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684519_0 | World Economies | |
684540_4 | Patents; A way to disinfect drinking water without the risk of chlorine's potentially harmful side effects. | virtually all types of crops genetically engineered to produce more chitinase. The most recent patent covers grains and tropical fruits. The second patent covers most fruits and vegetables. The first, a more narrow patent, covers certain genes that produce the chitinase. While some researchers have suggested that chiti... |
685757_0 | Biomorphism in One Show, Cool Geometry in Another | OF the two shows on view here, the first is of wood sculpture by Michael Lekakis at the Station Gallery, with many of the works suggesting life forms. The second, of black-and-white photographs by Daniel Delaney at the Village Library, is characterized in part by a strong feeling for abstraction and three-dimensional s... |
685850_0 | Nuclear Critic And Flaws in Study | "Brookhaven Reactor Fire Raises Questions on Nuclear Hazards" [ April 10 ] discusses many side issues that the writer attempts to connect to the fire, which took place at an experimental area within a building that houses a research reactor. Among the irrelevant references, the most irresponsible is the claim by Ernest... |
686025_5 | The Secret of the Marshes | Vernon because she found corroborating evidence in the form of African cultural remnants at Mars Bluff, in practices such as women sweeping their yards to keep them free of vegetation and children looking away from the faces of adults when speaking or being spoken to, and in African words that everyone uses: gumbo, okr... |
688200_0 | Developer of the New Tomato Expects a Financial Bonanza | For Calgene Inc., the Government's approval today of the Flavr Savr tomato represents a payoff for the longest-running gamble in agricultural biotechnology. Having spent five years developing the genetically engineered tomato, Calgene is eager to introduce the product into the nation's fresh-tomato market, which is est... |
688272_3 | A New Mantra From Utility Companies: Use More Electricity | save much but could improve the quality of a service, like a fax machine that is faster than mail service. Statistics show that the trend around the country has been to switch energy-consuming devices to electricity. In 1993, about 36 percent of all the fuel used -- including coal, oil, natural gas and uranium -- went ... |
688224_0 | Tomato Review; No Substitute for Summer | A judicious and conservative taster wants to detect a fresh outdoor note in the Flavr Savr, thanks to the gene that is spliced into its chromosomes, but is frustrated. Tasted on three occasions -- once at a laboratory at the University of California at Davis and twice at a convention of biotechnologists in the summer o... |
688180_0 | F.D.A. Approves Altered Tomato That Will Remain Fresh Longer | The first genetically altered food, a tomato that is supposed to offer garden-fresh taste year-round, is heading for the markets after gaining approval today from the Food and Drug Administration. The tomato, developed by Calgene Inc., a biotechnology company based in Davis, Calif., is called Flavr Savr and should arri... |
687006_0 | Home Video | The Price of 'Mrs. Doubtfire' In video outlets, no guideline flies out the window faster than that ball-park figure referred to as the suggested retail price. Whatever the movie for which a studio suggests whatever amount, the price immediately heads south in a highly competitive marketplace. This week, for example, th... |
687214_1 | College Seniors Can Get the Jobs They Want | other corporate expenditures. Employers realigned their methods. A 1988 article in the American Bankers Association Journal provides a key to the shift in hiring. Sun Bank, a leading Florida bank, reported a 75 percent turnover in its training program. Employers who once accepted fallout as the price of training can no... |
687213_0 | Observer; Secrets Of the Trade | Do you ever wonder what Plato wrote for his Saturday column? Not "The Republic," I'll bet. Column-wise, "The Republic" is strictly Sunday stuff: big, serious, double-dome. Heavyweight thinking went into "The Republic." Sunday-column thinking. Maybe an editor would have let Plato get by with "The Republic" as a Wednesda... |
687175_0 | Self-Employed? Loan Hurdles Are Higher | People with erratic incomes, like consultants and small-business owners, often face unexpected obstacles when seeking a loan. "You're treated like an outcast even though you're making good money," said Jason Calfo, president of Calfo Associates, a small graphic design business in Manhattan. For these people, it is not ... |
689774_0 | Violence to Animals Signals Severe Disorder | To the Editor: Residents of Manlius, N.Y., are right to be grieved and angry over the brutal slaying of a village swan (news article, May 14). Not only was this act ruthless and cruel, but it also suggests a mental disturbance in the two youths and indicates their potential for other violent behavior. Studies clearly d... |
690719_3 | Pope Rules Out Debate On Making Women Priests | said the letter's significance lay "not so much in the content as the form." "The doctrine of reserving the ordination of priests for men is part of the patrimony of the church," he said. "But in declaring it, that is, in defining it, the Pope has brought to bear all his special authority." The theologian described thi... |
690759_0 | Vast Areas of Rain Forest Are Being Destroyed in Chile | AT the port of this seaside community, a mountain of wood chips, shredded from tens of thousands of native hardwood trees, stands ready to be loaded onto giant vessels and shipped to Japan to be made into paper. One hundred miles north, a Swiss company was accused by the Government in April of illegally cutting thousan... |
690746_1 | Spanish Factions Are Squabbling Over Barcelona Opera-House Plans | Montserrat Caballe, toured the ruins with photographers in tow. Each took it upon herself to embody the spirit of the Liceu and implied that the other was doing it for the publicity. Miss de los Angeles said Miss Caballe's visit "makes me laugh." "As soon as someone dies, the vultures move in," she added sweetly. On th... |
690773_0 | No Women as Priests | Pope John Paul II, in a strong statement, said Catholics must abandon hope that women could be ordained as priests. Page A8. |
690793_0 | We Should Do More About Brain Tumors | To the Editor: Since you published a May 4 Associated Press article reporting that Energy Department officials acknowledged at a Senate hearing that they had hampered use of idle nuclear reactors in treatment of a usually fatal brain tumor, we have received numerous calls from those who have been, and are, affected by ... |
686281_0 | World Economies | |
684758_0 | Clinton Makes No Progress With Beijing | With a month to go before he must decide whether to renew China's preferential trade status, President Clinton made no progress during a meeting today with a top Chinese official toward resolving differences between the two countries over human rights. In a written statement, the White House said Mr. Clinton had remind... |
684848_0 | CHRONICLE | Dr. FRED EPSTEIN, director of pediatric neurosurgery at New York University Medical Center, has saved thousands of children's lives, but that is not why he is to receive an honorary doctorate from Southern Vermont College in Bennington on May 15. Rather, it is for his achievement in overcoming a learning disability to ... |
684835_4 | Male Hormone Molds Women, Too, In Mind and Body | be necessary for calcium absorption and bone strength -- is unclear. "I wouldn't be surprised if female athletes have higher testosterone levels than nonathletes, although that's not well defined," said Dr. Roger S. Rittmaster, an associate professor of medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Girls wi... |
688993_0 | In Recycling of Greenbacks, New Meaning for Old Money | Talk about a "green" movement. For decades, the Federal Reserve has disposed of its old, worn-out currency by shredding it and burying the multibillion-dollar confetti in landfills. But as the number of available landfills declines and concern over the environment grows, Federal Reserve banks across the country are try... |
688902_1 | Business Diary: May 15-20 | desperate to keep garbage -- and the courts won't let them. It works like this: a town builds a costly, bond-financed sorting and recycling center, pledging town garbage to keep it humming. But along comes someone who will haul trash away for less, and the equation falls apart. One town went to court to hang onto its o... |
689070_0 | May 15-21; Out of the Lab, Into the Grocery Store: Gene Therapy for Tomatoes | Consumer surveys suggest that 80 percent of food shoppers do not like the tomatoes they find on the shelves most of the time, particularly during winter. Knowing that consumers too often face a choice of green and hard or soft and mushy, both equally tasteless, the budding biotechnology food industry decided to provide... |
688662_9 | The Birds, the Bees and the Coolidges | doesn't supply it. Behind these particular concerns with Mr. Ridley's and Mr. Buss's books lies a more general one: Isn't it a bit odd that the latest pronouncements of science should so often echo the cynical, age-old "wisdom" of locker rooms and bars? If this criticism seems harsh, consider Mr. Ridley's contention th... |
688849_0 | A SENSE OF PLACE | HOW exciting it is for the township to be able to announce the adoption of the new recycling rules, after months of debate and weeks of public hearings. We hope that some of the confusion of the old rules has been resolved and that the new procedures are not only flexible and innovative but also the finest new regulati... |
689989_5 | After Long Delay, a New Catechism Appears in English | in motion again a religious education effort that they felt was lagging. Then came the controversy about the English translation, which had been prepared by the Rev. Douglas Kent Clark, a priest in Georgia who was working under Cardinal Law's auspices. French Translation Followed The Rev. Joseph Fessio, a Jesuit who he... |
689444_3 | NEWS SUMMARY | A1 BLAZING PATH FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY Genetically altered tomatoes and cow hormones took a long journey to reach supermarket shelves, but other creations of gene splicing may take a shorter route. A14 PENNSYLVANIA JUSTICE IMPEACHED A state Supreme Court justice convicted on drug charges was impeached by the Pennsylvania Ho... |
689460_1 | Go-Ahead on Altered Crops Is Met by a 'Go Slow' | scientists also say that the Government has not supported enough research to assess the risks of genetically engineered plants, and that in the absence of clear scientific data Federal agencies are relying too heavily on the opinions of experts. "Everybody has a stake in this area of plant research," said Dr. de Zoeten... |
685037_0 | Personal Health | A YEAR ago, a neurologist described five cases of serious neurological problems, including four strokes, in women aged 54 to 84 after shampoos in beauty parlors. As is common practice when beauticians shampoo hair or neutralize a permanent wave, the women's heads were tipped back over the edge of the sink. Now, after a... |
670212_0 | World Economies | |
670104_0 | Next After Vietnam, Let's Lift Cuba Embargo | To the Editor: In your Playa Giron Journal (news article, Feb. 11) residents of the Bay of Pigs scratch their heads and wonder why the United States continues to blockade Cuba. Since the Clinton Administration lifted the embargo against Vietnam, many United States citizens ask the same question. The trend of the 1990's... |
668381_0 | Gunmelt | It's time to figure out a good way to recycle guns. Four mayors of big cities recently suggested that firearms confiscated during arrests should be melted down rather than resold at auction, as many are now. Great idea. The guns would be out of circulation permanently. But it would be a shame for the gunmelt simply to ... |
668385_1 | PARADISE, ECOLOGICALLY CORRECTED | no ocelots pose on tree branches. But once my eye and ear adjust to the scale and rhythm, the jungle offers an equally satisfying nature fix. Toucans and parrots, along with myriad el-bee jays (little brown jobs), fuss in the leafy canopy. This, after all, is bird watchers' nirvana, home to hundreds of species, includi... |
668709_2 | New Rivalry Erupts for the Stock-Car Season | the driver Kyle Petty. And both companies this time will use radial tires, which are stronger and safer than the old bias-ply design used last time. It was Goodyear's introduction of the radial tire to Winston Cup racing in mid-1989, in fact, that drove out Hoosier last time. Improvements in Design "I get the feeling t... |
669614_5 | The Degrees Of Separation; Seniors Prepare for the Real World | understand why they are employable, fresh out of college, when their parents and other adults are losing jobs they might once have aspired to. They understand why more employers want to put them right to work, rather than invest in training them. So they are not so surprised when a company like International Business M... |
668789_1 | Quake Raises Fears About Safety Of California's University Buildings | is those listed buildings, scores of them across the state that have been identified as dangerous but are awaiting costly repair, that raise subtle but complicated questions about how the California state university systems should spend their limited capital. Should the systems, comprising 29 campuses serving nearly a ... |
668765_7 | From Indecision To Ultimatum -- A special report; As U.S. Sought a Bosnia Policy, The French Offered a Good Idea | does not take the lead in a new diplomatic effort." Idea From Paris U.S. Adapts Pullback Demand Among the allies' suggestions after the marketplace attack was a French proposal that particularly intrigued the President and his aides. Rather than merely threaten air strikes in response to further shelling, Mr. Juppe tol... |
668866_0 | World Economies | |
670916_2 | Religion Notes | of 10 said it was very unlikely that they would ever abandon their vocation. The poll of 1,049 nuns was conducted by mail and in follow-up interviews from September 1992 through last month. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. Like earlier surveys, the poll found that nuns are an a... |
667375_0 | World Economies | |
667280_2 | Navy Has Long Had Secret Subs For Deep-Sea Spying, Experts Say | they cannot be photographed by spy satellites and, when stationary and silently deploying their deep-sea gear, are nearly invisible to acoustic detection. Moreover, they are steady, unaffected by the waves and storms that buffet surface ships. And most important for the United States, they have been doing such work sec... |
667319_1 | U.S. Envoy in Dublin Offers to Help North's Protestants Get Hearing | that the Protestant majority here should not have the right to veto a united Ireland joining the North and the republic. Such a veto is provided in the Irish-British framework. An embassy spokesman in Dublin said Mrs. Smith confirmed that the conversation had taken place but declined to be interviewed. The spokesman sa... |
666299_0 | I.R.A. Advocate Says Visit Brought Peace Nearer | Acknowledging that President Clinton had increased the pressure to negotiate by granting him a visa, Gerry Adams, the political head of the Irish Republican Army, headed home yesterday vowing that "those who stuck their necks out on this issue for us will not be let down" in the search for peace in Northern Ireland. "T... |
666274_2 | STATE DEPT. FINDS WIDESPREAD ABUSE OF WORLD'S WOMEN | but at the indignities and discrimination that governments often have little to do with. But the State Department's human rights team reported progress in a handful of countries. In Turkey, the Government has opened shelters for battered women, and Turkish women are working in increasing numbers in the professions, bus... |
666373_1 | Unscrambling Hype In Cellular Phones | and big towns. Each antenna is at the heart of a "cell," which in a city can cover a few square blocks and in rural areas can be many square miles. The phone sends and receives signals with a single antenna, which then routes the call over the conventional wired telephone network to anywhere in the world. If the user t... |
666316_1 | Havana Journal; On the Street, Cubans Fondly Embrace Capitalism | themselves. Embargo Limits Americans While capitalism is most evident in the street-corner flowering of petty commerce, Havana's biggest moves toward it involve foreign investors. At the International Center of Havana, a private business consulting concern that opened last fall, each month brings a handful of new Europ... |
666312_0 | London Grows Impatient With Adams's Demands | The chief British official for Northern Ireland sought today to discredit the assertion by Gerry Adams, the political leader of the Irish Republican Army, that Mr. Adams cannot endorse the Irish-British framework for peace talks until its provisions are clarified by the British Government. Mr. Adams, on a two-day visit... |
667817_1 | U.S.O.C. Will Make Harding Prove She Belongs on Team | her from the team. "At the hearing, you may show why you should not be disciplined," the hearing notice said. The Olympics begin Saturday, and the women's figure skating competition begins Feb. 23. The last day for changes on the roster is Feb. 21. The list of charges were presented in five pages of documents and label... |
671585_0 | World Economies | |
670263_1 | Japan, Bowing to Pressure, Defers Plutonium Projects | -- turning nuclear waste into plutonium fuel -- was quickly becoming a financial fiasco, one that could cost them billions of dollars. Policy Is Retained Japanese officials say they have no intention of abandoning their fuel-recycling policy. But the delays are clearly an effort to back away, and many of them concede t... |
670237_6 | Acura Tire Wear Comes Under Fire | nothing wrong with the tires," he said. "They do what they're supposed to do." Instead, he criticized Honda for failing to notify customers from the start that the NSX was equipped with high-performance tires that were likely to wear out quickly. Mr. Blood also said that something in the car's suspension, geometry or c... |
667939_4 | Despite Violence, Colombia Surges | American, made initial forays last year, quadrupling their holdings to $236 million by the end of the year. Trading volumes on the three exchanges surged 69 percent in 1993, hitting $13.2 billion. Last year, the country recorded 5 percent growth, slightly above a 20-year average of 4.4 percent. Inflation maintained a f... |
669359_2 | Liberate Cuba. Liberate Us. Lift the Embargo, Now.; Give Castro A Carrot | by instability and potentially a large-scale immigration problem for Florida. It is no accident that recent reports from the Inter-American Dialogue, the Rand Corporation, the 20th Century Fund, the Army War College and the Center for International Policy, among others, all advocate the dismantling of the embargo. Each... |
666444_0 | GROCERS CHALLENGE USE OF NEW DRUG FOR MILK OUTPUT | A day before the introduction of a genetically engineered growth hormone designed to boost milk production in dairy cows, some of the country's largest food companies and distributors took measures yesterday to restrict the use of the animal drug. Among the companies moving to keep their dairy suppliers from using the ... |
666968_0 | Casa Italiana Going Moderne? | The Landmarks Preservation Commission appears poised to take an unusual step: approve a plan for a post-modern stainless-steel staircase on the exterior of the landmark Casa Italiana, a replica of a formal Florentine palazzo at Columbia University. Neighborhood critics say approval of the staircase would run counter to... |
667223_2 | No, The First Priority is; Stop Coercing Women | significant progress toward reaching our goals by better serving people who are already motivated to accept help. But how? And at what cost? And who will decide which approaches are best? These are the difficult questions asked by the feminists Dr. Westoff so blithely dismisses. Most of us certainly do not object to fa... |
667223_6 | No, The First Priority is; Stop Coercing Women | Ronald Reagan and George Bush in 1984, permitted no allocation of funds for the provision of family planning services abroad by any agencies that also provided safe, legal abortion. And although the International Planned Parenthood Federation's family planning programs have now been re-funded, the Helms Amendment to th... |
667224_2 | No, The First Priority is; Stop Coercing Women | significant progress toward reaching our goals by better serving people who are already motivated to accept help. But how? And at what cost? And who will decide which approaches are best? These are the difficult questions asked by the feminists Dr. Westoff so blithely dismisses. Most of us certainly do not object to fa... |
667224_6 | No, The First Priority is; Stop Coercing Women | Ronald Reagan and George Bush in 1984, permitted no allocation of funds for the provision of family planning services abroad by any agencies that also provided safe, legal abortion. And although the International Planned Parenthood Federation's family planning programs have now been re-funded, the Helms Amendment to th... |
666956_1 | At Work; Old Age Is No Place for Sissies | future of well-educated female workers now in their early 30's and younger, who are benefiting from the expanded occupational opportunities of the last two decades, the great mass of women are still only a man or a misstep away from penury in retirement. That group includes people who have little in common except their... |
666912_2 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | another new treasure seeker, John Meyer of Lindenhurst, said. "It took me two hours to find a penny." Finding loose change is a given. "Six to 8 percent of the coins minted are lost," Mr. Krupowicz said. "And we find many. But the No. 1 desire is to recover lost gold from bathers." "But don't expect to put the machine ... |
671202_2 | Technology; Making Compost Double as Pesticide | local governments of dictating how trash is to be disposed. In many cases, states have set ambitious recycling goals that have been hard to meet because manufacturers are accustomed to working with virgin raw materials rather than recycled matter. As a result, markets for many recycled materials have been weak or incon... |
671112_0 | WHAT'S THE WORLD'S PRIORITY TASK? | By presenting apparently contradicting views on the subject of world population growth, it appears that there exist just two diametrically opposed camps: the demographers and the feminist groups. Family planning is a complex issue, one that overlaps many issues, from the environment and economic development to gender e... |
671409_0 | The Future, the Past | Helping children with learning disabilities, and the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute. EVENING HOURS |
671421_3 | This Brake Stuff Just Won't Stop | keep control in slippery conditions. There is nothing inherent in an ABS system that shortens braking distances, and that is carefully explained by the manufacturers. I don't mean to be an alarmist, but this misinformation is as potentially harmful as the assumption held by some drivers that it's O.K. not to wear a sea... |
671335_1 | PLAN FOR IRELAND LEFT IN QUESTION | more mayhem in the guerrilla war that has killed 3,017 people since 1969. 'No Peace Without Dialogue' Referring to secret contacts between Sinn Fein and British officials, he said: "The British Goverment is not in contact with us at this time. It unilaterally ceased communicating with us in November last year. However,... |
671444_0 | Cuba Embargo Punishes Scientific Exchange | To the Editor: Among those hardest hit by the refusal of the Clinton Administration to recognize an educational activity exemption for the travel ban on Cuba (editorial, Feb. 14) are scientists, researchers and academics. Their efforts to maintain legitimate professional contacts, and to exchange scientific information... |
669888_0 | Harvest of Headaches: Cuba's Sugar Crop Woes | AS the chief mechanic of one of Cuba's many antiquated sugar mills, Noel Manuel Lopez Troncoso is a busy man. At the height of the country's vital sugar cane harvest, Mr. Lopez's team of repairmen at the mill, the Central Gregorio Manalich, on the outskirts of this town an hour east of Havana, must labor around the clo... |
669990_0 | NEW CALLS TO LIFT EMBARGO ON CUBA | Now that the United States trade embargo on Vietnam has been lifted, a growing number of Cuban-Americans and members of Congress are pushing President Clinton to ease the embargo on Cuba. But because of domestic political pressures, the Administration seems unwilling to budge. Though still a minority among Cuban-Americ... |
669854_2 | County's Children, by the Numbers | issues affecting children and families." The databook is divided into two sections, with the first describing population, income and housing, child care and the environment. The chapter on the environment begins: "The quality of our natural or physical environment -- our land, water and air -- affects everyone, but par... |
670087_0 | Harvest of Headaches: Cuba's Sugar Crop Woes | AS the chief mechanic of one of Cuba's many antiquated sugar mills, Noel Manuel Lopez Troncoso is a busy man. At the height of the country's vital sugar cane harvest, Mr. Lopez's team of repairmen at the mill, the Central Gregorio Manalich, on the outskirts of this town an hour east of Havana, must labor around the clo... |
669793_0 | Metaphysical Mileage | To the Editor: Anthony Gottlieb's review of Kate and Edward Fullbrook's "Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend" (Jan. 23) exhibits a superficial awareness of what phenomenological existentialism in general and the phenomenological ontology of Sartre in particular are all ab... |
669943_0 | Ideas & Trends; When the Geneticists' Fingers Get in the Food | THE scientific arguments in favor of the bovine growth hormone, which makes dairy cows into veritable milk machines, could hardly seem more logical: The hormone does not change the milk itself. It acts on the cow's brain, telling it to signal the mammary glands to go into overdrive, making them produce abundant quantit... |
669712_0 | Airlines Douse More Cigarettes | THE United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are moving toward a nonsmoking agreement for airline flights linking their countries. The talks are going on in several places, particularly Washington and Montreal, headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations affiliate that deal... |
669877_4 | The Graying Factory | pace and demands of work. In Japan, the average auto worker is 34. To make sure workers don't collapse under the strain, Detroit auto makers have been compelled to rethink the deployment of an aging work force. At the old Jefferson plant Chrysler paid hundreds of extra workers whose only duties were to tidy up, fix mis... |
669704_4 | Keep Your Mind Open | College. Why is this rather undivided author in awe of discontinuous change? Why is he eager to view the power to alter the self in a glorious light? To answer that, one must understand something of post-modern discourse, because when Dr. Lifton looks into his heart of hearts at his own rather fundamental identity, wha... |
669713_0 | Airlines Douse More Cigarettes | THE United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are moving toward a nonsmoking agreement for airline flights linking their countries. The talks are going on in several places, particularly Washington and Montreal, headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations affiliate that deal... |
669388_1 | Deciding to Escape Los Angeles: The Earthquake Tipped the Scale | people, hidden agendas." New York and Los Angeles are still both destinations, cities that people dream of going to. "You get out of school, and what do you do?" Mr. Becker said. "You go West." Or East. Both cities are also places that people talk incessantly of leaving -- and, eventually, many do get out. In the last ... |
669390_2 | British Offering Abortion Drug To U.S. Women | in the United States. Efforts in This Country Last April, Dr. David A. Kessler, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, announced that Roussel-Uclaf would allow a nonprofit contraceptive-research group in New York, the Population Council, to find an American manufacturer for the drug, conduct clinical tests a... |
669435_1 | Forests May Foretell Warming Trend | hastens the death of many plants. As trees mature faster and die sooner, Dr. Phillips said, they may be creating more gaps in the forest to be filled by light-seeking trees and woody vines, called lianas, that are adapted to disturbed areas. These, he said, grow even faster than the trees they replace, and because they... |
668275_1 | 'Loophole' Seen in School Payroll Cuts | one loophole used by some school administrators to circumvent a cut in the permanent work force. He said that even though Joseph A. Fernandez, then the Chancellor, had substantially cut the permanent work force at Board of Education headquarters, spending on temporary workers doubled from $5 million to $10 million annu... |
668351_3 | Shattering the Silence of Autism; New Communication Method Is Hailed as a Miracle and Derided as a Dangerous Sham | they were friends, Miss Rings once confided that she had been sexually abused as a child. In a brief interview that she cut short, Miss Rings denied that she had prompted Jenny's words or that they reflected her own experiences. Defenders of facilitated communication, like Dr. Biklen, argue that autism is too often mis... |
665957_2 | Hidden Rules Often Distort Ideas of Risk | psychologist at the University of South Carolina, and Dr. William Hallman, a psychologist at Rutgers, that appeared last year in the journal American Psychologist. Other factors determining perception of risk have been identified in a variety of studies, and include these: *Risks that are imposed loom larger than those... |
665957_3 | Hidden Rules Often Distort Ideas of Risk | that are associated with catastrophes are especially frightening; the accident at Bhopal, India, amplified people's fears of chemical plants, just as the recent earthquake in Los Angeles has made people's fears of a repeat more vivid. *Risks from exotic technologies create more dread than do those involving familiar on... |
666694_1 | Farmers Eager to Test Drug to Get More Milk | To answer that question, the Winkels sought help from their veterinarian and nutritionist in designing a study. They have identified 100 cows in their herd who produce similar amounts of milk. Half will receive the drug every two weeks starting later this month. The other half will serve as a control group for comparin... |
666768_2 | I.O.C. Official Says Harding Should Skate | from some prominent officials. Recently, President Clinton said that Harding should be given the "benefit of the doubt" on her innocence in any plot to harm Kerrigan. A five-member panel appointed by the United States Figure Skating Association is expected to announce on Saturday their recommendation on whether Harding... |
666794_0 | Timber Accord Destroys Forests | To the Editor: Rich and poor countries of the world, you report Jan. 23, "have agreed on a draft accord that would put forest preservation on a par with the commercial demands of the global timber industry." You lead the reader to believe that this revision of a 1983 agreement protects tropical forests. The Internation... |
666700_0 | Fishermen's Protest Turns Violent in France | |
669197_1 | So You Consider Hair Dye Safe? | was 63. However, cancers are much more likely to develop beyond that age, reflecting the long latency following exposure to carcinogens. Rates for development of cancer in women older than 63 are up to 20 times higher for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma; 34 times for bladder cancer, and 8 times for breast c... |
669143_1 | Personal Health | part a result of the aging of the population. Americans are now living long enough to get a disease that disproportionately strikes the elderly. It is also largely a consequence of changes in living habits like smoking and diet, and partly a result of occupational exposures and possibly exposure to environmental pollut... |
670570_0 | Tight Logging Limit Set in Northwest | In what is likely to be the final blueprint for managing 24 million acres of public forests in the Pacific Northwest, the Clinton Administration today announced a plan to protect a host of endangered species by significantly reducing logging from the high levels of the 1980's. The new policy, which came in one of the m... |
670559_3 | Gastre Journal; For the Desperate, Nuclear Waste Isn't Dreadful | radioactive waste. "If you have nuclear power plants, you will have nuclear fuel waste -- it is a fact of life a country cannot ignore," said Jorge Marticorena, a member of the National Atomic Energy Commission. "At some point we will have to build a repository." The search for the ideal location began in the early 198... |
670401_2 | On Ulster Border, Grim Days for Grenadier Guards | on Dec. 15 by the Prime Ministers of Britain and the Irish Republic, one policeman and one soldier have been killed by the I.R.A. and at least a dozen have survived mortar and bomb attacks. The attacks have been concentrated here in the misty hills of predominantly Roman Catholic south Armagh, south of Belfast, near th... |
670419_0 | AUSTRIA PROTESTS CZECH ATOM PLANT | Worried about the potential for a nuclear accident near its border, the Austrian Government has sent a high-level delegation to Washington to protest plans to use American technology to complete a Soviet-style nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. In January, the United States Export-Import Bank agreed to guarante... |
670404_1 | Court Orders Revised Goals For Recycling | by this April, or about 25 percent of the city's total waste stream. The city now is collecting only about 2,526 tons a day, or about 15 percent, according to Sanitation Commissioner Emily Lloyd, and the court concluded that it would be impossible for the city to meet the existing requirement. The court ruled, however,... |
670372_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A2-9 MUTED VICTORY FOR BOSNIA News analysis: Despite the self-congratulation among NATO allies over the Serbian pullback, the fact is that fighting still rages in Bosnia and that any settlement may be worse for the Muslims than it would have been a year ago. A1 PUSH FOR BOSNIA PEACE Russian, American and ... |
668135_3 | Review/Design; Stylish Persuaders For Modern Times | consumer products after years of wartime scarcity. There, all is Cheer, Joy and Micrin mouthwash, each handsomely packaged by Deskey. Though much of the show is a cavalcade of relatively familiar period icons, there are nice surprises along the way. The chaste modernity of Ilonka Karasz's silverplated tableware (circa ... |
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