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

Wednesday, November 30, 2005:
On This Day: November 30 (Andrea Doria 11/30/1466-11/25/1560, Andrea Palladio 11/30/1508-8/19/1580, Jonathan Swift 11/30/1667-10/19/1745, Mark Twain 11/30/1835-4/21/1910, Wiston Churchill 11/30/1874-1/24/1965, I.J. Singer 11/30/1893-2/10/1944, Donald Ogden Stewart 11/30/1894-8/2/1980, Gordon Parks 1912, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. 1918, Shirley Chisholm 1924, Richard Crenna 1927, Dick Clark 1929, G. Gordon Liddy 1930, David Mamet 1947, June Pointer 1954, Billy Idol 1955, Bo Jackson 1962)
Clinton became the first U.S. President to visit Northern Ireland (NY Times, November 30, 1995)
* Churchill Dies at 90 At Home in London [11/30/1874-1/24/1965] (By ANTHONY LEWIS, January 24, 1965)

* Stan Berenstain, Co-Creator of Those Fuzzy Bears, Dies at 82 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Nov. 30, 2005)
Vic Power, First Baseman With Flair, Is Dead at 78 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Nov. 30, 2005)
NATIONAL: Feeding the Beast for Light in New Orleans (By ADAM NOSSITER, Nov. 30, 2005)
U.S. Set to Loosen Rules on Objects Allowed on Airliners (By ERIC LIPTON, Nov. 30, 2005)
* Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds (By JOHN SCHWARTZ and JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 30, 2005)
EDUCATION: In Desire to Grow, Colleges in South Battle With Roots (By ALAN FINDER, Nov. 30, 2005)
ON EDUCATION: Learning-Disabled Students Blossom in Blended Classes (By MICHAEL WINERIP, Nov. 30, 2005)
WORLD: Bush Again Rejects Calls for a Withdrawal Timetable in Iraq (By DAVID SANGER, Nov. 30, 2005)
An Old Cinema in Pakistan Has New Life After Quake (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Nov. 30, 2005)
Letter From Ukraine: Modest River, Wide Chasm, With Europe 'Over There' (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Nov. 30, 2005)
NY REGION: Heaven on Wheels [The Roxy] (By ANDREW JACOBS, Nov. 30, 2005)
$430 a Square Foot, for Air? Only in New York Real Estate (By Charles V. Bagli, Nov. 30, 2005)
New Subway Cars Promise All Kinds of Information (By SEWELL CHAN, Nov. 30, 2005)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: Secret Weapon Helped Mets in Signing Wagner (By BEN SHPIGEL, Nov. 30, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Yanks May Go on Instinct With Jeter in Center (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 30, 2005)
OP-ED: Cull of the Wild [birds & avian flu] (By SCOTT WEIDENSAUL, Nov. 30, 2005)
OP-ED: A Shot at Justice [pandemic flu protection] (By DIRK OLIN, Nov. 30, 2005)
OP-ED: The Flu's Second Front (By MICHAEL ALDERMAN, Nov. 30, 2005)
* LETTERS: Wounds of War, Within the Mind (4 Letters) (By George A. Hoffman, et. al., Nov. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Honey, We Forgot to Raise the Kids! (5 Letters) (By Peter Loffredo, et. al., Nov. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Cheerleaders' Lure Is Lost on Me (By Andrea Rodgers, M.D., Nov. 30, 2005)
BUSINESS: Shares Close Mixed as Interest Rate Concerns Damp Rally
[Dow -2.56, Nasdaq -6.66] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 30, 2005)
ECONOMIC MEMO: Upbeat Signs Hold Cautions for the Future (By VIKAS BAJAJ, Nov. 30, 2005)
* MARKET PLACE: How to Generate Alpha in a Predominantly Beta World (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Nov. 30, 2005)
Advertising: Go Ahead and Splurge on Someone Who Really Deserves the Best (By JULIE BOSMAN, Nov. 30, 2005)
* Sales Climb at Retailers on Internet (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Nov. 30, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | SQUARE FEET: Sporting Goods and Its Own Business Model (By KATE MURPHY, Nov. 30, 2005)
* ARTS: Library's Art Auction Fails to Meet Expectations [Stuart's "Washington"]
(By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 30, 2005)
* BOOKS | Holiday Books: 100 Notable Books of the Year (NY TIMES, Nov. 30, 2005)
* MUSIC: Deadheads Outraged Over Web Crackdown [Grateful Dead] (By JEFF LEEDS, Nov. 30, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 30, 2005)
FOOD: A Star Chef at Your (Expensive) Stove (By ELIZABETH MAKER, Nov. 30, 2005)
A Life in the Culinary Front Lines (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Nov. 30, 2005)
THE MINIMALIST: Winter Blanket for a Chicken (By MARK BITTMAN, Nov. 30, 2005)
BAKING: o-Roll Crusts Leave Little Room for Disappointment (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Nov. 30, 2005)
FOOD STUFF: Holiday Ribbons of Sweet and Sour (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Nov. 30, 2005)
FOOD: The Decisions Begin Before You Peel [potatoes] (By JULIA MOSKIN, Nov. 30, 2005)
* HEALTH | Being a Patient: When the Doctor Is in, but You Wish He Weren't (By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 30, 2005)
SCIENCE: Doctors in France Perform First Partial Face Transplant (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 30, 2005)

Tuesday, November 29, 2005:
On This Day: November 29 (Gaetano Donizetti 11/29/1797-4/8/1848, Christian Doppler 11/29/1803-3/17/1853, Busby Berkeley 11/29/1895-3/14/1976, William Tubman 11/29/1895-7/23/1971, C.S. Lewis 11/29/1898-11/22/1963, Vin Scully 1927, Paul Simon 1928, Diane Ladd 1943, Suzy Chaffee 1946, Garry Shandling 1949, Cathy Moriarty 1960)
U.N. General Assembly resolution on partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews (NY Times, November 29, 1947)
* Louisa M. Alcott Dead at 55: Authoress Dies on the Day of Her Father's Funeral [11/29/1832-3/6/1888] (NY Times, March 7, 1888)

NATIONAL: Full Flood Safety in New Orleans Could Take Billions and Decades (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 29, 2005)
Bush Renews Push to Overhaul Immigration (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Nov. 29, 2005)
Windy, Stormy End to Holiday Strands Travelers (By GRETCHEN RUETHLING, Nov. 29, 2005)
U.S. Lacks Plan to Curb Terror Funds, Agency Says (By ERIC LICHTBLAU, Nov. 29, 2005)
An Ordinary Day, and a Welcome One, at Ben Franklin Elementary (By ADAM NOSSITER, Nov. 29, 2005)
* WORLD | BARRY JOURNAL: What's the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don't Want to Hear It (By SARAH LYALL, Nov. 29, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Shake and Bake [white phosphorus against Iraqis] (NY TIMES, Nov. 29, 2005)
* ARTS | 'Beatrix Potter in America': Soft Spot for Americans, Endorsed by Rabbits and Puddle-Ducks
(By GRACE GLUECK, Nov. 29, 2005)
BOOKS: Harper's Set to Name Its Next Editor [Roger D. Hodge] (By DAVID CARR, Nov. 29, 2005)
FILM: Glamorizing the Progress of a Notorious Rake (By CHARLES McGRATH, Nov. 29, 2005)
* MUSIC | Simone Dinnerstein: Playing the Goldbergs With a Schubertian Touch (By ALLAN KOZINN, Nov. 29, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 29, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Mount St. Helens' Quiet Eruption (By KENNETH CHANG, Nov. 29, 2005)
* A Conversation With Kristi Anseth: New Models for Healing and for Science Itself
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Nov. 29, 2005)
A Pair of Wings Took Evolving Insects on a Nonstop Flight to Domination (By CARL ZIMMER, Nov. 29, 2005)
* FINDINGS: The Grapefruit League [Athletes on a hot streak] (By BENEDICT CAREY, Nov. 29, 2005)
* NANOTECHNOLOGY: Too Tiny for Trouble? Scientists Take a Look (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Nov. 29, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Small Progress Toward Explaining the Moon (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 29, 2005)
More Chest Compressions Are Recommended in CPR (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 29, 2005)
Q & A: Battered Brains (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Nov. 29, 2005)
HEALTH | THE CONSUMER: Poisonings From a Popular Pain Reliever Are Rising (By DEBORAH FRANKLIN, Nov. 29, 2005)
* Preventing Cancer: Is There a Link Between Stress and Cancer? (By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 29, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Hard to Pronounce, Infinitely Harder to Cure (By JANE E. BRODY, Nov. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Progression: Drugs Found to Have Effect on Alzheimer's Disease (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Nov. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Risk Reduction: Breast-Feeding May Help Keep Diabetes at Bay (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Nov. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Patterns: Research Finds Twins to Be the Slower Siblings (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Nov. 29, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Testing: With Decaf, Lose the Jitters, but Gain the Gunk? (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Nov. 29, 2005)
* Experiment Gives Illusion of That Shrinking Feeling (By DENISE GRADY, Nov. 29, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Green Tea Helps Prevent Cancer (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 29, 2005)

Monday, November 28, 2005:
On This Day: November 28 (Jean-Baptiste Lully 11/28/1632-3/22/1687, William Blake 11/28/1757-8/12/1827, William Froude 11/28/1810-5/4/1879, Friedrich Engels 11/28/1820-8/5/1895, Helen Magill White 11/28/1853-10/28/1944, Henry Bacon 11/28/1866-2/16/1924, Jose Iturbi 11/28/1895-6/30/1973, Berry Gordy Jr. 1939, Hope Lange 1931, Gary Hart 1936, Randy Newman 1943, Susan Spencer 1946, Paul Shaffer 1949)
* Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill at Teheran Talks; 1500 More Tons of Bombs Dropped on Berlin (By JAMES B. RESTON, November 28, 1943)
* Nancy Mitford, Author, Dead; Satiric Novelist and Essayist [11/28/1904-6/30/1973] (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, July 1, 1973)

NATIONAL: Ohio Indian Mounds: Hallowed Ground and a Nice Par 3 (By CHRISTOPHER MAAG, Nov. 28, 2005)
U.S. Catholics Are Divided Over New Directive on Gays (By NEELA BANERJEE and KATIE ZEZIMA, Nov. 28, 2005)
WORLD: Tribunal Leader in Hussein's Case Is Target of Plot (By JOHN F. BURNS, Nov. 28, 2005)
Powerful 5.9 Quake in Iran Kills 10; 80 Hurt and 7 Villages Damaged (By NAZILA FATHI, Nov. 28, 2005)
Rule by Law: A Judge Tests China's Courts, Making History (By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 28, 2005)
China Resolves a Water Crisis in the North, Then Pivots to a Major Earthquake in the South
(By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 28, 2005)
* Corruption Endangers a Treasure of the Caspian [sturgeon] (By C. J. CHIVERS, Nov. 28, 2005)
* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Nov. 28, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: What Google Should Roll Out Next: A Privacy Upgrade
[Google should develop an overarching privacy theory that is as bold as its mission to make
the world's information accessible - one that can become a model for the online world.]
(By ADAM COHEN, Nov. 28, 2005)
OP-ED: The Getty's Italian Job (By Malcolm Bell III, Nov. 28, 2005)
OP-ED: The Very Foundation of Conservatism (By JOHN J. MILLER, Nov. 28, 2005)
LETTERS: What's at the Heart of G.M.'s Woes? (7 Letters) (By Guy Sheaffer, et. al., Nov. 28, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales (By STEPHANIE SAUL, Nov. 28, 2005)
Mall Stores See Trouble in Sales Data (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Nov. 28, 2005)
* So, What's the Spielberg Magic Worth? (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Nov. 28, 2005)
ADVERTISING: If It's After Midnight, Then It's Time to Market to Young Men
(By JULIE BOSMAN, Nov. 28, 2005)
Epic-Scale Stories Excite the Superhero Universe (By BEAU TIDWELL, Nov. 28, 2005)
Being Quoted 'on the Record' on What You Might Have Said (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Nov. 28, 2005)
* Rolling Stone Is Going 3-D for No. 1,000 [1st issue: Nov. 9, 1967] (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Nov. 28, 2005)
* There's a Special Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow, and a Singular Outrage as Well
[domino topping] (By IAN AUSTEN, Nov. 28, 2005)
* Upstart From Chinese Province Masters the Art of TV Titillation (By DAVID BARBOZA, Nov. 28, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Writing the Fastest Code, by Hand, for Fun: A Human Computer Keeps Speeding Up Chips
[Kazushige Goto's handmade code has bested the work of a powerful automated system and entire
teams of software developers in producing programs that run the world's fastest supercomputers.]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 28, 2005)
* DRILLING DOWN: Great for Craigslist but Not for Newspapers (By MARIA ASPAN, Nov. 28, 2005)
* ARTS: Home Is Where the Art Is (and the Bookstores, Too) (By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH, Nov. 28, 2005)
ARCHITECTURE | Phaeno Science Center: Science Center Celebrates an Industrial Cityscape
(By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Nov. 28, 2005)
DANCE | NYC Ballet: Somebody Wake Up the Sugar Plum Fairy; It's That Time of Year Again
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Nov. 28, 2005)
FILM: Dramatizing the Mideast's Cacophony (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 28, 2005)
TV | 'Yesterday': Brave Spirit Under the Unsheltering Sky (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 28, 2005)

Sunday, November 27, 2005:
On This Day: November 27 (Anders Celsious 11/27/1701-4/25/1744, Robert Livingston 11/27/1746-2/26/1813, Fanny Kemble 11/27/1809-1/15/1893, Charles Beard 1127/1874-9/1/1948, James Agee 11/27/1909-5/16/1955, Alexander Dubcek 11/27/1921-11/7/1992, Jimi Hendrix 11/27/1942-9/18/1970, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg 1957)
Ford Is Approved By Senate, 92-3; House Set To Act (By MARJORIE HUNTER, November 27, 1973)
* Chaim Weizmann Of Israel Is Dead at 77 [11/27/1874-9/9/1952] (NY Times, November 9, 1952)

NATIONAL: Initial Reports Are Mixed for Retail's Busiest Day (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Nov. 27, 2005)
In Terror Cases, Administration Sets Own Rules (By ADAM LIPTAK, Nov. 27, 2005)
Insurers' Tactics in Marketing Drug Plan Draw Complaints (By ROBERT PEAR, Nov. 27, 2005)
After Tsunami, a Rarity: Donated Dollars Remain (By STEPHANIE STROM, Nov. 27, 2005)
From Alito's Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Nov. 27, 2005)
Rumbling With the Pack, Raising Millions for a Purpose (By LISA NAPOLI, Nov. 27, 2005)
$65.4 Million Lotto Winner Found Dead in Her Home (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 27, 2005)
WORLD: Rural Water Worries Persist After Chinese Chemical Spill (By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 27, 2005)
Shiite Cleric Increases His Power in Iraq (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 27, 2005)
Powerful 6.1 Earthquake Strikes Iran, Killing 10 (By NAZILA FATHI, Nov. 27, 2005)
A Rush to Excavate Ancient Iranian Sites (By NAZILA FATHI, Nov. 27, 2005)
Forced to Marry Before Puberty, African Girls Pay Lasting Price (By SHARON LaFRANIERE, Nov. 27, 2005)
Water Is Restored in Chinese City (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 27, 2005)
NY REGION: Just Try to Sleep Tight. The Bedbugs Are Back. (By ANDREW JACOBS, Nov. 27, 2005)
* NEW YORK CITY: The 21st-Century Garret (By DAVID McANINCH, Nov. 27, 2005)
For Some, Grass Is Greener Where There Isn't Any (By COREY KILGANNON, Nov. 27, 2005)
Chilly Stretch Doesn't Deter City Crowds (By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, Nov. 27, 2005)
Middle Class Gets in Line for Help With Rising Heating Bills (By PAUL VITELLO, Nov. 27, 2005)
SPORTS | The Quick Fix | Easy Grades for Athletes:
Poor Grades Aside, Athletes Get Into College on a $399 Diploma (By PETE THAMEL & DUFF WILSON, Nov. 27, 2005)
BASEBALL: Busy Mets Are Waiting for Wagner to Decide (By BEN SHPIGEL, Nov. 27, 2005)
ON BASEBALL: Delay of Game on Baseball: Nationals Still Lack an Owner (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 27, 2005)
BASKETBALL: Geography Is Destiny: Big East Pushes Boundaries (By JOE DRAPE, Nov. 27, 2005)
FOOTBALL: The Hasselbecks: Those Other Brothers in Arms (By JOHN BRANCH, Nov. 27, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Walker Gives Notre Dame Win Over Stanford 38-31
[84-year-old Stanford Stadium torn down after game for renovation]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 27, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Johnny Cash's Journey Through the Other Side of Virtue
(By NICHOLAS KULISH, Nov. 27, 2005)
* OP-ED: All the Right Moves [Make chess lucrative like poker] (By JENNIFER SHAHADE, Nov. 27, 2005)
* OP-ED: Bring Bridge Back to the Table (By SHARON OSBERG, Nov. 27, 2005)
OP-ED: Democracy in Thin Air [Nepal] (By JOHN BURDETT, Nov. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: Disabilities in the Age of Genetics (5 Letters) (By Suzanne Hoffman Levin, et. al., Nov. 27, 2005)
LETTERS: Getting Ready for Avian Flu (3 Letters) (By James Siegel, et. al., Nov. 27, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
BUSINESS: Who's in the Corner Office? (By DAVID LEONHARDT, Nov. 27, 2005)
Pension Officers Putting Billions Into Hedge Funds (By RIVA D. ATLAS & MARY WILLIAMS WALSH, Nov. 27, 2005)
ECONOMIC VIEW: Help Wanted: Academic Economists, Pro-Bush (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Nov. 27, 2005)
DEALBOOK: How to Balance the Scales Between Bankers and Clients (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Nov. 27, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Weekend's Sales Rush Largely Bypasses Smaller Stores (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Nov. 27, 2005)
* INVESTING: Hedge Funds Work for Yale, but Will They Work for You? (By GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Nov. 27, 2005)
* INVESTING: Stay Out of the Kitchen, but Follow the Numbers (By ALEXANDRA PEERS, Nov. 27, 2005)
Calling Out the Cable Guy (By LORNE MANLY & KEN BELSON, Nov. 27, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: Rosy Reports May Not Last Long (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Nov. 27, 2005)
And the Retail Gods Said, 'Time to Shop,' and They Shopped (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Nov. 27, 2005)
SUITS: A Blog That Wall St. Can Call Its Own (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
* THE GOODS: Not for Edward Scissorhands [3M paper cutter] (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 27, 2005)
CAREER COUCH: What to Tell the Company as You Walk Out the Door (By MATT VILLANO, Nov. 27, 2005)
THE BOSS: No Boundaries, Please
[Nance K. Dicciani, CEO Specialty Materials Honeywell International]
(As told to Patricia R. Olsen, Nov. 27, 2005)
SPENDING: The Growing Cachet of the Store Brand (By ELIZABETH OLSON, Nov. 27, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | Checking In: A Hotel That's Independent in Spirit and Ownership
(By JOHN HOLUSHA, Nov. 27, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
* ARTS: Pardon Me, but the Art Is Mouthing Off
[Represented by a talking head on a flat-screen monitor, and equipped
with voice-recognition software, the artificial intelligence computer—
known as DiNA - was designed to chat with visitors about current affairs.
She is supposed to be a political animal, or more precisely, machine.]
(By JORI FINKEL, Nov. 27, 2005)
* ART | Close Reading: The Making of the President, 1797
[Gilbert Stuart's portraits on sale] (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Nov. 27, 2005)
* ART Directions: The Evolution of a Darwin Show (By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Nov. 27, 2005)
ART Directions: The Gallery of Wearable Art (By JOHANNA JAINCHILL, Nov. 27, 2005)
DANCE: The Punk Ballerina Returns, With Souvenirs [Karole Armitage] (By KRISTIN HOHENADEL, Nov. 27, 2005)
DANCE: A New Triumvirate Steps Out (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Nov. 27, 2005)
* FILM: Based on an Untrue Story [Clifford Irving's "Howard Hughes"] (By PAT H. BROESKE, Nov. 27, 2005)
* MUSIC: 90? Who's 90? Just Give Him a Piano [Earl Wild] (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Nov. 27, 2005)
* MUSIC: And When She Sang Badly She Was Better [Judy Kaye] (By BERNARD HOLLAND, Nov. 27, 2005)
MUSIC | The Music Industry: Scenes From an Arranged Marriage (By JEFF LEEDS, Nov. 27, 2005)
MUSIC Directions: Writing the Book on Literary Celebrity (By LAUREN MECHLING, Nov. 27, 2005)
THEATER: The Man Behind the Curtain (By JESSE McKINLEY, Nov. 27, 2005)
TV: Dave Chappelle Is Alive and Well (and Playing Las Vegas) (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Nov. 27, 2005)
TV Directions: Lost in Space, Educationally (By DEBORAH STARR SEIBEL, Nov. 27, 2005)
TV | 'Yesterday': If Tomorrow Never Comes [AIDS in Africa] (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Nov. 27, 2005)
* TV | Channeling: The Sly, Diabolical Master With the God-Awful Teeth
["Alfred Hitchcock Presents"] (By CLAIRE DEDERER, Nov. 27, 2005)
* TV: O.K., on 3, Everyone Act Totally Spontaneous (By EVE GERBER, Nov. 27, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
More Options to Answer 'What About the Kids?' (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Nov. 27, 2005)
* Sex and Chess. Is She a Queen or a Pawn? (By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN, Nov. 27, 2005)
On 'Isaac,' Food Tips and Stars, but Fashion Is King (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Nov. 27, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Point 1: We Had Fun. Point 2: It's Over. Point 3: Get Lost. (By RAYA KUZYK, Nov. 27, 2005)
POSSESSED: Godzilla, That King of Comedy (By DAVID COLMAN, Nov. 27, 2005)
Boîte: Born to Dance (By JESSICA PRESSLER, Nov. 27, 2005)
Test Adds New Twist to the Dating Game (By GARDINER HARRIS, Nov. 27, 2005)
BOOKS OF STYLE: Fire the Handyman, Then Do It Yourself (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Nov. 27, 2005)
VOWS: Sarah Scott and Scott Farber (By CATE DOTY, Nov. 27, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
CUBA: Waiting for Havana (By LUISITA LOPEZ TORREGROSA, Nov. 27, 2005)
NEXT STOP: Amid the Turmoil of Caracas, Finding Serenity (By JUAN FORERO, Nov. 27, 2005)
GOING TO: Boston (By SAM NEJAME, Nov. 27, 2005)
SURFACING: A Philadelphia Neighborhood Wears Its Grit Well (By JEFF SCHLEGEL, Nov. 27, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
* THE NATION: Kids Gone Wild (By JUDITH WARNER, Nov. 27, 2005)
THE NATION: Out West, Democrats Roam Free (By TIMOTHY EGAN, Nov. 27, 2005)
THE WORLD: Saving Face and How to Say Farewell (By JAMES GLANZ, Nov. 27, 2005)
THE WORLD: The Trial, Part 2: Hussein and the U.S. Strategy Will Be in the Dock
(By JOHN F. BURNS, Nov. 27, 2005)
THE WORLD: How Reality Cut Likud's Vision Down to Size (By STEVEN ERLANGER, Nov. 27, 2005)
* THE WORLD: The Cross and the Sickle Moon (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Nov. 27, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW | The Week: New Media In, Old-Media Star Out [TiVo, Microsoft & Google]
(NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
GRAPHIC | The Basics: Who Spoke to Woodward? (By, Nov. 27, 2005)
* Navigazione Satellitare: La Vita Is Dolce, but Where Am I? (By IAN FISHER, Nov. 27, 2005)
* WORD FOR WORD | Church v. State U.: Here's the Problem With Emily Dickinson
[Throughout her life she viewed salvation as a gamble, not a certainty.
Although she did view the Bible as a source of poetic inspiration,
she never accepted it as an inerrant guide to life.]
(By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Nov. 27, 2005)
READING FILE: Video Games: Where Cops Are the Killers (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
DOCUMENT FILE: For Women, It's a Violent World (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
LAUGHING LINES: Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Talking Points (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 27, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: What Would a Clone Say?
[Kazuo Ishiguro's novel "Never Let Me Go" is a cultural landmark:
a subtle, sympathetic portrait of the inner life of a clone.]
(By GARY ROSEN, Nov. 27, 2005)
Questions for Mike Leigh: Unscripted (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Nov. 27, 2005)
IDEA LAB: Revolting High Rises (By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Nov. 27, 2005)
CONSUMED: The Risk Continuum (By ROB WALKER, Nov. 27, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Of Sisters and Livers (By RANDY COHEN, Nov. 27, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: The Day the Sea Came, Part I: A Ghost in the Water (By BARRY BEARAK, Nov. 27, 2005)
The Day the Sea Came, Part II: The Sea Is Coming (By BARRY BEARAK, Nov. 27, 2005)
The Day the Sea Came, Part III: Living Among the Dead (By BARRY BEARAK, Nov. 27, 2005)
The Day the Sea Came, Part IV: A Special Burden (By BARRY BEARAK, Nov. 27, 2005)
STYLE: Tudor Revival (By PILAR VILADAS, Nov. 27, 2005)
STYLE | MATTER: Home Is Where the Art Is (By ROY BLOUNT JR., Nov. 27, 2005)
FOOD: The Ideology of Taste (By, Nov. 27, 2005)
LIVES: A Close Encounter [Nigeria] (By UZODINMA IWEALA, Nov. 27, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 27, 2005)
* COVER ARTICLE: 'Elia Kazan,' by Richard Schickel: On the Kazan Front (Review by JOHN SIMON, Nov. 27, 2005)
* 'The Beatles: The Biography,' by Bob Spitz: You Know You Should Be Glad
(Review by JANE & MICHAEL STERN, Nov. 27, 2005)
'The Education of a Coach,' by David Halberstam: X's and O's (Review by RICHARD SANDOMIR, Nov. 27, 2005)
* 'Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine,' by Harold Bloom: So Who Is King of the Jews?
(Review by JONATHAN ROSEN, Nov. 27, 2005)
'Power and the Idealists,' by Paul Berman: The Red and the Green (Review by JOHANN HARI, Nov. 27, 2005)
'The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth,' by Benjamin M. Friedman (Review by GREGG EASTERBROOK, Nov. 27, 2005)
'Hattie McDaniel,' by Jill Watts and 'Stepin Fetchit,' by Mel Watkins: Caricature Acting
(Review by DANA STEVENS, Nov. 27, 2005)
'The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu,' by Mike Davis: Hell on Wings
(Review by MATT STEINGLASS, Nov. 27, 2005)
Poetry Chronicle [Books by David Baker, Adrian Castro,
Simone Muench, Michael Palmer, Michelle Robinson and Arthur Sze]
(By JOSHUA CLOVER and JOEL BROUWER, Nov. 27, 2005)

Saturday, November 26, 2005:
On This Day: November 26 (William Cowper 11/26/1731-4/25/1800, Norber Wiener 11/26/1894-3/18/1964, Eugène Ionesco 11/26/1909-3/28/1994, Eric Sevareid 11/26/1912-7/9/1992, Robert Goulet 1933, Rich Little 1938, Tina Turner 1939)
Full 'Gas' Rationing Dec. 1 Ordered by President Roosevelt (NY Times, November 26, 1942)
* Charles M. Schulz, 'Peanuts' Creator, Dies at 77 [11/26/1922-2/12/2000] (By SARAH BOXER, February 14, 2000)

NATIONAL: Even Supporters Doubt President as Issues Pile Up (By KATE ZERNIKE, Nov. 26, 2005)
* EDUCATION: Students Ace State Tests, but Earn D's From U.S. (By SAM DILLON, Nov. 26, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Seeks Love and a Guarantee (NY TIMES, Nov. 26, 2005)
OP-ART: Lost and Found in New York [Brighton Beach] (By JAMES STEVENSON, Nov. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: Caring for Parents at the End of Life (6 Letters) (By Millicent Adams Vesper, et. al., Nov. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: He Donated Sperm. Is He a Father? (3 Letters) (By Stephanie Singer, et. al., Nov. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: The President We Have (By John E. Colbert, Nov. 26, 2005)
LETTERS: Darwin in Schoolbooks (By James V. Bradley, Nov. 26, 2005)
* BUSINESS | Your Money: Wireless Moves the Cash Register Where You Are (By JENNIFER A. KINGSON, Nov. 26, 2005)
* What's Offline: All Lists, All the Time (By PAUL B. BROWN, Nov. 26, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: As Corporate Ad Money Flows Their Way, Bloggers Risk Their Rebel Reputation
(By LOUISE STORY, Nov. 26, 2005)
ARTS: The Anger and Shock of a City's Slave Past (By FELICIA R. LEE, Nov. 26, 2005)
* HEALTH | Coping With Combat: The Struggle to Gauge a War's Psychological Cost
(By BENEDICT CAREY, Nov. 26, 2005)

Friday, November 25, 2005:
On This Day: November 25 (Lope de Vega 11/25/1562-8/27/1635, Maria Henrietta 11/25/1609-9/10/1669, John Begelow 11/25/1817-12/19/1911, Joseph Krutch 11/25/1893-5/22/1970, Virgil Thomson 11/25/1896-9/30/1989, Lewis Thomas 11/25/1913-12/3/1993, Jow DiMaggio 11/25/1914-3/8/1999, Ricardo Mantalban 1920, Kathryn Crosby 1933, Amy Grant 1960)
Iran Payment Found Diverted To Contras; Reagan Security Adviser And Aide Are Out (By BERNARD WEINRAUB, November 25, 1986)
* Andrew Carnegie Started as a Bobbin Boy, Dies at 83 [11/25/1835-8/11/1919] (NY Times, August 12, 1919)

ARTS: Visions of a Continent That Is Rich With Life (By HOLLAND COTTER, Nov. 25, 2005)
ARTS | 'Day Is Done': Adults Playing Children's Scary Games (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Nov. 25, 2005)
* DANCE Critic's Notebook: Where Dreams and Snowflakes Dance (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Nov. 25, 2005)
MUSIC: The Good, the Rare and the Nostalgic in Boxed Sets (NY TIMES, Nov. 25, 2005)
THEATER: For Those Who Scoff at Sugarplums, Artists Present Other Holiday Traditions
(By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, Nov. 25, 2005)

Thursday, November 24, 2005:
On This Day: November 24 (Benedict Spinoza 11/24/1632-2/21/1677, Laurence Sterne 11/24/1713-3/18/1768, Junipero Serra 11/24/1713-8/28/1784, Zachary Taylor 11/24/1784-7/9/1850, Cass Gilbert 11/24/1859-5/17/1934, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 11/24/1864-9/9/1901, Scott Joplin 11/24/1868-4/1/1917, Itzhak Ben-Zvi 11/24/1884-4/23/1963, Margaret Anderson 11/24/1886-10/18/1973, William F. Buckley 1925, Pete Best 1941)
President's Assassin Shot To Death In Jail Corridor by a Dallas Citizen (By GLADWIN HILL, November 24, 1963)
* Dale Carnegie, Author, Is Dead at 66 [11/24/1888-11/1/1955] (NY Times, November 2, 1955)

TECHNOLOGY | CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 24, 2005)
DAVID POGUE: A Tiny Windows Laptop With a Sense of Fashion (By DAVID POGUE, Nov. 24, 2005)
* BASICS: CD/DVD Burners With Extra Oomph (By MARC WEINGARTEN, Nov. 24, 2005)
ONLINE SHOPPER: Last-Minute Family Trip: We'll Take Paris (By MICHELLE SLATALLA, Nov. 24, 2005)
A Moody Robotic Chimp With Eyes That Can Track Your Every Move (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Nov. 24, 2005)
* Three Sizes of Data to Go, All in the Same Small Package (By IVAN BERGER, Nov. 24, 2005)
Tickling the Ivories and the Keyboard in One Device (By ANDREW ZIPERN, Nov. 24, 2005)
To Help Tune the TV, a High-Tech Arachnid (By ERIC A. TAUB, Nov. 24, 2005)
* A Novel Repair Concept: Replace Battery, Not iPod (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Nov. 24, 2005)
* Q. & A.: Leaving It On or Shutting It Off [Safari's "Private Browsing"]
(By J.D. BIERSDORFER, Nov. 24, 2005)
* ARTS News Analysis: In France, Artists Have Sounded the Warning Bells for Years (By ALAN RIDING, Nov. 24, 2005)
DANCE | New York City Ballet: An Understated Duet Seizes the Spotlight (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Nov. 24, 2005)
* DANCE | Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Balanchine's Flame Is Tended by a Washington Troupe, Too
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Nov. 24, 2005)
DANCE | 'Mosaic 2005': Into the World, Feet First (By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, Nov. 24, 2005)
DANCE | NYC Ballet: If You Weren't There, You've Missed It: A New Duet That Deserves to Be Seen
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Nov. 24, 2005)
JAZZ| Brad Mehldau Trio: Rhythm, Among Other Things, Is Their Business (By BEN RATLIFF, Nov. 24, 2005)
* MUSIC | Carly Simon: She'll Get By With a Little Help From Her Kids (By LAURA SINAGRA, Nov. 24, 2005)
* MUSIC | Andrea Marcovicci: Songs of Love and War, With All the Old Familiar Graces
(By STEPHEN HOLDEN, Nov. 24, 2005)
MUSIC Critic: Crooning and Rap, in Harmony [Chris Brown] (By KELEFA SANNEH, Nov. 24, 2005)
* HOME & GARDEN: Party Gone Bad: Blame the Parents (By JOYCE WADLER, Nov. 24, 2005)

Wednesday, November 23, 2005:
On This Day: November 23 (Otto I 11/23/912-5/7/973, John Wallis 11/23/1616-10/28/1703, Franklin Pierce 11/23/1804-10/8/1869, Billy the Kid 11/23/1859-7/14/1881, Karl Branting 11/23/1860-2/24/1925, Manuel de Falla 11/23/1876-11/14/1946, Boris Karloff 11/23/1887-2/3/1969, Joe Eszterhas 1944, Susan Anspach 1945)
Ruined Berlin Afire After 2d Bombing; U. S. Planes Smash At Toulon and Sofia; 4 Japanese Destroyers Sunk In Battle (By WILLIAM L. WORDEN, November 23, 1943)
* Erte, a Master of Fashion, Stage and Art Deco Design, Is Dead at 97 [11/23/1892-4/21/1990] (By ALAN RIDING, April 22, 1990)

* Hugh Sidey, Who Covered the Presidency for Time, Dies at 78 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Nov. 23, 2005)
* Paul Roazen, 69, Scholar Who Found Flaws in Freud, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Nov. 23, 2005)
* Ruth M. Siems, Inventor of Stove Top Stuffing, Dies at 74 (By MARGALIT FOX, Nov. 23, 2005)
NATIONAL: After Complaints, FEMA Extends Deadline for Evacuees in Hotels (By ERIC LIPTON, Nov. 23, 2005)
Freed by DNA, Now Charged in New Crime (By MONICA DAVEY, Nov. 23, 2005)
News Analysis: Still Searching for a Strategy Four Years After Sept. 11 Attacks
(By ADAM LIPTAK, Nov. 23, 2005)
Everglades Journal: In Everglades, High Season Is a Casualty After Storms (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Nov. 23, 2005)
WORLD: In Strong Terms, Rome Is to Ban Gays as Priests (By IAN FISHER & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Nov. 23, 2005)
WORLD | Election Prelude: Bare-Knuckle Democracy in Iraq Rebel Territory (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 23, 2005)
Kenya Voters Rebuff Leader on Revamping Constitution (By MARC LACEY, Nov. 23, 2005)
Letter From Uganda: By Fits and Starts, Africa's Brand of Democracy Emerges
(By MARC LACEY, Nov. 23, 2005)
EDITORIAL: China Snubs Democracy (NY TIMES, Nov. 23, 2005)
* OP-ED: Organic and Then Some (By NINA PLANCK, Nov. 23, 2005)
LETTERS: Mr. Cheney, Who's the Revisionist? (5 Letters) (By Thomas V. Czarnowski, Nov. 23, 2005)
* LETTERS: Those Photos of Bush (2 Letters) (By Bernard Goldberg & Stephen M. Salvatore, Nov. 23, 2005)
ARTS: Insert Object, and Out Comes an Artful Replica (By HOLLAND COTTER, Nov. 23, 2005)
* BOOKS | 'Olivier': Ruthlessly Practical, Undeniably Brilliant (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Nov. 23, 2005)
FILM | 'RENT': New Tenants in Tinseltown (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 23, 2005)
FILM | '39 POUNDS OF LOVE': His Soul Creates Art His Body Can't (By JEANETTE CATSOULIS, Nov. 23, 2005)
TV: War Zone 'It Girl' Has a Big Future at CBS News [Lara Logan] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Nov. 23, 2005)

Tuesday, November 22, 2005:
On This Day: November 22 (René-Robert La Salle 11/22/1643-3/19/1687, Abigail Adams 11/22/1744-10/28/1818, George Eliot 11/22/1819-12/22/1880, André Gide 11/22/1869-2/19/1951, Wiley Post 11/22/1899-8/15/1935, Hoagy Carmichael 11/22/1899-12/27/1981, Rodney Dangerfield 1921, Robert Vaughn 1932, Billie Jean King 1943, Mariel Hemingway 1961)
* KENNEDY IS KILLED BY SNIPER AS HE RIDES IN CAR IN DALLAS; JOHNSON SWORN IN ON PLANE
(By TOM WICKER, November 22, 1963)
* De Gaulle Rallied France in War and Strove to Lead Her to Greatness [11/22/1890-11/9/1970] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, November 11, 1970)
* Uncle Sam's Thanksgiving Dinner (Artist: Thomas Nast) (Harper's Weekly, November 22, 1869)

NATIONAL: U.S. Indicts Padilla After 3 Years in Pentagon Custody (By DAVID STOUT, Nov. 22, 2005)
The Vice President: Cheney Sees 'Shameless' Revisionism on War (By ELISABETH BUMILLER, Nov. 22, 2005)
Storm Forces a Hard Look at Troubled Public Housing (By, Nov. 22, 2005)
Student Convicted of Plotting With Al Qaeda to Kill Bush (By DAVID STOUT, Nov. 22, 2005)
* National Briefing | Washington: Warning On Scam F.B.I. Messages (By JOHN FILES, Nov. 22, 2005)
WORLD: Bosnians Vow to Create a Stronger Government (By BRIAN KNOWLTON,, Nov. 22, 2005)
Growth of Islam in Russia Brings Soviet Response (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Nov. 22, 2005)
Iraqi Factions Seek Timetable for U.S. Pullout (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Nov. 22, 2005)
Germany Passes Torch to New Generation (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Nov. 22, 2005)
Reporter's Notebook: A Texan Gets a Friendly Reception on the Steppes (By DAVID SANGER, Nov. 22, 2005)
Damascus Journal: What if They Open This Hotel and Nobody Comes? (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Nov. 22, 2005)
NY REGION: Is Most Dangerous City in U.S. Turning Around? (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Nov. 22, 2005)
* BASEBALL: Damon's Agent Eager for Stats to Be Binding (By JACK CURRY, Nov. 22, 2005)
On Baseball: Ramirez, Not Delgado, Can Block Trade to Mets (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 22, 2005)
BASEBALL Roundup: Red Sox Near Deal for Beckett and Lowell (By BEN SHPIGEL, Nov. 22, 2005)
BASEBALL: Yanks Meet Resistance in Free-Agent Market (By TYLER KEPNER, Nov. 22, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Taxing an Unfriendly Church (NY TIMES, Nov. 22, 2005)
* OP-ED: Why the Chicken Virus Crossed the Border (By ZAHIN HASAN, Nov. 22, 2005)
LETTERS: Quit Iraq, or Stay? The Debate Rages (8 Letters) (By Melvin Farber, et. al., Nov. 22, 2005)
* LETTERS: Group Envy (By Deena Harris, M.D., Nov. 22, 2005)
LETTERS: The Boss, Forever [Bruce Springsteen] (By Nancy Biberman, Nov. 22, 2005)
LETTERS: Life Stories, by McCourt (By Tanya Augsburg, Nov. 22, 2005)
* MARKET PLACE: A Hedge Fund for Anyone With $10,000 (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Nov. 22, 2005)
* ARTS | Making Artists: Video Games Are Their Major, So Don't Call Them Slackers (By SETH SCHIESEL, Nov. 22, 2005)
DANCE: Run With Scissors? And Then Some (By KRISTIN HOHENADEL, Nov. 22, 2005)
TV | 'Nova' and 'Frontline': Nature, Man and Politics at the Center of the Storm
(By NED MARTEL, Nov. 22, 2005)
* TV | The TV Watch: With Little Fanfare, an Anchor Says Goodbye [Ted Koppel]
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 22, 2005)
TV | 'I'm King Kong': Just Like That Big Ape, He Couldn't Be Tied Down
[Merian C. Cooper] (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Nov. 22, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 22, 2005)
* SCIENCE: This Is Your Brain Under Hypnosis (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Nov. 22, 2005)
* In Give and Take of Evolution, a Surprising Contribution From Islands (By CARL ZIMMER, Nov. 22, 2005)
* To the Moon, Alice! (Use Your Internet Connection, Dear) (By WARREN E. LEARY, Nov. 22, 2005)
Camps on Cyprus May Have Belonged to Earliest Open-Water Seafarers (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Nov. 22, 2005)
FINDINGS: Ocean Explorer Becomes One With the Sharks (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 22, 2005)
Clues to the Origin of Snake Venom (By CARL ZIMMER, Nov. 22, 2005)
OBSERVATORY: Of Evolution, Physics and Butterflies (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 22, 2005)
Asteroid Poses Tiny Danger, but It May Be Lured Away (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 22, 2005)
* Q & A: Do Babies Dream? (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Nov. 22, 2005)
HEALTH: Screening for Abnormal Embryos Offers Couples Hope After Heartbreak (By LAURIE TARKAN, Nov. 22, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: With Cancer, Treatment Is Only Part of the Picture (By JANE E. BRODY, Nov. 22, 2005)
ESSAY: An Internet Lifeline, in Search of a Kidney (By SALLY SATEL, M.D., Nov. 22, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Behavior: Harsh Review for Cigarettes With Candy Flavor (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 22, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Senses: Zing Went the Strings of Whose Harp? (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 22, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Effects: When Mindful Awareness Goes to Your Head (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 22, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Prevention: New Screening May Keep the Feet From Failing (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 22, 2005)
REALLY?: The Claim: Cold Weather Can Cause a Cold (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 22, 2005)
* Exploring a Hormone for Caring [oxytocin & vasopressin] (By NICHOLAS WADE, Nov. 22, 2005)
For Those Who Snore Heavily, Implants May Help (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Nov. 22, 2005)
CASES: A Wedding, a Cold and a Trip to the Emergency Room (By LAURIE TARKAN, Nov. 22, 2005)

Monday, November 21, 2005:
On This Day: November 21 (Jean Francois Voltaire 11/21/1694-5/30/1778, Sir Samuel Cunard 11/21/1787-4/28/1865, Sir Harold Nicolson 11/21/1886-5/1/1968, René Magritte 11/21/1898-8/15/1967, Eleanor Powell 11/21/1912-2/11/1982, Sid Luckman 11/21/1916-7/5/1998, Stan Musial 1920, Marlo Thomas 1937, Natalia Makarova 1940, Goldie Hawn 1945, Ken Griffey Jr. 1969)
* Verrazano Bridge Opened to Traffic (By GAY TALESE, November 21, 1964)
Coleman Hawkins, Tenor Saxophonist, Is Dead at 64 [11/20/1925-6/6/1968] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, May 20, 1969)

NATIONAL | THE TROOPS: On the Front Lines, Many Say Morale Remains Strong (By THOM SHANKER, Nov. 21, 2005)
* WORLD: Chinese Leader Gives Bush a Mixed Message (By DAVID E. SANGER & JOSEPH KAHN, Nov. 21, 2005)
* PHOTOS: Bush tried to exit through a locked door in Beijing (Photos By Charles Dharapak/Associated Press, Nov. 21, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVERr: Why the United States Should Look to Japan for Better Schools
(By BRENT STAPLES, Nov. 21, 2005)
OP-ED: Dayton, 10 Years After (By LAURA SILBER, Nov. 21, 2005)
OP-ED: Rescuing Your Retirement (By ELAINE L. CHAO, JOHN W. SNOW and CARLOS M. GUTIERREZ, Nov. 21, 2005)
LETTERS: Bringing Privacy Out in the Open (5 Letters) (By Jason L. Jurkevich, et. al., Nov. 21, 2005)
LETTERS: Innocents as Targets (By Daniel B. Deckman , Nov. 21, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Nov. 21, 2005)
BUSINESS: For Fox's 'Idol,' Success Is Set on a Shaky Pedestal (By BILL CARTER, Nov. 21, 2005)
Journalist, Cover Thyself [Howard Kurtz of Washington Post & CNN] (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Nov. 21, 2005)
* E-Commerce Report: Where Is Wal-Mart's Fancy Stuff? Try Online (By BOB TEDESCHI, Nov. 21, 2005)
* Tapping a New-Age Life on the Web, Cellphone and TV (By SAUL HANSELL, Nov. 21, 2005)
* At Harvard, a Man, a Plan and a Scanner
[Sidney Verba is overseeing Harvard's partnership with Google,
which plans to create searchable digital copies of entire collections—
tens of millions of books - at five leading research libraries.]
(By KATIE HAFNER, Nov. 21, 2005)
* DAVID CARR: Woodward? Google? A Plague Week
[Google Base sounds like a large toe into the water of the classified
advertising business, estimated to be worth about $100 billion a year.]
(By DAVID CARR, Nov. 21, 2005)
LINK BY LINK: Railing at Sony BMG, Disguised as a Review (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Nov. 21, 2005)
* Search Engines Gaining in Use, a Study Says (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 21, 2005)
* Drilling Down: Public Radio's Growth Is No Longer a Given (By ALEX MINDLIN, Nov. 21, 2005)
ADVERTISING: A Survey Shows Problems Remain in Agency-Advertiser Relationships
(By STUART ELLIOTT, Nov. 21, 2005)
* ART: Confrontation With Italy Looms at the Met (By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Nov. 21, 2005)

Sunday, November 20, 2005:
On This Day: November 20 (Otto von Guericke 11/20/1602-5/11/1686, Selma Lagerlöf 11/20/1858-3/16/1940, Kenesaw Mountain Landis 11/20/1866-11/25/1944, James M. Curley 11/20/1874-11/12/1958, Norman Thomas 11/20/1884-12/19/1968, Edwin Powell Hubble 11/20/1889-9/28/1953, Alexandra Danilova 11/20/1903-7/13/1997, Emilio Pucci 11/20/1914-11/29/1982, Alistair Cooke 1908, Robert Byrd 1917, Estell Parsons 197, Judy Woodruff 1946, Bo Derek 1956, Sean Young 1959)
Allies Open Trial Of 20 Top Germans For Crimes Of War (By KATHLEEN MCLAUGHLIN, November 20, 1945)
* Robert Francis Kennedy: Attorney General, Senator and Heir of the New Frontier [11/20/1925-6/6/1968] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, June 6, 1968)
* "Do It Now!": Cartoon on President William Howard Taft (Artist: Edward Windsor Kemble) (Harper's Weekly, November 20, 1909)

NATIONAL: Rumsfeld Says Iraq Troop Levels Must Be Maintained (By CHRISTINE HAUSER, Nov. 20, 2005)
* Hello, I'm Your Sister. Our Father Is Donor 150. (By AMY HARMON, Nov. 20, 2005)
University Is Accused of Bias Against Christian Schools (By CAROLYN MARSHALL, Nov. 20, 2005)
Storm Hit Little, but Aid Flowed to Inland City (By ERIC LIPTON, Nov. 20, 2005)
The Fine Print: Bill Authorizes Private Purchase of Federal Land (By KIRK JOHNSON & FELICITY BARRINGER, Nov. 20, 2005)
WORLD: Widespread Violence Kills Dozens Across Iraq (By EDWARD WONG, Nov. 20, 2005)
A Day of Tense Encounters Between China and Washington (By DAVID E. SANGER & JOSEPH KAHN, Nov. 20, 2005)
* Brazil Weighs Costs and Benefits of Alliance With China (By LARRY ROHTER, Nov. 20, 2005)
China Wages Classroom Struggle to Win Friends in Africa (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Nov. 20, 2005)
Health Experts Fear Chinese Flu Vaccination Plan Could Backfire (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Nov. 20, 2005)
NY REGION: What Do You Expect for $99.23 a Night? (By MANNY FERNANDEZ, Nov. 20, 2005)
On Baseball: Lucchino: Just a Soul Who's Misunderstood (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 20, 2005)
BASEBALL | Westchester: They Appraise Finer Points of the Diamond (By DAVID SCHARFENBERG, Nov. 20, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Plummer's Emotional Link With 9/11 (By KAREN CROUSE, Nov. 20, 2005)
* EDITORIAL: The Perplexing Pandemic Flu Plan (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Ultimate Soviet Henchman Returns to His Pedestal (By ELEANOR RANDOLPH, Nov. 20, 2005)
* OP-ED: Lewis and Clark on the Edge (By WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN, Nov. 20, 2005)
OP-ED: Are the Fed Fights Over? (By ALAN S. BLINDER, Nov. 20, 2005)
LETTERS: The New Culture of Self-Medication (7 Letters) (By Madeline Waid, M.D., et. al., Nov. 20, 2005)
LETTERS: Iraq, Then and Now (By Robert Tormey, Nov. 20, 2005)
LETTERS: Retouching the Past [Clement Hurd's author photo] (By Ian Gold, Nov. 20, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
* DIGITAL DOMAIN: How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web
[Pop-up, pop-under, & banner ads were the reigning orthodoxy when Google began
its idiosyncratic foray into text-only advertising which became a huge success.]
(By RANDALL STROSS, Nov. 20, 2005)
ECONOMIC VIEW: As the McMansions Go, So Goes Job Growth (By DANIEL GROSS, Nov. 20, 2005)
* Putting the Napster Genie Back in the Bottle (By SAUL HANSELL, Nov. 20, 2005)
* STRATEGIES: The Manager Is in a Slump (or Maybe It's Just a Phase) (By MARK HULBERT, Nov. 20, 2005)
Deals and Consequences (By LANDON THOMAS Jr., Nov. 20, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: Shoppers in the Malls, if Not on Wall Street (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Nov. 20, 2005)
INVESTING: Can Nuclear Power Become Just Another Business? (By TIM GRAY, Nov. 20, 2005)
VOLUNTEERING: Making the World Better, One Vacation at a Time (By JANE L. LEVERE, Nov. 20, 2005)
THE GOODS: In This Corner, the Sofa Cushion (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 20, 2005)
THE COUNT: Turkey, Turkey, Everywhere (and Football, Too) (By HUBERT HERRING, Nov. 20, 2005)
THE BOSS: Beyond the Suggestion Box [Kurt M. Landgraf, CEO Educational Testing Service]
(As told to Amy Zipkin, Nov. 20, 2005)
Armchair M.B.A.: Screening for Ethics: How One School Does It (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Nov. 20, 2005)
Everybody's Business: Don't Beat Up Big Oil. It's Just Doing Its Job. (By BEN STEIN, Nov. 20, 2005)
SUITS: He Sings, He Dances, but He Will Not Stop (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
* Off the Shelf: The Story of the Search, Applause Included
[Serge Brin muses: "Why not improve the brain? Perhaps in the future, we can
attach a little version of Google that you just plug into your brain."]
(By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Nov. 20, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | Blueprints: It's a Waiting Room That Keeps Patients Busy (By TERI KARUSH ROGERS, Nov. 20, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
ARTS | The New Getty Villa: Last Exit to Los Angeles (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Nov. 20, 2005)
* ART: Real Women Have Curves [Alberto Giacometti] (By CAROL KINO, Nov. 20, 2005)
ART Directions: How to Act Like a Poet in Black and White [Constantin Cavafy]
(By PHILIP GEFTER, Nov. 20, 2005)
DANCE | A Chorus Line: The Sweat-Soaked Life of a Glamorous Rockette (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Nov. 20, 2005)
FILM: The Winner Is... Only Acting Gay (By CARYN JAMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
Wedding Singers? Not! (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Nov. 20, 2005)
* That Sports Guy Thrives Online (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Nov. 20, 2005)
The Age of Dissonance: Relatively Thankful (By BOB MORRIS, Nov. 20, 2005)
POSSESSED: A Sophisticated Eye for Naïve Art (By DAVID COLMAN, Nov. 20, 2005)
* WHOLE FOODS: Better Homes & Granola (By JANELLE BROWN, Nov. 20, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Sending a Lost Boy to the Wilderness to Find Himself (By RICHARD REISS, Nov. 20, 2005)
VOWS: John Finley IV and Stan McGee (By LAURA ZIGMAN, Nov. 20, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
THAILAND: To Be Young and Hip in Bangkok (By MATT GROSS, Nov. 20, 2005)
* NEXT STOP: San Francisco's Mission District: Eclectic, Eccentric, Electric
(By GREGORY DICUM, Nov. 20, 2005)
MEXICO | GOING TO: Oaxaca (By BORIS FISHMAN, Nov. 20, 2005)
* CULTURED TRAVELLER | Rome's Pantheon: A Grand Survivor in a Timeless City (By RACHEL DONADIO, Nov. 20, 2005)
BOSTON | FORAGING: Cambridge, Mass: Cheapo Records (By AUSTIN CONSIDINE, Nov. 20, 2005)
Practical Traveler: Why Cruise Web Sites Are So 20th Century (By TERRY TRUCCO, Nov. 20, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
In the Dark: It's Still a Mystery [Iraq torture center] (By JOHN F. BURNS, Nov. 20, 2005)
THE NATION: Politics as Usual, and Then Some (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Nov. 20, 2005)
THE NATION: Seeing Life Outside New Orleans Alters Life Inside It (By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Nov. 20, 2005)
* THE WORLD: What Britain Can Tell France About Rioters (By ALAN COWELL, Nov. 20, 2005)
THE WORLD: Lessons From Bosnia, 10 Years On: A U.S. Commitment Can Work (By ROGER COHEN, Nov. 20, 2005)
The Problem With an Almost-Perfect Genetic World (By AMY HARMON, Nov. 20, 2005)
* THE BASICS: How to Vaccinate 14 Billion Birds (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 20, 2005)
* POWER COUPLE: America and China: Partners, if Not Friends (By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 20, 2005)
FILM Critic's Notebook: Oh, Mr. Darcy... Yes, I Said Yes! (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 20, 2005)
* Books for Lending, Data for Taking (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Nov. 20, 2005)
Document File: A New National Malaise? (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
The Reading File: Stolen Art and the F.B.I. (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
Laugh Lines: Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O'Brien (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Take Cover (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 20, 2005)
The Way We Live Now: Authentically Unhip (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Nov. 20, 2005)
* Questions for Jean Baudrillard: Continental Drift (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Nov. 20, 2005)
Lynne Truss Has Another Gripe With You (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Nov. 20, 2005)
DOMAINS: Way, Way Uptown (Interview by EDWARD LEWINE, Nov. 20, 2005)
CONSUMED: Haier Goals (By ROB WALKER, Nov. 20, 2005)
Idea Lab: The Center No Longer Holds (By JACOB S. HACKER & PAUL PIERSON, Nov. 20, 2005)
* COVER ARTICLE: The Prodigy Puzzle (By ANN HULBERT, Nov. 20, 2005)
Che's Second Coming? (By DAVID RIEFF, Nov. 20, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 20, 2005)

Saturday, November 19, 2005:
On This Day: November 19 (Charles I 11/19/1600-1/30/1649, Mikhail Lomonosov 11/19/1711-4/15/1765, Ferdinand Lesseps 11/19/1805-12/7/1894, James Garfield 11/19/1831-9/19/1881, Richard Avenarius 11/19/1843-11/18/1896, Allen Tate 11/19/1899-2/9/1979, Tommy Dorsey 11/19/1905-11/26/1956, Roy Campanella 11/19/1921-6/26/1993, Jeanne Kirkpatrick 1926, Larry King 1933, Dick Cavett 1936, Ted Turner 1938, Garrick Utley 1939, Calvin Klein 1942, Ahmad Rashad 1949, Kathleen Quinlan 1954, Jodie Foster 1962, Gail Devers 1966)
* The Heroes of July: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (NY Times, November 19, 1863)
* Indira Gandhi Assassinated, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India [11/19/1917-10/31/1984] (By LINDA CHARLTON, November 1, 1984)

* WORLD: Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Nov. 19, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Grandeur of Evolution in a New Exhibition Called 'Darwin'
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Nov. 19, 2005)
BUSINESS | Your Money: How to Tame an Inflated Entertainment Budget (By DAMON DARLIN, Nov. 19, 2005)
Soaring Copper Prices Feed Talk of a Bluff by China and Its Mystery Trader (By HEATHER TIMMONS, Nov. 19, 2005)
* 'I Think, Therefore I Earn' [Israel's intellectual property] (By SHARON REIER, Nov. 19, 2005)
Spend/Thrift: Discount Stores Are Tapping a Rich Vein (By SHELLEY EMLING, Nov. 19, 2005)
* What's Online: The Rootkit of All Evil [Sony BMG CD's secret code]
(By DAN MITCHELL, Nov. 19, 2005)

Friday, November 18, 2005:
On This Day: November 18 (Carl Maria von Weber 11/18/1786-6/5/1826, Louis-Jacques Daguerre 11/18/1787-7/10/1851, Sir William Gilbert 11/18/1836-5/29/1911, Ignacy Paderewski 11/18/1860-6/29/1941, Jacques Maritain 11/18/1882-4/28/1973, Gio Ponti 11/18/1891-9/15/1979, Patrick Blackett 11/18/1897-7/13/1974, Eugene Ormandy 11/18/1899-3/12/1985, George Gallup 11/18/1901-7/26/1984, George Wald 11/18/1906-4/13/1997, Johnny Mercer 11/18/1909-6/25/1976, Imogen Coca 1908, Brenda Vaccaro 1939, Linda Evans 1942, Andrea Marcovicci 1948)
Spain's Parliament Approves Election And Its Own Demise (By JAMES M. MARKHAM, November 18, 1976)
* Alan B. Shepard Jr. Is Dead at 74; First American to Travel in Space [11/18/1923-7/21/1998] (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, July 23, 1998)

* Nobelist Henry Taube Is Dead at 89 [In 1983, Dr. Taube was awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize
for "his work in the mechanisms of electron transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes."
(By KENNETH CHANG, Nov. 18, 2005)
BUSINESS: Disney's Profit Declines 27%, Led by Setbacks in Film Unit (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Nov. 18, 2005)
* ART Exhibition | 'Darwin': Enough to Make an Iguana Turn Green: Darwin's Ideas
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Nov. 18, 2005)
FILM | 'WALK THE LINE': The Man in Black, on Stage and Off [Johnny Cash] (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 18, 2005)

Thursday, November 17, 2005:
On This Day: November 17 (Joost van den Vondel 11/17/1587-2/5/1679, Louis XVIII 11/17/1755-9/16/1824, Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes 11/17/1895-12/10/1966, Isamu Noguchi 11/17/1904-12/30/1988, Rock Hudson 11/17/1925-10/2/1985, Bob Mathias 1930, Martin Scorsese 1942, Danny DeVito 1944, Lauren Hutton 1944)
Nixon Declares He Didn't Profit From Public Life: "I'm Not a Crook" (By R.W. APPLE. JR., November 17, 1973)
* Lee Strasberg of Actors Studio Dead at 80 [11/17/1901-2/17/1982] (By MEL GUSSOW, February 18, 1982)

* Ralph Edwards, TV Pioneer, Dies at 92 [Creator and M.C. of two of the most
popular TV shows "Truth or Consequences" and "This Is Your Life," died yesterday.]
(By RICHARD SEVERO, Nov. 17, 2005)
Preston Robert Tisch, Co-Owner of the Giants, Dies at 79 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Nov. 17, 2005)
NATIONAL: A Star With Multiple Roles Now Faces Questions of Conflict Among Them
[Bob Woodward] (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE & SCOTT SHANE, Nov. 17, 2005)
* FILM | 'HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE': The Young Wizard Puts Away Childish Things
(By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 17, 2005)

Wednesday, November 16, 2005:
On This Day: November 16 (Rodolph Kreutzer 11/16/1766-1/6/1831, Charles Eliot Norton 11/16/1827-10/21/1908, Arthur B. Krock 11/16/1886-4/12/1974, William Jansen 11/16/1887-2/22/1968, George Kaufman 11/16/1889-6/2/1961, Burgess Meredith 11/16/1907-9/9/1997, Oksana Baiul 1977)
United States Recognizes Soviet, Bullitt Named First Ambassador (By WALTER DURANTY, November 16, 1933)
* W. C. Handy, Composer, Is Dead at 84; Author of 'St. Louis Blues' [11/16/1873-3/28/1958]
(By EDITH EVANS ASBURY, March 29, 1958)

* NY REGION: Before Memoirs, He Wrote A's, B's, C's, D's and F's [Frank McCourt]
(By ELISSA GOOTMAN, Nov. 16, 2005)
* HEALTH | Being a Patient: Young, Assured and Playing Pharmacist to Friends (By AMY HARMON, Nov. 16, 2005)

Tuesday, November 15, 2005:
On This Day: November 15 (William Pitt the elder 11/15/1708-5/11/1778, William Herschel 11/15/1738-8/25/1822, Felix Frankfurter 11/15/1882-2/22/1965, Marianne Moore 11/15/1887-2/5/1972, Averell Harriman 11/15/1891-7/26/1986, Erwin Rommel 11/15/1891-10/14/1944, Curtis LeMay 11/15/1906-10/1/1990, Joseph Wapner 1919, Howard H. Baker 1925, Ed Asner 1929, Petula Clark 1932)
50,000 War Protesters Stage Peaceful Rally In Washington; Militants Stir Clashes Later (By JOAN HERBERS, November 15, 1969)
* Georgia O' Keeffe Dead at 98; Shaper of Modern Art in U.S. [11/15/1887-3/6/1986] (By EDITH EVANS ASBURY, March 7, 1986)

Monday, November 14, 2005:
On This Day: November 14 (Robert Fulton 11/14/1765-2/24/1815, Claude Monet 11/14/1840-12/5/1926, Jawaharlal Nehru 11/14/1889-5/27/1964, Aaron Copeland 11/14/1900-12/2/1990, Boutros Boutros-Ghali 1922, Prince Charles 1948, P. J. O'Rourke 1947)
* Dow Jones Finishes Above 1,000 (NY Times, November 14, 1972)

WORLD: Jordan Arrests Iraqi Woman in Hotel Blasts (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Nov. 14, 2005)
Stirrings in the Desert: Heavy Hand of the Secret Police Impeding Reform in Arab World
(By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, Nov. 14, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2005)
EDITORIAL: The President's Trip to Asia (NY TIMES, Nov. 14, 2005)
OP-ED: Doing Unto Others as They Did Unto Us (By M. GREGG BLOCHE & JONATHAN H. MARKS, Nov. 14, 2005)
OP-ED: The Battle for the Exurbs (By RUY TEIXIERA, Nov. 14, 2005)
* OP-ED: Zuckerman Juiced [Philip Roth's novel] (By PETER MEHLMAN, Nov. 14, 2005)
* LETTERS: Evolution in Kansas, and America (8 Letters) (By Sebastian Heinz, et. al., Nov. 14, 2005)
LETTERS: Gifted Children (By Mary Beth Miotto, Nov. 14, 2005)
BUSINESS: Big Drug Makers See Sales Decline With Their Image (By ALEX BERENSON, Nov. 14, 2005)
* Control the Internet? A Futile Pursuit, Some Say (By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 14, 2005)
Internet Service to Put Classic TV on Home Computer (By SAUL HANSELL, Nov. 14, 2005)
* The Ghost in the CD (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Nov. 14, 2005)
* Starting a Newspaper War (of Sorts) in a University Town (By ELIZABETH JENSEN, Nov. 14, 2005)
The Goat at Saks and Other Marketing Tales (By LORNE MANLY, Nov. 14, 2005)
* The Trail of a Clicked-On Ad, Brought to You by Google
[Google Analytics will also allow publishers and marketers to analyze
the performance of non-Google ad campaigns, like e-mail marketing,
banner ads or search ads on Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine.]
(By BOB TEDESCHI, Nov. 14, 2005)
* EBay Expected to End Fees for Third-Party Developers (By DAMON DARLIN, Nov. 14, 2005)

Sunday, November 13, 2005:
On This Day: November 13 (Saint Augustine 11/13/354-8/28/430, Johann Albert Eck 11/13/1486-2/10/1543, Edwin Booth 11/13/1833-6/7/1893, Louis Brandeis 11/13/1856-10/5/1941, Jean Seberg 11/13/1938-9/8/1979, Whoopi Goldberg 1955)
High Court Rules Bus Segregation Unconstitutional (By LUTHER A. HUSTON, November 13, 1956)
* Death of R. L. Stevenson [11/13/1925-8/5/1984] (NY Times, December 18, 1894)

NATIONAL: Confusion Is Rife About Drug Plan as Sign-Up Nears (By ROBERT PEAR, Nov. 13, 2005)
Sifting and Sorting Until the Sun Sets (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
A Time-Honored Debate in Indiana: To Spring Forward, Fall Back or Neither
(By MONICA DAVEY, Nov. 13, 2005)
WORLD: Meeting of Muslim Nations Ends in Discord (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE LAPTOP: Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims
(By WILLIAM J. BROAD & DAVID E. SANGER, Nov. 13, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
BUSINESS | Dealbook: The Great Global Buyout Bubble (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Nov. 13, 2005)
* Media Frenzy: It's Like Selling Meals by the Bite. And It May Work. (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Nov. 13, 2005)
Economic View: Real Energy Savers Don't Wear Cardigans. Or Do They? (By ANNA BERNASEK, Nov. 13, 2005)
INVESTING: How to Make Employees Take Their 401(k) Medicine (By CARLA FRIED, Nov. 13, 2005)
SPENDING: Steps to Take Before the Collective Well Runs Dry (By BARRY REHFELD, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE GOODS: Have Yoga Mat, Will Accessorize (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE COUNT: Why Do Companies Give Money Away? Count the Reasons (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Nov. 13, 2005)
* FUNDAMENTALLY: Now Playing at Fidelity: Magellan, Unplugged (By PAUL J. LIM, Nov. 13, 2005)
CAREER COUCH: When the Job Isn't as Promised (By MATT VILLANO, Nov. 13, 2005)
ON THE CONTRARY: Why Should the Boss Pay for Your Health Care? (By DANIEL AKST, Nov. 13, 2005)
* AT LUNCH WITH NELL MERLINO: Want to Make Millions? First, Get the Loan (By CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Nov. 13, 2005)
SUITS: This TV Soap Opera May Outlive Its Star (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | Ventures: Doing Your Homework Before Closing a Deal (By VIVIAN MARINO, Nov. 13, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
ART Directions: The Art Beneath His Feet (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Nov. 13, 2005)
ARTS: Riots? What Riots? A Nostalgic Look at the City of Light (By ALAN RIDING, Nov. 13, 2005)
MUSIC | Making Artists: The End of the Great Big American Voice (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Nov. 13, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
* Who Are You? Why Are You Here? [60th edition of Who's Who in America]
(By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON, Nov. 13, 2005)
Can This Image Be Saved? [Tom Cruise] (By ALLISON HOPE WEINER, Nov. 13, 2005)
Smile and Say 'Bone' (By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN, Nov. 13, 2005)
* VIEW: Defining Me, Myself and Madonna (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, Nov. 13, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: I Seemed Plucky and Game, Even to Myself (By MINDY HUNG, Nov. 13, 2005)
VOWS: Karmine Alers and Jimmy Greco (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Nov. 13, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
SWEDEN: Above the Arctic Circle, Answering the Call of the Wild (By NATHANIEL VINTON, Nov. 13, 2005)
CHECK IN, CHECK OUT: Turin, Italy: Grand Hotel Sitea (By BRIAN WINGFIELD, Nov. 13, 2005)
NEXT STOP: Stowe, Vermont: A Venerable Resort Polishes Its Image (By JULIA LAWLOR, Nov. 13, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE NATION: An Opening for Democrats, However Slim (By ROBIN TONER, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE NATION: What Some Politicians Fear Most: The Ex-Wife (By KATE ZERNIKE, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE WORLD: In Jordan, Methodical Madness (By JAMES GLANZ, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE WORLD: The French Riots: A Political Scorecard (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 13, 2005)
ONE POINT: Muslims on Riots in France (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: On Abortion, It's the Bible of Ambiguity (By MICHAEL LUO, Nov. 13, 2005)
IDEAS & TRENDS: Buy a Home, and Drag Society Down (By EDUARDO PORTER, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE BASICS: After Katrina, a Trickle of Returnees (By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE BASICS: I'm Back! The History of Flu Pandemics (By GARDINER HARRIS, Nov. 13, 2005)
A T-Shirt-and-Dagger Operation (By SCOTT SHANE, Nov. 13, 2005)
LAUGHING LINES: David Letterman, Jay Leno, Colbert Report on Comedy Central (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE READING FILE: The Army That Isn1t (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
* DOCUMENT FILE: Consuming Spirit [Are you metrospiritual?] (By, Nov. 13, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
ON LANGUAGE: Swagger (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 13, 2005)
The Way We Live Now: Beverly Hills Coup? (By MATT BAI, Nov. 13, 2005)
Questions for Terry Press: The Hard Sell (Interview by LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Nov. 13, 2005)
ESSAY: Behind Foreign Lines (By MANOHLA DARGIS, Nov. 13, 2005)
DIAGNOSIS: A Brief Honeymoon (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Nov. 13, 2005)
CONSUMED: God Is in the Distribution (By ROB WALKER, Nov. 13, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Reckless Parking (By RANDY COHEN, Nov. 13, 2005)
* AUDIO SLIDE SHOW: Hollywood Goes to War! (By A.O. Scott, Nov. 13, 2005)
Bush-Era Engagé (By A.O. SCOTT, Nov. 13, 2005)
Rules of Engagement (By TOM BISSELL, Nov. 13, 2005)
The Empathist [Peter Sarsgaard in "Jarhead"] (By LYNN HIRSCHBERG, Nov. 13, 2005)
* The Narnia Skirmishes [C. S. Lewis] (By CHARLES McGRATH, Nov. 13, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: Iraqi Back Lot (Photographs by SIMON NORFOLK, Nov. 13, 2005)
Not Bob Hope's U.S.O. (By SUSAN DOMINUS, Nov. 13, 2005)
Dale Dye Will Make a Man Out of You (By PETER DE JONGE, Nov. 13, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: Heroine Chic [The actress Amy Adams models] (Photographs by SOFIA SANCHEZ and MAURO MONGIELLO, Nov. 13, 2005)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: Scene Stealer (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, Nov. 13, 2005)
LIVES: On Location in the Homeland (By DEREN GETZ as told to JAIMIE EPSTEIN, Nov. 13, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 13, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: 'The Lost Painting': The Caravaggio Trail [Jonathan Harr]
(By BRUCE HANDY, Nov. 13, 2005)
* ON POETRY: Hit Parade [Garrison Keillor's "Good Poems"] (By DAVID ORR, Nov. 13, 2005)
'In Command of History': How Churchill Revised World War II [David Reynolds]
(By MAX BOOT, Nov. 13, 2005)
'Are Men Necessary?': See the Girl With the Red Dress On [Maureen Dowd]
(By KATHRYN HARRISON, Nov. 13, 2005)
* ESSAY: Medal Fatigue (By A. O. SCOTT, Nov. 13, 2005)

Saturday, November 12, 2005:
On This Day: November 12 (Aleksandr Borodin 11/12/1833-2/27/1887, Auguste Rodin 11/12/1840-11/17/1917, Harry Blackmun 11/12/1908-3/4/1999, Buck Clayton 11/12/1911-12/8/1991, Roland Barthes 11/12/1915-3/25/1980, Grace Kelly 11/12/1929-9/14/1982, Kim Hunter 1922, Nadia Comaneci 1961)
Our Men In Drives On Guadalcanal (By CHARLES HURD, November 12, 1942)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies at Her Home, Nearly 87 [11/12/1815-10/26/1902] (NY Times, October 27, 1902)

WORLD: Rule By Law | A Father's Quest: Desperate Search for Justice: One Man vs. China
(By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 12, 2005)
* OP-ED: Our Faith in Science
[If science proves some belief of
Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science
and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality.]
(By TENZIN GYATSO the 14th Dalai Lama, Nov. 12, 2005)
OP-ED: The Arab League to the Rescue (By MILTON VIORST, Nov. 12, 2005)
OP-ED: Licensed to Rebrand (By DEBORAH LIPP, Nov. 12, 2005)
LETTERS: When Terrorism Strikes Jordan (4 Letters) (By Judith Eisenberg Pollak, et. al., Nov. 12, 2005)
LETTERS: Who Are We, if We Strip Away Detainees' Rights? (3 Letters) (By Rev. Ann Robb Smith, et. al., Nov. 12, 2005)
LETTERS: A Museum of Revolution (By Thomas M. Daly, Nov. 12, 2005)
BUSINESS MEDIA: For 'CSI,' Press A1 (By RICHARD SIKLOS & GERALDINE FABRIKANT, Nov. 12, 2005)
SHORTCUTS: What-If Decisions That Need to Be Made (By ALINA TUGEND, Nov. 12, 2005)
MARKET VALUES: A Gap Worth Exploiting in Bond Yields (By CONRAD de AENLLE, Nov. 12, 2005)
Getting People to Pay for Radio (By KEN JAWOROWSKI, Nov. 12, 2005)
Outsourcers Struggling to Keep Workers in the Fold (By SARITHA RAI, Nov. 12, 2005)
* YOUR MONEY: Get Rich Quick, Write a Millionaire Book (By DAMON DARLIN, Nov. 12, 2005)

Friday, November 11, 2005:
On This Day: November 11 (Paracelsus 11/11/1493-9/24/1541, Johann Albert Fabricius 11/11/1668-4/30/1736, Paul Signac 11/11/1869-12/28/1947, Victor Emmanuel III 11/11/1869-12/28/1947, Maude Adams 11/11/1872-7/17/1953, Rene Clair 11/11/1898-3/15/1981, Sam Spiegel 11/11/1903-12/31/1985, Kurt Vonnegut 1922, Demi Moore 1962)
* Armistice Signed, End Of The War! Berlin Seized By Revolutionists; New Chancellor Begs For Order (Associated Press, November 11, 1918)
* Patton's Career A Brilliant One [11/11/1885-12/21/1945] (NY Times, December 22, 1945)

Thursday, November 10, 2005:
On This Day: November 10 (Martin Luther 11/10/1483-2/18/1546, François Couperin 11/10/1668-9/12/1733, William Hogarth 11/10/1697-10/26/1764, Oliver Goldsmith 11/10/1730-4/4/1774, Vachel Lindsay 11/10/1879-12/5/1931, El Lissitzky 11/10/1890-12/30/1941, John P. Marquand 11/10/1893-7/16/1960, John K. Northrop 11/10/1893-2/18/1981)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened to Visitors in Washington D.C. (NY Times, Nov. 10, 1982)
* Richard Burton, 58, is Dead; Rakish Stage and Screen Star [11/10/1925-8/5/1984] (By MAUREEN DOWD, August 6, 1984)

* TV | 'New Breed Vets With Steve Irwin': How to Treat Tigers, Elephants and Owls (Besides Carefully)
(By ANITA GATES, Nov. 10, 2005)

Wednesday, November 9, 2005:
On This Day: November 9 (Benjamin Banneker 11/9/1731-10/25/1806, Stanford White 11/9/1853-6/25/1906, James Schuyler 11/9/1923-4/12/1991, Anne Sexton 11/9/1928-10/4/1974, Whitey Herzog 1931, Bob Graham 1936)
Northeast Blackout Lasts Over 13 Hours (NY Times, Nov. 9, 1965)
* Carl Sagan, an Astronomer Who Excelled at Popularizing Science, Is Dead at 62 [11/9/1934-12/20/1996]
(By WILLIAM DICKE, December 21, 1996)

* NATIONAL: Kansas Board Approves Challenges to Evolution (By JODI WILGOREN, Nov. 9, 2005)
* School Board: Evolution Slate Outpolls Rivals (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Nov. 9, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: More Google classifieds buzz
[Google has filed a patent application for "Google Automat," a service that
could tie into the Google Base database service and "Google Purchases".]
(By Elinor Mills, CNET, Nov. 9, 2005)

Tuesday, November 8, 2005:
On This Day: November 8 (Edmond Halley 11/8/1656-1/14/1742, Bram Stoker 11/8/1847-4/20/1912, Gottlob Frege 11/8/1848-7/26/1925, Hermann Rorschach 11/8/1884-4/2/1922, June Havoc 1916, Dr. Christiaan Barnard 1922, Morley Safer 1931, Bonnie Raitt 1949, Mary Hart 1951, Christie Hefner 1952)
* John F. Kenneday Defeats Richard M. Nixon for Presidency (NY Times, Nov. 8, 1960)
* Margaret Mitchell, Author of "Gone With the Wind", Dead of Injuries at 49 [11/8/1900-8/16/1949] (NY Times, August 17, 1949)

NATIONAL: Tornado Survivors Question Siren Warning System (By MONICA DAVEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
New Orleans Is Still Grappling With the Basics of Rebuilding (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Nov. 8, 2005)
Pentagon Plans Tighter Control of Interrogation (By ERIC SCHMITT & TIM GOLDEN, Nov. 8, 2005)
EDUCATION: Switching Colleges Is Common but Takes a Toll, Study Finds (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Nov. 8, 2005)
WORLD: French Officials Try to Ease Fear as Crisis Swells (By MARK LANDLER and CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 8, 2005)
* Beijing Journal: Down on the Farm, by the Golf Course and Subdivisions (By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
Deadliest Suicide Bombing Against G.I.'s in Months Kills 4 in Iraq (By SABRINA TAVERNISE & KIRK SEMPLE, Nov. 8, 2005)
Chile Arrests Peru Ex-Leader; Lima Is Seeking His Extradition (By LARRY ROHTER, Nov. 8, 2005)
* NY REGION | INK: Interaction Amid the Darkness (By MATTHEW L. WALD, Nov. 8, 2005)
EDITORIALS: While Paris Burns (NY TIMES, Nov. 8, 2005)
OP-ED: Is There a Doctrine in the House? (By RICHARD N. HAASS, Nov. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Children of the 'Quiet' Divorce (5 Letters) (By Lisa Petrison, et. al., Nov. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Ravages of the Iraq War (3 Letters) (By Joan Salemi, et. al., Nov. 8, 2005)
* LETTERS: On Death and Dying: Two Women's Stories (2 Letters) (By Norma Cherlin & Frona Daskal, Nov. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: The New Yorker, All of It (By Michele Pollak, Nov. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Wal-Mart and Capitalism (By Glenn Baldwin, Nov. 8, 2005)
BUSINESS: Shares Rally on Technology Deals and Declining Oil Prices
[Dow +55.47, Nasdaq +8.81] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 8, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Hot Off the Shelves [shoplifting gangs] (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Nov. 8, 2005)
Market Place: Optimism on Wall Street Over Size of Bonuses (By JENNY ANDERSON, Nov. 8, 2005)
Grokster Calls It Quits on Sharing Music Files (By JEFF LEEDS, Nov. 8, 2005)
Yahoo Tightens Control in Europe and Asia (By DAN BILEFSKY, Nov. 8, 2005)
* India and China Take On the World and Each Other (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Nov. 8, 2005)
* BOOKS: After a Death by Cancer, a Reporter's Life Force Glows in New Book
[Marjorie Williams] (By TODD S. PURDUM, Nov. 8, 2005)
FILM Critic's Choice: New DVD's [Rebel Samurai] (By DAVE KEHR, Nov. 8, 2005)
THEATER: A Writer's Curious Path to Success (By ALAN RIDING, Nov. 8, 2005)
THEATER: In Oregon, Brushing Up Their Shakespeare, Helped Along by Software (By KATIE HAFNER, Nov. 8, 2005)
TV | The TV Watch: Engrossed in a World of Political Idealism (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 8, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Down for the Count [Everyone sleeps] (By CARL ZIMMER, Nov. 8, 2005)
* Hazard in Hunt for New Flu: Looking for Bugs in All the Wrong Places
(By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 8, 2005)
Observatory: Advice to California Condors: Change Your Diet
[Elephant's Memory; Pinatubo Effect] (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 8, 2005)
* FINDINGS: All Together Now: Synchrony Explains Swaying (By KENNETH CHANG, Nov. 8, 2005)
Mars Lander Still Missing (By KENNETH CHANG, Nov. 8, 2005)
* ESSAY: Science and Religion Share Fascination in Things Unseen (By LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS, Nov. 8, 2005)
Biologists Take Big Step to Keep Park's Little Cutthroats From Being Devoured
(By JIM ROBBINS, Nov. 8, 2005)
To Save Endangered Butterfly, Become a Butterfly (By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr., Nov. 8, 2005)
Q & A: Bats and the Dark (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Nov. 8, 2005)
HEALTH: A Special Drug Just for You, at the End of a Long Pipeline (By ANDREW POLLACK, Nov. 8, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: New Efforts Help Patients Get Back in Control (By JANE E. BRODY, Nov. 8, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Antibacterial Soap Works Better Than Regular Soap
(By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 8, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Indicators: Gut Reaction: Lying Is Tied to Digestive Changes
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Sports Safety: Spotlight on the Real Hazards of Youth Hockey
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Childhood Testing: Hints of Hearing Problems Are Often Ignored
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: Doctors Issue Alert to Dialysis Patients' Families
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 8, 2005)
For Thyroid Hormones, How Low Is Too Low? (By KATE MURPHY, Nov. 8, 2005)
In the Turkey, a Hope for Autoimmune Disorders [Tryptophan] (By SANDRA BLAKESLEE, Nov. 8, 2005)
CASES: A Physician's Challenge: Cancer Surgery, but 'No Blood' (By LARRY ZAROFF, M.D., Nov. 8, 2005)
Unrelated Adults at Home Increase Risk for Children (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Nov. 8, 2005)

Monday, November 7, 2005:
On This Day: November 7 (Andrew White 11/7/1832-11/4/1918, Lise Meitner 11/7/1878-10/27/1968, Leon Trotsky 11/7/1879-8/20/1940, Chandrasekhara Raman 11/7/1888-11/21/1970, Herman Mankiewicz 11/7/1897-3/5/1953, Konrad Lorenz 11/7/1903-2/27/1989, Albert Camus 11/7/1913-1/4/1960, Billy Graham 1918, Dame Joan Sutherland 1926)
* Russia's Bolshevik Revolution led by Lenin overthrew Alexander Kerensky's provisional governmennt (NY Times, Nov. 7, 1917)
* Mme. Curie Is Dead; Martyr to Science [11/7/1867-7/4/1934] (NY Times, July 5, 1934)

NATIONAL: When Cleaner Air Is a Biblical Obligation (By MICHAEL JANOFSKY, Nov. 7, 2005)
EDUCATION: Grad Students From Abroad on the Increase (By TAMAR LEWIN, Nov. 7, 2005)
WORLD: China Says Three Cases May Be Bird Flu (By JIM YARDLEY, Nov. 7, 2005)
NY REGION: More Commuters Are Going Against the Flow, and Out of the City (By SAM ROBERTS, Nov. 7, 2005)
More Commuters Are Going Against the Flow, and Out of the City (By SAM ROBERTS, Nov. 7, 2005)
* An Evolutionist's Evolution [Museum of Natural History] (By GLENN COLLINS, Nov. 7, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Nov. 7, 2005)
SPORTS: A Marathon Turns Into a Sprint, and a Kenyan Wins It by Just a Step (By JERE LONGMAN, Nov. 7, 2005)
* OP-ED: Every State Left Behind (By DIANE RAVITCH, Nov. 7, 2005)
ADVERTISING: Will Size Spoil a Cheeky Ad Agency? (By JULIE BOSMAN, Nov. 7, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Many Suitors, and Many Pitfalls, as AOL Seeks a Partner (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Nov. 7, 2005)
E-Commerce Report: The Online Travel Landscape Is Getting Crowded (By BOB TEDESCHI, Nov. 7, 2005)
* ARTS: Native Eyes on a Land South of the Clouds (By ERIK ECKHOLM, Nov. 7, 2005)

Sunday, November 6, 2005:
On This Day: November 6 (Hans Sachs 11/6/1494-1/19/1576, Washington Allston 11/6/1779-7/9/1843, Antoine-Joseph Sax 11/6/1814-2/7/1894, Joseph Smith 11/6/1832-12/10/1914, Charles Henry Dow 11/6/1851-12/4/1902, Walter Johnson 11/6/1887-12/10/1946, Harold Ross 11/6/1892-12/6/1951, James Jones 11/6/1921-5/9/1977, Mike Nichols 1931, Sally Field 1946, Maria Shriver 1955)
* Abraham Lincoln Defeated Three Other Candidates for President (NY Times, November 6, 1860)
* John Philip Sousa, Band Leader, Dies at 77 [11/6/1854-3/6/1932] (NY Times, March 6, 1932)

NATIONAL: Tornado Hits Parts of Indiana and Kentucky (By ROGER McBAIN and CHRISTINE HAUSER, Nov. 6, 2005)
Sentries in U.S. Seek Early Signs of the Avian Flu (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Nov. 6, 2005)
Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Doubts (By DOUGLAS JEHL, Nov. 6, 2005)
Bush Targets Venezuela's Chavez in Tough Speech (By ELISABETH BUMILLER & LARRY ROHTER, Nov. 6, 2005)
Letter From San Juan: A Moribund Independence Movement Stirs Anew (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Nov. 6, 2005)
* And Sometimes, the Island Is Marooned on You (By PAM BELLUCK, Nov. 6, 2005)
Deal Will Put Unicef Cards in Hallmark Stores Year-Round (By STEPHANIE STROM, Nov. 6, 2005)
WORLD: French Ministers Meet Under Growing Pressure From Riots (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Copernicus's Grave Is Reported Found (By REUTERS, Nov. 6, 2005)
Pirates Attack Liner Off Coast of Somalia (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 6, 2005)
Cambodia Profits From Killing Fields and Other Symbols (By SETH MYDANS, Nov. 6, 2005)
The Forgotten of Africa, Wasting Away in Jails Without Trial (By MICHAEL WINES, Nov. 6, 2005)
* NY REGION: 'Jeopardy!' Maven Knows From Boethius, and 'Buffy,' Too (By MANNY FERNANDEZ, Nov. 6, 2005)
For the City's Democrats, a Grim Future Could Last Long Beyond Tuesday (By PATRICK D. HEALY, Nov. 6, 2005)
SPORTS: Prisoner Has Name and Marathon Number (49997) (By JERE LONGMAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
ON BASEBALLl: Missing G.M.'s Not on Agenda, but Baseball People Do Talk (By MURRAY CHASS, Nov. 6, 2005)
FOOTBALL: Brothers Manning Are Weirdly Alike (By JOHN BRANCH, Nov. 6, 2005)
* EDITORIALS: Annals of Tilley [New Yorker 1925-2005 on 8 DVD's] (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
Editorial Observer: The Shy, Egg-Stealing Neighbor You Didn't Know You Had (By LAWRENCE DOWNES, Nov. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: To Fight the Flu, Change How Government Works (By NEWT GINGRICH & ROBERT EGGE, Nov. 6, 2005)
* OP-ED: Evolution Is in the Air (By OLIVIA JUDSON, Nov. 6, 2005)
OP-ED: A Stamp for the Ages (By RUTH Y. GOLDWAY, Nov. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: Picturing a World Without 'Race' (7 Letters) (By James Q. Riordan, et. al., Nov. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: The Harmful Cost of Cutting Medicaid (By Michael M. Faenza, Nov. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: Great Books, Online (By George Hannauer, Nov. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: Lost in Translation (By Chris Durban, Nov. 6, 2005)
LETTERS: China's Air Pollution (By Peter D. Wagner, M.D., Nov. 6, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
BUSINESS: Can Hollywood Evade the Death Eaters? [Harry Potter] (By LAURA M. HOLSON, Nov. 6, 2005)
MARKET WEEK: The Bad Signs Are All Pointing Up (By CONRAD de AENLLE, Nov. 6, 2005)
Economic View: Echoes of 1986? Not in Bush's Tax Reform Panel (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Nov. 6, 2005)
INVESTING: Today's Energy Stocks May Well Be Tomorrow's (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Nov. 6, 2005)
He Still Speaks German, but With a Motown Accent (By MARK LANDLER, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Everybody's Business: All Right, Already: A Second Look at Yale (By BEN STEIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
THE GOODS: A Flash Drive With a Back Story (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Off the Shelf: Sweating the Details of Management (By PAUL B. BROWN, Nov. 6, 2005)
THE BOSS: The Power of Persistence [James A. Guest] (As told to PATRICIA R. OLSEN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* THE COUNT: Of Man's Seven Ages, No. 6 Is Wrenching, and Ever More Costly
[Assisted Living Costs] (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Armchair M.B.A.: For Some Searches, Google Won't Do [Match.com] (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
SUITS: Prodding or Pleading, Charities Hit Jackpots (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
SPENDING: For Rent: My Yacht. I'll Throw in the Jacuzzi. (By CATHERINE M. ALLCHIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies
[In Google, Wal-Mart sees both a technology pioneer & the seed of a threat.]
(By STEVE LOHR, Nov. 6, 2005)
* REAL ESTATE: Learning Everything About an Apartment (By WILLIAM NEUMAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* REAL ESTATE: Help Is Available on the Internet (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
ARTS: Rift Grows, Challenging Leadership at the Getty (By RANDY KENNEDY, Nov. 6, 2005)
ARTS: Self-Mutilation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery (By RANDY KENNEDY, Nov. 6, 2005)
ARTS | Close Reading: Look Carefully: The Donor Is in the Details (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Nov. 6, 2005)
ART Directions: Big, Dead, Rotting, Silly Rabbit (By MEREDITH KAHN, Nov. 6, 2005)
ART Directions: Jack and Jill Went Up the Private Elevator (By JULIE V. IOVINE, Nov. 6, 2005)
DANCE: The Return of the Broadway Boogie-Woogie (By VALERIE GLADSTONE, Nov. 6, 2005)
DANCE: How to Turn 50 Gracefully: With Civil War Battles on Naked Torso (By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, Nov. 6, 2005)
MUSIC: Why Shouldn't Men Sing Romantic Drivel, Too? (By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH, Nov. 6, 2005)
MUSIC: Meet New Orleans Rap's Most Surprising Savior (By BEN RATLIFF, Nov. 6, 2005)
MUSIC | CD Reviews: Astringent Modernism Below a Romantic Surface (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Nov. 6, 2005)
THEATER: March of the Falsetto: Out of the Shower, Onto Broadway (By JESSE McKINLEY, Nov. 6, 2005)
TV | Telenovelas: Miami Opens for Pouting, Scheming, Trembling Business (By EDUARDO PORTER, Nov. 6, 2005)
TV | Telenovelas: A Global Audience for Campy Drama Shows Its Force (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Nov. 6, 2005)
TV: 'Category 7': The Film Before the Storm (By NEIL GENZLINGER, Nov. 6, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
Who Is America's Next Top Model, Really? (By GUY TREBAY, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Devil's in the Follow-Up [writer Lauren Weisberger] (By ERIKA KINETZ, Nov. 6, 2005)
Sports Exhibitionists Star on the Web (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* MODERN LOVE: A Reincarnation, and Just When I Didn't Need One (By ROBIN HEMLEY, Nov. 6, 2005)
Fame Finds Eak the Geek (By COLIN MOYNIHAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
The Age of Dissonance: Season to Taste [Goethe quote at end] (By BOB MORRIS, Nov. 6, 2005)
A Night Out With | Clifford Bleszinski: Interactive Overload (By HEATHER CHAPLIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
Possessed: Dancing With Pheasants [Dancer Trisha Brown] (By DAVID COLMAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
Noticed: Pig in Clover [Michelin's star to the Spotted Pig restaurant] (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Nov. 6, 2005)
Books of Style: Watch It, Dude, She's Got Your Number (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Nov. 6, 2005)
VOWS: Monica Schaffer and Kevin O'Donnell (By ABBY ELLIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
ISRAEL: Going to a Spa? Mazel Tov! (By SARAH WILDMAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
EXPLORER: Castles, Caves and Prized Pigs in Southern Spain (By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, Nov. 6, 2005)
TRAVEL | Going To: Portland, Oregon (By CHRISTOPHER SOLOMON, Nov. 6, 2005)
Weekend With the Kids: A Beach Town Dr. Seuss Might Prescribe [La Jolla]
(By AMY SILVERMAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
AFRICA | NEXT STOP: A Land of Fragile Beauty Emerges After Years of War (By MARC SANTORA, Nov. 6, 2005)
* 36 HOURS: San Jose, California (By STEVE KETTMANN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Practical Traveler: When Everyday Chemicals Cause Illness (By FRED A. BERNSTEIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
On Lanai, a Laid-Back Hawaii (By BONNIE TSUI, Nov. 6, 2005)
* ESSAY: Underneath the Scenery, a Lesson in Layers [geology & landscape] (By SIMON WINCHESTER, Nov. 6, 2005)
Travel Notes: When in Rome, Plan to See Some Other Cities (By MONICA CORCORAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
Travel Notes: A British Landmark Regains Its Splendor [De La Warr Pavilion]
(By PAMELA KENT, Nov. 6, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
* The Message Mongers Rule Us, but Time Rules Them (By TODD S. PURDUM, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Wizened, Yes, but Not Always Wiser (By BENEDICT CAREY, Nov. 6, 2005)
France Has an Underclass, but Its Roots Are Still Shallow (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 6, 2005)
Hitting the Flu at Its Source, Before It Hits Us (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Nov. 6, 2005)
The Right to Be a Father (or Not) (By PAM BELLUCK, Nov. 6, 2005)
Document File: For the Children (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
* The Bible, Chapter and Every Other Verse (By EDWARD WYATT, Nov. 6, 2005)
Fearing an Iraq in a Post-Assad Syria (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* The Reading File: Charles Darwin's Difficult Legacy {Mao, Confucius]
(NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
The Basics: In Baseball, Being the Boss Doesn't Pay [Boston's Theo Epstein]
(By JACK CURRY, Nov. 6, 2005)
The Basics: Why the President Caters to the Prince [Charles & Camilla] (By DAVID E. SANGER, Nov. 6, 2005)
Laugh Lines: Leno, O'Brien, Borowitzreport.com (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: The Week in Unrest [violence around the world] (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: The Week: Arrivals & Departures (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Homolexicology (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Nov. 6, 2005)
The Way We Live Now: Migrant Worry (By DAVID RIEFF, Nov. 6, 2005)
* Questions for Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Beat Goes On (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Nov. 6, 2005)
Freakonomics: Why Vote? (By STEPHEN J. DUBNER & STEVEN D. LEVITT, Nov. 6, 2005)
* ESSAY: Reserved (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
CONSUMED: So Board (By ROB WALKER, Nov. 6, 2005)
THE ETHICIST: Big Easy Money (By RANDY COHEN, Nov. 6, 2005)
* COVER ARTICLE: A Doctor for the Future (By LISA BELKIN, Nov. 6, 2005)
Confessions of a Military Wife (By ALEX WITCHEL, Nov. 6, 2005)
* The Literary Darwinists (By D. T. MAX, Nov. 6, 2005)
STYLE: The Boarding House (By ALIX BROWNE, Nov. 6, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW | FASHION: Board Certified (Photographs by TINA BARNEY, Nov. 6, 2005)
FOOD: Citrus Maximus [Lemon] (By AMANDA HESSER, Nov. 6, 2005)
LIVES: Prejudice and Pride (By PAULA PRIAMOS, Nov. 6, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 6, 2005)
* COVER ARTICLE: 'Team of Rivals': Friends of Abe [Doris Kearns Goodwin] (By JAMES M. McPHERSON, Nov. 6, 2005)
* 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores': Client of the Year [Gabriel García Márquez]
(By TERRENCE RAFFERTY, Nov. 6, 2005)
* 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau': An Unruly Mind (By STACY SCHIFF, Nov. 6, 2005)
* The Concise Beethoven [Edmund Morris] (By GREG SANDOW, Nov. 6, 2005)
* 'On Desire': I Am, Therefore I Want [William B. Irvine] (By KATHRYN HARRISON, Nov. 6, 2005)
* 'First Man': A Walk on the Bright Side [By James R. Hansen] (By DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, Nov. 6, 2005)
'De Kooning's Bicycle': Artists' Eden [Robert Long] (By JIM LEWIS, Nov. 6, 2005)
* 'The Chosen': Getting In [Harvard, Yale, Princeton]
[Jerome Karabel] (By DAVID BROOKS, Nov. 6, 2005)
FICTION: 'The Electric Michelangelo': Body of Work [Sarah Hall] (By SUSANN COKAL, Nov. 6, 2005)
ESSAY: Political Fictions (By RACHEL DONADIO, Nov. 6, 2005)

Saturday, November 5, 2005:
On This Day: November 5 (Anna Leonowens 11/5/1834-1/19/1914, Paul Sabatier 11/5/1854-8/14/1941, Eugen V. Debs 11/5/1855-10/20/1926, Will Durant 11/5/1885-11/7/1981, Vivien Leigh 11/5/1913-7/8/1967, Art Garfunkel 1941, Tatum O'Neal 1963)
Nixon Wins By A Thin Margin, Pleads For Reunited Nation (By MAX FRANKEL, November 5, 1968)
Ida M. Tarbell, 86, Dies in Bridgeport [11/5/1857-1/6/1944] (NY Times, January 7, 1944)

NATIONAL: Poll Says Even Quiet Divorces Affect Children's Paths (By TAMAR LEWIN, Nov. 5, 2005)
Spending Inquiry for Top Official on Broadcasting (By STEPHEN LABATON, Nov. 5, 2005)
* Is Bird Flu Drug Really So Vexing? Debating the Difficulty of Tamiflu
(By ANDREW POLLACK, Nov. 5, 2005)
SPORTS: The Shoe Fits, So Giambi Goes Back on the Billboard (By TYLER KEPNER, Nov. 5, 2005)
* YOUR MONEY: Location, Location, Location. Research, Research. (By DAMON DARLIN, Nov. 5, 2005)
ARTS: Leaving His Mark on Design as He Leaves MoMA [Terence Riley] (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Nov. 5, 2005)
* ARTS: Researchers Look to Create a Synthesis of Art and Science for the 21st Century
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 5, 2005)
MUSIC: After 34 Years, His Antiwar Song Is Still Not Out of Style [Eric Bogle]
(By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Nov. 5, 2005)
ROCK | Nine Inch Nails: Still Ruling His Empire of Dirt and Pain (By JON PARELES, Nov. 5, 2005)
TV | 'The Crusades': All Fired Up About the Holy Land, and a Quest for Riches
(By ANITA GATES, Nov. 5, 2005)
TV | 'Nature: Killers in Eden': The End of an Alliance Between Whaler and Whale
(By NED MARTEL, Nov. 5, 2005)

Friday, November 4, 2005:
On This Day: November 4 (Guido Reni 11/4/1575-8/18/1642, George Edward Moore 11/4/1873-10/24/1958, Walter Cronkite 1926, Art Carney 1928, Yanni 1954)
Teheran Students Seize U.S Embassy And Hold Hostages (By REUTERS, November 4, 1979)
* Will Rogers: Adventure Marked Life of Humorist [11/4/1879-8/15/1935] (NY Times, August 17, 1935)

WORLD: Rioting Spreads in Paris Suburbs as Angry Youths Burn More Cars (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Nov. 4, 2005)
WORLD | Intelligence: Source of Forged Niger-Iraq Uranium Documents Identified
(By ELAINE SCIOLINO & ELISABETTA POVOLEDO, Nov. 4, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY | VC Nation: Excited and Wary, Investors Look at China (By JOHN MARKOFF, Nov. 4, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Want 'War and Peace' Online? How About 20 Pages at a Time? (By EDWARD WYATT, Nov. 4, 2005)
* ART | 'Sensation and Sensibility': 'Blue Boy' for a Living; Landscapes for Pleasure
[Thomas Gainsborough] (By GRACE GLUECK, Nov. 4, 2005)
ART | 'Rodney Graham: A Little Thought': A Mercurial Conceptualist Who Remains an Enigma
(By KEN JOHNSON, Nov. 4, 2005)
INSIDE ART: Sharing Rothko With the World (By CAROL VOGEL, Nov. 4, 2005)
* TV: Refusing to Coast on 7 Infamous Words [George Carlin] (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Nov. 4, 2005)

Thursday, November 3, 2005:
On This Day: November 3 (Stephen Austin 11/3/1793-12/27/1836, William Cullen Bryant 11/3/1794-6/12/1878, Vincenzo Bellini 11/3/1801-9/23/1835, Leopold III 11/3/1901-9/25/1983, Andre Malraux 11/3/1901-11/23/1976, James Reston 11/3/1909-12/6/1995, Bob Feller 1918, Charles Bronson 1921, Michael Dukakis 1933)
Roosevelt Sweeps The Nation; His Electoral Vote Exceeds 500 (By ARTHUR KROCK, November 3, 1936)
* Walker Evans Dies; Artist With Camera [11/3/1903-4/10/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 11, 1975)

WORLD: Poverty and Superstition Hinder Drive to Block Bird Flu at Source (By KEITH BRADSHER, Nov. 3, 2005)
A Syrian Tale: Passion, Power, Assassination (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN and KATHERINE ZOEPF, Nov. 3, 2005)
ARTICLE (By, Nov. 3, 2005)
ARTICLE (By, Nov. 3, 2005)
ARTICLE (By, Nov. 3, 2005)
BUSINESS: Optimism Over Earnings Sends Shares Broadly Higher
[Dow +65.96, Nasdaq +30.26] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Nov. 3, 2005)
Goodbye, My Sweet Deduction [mortgage interest & property tax]
(By EDUARDO PORTER & DAVID LEONHARDT, Nov. 3, 2005)
* Google Adds Library Texts to Search Database
[10,000 works that are no longer under copyright have been culled from
the collections of four major research libraries into Google Print database.]
(By EDWARD WYATT, Nov. 3, 2005)

Wednesday, November 2, 2005:
On This Day: November 2 (Jean-Baptiste Chardin 11/2/1699-12/6/1779, Marie-Antoinette 11/2/1755-10/16/1793, James Knox Polk 11/2/1795-6/15/1849, Maurice Blondel 11/2/1861-6/4/1949, Luchino Visconti 11/2/1861-6/4/1949, Burt Lancaster 11/2/1913-10/20/1994, Patrick J. Buchanan 1938, Stefanie Powers 1942, Shere Hite 1942)
Carter Victor In Tight Race; Ford Loses New York State (By R. W. APPLE JR., November 2, 1976)
President Warren G. Harding, a Farm Boy Who Rose by Work, Dies at 57
[11/2/1865-8/2/1923] (NY Times, August 3, 1923)

* ON EDUCATION: Are Schools Passing or Failing? Now There's a Third Choice... Both
(By MICHAEL WINERIP, Nov. 2, 2005)
ART: German Princely Treasures Land on These Shores (By JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI, Nov. 2, 2005)
ARTS: Jumpy Enough to Chew a Chair? Try DogCatRadio (By DINITIA SMITH, Nov. 2, 2005)
BOOKS: His Love of Words Rivals His Contempt for Critics (By SARAH LYALL, Nov. 2, 2005)
BOOKS | 'Two Lives': A Marriage's Mysteries, Solved by a Fond Nephew [Vikram Seth]
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Nov. 2, 2005)
FILM: Sony Effort to Reach Christians Is Disputed (By SHARON WAXMAN, Nov. 2, 2005)

Tuesday, November 1, 2005:
On This Day: November 1 (Crawford W. Long 11/1/1815-6/16/1878, Sholem Asch 11/1/1880-7/10/1957, Sakutaro Hagiwara 11/1/1886-5/11/1942)
EXPERIMENTS FOR HYDROGEN BOMB HELD SUCCESSFULLY AT ENIWETOK (By JAY WALZ, Nov. 1, 1952)
* Stephen Crane Dead: Author of "The Red Badge of Courage" [11/1/1871-6/5/1900] (NY Times, June 6, 1900)

BUSINESS: A New Weapon for Wal-Mart: A War Room (By MICHAEL BARBARO, Nov. 1, 2005)
* BUSINESS: What Is Organic? Powerful Players Want a Say (By MELANIE WARNER, Nov. 1, 2005)
The Greenspan Effect: Chairman Nominee May Bring a New Openness to the Fed
(By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Nov. 1, 2005)
MARKET PLACE: Turnover at Top Fund of Fidelity
[Robert E. Stansky ran the $52 billion Magellan fund for 9 years]
(By RIVA D. ATLAS, Nov. 1, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Dell Says New Focus Will Cut Into Profit (By DAMON DARLIN, Nov. 1, 2005)
* ARTS: Restoring Medici Splendor, One Stitch at a Time (By KATHRYN SHATTUCK, Nov. 1, 2005)
FILM Critic's Choice | New DVD's: The Wizard of Oz (By DAVE KEHR, Nov. 1, 2005)
MUSIC: John Fogerty Is Closer to Peace With a Label (By ANTHONY DeCURTIS, Nov. 1, 2005)
TV | 'Random 1': Avoiding the Quick Fix for Those Truly in Need (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Nov. 1, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Nov. 1, 2005)
Beyond Gasoline: Taking the Future for a Drive (By DANNY HAKIM, Nov. 1, 2005)
* Preventing Cancer: But Will It Stop Cancer? (By GINA KOLATA, Nov. 1, 2005)
* Scientist at Work | Lisa Randall: On Gravity, Oreos and a Theory of Everything
(By DENNIS OVERBYE, Nov. 1, 2005)
Climate Study Warns of Warming and Losses of Arctic Tundra (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Nov. 1, 2005)
FINDINGS: Deer Tape Their Private Moments (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Nov. 1, 2005)
* Old Menus Provide Clues About Shifting Seafood Tastes (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Nov. 1, 2005)
OBSERVATORY: And Now, Please Welcome Modest Mouse (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Nov. 1, 2005)
Scientists Link a Prolific Gene Tree to the Manchu Conquerors of China
(By NICHOLAS WADE, Nov. 1, 2005)
* A Conversation With Carl Wieman: Physics Laureate Hopes to Help Students Over the Science Blahs
(By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Nov. 1, 2005)
* Persistent Astronomers Find Pluto Has Two More Moons [Hal Weaver] (By KENNETH CHANG, Nov. 1, 2005)
Q & A: A Low Roar (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Nov. 1, 2005)
* HEALTH: Ginseng May Reduce Number and Severity of Colds (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Nov. 1, 2005)
PERSONAL HEALTH: Sometimes, Your Nails Can Bite You Back (By JANE E. BRODY, Nov. 1, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: Tie Between Obesity and Dementia Is Discovered (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 1, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Practices: A New Use for Botox: Treating Facial Neuralgia (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 1, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Environment: Injustices at Work May Harm Men's Hearts (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 1, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Treatments: Front Line Against Hypertension Is Under Siege (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Nov. 1, 2005)
CASES: Speaking in the Third Person, Removed From Reality (By KEITH ABLOW, M.D., Nov. 1, 2005)
REALLY?: The Claim: Exercising With a Cold Can Affect Its Severity (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Nov. 1, 2005)
H.I.V. Drugs Not at Fault for Causing Gain in Girth (By DAVID TULLER, Nov. 1, 2005)