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517574_4 | Technology; Is the Elusive Paperless Office About to Become a Reality? | other instructions directly in a paper document. Other researchers say it will be possible in the future to embed "hypertext" pointers from one document to others in Glyph so that a single form could be used to track, collate and distribute dozens or hundreds of related documents. Other applications are also intriguing... |
517457_1 | Networking; Keeping the Costs Down When Office Hopping | operating systems, packets of data are sent along the network until they reach their intended destinations. Much of that data involves requests for access to expensive shared resources, such tasks as producing something on a color laser printer. In some cases, the data might travel quite a distance before getting to th... |
517459_1 | Networking; Keeping the Costs Down When Office Hopping | operating systems, packets of data are sent along the network until they reach their intended destinations. Much of that data involves requests for access to expensive shared resources, such tasks as producing something on a color laser printer. In some cases, the data might travel quite a distance before getting to th... |
517406_4 | Coping With Death of a Classmate | on crises. Dr. Paster said that after a suicide the teams helped students with their grief and mourning, and tried to identify students who might be at risk, in order to avoid further suicide attempts. After an accident or homicide, she added, the goal is to re-establish an equilibrium. Reactions to a student's death v... |
517458_1 | Networking; Keeping the Costs Down When Office Hopping | operating systems, packets of data are sent along the network until they reach their intended destinations. Much of that data involves requests for access to expensive shared resources, such tasks as producing something on a color laser printer. In some cases, the data might travel quite a distance before getting to th... |
517456_1 | Networking; Keeping the Costs Down When Office Hopping | operating systems, packets of data are sent along the network until they reach their intended destinations. Much of that data involves requests for access to expensive shared resources, such tasks as producing something on a color laser printer. In some cases, the data might travel quite a distance before getting to th... |
517409_0 | Some Gains Seen in Environmental Talks, but Big Divisions Remain | Delegates from the 160 countries planning to attend the Rio de Janeiro environmental conference in June are edging toward agreement on a sweeping plan for making economic progress ecologically sustainable, but remain deeply divided over how to pay for a global cleanup. As a five-week preparatory meeting for the Rio con... |
512453_1 | Brazil Welcomes Drop in Population Growth | Brazil. Rondonia grew at 7.9 percent a year, and Mato Grosso at 5.4 percent. For the first time, two Amazon cities, Belem and Manaus, broke into the ranks of cities with populations over one million. Brazil's 10 other cities in this category are, in descending order: Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte,... |
512578_0 | WESTCHESTER GUIDE | YORKTOWN 'PETER PAN' "Peter Pan," the two-hour-and-45-minute Broadway musical, performed by a 32-member cast and a 15-piece orchestra, will be presented by the Yorktown Theater Company Saturdays and Sundays through March 22. Just as Mary Martin, the first Peter in the musical, and Cathy Rigby, in a recent revival, flew... |
512395_0 | Haitian Economy Is Getting Ever More Desperate | When Haitian and international economists are asked when this wretchedly poor nation might recover from the effects of five months of political turmoil and economic isolation, many pause, shake their heads and deliver a somber verdict: perhaps never. Haiti was already the hemisphere's poorest country before the army ov... |
512472_0 | POSTINGS: $1 Million Facelift; Preserving the Terra Cotta | The Potter Building, now a 41-unit co-op with ground-floor commercial tenants that fronts on Nassau Street (Nos. 139-145), Park Row (Nos. 35-38) and Beekman Street (Nos. 2-8), has stood as an 11-story testament to terra cotta since 1886. To preserve that image, a facelift, costing more than $1 million, is in progress b... |
512489_3 | Landowners Endorse an Effort To Preserve a Scenic Riverside | what we can to keep it." David L. Wagner, president of Joshua's Trust -- the organization was named for the Indian who bequeathed to settlers in the 17th century the land that is now the 10-town Windham region covered by the organization -- said the effort in Hampton will be a model for others. He said he knew of no ot... |
512342_3 | How the Cholera Scare Is Waking Latin America | for the drop was the installation of a sewage incinerator, installed with a $15,000 grant from the Pan American Health Organization. "Before, untreated sewage from the cholera wards was coming up at street level five blocks below the hospital," Segundo Pinillos Reyes, chairman of the region's anti-cholera campaign, sai... |
511109_0 | World Economies | |
511007_0 | U.N. Seeks Third-World Ecology Aid | A proposal to give poor countries billions of dollars to help development without damaging the environment will be made on Monday at the opening of a major conference here. Industrialized countries would provide such "earth increments" through existing aid-giving institutions. The conference was called to prepare for t... |
517807_0 | World Economies | |
508296_0 | World Economies | |
509871_0 | Third World Growth Poses Threat to Ozone | To the Editor: As the new evidence of ozone layer damage reported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shows, we have yet to experience the full impact of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-destroying emissions on the earth's atmosphere. A ban on chlorofluorocarbons is a first step toward reducing even... |
509885_2 | BUSH TO EASE RULES ON PRODUCTS MADE BY ALTERING GENES | special gene inserted; the gene destroys one of the enzymes that makes the plant ripen, so that although tomatoes can be matured on the vine, they will not soften and shrivel until long after they are shipped to stores. Another promising product is a cotton plant that biologists have equipped with its own natural pesti... |
509837_1 | In T. R.'s Footsteps, Scientists Embark on Amazonian Expedition | flows from headwaters in a state now called Rondonia. "We hope to bring the 1914 spirit of Brazilian-American scientific cooperation alive to a new generation," said Charles T. Haskell, the expedition's leader and an officer of the National Wildlife Federation, a sponsor. Other sponsors of the $400,000 expedition are t... |
505417_2 | Ocean Currents Tied To Timing of Ice Ages | In one mode, a "conveyor belt" of global currents delivers heat to the northern Atlantic, causing continental ice sheets to melt; in the other, the conveyor belt ceases to operate, and the ice sheets grow. Now Dr. Christopher D. Charles and Dr. Richard G. Fairbanks, two of Dr. Broecker's colleagues at Lamont-Doherty, h... |
505450_3 | THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Democrats; Write-In Campaigners Hope Pen Is Mightier Than Cuomo's Word | for the five major active Democratic candidates in New Hampshire expressed doubt that the write-in effort would have a major impact. For example, Paul Johnson, the state manager for Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, argued that "people here have taken Governor Cuomo at his word, and they're looking at the real candidates... |
505359_3 | Governments to Begin Talks On Uses of Radio Spectrum | new generation of low-cost pocket telephones will not be usable in different countries and will probably cost more to make. "I would admit that the number of customers who want to take phones from Europe to the United States is relatively small," said John Carrington, director of mobile and new business at Cable and Wi... |
505286_0 | World Economies | |
506625_0 | Tech Notes; Office Buildings That Breathe | Air pollution has been obvious outdoors for decades, but in the last few years health experts have become increasingly aware of significant problems with the quality of air inside some office buildings as well. In fact, the name "sick building syndrome" has been given to an array of symptoms among office workers that a... |
506572_4 | In Canada, Up Among the Sheltering Palms | the Hawaiian garden, designed by Herbert Ramsaier, formerly chief landscape architect for WED Enterprises, a subsidiary of Walt Disney Productions, has flourished; the camellias and the jasmine bloom according to their cycles, the hibiscus and bougainvillea flower year round, and the banana trees bear fruit. Despite th... |
506622_2 | Technology; The 'Pharmers' Who Breed Cows That Can Make Drugs | have been teams of academic or government researchers linked with start-up companies. For example, Genpharm International Inc., a privately held concern in Mountain View, Calif., and Dutch researchers have been working with cattle. The Genzyme Corporation of Cambridge, Mass., and researchers at Tufts University Veterin... |
506722_0 | THE WORLD: Northern Ireland; Deals Come and Go; Death Is a Way of Life | For more than 20 years, the British have tried just about everything to stop sectarian violence in Northern Ireland: direct rule from London, deployment of troops on security patrol, internment of suspected terrorists, dialogue with Dublin and, last year, the encouragement of political talks between Catholic and Protes... |
510301_0 | Critic's Choice/The Arts; Environmental Festival | The World Financial Center will celebrate the environment with a month of films, dance, music, children's programs and even an underwater installation. The center's Environmental Festival begins on Sunday with the openings of three exhibitions. They include "Brian Eno Tropical Rain Forest Sound Installation," in which ... |
510367_0 | Antifreeze Maker Develops Recycling Plan | The maker of Prestone antifreeze announced yesterday that it had developed the first economical way to recycle its product. The First Brands Corporation of Danbury, Conn., said it planned to sell franchises for the preparation of antifreeze for re-use at service stations and other car-care locations. In a pilot program... |
506750_1 | On Remote Chilean River, a Fight Over a Dam | quiet Indian tribe and has become one of Chile's thorniest ecological debates. The question being asked is, What cost, in terms of altering the environment and disturbing indigenous cultures, does sorely needed economic development justify? For Chile, where one-third of the people live in poverty, this question is part... |
506845_0 | World Economies | |
507438_4 | For Children | coat check is available for strollers. 'The Great Kapok Tree' Children's Museum of Manhattan 212 West 83d Street (212) 721-1223 Recommended ages: 2 to 10 Through June "The Great Kapok Tree" is a book written by Lynne Cherry, an author and illustrator; it is also the name of an exhibition at the Children's Museum of Man... |
507542_2 | Commercial Test of Gene Therapy | Md., -- have already issued stock publicly. And some big drug companies, led by Sandoz Ltd. are also getting involved, in part by alliances with smaller companies. Others Plan Trials Others will enter clinical trials this year as well. Viagene Inc., based in San Diego, plans to apply for permission to begin clinical tr... |
509950_3 | C.I.A. Chief Says North Koreans Are Hiding Nuclear Arms Projects | after accepting China's promise to abide by the Missile Technology Control Regime, which bans the sale of missiles and missile technology. In addition, senior Bush Administration officials forcefully lobbied key senators to urge them to renew most-favored-nation status for China when the current certification expires i... |
510026_5 | How a Heart Attack Changed a Company | lasagna, are no less tasty than their higher-fat counterparts. Cooking on an industrial scale is different than cooking at home. Certain ingredients don't work. Flour, for instance, cannot be used in gravies because it does not stand up to the pumping action of the automated equipment; modified food starch has to be us... |
510007_1 | Biotechnology Industry Rejoices With Caution | produced by conventional means. Unlike agricultural products, which are released into the environment, biotech drugs have not faced notably greater barriers to the market than conventional drugs. "The devil's in the implementation," said Jerry D. Caulder, chairman, president and chief executive of the Mycogen Corporati... |
506043_0 | 'Lead by Example' | "The new world order in the next two years will feature two developments that are now being played out in Europe - increased national sentiment among countr4ies in the East, and increased emphasis on political and economic integration among countries in the West. "In the international arena, nationalism can prove to be... |
506069_0 | World Bank Backs Unsound China Dam | To the Editor: "Dispute Over a Dam on the Scenic Yangtze" (Science Times, Jan. 21), on Chinese Government plans to construct the world's largest hydroelectric dam at Three Gorges, points out that internal opposition to the project was suppressed after the Tiananmen Square massacre. For the project, China will need mass... |
506089_5 | As U.S. Urges Free Markets, Its Trade Barriers Are Many | Most of the arguments between the two schools revolve around the often mentioned and seldom explained concept of comparative advantage. First detailed by David Ricardo in 1817, the theory of comparative advantage holds that countries should export products that they can produce relatively more efficiently than other co... |
508846_4 | U.S. to Push for Logging in Owls' Forest | the most intense ever produced by the Endangered Species Act. A committee of Federal scientists has been meeting for months to develop a plan to help the owl recover by saving ancient forests in accordance with the requirements of the Endangered Species Act. The committee is expected to make its plan public in April. M... |
507417_3 | A Swarm of Gypsy Cabs | livery-service storefronts in Bay Ridge. None displayed a city permit to operate what the industry calls a car service base, with telephones, two-way radios and at least 10 cabs. In fact, only 3 of the 10 car services were properly licensed, said Rebecca Bowser, a spokeswoman for the Taxi and Limousine Commission. Ille... |
507395_2 | Japanese Leaders Taken to Task By Political Boss for Bashing U.S. | Kanemaru's political strength that gets attention. His support for the American position, while often not as strong as Washington would like, is a secret asset of the American strategy in Japan. But the future is in doubt because a new generation, less certain of its feelings for America, will be coming to the fore. Gr... |
509301_0 | Givers of Foreign Aid Shifting Their Methods | NEARLY half a century after colonial empires began to crumble and dozens of new countries were born with high hopes of ending dependency and deprivation, a significant number of those nations have seen growth stall and desperate poverty grow instead. Billions of aid dollars and armies of experts later, international le... |
509429_0 | CAMPUS LIFE: Pennsylvania; Freshman Orientation, by Euripides | Freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania here were given homework before they even set foot on campus last fall, but no one is complaining. In fact, it worked out so well, administrators said, that this idea was expanded into a continuing course and next year's freshmen will be given homework, too. For the university... |
510551_0 | Reformulated Gas: Cleaner and Greener | The tiger in your tank is about to be reformulated. Federal and state air-pollution regulations have already required some changes in gasoline around the nation, and many more are coming by 1995. The object is to clean up what comes out of the tailpipe. The question is: How will the engine like it? Maybe better, maybe ... |
506979_0 | Global Plan To Rescue Species Set For Release | Moving beyond a "Save The Panda approach," an international team plans to make public here on Tuesday a comprehensive strategy to protect the world's diversity of plant and animal species and to tap this diversity for human benefit. The fruit of a three-year effort involving 500 advisers around the world, the "Global B... |
506944_0 | New Process To Recycle Old Motor Oil | The Lyondell Petrochemical Company said today that it had found a way to recycle used motor oil and other lubricants into gasoline and heating oil. Many large refiners for years have converted used commercial oils into lubricants or industrial fuels. But Lyondell seems to be the first to produce what it says is high-qu... |
506304_3 | Fear, Anger and Funerals: Belfast's Troubles Mount | violence, partly because hotheads from the streets replaced the known veterans the police had incarcerated. So far, the Government of Prime Minister John Major has resisted the idea. On Thursday, Mr. Major called on the leaders of the four Northern Irish political parties that condemn the use of violence to sit down to... |
505033_2 | Streetscapes: City College; A Case of Terra-Cotta Failure | stone, but could be mass produced and was light in weight. Most of the facades at City College were bearing walls, instead of masonry veneers supported on steel framing, and Post used the terra cotta as if it were stone, piling one block on top of another, sometimes with no real backing or other stiffener, especially i... |
504850_2 | Technology; Using the Body's Lubricant To Heal Scars and Knees | and to protect sensitive tissues during ophthalmic surgery, particularly in removing cataracts and implanting intraocular lenses. Kabi Pharmacia, the Swedish company that is the leader in this market, had United States sales of $72.5 million for its product, known as Healon, in 1991. For all vendors combined, worldwide... |
504925_1 | The Cold War: From Containment to Commonwealth | the Government. APRIL 22, 1954: The Senate Army-McCarthy hearings begin. NOVEMBER 1956: Soviet troops crush a popular uprising in Hungary. OCT. 1, 1957: B-52 bombers begin flying on full-time alert; planes carrying nuclear weapons are airborne 24 hours a day in case of Soviet attack. OCT. 4, 1957: The Soviet Union anno... |
505038_6 | Speaking Out for Disabled People | Q. Do you see much evidence of discrimination in employment? A. I don't know about that, but People First does worry about benefits. I get benefits at Stop and Shop, but people who are disabled and are in a workshop, or work only part-time, don't get benefits. They don't get vacation pay, they don't get sick time. If y... |
505055_0 | Recycling Offers Real Economy | "Discovering Ways to Dump Garbage" [ Jan. 5 ] did not address a very important issue that is essential in dealing with the economic and environmental costs of solid-waste management. Municipalities that make recycling the key component of waste management can prolong the life of existing nonpolluting landfills in rural... |
505192_1 | CAMPUS LIFE: Maryland Institute; Students' Deaths Inspire Art Show on Terrorism | Glory," said he had been considering a terrorism exhibit for nearly a decade. After the Pan Am bombing he proposed the show as a way "to try to talk about it." Response Is Emotional The result was a collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos by 36 American and international artists addressing all forms... |
505226_4 | Cars That Whirrr And Burn Rubber | will go on a tankful of gasoline. The range may eventually be substantially greater, but for now, proponents hope that recharging stations will be readily available and that consumers will accept the car as useful for everyday drives. So how can a car with such energy limitations be so lively? It is an unexpected resul... |
505045_7 | New Ships, New Destinations | are expected by 1994. Last year four million passengers from the United States and Canada took cruises, a big increase over the industry's 500,000 passengers in 1970. And, despite concerns by some in the industry that too many ships are coming on line, others insist cruising is in its infancy. "An enormous number of Am... |
505663_3 | Cancer Surgeons Debate Timing of Breast Operations | included only 44 women but its publication sent researchers scurrying to their data banks to see if they could find a similar effect. "Initially people were very hostile, but then other positive results started to appear," said Dr. Hrushesky, senior oncologist at the Stratton Veterans Affairs Hospital in Albany. Since ... |
505765_0 | Court Orders Dinkins to Obey Recycling Law | A New York State Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday that the Dinkins administration has violated the city's mandatory recycling law by failing to collect the required amount of paper, glass, metal and plastic. The city's recycling effort has fallen sharply behind targets mandated in a 1989 law because of severe budget... |
505604_5 | On the Trail From the Sky: Roads Point to a Lost City | close in his traverse of the Empty Quarter. He came upon a wide caravan track that his Bedouin companions spoke of as the "road to Ubar." He visited the Ash Shisar water hole, where he noted the ruins of a "rude fort," but he took it to be no more than a few hundred years old. That account and Ptolemy's map coordinates... |
507966_0 | Portable Children | |
507915_0 | In Corner of Asia, Hope for New Trading Center | Frozen cornfields and mud-brick villages now dominate the landscape around this remote town, where a shallow river called the Tumen marks the intersection of the borders of Russia, North Korea and China. As local peasants huddle for warmth on the kang -- the beds built over fireplaces in each room of their cottages -- ... |
507929_2 | When Kids Take To Skies Alone | Office of Consumer Affairs, Department of Transportation, I-25, Washington, D.C., 20590. Ages and Restrictions United States airlines will not accept children younger than 5 alone; 5- to 7-year-olds may travel alone only on direct flights (those that do not require a change of planes); 8-year-olds and older may travel ... |
507934_3 | Venezuela's Policy for Brazil's Gold Miners: Bullets | Invasion' Indian defenders assert that miners expose the long-isolated tribe to fatal diseases and to environmental degradation. Brazil's Indian protection service reports that in 1991, 180 Yanomami died of malaria and 17 died of yellow fever. Also under international pressure to protect the tribe, Venezuela moved last... |
507947_0 | Making a Difference; Chance of a Lifetime | Last year, Hoffmann-La Roche stunned the medical and scientific communities when it paid $300 million to acquire a technology -- known as the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR -- from the Cetus Corporation. Last week, Roche formed a new business unit to make the technology broadly available to research institutions and... |
509709_0 | World Economies | |
508758_0 | British and U.S. Researchers Find a New Form of Radiation Injury | A novel form of radiation injury, one that causes longterm genetic damage to living cells, has been discovered independently by two groups of researchers. The effect, if confirmed, may eventually lead to more stringent standards for protecting nuclear power workers and others from radiation. One research group, in a re... |
508363_2 | At 100 Below Zero, Scientists Seek Evidence of Radiation From Space | extent, is like a giant crystal of quartz or other transparent material. Data on Gamma Rays In another project, researchers have installed new instruments to aid detectors already at the station seeking the origin of high energy gamma rays from space. This included constructing a "swimming pool" eight feet on a side, p... |
508440_1 | Panel to Consider What Sort of Rules Should Control Gel Implants | might suggest, for example, that manufacturers and doctors who insert them disclose the problems with the implants and agree to keep track of the health of the women for some years to come. This monitoring could be conducted through a registry for women who already have the implants. The Dow Corning Corporation, the le... |
507078_0 | Goodyear's Earnings Up Sharply | Helped by lower costs for raw materials and a push to limit expenses, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company yesterday reported sharply higher quarterly earnings. It was the company's best quarterly performance in nearly four years. Analysts said the earnings demonstrated that the company was strengthening its competitiv... |
507199_0 | Quayle, Ending European Trip, Urges Trade Pact | Vice President Dan Quayle warned today that failure to complete an often-delayed global trade agreement would be disastrous. He spoke as he wound up a European tour before flying back to the United States to be with President Bush when the President announces his candidacy tomorrow for a second term. Referring to talks... |
507223_1 | Personal Health | return. Then experts focused on women whose lymph nodes were seemingly free of cancer cells when their breast tumors were treated. About 30 percent will also suffer a recurrence, usually within five years of initial treatment. Shouldn't they too be offered a chemical mop? Would potential benefits be worth the treatment... |
504772_0 | Lost in the Woods? All at Sea? Help Is at Hand, via Satellites | Navigation devices used by United States soldiers to find their way around the Saudi Arabian desert are available to sportsmen. But yachtsmen and airplane pilots are among the few who have discovered the devices' usefulness so far. The technology -- the Global Positioning System -- gets its information from satellites.... |
505939_0 | New Paper Recycling Rules Stir Concern | Environmentalists and recycling advocates say they fear that paper recycling standards due to be set today by an advisory group to the Environmental Protection Agency will do little to divert waste paper from landfills. Since one of the main goals of recycling is to reduce the amount of trash, environmentalists say rec... |
507680_1 | Washington Journal; For Conspiracy-Minded, Archives of Their Own | in large part because several of the aides to Jim Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who is the hero of the film, had donated their files to the center. Two young women identifying themselves as writers and filmmakers walked in the door and said they were interested in the life of the gossip columnist Dorothy ... |
510081_3 | PARENT & CHILD | to try different approaches to schoolwork so that they can make the most of their strengths. For example, some children may need to have their textbooks read to them; others have difficulty following oral instructions, but do well reading them. By adjusting their approaches to take advantage of their children's strengt... |
510140_0 | Soviet Central Asia's Politics Aren't Simple; Siberian Timber Rush | To the Editor: "Experts Say Logging of Vast Siberian Forest Could Foster Warming" (Science Times, Jan. 28) quotes Roger Sedjo, an expert in world forests, as saying that Siberian logging operations would be among the costliest in the world. Because wages in Russia are extremely low compared with United States standards... |
530899_3 | Violence Flares Again in Delivery Drivers Dispute | sharp cuts in guaranteed overtime and other economies. From the companies' perspective, the contracts seek to secure labor peace through the year 2000 and clear the way for the opening of a new Times printing plant in Edison, N.J. The contracts would give management considerable new leeway in redrawing routes and curbi... |
532172_2 | There's a Bonanza in Nature for Costa Rica, but Its Forests Too Are Besieged | vast network of American scientists and conservationists who devote entire careers to Costa Rica. Longtime American conservationists here believe it was their insistence that woke up Costa Ricans to the value of the tropical rain forests in the late 1960's, but they found an early interest in the subject by Costa Rican... |
532148_0 | Newspaper Drivers Ratify Pacts With The Times and a Distributor | Newspaper delivery drivers approved far-reaching labor contracts last night that ended a bitter three-week labor dispute with The New York Times and a newspaper distributor and carried the prospect of labor peace in the industry to at least the year 2000. The new contracts promise to change the way the industry operate... |
527655_0 | World Economies | |
527818_0 | Arnold Industries reports earnings for Qtr to March 31 | *3*** COMPANY REPORTS ** *3*Arnold Industries (OTC) Qtr to March 31 1992 1991 Revenue 51,410,834 46,979,947 Net inc 9,394,449 8,620,610 Share earns .46 .42 Year-ago results are restated reflect the acquisition of SilverEagle Transport Inc. in March 1992. |
527758_0 | Times's Delivery Dispute Back in Court | After a weekend of scattered violence, several arrests and disrupted deliveries of The New York Times, a complex labor dispute between the drivers' union and a wholesale newspaper distributor and The Times returns to court today for a hearing on a possible contempt citation against the union. The hearing, before Judge ... |
532412_5 | U.S. to Reject Pact on Protection Of Wildlife and Global Resources | resources. Malaysia, an important exporter of tropical hardwoods, has resisted proposals that would limit cutting. "If this initiative helps break the negotiating log jam on forests, then it would be very useful," said Rafe Pomerance, senior associate with the World Resources Institute, an environmental research group ... |
532316_0 | Young Bear, Picked On, Heads for Paramus Mall | It was not a hallucination. A young black bear today popped up in this mecca of malls and busy highways. And the chase was on -- as the chases are in New Jersey almost every spring when bears' age-old territorial instincts collide with man's need to put up buildings on any available land. The bear, probably a befuddled... |
532406_0 | Smoking and World Health | America is finally kicking the habit. The days when conversation, cocktails and coffee were incomplete without a cigarette appear to be gone. Thanks to a powerful public health campaign, legislation and rising cigarette prices, Americans are smoking less and less. At this rate, the Centers for Disease Control reported ... |
525151_0 | Bureaucratic Dispute Halts Bus Service for Disabled Preschoolers | Thousands of young children with disabilities were unable to get to private preschool programs throughout New York City yesterday after contracts between the city and the private bus companies that transport the children expired at midnight Thursday. Many of the preschool programs, which offer classes to about 14,000 3... |
526178_10 | Humanity Confronts Its Handiwork: An Altered Planet | "The very best scientists of any time," they wrote, "may only poorly understand the fundamental processes governing nature, society and the relationships between them." And even if fears about the biosphere's health are genuine, they said, "the gloomiest of forecasts may not be realized because society takes them serio... |
526178_19 | Humanity Confronts Its Handiwork: An Altered Planet | chances. FOREST Chain-Saw Progress OF ALL the differences humans have made in the face of the Earth, perhaps none is so striking as the disappearance of forests. People have long been cutting down trees, but only in recent decades have they become alarmed at the scope and rate of deforestation. Trees play a vital role ... |
528922_0 | Progress Reported in Newspaper Drivers' Dispute | Face-to-face talks between representatives of The New York Times, the drivers' union and a delivery wholesaler continued for a second day yesterday as a panel of intermediaries reported further progress in efforts to resolve a bitter 10-day labor dispute. "We are pleased to report that the structure set up by the panel... |
531061_1 | Rio de Janeiro | way you would in the downtown streets of a large American city. Leave your hotel with the minimum -- a cheap watch, a photocopy of your passport, enough cash for the day and, if necessary, a camera hidden in an old shopping bag. Cultural Events The major official event of the Earth Summit will be "The Concert for Life"... |
531166_0 | Prelude To Sounds And Sights Of Nature | The spring rain had been falling all morning. But among the 10 New York City families gathered for the weekend, few spirits were dampened. Donna Boyd, a 10-year-old from Brownsville, Brooklyn, gazed out a nearby window. "It's like a jungle out there," she said, a smile creeping across her face. "Look, I can stand on my... |
531147_0 | Striving for Balance | Weak and wobbly though it may be in some ways, the treaty on preserving the world's biological species adopted on Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, is being characterized by some conservationists as a bona fide breakthrough in dealing with the central problem to be addressed at next week's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro: how t... |
531147_2 | Striving for Balance | that could provide the basis for dealing with the two global problems over the long term. Commits Nations to Act The biodiversity treaty commits nations that ratify it to take actions aimed at preserving species and ecosystems while pursuing economic development and attacking poverty. The nations would develop national... |
530232_2 | Campus Journal; Another Early Bloomer Out of Johns Hopkins | being so intelligent. "If I made any comment in class, they would say, 'There he goes again.' " He graduated in three years at the age of 15 from Marlton High School and applied to Johns Hopkins, where his brother Vikas had graduated. "Initially I was a little worried because I didn't know what to expect," Mr. Merchia ... |
530242_0 | Court Blocks Giant Tower Proposed By Kalikow | Peter S. Kalikow's plan to replace 4 of 14 historic tenements on the Upper East Side with an enormous apartment tower was blocked yesterday by a New York State appeals court, which upheld the landmark designation of the entire tenement complex. As significant as the impact is on Mr. Kalikow's project, the unanimous rul... |
530120_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-13 THAILAND ROUNDS UP PROTESTERS Soldiers arrested thousands of demonstrators in Bangkok, snuffing out a new round of protests led by Thais enraged by army attacks that have left dozens of civilians dead. The military-dominated Government appears to have succeeded, for now, in quelling the protests. A1... |
530052_0 | Personal Health | DESPITE renewed interest in estrogens to treat the sometimes distressing symptoms of menopause and its long-term effects on the health of the heart and bones, fewer than one woman in five who has reached that stage of life now uses hormone replacement therapy. For those who do not, many other options are available to h... |
530203_0 | A Male Menopause? Jury Is Still Out | WITH talk of menopause reaching a passionate pitch nationwide, many are beginning to ask how the other half of the baby-boom generation is faring as it approaches 50. They are wondering whether middle-aged men experience a drop in the sex hormones that sculptured their youthful bodies and minds, and if so how that bioc... |
530013_0 | Eerie Night Sounds, to Save the Jungle | PRESERVING the rain forests was the goal, and "glamazon" was the look, at Don't Bungle the Jungle II, a benefit party on Monday night at Amazon Village on Pier 25. Eerie, windy and dark, it was a night for ferocious fashion, rap music and a traditional American Indian sundown ceremony. At dusk on the bank of the Hudson... |
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