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

Saturday, March 31, 2007:
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)

Friday, March 30, 2007:
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)

Thursday, March 29, 2007:
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)

* HOME & GARDEN: It's Not You, It's Your Apartment (By JOYCE WADLER, Mar. 29, 2007)

Wednesday, March 28, 2007:
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)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007:
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)

* PERSONAL HEALTH: You Are Also What You Drink (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 27, 2007)

Monday, March 26, 2007:
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: Poor Behavior Is Linked to Time in Day Care (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 26, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Aged, Frail and Denied Care by Their Insurers (By CHARLES DUHIGG, Mar. 26, 2007)

Sunday, March 25, 2007:
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)

* BUSINESS: Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don't Read This in Traffic (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 25, 2007)
* TRAVEL: ASIA > INDIA > NEW DELHI; India Made Easy (By JONATHAN ALLEN, Mar. 25, 2007)

Saturday, March 24, 2007:
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)

Friday, March 23, 2007:
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)

Thursday, March 22, 2007:
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)

* SPORTS: For Hackers, Brackets Present a Challenge of a Different Kind (By MICHAEL WEINREB, Mar. 22, 2007)
* ART: High Hopes for a Rothko Painting at Auction (By CAROL VOGEL, Mar. 22, 2007)
ARCHITECTURE | IAC headquarters: Gehry's New York Debut: Subdued Tower of Light
(By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Mar. 22, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY | PHOTOGRAPHY: Tweaking the Zoom (By IAN AUSTEN, Mar. 22, 2007)
HOME & GARDEN: The Year Without Toilet Paper (By PENELOPE GREEN, Mar. 22, 2007)

Wednesday, March 21, 2007:
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: F.B.I. Is Warned Over Its Misuse of Data Collection (By SCOTT SHANE, Mar. 21, 2007)
NATIONAL: Star in New Role, Gore Revisits Old Stage (By MARK LEIBOVICH & PATRICK HEALY, Mar. 21, 2007)
* NATIONAL: Drug Rule Seeks a Limit to Role of Paid Advisers (By GARDINER HARRIS, Mar. 21, 2007)
NATIONAL: Family Hearth Moves to the Backyard (By CHRISTOPHER MAAG, Mar. 21, 2007)
NATIONAL: Prevalence of Alzheimer's Rises 10% in 5 Years (By JANE GROSS, Mar. 21, 2007)
* WORLD: San Fernando de Apure Journal: In Venezuela, Rodents Can Be a Delicacy
(By SIMON ROMERO, Mar. 21, 2007)
NY REGION: An Elite ZIP Code Becomes Harder to Crack [10021] (By SAM ROBERTS, Mar. 21, 2007)
* SPORTS: High School Star O.J. Mayo Boosts U.S.C. Before He Arrives (By LEE JENKINS, Mar. 21, 2007)
EDITORIAL: What People Really Need [the truth] (NY TIMES, Mar. 21, 2007)
OP-ED: Why I Was Fired (By DAVID C. IGLESIAS, Mar. 21, 2007)
* OP-ART: Spring [Artist celebrates the vernal equinox] (By Kiki Smith, Mar. 21, 2007)
* LETTERS: My 8th-Grade Teacher's Excellent Adventure (5 Letters) (NY TIMES, Mar. 21, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Inside Japan's Puzzle Palace [Sudoku's Maki Kaji] (By MARTIN FACKLER, Mar. 21, 2007)
* MEDIA & ADVERTISING | Google Tests an Ad Idea: Pay Only for Results
[Google will allow advertisers to pay only when an ad spurs a consumer
to take an action, be it purchasing a product, subscribing to a newsletter
or signing up to receive a quote from a mortgage broker or car dealer.]
(By MIGUEL HELFT, Mar. 21, 2007)
* ARTS: Despite Foes, Buffalo Museum Makes $18 Million in Auction (By RANDY KENNEDY, Mar. 21, 2007)
* TV: A Radio Host Tries His Voice on Television [Ira Glass, "This American Life"]
(By DAVID CARR, Mar. 21, 2007)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 21, 2007)
FOOD: Tortillas Like Mamá's, but This Is No Bodega (By KIM SEVERSON, Mar. 21, 2007)
FOOD: For Orange Zest, Substitute Kool-Aid (By CELIA BARBOUR, Mar. 21, 2007)
THE MINIMALIST: Spanish for Pain Perdu (By MARK BITTMAN, Mar. 21, 2007)
A GOOD APPETITE: In Case of Emergency, Extract Sausage From Freezer, and Enjoy (By MELISSA CLARK, Mar. 21, 2007)
DINING: It Boils Down to This: Cheap Wine Works Fine (By JULIA MOSKIN, Mar. 21, 2007)
HEALTH: Study Finds Brain Injury Changes Moral Judgment (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 21, 2007)

Tuesday, March 20, 2007:
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)

* John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies (By STEVE LOHR, Mar. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: Material Shows Weakening of Climate Reports (By ANDREW C. REVKIN & MATTHEW L. WALD, Mar. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: New E-Mail Gives Details on Attorney Dismissals (By DAVID JOHNSTON & JOHN M. BRODER, Mar. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: Tests by Pet Food Maker Killed 7 Animals Before Recall (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Mar. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: Army Brigade Finds Itself Stretched Thin (By DAVID S. CLOUD, Mar. 20, 2007)
NATIONAL: Money Looms in Episcopalian Rift With Anglicans (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN & NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 20, 2007)
* NY REGION | Lumberton Journal: A South Jersey Town Emerges as a Hub of E-Commerce
(By JONATHAN BERR, Mar. 20, 2007)
EDITORIAL: Students' Right to Free Speech (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2007)
BUSINESS: Airbus Superjumbo Takes a Lap Around America (By LESLIE WAYNE, Mar. 20, 2007)
WORLD BUSINESS: Nowadays, Angola Is Oil's Topic A (By JAD MOUAWAD, Mar. 20, 2007)
* ARTS: Communist Party USA Gives Its History to N.Y.U. (By PATRICIA COHEN, Mar. 20, 2007)
FILM: Film Has Two Versions; Only One Is Julie Taymor's (By SHARON WAXMAN, Mar. 20, 2007)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 20, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Snowflakes as Big as Frisbees? (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 20, 2007)
* Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 20, 2007)
* The Scientific Promise of Perfect Symmetry (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 20, 2007)
* GRAPHIC: A rendering of the most complicated group, the 57-dimensional E8. (By Peter McMullen, Mar. 20, 2007)
* Piecing Together the Clues of an Old Collision, Iceball by Iceball (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 20, 2007)
* Skilled Ear for Music May Help Language (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 20, 2007)
* BASICS: The Tilted Earth at Its 'Equal Night of Spring' (By NATALIE ANGIER, Mar. 20, 2007)
* SCIENCE Q & A: The Fats in Nuts (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 20, 2007)
HEALTH ESSAY: Tracing the Cigarette's Path From Sexy to Deadly (By HOWARD MARKEL, M.D., Mar. 20, 2007)
In Testing for Allergies, a Single Shot May Suffice (By LAURIE TARKAN, Mar. 20, 2007)
CASES: Seeds of Compassion, Buried but Not Gone (By SALIN A. DAHLBEN, M.D., Mar. 20, 2007)
DOCTOR'S WORLD: Rise of a Deadly TB Reveals a Global System in Crisis (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Mar. 20, 2007)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: An Operation That Made Everything Clear (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 20, 2007)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Stress Can Cause Acne (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 20, 2007)
* VITAL SIGNS | Exercise: Working Out the Memory as Well as the Muscles (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 20, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Money: Financial Troubles Can Affect the Heart (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 20, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Disparities: Secondhand Smoke Effects May Vary in Children
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Mar. 20, 2007)

Monday, March 19, 2007:
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)

NATIONAL: In New Hampshire, Towns Put Climate on the Agenda (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Mar. 19, 2007)
NATIONAL: Partner Adopted by an Heiress Stakes Her Claim [IBM's Watson] (By PAM BELLUCK & ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Mar. 19, 2007)
* OP-ED: Your Brain on Baseball (By DAVID BROOKS, Mar. 19, 2007)
BUSINESS: Pet Food Is Recalled After Link to Animal Deaths (By SAUL HANSELL, Mar. 19, 2007)

Sunday, March 18, 2007:
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)

* BUSINESS: The Barefoot Impresario [food books] (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, Mar. 18, 2007)
REAL ESTATE: Buying With Help From Mom and Dad (By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY, Mar. 18, 2007)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2007)
* TV: All Creatures Great, Small ... and Endangered (By MICHAEL SLENSKE, Mar. 18, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2007)
PRACTICAL TRAVELER | Getting There: How to Cut the High Cost of Flying to Africa
(By MICHELLE HIGGINS, Mar. 18, 2007)
* HEALTH: Facing Life With a Lethal Gene (By AMY HARMON, Mar. 18, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2007)
BEYOND NUKES: Cleaning Up the 20th Century (By JIM YARDLEY, Mar. 18, 2007)
* PRESIDENTIAL RÉSUMÉS: Nowadays, a Candidate Can Seem Too Experienced
(By RYAN LIZZA, Mar. 18, 2007)
IDEAS & TRENDS: In Aisle Three, Couch Potatoes Trying the MP3s (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Mar. 18, 2007)
* Why He Gets the Laughs [Millard Fillmore] (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Mar. 18, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Woman vs. Female (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 18, 2007)
* Questions for Ron Burkle: Friend of Bill and Hill (Interview By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 18, 2007)
CONSUMED: Dial Tone (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 18, 2007)
* DIAGNOSIS: Feeling the Pressure [aortic coarctation] (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Mar. 18, 2007)
THE ETHICIST: Tuition Trick (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 18, 2007)
COVER ARTICLE: The Women's War (By SARA CORBETT, Mar. 18, 2007)
* Prince of Darkness [Joe Hill, writer, Stephen King's son] (By BEN NEIHART, Mar. 18, 2007)
FOOD | The Way We Eat: The Art of Feeding (By STACIE STUKIN, Mar. 18, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 18, 2007)

Saturday, March 17, 2007:
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)

* EDUCATION | The Critical Years: For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of Wills
(By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Mar. 17, 2007)

Friday, March 16, 2007:
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)

* ARTS: Stop the Presses, Boys! Women Claim Space on Op-Ed Pages (By PATRICIA COHEN, Mar. 16, 2007)
* BOOKS: You've Read the Novels (Now Read the Footnotes) (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Mar. 16, 2007)

Thursday, March 15, 2007:
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)

NY REGION: Greenwich Village Gunfight Leaves Four Dead (By ALAN FEUER & AL BAKER, Mar. 15, 2007)
BUSINESS: F.D.A. Warns of Sleeping Pills' Strange Effects (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Mar. 15, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY | BASICS: Guidelines for Using a Cellphone Abroad (By ERIC A. TAUB, Mar. 15, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY | State of the Art: One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
(By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 15, 2007)

Wednesday, March 14, 2007:
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)

SPORTS: Wives United by Husbands' Post-N.F.L. Trauma (By ALAN SCHWARZ, Mar. 14, 2007)
* OP-ED: Pig Out (By NICOLETTE HAHN NIMAN, Mar. 14, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: Start-Up Fervor Shifts to Energy in Silicon Valley (By MATT RICHTEL, Mar. 14, 2007)
SCIENCE: Renewing a Call to Act Against Climate Change (By FELICITY BARRINGER, Mar. 14, 2007)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007:
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)

OP-ED: Whose Oil Is It, Anyway? (By ANTONIA JUHASZ, Mar. 13, 2007)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 13, 2007)
* SCIENCE | FINDINGS: What's So Funny? Well, Maybe Nothing (By JOHN TIERNEY, Mar. 13, 2007)
* Scientist at Work | Terence Tao: Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime
(By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 13, 2007)
* SCIENCE: From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype (By WILLIAM J. BROAD, Mar. 13, 2007)
A Conversation With Michael F. Summers: Goal No. 1: Good Science. Goal No. 1: Diversity.
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Mar. 13, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Epic of Human Migration Is Carved in Parasites' DNA (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 13, 2007)
* Prediction Proved: Light Speeds Up an Asteroid as it Spins (By KENNETH CHANG, Mar. 13, 2007)
* OBSERVATORY: Rain Forests, It Seems, Need the Dry Season (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Mar. 13, 2007)
SCIENCE Q & A: Spreading Smallpox (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Mar. 13, 2007)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Growing Older, and Adjusting to the Dark (By JANE E. BRODY, Mar. 13, 2007)
HEALTH: A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die (By NEELA BANERJEE, Mar. 13, 2007)
* REALLY? | The Claim: Vitamin E Helps Remove Scars (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Mar. 13, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | At Risk: A Potential Drawback to That Daily Aspirin (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 13, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | On the Scales: Suicide Found to Be Less Likely in Heavier People
(By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 13, 2007)
VITAL SIGNS | Healing: A Caveat on Circumcision as AIDS (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Mar. 13, 2007)

Monday, March 12, 2007:
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)

Sunday, March 11, 2007:
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: To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime (By TRACIE ROZHON, Mar. 11, 2007)
NY REGION: Between Black and Immigrant Muslims, an Uneasy Alliance (By ANDREA ELLIOTT, Mar. 11, 2007)
EDITORIAL: The Failed Attorney General [Alberto Gonzales] (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
* OP-ED: Win a Trip, and See a Different World (By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, Mar. 11, 2007)
* OP-ED: A Wee Identity Crisis (By ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH, Mar. 11, 2007)
* OP-ED: When English Eyes Are Smiling (By WES DAVIS, Mar. 11, 2007)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
* BUSINESS: Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman (By RANDALL STROSS, Mar. 11, 2007)
BUSINESS: News Analysis: Crisis Looms in Market for Mortgages (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Mar. 11, 2007)
* BUSINESS | SPENDING: In the Computer Dating Game, Room for a Coach (By JENNIFER ALSEVER, Mar. 11, 2007)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
MUSIC: Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved (By LARRY ROHTER, Mar. 11, 2007)
MUSIC: Which Is the People's Opera? Let the Fireworks Begin (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Mar. 11, 2007)
TV: Back to School (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Mar. 11, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
TRAVEL | Cultured Traveler | Paris: Making a Pilgrimage to Cathedrals of Commerce
(By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Mar. 11, 2007)
TRAVEL: 36 Hours in Charleston, S.C. (By CHRIS DIXON, Mar. 11, 2007)
TRAVEL: Utah's Epic Ride (By STEPHEN REGENOLD, Mar. 11, 2007)
TRAVEL | Surfacing: Lombard Street, San Francisco, Begins to Shine (By CHRIS COLIN, Mar. 11, 2007)
TRAVEL: California Coasting [San Francisco to San Diego] (By CHRIS DIXON, Mar. 11, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
WONDERING: One Bullet Away From What? [Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf]
(By MARK MAZZETTI, Mar. 11, 2007)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: Lotto Makes Sense, Even for Losers (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 11, 2007)
Seven One Eight: To Reach Me in Russia, Just Dial Brooklyn (By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Mar. 11, 2007)
* OFF THE JOB: And I'm Not Your 'Girl', Gramps (By JANE GROSS, Mar. 11, 2007)
CORRESPONDENCE: Reporters and Sources Slowed Their Dance to Show the Steps (By DAVID E. SANGER, Mar. 11, 2007)
* At Large In a Rugged Land [Capturing Osama bin Laden] (By TIM WEINER, Mar. 11, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
The Way We Live Now: Beyond the Pleasure Principle (By ANN HULBERT, Mar. 11, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Vogue Words (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 11, 2007)
* COVER ARTICLE: The Brain on the Stand [Neuroscience & Law]
(By JEFFREY ROSEN, Mar. 11, 2007)
Questions for Abbas Kiarostami: Tales From Tehran (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 11, 2007)
* CONSUMED: Chicer by the Dozen [Starbury sneaker less than $15]
(By ROB WALKER, Mar. 11, 2007)
Identity Crisis [Counting the Cost of a 'Chargeback'] (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER & STEVEN D. LEVITT, Mar. 11, 2007)
* Mr. Wicked [Gregory Maguire's Elphaba & Glinda, Witches of West & North]
(By ALEX WITCHEL, Mar. 11, 2007)
* COSMOLOGY: Out There [96% of the universe is still unknown] (By RICHARD PANEK, Mar. 11, 2007)
STYLE: Slide Show— Social Ties (Photographs By SAM TAYLOR-WOOD, Mar. 11, 2007)
THE ETHICIST: Online Extracurriculars (By RANDY COHEN, Mar. 11, 2007)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 11, 2007)
* BOOKS: September Song [Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches]
(By PANKAJ MISHRA, Mar. 11, 2007)
* Human / Nature [Brad Leithauser, Curves and Angles: Poems] (By DAVID KIRBY, Mar. 11, 2007)
* ESSAY: Annals of Poetry [On the Poetry Foundation & The New Yorker]
(By DAVID ORR, Mar. 11, 2007)

Saturday, March 10, 2007:
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)

* NY REGION: Teaching Even the Pickiest Toddlers How to Eat Their Vegetables and Love It (By WINNIE HU, Mar. 10, 2007)
OP-ED: Swiss Miss [Incursion into Liechtenstein] (By PETER STAMM, Mar. 10, 2007)
* BUSINESS: History, Digitized (and Abridged) (By KATIE HAFNER, Mar. 10, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY: Google's Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush
[Google offers shuttle bus service to and from its main office
in Mountain View, Calif. About 1,200 employees use the service.]
(By MIGUEL HELFT, Mar. 10, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY | YOUR MONEY: Getting Out of a 2-Year Cellphone Contract Alive (By DAMON DARLIN, Mar. 10, 2007)

Friday, March 9, 2007:
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)

* EDUCATION: In War Over Teaching Reading, a U.S.-Local Clash (By DIANA JEAN SCHEMO, Mar. 9, 2007)
FILM | '300': Battle of the Manly Men: Blood Bath With a Message (By A. O. SCOTT, Mar. 9, 2007)
* SCIENCE: Study Uncovers Memory Aid: A Scent During Sleep (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 9, 2007)

Thursday, March 8, 2007:
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)

* NY REGION: Journey From a Chinese Orphanage to a Jewish Rite of Passage
(By ANDY NEWMAN, Mar. 8, 2007)
TECHNOLOGY: State of the Art: A New Box From Sony Turns Videotapes Into Shiny DVDs
(By DAVID POGUE, Mar. 8, 2007)
* TECHNOLOGY | Q & A: Updating Devices for Daylight Saving (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Mar. 8, 2007)
FASHION | Dress Codes | Slim Suits: The Attraction Is Physical (By DAVID COLMAN, Mar. 8, 2007)

Wednesday, March 7, 2007:
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)

BUSINESS: Venture Capitalists Want to Put Some Algae in Your Tank (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Mar. 7, 2007)
THEATER: The Tale of Harry Potter and the Naked Role (By SARAH LYALL, Mar. 7, 2007)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 7, 2007)
DINING: The Big Apple May Never Be Known as the Big Sparerib, but It's Smokin' (By PETER MEEHAN, Mar. 7, 2007)

Tuesday, March 6, 2007:
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)

* SCIENCE: A United Kingdom? Maybe (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 6, 2007)
* HEALTH: Insufferable Clinginess, or Healthy Dependence? (By BENEDICT CAREY, Mar. 6, 2007)

Monday, March 5, 2007:
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: Without Health Benefits, a Good Life Turns Fragile (By ROBERT PEAR, Mar. 5, 2007)
BUSINESS: Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells (By JAD MOUAWAD, Mar. 5, 2007)
Mortgage Crisis Spirals, and Casualties Mount (By JULIE CRESWELL & VIKAS BAJAJ, Mar. 5, 2007)
* SCIENCE: English, Irish, Scots: They're All One, Genes Suggest (By NICHOLAS WADE, Mar. 5, 2007)

Sunday, March 4, 2007:
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)

EDITORIAL: The Must-Do List (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2007)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2007)
TRAVEL | Choice Tables | London: Where Indian Cuisine Reaches for the Stars
(By HENRY SHUKMAN, Mar. 4, 2007)
TRAVEL | CHILE | Torres del Paine National Park: Patagonia in a New Light
(By EDWARD WONG, Mar. 4, 2007)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2007)
* DISPATCHES: History, Written in the Present Tense [Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]
(By SAM TANENHAUS, Mar. 4, 2007)
ARCHITECTURE: Medieval Modern: Design Strikes a Defensive Posture (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Mar. 4, 2007)
Naughty Little Red Book: The People's Republic of Sex Kittens and Metrosexuals
(By DAVID BARBOZA, Mar. 4, 2007)
THE WORLD: Shanghai What-If: How a Shock Can Become a Shock Wave (By EDUARDO PORTER, Mar. 4, 2007)
THE NATION: Politics Means Sometimes Having to Say You're Sorry [Hillary Clinton]
(By PATRICK HEALY, Mar. 4, 2007)
STEALTH WEALTH: The Untaxed Rich, Found and Then Lost (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, Mar. 4, 2007)
THE BASICS: Learning a Language: A Child's Edge (By FERNANDA SANTOS, Mar. 4, 2007)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2007)
* ON LANGUAGE: Hello, Sucker (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Mar. 4, 2007)
Questions for Ira Glass: This American TV Show (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Mar. 5, 2007)
* CONSUMED: Merchant Memories [Mall of America T-Shirt] (By ROB WALKER, Mar. 4, 2007)
* COVER ARTICLE: Darwin's God (By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG, Mar. 4, 2007)
* Campus Exposure [College Sex Magazines] (By ALEXANDRA JACOBS, Mar. 4, 2007)
One Very, Very Indie Band (By DARCY FREY, Mar. 4, 2007)
PLAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Mar. 4, 2007)
* How to Grow a Super-Athlete (By DANIEL COYLE, Mar. 4, 2007)
* Ryan Howard, No Asterisk (By MICHAEL SOKOLOVE, Mar. 4, 2007)

Saturday, March 3, 2007:
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)

Friday, March 2, 2007:
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)

WORLD: Swiss Accidentally Invade Liechtenstein (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Mar. 2, 2007)

Thursday, March 1, 2007:
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)