Just for future reference, if someone posts a NYTimes like that you want to read but not register, there's a simple trick. Right click on the link to copy it, then paste the link in the address bar. Then you just replace the "www" with "archive". For example, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25TRAD.html would become http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/09/25/business/worldbusiness/25TRAD.html No registration is required to read the archive.