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

Monday, October 31, 2005:
On This Day: October 31 (Jan Vermeer 10/31/1632-12/15/1675, John Keats 10/31/1795-2/23/1821, Juliette Low 10/31/1860-1/18/1927, Michael Landon 10/31/1936-7/1/1991, Norodom Sihanouk 1922, Michael Collins 1930, Dan Rather 1931, Sally Kirkland 1944, Deidre Hall 1948, Jane Pauley 1950)
Indira Gandhi Slain, Is Succeded by Son (By WILLIAM K. STEVENS, October 31, 1984)
Chiang Kai-shek: A Leader Who Was Thrust Aside by Revolution [10/31/1887-4/5/1975] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 6, 1975)

* Al Lopez, a Hall of Fame Manager, Is Dead at 97 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Oct. 31, 2005)
Marvin Chodorow, 92, Expert in the Use of Microwave Tubes, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Oct. 31, 2005)
Advertising Executive John Elliott Jr. Is Dead at 84 (By FERNANDA SANTOS, Oct. 31, 2005)
NATIONAL | The Journalist: TV Newsman Is His Own News in the Leak Case
[Tim Russert] (By TODD S. PURDUM, Oct. 31, 2005)
A Grass-Roots Group Is Helping Hurricane Survivors Help Themselves (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL, Oct. 31, 2005)
* A Fabled Coin Set Goes for the Record Price of $8.5 Million (By MATTHEW HEALEY, Oct. 31, 2005)
Grieving for Parks, Rights Leaders Ponder Future (By FELICIA R. LEE, Oct. 31, 2005)
EDUCATION: Presidents of Colleges Cite Finances as Main Issue (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Oct. 31, 2005)
WORLD: U.N. Is Expected to Pass Measure Pressuring Syria (By WARREN HOGE and STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Oct. 31, 2005)
Economic Ties Binding Japan to Rival China (By HOWARD W. FRENCH and NORIMITSU ONISHI, Oct. 31, 2005)
Allai Valley Journal: Leaving Home Means Living, Quake Survivors Are Told
(By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 31, 2005)
Funds Fade, Deaths Rise as Iraq Rebuilding Lags (By JAMES GLANZ, Oct. 31, 2005)
New Delhi Police Doubt a Boast; Shoppers Back, a Day After Blasts (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 31, 2005)
Ivory Coast's Ethnic Lines Harden, Hobbling Economy (By LYDIA POLGREEN, Oct. 31, 2005)
NY REGION: From Ocean to Plate, With a Snag in the Line (By ANDREW JACOBS, Oct. 31, 2005)
A Funeral Home Investigation Considers the Macabre (By MICHAEL BRICK, Oct. 31, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Oct. 31, 2005)
SPORTS: Mets Can See Their Future, but Can Their Present Wait? (By BEN SHPIGEL, Oct. 31, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think (By BRENT STAPLES, Oct. 31, 2005)
OP-ED: The Long History of a Bus Ride [Rosa Parks] (By By JUAN WILLIAMS, Oct. 31, 2005)
OP-ED: War Powers in the Age of Terror (By ANDREW J. BACEVICH, Oct. 31, 2005)
LETTERS: Weighing the Cost of a Gold Bauble (6 Letters) (By Akshay Rangnekar, et. al., Oct. 31, 2005)
BUSINESS: At 2,000, Iraq's Military Deaths Got the Media's Full Attention
(By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Oct. 31, 2005)
* A Team Builder in TV Sports Confronts the Challenges of CBS News
[Sean McManus lighted a prayer candle at St. Patrick's Cathedral
on his way to submit the winning bid to broadcast N.F.L. games on TV.]
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Oct. 31, 2005)
Hedge Funds May Be Stung by Losses in October (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Oct. 31, 2005)
* To Battle the Telephone Giants, Small Internet Providers Choose Wi-Fi as a Weapon
(By MATT RICHTEL & KEN BELSON, Oct. 31, 2005)
The Selling of Al Jazeera TV to an International Market (By ERIC PFANNER & DOREEN CARVAJAL, Oct. 31, 2005)
E-Commerce Report: Newspaper Ad Circulars Find Their Way Online (By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 31, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: For Bloggers Seeking Name Recognition, Nothing Beats a Good Scandal
(By TOM ZELLER Jr., Oct. 31, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: An Easy Sales System or Mark of the Beast? [RFID] (By BARNABY FEDER, Oct. 31, 2005)
* ADVERTISING: An Apple a Day for Health? Mars Recommends Two Bars of Chocolate
(By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO, Oct. 31, 2005)
* BOOKS: A Web Geek Takes Off His Mask [Paul Ford] (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Oct. 31, 2005)
BOOKS | 'The Truth (With Jokes)': Step Aside, Talking Heads. It's Time for Bigger Fish.
(By By JANET MASLIN, Oct. 31, 2005)
DANCE | Dance and Process: Focusing on Journeys and Not Destinations (By GIA KOURLAS, Oct. 31, 2005)
MUSIC | Christopher Taylor: A Pianist Standing on the Precipice of the Cutting Edge
(By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Oct. 31, 2005)
MUSIC CONNECTIONS: A Singing Hiker Who Scales the Heights of Mozart Opera (By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Oct. 31, 2005)
THEATER | 'SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE: Truth Takes On a Really Tough Role (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 31, 2005)
TV: After an Epic Meltdown, an Argentine Soccer Star Is Remade on TV (By LARRY ROHTER, Oct. 31, 2005)

Sunday, October 30, 2005:
On This Day: October 30 (John Adams 10/30/1735-7/4/1826, Alfred Sisley 10/30/1839-1/29/1899, Ezra Pound 10/30/1885-11/1/1972, Charles Atlas 10/30/1893-12/24/1972, Dickinson W. Richards 10/30/1895-2/23/1973, Ruth Gordon 10/30/1896-8/28/1985, Daniel Nathans 10/30/1928-11/16/1999, Louis Malle 10/30/1932-11/23/1995, Claude Leloouch 1937, Henry Winkler 1945, Kevin Pollak 1958)
Ali Regains Title, Flooring Foreman (By DAVE ANDERSON, October 30, 1974)
Fred W. Friendly, CBS Executive and Pioneer in TV News Coverage, Dies at 82 [10/30/1915-3/3/1998] (By ERIC PACE, March 5, 1998)

Phil Hays, Illustrator and Teacher, Is Dead at 74 (By STEVEN HELLER, Oct. 30, 2005)
Dr. Frederic Quitkin, 68, Depression Expert, Dies (By DAVID TULLER, Oct. 30, 2005)
NATIONAL: Congress Weighs Big Cuts to Medicaid and Medicare (By ROBERT PEAR, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Overview: After Upheavals, President Seeks to Steady Course (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON & ROBIN TONER, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Vice President: In Indictment's Wake, a Focus on Cheney's Powerful Role
(By ELISABETH BUMILLER & ERIC SCHMITT, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Vice President's Office: Indictment Gives Glimpse Into a Secretive Operation
(By DOUGLAS JEHL, Oct. 30, 2005)
Voices From the Storm: Those Who Had Much Also Had More to Lose (By JENNIFER MEDINA, Oct. 30, 2005)
WORLD: Group Claims Responsibility for New Delhi Blasts (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 30, 2005)
100 Dead in Derailment in India (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 30, 2005)
Lack of Armor Proves Deadly for Iraqi Army (By MICHAEL MOSS, Oct. 30, 2005)
* NY REGION: Bette Midler Embraces Passing of Time and Greening of a City (By JAMES BARRON, Oct. 30, 2005)
* SPORTS: Increasingly, Football's Playbooks Call for Prayer (By JOE DRAPE, Oct. 30, 2005)
BASKETBALL: One Year After Pacers-Pistons Fight, Tough Questions of Race and Sports
(By HARVEY ARATON, Oct. 30, 2005)
* ON BASEBALL: Wagner Is a Must-Have Free Agent; Just Ask His Successor (By MURRAY CHASS, Oct. 30, 2005)
FOOTBALL | Keeping Score: To Identify the Best Passers, One Must Parse the Numbers
(By ALAN SCHWARZ, Oct. 30, 2005)
Giants 36, Redskins 0: Giants Rout Redskins to Take Division Lead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 30, 2005)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER: Sandra Day O'Connor's Careful Steps Through the Judicial Landscape
(By ADAM COHEN, Oct. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: 9/11 and Architecture (By Eli Attia, Oct. 30, 2005)
LETTERS: Is It Time for a Higher Gas Tax? (7 Letters) (By John V. Kjellman, et. al., Oct. 30, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
BUSINESS: Memo to Tyco: I Won't Back Down (By GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Oct. 30, 2005)
* Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too
[Google will sell $6.1 billion in ads, nearly double what it sold last year.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Oct. 30, 2005)
Economic View: Bernanke's Models, and Their Limits (By DANIEL ALTMAN, Oct. 30, 2005)
Media Frenzy: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Oct. 30, 2005)
INVESTING: It Doesn't Mix With Oil, and the Market Is Drinking It Up (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Oct. 30, 2005)
SPENDING: To Save on Gasoline, Look Beyond the E.P.A. Sticker (By KATE MURPHY, Oct. 30, 2005)
FUNDAMENTALLY: Want to Walk on Eggs? Try the Bond Market (By PAUL J. LIM, Oct. 30, 2005)
Dealbook: Hold Those Punches. Goldman May Be the Good Guy. (By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 30, 2005)
SUITS: A Publishing Mogul's Generous Gift of Gab (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
* THE BOSS: A Music Man by Chance [Eric Nicoli, Chairman, EMI Group] (As told to Amy Zipkin, Oct. 30, 2005)
When Children Are Left Behind, the Economy Is, Too (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Oct. 30, 2005)
Career Couch: What? We Don't Do It That Way Anymore? (By MATT VILLANO, Oct. 30, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | Checking In: It's 33 Feet Wide, but Enough for a Hotel (By JOHN HOLUSHA, Oct. 30, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
ARTS: The Pablo Picasso Alzheimer's Therapy (By RANDY KENNEDY, Oct. 30, 2005)
ART: Lovely Museum. Mind if I Redesign It for You? (By TED LOOS, Oct. 30, 2005)
ART Directions: Putting the Culture in Agriculture (By ERIKA KINETZ, Oct. 30, 2005)
* DANCE: When Ballet First Came From Russia With Love (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 30, 2005)
DANCE: Back in Black and White and Purple (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Oct. 30, 2005)
* FILM: The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (By THE FILM CRITICS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
FILM: Want Stealth With That? The 'Fast Food Nation' Film Goes Undercover
(By MICHAEL JOSEPH GROSS, Oct. 30, 2005)
MUSIC: Doesn't Tour, Hates Attention, Likes Home [Kate Bush] (By WILL HERMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
MUSIC: Overcoming the Stereotype of Sexy and Sophisticated [Seu Jorge]
(By BEN RATLIFF, Oct. 30, 2005)
THEATER: Cutting 'Sweeney Todd' to the Bone (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Oct. 30, 2005)
TV: The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium (By JODI KANTOR, Oct. 30, 2005)
TV: The Comic-Strip Revolution Will Be Televised (By LOLA OGUNNAIKE, Oct. 30, 2005)
TV | The Character: It Wasn't True Love Until He Rebuilt Her Nose (By KATE AURTHUR, Oct. 30, 2005)
TV Directions: The Ennui of the Illustrated Man (DEBORAH STARR SEIBEL, Oct. 30, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
FASHION: Embrace the Darkness (By RUTH LA FERLA, Oct. 30, 2005)
STYLE: You Glitter in Nighttown (By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Oct. 30, 2005)
* Can a Writer of Malaise Find Happiness in Acclaim? (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Oct. 30, 2005)
Bawdy Radio Show Is Now a Movie Star (By SETH KUGEL, Oct. 30, 2005)
* MODERN LOVE: Love Me, Love My Dog. All Right, Love My Dog. (By KATHERINE TANNEY, Oct. 30, 2005)
POSSESSED: Recoil in Horror, Peek With Delight (By DAVID COLMAN, Oct. 30, 2005)
BOOKS of Style: Taking Anxiety Down a Notch (By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Oct. 30, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: Lush and Luxurious, Warm Signs of Winter (By ELLEN TIEN, Oct. 30, 2005)
VOWS: Carolyn Kaplan and Douglas Hase (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Oct. 30, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
FRANCE: My Chateau Is Your Chateau: B & B's in Burgundy's Vineyards (By ANN M. MORRISON, Oct. 30, 2005)
Next Stop | Now Playing in Lisbon: The Late, Late Show (By ANDREW FERREN, Oct. 30, 2005)
Netherlands | Day Out: Alkmaar: A Dutch City That Still Likes to Speak Dutch
(By BRUCE BAWER, Oct. 30, 2005)
EXPLORER | Sakhalin: Change Comes to a Wild Island at Russia's Edge (By JAMES BROOKE, Oct. 30, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
Putting It Back Together Again (By ADAM NAGOURNEY, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Real Sunnis: Please Stand Up (By JOHN F. BURNS, Oct. 30, 2005)
So, Do You Believe in 'Superprecedent'? (By JEFFREY ROSEN, Oct. 30, 2005)
* China's Next Big Boom Could Be the Foul Air (By JIM YARDLEY, Oct. 30, 2005)
Word for Word | Putin's Languages: Salty, Spicy and Seldom Minced (By SETH MYDANS, Oct. 30, 2005)
Document File: 'Destroy Israel' (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
Sex and the Faithful Soldier (By JOHN LELAND, Oct. 30, 2005)
SLIDE SHOW: The Week: Echoes [Chicago White Sox, Rosa Parks] (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
Commissions Are Fine, but Rarely What Changes the Light Bulb (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Oct. 30, 2005)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: For Centenarians, It All Begins at Birth (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Basics: Big Oil, Big Bucks (By ALEX BERENSON, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Reading File: If Iraq Was Bad, How Much Worse Is Iran? (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: The I's Have It [e.e. cummings & iPod] (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Way We Live Now: Their Highbrow Hatred of Us (By JAMES TRAUB, Oct. 30, 2005)
* Questions for Ariel de Guzman: The Dish on the Bushes [Bush's cook] (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Oct. 30, 2005)
Phenomenon: The Anti-Debt Crusader (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Oct. 30, 2005)
Consumed: Slicker Price (By ROB WALKER, Oct. 30, 2005)
The Ethicist: Not Lost in Translation (By RANDY COHEN, Oct. 30, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: The End of Pensions (By ROGER LOWENSTEIN, Oct. 30, 2005)
* What's a Modern Girl to Do? (By MAUREEN DOWD, Oct. 30, 2005)
Where Maoists Still Matter (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 30, 2005)
AUDIO Portfolio: Illusions Backstage [Metropolitan Opera] (Photographs by ABELARDO MORELL, Oct. 30, 2005)
STYLE: The Selma Blair Witch Project (Photographs by ROGER BALLEN, Oct. 30, 2005)
FOOD: The Industry: Gastronomics (By MATT LEE & TED LEE, Oct. 30, 2005)
FOOD: Free Ranging: Tools of the Trade [2 recipes] (By AMANDA HESSER, Oct. 30, 2005)
LIVES: The Vanishing Boy (By PAUL COLLINS, Oct. 30, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
'The Assassins' Gate': Occupational Hazards (By FAREED ZAKARIA, Oct. 30, 2005)
'The Right War?' and 'A Matter of Principle': Everybody Is a Realist Now (By JAMES TRAUB, Oct. 30, 2005)
'Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace': One of the Good Guys (By DEXTER FILKINS, Oct. 30, 2005)
* ESSAY: The Reporter's Arab Library (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Oct. 30, 2005)
* BOOKS LETTERS: My Subject, Myself; Magical Thinking (NY TIMES, Oct. 30, 2005)
HEALTH: Being a Patient: For a Retainer, Lavish Care by 'Boutique Doctors' (By ABIGAIL ZUGER, Oct. 30, 2005)

Saturday, October 29, 2005:
On This Day: October 29 (William Hayley 10/29/1745-11/12/1820, Fred Lazarus Jr. 10/29/1884-5/27/1973, Richard Dreyfuss 1947, Kate Jackson 1948)
BLACK TUESDAY: STOCKS COLLAPSE IN 16,410,030-SHARE DAY (NY Times, October 29, 1929)
Fanny Brice, Comedienne, Dies at the Age of 59 [born 10/29/1891-5/29/1951] (NY Times, May 30, 1951)

* Richard E. Smalley, 62, Dies; Chemistry Nobel Winner (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Oct. 29, 2005)
* Alastair G. W. Cameron, 80, Theorist on Creation of Moon, Dies (By JEREMY PEARCE, Oct. 29, 2005)
Michael Gill, 81, Filmmaker Known for TV's 'Civilisation,' Dies (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 29, 2005)
NATIONAL | The News Media: Novel Strategy Pits Journalists Against Source (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and ADAM LIPTAK, Oct. 29, 2005)
POKER: Crucial Decisions Before the First Card Is Dealt (By JAMES McMANUS, Oct. 29, 2005)
VIDEO GAMES: If Looks Could Kill ... and Here They Do (By CHARLES HEROLD, Oct. 29, 2005)
Op-Ed Puzzles: Scare Tactics (By MIKE SHENK, ROBERT LEIGHTON and AMY GOLDSTEIN, Oct. 29, 2005)
BUSINESS: For the Thinking Employee, No-Brainer Health Care Is Passé (By DAMON DARLIN, Oct. 29, 2005)
What's Offline: Boomer Books, Relics and Concrete (PAUL B. BROWN, Oct. 29, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: What's Online: Getting Your Point Across (By DAN MITCHELL, Oct. 29, 2005)

Friday, October 28, 2005:
On This Day: October 28 (Henry III 10/28/1017-10/5/1056, Eliphalet Remington 10/28/1793-8/12/1861, Gilbert Grosvenor 10/28/1875-2/4/1966, Edith Head 10/28/1897-10/24/1981, Evelyn Waugh 10/28/1903-4/10/1966, Francis Bacon 10/28/1909-4/28/1992, Suzy Parker 1933, Bruce Jenner 1949, Julia Roberts 1967)
Statue of Liberty Dedicated in New York Harbor by President Cleveland (NY Times, October 28, 1886)
Dr. Jonas Salk, Whose Vaccine Turned Tide on Polio, Dies at 80 [10/28/1914-6/23/1995] (By HAROLD M. SCHMECK Jr., June 24, 1995)

* WORLD: China Luring Scholars to Make Universities Great (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Oct. 28, 2005)
WORLD | London Journal: Royal Lovers Are U.S. Bound, Attended by Unloved Press (By SARAH LYALL, Oct. 28, 2005)
* ART | 'Beyond the Visible': Mind of a Writer, Hand of an Artist [Odilon Redon]
(By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 28, 2005)
* ART | Fra Angelico: Renaissance Radiance, Gilded in Gothic (By ROBERTA SMITH, Oct. 28, 2005)
ART | Jacob van Ruisdael: Views of the Land Where the Dramatic Blues of the Sky Matter Most (By HOLLAND COTTER, Oct. 28, 2005)
SCIENCE: M.I.T. Dismisses a Researcher, Saying He Fabricated Some Data (NY TIMES, Oct. 28, 2005)

Thursday, October 27, 2005:
On This Day: October 27 (Catherine of Valois 10/27/1401-1/3/1437, Desiderius Erasmus 10/27/1466-7/12/1536, James Cook 10/27/1728-2/14/1779, Niccolo Paganini 10/27/1782-5/27/1840, Isaac M. Singer 10/27/1811-7/23/1875, Marcellin Berthelot 10/27/1827-3/18/1907, Theodore Roosevelt 10/27/1858-1/6/1919, Dylan Thomas 10/27/1914-11/9/1953, Roy Liechtenstein 10/27/1923-9/29/1997, Teresa Wright 1918, Ralph Kiner 1922, Warren Christopher 1925)
IRT SUBWAY OPEN, 150,000 TRY IT (NY Times, October 27, 1904)
Sylvia Plath: Her Poetry, Not Her Death, Is Her Triumph [born 10/27/1932-2/11/1963] (By ROSALYN DREXLER, January 13, 1974)

* Enid A. Haupt, Philanthropist, Dies at 99 [Public Gardens & Libraries] (By ENID NEMY, Oct. 27, 2005)
* Elmer Dresslar Jr., 80, Voice of Green Giant, Is Dead ["Ho, ho, ho"] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 27, 2005)
NATIONAL: Miers Ends Supreme Court Bid After Failing to Win Support (By DAVID STOUT & TIMOTHY WILLIAMS, Oct. 27, 2005)
EDUCATION: City College Gets $26 Million From Former Intel Chairman [Andrew Grove]
(By KAREN W. ARENSON, Oct. 27, 2005)
WORLD: Iran's New President Says Israel 'Must Be Wiped Off the Map' (By NAZILA FATHI, Oct. 27, 2005)
* Good Jihad, Bad Jihad: Struggle for Arab Minds (By HASSAN M. FATTAH, Oct. 27, 2005)
* WORLD | Tiout Journal: Hungry Goats Atop a Tree, Doing Their Bit for Epicures (By CRAIG S. SMITH, Oct. 27, 2005)
TECCHNOLOGY | CIRCUITS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 27, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY | DAVID POGUE: Rip and Burn and Download on a Stereo (DAVID POGUE, Oct. 27, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Engineers Make Leap in Optical Networks
[Stanford's David A. B. Miller, used a standard chip-making process to design
a central component of optical networking gear that is potentially more than
10 times as fast as the highest-performance commercial products available today.]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 27, 2005)
* Web Site Review | Pointingit: Where to Play Superman and See Architecture, Too
(By SARAH BOXER, Oct. 27, 2005)
TV | 'In His Own Words': An Anchor Intimately Recalls Katrina [Brian Williams] (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 27, 2005)
SCIENCE: Genetic Catalog May Aid Search for Roots of Disease (By NICHOLAS WADE, Oct. 27, 2005)

Wednesday, October 26, 2005:
On This Day: October 26 (Domenico Scarlatti 10/26/1685-7/23/1757, Georges Jacques Danton 10/26/1759-4/5/1794, Beryl Markham 10/26/1902-8/3/1986, Jackie Coogan 10/26/1914-3/1/1984, Pat Sajak 1946, Hillary Rodham Clinton 1947, Jaclyn Smith 1947)
Israel Prime Minister Rabin and Jordan Prime Minister Majali Signed Peace Treaty (By CLYDE HABERMAN, Oct. 26, 1994)
Mahalia Jackson, Gospel Singer, And a Civil Rights Symbol, Dies [born 10/26/1911] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, January 28, 1972)

Wellington Mara, the Patriarch of the N.F.L., Dies at 89 (By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN, Oct. 26, 2005)
Marshall Clagett, 89, Scholar on Science in Ancient Times, Is Dead (By WOLFGANG SAXON, Oct. 26, 2005)
Robert H. Johnston, Examiner of Dead Sea Scrolls, Dies at 77 (By DOUGLAS MARTIN, Oct. 26, 2005)

Tuesday, October 25, 2005:
On This Day: October 25 (Evariste Galois 10/25/1811-5/31/1832, Johann Strauss, Jr. 10/25/1825-6/3/1899, Georges Bizet 10/25/1838-6/3/1875, Henry Steele Commager 10/25/1902-3/2/1998, Minnie Pearl 10/25/1912-3/4/1996, Bobby Thomson 1923, Helen Reddy 1941)
United Nations Admits Mainland China and Expels Taiwan (By TAD SZULC, Oct. 25, 1971)
Picasso: Protean and Prodigious, the Greatest Single Force in 70 Years of Art
[born 10/25/1881] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, April 9, 1973)

Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies (By E. R. SHIPP, Oct. 25, 2005)
* The Cost of Gold | Treasure of Yanacocha: Tangled Strands in Fight Over Peru Gold Mine
(By JANE PERLEZ & LOWELL BERGMAN, Oct. 25, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 25, 2005)
* SCIENCE | The Big Melt (Part III): No Escape: Thaw Gains Momentum (By ANDREW C. REVKIN, Oct. 25, 2005)
* That Haze Over Titan? Scientists Suspect Erupting Geysers or Volcanoes (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 25, 2005)

Monday, October 24, 2005:
On This Day: October 24 (Antoine van Leeuwenhoek 10/24/1632-8/26/1723, Sarah J. Hale 10/24/1788-4/30/1879, Moss Hart 10/24/1904-12/20/1961, Y.A. Tittle 1926, F. Murray Abraham 1939)
UN CHARTER BECOMES 'LAW OF NATIONS,' 29 RATIFYING IT (By BERTRAM D. HULEN, Oct. 24, 1945)
Bob Kane, 83, the Cartoonist Who Created 'Batman,' Is Dead [born 10/24/1915] (By SARAH BOXER, November 7, 1998)

* The Cost of Gold | 30 Tons an Ounce: Behind Gold's Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions
(By JANE PERLEZ & KIRK JOHNSON, Oct. 24, 2005)
OP-ED: Show Me the Money (By ELIZABETH WARREN, Oct. 24, 2005)
OP-ED: We're All Preppies Now (By CAROL McD. WALLACE, Oct. 24, 2005)

Sunday, October 23, 2005:
On This Day: October 23 (Pierre Larousse 10/23/1817-1/3/1875, Adlai Ewing Stevenson 10/23/1835-6/15/1914, Felix Bloch 10/23/1905-9/10/1983, Pele 1940, Michael Crichton 1942)
Beirut Death Toll at 161 Americans; French Casualties Rise in Bombings (By Thomas E. Friedman, Oct. 23, 1983)
John W. Heisman, Noted Coach, Dies [born 10/23/1869] (NY Times, October 4, 1936)

* EDUCATION: For Some College Graduates, a Fanciful Detour (or Two) Before Their Careers Begin
(By ALAN FINDER, Oct. 23, 2005)
LETTERS: Exploring the Brain [Dalai Lama's lecture] (By Janet Thorson-Mador, Oct. 23, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 23, 2005)
* THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: Beyond Human
[Kurzweil says, "We'll learn how brains operate and devise computers that function
like them. Then the barrier between our minds and our computers will disappear.
The part of our memory that is literally downloaded will grow until
"the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."]
(By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL, Oct. 23, 2005)

Saturday, October 22, 2005:
On This Day: October 22 (Franz Liszt 10/22/1811-7/31/1886, George Beadle 10/22/1903-6/9/1989, Constance Bennett 10//22/1904-7/24/1965, Jimmie Foxx 10/22/1907-7/21/1967, Joan Fontaine 1917, Annette Funicello 1942, Catherine Deneuve 1943, Jeff Goldblum 1952)
President Kennedy Announced Blockade of Cuba (By ANTHONY LEWIS, Oct. 22, 1968)
Timothy Leary, Pied Piper Of Psychedelic 60's, Dies at 75 [born 10/22/1920] (By LAURA MANSNERUS, June 1, 1996)

* Cornell President Condemns Teaching Intelligent Design as Science (By MICHELLE YORK, Oct. 22, 2005)
* OP-ED: Steroids and the Asterisk [Roger Maris] (By BOB GREENE, Oct. 22, 2005)
* OP-ED: Baseball's Silly Season (By JOHN THORN, Oct. 22, 2005)
LETTERS: The Snorer in Your Bed (2 Letters) (By V. K. Balakrishnan & Betsy Holloway, Oct. 22, 2005)
LETTERS: A Name I Can Live With (By Winifred Newberry Hooker, Oct. 22, 2005)

Friday, October 21, 2005:
On This Day: October 21 (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10/21/1772-7/25/1834, Alfred Nobel 10/21/1833-12/10/1896, Ted Shawn 10/21/1891-1/9/1972, Louis L'Amour 10/21/1908-6/10/1988, Sir George Solti 10/21/1912-9/5/1997, Whitey Ford 1928, Benjamin Netanyahu 1949)
Thomas Edison Invented Electric Light (NY Times, Oct. 21, 1879)
Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz's Earliest Notes, Dies at 75 [born 10/21/1917] (By PETER WATROUS, January 7, 1993)

Thursday, October 20, 2005:
On This Day: October 20 (Andrea Della Robbia 10/20/1435-8/4/1525, Sir Christopher Wren 10/20/1632-2/25/1723, Arthur Rimbaud 10/20/1854-11/10/1891, Charles Edward Ives 10/20/1874-5/19/1954, Bela Lugosi 10/20/1884-8/16/1956, Sir James Chadwick 10/20/1891-7/24/1974, Dame Anna Neagle 10/20/1904-6/3/1986, Mickey Mantle 10/20/1931-8/13/1995, Art Buchwald 1925, Arlene Francis 1908)
Nixon Discharges Cox For Defiance; Abolishes Watergate Task Force; Richardson And Ruckelshaus Out
(By DOUGLAS E. KNEELAND, Oct. 20, 1973)
Dr. John Dewey Dead at 92; Philosopher a Noted Liberal [born 10/20/1859] (NY Times, June 2, 1952)

SCIENCE | The Big Melt (Part II): Old Ways of Life Are Fading as the Arctic Thaws
(By STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN, SIMON ROMERO & CLIFFORD KRAUSS, Oct. 20, 2005)

Wednesday, October 19, 2005:
On This Day: October 19 (Sir Thomas Brown 10/19/1605-10/19/1682, Leigh Hunt 10/19/1784-8/28/1859, Alfred Dreyfus 10/19/1859-7/12/1935, Auguste Lumiere 10/19/1862-4/10/1954, John Le Carre 1931, Peter Max 1937, Patricia Ireland 1945)
STOCKS PLUNGE 508 POINTS, A DROP OF 22.6%; 604 MILLION VOLUME NEARLY DOUBLES RECORD
(By LAWRENCE J. De MARIA, October 19, 1987)
Charles Merrill, Broker, Dies; Founder of Merrill Lynch Firm [born 10/19/1885] (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, Oct. 7, 1986)

* Scientists Bridle at Lecture Plan for Dalai Lama (By BENEDICT CAREY, Oct. 19, 2005)

Tuesday, October 18, 2005:
On This Day: October 18 (Pope Pius II 10/18/1405-8/14/1464, Canaletto 10/18/1697-4/20/1768, Robert L. Stevens 10/18/1787-4/20/1856, Henri Bergson 10/18/1859-1/4/1941, Melina Mercouri 10/18/1925-3/6/1994, Chuck Berry 1926, Terry McMillan 1951, Martina Navratilova 1956, Wynton Marsalis 1961)
2 Black Power Advocates Ousted From Olympics (By JOSEPH M. SHEEHAN, Oct. 18, 1968)
Pierre Trudeau Is Dead at 80; Dashing Fighter for Canada [born 10/18/1919] (By MICHAEL T. KAUFMAN, September 29, 2000)

SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 18, 2005)
* SCIENCE | FINDINGS: Recreating an Ancient Death Ray [Archimedes] (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 18, 2005)
* HEALTH: Can Brain Scans See Depression? (By BENEDICT CAREY, Oct. 18, 2005)

Monday, October 17, 2005:
On This Day: October 17 (Frederick Hassam 10/17/1859-8/27/1935, Jean Arthur 10/17/1900-6/19/1991, Nathanael West 10/17/1903-12/22/1940, Pope John Paul I 10/17/1912-9/28/1978, Montgomery Clift 10/17/1920-7/23/1966, Arthur Miller 1915, Jimmy Breslin 1930)
CAPONE CONVICTED OF DODGING TAXES; MAY GET 17 YEARS (By MEYER BERGER, Oct. 17, 1931)
Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies [born 10/17/1918] (By ALBIN KREBS, May 16, 1987)

WORLD: Quake Widens Rift in Families Across Kashmir (By SOMINI SENGUPTA and DAVID ROHDE, Oct. 17, 2005)
Early Signs Show Iraqis' Approval of Constitution (By KIRK SEMPLE and ROBERT F. WORTH, Oct. 17, 2005)
NY REGION: At These Gas Prices, It Doesn't Feel So Cold After All (By MICHAEL BRICK, Oct. 17, 2005)
Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Oct. 17, 2005)
SPORTS: White Sox Finally Win a Pennant for Chicago (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 17, 2005)
BUSINESS: ESPN Sports-Speak Is Increasingly Also Becoming Sports-Write
(By JULIE BOSMAN, Oct. 17, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Power Companies Enter the High-Speed Internet Market (By KEN BELSON, Oct. 17, 2005)
* DAVID CARR: Suddenly, an Affinity for Teenagers [Murdoch acqires MySpace.com]
(By DAVID CARR, Oct. 17, 2005)
* E-Commerce Report: All the News That You Can Use. And More. (By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 17, 2005)

Sunday, October 16, 2005:
On This Day: October 16 (Noah Webster 10/16/1758-5/28/1843, Oscar Wilde 10/16/1854-11/30/1900,
David Ben-Gurion 10/16/1886-12/1/1973, William Douglas 10/16/1898-1/19/1980, Angela Lansbury 1925)
China Tests Atomic Bomb, Asks Summit Talk On Ban; Johnson Minimizes Peril (By SEYMOUR TOPPING, Oct. 16, 1964)
Eugene O'Neill Dies of Pneumonia; Playwright, 65, Won Nobel Prize [born 10/16/1888] (NY Times, November 28, 1953)

NATIONAL: As Young Adults Drink to Win, Marketers Join In (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Oct. 16, 2005)
EDUCATION: At Public Universities, Warnings of Privatization (By SAM DILLON, Oct. 16, 2005)
WORLD: Pakistan Toll, at 38,000, Is Expected to Rise (By CARLOTTA GALL, Oct. 16, 2005)
* Russia Peels the Veils From Antiquity and Gazes, Awed (By SETH MYDANS, Oct. 16, 2005)
Iraqi Officials Count Ballots Following Saturday's Vote (By JOHN F. BURNS & DEXTER FILKINS, Oct. 16, 2005)
NY REGION: Clouds Part, and Joy Breaks Out All Over Town (By MANNY FERNANDEZ, Oct. 16, 2005)
Flooding Takes Toll in New Jersey and Is Blamed in Connecticut Death (By SHADI RAHIMI, Oct. 16, 2005)
SPORTS: From Bledsoe to Manning, the Position Stays the Same (By JOHN BRANCH, Oct. 16, 2005)
Houston Leads Series, 3-1: St. Louis Starting to Lose Its Cool (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 16, 2005)
Astros Lead Series, 2-1: With Homer, Lamb Has Astros' Hopes on Upswing (By BEN SHPIGEL, Oct. 16, 2005)
White Sox Lead Series, 3-1: White Sox Step Closer to Elusive A.L. Pennant
(By JACK CURRY, Oct. 16, 2005)
BASEBALL | Keeping Score: Talking About Small Ball, but Winning With a Big Stick
(By By ALAN SCHWARZ, Oct. 16, 2005)
On Baseball: Skirting the Guidelines on Minority Managers (By MURRAY CHASS, Oct. 16, 2005)
OP-ED Columnist: It's Bush-Cheney, Not Rove-Libby (By FRANK RICH, Oct. 16, 2005)
OP-ED: God Is in the Rules (By GEOFF D. PORTER, Oct. 16, 2005)
* OP-ED: Beethoven's Paper Trail (By EDMUND MORRIS, Oct. 16, 2005)
Health Bills: It's a Jungle Out There (8 Letters) (By Leonard S. Charlap, et. al., Oct. 16, 2005)
* LETTERS: What Is Needed in a President (By Warren Hammer, Oct. 16, 2005)
* LETTERS: Murrow's Thank-You Note (Patricia M. Roberts, Oct. 16, 2005)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
BUSINESS: The Mortgage Maker Vs. the World (By JEFF BAILEY, Oct. 16, 2005)
Economic View: Waiting for the Petrodollars to Trickle Down (By EDUARDO PORTER, Oct. 16, 2005)
Saving: Managing Retirement, After You Really Retire (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Oct. 16, 2005)
Fundamentally: A Capital Gains Comeback. Is Your Fund Ready? (By PAUL J. LIM, Oct. 16, 2005)
Career Couch: A Recruiter Is Calling. Should You Answer? (By MATT VILLANO, Oct. 16, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
ARTS: Defining the Moment, for the Moment, Anyway ["New Photography"]
(By PHILIP GEFTER, Oct. 16, 2005)
DANCE | Dance, Memory: When Looking Back Is Looking Ahead (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 16, 2005)
MUSIC: Signed, Sealed, Delivered... and Just 10 Years Later (By ALAN LIGHT, Oct. 16, 2005)
TV: Supercalanormalistic ["Supernanny"] (By ADA CALHOUN, Oct. 16, 2005)
TV Directions: Taking a Stand Against Reality (By DEBORAH STARR SEIBEL, Oct. 16, 2005)
TV: Lifetime's Place Is in the House (and Senate) (By KATE AURTHUR, Oct. 16, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
STYLE: See Daddy Make a Deal (By ANDRÉE BROOKS, Oct. 16, 2005)
His Cheerleader, Win or Lose [football coaches' wives] (By WARREN ST. JOHN, Oct. 16, 2005)
* STYLE: Item: Sisters Think Parents Did O.K. [Top of the Class]
(By ALEX WILLIAMS, Oct. 16, 2005)
MODERN LOVE: Adolescence, Without a Roadmap (By CLAIRE SCOVELL LaZEBNIK, Oct. 16, 2005)
VOWS: Peter Wong and Stacy Lam (By ABBY ELLIN, Oct. 16, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
TRAVEL: Belgrade Rocks (By SETH SHERWOOD, Oct. 16, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
* Doomsday: The Latest Word if Not the Last (By MICHAEL LUO, Oct. 16, 2005)
Critic's Notebook: A Pinter Actor Must Know His Between-the-Lines (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Oct. 16, 2005)
Quake Jolts Armies, Too (By DAVID ROHDE & SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 16, 2005)
Disasters and Their Dead (By SHAILA DEWAN, Oct. 16, 2005)
* Measuring the World: From Material to Ethereal (By KENNETH CHANG, Oct. 16, 2005)
* Slide Show: A Search for Precision [Royal Cubit, Kilogram, Meter] (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
ON LANGUAGE: Baseballingo (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 16, 2005)
The Way We Live Now: The Woman's Seat [Harriet Miers] (By JEFFREY ROSEN, Oct. 16, 2005)
Questions for Barbara Boxer: Life Imitates Literature (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Oct. 16, 2005)
Reconsideration: Bush's Ancestors (By SEAN WILENTZ, Oct. 16, 2005)
Consumed: The Buying Game (By ROB WALKER, Oct. 16, 2005)
The Ethicist: Uninsured Employee (By RANDY COHEN, Oct. 16, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: Chasing Ground [real estate] (By JON GERTNER, Oct. 16, 2005)
* Meet the Life Hackers [Researchers are trying to discover the best moments
to interrupt the modern office worker. more desktop space equals greater productivity.]
(By CLIVE THOMPSON, Oct. 16, 2005)
* The Short of It [Growth hormone for children] (By STEPHEN S. HALL, Oct. 16, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 16, 2005)
'New Art City': Abstract Expressionism and Its Aftermath [Jed Perl] (By JOHN UPDIKE, Oct. 16, 2005)
* 'Invisible Listeners': Overheard Speech [Herbert, Whitman, Ashbery]
[Helen Vendler] (By LANGDON HAMMER, Oct. 16, 2005)
* ESSAY: Foxes and Hedgehogs (By JONATHAN TEPPERMAN, Oct. 16, 2005)

Saturday, October 15, 2005:
On This Day: October 15 (Virgil 10/15/70 BC-9/21/19 BC, Evangelista Torricelli 10/15/1608-10/25/1647, Allan Ramsay 10/15/1686-1/7/1758, Sir P.G. Wodehouse 10/15/1881-2/14/1975, Mervyn LeRoy 10/15/1900-9/13/1987, John Kenneth Galbraith 1908, Lee Iacocca 1924)
Khrushchev Ousted From Top Posts; Brezhnev Gets Chief Party Position (By HENRY TANNER, October 15, 1964)
German Philosopher Professor Nietzsche Dead [born 10/15/1844] (NY Times, August 26, 1900)

Robert Scott, 76, President of Philadelphia Museum, Dies (By MARGALIT FOX, Oct. 15, 2005)
* NATIONAL: Classes in Chinese Grow as the Language Rides a Wave of Popularity
(By GRETCHEN RUETHLING, Oct. 15, 2005)
SPORTS: Series Tied, 1-1: Astros Look to Clemens, From Start to Finish (By BEN SHPIGEL, Oct. 15, 2005)

Friday, October 14, 2005:
On This Day: October 14 (William Penn 10/14/1644-7/30/1718, Francis Lightfoot Lee 10/14/1784-9/29/1833,
Lillian Gish 10/14/1893-2/27/1993, e.e. cummings 10/14/1894-9/3/1962, Roger Moore 1927, Ralph Lauren 1939)
Martin Luther King Wins The Nobel Prize for Peace (NY Times, October 14, 1964)
Dwight David Eisenhower: A Leader in War and Peace [born 10/14/1890] (NY Times, March 29, 1969)

NATIONAL: Jitters at the White House Over the Leak Inquiry (By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, Oct. 14, 2005)
* London Journal: Britain's Secret Service Indeed! Spy on It on Its Web Site (By ALAN COWELL, Oct. 14, 2005)
SPORTS: Series Tied, 1-1: Pitching in the Shadows, Oswalt Leads by Example
(By LEE JENKINS, Oct. 14, 2005)
BASEBALL: Eddings, Uneasy in the Spotlight, Believes the Ball Hit the Ground
(By JACK CURRY, Oct. 14, 2005)
BASEBALL: No Rhyme or Reason to Player's Fame [Josh Paul, catcher-poet] (By LEE JENKINS, Oct. 14, 2005)
BASEBALL: Gordon and Martinez Mull Their Futures as Yankees (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 14, 2005)
OP-ED: The Harriet Miers I Know (By MATTHEW SCULLY, Oct. 14, 2005)
* ARTS: An Appraisal: Fear and Miscommunication in Pinterland (By BEN BRANTLEY, Oct. 14, 2005)
ARTS: Honoring a Tension-Filled Body of Work [Pinter's plays & screenplays]
(NY TIMES, Oct. 14, 2005)
* BOOKS: Harold Pinter Wins Nobel for Dramas of Ominous Power Struggles (By SARAH LYALL, Oct. 14, 2005)

Thursday, October 13, 2005:
On This Day: October 13 (Molly Pitcher 10/13/1753-1/22/1832, Rudolf Virchow 10/13/1821-9/5/1902,
Yves Montand 10/13/1921-11/9/1991, Margaret Thatcher 1925)
Biggest Pacific Air Fleet Bombs Rabaul; Wrecks 177 Planes, 123 Ships (By MILTON BRACKER, October 13, 1943)
Lenny Bruce, Uninhibited Comic, Found Dead in Hollywood Home [born 10/13/1925] (NY Times, August 4, 1966)

NY REGION: It Rains Buckets, Then Barrels, Across Region (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR & MANNY FERNANDEZ, Oct. 13, 2005)
SPORTS Media & Business: Replays Support Angels' Case Against Umpire (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Oct. 13, 2005)
Architecture | De Young Museum: Going for Cozy Glamour in San Francisco (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Oct. 13, 2005)
BOOKS: Excerpts From the Work of Harold Pinter (NY TIMES, Oct. 13, 2005)
* MUSIC: A Historic Discovery, in Beethoven's Own Hand (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Oct. 13, 2005)
* FASHION & STYLE: Big Girls Don't Cry (By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM, Oct. 13, 2005)

Wednesday, October 12, 2005:
On This Day: October 12 (Johann Peter Melchior 10/12/1742-6/13/1825, Ralph Vaughan Williams 10/12/1872-8/26/1958,
Saint Edith Stein 10/12/1891-8/9/1942, Lucian Pavarotti 1935)
Robert E. Lee Dies [Oct. 12, 1870] (NY Times, October 14, 1870)
Elmer Sperry Dies; Famous Inventor [born 10/12/1860] (NY Times, June 17, 1930)

BASEBALL: Time for Reflection and Dissection in Yankees' World (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 12, 2005)
On Baseball: Yankees Are Running in Place Behind Mets (By MURRAY CHASS, Oct. 12, 2005)

Tuesday, October 11, 2005:
On This Day: October 11 (Harlan Fisk Stone 10/11/1872-4/22/1946, Francois Mauriac 10/11/1885-9/1/1970,
Charles Revson 10/11/1906-8/24/1975, Joseph W. Alsop Jr. 10/11/1910-8/28/1989, Jerome Robbins 10/11/1918-7/29/1998)
Astronauts Carry Out Early Maneuvers on 163-Orbit Journey (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 11, 1968)
Mrs. Roosevelt, First Lady 12 Years, Often Called 'World's Most Admired Woman' [born 10/11/1884] (NY Times, November 8, 1962)

Louis Nye, 92, Comic Actor and Sidekick to Steve Allen, Dies (By JAMES BARRON, Oct. 11, 2005)
NATIONAL: Liberal Hopes Ebb in Post-Storm Poverty Debate (By JASON DePARLE, Oct. 11, 2005)
Cellular-Free Enclaves Fight to Save Pay Phones (By KATIE ZEZIMA, Oct. 11, 2005)
Fearing Heat Costs, Many Take Preventive Action (By PAM BELLUCK & SARAH KERSHAW, Oct. 11, 2005)
In 8th Visit to Gulf, Bush to Focus on Progress (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Oct. 11, 2005)
Documents Show Supreme Court Nominee's Close Ties to Bush (By RALPH BLUMENTHAL & SIMON ROMERO, Oct. 11, 2005)
Voices From the Storm: In a Hub of Music, Playing the Relief Refrain
(By NATHAN LEVY, Oct. 11, 2005)
The Displaced: Cast From Their Ancestral Home, Creoles Worry About Culture's Future
(By SUSAN SAULNY, Oct. 11, 2005)
WORLD: Kashmiris Are Paying Heaviest Price in Earthquake (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 11, 2005)
Woman in the News: Angela Merkel: Politician Who Can Show a Flash of Steel
(By MARK LANDLER, Oct. 11, 2005)
Deal Clears Way for First Woman to Lead Germany (By RICHARD BERNSTEIN, Oct. 11, 2005)
An Earthquake's Pain Unites Two Rivals, for the Moment (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 11, 2005)
Relief Arrives in Guatemala's Remote Areas (By GINGER THOMPSON, Oct. 11, 2005)
Caracas Journal: Venezuelan Thrives on Seeing Threats From 'Mr. Danger' (By JUAN FORERO, Oct. 11, 2005)
NY REGION: Threat Discounted, New York Eases Subway Alert (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Oct. 11, 2005)
* A Psychologist, 92, Is at Odds With the Institute He Founded [Albert Ellis]
(By BENEDICT CAREY and DAN HURLEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
Breakups Without Borders [Divorce lawyers for immigrants] (By JOSEPH BERGER, Oct. 11, 2005)
INK: He's Not Jolly, but Is He Sinister or Benign? (By LILY KOPPEL, Oct. 11, 2005)
Who's That Guy? Without Robes, Grand Marshal Is Mystery
[Justice Antonin Scalia] (By FERNANDA SANTOS, Oct. 11, 2005)
* Boldface: You Decide: At 48, Is She 'Too Young for That?'
[Katie Couric] (By COREY KILGANNON, Oct. 11, 2005)
SPORTS: Yankees Are Facing Yet Another Winter of Discontent (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 11, 2005)
Angels Win Series, 3-2: For Fifth Year in Row, Yanks Have Hit Wall (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 11, 2005)
BASEBALL: In Team Building, White Sox Take Good From the Bad (By LEE JENKINS, Oct. 11, 2005)
BASEBALL: Braves Unhappily Familiar With Playoff Losses (By RAY GLIER, Oct. 11, 2005)
FOOTBALL: His Arm in a Sling, Jets' Pennington Is Upbeat (His Arm in a Sling, Pennington Is Upbeat, Oct. 11, 2005)
GOLF: Daly Loses Touch Against Woods at American Express Championship (By DAMON HACK, Oct. 11, 2005)
TV SPORTS: In Hunt for Ratings, Prime Time Trumps Downtime, Every Time
[Houston-Atlanta 18-innings] (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Oct. 11, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Fortresses Against Flu (NY TIMES, Oct. 11, 2005)
OP-ED: Terminal Debate [Iraq] (By BERNARD HAYKEL, Oct. 11, 2005)
OP-ED: Dare to Bare [no diapers by three weeks] (By MEREDITH F. SMALL, Oct. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: Has It Come to This? Spacious, Arctic Vu ... (4 Letters) (By GinaRae LaCerva, et. al., Oct. 11, 2005)
LETTERS: Attention to Detail [Miers' fussing about punctuation] (By Raleigh Mayer, Oct. 11, 2005)
BUSINESS: Delphi Filing and Poor Earnings Outlooks Extend Losses
[Dow -53.55, Nasdaq -11.43] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 11, 2005)
* Read the Tea Leaves: China Will Be Top Exporter (By KEITH BRADSHER, Oct. 11, 2005)
* American and Israeli Share Nobel Prize in Economics
[Thomas C. Schelling, Univ. of Maryland & Robert J. Aumann, Hebrew University]
(By LOUIS UCHITELLE, Oct. 11, 2005)
For Big Three, All the Signs Are Warnings [Kirk Kerkorian] (By DANNY HAKIM, Oct. 11, 2005)
Carl C. Icahn Pressures Time Warner for Changes (By RICHARD SIKLOS & ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Oct. 11, 2005)
On the Road: Resentment Flares Over Fees for Internet Access at Hotels
(By JOE SHARKEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft Turns Enemy Into Ally in Antitrust Settlement [RealNetworks]
(By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 11, 2005)
* ART: Van Gogh: Expressive With a Brush, or a Pen (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 11, 2005)
ARTS: A Curator's Tastes Were All Too Human (By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH, Oct. 11, 2005)
BOOKS | 'A War Like No Other': The Brutal War That Broke a Democratic Superpower
[Victor Davis Hanson] (By WILLIAM GRIMES, Oct. 11, 2005)
BOOKS: Coming From Philip Roth: Regret and Loss (By EDWARD WYATT, Oct. 11, 2005)
FILM Critic: The Trouble With Films That Try to Think (By CARYN JAMES, Oct. 11, 2005)
MUSIC: The Legacy of an Organist Who Pushed the Limits (By ALLAN KOZINN, Oct. 11, 2005)
MUSIC: From the Family Closet, a New Coltrane Album (By NATE CHINEN, Oct. 11, 2005)
THEATER: Ontario Joins Investors in a Musical of the 'Rings' (By JESSE McKINLEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
* TV | 'Einstein's Big Idea': Energy, Mass and Light Heat Up Minds and Bodies
(By NED MARTEL, Oct. 11, 2005)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 11, 2005)
SCIENCE: Foal by Foal, the Wildest of Horses Is Coming Back (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Oct. 11, 2005)
* ESSAY: In the Classification Kingdom, Only the Fittest Survive (By CAROL KAESUK YOON, Oct. 11, 2005)
* FINDINGS: At Dartmouth, a Remote-Controlled Robot
[Dartmouth's microrobot is the world's smallest untethered, controllable robot.
It measures 0.01"x0.0025"; 200 of them would stretch the length of an M&M.]
(By KENNETH CHANG, Oct. 11, 2005)
An Energy-Emitting... Backpack? (NY TIMES, Oct. 11, 2005)
* DNA Studies Suggest Emperor Is Most Ancient of Penguins (By CARL ZIMMER, Oct. 11, 2005)
* OBSERVATORY: Taking Inspiration From Sperm
[Attaching a tail to colloidal particles containing tiny bits of iron oxide,
researchers in Paris were able to move them when exposed to a magnetic field.]
(By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Oct. 11, 2005)
* Q & A: The Cat Catalogue (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Oct. 11, 2005)
HEALTH: Embryonic Cells, No Embryo Needed: Hunting for Ways Out of an Impasse
(By GINA KOLATA, Oct. 11, 2005)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: Stalking a Cancer That's Silent and Deadly (By JANE E. BRODY, Oct. 11, 2005)
CASES: Two Worlds of Rituals Are Joined in the Operating Room (By LARRY ZAROFF, M.D., Oct. 11, 2005)
THE CONSUMER: Bitter Orange Under Scrutiny as New Ephedra (By MARY DUENWALD, Oct. 11, 2005)
* The Doctor's World: Nobel Came After Years of Battling the System (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Oct. 11, 2005)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Male Pattern Baldness Is Inherited Through the Mother
(By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Oct. 11, 2005)
* VITAL SIGNS: Screening: A Test May Predict Dementia in Your Future (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Telecommunications: When Lines Get Crossed for Doctors and Patients
(By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: At Risk: A Warning That Babies Shouldn't Sleep on Sides (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
VITAL SIGNS: Practices: No Shots, No Service? A Pediatrician's Quandary (By ERIC NAGOURNEY, Oct. 11, 2005)
* Research Suggests Exercise May Keep Senility at Bay (By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, Oct. 11, 2005)
California Maps Strategy for Its $3 Billion Stem Cell Project (By NICHOLAS WADE, Oct. 11, 2005)
HEALTH: Gum Disease Is Linked to Rates of Early Birth (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Oct. 11, 2005)

Monday, October 10, 2005:
On This Day: October 10 (Jean-Antoine Watteau 10/10/1684-7/18/1721, Henry Cavendish 10/10/1731-2/24/1810,
Benjamin West 10/10/1738-11/3/1820, Giuseppe Verdi 10/10/1813-1/27/1901, Maurice Prendergast 10/10/1859-2/1/1924,
Helen Hayes 10/10/1900-3/17/1993, Alberto Giacometti 10/10/1901-1/11/1966)
Agnew Quits Vice Presidency And Admits Tax Evasion In '67 (By JAMES M. NAUGHTON, Oct. 10, 1973)
Thelonious Monk, Created Wry Jazz Melodies and New Harmonies [born 10/10/1917] (By JOHN S. WILSON, February 18, 1982)

Leopold B. Felsen, 81, Expert on the Properties of Waves, Dies (By WARREN E. LEARY, Oct. 10, 2005)
Mother Benedict Dies at 94; Head of a Cloistered Abbey (By MARGALIT FOX, Oct. 10, 2005)
* NATIONAL: Las Vegas, City of Sumo Mania (By JENNY HONTZ, Oct. 10, 2005)
New Orleans: With the Jazz Funeral's Return, the Spirit of New Orleans Rises
(By SHAILA DEWAN, Oct. 10, 2005)
FEMA Director Under Clinton Profits From Experience (By LESLIE WAYNE & GLEN JUSTICE, Oct. 10, 2005)
The White House: Showing Speed and Loyalty, Bush Mobilizes Aid to Pakistan (By DAVID E. SANGER, Oct. 10, 2005)
In New Book, Ex-Director of the F.B.I. Fights Back [Louis J. Freeh] (By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, Oct. 10, 2005)
WORLD: Pakistan Appeals for Help as Rescuers Dig by Hand (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 10, 2005)
Belgium Is Trying to Unravel the Threads of a Terror Web (By ELAINE SCIOLINO & HÉLÈNE FOUQUET, Oct. 10, 2005)
Tizi Ouzou Journal: A Slain Berber Singer's Voice Rouses His Hometown
(By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Oct. 10, 2005)
NY REGION: Lake George's Pre-Winter Chill (By LISA W. FODERARO, Oct. 10, 2005)
Flooding Leads to Evacuations in New Jersey (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR & NATE SCHWEBER, Oct. 10, 2005)
* A Rival Is Charged, and a Map Dealer Wants to Say, 'Told You So' (By ALISON LEIGH COWAN, Oct. 10, 2005)
* Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Oct. 10, 2005)
Series Tied, 2-2: Have Victory, Will Travel [Yanks beats Angels 3-2] (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 10, 2005)
Astros Win Series, 3-1: After 18 Innings and Almost 6 Hours, Astros Send Braves Packing Again
(By RAY GLIER, Oct. 10, 2005)
BASEBALL: Cardinals Are Itching to Pour It On (By BEN SHPIGEL, Oct. 10, 2005)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER | The Rural Life: E. B. White's 'Memorandum' (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Oct. 10, 2005)
* OP-ART: Google 2084 [What Google's Homepage may look like in 2084] (By RANDY SIEGEL, Oct. 10, 2005)
* OP-ED: Bush's Veil Over History (By KITTY KELLEY, Oct. 10, 2005)
OP-ED: Occupational Hazard (By COLEEN ROWLEY and DYLAN BLAYLOCK, Oct. 10, 2005)
* LETTERS: Grand Canyon, Grander Chasm (7 Letters) (By Jack Needleman, et. al., Oct. 10, 2005)
LETTERS: The Rich, the Poor and the College Divide (3 Letters) (Nancy C. Langwiser, et. al., Oct. 10, 2005)
BUSINESS: I.B.M. to Put Genetic Data of Workers Off Limits (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 10, 2005)
* At Newspapers, Some Clipping (By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, Oct. 10, 2005)
As Reality TV Hits Maturity, Networks Lower Expectations (By BILL CARTER, Oct. 10, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Intel to Bring Out a Server Chip With Several Processors (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Oct. 10, 2005)
Japan's Music Industry Wants Fee on Sales of Latest Digital Players (By MARTIN FACKLER, Oct. 10, 2005)
* DAVID CARR: Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod (By DAVID CARR, Oct. 10, 2005)
E-Commerce Report: The High Price of Gasoline Sends Shoppers to the Web
(By BOB TEDESCHI, Oct. 10, 2005)
ARTS: In Trafalgar Square, Much Ado About Statuary (By SARAH LYALL, Oct. 10, 2005)
ARTS: A Painter Writes of Murder Among the Abstract Expressionists (By CAROL KINO, Oct. 10, 2005)
BOOKS | 'Veronica': An Ex-Model Recalls Her Glamorous and Tormented Past (By JANET MASLIN, Oct. 10, 2005)
DANCE | Festival of China: Washington Gets a Taste of Three Chinese Companies
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 10, 2005)
DANCE | 'Rules of Engagement': A Horse and Dancers in an Ode to Interspecies Ties
(By JENNIFER DUNNING, Oct. 10, 2005)
TV: Seventeen Magazine and MTV Join for a Reality Show (By JULIE BOSMAN, Oct. 10, 2005)
TV From The Times (NY TIMES, Oct. 10, 2005)
* SCIENCE | Evidence: Scientists Renew a Warning About a Himalayan Danger Zone (By KENNETH CHANG, Oct. 10, 2005)
SCIENCE | The Big Melt (Part I): As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound
(By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO, Oct. 10, 2005)

Sunday, October 9, 2005:
On This Day: October 9 (King Charles X 10/9/1757-11/6/1836, Camille Saint-Saens 10/9/1835-12/16/1921,
Charles Walgreen 10/9/1873-12/11/1939, Aimee Semple McPherson 10/9/1890-9/27/1944, Walter O'Malley 10/9/1903-8/9/1979)
Bolivia Confirms Guevara's Death; Body Displayed (By REUTERS, Oct. 9, 1967)
Bruce Catton, Civil War Historian, Is Dead at 78 [born 10/9/1899] (NY Times, August 29, 1978)

NATIONAL: Scattered in a Storm's Wake and Caught in a Clash of Cultures (By ISABEL WILKERSON, Oct. 9, 2005)
In a Grueling Desert Race, a Winner, but Not a Driver
[Stanley, a robotic vehicle designed by Stanford students, wins $2 million prize
by being the fastest finisher on a 132-mile course through the Nevada desert.]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 9, 2005)
Bush Addresses G.O.P. Unease Over Nominee (By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG, Oct. 9, 2005)
News Analysis: Danger of Flu Pandemic Is Clear, if Not Present (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 9, 2005)
* WORLD: Pakistan Quake in Remote Area Kills Over 1,000 (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 9, 2005)
Earthquake's Toll May Rise; Aftershocks Are Feared [20,000 dead] (By SOMINI SENGUPTA, Oct. 9, 2005)
In Guatemalan Town Buried by Mud, Unyielding Hope for a Little Girl (By GINGER THOMPSON, Oct. 9, 2005)
NY REGION: Now Babies Too Young to Walk Are Readied for Toilet Training (By TINA KELLEY, Oct. 9, 2005)
Downpour Causes Flooding, With North Jersey Hit Hardest (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Oct. 9, 2005)
Taking Credit for Rebound That Remade City Economy (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Oct. 9, 2005)
* SPORTS: With Their Season Over, Changes Await Red Sox (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 9, 2005)
Angels Lead Series, 2-1: Big Winners in Rainout Are the Angels' Relievers (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 9, 2005)
Cardinals Win Series, 3-0: Cardinals Continue to Look Like They're in a League of Their Own
(By BEN SHPIGEL, Oct. 9, 2005)
Astros Lead Series, 2-1: Biggio's Bat Has Astros in Control of Braves (By RAY GLIER, Oct. 9, 2005)
Astros Win Series, 3-1: Walk-Off Homer Ends Historic 18-Inning Game (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 9, 2005)
Series Tied, 2-2: Yankees Stay Alive With Late Rally (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 9, 2005)
BASEBALL: For Johnson, Moving On May Mean Trip to Bullpen (By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 9, 2005)
BASEBALL: If It's Not One Molina, It's Another for the Angels (By JOHN ELIGON, Oct. 9, 2005)
CHESS: When Lofty Titles Are at Stake, Nerves Can Lead to Blunders (By ROBERT BYRNE, Oct. 9, 2005)
* OP-ED: Good Night, and the Good Fight [Edward R. Murrow] (By NEAL GABLER, Oct. 9, 2005)
OP-ED: A Last Round With August Wilson (By OSCAR HIJUELOS, Oct. 9, 2005)
* OP-ED | The Public Editor: Turning the Tables: What the Times News Staff Thinks of You
(By BYRON CALAME, Oct. 9, 2005)
LETTERS: Teaching as a Career, Not a Résumé Line (4 Letters) (By Amy Mogulescu, et. al., Oct. 9, 2005)
* BUSINESS: Time Warner's True Believers (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Oct. 9, 2005)
* Economic View: Blueprints From Cities That Rose From Their Ashes (By ANNA BERNASEK, Oct. 9, 2005)
Everybody's Business: Why Is Everyone Losing Sleep Over Oil and Gas Stocks?
(By BEN STEIN, Oct. 9, 2005)
An Algorithm as a Pickax [Data mining] (By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Count: What, Me Work? Well, Not When The Game Is On (By HUBERT B. HERRING, Oct. 9, 2005)
* INVESTING: When Smart Choices Are, Alas, Costly Ones (By ROBERT D. HERSHEY Jr., Oct. 9, 2005)
SUITS: Blodget the Outsider, Or Is That Insider? (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
THE GOODS: Baby Food, Out From the (Very) Cold (By BRENDAN I. KOERNER, Oct. 9, 2005)
GIVING: When Charity Begins in a Circle of Friends (By KRISTINA SHEVORY, Oct. 9, 2005)
* STRATEGIES: How Fund Rankings Can Cause Stocks to Gyrate (By MARK HULBERT, Oct. 9, 2005)
SPENDING: What I Dug Up During My Summer Vacation (By HILLARY CHURA, Oct. 9, 2005)
MUTUAL FUNDS REPORT (3rd Quarter 2005): Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Quarter at the End of the Rainbow (By PAUL J. LIM, Oct. 9, 2005)
Is It Too Late to Ride the Energy Bandwagon? (By TIM GRAY, Oct. 9, 2005)
Three Starring Roles for Energy Stocks (By CAROLE GOULD, Oct. 9, 2005)
* TIAA-CREF: Turning Eight Letters Into a Household Name (By RIVA D. ATLAS, Oct. 9, 2005)
* Off the Shelf: Investors of the World, Unite! [John C. Bogle] (By PAUL B. BROWN, Oct. 9, 2005)
ESSAY: Don't Want to Calculate the Cost to Matriculate [college cost] (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 9, 2005)
GLOBAL INVESTING: Shopping by Sector, Then by Country (By ZUBIN JELVEH, Oct. 9, 2005)
BASIC INSTINCTS: Does 'Hedge Fund' Mean Anything Anymore? (By M.P. DUNLEAVY, Oct. 9, 2005)
* Real Estate May Be Peaking. Or Not. (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Oct. 9, 2005)
REAL ESTATE | The Interview: A Career That Revolves Around the Trade Center (By TERI KARUSH ROGERS, Oct. 9, 2005)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
ARTS: How the City Sank [New Orleans' pumps] (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Oct. 9, 2005)
ARTS: Dancing on a Ceiling (With Tom Cruise) (By JORI FINKEL, Oct. 9, 2005)
ART Directions: Chelsea Girl (By MEREDITH KAHN ROLLINS, Oct. 9, 2005)
DANCE: The Red Lantern, Raised Up on Point (By DAVID BARBOZA, Oct. 9, 2005)
* DANCE: On Separate Coasts, a Sisterly Pas de Deux (By SUKI JOHN, Oct. 9, 2005)
DANCE Directions: Think Globally, Dance Locally (By RITA FELCIANO, Oct. 9, 2005)
FILM: The Discreet Masochism of the Bourgeoisie ["Caché"] (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 9, 2005)
MUSIC: Best Wishes on Your Job. Now Get Out. [Marin Alsop] (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Oct. 9, 2005)
MUSIC: Please Don't Pet the Animals (By BEN RATLIFF, Oct. 9, 2005)
MUSIC Directions: Sing and Tell (By MELENA Z. RYZIK, Oct. 9, 2005)
THEATER: Memorizing Her Lines Is Out of the Question [Caris Corfman] (By DAVID CARR, Oct. 9, 2005)
TV: Red Carpet Warriors, Competing for Stars and Viewers (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Oct. 9, 2005)
TV: The Pot Is Metaphorical, the Hair Revelatory (By NED MARTEL, Oct. 9, 2005)
TV: Comedy Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry (By DEBORAH STARR SEIBEL, Oct. 9, 2005)
TV Directions: The Second Coming of Reverend Run (By JOE BRESCIA, Oct. 9, 2005)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
STYLE: A Lust for Life and Danger (By ALLISON HOPE WEINER, Oct. 9, 2005)
* STYLE: A Cubicle for You and Your Muse [Paragraph center for writing]
(By LIESL SCHILLINGER, Oct. 9, 2005)
STYLE: Gas Math: Subtract 2 Wheels (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Oct. 9, 2005)
In Paris, the Demure Suddenly Meets the Dangerous (By CATHY HORYN, Oct. 9, 2005)
Fashion Diary: The Young Designer Who Worked in a Shoe (By GUY TREBAY, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Age of Dissonance: Great Expectations (By BOB MORRIS, Oct. 9, 2005)
* In a Classical World, Nerds Walk With Gods (By CATHERINE PRICE, Oct. 9, 2005)
A Night Out With Rodrigo Garcia: All About Eves (By MONICA CORCORAN, Oct. 9, 2005)
* Modern Love: So Handsome, So Clever, So Gone (By MARTHA MOFFETT, Oct. 9, 2005)
POSSESSED: Battle-Ready, Packs Well (By DAVID COLMAN, Oct. 9, 2005)
VOWS: Francesca Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller (By IRENE LACHER, Oct. 9, 2005)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
* TRAVEL: Shanghai, a Far East Feast (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Oct. 9, 2005)
JAPAN | Going to Osaka (By KEN BELSON, Oct. 9, 2005)
FRANCE | Footsteps: Amid the Menace of War, Sanary-sur-Mer Was a Refuge Under the Sun
(By ANTONIA FEUCHTWANGER, Oct. 9, 2005)
PARIS | Surfacing: Abuzz on the Canal St.-Martin in Paris (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Oct. 9, 2005)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Crisis of the Bush Code (By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, Oct. 9, 2005)
Constitution or Divorce Agreement? (By JAMES GLANZ, Oct. 9, 2005)
* For a New Russia, New Relics (By STEVEN LEE MYERS, Oct. 9, 2005)
Drink, Don't Drink. Drink, Don't Drink. (By CLIFFORD J. LEVY, Oct. 9, 2005)
When Lawmaking and Lobbying Are All in the Family (By GLEN JUSTICE, Oct. 9, 2005)
Where to Be Jobless in Europe (By MARK LANDLER, Oct. 9, 2005)
* THE BASICS: When the Doctors Are Their Own Best Guinea Pigs (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Oct. 9, 2005)
Where Home Prices Rise Steeply, Bankruptcies Fall (By FORD FESSENDEN, Oct. 9, 2005)
Passengers, Check Your T-Shirt Before Boarding (By MICHELLE O'DONNELL, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Reading File: Predict: (Blank) Will Disappear in 35 Years (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
GRAPHIC: Life Is Like Baseball, Redux (By M.K. Mabry, Oct. 9, 2005)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
* ON LANGUAGE: Guys, Ankling (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Way We Live Now: Post-Teenage Wasteland? (By ANN HULBERT, Oct. 9, 2005)
Questions for Noah Baumbach: The Intelligentsia Indie (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Oct. 9, 2005)
ESSAY: The Meaning of No [Iraq's constitutional referendum] (By NOAH FELDMAN, Oct. 9, 2005)
Diagnosis: Sleuthing a Rash (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Oct. 9, 2005)
Consumed: Silent Treatment (By ROB WALKER, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Ethicist: My Amendments (By RANDY COHEN, Oct. 9, 2005)
COVER ARTICLE: Wading Toward Home (By MICHAEL LEWIS, Oct. 9, 2005)
The Underbelly Artist (By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN, Oct. 9, 2005)
Women's Work [Afghan women] (By ELIZABETH RUBIN, Oct. 9, 2005)
STYLE | Society: Eden Rocks [Miami Beach] (By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Oct. 9, 2005)
* FOOD: Eat, Memory: The Sixth Sense [For one writer,
life was not fully realized until he tasted garlic.]
(By GARY SHTEYNGART, Oct. 9, 2005)
* LIVES: Call Waiting [I felt drawn to devoting myself
to God through celibacy, just as my parents had.
(By PETER MANSEAU, Oct. 9, 2005)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
* 'The Year of Magical Thinking': Goodbye to All That [Joan Didion] (By ROBERT PINSKY, Oct. 9, 2005)
* Joan Didion Profile: Every Day Is All There Is (By RACHEL DONADIO, Oct. 9, 2005)
* Featured Author: Joan Didion (NY TIMES, Sept. 23, 2001)
'Our Inner Ape': Hey Hey, We're the Monkeys [Frans de Waal] (By TEMPLE GRANDIN, Oct. 9, 2005)
* 'Slam Dunks and No-Brainers': Whassup? Don't Ask [Leslie Savan] (By P. J. O'ROURKE, Oct. 9, 2005)
'Missing Mom': The Lady Vanishes [Joyce Carol Oates] (By STACEY D'ERASMO, Oct. 9, 2005)
'A Crack in the Edge of the World': A Natural History of Disaster
[Simon Winchester] (By BRYAN BURROUGH, Oct. 9, 2005)
* 'Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife': Ghost Trusters [Mary Roach] (By KATE ZERNIKE, Oct. 9, 2005)
'Son of a Witch': No Place Like Oz [Gregory Maguire] (By SOPHIE HARRISON, Oct. 9, 2005)
'1491': Vanished Americans [Charles C. Mann] (By KEVIN BAKER, Oct. 9, 2005)
'The Pagoda in the Garden': Are We Amused Yet? [Wendy Lesser] (By LUCY ELLMANN, Oct. 9, 2005)
ESSAY: God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 9, 2005)
ESSAY: My Subject, Myself (By JAMES ATLAS, Oct. 9, 2005)
* BOOKS | Letters: Benjamin Kunkel's Essay; Science and the Dalai Lama (NY TIMES, Oct. 9, 2005)
* 'Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home': Practice, Practice, Practice
[Lynn Freed] (By HOLLY BRUBACH, Oct. 9, 2005)

Saturday, October 8, 2005:
On This Day: October 8 (John M. Hay 10/8/1838-7/1/1905, Juan Peron 10/8/1895-7/1/1974,
Frank Herbert 10/8/1920-2/11/1986, Jesse Jackson 1941, Chevy Chase 1943, Stephanie Zimbalist 1956)
Warsaw Outlaws Solidarity (By JOHN KIFNER, Oct. 8, 1982)
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker Is Dead at 82 [born 10/8/1890] (NY Times, July 24, 1973)

NATIONAL: Bush Plan Shows U.S. Is Not Ready for Deadly Flu (By GARDINER HARRIS, Oct. 8, 2005)
Persistent Red Tide Takes Toll on Florida Sea Life and Tourism (By ABBY GOODNOUGH, Oct. 8, 2005)
White Sox Win Series, 3-0: Red Sox Return to Waiting Until Next Year (By JACK CURRY, Oct. 8, 2005)
Angels Lead Series, 2-1: Johnson Slips, Allowing Angels to Slide Into Series Lead
(By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 8, 2005)
Series Tied, 1-1: The Braves' New Closer Doesn't Go by Smoltz (By RAY GLIER, Oct. 8, 2005)
On Baseball: Yanks' Pitching Turns Cheers Into Groans (By MURRAY CHASS, Oct. 8, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Bird Flu and the 1918 Pandemic (NY TIMES, Oct. 8, 2005)
* OP-ED: Lost and Found New York | They're Off at Morris Park!
[Leonard W. Jerome, grandfather of Winston Churchill] (By JAMES STEVENSON, Oct. 8, 2005)
* LETTERS: It's Science or Religion (By Manfred Weidhorn, Oct. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: Jitters (and Doubts) in New York (6 Letters) (By James Clawson, et. al., Oct. 8, 2005)
LETTERS: The President Speaks of Iraq and Terror (4 Letters) (By Morris Johnson, et. al., Oct. 8, 2005)
Building Fortunes: With Mortgages, Instant Wealth for Middlemen (By JEFF BAILEY, Oct. 8, 2005)
* Your Money: Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn't Add Up (By DAMON DARLIN, Oct. 8, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Robotic Vehicles Contend for the Battlefield
[15 robotic vehicles sprinted through the Nevada desert, closing in
on a $2 million prize from the Pentagon meant to spur development
of technologies for 21st century automated warfare.]
(By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 8, 2005)
FILM: Study Finds Young Men Attending Fewer Films (By SHARON WAXMAN, Oct. 8, 2005)
TV | DVD Review: The Baby Returns, Continuing to Reign (By NED MARTEL, Oct. 8, 2005)

Friday, October 7, 2005:
On This Day: October 7 (James Witcomb Riley 10/7/1849-7/22/1916, Niels Bohr 10/7/1885-11/18/1962,
Henry Wallace 10/7/1888-11/18/1965, Desmond Tutu 1931)
Achille Lauro Ship Carrying 400 Hijacked (By JOHN TAGLIABUEL, Oct. 7, 1985)
Elijah Muhammad Dead; Black Muslim Leader, 77 [born 10/7/1897] (NY Times, February 26, 1975)

Chicago Leads Series, 2-0: The Heat Is On, But the Red Sox Keep Their Cool (By BEN SHPIGEL, Oct. 7, 2005)
St. Louis Leads Series, 2-0: Playing Small Pays Off in a Big Way for the Cardinals
(By PAT BORZI, Oct. 7, 2005)
EDITORIAL: President Bush's Major Speech: Doing the 9/11 Time Warp Again (NY TIMES, Oct. 7, 2005)
ART | 'Utopia, Utopia': Hidden in Plain Sight: Unity, Cloaked in a Web of Camouflage
(By ROBERTA SMITH, Oct. 7, 2005)
INSIDE ART: A Gauguin and a van Gogh Change Hands (By CAROL VOGEL, Oct. 7, 2005)
ART | 'Oscar Bluemner': An Intense Architect-Turned-Artist Obsessed With Blazing Color
(By GRACE GLUECK, Oct. 7, 2005)
ART EXHIBITION | 'Slavery in New York': The Peculiar Institution as Lived in New York
(By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, Oct. 7, 2005)
DANCE | Ballet Austin: Classical Conventions Turned on Their Heads, Quite Literally
(By ROSLYN SULCAS, Oct. 7, 2005)
DANCE | 'Orpheus and Euridice': Orpheus for Singer, Dancers, Instruments (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Oct. 7, 2005)
TV | 'Hot Properties': A Real Estate Firm Where It's All About Sex, Not the Sales
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 7, 2005)
TV | 'The Hunt for the B.T.K. Killer': Playing Cat-and-Mouse With a Serial Killer (By NED MARTEL, Oct. 7, 2005)
TRAVEL | VERMONT: Autumn in the Country: In a Land of Leaves, Seeking Cheese
(By WENDY KNIGHT, Oct. 7, 2005)
HEALTH: Vaccine Prevents Most Cervical Cancer (By DENISE GRADY, Oct. 7, 2005)

Thursday, October 6, 2005:
On This Day: October 6 (Wenceslas III 10/6/1289-8/4/1306, Jenny Lind 10/6/1820-11/2/1887, George Westinghouse 10/6/1846-3/12/1914, Le Corbusier 10/6/1887-8/27/1965, Janet Gaynor 10/6/1906-9/14/1984, Carole Lombard 10/6/1908-1/16/1942)
Sadat Assassinated at Army Parade (By WILLIAM E. FARRELL, Oct. 6, 1981)
Helen Wills Moody, Dominant Champion Who Won 8 Wimbledon Titles, Dies at 92 [born 10/6/1905] (By ROBIN FINN, January 3, 1998)

NY REGIOMN: ew York Named in Terror Threat Against Subways (By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, Oct. 6, 2005)
Series Tied, 1-1: Small Ball, Dropped Balls and All Square [Angels win 5-3]
(By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 6, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Experts Give Scientists Roadmap on Nanotechnology Research
[Nanotechnology is a collection of processing skills and products in which
crucial dimensions are measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter,
a scale so tiny that molecular forces affect behavior.]
(By BARNABY FEDER, Oct. 6, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Online Pioneer Sets Out to Shake Up TV
[Jeremy Allaire, architect of Macromedia's Flash, has a new startup Brightcove.]
(By SAUL HANSELL, Oct. 6, 2005)
FASHION: Over the Shoulder, Over the Top (By RUTH LA FERLA, Oct. 6, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Seeing Creation and Evolution in Grand Canyon (By JODI WILGOREN, Oct. 6, 2005)
* HEALTH: Experts Unlock Clues to Spread of 1918 Flu Virus (By GINA KOLATA, Oct. 6, 2005)

Wednesday, October 5, 2005:
On This Day: October 5 (Jonathan Edwards 10/5/1703-3/22/1758, Denis Diderot 10/5/1713-7/31/1784, Chester Allen Arthur 10/5/1829-11/18/1886, Louis Jean Lumiere 10/5/1864-6/6/1948, Robert H. Goddard 10/5/1882-8/10/1945, Joshua Logan 10/5/1908-7/12/1988, Vaclav Havel 1936)
Truman Calls On Nation To Forego Meat Tuesdays, Poultry, Eggs Thursdays (NY Times, Oct. 5, 1947)
Ray A. Kroc dies at 81; Built McDonald's Chain [born 10/5/1902] (By ERIC PACE, January 15, 1984)

NATIONAL: The Dead: Weeks Later, Most Storm Victims Lie Unnamed (By SHAILA DEWAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
Religious Background: In Midcareer, a Turn to Faith to Fill a Void
[Harriet E. Miers] (By EDWARD WYATT & SIMON ROMERO, Oct. 5, 2005)
WORLD: Pakistan Arrests Chief Spokesman for Taliban (By CARLOTTA GALL, Oct. 5, 2005)
* With Lenin's Ideas Dead, Russia Weighs What to Do With Body (By C. J. CHIVERS, Oct. 5, 2005)
Letter From North Africa: But Bygones Can't Be Bygones if the Pain Is Raw
[Algeria's history] (By MICHAEL SLACKMAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
SPORTS: For Clemens and Smoltz, Talk of Age and Aches (By RAY GLIER, Oct. 5, 2005)
Cardinals Lead Series, 1-0: The Cardinals Start With a Bang (By By PAT BORZI, Oct. 5, 2005)
Yankees Lead Series, 1-0: Three Runs in First Are Enough to Keep the Angels at Bay
(By TYLER KEPNER, Oct. 5, 2005)
EDITORIAL: Running on Empty (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2005)
OP-ED: In Indonesia, Democracy Isn't Enough (By SCOTT ATRAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
* OP-ED: My Deep Sea Dreams (By STEVE O'SHEA, Oct. 5, 2005)
LETTERS: A New Face for the Court: Who Is Harriet Miers? (9 Letters) (By Peter J. Brosnan, et. al., Oct. 5, 2005)
* LETTERS: Recalling August Wilson [You cannot outsource responsibility]
(Frank F. Conlon, Oct. 5, 2005)
BUSINESS: Concern Over Profits and Interest Rates Depresses Shares
[Dow -94.37, Nasdaq -16.07] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Oct. 5, 2005)
* Google and Sun Announce a Joint Agreement
[Google would become a significantly larger customer for Sun hardware.]
(By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Oct. 5, 2005)
* Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones, a Paper Says (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Oct. 5, 2005)
A Bank Rebuilds: Since Hurricane Katrina Rolled In, the Cash Has Rolled Out
(By GARY RIVLIN, Oct. 5, 2005)
Safety Becomes an Issue for Japan Airlines (By MARTIN FACKLER, Oct. 5, 2005)
A Revival for Immunity (By ANDREW POLLACK, Oct. 5, 2005)
Advertising: With Some Risk to Its Image, Altoids Is Moving to the U.S. (By JULIE BOSMAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
* CIRCUITS | NETWORKING: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY | Collaboration: Working Together, Wherever They Are (By STEVE LOHR, Oct. 5, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY | Collaboration: The Time Is Now: Bust Up the Box! (By JOHN MARKOFF, Oct. 5, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY | DAVID POGUE: Making Connections in a House Divided (By DAVID POGUE, Oct. 5, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY: Keeping a Trouble-Free Home Network (By J. D. BIERSDORFER, Oct. 5, 2005)
TECHNOLOGY | Connections: Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed (By PAMELA LICALZI O'CONNELL, Oct. 5, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Your Data (By WILSON ROTHMAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
* TECHNOLOGY: Steal This Laptop and It Will Tell the Cops Where to Find You (By WILSON ROTHMAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
BOOKS: A Writer Not Fusty, If Addicted to Mystery (By DINITIA SMITH, Oct. 5, 2005)
BOOKS | 'Tête-à-Tête': The Value and Complexities of an Existential Love Affair
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Oct. 5, 2005)
* BOOKS: National Gallery Buys Ted Hughes Sketch by Plath (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Oct. 5, 2005)
BOOKS: Literary Laurel for Andrea Levy (By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Oct. 5, 2005)
FILM | 'THE SQUID AND THE WHALE':Growing Up Bohemian and Absurd in Brooklyn
(By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 5, 2005)
FILM | 'WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT'
A New Challenge for an Englishman and His Dog (By A. O. SCOTT, Oct. 5, 2005)
MUSIC: A Remake of a Charity Song, by the Elite of Indie Rock (By JESSE FOX MAYSHARK, Oct. 5, 2005)
* MUSIC: A Long Life in America After Writing the Big Mozart Librettos (By JEREMY EICHLER, Oct. 5, 2005)
* PHOTOGRAPHY | 'The Jewish Identity Project': American Jewishness in All its Infinite Variety
(By GRACE GLUECK, Oct. 5, 2005)
THEATER | 'A WOMAN OF WILL': Shakespearean Heroines Channeled in a Musical
(By JASON ZINOMAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
TV | 'Related': The Lives of Four Sisters Too Girlish for Their Own Good (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Oct. 5, 2005)
FOOD & DINING: Contents (NY TIMES, Oct. 5, 2005)
FOOD: Kitchen Ruckus: A Chef's Memoir (By GINIA BELLAFANTE, Oct. 5, 2005)
DINING: Prowling London for Perfect English (By R. W. APPLE Jr., Oct. 5, 2005)
Follow Directions and It's Cake (By NIGELLA LAWSON, Oct. 5, 2005)
The Minimalist: Meet Escarole, Fall in Love (By MARK BITTMAN, Oct. 5, 2005)
Will the Gulf Coast Fish Again? (By MARIAN BURROS, Oct. 5, 2005)
Food Stuff: For the Holidays, Artisanal Cheeses Made to Be Kosher (By FLORENCE FABRICANT, Oct. 5, 2005)
Cowgirls Going Home [Cowgirl Creamery, Point Reyes & SF Ferry Bldg, CA]
(By MARIAN BURROS, Oct. 5, 2005)
* SCIENCE: Ancient Interstellar Collision Helps Explain Source of Radiation (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Oct. 5, 2005)
* HEALTH: Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say (By GINA KOLATA, Oct. 5, 2005)

Tuesday, October 4, 2005:
On This Day: October 4 (Louis X 10/4/1289-6/5/1316, Lord Richard Cromwell 10/4/1626-7/12/1712, Jean Francois Millet 10/4/1814-1/20/1875, Rutherford B. Hayes 10/4/1822-1/17/1893, Frederic Remington 10/4/1861-12/26/1909, Damon Runyon 10/4/1884-12/10/1946, Charlton Heston 1924, Anne Rice 1941)
Soviet Fires Satellite into Space: It is Circling the Globe at 18,000 MPH (By WILLIAM J. JORDEN, Oct. 4, 1957)
Buster Keaton, 70, Dies on Coast; Poker-Faced Comedian of Films [born 10/4/1895] (ASSOCIATED PRESS, September 27, 1960)