By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Among zoologists, Alan Rabinowitz is known as the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation. But he is actually more the Dag Hammarskjold of biology.
That is because Dr. Rabinowitz, executive director of science and exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society, is a kind of international diplomat for big cats — jaguars, leopards, pumas.
For […]
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By REED ABELSON
Acknowledging that too many people simply cannot obtain health insurance on their own, the insurance industry plans on Wednesday to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals, even those who have health problems, obtain coverage.
The proposals, approved by a board of the industry’s main trade group, […]
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By WARREN E. LEARY
WASHINGTON — NASA spent Tuesday troubleshooting problems in space and on the ground, with astronauts examining malfunctioning joints on the International Space Station and engineers testing fuel tank sensors aboard the shuttle Atlantis as it sits on its launching pad.
Peggy A. Whitson, the space station commander, and Daniel M. Tani, the […]
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By SARA RIMER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor, has long had a cult following at M.I.T. And he has now emerged as an international Internet guru, thanks to the global classroom the institute created to spread knowledge through cyberspace.
Professor Lewin’s videotaped physics lectures, free online on the OpenCourseWare of […]
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By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve, acknowledging that home mortgage lenders aggressively sold deceptive loans to borrowers who had little chance of repaying them, proposed a broad set of restrictions Tuesday on exotic mortgages and high-cost loans for people with weak credit.
The new rules would force mortgage companies to show that customers […]
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