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

Friday, March 31, 2006:
On This Day: March 31 (René Descartes 3/31/1596-2/11/1650, Franz Joseph Haydn 3/31/1732-5/31/1809, Edward Fitzgerald 3/31/1809-6/14/1883, James M. Cox 3/31/1870-7/15/1957, Arthur Griffith 3/31/1872-8/12/1922, Srge Diaghilev 3/31/1872-8/19/1929, Jack Johnson 3/31/1878-6/10/1946, Sir Lawrence Bragg 3/31/1890-7/1/1971, John McCloy 3/31/1895-3/11/1989, Octavio Paz 3/31/1914-4/19/1998, William Daniels 1927, Gordie Howe 1928, Shirley Jones 1934, Herb Alpert 1935, Richard Chamberlain 1935, Patrick Leahy 1940, Gabe Kaplan 1945, Al Gore 1948, Rhea Perlman 1948, Ed Marinaro 1950)
President Johnson Says He Won't Run for Another Term (By Tom Wicker, March 31, 1968)
Cesar Chavez, 66, Organizer of Union For Migrants, Dies
[3/31/1927-4/23/1993] (By ROBERT LINDSEY, April 24, 1993)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Poet and Conceptual Artist, Dies
[In the early 60's he became interested in concrete poetry, in which the visual
appearance of words was meant to count as much as the literary meaning. He also
began producing short poems sandblasted on glass. One read simply, "Wave Rock."]
(By KEN JOHNSON, Mar. 31, 2006)
* ART: Artistic Treasures Take Manhattan During Asia Week (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 31, 2006)
FILM: A New Life Awaits at 'Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School'
(By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, Mar. 31, 2006)
* HEALTH: Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
[Dr. Herbert Benson's research: Prayers offered by strangers had no effect
on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery.]
(By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 31, 2006)

Thursday, March 30, 2006:
On This Day: March 30 (Moses Maimonides 3/30/1135-12/13/1204, Francisco de Goya 3/30/1746-4/16/1828, Anna Sweell 3/30/1820-4/25/1878, Vincent van Gogh 3/30/1853-7/29/1890, Melanie Klein 3/30/1882-9/22/1960, McGeorge Bundy 3/30/1919-9/16/1996, Richard Helms 1913, Frankie Laine 1913, Richard Dysart 1929, John Astin 1930, Warren Beatty 1937, Eric Clapton 1945, Paul Reiser 1957, MC Hammer 1963, Tracy Chapman 1964, Celine Dion 1968)
Reagan Wounded In Chest By Gunman; Outlook 'Good' After 2-Hour Surgery (By Howell Raines, March 30, 1981)
* Sean O'Casey, Irish Playwright, Is Dead at 84
[3/30/1880-9/18/1964] (NY TIMES, September 19, 1964)

NATIONAL: As Life Returns to New Orleans, So Does Crime (By ADAM NOSSITER, Mar. 30, 2006)
G.O.P. Risking Hispanic Votes on Immigration (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 30, 2006)
A Lawbreaking Mannequin's Fresh Start (By KATIE KELLEY, Mar. 30, 2006)
EDUCATION: Maryland Acts to Take Over Failing Baltimore Schools (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Mar. 30, 2006)
WORLD: American Reporter Kidnapped in Baghdad Is Released (By KIRK SEMPLE, Mar. 30, 2006)
NY REGION: 9/11 Tapes Revive Lost Voices, and Families' Pain (By JIM DWYER, Mar. 30, 2006)
SPORTS: Baseball Announces Steroids Investigation (By CHRISTINE HAUSER & BEN SHPIGEL, Mar. 30, 2006)
SPORTS | Baseball: Mike Myers Wants Frisbee to Be a Collector's Item (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 30, 2006)
OP-ED: You Say You Want a Constitution (By STEVEN V. MAZIE, Mar. 30, 2006)
* OP-ED: American Dreams, Foreign Flags (By LINDA CHAVEZ, Mar. 30, 2006)
* LETTERS: A Nation of Immigrants Faces the Current Wave (10 Letters) (By Charles R. Cronin Jr., et. al., Mar. 30, 2006)
* LETTERS: Bush and Lincoln: They Just Don't Compare (3 Letters) (By David E. Siglin, et. al., Mar. 30, 2006)
BUSINESS: Nasdaq Reaches 5-Year High in a Broad Market Rally
[Dow +61.16, Nasdaq +33.32](By REUTERS, Mar. 30, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: When the Owner Wants to Work Less (By ABBY ELLIN, Mar. 30, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Google to Sell More Shares to Index Funds
[Google might sell up to 5.3 million additional shares worth more than $2 billion
to offset the impact of its inclusion in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.]
(By REUTERS, Mar. 30, 2006)
* ART Critic: Pierre Bonnard Retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Mar. 30, 2006)
* BOOKS: A Preacher's Credo: Eliminate the Negative, Accentuate Prosperity (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 30, 2006)
* FASHION: O.K., Knockoffs, This Is War (By ERIC WILSON, Mar. 30, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 30, 2006)
* DAVID POGUE: A Spam Fighter Is Overzealous but Can Learn (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 30, 2006)
* BASICS: Now It's Easy to Back Up Data on a Network (By WILSON ROTHMAN, Mar. 30, 2006)
GAME THEORY: Some Sequels Really Are Worth the Wait (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 30, 2006)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Big Belt Plays the Bully in My Closet (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 30, 2006)
For Work on the Road, a Digital Touch of Home (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 30, 2006)
Protection From Viruses and Spies, and Also Butterfingers (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 30, 2006)
Now You Can Charge Your Cellphone Anywhere (Even if You're Nowhere) (By IVAN BERGER, Mar. 30, 2006)
Speakers That Surround You With Sound, Not Wires (By IVAN BERGER, Mar. 30, 2006)
A Powerful Featherweight in a Class Dominated by Bulk (By JOHN BIGGS, Mar. 30, 2006)
* Q. & A.: Unwittingly Drafted Into a Zombie Army (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 30, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Scans Show Different Growth for Intelligent Brains (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 30, 2006)
* SCIENCE: In Dazzling Eclipse, Bashful Sun Allows Glimpse of Its Wild Side (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 30, 2006)
HEALTH: Doubt Cast on Stockpile of a Vaccine for Bird Flu (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 30, 2006)

Wednesday, March 29, 2006:
On This Day: March 29 (Santorio Santorio 3/29/1561-2/22/1636, John Tyler 3/29/1790-1/18/1862, Elihu Thomson 3/29/1853-3/13/1937, Howard Lindsay 3/29/1889-2/11/1968, Jozsef Mindszenty 3/29/1892-5/6/1975, Lavrenty Beria 3/29/1899-12/23/1953, Sir William Walton 3/29/1902-3/8/1983, E. Power Biggs 3/29/1906-3/10/1977, Pearl Bailey 3/29/1918-8/17/1990, Samuel Moore Walton 3/29/1918-4/5/1992, Eugene McCarthy 1916, Eileen Heckart 1919, John Major 1943, Vangelis 1943, Kurt Thomas 1956, Christopher Lambert 1957, Elle MacPherson 1963, Lucy Lawless 1968, Jennifer Capriati 1976)
U.S. Forces Out of Vietnam; Hanoi Frees the Last P.O.W. (By Joseph B. Treaster, March 29, 1973)
* Cy Young Is Dead at 88; Famed Pitcher, Record of 511 Victories
[3/29/1867-11/4/1955] (NY TIMES, November 5, 1955)

Caspar W. Weinberger, Who Served 3 Republican Presidents, Is Dead at 88 (By DAVID STOUT, Mar. 29, 2006)
Robert W. Miller, 84, Who Studied A-Bomb Effect, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 29, 2006)
NATIONAL: Defense Tries to Undo Damage Moussaoui Did (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Mar. 29, 2006)
* News Media: Anchor-Advocate on Immigration Wins Viewers [Lou Dobbs] (By BILL CARTER & JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 29, 2006)
Top Aide Leaves White House Job; Budget Chief In (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 29, 2006)
News Analysis: Republican Split on Immigration Reflects Nation's Struggle (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Mar. 29, 2006)
* WORLD: Protests in France Over Youth Labor Law Turn Violent (By ELAINE SCIOLINO & CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 29, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Fake ID's at the Border Crossings (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2006)
OP-ED: The Basque Spring (By BERNARDO ATXAGA, Mar. 29, 2006)
OP-ED: Time to Think (By MARK FRANEK, Mar. 29, 2006)
LETTERS: The Memo About the Road to War (6 Letters) (By Morton Wachspress, et. al., Mar. 29, 2006)
LETTERS: How to Rest When You're Expecting (2 Letters) (By Erin E. Foster, Mar. 29, 2006)
* LETTERS: India's Traditions and Today's World (By Atul M. Karnik, Mar. 29, 2006)
* LETTERS: The Vegan Firefighters (By Monica Ball, Mar. 29, 2006)
BUSINESS: Fed Panel Raises Rate to 4.75% (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 29, 2006)
BUSINESS: Bank Shares Lead Decline as Fed Raises Interest Rates
[Dow -95.57, Nasdaq -11.12] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 29, 2006)
* DAVID LEONHARDT: Computing the Mysteries of Attraction (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 29, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 29, 2006)
FOOD: To Lure the French, Don't Be Too Sweet (By MELISSA CLARK, Mar. 29, 2006)
FOOD: Much Ado About Mutton, but Not in These Parts (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Mar. 29, 2006)
THE MINIMALIST: Salmon, Richly Spiced (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 29, 2006)
FEED ME: Four Hot Meals, and Hold the Dazzle, Please (By ALEX WITCHEL, Mar. 29, 2006)
FOOD STUFF: Olive Oils for Drizzling, Meals for Passover (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 29, 2006)
Behind the Swinging Door: Along With Stories, a Dish From Nazareth (By NANCY HARMON JENKINS, Mar. 29, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Taking the Rough-and-Tumble Approach to Science (By TIM GNATEK, Mar. 29, 2006)
* SCIENCE | TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE: Live from Turkey [10:54 UT-10:57 UT) (Exploratorium, San Francisco, Mar. 29, 2006)

Tuesday, March 28, 2006:
On This Day: March 28 (William Byrd 3/28/1674-8/26/1744, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 3/28/1793-12/10/1864, St. John Neumann 3/28/1811-1/5/1860, Wade Hampton 3/28/1818-4/11/1902, Aristide Briand 3/28/1862-3/7/1932, Paul Whiteman 3/28/1890-12/29/1967, Rudolf Serkin 3/28/1903-5/8/1991, Onoe Shoroku II 3/28/1913-6/25/1989, Freddie Bartholomew 3/28/1924-1/23/1992, Zbigniew Brzezinski 1928, Charlie McCoy 1941, Mike Newell 1942, Ken Howard 1944, Reba McEntire 1955, Julia Stiles 1981)
Radiation Is Released in Accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant in Pennsylvania (By Donald Janson, March 28, 1979)
August A. Busch Jr. Dies at 90; Built Largest Brewing Company
[3/28/1899-9/29/1989] (By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr., September 30, 1989)

* NATIONAL: Google Joins the Lobbying Herd (By KATE PHILLIPS, Mar. 28, 2006)
Protests Go On in Several Cities as Panel Acts (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2006)
Moussaoui Now Ties Himself to 9/11 Plot (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Mar. 28, 2006)
* EDITORIAL | Appreciations: Adwaitya [250-year old Aldabran tortoise] (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Mar. 28, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Whopper That Wasn't [25-pounds largemouth bass] (By MONTE BURKE, Mar. 28, 2006)
OP-ED: Enemy of Our Enemy (By PETER BERGEN, Mar. 28, 2006)
* LETTERS: Reading, Rehashing, 'Rithmetic (6 Letters) (By Diana Senechal, et. al., Mar. 28, 2006)
LETTERS: Is It Time to Say Enough in Iraq? (3 Letters) (By Marcus Wiesner, et. al., Mar. 28, 2006)
LETTERS: Fashionistas, Revolt! (By Emily Alice Katz, Mar. 28, 2006)
* SPORTS | ON BASEBALL: Old-Timer's Advice to Today's Pitchers: Throw (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 26, 2006)
BUSINESS: Comic Book Publisher Switches a Deal to HarperCollins (By EDWARD WYATT, Mar. 28, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | NEW ECONOMY: Is Silicon Valley Similar to Detroit? (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 28, 2006)
* SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2006)
SCIENCE: Making a Ferret Sneeze for Hints to the Transmission of Bird Flu (By DENISE GRADY, Mar. 28, 2006)
From the Chickens' Perspective, the Sky Really Is Falling (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 28, 2006)
Bedouin Girl in Article Dies of Genetic Disease (NY TIMES, Mar. 28, 2006)
Weeks After Killing It, NASA Resurrects Mission to Visit Asteroids (By KENNETH CHANG & WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 28, 2006)
* OBSERVATORY: How Blue Can You Get? [color of eggs] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 28, 2006)
* Q & A: How Serious Is the Risk of Avian Flu? (By DENISE GRADY and GINA KOLATA, Mar. 28, 2006)
* HEALTH: The 1918 Flu Killed Millions. Does It Hold Clues for Today? (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 28, 2006)
HEALTH | The Worrier: At the U.N.: This Virus Has an Expert 'Quite Scared' (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Mar. 28, 2006)
HEALTH | The Skeptic: On the Front: A Pandemic Is Worrisome but 'Unlikely' (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Mar. 28, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: A Chance Find, and Voil`! Goodbye, Hot Flashes. Hello, Sleep. (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 28, 2006)
The Doctor's World: With Every Epidemic, Tough Choices (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Mar. 28, 2006)
HEALTH: Some Find Relief From the Heat by Changing Habits (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 28, 2006)
* THE GLOBALIST: In Afghan Christian, Story of a Larger Conflict (By Roger Cohen, International Herald Tribune, Mar. 28, 2006)

Monday, March 27, 2006:
On This Day: March 27 (Andrew Bell 3/27/1753-1/27/1832, Alfred-Victor Vigny 3/27/1797-9/17/1863, Otto Wallach 3/27/1847-2/26/1931, Sir Henry Royce 3/27/1863-4/22/1933, Patty Smith Hill 3/27/1868-5/25/1946, Edward Steichen 3/27/1879-3/25/1973, Sata Eisaku 3/27/1901-6/3/1975, Pee Wee Russell 3/27/1906-2/15/1969, Denton Welch 3/27/1915-12/30/1948, Sarah Vaughan 3/27/1924-4/3/1990, Lord Callaghan 1912, Cyrus R. Vance 1917, Anthony Lewis 1927, Arthur Mitchell 1934, Julian Glover 1935, Michael York 1942, Tony Banks 1950, Maria Schneider 1952, Quentin Tarantino 1963, Mariah Carey 1970)
Khrushchev Takes Full Control, Replacing Bulganin as Premier (By Max Frankel, March 27, 1958)
* Mies van der Rohe Dies at 83; Leader of Modern Architecture
[3/27/1886-8/17/1969] (NY TIMES, August 19, 1969)

* NATIONAL: Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Mar. 27, 2006)
WORLD | Leaders: Bush Was Set on Path to War, British Memo Says (By DON VAN NATTA Jr., Mar. 27, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: France's Misguided Protesters (NY TIMES, Mar. 27, 2006)
OP-ED: Drying Out the Insurgency (By A. C. GRAYLING, Mar. 27, 2006)
OP-ED: Stupor in Our Time [Israeli elections] (By ETGAR KERET, Mar. 27, 2006)
Illegal Immigrants, Duty and Law (8 Letters) (By Herbert M. Levin, et. al., Mar. 27, 2006)
* HEALTH: Cloning May Lead to Healthy Pork [Omega-3 fatty acids] (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 27, 2006)

Sunday, March 26, 2006:
On This Day: March 26 (Herman Haupt 3/26/1817-12/14/1905, Edward Bellamy 3/26/1850-5/22/1898, A. E. Housman 3/26/1859-4/30/1936, Syngman Rhee 3/26/1875-7/19/1965, Othmar Ammann 3/26/1879-9/22/1965, James Conant 3/26/1893-2/11/1978, Joseph Campbell 3/26/1904-10/31/1987, Tennessee Williams 3/26/1911-2/25/1983, William C. Westmoreland 1914, Rufus Thomas 1917, Pierre Boulez 1925, Sandra Day O'Connor 1930, Leonard Nimoy 1931, Alan Arkin 1934, James Cann 1940, Erica Jong 1942, Bob Woodward 1943, Diana Ross 1944, Vicki Lawrence 1949, Ronnie McDowell 1950, Teddy Pendergrass 1950, Martin Short 1950, Elaine Chao 1953, Leeza Gibbons 1957, Jennifer Grey 1960)
Egypt & Israel Sign Formal Treaty, Ending a State of War After 30 Years; Sadat & Begin Praise Carter's Role
(By Bernard Gwertzman, March 26, 1979)
* Robert Frost Dies at 88; Kennedy Leads in Tribute
[3/26/1874-1/29/1963] (NY TIMES, January 30, 1963)

* NATIONAL: Firefighters Gone Vegan? Even Austin Is Impressed (By DEBORAH BLUMENTHAL, Mar. 26, 2006)
EDUCATION: Colleges Say SAT Mistakes May Affect Scholarships (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 26, 2006)
SPORTS | ON BASEBALL: League Switchers Are Risky for the Red Sox (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 26, 2006)
OP-ED: A Poverty of the Mind (By ORLANDO PATTERSON, Mar. 26, 2006)
* MUSIC: Mull over Beethoven [Edmund Morris's Beethoven: The Universal Composer
Five years before his death, while working on the Missa Solemnis, his longest work,
Beethoven wrote to a friend, "It seems to me that I have only just begun to compose!"
Indeed, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was still two years away.]
(By Brian Chapman, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 26, 2006)

Saturday, March 25, 2006:
On This Day: March 25 (Saint Catherine of Siena 3/25/1347-4/29/1380, Matilda Gage 3/25/1826-3/18/1898, Arturo Toscanini 3/25/1867-1/16/1957, William Knudsen 3/25/1879-4/27/1948, Sir David Lean 3/25/1908-4/16/1991, Simone Signoret 3/25/1921-9/30/1985, Flannery O'Connor 3/25/1925-8/3/1964, Penelope Gilliatt 3/25/1932-5/9/1993, Eileen Ford 1922, Jim Lovell 1928, Gene Shalit 1932, Gloria Steinem 1934, Anita Bryant 1940, Aretha Franklin 1942, Paul Michael Glaser 1943, Elton John 1947, John Stockwell 1961, Sarah Jessica Parker 1965, Debi Thomas 1967)
25,000 Go to Alabama's Capitol; Wallace Rebuffs Petitioners; White Rights Worker is Slain
(By Roy Reed, March 25, 1965)
* Bela Bartok Dies at 64 In Hospital Here
[3/25/1881-9/26/1945] (NY TIMES, September 27, 1945)

NY REGION: Swimmers From the North Delight Scientists and Sightseers (By ANDY NEWMAN, Mar. 25, 2006)
* DANCE: From classroom to ballroom [Mad Hot Ballroom (Japan title: Step! Step! Step!),
an uplifting documentary on children in New York who learn ballroom dance at school, shows
that the joy of dancing is universal, and is boosting awareness of dance education in Japan.
(By Tokiko Oba, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 25, 2006)
* DANCE: Shall we dance? / Ballroom dancing catches on with children
["When I first heard about it, I thought, 'Oh no!'" said one student, the shy Reiki Nomoto.
"I didn't want to hold a girl's hand." The students were asked to choose either dance or judo
for their 12-hour physical education course, and about 110 students out of 165 preferred dance.
"In this information technology society, where people have less direct human interaction,
children tend to have less of an idea of cooperation and teamwork," Saito says. "Among
various types of dance, ballroom dancing is special in that people always dance with
a partner. Children will learn to communicate with their partner and care about them."]
(By Tokiko Oba, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 25, 2006)

Friday, March 24, 2006:
On This Day: March 24 (Georgius Agricola 3/24/1494-11/21/1555, Rufus King 3/24/1755-4/29/1827, Thos. Spencer Baynes 3/24/1823-5/31/1887, William Morris 3/24/1834-10/3/1896, Andrew Mellon 3/24/1855-8/26/1937, Emile Fabre 3/24/1869-9/25/1955, Edward Weston 3/24/1886-1/1/1958, Fatty Arbuckle 3/24/1887-6/30/1933, Wilhelm Reich 3/24/1897-11/3/1957, Thomas E. Dewey 3/24/1902-3/16/1971, Bob Mackie 1940, Curtis Hanson 1945, Louie Anderson 1953, Robet Carradine 1954, Alyson Hannigan 1974)
Largest U.S. Tanker Spill Spews 270,000 Barrels Of Oil Off Alaska (By Philip Shabecoff, March 24, 1989)
* Harry Houdini Dies at 52 After Operations
[3/24/1874-10/31/1926] (NY TIMES, November 1, 1926)

NATIONAL: Red Cross Sifting Internal Charges Over Katrina Aid (By STEPHANIE STROM, Mar. 24, 2006)
Women Wage Key Campaigns for Democrats (By ROBIN TONER, Mar. 24, 2006)
WORLD: Challenge for U.S.: Iraq's Handling of Detainees (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 24, 2006)
NY REGION: Master of Slow and Deliberate at Ground Zero (By CHARLES V. BAGLI, Mar. 24, 2006)
NY REGION: Club Bouncer Is Arraigned in Murder of Graduate Student (By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE & KAREEM FAHIM, Mar. 24, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: Working Hard to Do His Best, Again [Randy Johnson] (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 24, 2006)
NCAA BASKETBALL: Two Freshmen and a Baby Leave Duke Wailing
[Duke was upset by fourth-seeded L.S.U., 62-54, in N.C.A.A. tournament]
(By RAY GLIER, Mar. 24, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Talks for Lucent May Signal End for 90's Symbol (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and KEN BELSON, Mar. 24, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Climate Data Hint at Irreversible Rise in Seas (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 24, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Tiny tweezers can manipulate single molecules
[Kazushi Kinbara of Tokyo University Graduate School of Engineering has developed
3-nanometers-long tweezers and as tiny as one ten-thousandth to one hundred-thousandth
of the thickness of a human hair. The tool is made of organic compounds which expand
and contract responding to light, and structurally similar to scissors and forceps.
The tweezers will gain attention as a tool used in nanotechnology research.
(The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, March 24, 2006)
* SPIRITUAL: In search of enlightenment
[Zazen, or seated meditation, is a rigorous practice by Zen Buddhist ascetics
to attain enlightenment. The Shohozan Myoshinji in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto, holds a
zazen session every Saturday night, from 5:30 p.m to 9 a.m. the following day.]
(By Tatsuya Sakamoto, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, March 24, 2006)

Thursday, March 23, 2006:
On This Day: March 23 (Margaret of Anjou 3/23/1430-8/25/1482, Pierre-Simon Laplace 3/23/1749-3/5/1827, Roger Martin du Gard 3/23/1881-8/22/1958, Juan Gris 3/23/1887-5/11/1927, Sidney Hillman 3/23/1887-7/10/1946, Cedric Gibbons 3/23/1893-7/26/1960, Erich Fromm 3/23/1900-3/18/1980, Marty Allen 1922, Mark Rydell 1934, Chaka Khan 1953, Amanda Plummer 1957, Keri Russell 1976)
Grissom Maneuvers the Gemini as He and Young Make 3 Orbits in Test for a Space Rendezvous
(By Evert Clark, March 23, 1965)
Joan Crawford, Screen Star, Dies at 69 in Manhattan Home
[3/23/1908-5/10/1977] (By PETER B. FLINT, May 11, 1977)

* NATIONAL: Adopted in China, Seeking Identity in America (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Mar. 23, 2006)
Roberts Dissent Reveals Strain Beneath Court's Placid Surface (By LINDA GREENHOUSE, Mar. 23, 2006)
EDUCATION: SAT Problems Even Larger Than Reported (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 23, 2006)
NY REGION: A Coyote Leads a Crowd on a Central Park Marathon (By JAMES BARRON, Mar. 23, 2006)
NY REGION: Mrs. Clinton Says G.O.P.'s Immigration Plan Is at Odds With the Bible (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Mar. 23, 2006)
SPORTS: Tiger Woods Talks About Stutter As Child (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 23, 2006)
EDITORIAL: The Joy of Being Blameless [President Bush] (NY TIMES, Mar. 23, 2006)
* OP-ED: To All the Girls I've Rejected [college admission] (By JENNIFER DELAHUNTY BRITZ, Mar. 23, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | DAVID POGUE: TV Here, There, Everywhere (By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 23, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | Basics: The Bespoke Computer (By LARRY MAGID, Mar. 23, 2006)
STYLE: Paul Bunyan, Modern-Day Sex Symbol (By ERIC WILSON, Mar. 23, 2006)
STYLE: So You Think You Can Just Adopt a Dog? (By ANNA BAHNEY, Mar. 23, 2006)
SCIENCE: Studies Suggest Avian Flu Pandemic Isn't Imminent (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 23, 2006)
HEALTH: Panel Advises Disclosure of Drugs' Psychotic Effects (By GARDINER HARRIS, Mar. 23, 2006)
HEALTH: Panel Urges Lowering of Allowable Fluoride (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 23, 2006)
* DANCE: More than dance [Sankai Juku is welcomed overseas partly because people link
it to the tranquility or mysteriousness thought to be unique to a company from Asia.
(By Kumi Matsumaru, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 23, 2006)
* MUSINGS: Team Japan's miraculous success in winning the World Baseball Classic
[A huge storm hit the ships of Mongolian troops converging Hakata Bay (Fukuoka Prefecture)
in 1281. As many as 4,000 Mongolian war vessels are said to have sunk after they were
slammed by what is called kamikaze, or divine wind. Japanese troops furiously fought
the invaders in bloody battles to prevent them from landing. If the Japanese troops
had not tried desperately to fight off the enemy, no kamikaze would have blown.
The Japanese proverb "Un mo jitsuryoku no uchi" has a Western equivalent:
"Chance favors the prepared mind." Whether in the East or West, it seems the
god of fortune does not abandon those who try their best in difficult times.]
(By Henshu Techo, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 23, 2006)

Wednesday, March 22, 2006:
On This Day: March 22 (Maximilian I 3/22/1459-1/12/1519, Sir Anthony Van Dyck 3/22/1599-12/9/1641, Anton Raphael Mengs 3/22/1728-6/29/1779, Thomas Crawford 3/22/1814-10/10/1857, Robert Millikan 3/22/1868-12/19/1953, Arthur Vandenberg 3/22/1884-4/18/1951, Joseph Schildkraut 3/22/1895-1/21/1964, Ruth Page 3/22/1899-4/7/1991, Johannes Brinkman 3/22/1902-5/6/1949, James Gavin 3/22/1907-2/23/1990, Karl Malden 1912, Marcel Marceau 1923, Allen H. Neuharth 1924, Stephen Sondheim 1930, William Shatner 1931, Orrin Hatch 1934, M. Emmet Walsh 1935, Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948, Fanny Ardant 1949, Bob Costas 1952, Stephanie Mills 1957)
Equal Rights Amendment is Approved by Congress (By Eileen Shanahan, March 22, 1972)
Louis L'Amour, Writer, Is Dead; Famed Chronicler of West Was 80
[3/22/1908-6/10/1988] (By JAMES BARRON, June 13, 1988)

NATIONAL: Bush Concedes Iraq War Erodes Political Status (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 22, 2006)
WORLD | Johannesburg Journal: In the Jungle, the Unjust Jungle, a Small Victory
(By SHARON LaFRANIERE, Mar. 22, 2006)
* WORLD: Anglican Leader Says the Schools Shouldn't Teach Creationism (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 22, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Doctor Will See You for Exactly Seven Minutes (By PETER SALGO, Mar. 22, 2006)
* OP-ED: Called by God to Help (By ROGER MAHONY, Mar. 22, 2006)

Tuesday, March 21, 2006:
On This Day: March 21 (St. Nicholas of Flue 3/21/1417-3/21/1487, Johann S. Bach 3/21/1685-7/28/1750, Benito Juarez 3/21/1806-7/18/1872, Alice Henry 3/21/1857-2/14/1943, Phyllis McGinley 3/21/1905-2/22/1978, John D. Rockefeller III 3/21/1906-7/10/1978, Nizar Qabbani 3/21/1923-4/30/1998, Al Freeman Jr. 1934, Kathleen Widdoes 1939, Marie-Christine Barrault 1944, Timothy Dalton 1944, Gary Oldman 1958, Matthew Broderick 1962, Rosie O'Donnell 1962
The Big Parade: On the Road to Montgomery [9 photos]
(By Roy Reed, March 21, 1965)
Florenz Ziegfeld Dies at 63 in Hollywood After Long Illness
[3/21/1869-7/22/1932] (Associated Press, July 23, 1932)

NATIONAL: 2 Years After Soldier's Death, Family's Battle Is With Army
[Pat Tillman] (By MONICA DAVEY & ERIC SCHMITT, Mar. 21, 2006)
* EDUCATION: In New Twist on College Search, a First Choice, and 20 Backups (By ALAN FINDER, Mar. 21, 2006)
WORLD: New Business Blooms in Iraq: Terror Insurance (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 21, 2006)
BASEBALL Classic: In the End, Japan Outlasts Field to Claim Title of World Champion (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 21, 2006)
OP-ED: Speaking to Tehran, With One Voice (By JESSICA T. MATHEWS, Mar. 21, 2006)
OP-ED: Be Sure Before You Censure [cf. Bush to Andrew Jackson] (By H. W. BRANDS, Mar. 21, 2006)
LETTERS: Hindsight and Foresight on the War (4 Letters) (By David S. Wachsman, et. al., Mar. 21, 2006)
LETTERS: Mr. Spammer: Pay Up or Go Away (or Both) (5 Letters) (By Daniel Barrett, et. al., Mar. 21, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Google Offers Search Service on Finance
[Google said finance.google.com, would distinguish itself by providing stock charts
with interactive qualities like those on its Google Maps service, allowing users
to find deeper or specified layers of data by sliding the cursor.]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 21, 2006)
* BOOKS: Judge Asks Sharp Questions at Close of 'Da Vinci Code' Case
["If he's trying to hide the fact that he's using 'H.B.H.G.' in the synopsis,"
the judge asked, referring to "The Holy Blood, Holy Grail" by its initials,
"what's the point of shouting it out from the rooftops in the book?"]
(By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 21, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY Times, Mar. 21, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Novelist at Work | Allegra Goodman:
Writer Depicts Scientists Risking Glory for Truth and Truth for Glory (By GINA KOLATA, Mar. 21, 2006)
* FINDINGS: For Robots, Fuel Cells That Double as Muscles
[Dr. Ray H. Baughman, University of Texas at Dallas, reported in Science,
that his new muscle fibers double as fuel cells. Just like real muscles,
they power themselves instead of relying on external electrical power.]
(By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 21, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Warbling whales speak a language all their own (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Physorg.com, Mar. 21, 2006)
* HEALTH: Experts Reveal the Secret Powers of Grapefruit Juice (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 21, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Educational Renaissance/ Thinking skills begin with 'Why?' at juku
[A class in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, began with a Japanese translation of a poem by the
famous Chinese poet Tu Fu (712-770). "Kuni yaburete sanga ari," lecturer Satoru Yano, 24,
recited. (The line means, "Though the nation has been defeated, the hills and rivers remain
as they were.") The students repeated the words after him, before writing the lines down.
The course aims at helping children develop "full-scale" thinking skills that enable them
to come up with flexible ideas. In a standard 90-minute class, the first 30 minutes are
dedicated to listening comprehension and speaking— the reciting of the Chinese poem
being one such example. Students also practice deep breathing to improve their concentration,
before moving on to discussion sessions between the lecturer & students on various topics.]
(By Kazuya Sekiguchi, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 21, 2006)

Monday, March 20, 2006:
On This Day: March 20 (Ovid 3/20/43 BC-17 AD, Jean-Antoine Houdon 3/20/1741-7/15/1828, George Caleb Bingham 3/20/1811-7/7/1879, Henrik Ibsen 3/20/1828-5/23/1906, Charles William Eliot 3/20/1834-8/22/1926, B. F. Skinner 3/20/1904-8/18/1990, Sir Michael Redgrave 3/20/1908-3/21/1985, Alfonso Garcia Robles 3/20/1911-9/2/1991, John Ehrlichman 3/20/1925-2/14/1999, Carl Reiner 1922, Fred Rogers 1928, Hal Linden 1931, Don Edwards 1939, Brian Mulroney 1929, Bobby Orr 1948, William Hurt 1950, Spike Lee 1957, Theresa Russell 1957, Holly Hunter 1958, Kathy Ireland 1963)
Terror In Tokyo: Hundreds In Japan Hunt Gas Attackers After 8 Die
(By Nicholas D. Kristof, March 20, 1995)
F. W. Taylor, Expert in Efficiency, Dies at 59
[3/20/1856-3/21/1915] (NY TIMES, March 22, 1915)

* NATIONAL: Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Mar. 20, 2006)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2006)
ADVERTISING: A Magazine's Blitz of Baltimore [The Economist] (By STUART ELLIOTT, Mar. 20, 2006)

Sunday, March 19, 2006:
On This Day: March 19 (Johannes Magnus 3/19/1488-3/22/1544, Alonso Cano 3/19/1601-9/3/1667, Nikolay Gogol 3/19/1809-2/21/1852, David Livingstone 3/19/1813-5/1/1873, Sir Richard Burton 3/19/1821-10/20/1890, Wyatt Earp 3/19/1848-1/13/1929, William Jennings Bryan 3/19/1860-7/26/1925, James Van Fleet 3/19/1892-9/23/1992, Brent Scowcroft 1925, Patrick McGoohan 1928, Hans Kung 1928, Philip Roth 1933, Phyllis Newman 1935, Ursula Andress 1936, Ruth Pointer 1946, Glenn Close 1947)
Senate Defeats Treaty, Vote 49 to 35; Orders it Returned to the President
(NY TIMES, March 19, 1920)
Earl Warren, 83, Who Led High Court In Time of Vast Social Change, Is Dead
[3/19/1891-7/9/1974] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, July 10, 1974)

* Oleg Cassini, Designer for the Stars and Jacqueline Kennedy, Dies at 92 (By RICHARD SEVERO & RUTH LA FERLA, Mar. 19, 2006)
Longtime WABC News Anchor Bill Beutel Dies at 75 (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 19, 2006)
G. William Miller, Former Chairman of Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary, Dies at 81
(By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, Mar. 19, 2006)
Madeleine P. Cosman, 68, Medieval Expert, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Mar. 19, 2006)
John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, Author of Children's Books (By NADINE BROZAN, Mar. 19, 2006)
NATIONAL: White House Disputes Iraq Is Sinking Into Civil War (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Mar. 19, 2006)
Music Landmark Caught in Tug of Priorities After Storm [Milne Boys Home] (By SUSAN SAULNY, Mar. 19, 2006)
Unwed Fathers Fight for Babies Placed for Adoption by Mothers (By TAMAR LEWIN, Mar. 19, 2006)
* WORLD: French Protests Over Youth Labor Law Spread to 150 Cities and Towns (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 19, 2006)
Milosevic Rites Draw a Throng in Serb Capital (By NICHOLAS WOOD & IAN FISHER, Mar. 19, 2006)
Task Force 6-26: Before and After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused Detainees (By ERIC SCHMITT & CAROLYN MARSHALL, Mar. 19, 2006)
Deep in China, a Poor and Pious Muslim Enclave (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 19, 2006)
French Union Threatens Strike Over Labor Law (By JAMES KANTER, Mar. 19, 2006)
Spain Scrambles to Cope With Tide of African Migrants (By RENWICK McLEAN, Mar. 19, 2006)
NY REGION: Demonstrations Mark Third Anniversary of Iraq Invasion (By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, Mar. 19, 2006)
Reporter's Notebook: Could the Pen Be Mightier Than the Mob? Stay Tuned (By ALAN FEUER, Mar. 19, 2006)
SPORTS: Shaun White Follows Olympic Gold With First U.S. Title (By JESSICA McMENAMIN, Mar. 19, 2006)
SPORTS: Shani Davis Has Record Skate [1500 meters in 1 minute, 42.68 seconds]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 19, 2006)
NCAA Basketball | Washington Regional: No Repeat for Tar Heels George Mason wins
(By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 19, 2006)
BASEBALL: Ron Villone Takes Long Way Home to Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 19, 2006)
BASEBALL: Gary Sheffield Says Back Is Against the Wall (By PAT BORZI, Mar. 19, 2006)
FOOTBALL: Terrell Owens Says That He's Wiser, Then Cowboys Make Him Richer (By JUDY BATTISTA, Mar. 19, 2006)
EDITORIAL: The Stuff That Happened (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
OP-CHART: The State of Iraq: An Update (By NINA KAMP, MICHAEL O'HANLON & AMY UNIKEWICZ, Mar. 19, 2006)
OP-ED: A Top-Down Review for the Pentagon (By PAUL D. EATON, Mar. 19, 2006)
* OP-ED: This Essay Breaks the Law (By MICHAEL CRICHTON, Mar. 19, 2006)
* OP-ED: Border War [horticultural world of exotic plants] (By GEORGE BALL, Mar. 19, 2006)
* LETTERS: Believers, Atheists and Morality (5 Letters) (By Rev. Robert Corin Morris, et. al., Mar. 19, 2006)
LETTERS: Leaving Iraq to the Iraqis (2 Letters) (By Bob Corya, et. al., Mar. 19, 2006)
LETTERS: Dashed Hopes for Bush (2 Letters) (By Stephanie Nicholas Acquadro, et. al., Mar. 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
* MARKET WEEK: The March of the Bears May Only Be Starting (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Stocks Rally to Best Week Yet of '06 [Dow, S&P— 5-year highs]
(By JEFF SOMMER, Mar. 19, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms? (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Mar. 19, 2006)
* MEDIA FRENZY: Before Its Time, the Death of a Newspaper Chain (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Mar. 19, 2006)
INVESTING: The Bigger the Better as Large Stocks Regain Favor (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Mar. 19, 2006)
A C.E.O. Who Wouldn't Say 'I Settle' [Gary Kennedy, TenFold] (By JENNY ANDERSON, Mar. 19, 2006)
SPENDING: Fair Prices for Farmers: Simple Idea, Complex Reality (By JENNIFER ALSEVER, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE GOODS: Caring Enough to Stamp 'I Love You' (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE COUNT: Trying to Shed Light on the Muddle of Long-Term Care (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Mar. 19, 2006)
* BOOKS | Off the Shelf: Before There Was Enron, There Was Insull (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Mar. 19, 2006)
SUITS: Black and White, All Over Again (By JANE L. LEVERE, Mar. 19, 2006)
FUNDAMENTALLY: Youth Is Wasted on the Generation Y Investor (By PAUL J. LIM, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE BOSS: A People Engineer [Wolfgang Mayrhuber, CEO Lufthansa] (As told to JANE L. LEVERE., Mar. 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Checking In: New Ways to Stay a Night in Lower Manhattan (By ALISON GREGOR, Mar. 19, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
* ARTS | TV/Radio: Money Changes Everything
[Just before Joan B. Kroc's death in 2003, she arranged
to leave NPR a gift of about $230 million]
(By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 19, 2006)
* ARTS: The Theater of the Street, the Subject of the Photograph (By PHILIP GEFTER, Mar. 19, 2006)
* ART: How to Spot the Kubrick in Edvard Munch (By ANNETTE GRANT, Mar. 19, 2006)
DANCE: Giving Birth to 'Baby,' in Front of Everyone (By GIA KOURLAS, Mar. 19, 2006)
FILM: Pipe Down, We're Trying to Watch a Cartoon (By CHARLES SOLOMON, Mar. 19, 2006)
* MUSIC: How Pop Sounded Before It Popped (By JODY ROSEN, Mar. 19, 2006)
MUSIC: In Search of the Next Great American Opera (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Mar. 19, 2006)
THEATER: Where Have You Gone, Molly Picon? (By ROBERT SIMONSON, Mar. 19, 2006)
TV: Oh, How the Haughty Have Fallen (By JON CARAMANICA, Mar. 19, 2006)
TV | DVD: More Shameless Pandering to That Over-89 Demographic (By CLAIRE DEDERER, Mar. 19, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
Weekends With Dad, Courtesy of D.S.L. (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, Mar. 19, 2006)
* STYLE: A Cartoonist in Despair? Now That's Funny (By MARK DERY, Mar. 19, 2006)
Sex, Lawsuits and Celebrities Caught on Tape (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Mar. 19, 2006)
MODERN LOVE: I Need to Woman Up and Do This on My Own (By ASHA BANDELE, Mar. 19, 2006)
Having a Blast, for a Good Cause (By MAGGIE MASTER, Mar. 19, 2006)
A Night Out With | Kristen Schaal: A Serving of Comedy, Steamed (By WINTER MILLER, Mar. 19, 2006)
Books of Style: Tales of a Party Guy and a 'Swingin' Gal' (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Mar. 19, 2006)
VOWS: Lesley Friedsam and Peter Damisch (By TODD PUSSER, Mar. 19, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE WORLD: Imagine That Iran Had the Bomb Next Door (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 19, 2006)
IDEAS & TRENDS: The Innocent Birth of the Spring Bacchanal (By BILL MARSH, Mar. 19, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: Book, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Words (By NOAM COHEN, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE NATION: But Will They Love Him Tomorrow? [Barack Obama] (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE NATION: Splitting Up, Hollywood-Style, Means a Settlement and a Script
(By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & ALLISON HOPE WEINER, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE NATION: Rift on Immigration Widens for Conservatives and Cardinals (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, Mar. 19, 2006)
THE BASICS: Where the World Won't End in Fire (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 19, 2006)
* READING FILE: Crisp Images With a Blurry Back Story [found photos] (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
LAUGH LINES: Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Standing Corrected (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 19, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: Wonderful World? (By JAMES TRAUB, Mar. 19, 2006)
Questions for Markos Moulitsas Zúniga: Kos Célèbre (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 19, 2006)
Consumed: Values Chain [Mennonite's Ten Thousand Villages] (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 19, 2006)
DIAGNOSIS: Abdominal Attacks (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Mar. 19, 2006)
The Ethicist: Paternal Care (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 19, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE | Wanted: A Few Good Sperm (By JENNIFER EGAN, Mar. 19, 2006)
The Great British-Pakistani-Muslim Hope [Amir Khan] (By PAT JORDAN, Mar. 19, 2006)
Ministers of Debate [Brett O'Donnell, coach of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University]
(By ZEV CHAFETS, Mar. 19, 2006)
SLIDE SHOW: Big Foot Lives! ["monster shoes"] (Portfolio by MILES ALDRIDGE, Mar. 19, 2006)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: As Easy as... [Homemade Birthday Cake] (By, Mar. 19, 2006)
LIVES: The Country Between Us (By KATHIE KLARREICH, Mar. 19, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 19, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE | 'American Theocracy,' by Kevin Phillips: Clear and Present Dangers
(Review by ALAN BRINKLEY, Mar. 19, 2006)
* 'Manliness,' by Harvey C. Mansfield: Who's the Man? (Review by WALTER KIRN, Mar. 19, 2006)
'The White Man's Burden,' by William Easterly: The Poverty Puzzle (Review by VIRGINIA POSTREL, Mar. 19, 2006)
* 'Sound and Fury,' by Dave Kindred: Alter Egotists [Howard Cosell & Muhammad Ali]
(Review by BUDD SCHULBERG, Mar. 19, 2006)
ESSAY: The Chick-Lit Pandemic (By RACHEL DONADIO, Mar. 19, 2006)
* ON POETRY | 'Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems': A 'Neglected' Master
[When we give a prize for "neglected mastery," we aren't just celebrating
a good poet, we're conspicuously correcting a system error.]
(Review by DAVID ORR, Mar. 19, 2006)
'Little Boats, Unsalvaged: Poems, 1992-2004,' by Dave Smith: Haunted Landscapes
["Coming Down in Ohio" is an elegy written for poet William Matthews]
(Review by ERIC McHENRY, Mar. 19, 2006)

Saturday, March 18, 2006:
On This Day: March 18 (Friedrich Nicolai 3/18/1733-1/8/1811, John C. Calhoun 3/18/1782-3/31/1850, Antonio Salviati 3/18/1816-1/25/1890, Rudolf Diesel 3/18/1858-9/29/1913, Neville Chamberlain 3/18/1869-11/9/1940, Chiang Ching-kuo 3/18/1910-1/13/1988, Peter Graves 1926, John Kander 1927, George Plimpton 1927, John Updike 1932, F.W. de Klerk 1936, Charley Pride 1938, Wilson Pickett 1941, Kevin Dobson 1943, Irene Cara 1959, Vanessa Williams 1963, Bonnie Blair 1964, Queen Latifah 1970)
Russian Floats in Space for 10 Minutes; Leaves Orbiting Craft With a Lifeline
(By Henry Tanner, March 18, 1965)
Grover Cleveland Dies at 71; only U.S. president who served two non-concurrent terms
[3/18/1837-6/24/1908] (NY TIMES, June 24, 1908)

John Wilde, 86, Painter of Surreal Comic Images, Dies (By KEN JOHNSON, Mar. 18, 2006)
Ray Meyer, Former DePaul Coach, Dies at 92 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Mar. 18, 2006)
NATIONAL: Testing Errors Prompt Calls for Oversight (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 18, 2006)
WORLD: China May Release Jailed Times Researcher, Lawyer Says (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 18, 2006)
Dutch Autopsy on Milosevic Finds No Evidence of Unusual Drugs (By MARLISE SIMONS & ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Mar. 18, 2006)
News Analysis: The End of Greater Serbia (By NICHOLAS WOOD, Mar. 18, 2006)
NY REGION: A $65 Table, and a Tale to Tell Around It (By ANDY NEWMAN, Mar. 18, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: Just Latin and Asian Treats on the Menu (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 18, 2006)
OP-ED: How I Learned to Love the Wall (By IRSHAD MANJI, Mar. 18, 2006)
OP-ED: The Price of a Safe Landing (By BOB BUCK, Mar. 18, 2006)
LETTERS: Hold the President Accountable (4 Letters) (By Russell Feingold, et. al., Mar. 18, 2006)
Those Nocturnal Adventures on Ambien (5 Letters) (By Waddell Robey, et. al., Mar. 18, 2006)
* BUSINESS | What's Offline: If I Had a Million Dollars (By PAUL B. BROWN, Mar. 18, 2006)
* WHAT'S ONLINE: Telling You So, Again [iTulip.com & stock market bubble] (By DAN MITCHELL, Mar. 18, 2006)
BUSINESS: Opening the Door on the Credit Report and Throwing Away the Lock (By DAMON DARLIN, Mar. 18, 2006)
A Hurricane and Espresso. What's Next? (By LAURA RICH, Mar. 18, 2006)
Softbank to Buy Vodafone's Japan Cellphone Unit for $15 Billion (By MARTIN FACKLER, Mar. 18, 2006)
OFF THE CHARTS: Setting a Dubious Record, Again, but Still Not Out of Line
[U.S. balance-of-payments deficit] (By FLOYD NORRIS, Mar. 18, 2006)
SHORTCUTS | The Allowance: It's Not Just About Money (By ALINA TUGEND, Mar. 18, 2006)
* ART: Picasso's Daughter Says Drawing Is a Fake (By DAPHNÉ ANGLÈS & CAROL KINO, Mar. 18, 2006)
* DANCE | Paul Taylor Dance Company: Paul Taylor as Humorist, Theatricalist and Artist
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 18, 2006)
DANCE | Boston Ballet: In With the New, Four Times, From Mark Morris and Others
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 18, 2006)
DANCE | Mark Morris Dance Group: Sidestepping the Camp in a Work by Stein and Thomson
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 18, 2006)
JAZZ | 'The Magic of Toots': Trading Rubatos With the Virtuoso Who Pioneered Solo Harmonica
(By NATE CHINEN, Mar. 18, 2006)
MUSIC | NY Philharmonic: Young Conductor Enters, Bringing an Infusion of Vitality
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 18, 2006)
MUSIC | Alexander Lonquich: An Original at the Piano Who Features Both Orderliness & Suppleness
(By ALLAN KOZINN, Mar. 18, 2006)
* TV: Satirical Superheroes for the Rude Set (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Mar. 18, 2006)
TV | The TV Watch: Monitoring Indecency, Pushing an Agenda (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 18, 2006)
* FASHION | SLIDE SHOW: Oleg Cassini [Jacqueline Kennedy & Grace Kelly] (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2006)
SCIENCE: Ex-Columbia Student Says Disputed Chemistry Research Is Sound (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 18, 2006)
* SCIENCE: War of the cherry blossoms [This year's predictions of when cherry trees will
begin blossoming throughout Honshu vary widely, with privately owned weather service
Weather News casting doubt over dates announced by the Meteorological Agency.
(The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 18, 2006)

Friday, March 17, 2006:
On This Day: March 17 (Jean-Baptiste Oudry 3/17/1686-4/30/1755, Roger Brooke Taney 3/17/1777-10/12/1864, Kate Greenaway 3/17/1846-11/6/1901, Walter Rudolf Hess 3/17/1881-8/12/1973, Gloria Swanson 3/17/1899-4/4/1983, Nat King Cole 3/17/1919-2/15/1965, Rudolf Nureyev 3/17/1938-1/6/1993, Mercedes McCambridge 1918, Paul Kantner 1941, Jim Weatherly 1943, John Sebastian 1944, Patrick Duffy 1949, Kurt Russell 1951, Lesley-Anne Down 1954, Rob Lowe 1964)
MacArthur in Australia as Allied Commander; Move Hailed as Foreshadowing Turn of Tide (By Charles Hurd, March 17, 1942)
Bobby Jones, Golf Master, Dies at 69; Only Player to Win Grand Slam
[3/17/1902-12/18/1971] (NY TIMES, December 19, 1971)

NATIONAL: Nuclear Reactors Found to Be Leaking Radioactive Water (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 17, 2006)
Diplomatic Memo: Democracy Push by Bush Attracts Doubters in Party (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Mar. 17, 2006)
* Students Flock to Seminaries, but Fewer See Pulpit in Future (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 17, 2006)
WORLD: Kurds Destroy Shrine in Rage at Leadership (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Mar. 17, 2006)
WORLD: U.S. Forces in Big Assault Near Samarra (By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 17, 2006)
WORLD: China Pays Dearly for Kazakhstan Oil (By CHRISTOPHER PALA, Mar. 17, 2006)
Not '68, but French Youths Hear Similar Cry to Rise Up (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, Mar. 17, 2006)
WORLD: Sane Chinese Put in Asylum, Doctors Find (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 17, 2006)
* NY REGION: The Day They Get Their Orders [medical school residencies] (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Mar. 17, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: Bonds Is on Selig's Mind; Decision to Come Later (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 18, 2006)
ON BASEBALL: The Lees of South Korea (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 18, 2006)
SPORTS | Mexico 2, United States 1: United States Runs Out of Chances in Classic
(By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 17, 2006)
OP-ED: Caught Up in DNA's Growing Web (By HARLAN LEVY, Mar. 17, 2006)
OP-ED: When Latvian Eyes Are Smiling (By THOMAS LYNCH, Mar. 17, 2006)
* OP-ED: You've Got Goodmail (By ESTHER DYSON, Mar. 17, 2006)
LETTERS: Should the President Be Censured? (8 Letters) (By Stephen Hall, et. al., Mar. 17, 2006)
BUSINESS: Shares of Blue Chips Rise on News of Mild Inflation
[Dow +43.47, Nasdaq -12.28] (By REUTERS, Mar. 17, 2006)
BUSINESS: Soros Group Said to Be Near Deal for DreamWorks Library (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Mar. 17, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: France Weighs Forcing iPods to Play Other Than iTunes (By THOMAS CRAMPTON, Mar. 17, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Reveals Plan to Take Business From I.B.M. (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 17, 2006)
* ART Exhibition | 'Cosmic Collisions': Crash, Bang, Boom Across the Universe (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 17, 2006)
ART | Samuel Palmer: A Tree-Hugger Ahead of His Time (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 17, 2006)
ART | David Hockney: After a Half-Century, Taking a Census of Hockney's People
(By KEN JOHNSON, Mar. 17, 2006)
ART | 'Snap Judgments': Colorful and Clashing: Looking at Africa (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 17, 2006)
ART | Inside Art: A Colossus Is Camping in the Met's Great Hall (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 17, 2006)
* BOOKS: In the Age of the Overamplified, a Resurgence for the Humble Lecture (By DINITIA SMITH, Mar. 17, 2006)
DANCE | Stan Won't Dance: From Flirtation to Fury: A Nail-Bomber's London Tale
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 17, 2006)
FILM | 'V FOR VENDETTA': Who Is This Masked Avenger?
Guy Fawkes, Count of Monte Cristo or a Clone? (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Mar. 17, 2006)
PHOTOGRAPHY | 'Snap Judgments': Colorful and Clashing: Looking at Africa (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 17, 2006)
TV | 'Modern Men': Sensitive New Age Guys in Training (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 17, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Top Birder Challenges Reports of Long-Lost Woodpecker (By JAMES GORMAN, Mar. 17, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Astronomers Find the Earliest Signs Yet of a Violent Baby Universe
[Results confirms inflation theory that during its first moments, the universe,
fueled by an antigravitational field, underwent a violent growth spurt,
ballooning from submicroscopic to astronomical size in the blink of an eye.]
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 17, 2006)
* VENTURE CAPITAL: Rugs to riches [Saeed Amidi, Palo Alto's Medallion Rug Gallery]
(By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Mar. 17, 2006)

Thursday, March 16, 2006:
On This Day: March 16 (Giuseppe Crespi 3/16/1665-7/16/1747, Caroline Herschel 3/16/1750-1/9/1848, James Madison 3/16/1751-6/28/1836, Antoine-Jean Gros 3/16/1771-6/26/1835, Reza Khan Pahlavi 3/16/1878-7/26/1944, Alberto Gainza Paz 3/16/1899-12/26/1977, Josef Mengele 3/16/1911-2/7/1979, Vladimir Komarov 3/16/1911-2/7/1979, Mike Mansfield 1903, Leo McKern 1920, Jerry Lewis 1926, Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1927, Bernardo Bertolucci 1940, Robin Williams 1947, Erik Estrada 1949, Kate Nelligan 1951)
Vietnamese Say G.I.'s Slew 567 in Town (By Henry Kamm, March 16, 1968)
* Maxim Gorky Dies At Moscow Villa at 68 [3/16/1868-6/14/1936] (NY TIMES, June 19, 1936)

Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal, 93, Who Devised Cancer-Drug Therapy, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Mar. 16, 2006)
Bill Cardoso, 68, Editor Who Coined 'Gonzo', Is Dead (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Mar. 16, 2006)
NATIONAL: Call for Censure Is Rallying Cry to Bush's Base (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 16, 2006)
NATIONAL: With Energy-Tax Bonanza, Wyoming Schools Enjoy Windfall (By KIRK JOHNSON, Mar. 16, 2006)
WORLD: American Raid on Insurgents Kills Civilians in Sunni Town (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Mar. 16, 2006)
NY REGION: Developer Told to Build 9/11 Site or Stand Clear (By CHARLES V. BAGLI & DAVID W. DUNLAP, Mar. 16, 2006)
SPORTS | N.C.A.A. Tournament: 64 Teams Reaching for the Sky (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 16, 2006)
BASEBALL: Postseason Innings Make Pettitte Eye End (By TYLER KEPNER, Mar. 16, 2006)
BASEBALL CLASSIC: South Korea Wins, and Americans Catch a Break (By MURRAY CHASS, Mar. 16, 2006)
FOOTBALL | N.F.L. Roundup: Patriots Lose McGinest as Exodus Continues (By CLIFTON BROWN, Mar. 16, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Sleeping Your Way to a Fuller You (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2006)
* OP-ED: Hop on My Bandwidth (By TIMOTHY B. LEE, Mar. 16, 2006)
* OP-ED: Virus 911 (By STEVEN H. HINRICHS, Mar. 16, 2006)
LETTERS: Time to Scrap the Electoral College? (9 Letters) (By Jack Rakove, et. al., Mar. 16, 2006)
LETTERS: Common Sense 1, Dubai Port Deal 0 (4 Letters) (By Nancy Rossi, et. al., Mar. 16, 2006)
LETTERS: F.B.I. Data Collection (By John Miller, Mar. 16, 2006)
* LETTERS: Mad for Mangoes (By Anita Sharma, Mar. 16, 2006)
BUSINESS: Solid Reports From the Fed and Sears Push Shares Higher
[Dow +58.43, Nasdaq +15.94] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 16, 2006)
Is Business Ready for a Flu Pandemic? (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL and KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 16, 2006)
In Korea, Bureaucrats Lead the Technology Charge (By MARTIN FACKLER, Mar. 16, 2006)
* ADVERTISING: March Madness Afflicts Advertisers (By JULIE BOSMAN, Mar. 16, 2006)
* ARTS: It's Costco, but Is It Picasso? Art Sale in Doubt (By CAROL KINO, Mar. 16, 2006)
ARTS: Southeast Asia, Too, Is on Map of Islamic Art (By JANE PERLEZ, Mar. 16, 2006)
DANCE | Benjamin Millepied & Company: Portrait of Artist as Impresario, and Other Premieres
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Mar. 16, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 16, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: The Shape of Robots to Come [Scoty, the latest robot from
the robotic-toy maker WowWee, demonstrated its functions: managing a personal
computer's communication and entertainment abilities, finding and playing songs
by voice request, recording television shows, telling users when they have e-mail
and, again by voice request, reading the e-mail aloud. It takes and then sends
voice-to-text e-mail dictation. It takes pictures, and gives the time when asked.]
(By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Mar. 16, 2006)
Game Theory: Large-Scale Action in a Tiny Package (By CHARLES HEROLD, Mar. 16, 2006)
Online Shopper: Angling for the Edge in Tennis? Wear Red (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Mar. 16, 2006)
Your TV Is HD, and Now Your Camera Can Be, Too (By JOHN BIGGS, Mar. 16, 2006)
A Device in Your Pocket to Call the Phone in Your Purse (ROY FURCHGOTT, Mar. 16, 2006)
Turning the Television Into an Electronic Easel for Future Mondrians (By WARREN BUCKLEITNER, Mar. 16, 2006)
A Connection Kit for the Laptop, Sized to Fit in the Suitcase (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 16, 2006)
Navigate First, Then Get Into Your Car (By ROY FURCHGOTT, Mar. 16, 2006)
Q. & A.: Missing Messages: A Mystery (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 16, 2006)
SCIENCE: Professor at Columbia Retracts Papers Over Research Questions (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 16, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Math Professor Wins a Coveted Religion Award [John D. Barrow] (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 16, 2006)
* Science briefing: Breakthrough on memory loss
[Johns Hopkins University scientists found a protein when injected
into healthy rats has a detrimental effect on their memory.]
(Financial Times, London, UK, Mar. 16, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Researchers uncover cause of asthma [Harvard's Dale Umetsu & Omid Akbari
found that newly recognized natural killer cells may be the principal cause
of asthma rather than renegade helper cells now thought to be the main culprits.]
(By William J. Cromie, Harvard Gazette, Mar. 16, 2006)
* RELIGION: Faith is only a mouse click away [Religion is a big part of the Web.
Type the word "God" into Google and you'll get a list of 493 million pages.]
(By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, Mar. 16, 2006)

Wednesday, March 15, 2006:
On This Day: March 15 (Franciscus Sylvius 3/15/1614-11/15/1672, Andrew Jackson 3/15/1767-6/8/1845, William Lamb Melbourne 3/15/1779-11/24/1848, Jules Chevalier 3/15/1824-10/21/1907, Emil von Behring 3/15/1854-3/31/1917, Christian Michelsen 3/15/1857-6/28/1925, Harold Ickes 3/15/1874-2/3/1952, Henri Saint Cyr 3/15/1902-7/27/1979, Harry James 3/15/1916-7/5/1983, Alan L. Bean 1932, Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933, Cecil Taylor 1933, Judd Hirsch 1935, Phil Lesh 1940, Mike Love 1941, Sly Stone 1944, Fabio 1961)
Johnson Urges Congress at Joint Session to Pass Law Insuring Negro Vote (By Tom Wicker, March 15, 1965)
* Liberty H. Bailey, Cornell Botanist, Is Dead at 96
[3/15/1858-12/25/1954] (NY TIMES, December 27, 1954)

NATIONAL: Large Oil Spill in Alaska Went Undetected for Days (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 15, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Teenager Has Prize, and Utah's Carp Are Breathing Easier
[Shannon Babb wins Intel Science Talent Search] (By AVI SALZMAN, Mar. 15, 2006)
* OP-ED: Working It Out [educated women: family over career] (By CLAUDIA GOLDIN, Mar. 15, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Study Says Chips in ID Tags Are Vulnerable to Viruses (By JOHN MARKOFF, Mar. 15, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: U.S. Limits Demands on Google (By KATIE HAFNER, Mar. 15, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 15, 2006)
DINING: A Southern Star Rises in the Lowcountry (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Mar. 15, 2006)
DINING: Knock, Knock. It's Indian Comfort Food. (By SHIVANI VORA, Mar. 15, 2006)
THE CHEF: Slices of a Southern Summer (By KIM SEVERSON, Mar. 15, 2006)
* THE MINIMALIST: A Vegetable (Well, Fruit) That Deserves Attention [squash]
(By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 15, 2006)
FOOD STUFF: A Cookie Counter to Set Your Watch By (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Mar. 15, 2006)
SCIENCE: NASA Delays Shuttle Flight by Six Weeks (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 15, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Ice Retreats in Arctic for 2nd Year; Some Fear Most of It Will Vanish (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Mar. 15, 2006)
Math All-Star: San Jose youth places second in Intel competition
[Yi Sun, 17, won $75,000 college scholarship for his discovery of new geometric
properties of random walks in the mathematical field of combinatorics.]
(By Becky Bartindale, San Jose Mercury News, Mar. 15, 2006)

Tuesday, March 14, 2006:
On This Day: March 14 (Georg Philipp Telemann 3/14/1681-6/25/1767, Johann elder Strauss 3/14/1804-9/24/1849, Victor Emmanuel II 3/14/1820-1/9/1878, Giovanni Schiaparelli 3/14/1835-7/4/1910, Paul Ehrlich 3/14/1854-8/20/1915, Casey Jones 3/14/1864-4/30/1900, Algernon Blackwood 3/14/1869-12/10/1951, Sylvia Beach 3/14/1887-10/5/1962, Adolph Gottlieb 3/14/1903-3/4/1974, Raymond Aron 3/14/1905-10/17/1983, Diane Arbus 3/14/1923-7/26/1971, Hank Ketcham 1920, Frank Borman 1928, Michael Caine 1933, Quincy Jones 1933, Wolfgang Petersen 1941, Steve Kanaly 1946, Billy Crystal 1948, Prince Albert 1958)
Gold Now the Standard: President McKinley Signs the Financial Bill (NY TIMES, March 14, 1900)
* Dr. Albert Einstein Dies in Sleep at 76; World Mourns Loss of Great Scientist
[3/14/1879-4/18/1955] (NY TIMES, April 19, 1955)

* Maureen Stapleton, an Actress Honored for Her Powerful, Fiery Presence, Dies at 80 (By ROBERT BERKVIST, Mar. 14, 2006)
NATIONAL: Democrats Beat Quick Retreat on Call to Censure President (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 14, 2006)
WORLD | Mombetsu Journal: A Port's Ice Is Thinning, and So Is Its Tourist Trade
(By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Mar. 14, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Drop Out of the College [Electoral College is an antidemocratic relic]
(NY TIMES, Mar. 14, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Travelers Use Medicines and Rituals to Try to Ward Off Sickness (By CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT, Mar. 14, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 14, 2006)
* SCIENCE ESSAY: Far Out, Man. But Is It Quantum Physics?
[Based on the insights of modern quantum physics, that reality is just a mental construct
that we can rearrange and improve, if we are enlightened or determined enough. Science &
spirituality have tied the knot, and the world is your infinitely deformable apple.]
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, Mar. 14, 2006)
A Rare Predator Bounces Back (Now Get It Out of Here) [Florida panther] (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Mar. 14, 2006)
FINDINGS: In the Deep, Deep Sea, the 'Yeti Crab' (By CORNELIA DEAN, Mar. 14, 2006)
OBSERVATORY: Hot and Fluffy in Yellowstone (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 14, 2006)
* Hot Material Is Discovered in Icy Comets (By WARREN E. LEARY, Mar. 14, 2006)
* A Conversation With John Mutter: Earth Science Meets Social Science (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 14, 2006)
* Russian Princess Stands With Franklin as Comrade of the Enlightenment
[Ekaterina Dashkova] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Mar. 14, 2006)
* HEALTH: Silent Struggle: A New Theory of Pregnancy (By CARL ZIMMER, Mar. 14, 2006)
* Personal Health: Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 14, 2006)
* HEALTH: Study Links Ambien Use to Unconscious Food Forays (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Mar. 14, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Reactions: Applying Math and Counting the Cups (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 14, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Aging: Make Exercise Easier: Just Exercise More (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 14, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Patterns: Health Experts Criticize TV's Medical Coverage (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 14, 2006)
* REALLY | The Claim: Heart Attacks Are More Common on Mondays (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 14, 2006)
CASES: Midnight Conversations With a Two-Headed Mind (By ELISSA ELY, M.D., Mar. 14, 2006)
Nasal Sprays Can Bring on Vicious Cycle (By RICHARD SALTUS, Mar. 14, 2006)
Commentary: Young Doctors Learn Quickly in the Hot Seat (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Mar. 14, 2006)
* BEHAVIOR: Sleep Disorder? Wake Up and Smell the Savanna (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Mar. 14, 2006)
BOOKS ON HEALTH: When Cancer Strikes, a High Achiever Plans (By CORNELIA DEAN, Mar. 14, 2006)
* NATURE IN SHORT: Absorb centuries of history & spectacular nature by hiking up Oyama
[Although only 1,251 meters high, Mt. Oyama stands broad & bulky, an immense pyramid looming
over the flat reaches of the Sagami Plain. Its very name means "big mountain" in Japanese.
The Afuri Shrine that sits on the peak has been first built more than 2,000 years ago.]
(By Kevin Short, The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka, Japan, Mar. 14, 2006)

Monday, March 13, 2006:
On This Day: March 13 (Montdory 3/13/1594-11/10/1653, Charles Bonnet 3/13/1720-5/20/1793, Karl Schinkel 3/13/1781-10/9/1841, William Glackens 3/13/1870-5/22/1938, Albert Stevens 3/13/1886-3/26/1949, Janet Flanner 3/13/1892-11/7/1978, George Seferis 3/13/1900-9/20/1971, William J. Casey 3/13/1913-5/6/1987, Liz Anderson 1930, Jan Howard 1930, Rosalind Elias 1931, Neil Sedaka 1939, William H. Macy 1950, Deborah Raffin 1953, Bobin Duke 1954, Dana Delany 1956, John Hoeven 1957, Adam Clayton 1960, Christopher Collet 1968, Tracy Wells 1971)
Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson (NY TIMES, March 13, 1868)
* Professor Percival Lowell Dies; Martian Theory His
[3/13/1855-11/12/1916] (NY TIMES, November 14, 1916)

* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2006)

Sunday, March 12, 2006:
On This Day: March 12 (André Le Notre 3/12/1613-9/15/1700, Beorge Berkeley 3/12/1685-1/14/1753, Clement Studebaker 3/12/1831-11/27/1901, Gabriele D'Annunzio 3/12/1863-3/1/1938, Vaslav Nijinsky 3/12/1890-4/8/1950, Elaine de Kooning 3/12/1920-2/1/1989, Jack Kerouac 3/12/1922-10/21/1969, Wally Schirra 1923, Edward Albee 1928, Andrew Yound 1932, Lloyd Dobyns 1936, Al Jarreau 1940, Liza Minnelli 1946, James Taylor 1948, Jon Provost 1950, Marlon Jackson 1957, Courtney B. Vance 1960, Darryl Strawberry 1962)
Truman Acts to Save Nations From Red Rule (By Felix Belair Jr., March 12, 1947)
* Adolph S. Ochs Dead at 77; Publisher of Times Since 1896
[3/12/1858-4/8/1935] (NY TIMES, March 12, 1947)

WORLD: A Sharp Debate Erupts in China Over Ideologies (By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 12, 2006)
WORLD: Milosevic Is Found Dead in Cell, U.N. Officials Say (By MARLISE SIMONS and GREGORY CROUCH, Mar. 12, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Fruits of Diplomacy (By MADHUR JAFFREY, Mar. 12, 2006)
BUSINESS: Thanks to Detroit, China Is Poised to Lead (By KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 12, 2006)
* FILM: The Vendetta Behind 'V for Vendetta' [Alan Moore's graphic novels] (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Mar. 12, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 12, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Clean Your Clock (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 12, 2006)

Saturday, March 11, 2006:
On This Day: March 11 (Torquato Tasso 3/11/1544-4/25/1595, Joseph Bertrand 3/11/1822-4/5/1900, Charles Eastlake 3/11/1836-11/20/1906, Vannevar Bush 3/11/1890-6/28/1974, Dorothy Gish 3/11/1898-6/4/1968, Frederick IX 3/11/1899-1/14/1972, Lawrence Welk 3/11/1903-5/17/1992, Harold Wilson 3/11/1916-5/24/1995, Terence Alexander 1923, Rupert Murdoch 1931, Sam Donaldson 1934, Tricia O'Neil 1945, Jerry Zucker 1950, Susan Richardson 1952, Cheryl Lynn 1957)
President Roosevelt Signs, Starts War Aid; To Ask $7,000,000,000 Fund (By Turner Catledge, March 11, 1941)
Ralph David Abernathy, Rights Pioneer, Is Dead at 64
[3/11/1926-4/17/1990] (By RICHARD SEVERO, April 18, 1990)

NATIONAL: Gentrification Changing Face of New Atlanta (By SHAILA DEWAN, Mar. 11, 2006)
WORLD |Saturday Profile: For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats
(By JOHN M. BRODER, Mar. 11, 2006)
EDITORIAL: About That Rebellion ... (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2006)

Friday, March 10, 2006:
On This Day: March 10 (Friedrich von Schlegel 3/10/1772-1/12/1829, Alexander III 3/10/1845-11/1/1894, Henryt W. Fowler 3/10/1858-12/26/1933, Hector Guimard 3/10/1867-5/20/1942, Lillian Wald 3/10/1867-9/1/1940, Bix Beiderbecke 3/10/1903-8/7/1931, Harry Bertoia 3/10/1915-11/6/1978, Ralph Emery 1933, Chuck Norris 1940, Dave Rabe 1940, Dean Torrence 1940, Bob Greene 1947, Sharon Stone 1958, Prince Edward 1964, Shannon Miller 1977)
Chernenko Is Dead in Moscow at 73; Gorbachev Succeeds Him and Urges Arms Control and Economic Vigor
(By Serge Schmemann, March 10, 1985)
* Clare Boothe Luce Dies at 84: Playwright, Politician, Envoy
[3/10/1903-10/9/1987] (By ALBIN KREBS, October 10, 1987)

OP-ED: Israel's Tragedy Foretold (By GERSHOM GORENBERG, Mar. 10, 2006)
OP-ED: A Dark Cloud Over Disclosure (By JIM JEFFORDS & JULIE FOX GORTE, Mar. 10, 2006)
LETTERS: A Blank Check for the President? (8 Letters) (By Carl Tobias, et. al., Mar. 10, 2006)
* ART | 'Klee and America': How Paul Klee's Star Rose in America (By GRACE GLUECK, Mar. 10, 2006)
ART | The Armory Show: The World Tour Rolls Into Town, Sprawling but Tidy (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 10, 2006)
ART| 'William Wegman': Beyond Dogs: Wegman Unleashed (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 10, 2006)
* BOOKS | 'American Green': Why Grass Really Is Always Greener on the Other Side
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Mar. 10, 2006)
FILM | 'GAME 6': Once Up a Time, When the Curse of Bambino Still Lived (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Mar. 10, 2006)
FILM | 'ASK THE DUST': A Writer's Story of Rage, Lust and Oranges (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Mar. 10, 2006)
FILM | 'THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS':
The Harrowing Tales of the Deceitfulness of Hearts From a Highly Deceitful Author
(By MANOHLA DARGIS, Mar. 10, 2006)
FILM CRITIC: A Dose of French Film, Civil and Sane (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 10, 2006)
TV | 'The Sopranos': Brutality and Betrayal, Back With a Vengeance (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 10, 2006)

Thursday, March 9, 2006:
On This Day: March 9 (Modest Mussorgsky 3/9/1839-3/16/1881, Eddie Foy 3/9/1856-2/16/1928, Ernest Bevin 3/9/1881-4/14/1951, Tamara Karsavina 3/9/1885-5/26/1978, Victoria M. Sackville-West Victoia 3/9/1892-6/2/1962, Rex Warner 3/9/1905-6/24/1986, Samuel Barber 3/9/1910-1/23/1981, Mickey Spillane 1918, Lloyd Price 1933, Joyce Van Patten 1934, Marty Ingels 1936, Mickey Gilley 1936, Bobby Fischer 1943, Charles Gibson 1943, Trish Van Devere 1945, Jeffrey Osborne 1948, Michael Kinsley 1951, Linda Fiorentino 1960, Juliette Binoche 1964, Emmanuel Lewis 1971)
* Monitor vs. Merrimac: Desperate Naval Engagements in Hampton Roads (NY TIMES, March 9, 1862)
Yuri Gagarin Killed As Test Plane Falls, Russian 1st Cosmonaut Dies at 34
[3/9/1934-3/27/1968] (NY TIMES, March 28, 1968)

Rodney Strong, 78, Dancer Turned Pioneering California Vintner, Is Dead (By ERIC ASIMOV, Mar. 9, 2006)
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, Ethiopian Poet Laureate, Dies at 69
"In order to bring about a better future, one must learn from the past."]
(By JESSE McKINLEY, Mar. 9, 2006)
NATIONAL: 3 Students Held in Church Fires Set in Alabama (By RICK LYMAN, Mar. 9, 2006)
News Analysis: Suddenly, a Rebellion in the G.O.P. on a Signature Issue (By CARL HULSE, Mar. 9, 2006)
Prosecutors Show Tape at Sept. 11 Trial (By NEIL A. LEWIS, Mar. 9, 2006)
With an Ambitious Agenda, Homeland Security Chief Steers Clear of Fault-Finding (By ERIC LIPTON, Mar. 9, 2006)
EDUCATION: Officials Say Scoring Errors for SAT Were Understated (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 9, 2006)
WORLD: 50 Iraq Workers Abducted at Site Owned by Sunnis (By KIRK SEMPLE, Mar. 9, 2006)
Indian City Shaken by Temple Bombings (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Mar. 9, 2006)
China Attacks Its Woes With an Old Party Ritual (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 9, 2006)
Berlin Journal: Just a Rail Hub? Or a New Sort of Compass for Europe? (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Mar. 9, 2006)
Lawyers Assail Yemeni Editor on Cartoons (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Mar. 9, 2006)
NY REGION: For the City, Selling Snapple Becomes a Glass Half Empty (By SEWELL CHAN, Mar. 9, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Are Papers About to Land or Take Off? (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Mar. 9, 2006)
Soda Sales Fall for First Time in 20 Years (By MELANIE WARNER, Mar. 9, 2006)
* Economic Scene: The Difference Between Men and Women, Revisited: It's About Competition
(By HAL R. VARIAN, Mar. 9, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: Making Necessities Stylish and Getting a Higher Price (By DALIA FAHMY, Mar. 9, 2006)
ARTS: Investigators Point to Images of Relics as a Smoking Gun (By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Mar. 9, 2006)
* ART | 'The Compulsive Line': The Enduring Allure of Scratching on Metal (By GRACE GLUECK, Mar. 9, 2006)
ART CRITIC: Yes, an Escape From Stifling Cubicles and a Clueless Boss (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 9, 2006)
FILM: The Lawsuit Over Producer Credit for 'Crash' Gets Personal (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 9, 2006)
FILM | 'FAILURE TO LAUNCH': Visitors From the Planet of Romantic Comedy (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Mar. 9, 2006)
MUSIC: Labels Halt Downloads to Increase CD Sales (By JEFF LEEDS, Mar. 9, 2006)
MUSIC: An Artistic Trek Across a Surreal Land of Sand and Self-Discovery (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Mar. 9, 2006)
MUSIC CRITIC: A Reggae Star Forged in the Dancehall Furnace (By KELEFA SANNEH, Mar. 9, 2006)
OPERA | Metropolitan Opera: From a Galaxy Far Far Away, Tchaikovsky's Ivan the Rebel
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 9, 2006)
OPERA | 'The Most Happy Fella': With Loesser's Complete Score,
That Most Generous Soul Is Celebrated Again, Vibrantly
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 9, 2006)
TV: Trying to Turn Elaine Into Christine (By MARGY ROCHLIN, Mar. 9, 2006)
SCIENCE: Scientist Says He Stands by Fusion Data (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 9, 2006)

Wednesday, March 8, 2006:
On This Day: March 8 (Giovanni Rosso 3/8/1495-11/14/1540, Carl P.E. Bach 3/8/1714-12/14/1788, William B. Booth 3/8/1856-6/16/1929, Ruggero Leoncavallo 3/8/1857-8/9/1919, Frederic Goudy 3/8/1865-5/11/1947, Otto Hahn 3/8/1879-7/28/1968, Edward Calvin Kendall 3/8/1886-5/4/1972, Louise Beavers 3/8/1902-10/26/1962, Sue Ane Langdon 1936, Jim Bouton 1939, Lynn Redgrave 1943, Andrea Parker 1969)
Hunger Causes Petrograd Riots (NY TIMES, March 8, 1917)
* Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Dies Near 94
[3/8/1841-3/6/1935] (NY TIMES, March 6, 1935)

* Gordon Parks, a Master of the Camera, Dies at 93 (By ANDY GRUNDBERG, Mar. 8, 2006)
EDUCATION: Technical Problems Cause Errors in SAT Test Scores (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Mar. 8, 2006)
* SPORTS | BASEBALL: Jealousy Led Bonds to Steroids, Authors Say (By JACK CURRY, Mar. 8, 2006)
EDITORIAL: They Came for the Chicken Farmer (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2006)
EDITORIAL: The Call of the Wild Web [$67 billion megamerger between AT&T & BellSouth]
(NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2006)
LETTERS: Do Americans Want to Go It Alone? (4 Letters) (By James Ivy, et. al., Mar. 8, 2006)
LETTERS: Models Without Faces (By Vandhana Rao, Mar. 8, 2006)
OP-ED: Iraq's Little Armies (By MATT SHERMAN, Mar. 8, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Greenspan's Book Deal Is Said to Be Among the Richest (By EDWARD WYATT, Mar. 8, 2006)
DAVID LEONHARDT: Sad Suspicions About Scores in Basketball (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Mar. 8, 2006)
* The Wild Web of China: Sex and Drugs, Not Reform (By DAVID BARBOZA, Mar. 8, 2006)
* Forecast Put on Web in Error, Google Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 8, 2006)
FILM | 'THE NEIGHBOR NO. THIRTEEN': A Nice Guy, if You Ignore That Killer Alter Ego
(By NATHAN LEE, Mar. 8, 2006)
MUSIC: English Singer With the Slithery Soul Groove of American Rhythm and Blues
(By BEN SISARIO, Mar. 8, 2006)
TV | 'Black. White.': Reality TV for Those Infatuated With Passing (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Mar. 8, 2006)
TV | 'America's Next Top Model'; 'Top Chef': Walking the Runway Walk, Mile After Mile
(By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 8, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 8, 2006)
FOOD: For Trader Joe's, a New York Taste Test (By JULIA MOSKIN, Mar. 8, 2006)
The Chef: Ken Smith: Rhapsody in Roux: A New Orleans Classic (By KIM SEVERSON, Mar. 8, 2006)
The Minimalist: When There's Only Snow on the Grill (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 8, 2006)
* HEALTH: Some Sleeping Pill Users Range Far Beyond Bed (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Mar. 8, 2006)

Tuesday, March 7, 2006:
On This Day: March 7 (Alessandro Manzoni 3/7/1785-5/22/1873, Sir John Herschel 3/7/1792-5/11/1871, Giuseppe Ferrari 3/7/1811-6/2/1876, Henry Draper 3/7/1837-11/20/1882, Tomas Masaryk 3/7/1850-9/14/1937, Julius Wagner-Jauregg 3/7/1857-9/27/1940, Piet Mondrian 3/7/1872-2/1/1944, Helen Parkhurst 3/7/1887-6/1/1973, Anna Magnani 3/7/1908-9/26/1973, Lord Snowdon 1930, Willard Scott 1934, Daniel J. Travanti 1940, Michael Eisner 1942, John Heard 1946, Franco Harris 1950, Lynn Swann 1952, Ivan Lendl 1960)
Alabama Police Use Gas and Clubs to Rout Negroes (By Roy Reed, March 7, 1965)
* Maurice Ravel, 62, Composer, Is Dead [3/7/1875-12/28/1937] (NY TIMES, December 29, 1937)

* ART: Revising Art History's Big Book: Who's In and Who Comes Out? (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 7, 2006)
FILM CRITIC'S CHOICE: New DVD's [Otto Preminger's 1945 Fallen Angel]
(By DAVE KEHR, Mar. 7, 2006)
TV | 'The Unit' and 'Sons & Daughters': Big Names, Biting Talk in Disparate Settings
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 7, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 7, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 7, 2006)
HEALTH: Many Couples Must Negotiate Terms of 'Brokeback' Marriages (By KATY BUTLER, Mar. 7, 2006)
* HEALTH | REALLY?: The Claim: TV Shortens Children's Attention Spans (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 7, 2006)

Monday, March 6, 2006:
On This Day: March 6 (John II 3/6/1405-7/21/1454, Michelangelo 3/6/1475-2/18/1564, Cyrano de Bergerac Savinien 3/6/1619-7/28/1655, Henry Laurens 3/6/1724-12/8/1792, Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3/6/1806-6/29/1861, George duMaurier 3/6/1834-10/6/1896, Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolay 3/6/1844-6/8/1908, Oscar Straus 3/6/1870-1/11/1954, Ed McMahon 1923, Sarah Caldwell 1924, William Webster 1924, Alan Greenspan 1926, Doug Dillard 1937, Valentina Tereshkova 1937, Joanna Miles 1940, Ben Murphy 1942, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 1944, Mary Wilson 1944, Tom Arnold 1959, Moira Kelly 1968)
Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case (NY TIMES, March 6, 1857)
Ring Lardner Dies at 48; Noted as Writer
[3/6/1885-9/25/1933] (By ERIC PACE, September 26, 1933)

* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2006)
DANCE | Pennsylvania Ballet: A Lyrical Yet Plainspoken World
as It Might Look Through Benjamin Franklin's Bifocals (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Mar. 6, 2006)
FILM: 'Crash' Walks Away With the Top Prize at the Oscars (By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & DAVID CARR, Mar. 6, 2006)
FILM: List of 2006 Academy Award Winners and Nominees (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2006)
FILM | SLIDE SHOW: Scenes from the 78th Oscars 2006 (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2006)
FILM | SLIDE SHOW: Red Carpet Fashion from the 78th Oscars 2006 (NY TIMES, Mar. 6, 2006)
THE TV WATCH: The Dresses, Low Cut, but the Tones Were Lofty (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Mar. 6, 2006)

Sunday, March 5, 2006:
On This Day: March 5 (Gerardus Mercator 3/5/1512-12/2/1594, Jan van der Heyden 3/5/1637-3/28/1712, Giovanni Tiepolo 3/5/1696-3/27/1770, Lady Augusta Gregory 3/5/1852-5/22/1932, Howard Pyle 3/5/1853-11/9/1911, Rosa Luxemburg 3/5/1871-1/15/1919, Arthur Schendel 3/5/1874-9/11/1946, Edouard Belin 3/5/1876-3/4/1963, Heitor Villa-Lobos 3/5/1887-11/17/1959, James Noble 1922, Dean Stockwell 1936, Fred Williamson 1938, Eugene Fodor 1950, Niki Taylor 1975, Jake Lloyd 1989)
Churchill Assails Soviet Policy [Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri]
(By Harold B. Hinton, March 5, 1946)
* Rex Harrison, a Leading Man With Urbane Wit, Dies at 82
[3/5/1908-6/2/1990] (By ERIC PACE, June 3, 1990)

NATIONAL: At Satellite Courthouses, 9/11 Relatives Will Watch Moussaoui's Sentencing
(By NEIL A. LEWIS, Mar. 5, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Schools Avoid Class Ranking, Vexing Colleges (By ALAN FINDER, Mar. 5, 2006)
WORLD: Torture and Death of Jew Deepen Fears in France (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Mar. 5, 2006)
WORLD | News Analysis: U.S. Gives India Applause, Pakistan a Pat on the Back (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Mar. 5, 2006)
Chinese Premier Pledges Help for the Rural Poor, Playing Down Growth of Military Spending
(By JOSEPH KAHN, Mar. 5, 2006)
Bird Flu Fears and New Rules Rattle German Pet Lovers (By CARTER DOUGHERTY, Mar. 5, 2006)
* NY REGION | An Imam in America: A Muslim Leader in Brooklyn, Reconciling 2 Worlds
(By ANDREA ELLIOTT, Mar. 5, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Iran's Best Friend (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: And This Year's Oscar Goes to ... a Movie That Takes a Stand (By, Mar. 5, 2006)
OP-ED: Principles Defeat Politics at the U.N.
(By JIMMY CARTER, ÓSCAR ARIAS, KIM DAE JUNG, SHIRIN EBADI & DESMOND TUTU, Mar. 5, 2006)
OP-ED: The Producers (By PETER GUBER, Mar. 5, 2006)
* OP-ED: Black Shrouds and Black Markets [Alistair Cooke] (By SUSAN COOKE KITTREDGE, Mar. 5, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
MARKET WEEK: When Good News Is Bad News (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Mar. 5, 2006)
BUSINESS: AT&T to Buy BellSouth, Creating Telecom Giant (By KEN BELSON, Mar. 5, 2006)
* The King's Legacy, All Shook Up [Robert F. X. Sillerman paid $100 million
for rights to Elvis Presley's name] (By JULIE BOSMAN, Mar. 5, 2006)
ECONOMIC VIEW: The Search for Illegal Immigrants Stops at the Workplace (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 5, 2006)
Is the Pen as Mighty as the Joystick? (By MATT RICHTEL, Mar. 5, 2006)
* TALKING MONEY: Cleaning Up Messes, Friend to Friend [Suze Orman] (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Mar. 5, 2006)
FUNDAMENTALLY: Beware of Slam-Dunks in the Bond Market (By PAUL J. LIM, Mar. 5, 2006)
A Successor for Buffett Is Reported [Berkshire Hathaway] (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Mar. 5, 2006)
MEDIA FRENZY: How Much Profit Is Lurking in That Cellphone? (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Mar. 5, 2006)
THE COUNT: 'Everybody' Has It? Check the Facts to Make Sure (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Mar. 5, 2006)
* THE GOODS: A Vase That's Accidental Art (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Mar. 5, 2006)
ON THE CONTRARY: Why Rules Can't Stop Executive Greed (By DANIEL AKST, Mar. 5, 2006)
SPENDING: That Grand Prix Thrill, Costing Many Grand Less (By ANNE EISENBERG, Mar. 5, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Mar. 5, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
* ARTS: The Collective Conscious (By HOLLAND COTTER, Mar. 5, 2006)
* ARTS | Close Reading: Military Maneuvers With Computer and Color (By HILARIE M. SHEETS, Mar. 5, 2006)
DANCE | Press Rewind: It's Mark Morris in Miniature (By TOBI TOBIAS, Mar. 5, 2006)
FILM: Hollywood's Crowd Control Problem (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Mar. 5, 2006)
FILM: Filming Los Angeles From the Gutter Up (By CHARLES McGRATH, Mar. 5, 2006)
MUSIC: Ramblin' Man and Woman, Married With Kids (By JESSE FOX MAYSHARK, Mar. 5, 2006)
* MUSIC: Conduct With All You've Got, Conk Out During Intermission [Valery Gergiev]
(By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Mar. 5, 2006)
THEATER: The Cat Ladies Sing (By CHARLES McGRATH, Mar. 5, 2006)
THEATER: So Many Musicals to Write, So Little Time (By JESSE GREEN, Mar. 5, 2006)
TV: Dr. Who 2: Sexed-Up British Intelligence (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Mar. 5, 2006)
TV | Characters: This Is the Tale of Our Castaways (By JOYCE MILLMAN, Mar. 5, 2006)
TV | The Conversation: Go Ahead, Turn That Thing On (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 5, 2006)
FASHION: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
FASHION DIARY: All Wrapped Up in Reassurance (By GUY TREBAY, Mar. 5, 2006)
* STYLE: Hooked on Online Psychics (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Mar. 5, 2006)
Stepping Out of Hollywood's Dressing Room (By RUTH LA FERLA, Mar. 5, 2006)
MODERN LOVE: A Girl Could Get Cornered in a Tiny House (By XENI FRAGAKIS, Mar. 5, 2006)
At Saint Laurent, a Blueprint for the Future (By CATHY HORYN, Mar. 5, 2006)
* FASHION: ... And Next I Want to Thank My Hairstylist and Makeup Artist (By IRENE LACHER, Mar. 5, 2006)
A Night Out With | Jeffrey Best: Life Is One Big Party (By, Mar. 5, 2006)
POSSESSED: The Scent of a Man (By DAVID COLMAN, Mar. 5, 2006)
VOWS: Priya Sachdev and Vikram Chatwal (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Mar. 5, 2006)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
* JOURNEYS: At These Parisian Landmarks, Shhh Is the Word (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Mar. 5, 2006)
TRAVEL | GOING TO: Vienna (By ANN M. MORRISON, Mar. 5, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
HANGING IN: He's Battered, but His Agenda Isn't Beaten [Bush] (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Mar. 5, 2006)
Why So Starry-Eyed?: Misery Loves Optimism in Africa (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Mar. 5, 2006)
THE WORLD: We Are (Aren't) Safer With India in the Nuclear Club (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 5, 2006)
THE NATION: Waiting for the Kingfish in New Orleans (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Mar. 5, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: The Ads Discriminate, but Does the Web? (By ADAM LIPTAK, Mar. 5, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: The Obscure and Uncertain Semiotics of Fashion (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, Mar. 5, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: The Art of Building a Robot to Love
[Dr. Bartneck's robot, called eMuu, is a teardrop-shaped cyclops that can
arch its eyebrow and mouth to express anger, happiness or sadness.]
(By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 5, 2006)
* THE BASICS: 50 Is Just a Short Stop From 40 (By BILL FINLEY, Mar. 5, 2006)
READING FILE: Imagining Assassination (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
Q & A | The Mafia, Circa 2006: Will the Real Mob Please Stand Up (By, Mar. 5, 2006)
LAUGH LINES: Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: It Is What It Is (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 5, 2006)
Freakonomics: Endangered Species [Real-estate agents] (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER & STEVEN D. LEVITT, Mar. 5, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: The For-Sale Society [Real Estate Issue] (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)
SPECULATOR: Après Le Deluge, Moi [New Orleans' Donald Trump?] (By GARY RIVLIN, Mar. 5, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 5, 2006)

Saturday, March 4, 2006:
On This Day: March 4 (Henry the Navigator 3/4/1394-11/13/1460, Antonio Vivaldi 3/4/1678-7/28/1741, Sir Henry Raeburn 3/4/1756-7/8/1823, Aleksandr Popov 3/4/1859-12/31/1905, Enrique Larreta 3/4/1875-7/7/1961, Richard Tolman 3/4/1881-9/5/1948, Pearl Fay White 3/4/1889-8/4/1938, Charles Goren 3/4/1901-4/3/1991, George Gamow 3/4/1904-8/19/1968, Paula Prentiss 1939, Adrian Lyne 1941, Bobby Womack 1944, Scott Hicks 1953, Kay Lenz 1953, Catherine O'Hara 1954, Patricia Heaton 1959, Jason Newsted 1963, Patsy Kensit 1968, Chastity Bono 1969)
Roosevelt Names Last of Cabinet [1st woman in the Cabinet: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins]
(By James A. Hagerty, March 4, 1933)
Knute Rocke Dies with Seven Others in Mail Plane Dive
[3/4/1888-3/31/1931] (By ROBERT F. KELLEY, April 1, 1931)

NATIONAL: Vermont Losing Prized Resource as Young Depart (By PAM BELLUCK, Mar. 4, 2006)
WORLD: Bush, in High-Tech Center, Urges Americans to Welcome Competition From India
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Mar. 4, 2006)
BUSINESS | What's Offline: The Long Studio Decline (PAUL B. BROWN, Mar. 4, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: BlackBerry Service to Continue (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 4, 2006)
* ARTS: Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Stand Up? (By ALAN RIDING, Mar. 4, 2006)
* ARTS: Digital Methods Help Replicate Artworks (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 4, 2006)
ARTS | Last Chance: Mixing Fact and Fiction to Open Up Larger Reality (By ROBERTA SMITH, Mar. 4, 2006)
TV | 'Little People, Big World': The Challenges of an Oversize World (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 4, 2006)

Friday, March 3, 2006:
On This Day: March 3 (Thomas Otway 3/3/1652-4/14/1685, George Pullman 3/3/1831-10/19/1897, Sir John Murray 3/3/1841-3/16/1914, Matthew Ridgway 3/3/1895-7/26/1993, Jean Harlow 3/3/1911-6/7/1937, James Merrill 3/3/1926-2/6/1995, James Doohan 1920, Miranda Richardson 1958, Mary Page Keller 1961, Jackie Joyner-Kersee 1962, Julie Bowen 1970)
Police Brutality Under Wide Review by Justice Dept. (By Neil A. Lewis, March 3, 1991)
* Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies at 85
[3/3/1847-8/2/1922] (NY TIMES, August 3, 1922)

ADVERTISING: The Bright Side of Industry Upheaval (By JULIE BOSMAN, Mar. 3, 2006)
FILM CRITIC: Hype-Week Patter as the Oscars Near (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Mar. 3, 2006)
FILM: One Last Best Shot at Calling the Oscars (By DAVID CARR, Mar. 3, 2006)
FILM: After an Oscar Nomination, Everybody Loves You (at Least for a While) (By LORNE MANLY, Mar. 3, 2006)
TRAVEL | 36 HOURS: SoMa, San Francisco (By JOSH SENS, Mar. 5, 2006)

Thursday, March 2, 2006:
On This Day: March 2 (Adrian VI 3/2/1459-9/14/1523, DeWitt Clinton 3/2/1769-2/11/1828, Sam Huston 3/2/1793-7/26/1863, Bedrich Smetana 3/12/1824-5/12/1884, John Jay Chapman 3/2/1862-11/4/1933, Pius XII 3/2/1876-10/9/1958, Kurt Weill 3/2/1900-4/3/1950, Edward Condon 3/2/1902-3/26/1974, Geoffrey Grigson 3/2/1905-11/25/1985, Ernst Haas 3/2/1921-9/12/1986, Jennifer Jones 1919, Doc Watson 1913, Mikhail Gorbachev 1931, Tom Wolfe 1931, John Irving 1942, Jay Osmond 1955)
President-Elect Hayes Arrives in Washington (NY TIMES, March 2, 1877)
* Dr. Seuss, Modern Mother Goose, Dies at 87
[3/2/1904-9/24/1991] (By ERIC PACE, September 26, 1991)

* FILM | THE TEASE: For Your Consideration: Sappy Hallmark Moments (By CARYN JAMES, Mar. 2, 2006)

Wednesday, March 1, 2006:
On This Day: March 1 (Antoninus 3/1/1389-5/2/1459, Simon Foucher 3/1/1644-4/27/1696, William Maxwell Cushing 3/1/1732-9/13/1810, Frederic Chopin 3/1/1810-10/17/1849, Augustus Saint-Gaudens 3/1/1848-8/3/1907, Lytton Strachey 3/1/1880-1/21/1932, Glenn Miller 3/1/1904-12/16/1944, David Niven 3/1/1909-7/29/1983, Robert Lowell 3/1/1917-9/12/1977, William Maxwell Gaines 3/1/1922-6/3/1992, Donal "Deke" Slayton 3/1/1924-6/13/1993, Pete Rozelle 3/1/1926-12/6/1996, Harry Belafonte 1927, Robert Conrad 1935, Judith Rossner 1935, Alan Thicke 1947, Catherine Bach 1954, Ron Howard 1954)
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped From Home of Parents on Farm Near Princeton
(NY TIMES, March 1, 1932)
Assassination in Israel; Yitzhak Rabin, 73, an Israeli Soldier Turned Prime Minister and Peacemaker
[3/1/1922-11/4/1995] (By MARILYN BERGER, November 5, 1995)

WORLD: Beijing Accuses Taiwan Leader of 'Grave Provocation' (By JOSEPH KAHN & KEITH BRADSHER, Mar. 1, 2006)
ON EDUCATION: School Drama Coach Owns a Little Bit of Oscar Night (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Mar. 1, 2006)
FASHION DIARY: Woman Masked, Bagged and, Naturally, Feared (By GUY TREBAY, Mar. 1, 2006)