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668059_3 | U.S. Says Visit by Japanese Leader Could Turn Into Confrontation | because it involved only a one-year tax cut, which is not enough to change spending patterns. As a result, this increased, rather than softened, the Clinton Administration's desire to have concrete, measurable market-opening agreements. Senior political advisers to President Clinton insisted that the President would on... |
668066_4 | Male, Educated and Falling Behind | and transferred the occupants to other posts, freezing their pay just when the men counted on a spurt in income to save for retirement. Other shifts are also contributing to the hard times for these middle-aged workers. The oldest baby boomers are now in their late 40's, and their numbers tend to depress wages, as they... |
667649_0 | CHRONICLE | It won't be politics as usual when GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, MADELEINE KUNIN, COKIE ROBERTS, CHARLIE ROSE and J. CARTER BROWN get together at the Library of Congress in Washington on Wednesday. They will be reading ancient and contemporary Greek poetry, along with Carlethia Willis, an adult student enrolled in a literacy ... |
667636_0 | Legendary Giant Sloth Sought by Scientists In Amazon Rain Forest | AN American biologist and a team of scientists, technicians and Indian guides are preparing to penetrate the trackless rain forest of western Brazil in pursuit of a South American counterpart of the fabled Himalayan yeti. The object of this quest, headed by Dr. David C. Oren, an American ornithologist employed by the B... |
667671_0 | When Special Pupils Win Acceptance | To the Editor: We want to give some balance to "Special Pupils, Regular Classes, Thorny Issues" (Education page, Jan. 26), a generally critical discussion of "including" special-needs children in regular classrooms. Our 7-year-old son, who has a rare seizure syndrome that has left him mentally and physically retarded, ... |
666214_0 | Do White Leaders Denounce White Racism?; Attacked Blacks Too | To the Editor: I would like to correct misimpressions in the press about the speech at Kean College of New Jersey last Nov. 29 by Khalid Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan's national spokesman. Attention has focused on the speaker's rhetorical violence against whites and Jews without mention of his out rageous verbal assaults o... |
666084_6 | Even in Cyberspace, Overcrowding | Roebuck & Company and the International Business Machines Corporation, which has about two million users, and Genie, a service owned by General Electric, which has an estimated 100,000 users, were the last big commercial services to offer unlimited access to the networks for a fixed fee. Both recently abandoned the fla... |
666148_0 | Retrofitting Old Cars With Driver's-Side Air Bags | Auto manufacturers are luring buyers into showrooms by offering air bags. But what about people who would like air bags but are not ready to replace their cars? A large maker of air bag components has begun offering an "after market" driver's-side air bag -- actually, a replacement steering wheel that contains an air b... |
666097_2 | I.R.A. Political Leader Asks for 'Clarifications' | definitive attitude," he said, "is tied totally to the British refusal to provide clarification." Even before he arrived here, however, Mr. Adams's call for clarifications was being criticized by political analysts in London and Dublin as vague in itself. The analysts said that Mr. Adams, facing hard-liners in the I.R.... |
666074_1 | President Overruled Officials In Granting a Visa to Adams | in the Oval Office this afternoon, Mr. Clinton defended his action as "an appropriate thing to do." He added, "I did believe that by giving Mr. Adams this visa, this limited visa to come here, we might have a constructive role in pushing the peace process, which is why I did it." The Irish leader arrived in New York Ci... |
717019_1 | Wanted: New Uses for 14,000 Old Toilets | dump on Staten Island. To take up less room, they are smashed into chunks. But even so, city officials readily admit that toilets still waste precious landfill space. "We want to find constructive reuses for them," said Warren C. Liebold, the conservation director of the City Department of Environmental Protection. Fac... |
716818_0 | An E-Mail Message for Help | Cornell University recently found itself confronted with a new twist on an old problem. A student posted a long message to the Internet describing his intention to kill himself. The message soon reached the attention of university officials, who acted quickly and saw to it that the student was brought to a local hospit... |
717040_0 | PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | MIDTOWN Cross an Ocean But Stay in Town Every two years, the Ocean Liner Museum -- which has 500 members but no fixed home -- finds the space and puts together an exhibit. This is the year. The space is at Paine Webber, and the exhibition, "Ships of State: Saluting the Great Trans-Atlantic Liners," includes over 400 pi... |
717172_0 | Plastics From the Ground Up -- Think Again | To the Editor: Supercritical carbon dioxide holds the promise of creating new materials, ("Rethinking Plastics From the Ground Up," Technology, Sept. 11), but most of the environmental benefits claimed for this new technology have been with us for a while. More than 20 years ago, Union Carbide developed a proprietary p... |
716829_0 | Costa Rican Jungle Gets Tram Service | Travelers to Costa Rica can now explore the canopy of a rain forest from the treetop perspective. The Rain Forest Aerial Tram, which consists of open-air steel cars suspended from cables in a manner similar to a ski lift, takes visitors through an 1,085-acre jungle reserve. Put into operation Oct. 1, the tramway runs t... |
716944_7 | In 25-Year Fight, the Hudson Starts to Mend | an effective way to remove the chemicals buried in the river bottom. They also said new dredging methods would prevent the sediments from being stirred up, which could cause the PCB's to travel downstream. "Hudson Falls needs to be cleaned up to stop that faucet and remove PCB's," Ms. Barclay said. "But our organizatio... |
716921_0 | An Aging Generation Looks for Answers | AS women seek to take more control of their health and their lives, conference organizers are finding that subjects like breast cancer, menopause and self-defense are drawing large audiences. Many of the conferences are aimed at women over the age of 40, among them the baby boomers thought not to be content to go throu... |
715856_1 | India's City of Plague: A Caldron of Urban Ills | petal-strewn bier, she fell ill on Thursday night with fever and chest pains, and died suddenly before noon on Friday. On her death certificate, officials at the Maskati Charitable Hospital wrote ambiguously: Fever (unconfirmed). Many things are likely to remain uncertain in Surat, the industrial boom town that is the ... |
715956_4 | Collaboration Or Coincidence? | could recall having had lunch with Bettman and Ravitch once in the last six months. He denied that they have undertaken any joint efforts or bargaining strategies. "We rail against economic reality and owners," the N.B.A. commissioner said. "Those tend to be a unifying thing." Bettman said that he could recall only one... |
715968_1 | Essay; No Yanks Need Apply | to bloody civil war: the I.R.A. has its fierce and murderous counterpart among Irish Protestants. To pull out peacekeeping troops, as the I.R.A. demands with its "British out," would turn the place into an orange and green Bosnia. A million British ethnic Irish do not want to be nationally cleansed, and the English can... |
722075_0 | World Economies | |
721986_1 | Gloucester Journal; In New England Fish Country, the End of Fishing | more bad news: a Federal panel had recommended that the Commerce Department virtually shut down commercial fishing in the Georges Bank. It was an emergency measure -- long overdue, conservationists say -- taken to try to save the already severely depressed fishing industry after previous, more limited restrictions had ... |
722023_1 | Black Women Graduates Outpace Male Counterparts | for white men, $17,000 for black women, $16,800 for white women and $16,400 for black men. Proposed explanations for the disparity included racism, an unintended consequence of affirmative action programs -- employing a woman who is black meets two minority hiring goals -- and the fact that the pool of recent college g... |
717311_0 | World Economies | |
719704_0 | Major Accepts I.R.A.'s Truce As Authentic | Prime Minister John Major accepted the seven-week-old Irish Republican Army cease-fire as genuine today and said that if it continued, Britain would hold "exploratory talks" with I.R.A. representatives before the end of the year. His commitment means the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland is soon to enter a new pha... |
720568_2 | Deaf to Estrogen's Call: A Man's Strange Story | Dr. Smith and collaborators from several institutions describe the paradigm-smashing case in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. At the same time the young man's bones are elongating, they are also becoming progressively weaker and more porous. As it turns out, he suffers from osteoporosis of a de... |
720565_2 | Huge North Carolina Study Seeks Clues to Beach Erosion | have done similar projects here before, but this is by far the largest. The facility, formally the Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station Field Research Facility, has a staff of 12 scientists and technicians who maintain a year-round schedule of monitoring waves, currents, winds and the shape of the beach... |
720549_0 | Space Studies Find Line Across Pacific Linked to Currents | OBSERVATIONS from space shuttles and other vehicles have shown a remarkable, clearly visible line that marches for hundreds of miles across the Pacific Ocean as if the waters were being divided. Scientists are not invoking a miracle to explain the strange phenomenon, but the line is nevertheless a wonder of nature. The... |
718697_1 | Patents; Regulators Brace for Spirited Testimony From Biotechnology Companies on Application Delays | Darby. "You can't try something out in just one or two patients. The Patent Office is starting to sound an awful lot like the Food and Drug Administration." In all, about 50 people are expected to testify, of whom about two dozen have been marshaled by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, which represents more than... |
718751_0 | World Economies | |
718683_1 | With Embargo Lifted, Haitians Scramble for Trade | time for Christmas. Factory owners and merchants in the export industry dug out old files and tried to reconnect with foreign buyers. And small-business owners surveyed empty shelves and drew up lists of their customers' priorities. "We will come back slowly," said Salien Guirand, the owner of a shop that once did a br... |
718693_0 | Trade Pact Side Deal Bears Little | Nine months after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, a side accord intended to safeguard the environment has shown virtually no results. Two new agencies dealing with the Mexican border lack general managers and no cleanup projects are even close to starting. Some environmental groups say the delays c... |
719204_0 | World News Briefs; U.S. and Cuba to Meet On Immigration Issues | Diplomats from Cuba and the United States are scheduled to meet next Monday in Havana to discuss immigration matters, focusing on how to implement the Clinton Administration's promise to grant entry rights to at least 20,000 Cubans a year. The talks, which Cuban and American officials said would last two to three days,... |
719062_1 | CLINTON APPROVES A PLAN TO GIVE AID TO NORTH KOREANS | good for the safety of the entire world," Mr. Clinton said in a brief appearance in the White House press room this afternoon. "It's a crucial step toward drawing North Korea into the global community." The accord calls for a consortium of nations, led by South Korea and Japan, to provide the North with two light-water... |
717720_1 | A Generally Healthy America Emerges in a Census Report | in the report present an overall rosy picture of the United States, others depict significant problems and a marked polarization between the comfortable lives of most people and the despair of those at the bottom. Rates of violent crimes have remained high, and the number of children born out of wedlock has increased b... |
717750_4 | U.S. Chemist Is Awarded Nobel Prize | on neutron scattering, but his focus was on another atomic collision process called inelastic scattering, which made it possible to measure the relative energies of different neutrons scattered by a sample of material. Such measurements allowed him to determine how much energy a scattered neutron had lost in the encoun... |
717756_0 | Special Education Panel Named | Five months after postponing a plan to reorganize New York City's vast special education program amid protests from school officials and parents, Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines has appointed a panel to review the special education system and suggest ways to reform it. The five-member panel will submit its recommendations... |
717822_2 | Editorial Notebook; Beastly Manners in Cyberspace | dozen participants. The male-only board had been set up by the college, as had a board for women. The systems manager who erased the woman's comments said they denigrated the man's sex appeal. The man's remarks were profoundly grotesque, and anatomically specific, in line with what one finds on bathroom walls in bus te... |
720761_4 | As China Upgrades Its Nuclear Arsenal, It Debates Need for Guns vs. Butter | more than 10 percent a year, China will require vast amounts of capital to develop further and to overcome daunting problems of rapid population growth. Huge investments in subways, airports and sea terminals are needed to sustain the economic growth that must continue if China is to provide for a country that swells b... |
717898_2 | Militant Protestants In Truce, Lifting Peace Hopes in Ulster | of Protestant "loyalists," who are "loyal" to Britain. They initially worried that the I.R.A. must have laid down its arms because of a secret deal with London. But as time went on and London remained seemingly ambivalent, the anxiety lifted and eventually this made it possible for the Protestant paramilitaries to matc... |
717968_0 | Palestra: It May Be Greek, But it Means Round Ball | The Palestra. Simply the name of the storied structure that stands alongside ancient Franklin Field on 33d Street evokes images of college basketball as it once was. Today, as the coaches of the Ivy League men's and women's basketball teams gathered here for news media day, Columbia's Jack Rohan reminisced about winnin... |
718009_1 | A Chance for Peace in Ireland | his part to keep the process going, by convening peace talks with all parties. Mr. Major has so far refused to consider talking directly with the Irish republicans on the grounds that their peace declaration was not "permanent." But permanence can only come as mutual trust builds. The I.R.A.'s cease-fire has held for s... |
716540_1 | U.N. Study Finds a Free Eastern Europe Poorer and Less Healthy | Poland, Romania, Russia and Ukraine. Giovanni Andrea Cornia, director of social and economic policy research at Unicef's International Child Development Center in Florence and the author of the report, told the news conference that low tax revenues and inflation buoyed by more spending on social programs was a major ca... |
720360_1 | Pad to Replace Computer Mouse Is Set for Debut | for this function. One obvious application for the Synaptics' touchpad is as a control for VCR and cable remote control units. With the advent of interactive television, designers have been searching for a mechanism that will let the same device be used as a remote control and for pointing and selecting. Synaptics was ... |
720407_0 | World Economies | |
718472_0 | Acorns Sprout Where Mighty Oaks Grew | HALF a century ago, the arrival of the latest issue of a scholarly journal devoted to the arts and humanities or the social sciences would send professors scurrying into their hideaways to devour a broadly illuminating article by John Maynard Keynes, John Dewey or perhaps William James. Today, the excitement generated ... |
718529_0 | Nations Sign Pact to Stop Desert Growth | A plan drawn up two years ago at the Earth Summit to prevent agricultural land from turning into desert has been translated into an international agreement signed this week by some 100 countries here. The Convention on Desertification focuses on the world's arid and semi-arid lands, which are steadily yielding less bec... |
718529_2 | Nations Sign Pact to Stop Desert Growth | issues more important to the industrialized world. With the convention, poor nations hope to revive interest in the issue and attract money for development aid. At the signing ceremonies here on Friday, rich nations pledged little new money but committed funds for further exploratory studies. The United Nations estimat... |
718531_1 | I.R.A. and Protestant Leaders Expected to Join Forum on Peace | which could have several sessions, will allow once-vehement enemies, responsible for the deaths of one another's family members and friends, to look each other in the eye for the first time. Among the participants will be Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A. Prime Minister Albert Reynol... |
718374_1 | Sound Bytes; 'Spamming' on the Internet | and negative. Q. Do you think people who follow the advice in your book, the almost step-by-step instructions, are going to get the same reaction you did? Ms. Siegel. I think the same small group of people will continue to react that way, but it's important to understand that they are a small group. The people who were... |
721452_0 | Catholic Bishops Offer Nuns Wider Yet Unspecified Role | Responding to appeals from religious women, a synod of Roman Catholic bishops said today that nuns would have greater, if unspecified, participation in running the church, but appeared to exclude them from the highest ranks of the male-dominated Vatican bureaucracy. The synod made its decision after a month of debate i... |
721463_0 | Irish Leaders Meet In Historic Forum | For the first time since sectarian warfare erupted in Northern Ireland 25 years ago, political leaders of the outlawed Irish Republican Army sat down today with leaders from the North and the Irish Republic to begin discussions about eventual peace talks. As Gerry Adams, the President of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s politic... |
720156_0 | British-Irish Talks Set | Prime Ministers Albert Reynolds of Ireland and John Major of Britain will discuss constitutional issues involving sovereignty in Northern Ireland and the establishment of cross-border institutions between Ulster and the Irish Republic at a meeting on Monday, Irish officials said today. The issues are sensitive politica... |
719848_0 | What's on Your Mind, Kid? | THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHILDHOOD By Gareth B. Matthews. 136 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. AN old Jewish joke tells of a student who boasts to his grandmother that he has become a doctor of philosophy. "A doctor? Wonderful. But what kind of a disease is philosophy?" Wittgenstein would have liked that story;... |
719874_1 | REALLY BIG TRUCKS | A century ago, Chandler might well have been off in a garage somewhere inventing the automobile or the airplane -- it's not his fault somebody already dreamed them up. Chandler is a 53-year-old multimillionaire now, but he started all this most humbly 20 years ago with a Ford pickup truck he was using to do general con... |
719907_0 | Greek Tours | To the Editor: As a follow-up to the listing on "Cultural Tours of Greece" in your Q & A column of July 31, your readers may be be interested to know about my company's 19-day tour to Cyprus, Santorini and Crete next May and June. This tour, to be led by Dr. Robert Stieglitz, professor of archeology at Rutgers Universi... |
719864_9 | Bennington Means Business | Behind me at the commons building that afternoon, I watched a slight man in a baseball cap and owlish glasses, an instructor perhaps in one of the writing workshops, conferring with an aspiring writer. He was very mild, with a piping voice, candy-cane sweet. But he also had a power of concentrated attention that cast a... |
719872_0 | SUNDAY, October 23, 1994; Trashy Design | Recycling can be tedious and confusing. What to do, for instance, with old inner tubes, melted engine blocks and ignored and forgotten Father's Day gifts. Make them into objets d'art, obviously. Anyone who ever stuck a candle in a Chianti bottle or turned a seashell into a lamp knows that. "Hello Again: Recycling for t... |
719840_8 | He Got the Poop on America | names Walda and Walt Jr., to madness and suicide respectively. Part of the reader's sympathy is aroused by the steepness of the man's fall. In the 30's, Winchell was not merely the most widely read journalist in the country and the highest-rated radio personality (tied with Bob Hope); he even broke attendance records a... |
719852_1 | New & Noteworthy Paperbacks | said here last year. "To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not." Also reissued is Mr. Malouf's dual volume CHILD'S PLAY and THE BREAD OF TIME TO COME: Two Novellas (Braziller, $10.95). These works involve alienated men as well: soldiers coming to grips with li... |
720127_0 | In 4 Years, Disabilities Act Hasn't Improved Jobs Rate | More than four years after Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, a sweeping civil rights law covering people with physical and mental impairments, the number of disabled people entering the work force has not significantly increased, say experts in the field and advocates for the disabled. Though the law... |
715651_3 | The Executive Computer; From Lotus Predator to Lotus Partner in Just 72 Hours | step, in Oracle's vision, is for each corporation to create its own version of the information highway, with large stores of data in multiple media residing on huge servers throughout the organization. These servers -- computers designed for serving multiple users or "clients" over a network -- could deliver traditiona... |
715732_1 | The Nation; Air Chortle Is Now Boarding | flights with contests for guessing the agents' weight or producing a key chain with the most keys. Why all the high-flying high jinks? Entrepreneurs who start airlines are trying to make an impression by offering passengers something snappy. One way, they have decided, is to take a cue from Southwest Airlines, the only... |
715466_0 | SUNDAY, October 2, 1994; Too Many Tires | The good news: Unique Tire Recycling of British Columbia is gearing up to recycle almost 900,000 tires a year. Its new facility in Kamloops will digest some tires into crude oil, steel and carbon black to be sold as raw materials. The company already flattens and links truck and bus tires together in portable, artifici... |
716697_1 | Tenneco Unit To Help Chile Energy Plan | the lead in building a 350-megawatt plant near San Isidro. A third power plant near Concepcion will be converted to natural gas from coal and its capacity increased to 310 megawatts from 100. Polpaico, San Isidro and Concepcion are all in the central part of the country, near the capital, Santiago. The consortium that ... |
716675_0 | Recycled Material Is Finding A New and Lucrative Market | Recycling is being transformed from a gesture to help the environment into a solid business. Used paper, cardboard and newspaper that had recently languished in warehouses are now hot commodities. The reasons: an economic recovery that has increased demand for raw materials, and a commitment by manufacturers to build t... |
716707_1 | Excerpts From Clinton's News Conference on His Programs | Census report makes clear, there are still too many Americans working for low wages, living in poverty. There are places in rural and urban America where the recovery has not yet reached. But since, if you look at the changes since just a few short years ago, when we were exporting jobs and exploding the deficit, there... |
721740_1 | Technology; Battery Makers Are Betting on Lithium-Polymer Cells | tape, painting or spraying one layer on top of the other," said Russell Moy, a senior researcher at the Ford Motor Company. Mr. Moy represents Ford on the United States Advanced Battery Consortium, a Detroit-based group that includes the Big Three auto makers and is partially funded by the Federal Government. Edward O.... |
721749_1 | This Business Club Is the Real Old Boys' Network | it, "sound financial health." These are businessmen who take the long view -- no Fortune 500 flashes, no takeover-and-acquisition artists or asset strippers. Mr. Pelino talks easily about how the sugar-coated nuts that are a company specialty go back to the 1400's and how the discovery of America at the end of that cen... |
721834_6 | Health Care, Cuba's Pride, Falls on Hard Times | 1989, officials say the country's inventory of medicines has dropped from 1,300 types to about 800, though at a handful of clinics and hospitals visited by a reporter, the checklists were far shorter cabinets and tended to be half-empty. Health officials say the shortages have been aggravated by the United States econo... |
721604_0 | Tower Air Flight | To the Editor: My husband and I booked a flight to Paris-Orly with Council Charter to fly on Tower Air, departing June 25, returning from Paris-Orly on Aug. 6. When we arrived at Tower Air's terminal for departure we were engulfed in a screaming mob attempting to get through the doors. These were people taking a flight... |
721628_60 | THE GREENING OF THE CRRIBBEAN | carvings, along the trail were carved by native Arawak or Carib Indians long before Christopher Columbus's arrival in the West Indies; others contend they're the work of early African slaves brought to the island. The Reef Bay Trail is one of eight south shore trails, the steepest being the Bordeaux Mountain Trail risi... |
721866_0 | Despite Critics, Dairy Farmers Increase Use of a Growth Hormone In Cows | Despite consumer wariness about milk produced by cows injected with a genetically engineered hormone, thousands of dairy farmers across the country are adopting the new drug to increase production in their cows. The drug's manufacturer, the Monsanto Company, estimates that 7 percent of the nation's roughly 150,000 dair... |
716345_0 | World News Briefs; Telephone Links to Cuba Backed by White House | The Clinton Administration gave American telecommunications companies permission today to establish direct telephone links with Cuba in a move that is expected to vastly increase calls between the two countries. The decision will also enable six telecommunications companies to upgrade phone service to Cuba. For example... |
716481_0 | Bangladesh Succeeds With Family Planning | To the Editor: Re "What Success Story?" by Betsy Hartmann (Op-Ed, Sept. 29), on family planning in Bangladesh: Sterilization is not the Government's chief method of population control, accounting for only one-fifth of contraception in 1993-94, down from one-third in 1983. The growth in contraceptive use (from 19.1 perc... |
721020_1 | Cuba Takes Another Step in Opening Up Its Economic System | has been in place here since Mr. Castro took power in 1959. "It is like virginity -- you cannot lose it just a little bit," one senior foreign diplomat said of the economic changes. "If there is going to be a free market for agricultural products, then why not have a free market for industrial products as well?" The an... |
721026_2 | New Study Links Abortions and Increase in Breast Cancer Risk | in epidemiologic terms. Karin Michels, an epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health, said Federal health statistics showed that the annual rate of newly occurring breast cancer in a 40-year-old woman in the United States was 1.28 per 1,000. A 50 percent increase would amount to about 1.9 per 1,000. The smal... |
720998_1 | Episcopal Bishop Will Join Roman Catholics | ordaining women. Traditionalists hold that by ordaining women, church leaders are overstepping their authority, in that Jesus called only men as apostles. Bishop Pope said he would seek entrance to the Catholic priesthood through the Vatican's "pastoral provision," a legal procedure instituted by Pope John Paul II unde... |
717597_1 | The Streets Are Paved With Potholes; In the Inner-City Economy, Flat-Tire Shops Fill a Void | never seen one without two or three cars parked in front of it," said Eugene Rodriguez, an official with the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission who lives in East Harlem. "This is America. If there's a need, someone will create a business to fill it." The business is a peephole into the economy of the poor. Entreprene... |
718888_0 | Japan Plans to Conquer Sea's Depths | NO part of Japan is more than 75 miles from the sea. With its fish catch three times that of the United States, its shipyards some of the world's most innovative and its Emperor a marine biologist, the land of nearly 7,000 isles in the past few years has quietly honed its technological skills to become a global leader ... |
718940_0 | Toward Irish Peace | To the Editor: "A Chance for Peace in Ireland" (editorial, Oct. 14) contains strange assertions. The peace process under way in Northern Ireland was initiated by Prime Minister John Major of Britain and Prime Minister Albert Reynolds of Ireland in the Downing Street Declaration in December 1993. You can rest assured we... |
718900_1 | Plan to Clean Holy River Fails to Stem Tide of Filth | and Bangladesh. Such conditions can also lead to epidemics of communicable diseases, health specialists said. Doctors and environmentalists cited poor sanitary conditions, especially a failure to dispose of garbage, as one reason for the recent outbreak of pneumonic plague at Surat in western India. About 10 years ago,... |
718930_0 | Who's Delaying the Test Ban? Everyone. | More than 30 years after the U.S., the Soviet Union and Britain signed a Limited Test Ban Treaty halting nuclear tests in the atmosphere, they are finally getting around to negotiating a comprehensive test ban, barring tests altogether. But they and other nuclear-armed states seem to be looking for ways to limit the ne... |
719435_0 | Let's Be Ready for Next Epidemic | To the Editor: The next global epidemic, which may be more devastating than AIDS, is waiting to strike, and we are pitifully unprepared to fend it off. In recent years new diseases have been emerging and old ones reappearing in all parts of the world, spurred by environmental disruption, population movements, urban cro... |
715370_2 | Shuttle Soars Into Space on Mission to Detect Environmental Changes onEarth | see which might best support disease-carrying mosquito populations. The Endeavour's radars will also be used in an unusual experiment involving the dumping of oil into the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. German researchers will drop 100 gallons of crude oil and diesel fuel into the sea, as well as 10 gallons of nat... |
715418_1 | Dakar Journal;Linked to Internet, Could Africa's Voice Be Heard? | years ago to revitalize the agency, its total daily output had fallen to about 2,000 words, little more than two newspaper columns. Most often its articles were turgid dispatches by reporters who worked for their governments. Even though the creators of the service saw it as part of a new order, Mr. Fall, a technology ... |
709345_2 | Observer; In Wonder Land | replace the fish. Thus, salvation. It's amazing. Great dignitaries like governors used to make speeches linking gambling with sin and damnation. Now they shamelessly announce there is salvation in them there dice. The Indian, once hailed as "the noble red man" (while being nearly exterminated by his high-minded admirer... |
709320_2 | Observer; In Wonder Land | replace the fish. Thus, salvation. It's amazing. Great dignitaries like governors used to make speeches linking gambling with sin and damnation. Now they shamelessly announce there is salvation in them there dice. The Indian, once hailed as "the noble red man" (while being nearly exterminated by his high-minded admirer... |
709276_1 | China Is Getting Ready for Another Big Splash | medals for China in the 1992 Summer Games. What is most striking about the Chinese women going to Rome are the missing faces. Gone is Yang Wenyi, the explosive freestyle racer who led the Barcelona gold medal spree. And gone also is her teammate and gold medal winner in the 100-meter freestyle, Zhuang Yong. Both have r... |
704944_3 | A Life of Hiding for a Tobacco Critic Bound to Silence | a younger teacher, who he says had lesser credentials, he entered a complaint against Jackson State for age discrimination. In 1981 he moved to Louisville from Florida. Despite his 11 years of experience at Jackson State, he was unable to find a teaching job. Instead, he says, he took paralegal courses at Sullivan Juni... |
703662_9 | Survival of the Big Cats Brings Conflict With Man | not necessarily bother them. "We've observed lions observing people for long periods of time, months and months, without being aggressive," he said. But occasionally they do seem menacing, as was the case last Thursday in Lockwood, Calif., when a cougar wandered a residential neighborhood for two hours and then perched... |
703676_0 | CHRONICLE | MARTHA STEWART is not ordinarily intimidated, so when she encountered a couple of black bears in Wyoming, she stood her ground. So did the bears. Ms. Stewart was in the Wind River Range recently shooting a magazine spread on fly fishing, backpacking and camping. "We were cooking exquisite food at our campsite," she sai... |
703579_0 | I.R.A. Is Seen As Prepared To End Attacks | The Irish Republican Army has "strongly indicated" that it is preparing to suspend its campaign of killing in Northern Ireland, The Irish Times reported today. The Times, usually accurate in its Northern Ireland reports, said in a front-page article that "Republican sources in Belfast" had indicated that the I.R.A. was... |
707927_0 | Not for the Weak-Kneed: Sudsing at 107 Floors Up | From the dizzying height of the World Trade Center's indoor observation deck on the 107th floor of Tower B came a view even more spectacular than the Statue of Liberty in miniature majesty below: the feet of Roko Camaj, life-size, up above. Then came the rest of him, descending in his rig with squeegee, brush and spong... |
707991_3 | Pesticides May Leave Legacy of Hormonal Chaos | laboratory studies have shown that the synthetic chemicals can disrupt the reproductive development of mammal fetuses. And field investigations have traced reproductive disorders in mammals and birds to the consumption of fish whose flesh contained the chemicals. Dr. Colborn, Dr. Soto and others who are alarmed about e... |
707907_2 | As French Leave Rwanda, Critics Reverse Position | complete with French wine, at his headquarters in a schoolhouse in the town of Kibuye at the northern end of the French security zone. A Change of Attitude The French seem to be entitled to needle their last-minute suitors, for almost no one wanted to embrace them at the start of the intervention in late June. When Par... |
709077_1 | Britain Indicates Flexibility On End to Ireland Partition | that established partition is now irrelevant and "pretty much a red herring." The statement said other laws had superseded the act and allowed a change in Northern Ireland's status if the majority of the population there wanted it. Protestant political leaders in Northern Ireland oppose severing the province from Brita... |
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709146_1 | Speak Louder on Rights in China | hosting the 2000 Olympic Games, has been beaten and mutilated in a prison labor camp. Wang Dan, a student leader in the Tiananmen Square movement, was briefly detained Saturday after weeks of surveillance. Wei Jingsheng, China's leading democracy activist, who was harassed during Mr. Christopher's visit, soon after dis... |
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