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683991_1 | Uncontrolled Logging Disrupts South Pacific | environmental degradation, permanent loss of the country's most valuable economic resource, and social upheaval. The rain forests of Papua New Guinea are known to be the most biologically diverse in the world, but much of their wealth of species is as yet undocumented and the ecology of the forest only vaguely understo... |
683988_0 | Alabama's Boat Law | Reports on the dangers of recreational boating have been a staple of American journalism for a couple of decades. The fatality statistics strike an appalling contrast to the aura of freedom and adventure conjured by the sight of a motorboat zipping across spacious seas. The problem is that the seas, lakes and rivers of... |
679902_0 | Recycling's Old News For American Cars | To the Editor: Re "Why Junk the Old Car if You Can Recycle It?" (letter, March 23): Meghan Scanlon points out that in Germany, major automobile manufacturers have partnered to recycle automobiles, and that they have devised 70 percent recyclable automobiles. Well, this is partly correct. Automobiles that are 70 percent... |
679801_0 | THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Press; For journalists around the world, new dangers of imprisonment, physical attack and death. | THE news business isn't just another business. Every now and again, there is a reminder that the news business can be about more important things than profits and losses. It can be about ideas. And the price some journalists must pay to disseminate them. The latest reminder is a report that is not much more than a list... |
679858_0 | World Economies | |
683753_1 | Report Sees Rise in AIDS For Children | countries the center studied, and in Brazil and Haiti. In Thailand, the researchers said, the epidemic would triple the expected mortality rate. As a result of the large number of adults in their 30's and 40's who will die from AIDS, and the large number of infants who are infected in their mothers' wombs, life expecta... |
682454_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Time for a Charge; A Battery That Tells When It Feels Worn Out | Duracell International Inc. and the Intel Corporation have announced standards for a battery with a chip that tells portable computers, cellular phones, camcorders and similar devices exactly how much charge it has left. Computers will be able to use the information to cut power use when needed, according to Duracell. ... |
683496_3 | An Effort To Classify A Racist Classic | in three black films in 1952, he was offered the part of a grinning, shuffling porter in "Three for Bedroom C," a Hollywood production. "The experience was very traumatic for me," said Mr. Greaves, who turned to film production in an effort to counter the negative images of the kind that began with Griffith and have co... |
683467_0 | Computers in School: Equal Access Sought | As the nation moves beyond today's computers and communications toward the so-called information highway, the Clinton Administration and growing numbers of educators and lawmakers contend that the Government must insure equal access to technology for rich and poor. Unless Washington steps in, they warn, the increasing ... |
680518_0 | U.S. Moves on Two Fronts To Reshape Logging Rules | The Clinton Administration moved on two fronts today to reshape the way the Government manages logging in the nation's remaining ancient forests. In Seattle, the Administration asked a Federal judge to restore some logging in the old forests of the Pacific Northwest, where for five years the courts have all but elimina... |
680490_1 | Endorsing Growing Practice, Vatican Approves Altar Girls | applying equally to both sexes existing laws on the participation of lay people in Roman Catholic rites. Women already serve as readers of scripture and help distribute Communion in many parishes. This week's move did not it signal a change in the Vatican's ban on the ordination of women to the priesthood, he said. "Th... |
680544_0 | Maine and Vermont Restrict Dairies' Use of a Growth Hormone | Responding to consumer concern about what is in their milk, two New England states have moved to limit the use of a genetically engineered growth hormone used by dairy farmers. In Vermont, Gov. Howard Dean, a Democrat, signed a bill on Wednesday requiring food companies to put an identification label on any dairy produ... |
678809_2 | Inner Ear May Take Beating From High-Impact Aerobics | that transmit information to the brain about the body's position in space. "Once otoliths are knocked off their perch, they don't go back, and therefore continue to send the wrong signal to the brain," he said. This can result in a persistent off-balance sensation, dizziness, a disoriented feeling (for example, the sen... |
678735_14 | Minority Students Languish In Special Education System | in social situations when placed in classrooms with regular students. The degree to which children identified as disabled are taught in regular classrooms varies widely from state to state. In Vermont, 87 percent of special education students were in regular classes, compared with 7 percent in New York and nearly 25 pe... |
678736_0 | No Headline | "There really isn't any advantage of staying. If I was to graduate, I probably wouldn't get no job anyway because I didn't learn nothing." RADHEYA MATHEWS, a special education student. [ A1:5. ] |
677777_2 | Berlin Journal; Torch Is Passed, and the Past Is in German Hands | they were to be destroyed. American soldiers, guided to the trove by local farmers, found the files shortly before they were to be converted into pulp. Also in the archive are records of Nazi agencies that controlled culture and education. They document the party ties of thousands of artists, writers, performers, music... |
680037_1 | Latin America May Outpace U.S. in Abortions | have, the average number cited by Peruvian women was 2.7, with Colombian and Chilean women averaging 2.8, Brazilian women 3.0, and women in Mexico and the Dominican Republic saying 3.3. The study, which researchers said pointed to a need to address family planning education, found that 5.2 percent of Peruvian women fro... |
680035_3 | New Weather Satellite To Boost Ailing Fleet With Better Imagery | incipient weather conditions. Discovery in 1980's Scientists discovered in the early 1980's, when the first experimental sounders were tested, that measuring different wavelengths of infrared radiation through a column of air gave them temperature and humidity readings at different levels. Different wavelengths indicat... |
679949_2 | U.S. Puts Sanctions On Taiwan | fact that as trade grows more global and as barriers between countries come down, the environmental consequences can be enormous. When advances in hunting techniques are combined with lower trade barriers and rapidly growing populations that demand medicines made from exotic wildlife, a species can be wiped out in one ... |
681312_0 | World Economies | |
681255_2 | Cancer Study Prompts New Awareness | the 830 chemical plants surveyed, about 220 are still in operation, according to the state's Department of Environmental Conservation. Along with newer plants that opened since the survey, they are subject to pollution controls that did not exist in 1965. The report, which Health Department officials were quick to say ... |
681755_0 | Strong Evidence in a Cancer Debate | A NEW carefully designed study, the largest of its kind to date, has found no evidence that breast cancer is caused by pesticide residues that accumulate in body fat. The new finding, published in today's issue of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, comes amid a heated debate about the possible role of enviro... |
681755_1 | Strong Evidence in a Cancer Debate | between a woman's risk of developing breast cancer and the presence of higher than average blood levels of DDE, a breakdown product of the long-banned pesticide DDT. The new study, directed by Dr. Nancy Krieger of the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute in Oakland, Calif., found no mean increase in DDE levels in those... |
679589_1 | Russia's Version of Sticker Shock: The $50,000 Chevy | has stepped up the use of import duties to protect domestic industries from the first wave of competition they have faced. The tariffs have been levied on a broad range of goods, with varying effect. Some are potential deal killers. A 50 percent duty on airliners, which amounts to roughly $30 million on a Boeing 757, i... |
679681_4 | Discontent Mounts in China, Shaking the Leaders | extraordinary growth is showing signs of anxiety. China's Labor Minister, Li Boyong, warned this week that the country faced "unprecedented challenges in deploying all the jobless," who are flooding into cities from the countryside in search of work. The "floating" population of surplus labor now exceeds 100 million, b... |
679535_0 | 2 U.S. Companies Begin Tours of Three Gorges | Two American companies have begun offering luxury cruises through the Three Gorges of China's Yangtze River. Regal China Cruises of New York began operating last Christmas but will not have its three German-built river cruisers in full service until the end of April, said David Yiu, president of the company. Victoria C... |
679483_6 | Boys and Girls Together | brought along skates and helmets, which was worth doing because sometimes the ship ran out of some sizes. The coaches who monitored skating activities for each age group required the wearing of knee and hand protectors as well as helmets. The supervision was good, with a coach operating as a traffic director on the pro... |
679537_9 | More Buyers Turn to Mortgage Brokers | of time by going to a mortgage broker," Ms. Scott said. Mortgage brokers can also be helpful scouting out potential problems with a property being purchased or when a borrower has trouble documenting income or has damaged credit and needs special assistance in finding a loan. The ability of brokers to contact a number ... |
679414_0 | Apply to College (Hold the Paper) | THOSE aren't just computer nerds applying for college via the high school's modem. At 100 high schools in Washington State, seniors fill out a single application on their screen and send it to colleges of their choice through ExPAN, a new computer network being marketed by the College Board, a nonprofit sponsor of the ... |
679426_3 | MONSTERS TO BELIEVE IN | Amazon report a terrifying, manlike creature with shaggy red hair and a chemical defense capable of paralyzing opponents. It has backward-turned feet and the strength to rip apart palm trees, being partial to hearts of palm. Dr. David C. Oren, an American biologist working in Belem, Brazil, was due to set out on an exp... |
679692_0 | I.R.A. Mounts More Attacks As Truce Ends | The Irish Republican Army resumed its attacks on British security forces early today after its self-imposed, three-day cease-fire expired. The attacks hurt no one. In Belfast, a homemade bomb was hurled at a police station and a grenade was fired at a mobile patrol; shots were fired at two army posts along the border b... |
679667_1 | Shuttle Embarks on High-Tech Scrutiny of Environment | include mountains in Europe and South America, ocean currents and wetlands, forests, farmland and deserts. By penetrating the dry sands, the radar may also be able to chart the course of the Nile River in antiquity, survey a buried "lost city" on the Arabian Peninsula and discover centuries-old ruins along the Silk Roa... |
679391_4 | Why John Dewey Doesn't Work | to inspire care for a diversity of being that transcends the current organization of social life. Mr. Diggins consistently misses the second move in each perspective. These ethical practices are grounded neither in the commands of a God nor in the dictates of a rational contract. They seek to tap into a responsiveness ... |
682243_1 | For Children | with children. He'll swoop up to the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center (near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street) by 1 P.M., rain or shine. Information: (212) 226-7171. In Riverside Park in Manhattan, another green-up will be happening from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. (rain date: Sunday). This project is sponsored by the Riverside Park... |
683673_3 | The Computer Always Beeps Twice | in theory, as secure from theft and prying eyes as paper mail, perhaps more so because each user has a secret password to gain access to the E-mailbox. But people have been known to be careless with passwords, allowing others to gain access to their mail. For added security, letters can be "encrypted," or scrambled, ma... |
683604_2 | St. Pierre Journal; A Seagirt Sliver of France Fears for Its Lifeline | fishing had been an economic mainstay. An international moratorium on endangered stocks of cod and flounder two years ago ended employment for 400 of the local fishermen and 150 workers at the local fish processing plant -- a fifth of the working population. Paris gives them generous unemployment assistance. But facing... |
683692_0 | Topics of The Times; An Admiral's Bounty | Fletcher Christian -- the real one, not his swashbuckling Hollywood imitators -- led the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty 205 years ago today, on April 28, 1789. Christian was master's mate to the real Capt. William Bligh, an ill-tempered, irascible commander but courageous in battle and a superb navigator. Their clash became t... |
679243_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | the occupied territories. 3 Baruch Goldstein's wife says he did not warn her of massacre plans. 3 U.S. STRUGGLES FOR BOSNIAN TRUCE Mediators tried to broker a country-wide cease-fire between Bosnian Army and Serbian nationalist forces. Fighting reportedly dropped off in the eastern Muslim enclave of Gorazde, but Serbs ... |
679258_0 | Genetically Altered Tomato Moves Toward U.S. Approval | A Federal panel today cleared the way for Government approval of the first genetically engineered food, a firmer tomato that can ripen longer on the vine before being picked for shipment. After three days of hearings, Dr. David A. Kessler, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, said he thought that final action on the tom... |
678307_0 | U.N. to Discuss Plan to Stabilize Population | A 20-year United Nations plan for stabilizing the world's population at about 7.8 billion people by 2050, compared with some 5.7 billion today, is to be discussed by 170 countries at a two-week conference opening Monday. The plan, prepared by the United Nations Population Fund, involves quadrupling the amount of money ... |
678287_0 | The Nation: Just Say 'Ouch'; It Pains a Nation of Stoics to Say 'No' to Pain | EVEN in the final stages of the cancer that killed him, 59-year-old James Nickolaus refused to take medication to ease his pain. "He didn't want to die an addict," said his daughter, Janet, a psychiatric nurse in Portland, Ore. A majority of Americans are similarly stoic, according to recent studies, believing that onl... |
678333_1 | Bronx Woman Killed as a Parapet Collapses | men from the store ran out and started taking bricks off her." A transit police officer at the Elder Avenue elevated station at the corner also ran to the victim's aid and summoned an ambulance, but Mrs. Browne was pronounced dead on arrival at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, a spokeswoman for the police, Officer Merr... |
678083_0 | Greek Revivalism | Twenty years ago, my best friend and I took off for Greece, running away from assorted boyfriends and a dour February in Vienna. Months of existentialism may have left us wistful for clean, classical lines. Life, as practiced then by our generation, probably had us longing for the heroic and enduring. It is also possib... |
678066_3 | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks | on to successful but embittered adulthood. Last year our reviewer, Robert Bly, saw in Gregory's history a mirror of the country's postwar disillusionment. "Ms. Allende's ambit is large; she offers pity and terror," he said. THE REDISCOVERY OF THE MIND By John R. Searle. MIT, $12.95. Is the brain really just a computer?... |
678471_0 | Dublin Journal; Peacemaker or Pet-Food Maker? History Will Say | When historians evaluate this period in Ireland, supporters of Prime Minister Albert Reynolds hope that he will be praised as the leader who brought peace to this island after 700 years of intermittent war. But if he fails in his effort to end the current phase of that war -- the 25 years of killing in the British prov... |
678470_1 | In the Menopause Market, a Gold Mine of Ads | women are concerned over conflicting reports that hormone replacement may have side effects including an increased risk of breast cancer. Wyeth-Ayerst and Ciba-Geigy, the maker of the Estraderm patch, used to limit their advertising to professional medical journals. No more. According to Advertising Age, Wyeth-Ayerst s... |
678465_0 | Cancer Study Group Lists Its Advances in Treatment | Since 1958, Federal agencies have financed the work of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project at the University of Pittsburgh to determine the effectiveness of various surgical procedures, drugs and radiation therapies for cancers of the breast, colon and rectum. The project's studies helped clarify wh... |
678535_0 | World Economies | |
682973_0 | Learning-Disabled Children Are Being Served by the System | To the Editor: Your three-part series on special education in New York City threw away a wonderful opportunity objectively to review, at the local level, the successes and failures of the implementation of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, a landmark law ("A Class Apart," front page, April 6-8). You had ... |
683069_0 | World Economies | |
681189_0 | April 10-16: A Study of Risks; Breast Cancer Near Chemical Sites | A report by the New York State Health Department appeared to lend weight to a growing belief among breast cancer activists that the environment, along with personal risk factors, could be responsible for the high rate of breast cancer on Long Island. But it stopped short of making a direct causal connection between fac... |
680901_1 | New Hotels Attest To Cuba's Reawakening | Government of Fidel Castro has determined is that fast and good money is to be earned through mass tourism. Before 1959, Cuba was the giant of the Caribbean's tourism business, then in its infancy. Then came the Castro revolution, which, seeing the industry as a source of corruption, exploitation and debasement, all bu... |
680852_0 | Footprints on the Infobahn | Say the word footprint, and I immediately think of the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas. Does this prepare me for a nanosecondary grasp of computer lingo? Not yeti; a generation of hackers, confronted with the old word footprint, thinks first of its latest sense, "the desk space taken up by a computer." Those of us ... |
680815_29 | A Surprising SILENT Majority In South Africa | would enlist churchwomen as intermediaries between needy illiterates and the Government programs supposed to help them. Besides helping the members, these programs would give the more educated members something to do. For in the Z.C.C., advancement is based on healing powers, not on academic credentials, and Zionists w... |
681037_5 | For U.S. Miners, the Rush Is On to Latin America | been off the maps of most international prospectors because of security problems in the countryside. The Colombian Government plans this year to sell its 50 percent interest in El Cerrejon, the world's largest open-pit coal mine. The Exxon Corporation owns the other half of the mine, which is near the Caribbean coast. ... |
680920_1 | Buyers Can Change the Tires Before Driving the Car | wheels, thicker anti-sway bars and stiffer shock absorbers. But car shoppers can avoid paying for an entire package while still adding tires to the list of items they scrutinize and bargain to upgrade. "It's a real pain" to deal with such requests, said Bob Marino, the sales manager at White Plains Hyundai Dodge, becau... |
681026_6 | Business Diary: April 10-15 | trial by snow, right? Wrong, says a report out last week blasting the Long Island Rail Road. On Feb. 11, said the report by the M.T.A.'s Inspector General, the railroad seemed to do everything wrong as a foot of snow fell: it ignored forecasts, let trains get trapped, even told passengers there'd be buses -- but forgot... |
681138_0 | End Is Sought To Spraying Foreign Jets | Transportation Secretary Federico F. Pena has called for more than 20 foreign governments to stop spraying passenger compartments with insecticides before aircraft arriving from outside their borders can land. Citing health dangers created by the spraying, Mr. Pena said in a letter to transportation officials around th... |
681462_5 | Slaying in St. Thomas Stains Image of an 'American Paradise' | of the recent events in St. Thomas, and we are, in our port lecture, apprising our passengers of the situation," said Jennifer L. Schott, director of public relations for Costa cruise lines. "For those passengers choosing to go off on their own, we provide all the information as to what has happened and encourage them ... |
681405_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Corporate Communicating; The Fax Flood Shows Little Sign of Receding | Like kudzu, paper spews out endlessly from the office fax machine, crucial reports and rubbish alike. Missed two pages of a 40-page document? No problem -- The whole thing will be resent. If the facsimile flood at your office seems out of control, it probably is -- as it is at most major American companies, according t... |
680085_0 | Women Campaign for New Plan To Curb the World's Population | For decades, when population planners talked about the world's poorest women, they concentrated on how to keep them from having more babies. Vast programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America were geared to sterilizing women, implanting them with IUD's, handing out contraceptives and imposing quotas on family size. Despit... |
680085_6 | Women Campaign for New Plan To Curb the World's Population | denounce the Vatican position. The Vatican is particularly troubled by the radical shift on abortion since the last population conference in Mexico City in 1984, when the United States backed a decision not to give aid to family planning programs that offered abortion. Vatican representatives, who have observer status ... |
680091_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A2-15 POPULATION FOCUS SHIFTING Many groups are arguing that traditional means of population control are not effective enough and that a dramatic shift is needed to women's rights and improving education and health care. A1 IN SOUTH AFRICA, MEMENTOS An African National Congress bow tie? A Nelson Mandela w... |
680090_0 | L.I. BREAST CANCER IS POSSIBLY LINKED TO CHEMICAL SITES | Women who once lived near large chemical plants on Long Island ran a greater risk of developing breast cancer after menopause, the New York State Health Department said today. The risk is about equal to that of having a family history of breast cancer, the department said. Scientists called the report the first credibl... |
680090_2 | L.I. BREAST CANCER IS POSSIBLY LINKED TO CHEMICAL SITES | it casts suspicion in that direction, and that has to be followed up with more research." A Guide to Research Dr. G. Iris Obrams, who is about to begin a five-year study to find causes of the elevated breast cancer rates on Long Island for the National Cancer Institute, expressed reservations about the Health Departmen... |
682012_1 | Books of The Times; The Conflicting Lessons of Vietnam | in "The War Within." Mr. Wells, a sociologist who has taught at colleges in California, has written a long and mostly evenhanded chronicle of the 10-year war on the home front for and against the Vietnam adventure. He has unearthed documents and interviewed dozens of opponents of the war and former Government officials... |
681983_0 | Economic Scene; Controlling world population growth: where to put the money. | THE world's population is expected to double by 2050, with most of the increase in countries that can ill afford to feed or educate more children. And many -- probably most -- people think they know what to do about it. The historian and futurist Paul Kennedy, for example, writes that "the only practical way to insure ... |
678919_0 | Taiwan's Wildlife Trade Draws Call for Sanctions | An interagency committee has recommended to President Clinton that he impose trade sanctions on Taiwan for illegal trafficking in rhinoceros horns and tiger bones, but forgo for now imposing similar sanctions on China, which has also been accused of involvement in the trade of exotic wildlife parts. White House officia... |
679051_6 | Special Education Absorbs School Resources | classified as learning disabled are not disabled in the sense demanded by legislation and regulation," Dr. Gottlieb wrote. "Instead, they are children who suffer the many ravages of poverty, not the least of which is its effect on academic performance." They are "low-achieving, low-ability children," he wrote, "whom te... |
683332_0 | Take a Health Approach to Family Planning | To the Editor: Re "Women Campaign for New Plan to Curb the World's Population" (news article, April 13): The current debate as to whether resources to curb world population growth should be diverted from traditional family planning methods to finance investments in improving women's health, education and economic oppor... |
683223_2 | Belfast, Mired in Poverty, Pins Its Hopes on Peace | job. Peace Is Seen as Key While Catholics have higher rates of unemployment, Protestants have by no means escaped the economic pain. In some Protestant neighborhoods unemployment and poverty are as acute as in Catholic areas. Traditional strongholds of Protestant employment, like the huge shipyards along the Lagan Rive... |
683341_0 | Take a Health Approach to Family Planning; Offering Alternatives | To the Editor: We are encouraged that the comprehensive needs of women in developing countries are appearing on the international family planning agenda ("Women Campaign for New Plan to Curb the World's Population," news article, April 13). However, we are dismayed that such narrow and outdated views as were expressed ... |
680281_0 | Corrections | A chart yesterday with an article about controlling world population omitted a source of the information. Population Action International developed the female education index and the comparison with infant mortality and fertility rates; the original data were from the United Nations. |
680306_3 | Mutant Gene Is Identified As a Suspect In Cancers | the same as in the people with melanoma. They examined cells from a wide variety of cancers, taken from people with no familial predisposition to cancer. The assumption was that the melanoma patients were born with a genetic mutation that set the stage for cancer but that the other patients may have gotten cancer when,... |
680330_1 | Craft in Orbit; A Major Gain For Forecasts | Satellite, is the first of five that are to be launched over the next decade to monitor weather in the United States and adjacent oceans. Weather Service officials say the new satellites, years behind schedule and many millions of dollars over budget, are desperately needed to shore up the nation's sagging system of we... |
733389_1 | In a Harsh Land, Faith at Christmas | trappings of Christmas here. Life has usually been unrelentingly harsh for the people of Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and has not yet improved much in the short time since American troops landed in September. But in terms of beliefs, Haitians have a rich and varied canon to choose from... |
733289_0 | A Shelter When Feelings Halt Learning | A SECOND GRADER, three weeks into the school year, breaks down when confronted with a reading test. The next day he refuses to go to school. Even with the support of his teachers and the presence of his mother in an adjoining classroom, he breaks down. A 14-year-old's disruptive behavior occurs so frequently that his t... |
733431_3 | Gap Between Rich and Poor in New York City Grows Wider | and New Jersey, who lives with his wife and two children in Carnegie Hill -- a neighborhood characterized by chic shops, elegant town houses and converted mansions, museums, private schools and apartment buildings manned by white-gloved doormen. "It's hurt the poor because the first step of the ladder is now 20 feet of... |
733284_0 | Careerists Propose a Center to Lend Support to Women in Westchester | IN a display of sisterhood and solidarity, nearly 70 of the county's most influential women from the fields of government, social services, mental and physical health, education, politics and business met recently at the Mid-Westchester Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. here to discuss establishing a women's center. It would be supported ... |
733285_0 | Space Age Technology Joins Lyme Tick Fight | IT'S not exactly Star Wars, but the latest weapon in the battle against Lyme disease is stationed 435 miles above Earth and is equipped with an electronic scanner that surveys the landscape. Working from a correlation between tick populations and patterns of vegetation, scientists are using images from the Landsat sate... |
733154_8 | Book Salad: Sometimes Food Is a Character, Sometimes Just a Fashion Accessory | and the fries, this analysis will hold up better.) Yes, she acknowledges, a continuous onslaught of fat, sugar and salt ultimately makes it impossible for people to taste anything subtler or more distinctive; yes, we're raising kids to have little access to dining as "one of the great social and esthetic experiences of... |
729088_1 | Patrols and a New Law Are Combating Airport Hustlers | thousand summonses each year at La Guardia, Kennedy and Newark International airports, officials said. The situation has become so alarming that airlines have begun showing videos aboard international flights bound for New York, warning passengers of potential hustlers. Warning posters have been tacked up in bathrooms ... |
729290_2 | Tanks Take On New Role as Artificial Reefs to Attract Fish | 50 to 100 years as reefs before dissolving in the salt water. That compares with the 5-to-10-year life span of thinner items like old cars and ships used before. Capt. William Higgins of the Defense Logistics Agency Headquarters Reserve Unit in Washington said he came up with the idea of creating artificial reefs from ... |
729187_41 | NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 1994 | intersecting worlds of Bombay, India. SOULS RAISED FROM THE DEAD. By Doris Betts. (Knopf, $23.) The main event in Ms. Betts's first novel in 13 years is the death of a child; out of it is spun a deep understanding of grief, of the pungency of Southern small-town life and of the inevitable injuries reality inflicts. THE... |
729064_1 | The Nation; Pious in Public and Proud of It | in Miracles To be sure, some historic Protestant denominations, like the Presbyterians and Episcopalians, suffered big drops in membership, but other groups, particularly Baptists and Pentecostals, surged. These days, with a new millennium approaching, mass-circulation magazines declare a growing interest in matters sp... |
729390_2 | How This Ship Came In | a new bottom line. Ships are often registered under "flags of convenience," offered by countries that want their piece of the maritime pie. Deckhands are refugees from third-world poverty. Modern ships carry the cargo of 10 of the older variety; the harbor is far quieter than in its glory days. With fewer runs and fewe... |
729042_1 | Leo Strauss' Elitism Sought Excellence for All | seems to suffer from the same anti-public-spirited animus that he accused the conservative followers of Strauss of having. As with Socrates, Strauss attracted many students, each of whom, for his own reasons, heard him say many things, some contradictory. For example, for all the elitist talk about philosophers, gentle... |
729105_0 | U.S. Navy Boards Two Iraqi Vessels in Gulf | Cracking down on what American officials say is a surge in smuggling by Iraq, the Navy stopped and boarded two Iraqi vessels this week that were suspected of violating the United Nations trade embargo. Iraq responded to the episode, which took place on Thursday night, with angry protests. American officials say that th... |
734127_2 | Computer Jokes and Threats Ignite Debate on Anonymity | been that big a problem," said I. Trotter Hardy, a specialist in intellectual property law at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va. But Professor Hardy sees trouble spinning on the global computer web known as the Internet. "Anonymity is power," he said, "and I think it will be abused on the Net." It is ... |
728913_0 | Now, for the Fruits of Freer Trade | The trade treaty's surprisingly easy approval in the Senate -- 76 to 24 -- is testimony to the good that Congress can do when its leaders stop squabbling and start legislating. Freer trade, by steering workers into high-paying exports jobs, could add as much as $1,700 to the typical family's income over the next decade... |
728982_0 | G.M. and Ovonic to Make Batteries for Electric Cars | General Motors and a battery technology company will start commercial-scale production of nickel metal-hydride batteries for electric cars next year, the companies announced yesterday. Nickel metal-hydrides store about twice as much electricity per pound as lead-acid batteries, and can deliver the energy quickly. A Geo... |
730180_3 | On Eve of Miami Summit Talks, U.S. Comes Under Fire | joke, "Engaged -- without a date for the wedding." This week, economists reported the impact of Latin America's largely unilateral tariff cuts, amounting to 80 percent over the last decade. In November, Brazil recorded a trade deficit of imports over exports of $600 million, its first monthly trade deficit since 1987. ... |
730184_0 | Ulster Peace: A New Snag | As negotiators for the British Government and representatives of the I.R.A. prepare for their first official meeting on Friday in Belfast, a hard truth has become evident: Progress toward peace in Northern Ireland has bogged down. The stalling did not happen, as many had feared, because trigger-happy Catholic or Protes... |
730177_0 | Usually Deadly Brain Tumor Responds to a New Treatment | An experimental cancer therapy for irradiating tissue deep inside the brain appears to have halted the growth of an inoperable brain tumor in a Long Island woman, raising hopes for the first practical treatment for a disease that usually kills victims within a year of diagnosis. The treatment is boron-neutron-capture t... |
733814_0 | Better Prospects for Children | There is encouraging news, at last, from the United Nations Children's Fund, which annually assesses the state of the world's children. More young children are being kept alive and healthy. Developing countries have succeeded in raising immunization levels of children to about 80 percent. Less progress has been made ag... |
732709_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-14 ITALY'S PREMIER ON THE BRINK After seven months in office, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi indicated that he would resign in the face of a revolt within his governing coalition over his leadership. A1 U.S. PILOT'S BODY IS RETURNED North Korea turned over the body of an American who died when his he... |
730217_0 | World News Briefs; Pope Issues Statement On Women in Public Life | Pope John Paul II issued an endorsement today of the advancement of women, but he qualified his remarks by saying that their role within the family is "unique" and that their presence in public life should not detract from it. The pronouncement, made in a statement marking World Peace Day on Jan. 1, reflected the uneas... |
730218_3 | Giza Journal; Now Even the Sphinx Might Protest | I found out what had been done, it was if I had discovered that a member of my own family was a criminal," Dr. Hawass said. "This project will kill the Pyramids. The road will encourage people to build shopping centers and gas stations, as well as other buildings. It will ruin the whole site." Mr. Zulficar said his gro... |
730207_1 | Britain and I.R.A. Wing Open Landmark Public Talks | a Deputy Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office, made no immediate comment. Another British official said the talks had been "businesslike and constructive." No new positions were outlined, and both sides agreed that old positions did not amount to preconditions for an agreement that would lead to broader talks. Esse... |
731222_0 | The U.S. and Cuba: Double Fantasy | Fidel Castro, conspicuously excluded from last week's Miami meeting of hemispheric leaders, sat down afterward with Times reporters. His mood was expansive, and while he acknowledged that he had no wish to import Western-style democracy, he recognized that the world had changed. Mr. Castro nevertheless seemed as suspic... |
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