With the conclusions of recent reviews, climate engineering is gathering steam as a way to cool the planet.

The Earth Is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat

Imprisoned drug traffickers can find a new base of operations for their criminal empires, recruit underlings, and bribe their way out for the right price.

Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Continue Trade in Prison

Jack Smalling has undertaken a decades-long effort to collect the address of every living major league baseball player, umpire, manager and coach.

Want Baseball Autographs? This Man Can Help

Other credit card companies might decide that it’s worth it to follow the lead of American Express and Discover and eliminate over-limit fees.

Card Users, Take Heart: One Penalty Is Vanishing

Gov. David A. Paterson’s unpopularity has made Democratic incumbents in New York nervous.

State Democrats Fear That Paterson Is Liability

The New York inspector general’s office reported widespread corruption at the Waterfront Commission, created in the 1950s to break the mob’s grip.

Corruption Found at Waterfront Watchdog

Frank DiPascali, a longtime employee of Bernard L. Madoff, pleaded guilty to his role in the Ponzi scheme.

Madoff Aide Reveals Details of Ponzi Scheme

As more investment goes to research, Germans are confronting the idea that manufacturing may not be their economy’s indispensable foundation.

Debate in Germany: Research or Manufacturing?

A very traditional winery in the Rioja region of Spain has paradoxically become a winery in the vanguard, its viticulture and winemaking an example for young producers all over the world.

Rooted in Rioja, Traditions Gain New Respect

Documents showed Karl Rove and others played a more active role in the 2006 firings of federal prosecutors.

E-Mail Reveals Rove’s Key Role in ’06 Dismissals

Cusi Cram takes inspiration from the embellished memoir in her unwieldy if intermittently amusing new play.

A Memoir So Compelling It Just Has to Be Phony

The new design for the Parrish Art Museum, budgeted at less than a third of the original $80 million, will be a perfectly nice place to view art — or host a party.

When Creativity Diminishes Along With the Cash

Paula Abdul’s departure from “American Idol” was the product of months of calculation, financial and logistical, by both sides.

How ‘Idol’ and Abdul Parted Ways

More than 1,000 people showed up for a meeting with Senator Arlen Specter that was punctuated with rowdy moments.

Senator Goes Face to Face With Dissent

The comic book series Unknown Soldier is set in a world filled with violence, where boys are used as soldiers and girls are punished for innocent acts like riding bicycles.

Civil War in Uganda, Illustrated and in Panels

A biography of the avant-garde Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, who is little known in America but literary royalty back home.

Writer’s Myth Looms as Large as the Many Novels She Wrote

J.C. Penney has broken free of its suburban parking area to invade Herald Square, and the most frequent question on New York’s collective lips seems to be: Why?

Playing to the Middle

Foodies love to hate the green bell pepper, but its defenders say that the green pepper family is tasty, diverse and versatile.

Image Problem? Don’t Pity the Bell

We can draw three financial and economic lessons from the global recession: imbalances matter, debt is dangerous and globalization does not work by itself.

Pushing the Limits of Stimulus Plans

Corrections

Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about quarterly earnings for several retailers misstated the corporate standing of one retailer, Ross Stores. An off-price retailer, Ross Stores is a public company based in California; it has no connection with TJX, which is the parent company of another off-price retailer, T.J. Maxx.

An article on Monday about Rafael Nadal’s return to tennis from injury referred incorrectly to the record set when his chief rival, Roger Federer, won Wimbledon for his 15th Grand Slam title. The victory gave Federer the most men’s singles Grand Slam championships, not the most “in tennis history.” (Five women have claimed more singles Grand Slam titles in their careers: Margaret Smith Court, Steffi Graf, Helen Willis Moody, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert.).

A picture on Saturday with an article about Greg Peck, a horse trainer who prepared the favorite Muscle Hill for the Hambletonian, was published in error. The trotting colt he was shown with was Holiday Road, not Muscle Hill.

Because of an editing error, an article on Friday about the Berkshire Fringe theater festival in Massachusetts referred incorrectly to the academic structure of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, the alma mater of two of the festival’s founders. The university enrolls students who have completed at least 10th grade, then offers them college-level courses to earn a bachelor’s degree. The program does not incorporate the last two years of high school and the first two years of college. (It did when Simon’s Rock was founded, in 1966, but that structure was phased out in the early ’70s.).

A picture in the Escapes pages on Friday with an article about Garrett Baird, who organizes an annual summer-share rental house in Manasquan, N.J., was published in error. The photograph showed a different rental in the same area, not the one used by Mr. Baird and his friends.

Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver was an American philanthropist. Shriver was a member of the Kennedy family by birth, and a member of the Shriver family through her marriage to Sargent Shriver, who was the United States Ambassador to France and the final Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1972. She was a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith.

August 11, 2009

Headlines from August 11, 2009

The Earth Is Warming? Adjust the Thermostat

Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Continue Trade in Prison

Want Baseball Autographs? This Man Can Help

Card Users, Take Heart: One Penalty Is Vanishing

State Democrats Fear That Paterson Is Liability

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