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Most E-mailed news on 26 September 2009 |
Experts Awed by Anglo-Saxon Treasure
An amateur treasure hunter prowling English farmland with a metal detector found a massive collection of gold and silver.
Op-Ed Columnist: It?s Easy Being Green
Saving the planet won?t come free (although the early stages of conservation actually might). But it won?t cost all that much either.
Really?: The Claim: Lack of Sleep Increases the Risk of Catching a Cold.
As cold season approaches, many Americans stock up on their vitamin C and echinacea, but heeding the advice on getting more sleep could be more important.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Afghan Imperative
Fighting the Afghan war the easy way hasn?t worked. Only the full counterinsurgency doctrine offers a chance of success.
Art Review: America, Captured in a Flash
Robert Frank?s disturbed and mournful song-of-the-road portrait of a new homeland is the subject of a 50th-anniversary exhibition now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Build a Better Bulb for a $10 Million Prize
Philips has the first entry in an Energy Department contest to build a more efficient 60-watt light bulb.
F.D.A. Reveals It Fell to a Push by Lawmakers
The Food and Drug Administration said that four congressmen and its former commissioner influenced the process that led it to approve a patch for injured knees.
South African Children Push for Better Schools
Children are taking into their own hands responsibility for trying to reform the education system.
The School Issue: Junior High: Coming Out in Middle School
How 13-year-old kids are dealing with their sexual identity ? and how others are dealing with them.
Music Review: U2 in the Round, Fun With a Mission
The concert turned from musical ambition to rock community-building, bonding the band and the 60,000 fans who had sold out Giants Stadium.
Siemens Fills Russia?s Need for High-Speed Train
In December, high-speed rail travel will come to Russia. Success there could help open up the American market.
2 Days, 3 Nights, on a Path Named for a Devil
The Devil?s Path, an east-to-west trek along the spine of the Catskills, is often cited as the toughest hiking trail in the East.
Movie Review | 'Coco Before Chanel': The Unsentimental Education That Preceded a Life of Fashion
With a mixture of brutal candor and tender sympathy, ?Coco Before Chanel? charts the rise of an ambitious, difficult woman.
Berlin Journal: Ovens on Feet Beckon Germans to Bratwurst
One-man mobile sausage-cooking machines are so successful in Berlin that a ?War of the Wursts? is under way in the city?s busiest areas.
Tie to Pets Has Germ Jumping to and Fro
Don Graff of Belle Mead, N.J., with his English setter, Sunny. The dog contracted MRSA after a spider bite but was given medication and has improved.A germ that used to be of concern only in humans but has leaped to pets can be curtailed with hand washing.
36 Hours in Bermuda
Four hundred years ago, an English sailing vessel was shipwrecked on this mid-Atlantic archipelago, giving birth to an island nation that?s now in full-swing party mode.
Patient Money: When Elder Care Problems Escalate, You Can Hire an Expert
Caring for an elderly parent is draining. When it gets especially tough, you may feel that you need the equivalent of a case worker.
U.S. and Allies Warn Iran Over Nuclear ?Deception?
President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France accused Iran of building a secret nuclear fuel plant. President Ahmadinejad said Iran's actions were "completely legal."
Transparent New Home for Poetry
For nearly 25 years Poets House has been an anchor for poets and poetry lovers. On Friday, it opens a spacious new home in Battery Park City.
The Lower East Side, Before It Boomed
Clayton Patterson?s photographs of schoolchildren, gangs, eccentrics and artists, now on view at a small art gallery on Rivington Street, depict the neighborhood as it used to be.
Film: The Serious Regard for Cinema
The films in the first week of the 47th New York Film Festival explore these subjects: late-life love, scandal and sheep.
Music: Streisand?s Fine Instrument and Classic Instinct
Opera singers might learn from the way Barbra Streisand treats singing ? as an extension of her acting.
In the Garden: The Grass Is Greener at Harvard
The grass at Harvard University is now being grown organically, without the use of synthetic nitrogen, the base of most commercial fertilizers.
Behind the Furor Over a Climate Change Skeptic
A closer look at the case of Alan Carlin, a global warming contrarian at the E.P.A., paints a more complicated case than has been widely publicized.
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