By ANDREW C. REVKIN : After decades of research that sought, and found, evidence of a human influence on the earth’s climate, climatologists are beginning to shift to a new and similarly daunting enterprise: creating decade-long forecasts for climate, just as meteorologists routinely generate weeklong forecasts for weather.
One of the first attempts to look ahead […]
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By JOHN MARKOFF : Hewlett-Packard scientists reported Wednesday in the science journal Nature that they have designed a simple circuit element that they believe will make it possible to build tiny powerful computers that could imitate biological functions.
The device, called a memristor, would be used to build extremely dense computer memory chips that use far […]
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By GARDINER HARRIS : About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, according to a government survey released on Wednesday.In 1993 and 1994, just 60 percent of new mothers breast-fed their babies, but rates have been gradually rising […]
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By PETER S. GOODMAN : For months, beleaguered American consumers have defied expert forecasts that they would soon succumb to the pressures of falling home prices, fewer jobs and shrinking paychecks. Now, they appear to have given in.
On Wednesday, the Commerce Department reported that the economy continued to stagnate during the first three months of […]
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Architecture : By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown.
For more than 20 years the Whitney has been unveiling sunny expansion plans for its Marcel Breuer home on Madison […]
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By BEN SISARIO : Halfway through her 32-minute set on Wednesday night at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan, Madonna offered a message of sympathy.
“All you people I saw sleeping in the street last night,” she said, “this song is for you.”
It was “Hung Up,” about the agony of waiting. And as she finished the song, […]
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