The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to open direct peace talks on Thursday after gathering at the White House for a moment of diplomatic theater on Wednesday night.
Powerful drugs are given to young children despite a lack of study on how they affect development.
Sarah Palin reveled in the primary upset of Senator Lisa Murkowski, but tensions began well before.
A London paper listened in on the private messages of the rich and famous, including Britain’s Prince Harry and Prince William.
For the second consecutive year, a popular highly ranked American player was ousted from the United States Open in a match marred by a foot-fault controversy.
After years of not getting sucked into the messy civil war on land, Somalia’s pirate gangs are taking sides — both sides.
A blast touched off clashes between local police forces and mourners and protesters infuriated by the attack.
Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.
On the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the approaching storm caused many to flee, and others to head for the waves.
A heated forum between Senator Barbara Boxer and her opponent, Carly Fiorina, in what might be their only debate.
Officials say a gunman with a history of protesting against the Discovery Channel was killed after a four-hour standoff at the company’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md.
San Francisco has historically been an also-ran in fashion, but members of its varied style tribes sport an off-hand cool manner.
The Israeli and Palestinian leaders were to open direct peace talks on Thursday after gathering at the White House for a moment of diplomatic theater on Wednesday night.
The Israeli prime minister believes that only someone like himself, with his hawkish credentials, has the will and support to produce lasting peace with the Palestinians.
Simon Wiesenthal, who ran a one-man Nazi-hunting operation, worked for Israel’s spy agency, a new biography claims.
After years of not getting sucked into the messy civil war on land, Somalia’s pirate gangs are taking sides — both sides.
In a startling twist, migrants are apparently dying at the hands of a drug gang seeking money or possibly recruits, officials said, though no
A blast touched off clashes between local police forces and mourners and protesters infuriated by the attack.
While many security operations in Afghanistan are joint ones between NATO and Afghan forces, in most of them, the phrase “Afghan-led” is little more than a polite fiction. This was an exception.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates inaugurated the post-combat phase.
Swedish authorities said they reopened an investigation of rape allegations against Julian Assange.
Cardinal Godfried Danneels is distancing himself from his colleague and friend, Roger Vangheluwe, the former bishop of Bruges who is accused of abusing his own nephew.
The government is looking to curb cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.
A European Commission report highlighted failings in France’s law and pointedly declined to endorse the government’s actions.
Ms. Day, whose photos of Ms. Moss in the 1990s took a startling detour from the glossy world of supermodels, helped usher in a new era in fashion photography.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard won a formal assurance from the Greens Party that it will support her bid for a further three-year term.
Protests against rising food prices turned deadly in the capital, Maputo, on Wednesday when the police opened fire on demonstrators.
The Dutch authorities said that they had freed two Yemeni men held on suspicion of terrorism after no evidence of wrongdoing or traces of explosives were found.
President Bronislaw Komorowski said Wednesday that the rising cost of the war in Afghanistan was hampering a program to modernize the military.
The body of a British spy, found dead in his apartment in London last month, had been padlocked into a gym bag and put in the bathtub, but how he died is not yet certain.
A German citizen has been arrested by United States troops in Afghanistan, the German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Negotiations were continuing on the government’s offer to give more than a million public employees pay raises of 7.5 percent, double the inflation rate.
The Department of Defense has identified 1,246 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.
A London paper listened in on the private messages of the rich and famous, including Britain’s Prince Harry and Prince William.
Parents in Asia and elsewhere want a more global curriculum for their children, and governments hope to attract foreign investors to their countries.
Stephen Farrell talks with Iraqi citizens on growing frustrations as the United States brings an end to its combat mission.
Almost nine months ago, Anwar and her family came to the United States, taking part in a special visa program for Iraqis who risked their lives to help Americans in wartime.
"I am free to read the newspaper I want, but what I will read is that my mother is dead."
Britain’s Channel 4 News has provided The Lede with a live stream of its televised debate among the candidates to be the next leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party.
Tony Blair's memoir contains some recollections that will make his old friends uncomfortable.
At 8 a.m. Wednesday the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued its latest advisory on Hurricane Earl, with this updated forecast of the path it could follow in the days ahead.
Spectacular images of Hurricane Earl seen from space give little sense of its destructive power.
A monument to those who died in the plane crash in April that killed Poland’s president has become a symbol in the country’s heated secular-religious divide.
As this society grows richer, its social fabric and mores have been changing drastically, and sexual choice and expression are arguably in the leading edge of this upheaval.
Lenders have become even less willing to part with their money, further crimping budgets and family spending.
The presidential race has turned into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.
At issue is whether plaintiffs have the right to sue when the products that hurt them had met federal standards.
California legislative leaders and the governor have come to an agreement on the state budget, which is now roughly three months late.
After investigators said an engineer in last week’s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.
Democrats believe that a long list of Republican lawmakers with legal troubles makes it impossible for Republicans to gain much ground on the issues of ethics and good government.
The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.
The blueprint would change the city’s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.
Treasury and Fed officials were discussing with leaders in Congress a plan for the government to buy up distressed mortgages.
A backlash against short sellers has begun, with regulators in the U.S. and Britain tightening rules and authorities in New York intensifying investigations.
The president spoke briefly on Thursday after remaining largely out of sight as Wall Street has become engulfed by a financial crisis.
Senator John McCain’s once easygoing if irreverent campaign presence — endearing to crowds, though often resulting in gaffes — has been put out to pasture.
As Gov. Sarah Palin has moved to the national stage, Senator Ted Stevens, who goes on trial next week, has risen in some opinion polls in Alaska.
Todd Palin was one of 13 people subpoenaed in the inquiry into whether Gov. Sarah Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator.
A Spanish-language Obama ad misrepresents John McCain’s record on the immigration issue and his relationship with Rush Limbaugh.
A privacy group filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday seeking to halt what it describes as illegal surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet traffic.
Remnants of Hurricane Ike swept through the region on Sunday, bringing torrential downpours and strong winds.
As the veterans’ health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation’s veterans.
O. J. Simpson’s legal team began Thursday to mount a defense that will sound familiar to anyone who followed his 1995 murder trial.
Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.
Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to move a special election for Trent Lott’s former Senate seat to near the top of the November ballot, ending a dispute that had threatened to delay the start of absentee voting.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska conceded to Representative Don Young in the Republican primary for Alaska’s only House seat.
Agriprocessors Inc., an embattled kosher meatpacker with a plant in Postville, Iowa, named a corporate lawyer from New York to be its chief executive, responding to an ultimatum from the leading kosher certifying organization.
An Episcopal bishop, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted from ministry.
A man charged in the killings of four people who died during a June killing spree in Illinois and Missouri has been charged with murder in four more bludgeoning deaths.
Every year, an estimated 500,000 people trek to a lake to see a veritable carpet of carp, and the state has temporarily called off a plan to force people to stop feeding bread to the fish.
Apple on Wednesday introduced a social media service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, revamped its lineup of iPods and unveiled an upgraded version of its set-top box.
The book business tries to serve two readers, the one who loves the tactile page and the one who loves the digital ease.
The F.C.C.’s decision to seek more comments on preserving an open and competitive Internet precludes any agency action before the midterm elections.
The government is looking to curb cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.
Inflection, the start-up behind genealogy site Archives.com, is introducing a people search engine.
This week's Tech Talk podcast includes Ashlee Vance on efforts to get electronic devices to seamlessly interact, new twists on those old games Monopoly and Scrabble, the tech term "HTML5" and news.
Updates from Apple’s event, which is expected to involve new versions of the iPod Touch and Apple TV products.
As the e-reader wars ramp up, Sony introduces three new Readers.
The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.
Swedish authorities said they reopened an investigation of rape allegations against Julian Assange.
Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures.
A simpler alternative to transistors, the memristor, will allow for more computer memory in even smaller devices.
Mike Wise said in his Twitter account that a Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback was suspended for five games.
The Deseret News has laid out an ambitious plan to enhance its digital coverage and begin using a collection of freelance contributors to supplement its news report.
Researchers say they can overcome a barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory.
As Apple’s line of Mac computers has staged a comeback, more customers have asked that Autodesk make its flagship product available on the platform again.
NASA is revisiting the question of what rocket to build next and whether solid motors will be part of it.
A State Department spokesman attempted to engage North Korea on the social network Twitter, but it is not clear if anyone in the "Hermit Kingdom" was picking up his signals.
The government said it would study and test a proposal by the BlackBerry maker for two months as it tried to settle a dispute over corporate e-mail.
The deal would give Intel a foothold in the smartphone chip market, a segment of the wireless business that is experiencing strong growth.
Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.
Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? Yes, but with some qualifiers.
Can a week of silent meditation make it easier to resist the emotional pull of the digital world?
While none of the iPad cases are perfect, the variety is endless; one even has a 100-year warranty.
Two apps, Cardstar and Key Ring, serve as repositories for your loyalty shopping card numbers. You just hand your phone to the cashier at checkout.
Steven Jobs's comments about social network privacy suggest companies are responding to demands that new services come with simple privacy controls.
Apple's social network for music, Ping, is like an amalgam of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. But the point is to sell more music.
How to buy and rent movies from iTunes.
A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction.
Ask experts why bedbugs disappeared for 40 years, why they came back, why they don’t spread disease, and you hear one answer: “Good question.”
The letter expresses support for the president’s proposed strategy for NASA and criticizes cuts contained in a NASA authorization bill now before the House.
Buyers in secondhand stores are concerned about bedbugs coming along with the clothing or furniture.
Researchers say they can overcome a barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory.
Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier’s work has debunked preconceived notions and revealed some deep truths about the predictors of longevity, the organization of health care and the workings of the medical mind.
NASA is revisiting the question of what rocket to build next and whether solid motors will be part of it.
A team of prominent evolutionary biologists at Harvard is trying to demolish the theory that helping your relatives can spread your genes faster than having children of your own.
The dinosaur lived more than 65 million years ago and had two sicklelike claws on each foot.
The scientists involved in crafting the panel’s climate reports need to be more open to alternative views and more transparent, an independent review said.
Marc Hauser is on leave after being found “solely responsible” for eight counts of scientific misconduct.
Dr. Bigeleisen’s approach was ultimately unsuccessful, but he went on to open a new field of chemistry that studied ways to speed up or slow down chemical reactions.
Doctors say frequent headaches and migraines are among the most common childhood health complaints, yet the problem gets surprisingly little attention from the medical community.
For those who are not just infected on the inside but also infested on the outside our state-of-the-art treatment includes a direct carryover from the Middle Ages.
Prostate cancer is a dark and mysterious country, and the authors Ralph H. Blum and Dr. Mark Scholz are good, levelheaded guides through these thickets.
The Taliban singled out the texts for destruction because anatomical depictions of the human body were considered blasphemous.
A new study suggests several reasons for the nation’s rising Caesarean section rate.
Monkeypox is 20 times as common in parts of the Congo as it was 30 years ago, when smallpox vaccination was discontinued.
Commercial fishing is, by almost any measure, the most dangerous profession in the United States.
Motor vehicle accidents cost the nation almost $100 billion dollars a year, about $500 for each licensed driver, according to government data.
Men die about six years younger, according to a new report from the New York City health department.
The number doubled over a recent 10-year-period, a new study reports, even though participation in team sports decreased slightly.
Understanding more about the unique, protein-based oyster adhesive could help scientists develop better synthetic glues for medical use.
When plants are damaged, they emit a fragrance. But in the case of at least one type of wild tobacco plant found in the Great Basin desert of Southwest Utah, it’s an actual distress call.
Eastern fence lizards in northern climates tend to hatch faster than lizards in southern climates, the researchers found.
How are tables of tide times and heights made?
A set of puzzles involving light bulbs.
Learning which water sources villagers use and how far they carry heavy jerrycans of water is itself thirsty work in the Rwandan heat.
A team sets out to survey water and sanitation coverage in the District of Rulindo in Rwanda, but each step along the way is messy.
Exploratory drilling by a Scottish oil firm was halted after four Greenpeace protesters scaled the rig and suspended tents from its underside.
A tongue-in-cheek commercial from an anti-pollution group delivers a message about what the city’s pollution could portend.
An anatomy of the oil giant's media response to the Gulf disaster.
Can personal passions can be reconciled with professional detachment? A reporter answers yes.
Drugs have a competitive advantage over natural rewards and can hijack the brain’s reward system.
Body mass index may be useful for identifying obesity in large populations, but in individuals it doesn’t differentiate between fatty and lean tissue.
Lymph nodes are often removed as treatment. The concern is that changes in cabin pressure might influence the movement of fluid in the lymphatic system.
A letter to the editor.
A letter to the editor.
A letter to the editor.
Letters to the editor.
Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.
Powerful drugs are given to young children despite a lack of study on how they affect development.
The world’s most developed economies face record levels of debt as a result of the 2008-9 financial crisis and have little room to maneuver, the I.M.F. warned.
The book business tries to serve two readers, the one who loves the tactile page and the one who loves the digital ease.
Apple on Wednesday introduced a social media service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, revamped its lineup of iPods and unveiled an upgraded version of its set-top box.
Christina D. Romer also gave her most detailed explanation yet for why her original forecast that unemployment would peak at 8 percent “was so far off.”
Without federal help, Lehman was not able to wind down operations in an orderly manner, which aggravated the global crisis, the former chief executive said.
The F.C.C.’s decision to seek more comments on preserving an open and competitive Internet precludes any agency action before the midterm elections.
Most major automakers reported significantly lower sales last month from August 2009 when “cash for clunkers” caused a surge in demand.
Burger King Holdings is in advanced talks to sell itself to 3G Capital, a Brazilian investment firm.
Wall Street surged out of the gate and then kept going, fueled by upbeat economic news from Australia, China and, somewhat surprisingly, American manufacturing.
Manufacturing activity in China picked up a notch in August, figures released on Wednesday showed, supporting the view that the country's economy is by no means screeching to a halt.
The government is looking to curb cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.
Virgin Mobile’s MiFi is nearly like the ones offered by Sprint and Verizon but with three exceptions: an unlimited data plan, no contract and a $40-a-month service fee.
Suggestions from business owners on the best strategies to building strong and effective mentoring relationships.
Two apps, Cardstar and Key Ring, serve as repositories for your loyalty shopping card numbers. You just hand your phone to the cashier at checkout.
The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.
A new study out of Sweden finds that women workers are more likely to have babies if their co-workers also recently had babies.
Why Labor Day is traditionally the best time to buy a car and how the deals this holiday compare to last year.
A newspaper company survives a very tough economy in a very tough industry.
A tongue-in-cheek commercial from an anti-pollution group delivers a message about what the city’s pollution could portend.
C.I.A. interrogators used the near-drowning technique, which Obama administration officials have described as torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda.
Obama administration officials say the approach will allow them to shore up the nation’s banking system without seeking more money from Congress.
Leaders from the Western Hemisphere closed a summit meeting proclaiming a new dawn for relations in the region.
Resistance to President Obama’s tax and revenue proposals could threaten a major health care overhaul and other policy initiatives.
With terms like “socialism” losing their punch, some Republicans are weighing the word “fascism” to describe President Obama’s agenda.
An official assembles a briefing book of the letters, which offer the president a way to keep in touch with the public.
Advocates of legalizing marijuana are sensing increasing acceptance of the drug, as medicine or entertainment.
Tracking food scares in the U.S. is left to more than 3,000 departments, and in several cases Minnesota officials have safeguarded the rest of the country.
Gen. Michael V. Hayden said the Obama administration’s release of memos detailing harsh interrogation techniques would limit the agency’s ability to pursue terrorists.
Congress was preparing to return from a two-week recess and take up a charged agenda centered on core Obama objectives.
New Orleans is rebounding well from the devastation wrought by the hurricane and could end up on a stronger economic footing — if the city redevelops in the right way.
A task force has rightly laid out a mandate for Congress and the Pentagon to address the alarming rise in suicides afflicting the military.
Corporate lawyers say that disclosing the ratio between executives’ pay and that of typical employees would be too difficult. The real difficulty would be justifying large pay gaps.
The cleanup of the Hudson River by the General Electric Company turned out to be full of unexpected problems. This does not mean the project should be abandoned.
Readers respond to articles about the war in Iraq and in Afghanistan.
Readers respond to an article about the killing of four settlers on the eve of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
A reader responds to an article about patient deaths because of medical-tube errors.
As the worlds of Alaska and reality TV collide, maybe the next new program should be entitled “Shooting With the Stars.”
The salmonella outbreak underscores that this industrial model of farms as meat and egg factories can be a health hazard.
The residential market took a hit, but owning a home still makes sense.
Who needs a country house, with 530 million acres of public land that belong to all of us, year-round.
Urban revival doesn't start with public policy, but with small movements of risk-takers.
It's true that many Iraq reconstruction projects failed, but the obstacles of rebuilding while fighting continued were many.
Are they angry because they think traditional values are being ignored or are they just upset the recorded message told them to press 2 for Spanish?
Can a week of silent meditation make it easier to resist the emotional pull of the digital world?
Despite the president’s announcement that the end of the war in Iraq is near, for many it will linger on.
Last week’s attack of a New York taxi driver is a reminder that choosing between blaming an individual and blaming a culture is, for some, a matter of convenience.
Can personal passions can be reconciled with professional detachment? A reporter answers yes.
The world's leading scientific academies prepare to deliver their critique of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Federal researchers find evidence that global warming may be shifting big, consequential Pacific Ocean temperature patterns.
Searches by British farmers for burnt-out Chinese lanterns.
Dangerous railing-free balconies which risk abruptly accelerating natural selection.
A female writer; an authoress.
Bret D. Schundler, the former education commissioner, emphatically denied misleading anyone in an episode that cost New Jersey a $400 million grant.
The company said it wanted to keep better track of teachers who were new or who had departed and use more methods of communication.
A team of former N.C.A.A. athletes unveiled the Capital One Cup, which will be awarded to the top men’s and women’s Division I programs based on cumulative on-field performance across multiple sports.
The value-added formula to evaluate teachers is gaining acceptance, and critics, across America.
Even though Herbert E. Nass and his wife, Jodi, loved their old school, Horace Mann, legal action seemed right when they found themselves in a fight over their son’s suspension.
Marc Hauser is on leave after being found “solely responsible” for eight counts of scientific misconduct.
David E. Van Zandt will replace Bob Kerrey, a former Nebraska senator, as the university’s president.
The University of California has appointed an official to manage spending at the private residence of its president, Mark G. Yudof, after he ran up nearly $700,000 in expenses.
Treating your career development education as if it were part of a stock portfolio can help you increase the return on your investment.
Job hunters must learn to navigate the social protocol of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking sites.
Government money is helping smaller institutions build programs that train students in various emerging and established energy fields.
Thousands of courses are offered in entrepreneurship by colleges and universities, small-business development centers and chambers of commerce.
For continuing education students, a variety of options for foreign language classes are available, including online learning.
Continuing education programs across the country are finding students increasingly focused on the arts and humanities, whether for new careers or to re-explore great authors.
Whether they are concerned about job security or climbing the career ladder, people often conclude that if there’s any solution, it’s more education.
The Obama administration will give New Orleans $1.8 billion in a lump-sum reimbursement for schools that were damaged or destroyed in the flooding after Hurricane Katrina.
Many educators in states that did not win or even participate in President Obama’s Race to the Top competition said the rules favored densely populated eastern states.
Local officials who pushed for educational changes celebrated a victory in a competition for federal money.
Queens College’s only dorm houses 500 students out of 20,000, and contains full kitchens, cable television, wireless Internet access and private bathrooms.
The Internet is calling into question one of academia’s sacred rites: the peer- reviewed journal article.
Faced with parents who have a hard time saying goodbye to their freshmen, colleges formalize the split.
Parents in Asia and elsewhere want a more global curriculum for their children, and governments hope to attract foreign investors to their countries.
Kaplan University had signed an agreement with California community colleges for students shut out of classes at their own campus to take an online version at Kaplan.
Incoming freshmen have Web sites that do for dormitory life what eHarmony and Match.com have long done for romance.
The university has found Marc Hauser “solely responsible” for eight instances of scientific misconduct.
Wealthy parents pay a lot for their children’s tutors, and they usually expect more than improved grades.
Waldorf? So last semester. A writer learns that home schooling is suddenly chic.
The author Mary Anna Dennard fields questions from readers about the value of a college education in theater.
Many recent graduates who had expected to work at big law firms are reconsidering their career options.
A growing number of New York City parents want caregivers to teach their children a language.
Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia said Wednesday that he would appoint a special investigator with subpoena power to look into possible cheating on standardized tests in two public school systems.
Two academics pose questions about the degree to which universities’ main purpose — for them, the teaching of undergraduates — is being undermined.
Some of the nation’s biggest school districts are balking at using federal aid to hire teachers right away, citing looming budget deficits.
Angry parents protested a falloff in test scores at a meeting of a citywide education panel, prompting its members and the schools chancellor to walk out.
The results of 2010 tests presented a blow to one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s signature accomplishments.
The troubled schools of Roosevelt, N.Y., taken over by the state eight years ago, are showing improvement in achievement, financial stability and morale.
With school budgets shrinking, parents are asked to provide cleaning products as well as crayons and scissors.
Flavored milk has emerged as both villain and victim in a cafeteria drama that pits the dairy industry, administrators and parents against one another.
Some schools allow students to move into their dorms early -- for a price.
Jan Benzel, an editor at The Times, is taking the younger of her two daughters to college this weekend.
Many colleges are now testing the waters in online undergraduate studies.
This word has appeared in 57 Times articles over the past year.
Times and Learning Network resources and lesson plans on hurricanes.
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Buyers in secondhand stores are concerned about bedbugs coming along with the clothing or furniture.
Caroline Giuliani’s court-ordered punishment is likely to be the same kind of humiliating, laborious job that tens of thousands of others are assigned each year.
An owner of a $1.35 million painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot filed suit after the work went missing, then withdrew the lawsuit when the criminal past of the painting’s co-owner surfaced.
Bret D. Schundler, the former education commissioner, emphatically denied misleading anyone in an episode that cost New Jersey a $400 million grant.
Harry J. Wilson, a Republican running for state comptroller, argues that rosy numbers released annually by Albany are an illusion.
A state judge effectively expanded a federal order that stopped a new law from applying to two tribes.
A dismissal of an indictment involving the Gambino crime family was sought because a witness had been allowed to participate in an operation involving a 15-year-old.
Darius McCollum answered to charges related to his 27th arrest — this one for stealing a Trailways bus from a maintenance facility in Hoboken, N.J.
The Jets took in an early private performance of the show “Black Angels Over Tuskegee” on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Linda Becker, who sells 200 sizes of bras at Linda’s Bra Salon in Manhattan, says that most women don’t know their true size.
Lottery numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Graffiti taggers who attended an arts program run by the city Probation Department put on a show of their work (on canvas, not a building).
The furor over a reading assignment for students at Brooklyn College feels more intense on the Internet than on the campus itself.
Representative Charles B. Rangel criticized elected officials who are using the planned Islamic center and mosque near ground zero to try to score political points.
Confronting a cherished landmark, boarded up and papered over.
During the ’38 hurricane, 50 people on Long Island were killed and 600 killed over all.
More than 1,700 recordings of people who arrived at Ellis Island will be available.
They will be moved from his apartment in the Bronx to the YIVO headquarters on West 16th Street.
ArtsBeat tries to provide a libretto.
Late summer Broadway box office earnings are down, especially at "The Addams Family" with Nathan Lane on vacation.
This suspense thriller, directed by Anton Corbijn, is often more evocative of the art house than of the multiplex.
“The Town” gives Ben Affleck another chance to shine as writer, director and star.
“My Dog Tulip,” an animated film based on the 1956 memoir by J. R. Ackerley, explores a lonely man’s devotion toward his pet.
Wynton Marsalis and friends provided the live accompaniment for a silent film about Louis Armstrong’s childhood.
The director was best known for his 1991 award-winning film “Tous les Matins du Monde.”
The 1981 Dudley Moore comedy “Arthur” is being remade, starring Russell Brand, and filming is taking place all over Manhattan and Queens.
The documentary “Last Train Home” looks at a generation of migrant workers who have sacrificed their families to China’s rush to economic supremacy.
The animation team Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, in films like “My Dog Tulip,” use custom-made computers to create their hand-drawn-looking images.
A PG-13 rating and a wide release helped push the horror movie “The Last Exorcism” to No. 1 at the box office.
Barbara Loden’s film “Wanda,” a feminist portrayal of a woman struggling to survive, is being reissued.
“Pandora and the Flying Dutchman,” Albert Lewin’s morbid, grandiloquent Technicolor film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, has been released on DVD.
How does Joel Silver, the producer behind “Die Hard” and “The Matrix,” adapt to a movie industry that is cutting costs?
The new film “Louis” is shown with live music led by Wynton Marsalis.
A prop shop in Long Island City, run by Film Biz Recycling, is a nonprofit loaded with items donated from television and commercial productions.
Nagesh Kukunoor’s “Aashayein” is a genre-defying Bollywood look at death.
Vincent Cassel, in a four-hour biography of a French gangster, gives a performance reminiscent of Mitchum and De Niro.
Matt Dillon plays a cop chasing a gang of highly polished robbers in “Takers.”
Daniel Stamm’s film “The Last Exorcism” follows a preacher who’s lost faith as he is called on to oust the Devil from a teenage girl.
“Change of Plans” gathers 11 people and throws them into a bouillabaisse of domestic and romantic complication.
“Centurion,” directed by Neil Marshall, follows a Roman Army mission into Scotland in 117 A.D.
Rob Reiner directs this story about two youngsters who develop feelings for each other in late 1950s America.
A first feature from the Deagol Brothers inspects a summer romance with decaying flesh.
From Dana Brown, who made “Step Into Liquid,” comes a documentary about a surfing season on the North Shore of Oahu.
Magaly Solier plays a stoic young woman in Lima contending with her mother’s death.
Michel Franco’s debut feature looks at the fallout of the kidnapping of a brother and sister from a well-off family.
In David H. Hickey’s comedy, a Middle Eastern strongman headed for Cuba crash-lands in Texas.
In “Piranha 3D” Alexandre Aja brings us hungry fish and shredded limbs in this loose remake of a 1978 film.
A listing of movies and film series.
Mr. Kon was a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions won him a devoted following.
“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Seth Schiesel argues, fails to make the emotional investment that defines today’s best games.
A screening of “Love Story” at Harvard teaches freshmen that melodrama means never having to say you’re sorry for all the insults.
Mr. Schlingensief, a German filmmaker, theater director and all-purpose gadfly, waged a tireless assault on received opinion in the arts and politics.
The carmaker, which plans to release a mass-market electric car this year, the Leaf, has enlisted Robert Downey Jr. for its commercial voice-overs.
The 40th anniversary of James Dickey’s book about wilderness and survival shouldn’t slip by unnoticed.
Miguel Gomes, Pedro Costa, Ulrich Seidl and Apichatpong Weerasethakul are some of the world cinema directors blending staged and real-life scenes in their work.
The artist and filmmaker is also a devotee of instant film.
Some indie record labels are distributing movies too. Their business model is: Stay small and informal, know your audience and put out stuff you like
“The Expendables” with Sylvester Stallone leading an ensemble cast was No. 1 with about $16.5 million, bringing the cumulative total to about $65 million, according to Hollywood.com.
Three silent films by Josef von Sternberg, the master of shadow and light, have been released in a boxed set by Criterion.
After the success of “The Passion of the Christ,” Hollywood still hasn’t tapped the appetite for faith-based cinema. But new films are trying.
Mark Zuckerberg, the company founder, has been locked in a standoff with the makers of a film about the social network.
With two controversial new roles and a candor to match her beauty, the “Slumdog” star Freida Pinto completes her passage from India.
Gary Giddins looks back at films of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, from Jimmy Stewart westerns to propaganda driven by a samba beat.
Li Cunxin’s journey from his home in rural China to pursue ballet in the United States is chronicled in “Mao’s Last Dancer,” a new movie by Bruce Beresford.
The documentary is adapted from the writing of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician who has argued against what he believes are extreme and alarmist scenarios presented by other environmentalists.
Mr. Douglas, the actor and "Wall Street" star, said he had been given the diagnosis over the summer and that he believed he had an 80 percent chance of recovery.
Paul Hogan, the Australian-born, actor who is based in the United States, has been unable to leave Australia because of a tax dispute.
For the second consecutive year, a popular highly ranked American player was ousted from the United States Open in a match marred by a foot-fault controversy.
At first, Andy Murray comes across as shy, dry and sarcastic. But away from the usual topics, his personality comes alive.
Making his United States Open singles debut, the American teenager Ryan Harrison upset the 15th seed.
The Reds’ Aroldis Chapman, a left-hander who routinely throws harder than 100 miles an hour, earned his first victory in the defeat of the Brewers.
Mark Teixeira ran his series total to 8 for 10 with seven runs batted in as the Yankees maintained their division lead.
David Wright is not blaming anyone for a season that looked promising but continues to show signs of deterioration, the latest being the Mets’ third straight loss to the Braves.
A dance squad from Ukraine, known as the Red Foxes, was pulled to avoid performing in front of Turkish government officials, but no one can agree as to why.
The Jets took in an early private performance of the show “Black Angels Over Tuskegee” on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Tiger Woods’s finish at the Barclays moved him to 65th in the FedEx Cup points list, and he has a chance to vault near the top.
Bob Arum, the fight promoter, did not attend a news conference for a championship fight so that he could be close to the hunt for his missing son.
Cappie Pondexter scored 30 points as the Liberty defeated the Indiana Fever in the decisive game of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Lauren Jackson, a forward for the Seattle Storm, will join Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes as the W.N.B.A.’s only three-time winners.
Arizona is trying to gauge the interest in a trade for Matt Leinart, who has repeatedly failed to seize the starting quarterback’s job.
A team of former N.C.A.A. athletes unveiled the Capital One Cup, which will be awarded to the top men’s and women’s Division I programs based on cumulative on-field performance across multiple sports.
The teams will still play each other in the last conference game of the season and could conceivably play again in the league title game that starts next year.
The United States easily beat Iran at the FIBA world championships in a game that was overshadowed by a political rivalry.
The approach of Hurricane Earl on Wednesday inspires opposite reactions on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The 35-year-old pitcher probably sees himself as a starter and may opt for a club that can assure him he would have that role.
Chicago trailed, 4-1, going into the eighth, but the White Sox rallied and beat the Indians 6-4.
Andy Pettitte continued making progress in his recovery from a left groin injury, throwing 55 pitches at a high intensity.
After waiting hours to get on court, No. 1 seed Caroline Wozniacki required only 61 minutes to dispatch Chelsea Gullickson 6-1, 6-1 to advance to the second round.
North Carolina Coach Butch Davis suspended defensive tackle Marvin Austin indefinitely for violating unspecified team rules.
The N.H.L. extended its deadline to Friday for ruling on Ilya Kovalchuk’s 15-year, $100 million contract with the Devils.
The Olympic champion Usain Bolt said his American sprint rival Tyson Gay “probably just hates my guts” because he has dominated major championships.
Considering his sustained level of anger on the court after a disputed foot-fault call during his four-set loss to Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia at the United States Open, Andy Roddick was relatively slightly regretful, if not apologetic afterward.
Andy Roddick explains his heated reaction to the foot-fault call of a lineswoman.
Melanie Oudin had a reminiscent rally Wednesday, but she fell to Alona Bondarenko, showing she still has work to do on her serve.
Arnold Palmer led the charge in popularizing golf in the United States in the 1950s and now, in retirement, he is in the vanguard of another movement: educating the public about prostate cancer.
A tour of courses in upstate New York shows off the work of the famed golf architect Robert Trent Jones.
What qualifies as advice, and how many penalty strokes can a player incur for giving it?
Aroldis Chapman and his 103.9-mile-an-hour fastball have joined the first-place Cincinnati Reds.
The Yankees said on Wednesday that they were in "very preliminary discussions" about selling part of the Tampa Yankees, their Class A affiliate, to investors from Orange County, Fla., who would reportedly like to move the team to Orlando.
The Mets' trade for Joaquin Arias, the player Texas chose instead of Robinson Cano in the 2004 A-Rod trade with the Yankees.
The Arizona Cardinals have begun calling teams with quarterback needs to gauge interest in Matt Leinart.
The competition committee had the best of intentions in repositioning umpires for their safety, but they don't seem to have considered all the ramifications.
Both New York/New Jersey football teams appear to be shaky at backup quarterback.
The Spanish star Ricky Rubio could come to the United States in 2011, but a looming N.B.A. lockout complicates the situation.
The N.B.A. has tried to encourage stars to stay with their teams, a strategy that was upset this off-season.
The Knicks have signed Patrick Ewing Jr.
Virginia Tech, with a reputation built on defense and special teams, will rely on its offense this season.
When Bobby Bowden arrived at Florida State in 1976, he expected it to be a steppingstone to another job. Instead it became his legacy.
Every season, college football gives fans a host of early nonconference games between teams that rarely face each other. Conference reputations and national title hopes are on the line over the first two weeks of the season.
The Home Section asked decorators, pundits and others for their reactions to the Oval Office makeover.
As tax authorities look for cheats, they are finding that many people who are eligible for the benefit fail to apply for it.
An art collector builds a nontraditional house in an Alpine village where life hasn’t changed that much in decades.
The chef Marc Murphy shopped for good things to put in the basket while the weather is still nice.
The focus turns to preparing plants for cooler weather, assessing what flowers grew well and what didn’t, and then planning for spring.
A one-bedroom condo in Philadelphia, a three-bedroom bungalow in Tennessee and a two-bedroom house in Wisconsin.
Talking with Juliet Kinchin, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art exhibition “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen.”
The new site Townhouse.bz includes rare furniture and decorative accessories like a Knoll armchair.
The small store, which opened last week, carries a fairly large, well-edited selection of merchandise.
Le Chat Noir, a collection inspired by a 19th-century French poster.
The three tables in the new Resting Branches Collection have glass tops, acrylic sides and white birch limbs suspended underneath.
Eric Bonnin, a French designer, has introduced a ceramics collection, his first in this country.
Discounts on sofas, stools and other home furnishings and accessories.
Ecstatic Peace Library, started by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, is an indie publisher that's taking a chance on -- of all things -- books.
Kazuyo Sejima, the first woman and the first Asian architect to head the Venice Architecture Biennale, used the word "people" in her title of this year's exhibition--and that's a first.
Timothy Jack Ward's Facebook friends know that he's a fountain of advice on decorating, cooking and domesticity in general, aimed at Everyman but delivered with editorial flair.
Justin Bieber performed his first headlining show at Madison Square Garden with guests including Usher and Miley Cyrus.
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.
In Medal of Honor’s multiplayer mode, someone gets to play the role of Taliban fighters, and the outcry has begun.
The architects behind the redesign say the media installations are an expression of an attempt to make the complex more inviting and immediate.
Beijing opera’s luster has dimmed since its heyday as China’s most popular theatrical entertainment, and this ancient art forms struggles to attract a modern audience.
Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.
More than 1,700 recordings of people who arrived at Ellis Island will be available.
The documentary is adapted from the writing of Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish statistician who has argued against what he believes are extreme and alarmist scenarios presented by other environmentalists.
Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
The pianist Ian Hobson explored the Beethoven-Schumann link and the musical contrasts of Ignaz Moscheles and Chopin at the Dicapo Opera Theater on Tuesday evening.
Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives.
The original cast of the revue “Our Sinatra” has reunited to celebrate Ol’ Blue Eyes, at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.
The book business tries to serve two readers, the one who loves the tactile page and the one who loves the digital ease.
At an event to benefit BackStoppers, a deal that shows bridge is a bidder’s game.
A listing of cultural events this week.
Russians entered the French festival scene this summer with an open throttle and an open checkbook.
The film festival opens Wednesday and continues through Sept. 11 and will present dozens of features from 34 countries.
Fans of the Beijing Opera Academy of China fear that it could fall victim to modernization as the economy surges, but the government is helping support the art form.
In a dazzlingly ambitious exhibition at La Triennale Design Museum in Milan, Alessandro Mendini has assembled a collection of objects to illustrate Italy.
The vulnerability of museums and high-end art owners to costly thefts has been a concern in France for years, but two events are forcing the issue into the open.
While some efforts to resuscitate traditional Mongolian culture have foundered, the broad revival of the morin khuur, or “horse-headed fiddle,” has brought an ancient sound back into the mainstream.
The plump and juicy kind.
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.
The chef Marc Murphy shopped for good things to put in the basket while the weather is still nice.
Just a drop or two of this relatively inexpensive product adds the fragrance of one of the world’s great flowers to your cooking.
Steve Johnson, the owner of the restaurant Rendezvous in Cambridge, Mass., escapes to a houseboat with a tiny, minimally stocked kitchen.
For the Jews of France, holiday dishes often hold the flavors of North Africa rather than Eastern Europe.
The chef Matteo Boglione embraces his eccentricity at this spare and radical new restaurant in TriBeCa.
Flexing its muscles in Cobble Hill is this new sister spot to the already popular Bocca Lupo.
Urbane, soft-spoken and modern, Seersucker in Carroll Gardens is not a Northerner’s idea of a Southern restaurant.
The panel tasted 20 bottles of Muscadet, a wine with virtues that extend well beyond its reputation as a natural partner for oysters.
Grilled breads have enormous appeal: they represent an easy way to make homemade bread, and they take on a lovely smoky flavor and slight charring.
Add some Pernod, and the caramelized onions really get livelier.
Japanese whiskey has come a long way, but enthusiasts have to search to find specialist bars offering domestic drams.
Rona Economou opens a shop at Essex Street Market, with Greek recipes.
Etude, a Napa Valley Winery, has created two one-of-a-kind blends made from aging, unfinished brandies.
Eataly, the Italian food market, has opened its first American store.
Dining events around town.
Corncakes with caviar were a signature dish at Arcadia, Anne Rosenzweig’s first restaurant in New York City.
The jazz brunch is a New York institution, but you can also take in live gospel, klezmer, Latin music or bluegrass while you eat your pancakes.
The Times' restaurant critic eats between sets.
BLT Restaurant Group says Laurent Tourondel's LT Burger restaurant in Sag Harbor is unfairly using much of their menu.
Ed Schneider's spicy corn stir fry tasted great. But the next time, char the corn first.
A recipe for four.
Serve hot, warm or at room temperature, with lemon wedges, sprinkled with mint leaves.
Steamed and grilled leeks are paired with romesco sauce, a nut-thickened pepper purée.
Prepare these packets at home, then toss them on the grill at a cookout.
A peach-and-rose-water compote poured over a grilled rose-water poundcake doubles the pleasure. But it’s also fine with ice cream.
A toasty rose-water poundcake adds a fine finish to a summer meal.
In this classic carrot salad, rose water provides a delicate balance to the earthy cumin and coriander.
To go with your Muscadet and oysters, an elemental brown bread made with kelp (for a briny touch) and buckwheat flour (for a nutty edge).
A good jarred tomato sauce is finished with fresh clams, some chopped and some served in the shell.
A carrot dish spiced with Tunisian flavors.
In 90 minutes, you’ll have eight flatbreads.
Vegetables stuffed with a meat filling and baked slowly.