Selected Articles from The New York Times
January 2006 (* denotes news of special interest)

Tuesday, January 31, 2006:
On This Day: January 31 (Robert Morris 1/31/1734-5/8/1806, Sam Loyd 1/31/1841-4/10/1911, Zane Grey 1/31/1872-10/23/1939, Anna Pavlova 1/31/1881-1/23/1931, Eddie Cantor 1/31/1892-10/10/1964, John O'Hara 1/31/1905-4/11/1970, Thomas Merton 1/31/1915-12/10/1968, Norman Mailer 1923, Jean Simmons 1929, Ernie Banks 1931, Philip Glass 1937, Suzanne Pleshette 1937, Jessica Walter 1944, Nolan Ryan 1947, Phil Collins 1951, Minnie Driver 1971)
From Washington Abolition Of Slavery (NY TIMES, February 1, 1865)
* Jackie Robinson, First Black in Major Leagues, Dies at 53 [1/31/1919-10/24/1972] (By DAVE ANDERSON, October 25, 1972)

* Coretta Scott King, 78, Widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dies (By PETER APPLEBOME, Jan. 31, 2006)
* Wendy Wasserstein Dies at 55; Her Plays Spoke to a Generation (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Jan. 31, 2006)
Christopher Lloyd, 84, a Gardener of Wit, Unafraid to Break the Rules, Dies (By KEN DRUSE, Jan. 31, 2006)
Nam June Paik, 73, Dies; Pioneer of Video Art Whose Work Broke Cultural Barriers
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Jan. 31, 2006)
NATIONAL | The Wounded: A New Kind of Care in a New Era of Casualties (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Jan. 31, 2006)
WORLD: Putin Sees Sensible Role for Russia in G-8 (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Jan. 31, 2006)
Caricature of Muhammad Leads to Boycott of Danish Goods (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Jan. 31, 2006)
Danish Leader Seeks to Quell Muslim Anger at Drawing (By ALAN COWELL, Jan. 31, 2006)
ABC Newsmen, Much Improved, Are Transferred Back to U.S. [Bob Woodruff] (By MARK LANDLER, Jan. 31, 2006)
Iran Hands Over Guide to Making Nuclear Bomb Parts (By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, Jan. 31, 2006)
Nepal, in a Climate of Contradictions, Prepares to Vote (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Jan. 31, 2006)
Khartoum Journal: Sudan Leader Waits, and Waits, for His Ship to Come In (By MARC LACEY, Jan. 31, 2006)
Taiwan Leader Calls for End of Unification Council (By KEITH BRADSHER, Jan. 31, 2006)
NY REGION: French Plays Catch-Up, Stylishly and Grumbling (By GLENN COLLINS, Jan. 31, 2006)
SPORTS | FOOTBALL: Super Bowl's Precursors Have Lively History (By JOE LAPOINTE, Jan. 31, 2006)
BASEBALL ROUNDUP: World Classic Finds Home on ESPN Networks (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Jan. 31, 2006)
ON BASEBALL: What's in a Name? Lots. Ask Tampa or Anaheim (By MURRAY CHASS, Jan. 31, 2006)
BASKETBALL: Bryant's Success Has Made Lakers a Study in Contradiction (By LIZ ROBBINS, Jan. 31, 2006)
EDITORIALS | Wanted: A Wary Audience (NY TIMES, Jan. 31, 2006)
* EDITORIALS | Appreciation: An American Woman [Wendy Wasserstein] (By GAIL COLLINS, Jan. 31, 2006)
OP-ED: The State of the Union Is Unreal (By TED WIDMER, Jan. 31, 2006)
OP-ED: Song of Myself [State of the Union] (By FRANCIS WILKINSON, Jan. 31, 2006)
OP-ED: 28 Days to Save Darfur (By KENNETH H. BACON, Jan. 31, 2006)
LETTERS: Surveillance in a 'Different World' (5 Letters) (By Kathy Rappaport, et. al., Jan. 31, 2006)
LETTERS: Finding It on EBay: Diamonds and Rust (2 Letters) (By Mimi Mott-Smith, et. al., Jan. 31, 2006)
BUSINESS: Investors Lie Low Awaiting Next Move From the Fed
[Dow -7.29, Nasdaq +2.55] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 31, 2006)
BUSINESS: On Greenspan's Last Day, Fed Raises Rates Again (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Jan. 31, 2006)
* Google Misses Profit Forecast and Stock Dives
[After falling by almost 20% in after-hours trading immediately after
the announcement, Google's stock was down more than 12% this evening,
trading around $378. The stock had closed regular Nasdaq trading at
$432.66 before the earnings were released]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Jan. 31, 2006)
* Google Reports Profit Below Expectations; Shares Fall Sharply
[Google earned $372.2 million, or $1.22 per share for 4th-quarter 2005,
an 82% increase from $204.1 million, in the previous year. Its shares
plunged $59.16 or 13.7% in after-hours trading after gaining $5.84
to close at $432.66 Tuesday. At one point, it was down more than 19%.]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 31, 2006)
Time Inc. to Cut 100 More Jobs as It Focuses on Web Business (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Jan. 31, 2006)
ARTS: Smithsonian Picks Notable Spot for Its Museum of Black History (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Jan. 31, 2006)
ARTS | An Appraisal: In Javits Expansion, Old Dreams Revisited (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Jan. 31, 2006)
ART CRITIC: : A Street Seer's Vision, or Photocopies of It at Least (By HOLLAND COTTER, Jan. 31, 2006)
BALLET | 'Mother Goose and Firebird': The Princess Has Dozed Off; Break Out the Book of Fairy Tales
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 31, 2006)
BOOKS | 'The Good Life': When 9/11 Shakes Privileged Mind-Sets (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Jan. 31, 2006)
DANCE | Guillermina Quiroga: Tangos With Stories to Tell (By ROSLYN SULCAS, Jan. 31, 2006)
FILM | Making Artists: At U.S.C., a Practical Emphasis in Film (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 31, 2006)
* FILM: Small Films With Potent Themes Lead Oscar Nominations (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 31, 2006)
* FILM: Complete List of 78th Annual Academy Award Nominations 2006 (NY TIMES, Jan. 31, 2006)
MUSIC | Das Paradies and die Peri: A Sprite Far From Heaven in a Quest for Redemption (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Jan. 31, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 31, 2006)
How to Listen for the Sound of Plutonium (By DAVID E. SANGER & WILLIAM J. BROAD, Jan. 31, 2006)
* ESSAY: A Genius Finds Inspiration in the Music of Another
{Eintein & Mozart] (By ARTHUR I. MILLER, Jan. 31, 2006)
Sleepless Nights Pay Off in Giddy Joy at Stardust's Success (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 31, 2006)
Where Science and Public Policy Intersect, Researchers Offer a Short Lesson on Basics
(By CORNELIA DEAN, Jan. 31, 2006)
At Burial Site, Teeth Tell Tale of Slavery (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Jan. 31, 2006)
* OBSERVATORY: Block That Chirp: Volume Control in Crickets (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Jan. 31, 2006)
Lawmaker Condemns NASA Over Scientist's Accusations of Censorship (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Jan. 31, 2006)
* Q & A: Water, Water Everywhere (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Jan. 31, 2006)
* HEALTH: Rethinking Hormones, Again (By RONI RABIN, Jan. 31, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Children, Media and Sex: A Big Book of Blank Pages (By JANE E. BRODY, Jan. 31, 2006)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: Test Expands Donor Pool for Kidneys (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Jan. 31, 2006)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Baby Deliveries Are in Sync With the Moon (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Jan. 31, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Nutrition: Diet May Drive Data on Beer, Wine and Health (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 31, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Sports Medicine: For Ice Skaters, a Higher Chance of Head Injury
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 31, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Patterns: Do Slower Reactions Mean an Earlier Death? (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 31, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Effects: After Crisis, Carbon Monoxide Still Takes a Toll (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 31, 2006)

Monday, January 30, 2006:
On This Day: January 30 (George Villiers Buckingham 1/30/1628-4/16/1687, Bernardo Bellotto 1/30/1720-10/17/1780, Philip Henry Stanhope 1/30/1805-12/24/1875, Samuel Armstrong 1/30/1839-5/11/1893, Roy Eldridge 1/30/1911-2/26/1989, Barbara Tuchman 1/30/1912-2/6/1989, Dorothy Malone 1925, Harold Prince 1928, Gene Hackman 1930, Tammy Grimes 1934, Jeanne Pruett 1937, Vanessa Redgrave 1937, Dick Cheney 1941)
* Gandhi Is Killed By A Hindu; India Shaken, World Mourns (By Robert Trumbull, January 30, 1948)
Obituary: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Part I of VIII [1/30/1882-4/12/1945] (NY TIMES, April 13, 1945)

Arthur Bloom, First Director of '60 Minutes,' Dies at 63 (By STUART LAVIETES, Jan. 30, 2006)
Beth Fallon, 64, Columnist Who Needled the Powerful, Dies (By THOMAS J. LUECK, Jan. 30, 2006)
* NATIONAL: ABC News Anchor Is Badly Injured by Bomb in Iraq (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & JACQUES STEINBERG, Jan. 30, 2006)
WORLD: Portrayal of the Prophet Prompts a Boycott of Danish Goods (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Jan. 30, 2006)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Jan. 30, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: With Hope of Catching, Piazza to Join the Padres (By TYLER KEPNER, Jan. 30, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: A First Blog of the First Draft of History
[Swiss blog of French riots] (By BRUNO GIUSSANI, Jan. 30, 2006)
* BOOKS: Harper Lee, Gregarious for a Day [To Kill a Mockingbird author]
(By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Jan. 30, 2006)
DANCE | New York City Ballet: An Elegant Homage to Mozart (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Jan. 30, 2006)
* DANCE | An Appreciation: Farewell to a 'Genie' and a Style That Dazzled
[Fayard Nicholas] (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Jan. 30, 2006)
TV WATCH: A Bomb Detonates, and an Anchorman Tells a Story of the War by Becoming the Story
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Jan. 30, 2006)
TV | 'Flight 93': On a Doomed 9/11 Flight, Heroes Are Humans, Too (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Jan. 30, 2006)
SCIENCE: Scientists Find Gene That Controls Type of Earwax in People (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 30, 2006)

Sunday, January 29, 2006:
On This Day: January 29 (Emanuel Swedenborg 1/29/1843-9/14/1901, Thomas Paine 1/29/1737-6/8/1809, Henry Lee 1/29/1756-3/25/1818, Anton Chekhov 1/29/1860-7/15/1904, Frederick Delius 1/29/1862-6/10/1934, Romain Rolland 1/29/1866-12/30/1944, John D. Rockefeller Jr. 1/29/1874-5/11/1960, W. C. Fields 1/29/1889-12/25/1946, John Forsythe 1918, Germaine Greer 1939, Tom Selleck 1945, Ann Jillian 1951, Oprah Winfrey 1954, Greg Louganis 1960)
* Robert Frost Dies At 88; Poet Won Four Pulitzer Prizes (Associated Press, January 29, 1963)
President McKinley Dies at 58 [1/29/1843-9/14/1901] (NY TIMES, September 7, 1901)

Maclovia Ruiz, 95, Ballet Star of the 30's, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 29, 2006)
NATIONAL: 20 Years Later, a Tribute to the Fallen Challenger Astronauts (By STEFANO S. COLEDAN, Jan. 29, 2006)
* WORLD: ABC Anchor and Cameraman Seriously Wounded in Iraq [Bob Woodruff] (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. & JACQUES STEINBERG, Jan. 29, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Spies, Lies and Wiretaps (NY TIMES, Jan. 29, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Seeing Fakes, Angry Traders Confront EBay (By KATIE HAFNER, Jan. 29, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Let the Buyer Be Wary: Tips to Spot Knockoffs (By KATIE HAFNER, Jan. 29, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 29, 2006)
* ART: Recipe for Revolution: Take 11,000 Photos (By JORI FINKEL, Jan. 29, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 29, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: Talk to the Rock, and Other Spy Tricks (By SCOTT SHANE, Jan. 29, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 29, 2006)
ON LANGUAGE: Snoopspeak (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 29, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 29, 2006)
BOOKS: 'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville,'
by Bernard-Henri Lévy: On the Road Avec M. Lévy
(Review by GARRISON KEILLOR, Jan. 29, 2006)
'Christopher Marlowe: Poet and Spy,' by Park Honan: Street-Fighting Man (Review by MICHAEL FEINGOLD, Jan. 29, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Jan. 29, 2006)

Saturday, January 28, 2006:
On This Day: January 28 (Henry VII 1/28/1457-4/21/1509, Sir Henry Morton Stanley 1/28/1841-5/10/1904, Wm. Seward Burroughs 1/28/1855-9/15/1898, Franklin Hooper 1/28/1862-8/14/1940, Colette 1/28/1873-8/3/1954, Auguste Piccard 1/28/1884-3/24/1962, Arnst Lubitsch 1/28/1892-11/30/1947, Jackson Pollack 1/28/1912-8/11/1956, Virgílio Ferreira 1/28/1916-3/1/1996, Susan Sontag 1933, Alan Alda 1936, Marthe Keller 1945, Barbi Benton 1950)
The Challenger Shuttle Explodes: 7 Killed 74 Seconds After Liftoff (By William J. Broad, January 28, 1986)
* Arthur Rubinstein Dies in Geneva at 95; Virtuoso Pianist [1/28/1887-12/20/1982] (NY TIMES, December 21, 1982)

Nellie Y. McKay, Who Championed Black Writers, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Jan. 28, 2006)
* OP-ED: Finding a Place for 9/11 in American History (By JOSEPH J. ELLIS, Jan. 28, 2006)
* BOOKS: Questions for Others in Frey Scandal (By EDWARD WYATT, Jan. 28, 2006)

Friday, January 27, 2006:
On This Day: January 27 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1/27/1756-12/5/1791, Édouard Lalo 1/27/1823-4/22/1982, Lewis Carroll 1/27/1832-1/14/1898, Learned Hand 1/27/1872-8/18/1961, Ch'ing-ling Soong 1/27/1892-5/29/1981, Hyman G. Rickover 1/27/1900-7/8/1986, Troy Donahue 1936, Mikhail Baryshnikov 1948, Mimi Rogers 1956, Bridget Fonda 1964)
3 Apollo Astronauts Die in Fire; Grissom, White, Chaffee Caught in Capsule During Test (Associated Press, January 27, 1967)
* Jerome Kern Dies at 60; Composer of Music for Theatre and Screen [1/27/1885-11/11/1945] (NY TIMES, April 6, 1964)

Allan Temko, 81 Architecture Critic, Dies (NY TIMES, Jan. 27, 2006)
NATIONAL: New Poll Finds Mixed Support for Wiretaps (By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JANET ELDER, Jan. 27, 2006)
WORLD: Hamas Routs Ruling Faction, Casting Pall on Peace Process (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Jan. 27, 2006)
WORLD | News Analysis: After Hamas Victory, Israel's Likely Course (By GREG MYRE, Jan. 27, 2006)
After Crushing Defeat by Hamas, Fatah Militants Protest in Gaza (By STEVEN ERLANGER & GREG MYRE, Jan. 27, 2006)
* Beijing Journal: For the Year of the Dog, Beijing's Big Bang Will Be Perfectly Legal
(By JIM YARDLEY, Jan. 27, 2006)
* NY REGION | My City: In Chinatowns, All Sojourners Can Feel Hua (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Jan. 27, 2006)
NY REGION: Lawyer Says He Won't Run for Clinton's Seat [Nixon's son-in-law Edward Cox]
(By JENNIFER MEDINA, Jan. 27, 2006)
* SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: Like Him or Not, Bryant the Brand Is Scoring (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Jan. 27, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: On Oprah's Couch (NY TIMES, Jan. 27, 2006)
OP-ED: E-Waste@Large (By ELIZABETH ROYTE, Jan. 27, 2006)
OP-ED: Hamas at the Helm (By FOTINI CHRISTIA & SREEMATI MITTER, Jan. 27, 2006)
LETTERS: Judge Alito: The Final Showdown (7 Letters) (By Elizabeth Krajeck, et. al., Jan. 27, 2006)
LETTERS: Evangelicals in the March to War (4 Letters) (By T. S. Carpenter, et. al., Jan. 27, 2006)
BUSINESS: Rising Profit Forecasts Send Shares Sharply Higher
[Dow +99.73, Nasdaq +22.35] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Jan. 27, 2006)
BUSINESS: Venture Capital Blogs? They're About Anything But (By MATT RICHTEL, Jan. 27, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Profit Rises 5%, Meeting Analysts' Forecasts (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Jan. 27, 2006)
ART | 'Cezanne in Provence': Finding a Muse in Mountains and Chestnut Trees (By ROBERTA SMITH, Jan. 27, 2006)
* BOOKS: Live on 'Oprah,' a Memoirist Is Kicked Out of the Book Club (By EDWARD WYATT, Jan. 27, 2006)
* FILM | 'ROVING MARS': From Earth to Mars, and All Points in Between (By NATHAN LEE, Jan. 27, 2006)

Thursday, January 26, 2006:
On This Day: January 26 (Jean-Baptiste Pigalle 1/26/1714-8/21/1785, Claude-Adrien Helvétius 1/26/1715-12/26/1771, Samuel Hopkins Adams 1/26/1871-11/15/1958, Julia Morgan 1/26/1872-2/2/1957, Seán MacBride 1/26/1904-1/15/1988, Paul Newman 1925, Jules Feiffer 1929, Bob Uecker 1935, Angela Davis 1944, Eddie Van Halen 1957, Ellen DeGeneres 1958)
India a Republic, Rajendra Prasad President (By Robert Trumbull, January 26, 1950)
* MacArthur Dies at 84; Commander of Armies That Turned Back Japan [1/26/1880-4/5/1964] (NY TIMES, April 6, 1964)

* Fayard Nicholas, Groundbreaking Hoofer, Dies at 91 [Nicholas Brothers] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 26, 2006)
WORLD: Victory Ends 40 Years of Political Domination by Arafat's Party (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Jan. 26, 2006)
WORLD: Benedict's First Encyclical Shuns Strictures of Orthodoxy (By IAN FISHER, Jan. 26, 2006)
SPORTS | On Baseball: Memo to Red Sox' Front Office: Hire an Editor (By MURRAY CHASS, Jan. 26, 2006)
OP-ED: The Innocent and the Shammed (By JOSHUA MARQUIS, Jan. 26, 2006)
BOOKS: Belatedly, a Bad Dog Finds His Forte: Selling Books
[Marley & Me] (By DINITIA SMITH, Jan. 26, 2006)
* BUSINESS: China Reports Another Year of Strong (or Even Better) Growth (By KEITH BRADSHER, Jan. 26, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | News Analysis: In Case About Google's Secrets, Yours Are Safe
[The lawyer Ashok Ramani wrote, "Google objects because to comply
with the request could endanger its crown-jewel trade secrets."]
(By ADAM LIPTAK, Jan. 26, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 26, 2006)
* DAVID POGUE: Razr vs. Blade: Cloning Is Only Skin Deep (By DAVID POGUE, Jan. 26, 2006)
BASICS: Technology to Steady a Shaky Hand (By IAN AUSTEN, Jan. 26, 2006)
* Q & A: Status Check on a Firewall (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Jan. 26, 2006)
* ART: For Stolen Saltcellar, a Cellphone Is Golden
[Cellini's golden "Saliera" stolen in 2003, has been recovered.]
(By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Jan. 26, 2006)
FILM | THE TEASE: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again (By CARYN JAMES, Jan. 26, 2006)
SKIN DEEP: Injecting Silicone, and Risk (By NATASHA SINGER, Jan. 26, 2006)
HOME & GARDEN:Our Equity, Ourselves (By PENELOPE GREEN, Jan. 26, 2006)
HEALTH: Doctors Urge Ending Use of Heart Surgery Drug [aprotinin / Trasylol]
(By DENISE GRADY, Jan. 26, 2006)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006:
On This Day: January 25 (Robert Boyle 1/25/1627-12/30/1691, Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1/25/1736-4/10/1813, Robert Burns 1/25/1759-7/21/1796, Benjamin Haydon 1/25/1786-6/22/1846, Kokichi Mikimoto 1/25/1858-9/21/1954, Rufus Matthew Jones 1/25/1863-6/16/1948, W. Somerset Maugham 1/25/1874-12/16/1965, Edwin Newman 1919, Corazon Aquino 1933)
* Phone to Pacific From the Atlantic [Bell talks to Watson over a 3,400-mile wire] (NY TIMES, January 25, 1915)
* Virginia Woolf Believed Dead at 59 [1/25/1882-3/28/1941] (NY TIMES, April 3, 1941)

WORLD | Roubaix Journal: France Battles a Problem That Grows and Grows: Fat (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Jan. 25, 2006)
FILM: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Mars, in Glorious 3-D (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Jan. 25, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 25, 2006)
FOOD CRITIC's NOTEBOOK: My Week as a Waiter (By FRANK BRUNI, Jan. 25, 2006)
FOOD: Traditional Flavors of the Lunar New Year (By DANA BOWEN, Jan. 25, 2006)
THE MINIMALIST: Making Ravioli, With the Inside Out (By MARK BITTMAN, Jan. 25, 2006)
PAIRING: A Thick Lentil Soup Is a Snug Fit for a Strong Winter Brew (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Jan. 25, 2006)
FOOD: Peanut Butter and Lasers and Other All-American Treats (By SOFIA PEREZ, Jan. 25, 2006)
FOOD STUFF: Please a Kangaroo: Drink Green Tea (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Jan. 25, 2006)

Tuesday, January 24, 2006:
On This Day: January 24 (William Congreve 1/24/1670-1/19/1729, Christian Wolff 1/24/1679-4/9/1754, Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais 1/24/1732-5/18/1799, Henry Barnard 1/24/1811-7/5/1900, Cassandre 1/24/1901-6/19/1968, Mark Goodson 1/24/1915-12/18/1992, Robert Motherwell 1/24/1915-7/16/1991, Ernest Borgnine 1917, Oral Roberts 1918, Neil Diamond 1941, Yakov Smirnoff 1951, Nastassja Kinski 1961, Mary Lou Retton 1968)
* Churchill is Dead at 90; The World Mourns Him; State Funeral Saturday (By Anthony Lewis, January 24, 1965)
* Edith Wharton, 75, Is Dead in France [1/24/1862-8/11/1937] (NY TIMES, August 13, 1937)

NATIONAL: Conservative Alumnus Pulls Offer to Buy Lecture Tapes (By CINDY CHANG, Jan. 24, 2006)
WORLD: Israel's Acting Leader Backs Creation of Palestinian State (By GREG MYRE, Jan. 24, 2006)
* Shanghai Journal: In a Richer China, Billionaires Put Money on Marriage (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Jan. 24, 2006)
NY REGION | One Lesson of a Strike: Those Riders Will Walk (By SEWELL CHAN, Jan. 24, 2006)
SPORTS | Marathon: World's Elite Marathons Form Series of Majors (By FRANK LITSKY, Jan. 24, 2006)
ON BASEBALL: A Wife Trade by Any Other Name (By MURRAY CHASS, Jan. 24, 2006)
* BASEBALL ROUNDUP: DiMaggio Memorabilia Is Headed to Auction (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Jan. 24, 2006)
* PRO BASKETBALL: An 81-Point Argument for Bryant Being the Best (By JOHN ELIGON, Jan. 24, 2006)
FOOTBALL: A New Breed of Pocket Protector (By LEE JENKINS, Jan. 24, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: 'Rising Above the Gathering Storm' [American science education] (NY TIMES, Jan. 24, 2006)
OP-ED: The Gulf Between Us [Bush & Iran] (By FLYNT LEVERETT, Jan. 24, 2006)
BUSINESS: Ad Revenue Jumps, but Profits Drop at Times Company (NY TIMES, Jan. 24, 2006)
Disney Reaches Deal to Buy Pixar for $7.4 Billion in Stock (By LAURA M. HOLSON and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Jan. 24, 2006)
Whistle-Blower Suit Says Device Maker Generously Rewards Doctors (By REED ABELSON, Jan. 24, 2006)
* ART: Indian Artist Enjoys His World Audience
[Tyeb Mehta's "Mahisasura" brought $1.58 million at Christie's] (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Jan. 24, 2006)
* BOOKS: Treatment Description in Memoir Is Disputed [James Frey] (By EDWARD WYATT, Jan. 24, 2006)
FILM: Rock Fans, Sit Back, Relax, Enjoy the Show (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Jan. 24, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 24, 2006)
* SCIENCE: It May Look Authentic; Here's How to Tell It Isn't (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 24, 2006)
A Wide-Eyed Astronaut Becomes a NASA Critic (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Jan. 24, 2006)
A Conversation With Douglas Melton: At Harvard's Stem Cell Center,
the Barriers Run Deep and Wide (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Jan. 24, 2006)
* SIDE EFFECTS: This Is Your Brain on Schadenfreude (By JAMES GORMAN, Jan. 24, 2006)
FINDINGS: A Shocker: Partisan Thought Is Unconscious (By BENEDICT CAREY, Jan. 24, 2006)
* Observatory: Evolution Update: Heavy Breathing in an Early Ear (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Jan. 24, 2006)
* Mastering the Geometry of the Jungle [Plato's slave boy in Meno]
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 24, 2006)
Ivory Bill Report Is Called 'Faith-Based Ornithology' (By JAMES GORMAN, Jan. 24, 2006)
Last Year Was Warmest in a Century (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Jan. 24, 2006)
Q & A: Crying Over Spilled Water (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Jan. 24, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Trouble in the Gut, When Antibiotics Work Too Well (By JANE E. BRODY, Jan. 24, 2006)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Exercising at Night Can Disrupt Your Sleep (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Jan. 24, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Outcomes: For Heart Treatment, Nod Goes to Angioplasty (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 24, 2006)
* VITAL SIGNS: Senses: Bad News for Nerves of Aging Fans of Heavy Metal (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 24, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Effects: Advice on Racing to a Starbucks in Denver (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Jan. 24, 2006)

Monday, January 23, 2006:
On This Day: January 23 (John Hancock 1/23/1737-10/8/1793, Stendhal 1/23/1783-3/23/1842, Edouard Manet 1/23/1832-4/30/1883, David Hilbert 1/23/1862-2/14/1943, Herbert D. Croly 1/23/1869-5/17/1930, Potter Stewart 1/23/1915-12/7/1985, Joseph Nathan Kane 1899, Jeanne Moreau 1928, Princess Caroline 1957, Anita Pointer 1948)
Vietnam Accord is Reached; Cease-Fire Begins Saturday (By Bernard Gwertzman, January 23, 1973)
* Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow at 50 [1/23/1898-2/11/1948] (By REUTERS, February 12, 1948)

NATIONAL: Abortion Opponents Rally, Saying the End of Roe Is Near (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Jan. 23, 2006)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Democracy in America, Then and Now, a Struggle Against Majority Tyranny
(By ADAM COHEN, Jan. 23, 2006)
NY REGION: Roof Collapses at Historic Lower Manhattan Synagogue (By THOMAS J. LUECK & COLIN MOYNIHAN, Jan. 23, 2006)
Held in 9/11 Net, Muslims Return to Accuse U.S. (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Jan. 23, 2006)
* METROPOLITAN DIARY: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Jan. 23, 2006)
* BUSINEESS MEDIA: Missed It in the Theater Today? See It on DVD Tonight (By SHARON WAXMAN, Jan. 23, 2006)
ADVERTISING: Advertising Is Obsolete. Everyone Says So. (By JULIE BOSMAN, Jan. 23, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | Link by Link: Before the Fame, a Million Little Skeptics
[James Frey's memoir] (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Jan. 23, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Like This? You'll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.) (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Jan. 23, 2006)

Sunday, January 22, 2006:
On This Day: January 22 (Lord Byron 1/22/1788-4/19/1824, August Strindberg 1/22/1849-5/14/1912, David Griffith 1/22/1875-7/23/1948, Rosa Ponselle 1/22/1897-5/25/1981, George Balanchine 1/22/1904-4/20/1983, U Thant 1/22/1909-11/25/1974, Howard Moss 1/22/1922-9/16/1987, Ann Sothern 1909, Piper Laurie 1932, Joseph Wambaugh 1937, John Hurt 1940, Mike Bossy 1957, Linda Blair 1959, Diane Lane 1965)
Roe vs. Wade: High Court Rules Abortions Legal the First 3 Months [also LBJ Dead at 64]
(By Warren Weaver, Jr., January 22, 1973)
Vinson Excelled In Federal Posts, Dies at 63 [1/22/1890-9/8/1953] (NY TIMES, September 9, 1953)

* NEW YORK CITY: Jitterbug Days [125th Street Harlem] (By KEVIN BAKER, Jan. 22, 2006)
* NEW YORK CITY | Street Level | Chinatown: Mott Street Blues (By RICHARD MORGAN, Jan. 22, 2006)
* NEW YORK CITY | City Lore: The Romance of the Wrecking Ball (By JEFF BYLESI, Jan. 22, 2006)
BUSINESS: Fundamentally: Is the Fourth Year a Charm for the Bull Market? (By PAUL J. LIM, Jan. 22, 2006)
MEDIA FRENZY: This Time, the Revolution Will Be Televised
[Google acquired dMarc Broadcasting for $1.24 billion.
DMarc uses software to help place ads on radio, and it
could conceivably do the same for Google's armada of Web ads.]
(By RICHARD SIKLOS, Jan. 22, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 22, 2006)
* BOOKS | 'Between You and Me: A Memoir,' by Mike Wallace with Gary Paul Gates: Close Encounters
(Review by TARA McKELVEY, Jan. 22, 2006)
* DANCE: Baby, We Were Born to Dance: The Boss Goes to the Ballet (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 22, 2006)
* FILM | Meta, Circa 1760: A Movie of a Movie of a Book About a Book
["Tristram Shandy"] (By CHARLES McGRATH, Jan. 22, 2006)
FILM: Is Foreign Film the New Endangered Species? (By ANTHONY KAUFMAN, Jan. 22, 2006)
THEATER: A Career After 'Sex,' but Still in the City [Cynthia Nixon] (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Jan. 22, 2006)
TV: Things That Go Bump in Prime Time ["Supernatural"] (By KATE AURTHUR, Jan. 22, 2006)
TV: Gillian Anderson, in 'Bleak House' (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Jan. 22, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 22, 2006)
A Night Out With | Jackie Collins: Hollywood, Not So Confidential (By PAULINE O'CONNOR, Jan. 22, 2006)
MODERN LOVE: So He Looked Like Dad. It Was Just Dinner, Right? (By ABBY SHER, Jan. 22, 2006)
Possessed: 'Back to My Child Brain' (By DAVID COLMAN, Jan. 22, 2006)
VOWS: Anna Wagner and Scott St. John (By ALLEN JOHNSON, Jan. 22, 2006)
TRAVEL: Why Is Everybody Going to Cambodia? (By MATT GROSS, Jan. 22, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 22, 2006)
THE WORLD: Why Not a Strike on Iran? (By DAVID E. SANGER, Jan. 22, 2006)
* CONNECTED: Love You, K2a2a, Whoever You Are [DNA-Genealogy] (By AMY HARMON, Jan. 22, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 22, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Arrant Nonsense (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 22, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: The Pleasures of the Text (By CHARLES McGRATH, Jan. 22, 2006)
* Questions for Daniel C. Dennett: The Nonbeliever (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Jan. 22, 2006)
Idea Lab: Protect or Disinhibit? (By JON COHEN, Jan. 22, 2006)
CONSUMED: Getting Through the Filter (By ROB WALKER, Jan. 22, 2006)
* The Animal Self [personality tests on animals] (By CHARLES SIEBERT, Jan. 22, 2006)
* In the Balance [ballerina Wendy Whelan] (By, Jan. 22, 2006)
* FOOD: Eat, Memory: Orange Crush [Tang drink in China] (By YIYUN LI, Jan. 22, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 22, 2006)
* BOOKS | ESSAY: When Cosmologies Collide (By JUDITH SHULEVITZ, Jan. 22, 2006)

Saturday, January 21, 2006:
On This Day: January 21 (Ethan Allen 1/21/1738-2/12/1789, John Fremont 1/21/1813-7/13/1890, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson 1/21/1824-5/10/1863, Paul Scofield 1922, Jack Nicklaus 1940, Placido Domingo 1941, Mac Davis 1942, Jill Eikenberry 1947, Geena Davis 1957)
* Lenin Dies Of Cerebral Hemorrhage at 54; Moscow Throngs Overcome With Grief (By Walter Duranty, January 21, 1924)
* Christian Dior, 52, Creator Of 'New Look,' Dies [1/21/1905-10/24/1957] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, October 24, 1957)

Your Money: With a Little Estate Planning, Your House Can Stay in the Family (By DAMON DARLIN, Jan. 21, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 21, 2006)
ARTS: It's Not Atlantic City, but Miss America Pageant Adjusts Easily (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Jan. 21, 2006)
ARTS | SLIDE SHOW: Miss America Goes to Vegas (Photographs By Monica Almeida, Jan. 21, 2006)
ARTS: Princeton to Receive Record Gift for the Arts [$101 Million] (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Jan. 21, 2006)
ARTS | Last Chance: Turning Games Into a New Kind of Art (By ROBERTA SMITH, Jan. 21, 2006)
DANCE CRITIC: A Visionary of Balletic Folk Dance Turns 100 (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, Jan. 21, 2006)
TV: Television Cul-de-Sac Mystery: Why Was Reality Show Killed? (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Jan. 21, 2006)

Friday, January 20, 2006:
On This Day: January 20 (Henry Cromwell 1/20/1628-3/23/1674, Richard Henry Lee 1/20/1732-6/19/1794, Ruth St. Denis 1/20/1877-7/21/1968, Walter Piston 1/20/1894-11/12/1976, Harold Gray 1/20/1894-5/9/1968, Joy Adamson 1/20/1910-1/3/1980, Slim Whitman 1925, Edwin Buzz Aldrin 1931, David Lynch 1947, Bill Maher 1957, Melissa Rivers 1969)
Reagan Takes Oath as 40th President; Promises an 'Era of National Renewal' (By Steven R. Weisman, January 20, 1981)
* Federico Fellini, Film Visionary, Is Dead at 73 [1/20/1920-10/31/1993] (By PETER B. FLINT, November 1, 1993)

DANCE | Troika Ranch: Tracking Mankind's Rise, With the Help of Computers (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Jan. 20, 2006)
FILM | 'HOW TO EAT YOUR WATERMELON IN WHITE COMPANY (AND ENJOY IT)'
Portrait of an Independent Spirit, Versatile and Baad (By A. O. SCOTT, Jan. 20, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Elated Scientists Say Space-Dust Mission Exceeded Expectations (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 20, 2006)

Thursday, January 19, 2006:
On This Day: January 19 (Tai Chen 1/19/1724-7/1/1777, James Watt 1/19/1736-8/25/1819, Auguste Comte 1/19/1790-9/5/1857, Edgar Allen Poe 1/19/1809-10/7/1849, Paul Cezanne 1/19/1839-10/22/1906, Alexander Woollcott 1/19/1887-1/23/1943, John Raitt 1917, Jean Stapleton 1923, Fritz Weaver 1925, Robert MacNeil 1931, Richard Lester 1932, Phil Everly 1939, Dolly Parton 1946, Ann Compton 1947, Desi Arnaz Jr. 1953)
Hughes, Riding Gale, Sets Record Of 7 1/2 Hours in Flight From Coast (NY TIMES, January 19, 1937)
* General Robert E. Lee Dead at 63 [1/19/1807-10/12/1870] (NY TIMES, October 13, 1870)

* HEALTH: Cancer Study Was Made Up, Journal Says (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 19, 2006)

Wednesday, January 18, 2006:
On This Day: January 18 (Daniel Webster 1/18/1782-10/24/1852, Seth Low 1/18/1850-9/17/1916, Hans Goldschmidt 1/18/1861-5/25/1923, A.A. Milne 1/18/1882-1/31/1956, Sir Thomas Sopwith 1/18/1888-1/27/1989, Cary Grant 1/18/1904-11/29/1986, Danny Kaye 1/18/1913-3/3/1987, John Boorman 1933, Kevin Costner 1955)
Scott 150 Miles From South Pole Jan. 3; Will Stay In Antarctic Another Year (NY TIMES, January 18, 1912)
* T. A. Watson Dead at 80; Made First Phone [1/18/1854-12/13/1934] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 15, 1934)

TECHNOLOGY: Google to Buy Radio Advertising Sales Unit
[Pays $1.24 billion to buy dMarc Broadcasting, whose software can allow
marketers to send advertisements directly to local radio stations.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Jan. 18, 2006)
FILM | The Underfinanced Production Company: TransSylvania (Produced, Written & Transfused by JOYCE WADLER, Jan. 18, 2006)
HEALTH | ESSAY: Some Gene Research Just Isn't Worth the Money (By KEITH HUMPHREYS AND SALLY SATEL, Jan. 18, 2006)

Tuesday, January 17, 2006:
On This Day: January 17 (Guarino Guarini 1/17/1624-3/6/1683, Jacques-Francois Blondel 1/17/1705-1/9/1774, Anne Bronte 1/17/1820-5/28/1849, David Lloyd George 1/17/1863-3/26/1945, Mack Sennett 1/17/1880-11/5/1960, Robert M. Hutchins 1/17/1899-5/17/1977, Nora Kaye 1/17/1920-2/28/1987, Thomas Dooley 1/17/1927-1/18/1961, Betty White 1922, Moira Shearer 1926, Eartha Kitt 1927, Sheree North 1933, Maury Povich 1939, Muhammad Ali 1942)
Revolution In Hawaii Overthrows Queen Liliuokalani (NY TIMES, January 17, 1893)
Capone Dead At 48; Dry Era Gang Chief [1/17/1899-1/25/1947] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, January 26, 1947)

* BOOK CRITIC: Bending the Truth in a Million Little Ways
[James Frey] (By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, Jan. 17, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 17, 2006)
Winds Delay Launching for NASA Mission to Pluto (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 17, 2006)
Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service
[Harvard professor of genetics, George Church: "We want to do
for biology what Intel does for electronics. We want to design
and manufacture complicated biological circuitry."]
(By ANDREW POLLACK, Jan. 17, 2006)
One Last Question: Who Did the Work? (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 17, 2006)
A future issue of the Journal of Imaginary Genomics, annotated as required by Science
(NY TIMES, Jan. 17, 2006)
When Art and Science Collide, a Dorkbot Meeting Begins (By BRIAN BRAIKER, Jan. 17, 2006)
Love at First Sniff [ground squirrels' sense of smell] (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Jan. 17, 2006)
* OBSERVATORY: From a Destruction Derby, a Solar System (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Jan. 17, 2006)
Vibrating Insoles Help People Regain Balance (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Jan. 17, 2006)
With Glaciers Atop Volcanoes, Iceland Zooms In on Signs of Unrest (By AMANDA LEIGH HAAG, Jan. 17, 2006)
Q & A: Shiny Pates (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Jan. 17, 2006)
HEALTH: A Therapy Fell Out of Favor, but Didn't Stop Saving Lives (By DENISE GRADY, Jan. 17, 2006)
* Dogs Excel on Smell Test to Find Cancer (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Jan. 17, 2006)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Dally No Longer: Get the Lead Out (By JANE E. BRODY, Jan. 17, 2006)
CASES: Genetic Testing Creates New Versions of Ancient Dilemmas (By ROBERT KLITZMAN, M.D., Jan. 17, 2006)
Doctor's World: As in Sharon's Case, Handling of Stroke Has Many Variables
(By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Jan. 17, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Cocktails on a Coffee Break? You're Not Alone (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 17, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Risk: In S.U.V., Children Aren't Necessarily Safer (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 17, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Prevention: New Plague Vaccine: It Works on Guinea Pigs (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Jan. 17, 2006)

Monday, January 16, 2006:
On This Day: January 16 (Niccolo Piccinni 1/16/1728-5/7/1800, Vittorio Alfieri 1/16/1749-10/8/1803, Robert Service 1/16/1874-9/11/1958, George Kelly 1/16/1887-6/18/1974, Dizzy Dean 1/16/1911-7/17/1974, Norman Podhoretz 1930, Marilyn Horne 1934, Jim Stafford 1944, John Carpenter 1948, Debbie Allen 1950, Kate Moss 1974)
U.S. and Allies Open Air War on Iraq; Bomb Baghdad and Kuwaiti Targets (By ANDREW ROSENTHAL, January 16, 1991)
* Ethel Merman, Queen of Musicals, Dies at 76 [1/16/1908-2/15/1984] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, February 16, 1984)

* E-Commerce Report: Google's Shadow Payroll Is Not Such a Secret Anymore
[Through Google's AdSense program, Google pays Digital Point about $10,000
a month, depending on how many people view or click on those ads]
(By BOB TEDESCHI, Jan. 16, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Capsule Carrying Interstellar Samples Lands Safely (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 16, 2006)

Sunday, January 15, 2006:
On This Day: January 15 (Jean Moliere 1/15/1622-2/17/1673, Jean Coralli 1/15/1779-5/1/1854, Josef Breuer 1/15/1842-6/20/1925, Pierre Samuel du Pont 1/15/1870-4/5/1954, Arturi Virtanen 1/15/1895-11/11/1973, Gene Krupa 1/15/1909-10/16/1973, Gamal Nasser 1/15/1918-9/28/1970, Edward Teller 1908, Charo 1951)
Green Bay Wins First Superbowl Football Title (By WILLIAM N. WALLACE, January 15, 1967)
* Martin Luther King Jr. Killed at 39: Leader of Millions in Nonviolent Drive for Racial Justice
[1/15/1929-4/4/1968] (By MURRAY SCHUMACH, April 5, 1968)

* Shelley Winters, Tough-Talking Oscar Winner, Dies (By ALJEAN HARMETZ, Jan. 15, 2006)
NATIONAL: Deadly Disease Is Suspected in Decline of Yellowstone Wolves (By JIM ROBBINS, Jan. 15, 2006)
EDITORIAL: The Imperial Presidency at Work (NY TIMES, Jan. 15, 2006)
* More Jobs Being Found Online, but That Doesn't Mean It's Easy (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Jan. 15, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 15, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 15, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Mideastisms (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 15, 2006)
Shutting Themselves In (By By MAGGIE JONES, Jan. 15, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 15, 2006)
* The Cosmic Landscape,' by Leonard Susskind: Across the Megaverse (Review by COREY S. POWELL, Jan. 15, 2006)
* SCIENCE: NASA Mission to Explore Solar System's Edge (By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 15, 2006)

Saturday, January 14, 2006:
On This Day: January 14 (Benedict Arnold 1/14/1741-6/14/1801, Berthe Morisot 1/14/1841-3/2/1895, Art Young 1/14/1866-12/29/1943, Hugh Lofting 1/14/1886-9/26/1947, Hal Roach 1/14/1892-11/2/1992, John Dos Passos 1/14/1896-9/28/1970, Carlos Romulo 1/14/1899-12/15/1985, Sir Cecil Beaton 1/14/1904-1/18/1980, Andy Rooney 1919, Julian Bond 1940, Faye Dunaway 1941, Steven Soderbergh 1963)
Roosevelt and Churchill Map 1943 War Strategy in Casablanca (By DREW MIDDLETON, Jr., January 14, 1943)
* Albert Schweitzer, 90, Dies at His Hospital [1/14/1875-9/4/1965] (By Reuters, September 6, 1965)

NATIONAL: Disarray at Center for Dr. King Casts Pall on Family and Legacy (By SHAILA DEWAN, Jan. 14, 2006)
Santa Cruz Journal: A Protest, a Spy Program and a Campus in an Uproar (By SARAH KERSHAW, Jan. 14, 2006)
WORLD: Wealth Grows, but Health Care Withers in China (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Jan. 14, 2006)
BUSINESS | Your Money: Depreciation Appreciation 101:
The Ins and Outs of Deducting for a Home Office (By DAMON DARLIN, Jan. 14, 2006)
* ARTS: Oases Springing Up Here for Ancient Game of Go (By BLAKE ESKIN, Jan. 14, 2006)
* SCIENCE: New Light on Origins of Ashkenazi in Europe (By NICHOLAS WADE, Jan. 14, 2006)

Friday, January 13, 2006:
On This Day: January 13 (Jan van Goyen 1/13/1596-4/27/1656, Salmon Chase 1/13/1808-5/7/1873, Horatio Alger 1/13/1832-7/18/1899, Sophie Tucker 1/13/1884-2/9/1966, Elmer Davis 1/13/1890-5/18/1958, A. B. Jr. Guthrie 1/13/1901-4/26/1991, Rober Stack 1919, Charles Nelson Reilly 1931, Penelope Ann Miller 1964)
Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the nation's first elected black governor (By DRUMMOND AYRES, Jr., January 13, 1990)
Ross G. Harrison, Yale Zoologist, Dies at 89 [1/13/1870-9/30/1959] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1916)

* EDITORIAL: Call It Fiction [James Frey's fabrications] (NY TIMES, Jan. 13, 2006)

Thursday, January 12, 2006:
On This Day: January 12 (John Winthrop 1/12/1588-3/26/1649, Charles Perrault 1/12/1628-5/15/1703, John Hancock 1/12/1737-10/8/1793, Jakob Michael Lenz 1/12/1751-5/24/1792, John Singer Sargent 1/12/1856-4/15/1925, Max Eastman 1/12/1883-3/25/1969, Louis Horst 1/12/1884-1/23/1964, Luise Rainer 1910, Ray Price 1926, Glenn Yarborough 1930, The "Amazing Kreskin" 1935, Rush Limbaugh 1951, Howard Stern 1954, Kirstie Alley 1955, Oliver Platt 1960)
Suffragists Lose Fight In The House (NY TIMES, January 12, 1915)
* Jack London Dies Suddenly On Ranch at Age 40 [1/12/1876-11/22/1916] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1916)

BOOKS: Writer Says He Made Up Some Details [James Frey] (By EDWARD WYATT, Jan. 12, 2006)
* STYLE: Are They Here to Save the World? [Indigo children] (By JOHN LELAND, Jan. 12, 2006)

Wednesday, January 11, 2006:
On This Day: January 11 (Alexander Hamilton 1/11/1755-7/12/1804, Ezra Cornell 1/11/1807-12/9/1874, Sir James Paget 1//11/1814-12/30/1899, Alice H. Rice 1/11/1870-2/10/1942, Laurens Hammond 1/11/1895-7/1/1973, Eva LeGallienne 1/11/1899-6/3/1991, Alan Paton 1/11/1903-4/12/1988, Grant Tinker 1926, David L. Wolper 1928, Rod Taylor 1930, Jean Chretien 1934, Naomi Judd 1946, Ben Crenshaw 1952, Amanda Peet 1972)
Amelia Earhart Becomes First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Pacific Ocean (NY TIMES, January 11, 1935)
* William James Dies at 68; Great Psychologist [1/11/1842-8/26/1910] (NY TIMES, August 27, 1910)

Tuesday, January 10, 2006:
On This Day: January 10 (John Emerich, Lord Acton 1/10/1834-6/19/1902, John Wellborn Root 1/10/1850-1/15/1891, Frederick Gardner Cottrell 1/10/1877-11/16/1948, Dumas Malone 1/10/1892-12/27/1986, Uri Zvi Greenberg 1/10/1894-5/8/1981, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1/10/1903-5/20/1975, Ray Bolger 1/10/1904-1/15/1987, Paul Henreid 1/10/1908-3/29/1992, Gisele MacKenzie 1927, Willie McCovey 1938, Frank Sinatra Jr. 1944, Rod Stewart 1945, George Foreman 1949, Pat Benatar 1953, Shawn Colvin 1958)
* First General Assembly of the United Nations Convened in London (By James B. Reston, January 10, 1946)
* Galina Ulanova Is Dead at 88; A Revered Bolshoi Ballerina [1/10/1910-3/21/1998] (By MICHAEL SPECTOR, March 22, 1998)

* BOOKS: Best-Selling Memoir Draws Scrutiny [James Frey's memoir] (By EDWARD WYATT, Jan. 10, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (MY TIMES, Jan. 10, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Cells That Read Minds (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Jan. 10, 2006)
* After 3 Billion Miles, Craft Returns Sunday Bearing Cosmic Dust Older Than the Sun
(By WARREN E. LEARY, Jan. 10, 2006)
Researcher Faked Evidence of Human Cloning, Koreans Report (By NICHOLAS WADE & CHOE SANG-HUN, Jan. 10, 2006)
* Symbols on the Wall Push Maya Writing Back by Years (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Jan. 10, 2006)
* Q & A: Baby Boom [2003 U.S. Data: 364,226 births in July & 360,103 in August]
(By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Jan. 10, 2006)
HEALTH: Doctors Learn How to Say What No One Wants to Hear (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Jan. 10, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Let's Get Serious About Relieving Chronic Pain (By JANE E. BRODY, Jan. 10, 2006)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Tall People Live Longer Than Short People (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Jan. 10, 2006)

Monday, January 9, 2006:
On This Day: January 9 (Carrie Chapman Catt 1/9/1870-5/16/1938, Joseph B. Strauss 1/9/1870-5/16/1938, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1/9/1875-4/18/1942, Giovanni Papini 1/9/1881-7/8/1956, Simone de Beauvoir 1/9/1908-4/14/1986, Gypsy Rose Lee 1/9/1914-4/26/1970, Judith Krantz 1928, Bart Starr 1934, Dick Enberg 1935, Joan Baez 1941, Susannah York 1941, Crystal Gayle 1951, Dave Matthews 1967)
Surveyor 7 Spacecraft Lands Gently On Moon (By Gladwin Hill, January 9, 1968)
The 37th President Dead at 81; Nixon Tasted Crisis and Defeat, Victory, Ruin and Revival
[1/9/1913-4/22/1994] (By JOHN HERBERS, April 24, 1994)

Sunday, January 8, 2006:
On This Day: January 8 (Nicholas Biddle 1/8/1786-2/27/1844, Hans von Bülow 1/8/1830-2/12/1894, Frank Nelson Doubleday 1/8/1862-1/30/1934, William T. Piper 1/8/1881-1/15/1934, Walther Bothe 1/8/1891-2/8/1957, Carl R. Rogers 1/8/1902-2/4/1987, Peter Arno 1/8/1904-2/22/1968, Evelyn Wood 1/8/1909-8/26/1995, José Ferrer 1/8/1912-1/26/1992, Elvis Presley 1/8/1935-8/16/1977, Soupy Sales 1926, Sander Vanocur 1928, Charles Osgood 1933, Shirley Bassey 1937, Stephen Hawking 1942)
President Wilson Specifies Terms Basis For World Peace; Asks Justice For Alsace-Lorraine (By NY TIMES, January 8, 1918)
* Emily Balch Dies at 94; Won Nobel Peace Prize [1/8/1867-1/9/1961] (NY TIMES, January 11, 1961)

WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 8, 2006)
* The General: History Interrupted [Ariel Sharon] (By JAMES BENNET, Jan. 8, 2006)
The Nation: Go Ahead, Try to Stop K Street (By TODD S. PURDUM, Jan. 8, 2006)
The Nation: Even Pat Robertson's Friends Are Wondering... (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Jan. 8, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: Is Google a Good Candidate for Rational Exuberance?
[Wall Street analyst Safa Rashtchy of Piper Jaffray predicted that Google's
stock price, which has climbed more than 350% since its IPO in 2004,
and was $422.52 at the time, would hit $600 a share by the end of 2006]
(By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Jan. 8, 2006)
Ideas & Trends: Right Stuff and Wrong in the Boys Who Dare (By TAMAR LEWIN, Jan. 8, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 8, 2006)
ON LANGUAGE: Are You Good? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Jan. 8, 2006)
Questions for Gary Hart: Over Life on the Hill (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Jan. 8, 2006)
CONSUMED: Cold Call (By ROB WALKER, Jan. 8, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: The Bush Administration vs. Salim Hamdan (By JONATHAN MAHLER, Jan. 8, 2006)
The New Leipzig School [Art Academy] (By ARTHUR LUBOW, Jan. 8, 2006)
STYLE: The Big-Bang Theory (By MAURA EGAN, Jan. 8, 2006)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: Which Came First? (By DANIEL PATTERSON, Jan. 8, 2006)
* LIVES: 'Spell "World" Backward' (By BERNARD COOPER, Jan. 8, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 8, 2006)
* The Trouble With Poetry,' by Billy Collins: Charming Billy (Review by DAVID ORR, Jan. 8, 2006)
* ESSAY: Keeper of the Canon [M. H. Abrams, Norton Anthology editor] (By RACHEL DONADIO, Jan. 8, 2006)
CRIME: The Da Vinci Clue (By MARILYN STASIO, Jan. 8, 2006)

Saturday, January 7, 2006:
On This Day: January 7 (Johann Christian Fabricius 1/7/1745-3/3/1808, Millard Fillmore 1/7/1800-3/8/1874, Saint Bernadette of Lourdes 1/7/1844-4/16/1879, Émile Borel 1/7/1871-2/3/1956, Francis Poulenc 1/7/1899-1/30/1963, Aristotle Onassis 1/7/1906-3/15/1975, Henry Allen 1/7/1908-4/17/1967, Charles Addams 1/7/1912-9/29/1988, William Peter Blatty 1928, Erin Gray 1950, Katie Couric 1957)
Hanoi Reports Cambodian Capital Conquered By 'Insurgent' Forces (By Henry Kamm, January 7, 1979)
* Adolph Zukor Is Dead at 103; Built Paramount Movie Empire [1/7/1873-6/10/1976] (By ALBIN KREBS, June 11, 1976)

Friday, January 6, 2006:
On This Day: January 6 (Martin Agricola 1/6/1486-6/10/1556, Jakob Bernoulli 1/6/1655-8/16/1705, Charles Sumner 1/6/1811-3/11/1874, Heinrich Schliemann 1/6/1822-12/26/1890, Carl Sandburg 1/6/1878-7/22/1967, Tom Mix 1/6/1880-10/12/1940, Kahlil Gibran 1/6/1883-4/10/1931, Morris Wright 1/6/1910-4/25/1998, Lou Harris 1921, John Z. DeLorean 1925, E. L. Doctorow 1931, Bonnie Franklin 1944, Nancy Lopez 1957)
* Former President Theodore Roosevelt Dies Suddenly at Oyster Bay Home; Nation Shocked (By NY TIMES, January 6, 1919)
Rayburn Is Dead at 79; Served 17 Years as House Speaker [1/6/1882-11/16/1961] (UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, Nov. 17, 1961)

Thursday, January 5, 2006:
On This Day: January 5 (Jahan Shah 1/5/1592-1/22/1666, Zebulon Pike 1/5/1779-4/27/1813, Stephen Decatur 1/5/1779-3/22/1820, King Camp Gillette 1/5/1855-7/9/1932, Konrad Adenauer 1/5/1876-4/19/1967, Yves Tanguy 1/5/1900-1/15/1955, Stella Gibbons 1/5/1902-12/19/1989, Hubert Beuve-Méry 1/5/1902-8/6/1989, Dame Kathleen Kenyon 1/5/1906-8/24/1978, Alvin Ailey Jr. 1/5/1931-12/1/1989, Sam Phillips 1923, Walter F. Mondale 1928, Chuck Noll 1932, King Juan Carlos 1938, Charlie Rose 1942, Diane Keaton 1946, Pamela Sue Martin 1952, Marilyn Manson 1968)
Henry Ford Gives $10,000,000 To 26,000 Employees (NY TIMES, January 5, 1914)
* Stanislavsky Dies in Moscow At 75; One of the Greatest Masters of Russian Drama
[1/5/1863-8/7/1938] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 8, 1938)

Wednesday, January 4, 2006:
On This Day: January 4 (James Ussher 1/4/1581-3/21/1656, Benjamin Rush 1/4/1746-4/19/1813, Jacob Grimm 1/4/1785-9/20/1863, Wilhelm Beer 1/4/1797-3/27/1850, Louis Braille 1/4/1809-1/6/1852, Sir Isaac Pitman 1/4/1813-1/12/1897, Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1/4/1881-3/25/1919, Leroy Randle Grumman 1/4/1895-10/4/1982, Jane Wyman 1914, Barbara Rush 1927, Don Shula 1930, Floyd Patterson 1935, Dyan Cannon 1937, Maureen Reagan 1941, Julia Ormond 1965)
President Johnson Bids Soviet Leaders Visit U.S., Outlines 'Great Society' Plan (By Tom Wicker, January 4, 1965)
Dirksen Dead in Capital at 73; A Political Phenomenon [1/4/1896-9/7/1969] (By E. W. KENWORTHY, September 8, 1969)

NATIONAL | News Analysis: Tremors Across Washington as Lobbyist Turns Star Witness
[Jack Abramoff] (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Jan. 4, 2006)

Tuesday, January 3, 2006:
On This Day: January 3 (Heinrich Wilheim von Gerstenberg 1/3/1737-11/1/1823, Father Damien 1/3/1840-4/15/1889, Sir Henry Alfred Lytton 1/3/1865-8/15/1936, Clement Attlee 1/3/1883-10/8/1967, J.R.R. Tolkien 1/3/1892-9/2/1973, T. Claude Ryan 1/3/1898-9/11/1982, Dinh Diem Ngo 1/3/1901-11/2/1963, Morten Nielsen 1/3/1922-8/29/1944, Vernon Walters 1917, Hank Stram 1923, Dabney Coleman 1932, Betty Rollin 1936, Bobby Hull 1939, Victoria Principal 1950, Mel Gibson 1956)
Alaska Becomes the 49th State (By Richard E. Mooney, January 3, 1959)
Lucretia Mott Dies at 88; Early Initiator of the Women's Rights [1/3/1793-11/11/1880] (NY Times, November 12, 1880)

Monday, January 2, 2006:
On This Day: January 2 (James Wolfe 1/2/1727-9/13/1759, Johann Daniel Titius 1/2/1729-12/11/1796, Rudolf Clausius 1/2/1822-8/24/1888, Justin Winsor 1/2/1831-10/22/1897, Albert C. Barnes 1/2/1872-7/24/1951, Saint Therea of Lisieux 1/2/1873-9/30/1897, Sally Rand 1/2/1904-8/31/1979, Christy Turlington 1969)
Russian General Stoessel Surrenders, Ending the Russo-Japanese War (By R. HART PHILLIPS, January 2, 1905)
* Isaac Asimov, Whose Thoughts and Books Traveled the Universe, Is Dead at 72
[1/2/1920-4/6/1992] (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, April 7, 1992)

Sunday, January 1, 2006:
On This Day: January 1 (Lorenzo de Medici 1/1/1449-3/9/1492, Betsy Ross 1/1/1752-1/30/1836, Sir James George Frazer 1/1/1854-5/7/1941, Alfred Stieglitz 1/1/1864-7/13/1946, Ernest Jones 1/1/1879-2/11/1958, William Fox 1/1/1879-5/8/1952, Catherine Bowen 1/1/1897-11/1/1973, Xavier Cugat 1/1/1900-10/27/1990, Dana Andrews 1/1/1909-12/17/1992, Barry M. Goldwater 1/1/1909-5/29/1998, J.D. Salinger 1919, Frank Langella 1940)
Batista and Regime Flee Cuba; Castro Moving to Take Power; Mobs Riot and Loot in Havana (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, January 1, 1959)
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the F.B.I. from 1924-1972, Dies at 77 [1/1/1895-5/2/1972] (By CHRISTOPHER LYDON, May 3, 1972)

WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 1, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 1, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Jan. 1, 2006)
* ESSAY: Einstein Has Left the Building (By JOHN HORGAN, Jan. 1, 2006)