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733575_1 | Rough Seas? No, Roughness On the Sea | T-bone collision, the bow of Ville de Paris slammed broadside into the midship section of Spirit of Unum. The four-foot-wide hole just above the waterline on Spirit of Unum looked like a cardboard cutout of France's bow. While both sides suggest that it was the other team's fault, no one seems to be pressing the issue.... |
733535_1 | Anti-Drug Campaign Hits Resistance in Colombia | hold a protest march. Meanwhile, demonstrators in the southeastern jungle region of Guaviare blocked an airport runway to prevent anti-narcotics police planes from landing. Days later, 3,000 residents in another Guaviare town barricaded an airport and announced that the protest would continue until local representative... |
733515_2 | Patents | But when a car is being driven more slowly in town, the fixed timing of the cam shaft results in wasted gas and unnecessary emissions. "For years people have been dreaming of a valve system where you can control the timing sequence according to driving speed, but to date there is no vehicle on any road anywhere that do... |
729846_0 | No to 32-Cent Stamp | To the Editor: Instead of raising the price of a stamp yet again (news article, Dec. 1) and penalizing those who pay bills and write letters, why not reduce or eliminate the bulk-rate discounts for catalogues, solicitations and fliers that cram our mailboxes and add to environmental problems? This would keep the price ... |
732685_0 | Cubans Welcome Envoys of Capitalism | To the Editor: I was happy to read "The U.S. and Cuba: Double Fantasy" (editorial, Dec. 14), but disappointed at how soft it was on United States policy. Yes, there is rhetorical posturing on both sides. But all the rhetoric in the world will not stop a needy people enticed by the possibility of economic growth from em... |
732208_2 | Despite Work, Repairs Are Still Undone At A-Plant | which has been pursuing environmental and safety problems in the weapons complex since the late 1980's. In a statement accompanying the report, Senator Glenn said, "If an airline had this sort of miserable service record, you can bet that airline would be grounded." He noted that the budget for maintaining the tanks wa... |
732289_0 | World Economies | |
732218_5 | As Deng Fades, China's Leaders Tighten Grip on Power | length and the timing of these sentences, appear to be warning dissidents that the slightest challenge to the Communist Party in this sensitive season will be severely punished. China's most vocal campaigner for democracy and free speech, Wei Jingsheng, remains a captive of the State Security Ministry, which refuses to... |
732231_0 | Former Irish Leader Is Criticized for Remarks on I.R.A. Talks | Political leaders here and in Northern Ireland charged today that Albert Reynolds, the former Irish Prime Minister, was threatening Northern Ireland peace efforts by remarks he made on the sensitive issue of disarming the Irish Republican Army. Officials say that disarmament is the most imminent and difficult hurdle in... |
732988_2 | Messages in a Bottle? Now, E-mail at Sea | mail; a link to satellite weather information, and a global positioning device that pinpointed his position at sea. The loss of a solo sailor two years ago brought solo ocean racing to international attention. Mike Plant, a top American competitive sailor, was lost at sea on his way to a round-the-world yacht race out ... |
732988_3 | Messages in a Bottle? Now, E-mail at Sea | Sydney, Australia, through the storm-ridden Indian Ocean. Of the 15 boats still racing, only Christophe Auguin of France has arrived. Meanwhile, Hall is now working in the BOC race office in Charleston, seeing what he calls "daily dramas on a daily basis" from his computer window on the Indian Ocean. It is part of a te... |
733959_1 | Mexico: Don't Panic Over the Peso | emergency financial support from the U.S., in the form of $6 billion in credits aimed at shoring up investor confidence. A far larger package is now reportedly being prepared. It is up to Mr. Zedillo, however, to reassure poor Mexicans that after years of waiting for the rewards of economic liberalization to trickle do... |
733964_1 | Young, Eager and Deep in Debt | political realities. First, because such jobs are expensive to create, the service program will be available to only 100,000 students over five years -- 2 percent of those expected to graduate during that time. But more important, while the provision allowing lower monthly payments is sensible, that feature of the legi... |
733851_0 | Plan to Cut Program For Disabled Youths | As part of their effort to redesign welfare and control costs, House Republicans are drafting legislation to abolish a part of the Supplemental Security Income program that provides cash grants of up to $446 a month for children with severe disabilities like mental retardation, cerebral palsy and spina bifida. The prog... |
730600_2 | Mob Inquiry Focuses on Reputed Boss Who Eludes Trial | knew Mr. Gigante, would testify that he deliberately acted erratically to fake mental instability. A hearing on Mr. Gigante's competence, however, has been postponed for more than a year while he underwent medical examinations. Barry Slotnick and Michael Shapiro, lawyers for Mr. Gigante, said in a memorandum filed last... |
730575_1 | The World; Poachers 'n' Tigers 'n' Bears | Vietnamese is alarming environmentalists. They see the Chinese rush into Vietnam and other undeveloped, wildlife-rich Asian nations as a threat to some of the world's rarest, most beautiful animals -- creatures that in traditional Chinese culture are more valuable in the cooking pot or in the pharmacy than in the wild.... |
730733_1 | Hook, Line and Sunk | the world a handful of aphorisms, but one you seldom hear them say anymore is this: It's a big ocean out there. Instead, the seas became crowded with floating technology units -- million-dollar vessels chasing fish with the aid of Loran navigational systems, sonar and Comsat satellite images. Weekend captains in shiny ... |
730594_3 | China's Hidden Army of Workers Strives to Adapt | To build the Third Line, railways were ripped up in some populous provinces to build new links through unpopulated hinterlands. The consequences of the program are still radiating into the present because the construction was so large in scale and took so long, 15 years in some cases, leaving China with an uneconomical... |
730595_2 | Reporter's Notebook; An Epidemic Averted: Foot-in-Mouth Disease | to create what Fred Bergsten, a Washington economist with close ties to the White House, calls "a competitive liberalization process." In other words, as Latin Americans lower barriers, the Asians will feel the pressure not to be left behind, and the Europeans will jump in as well. In short, the essence of modern Ameri... |
730518_4 | Viewpoints; U.S. Decline? Not in Golf Balls, Mister! | of just one tennis shoe in a dryer). So Jim did what he had to do. He hired the neighbors. And he experimented with the technology. "You don't just open up the Yellow Pages and look for used golf-ball processing equipment," he notes, correctly. For a while he cleaned the balls in a cement mixer. But that scoured the di... |
734110_0 | Cult Of Despair | Over the last few years, a distinctive sensibility has cut across American culture -- a fascination with the abject, with the down and out. This sensibility is not new. There is nothing more basic to popular notions of bohemia than the romance of the wretched. But it is more pervasive and more various than ever before.... |
728824_0 | Glittering Beyond Greece's Sculptures, Writings and Myths | Classical Greece means many things. The Parthenon, the sculpture of Phidias and Praxiteles, the writings of Herodotus and Thucydides merely top a long list of well-known cultural cornerstones. But one thing it usually doesn't mean, at least outside the specialized field of antiquities, is jewelry. "Greek Gold: The Jewe... |
728864_0 | Paying Families to Overpopulate? | To the Editor: Re "$650 a Baby: Germany to Pay to Stem Decline in Births" (news article, Nov. 25): Those third-world countries crying racism at the United Nations Conference on Population and Development in September may have had a point. The recent decision by the German state of Brandenburg to give parents $650 for e... |
728742_0 | Britain and I.R.A. Group to Begin Talks in Northern Ireland | The British Government and Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, will start negotiations in Belfast Wednesday, almost one year after Britain and Ireland began an uncertain program to try to resolve the conflict in Northern Ireland. Although the announcement was not a surprise, it still set off an e... |
729513_0 | World Economies | |
733138_0 | 'Three Sheets to the Wind,' a Sailor's View | To the Editor: I would like to contribute to the discussion of the origin of the phrase "three sheets to the wind," which connotes drunkenness. Robert A. Di Curcio (letter, Dec. 19) suggests this phrase could not have had its origins in sailing, as "letting go a sailboat's sheet to flap in the wind usually gets the ski... |
733142_0 | Natural Gas Cars Hit the Road Every Day | To the Editor: "Star Fades for Natural Gas Autos" (news article, Dec. 16) cites advantages in natural gas vehicles, but does not support the headline's conclusion. What has changed since the idea of using natural gas as a transportation fuel emerged in the 1970's? The benefits of cleaner air, safer fuel and environment... |
732418_0 | Talks on Northern Ireland to Continue Despite Planting of Bomb | British officials and representatives of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, agreed today that peace talks on the future of Northern Ireland would not be sidetracked by the discovery on Sunday of a powerful bomb in a town near the Irish border. British Army bomb experts who defused the explosive... |
732462_0 | Most Precise Gauge Yet Points to Global Warming | DURING the first two years of its operation, the most accurate system ever devised for measuring changes in global sea level has discerned a steady rise of more than three millimeters, or about one-tenth of an inch, a year. It may not sound like much, but if this trend continues for another few years, scientists say, i... |
732430_0 | Swinging Under Planets' Plane, Spacecraft Studies Sun's Poles | MORE than four years and a billion miles out from Earth, a spacecraft appropriately named for the legendary wandering hero, Ulysses, is traveling in previously unexplored parts of the solar system. These are regions above and below the plane in which the Sun's retinue of planets reside, empty quarters dominated by the ... |
732404_0 | Visit by Gore to China Is Under Study | The United States and China are discussing a visit to Beijing next year by Vice President Al Gore or Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a "trial run" for a state visit by President Clinton, Western officials here say. Mr. Clinton has been reluctant to visit China because of the country's still-repressive human rights practices... |
731943_2 | Sound Bytes; 'Bootstrapping' to the Future | hypertext, and structured documents. We keep hunting for the best way to get bootstrapping started. Right now, we have a research contract from ARPA. Q. Most people would be satisfied to have achieved a fraction of what you have, yet you still have your sights set far in the future. Do you gain satisfaction from your p... |
732045_0 | Airline Safety Rising to Fore As a Question | When Transportation Secretary Federico F. Pena meets next month with hundreds of airline employees and other aviation experts, a basic question will be on the table: What is being done to improve airline safety? The question is rarely raised in so public a forum. But then again, it has been years since travelers have s... |
732046_3 | G.O.P. IS DETAILING BROAD PROPOSALS TO TRIM WELFARE | the United States was therefore in danger of becoming "a two-tiered society." White House officials joined lobbyists for the nation's colleges and universities today in asserting that a little-noticed Republican proposal would sharply increase the cost of higher education for students from middle-income families. Under... |
731840_1 | Commitment, Not Crumbling | Paul's Episcopal Church (now the newly merged congregation of St. Paul and St. James), I write to correct the impression of a crumbling church leaving its folks homeless. The main sanctuary was indeed closed due to a major repair and restoration process undertaken by the congregation when the ancient roof trusses were ... |
731773_2 | Are There Books in Our Future | opened its doors for Mr. Birkerts some decades after its apogee: the ethos of those "last intellectuals" of the 1950's has long dissolved, their print-based cultural influence barely conceivable to today's aspiring freelancers. Here Mr. Birkerts's diagnosis seems unfocused, uncertain whether the emergence of a narrowly... |
730808_2 | Chile Is Admitted as North American Free Trade Partner | tiny economies could be greatly damaged by rapid market liberalizations. The Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, warned that "a rising tide can also overturn small boats" and used the occasion to lecture a surprised-looking Mr. Clinton about American policy on trade in bananas. The President acknowledged at the ne... |
730874_0 | World Economies | |
728687_0 | Renovations at 'Good Morning America' | AMERICANS are used to watching renovations on "This Old House." Now, they can see similar work being done on "Good Morning America." Call it "This Old Set." Week by week, the set of the ABC-TV program is evolving into what is supposed to be a warm and cozy home. For the last eight years, "Good Morning America" has had ... |
728610_0 | Achille Lauro Burns Off Coast of Somalia | The Achille Lauro, remembered as the cruise-liner hijacked in 1985 by Palestinian terrorists who killed a Jewish passenger from New York and pushed him overboard in his wheelchair, ended its ill-starred nautical history in flames off the coast of Somalia. Two of the 979 people on board were killed and eight injured. Ei... |
728579_1 | Liner Achille Lauro Burns Off Africa | history. Buffeted in her time by financial problems and accidents, the Achille Lauro is best remembered as the liner hijacked in 1985 by Palestinian terrorists who killed Leon Klinghoffer, 69, a Jewish hostage from New York, and pushed him overboard in his wheelchair. The State Department in Washington said eight Ameri... |
729667_2 | Hunt in Forests of Borneo Aims to Track Down Natural Drugs | at the University of Illinois in Chicago, whose team identified the Malaysian tree under a grant from the National Cancer Institute. Even if the Calophyllum tree proves to be of no use as an AIDS treatment, he said, the discovery suggests that there are similar substances to be found in the forest that will be effectiv... |
729699_0 | Recycling Makes Good Business Sense Too | To the Editor: Your Nov. 27 and 28 news articles on "reinventing garbage" focus primarily on recycling household materials and office paper. An important but less publicized facet of the industry is taking place in the South Bronx, where Big City Forest is recycling wooden pallets and packaging materials. Big City Fore... |
731261_0 | GOVERNMENT SETS A SAFETY REVIEW AT EVERY AIRLINE | As investigators began picking up clues to the cause of the second fatal commuter plane crash in six weeks, Transportation Secretary Federico F. Pena today ordered a safety audit of the nation's airlines, and an accelerated timetable for new, stricter safety rules for commuter airlines. The rules, which would essential... |
731310_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Life on the Internet; Christmas Spirit Misfires As Santa Gets 'Spammed' | The bad side of Santa Claus's "naughty and nice" data base just swelled by several megabytes, computer experts said yesterday, after unknown Grinches bombarded his North Pole Internet address with thousands of electronic Christmas letters. "Santa got spammed," said Carl Malamud of Washington, referring to the practice,... |
733655_7 | Vast Stone Age Art Gallery Is Found but Dam May Flood It | started construction of the dam on schedule in September. Antonio Ribeiro dos Santos, a spokesman, said, "We are experts in electricity, not in archeology." The archeology report, he added, pointed out that the ancient images "were valuable" but it "never underlined that they were of global significance." Clearly embar... |
733642_1 | China Moves Ahead on Huge But Disputed Dam | Mr. Jiang appeared to have reservations. "Some scientific appraisals of the project still need to be intensified continuously," he told local party leaders. He acknowledged that the large-scale resettlement effort would be "arduous" and admonished project engineers that "we should insure" all aspects of the design "wil... |
687387_5 | Island School Districts Bracing to Meet Increases in Expenses | pools next year. Dr. Johnson said each district had to develop a plan that would go beyond encouraging employees to car pool. "School districts will be responsible and subject to penalties if their employees don't comply," he said, "which means more administrative costs for monitoring." Car pooling could also cause oth... |
687665_18 | The Monster In the Mists | gnawing sense that her observations, interpretations and conclusions are driven less by the logic of clinical reality than by her wish to make the story fit her theory. Thus, Dr. Terr sees some of Ms. Lipsker's behaviors, such as her adolescent experience with prostitution, as having been caused by childhood sexual abu... |
687425_0 | Technology; An Alternative Auto Alternator | INVENTING a new alternator for cars and trucks may be the last thing anyone would deliberately set out to do. For 50 years, the automobile industry has relied on the same basic technology to produce countless millions of alternators, tried-and-true gizmos that do nothing more than convert mechanical power from the engi... |
687328_1 | Having a Cool Car Is Becoming More Costly | Motors Corporation, is lubrication. In most cooling systems that use compressors, a lubricant is mixed with the refrigerant to reduce friction where mechanical parts rub together. The problem is that mineral oil, the lubricant used with R-12, does not flow properly with R-134a. A different type of lubricant, polyalkyle... |
689812_0 | Whaling Around Antarctica Is Banned by World Body | The 40-nation commission that regulates international whaling voted today to create a vast sanctuary in Antarctica that would permanently bar commercial hunting around the continent, even if an existing moratorium on whaling worldwide is ever lifted. The measure was approved by a vote of 23 in favor, with Japan the onl... |
688525_4 | Cars Racing Electrically To '98 and Philadelphia | spokeswoman for the Solar Electric Vehicle Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describing the urge to explain. "That's why we're in this." Visitors can see the vehicles on Sunday from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. at Battery Park City. They will be lined up at the World Financial Center Plaza, on the upper and lower... |
688383_0 | British Reply Gingerly to Sinn Fein's 20 Questions | The British Government, seeking to keep alive efforts to bring peace to Northern Ireland without violating its pledge not to negotiate with terrorists, gave a series of carefully couched replies tonight to questions from the I.R.A.'s political wing about proposed talks on the province's future. But London also made cle... |
688395_0 | Rabin Says Arafat's 'Jihad' Remark Set Back Peace Effort | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said today that Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, had harmed the Middle East peace talks with a speech in which he seemed to call for a holy war to liberate Jerusalem for Muslims. Mr. Rabin waved off Mr. Arafat's explanation that he was not calling for violence when he talked ... |
688524_4 | Cars Racing Electrically To '98 and Philadelphia | spokeswoman for the Solar Electric Vehicle Club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, describing the urge to explain. "That's why we're in this." Visitors can see the vehicles on Sunday from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. at Battery Park City. They will be lined up at the World Financial Center Plaza, on the upper and lower... |
688374_4 | Officials Say Woman on Welfare Stole Thousands With Fake ID's | fraud began. There is evidence of credit card fraud in the 1970's, they said, but her criminal record includes only one conviction, for possessing stolen credit cards in 1985, and none of the drug charges often seen among chronic defrauders. Her contact with the New York State welfare system began in 1980, when she fir... |
686870_0 | Low Testosterone Affects Women Too | To the Editor: I have researched the medical literature and communicated with leading researchers in "female androgen deficiency syndrome" (testosterone deficiency), and conducted workshops to educate women suffering from a decrease in the normal, essential levels of this hormone. "Male Hormone Molds Women, Too, in Min... |
688046_2 | Helping Parents With Mental Illness | parent withdrawn and dysfunctional, while schizophrenia, at its worst, produces insistent voices that become indistinguishable from reality. Children are still removed at birth from mothers whose psychoses render them incapable of parenting. Control Through Medication But many mentally ill people are not nearly so impa... |
688074_4 | Eating Well: The Debate Over Milk and an Artificial Hormone; More Milk, More Confusion: What Should the Label Say? | about the labeling issue, but they have not been compiled yet. Even within individual state governments, there is disagreement about how to proceed. The Attorney General of New York, G. Oliver Koppell, advocates full disclosure because, he said, "I do not believe that a sufficient time period has elapsed to make conclu... |
687997_3 | CHINA MAY ALLOW U.S. BROADCASTS | on what the Chinese do in the next few days. Some officials advocate that the President renew China's trade status across the board, but couple it with political and diplomatic initiatives that would underscore a continued American commitment to human rights. For instance, 106 members of the House of Representatives, f... |
684279_3 | COLLEGE SENIORS FINDING MORE JOBS BUT MODEST PAY | women and minority groups no longer complained of discrimination. A 21-year-old psychology major, Chandra Stewart, who is black, is also expecting to take uninspiring work at a modest salary while saving for graduate school. Her goal is a job that pays about $25,000. "Race is such a big issue," said Ms. Stewart, whose ... |
684220_4 | A Critical Tour of the Empire: Battery Park to High Bridge . . . | Street and Riverside Drive, was at the playground with her son. "It's getting nicer," she said of the park she loves. "There are more flowers, more trees, more improvements to the playground." HIGH BRIDGE PARK: A PERENNIAL PROBLEM High on the cliffs overlooking the Harlem River and the Bronx, High Bridge Park has long ... |
684220_10 | A Critical Tour of the Empire: Battery Park to High Bridge . . . | DEFINITELY NOT SECOND FIDDLE For better than a decade, once-dreary Prospect Park has been on a roll. The Prospect Park Alliance, far from being a demure country cousin to the Central Park Conservancy, has boldly seized on flamboyant, joyous strategies to return the park to the status defined by Robert Moses, "the immed... |
684282_2 | NEWS SUMMARY | PROSPECTS FOR GRADUATES After a four-year drought, graduating college seniors are finding jobs more easily. But many are settling for positions with modest salaries and no future. 1 COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU . . . The Federal Government will soon begin a media blitz worthy of Madison Avenue to make the public aware of th... |
684130_4 | Veterans Under an Atomic Cloud | denied charges of a cover-up, however, saying that documents on a claim were available for veterans and their families. "We have no reason not to share that," he said. But the families of two veterans from Connecticut who died of cancer said that records they submitted with their claims either disappeared or were alter... |
684292_3 | Vatican Ponders Church's Role in Africa | with the Vatican's dogma without diluting its central moral strictures. Yet, possibly one of the most delicate issues confronting the synod is how far the church is prepared to to go in meeting African demands. Bishop Bonifatius Hauxiku of Namibia, for instance, was particularly forthright. "Yes, our Namibian African p... |
685313_0 | Facing Cash Flow Problems, China's Marxist Industries Try Diversification | When a blast furnace previously opened at the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company to disgorge its fiery load onto the conveyor, it was another installment in Communism's social contract for the 200,000 workers, dependents and pensioners whose welfare was guaranteed by the state. Now nothing is certain in Wuhan, and the threat... |
685233_0 | Corporate Designers Enroll In the 'Less Is More' School | Anything "New" and "Improved" used to have to come in a bigger package. But in this era of landfills that are full and incinerator ash that is treated as hazardous waste, better should mean smaller, according to the Coalition of Northeastern Governors. So the governors, from New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsy... |
687803_0 | Cuban-Americans Open a Dialogue With Cuba; In Tourism's Wake | To the Editor: A two-week news-gathering tour of Cuba last month left us deeply ashamed of the deprivations our country's punitive trade embargo is imposing on an innocent people. Cubans place top priority on health and education. We were impressed by the availability and high quality of their hospitals, clinics, day-c... |
687693_0 | Darwin Saw the Whale in the Black Bear | To the Editor: "How the Whale Lost Its Legs and Returned to the Sea" (Science Times, May 3) maligns Charles Darwin for not understanding how evolution could bring about whales from land mammals. Quite the contrary. Darwin stated in the first edition of "The Origin of Species": "In North America the black bear was seen ... |
687715_2 | 2 Boys, a Debt, a Gun, a Victim: The Face of Violence | 1982 to 1992, F.B.I. statistics show, the rate of arrests for violent crimes rose twice as fast among young whites as among young blacks. Still, young blacks were arrested at five times the rate of young whites for violent crimes. Both groups accounted for an equal number of violent crimes. The white rate jumped to 126... |
687691_0 | Cuban-Americans Open a Dialogue With Cuba | To the Editor: Having just returned from "The Nation and the Emigration" conference in Havana, I see efforts being made to belittle its importance as the first meeting since December 1978 between officials of the Cuban Government and Cubans living abroad. That last meeting aimed at establishing friendly relations was a... |
687788_0 | World Economies | |
689331_0 | Old Accident Points to Brain's Moral Center | IN 1848, Phineas P. Gage, a 25-year-old foreman for a New England railroad, met with a horrible accident. In laying track across Vermont's rough terrain, Mr. Gage routinely drilled holes in large rocks, poured in blasting powder, laid fuses and covered the explosives with sand. After tamping these miniature bombs with ... |
689273_0 | WHITE HOUSE GETS PROGRESS REPORT ON RIGHTS IN CHINA | After months of debate over linking China's human rights performance to its trade privileges, Secretary of State Warren Christopher today offered President Clinton an accounting of China's record that effectively provided the legal argument for renewing the trade benefits, senior Administration officials said today. Mr... |
690329_2 | At Work; Women's Pensions, Wilting Fast | effort sponsored by the Women's Pension Policy Consortium in Washington and several other groups to raise the awareness of the link between poverty among elderly women and their lack of pension income and of their inadequate access to the pension system. The elderly poor, for example, are disproportionately female: rou... |
690551_5 | A Non-Smoker Vs. an Airline | On direct flights outside the United States, domestic airlines are required by Regulation 252 to provide nonsmoking seats in each class to every passenger who wants one who holds a reservation and meets the check-in deadline for the flight. Further, the rule says that if a nonsmoking section is between two smoking sect... |
690440_0 | Panel Finds Lag in Saving Environment | The panel set up to monitor international efforts to protect the environment has ended its first substantive meeting here acknowledging that much remains to be done to meet the goals set two years ago at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. After two weeks of debate, the 53-nation Commission on Sustainable Development c... |
690546_5 | A Non-Smoker Vs. an Airline | On direct flights outside the United States, domestic airlines are required by Regulation 252 to provide nonsmoking seats in each class to every passenger who wants one who holds a reservation and meets the check-in deadline for the flight. Further, the rule says that if a nonsmoking section is between two smoking sect... |
690277_2 | Streetscapes/The Mount Morris Fire Bell Tower; Stabilizing a Relic of the Early-Warning System | of fire they would send out an alarm by the telegraph system established in 1851, then ring the bell locally to call out the firemen, a volunteer force until 1868. Like the whine of a smoke alarm, the sounds from the fire bell towers were not universally appreciated. In 1872 one resident of Greenwich Village, 10 blocks... |
690444_2 | Three Smuggled Refugees Are Granted Asylum | on behalf of his client. Stanley Mark, of the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, who represents Guo-Wu Lin, could not be reached. Mr. Bembi noted that the Board of Immigration Appeals since 1989 had repeatedly denied asylum claims by people expressing fear of persecution under China's population-control p... |
690096_0 | Westward Ho | WHEN CHINA RULED THE SEAS The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne 1405-1433. By Louise Levathes. Illustrated. 252 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster $23. IN 1848 a Chinese junk, 160 feet long and 33 feet broad, teak-built with 15 compartments (many of them watertight), arrived in London from Hong Kong. The 750-ton vessel w... |
690399_17 | Ancient Rock in Crosscurrents of Today | working, and so are more than 10 percent of those over 80. Figures like those contribute to the belief that the next decade will be crucial for American Catholicism. Much of its leadership, in schools and hospitals and even within parishes, will pass to laity from priests and sisters. Equally important, leadership will... |
689144_0 | New Flavors for Readers of Food Magazines | Saveur, a lush new magazine for people with sophisticated tastes in food, enters the burgeoning field of epicurean food magazines this week. A creme de la creme publication in every sense, it not only aims at the top end of the market but also tosses away concerns about calories and fat. "Enjoy food. Stop worrying abou... |
689153_4 | A Wrinkle in the Jet Age: Propeller Planes | flight with more frequent service on turboprops, saving passengers considerable waiting time. The nation's fleet of passenger-carrying turboprops is also somewhat younger than the airlines' jet fleet, with an average age of 9.4 years in 1993, compared with 10.8 years for jetliners. Manufacturers of propeller planes are... |
689220_0 | World Economies | |
686573_1 | China Allows a Prominent Dissident to Leave | scheduled to take part in a project called "China and Constitutionalism" at Columbia's Law School and Center for the Study of Human Rights, Judith Leynse, associate director of public information at Columbia, said. ] The resolution of Mr. Yu's case follows the release last month of Wang Juntao, one of the leaders of th... |
686586_0 | British and Irish Afraid Ulster Peace Proposal Is Losing Impetus | British and Irish officials fear that the peace proposal put forward by their Governments in December is losing impetus, dimming widespread hopes that the proposal had raised for an end to the 25-year guerrilla war that has killed more than 3,100 people in this British province. After a relative lull in killing that la... |
686536_4 | Fetal Harm Is Cited As Primary Hazard In Dioxin Exposure | shed part of its deadly reputation, the summary also makes a strong case that it is capable of a "cascade" of other, non-cancerous health effects, even at very low concentrations in people, and that trace contamination of food may be implicated. The draft summary seems to argue, in effect, that the levels of these comp... |
686644_2 | Personal Health | recent studies suggest that the RDA for B6 for older people is too low, as it is for folacin. Inadequate B6 has been linked to poor functioning of the immune system and an increased risk of infection in the elderly. It may also disrupt sugar metabolism. Vitamin B6 is prominent in whole grain (but not enriched) breads a... |
686603_7 | Anarchy, a Threat on the Electronic Frontier? | related to their topics. So, the net community was enraged by the indiscriminate and voluminous way in which the lawyers posted their ad. Random Posting, or Spamming Among network veterans, such random posting is called "spamming" -- a term derived from a brand of pink, canned meat that splatters messily when hurled. I... |
690611_2 | Budget Battleground: Funds for the Young | agency under Mr. Giuliani's budget represents a 30 percent increase from the level of the 1992-1993 fiscal year. Controversy Added to Dismay The dismay among parents and youth advocates has only deepened in the last two weeks as the department has become shrouded in controversy. The Giuliani administration has accused ... |
690576_0 | Searching Its Soul: The U.S. Catholic Church -- Second of four articles.; Wellspring of Priests Dries Up, Changing Much of Parish Life | To a traditional Roman Catholic, Sunday at St. Mary of the Assumption parish would come as a shock. The morning services are mostly run by Sister Virginia Welsh, who greets the worshipers, directs the choir and offers "reflections" in lieu of the sermon that under Vatican rules she is not allowed to preach. On hand to ... |
690584_0 | No Headline | "What is at stake is not just whether we'll have more priests, or women and married priests, but what is the mission for the priesthood. I think we're struggling with what's the mission of the church at the end of the 20th century, and what is the priest's role." -- THE REV. PHILIP J. MURNION of the National Pastoral L... |
690679_0 | World Economies | |
690577_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | ON SANCTIONS While the United Nations has strengthened sanctions on Haiti to try to weaken its military rulers, the sanctions on Yugoslavia are proving to be only an irritant. 3 EX-COMMUNISTS WIN IN HUNGARY Former Communists in Hungary, in a comeback, won parliamentary elections and appeared to be able to form a Govern... |
690579_0 | For High School Graduates, A Job Market of Dead Ends | For hundreds of thousands of people graduating from high school this spring, the diploma is a one-way ticket to low-paying, part-time jobs at best. Most graduates who are planning to go straight to work are offered the same low wages, the same part-time hours and the same assignments in the restaurants, supermarkets, m... |
690676_0 | Who Will Protect Us From Altered Foods? | To the Editor: Give me my bread without trans fatty acid margarine, my milk without recombinant bovine growth hormone and my tomatoes without laboratory engineered genes that never existed in nature. The genetically altered tomato approved by the Food and Drug Administration (news article, May 19) may be a good deal fo... |
684501_7 | Protecting Prey of Humans Sets 2 Against a Vast World | who had taken 260 geese over a few days," Mr. Webb said. "I asked why the huge harvest. He said, 'I have a big family.' " Still, Mr. Crane has noticed a change in attitude among the natives, who kill whales, caribou, birds and other animals as part of their subsistence, but also live off royalties from oil drilling on ... |
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