)
* Harold Pinter— Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics (By Harold Pinter, NobelPrize.org, Dec. 8, 2005)

Wednesday, December 7, 2005:
On This Day: December 7 (Gian Lorenzo Bernini 12/7/1598-11/28/1680, Allan Cunningham 12/7/1784-10/30/1842, Pietro Mascagni 12/7/1863-8/2/1945, R.W. Sears 12/7/1863-9/28/1914, Joyce Cary 12/7/1888-12/18/1939, Eli Walach 1915, Ellen Burstyn 1932, Carole Simpson 1940, Johnny Bench 1947, Larry Bird 1956)
* Japan Wars on U.S. and Britain; Makes Sudden Attack On Hawaii (By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, December 7, 1941)
* Willa Cather Dies at 73; Author of 'Lost Lady' Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 [12/7/1873-4/24/1947] (NY Times, April 25, 1947)

Tuesday, December 6, 2005:
On This Day: December 6 (Baldassare Castiglione 12/6/1478-2/2/1529, Niccolo Zucchi 12/6/1586-5/21/1670, Sophie von LaRoche 12/6/1731-2/18/1807, Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin 12/6/1805-6/13/1861, Max Müller 12/6/1823-10/28/1900, Evelyn Underhill 12/6/1875-6/15/1941, Joyce Kilmer 12/6/7/30/1918, Sir Osbert Sitwell 12/6/1892-5/4/1969, Ira Gershwin 12/6/1896-8/17/1983, Dave Brubeck 1920, Wil Shriner 1953, JoBeth Williams 1953, Steven Wright 1955)
A Million Persons Will Hear Coolidge's Voice When He Addresses Congress [more than any man in history] (NY Times, December 6, 1923)
* Alfred Eisenstaedt, Photographer of the Defining Moment, Is Dead at 96 [12/6/1898-8/23/1995] (By CHARLES HAGEN, August 25, 1995)

* Liu Binyan, a Fierce Insider Critic of China, Dies at 80 (By DAVID BARBOZA, Dec. 6, 2005)
NATIONAL: For Economy Talk, Bush Visits Bright Spot (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 6, 2005)
Mortgage Aid Set for 20,000 Storm-Hit Homes (By LESLIE EATON, Dec. 6, 2005)
Ads Portray Nominee as Protector of Christmas [Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.]
(By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Dec. 6, 2005)
9/11 Panel Issues Poor Grades for Handling of Terror (By PHILIP SHENON, Dec. 6, 2005)
* WORLD: Raised as Catholic in Belgium, She Died as a Muslim Bomber (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 6, 2005)
India Accelerating: On India's Roads, Cargo and a Deadly Passenger (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 6, 2005)
The Struggle for Iraq: Defending Hussein, Clark Seeks to Set Historical Record Straight (By JOHN F. BURNS, Dec. 6, 2005)
U.S. Interrogations Are Saving European Lives, Rice Says (By JOEL BRINKLEY, Dec. 6, 2005)
Palestinian Bomber Kills Himself and 5 Others Near Israel Mall (By GREG MYRE, Dec. 6, 2005)
Berlin Journal: Germans Told to Cheer Up. 'Why Should We?' Some Say. (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Dec. 6, 2005)
* New Questions on a Breakthrough in Human Stem Cell Research (By NICHOLAS WADE, Dec. 6, 2005)
Ethical Concerns on Face Transplant Grow (By MICHAEL MASON and LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 6, 2005)
NY REGION: No Respect (and Soon, a Crew of One) (By SEWELL CHAN, Dec. 6, 2005)
Using Guns and Honey, Hunters Take Aim at New Jersey's Bear Population (By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI & JOHN HOLL, Dec. 6, 2005)
INK: In the Bronx, This One's for the Children (By MANNY FERNANDEZ, Dec. 6, 2005)
* Science Projects in Genetic Data and Physics Win Scholarships (By SUSAN SAULNY, Dec. 6, 2005)
BASEBALL: Garciaparra in Pinstripes? It's Not That Far-Fetched (By TYLER KEPNER, Dec. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: The Next Iraq Offensive (By WESLEY K. CLARK, Dec. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat (By DAMIAN KULASH Jr., Dec. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: Looking at Polls for 'Victory' in Iraq (5 Letters) (By David Jacobson, et. al., Dec. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: Shoot the Deer? Find Another Way (5 Letters) (By Howard Pospesel, et. al., Dec. 6, 2005)
* LETTERS: When the Computer Takes Over Your Life (By Jerald J. Block, M.D., Dec. 6, 2005)
BUSINESS: A Rallying Market Sputters as Oil Moves Above $60
[Dow -42.50, Nasdaq -15.73] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Dec. 6, 2005)
MARKET PLACE: A Guidant Bid That Wins Even if It Appears to Lose (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Dec. 6, 2005)
* At Impasse With Network Star, ABC Picks 2 Youthful Anchors

[Elizabeth Vargas & Bob Woodruff] (By JACQUES STEINBERG & BILL CARTER, Dec. 6, 2005)
Yen at 32-Month Low as Japan's Small Investors Look Abroad (By MARTIN FACKLER, Dec. 6, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: AOL Deal May Omit Stake Sale (By SAUL HANSELL, Dec. 6, 2005)
ADVERTISING: New Caution on Spending This Year; Web Spared (By STUART ELLIOTT, Dec. 6, 2005)
ITINERIES: Constant Travelers Wear Their All-Nighters as a Badge of Pride (By FRANCINE PARNES, Dec. 6, 2005)
SAUDI ARABIA: The Hand Turning the Spigot (By JAD MOUAWAD, Dec. 6, 2005)
ARTS: Exhibited in Antiquities Case: The Cracks of a Broken Cup (By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Dec. 6, 2005)
* BOOKS: 'Year of Magical Thinking' Headed for Broadway
[Joan Didion] (By JESSE McKINLEY, Dec. 6, 2005)
BOOKS | 'Still Looking': Loves Art, but Also Has a Way With Words
[John Updike] (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Dec. 6, 2005)
DANCE | 'The Nutcracker': A Sugarplum Fairy Vision (By GIA KOURLAS, Dec. 6, 2005)
MUSIC | Emanuel Ax: In the Ballade, Emanuel Ax Finds a Prism of Possibilities
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Dec. 6, 2005)
MUSIC Critic's Notebook: Set to Put New Orleans Rap Back on Top (By KELEFA SANNEH, Dec. 6, 2005)
THEATER | 'CELEBRATION' AND 'THE ROOM':
Lifting the Art of Name-Dropping to a Cosmic Level (By BEN BRANTLEY, Dec. 6, 2005)
TV: Another Catwalk for Fashion Series (By KATE AURTHUR, Dec. 6, 2005)
TV: No Chappelle, but New Show Is Set to Run (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Dec. 6, 2005)
TV | 'Middle Sexes': Accentuate the In Between, Don't Mess With Mister (and Miss) Binary
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Dec. 6, 2005)
* TV | 'Knights of the South Bronx': Chess Game as a Symbol of Power Amid Despair
[Ted Danson] (By ANITA GATES, Dec. 6, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 6, 2005)
Scientist at Work: Jean-Michel Dubernard:
A Pioneering Transplant, and Now an Ethical Storm
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 6, 2005)
In Mongolia, an 'Extinction Crisis' Looms [fox & wolf] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Dec. 6, 2005)
* Warping Light From Distant Galaxies Is More Than a Pretty Halo (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Dec. 6, 2005)
OBSERVATORY: When a Giant Walked the Earth (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Dec. 6, 2005)
A Conversation With Michael R. Rose:
Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Dec. 6, 2005)
* Q & A: Milk That Lasts (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Dec. 6, 2005)
* HEALTH: Better Bananas, Nicer Mosquitoes (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Dec. 6, 2005)
* Doctor's World: A Scientist, Gazing Toward Stockholm, Ponders 'What If?'
[Dr. A. Stone Freedberg, 97-year old] (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Dec. 6, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: For Aging Drivers, the Signs Sometimes Say 'Stop' (By JANE E. BRODY , Dec. 6, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Never Drink on an Empty Stomach (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Dec. 6, 2005)
Fat Hormone May Trick the Body to Help It Keep Extra Pounds Off (By GINA KOLATA, Dec. 6, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Therapies: A Dose of Dolphins for Moderate Depression (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 6, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Vision: Not a Dry Eye in Your Office? Better Check Again (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Dec. 6, 2005)
SCIENCE LETTERS [IQ, Stress & Cancer, LAM, hitting baseballs] (NY TIMES, Dec. 6, 2005)

Monday, December 5, 2005:
On This Day: December 5 (Pope Julius II 12/5/1443-2/21/1513, Martin Van Buren 12/5/1782-7/24/1862, Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz 12/5/1822-6/27/1907, Christina Rossetti 12/5/1830-12/29/1894, George Armstrong Custer 12/5/1839-6/25/1876, Marcus Daly 12/5/1841-11/12/1900, Clyde V. Cessna 12/5/1879-11/20/1954, Fritz Lang 12/5/1890-8/2/1976, Werner Heisenberg 12/5/1901-2/1/1976, Kate Simon 12/5/1912-2/4/1990, Strom Thurmond 1902, Little Richard 1932, Joan Didion 1934, Calvin Trillin 1935, Morgan Brittany 1951)
Prohibition Repeal Is Ratified at 5:32 PM; Roosevelt Asks Nation to Bar the Saloon (NY Times, December 5, 1933)
* Walt Disney, 65, Dies on Coast; Founded an Empire on a Mouse [12/5/1901-12/15/1966] (NY Times, December 16, 1966)

NATIONAL: At Kennedy Center Honors, 5 More Join an Elite Circle (By JOHN FILES, Dec. 5, 2005)
Navy to Expand Fleet With New Enemies in Mind (By DAVID S. CLOUD, Dec. 5, 2005)
* Instant Millions Can't Halt Winners' Grim Slide (By JAMES DAO, Dec. 5, 2005)
WORLD: Sunni Candidates in Iraq Find Enemies on All Sides (By EDWARD WONG, Dec. 5, 2005)
* India Accelerating: In Today's India, Status Comes With Four Wheels
(By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 5, 2005)
Fagoo Journal: Leading Player in Darfur's Drama: The Hapless Camel (By MARC LACEY, Dec. 5, 2005)
* NY REGION: Back in the Great Ape's Embrace (By GLENN COLLINS, Dec. 5, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Dec. 5, 2005)
Requiem for a (Still-Living) Heavyweight [Hugh L. Carey, 88] (By SAM ROBERTS, Dec. 5, 2005)
SPORTS: Lo Duca Follows Piazza's Well-Traveled Path to the Mets (By BEN SHPIGEL, Dec. 5, 2005)
For $39 Million, Furcal Takes Skills to Dodgers (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 5, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Fixing the Game [Bush's team] (NY TIMES, Dec. 5, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Looking for the Proceeds in TV-on-Demand (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Dec. 5, 2005)
* At Google, Cube Culture Has New Rules
[Google portrays itself as a special place, starting with its
company motto, "Don't Be Evil." Bonuses range up to 25-30%.
And the big perk: Google engineers are given 20% of their time
to pursue their own ideas instead of company assignments.]
(By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 5, 2005)
Rewriting the Social Contract: A New Game at the Office:
Many Young Workers Accept Fewer Guarantees
(By STEVE LOHR, Dec. 5, 2005)
At Traditional Phone Companies, Jobs May Not Last a Lifetime (By KEN BELSON, Dec. 5, 2005)
ART | 'Style and Status: Imperial Costumes From Ottoman Turkey':
Dressing for Ottoman Success in a Blaze of Silk and Gold (By HOLLAND COTTER, Dec. 5, 2005)
ARTS: Art Captures a City's Tumult and Renewal [New Orleans] (By JERE LONGMAN, Dec. 5, 2005)
* BOOKS: 350 Years of What the Kids Heard (By DINITIA SMITH, Dec. 5, 2005)
OPERA | 'An American Tragedy': Dreiser's Chilling Tale of Ambition and Its Price
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 5, 2005)

Sunday, December 4, 2005:
On This Day: December 4 (Thomas Carlyle 12/4/1795-2/5/1881, Crazy Horse 12/4/1849-9/5/1877, Lillian Russell 12/4/1861-6/6/1922, Wassily Kandinsky 12/4/1866-12/13/1944, Rainer Maria Rilke 12/4/1875-12/29/1926, Fung Yu-lan 12/4/1875-11/26/1990, Alfred Hershey 12/4/1908-5/22/1997, Jeff Bridges 1949, Tyra Banks 1973)
UNO Bill Approved By Senate, 65 to 7, With One Change (By C. P. TRUSSELL, December 4, 1945)
Out of the Crucible of Civil War, Franco's Iron Hand Forged a Modern Spain [12/4/1892-11/20/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, November 20, 1975)

NATIONAL: Bush's Speech on Iraq War Echoes Voice of an Analyst (By SCOTT SHANE, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Palo Alto Journal: Shrine to Hours of Tinkering in a Garage on the Ground Floor of Silicon Valley
[David Packard & William R. Hewlett at 367 Addison Avenue]
(By DAMON DARLIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
Out of the Muddy Rubble, a Vision for Gulf Coast Towns (By BRADFORD McKEE, Dec. 4, 2005)
WORLD: Mob Assails Former Prime Minister in Iraq (By KIRK SEMPLE, Dec. 4, 2005)
Al Qaeda Commander Is Killed in Pakistan (By MOHAMMED KHAN & DOUGLAS JEHL, Dec. 4, 2005)
India Accelerating: Mile by Mile, India Paves a Smoother Road to Its Future (By AMY WALDMAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
Pro-Democracy Protesters March in Hong Kong (By KEITH BRADSHER, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Young Iranians Follow Dreams to Dubai (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Dec. 4, 2005)
Details Emerge on a Brazen Escape in Afghanistan (By ERIC SCHMITT & TIM GOLDEN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* NY REGION: Last Living Ziegfeld Girl Recalls Her Youth in Follies
[Doris Eaton Travis, 101, will dance] (By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI, Dec. 4, 2005)
SPORTS: Like the Red Sox, the Patriots May Also Become a Memory (By CLIFTON BROWN, Dec. 4, 2005)
ON BASBALL: General Management by Committee in Boston (By MURRAY CHASS, Dec. 4, 2005)
U.S.C. 66, U.C.L.A. 19: The Final Step to the Rose Bowl Is a Cake Walk (By PETE THAMEL, Dec. 4, 2005)
Texas 70, Colorado 3: Longhorns Drive Point Home (By THAYER EVANS, Dec. 4, 2005)
EDITORIAL: South Korea's Cloning Crisis (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
* EDITORIAL Observer: This Season's War Cry: Commercialize Christmas, or Else
(By ADAM COHEN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* OP-ED: Goodbye, Moon (By KAREN KARBO, Dec. 4, 2005)
* OP-ED: What Would J.F.K. Have Done? (By THEODORE C. SORENSEN and ARTHUR SCHLESINGER Jr., Dec. 4, 2005)
LETTERS: The War in Iraq and Our Self-Esteem (5 Letters) (By Gary Hart, et. al., Dec. 4, 2005)
LETTERS: What's Become of Bedside Manner? (9 Letters) (By Sharon Lewin, M.D., et. al., Dec. 4, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
Are Lawyers Being Overbilled for Their Test Preparation? (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, Dec. 4, 2005)
Sales of Impotence Drugs Fall, Defying Expectations (By ALEX BERENSON, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Gone Spear-Phishin' (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Techno Files: Mac Programs That Come With Thinking Caps On (By JAMES FALLOWS, Dec. 4, 2005)
* INVESTING: Big Doesn't Always Mean Bad for Some Mutual Funds (By NORM ALSTER, Dec. 4, 2005)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Hmmm. What's This Alternative Tax? Hey, Wait! Ouch! (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Everybody's Business: On Milton Friedman's Birthday, We Get the Present: Him (By BEN STEIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
Armchair M.B.A.: An American in Europe Bridges a Cultural Divide (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE GOODS: A Tattoo Tool Made in the U.S.A. (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Where, Exactly, to Get a Glimpse of Global Trade (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Dec. 4, 2005)
SPENDING: Looking Out for No. 1 Before and After the Fire (By DALE BUSS, Dec. 4, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: Which Chart Isn't Telling the Truth? (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE BOSS: From Pants to Paper [Peter Correll, CEO Georgia Pacific] (As told to Patricia R. Olsen, Dec. 4, 2005)
OFF THE SHELF: They Should Have Been Best Sellers (By PAUL B. BROWN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* STRATEGIES: Aging Brings Wisdom, but Not on Investing (By MARK HULBERT, Dec. 4, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | Square Feet: A Headline Deal Maker Stays Off the Beaten Path (By TERI KARUSH ROGERS, Dec. 4, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
ART Directions: What Artists Do When Not Suffering (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Dec. 4, 2005)
ARCHITECTURE: In Search of the Venus of 37th and Madison (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
DANCE: The Master of Reinvention Finds a New Role: Patron
[Mikhail Baryshnikov] (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Dec. 4, 2005)
FILM: The Soul of Sundance's Machine (By JOHN CLARK, Dec. 4, 2005)
MUSIC | Classical Recordings: A Radiant New 'Messiah' and Other Musical Gifts
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Dec. 4, 2005)
MUSIC Directions: Robot Rock (By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Dec. 4, 2005)
MUSIC: The Conquest of America (North and South) (By JON CARAMANICA, Dec. 4, 2005)
TV: When Larry David Calls, You Answer (By MARGY ROCHLIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
TV: The Queen of Sci Fi Gets Ready to Rumble (By KATE AURTHUR, Dec. 4, 2005)
TV Directions: The Adventures of TV Writer Guy [Damon Lindelof & Marvel Comics]
(By HUGH HART, Dec. 4, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
STYLE: Wheels and Deals in Silicon Valley (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Dec. 4, 2005)
Socialites in Borrowed Clothing? Quick, Take a Photograph (By TATIANA BONCOMPAGNI, Dec. 4, 2005)
No 'Red' or 'Blue' in the Green Room (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Dec. 4, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Mother Must Muzzle the Nuzzle (By LINDA BAKER, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Yoga Assumes a Social Position (By LAUREN MECHLING, Dec. 4, 2005)
The Age of Dissonance: Reservations for a Guilt Trip (By BOB MORRIS, Dec. 4, 2005)
Books of Style: Sad Clown and Mocking Onion (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Dec. 4, 2005)
BOÎTE: Model Behavior (By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Dec. 4, 2005)
POSSESSED: Strings and Sincerity (By DAVID COLMAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
VOWS: Heather Hawkins and Roy Miller (By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
For Spa-Goers, Wine by the Glass, or by the Bath (By SUSAN LEHMAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
SPAS: Healing Waters in the Shadow of the Alps (By ANNE GLUSKER, Dec. 4, 2005)
Other Spa Towns in France and Switzerland (By ANNE GLUSKER, Dec. 4, 2005)
GOING TO: Hong Kong (By KEITH BRADSHER, Dec. 4, 2005)
HAWAII | DAY OUT: Surf, Shave Ice and Sunsets on Kauai (By MOLLY WATSON, Dec. 4, 2005)
NEXT STOP: Dorsoduro, Venice: On the Grand Canal but Out of the Mainstream (By SUSAN MORGAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
EXPLORER: In Morocco, One Man's Oasis Is Another's Watering Hole (By PAUL von ZIELBAUER, Dec. 4, 2005)
PRACTICAL TRAVELER: After Attack, Cruise Ships Rethink Security (By DEBRA A. KLEIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
* PIXEL CANVAS: The Gamer as Artiste (By JOHN LELAND, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Ideas & Trends: Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Rewriting History: Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE WORLD: On Climate Change, a Change of Thinking (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* THE WORLD: Courting Europe, Turkey Tries Some Soul-Cleansing (By STEPHEN KINZER, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE WORLD: Pave My Road and You'll Get Your School (By CARLOTTA GALL, Dec. 4, 2005)
Word for Word | The Stiff-Upper-Lip Guide: For Those Left Behind, a Guide to Combat Readiness
(By THOM SHANKER, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE BASICS: Get File in Cake. Escape. Leave Crumbs. [Prison escapes] (By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE BASICS: Don't Fly Over Cheney, Weekend Pilots (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Dec. 4, 2005)
READING FILE: Sept. 11, as Seen and Felt at 30,000 Feet (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
DOCUMENT FILE: Faithless Fathers (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
LAUGHING LINES: Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
ON LANGUAGE: Whitelist (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Dec. 4, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The End of Shopping (By WALTER KIRN, Dec. 4, 2005)
Questions for Ron Silver: In On the Political Act (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Dec. 4, 2005)
* IDEA LAB: Danger Signs [teenage suicides] (By PAUL RAEBURN, Dec. 4, 2005)
CONSUMED: Entertainment Poverty (By ROB WALKER, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Park and Ride and Provoke (By RANDY COHEN, Dec. 4, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: Coach Leach Goes Deep, Very Deep (By MICHAEL LEWIS, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Illness as More Than Metaphor [Susan Sontag] (By DAVID RIEFF, Dec. 4, 2005)
The New Berlin Wall (By PETER SCHNEIDER, Dec. 4, 2005)
STYLE | SLIDE SHOW: Murmurings of a Geisha (Photographs by DEBORAH TURBEVILLE, Dec. 4, 2005)
FOOD | MATTER: The Sugar Land Express (By MAURA EGAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* LIVES: Geese Flying [Agnes Martin on painting] (By SUSAN YORK, Dec. 4, 2005)
STYLE MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
Scarlett [Scarlett Johansson is holiday-ready] (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Dec. 4, 2005)
Let Nothing You Dismay (By MARTHA McPHEE, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE TALK: The Essence of Buzz (By CHANDLER BURR, Dec. 4, 2005)
THE TALK: Going Undercover [Elle Macpherson] (By JAMES GORMAN, Dec. 4, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
HOLIDAY BOOKS: The 10 Best Books of 2005 (NY TIMES, Dec. 4, 2005)
* Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary,'
by Henry Hitchings: A Man of Many Words
(Review by CHARLES McGRATH, Dec. 4, 2005)
* 'Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre,' Hazel Rowley: No Exit
(Review by CRISTINA NEHRING, Dec. 4, 2005)
'The Letters of Lytton Strachey,' edited by Paul Levy: Eminent Post-Victorians (Review By LUCY ELLMANN, Dec. 4, 2005)
'Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition,' by Walter Gratzer: Something We Ate?
(Review by JANE & MICHAEL STERN, Dec. 4, 2005)
* 'The Diamond,' by Julie Baumgold: Romancing the Stone (Review by ADA CALHOUN, Dec. 4, 2005)
'Helen of Troy,' by Bettany Hughes: All Things Helen (Review by CAROLINE ALEXANDER, Dec. 4, 2005)
* SLIDE SHOW: A Gallery of Diet Gurus (By Walter Gratzer , Dec. 4, 2005)
* 'Teacher Man: A Memoir,' by Frank McCourt (Review by BEN YAGODA, Dec. 4, 2005)
'A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow & Her Life in Fashion, Art, & Letters,' by Penelope Rowlands:
Before There Was Vreeland (Review by CATHY HORYN, Dec. 4, 2005)

Saturday, December 3, 2005:
On This Day: December 3 (Gilbert Stuart 12/3/1755-7/9/1828, George B. McClellan 12/3/1826-10/29/1885, Cleveland Abbe 12/3/1838-10/28/1916, Charles A. Pillsbury 12/3/1842-9/17/1899, Ellen Swallow Richards 12/3/1842-3/30/1911, Joseph Conrad 12/3/1857-8/1924, Anton von Werbern 12/3/1883-9/15/1945, Richard Kuhn 12/3/1900-8/1/1967, John von Neumann 12/3/1903-2/8/1957, Andy Williams 1927, Jean-Luc Godard 1930)
Gas Leak in Bhopal India Kills More Than 4000 (By ANJOY HAZARIKA, December 3, 1984)
* Anna Freud, Psychoanalyst, Dies in London at 86 [12/3/1895-10/9/1982] (By REUTERS, October 10, 1982)

* NATIONAL: Military Admits Planting News in Iraq (By ERIC SCHMITT, Dec. 3, 2005)
WORLD: Torture Is 'Widespread' in China, U.N. Investigator Says (By JOSEPH KAHN, Dec. 3, 2005)
* The Saturday Profile: A Violin Doctor in Sync With the Strings [Étienne Vatelot]
(By JOHN TAGLIABUE, Dec. 3, 2005)
* Dire Wounds, a New Face, a Glimpse in a Mirror (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Dec. 3, 2005)
SPORTS: After Gordon Departs, Yanks Land Farnsworth (By TYLER KEPNER, Dec. 3, 2005)
* BUSINESS | Your Money: Buying Used Just Could Turn Out to Be the Next New Thing
(By DAMON DARLIN, Dec. 3, 2005)
ART Critic's Notebook: A Carnival of Art, Money, Surf and Sand (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 3, 2005)
DANCE | Miguel Gutierrrez: Learning Not to Believe What You're Seeing (By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, Dec. 3, 2005)
DANCE | 'Norway in New York': At Norway Festival, a Duet Inspired by a Mythic Gaze
(By GIA KOURLAS, Dec. 3, 2005)
FILM | 'AEON FLUX': In 2415, There are Still Bad Hair Days (By A. O. SCOTT, Dec. 3, 2005)
MUSIC Critic's Notebook: The Dead's Gamble: Free Music for Sale (By JON PARELES, Dec. 3, 2005)
* TV | 'Da Vinci & the Code He Lived By': Sure, He Was Smart, but Was He Happy?
(By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Dec. 3, 2005)

Friday, December 2, 2005:
On This Day: December 2 (Georges Seurat 12/2/1859-3/29/1891, Charles Ringling 12/2/1863-12/3/1926, George Richards Minot 12/2/1885-2/25/1950, Sir John Barbirolli 12/2/1899-7/29/1970, Gianni Versace 12/2/1946-7/15/1997, Adolp Green 1915, Alexander Haig 1924, Julie Harris 1925, Stone Phillips 1954, Tracy Austin 1962, Britney Spears 1981)
Final Vote Condemns M'Carthy, 67-22, For Abusing Senate and Committee (By ANTHONY LEVIERO, December 2, 1954)
Maria Callas, 53, Is Dead of Heart Attack in Paris [12/2/1923-9/16/1977] (By RAYMOND ERICSON, September 17, 1977)

OP-ED: Go Your Own Way [Israel & Palestine] (By MARTIN INDYK, Dec. 2, 2005)
OP-ED: Clemency for a Crip? (By MARK ESSIG, Dec. 2, 2005)
OP-ED: Field of Hallucinations (By TOM RUPRECHT, Dec. 2, 2005)
LETTERS: Was Bush Persuasive About Iraq? (7 Letters) (By George F. Nelson, et. al., Dec. 2, 2005)
LETTERS: Women's Bodies, Men's Rights (6 Letters) (By Lisa Halttunen, et. al., Dec. 2, 2005)
ADVERTISING: 'The Apprentice' to Try Out Palm Trees (By JULIE BOSMAN, Dec. 2, 2005)
* ART Exhibition | 'Sarah Bernhardt': Celebrity So Extraordinaire She Rivaled the Eiffel Tower
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Dec. 2, 2005)
ART | 'John Graham': A Charismatic Artist Who Was Known for Talk (By ROBERTA SMITH, Dec. 2, 2005)
ART: Great Meaning in Asian Small Works (By HOLLAND COTTER, Dec. 2, 2005)
* TV: 2 Talk Show Titans Are Speaking Again [Oprah & Letterman] (By JACQUES STEINBERG & LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Dec. 2, 2005)
TV | 'Sleeper Cell': Among Terrorists, a Hero Is Lurking (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Dec. 2, 2005)

Thursday, December 1, 2005:
On This Day: December 1 (Étienne-Maurice Falconet 12/1/1716-1/24/1791, Martin Klaproth 12/1/1743-1/1/1817, Marie Tussaud 12/1/1761-4/16/1850, Red Stout 12/1/1886-10/27/1975, Walter Alston 12/1/1911-10/1/1984, Minoru Yamasaki 12/1/1912-2/6/1986, Mary Martin 12/1/1913-11/3/1990, Stansfield Turner 1923, Lou Rawls 1935, Lee Trevino 1939, Dianne Lennon 1939, Richard Pryor 1940, Bette Midler 1945, Charlene Tilton 1958, Carol Alt 1960)
12-Nation Pact Makes Antarctic Science Reserve (By WALTER SULLIVAN, December 1, 1959)
Gerard Swope, 84, Ex-General Electric Head, Dies [12/1/1872-11/20/1957] (NY Times, November 21, 1957)

NATIONAL: Holiday Décor at the White House Takes a Subtler Turn (By MARIAN BURROS, Dec. 1, 2005)
Irking Conservatives, Schwarzenegger Replaces Top Aide With a Democrat (By JOHN M. BRODER, Dec. 1, 2005)
Small Scissors in Your Carry-On? Welcome Aboard (By ERIC LIPTON, Dec. 1, 2005)
A 9/11 Tribute Loses Its Crescent Shape (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Dec. 1, 2005)
U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers (By JEFF GERTH & SCOTT SHANE, Dec. 1, 2005)
News Analysis: Gaining Control in Iraq, and Regaining Support at Home (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Dec. 1, 2005)
WORLD: Merkel Vows Not to Submit to Iraq Kidnappers (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Dec. 1, 2005)
Reports of Secret U.S. Prisons in Europe Draw Ire and Otherwise Red Faces
(By IAN FISHER, Dec. 1, 2005)
Baghdad Memo: For Once, President and His Generals See the Same War (By JOHN F. BURNS and DEXTER FILKINS, Dec. 1, 2005)
* São Paulo Journal: Felons All, but Free to Try Being Beauty Queen for a Day
(By PAULO PRADA, Dec. 1, 2005)
* NY REGION: After Storm, Riding His Heart Out [Lee Quiñones] (By SHADI RAHIMI, Dec. 1, 2005)
Jaguars and Impalas, Idling Among Pandas (By LILY KOPPEL, Dec. 1, 2005)
Manhattan's Little Ones Come in Bigger Numbers [under 5-year-olds +26%] (By EDUARDO PORTER, Dec. 1, 2005)
More Long Islanders Want to Go, Poll Finds (By BRUCE LAMBERT, Dec. 1, 2005)
SPORTS: Paul Konerko Rejoins White Sox for 5 Years (By JACK CURRY, Dec. 1, 2005)
BASEBALL: Yankees Keep Crosby in Center of Their Plans (By TYLER KEPNER, Dec. 1, 2005)
BASEBALL: Garciaparra Is Willing to Switch (By JOE BRESCIA, Dec. 1, 2005)
HOCKEY: Bruins Deal Thornton to Sharks for 3 Players (By JASON DIAMOS, Dec. 1, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Plan: We Win [George W. Bush] (NY TIMES, Dec. 1, 2005)
OP-ED: A Man's Right to Choose (By DALTON CONLEY, Dec. 1, 2005)
LETTERS: A Grotesque Weapon Used in This War (3 Letters) (By Carol Delaney, Dec. 1, 2005)
LETTERS: When I'm 92 (2 Letters) (By Mary Ramniceanu, et. al., Dec. 1, 2005)
LETTERS: Heroes and Iraq (By Bob Weiner, Dec. 1, 2005)
LETTERS: Hold That Stereotype! [cheerleaders selling drugs] (By Ken Johnson, Dec. 1, 2005)
THURSDAY STYLES: Contents (NY TIMES, Dec. 1, 2005)
STYLE: Dress Like Your Dad? He Rocks (By RUTH LA FERLA, Dec. 1, 2005)
* STYLE: Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way (By SARAH KERSHAW, Dec. 1, 2005)
* Danger Signs for Too Much of a Good Thing [computer usage] (NY Times, Dec. 1, 2005)
Moody? Cranky? Tired? Feed Me! (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, Dec. 1, 2005)
SKIN DEEP: Mixed Results on a New Beauty Fix (By NATASHA SINGER, Dec. 1, 2005)
Online Shopper: No Mere Babe in Toyland (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Dec. 1, 2005)
Critical Shopper: Holiday Shopping in a Sea of Tranquillity (By ALEX KUCZYNSKI, Dec. 1, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Probes Reveal Methane Haze on a Dynamic Saturn Moon (By WARREN E. LEARY, Dec. 1, 2005)
Scientists Say Slower Atlantic Currents Could Mean a Colder Europe (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Dec. 1, 2005)
HEALTH: Bats May Serve as a 'Reservoir' for Ebola Virus, Scientists Report
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 1, 2005)
* HEALTH: French, in First, Use a Transplant to Repair a Face (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Dec. 1, 2005)