Documenting a Crime That Thrives on Anonymity
Date: 19 December 2005
KURT EICHENWALD
Kurt EICHENWALD
Reporting about child pornography on the Internet presents complicated journalistic and legal issues.
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19th of December 2005 News
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Global Trend: More Science, More Fraud
Date: 20 December 2005
By Lawrence K. Altman and William J. Broad
Lawrence Altman
Global scientific community continues to grow at rapid pace, but safeguards, including peer review, referee system and replication of research, appear unable to keep up with increase; scientific misconduct of South Korean scientist Dr Hwang Woo Suk, who claimed several cloning milestones that later proved false, discussed; recent examples of improper research have impacted variety of scientific journals, which are now compelled to probe deeper into research before publication; Office of Research Integrity is US investigative body for science, but many countries are lacking any checks or balances for reported findings; photos; graph (M)
Judge May Reject Gemstar Plea Agreement
Date: 20 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
By Bloomberg News.
Refco Appoints Chief
Date: 20 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Refco, futures trader that filed for bankruptcy protection in October, appoints Harrison J Goldin as chief executive (S)
Honeywell Buys Maker of Gas Detectors
Date: 20 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Honeywell International, the world's largest maker of airplane cockpit controls, agreed to buy First Technology of Britain for about £207 million ($366 million) to expand in gas detection gear. Honeywell, based in Morris Township, N.J., offered 275 pence a share for First Technology, 35 percent more than the closing price on Dec. 9, the last trading day before the British company said it had received a takeover offer. Honeywell will also assume £107 million (about $190 million) in debt.
Japanese Web Site to Offer Video for Sale
Date: 20 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Softbank Corporation, Japan's second-biggest provider of high-speed Internet services, and its affiliate, Yahoo Japan Corporation, are offering 100,000 movies and video clips on a Web site. The site offers more than 30,000 video clips from content providers, and links to 70,000 movie files on the Internet, the company said yesterday.
News Summary
Date: 20 December 2005
INTERNATIONAL A3-19 Early Voting Results Are In, And Shiite Coalition Leads Early voting results announced by Iraqi electoral officials indicated that religious groups, particularly the main Shiite coalition, had taken the lead. The secular coalition led by Ayad Allawi, the former prime minister, had won only meager support in provinces where it had expected to do well, including Baghdad. A1 Sharon's Stroke Fallout Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel is expected to be released from the hospital with little damage from a mild stroke, his doctors said. His chances for re-election were a subject of much speculation here, along with the reactions of supporters to his recent vulnerability. A12 Afghan Parliament Sworn In Afghanistan's first democratically elected Parliament in more than 30 years was sworn in before President Hamid Karzai, as well as the former king, Muhammad Zaher Shah, and foreign dignitaries. This is the final step in an accord sponsored by the United Nations that began after the fall of the Taliban. A19 Armenian Aid, With Strings President Bush's foreign aid program, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, announced that it will give $236 million to Armenia. However, the country's rulers were warned that the assistance would be suspended or terminated if its record on political rights continues to deteriorate. A7 Fox Attacks Immigration Bill Furious about a tough immigration bill passed by the United States House of Representatives, President Vicente Fox of Mexico publicly condemned the measure. He described it as a setback in relations and as a troubling reflection of America's willingness to tolerate xenophobia. A6 NATIONAL A20-28 Bush Asserts Authority For Domestic Spying President Bush and two of his most senior aides argued that the highly classified program to spy on suspected members of terrorist groups grew out of the president's constitutional authority and a Congressional resolution in 2001 that authorized him to use military force against those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. A1 F.B.I. Records Show Spy List Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, advocacy groups active in causes including the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, new agency records show. A1 20 Killed in Florida Plane Crash A 1940's-era seaplane crashed off the southern tip of Miami Beach, killing all 17 adults and 3 children aboard as it plunged into calm blue waters. A20 Youth Is Found Competent A youth who was convicted in 2001 of stomping a 6-year-old playmate to death was ruled mentally competent for a hearing that will determine whether he is returned to prison, perhaps for life. A20 Infection Drug Taken Off Shelf Federal drug regulators removed from the market a radiological drug called NeutroSpec after 2 people died and 20 others became gravely ill moments after receiving it. A26 Teenage Drug Abuse Rises Alcohol abuse and cigarette smoking among teenagers are at historic lows, but the number of high school students abusing prescription drugs like Oxycontin is rising, with sedative abuse at its highest in 26 years, according to a national study. A20 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Transit Workers Vote To Strike, Walkout Delayed Leaders of the transit workers' union rejected the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's latest contract offer last night, and voted to call a strike shortly after 1 a.m. this morning, according to two members of the union's executive board. But early this morning union leaders remained divided on whether to actually proceed with the walkout. A1 G.O.P. Debates Nominees Most New York State Republican leaders have made it clear that they no longer want Jeanine F. Pirro to run for the United States Senate. But they have not united behind an alternative candidate. B5 SCIENCE TIMES F1-8 Health & Fitness F5 SPORTSTUESDAY D1-6 Devils Coach Quits Larry Robinson, coach of the New Jersey Devils hockey team, abruptly quit over the weekend, citing stress and poor health following the Devils' frustrating and uncharacteristically mediocre start. D1 ARTS E1-10 OBITUARIES A28-29 Vincent (Chin) Gigante The mobster, who feigned mental illness for decades to camouflage his position as one of the nation's most influential and dangerous Mafia leaders, was 77. A29 BUSINESS DAY C1-18 Security and Google Maps Google Earth, free software that combines satellite and aerial images with mapping capabilities, has met with opposition from several nations that object to it because of national security concerns. A1 TV Measure Moves Forward The House of Representatives moved to provide millions of households with coupons to buy equipment to keep their televisions working after broadcasters switch from analog to digital signals. C1 Italian Bank Official Resigns Antonio Fazio, the governor of the Bank of Italy, resigned after managing for months to fend off calls to step down. He found himself in a precarious situation last week after prosecutors began investigating him for insider trading. C1 Business Digest C2 EDITORIAL A30-31 Editorials: The fog of false choices; Hong Kong holding pattern; last-minute budget madness; rushing to execute in Texas. Column: Nicholas D. Kristof. Crossword E8 TV Listings E9 Weather D8
News Summary
Date: 19 December 2005
INTERNATIONAL A3-20 Bush Declares America Is Winning the War in Iraq In a live televised address from the Oval Office, President Bush declared to the nation that the United States was winning the war in Iraq and pleaded with his viewers not to ''give in to despair'' in a conflict that has cost more than 2,100 American lives and the lives of an estimated 30,000 Iraqis. A1 South Koreans Spread Religion With a nearly 30 percent Christian population, South Korea has the world's second-largest missionary movement after the United States. Missionaries shelter North Koreans and have brought thousands to the South; others train them to return home to proselytize. A1 Cheney Visits Iraq Vice President Dick Cheney paid a surprise visit to Iraq, the opening move in the White House's extraordinary daylong effort to shore up public support for continued military involvement there. His visit came as insurgents' attacks in central and northern Iraq left at least nine people dead. A12 Sharon Has Mild Stroke Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel, left, had a mild stroke and was hospitalized, but within hours he was recovering and in good condition, spokesmen for the hospital and Mr. Sharon's office said. A18 Bolivia Elects Leftist Leader Evo Morales, a former coca farmer and an Aymara Indian presidential candidate who has pledged to reverse a campaign financed by the United States to wipe out coca growing, scored a decisive victory in the general elections in Bolivia. A3 Detainees Claim Torture Eight men at the American detention camp in Guantánamo Bay have separately given their lawyers ''consistent accounts'' of being tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan at various periods from 2002 to 2004, a human rights group said. A14 100 Killed in Chad Attack At least 100 people were killed in an attack by a rebel group on a town near Chad's border with Sudan, the latest violence to erupt on the long, porous border between the two troubled nations. A20 Russians Protest Foreigners A series of dueling rallies over growing anti-immigrant sentiment in Moscow this fall has touched on a simmering issue of rising hate and crimes against foreigners, particularly migrant workers from other parts of the former Soviet Union. A6 Orientation for Afghan Leaders During a United-Nations-sponsored ''orientation week,'' the 350 members of Afghanistan's two houses of Parliament have listened to constitutional experts and others to learn what their powers and duties will be in Afghanistan's first elected legislature in 30 years. A11 NATIONAL A22-31 Opponent of Patriot Act No Longer Stands Alone When Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in 2001, only Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, voted against it. But today, more than 40 Democrats and 4 Republicans are standing with Mr. Feingold as he tries to stop the act's renewal, betting that the politics of terrorism have shifted from fear of another attack to wariness of intrusions on personal privacy. A28 Rice Defends Spying Policy Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended President Bush's decision to secretly authorize the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans without seeking warrants, saying the program was carefully controlled and necessary to close gaps in the nation's counterterrorism efforts. A28 Debate Over Minnesota Prison Minnesota state officials want to cordon off the Minnesota Correctional Facility, a women's prison, with a 12-foot fence, arguing that it is the only prison in the country with a maximum-security wing and no perimeter wall. But residents and city officials are not worried, saying good fences would be wasted on good neighbors. A1 Minors in the Porn Market Aided by advances in technology, minors, often under the online tutelage of adults, are opening pornography sites featuring their own images sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams. And they perform from the privacy of home, while parents are nearby, beyond their children's closed bedroom doors. A1 Hawks' Nests in Maryland Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have found solitude in their new weekend homes in St. Michaels, Md., a quiet Chesapeake Bay retreat, even if their presence causes a racket. This is the un-Camp David, where the two prosecutors of the war in Iraq seem poised to retire after 2008. A27 Report Examines Riots A draft report released by the North Carolina Legislature analyzes the effects of riots that ripped through the city of Wilmington more than a century ago, in which white supremacists seized control of the city's government. Historians say the movement was the only successful overthrow of a local government in United States history. A22 Middle Class Gives More Working-age Americans who make $50,000 to $100,000 a year are two to six times more generous in the share of their investment assets that they give to charity than those who make more than $10 million, a new study of federal tax data shows. A26 Drug Plan Baffles Providers As the start of the new Medicare drug benefit looms, pharmacists and nursing homes are desperately trying to find out who will pay for the medicines taken by hundreds of thousands of their clients. The government has randomly assigned nursing home residents to private drug plans, regardless of their needs. A22 NEW YORK/REGION B1-6 Queens Strike Begins As Talks Stall Workers at two bus companies serving 57,000 riders in Queens went on strike this morning as transit contract talks remained deadlocked and millions of commuters braced for a possible systemwide strike against New York City subways and buses tomorrow. A1 Weld Rivals Raise Questions Republican and Democratic opponents of William F. Weld, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor of New York in 2006, seized on revelations about his tenure at a small Kentucky college that collapsed in a financial scandal two months ago to raise questions about his managerial competence. B3 What to Do With an Old Wall? The discovery of a Colonial-era wall in Battery Park has presented the city with a new set of questions: how much of the wall should be removed from the ground, where should it be displayed once it is unearthed, and who is going to pay for the preservation effort? B1 Three Hospitals for Sale The main Catholic hospital system in New York City, after closing three hospitals in recent years and filing for bankruptcy, hopes to find someone to take over three others -- one in Staten Island and two in Queens. B3 Neediest Cases B6 SPORTSMONDAY D1-9 Colts' Winning Streak Snaps The San Diego Chargers handed the Indianapolis Colts their first loss of the season, defeating them 26-17. The Miami Dolphins of 1972 remain the only team to go 14-0. D1 Jets Winless on the Road The New York Jets lost to the Miami Dolphins, 24-20, in their last away game of the season. The Jets (3-12) did not win on the road in 2005 and led in the eight away games for only 10 minutes 4 seconds. D3 OBITUARIES B8 ARTS E1-10 Slow Start for 'King Kong' ''King Kong,'' the big-budget, three-hour epic gorilla tale that is Universal Pictures' biggest bet of the year, made a rather gentle entrance into the moviegoing market on its opening weekend, taking in an estimated $50.1 million at the domestic box office. E1 'West Wing' Copes With Loss The sudden death of John Spencer is sure to alter the plotlines of ''The West Wing,'' the NBC show in which the actor was a star. But its writers do not expect to begin grappling with the creative implications of his loss until early in the new year, after the cast and the writers have had time to grieve. E7 BUSINESS DAY C1-8 Ending Export Subsidies Trade ministers representing most of the world's governments reached a deal that sets a deadline for wiping out subsidies of agricultural exports by 2013, realizing a goal that United States negotiators have been pursuing for two decades. C1 Google's Ascendancy Time Warner is expected to announce that it will instead renew its three-year-old partnership with Google -- a turn of events that shows just how much Google has supplanted Microsoft as a force to be reckoned with in technology. C1 Satellite Radio More Secure Sirius Satellite Radio's $500 million investment to add Howard Stern to its programming has already paid big dividends -- even for its rival, XM Satellite Radio. In the time since the Stern deal was announced, XM, the industry leader, doubled the number of its subscribers to five million customers. Meanwhile, Sirius subscribers increased to 2.2 million, up from about a million. C1 New Ways to Show Movies ClickStar, an Internet venture founded by the actor Morgan Freeman and Intel, aims to offer downloads of a movie at the same time as its theatrical release. It is one of a handful of new ventures that have been formed to help filmmakers find their audience -- online, on DVD and at the movie theater. C1 Business Digest C2 EDITORIAL A32-33 Editorials: The long-term-care conundrum; letting down Lebanon; a down payment on New Orleans. Columns: Bob Herbert, Paul Krugman. Autos D9 Bridge E6 Crossword E4 Metro Diary B2 TV Listings E9 Weather D10
Here’s the Bad News
Date: 20 December 2005
By Damon Darlin
Damon Darlin
The Housing Bubble 2 blog (what happened to the Housing Bubble 1 blog?), has seven posts in a row of gloom and doom. It gives us troubles in Virginia, south Florida and Raleigh, N.C. as well as less confident builders and some mortgage-investment company cutting its dividend.