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529662_0 | Persian Gulf Journal; Scientists in the Same Boat, Toiling in War's Wake | Call it plankton diplomacy: Iranian marine biologists have been working alongside American, Arab and other international scientists on this oceanographic vessel as she plies the placid waters of the Persian Gulf documenting environmental conditions in the aftermath of the war against Iraq. As scientists from the Irania... |
529726_0 | Madison Avenue 'Recycles': Old Footage in New Spots | IT is Madison Avenue's own version of recycling: footage from long-ago movies and television programs is being reused in contemporary commercials. Bits and pieces of stock footage from newsreels, documentaries, industrial and training films, cartoons, travelogues and the like -- particularly segments originally shot in... |
527909_6 | GRADUATES FACING WORST PROSPECTS IN LAST 2 DECADES | that its members are competing with 933,000 unemployed managers and professionals, whose jobless rate has increased by 60 percent in two years, said Samuel M. Ehrenhalt, regional director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in New York. "There have been no employment declines in some states in the West, Southwest and Sou... |
527881_1 | Observer; Ruled By Tools | unread. What's more, it was a poorly written letter -- not a graceful phrase in it, too much stiffness in the prose joints, and twice as long as it needed to be. Such gassiness is characteristic of writing done on computers. Computers make the physical toil of writing so negligible that the writer can write on forever,... |
528092_0 | Learning to Save Trees | WHEN personal computers first appeared in offices a decade ago, seers forecast a future in which paper documents would be obsolete, replaced by flurries of electrons and phosphors. Instead, according to one study, American businesses generated a record 775 billion pages of paper last year. So much for the paperless off... |
528043_5 | Magnetic Crystals, Guides for Animals, Found in Humans | magnetite crystals with a strong magnetic field. Afterward, the bees flew in the opposite directions to those they had been trained to fly. But it was a health controversy that drove his research toward exploration of the human brain. Epidemiological studies over the last decade have suggested a possible but inconclusi... |
526234_1 | Caribbean Exodus: U.S. Is Constant Magnet | of only about 33 million, has been consistently exporting more of its people in percentage terms than any other area of the world. While populous countries scattered widely around the globe, from Mexico to Thailand, often lead in one United States immigration category or another, a handful of Caribbean nations sit at o... |
526376_1 | Digital Radio: Static Is Only Between Owners | big broadcasting corporations and in the workshops of speciality electronics companies are prompting a growing number of station owners to look at digital radio as a competitive opportunity. The advances come as the radio industry remains in one of its worst slumps, and as satellite services and cable television networ... |
526220_0 | Accustomed to Not-So-Smooth Sailing | Bill Koch likes to call himself a contrarian, and his neighbors here might agree. Despite their protestations over the bronze sculpture of a bulbous, nude woman perched in a reclining position on Koch's bayside front lawn, the Kansas-born billionaire has refused to remove it. In fact, Koch has considered turning the sc... |
526385_0 | CHRONICLE | "It a provocative title, isn't it?," BERNARD M. W. KNOX," said yesterday. And there was no question that the name he gave the speech he will deliver Thursday in Washington is likely to be controversial: "Oldest Dead White European Males." Asked yesterday how he chose this title for the National Endowment for the Humani... |
531824_0 | Company News: Leasing Without Debt; Know How to Buy a Car? Ford Has Another Idea | Car buyers used to be easily divided into two groups: those who took out loans and those who paid cash to avoid debt. But new leasing programs are blurring this neat division and creating a numbing array of choices. The Ford Motor Credit Company added another wrinkle yesterday with an option that allows a customer to p... |
531791_0 | Cornucopia of New Foods Is Seen As Policy on Engineering Is Eased | A new Government policy for streamlining regulation of food produced through genetic engineering should result in an abundance of new, varied and more wholesome products, while revitalizing the biotechnology industry, Federal officials said today. Industry leaders said that the first of these new foods, probably tomato... |
531901_1 | NEWS SUMMARY | and woodlands of the Donana wildlife refuge in southern Spain, flamingos and eagles breed and compete for food. But around Donana, developers want to build hotels and marinas, and farmers seek more water for irrigation. Environmentalists fear such pressures threaten the park's survival. A3 BELGRADE ADDRESSES DEMANDS In... |
531810_0 | Giving New Futures to Refrigerators With a Past | Greg Slade worked in construction before the recession blew his small carpentry company off the map. Now he's into deconstruction. Old refrigerators to be exact. He's seen them all: Clunky white Kelvinators with interiors of pure porcelain, geriatric General Electrics with round compressors on top that look like Navy S... |
531764_2 | The Road To Rio: Setting an Agenda for the Earth; The Wetlands Home of Many Species Is Threatened by Spain's Great Thirst | the world, the Pantanal in western Brazil, has come under near-siege in the last decade. Spain, with its long coastline, has paved over more of its shores than any other Mediterranean nation of Europe. In its rush to grow and prosper, Spain has long brushed aside conservationists' protests. A 'Save Donana' Movement Yet... |
531755_0 | Economic Scene; The Wage Gap: Sins of Omission | EVERYBODY agrees that incomes were less equal by the end of the 1980's than at the beginning. There is hardly a consensus, though, on why. The collapse of the two-parent family -- Dan Quayle's flavor of the month -- surely had something to do with harder times at the bottom end, as did Washington's squeeze on welfare a... |
529426_0 | A Daunting Challenge for Graduates | STARTING out or starting over -- either way, finding a job these days can be difficult. For many recent college graduates and for experienced workers, obtaining employment in a changing marketplace is becoming daunting. Although most job seekers do not need an expert to confirm what they already know from personal expe... |
529436_3 | What the Pursuit of Leisure Required in the 19th Century | gesture apparently did a lot for Anglo-American yacht relations. A gentleman has been defined as a loser who turns loss to his own advantage, presumably by making his opponent feel uncomfortable. Skating gets a lot of play, beginning with the roughly five-foot-long skate, a trade sign carved out of wood and fitted with... |
529316_0 | SCIENTISTS DISSECT SOUNDS OF MUSIC | Music may have charms to soothe a savage breast, but as scores of scientists met here this week to dissect musical sound into power spectrums, reverberation equations, modal resonances and other technical arcana, some participants concluded that it is easier to appreciate music than to fathom its tortuous acoustic comp... |
529102_0 | Ruined Tires | To the Editor: In February we were visiting Torrey Pines State Beach near La Jolla, Calif., when we were stranded by a form of medieval automobile torture. Since we were from the East and unfamiliar with this state's cruel punishment for an accidental turn onto the wrong side of the parking lot, we turned and the car's... |
529181_0 | ABOUT CARS: A Quick Trip Through the Mailbag; Some Spare Thoughts | Dear Sir: I enjoyed reading about the 1992 Cadillac Seville STS. However, I can't go on a trip from New Jersey to Florida without ample trunk space and a full-size spare tire. There is not one American carmaker who has a car that carries a full-size spare. I wouldn't even mind if I had to buy the spare tire and rim if ... |
528983_20 | Cuban Journal: Havana and Beyond | Later, over lunch, when we mentioned to the former Castro associate that we suspected that our phone might be tapped, she just nodded. "Probably," she said. Never discuss money on the phone, she told us. Or anything of substance. Certainly not politics or whom we might be seeing. On another occasion we met an Ethiopian... |
529284_3 | Talking: Age Limits; Residents Fight for Privileges | residents might be highly offended by the notion that anyone over 55 is physically impaired). GORDON H. MANSFIELD, H.U.D.'s assistant secretary for fair housing and equal opportunity, said this was because the regulations were based on prior programs designed to protect the elderly. Handicapped access would therefore b... |
529252_5 | Aging Baby Boomers Take Fresh Look at a Milestone | gadgets and how-to guides. With the increase in the numbers of women of menopausal age, the most popular estrogen supplement, Premarin, moved in the last year to No. 2 on the list of drugs most commonly prescribed in America, with 80 percent of a $750 million market. There has also been a surge in over-the-counter reme... |
529037_0 | Negotiators Report Progress in Talks On Drivers Dispute | Negotiations between The New York Times, a drivers union and a delivery wholesaler reported "some progress" yesterday, the third day of talks aimed at resolving the bitter 11-day labor dispute, a spokesman for a panel of intermediaries said. "They've broken up into subcommittees," said the spokesman, Frank Mazza, who i... |
531419_2 | The Road To Rio -- Setting an Agenda for the Earth; Difficult Algebra for China: Coal = Growth = Pollution | half a ton of coal during winter. Three-quarters of China's energy comes from coal, and power generators and industrial boilers pump hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the air each day. "Every morning a dense black smoke streams out of the smokestack right behind our house," said a young worker who li... |
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532455_2 | CONFERENCE IN RIO/The Rich Vs. the Poor; Cooling the Globe Would be Nice, But Saving Lives Now May Cost Less | countries to shoulder the anti-warming effort. Any funds they spend in the third world should go for things like safe drinking water, sewers, cleaner smokestacks and engines and soil conservation. Education for girls should be another priority, some say, since studies have shown that girls in developing countries with ... |
532453_0 | Bon Appetit, Scientists Say | A year from now, Americans may be able to buy a tomato with more flavor and a longer shelf life. For that, they can thank -- or berate -- Calgene Inc. of Davis, Calif., and Federal officials who last week sped genetically engineered foods toward grocery shelves, ruling that no special testing, labels or regulations are... |
532451_0 | Rio: A Start on Managing What's Left of This Place | Most of the delegates converging on Rio de Janeiro for the start of the Earth Summit on Wednesday, it seems safe to say, believe that humanity must do something about the harm that human expansion is doing to the rest of the biosphere. But it also seems that many of the world's governments tend to pin primary responsib... |
532472_1 | THE ROAD TO RIO: Setting an Agenda for the Earth; In Rwanda, Births Increase and the Problems Do, Too | declaration, in which countries are urged to adopt "appropriate demographic policies." Yet demographic experts continue to issue dire warnings about the threat of overpopulation. The director of the United Nations Population Fund, Dr. Nafis Sadik, complained last month that the Vatican had successfully lobbied against ... |
532588_1 | The Captain Was the Last to Know | made despite the actions of the man at the wheel. If this isn't your fancy, disembark now. Otherwise you'll find yourself signed on with one of the best storytellers afloat, whose chosen period is the great age of fighting sail but whose works have none of ye olde creaks and groans of period fiction. When he started, M... |
532681_0 | Networking; Now Software Giants Are Targeting E-Mail | Hook two computers together and sooner or later the two users will want to send one another messages. That's electronic mail, or E-mail, as it is universally known in the world of networks. This desire to communicate explains why selling E-mail software has become a $130 million business, and why the heavy-hitting soft... |
532740_1 | Hot Air, and Hopes, at Rio | the last moment did he even agree to attend. What a mockery of his promise to be an environmental President. The richer industrialized countries of the North have dragged their heels at contributing the financial resources needed to apply clean technology to the developing world. Japan and Europe seem prepared to pledg... |
532735_0 | Brazil's Other Great Wilderness | WHAT Brazilian ecosystem spreads over a pristine area the size of Britain, is threatened by encroaching development, but offers visitors a combination of wildlife, tropical greenery and primeval solitude? Wrong. Don't worry. Most participants at the Earth Summit starting on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro would probably al... |
532706_0 | Tech Notes; An Antenna That's a Hybrid | Two Georgia Tech inventors have developed a small broad-band antenna that they say is less expensive and more versatile than existing antennas. Their device is called a spiral-mode microstrip antenna. Its advantage, the scientists say, lies in combining the technology of two existing antennas: the broad-band frequency ... |
525582_1 | America -- Environmental Dictator? | of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Echoing this view, Laura Rojas, Director General of Venezuela's Institute of Foreign Trade, said in an interview: "The U.S. has passed domestic legislation that has jurisdiction outside of the U.S. Environmental protection can't be had at the cost of another country." In F... |
525593_3 | Technology; From the Voice-Mail Acorn, a Still-Spreading Oak | a computer had at most about 52 minutes worth of messages. With the average employee getting about three messages a day, a moderate-size business of a few dozen employees would eat up the computer memory in a few days. The voice mail system would whir to a halt. To get around the small capacity, businesses would buy mu... |
525335_0 | Through Athens With Freud | THE HONEY AND THE HEMLOCK Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America. By Eli Sagan. 429 pp. New York: Basic Books. $27. EVER since the founders of this country used the governmental structure of ancient Athens as the model for their new democracy, Americans have looked to Athenian history for inspirati... |
525578_0 | First Steps Taken in Revived Use of Breast Implants | Priscilla Mack, a breast cancer patient who had a mastectomy late last year, walked into Georgetown University Hospital on Friday morning, signed a long consent form, was wheeled into an operating room and a few minutes later became one of the first women to receive a silicone gel-filled breast implant under the comple... |
525626_25 | The Curse of the Statehouse | new state budget. All sides agree there can be no more taxes this year, so still-deeper cuts in spending must be made -- cuts that are sure to hasten the decline of California's fine universities, public schools, parks, freeways and other "infrastructure" essential to economic recovery. Wilson and the Assembly are head... |
525450_4 | How to Raise Funds in Difficult Times | way. If a donor makes a major gift to a university, the donation is tax deductible. He can then take the money he saves on income tax and use it to buy a life insurance policy. Q. What new kinds of drives has the Fund for Educational Advancement undertaken? A. One is called "Greening of the Garden State," a tree planti... |
527034_2 | Study Sees Rise in Child Death Rates | countries, H.I.V./AIDS could become the leading killer of children by the year 2000," the report said, adding that in parts of Africa, the spread of AIDS could cancel out "virtually all the reductions in child mortality achieved through immunization and other health measures." Life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa coul... |
527084_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Mouse Without Immunity; Genpharm Expects Patent for an Animal | A Silicon Valley biotechnology company says it expects to receive a patent soon for a genetically engineered mouse that lacks an immune system. It would be only the second animal patent ever issued. The patent anticipated by Genpharm International would end the Patent and Trademark Office's four-year recess in awarding... |
531945_1 | Genetically Altered Wheat Promises Higher Yields | of Bio/Technology, said the achievement was important because it meant that all the principal Western staples have now yielded to genetic engineering. Corn, rice, soybeans and several other foods have already been genetically altered in one respect or another and are being prepared for eventual commercial production. H... |
531921_0 | Vatican Seeks a Voice in Earth Summit Resolutions on Population | In preparation for next month's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Vatican diplomats have begun a campaign to try to insure that the gathering's conclusions on the issue of runaway population growth are not in conflict with Roman Catholic teaching on birth control. To pursue its cause, the Vatican has insisted on changes ... |
531914_1 | Abroad at Home; The Pillage President | want to exploit irreplaceable natural resources. The Administration has been trading the future -- our children's land and air and water -- for present political advantage. Mr. Bush wants the support and the money of logging, mining and other such interests. Two weeks ago he decided to let companies increase air pollut... |
530836_0 | The Road To Rio -- Setting an Agenda for the Earth; Homesteaders Gnaw at Brazil Rain Forest | Bright green manioc plants sprouting among charred tree trunks and a constant hammering and sawing on house frames are signs that a new colony of homesteaders has arrived in this remote corner of the Amazon, an area covered only a year ago by tropical rain forest. "I worked all my life as a sharecropper," explained Ant... |
527211_0 | The World; Food Production And the Birth Rate Are In a New Race | WITHOUT a huge increase in food production in the developing world, demographers are saying, millions more Africans, Latin Americans and Asians will be born in the coming century only to face short and miserable lives marked by poverty and near-starvation. The United Nations is trying to prove the demographers wrong wi... |
527286_2 | More and More Look to a Post-Castro Cuba | with its recent reform efforts, however, Havana has unleashed a harsh crackdown on dissenters, sternly lectured Cuban journalists that the Government is the sole repository of the truth and denounced as "garbage" multiparty electoral democracy, without which the United States now says there will be no normalization. Re... |
527306_3 | Noted With Pleasure | by Carlo Ginz burg (Johns Hopkins University, paper). We can only guess at the enrichment of the erotic imagination provoked by such images as the nude Andromeda used to illustrate vernacular versions of the "Metamorphoses." This statement may sound paradoxical, perhaps, since these pictorial representations frequently... |
527288_3 | AMERICAN EXPORTS TO POOR COUNTRIES ARE RAPIDLY RISING | and are projected to double this year, the company says. And in Clive, Iowa, the tiny Hettinga Equipment Inc. expects its sales of plastic molding equipment in Malaysia, Thailand and elsewhere in Asia to triple this year. Sales in India and Russia Jeanine S. Hettinga, the president and chief executive of the 51-employe... |
527343_4 | Women Cautioned on Heart Disease | who die from breast cancer. As you get older, the risk for heart attack and stroke multiplies." In the last decade, the Island has seen a dramatic increase in the population of people over 65. Based on the 1980 Census, those over 65 made up 10.6 percent of the Nassau population. By 1990 the percentage had risen to 14.2... |
527338_0 | Distribution of The Times Is Disrupted | Delivery of the New York Times was disrupted again yesterday when a Times truck was burned and another was heavily damaged early yesterday as sporadic violence continued in a labor dispute between the newspaper truck drivers union and a wholesale newspaper distributor and The New York Times. A spokeswoman for The Times... |
527367_0 | Mothers, Flowers and Death | On Friday the north lawn of the United Nations was ablaze with 500,000 carnations placed there by the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The flowers weren't celebratory. They were grave markers -- for the 500,000 women who die each year around the globe from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Most... |
527423_0 | 143 Lands Adopt Treaty To Cut Emission of Gases | Representatives of 143 countries adopted a treaty today that commits the nations of the world to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases that scientists fear could cause a catastrophic global warming in the next century. The treaty, its key provisions hammered out in intensive talks ove... |
527564_0 | Tech Notes; A Nose for Pollution | A nondescript ceramic-encased tube, just 32 inches long and 2 1/2 inches in diameter, could become a key component in the battle against water pollution, its designers believe. Battelle Memorial Institute, a nonprofit research company in Columbus, Ohio, and Ocean Sensors Inc., a San Diego maker of ocean sensors and mea... |
527424_0 | 143 Lands Adopt Treaty To Cut Emission of Gases | Representatives of 143 countries adopted a treaty today that commits the nations of the world to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping gases that scientists fear could cause a catastrophic global warming in the next century. The treaty, its key provisions hammered out in intensive talks ove... |
527366_0 | Mothers, Flowers and Death | On Friday the north lawn of the United Nations was ablaze with 500,000 carnations placed there by the International Planned Parenthood Federation. The flowers weren't celebratory. They were grave markers -- for the 500,000 women who die each year around the globe from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Most... |
527284_2 | Rulings Jar France Into Reliving Its Anti-Jewish Role in Nazi Era | Reaction to Far Right? Some political experts see the new determination to expose the fascist elements of Vichy rule as a reaction to the recent growth of a racist extreme right in France. Others view it in the context of France's introspective search for a new identity in a Europe transformed by the end of the cold wa... |
528625_0 | Florio Signs Bills on Child Abuse and Exploitation | Gov. Jim Florio today signed into law three bills that increase penalties for people who exploit and abuse children. Together with a bill that Mr. Florio signed in April that made possession of child pornography a crime, the new laws give New Jersey one of the toughest set of child-protection standards in the nation, s... |
528598_1 | Intermediaries Are Optimistic In Dispute At The Times | trouble-free production and distribution, said, "I hope the 24-hour moratorium on violence and delivery delays continues. The moratorium clearly provides the atmosphere that could lead all of us to a peaceful resolution." Arthur E. Imperatore, the owner of Imperial Delivery Service, whose purchase of the assets of two ... |
528638_5 | Pay of College Graduates Is Outpaced by Inflation | employers list insurance costs together." Latest Documentation Bill Clinton, the likely Democratic Presidential candidate, has publicly cited studies illustrating the gap that has developed between the incomes of the wealthiest Americans and those of the rest of the population. The Economic Policy Institute's findings ... |
528652_1 | Rio Journal; Cleaning the Environment for Environmentalists | visiting world leaders. Dashing hopes held by environmentalists a year ago, world leaders are not expected to sign substantive agreements here on controlling carbon dioxide gases, preserving forests and preserving biological diversity. Reflecting environmentalists' growing anger, Carlos Minc, a founder of Brazil's Gree... |
528613_0 | COMPANY NEWS: Cellular Safety First; The Life You Save May Be on the Phone | Owners of car cellular phones, sit up straight. Don't take your hands off the wheel. And pay close attention. This is National Cellular Safety Week, May 12 to 18. More than 7.6 million people in the United States have cellular telephones, perhaps 4 million of them in automobiles. But ever since these wireless phones be... |
531715_0 | INSIDE | The Burden of Debt The Government is hemorrhaging red ink at a rate of $1 billion a day. Economists now fear that the debt is undermining productivity. Page D1. Baker and the Europeans The European Community is likely to respond half-heartedly to an American scolding over Yugoslavia policy. News analysis, page A6. Too ... |
531713_1 | GENE-ALTERED FOOD HELD BY THE F.D.A. TO POSE LITTLE RISK | indicate that special precautions are warranted in most cases of gene-altered foods, and the new policy outlines the special circumstances that would require testing and regulation before a product goes on the market. Officials of the Federal agency said the core of the policy was based on science and the principle tha... |
530594_0 | Buses for Disabled Children To Roll in Albany Accord | A political dogfight that for three weeks kept thousands of disabled children away from preschool programs in New York City was settled tonight, clearing the way for the buses that transport the children to roll again beginning Thursday morning. The dispute was a stark case study in how the lives of 7,500 small childre... |
530583_2 | Greystones Journal; Irishwomen, Just Talking: The Topic Is Abortion | become entangled in the referendum on June 18 on the Treaty on European Union, which has an abortion protocol that could bring changes in Irish law. The Government is gambling that the abortion dispute will not bring about defeat of the treaty, which it strongly favors, and has promised to deal with the question of leg... |
530476_0 | Overpopulation Becomes Our Problem Too | To the Editor: According to the latest projections of the United Nations Population Fund, the world population is expected to rise from 5.48 billion in mid-1992 to 10 billion in 2050, and 97 percent of the increase is expected to occur in developing countries (news article, April 30). The report points to the distressi... |
528277_0 | Space Agency Plans to Send Crew of 3 to Grab Wobbling Satellite | After repeated failures to rescue a wayward communications satellite, the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour today proposed a last-ditch plan that calls for space walks by three astronauts on Wednesday. Late tonight the shutttle's ground controllers agreed to the astronauts' plan. That many astronauts venturing into s... |
528281_0 | Efforts Intensify to End Newspaper Labor Dispute | As more incidents of violence and vandalism hampered deliveries of The New York Times, efforts intensified yesterday to chart a way out of the increasingly bitter weeklong confrontation pitting The Times and a news distributor against the delivery union. At an emotional meeting of the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Uni... |
529983_0 | Environmentalists Accuse U.S. Of Trying to Weaken Global Treaty | As negotiations draw to a close here on an international treaty to slow the world's steady loss of plant, animal and microbial species, the United States is being accused by environmental groups of trying to weaken the agreement due to be signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro next month. Biologists have warned t... |
529861_0 | INSIDE | Deciding Whether to 'Treat' Hormone Loss of Menopause Hormone replacement therapy offers benefits after menopause, like some protection against heart disease and osteoporosis, but women must decide whether benefits outweigh possible risks. Science Times, page C1. Execution Stay Is Refused Virginia's Governor refused to... |
529968_7 | Can Drugs 'Treat' Menopause? Amid Doubt, Women Must Decide | topical creams and lubricants. Estrogen replacement alone cannot keep the internal and external ravages of age at bay indefinitely, but it can retard such changes in estrogen-dependent tissues and reverse many of them even if estrogen use is begun years after menopause has occurred. Thus, a decade or more after pain an... |
533887_0 | Excerpts From Rio Memo: A Plea for the Environment | Following are excerpts from a cable sent by William K. Reilly, director of the Environmental Protection Agency and acting head of the United States delegation at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The cable, stamped "Confidential," was addressed to Clayton Yeutter, President Bush's domestic policy chief. June 3, 1992 ... |
538209_0 | In Paris, an Uneasy 'Oui' to One Europe | In a display of France's conflicting feelings toward Europe, French legislators today approved constitutional changes needed to put the Maastricht Treaty on European union into effect, while angry farmers blocked highways around Paris to protest a reduction of European Community subsidies. Endorsement of the constituti... |
538333_0 | Part of Rwanda's Problem Begins in U.S. | To the Editor: "In Rwanda, Births Increase and Problems Do, Too" (front page, May 31) relies on the flawed logic of population-control ideology and fails to examine the real problems facing Rwandans and others in the developing world. The high birth rate in Rwanda is not the cause but rather a symptom of poor living co... |
538219_0 | Incentives to Graduate: Money and New Paths | Chester Mirador grins when he recalls failing eighth grade. His mother would drop him at the front door of the Westport Middle School and he would slip out the back to join friends. But four years ago his life changed when Ewing Kauffman promised him and his fellow students at Westport High School financial support -- ... |
538265_2 | A Call to Withdraw South African Athletes | Olympics at the Summer Games in Rome in 1960. Ten years later, the country was expelled from the Olympic family because of its policies of racial segregation, a blow to a sports-mad country with outstanding athletes of all races in track and field, soccer, tennis and golf. As momentum increased for creating shared powe... |
536422_0 | Accounts | * Spice Time Foods, Hoboken, N.J., to the Zak Agency, New York, as its first agency for consumer and trade advertising. Also, Alpwater S.A., Saxon, Switzerland, to Zak as the bottled water's American agency to handle creative and media for an introduction in the New York market. Billings were not disclosed. THE MEDIA B... |
536563_0 | Pond-Making Plants Nurture Riot of Life In Forest Treetops | A VISITOR who glances upward into the canopy of a New World tropical rain forest will be struck by the sight of spiny, succulent plants that festoon the tree branches and trunks, making a constellation of star-shaped silhouettes against the sky. This large family of plants, called bromeliads, is well known to plant ent... |
536440_0 | Diet May Play a Role In Menopause Effects | To the Editor: You report on hormonal treatments of troublesome menopause symptoms (Science Times, May 19) and indicate that other treatments are not well documented. All the more reason to examine life style and diet in a scientific way. Japanese women have a much lower incidence of hot flushes than counterparts in Eu... |
536438_0 | Mutant Foods Create Risks We Can't Yet Guess; No Evidence of Danger | To the Editor: There is no known scientific evidence that genetically engineered tomatoes may be dangerous to human health, as Sheldon Krimsky, professor of urban and environmental policy, maintains (Op-Ed, June 1). He relies on people's ignorance and fear of the effects of biotechnology on foods. Professor Krimsky imp... |
536439_0 | Mutant Foods Create Risks We Can't Yet Guess; Since Mary Shelley | To the Editor: "Tomatoes May Be Dangerous to Your Health" (Op-Ed, June 1) by Sheldon Krimsky is right to question the decision of the Food and Drug Administration to exempt genetically engineered crops from case-by-case review. Ever since Mary Shelley's baron rolled his improved human out of the lab, scientists have be... |
536437_0 | Mutant Foods Create Risks We Can't Yet Guess | To the Editor: "Not-So-Bad Boy of Biodiversity" (editorial, June 5), which sides with the Bush Administration and the biotechnology industry against the Rio de Janeiro biodiversity treaty, trivializes and misrepresents the issues. Readers are left with the Administration's claim that third-world countries are seizing a... |
535209_1 | 4 of the Varied Faces In the Global Crowd At the Rio Gathering | industry people, environmentalists with government people, environmentalists with trade people," said the woman who is founder and president of the Association for the Defense of the Environment in Guatemala. For Mrs. Pacheco, the Earth Summit is a bittersweet experience. The formal name of the gathering, the United Na... |
535191_0 | Pact Is Shaping on Environmental Aid to Third World | Negotiatiors from rich and poor countries were moving tonight toward a multibillion-dollar agreement under which the industrialized nations would help the third world pay the extra costs of making sure that their economic development does not inflict irreparable damage on the world's fragile ecological systems. Environ... |
535210_0 | Citing Space Photos, Scientists Say Forests in the Northwest Are in Danger | A team of Government scientists mapping changes in the earth's surface says the latest satellite pictures show a surprising level of damage to the richest forests of the United States. When compared particularly with the tropical rain forests of Brazil, the evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest, although only a te... |
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539460_0 | Dublin To Meet With Protestants From the North, Including Paisley | The Irish Government said over the weekend that it is sending high-ranking officials to meetings in London on Tuesday with prominent hard-line Protestant leaders from Northern Ireland. The Protestants are to include the Rev. Ian Paisley, the powerful political and religious leader, who in the past has scornfully refuse... |
538141_4 | Political Eavesdropping Made Easier | of phone. Listening Toms at the convention, said Philip R. Karn, who designs cellular telephone equipment but insisted on anonymity for his company as a condition for the interview, could simply rent a room at the Ramada Hotel facing Madison Square Garden across Seventh Avenue. They could point a special ultra-high-fre... |
538157_0 | Tallinn Journal; Leaky Borders Fill Baltics Brimful With Intrigue | Ten minutes out and Finland is fading fast astern; Jimi Hendrix appears on the video and beer sells for $1.70 at the bar. This is the 5 P.M. hydrofoil, Helsinki to Tallinn, and not an empty seat can be found. These days, it seems, everybody's doing the Baltic commute. Flowing into Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by ferry... |
538056_7 | Spy Data Now Open For Studies Of Climate | satellites and their records. In explaining the directive's origin, the official said the Administration's teams had concluded that "heretofore classified assets" might aid ecological research, "the winds of change being what they are." The existence of the directive was first reported in Space News, a trade publicatio... |
538183_2 | Movement Builds to Fight Harmful Projects in Poor Nations | project an issue. The Environmental Defense Fund, the International Rivers Network and Greenpeace International said in a letter to the bank before the vote that the project on the Shire River near Blantyre would threaten an already endangered elephant population, flood part of a wildlife sanctuary and disrupt the live... |
533308_3 | As Forests Fall, Environmental Movement Rises in Brazil | founded in 1986 by Maria Tereza Jorge Padua, an agricultural engineer, former director of Brazil's national parks and current president of Ibama, the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Resources. Frequently sought out by foreign groups for partnerships, this highly professional group received $582,000 fro... |
534719_0 | To Protect Bush, U.N. Will Limit Access to Talks | Fearing demonstrations against President Bush, the United Nations has drawn up plans to close the Earth Summit conference center to representatives of private environmental groups and to sharply reduce credentials for official delegations, United Nations officials said today. Starting Thursday, the day before President... |
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