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Most E-mailed news on 17 June 2009 |
Credit Bailout: Issuers Slashing Card Balances
Customer service employees are calling to offer deals, a practice that was practically unheard-of before the financial crisis.
Alcohol?s Good for You? Some Scientists Doubt It
Maybe moderate drinkers are just healthier to begin with.
Op-Ed Columnist: You Be Obama
As president, you?ve inherited a health care system that is the insane spawn of a team of evil geniuses from an alien power. How will you fix the mess?
Op-Ed Contributor: But Always Meeting Ourselves
In honor of Bloomsday, the anniversary of the events of James Joyce?s ?Ulysses,? a writer shares how he connected with his grandfather between the covers of the novel.
New Glimpses of Life?s Puzzling Origins
In one view of the beginnings of life, depicted in an animation, carbon monoxide molecules condense on hot mineral surfaces underground to form fatty acids, above, which are then expelled from geysers. Researchers find new ways for biochemicals to self-assemble, using the lab to replicate the conditions of early earth.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Haters? Silent Enablers
The genteel debate in right-leaning intellectual circles about the conservative movement?s future will be buried by history if far-right rage is met with silence.
In Some Swimming Pools, a Nasty Intestinal Parasite
A swimming pool can offer relief from summer heat, but swimmers should know what they are jumping into. It could be a soup of nasty parasites.
Personal Health: An Emotional Hair Trigger, Often Misread
Winona Ryder in the 1999 movie ?Girl, Interrupted.?Borderline personality disorder is a poorly understood mood disorder.
On Web and iPhone, a Tool to Aid Careful Shopping
GoodGuide is a Web site and iPhone application that lets consumers dig past the marketing spiel by discovering a product?s health, environmental and social impacts.
Books of The Times: Greed Layered on Greed, Frosted With Recklessness
Two new books illuminate the groupthink blindness that came to afflict much of Wall Street and Washington.
Big City: Mother?s Fight Against Junk Food Puts a School on Edge
An Upper West Side elementary school feels the wrath of a healthy-eating advocate with a gift for e-mailed invective.
Social Networks Spread Defiance Online
Social media sites are challenging levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around restrictions.
Findings: Golfing Through the Stratosphere
The Rocket Park Mini Golf course, loop-de-loops and all, which opens Saturday at the Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows, Queens.On Saturday, a permanent outdoor exhibition will open at the Hall of Science in Queens: the world?s first mini-golf course designed to teach astrophysics.
Making a Bid for Date Night in Chilhowie
Karen Urie and John Shields cook at the Town House in Chilhowie, Va. The highly sophisticated food that two chefs from Chicago serve at the Town House in Chilhowie, Va., is drawing diners from around the country to a main street that is only half a block.
When Suspicion of Teachers Ran Unchecked
A lawsuit seeking access to documents on teachers who were investigated during the Red Scare is raising questions about whether their names can be published, and whether there is still a stigma.
Heads Up: Berlin?s Hidden Restaurants
In this city that prizes its secret corners, diners follow unmarked paths to old ballrooms and upstairs hideaways.
Disease of Rich Extends Its Pain to Middle Class
The rising tide of gout is leading the pharmaceutical industry to rediscover what seemed a disease of the past.
News Analysis: In Iran, an Iron Cleric, Now Blinking
Though few suggest that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?s hold on power is at risk, analysts say he has opened a fissure in the face of Islamic rule that may prove impossible to patch.
Well: Kid Goes Into McDonald?s and Orders ... Yogurt?
Fast-food giants begin to get the message on childhood obesity.
Cost Concerns as Obama Pushes Health Issue
An Congressional Budget Office analysis raised questions about one of President Obama?s major health care plans.
Analysis: Catchers May Have Hand in Yanks? Pitching Problems
With Jorge Posada behind the plate, the Yankees? pitchers have a 6.31 E.R.A. But the combined E.R.A. with Francisco Cervelli, Jose Molina and Kevin Cash catching is two and a half runs better.
Music Review: At the White House, a Blend of Jazz Greats and Hopefuls
On Monday afternoon, Michelle Obama invited about 150 high school jazz students to the White House for a program called Jazz Studio, with workshops led by jazz musicians and a concert.
Election at a Draw, Arizona Town Cuts a Deck
The town of Cave Creek, Ariz., turned to a deck of cards to settle a local election.
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