University of LeicesterA view of Pauline avibella, a shrmplike marine creature, from a computer-generated model. A tiny, fossilized crustacean that lived 425 million years ago has been discovered, remarkably intact, in a rock formation in Herefordshire, England. Paleontologists say it represents a new genus and species, belonging to a class of shrimplike marine creatures called ostracods. ...
News Analysis: Message, if Murky, From U.S. to the World
Label: Technology At the global treaty conference on telecommunications here, the United States got most of what it wanted. But then it refused to sign the document and left in a huff. What was that all about? And what does it say about the future of the Internet — which was virtually invented by the United States but now has many more users in the rest of the world? It may mean little about how the...
Aid: African Children Still at Risk of Pneumonia Despite Ceramic Stoves
Label: LifestyleSmall ceramic indoor stoves, such as those sold by women in AIDS self-help groups in Africa, do save fuel and cut down on eye-irritating smoke, a new study has found — but they do not save children from pneumonia. The study, published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, compared 168 households in rural Kenya that used either “upesi jiko” stoves or traditional three-stone...
Aid: African Children Still at Risk of Pneumonia Despite Ceramic Stoves
Label: HealthSmall ceramic indoor stoves, such as those sold by women in AIDS self-help groups in Africa, do save fuel and cut down on eye-irritating smoke, a new study has found — but they do not save children from pneumonia. The study, published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, compared 168 households in rural Kenya that used either “upesi jiko” stoves or traditional three-stone...
Frequent Flier: Intrepid on the Set, but Rattled by Frail Planes
Label: BusinessWHEN I was a teenager, I was a competitive martial artist. I participated in a lot of tournaments, so flying isn’t new to me. After serving in the Marines from 1989 to 1994, I moved to Vancouver and joined a martial arts school. Leslie McMichaelSteve McMichael Q. How often do you fly for business?A. Maybe once or twice a week, it depends. Sometimes it’s just...
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Syrians Face a Bread Shortage in Aleppo and Elsewhere
Label: WorldTyler Hicks/The New York TimesA bakery in Aleppo. The price has shot up from 15 Syrian pounds, about 21 cents, for a bag of about eight flat, pitalike loaves to more than 200 pounds, nearly $3. GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Jalal al-Khanji, the closest thing the Syrian city of Aleppo has to a mayor, hopes to organize elections there within two weeks, but he fears that residents with empty stomachs are in no...
Is Google Abusing Its Market Power? Former Legal Allies Disagree
Label: TechnologyPeter DaSilva for The New York TimesThe Googleplex (Google Corp. headquarters) in Mountain View, Calif. Susan Creighton is helping to defend the company against antitrust accusations. In the digital economy, 14 years is an eternity. Fast-shifting technology means that companies, once feared and seemingly invincible, fade, while new powers rise to dominance, raising fresh sets of concerns. ...
Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Cochlear Implant, Dies
Label: LifestyleDr. William F. House, a medical researcher who braved skepticism to invent the cochlear implant, an electronic device considered to be the first to restore a human sense, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Aurora, Ore. He was 89. The cause was metastatic melanoma, his daughter, Karen House, said. Dr. House pushed against conventional thinking throughout his career. Over the objections of...
Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Cochlear Implant, Dies
Label: HealthDr. William F. House, a medical researcher who braved skepticism to invent the cochlear implant, an electronic device considered to be the first to restore a human sense, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Aurora, Ore. He was 89. The cause was metastatic melanoma, his daughter, Karen House, said. Dr. House pushed against conventional thinking throughout his career. Over the objections of...
Advertising: Jell-O Ads Aim at Mayan Calendar’s End, Tongue in Cheek
Label: BusinessACCORDING to the Mayan calendar, at least as some have jokingly interpreted it, the world may end on Dec. 21, but before then the Jell-O brand is introducing a tongue-in-cheek commercial about its own effort to avert the apocalypse. A commercial that will be introduced on Monday opens with a male voice-over explaining that the ancient Mayans made offerings to their gods of beans, corn and...
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