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660092_0 | Indian State Cuts Population Without Coercion; Gratuitous Advice | To the Editor: China is the recipient of your gratuitous advice in "Preventing 'Inferior' People in China" (editorial, Dec. 27). The People's Congress not only wants to solve the country's overpopulation problem, but also intends to prevent the birth of defective babies, using modern methods of interruption. You call C... |
660002_0 | France Sends 2 Murder Suspects Back to Iran, Stirring Wide Protest | France timed the announcement for the eve of the long New Year's weekend, it gave "national interest" as the reason for its decision, and it promised no further explanation for its decision to send home two jailed Iranians who were wanted for murder in Switzerland. But for all its efforts to keep attention away from th... |
661696_1 | Astronomers Say Hubble Repairs Were Successful | American Astronomical Society here today said the pictures would show that the repairs had successfully corrected the telescope's blurred vision. The replacement camera passed all its tests in recent weeks, said one person involved in the project who spoke only on the condition of anonymity. And the fact that the space... |
661698_1 | Inquiries Clear Whitman Campaign, Finding No Vote Suppression | Investigators Find Nothing Michael Chertoff, the United States Attorney for New Jersey, said today that a two-month inquiry by dozens of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and state investigators had uncovered no evidence that any of the activities described by Mr. Rollins had ever occurred. Mr. Chertoff said the i... |
662935_0 | Universities Turn to Computers to Lure Students | At a time of shrinking enrollment, some colleges are embracing new technology to market themselves better and to give students more information about their institutions. At about 100 high schools across the country, students can customize their college search using a CD-ROM data base produced by Collegeview, a company ... |
664597_2 | Many Ideas but Not All to Detroit's Liking | for millions of farm vehicles, lawn mowers and pleasure boats. The main work, though, involves cars, with experiments in a variety of new clean-air techniques, including the use of methanol in a diesel-type engine that has no spark plugs. Lab officials simply will not talk about some experiments, which, they say, are b... |
664606_1 | MCI Joins Mexican Phone Venture | technology and perhaps even the same brand names in Canada, the United States and Mexico. MCI has already formed an alliance with Stentor, a consortium of Canadian phone companies that provides most of the country's long-distance service. Smaller but Growing Fast The Mexican long-distance market is now about $6 billion... |
664614_0 | Putting Car-Exhaust Tests on the Road to Reality | The way the Environmental Protection Agency tests the emissions of a car looks a lot more like a game in a video arcade than actual driving. The driver sits behind the wheel of a car on a treadmill and, using only the accelerator and the brake pedal, tries to keep the car on a course that scrolls by on a computer scree... |
664585_0 | Special Pupils, Regular Classes, Thorny Issues | Flopping on the family couch, his glasses sliding down his nose, Aaron Moreland looked like any 9-year-old, perhaps a future doctor, pilot or accountant. Yet he cannot read or write or follow basic third-grade drills. And as his parents spoke of his learning disabilities, his attention deficit disorder and episodic tan... |
660434_0 | Guides for the Information Highway | |
660242_1 | Cuba Embargo Has Had Desired Effect | sale of Cuban sugar shows how American corporations seize on "porous laws" to use foreign subsidiaries and circumvent the United States embargo on Cuba. This is not the case. The 1988-89 Cargill case involves the Trading With the Enemy Act and took place three years before enactment of the Cuban Democracy Act, which I ... |
660237_3 | Foreign Policy Nears a Peril Point | be to make NATO so large that it becomes unwieldy. We can promote European stability by developing less formal military ties to Eastern Europe and making it clear that we will extend security guarantees if Moscow threatens its neighbors' security. This approach should reassure Eastern Europe, avoid unduly provoking Mos... |
660137_1 | Campus Journal; Dartmouth Seeks Ethics for the Age of Computers | 70,000 electronic mail messages are sent every weekday through Dartmouth's network, or Blitzmail as it is known. The campus is something of an electronic testing site. This experiment has forced students, faculty members and administrators to confront new legal and ethical issues as they rely more heavily on communicat... |
660125_2 | French Government Proposes Ban On Pregnancies After Menopause | Europe about so-called designer babies has been fed by a report that a British fertility clinic might implant a white woman's egg into a black woman. In response to still another report, the British Government said today that it would prohibit the use of eggs from aborted fetuses to impregnate infertile women. Scottish... |
664232_0 | World Economies | |
664168_1 | President's Address Will Emphasize Crime and Health | applies only to convicts who commit the final crime on Federal property, meaning its application would be narrow. Its significance is primarily symbolic, as governors in several states are proposing similar provisions. Public's Crime Fears In endorsing that idea, Mr. Clinton will join many Senate Democrats who approved... |
662192_4 | Venezuela's Sky-High Falls | in the 1930's. Unlike Brazil's Amazon forest, which is a flat, green soup, Venezuela's Gran Sabana is punctuated by tepui massifs rising as much as a mile and a half in the air. Isolated from each other and never settled by humans, these forbidding tepuis are endemic enclaves, or biological "islands in time," as one Ve... |
662459_3 | As Old as the Paste Pot, as New as the Computer | bog plants need to be protected. Then a librarian appeared with "The Natural and Agricultural History of Peat-Moss or Turf-Bog," written by Andrew Steele of Edinburgh in 1826. (It's a signed copy.) Mr. Steele tells how "moss-water is antiseptic or preservative." And he quotes Capt. James Cook, who took some on his ship... |
662175_1 | Taking Steps On Safety Issue | of the line of fire. Research into problem areas, education of travelers on the theme "travel smart" and anti-crime legislation were all endorsed. On education, the last two years have seen a surge in folders and leaflets counseling travelers on how to avoid danger or scams, and the organizations at the meeting -- repr... |
662412_3 | CHINA PROMISES U.S. TO TRY TO IMPROVE ITS HUMAN RIGHTS | "It's very important to stay on track." Officials at the United States Embassy said they were unaware of any coordination between Mr. Bush and the White House over his visit, though former Presidents as a matter of courtesy often carry messages and report on the results of their trips. American officials said that befo... |
662492_0 | How Family Planning Came to Bangladesh | To the Editor: No doubt, "contraceptives are the best contraceptive," as the three demographers you quote say in "Poor Lands' Success in Cutting Birth Rate Upsets Old Theories" (front page, Jan. 2), but getting people to use them is another matter. Bangladesh, as the authors suggest, is a good example. The real secret ... |
661419_0 | A Smaller, Better World | Ask many Americans about their ancestors and you'll be told that their great-grandfather was one of seven and their great-grandmother the fifth of nine. They themselves, however, will most likely be parents of two or three at most. Why? Because, like the residents of other industrialized countries, they know that small... |
664010_2 | U.S. ASKS INCREASE ON BIRTH CONTROL | proposed by Washington, other governments and the World Bank, Mr. Wirth said, world population could stabilize near 10 billion around 2050. Influence of Gore Administration officials said the population strategy was perhaps the most concrete sign of Vice President Al Gore's influence on foreign policy. Mr. Gore argues ... |
663959_0 | Ideas & Trends; Adam Smith Was No Gordon Gekko | TO most Americans who have even heard of him, the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith is simply the patron saint of conservative economics, the face on ties worn by Reagan aides, the name on the door of a libertarian think tank. But to a growing and politically diverse fraternity of economists, historians and ... |
663963_0 | Elementary, Dr. Watson. The Neurotransmitters Did It. | THE temptation is irresistible. On the one hand, the incidence of violent crime appears to be spreading across America like a metastatic cancer, invading backyards, suburban commuter trains, even a young girls' slumber party. On the other hand, the power of biomedicine expands daily, as researchers trumpet the discover... |
664012_0 | ACCORD IS REACHED ON USE OF FORESTS | With the world's forests vanishing at an accelerating rate, rich and poor countries have agreed on a draft accord that would put forest preservation on a par with the commercial demands of the global timber industry. But the agreement, reached late Friday in Geneva, falls far short of what many developing countries and... |
663803_0 | New Program For Troubled Teen-Agers | FOR many parents, life with a teen-ager can seem like a nonstop balancing act as the family bounces from crisis to crisis. Intense mood swings are normal in adolescence, but for seriously troubled youngsters they can trigger damaging responses. Increasing numbers of teen-agers may respond to the upheavals of adolescenc... |
663778_1 | POSTINGS: Done In by the Elements; Post Office Will Restore A Crumbling Cornice | by McKim, Mead & White, and has spent $700,000 on emergency work to remove the unsafe cornice. Next comes the restoration, which is to cost more than $2 million. "The problem was caused by all those years of weather on the exposed topmost element of the building," said David Hirsch of Hirsch/Danois Architects, the desi... |
663799_1 | Walking the Road of Life In the Face of a Disability | chromosome. Most people with the disorder have varying degrees of mental retardation, from very mild to severe, according to the National Down Syndrome Society, an advocacy and research group based in Manhattan. One in every 800 to 1,000 children is born with the disorder. Until recently, such children were considered ... |
663858_0 | China Steps Up Air Security | After 10 hijackings and a couple of attempted ones last year, all to Taiwan, China is still scrambling to improve its aviation safety record. Security officials recently stepped up luggage searches on southbound domestic flights and have issued tougher regulations to keep knives, toy guns and other items that might be ... |
665232_0 | New York's Crumbling Schools | As New York City schools continue to fall into disrepair, pressure to fix them up is mounting. The teachers' union and a group of parents jointly filed a lawsuit to make the city keep schools in good repair. And Schools Chancellor Ramon Cortines is trying to respond to maintenance problems faster and more efficiently. ... |
660611_2 | Prominent Blacks Meet to Search For an Answer to Mounting Crime | only in 1994, but in the coming decade." There is growing evidence that crime is becoming an important political and social issue among blacks. In a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted in November, 28 percent of the black respondents, twice the percentage of whites, placed crime and violence as the most important pr... |
660714_2 | Observer; This Mortal Coil | hadn't started his day with colon cancer, suicide, Prozac, necrotic joints, breast cancer, paranoia . . . Switched to yet another channel. It was doing AIDS. Turned off the TV, turned to National Public Radio hoping to catch Daniel Schorr saying something interesting. No dice. NPR was doing diabetes. Stayed with it a w... |
659626_2 | Staking a Claim on The Virtual Frontier | outspoken congregation of computer experts and scientists, many dedicated to the free flow of information. Until now any company or newcomer who dared break the code of behavior, by offering services for sale, would be "flamed" -- deluged with caustic electronic mail messages questioning the morals, behavior, and even ... |
659621_3 | Of a Certain Age, and in a Family Way | medicine has been devoted to overcoming the natural lottery, the hand fate has dealt each one of us," he said. "We are already pushing the bounds of attractiveness, sexuality, human well-being. Why draw the line at reproduction?" Germaine Greer, the feminist writer and author most recently of "The Change: Women, Aging ... |
659739_0 | Sawdust and Machismo | WITH a new year ahead, it seems a good day to look backward and forward. In short, to open the mail. Dear Sir, Have you ever heard of the "sawdust tire"? In the 1950's and 60's, in Iowa and Nebraska, they used to mix sawdust with tire-rubber compound to make a retread similar in result to what you describe -- and decad... |
659677_0 | THE REGRET BUSINESS: MARKETERS TOOL PRODUCTS TO ASSUAGE FEELINGS | As psychologists begin to explore the boundaries of regret, marketers have already begun to exploit the emotion in promotions of products ranging from greeting cards to flowers to automobiles. Take flowers, for example. In 1992, the American Floral Marketing Council, a trade group in Alexandria, Va., produced a 15-seco... |
659527_5 | A la Carte; A '93 Selection of Good Food at Reasonable Prices | rare on the Island. Then there is the bread, a rustic, rough and ready German peasant rye with caraway seeds and a substantial chewy crust. The thinly sliced thickly packed lean ham tastes best with tangy German mustard slathered on the dense, moist bread. The meal-size monster is a bargain at $6.75. LUCKY BOY 636 Rock... |
659620_2 | Among the Dying Species Are Lost Tribes of Mankind | rapidly declining, and anthropologists predict the people could be annihilated in the next 10 years. In August, miners massacred 70 Yanomami men, women and children. A new onslaught has begun on the lands of the Awa-Guaja Indians and the supposedly protected Alto Turiacu and Caru reserves in Northern Maranhao. The huma... |
659629_4 | The Dynamic New China Still Races Against Time | burdens. Consider these daunting realities: A population of 1.18 billion increases by the number of people in Texas every year. China will add the equivalent of the population of Japan (about 120 million) by the end of the decade. Its economy must grow fast just to stay even. In 1993, China produced a bumper crop of wh... |
659439_0 | Aux Armes! France Rallies To Battle Sly and T. Rex | Marin Karmitz, a leading French movie producer, has a simple theory about how the United States, through Hollywood, wants to fashion the way the world thinks. "Of course the U.S. movie industry is a big business," he says, "but behind the industrial aspect, there is also an ideological one. Sound and pictures have alwa... |
659647_0 | A Biological Treaty to Save Species Becomes Law | An agreement conceived in the spirit of Noah's mission to rescue every beast, every fowl and "whatsoever creepeth upon the earth" became international law this week. The agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, is both a global conservation pact and a guide to help rich and poor nations share in the profits o... |
659640_2 | Poor Lands' Success In Cutting Birth Rate Upsets Old Theories | and you might be surprised by the number of couples that use them." Bangladash, for one, "has a very effective family planning program," he said. Population experts have considered Bangladesh's acceptance of family planning especially noteworthy and surprising because it is a predominantly Muslim country. One reason fo... |
659625_1 | Wanted: An Isle One Can Call One's Own | is mine." But the feelings are not as intense as those inspired by the dream of a personal domain surrounded -- and isolated -- by water. Holding or acquiring territory on a mainland is basically about real estate, investment potential and prospects of appreciation. No matter how much land there may be, there are alway... |
659733_0 | Tech Notes; A Cleaner Motor Scooter | AS General Motors and Ford build a few dozen electric cars and wonder if there is a market for more, a Colorado company says it is ready to make electric vehicles by the tens of thousands, and anticipates a market in the millions within a few years. But its orientation is a little different: The vehicles are motor scoo... |
665554_0 | On Sunday; Gently Pressing For Women In Priesthood | CRITICS and friends may think combining feminism and the Catholic Church is a non-starter, a fruitless pursuit, for Nancy Small. But the 31-year-old church organizer, armed with a master of divinity degree, thinks she and a score of like-minded scholarly women, busy in some shadowy church activities, are on the cusp of... |
665402_0 | France Tells U.S., 'I Oppose, Therefore I Am' | WHEN Charles de Gaulle wrote to Lyndon B. Johnson to announce France's withdrawal from the military command of NATO and to request the removal of American soldiers in France, Secretary of State Dean Rusk pointedly asked the French President, "Does that include the dead Americans in military cemeteries as well?" Almost ... |
665362_0 | Turning Trash Into Treasure for the Soil | GARDENERS are learning to be good recyclers. Each year more of them learn that composting is an excellent way to recycle wastes like weeds, leaves, vegetable peelings and grass clippings. They add the decomposed organic material to soil, even potting mixes, and learn that the compost does wonders. In fact, the compost ... |
665297_1 | School Copes After Ceiling Collapses | are safe. We had to close down the kitchen and one dining room, and all six of our foreign- language classrooms are destroyed. "We have put our contingency plans in place, but conditions change here hour by hour. We have made a lot of adjustments and have had to relocate several rooms. The teachers are traveling a lot,... |
665363_0 | Turning Trash Into Treasure for the Soil | GARDENERS are learning to be good recyclers. Each year more of them learn that composting is an excellent way to recycle wastes like weeds, leaves, vegetable peelings and grass clippings. They add the decomposed organic material to soil, even potting mixes, and learn that the compost does wonders. In fact, the compost ... |
665361_0 | Turning Trash Into Treasure for the Soil | GARDENERS are learning to be good recyclers. Each year more of them learn that composting is an excellent way to recycle wastes like weeds, leaves, vegetable peelings and grass clippings. They add the decomposed organic material to soil, even potting mixes, and learn that the compost does wonders. In fact, the compost ... |
665360_0 | Turning Trash Into Treasure for the Soil | GARDENERS are learning to be good recyclers. Each year more of them learn that composting is an excellent way to recycle wastes like weeds, leaves, vegetable peelings and grass clippings. They add the decomposed organic material to soil, even potting mixes, and learn that the compost does wonders. In fact, the compost ... |
665549_0 | On Sunday; Gently Pressing For Women In Priesthood | CRITICS and friends may think combining feminism and the Catholic Church is a non-starter, a fruitless pursuit, for Nancy Small. But the 31-year-old church organizer, armed with a master of divinity degree, thinks she and a score of like-minded scholarly women, busy in some shadowy church activities, are on the cusp of... |
665546_0 | On Sunday; Gently Pressing For Women In Priesthood | CRITICS and friends may think combining feminism and the Catholic Church is a non-starter, a fruitless pursuit, for Nancy Small. But the 31-year-old church organizer, armed with a master of divinity degree, thinks she and a score of like-minded scholarly women, busy in some shadowy church activities, are on the cusp of... |
660319_6 | Electric Fields Create Nebulous Peril but Real Fear on L.I. | $200,000-a-year utility-bill credit for 15 years. School officials estimated the district would have to spend an additional $10 million to $12 million on the project. Lilco rejected the request. Although the company, like other utilities, has provided customers with meters to measure the electromagnetic fields around t... |
660258_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-12 CLINTON'S SLOGAN FOR RUSSIA President Clinton plans to tell Russia that it needs tougher economic reform, not less reform, when he goes to Moscow next week, officials say. But he also hopes to offer some ideas on how Western aid can be used to help those who lose their jobs because of the changes. A... |
660416_0 | Cost Analysis Doesn't Apply to Breast Cancer; Radiation's Risks | To the Editor: The debate on mammography reflects flawed science and misplaced emotionalism (front page, Dec. 27). Despite more than three decades of large-scale experience in the United States and elsewhere, no study has shown any benefit for mammography in premenopausal, as opposed to postmenopausal, women. But subst... |
664763_2 | Clinton in Bind Over Visa for I.R.A. Wing Leader | believe it is important for the United States to facilitate the emerging dialogue as an alternative to violence by granting Mr. Adams the right to travel to the United States. If this country is to do its part to encourage these recent developments, it must act in a timely way to encourage constructive dialogue aimed a... |
664822_0 | New Look for a Fast Plane | IT was not the usual trip to the airport: no luggage to check in, no carry-on, no ticket. Just an intriguing invitation to see how Andree Putman, the French designer, had put her distinctive signature on the interior of the Air France Concorde. For Ms. Putman, known for the chic face lift she gave the Morgans Hotel 10 ... |
662835_5 | Cells May Bear Mark Of Each Cancer Agent | caused by specific carginogens but others appear to result from random factors. "Cells make mistakes when they replicate DNA," he said, "just kind of randomly." He said that because so many substances from the environment eventually pass through the colon, its cells might be expected to register changes in their p53 fr... |
662839_1 | Threat of Encroaching Deserts May Be More Myth Than Fact | drylands. No one denies that what is taking place in the drylands is serious. As in much of the rest of the world, growing population and economic pressures are depleting the soil, damaging vegetation and natural ecosystems, depressing agricultural yields and threatening the future survival of those who live in the reg... |
662839_8 | Threat of Encroaching Deserts May Be More Myth Than Fact | yields would be much greater. "That's a good economic argument," Mr. Cardy said, "but where are the people who live in the drylands going to go? As populations grow, are we going to say that because it's tough we'll turn our backs on them? It doesn't make sense. People have been making a living in those areas for mille... |
661461_0 | A Draft State Dept. Report Finds China's Rights Record Is Still Poor | A draft of a State Department report on human rights has concluded that China did not make significant progress in curbing widespread abuses last year, senior Administration officials said today. President Clinton has said such progress is necessary for China to win extension of preferential trade status next summer. T... |
661473_1 | Ireland to Lift Radio-TV Ban on Speakers From I.R.A. Wing | in return for an end of I.R.A. violence. Sinn Fein has been considering the offer while finding fault with its language. Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, welcomed the removal of the ban, which he has long called censorship that prevented his party from making its case for a united Ireland without British contro... |
661500_2 | Bosnia's Legacy | the British -- the European countries that have the most soldiers in the United Nations peacekeeping force in Bosnia -- that NATO should not make yet another bombing threat unless it was actually prepared to carry it out this time. The allies did repeat the threat regarding Sarajevo today, and also specifically mention... |
663182_3 | New Study Links Gene to Risk of Bone Disease | was "probably the single most important discovery in osteoporosis in the last decade." About half of a person's risk of developing the bone-thinning disorder stems from "not having enough bone to start with," he said, adding that about 15 percent of the population has the most unfavorable gene combination, the BB genot... |
663155_1 | Bentsen Says China Isn't Doing Enough on Rights | merit renewal of its trade status, which enables Beijing to export its goods to the United States with the lowest possible tariffs. "I told them of our concern for human rights on the part of the American people, on the part of the President and the Congress," Mr. Bentsen said at a news conference after the talks. "Som... |
663288_0 | Electric Fields | To the Editor: Your Jan. 6 news article about concern on Long Island over possible health risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields mentions in only the briefest terms the studies of two Swedish epidemiologists. The studies of Maria Feychting and Anders Ahlbom show a fourfold increase in the risk of leukemia among ch... |
663287_0 | Law on Cuba Trade Starves the Babies | To the Editor: I write you as president of the Cuban American Committee for Peace, which has a membership of more than 17,000 Cubans residing in the United States, South America, Spain and Canada. All of us still have family in Cuba. I was appalled by Representative Robert G. Torricelli's Jan. 5 letter, in which he bra... |
659369_0 | The Sanctions Weapon, Blunted | Under the Trading With the Enemy Act, it has been illegal since 1963 for any U.S. company to do business with Cuba. Yet Cargill Inc., a giant agricultural trader, is accused of arranging for the sale of Cuban sugar to Venezuela in 1988 through its Swiss subsidiary, Cargill International. But, as The Times's Dean Baquet... |
692362_0 | 11 Stowaways Use Old Plan In Asylum Bid | Eleven Romanian stowaways followed each step of the plan that some of their compatriots used in April: They sealed themselves inside the same kind of metal container, crossed the Atlantic aboard the same cargo ship and broke out midway through the voyage with the same kind of tools. And, like the earlier stowaways, the... |
692404_3 | New Fuel for the Fed's Rate Fire | interview that while extremely high levels of inflation might have hurt productivity in foreign countries, inflation in the United States had never been high enough to have a demonstrable effect on productivity, even in the late 1970's. "I don't think it has been well documented at lower levels," she said. Link or No L... |
691175_2 | Djibouti Journal; By Ancient, Languorous Boat to a Frightening City | they don't gang up on me." The captain, barefoot and wearing a white turban and sarong, makes his living trading in the ports in Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Somalia. He delivers bags of rice, sugar and grain to Somalia and carries out frankincense and myrrh, still used in incense and perfume. But as chaos has envelop... |
692593_0 | F.C.C. Opens Airwaves To Fierce Competition | In opening up a big portion of the airwaves for new wireless telephone and data services, the Federal Communications Commission set the stage today for a fierce technological competition to serve people on the go. While the conventional wisdom holds that wireless communications will be increasingly popular for some tim... |
696350_2 | Excerpts From Opinions And Dissent on Religion | people who make few concessions to the modern world and go to great lengths to avoid assimilation into it. They interpret the Torah strictly; segregate the sexes outside the home; speak Yiddish as their primary language; eschew television, radio and English-language publications, and dress in distinctive ways that incl... |
696209_2 | Eli Lilly and Somatogen Seek Blood Substitute | he said. As the highest-volume producer of genetically engineered human insulin, Lilly's experience in large-scale production of proteins is crucial to the deal. While most recombinant proteins, like Genentech Inc.'s clot-dissolving T.P.A., are given in thousandths of a gram, a recombinant hemoglobin will have to be gi... |
696218_0 | Rwandans Protest French Intervention | |
696349_2 | Excerpts From Opinions And Dissent on Religion | people who make few concessions to the modern world and go to great lengths to avoid assimilation into it. They interpret the Torah strictly; segregate the sexes outside the home; speak Yiddish as their primary language; eschew television, radio and English-language publications, and dress in distinctive ways that incl... |
695527_0 | Japanese Graduates Finding Few Jobs | Ayae Hazama, who will graduate next March from a junior college, has already written to 180 companies seeking a job. She has approached some companies three times to impress them with her zeal. Most days she misses classes because she has heard that if she is not home when a company calls, she will not get a second cha... |
691410_0 | Public & Private; To The Altar | There are, they say, no accidents, and so perhaps it was some bit of divine inspiration that the New York Times story on Sister Virginia Welsh ran on the same day the leader of her church was minimizing the contributions of her kind, my kind. Sister Welsh runs a Catholic parish in Ohio. That job is called pastor when a... |
694532_1 | Disability No Obstacle to Fresh Air Fund | two groups participate in all activities together equally. This mix, she said, helps the children "appreciate differences" while both groups have a chance to experience "something new and special." During the weekend, the parents and other family members -- in one case, even a grandmother and a great-great-aunt -- got ... |
694456_3 | At Work; Surprise: Bigger Isn't Always Better | health benefits in companies of all sizes around the country. Women at Risk A study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute last week suggested that women electrical workers may be at a higher risk for developing breast cancer than women in other jobs. Previous research has indicated a possible connec... |
694431_13 | Getting Down to Business on the Net | software tools like Mosaic and Wingopher promise to make it easier to find and manipulate information, but these tools require more complex network connections. What's more, the giant telephone, publishing and cable television companies are exploring their own technologies for exchanging information on networks, which ... |
694443_2 | The Executive Computer; Need Timely S.E.C. Corporate Filings? Look on Internet | is inefficient if you want to see a lot of material. The advantage to using E-mail is that you don't need an Internet account; virtually all the commercial online services have E-mail gateways that let you send messages anywhere on the Internet. To retrieve files this way, you first send a message to the Edgar system's... |
694505_3 | Some Schools Won't Take No for an Answer | the bottom, the firm will offer the school a choice of writing styles. Some schools opt for a lesser deception -- an opening phrase like, "John asked me to drop you a note. . . ." Personalization, or the appearance thereof, is everything. So schools use their computers to subdivide their alumni lists into categories by... |
693395_0 | Books of The Times; Vietnam War as Link To Battles of Antiquity | Achilles in Vietnam Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character By Jonathan Shay 246 pages. Atheneum. $20. "Achilles in Vietnam" appears more than three thousand years after the Achaeans' spears have rusted and two decades after the mortars of Vietnam have fallen silent. The author, Dr. Jonathan Shay, begins by noting, ... |
693347_1 | In Latin America, a Free Trade Rush | United States exports to Latin America have doubled in the last seven years, reaching $80 billion last year. "American exports to Colombia have gone up 80 percent" since Colombia opened its borders three years ago, a United States diplomat said. "During the same time, Colombia's exports to the United States have gone u... |
693412_0 | World Economies | |
694901_0 | Atlas of Radio Stars Releases First Segment | THE first installment of a monumental catalogue of radio-emitting stars and other celestial objects has been electronically published. Its authors say that by using the catalogue, amateurs and students will be able to make significant scientific discoveries. The radio sky catalogue is being prepared from observations t... |
695615_0 | SUNDAY, June 26, 1994; Not So Famous | Internet addresses may be chic, but judging by "E-Mail Addresses of the Rich and Famous," Seth Godin's handy little paperback from Addison-Wesley ($7.95), cybersociety has not arrived. The book contains just under a thousand names, but few of them are rich, and very few famous. Bill Gates is included, but the book's li... |
695887_0 | A Serious Tack On Recycling | The recycling spoof on May 22 ("A Sense of Place") prompts these thoughts, in a more serious vein: Useful items continue to be put in Dumpsters, ending up in landfills or incinerators, including clothing, books, toys, equipment of all types, furniture, etc. I've retrieved hundreds of items and taken them to the Salvati... |
695901_2 | Ideas & Trends; Beyond Singapore: Corporal Punishment, A to Z | Department reported last year. ENGLISH-SPEAKING CARIBBEAN Flogging with the cat-o'-nine-tails, a legacy of British rule consisting of nine knitted cords or hide thongs attached to a handle, is a legal punishment in several countries of the region, as is whipping with a rod. Among these countries are the Bahamas, which ... |
695823_5 | Profile; From Firewood to Environmental Empire in 14 Years | with injecting old tires into vats of molten iron as a method for adding carbon, which is needed to convert iron to steel, and as a petroleum-based source of cheap energy. The experiment wasn't a clear-cut success in as a way to improve the efficiency of steel making. Still, the effort did show Mr. Nagle that molten me... |
695890_0 | The Nation; Our Bodies, but My Hysterectomy | I am browsing in the New Gender Studies section of a bookstore in my hometown of Berkeley, Calif., searching for "hysterectomy" in the index of every book I can find. I am about to have one, at the hands of a trusted male physician, and while I am persuaded that mine is a necessary operation, you can never be too sure.... |
693580_1 | Editorial Notebook; The End of Solitude | Los Angeles for clues about the future, mainly they focus on the pollution, the sprawl or the "armed response" signs bristling on the city's lawns. But what Los Angeles also presents is a glimpse at the end of solitude, of the time in the not-so-distant future when portable phones, pagers and data transmission devices ... |
692118_0 | U.S. Steps Up North Korea Talks And Drafts an Embargo Plan | The United States intensified consultations here today, seeking to build a coalition in favor of punitive action against North Korea if it continues to defy United Nations nuclear inspectors. American officials said the United States had drafted a proposed resolution for an economic embargo but had not yet shown the te... |
692109_1 | Balloon Teams Vie to Be First Around World | Instead, the reward is the chance of entering the official record books kept by the International Balloon Federation, which sends referees to monitor every record attempt. The federation places a sealed recording altimeter aboard each balloon to make sure the craft makes no landing along the way that will disqualify it... |
691456_7 | GARDENING | Bender tends in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala. They may have originated in Yemen, he says, where their ancestors were planted around Muslim graveyards. Though many of the authors' favorites, like naked ladies and pomegranates, are not hardy in the New York area or farther north, many others are. So next time yo... |
691800_0 | By Video Screens' Light, Sailors Learn to Steer | The sun had set on the Singapore Strait, and Patrick Lynch, the 21-year-old rookie third mate on the oil tanker Capella, peered nervously into the darkness. It was his first time in charge of the bridge, and in the distance he could see the lights of fishing trawlers. Suddenly the radar screen showed a small vessel spe... |
691758_12 | 'Last Rain Forest:' Timber vs. a Culture -- A special report.; In Isolation, Papua New Guinea Falls Prey to Foreign Bulldozers | control," both because of Government incompetence and because so many Government officials had been paid off by the logging companies. The report likened the loggers to "robber barons -- bribing politicians and leaders, creating social disharmony and ignoring laws." Chief Investigator Attacked After the results of the ... |
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