New York Times: May 2006

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who read avidly The New York Times daily & joyfully for over 50 years.

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

Wednesday, May 31, 2006:
On This Day: May 31 (Margaret Beaufort 5/31/1443-6/29/1509, Walt Whitman 5/31/1819-3/26/1892, William Rockefeller 5/31/1841-6/24/1922, William Pirrie 5/31/1847-6/7/1924, Walter Sickert 5/31/1860-1/22/1942, Charles Abbot 5/31/1872-12/17/1973, Fred Allen 5/31/1894-3/17/1956, Patricia Harris 5/31/1924-3/23/1985, Prince Rainier 1923, Wlaine Stewart 1929, Clint Eastwood 1930, Keir Dullea 1936, Peter Yarrow 1938, Sharon Gless 1943, Joe Namath 1943, Tom Berenger 1950, Gregory Harrison 1950)
Johnstown Flood: 2000 Lives Lost (NY TIMES, May 31, 1889)
Pius XI Dies at 82: Pontiff Spent His Life in Religion From His Boyhood Years
[5/31/1857-2/10/1939] (NY TIMES, February 10, 1939)

* Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese Filmmaker, Is Dead (By DAVE KEHR, May 31, 2006)
NATIONAL: As Hurricane Season Looms, States Aim to Scare (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, May 31, 2006)
NATIONAL: Washington-Area Sniper Convicted of 6 More Killings (By IAN URBINA, May 31, 2006)
NATIONAL: Official Quits Over Theft of Computer Data (NEW YORK TIMES, May 31, 2006)
WORLD: Remote Java Villages Still Without Quake Aid (By PETER GELLING, May 31, 2006)
* WORLD | Valley of the Kings Journal: If It's Not for Eternal Rest, What About Those Pillows?
(By IAN FISHER, May 31, 2006)
WORLD: Alhambra Journal: Ministering to New Face of Migrants From China (By CINDY CHANG, May 31, 2006)
NY REGION: Given Party Backing, Spitzer Attacks Leadership in Albany (By MICHAEL COOPER and DANNY HAKIM, May 31, 2006)
SPORTS: Jockey Finds Barbaro Improving in Many Ways (By JOE DRAPE, May 31, 2006)
SPORTS: Astros and Clemens Talk; Yankees Are Not Calling (By PAT BORZI, May 31, 2006)
Yankees 11, Tigers 6, 11 innings: Rivera Buys the Yankees Some Time to Regroup (By TYLER KEPNER, May 31, 2006)
BASEBALL: Sheffield and Damon Take Break to Mend (By TYLER KEPNER, May 31, 2006)
BASEBALL: Kazmir Deal Is a Debt the Mets Still Owe (By LEE JENKINS, May 31, 2006)
GOLF: Woods, Attempting to Follow His Father's Message, Is All About Caring and Sharing
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 31, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Iran Wants to Talk (NY TIMES, May 31, 2006)
* OP-ART: The Great Fence (By RON BARRETT, May 31, 2006)
OP-ED: Strategic Victimhood in Sudan (By ALAN J. KUPERMAN, May 31, 2006)
* OP-ED: Definition, D-E-F-I-N-I-T-I-O-N, Definition (By EMILY STAGG, May 31, 2006)
LETTERS: The Steady Horror That Is Iraq (6 Letters) (By K. C. Lopata, et. al., May 31, 2006)
LETTERS: Nothing to Wear: It's True, if You're Petite (5 Letters) (By Veronica Balassone, et. al., May 31, 2006)
* LETTERS: Kid TV? Or Mommy TV? (1 Letter) (By Neala S. Schwartzberg, May 31, 2006)
* LETTERS: The Knowledge Bee (1 Letter) (By Rob Goldberg, May 31, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Big Sell-Off Worldwide; Dow Sheds 184 Points
[Dow -184.18, Nasdaq -45.63] (By JEREMY W. PETERS, May 31, 2006)
BUSINESS | The Overview: Bush Nominates Wall Street Chief for Treasury Job (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and JIM RUTENBERG, May 31, 2006)
BUSINESS: Merck Admits a Data Error on Vioxx (By ALEX BERENSON, May 31, 2006)
BUSINESS: Consumer Confidence Drops; Job Expectations Are Also Lower (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 31, 2006)
WORLD BUSINESS: Daewoo's Founder Is Given 10-Year Sentence for Fraud (By CHOE SANG-HUN, May 31, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Vodafone, Cellphone Giant, Reports Loss of $41 Billion (By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN, May 31, 2006)
ARTS: For a Broad Landscape, An Equally Wide Survey (By KEN JOHNSON, May 31, 2006)
ARTS | Pfft: Satirical Pinpricks Deflating Pomposity and Power (By ALAN RIDING, May 31, 2006)
* BOOKS | An Interview With John Updike:
In 'Terrorist,' a Cautious Novelist Takes On a New Fear
(By CHARLES McGRATH, May 31, 2006)
* BOOKS | 'Unknown Soldiers': World War I's Trenches Tell Stories to Break the Heart
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, May 31, 2006)
MUSIC: New York Philharmonic in a Cathedral: Big Sound in a Huge Space (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 31, 2006)
TV: Linny Boyette, Katie Couric and the 'Today' Show (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, May 31, 2006)
TV: 'The Hills,' a Follow-up to 'Laguna Beach,' Makes Its Premiere on MTV (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, May 31, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, May 31, 2006)
* FOOD: Holy Mackerel and Other Guilt-Free Fish (By MARIAN BURROS, May 31, 2006)
* FOOD: A Guide to Guilt-Free Fish (NY TIMES, May 31, 2006)
FOOD: Tonight I'll Have What They're Not Having (By MELISSA CLARK, May 31, 2006)
* THE MINIMALIST: Sticky Rice Takes a Turn as Dessert (By MARK BITTMAN, May 31, 2006)
FOOD: For Soldiers' Appetites, Reinforcements (By KIM SEVERSON, May 31, 2006)
* FOOD: Making Texas Cows Proud [Blue Bell ice cream] (By R. W. APPLE Jr., May 31, 2006)
DINING: Why Not Relax Before Dinner, Too? (By DANA BOWEN, May 31, 2006)
DINING | Food Stuff: North of Chinatown, a Palace of Dim Sum (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, May 31, 2006)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006:
On This Day: May 30 (Alice Stopford Green 5/30/1847-5/28/1929, Giovanni Gentile 5/30/1875-4/15/1944, James Farley 5/30/1888-6/9/1976, Howard Hawks 5/30/1896-12/26/1977, Irving Thalberg 5/30/1899-9/14/1936, Cornelia Otis Skinner 5/30/1901-7/9/1979, Hannes Alfven 5/30/1908-4/2/1995, Mel Blanc 5/30/1908-7/10/1989, Joseph Wm. Kennedy 5/30/1916-5/5/1957, Johnny Gimble 1926, Clint Walker 1927, Ruta Lee 1936, Michaeld J. Pollard 1939, Wyonna Judd 1964)
Unknowns of World War II and Korea Are Enshrined (By JACK RAYMOND, May 30, 1958)
* BENNY GOODMAN, KING OF SWING, IS DEAD [5/30/1909-6/13/1986] (By JOHN S. WILSON, June 14, 1986)

George Field, Defender of Human Rights, Is Dead at 101 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, May 30, 2006)
* NATIONAL: Stolen Lives: Technology and Easy Credit Give Identity Thieves an Edge
(By JOHN LELAND & TOM ZELLER Jr., May 30, 2006)
* NATIONAL: Identity Theft's Reach and Costs (NY TIMES, May 30, 2006)
* NATIONAL: Minimizing the Risks (NY TIMES, May 30, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Can't Complete High School? Go Along to College (By KAREN W. ARENSON, May 30, 2006)
WORLD: Anti-U.S. Rioting Erupts in Kabul; at Least 14 Dead (By CARLOTTA GALL, May 30, 2006)
WORLD | Journalists: 2 at CBS News Die in Baghdad on Bloody Day (By JOHN F. BURNS, May 30, 2006)
WORLD: War in Iraq Is a Deadly Assignment for Journalists (By MARC SANTORA & BILL CARTER, May 30, 2006)
WORLD: Aid Reaches Indonesian Quake Area, but Volcano's Activity Increases (By PETER GELLING, May 30, 2006)
SPORTS | Yankees 4, Tigers 0: Johnson Shows That He Can Still Play the Ace (By TYLER KEPNER, May 30, 2006)
* OP-ED: Take This Internship and Shove It (By ANYA KAMENETZ, May 30, 2006)
OP-ED: Songs From the Wood (By SCOTT WEIDENSAUL, May 30, 2006)
LETTERS: Science and Politics, Heat and Light (4 Letters) (By Ken Bossong, et. al., May 30, 2006)
Iran's Aspirations and American Policy (3 Letters) (By Kristen Lucken, et. al., May 30, 2006)
* LETTERS: A Great Place for Greats (1 Letter) [Hall of Fame for Great Americans] (By Carolyn G. Williams, May 30, 2006)
BUSINESS: Poisonous Tree Frog Could Bring Wealth to Tribe in Brazilian Amazon (By PAULO PRADA, May 30, 2006)
BUSINESS: Cell Carriers Seek Growth by Catering to Hispanics (By MATT RICHTEL & KEN BELSON, May 30, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: China Begins Effort to Curb Piracy of Computer Software (By DAVID LAGUE, May 30, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Chip Producer to Expand Dresden Plant [AMD] (By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN, May 30, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 30, 2006)
SCIENCE: An Autopsy of Katrina: Four Storms, Not Just One (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 30, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Intelligent Beings in Space! (By KENNETH CHANG, May 30, 2006)
BOOKS ON SCIENCE: Who Should Decide Land Use? U.S. Government Already Does (By CORNELIA DEAN, May 30, 2006)
SCIENCE: Mice Ignore Mendel's Laws in Passing on Their Traits (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 30, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Bacterial Evolution in the Yogurt Ecosystem (By CARL ZIMMER, May 30, 2006)
SCIENCE | SIDE EFFECTS: The Great Salamander Crisis (By JAMES GORMAN, May 30, 2006)
OBSERVATORY: Lobsters Quarantining Lobsters (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 30, 2006)
* Q & A: Common Ancestors (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 30, 2006)
SCIENCE LETTERS: Killers and Hunters (By Stan Mertzman, et. al., May 30, 2006)
* HEALTH: What's in the Name? Researchers Suggest It's Money (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 30, 2006)
HEALTH: Rise in Rate of Twin Births May Be Tied to Dairy Case (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 30, 2006)
HEALTH ESSAY: Well-Intentioned Food Police May Create Havoc With Children's Diets (By HARRIET BROWN, May 30, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Age Is No Barrier to Lifting Depression's Heavy Veil (By JANE E. BRODY, May 30, 2006)
* REALLY | The Claim: Bee Stings Can Be Treated by Scraping Out Stingers (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, May 30, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Disparities: For Korean-Americans, a Deeply Rooted Habit (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 30, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Testing: Adding Drug Screening to Teens' E.R. Visit (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 30, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Screening: Women Often Hide Domestic Abuse From Doctors (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 30, 2006)
* HEALTH: Doctors Struggle to Treat Mysterious and Unbearable Pain (By KATHLEEN McGRORY, May 30, 2006)
BEHAVIOR: A Case in Point for the Maxim 'Do No Harm' (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., May 30, 2006)
HEALTH CASES: 'A Little Sting' Can Become a Debilitating Injury (By ANN JAPENGA, May 30, 2006)

Monday, May 29, 2006:
On This Day: May 29 (Sarah Jennings Marlborough 5/29/1660-10/18/1744, Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton 5/29/1716-1/1/1800, Patrick Henry 5/29/1736-6/6/1799, Ebenezer Butterick 5/29/1826-3/31/1903, G. K. Chesterton 5/29/1874-6/14/1936, Beatrice Lillie 5/29/1894-1/20/1989, Junzo Sakakura 5/29/1904-9/1/1969, Gregg Toland 5/29/1904-9/28/1948, T. H. White 5/29/1906-1/17/1964, Bob Hope 1903, Fay Vincent 1938, Al Unser Sr. 1939, Kevin Conway 1942, LaToya Jackson 1956, Annette Bening 1958, Adrian Paul 1959, Tracey Bregman 1963, Lisa Whelchel 1963, Melanie Brown 1975)
* 2 of British Team Conquer Everest [Edmond Hillary & Tensing Norkay] (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., May 29, 1953)
* OBITUARY: JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY: PART I OF V [5/29/1917-11/22/1963] (NY TIMES, November 23, 1963)

NATIONAL: After Loss of a Parent to War, a Shared Grieving (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, May 29, 2004)
* NATIONAL: A River Cuts a New Course, Leaving a New Hampshire Town High and Dry (By KATIE ZEZIMA, May 29, 2004)
NATIONAL: Rules Collide With Reality in the Immigration Debate (By JULIA PRESTON, May 29, 2006)
NATIONAL: Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, May 29, 2006)
NATIONAL: Target of F.B.I. Raid Had a Hard Path to Capitol Hill (By CHRISTOPHER DREW & ROBERT PEAR, May 29, 2004)
NATIONAL: White House Letter: A Few Years, and Then Another Bush? (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 29, 2004)
WORLD: Quake Toll Exceeds 4,500; Shocks Rattle Indonesia (By PETER GELLING, May 29, 2004)
WORLD: A German Pope Confronts the Nazi Past at Auschwitz (By IAN FISHER, May 29, 2004)
NY REGION: Unto the City the Wildlife Did Journey (By ANDY NEWMAN, May 29, 2004)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, May 29, 2004)
* BASEBALL: There Is Joy in San Francisco as Bonds Passes Ruth (By JOE LAPOINTE, May 29, 2006)
BASEBALL: For Bonds, Chasing Hank Becomes Tall Order (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 29, 2004)
EDITORIAL: The Interest Must Be Paid (NY TIMES, May 29, 2006)
OP-ED: An Army of One (By LOUISE ERDRICH, May 29, 2004)
OP-ED: G. I. Bills (By LAWRENCE J. KORB & PETER OGDEN, May 29, 2004)
OP-ED: The Troops Have Moved On (By OWEN WEST, May 29, 2004)
LETTERS: America's Nurses, and the World's (6 Letters) (By Susan B. Hassmiller, et. al., May 29, 2004)
LETTERS: Needing Newspapers (2 Letters) (By John Walter, et. al., May 29, 2004)
BUSINESS: When a Newsmaker Buys the Newspaper (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, May 29, 2006)
* E-Commerce Report: Pay Bills With a Click? More Americans Are Doing It and Banks Are Loving It
(By BOB TEDESCHI, May 29, 2004)
* TECHNOLOGY: Software to Look for Experts Among Your Friends (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 29, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Big Web Site Gives Lift to a Littler One (By JULIE BOSMAN, May 29, 2006)
Squabble Over Name Ruffles a Web Utopia [Web 2.0 & O'Reilly Media]
(By SARA IVRY, May 29, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Drilling Down: Rivalry or Alliance? Maybe a Bit of Both
[EBay & the Yahoo search engine announced a new partnership last week that will
put Yahoo-brokered ads on the eBay site. But that will not sever the strong link
that already exists between eBay and Google, Yahoo's chief rival. Google sends
about 1% of its traffic to eBay, making it the No. 1 shopping site visited
directly from Google. In turn, 2.7% of Google's traffic originated on eBay.]
(By MARIA ASPAN, May 29, 2006)
ARTS | Connections: In the U.S. and Europe, Tensions Between a National and Minority Languages
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, May 29, 2006)
ARTS, BRIEFLY: 'X-Men' Muscles Into the Record Book [$107 million in 3 days]
(Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, May 29, 2004)
BOOKS: A Peter Robinson Rock 'n' Roll Whodunit Amps It Up (By JANET MASLIN, May 29, 2004)
* BOOKS: On Your Marks, Get Set, Poeticize: Dueling Poets on the Web
[Paul Muldoon and Thylias Moss squared off in the first battle on QuickMuse.
Though the contest has no winner, postings on the site's chat board were
impressed with Ms. Moss's improvisational skill. For inspiration the two were
given a snippet of Elizabeth Bishop. "Writing poetry is an unnatural act,"
it began. "It takes great skill to make it seem natural."]
(By DINITIA SMITH, May 29, 2006)
DANCE: A Night for Stravinsky at American Ballet Theater (By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 28, 2006)
FILM | Cannes Journal: Ken Loach's 'Wind That Shakes the Barley' Wins Top Prize at Cannes
(By MANOHLA DARGIS & A. O. SCOTT, May 29, 2004)
MUSIC: Rascal Flatts and Gary Allan: The Yin and Yang of Stoicism (By KELEFA SANNEH, May 29, 2004)
THEATER: Beyond a Sea of Criticism, All's Well for Kevin Spacey at Old Vic (By SARAH LYALL, May 29, 2004)
* TV: Defeats as Well as Destiny for Washington on the Battlefield (By NEIL GENZLINGER, May 29, 2006)

Saturday, May 27, 2006:
On This Day: May 27 (Cornelius Vanderbilt 5/27/1794-1/4/1877, Julia Ward Howe 5/27/1819-10/17/1910, Jay Gould 5/27/1836-12/2/1892, Wild Bill Hickok 5/27/1837-8/2/1876, Georges Rouault 5/27/1871-2/13/1858, Dashiell Hammett 5/27/1894-1/10/1961, William Hansen 5/27/1909-5/23/1949, Hubert Humphrey 5/27/1911-1/13/1978, John Cheever 5/27/1912-6/18/1982, Herman Wouk 1915, Christopher Lee 1921, Henry Kissinger 1923, Lee Meriwether 1935, Louis Gossett Jr. 1936, Richard Schiff 1955, Todd Bridges 1965)
* India Mourning Nehru, 74, Dead of a Heart Attack; World Leaders Honor Him (NY TIMES, May 27, 1964)
Rachel Carson Dies of Cancer; 'Silent Spring' Author Was 56 [5/27/1907-4/14/1964] (NY TIMES, April 15, 1964)

* Roger W. Straus Jr., Book Publisher, Dies at 87 (By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, May 27, 2004)
Anthony Li Duan, 78, Bridge From Chinese Church to the Vatican, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 27, 2006)
* NATIONAL: 1,280-Pound Shark, on Ice, Tugs at Record (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, May 27, 2006)
White House Memo: With a Few Humble Words, Bush Silences His Texas Swagger (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, May 27, 2006)
NATIONAL: Falsely Accused Suspect Pursues Libel Case (By BRENDA GOODMAN, May 27, 2006)
* WORLD: Bear Hunting Caught in Global Warming Debate (By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, May 27, 2006)
* The Saturday Profile: Great Pyramid as Cuckoo Clock? It Might Not Be Crazy (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, May 27, 2006)
NY REGION: Undercover Work Deepens Police-Muslim Tensions (By ANDREA ELLIOTT, May 27, 2006)
EDITORIAL: For Want of a Nurse (NY TIMES, May 27, 2006)
* OP-ED: It's Not Easy Being Organic (By WILLIAM ALEXANDER , May 27, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | Your Money: Timing the Electronics Market for the Best Deal on a New PC
(By DAMON DARLIN, May 27, 2006)
* BOOKS: 'Bad Twin,' a Novel Inspired by 'Lost,' Makes the Best-Seller Lists (By FELICIA R. LEE, May 27, 2006)
* FILM CRITIC: God and Man on Screen: Big Questions as Entertainment (By CARYN JAMES, May 27, 2006)
* TV: 'Nick News With Linda Ellerbee' Celebrates 15 Years (By FELICIA R. LEE, May 27, 2006)
* HEALTH: Vaccine to Cut Risk of Shingles in Older People Is Approved (By GARDINER HARRIS, May 27, 2006)

Friday, May 26, 2006:
On This Day: May 26 (Aleksandr Pushkin 5/26/1799-1/29/1837, Washington Roebling 5/26/1837-7/21/1926, Robert Fitzsimmons 5/26/1863-10/22/1917, Olaf Gulbransson 5/26/1873-9/18/1958, Isadora Duncan 5/26/1877-9/14/1927, Al Jolson 5/26/1886-10/23/1950, Salo Wittmayer Baron 5/26/1895-11/25/1989, Dorothea Lange 5/26/1895-10/11/1965, Robert Morley 5/26/1908-6/3/1992, Helen Eugenie Anderson 5/26/1909-3/31/1997, Peggy Lee 1920, James Arness 1923, Brent Musburger 1939, Teresa Stratas 1939, Stevie Nicks 1948, Pam Grier 1949, Hank Williams Jr. 1949, Philip Michael Tho9mas 1949, Sally K. Ride 1951, Genie Francis 1962, Lenny Kravitz 1964, Helena Bonham Carter 1966, Joseph Fiennes 1970)
Impeachment: President Andrew Johnson Acquitted by Senate (NY TIMES, May 26, 1868)
* 'Duke,' an American Hero— John Wayne Dies at 72 [5/26/1907-6/11/1979] (NY TIMES, June 12, 1979)

Google Reaches Agreement to Have Its Software Installed on New Dell Computers
[Google's search toolbar would appear on the screens of new Dell systems, and
that Dell users would be directed to a Web page branded by the two companies.]
(By LAURIE J. FLYNN, May 26, 2006)
* ART: Jackson Pollock at the Guggenheim: Works of Swirls and Pixie Dust (By HOLLAND COTTER, May 26, 2006)
* ART: Girodet Has His Comeback Moment at the Met (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 26, 2006)
* BOOKS | Crowd Pleasers: Pitching Films on the Page (By JANET MASLIN, May 26, 2006)
FILM | 'X-Men: The Last Stand' Asks Are Mutants Born or Made, and Should They Be Cured?
(By MANOHLA DARGIS, May 26, 2006)
* THEATER: Vanessa Redgrave and Joan Didion, Working on a Merger (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, May 26, 2006)

Thursday, May 25, 2006:
On This Day: May 25 (Claude Buffier 5/25/1661-5/17/1737, Ralph Waldo Emerson 5/25/1803-4/27/1882, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson 5/25/1878-11/25/1949, sir William Beaverbrook 5/25/1879-6/9/1964, Igor Sikorsky 5/25/1889-10/26/1972, Bennett Cerf 5/25/1898-8/12/1971, Gene Tunney 5/25/1898-11/7/1978, Hal David 1921, Jeanne Crain 1925, Beverly Sills 1929, Tom T. Hall 1936, Dixie Carter 1939, Ian McKellen 1939, Leslie Uggams 1943, Frank Oz 1944, Karen Valentine 1947, Connie Sellecca 1955, Anne Heche 1969)
* Scopes Is Indicted in Tennessee for Teaching Evolution (NY TIMES, May 25, 1925)
* Miles Davis, Trumpeter, Dies; Jazz Genius, 65, Defined Cool [5/25/1926-9/28/1991] (By JON PARELES, September 29, 1991)

* NATIONAL: Families Add 3rd Generation to Households (By MIREYA NAVARRO, May 25, 2006)
NATIONAL: V.A. Chief Admits to Data Security Problems (By DAVID STOUT, May 25, 2006)
NATIONAL: Senate Bill on Immigration to Set Up Clash (By RACHEL L. SWARNS, May 25, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Test Shows Drop in Science Achievement for 12th Graders (By SAM DILLON, May 25, 2006)
WORLD: On a Paper Border, Mexico's Poor Hide, Scramble and Hope (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., May 25, 2006)
WORLD: Some in Mexico See Border Wall as Opportunity (By GINGER THOMPSON, May 25, 2006)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Why American College Students Hate Science (By BRENT STAPLES, May 25, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Persian Complex (By ABBAS AMANAT, May 25, 2006)
OP-ED: The Feds in My Head (By BRUCE STOCKLER, May 25, 2006)
LETTERS: Cellphones in School? Yes or No? (8 Letters) (By Joseph Rickards, et. al., May 25, 2006)
LETTERS: U.S. Bullies Iran (1 Letter) (By M. A. Mohammadi, May 25, 2006)
BUSINESS: Enron Chiefs Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy (By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, May 25, 2006)
* BUSINESS | News Analysis: Lessons From an Era That Was Out of Control (By KURT EICHENWALD, May 25, 2006)
BUSINESS: The Check Is Not in the Mail (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, May 25, 2006)
BUSINESS | Economic Scene: Hello, Young Workers: One Way to Reach the Top Is to Start There
(By AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, May 25, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo and eBay Form Advertising Alliance (By SAUL HANSELL, May 25, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Better Sound in Small Packages (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, May 25, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | DAVID POGUE: XM Radio Fans Can Record It if They Hear It (By DAVID POGUE, May 25, 2006)
* MUSIC: Conservative Top 50 Rock Songs (NY TIMES, May 25, 2006)
* MUSIC CRITIC: It's Dixie Chicks vs. Country Fans, but Who's Dissing Whom? (By KELEFA SANNEH, May 25, 2006)
TV: Dickens, Challah and That Mysterious Island (By KATE AURTHUR, May 25, 2006)
TV WATCH: Surprise (Well, Not Exactly)! 'American Idol' Finale Unfolds and Unfolds (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, May 25, 2006)
HOME & GARDEN: The Practical Side of Style (NY TIMES, May 25, 2006)
TRAVEL | Letter From Moscow: Where the High Rollers Dine (By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY, May 25, 2006)
* FASHION | Skin Deep: Sans Makeup, S'il Vous Plaĉt (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, May 25, 2006)
FASHION: Act Your Age, St. John [Angelina Jolie in St. John outfils] (By ERIC WILSON, May 25, 2006)
* STYLE: Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply (By ANNA BAHNEY, May 25, 2006)
HOME & GARDEN | Room to Improve: Wedding Gift Etiquette (By MITCHELL OWENS, May 25, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Parents Making Use of TV Despite Risks (By LYNETTE CLEMETSON, May 25, 2006)

Wednesday, May 24, 2006:
On This Day: May 24 (Daniel Fahrenheit 5/24/1686-9/16/1736, Emanuel Leutze 5/24/1816-7/18/1868, Jan Smuts 5/24/1870-9/11/1950, Harry Emerson Fosdick 5/24/1878-10/5/1969, Hlen Brooke Taussig 5/24/1898-5/20/1986, Suzanne Lenglen 5/24/1899-7/4/1938, Mikhail Sholokhov 5/24/1905-2/21/1984, Sam Giancana 5/24/1908-6/19/1975, Siobhan McKenna 5/24/1923-11/16/1986, Tommy Chong 1938, Bob Dylan 1941, Gary Burghoff 1943, Patti LaBlle 1944, Priscilla Presley 1945)
Brooklyn Bridge Opened: Two Great Cities United (NY TIMES, May 24, 1883)
* Queen Victoria Dies at 81: Longest Reign In English History [5/24/1819-1/22/1901] (NY TIMES, January 23, 1901)

NATIONAL | Milford Journal: Hoffa Search Finds Town's Sense of Humor (By NICK BUNKLEY and MICHELINE MAYNARD, May 24, 2006)
NATIONAL: Sniper Accomplice Says Mentor Had Extortion and Terror Plan (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 24, 2006)
NATIONAL: Bin Laden Is Said to Talk of Moussaoui (By SCOTT SHANE, May 24, 2006)
WORLD: Armed Groups Propel Iraq Toward Chaos (By DEXTER FILKINS, May 24, 2006)
WORLD: U.S. Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations (By CELIA W. DUGGER, May 24, 2006)
SPORTS: Barbaro Will Be Confined to His Stall for Months (By JOE DRAPE, May 24, 2006)
ON BASEBALL: Heilman Is Exactly Where Mets Want Him (By MURRAY CHASS, May 24, 2006)
Yankees 7, Red Sox 5: Yankees Build a Cushion, and the Bullpen Uses It (By TYLER KEPNER, May 24, 2006)
Mets 9, Phillies 8: Beltr�n Sends Mets Home Tired, but Happy (By BEN SHPIGEL, May 24, 2006)
OP-ED: An Amnesty by Any Other Name... (By EDWIN MEESE III, May 24, 2006)
OP-ED: Finally Feeling the Heat (By GREGG EASTERBROOK, May 24, 2006)
LETTERS: Can We Please Save Our Planet? (7 Letters) (By Howard Drossman, et. al., May 24, 2006)
LETTERS: Clintons' Marriage, Under a Microscope (5 Letters) (By Vivienne Leheny, et. al., May 24, 2006)
LETTERS: Rice's Words to Live By (1 Letter) (By Steve Fought, May 24, 2006)
LETTERS: A Girl Scout Fires Back (1 Letter) (By Clarissa Tanner, May 24, 2006)
BUSINESS: Concern Over Energy Prices Erases Some Early Gains
[Dow -26.98, Nasdaq -14.10] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 24, 2006)
BUSINESS: ABC Rejects Dual Anchors in 2nd Shuffle (By JACQUES STEINBERG, May 24, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Dell to Open Stores in 2 Malls as Experiment (By DAMON DARLIN, May 24, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Intel Details Broader Role in Indian PC's (By SARITHA RAI, May 24, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Says New Windows Is on Schedule (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, May 24, 2006)
BALLET: A Gala Is a Kickoff to American Ballet Theater's Season (By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 24, 2006)
* BOOKS | 'The American Home Front': Alistair Cooke's America, Explored in Wartime
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, May 24, 2006)
FILM: Warning of Calamities and Hoping for a Change in 'An Inconvenient Truth' (By A. O. SCOTT, May 24, 2006)
FILM: 'La Moustache': A French Mystery Plays With Notions of Conspiracy and Illusion (By STEPHEN HOLDEN, May 24, 2006)
THEATER: Proving Mortal, 'Lestat' Is to Close (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, May 24, 2006)
TRAVEL SPAIN | Frugal Traveler: In Galicia on My Trip Around the World (By MATT GROSS, May 24, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, May 24, 2006)
* FOOD CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Life in the Fast-Food Lane (By FRANK BRUNI, May 24, 2006)
DINING: Le Cirque's Velvet Touch Returns to a Jeans Scene (By DAVID CARR, May 24, 2006)
FOOD: Farmers' Markets Go Beyond Green (By JULIA MOSKIN, May 24, 2006)
FEED ME: Laugh and Your Guests Will Laugh With You (By ALEX WITCHEL, May 24, 2006)
THE MINIMALIST: There's Poetry in Fresh Basil (By MARK BITTMAN, May 24, 2006)
FOOD STUFF: There's Gold at the Fruit Stand [Pears] (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, May 24, 2006)
FOOD: First the Pizza's Delivered. Then It's Cooked. (By SOFIA PEREZ, May 24, 2006)

Tuesday, May 23, 2006:
On This Day: May 23 (Carolus Linnaeus 5/23/1707-1/10/1778, William Hunter 5/23/1718-3/30/1783, Franz Anton Mesmer 5/23/1734-3/5/1815, Thomas Hood 5/23/1799-5/3/1845, James B. Eads 5/23/1820-3/8/1887, Leo Baeck 5/23/1873-11/2/1956, Douglas Fairbanks 5/23/1883-12/12/1939, Par Lagerkvist 5/23/1891-7/11/1974, John Bardeen 5/23/1908-1/30/1991, Margaret Wise Brown 5/23/1910-11/13/1952, Artie Shaw 1910, Betty Garrett 1919, Rosemary Clooney 1928, Nigel Davenport 1928, Joan Collins 1933, Marvin Hagler 1952, Drew Carey 1958, Karen Duffy 1961, Jewel 1974)
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow Are Slain by Police in Louisiana Trap (NY TIMES, May 23, 1934)
* Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Dead at 90; G.M. Leader and Philanthropist [5/23/1875-2/17/1966] (NY TIMES, February 18, 1966)

* Lloyd Bentsen Dies at 85; Senator Ran With Dukakis (NY TIMES, May 23, 2006)
* NATIONAL: Vast Data Cache About Veterans Is Stolen (By DAVID STOUT and TOM ZELLER Jr., May 23, 2006)
NATIONAL: State Department Yields on PC's From China (By STEVE LOHR, May 23, 2006)
NATIONAL: Rice's Appearance Draws Protests in Boston
["There is nothing wrong with holding an opinion and holding it passionately,"
Ms. Rice said. "But at those times you're absolutely sure that you are right,
go find somebody who disagrees. Don't allow yourself the easy course of
the constant 'Amen' to everything you say."]
(By KATIE ZEZIMA, May 23, 2006)
WORLD: Bin Laden, on Tape, Denies Moussaoui's Role in 9/11 (By SCOTT SHANE, May 23, 2006)
WORLD: Blair, in Iraq, Discusses Future of Troops (By JOHN F. BURNS, May 23, 2006)
WORLD: Quotas to Aid India's Poor vs. Push for Meritocracy (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, May 23, 2006)
WORLD: Iran Shuts Newspaper for Cartoon Mocking Minority (By NAZILA FATHI, May 23, 2006)
Manila Journal: Eking Out a Living, of Sorts, From a Mountain of Muck (By SETH MYDANS, May 23, 2006)
* NY REGION: Clintons Balance Married and Public Lives (By PATRICK HEALY, May 23, 2006)
NY REGION: A Coyote Leads a Crowd on a Central Park Marathon (By JAMES BARRON, May 23, 2006)
NY REGION | ESSAY: A Sign of Renewal and a Reminder at Ground Zero (By DAVID W. DUNLAP, May 23, 2006)
SPORTS: Hurdles Remain in Barbaro's Recovery (By JOE DRAPE, May 23, 2006)
SPORTS: Was Barbaro Hurt Before the Start? If He Was, It's News to the Jockey (NY TIMES: , May 23, 2006)
Red Sox 9, Yankees 5: Red Sox Top Yanks as Schilling Wins 199th (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 23, 2006)
BASEBALL: Yankees Wonder if Johnson Will Become Their Schilling (By JACK CURRY, May 23, 2006)
BASEBALL: Phillies Prospect Has Stuff Dreams Are Made of... [Cole Hamels] (By LEE JENKINS, May 23, 2006)
* ON BASEBALL: ...And a Veteran Pitcher, Glavine, Reinvents His Game (By MURRAY CHASS, May 23, 2006)
TV SPORTS: Breakdown Echoes in Broadcasts of Past Stumbles (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, May 23, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: A Broken Horse [Barbaro's bone fractures at Preakness] (NY TIMES, May 23, 2006)
OP-ED: Save Your Whale and Eat It, Too (By PHILIP ARMOUR, May 23, 2006)
* OP-ED: Hang It Up [cell phones in public schools] (By JESSE SCACCIA, May 23, 2006)
LETTERS: The Many Paths on Immigration (5 Letters) (By Murray J. Friedman, et. al., May 23, 2006)
LETTERS: Heckling McCain at the New School (3 Letters) (By James Shelland, et. al., May 23, 2006)
* LETTERS: Barbaro, a Nation Turns Its Sad Eyes to You (3 Letters) (By Janet Waters, et. al., May 23, 2006)
LETTERS: Resistible Cookies (1 Letter) (By Eve Winer, May 23, 2006)
* BUSINESS | Market Place: Bulls Retreat Worldwide as May Rally Turns to Rout
(By VIKAS BAJAJ, May 23, 2006)
* BUSINESS: ABC Names Gibson Anchor of 'World News Tonight' (By JACQUES STEINBERG, May 23, 2006)
* MEDIA & ADVERTISING: Google Moves to Sell Space for Video Spots
on Network of Web Sites [Google is going after the huge market
for TV advertising this week with a new service that will place video
commercials on the many Web sites where it sells advertising.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, May 23, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Company Asks U.S. to Provide Radio Space for Free Internet (By MATT RICHTEL, May 23, 2006)
BOOKS | 'An Inconvenient Truth': Al Gore Revisits Global Warming, With Passionate Warnings and Pictures
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, May 23, 2006)
* BOOKS: Dickinson and Rilke Are the Companions of a Mother in Adversity
["Blue Peninsula" is about her experience of reading certain poems, by writers like
Carl Phillips, Elizabeth Bishop, Rainer Maria Rilke, Billy Collins and Emily Dickinson,
and how those poems connect to her predicament. It is a meditation on these poems and
on her circumstance— her son Isaac Levy's undiagnosed degenerative illness.]
(By DINITIA SMITH, May 23, 2006)
* DANCE | An Appreciation: How Katherine Dunham Revealed Black Dance to the World
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 23, 2006)
DANCE: Grand Themes, Conveyed in Movement and in Paint, in 'Cambodian Stories' (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 23, 2006)
FILM | Cannes Journal: At Cannes, a Look at Italian Politics and a Peek at American Films
(By A. O. SCOTT & MANOHLA DARGIS, May 23, 2006)
TV: From 'Idol' to Empire: The Success of Ryan Seacrest (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, May 23, 2006)
TV: Stephen King's 'Desperation': Lock Up Your Wolves (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, May 23, 2006)
* TV: From the 'Dog Whisperer,' a Howl of Triumph (By EDWARD WYATT, May 23, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 23, 2006)
SCIENCE: Home on the Range: A Corridor for Wildlife (By CORNELIA DEAN, May 23, 2006)
SCIENCE: Wandering Wolf Inspires Project (By CORNELIA DEAN, May 23, 2006)
* SCIENCE ESSAY: In the Quest for Coolness, Science Could Really Use a Vito Corleone
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, May 23, 2006)
SCIENCE: Nigerian Monkeys Drop Hints on Language Origin (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 23, 2006)
* Humans May Have Limiting Effect on the Origin of (New) Species (By CARL ZIMMER, May 23, 2006)
* FINDINGS: 16 Golden Atoms in Search of a Catchy Name (By KENNETH CHANG, May 23, 2006)
OBSERVATORY: Follow That Fly (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 23, 2006)
* Scientist at Work | Thomas McGlashan: A Career That Has Mirrored Psychiatry's Twisting Path
(By BENEDICT CAREY, May 23, 2006)
* SCIENCE Q & A: Starry Nights (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 23, 2006)
PERSONAL HEALTH | Protect Yourself: That Old Devil Sun Is Lurking (By JANE E. BRODY, May 23, 2006)
* HEALTH: From a Poet's Failing Sight, a Novel 'Seeing Machine' Emerges (By DENISE GRADY, May 23, 2006)
* REALLY? | The Claim: Taking Selenium Lowers Risk of Heart Disease (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, May 23, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Choices: Testosterone Matters, but Only in the Short Term (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 23, 2006)
* VITAL SIGNS: Aging: Hit the Health Club: Offset Dementia's Onset (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 23, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Exploring Women's Health and Double Duty (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 23, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Codeine for Your Cough? Maybe Not (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 23, 2006)
HEALTH | The Consumer: Insects, Beware of Clothing That Bites Back (By DEBORAH FRANKLIN, May 23, 2006)

Monday, May 22, 2006:
On This Day: May 22 (Louis de Buade Frontenac 5/22/1622-11/28/1698, Francois-Joachim Bernis 5/22/1717-11/3/1794, Richard Wagner 5/22/1813-2/13/1883, Albrecht von Grafe 5/22/1828-7/20/1870, Catulle Mendes 5/22/1841-2/9/1909, Mary Cassatt 5/22/1844-6/14/1926, Giacomo Matteotti 5/22/1885-6/10/1924, Johannes Becher 5/22/1891-10/11/1958, Laurence Olivier 5/22/1907-7/11/1989, Judith Crist 1922, Charles Aznavour 1924, Michael Constantine 1927, Peter Nero 1934, Richard Benjamin 1938, Frank Converse 1938, Michael Sarrazin 1940, Bernard Shaw 1940, Paul Winfield 1941, Barbara Parkins 1942, Bernie Taupin 1950, Naomi Campbell 1970)
Truman Signs Bill for Near East Aid as 'Step to Peace' (By HAROLD B. HINTON, May 22, 1947)
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dead From Heart Attack at 71 [5/22/1859-7/7/1930] (NY TIMES, July 8, 1930)

* Katherine Dunham, Dance Pioneer, Dies at 96 (By JACK ANDERSON, May 22, 2006)
* Gilbert Sorrentino, Novelist and Professor, Dies at 77 (By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, May 22, 2006)
Robert Heinecken, Artist Who Juxtaposed Photographs, Is Dead at 74 (By ANDY GRUNDBERG, May 22, 2006)
NATIONAL: Rising Ocean Temperatures Threaten Florida's Coral Reef (By RICK LYMAN, May 22, 2006)
* NATIONAL: Personal Data of 26.5 Million Veterans Stolen (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 22, 2006)
NATIONAL: F.B.I. Contends Lawmaker Hid Bribe in Freezer (By PHILIP SHENON, May 22, 2006)
WORLD | Law and Disorder: How Iraq Police Reform Became Casualty of War (By MICHAEL MOSS, May 22, 2006)
WORLD: On a Violent Day, Iraq's New Leader Unveils Ideas for Tackling Security Challenges
(By JOHN F. BURNS, May 22, 2006)
WORLD: U.S. Is Proposing European Shield for Iran Missiles (By MICHAEL R. GORDON, May 22, 2006)
WORLD: U.S. Exercise With Turkey Is Aimed at Iran (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, May 22, 2006)
NY REGION: Heavy Turnover in New York's Principal Ranks (By ELISSA GOOTMAN, May 22, 2006)
SPORTS: A Desperate Rush to Save a Derby-Winning Colt [Barbaro] (By JOE DRAPE, May 22, 2006)
* SPORTS: We Care. But Why Do We Care So Much? [Barbaro's breakdown] (By JANE SCHWARTZ, May 22, 2006)
Pistons 79, Cavaliers 61: Pistons' Kryptonite Dazes James and Cavaliers (By CLIFTON BROWN, May 22, 2006)
ON BASEBALL: Lots of Aches Off the Field, and Big Headaches on It (By MURRAY CHASS, May 22, 2006)
Mets 4, Yankees 3: Wagner Returns to Form and Closes Out Yankees (By LEE JENKINS, May 22, 2006)
Mets 4, Yankees 3: The Mets May Be Climbing Out of the Back Seat (By TYLER KEPNER, May 22, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: Our Hidden History (NY TIMES, May 22, 2006)
* LETTERS: Psst... Text Me the Answer to No. 3 (6 Letters) (By Miguel Roig, et. al., May 22, 2006)
BUSINESS: NYSE Group Aims to Buy European Exchange (By JENNY ANDERSON & HEATHER TIMMONS, May 22, 2006)
* DAVID CARR: In Print, Staring Down a Daily Worry [newspapers] (By DAVID CARR, May 22, 2006)
BUSINESS: That After-Dinner Speech Remains a Favorite Dish (By NOAM COHEN, May 22, 2006)
BUSINESS: Why the Data Diverge on the Dangers of Vioxx (By ANDREW POLLACK & REED ABELSON, May 22, 2006)
MEDIA & ADVERTISING: Question: Who Is MediaNews's Dean Singleton? (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, May 22, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: MySpace Will Play Host to a Free Magazine Issue (By MARIA ASPAN, May 22, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Voice Encryption May Draw U.S. Scrutiny (By JOHN MARKOFF, May 22, 2006)
E-Commerce Report: An Online Market Blooms for Video Clip Reruns (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 22, 2006)
* ART: A Mao Portrait on the Block Causes a Stir in Chat Rooms (By DAVID BARBOZA, May 22, 2006)
ARTS: A Global Smorgasbord of Wonders for the Eye at the Tribal and Textile Arts Show
(By HOLLAND COTTER, May 22, 2006)
BOOKS: For Kathleen McGowan, a Reversal of Fortune at BookExpo America (By MOTOKO RICH, May 22, 2006)
FILM: 'An Inconvenient Truth': Al Gore's Fight Against Global Warming (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 22, 2006)
MUSIC | Joseph Volpe Gala: An Exit Con Gusto: More Than 5 Hours of Honor for the Met's Volpe
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, May 22, 2006)

Sunday, May 21, 2006:
On This Day: May 21 (Alexander Pope 5/21/1688-5/30/1744, Elizabeth Fry 5/21/1780-10/12/1845, Henri Rousseau 5/21/1844-9/2/1910, Gustav Lindenthal 5/21/1850-7/31/1935, Leon Bourgeois 5/21/1851-9/29/1925, Grace Hoadley Dodge 5/21/1856-12/27/1914, Willem Einthoven 5/21/1860-9/29/1927, Glenn Curtiss 5/21/1878-7/23/1930, Marcel Breuer 5/21/1902-7/1/1981, Fats Waller 5/21/1904-12/15/1943, David Groh 1939, Bill Champlin 1947, Leo Sayer 1948, Mr. T 1952, Nick Cassavetes 1959, Christian McBride 1972)
* Lindbergh Does It! To Paris in 33 1/2 Hours; Flies 1,000 Miles Through Snow and Sleet; Cheering French Carry Him Off Field
(By EDWIN L. JAMES, May 21, 1927)
* Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet 'Conscience,' Dies
[5/21/1921-12/14/1989] (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, December 15, 1989)

NATIONAL: Actor, in a Role Change, Is Avoiding the Limelight (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, May 21, 2006)
WORLD: Iraqis Form Government, With Crucial Posts Vacant (By DEXTER FILKINS & RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., May 21, 2006)
WORLD | News Analysis: For Some, a Last, Best Hope for U.S. Efforts in Iraq (By JOHN F. BURNS, May 21, 2006)
* EDUCATION: With $4 Billion, Columbia Raises Fund-Drive Ante (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, May 21, 2006)
EDITORIAL: A Dark Signal From China (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
* EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Let's I.M. as You Read This (By CAROLYN CURIEL, May 21, 2006)
OP-ED: The Three Faces of Ken Lay (By MIMI SWARTZ, May 21, 2006)
OP-ED: Digging Up Detroit [Jimmy Hoffa] (By JERRY STANECKI, May 21, 2006)
LETTERS: Don't Give Up the Diabetes Fight (6 Letters) (By Michael Weber, et. al., May 21, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
BUSINESS: Rough Summer Is on the Way for Air Travel (By JEFF BAILEY, May 21, 2006)
BUSINESS: For Tiny Screens, Some Big Dreams (By LORNE MANLY, May 21, 2006)
The Fight Against V1@gra (and Other Spam) (By TOM ZELLER Jr., May 21, 2006)
DealBook: Brand-Name Bankers Rule the Street Again, for Now (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, May 21, 2006)
The Thrifty Millionaire: On the Internet Trail of a Fine Formal Shirt (By TRACIE ROZHON, May 21, 2006)
BUSINESS: Economic View: Stop the Clock. Keep the Problem. (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, May 21, 2006)
* Strategies: One Reason to Care About Dividends (By MARK HULBERT, May 21, 2006)
Price Report Sends Stocks Into Reverse (By JEFF SOMMER, May 21, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
ARTS: BabyFirst: Television Steps Perilously Close to the Womb (By DAVE ITZKOFF, May 21, 2006)
* ART: Hanging Out With Bucky, Thinking Big [Buckminster Fuller & Isamu Noguchi]
(By AMEI WALLACH, May 21, 2006)
DANCE: More Than Just Your Standard Classical Hero (By ROSLYN SULCAS, May 21, 2006)
DANCE: Kevin McKenzie Keeps American Ballet Theater in a State of Permanent Renewal
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 21, 2006)
FILM: 'Da Vinci Code' Pulls in $224 Million Worldwide
[With a strong showing in global markets, "The Da Vinci Code" posted
the second highest grossing opening weekend of any film, according to
Sony Pictures Entertainment. That would place the movie behind only
"Star Wars: Episode 3 � Revenge of the Sith," ($253 million/weekend).
(By ERIC PFANNER, May 21, 2006)
FILM | CalArts: The School With Antz in Its SquarePants (By MANOHLA DARGIS, May 21, 2006)
MUSIC | The Dixie Chicks: America Catches Up With Them (By JON PARELES, May 21, 2006)
MUSIC | Soprano's Tale: Obsession, Love and Death. Offstage. (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, May 21, 2006)
MUSIC | Touch of the Poet, Soul of the Collaborator (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, May 21, 2006)
PHOTOGRAPHY | Henry Wessel: Capturing the Image, Transcending the Subject (By PHILIP GEFTER, May 21, 2006)
THEATER: A Look at the 2006 Broadway Musical Season (By BEN BRANTLEY, May 21, 2006)
TV: 'Live From Lincoln Center' Reviews Its 30 Years in a Taped Broadcast (By ELIZABETH JENSEN, May 21, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
STYLE: 24-Hour Sweaty People (By GUY TREBAY, May 21, 2006)
STYLE: I Do Have a Life; I'm Watching It Now (By WARREN ST. JOHN, May 21, 2006)
MODERN LOVE: Changing My Feminist Mind, One Man at a Time (By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN, May 21, 2006)
POSSESSED: The Attraction Is Purely Visceral [The artist Jenny Holzer] (By DAVID COLMAN, May 21, 2006)
VOWS: Cara Nussbaum and Scott Fudemberg (By ELLEN FUTTERMAN, May 21, 2006)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
TRAVEL: Exploring Tuscany's Lost Corner (By TIMOTHY EGAN, May 21, 2006)
TRAVEL | Wildlife Explorer: Going It Alone in the Game Parks of Southern Africa
(By EVE GLASBERG, May 21, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
Border War: Immigration, From a Simmer to a Scream (By JOHN M. BRODER, May 21, 2006)
* THE NATION: 100 Years in the Back Door, Out the Front (By NINA BERNSTEIN, May 21, 2006)
* Health of Nations: If You've Got a Pulse, You're Sick (By GINA KOLATA, May 21, 2006)
THE NATION: Plea of the Democratic Pariah: Forgive My Defeat (By MARK LEIBOVICH, May 21, 2006)
THE WORLD: Surprise. Hussein Acts as if He's on Trial. (By JOHN F. BURNS, May 21, 2006)
* It's Not Just a Movie, It's a Revelation (About the Audience)
["The Da Vinci Code" has bombed with most critics, and could bomb with audiences
that are not "Da Vinci" diehards. Even Tom Hanks, the lead actor, called the plot
"scavenger-hunt-type nonsense." But it is doubtful the uproar will disappear.]
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, May 21, 2006)
* Immortals Deconstructing Halls of Fame: The All-American Pedestal Complex (By CHARLES McGRATH, May 21, 2006)
THE BASICS: Guzzler and Miser, Together in the Grave (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, May 21, 2006)
Laugh Lines: David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Erotic or Exotic? (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 21, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: Engineering Conflict (By DEYAN SUDJIC, May 21, 2006)
Questions for Richard Rogers: Socially Conscious Construction (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, May 21, 2006)
CONSUMED: Building Value (By ROB WALKER, May 21, 2006)
DISPUTE: The Manhattanville Project (By DAPHNE EVIATAR, May 21, 2006)
* DOMAINS: Master Planner [Daniel Libeskind] (Interview by EDWARD LEWINE, May 21, 2006)
* DIAGNOSIS: Flower Power (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., May 21, 2006)
THE ETHICIST: Student Confidential (By RANDY COHEN, May 21, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: The China Syndrome [National Stadium in Beijing] (By ARTHUR LUBOW, May 21, 2006)
Middle-East Pieces [Bernard Khoury's architecture] (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, May 21, 2006)
* Expanding on Jefferson [University of Virginia] (By ADAM GOODHEART, May 21, 2006)
Battle for Biloxi (By JIM LEWIS, May 21, 2006)
The Architect, His Client, Her Husband and a House Named Turbulence (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 21, 2006)
* FOOD: The Way We Eat: Recipes for Disaster (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, May 21, 2006)
LIVES: New (and Improved?) Delhi (By GAUTUM BHATIA, May 21, 2006)
TRAVEL MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
Secret Tuscany [The Etruscan town Pitigliano was built on volcanic tufa rock.]
(By JANINE DI GIOVANNI, May 21, 2006)
* The Sophisticated Traveler: Paris Noir [Alan Furst's novels] (By KEN GROSS, May 21, 2006)
TOKYO | Postcards From the Edge: Memoirs of a Shopper (By JANINE DI GIOVANNI, May 21, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 21, 2006)
* BOOKS: What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? (By THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 21, 2006)
* BOOKS ESSAY: In Search of the Best ["What is poetry and if you
know what poetry is what is prose?" Gertrude Stein once asked.]
(By A. O. SCOTT, May 21, 2006)
* 'Digging to America,' by Anne Tyler: The Accidental Friendship
[In her 17th novel, Anne Tyler reminds us that the United States has sheltered
many expat-expats— people who have left their own land to take up residence
elsewhere, but settle in an enclave of foreigners like themselves]
(Review by LIESL SCHILLINGER, May 21, 2006)
'The Eagle's Throne,' by Carlos Fuentes: The Political Is Ultra Personal (Review by TERRENCE RAFFERTY, May 21, 2006)
* BOOKS ESSAY: Promotional Intelligence [in 2005, almost half of all sales
in the literary fiction category came from the top 20 best-selling book]
(By RACHEL DONADIO, May 21, 2006)
'JPod,' by Douglas Coupland: Insert: headline/jpod-coupland.rvw (Review by DAVE ITZKOFF, May 21, 2006)
'The Dead Fish Museum,' by Charles D'Ambrosio: The Man's Guide to Hunting and Fishing (Review by MEGHAN O'ROURKE, May 21, 2006)

Saturday, May 20, 2006:
On This Day: May 20 (Dolley Madison 5/20/1768-7/12/1849, Honoré de Balzac 5/20/1799-8/18/1850, John Stuart Mill 5/20/1806-5/8/1873, William George Fargo 5/20/1818-8/3/1881, Madeline Breckinridge 5/20/1872-11/25/1920, John Jacob Astor 5/20/1886-7/19/1971, Adela Rogers Saint Johns 5/20/1894-8/10/1988, R. J. Mitchell 5/20/1895-6/11/1937, John Marshall Harlan 5/20/1899-12/29/1971, Moshe Dayan 5/20/1915-10/16/1981, James McEachin 1930, Anthony Zerbe 1936, Cher 1946, Dean Butler 1956, Ron Reagan 1958, Bonson Pinchot 1959, Mindy Cohn 1966)
400 U.S. Marshals Sent to Alabama as Montgomery Bus Riots Hurt 20
(By ANTHONY LEWIS, May 20, 1961)
* James Stewart, the Hesitant Hero, Dies at 89 [5/20/1908-7/2/1997] (NY TIMES, July 3, 1997)

* R. Bruce Merrifield, Who Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Dies at 84 (By KENNETH CHANG, May 20, 2006)
NATIONAL: For the Families of the Dying, Coaching as the Hours Wane (By JANE GROSS, May 20, 2006)
NATIONAL: Some Ships Get Coast Guard Tip Before Searches (By TIMOTHY EGAN, May 20, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Admissions Officials Lament Practice of Signing On With More Than One College
(By ALAN FINDER, May 20, 2006)
WORLD: Seeking United Latin America, Venezuela's Ch�vez Is a Divider (By JUAN FORERO, May 20, 2006)
Vatican Disciplines Founder of Order Over Abuse Charges (By IAN FISHER & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, May 20, 2006)
* NY REGION: Graduates at New School Heckle Speech by McCain (By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN, May 20, 2006)
SPORTS: Bonds Ties Ruth's Record in Oakland (By JOE LAPOINTE, May 20, 2006)
* ON BASEBALL: Bonds Can't Catch Ruth in Eminence (By MURRAY CHASS, May 20, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Gambling on a Weaker Dollar (NY TIMES, May 20, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Royalties on R.B.I.'s? (NY TIMES, May 20, 2006)
OP-ED: Praise the Lord and Pass a Budget (By MAYRA MONTERO, May 20, 2006)
OP-ED: Putin's Baby Love (By VIKTOR EROFEYEV, May 20, 2006)
OP-ED: Turned Off by Global Warming (By KATHERINE ELLISON, May 20, 2006)
LETTERS: Can Hillary Win? Can Any Woman? (5 Letters) (By Marie Wilson, et. al., May 20, 2006)
* LETTERS: On the Road, Just Granddad and Me (1 Letter) (By Sandi Bresnick, May 20, 2006)
* LETTERS: A Passion for Research (1 Letter) (By Rev. Joseph D. Herring, May 20, 2006)
LETTERS: Welcome, New American (1 Letter) (By Victoria Harmon, May 20, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | Your Money: Never Mind the Clip-On Ties, Geek Squad Can Fix Your PC
(By DAMON DARLIN, May 20, 2006)
THEATER: Shakespeare's Globe Is an American's Experiment Thriving in London (By ALAN RIDING, May 20, 2006)

Friday, May 19, 2006:
On This Day: May 19 (Jacob Jordaens 5/19/1593-10/18/1678, Johann Gottlieb Fichte 5/19/1762-1/27/1814, Johns Hopkins 5/19/1795-12/24/1873, John Jacob Abel 5/19/1857-5/26/1938, Nancy Witcher Astor 5/19/1879-5/2/1964, Percy Williams 5/19/1908-11/29/1982, Pol Pot 5/19/1925-4/15/1998, Malcolm X 5/19/1925-2/21/1965, Lorraine Hansberry 5/19/1930-1/12/1965, Jim Lehrer 1934, David Hartman 1935, James Fox 1939, Nancy Kwan 1939, Nora Ephron 1941, Peter Townshend 1945, Phil Rudd 1946, David Helfgott 1947, Grace Jones 1952, Steven Ford 1956)
* T. E. Lawrence to Have a Simple Funeral
(By FERDINAND KUHN, Jr., May 19, 1935)
* Ho Chi Minh Was Noted for Success in Blending Nationalism and Communism
[5/19/1890-9/2/1969] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, September 4, 1969)

WORLD: Iran's Secrecy Widens Gap in Nuclear Intelligence (By WILLIAM J. BROAD & ELAINE SCIOLINO, May 19, 2006)
WORLD: As Death Stalks Iraq, Middle-Class Exodus Begins (By SABRINA TAVERNISE, May 19, 2006)
* WORLD: Portrait of Mao to Go Under Hammer and Sickle (By REUTERS, May 19, 2006)
* SPORTS | BASEBALL: Calm Amid the Home Run Storm (By JACK CURRY, May 19, 2006)
* ON BASEBALL: Money Is A.L.'s Thumb on the Power Scale (By MURRAY CHASS, May 19, 2006)
SPORTS MEDIA & BUSINESS: Where Pitch Count Means Commercials (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, May 19, 2006)
EDITOIAL OBSERVER: The Day an Immigrant Refugee Can Say, 'I'm an American' (By HELENE COOPER, May 19, 2006)
OP-ED: Hard Luck for a Hard-Liner (By IAN BURUMA, May 19, 2006)
* OP-ED: Saving Grace (By LAUREN F. WINNER, May 19, 2006)
LETTERS: Organ Donors, for Love and Money (7 Letters) (By Dorothy H. Hayes, et. al., May 19, 2006)
A Deficit of Honesty and Confidence (3 Letters) (By John E. Colbert, et. al., May 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Leading Indicators Reinforce Idea That Growth Is Slowing (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: India, Known for Outsourcing, Expands in Industry (By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, May 19, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Apple, a Success at Stores, Bets Big on Fifth Avenue (By STEVE LOHR, May 19, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Dell to Use Chip Made by A.M.D. (By DAMON DARLIN, May 19, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | VC Nation: A Few Signs of Froth Do Not a Bubble Make (By GARY RIVLIN, May 19, 2006)
* ART | American Idyll: The Dawn of Tourism, With Homer, Church and Moran (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, May 19, 2006)
ART | 'Best of Friends': The Architect and the Sculptor: A Friendship of Ideas
(By GRACE GLUECK, May 19, 2006)
TRAVEL NEW YORK | 36 Hours: Syracuse (By HART SEELY, May 19, 2006)
* SCIENCE: 2nd Field Season Fails to Find the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (By JAMES GORMAN, May 19, 2006)

Thursday, May 18, 2006:
On This Day: May 18 (Omar Khayyam 5/18/1048-12/4/1131, Johann Froberger 5/18/1616-5/7/1667, Peter Carl Faberge 5/18/1846-9/24/1920, Elisabeth Cary 5/18/1867-7/13/1936, Bertrand Russell 5/18/1872-2/2/1970, Walter Gropius 5/18/1883-7/5/1969, Eurico Dutra 5/18/1885-6/11/1974, Ezio Pinza 5/18/1892-5/9/1957, Vincent du Vigneaud 5/18/1901-12/11/1978, Richard Brooks 5/18/1912-3/11/1992, Pierre Balmain 5/18/1914-6/29/1982, Dame Margot Fonteyn 5/18/1919-2/21/1991, Pope John Paul II 1920, Bill Macy 1922, Jack Whitaker 1924, Pernell Roberts 1930, Robert Morse 1931, Brooks Robinson 1937, Reggie Jackson 1946, Candice Azzara 1949)
* At Least 8 Dead as Mount St. Helens Erupts; Worst Blast Yet
(By Wallace Turner, May 18, 1980)
* Frank Capra, Whose Films Helped America Keep Faith in Itself, Is Dead at 94
[5/18/1897-9/3/1991] (By PETER B. FLINT, September 4, 1991)

* NATIONAL: And if It's a Boy, Will It Be Lleh? (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, May 18, 2006)
* NATIONAL: Popular Baby Names: Top 10 Names for 2005 (Social Security Administration, May 18, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech (By JONATHAN D. GLATER, May 18, 2006)
* Editorial Observer: Renewing America's Commitment to Research in High-Energy Physics
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, May 18, 2006)
BUSINESS: Inflation Rising, Markets Tumble (By LOUIS UCHITELLE, May 18, 2006)
* FILM: A 'Da Vinci Code' That Takes Longer to Watch Than Read
[The Da Vinci Code is above all a murder mystery. And as such, once it gets going, Ron Howard's movie has its pleasures.]
(By A. O. SCOTT, May 18, 2006)
MUSIC CRITIC: Missing Opera's Lost Generation of Stars at a Gala for Volpe (By ANNE MIDGETTE, May 18, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Planet Group Similar to Solar System Is Found (By DENNIS OVERBYE, May 18, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Two Splits Between Human and Chimp Lines Suggested (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 18, 2006)

Wednesday, May 17, 2006:
On This Day: May 17 (Albert 5/17/1490-3/20/1568, Edward Jenner 5/17/1749-1/26/1823, Erik Satie 5/17/1866-7/1/1925, Horace E. Dodge 5/17/1868-12/10/1920, Dorothy Richardson 5/17/1873-6/17/1957, Jean Gabin 5/17/1904-11/15/1976, Karl Schafer 5/17/1909-4/26/1976, Stewart A;sp[ 5/17/1914-5/26/1974, Robin Maugham 5/17/1916-3/13/1981, Robin Howard 5/17/1924-6/12/1989, Archibald Cox 1912, Birgit Nilsson 1918, Dennis Hopper 1936, Taj Mahal 1942, Bill Paxton 1955, Sugar Ray Leonard 1956)
High Court Bans School Segregation; 9-to-0 Decision Grants Time to Comply
(By LUTHER A. HUSTON, May 17, 1954)
Maureen O'Sullivan, Movie Tarzan's 'Jane,' Dies at 87
[5/17/1911-6/22/1998] (NY TIMES, June 23, 1998)

* NATIONAL: New England Rivers Begin to Crest as Rain Lets Up (By KATIE ZEZIMA, May 17, 2006)
BUSINESS: Companies and Critics Try Collaboration (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, May 17, 2006)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, May 17, 2006)
FOOD: Dry-Cured Sausages: Kissed by Air, Never by Fire (By JULIA MOSKIN, May 17, 2006)
FOOD: A Prince of Pork: In Seattle, Recreating the Perfect Ham (By R.W. APPLE Jr., May 17, 2006)
* THE MINIMALIST: Fat or Skinny Asparagus? Both Have Merits [3 recipies] (By MARK BITTMAN, May 17, 2006)
THE CHEF | Iacopo Falai: Celery and Salad Take Turns as Dessert (By MELISSA CLARK, May 17, 2006)
GOOD EATING | Carnegie Hill: Table Settings (Compiled by KRIS ENSMINGER, May 17, 2006)
SCIENCE: A Peruvian Woman of A.D. 450 Seems to Have Had Two Careers (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, May 17, 2006)

Tuesday, May 16, 2006:
On This Day: May 16 (Sir Dudley North 5/16/1641-12/31/1691, William Henry Seqard 5/16/1801-10/10/1872, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody 5/16/1804-1/3/1894, Philip Armour 5/16/1832-1/6/1901, Walter Yust 5/16/1894-2/29-1960, Henry Fonda 5/16/1905-8/12/1982, H. E. Bates 5/16/1905-1/29/1974, Woody Herman 5/16/1913-10/29/1987, Billy Martin 5/16/1928-12/25/1989, Betty Carter 5/16/1930-9/26/1998, Studs Terkel 1911, George Gaynes 1917, Harry Carey Jr. 1921, Lowell Weicker 1931, Pierce Brosnan 1953, Olga Korbut 1955, Debra Winger 1955, Mare Winningham 1959, Janet Jackson 1966, Gabriela Sabatini 1970, Rick Trevino 1971, Tori Spelling 1973)
Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: One Vote Short of Conviction
(NY TIMES, May 16, 1868)
Anne O'Hare McCormick Is Dead; Member of Times Editorial Board; 1937 Pulitzer Prize
[5/16/1882-5/29/1954] (NY TIMES, May 30, 1954)

Lygia Pape, a Brazilian Artist of Concrete Reality, Dies at 77 (By KEN JOHNSON, May 16, 2004)
* Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate, Dies at 100
["Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul," he wrote.
"The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only
sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them,
for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race."]
(By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, May 16, 2006)
* Jaroslav Pelikan, Wide-Ranging Historian of Christian Traditions, Dies at 82 (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 16, 2006)
NATIONAL: Bush Calls for Compromise on Immigration (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 16, 2006)
* NATIONAL: New England Deluged by Worst Flooding in Decades (By KATIE ZEZIMA, May 16, 2006)
SPORTS: Baseball Is a Game of Numbers, but Whose Numbers Are They? (By ALAN SCHWARZ, May 16, 2006)
* ON BASEBALL: The Best Thing About Him Is That He Doesn't Cheat [Albert Pujols]
(By MURRAY CHASS, May 16, 2006)
BASEBALL: Not Pitching to Pujols Is an Automatic First-Guess (By PAT BORZI, May 16, 2006)
BASEBALL | Rangers 4, Yankees 2: After Mussina Exits, Yankees Are at a Loss (By DAVID PICKER, May 16, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 16, 2006)
* SCIENCE: On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, May 16, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Impressive New Tricks of Light, All Within the Laws of Physics (By KENNETH CHANG, May 16, 2006)
Scientist at Work | Douglas Wilson: With Time Running Out, a Discovery Deep in the Crust of the Earth
(By EMILY B. HAGER, May 16, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Diary of the Earth's Magnetic Field Shows a Temporary Calm (By KENNETH CHANG, May 16, 2006)
SIDE EFFECTS: Frankencotton, the Shirt: Coming Soon to a Wardrobe Near You (By JAMES GORMAN, May 16, 2006)
* FINDINGS | On the Runway: Spacewear Meant to Dazzle, Even in Zero Gravity (By DENNIS OVERBYE, May 16, 2006)
OBSERVATORY: Hello, My Name Is... (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 16, 2006)
SCIENCE Q & A: Magnetic Metals (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 16, 2006)
HEALTH: Rising Diabetes Threat Meets a Falling Budget (By IAN URBINA, May 16, 2006)
* HEALTH: Lactic Acid Is Not Muscles' Foe, It's Fuel (By GINA KOLATA, May 16, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Learning to Live With Your Pet (and Breathe, Too) (By JANE E. BRODY, May 16, 2006)
HEALTH: Link Is Cited Between Smell and Sexuality (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 16, 2006)
HEALTH: For Two Transplant Patients, a Dire Complication: West Nile (By DENISE GRADY, May 16, 2006)
* A Conversation: Location, Location and... Pain [mother & daughter] (By PERRI KLASS, M.D., & SHEILA SOLOMON KLASS, May 16, 2006)
REALLY? | The Claim: Flying increases the risks of a miscarriage. (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, May 16, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Evidence Can Be Lacking for Drug Effectiveness (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 16, 2006)
* VITAL SIGNS: Motivation: For Patients, There's Beauty in the Ugly Truth (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 16, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Risk: For Men, Low Estrogen Level Puts Hips in Peril (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 16, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Workplace: High Blood Pressure? Don't Blame Your Job (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, May 16, 2006)
HEALTH: Help for Chronic Insomnia Isn't Always Found in a Pill (By JANE E. BRODY, May 16, 2006)
HEALTH | CASES: A Core of Despair, a Shadow of Nemesis (By RONALD PIES, M.D., May 16, 2006)

Monday, May 15, 2006:
On This Day: May 15 (Klemens Metternich 5/15/1773-6/11/1859, Michael Balfe 5/15/1808-10/20/1870, Debendranath Tagore 5/15/1817-1/19/1905, Elie Metchnikoff 5/15/1845-7/16/1916, Frank L. Baum 5/15/1856-5/6/1919, Pierre Curie 5/15/1859-4/19/1906, Arthur Schnitzler 5/15/1862-10/21/1931, Edwin Muir 5/15/1887-1/3/1959, William Hume-Rothery 5/15/1899-9/27/1968, Clifton Fadiman 5/15/1904-6/20/1999, James Mason 5/15/1909-7/27/1984, Tenzing Norgay 5/15/1914-5/9/1986, Catherine East 5/15/1916-8/17/1996, Constance Cummings 1910, Eddy Arnold 1918, Paul Zindel 1936, Anna Maria Alberghetti 1936, Madeleine Albright 1937, Trini Lopez 1937, Paul Rudd 1940, George Brett 1953, Lee Horsley 1955, Brad Rowe 1970, Amy Chow 1978)
Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months; Only Unreasonable Restraint of Trade Forbidden
(NY TIMES, May 15, 1911)
Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago Dies at 74
[5/15/1902-12/20/1976] (By PAUL DELANEY, December 21, 1976)

Former Slugger, Manager Jim Lemon Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 15, 2006)
NATIONAL: Conservative Christians Criticize Republicans (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, May 15, 2006)
NATIONAL: Rain and Swelling Rivers Threaten New England (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 15, 2006)
WORLD: Bush's Plan to Seal Border Worries Mexico (By JIM RUTENBERG, May 15, 2006)
* WORLD: Some See a 'Pyramid' to Hone Bosnia's Image. Others See a Big Hill. (By CRAIG S. SMITH, May 15, 2006)
EDUCATION:States Struggle to Computerize School Records (By, May 15, 2006)
NY REGION: Stirring Enthusiasm, With �lan and a Pan (By MANNY FERNANDEZ, May 15, 2006)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, May 15, 2006)
SPORTS: Bambino's New Curse Is Bonds's Tormentor (By JACK CURRY, May 15, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Science in the Garden (NY TIMES, May 15, 2006)
OP-ED: Death's Waiting List (By Sally Satel, May 15, 2006)
OP-ED: Charity Begins at Home, but Must It Stay There? (By JOHN J. MILLER, May 15, 2006)
LETTERS: Charter Schools and Accountability (4 Letters) (By Nelson Smith, et. al., May 15, 2006)
LETTERS | Memo to Democrats: Just Take a Stand (3 Letters) (By Wendy M. Geringer, et. al., May 15, 2006)
LETTERS | The Empress of Meatloaf: The Foodies Rebel (2 Letters) (By David Kamp, et. al., May 15, 2006)
LETTERS: Father Professor (1 Letter) (By Meg Kibbee , May 15, 2006)
* BUSINESS: On Some Flights, Millionaires Serve the Drinks (By By JEFF BAILEY, May 15, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Times Are Tough for News Media, but Journalism Schools Are Still Booming
(By By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, May 15, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: In a Scientist's Fall, China Feels Robbed of Glory (By DAVID BARBOZA, May 15, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: At an Industry Media Lab, Close Views of Multitasking (By SHARON WAXMAN, May 15, 2006)
ARTS: Director of Getty Is Unrattled by Claims of Italy and Greece to Antiquities
(By HUGH EAKIN, May 15, 2006)

Sunday, May 14, 2006:
On This Day: May 14 (Margaret of Valois 5/14/1553-3/27/1615, Francois de Callieres 5/14/1645-3/5/1717, Rober Owen 5/14/1771-11/17/1858, Sir Frederick Borden 5/14/1847-1/6/1917, Alton Parker 5/14/1852-5/10/1926, Kurt Eisner 5/14/1867-2/21/1919, Julian Eltinge 5/14/1883-3/7/1941, Al White 5/14/1895-7/8/1982, Mohammad Ayub 5/14/1907-4/19/1974, Patrice Munsel 1925, George Lucas 1944, Meg Foster 1948, Robert Zemeckis 1951, Tim Roth 1961, Cate Blanchett 1969)
Zionists Proclaim New State of Israel; Truman Recognizes it and Hopes for Peace
(By GENE CURRIVAN, May 14, 1948)
* Otto Klemperer; Conductor Dead at 88
[5/14/1885-7/6/1973] (By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY, July 8, 1973)

Nelson Gidding, 84, Screenwriter of Hollywood Classics, Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, May 14, 2004)
WORLD: Avian Flu Wanes in Asian Nations It First Hit Hard (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., May 14, 2006)
WORLD: A British Teachers' Union Weighs a Boycott of Israeli Teachers (By ALAN COWELL, May 14, 2006)
NY REGION | Long Island: Colleges Increasingly Banking on Deep Pockets for Donations
(By STEWART AIN, May 14, 2006)
* ON BASEBALL: White Sox Coach Gets Nothing but Results [Dan Cooper] (By MURRAY CHASS, May 14, 2006)
EDITORIAL: When Wal-Mart Goes Organic (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
* OP-ED: Pick Your Poison [78% of the flowers are imported mostly from
Latin America. Most are dunked in a barrel of fungicide just before shipment.]
(By AMY STEWART, May 14, 2006)
OP-ED: Our Mother Tongue [Mothers deserve credit for the
pivotal role they've played in the story of human evolution.
(By DEAN FALK, May 14, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Good Fight [mother's desire to see all go well for her daughter] (By DEBORAH TANNEN, May 14, 2006)
OP-ED: Intelligence Design [The concern that Gen. Michael Hayden's military background
portends a Pentagon takeover of the Central Intelligence Agency is misplaced.
(By MELISSA BOYLE MAHLE, May 14, 2006)
LETTERS: Is Now the Time for Optimism? (7 Letters) (By Frank Greenhalgh, et. al., May 14, 2006)
* LETTERS: Intelligent Design and Evolution (4 Letters) (By David Shorr, et. al., May 14, 2006)
* LETTERS: Freud and His Legacy (1 Letter) (By Robert S. Wallerstein, M.D., May 14, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
* BUSINESS | SPENDING: In Case of Disaster, Have a Backup Plan for Your PC (By KATE MURPHY, May 14, 2006)
BUSINESS: Attention Shoppers: Low Prices on Shots in Clinic (By MILT FREUDENHEIM, May 14, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
MUSIC Critic: Philadelphia Orchestra's New Toy Is an Organ Full of Bells and Whistles
(By JAMES R. OESTREICH, May 14, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
STYLE: Wagging the Dog, and a Finger (By BETH LANDMAN, May 14, 2006)
STYLE: The Other Casino Wynn, in a Hard City for Women (By CATHY HORYN, May 14, 2006)
STYLE: I Am Allergic, Hear Me Sneeze (By ALLEN SALKIN, May 14, 2006)
MODERN LOVE: A Winter of Discontent, Then Along Comes Baby (By KATHERINE OZMENT, May 14, 2006)
STYLE: Greening Up With the Joneses (By ALEX WILLIAMS, May 14, 2006)
VOWS: Renée Bailey and Leathem Mehaffey (By REBECCA PALEY, May 14, 2006)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
TRAVEL: Mark Twain's Hawaii (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, May 14, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
Fading Fast: Langley, We Have a Problem [CIA] (By TIM WEINER, May 14, 2006)
THE NATION: Hey Democrats, Why Win? (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, May 14, 2006)
THE WORLD: The Pipes Carry Clout With the Oil (By JAD MOUAWAD, May 14, 2006)
* THE WORLD: Russians, Busy Making Shrouds, Are Asked to Make Babies (By C. J. CHIVERS, May 14, 2006)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Call Them 'Refugees,' if It Gets the Job Done (By SHAILA DEWAN, May 14, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: My Heart Belongs to 'Mother' (By BEN YAGODA, May 14, 2006)
* Word for Word | Two Letters: From Iran, With Something Less Than Love (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, May 14, 2006)
Correspondent, 1958: From Abroad, Writing the Unspeakable (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
THE BASICS: A Freak-Wave Flip-Out? Not Likely (By KARI HASKELL, May 14, 2006)
THE BASICS: When a Diplomat Plays Postman (By JOEL BRINKLEY, May 14, 2006)
LAUGH LINES: Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Bump (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 14, 2006)
* The Way We Live Now: The Perils of Soft Power (By JOSEF JOFFE, May 14, 2006)
Questions for Tim Russert: All About My Father (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, May 14, 2006)
* CONSUMED: Faux Logo [Blackspot shoes made from "vegetarian materials"]
(By ROB WALKER, May 14, 2006)
THE ETHICIST: Interpretive Confidence (By RANDY COHEN, May 14, 2006)
* COVER ARTICLE: Scan This Book! [When Google announced in December 2004 that
it would digitally scan the books of five major research libraries to make their
contents searchable, the promise of a universal library was resurrected.]
(By KEVIN KELLY, May 14, 2006)
La Femme [Could a 52-year-old mother of four be the next president of France?] (By JAMES TRAUB, May 14, 2006)
* My Pain, My Brain [I was experiencing a clinical demonstration of a new
technology— real-time functional neuroimaging— used in a Stanford University
study, now in its second phase, that allows subjects to see their own brain activity
while feeling pain and to try to change that brain activity to control their pain.
(By MELANIE THERNSTROM, May 14, 2006)
STYLE: From Here to Maternity [Kirsty Hume is the model mother] (Photographed by MILES ALDRIDGE, May 14, 2006)
FOOD | The Industry: The Great American Smoke Out [salmon] (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, May 14, 2006)
FOOD: The Arsenal [selling smoked salmon] (By AMANDA HESSER, May 14, 2006)
* LIVES: Mother of All Surrogates [Money can't buy happiness,
but can an inheritance measure love?] (By DAPHNE MERKIN, May 14, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 14, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE | 'Strange Piece of Paradise,' by Terri Jentz: Living to Tell (Review by MARY ROACH, May 14, 2006)
* BOOKS on Anti-Americanism: They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us (Review by ROBERT WRIGHT, May 14, 2006)
* ESSAY: The Deciders [C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite (1956):
"Insofar as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them."]
(By JOHN H. SUMMERS, May 14, 2006)
'Guests of the Ayatollah,' by Mark Bowden: 444 Days (Review by JAMES TRAUB, May 14, 2006)
* 'Double Lives: American Writers' Friendships,' by Richard Lingeman
Henry and Edith and Scott and Ernest (Review by ROY BLOUNT Jr., May 14, 2006)
'Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny,' by Amartya Sen: We Contain Multitudes
(Review by KENJI YOSHINO, May 14, 2006)
* 'God's Silence: Poems,' by Franz Wright: In Pursuit of Revelation
[Franz Wright won the 2004 Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Walking to Martha's Vineyard,
his father, James Wright, won the award earlier. Franz Wright's poems present a speaker
who is emotionally naked and vulnerable. God keeps silent, but his silence is resonant.]
(Review by LANGDON HAMMER, May 14, 2006)
* 'Revolutionary Wealth,' by Alvin Toffler & Heidi Toffler: The Future Is Now (Review by NICK GILLESPIE, May 14, 2006)
* 'Desperate Networks,' by Bill Carter: Please Stay Tuned (Review by RON POWERS, May 14, 2006)
BOOKS: 'Living on Air,' by Anna Shapiro: Against Abstraction (Review by KAIAMA L. GLOVER, May 14, 2006)

Saturday, May 13, 2006:
On This Day: May 13 (Henry William Stiegel 5/13/1729-1/10/1785, Piux IX 5/13/1792-2/7/1878, Sir Arthur Sullivan 5/13/1842-11/22/1900, Sir Ronald Ross 5/13/1857-9/16/1932, George Braque 5/13/1882-8/31/1963, Charles Pajud de Mortanges 5/13/1896-4/7/1971, Dame Daphne du Maurier 5/13/1907-4/19/1989, Gil Evans 5/13/1912-3/20/1988, Jim Jones 5/13/1931-11/18/1978, Bea Arthur 1926, Clive Barnes 1927, Herbert Ross 1927, Harvey Keitel 1939, Stevie Wonder 1950)
Pope Is Shot in Car in Vatican Square; Surgeons Term Condition 'Guarded'; Turk, an Escaped Murderer, Is Seized
(By HENRY TANNER, May 13, 1981)
* Joe Louis, 66, Heavyweight King Who Reigned 12 Years, Is Dead
[5/13/1914-4/12/1981] (By DEANE McGOWEN, April 13, 1981)

* OP-ED: Rides of Passage (By PAUL HENDRICKSON, May 13, 2006)

Friday, May 12, 2006:
On This Day: May 12 (Edward Lear 5/12/1812-1/29/1888, Dante Gabriel Rossetti 5/12/1828-4/9/1882, Jules Massenet 5/12/1842-8/13/1912, Gabriel Faure 5/12/1845-11/4/1924, Henry Cabot Lodge 5/12/1850-11/9/1924, Baron Clemens von Pirquet 5/12/1874-2/28/1929, Lincoln Ellsworth 5/12/1880-5/26/1951, Leslie Charteris 5/12/1907-4/15/1993, Dorothy Hodgkin 5/12/1910-7/29/1994, Julius Rosenberg 5/12/1918-6/19/1953, Katharine Hepburn 1907, Howard K. Smith 1914, Yogi Berra 1925, John Simon 1925, Burt Bacharach 1929, Tom Snyder 1936, George Carlin 1937, Millie Perkins 1938, Billy Swan 1942, Bruce Boxleitner 1950, Gabriel Byrne 1950, Billy Squier 1950, Stephen Baldwin 1966)
Tunisian Resistance Ends in Rout of Germans; Gen. Von Arnim and 150,000 Men Captured
(By FRANK L. KLUCKHOHN, May 12, 1943)
* Florence Nightingale Dies, Aged Ninety
[5/12/1820-8/13/1910] (NY TIMES, August 15, 1910)

WORLD: Higher Learning in France Clings to Its Old Ways (By ELAINE SCIOLINO, May 12, 2006)
WORLD: China's Exports Climbed Steeply in April (By KEITH BRADSHER, May 12, 2006)
SPORTS | Red Sox 5, Yankees 3: A Broken Wrist Ends Matsui's Streak (By By TYLER KEPNER, May 12, 2006)
* OP-ED: Evolution's Bottom Line (By HOLDEN THORP, May 12, 2006)
* ART: Bringing the Soul Into Minimalism: Eva Hesse (By GRACE GLUECK, May 12, 2006)
BOOK Critic: Adventure Cooking and Xtreme Eating (By WILLIAM GRIMES, May 12, 2006)
* DANCE Critic's Choice: Pas de DVD: Ballet Leaps Out of the Box (By JOHN ROCKWELL, May 12, 2006)
* HEALTH: Shift in Treating Breast Cancer Is Under Debate (By GINA KOLATA, May 12, 2006)

Thursday, May 11, 2006:
On This Day: May 11 (Baron Munchhausen 5/11/1720-2/22/1797, Fanny Cerrito 5/11/1817-5/6/1909, Frank Schlesinger 5/11/1871-7/10/1943, Irving Berlin 5/11/1888-9/22/1989, Henry Morgenthau Jr. 5/11/1891-2/6/1967, Dame Margaret Rutherford 5/11/1892-5/22/1972, William Grant Still 5/11/1895-12/3/1978, Salvador Dali 5/11/1904-1/23/1989, Foster Brooks 1912, Mort SAhl 1927, Eric Burdon 1941, Frances Fisher 1952, Natasha Richardson 1963)
Pentagon Papers Charges Are Dismissed; Judge Byrne Frees Ellsberg and Russo, Assails 'Improper Government Conduct'
(By Martin Arnold, May 11, 1973)
* Martha Graham Dies at 96; A Revolutionary in Dance
[5/11/1894-4/1/1991] (By ANNA KISSELGOFF, April 2, 1991)

* A. M. Rosenthal, Editor of The Times, Dies at 84 (By ROBERT D. McFADDEN, May 11, 2006)
Floyd Patterson, Boxing Champion, Dies at 71 (By FRANK LITSKY, May 11, 2006)
Senate Votes to Extend Investor Tax Cuts (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG & DAVID STOUT, May 11, 2006)
NATIONAL: Fed Raises Rates Again but Clouds Next Move (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, May 11, 2006)
WORLD: Leaving the Wild, and Rather Liking the Change (By JUAN FORERO, May 11, 2006)
WORLD: Migrating Birds Didn't Carry Flu (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, May 11, 2006)
NY REGION: Hepatitis Risk for East Asians in New York (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PE&Ntile;A and MARC SANTORA, May 11, 2006)
SPORTS | Yankees 7, Red Sox 3: After a Game to Forget, a Home Run to Remember (By TYLER KEPNER, May 11, 2006)
BASEBALL: Johnson Has Lost His Way to Strike Zone, but He Passes Test on Shoulder (By TYLER KEPNER, May 11, 2006)
BASEBALL | Yankees Notebook: Page From The Past Is Quickly Put Aside (By TYLER KEPNER, May 11, 2006)
BASEBALL: Memorable Performances Are Limited to the Crowd (By JOE LAPOINTE, May 11, 2006)
EDITORIAL: The Republican Agenda for 2006: Tax Cuts for a Favored Few (NY TIMES, May 11, 2006)
EDITORIAL: The Republican Agenda for 2006: Tax Increases for Everyone Else (NY TIMES, May 11, 2006)
EDITORIAL: A Seasonable Spring (NY TIMES, May 11, 2006)
OP-ED: Assimilation Nation [immigration] (By PETER D. SALINS, May 11, 2006)
OP-ED: Cold, Hard Cash [Palestinians & Iranians] (By GEOFF D. PORTER, May 11, 2006)
LETTERS: Democrats Ready for Their Close-Up (9 Letters) (By Cyril D. Robinson, et. al., May 11, 2006)
LETTERS: Does Iran's Letter Open a Door? (3 Letters) (By James Adler, et. al., May 11, 2006)
* LETTERS: Teaching Self-Control (2 Letters) (By Scott Beall, May 11, 2006)
LETTERS: The Future of Iraq, Seen From Different Angles (1 Letter) (By Joseph R. Biden Jr. & Leslie H. Gelb, May 11, 2006)
BUSINESS: Stocks Fall on Fears of Inflation (By JEREMY W. PETERS, May 11, 2006)
BUSINESS: Tax Benefits to the Rich and Patient (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, May 11, 2006)
BUSINESS: Detroit Grapples With a New Era: The Not-So-Big 3
[Dow -141.92, Nasdaq -48.04] (By MICHELINE MAYNARD, May 11, 2006)
BUSINESS: Women Get Knees to Call Their Own (By BARNABY J. FEDER, May 11, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | Basics: Putting the Wire Back Into Networking (By DAMON DARLIN, May 11, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Google Shows New Services in Battle of Search Engines
[Google Co-op will allow users to mark Web pages they like and associate
each page with certain topics. Google Notebook allows users to record
information they have found on the Web. They can make their research public,
to send it to friends and to have it included in Google's index of Web pages.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, May 11, 2006)
DAVID POGUE: Why the World Doesn't Need Hi-Def DVD's (By DAVID POGUE, May 11, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Information Trail (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, May 11, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo in Deal on Spanish Site (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 11, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY Q & A: Keeping Mailboxes Happy and Compact (By J.D. BIERSDORFER, May 11, 2006)
* ART: In the Race for the Millions, 2 Paintings Come In Tied
[Roy Lichtenstein's "Sinking Sun" & Willem de Kooning's "Untitled XVI"
Each sold for $15.6 million last night.]
(By CAROL VOGEL, May 11, 2006)
ARTS: Sirius to Begin a Catholic Channel (By MICHAEL LUO, May 11, 2006)
BOOK CRITIC: All the President's Books (Minding History's Whys and Wherefores)
(By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, May 11, 2006)
DANCE: Momix Channels the Circus and Other Sources of Movements (By JENNIFER DUNNING, May 11, 2006)
* FILM: Christian Foes of 'Da Vinci Code' Mull Tactics
[Many Christian leaders across the country are girding themselves for
battle with "The Da Vinci Code," the movie that opens on May 19.]
(By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, May 11, 2006)
MUSIC: Sounds of Two Hemispheres From China National Symphony
(By BERNARD HOLLAND, May 11, 2006)
FASHION | Having a Moment: Long Shorts, or Short Pants, as Office Wear (By RUTH LA FERLA, May 11, 2006)
* STYLE: Latinas Make Sweet 16-ish Their Own (By LIZETTE ALVAREZ, May 11, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: The Oprah Treatment (By NATASHA SINGER, May 11, 2006)
STYLE | Online Shopper: A Stemless Glass (and Otto Keeps His Tail) (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, May 11, 2006)
* HOME & GARDEN: The Secret Source Is Out [Decoration & Design Building
in New York and the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California]
(By KIMBERLY STEVENS, May 11, 2006)
HOME & GARDEN: A Pie-in-the-Sky Treehouse Made Real (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, May 11, 2006)

Wednesday, May 10, 2006:
On This Day: May 10 (William Grace 5/10/1832-3/21/1904, John Wilkes Booth 5/10/1838-4/26/1865, Sir Thomas Lipton 5/10/1850-10/2/1931, Karl Barth 5/10/1886-12/9/1968, Einar Gerhardsen 5/10/1897-9/19/1987, Ariel Durant 5/10/1898-10/25/1981, Fred Astaire 5/10/1899-6/22/1987, Maybelle Carter 5/10/1909-10/23/1978, Nancy Walker 5/10/1922-3/25/1992, Pat Summerall 1930, Gary Owens 1936, Jim Abrahams 1944, Dave Mason 1946, Andrew Card 1947, Bono 1960, Krist Novoselic 1965)
East and West: Completion of Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory, Utah
(NY TIMES, May 10, 1869)
* David O. Selznick, 63, Producer Of 'Gone With the Wind', Dies
[5/10/1902-6/22/1965] (NY TIMES, June 23, 1965)

NATIONAL: Poll Gives Bush His Worst Marks Yet (By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE, May 10, 2006)
* EDUCATION: When the Professor Is a Tough Grader, and Your Dad (By By P. G. SITTENFELD, May 10, 2006)
WORLD: Iranian Letter: Using Religion to Lecture Bush (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, May 10, 2006)
SPORTS: Ruth's Kin Watching Bonds From a Distance (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 10, 2006)
BASEBALL | Red Sox 14, Yankees 3: Red Sox Punish the Sloppy Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, May 10, 2006)
OP-ED: Spy vs. Spy (By Thomas Powers, May 10, 2006)
LETTERS: Hollywood, Embrace Your Inner DVD (2 Letters) (By B.J. Rosenfeld, et. al., May 10, 2006)
SPORTS | Red Sox 14, Yankees 3: Red Sox Punish the Sloppy Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, May 10, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft and Google Grapple for Supremacy
[Microsoft & Google are on a collision course, as the realms of desktop computing and Internet services and software overlap more and more. Historically, the company that won the war for talent, won the war. That's how Sears beat Montgomery Ward.]
(By STEVE LOHR, May 10, 2006)
* TRAVEL | Letter From Mumbai: Mango Mania in India (By JONATHAN ALLEN, May 10, 2006)

Tuesday, May 9, 2006:
On This Day: May 9 (John Brown 5/9/1800-12/2/1859, Belle Boyd 5/9/1844-6/11/1900, Carl Gustaf Laval 5/9/1845-2/2/1913, Sir James Barrie 5/9/1860-6/19/1937, Henry J. Kaiser 5/9/1882-8/24/1967, Jose Ortega y Gasset 5/9/1883-10/18/1955, William du Bois 5/9/1916-2/5/1993, Pancho Gonzales 7/3/1995, Mike Wallace 1918, Alan Bennett 1934, Albert Finney 1936, Glenda Jackson 1936, James L. Brooks 1940, John Aschroft 1942, Tommy Roe 1942, Candice Bergen 1946, Anthony Higgins 1947, Billy Joel 1949)
Mandela is Named President, Closing the Era of Apartheid (By BILL KELLER, May 9, 1994)
* Howard Carter, 66, Egyptologist, Dies
[5/8/1884-12/26/1972] (NY TIMES, March 3, 1939)

NATIONAL: Bush's Public Approval at New Low Point (By ADAM NAGOURNEY & MEGAN THEE, May 9, 2006)
NATIONAL: Optimistic, Democrats Debate the Party's Vision (By ROBIN TONER, May 9, 2006)
NATIONAL: Exiles in 'Tehrangeles' Are Split on Iran (By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, May 9, 2006)
NATIONAL: Cuba Plans Offshore Wells Banned in U.S. Waters (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, May 9, 2006)
* WORLD: As Chinese Students Go Online, Little Sister Is Watching (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, May 9, 2006)
WORLD: Killings in Iraq Spawn Search for Missing Funds (By JAMES GLANZ, May 9, 2006)
NY REGION: A Resurgence in the Bronx Is Finally Putting the Grand Back in the Concourse
(By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, May 9, 2006)
SPORTS: It's Not a Mirage: Dubai Is Building a Sports Oasis (By LORNE MANLY, May 9, 2006)
* BASEBALL: Off Mound, Mets' Ace Loosens Up in His Garden [Pedro Martínez] (By JULIET MACUR, May 9, 2006)
BASEBALL: A Marquee Matchup (but Don't Tell Johnson) [Josh Beckett] (By TYLER KEPNER, May 9, 2006)
OP-ED: Three Iraqs Would Be One Big Problem (By ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN, May 9, 2006)
OP-ED: Generic Smear Campaign [sleeping pills] (By DANIEL CARLAT, May 9, 2006)
OP-ED: Orphans of the Storm (By IRWIN REDLENER, May 9, 2006)
LETTERS: A Change at the Helm of the C.I.A. (6 Letters) (By Robert D. Chagnon, et. al., May 9, 2006)
LETTERS: The High Price Tag on the 9/11 Memorial (4 Letters) (By Peter Braus, et. al., May 9, 2006)
* LETTERS: Novel, Interrupted (1 Letter) (By Sarah Strohmeyer, May 9, 2006)
* BUSINESS: A Chill Is in the Air for Sellers (By DAMON DARLIN & VIKAS BAJAJ, May 9, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Sony to Sell PlayStation 3 for $499 (By MATT RICHTEL, May 9, 2006)
FILM Critic: Lindsay Lohan: Portrait of the Party Girl as a Young Artist (By CARYN JAMES, May 9, 2006)
TV: 'Sopranos' Undergoes Cosmetic Surgery for Basic Cable (By JACQUES STEINBERG, May 9, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 9, 2006)
* SCIENCE: One Thing They Aren't: Maternal (By NATALIE ANGIER, May 9, 2006)
SCIENCE: A Conversation With Sherwood Boehlert:
A Science Advocate and 'an Endangered Species,' He Bids Farewell (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, May 9, 2006)
Shivering and Unsung, Scientists Monitor the Arctic Year After Year After Year
(By ANDREW C. REVKIN, May 9, 2006)
NASA Images Give New View of a Saturn Moon (By KENNETH CHANG, May 9, 2006)
FINDINGS: India? No, Arizona, and That's a Monsoon (By JAMES GORMAN, May 9, 2006)
OBSERVATORY: Counting Dropped Calls and Drops of Rain (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, May 9, 2006)
* SCIENCE Q & A: Potent Parsley (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, May 9, 2006)
HEALTH | Second Opinion: Sorting Out Pills to Reduce Breast Cancer Risk (By DENISE GRADY, May 9, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Just What the Doctor Ordered? Not Exactly (By JANE E. BRODY, May 9, 2006)
* REALLY | The Claim: A Stroke Can Be Diagnosed in Three Steps (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, May 9, 2006)
Finally, With Genetic Discovery, Hope for Escape From a Prison of Bone (By MICHAEL MASON, May 9, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Surgical Teams Found Lacking, in Teamwork (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 9, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: Outcomes: Heavy People May Beat Critical Illness More Often (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 9, 2006)
* VITAL SIGNS: Disparities: If Only Real-Life Comas Were Like Those in Film (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 9, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: High-Traffic Areas Tied to Children's Asthma Risk (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 9, 2006)
ESSAY: The Quest for Privacy Can Make Us Thieves (By ROBERT KLITZMAN, M.D., May 9, 2006)
A Strain of Mice Appears Able to Resist Cancer Cells (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 9, 2006)
HEALTH: In Men, 'Trigger-Happy' May Be a Hormonal Impulse (By BENEDICT CAREY, May 9, 2006)
HEALTH: Patterns of Deceit Raise Concerns About Teenage Sex Surveys (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, May 9, 2006)

Monday, May 8, 2006:
On This Day: May 8 (Edward Gibbon 5/8/1737-1/16/1794, Thomas Hancock 5/8/1786-3/26/1865, Henri Dunant 5/8/1828-10/30/1910, James Rowland Angell 5/8/1869-3/4/1949, Thomas Costain 5/8/1885-10/8/1965, Joselito 5/8/1895-5/16/1920, Edmund Wilson 5/8/1895-6/12/1972, Friedrich von Hayek 5/8/1899-3/23/1992, Fernandel 5/8/1903-2/26/1971, Roberto Rosselloini 5/8/1906-6/3/1977, Romain Gary 5/8/1914-12/2/1980, Sonny Liston 5/8/1917-12/31/1970, Don Rickles 1926, David Attenborough 1926, Peter Benchley 1940, Angel Cordero Jr. 1942, Toni Tennille 1943, Keith Jarrett 1945, Philip Bailey 1951, David Keith 1954, Alex Van Halen 1955, Melissa Gilbert 1964, Enrique Iglesias 1975, Julia Whelan 1985)
Occupation of Wounded Knee Is Ended (By Andrew H. Malcolm, May 8, 1973)
* Harry S. Truman: Decisive President Dies at 88
[5/8/1884-12/26/1972] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, December 26, 1972)

* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, May 8, 2006)
SPORTS: Bonds Turns a Lieber Fastball Into Home Run No. 713 (By JACK CURRY, May 8, 2006)
SPORTS | Yankees 8, Rangers 5: Torre Passes Yanks' Milestone With 1,000th Victory
(By TYLER KEPNER, May 8, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Wachovia to Acquire Golden West Bank for $26 Billion (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN & JULIE CRESWELL, May 8, 2006)
BUSINESS: Forbes May Seek Investment From Outside (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, May 8, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Yahoo Is Unleashing a New Way to Turn Ad Clicks Into Ka-Ching (By SAUL HANSELL, May 8, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: 'M' Is for the Many Ways Marketers Court Her [Mother's Day] (By BOB TEDESCHI, May 8, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: I.B.M. Seeks to Make the Mainframe Modern Technology (By STEVE LOHR, May 8, 2006)
* SCIENCE | BEE'S EYES: In the Lab, a Dazzling Feat of Vision, Complete with 8,370 Lenses
(NY TIMES, May 8, 2006) (Print: Landscape)
* HEALTH: Scientists Discover Gene Linked to Higher Rates of Prostate Cancer (By NICHOLAS WADE, May 8, 2006)

Sunday, May 7, 2006:
On This Day: May 7 (Germain Boffrand 5/7/1667-3/18/1754, David Hume 5/7/1711-8/25/1776, Robert Browning 5/7/1812-12/12/1889, Johannes Brahms 5/7/1833-4/3/1897, Oskar von Miller 5/7/1855-4/9/1934, Marcus Loew 5/7/1870-9/5/1927, Archibald MacLeish 5/7/1892-4/20/1982, Kitty Godfree 5/7/1896-6/19/1992, Gary Cooper 5/7/1901-5/13/1961, Edwin Herbert Land 5/7/1909-3/1/1991, Darren McGavin 1922, Teresa Brewer 1931, Pete Domenici 1932, Johnny Unitas 1933, Johnny Maestro 1939, Jimmy Ruffin 1939, Tim Russert 1950, Amy Heckerling 1954)
* War in Europe is Ended! Surrender Is Unconditional; V-E Will Be Proclaimed Today; Our Troops on Okinawa Gain
(By Edward Kennedy, May 7, 1945)
* Saga Of Eva Peron: 12 Years To Power, Dies at 33
[5/7/1919-7/26/1952] (NY TIMES, July 27, 1952)

NATIONAL: A Beauty With Some Hard Miles Waits for a Facelift (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2006)
WORLD: In a Dentist Shortage, British (Ouch) Do It Themselves (By SARAH LYALL, May 7, 2006)
SPORTS | On Baseball: Why Not Them? Reds and Tigers Start Fast (By MURRAY CHASS, May 7, 2006)
* SPORTS: Monroe - DiMaggio Ball Fetches $191,200
[A baseball signed by New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio and actress Marilyn Monroe
sold for $191,200 in a sports memorabilia auction, Heritage Auction Galleries.]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 7, 2006) [Photo]
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: 'Look on the World, Not on Yourself So Much' (By ADAM COHEN, May 7, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Inside Man [Sigmund Freud] (By WILLIAM H. GASS, May 7, 2006)
OP-ED: An Invitation, Not an Endorsement (By JERRY FALWELL, May 7, 2006)
LETTERS: Seeking Energy in All the Odd Places (6 Letters) (By Larry P. Walker & David B. Wilson, et. al., May 7, 2006)
* LETTERS: Is It Paranoia if It's the Truth? (5 Letters) (By Tim Patterson, et. al., May 7, 2006)
LETTERS: Galbraith's Light Touch (1 Letter) (By Warren Christopher, May 7, 2006)
LETTERS: One Type of Courage (1 Letter) ["United 93"] (By Gloria Zimmerman, May 7, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
BUSINESS: Buffett to Use Billions in Cash on More Deals (By BLOOMBERG NEWS, May 7, 2006)
MARKET WEEK: This Pause May Have to Wait (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, May 7, 2006)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Why Prices at the Pump May Have Little Bite (By DANIEL GROSS, May 7, 2006)
* Finding Comfort (and New Friends) in Gold (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., May 7, 2006)
Digital Domain: Someone Has to Pay for TV. But Who? And How? (By RANDALL STROSS, May 7, 2006)
* STRATEGIES: The Mystery of the Stock Price and the Strike Price (By MARK HULBERT, May 7, 2006)
Everybody's Business: You're Rich? Terrific. Now Pay Up. (By BEN STEIN, May 7, 2006)
Off the Shelf: Coaching Employees: A Delicate Balance (By PAUL B. BROWN, May 7, 2006)
* The Boss: Marketing and Matchmaking [Jim Safka, CEO, Match.com] (As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN, May 7, 2006)
REAL ESTATE: The Least Affordable Place to Live? Try Salinas (By ALINA TUGEND, May 7, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
ARTS | Video Games: Welcome to the New Dollhouse (By SETH SCHIESEL, May 7, 2006)
ART: Looks Brilliant on Paper. But Who, Exactly, Is Going to Make It? (By MIA FINEMAN, May 7, 2006)
* ART: The Entire Universe on a Dimmer Switch (By DOROTHY SPEARS, May 7, 2006)
* FILM: For Heaven's Sake, Don't Touch the Mona Lisa
[A "Da Vinci Code" scene shot in the 930-foot-long Grande Galerie]
(By ALAN RIDING, May 7, 2006)
FILM: How to Build a Viking. A Very, Very Big Viking. (By MARK OLSEN, May 7, 2006)
MUSIC: Paul Simon's Electric Sonic Texture Test (By ALAN LIGHT, May 7, 2006)
MUSIC: Pollini Speaks! (in His Fashion) (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, May 7, 2006)
TV: Fear, Ineptitude and Other Tools of Government (By By MARGY ROCHLIN, May 7, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
* STYLE: Money Changes Everything (By JENNIE YABROFF, May 7, 2006)
* A Hermit's Refuge Is Now a Writer's Muse [Henry Stuart] (By WARREN ST. JOHN, May 7, 2006)
* Underwater, and Over the Top in 1972 [New film Poseidon] (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, May 7, 2006)
* MODERN LOVE: Losing My Way Has Been a Way of Life for Me (By MICHELE HERMAN, May 7, 2006)
* Not-So-Still Life With Stairwell [photographer Mark Seliger & Mary-Louise Parker]
(By LILY KOPPEL, May 7, 2006)
POSSESSED: A Cartoonist Fixates on His Inner Napoleon (By DAVID COLMAN, May 7, 2006)
Remember Zines? Look at Them Now (By JESSICA PRESSLER, May 7, 2006)
The Age of Dissonance: The B-List Blues (By BOB MORRIS, May 7, 2006)
BOOKS of Style: Flawed, Fabulous Moms and Problem Dads (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, May 7, 2006)
VOWS: Dominique Martinet and Andr� Simonpietri Jr. (By JANE GORDON, May 7, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
GO FIGURE: For Bush, the Economy Is a Glass Half Empty (By DAVID LEONHARDT, May 7, 2006)
THE NATION: Graphic: The Best (Almost) of Friends [Condoleezza Rice] (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
THE WORLD: Abroad at the Pump, Circumspection by the Barrel (By MARK LANDLER, May 7, 2006)
AUTHOR, AUTHOR, AUTHOR: Ishmael? C'mon, Herm, Call Him Nate (By KEITH DIXON, May 7, 2006)
READING FILE: Sunny Deutschland (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
READING FILE: Measuring Rod [slide rules] (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Tautophrases (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, May 7, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: The Other Immigration (By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, May 7, 2006)
Questions for Cesar Millan: Leader of the Pack (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, May 7, 2006)
CONSUMED: Shelf Improvement (By ROB WALKER, May 7, 2006)
* FREAKONOMICS: A Star Is Made [soccer players & astrology] (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER & STEVEN D. LEVITT, May 7, 2006)
THE ETHICIST: Pass the Envelope (By RANDY COHEN, May 7, 2006)
* COVER ARTICLE: Contra-Contraception [The birth-control pill] (By RUSSELL SHORTO, May 7, 2006)
Rip Torn Won't Go Gentle Into That Good Night (By SUSAN DOMINUS, May 7, 2006)
* 13 Ways of Looking at an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (By JACK HITT, May 7, 2006)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: Super Cuts (By DANIEL PATTERSON, May 7, 2006)
LIVES: Almost Home (By HEATHER O'NEILL, May 7, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, May 7, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE | 'Everyman,' by Philip Roth: Lust and Death (Review by NADINE GORDIMER, May 7, 2006)
* 'Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations,' by David Warsh: The Pin Factory Mystery (Review by PAUL KRUGMAN, May 7, 2006)
* 'Clemente,' by David Maraniss: Fielder of Dreams (Review by GEORGE F. WILL, May 7, 2006)
* ESSAY: How to Sell Books by Really Trying (By HENRY ALFORD, May 7, 2006)
* Books by David L. Holmes, Peter R. Henriques and Jon Meacham: Keeping the Faith at Arm's Length
(Review by ALAN WOLFE, May 7, 2006)
Poetry Books by Robin Robertson and Nick Laird: On the Borderline
[Robertson portrays dramatic, threatening landscapes and seascapes from Scotland,
Ireland and the north of England, in gritty, tactile verse a bit like the young
Heaney's. If Robertson seeks the mythic and the universal, Nick Laird dwells on
the particulars that distinguish one citizen, or one family, from the rest.]
(Review by STEPHEN BURT, May 7, 2006)
'Let Me Finish,' by Roger Angell: Roger's Version (Review by JAMES CAMPBELL, May 7, 2006)

Saturday, May 6, 2006:
On This Day: May 6 (Maximilien Robespierre 5/6/1758-7/28/1794, Abraham Jacobi 5/6/1830-7/10/1919, Sigmund Freud 5/6/1856-9/23/1939, Robert Peary 5/6/1856-2/20/1920, William Leahy 5/6/1875-7/20/1959, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 5/6/1880-6/15/1938, Stanley Morison 5/6/1889-10/11/1967, Rudolph Valentino 5/6/1895-8/23/1926, Lew Christensen 5/6/1909-10/9/1984, Theodore White 5/6/1915-5/15/1986, Willie Mays 1931, Bob Seger 1945, Ben Masters 1947, Tony Blair 1953, George Clooney 1961, Roma Downey 1963)
* Hindenburg Burns in Lakehurst Crash; 21 Known Dead, 12 Missing; 64 Escape
(By Russell B. Porter, May 6, 1937)
* Orson Welles is Dead at 70; Innovator of Film and Stage
[5/6/1915-10/10/1985] (NY TIMES, October 11, 1985)

* OP-ED: Straight to DVD (By ROBERT W. CORT, May 6, 2006)
OP-ED: All Smoke, No Fire in Bolivia (By WILLIAM POWERS, May 6, 2006)
* LETTERS: The Eternal (or Almost) Resonance of Music (2 Letters) (By David Grubbs, May 6, 2006)
LETTERS: Cheney and Russia (2 Letters) (By Steven Kolpan, May 6, 2006)

Friday, May 5, 2006:
On This Day: May 5 (Leopold II 5/5/1747-3/1/1792, Frederick Barnard 5/5/1809-4/27/1889, Søren Kierkegaard 5/5/1813-11/11/1855, Karl Marx 5/5/1818-3/14/1883, Hubert Howe Bancroft 5/5/1832-3/2/1918, Peter Cooper Hewitt 5/5/1861-8/25/1921, Christopher Morley 5/5/1890-3/28/1957, Dorothy Garrod 5/5/1892-12/18/1968, Sir Gordon Richards 5/5/1904-11/10/1986, Tyrone Power 5/5/1914-11/15/1958, Arthur L. Schawlow 5/5/1921-4/28/1999, Ann B. Davis 1926, Pat Carroll 1927, John Sweeney 1934, Michael Murphy 1938, Lance Henriksen 1940, Jean-Pierre Leaud 1944)
U.S. Hurls Alan Shepard 115 Miles Into Space; Reports by Radio in 15-Minute Flight
(By Richard Witkin, May 5, 1961)
Nellie Bly, Journalist, Dies of Pneumonia at 56
[5/5/1867-1/27/1922] (NY TIMES, January 28, 1922)

* MUSIC: An Organ Recital for the Very, Very Patient (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, May 5, 2006)

Thursday, May 4, 2006:
On This Day: May 4 (Bartolomeo Cristofori 5/4/1655-1/27/1731, Horace Mann 5/4/1796-8/2/1859, Sir William Cooke 5/4/1806-6/25/1879, Julia Tyler 5/4/1820-7/10/1889, T. H. Huxley 5/4/1825-6/29/1895, Fritz von Opel 5/4/1899-4/8/1971, Lincoln Kirstein 5/4/1907-1/5/1996, Emmanuel Robles 5/4/1914-2/22/1995, Audrey Hepburn 5/4/1929-1/20/1993, Hosni Mubarak 1928, Maynard Ferguson 1928, Roberta Peters 1930, Tyrone Davis 1938, Paul Gleason 1944, Randy Travis 1959, Mary McDonough 1961)
4 Kent State Students Killed by Troops (By John Kifner, May 4, 1970)
Dr. Frank Conrad, Radio Pioneer, Dies at 67
[5/4/1874-12/11/1941] (By ERIC PACE, December 12, 1941)

Wednesday, May 3, 2006:
On This Day: May 3 (Niccolo Machiavelli 5/3/1469-6/21/1527, E. W. Howe 5/3/1853-10/3/1937, Vito Volterra 5/3/1860-10/11/1940, Marcel Dupre 5/3/1886-5/30/1971, Sir George Paget Thomson 5/3/1892-9/10/1975, Bing Crosby 5/3/1903-10/14/1977, May Sarton 5/3/1912-7/16/1995, William Inge 5/3/1913-6/10/1973, Sugar Ray Robinson 5/3/1921-4/12/1989, Pete Seeger 1919, James Brown 1933, Engelbert Humperdinck 1936, Greg Gumbel 1946)
7,000 Arrested in Capital War Protest; 150 Are Hurt as Clashes Disrupt Traffic
(By Richard Halloran, May 3, 1971)
Golda Meir: Peace and Arab Acceptance Were Goals of Her 5 Years as Premier
[5/3/1898-12/8/1978] (By ISRAEL SHENKER, December 9, 1978)

SPORTS | On Baseball: Unexpected Closer Does as He Expects (By MURRAY CHASS, May 3, 2006)

Tuesday, May 2, 2006:
On This Day: May 2 (Alessandro Scarlatti 5/2/1660-10/24/1725, Catherine II 5/2/1729-11/17/1796, Henry Martyn robert 5/2/1837-5/11/1923, Theodor Herzl 5/2/1860-7/3/1904, James F. Byrnes 5/2/1879-4/9/1972, Vernon Castle 5/2/1887-2/15/1918, Manfred Richthofen 5/2/1892-4/21/1918, Lorenz Hart 5/1895-11/22/1943, Alex Springer 5/2/1912-9/22/1985, Satyajit Ray 5/2/1921-4/23/1992, Theodore Bikel 1924, Bianca Jagger 1945, Lesley Gore 1946, Larry Gatlin 1948, Scott McCallum 1950)
Berlin Falls to Russians, 70,000 Give Up; 1,000,000 Surrender in Italy and Austria
(Associated Press, May 2, 1945)
* Benjamin Spock, World's Pediatrician, Dies at 94
[5/2/1903-3/15/1998] (By ERIC PACE, March 17, 1998)

* NY REGION: 2 Perfect Games, Then Plunk (By COREY KILGANNON, May 2, 2006)
Giuliani Shows a Candidate's Mettle to Republicans in Iowa (By PATRICK HEALY, May 2, 2006)
SPORTS: Boston Fans Choose Boos, but Damon Tips His Hat (By JACK CURRY, May 2, 2006)
SPORTS | On Baseball: Red Sox' Fix Is in, Just in Time (By MURRAY CHASS, May 2, 2006)
SPORTS | Around the Majors: Astros Say They Will Make Offer to Clemens ( ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 2, 2006)
SPORTS | Yankees Notebook: Clemens Still Undecided, and Cashman Won't Push Him
(By TYLER KEPNER, May 2, 2006)
EDITORIAL: They Are America (NY TIMES, May 2, 2006)
OP-ED: Calm at the Center of the Storm [Iraq] (By BARTLE BREESE BULL, May 2, 2006)
* LETTERS: 'O Say, Can You See,' in Spanish (8 Letters) (By Richard M. Frauenglass, et. al., May 2, 2006)
* LETTERS: Meryl Streep in the Classroom? (5 Letters) (By Annie Thoms, et. al., May 2, 2006)
* LETTERS: The Plagiarism Scandal (1 Letter) (By Brian Camp, May 2, 2006)
* LETTERS: An American Tragedy (1 Letter) [Bush's tragic flaws] (By Ronald Rubin, May 2, 2006)

Monday, May 1, 2006:
On This Day: May 1 (Joseph Addison 5/1/1672-6/17/1719, Benjamin Latrobe 5/1/1764-9/3/1820, Arthur Wellesley 5/1/1769-9/14/1852, Jose Alencar 5/1/1829-12/12/1877, Mary Harris Jones 5/1/1830-11/30/1930, Cecilia Beaux 5/1/1855-9/17/1942, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 5/1/1881-4/10/1955, Eugene Black 5/1/1898-2/20/1992, Winthrop Rockefeller 5/1/1912-2/22/1974, Terry Southern 5/1/1924-10/29/1995, Glenn Ford 1916, Jack Paar 1918, Scott Carpenter 1925, Shirley Horn 1934, Judy Collins 1939, Rita Coolidge 1945)
Soviet Downs American U-2 Plane; U.S. Says It Was Weather Craft; Khrushchev Sees Summit Blow
(By Osgood Caruthers, May 1, 1960)
Kate Smith, All-American Singer, Dies At 79
[5/1/1909-6/17/1986] (By FRANK G. PRIAL, June 18, 1986)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian Novelist, Dies (By JANE PERLEZ, May 1, 2006)
James Swindal, 88, Pilot of Kennedy's Presidential Plane, Dies (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, May 1, 2006)
NATIONAL: Immigrants Stage Protests Across U.S. (By MARIA NEWMAN, May 1, 2006)
NATIONAL: Dispatches From Immigration Rallies Across the Nation (NY TIMES, May 1, 2006)
* NY REGION: In a Tiny Queens Apartment, 70 Cats Gone, and 28 to Go (By COREY KILGANNON, May 1, 2006)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, May 1, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: Red Sox Re-Acquire Mirabelli to Catch Wakefield's Knuckler (By JACK CURRY, May 1, 2006)
SPORTS | Red Sox 7, Yankees 3: Yankees Have Damon, but Red Sox Get the Win (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 1, 2006)
BASEBALL | A.L. Roundup: Schilling Fails in Bid for Perfect April (ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 1, 2006)
OP-ED: Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq (By JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. & LESLIE H. GELB, May 1, 2006)
LETTERS: Gas Prices: Do Something Real (8 Letters) (By Sanford Evans, et. al., May 1, 2006)
LETTERS: An Immigrant's Story (1 Letter) (By Anne Walton , May 1, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, May 1, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS | Support System: Guess Who's Got His Back? [Wal-Mart] (By MICHAEL BARBARO, May 1, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: For the Avon Lady, a World Beyond Ringing Doorbells (By JULIE BOSMAN, May 1, 2006)
* SMALL BUSINESS | Upsizing: In Search of... $1 Billion in Revenue (By SUSAN MORAN, May 1, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: Should You or Shouldn't You (Outsource)? (By FRAN HAWTHORNE, May 1, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: Have Fun, Learn a Skill (By CHRISTIAN L. WRIGHT, May 1, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: Changing Young Lives With the ABC's of Business (By ELIZABETH OLSON, May 1, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles
[The new browser includes a search box in the upper-right corner that is typically
set up to send users to Microsoft's MSN search service. Google contends that this
puts Microsoft in a position to unfairly grab Web traffic and advertising dollars.]
(By STEVE LOHR, May 1, 2006)

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