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691758_14 | 'Last Rain Forest:' Timber vs. a Culture -- A special report.; In Isolation, Papua New Guinea Falls Prey to Foreign Bulldozers | landowners, and they have to decide for themselves whether they are happy," he said. "We think they are happy." A Novel Approach How One Village Learned to Benefit Ankle deep in thick red mud as he hikes beneath a canopy of trees so dense that no sunlight strikes the soil, George Metpes, 31, the tribal chief in the vil... |
691755_4 | On the Internet, Dissidents' Shots Heard 'Round the World | authorization but on the assumption that he had permitted the manuscript to be smuggled out of China in order to share it with the world. Still, skeptics wonder about the practical reach of Internet communication, since the computers capable of tapping into it are concentrated in North America and Europe. "If something... |
691469_15 | 'A Killer in the Eye' | down the path, bearing the yellow plastic containers and speaking pleasantly with one another. The heavy rains of the season have softened the ground but the sun is out for the moment and everyone seems in good spirits. Girls flirt with strangers. Young boys play games, and hurl themselves down the hill ahead of the gr... |
691478_3 | The Big City; The Coffee Shop, Cornered | a big menu?" he said. "If you're good at five or six dishes, you can be great in all. We Greeks believe in volume. If somebody wants something, we don't want to send them away." It is an admirably hospitable attitude, and a useful one in a diverse city like New York, but the espresso bars' popularity made me wonder if ... |
695284_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A2-10 AWACS TO FLY THE ANDES AGAIN The Administration, criticized for halting flights over the Andes that provided information to Colombia and Peru on drug smuggling, will resume the flights. A1 FRENCH MOVE INTO RWANDA France sent its first troops on a relief mission from Zaire into Rwanda, where countles... |
695387_0 | Review/Dance; In the Ancient Greeks' Theatrical Tradition | For the first time since its founding in 1982, the Gay Games is presenting dance events. The ancient Greeks would not have been surprised. Their ideal of a sound mind in a sound body made them prize dance and theater along with athletics. It was therefore appropriate for the Cultural Festival of Gay Games IV to offer "... |
693772_0 | About the Documents and Their Selection | The thousands of pages of documents discussed here were sorted by paralegals working for the law firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, beginning in 1985, as it prepared them for use in potential lawsuits that might be brought against its client, Brown & Williamson. They include indexes and summaries of the company's store of... |
693780_2 | Castro Dons Civvies for Latin Conference | $6 billion a year in lost opportunities, according to Representative Charles Rangel, Democrat of Manhattan. Mr. Rangel has sponsored a bill to lift the trade embargo, but the Clinton Administration has shown no signs of shifting policy on the issue. Canada Shifting Policy Meanwhile, companies in other nations are signi... |
693784_1 | Scientists Linked to the Vatican Call for Population Curbs | births in order to avoid creating the insoluble problems that could arise if we were to renounce our responsibilities to future generations." Increases in life-span and advances in medical care "have made it unthinkable to sustain indefinitely a birth rate that notably exceeds the level of two children per couple -- in... |
692741_0 | China Explodes H-Bomb in Underground Test | China exploded a hydrogen bomb today as part of a series of underground tests aimed at modernizing its nuclear forces before test ban negotiations are concluded by 1996. The test appeared to Western diplomats to have been delayed so as not to antagonize the Clinton Administration as it was deciding last month to cut th... |
692816_2 | Physics Is History | the street lamp because the light is better there. Much has been made of the new generation of accelerators that are 10 to 100 times more powerful than conventional machines on a foot-by-foot basis. Unfortunately, some of these devices are only one centimeter long. Even their proponents warn against optimism, saying th... |
696434_3 | A Battery Built on Wheel Power | that had sales of $2.4 billion in car parts last year and specializes in electrical devices. Floating in Magnetic Field The United Technologies system uses advanced high-strength carbon composites for the spinning wheel, and incorporates computerized controls for the bearings, which keep the spinning parts floating in ... |
696406_0 | In School; A photocopier salesman does his job too well, and the taxpayers foot the bill. | Photocopier companies have been getting lots of bad publicity lately, both here and abroad. In England, a scandal has been simmering for four years, and it's not unusual to pick up a British newspaper and see headlines about "COPY CHEATS!" "LEASING SHARKS!" "DODGY DEALERS!" A recent investigation by the British Office ... |
696356_4 | No More 'Anything Goes': Cyberspace Gets Censors | Gulbrandsen guy or he will take it upon himself to cancel their messages?" Ms. Siegel asked. "If anything is going to bring down the net, it'll be things like robot cancelers and self-styled censors." The conflict is most intense on Usenet, a cooperative anarchy of private and public computers comprising more than 8,00... |
695132_4 | FRANCE IS SENDING FORCE TO RWANDA TO HELP CIVILIANS | opponents of intervention have been outspoken. In a front-page editorial, Le Monde warned that France was risking a fiasco. Referring to France's colonial past in Africa and its recent involvement with the "longtime dictatorship in Kigali," it said: "To begin with, Paris was not the ideal candidate for such an interven... |
692248_0 | Air Passengers' Call: A Film, Video Games or Shopping? | Interactive television may be years away from entering the home, but its advent away from home is another matter. A growing number of airline passengers will soon be able to sit back and press the buttons of a computer system that will offer them many of the entertainment options of their living rooms, the business cap... |
692322_0 | Our Fellow Creatures Shouldn't Trust Us | To the Editor: "The Children? Or the Cub?" (editorial, May 29) misinterprets the public response to the orphaned mountain lion cub in California. The mother, which killed Barbara Schoener, was acting out of an instinct to protect its young. The mountain lion did not make a conscious decision to attack this unfortunate ... |
696611_5 | Where Job Hunters Hit the Jackpot | much of the central United States, suffered from the agricultural and energy recession of the 1980's but was largely unaffected by the 1990-91 downturn, is a virtual boom town. It is one of the relatively few places in United States where the factory work force is actually growing. But the a boom is based not on oil or... |
696624_4 | In Cyberspace, and Talking to Strangers | most of those that followed. After a few days, the thrill of knowing how to get places and meet people in this strange world wore off, and the essential banality of the conversation sank in. It may, in fact, not be that much more banal than most casual encounters. But most casual encounters are not recorded word-for-wo... |
691991_2 | Essay; School For Scandal | cleansing of Augean stables. It is usually denounced as invidious ("detrimental to reputation") by both the fair-minded and the culpable. Bert Lance used to say, "There's more muck-rakers around these days than muck-makers." And many times, investigations stimulated by muckrakers fail to reach the level of prosecution.... |
691899_4 | Efforts Revive River But Not Mohawk Life | the three aluminum manufacturing plants, owned by General Motors, Reynolds Metals and the Aluminum Company of America. All three companies had used PCB's to insulate and operate metal-making equipment because they are heat-resistant and nearly indestructible. But the companies, like hundreds of other manufacturers arou... |
691888_5 | Half-Century Later, Allies Return to Normandy | in the Solent, between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. Two Lines of Vessels Vessels of all sorts, some carrying Normandy survivors, others Normandy survivors themselves, were drawn up in two parallel lines, with cabin cruisers and other sailing yachts swarming amidst them like pilot fish. Among them were the Queen El... |
691930_3 | Can E-Mail Cachet = jpmorgan@park.ave? | within companies has been common for years, but more and more companies are getting wired to the outside. It is estimated that 20 million people worldwide are now linked on the Net, which began in 1969 as a Defense Department network intended to survive nuclear attack. Today, the Net is a generic term for some 20,000 c... |
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696101_0 | Comptroller Report Faults Special Education Policy | Although the New York City Board of Education spends nearly one-quarter of its budget on special education programs, it has no way of measuring whether disabled students are getting an education or are developing skills, according to a report released yesterday by City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi. Auditors from the Comp... |
696168_0 | The Church Can Learn From Its Daughters; What the Cardinals Said | To the Editor: As a longtime advocate of women's rights in my beloved church -- and one using the services of both altar boys and altar girls for the last 20 years -- I was dismayed to read your report from Rome (front page, June 15) that our cardinals had opposed "what they portrayed as a pervasive feminist influence ... |
696170_0 | The Church Can Learn From Its Daughters; Environmental Crisis | To the Editor: Your June 15 article on the opposition of the Roman Catholic cardinals to proposals approved in preparatory meetings for the international conference on population and development fails to give a proper perspective on demographic realities. World population stands at 5.6 billion. Some environmental and a... |
696167_0 | The Church Can Learn From Its Daughters | To the Editor: The cardinals of my church have voted to oppose what they perceive as a pervasive feminist influence at a population conference sponsored by the United Nations (front page, June 15). Led by John Cardinal O'Connor, they defined the battle lines against moves within the United Nations to assure that women ... |
696169_0 | The Church Can Learn From Its Daughters; 'Cultural Imperialism' | To the Editor: Your June 15 article about the Vatican's stand on the United Nations international conference on population and development calls it a conference on women's rights. The draft of the document discussed during the New York preparatory session is 82 pages long, and it covers topics on population control pol... |
693597_0 | Vatican Fights U.N. Draft on Women's Rights | The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church voted today to oppose what they portrayed as a pervasive feminist influence at a forthcoming United Nations population conference, saying measures on abortion and women's rights sponsored by the United States reflected "cultural imperialism." An extraordinary gathering of 114 ... |
693704_5 | Students Turn Greens Into Gold | said. "The upcoming shows are truer to the neighborhood." Since the meeting, Straight Out 'the Garden salad dressing has appeared in two episodes. Martin Friedman, the editor in chief of Gorman's New Product News, a trade magazine in Chicago, was struck by a similar seriousness when he wandered by the Food From the 'Ho... |
693030_0 | The Job Outlook for Current Graduates | SHOES shined and resume in hand, 21-year-old Jason S. Gardner waited on the station platform here last week for the train to Manhattan, where he would begin his job search. Mr. Gardner, a 1994 Cornell University graduate, recently joined the ranks of an estimated 1.1 million new bachelor's degree holders nationwide who... |
693223_3 | Scientists Fight Navy Plan to Shut Far-Flung Undersea Spy System | decades the Sosus system was so secret the Government refused to acknowledge its existence. The network was begun in the 1950's as a way to strip the cloak of secrecy from enemy submarines. It turned out to work better than expected, prompting the Navy to vastly expand its size in step with expanding Soviet threat. In ... |
692890_1 | Tweaking the Beard of the Maximum Leader | to stage the event only through extraordinary measures. "We are in the presence of a miracle," proclaimed Armando Hart, the Cultural Minister. Stepping into the financial breach, the German chocolate magnate Peter Ludwig helped subsidize the exhibition. And not a minute too soon. Artworks are being displayed around Hav... |
693087_2 | At Work; Growing Up? Absurd! | Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" and "Take This Job and Shove It." He notes that most new graduates suffer from reality shock. Many, for example, think college grade point averages mean something in the Real World. Some even think they can get a job through the want ads. Mr. Zevin admits he once fell for a newsp... |
692874_0 | Academic Questions | Monday. I have just signed a contract that states: "Author irrevocably and unconditionally waives all moral rights throughout the universe," and I am saddened. It involves a low four-figure sum, modest enough payment for a movie option on a book, not to mention one's moral rights throughout the universe. And so final a... |
693059_0 | Explosives Detector Installed at Heathrow | A screening system to automatically check airline luggage for explosives has been installed at Heathrow Airport in London. The system is the first of its kind and can screen up to 20 bags a minute, according to the BAA, the operator of Heathrow and six airports in Britain. It uses three techniques to search for explosi... |
693210_0 | Dublin Growing Worried by Protestant Guerrilla Attacks | Guerrilla actions by Protestants from Northern Ireland operating here in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Irish Republic have begun to worry the Irish Government, senior officials say. Life here is normal, with no evidence of increased police or army patrols to improve confidence in public safety. People seem more con... |
693296_0 | Stowaway Policy Punishes the Seafarers | To the Editor: Social and economic conditions in many developing areas of the world have created a problem of increasing concern to the maritime community -- stowaways, people who seek refuge in more prosperous ports by illegally boarding merchant ships and hiding in such spaces as cargo containers, lifeboats and betwe... |
694196_0 | Church, in an Era of Change, Is Misunderstood; Women in Priesthood | To the Editor: Pope John Paul II's statement that "the church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women" is an admission of impotence unacceptable to many devoted Catholics. That statement, of course, bespeaks the papal posture, reflecting his wisdom and will on the topic. "To the Altar," Anna ... |
694088_6 | Grim Findings on Tobacco And a Decade of Frustration | "Reviews the biological activity of smoke condensate from St. Pauli cig. Document contains confirmation of causation." *Project T, December 1969: "This deals with interviews with female starters concerning their attitudes, behavior, feelings, and views on smoking." *Project RPT-146, March 1975: Using a smoking machine ... |
694110_0 | Fire Burns Papua Forest Records | Investigators have reported that arson was almost certainly the cause of a fire this month that destroyed vital records on timber contracts in the rain forests of Papua New Guinea, where some of the last vast stretches of unspoiled tropical forest are under threat from foreign loggers. The June 4 firein offices of the ... |
694120_1 | Religion Notes | a mandatory retirement age. He also lists his candidate for successor, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, even as he says it will never happen because "America is far too powerful a country. Other American experts on the Catholic Church agreed that the Pope might be ill, especially in light of John Paul's strong rec... |
694676_1 | After Six Killings, the Old Sadness in Ulster | shop and the Protestants retaliated by killing seven in the western town of Greysteel. It was also the most lethal attack since the Irish and British Governments issued a new initiative for peace in London on Dec. 15. Since Thursday, 10 people have been killed, all but 3 of them Catholics. The Saturday shootings, by th... |
694638_0 | In Death of Rain Forests, We're All Accomplices | To the Editor: "Last Rain Forest: Timber vs. a Culture," your special report on Papua New Guinea (front page, June 5), provides an excellent overview of threats to that remote Pacific island country's forests and communities. You also identify community-based efforts to use forests in an ecologically responsible way as... |
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690814_9 | Future of Faith Worries Catholic Leaders | only stir a backlash, these educators warn, and actually increase the pressure toward secularization. Factions Several Agendas To Save Church The pattern of conflict over Catholic higher education is paralleled in other areas of church life -- from sexual ethics to the priesthood. At least three schools of thought are ... |
727197_0 | London Journal; A Tipsy Big Ben Leans Over Bedlam-on-Thames | Westminster Bridge is falling down, or would be if engineers had not just embarked on a project to shore it up. Across town, near Sloane Square, one of the Victorian-era iron beams supporting the roof of the Underground station is cracked, forcing trains to crawl through at 15 miles an hour. Even Big Ben isn't standing... |
727200_0 | Comptroller Sees Waste In Busing Preschoolers | Every school day, thousands of handicapped 3- and 4-year-old children spend more than two hours a day on buses to get to and from special training programs in New York City that they may not need, the City Comptroller charged yesterday. A child from Brooklyn might be bused to the Bronx to correct a stutter; one from Qu... |
728364_0 | Redefining Diversity: Biologists Urge Look Beyond Rain Forests | BETWEEN the ever-lengthening menu of Rain Forest Crunch snack foods, the Rain Forest Action Network booths at rock concerts and street fairs, and the ubiquitous jungle-themed coffee mugs, T-shirts, place mats, tote bags, wall clocks, umbrellas and jewelry, the American public has been saturated with the message that tr... |
728303_3 | Loophole at the Pier: A special report.; For Aliens, a Bahamas Cruise Is an Easy Way Into the U.S. | a huge industry, and we are faced with the dilemma of trying to expeditiously clear people off of those cruise ships and at the same time trying to conduct some kind of inspection. If we were to do all of it at landside, we would detain all of those ships from conducting their business." Two cruise lines, Discovery and... |
724679_1 | After Killing, Irish Halt I.R.A. Release Plan | of Newry, 45 miles south of Belfast, prompted statements here and in Ulster that the peace initiative might be seriously impeded. Generally, Irish officials said the peace efforts would continue; Protestant leaders chided Ireland for getting too close to the I.R.A. too soon, saying that no contacts should be made until... |
724786_0 | New Majority's Agenda: Substantial Changes May Be Ahead | When Republicans take control of the Senate and House in January, they will propose a legislative agenda drastically different from President Clinton's, which could lead to substantial changes in a broad array of Federal programs and laws, as well as the workings of Congress. Following are brief looks at the main issue... |
724800_0 | Drowning Case Embitters U.S. Race Relations | To the Editor: The headlines in the major newspapers read similarly: "Mom Killed Kids," "2 Bodies Found, Mother Held in Children's Death." As a human being, I couldn't help being mortified by the senseless tragedy. As an African-American, I couldn't help being disgusted and angry. Why? Because this disturbing ordeal pa... |
728439_0 | Disputing 4 Studies, New Research Supports Chest X-Rays as Cancer Screen | After re-analyzing the data from four major studies, a specialist in cancer treatment yesterday challenged their conclusion that annual chest X-rays are of no benefit to smokers and former smokers. The studies had found no difference in death rates between the participants who were screened and those who were not. But ... |
724028_1 | 30-Second TV Spot: The Chicken Pox of Politics | and Representatives reluctant to give up the largesse, campaign reform is not around the corner. So the burden falls on television itself. For reasons of self-interest and concern for freedom of speech, networks and stations cannot be expected to bar those invidious 30-second spots or to deny candidates other opportuni... |
722542_0 | Don't Slash Budget for Mentally Retarded | To the Editor: The sweeping reductions in New York City municipal services proposed by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani may win praise from fiscal monitors, but in some cases are curious and in one case catastrophically imprudent. The case in point is the cuts proposed in the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation an... |
722500_2 | The Flavors of Earlier Eras | repertory that includes feathery "angel biscuits," golden cheese biscuits that are said to be doomed to failure unless made with A.& P. New York State extra-sharp cheddar and "pan-fried spots," in cornmeal crusts. Many of the recipes are straight out of the 1950's and continue to be staples of community cookbooks. And ... |
723057_3 | Another Fatal Plunge Has Cornell Asking Whether Its Gorges Inspire Student Suicides | gorges could have been avoided if barriers had been installed," Officer Slattery said at the meeting three days ago. But others, noting that the two most recent deaths in the gorges did not take place near the campus bridges, said the barriers would have little effect. "All we know for sure is if you put a barrier up o... |
725871_0 | World News Briefs; Confidence Vote Postponed in Ireland | A confidence vote in the Government was postponed today until Wednesday as Prime Minister Albert Reynolds apologized to the country for his Attorney General's failure to extradite a Roman Catholic priest to Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland sought the extradition of the priest last year on charges related to acts of c... |
725819_0 | New Look at Disputed Study Is Reassuring on Lumpectomy | Women who have breast cancer that has not spread outside the breast can almost always safely choose a lumpectomy followed by radiation rather than a mastectomy, researchers concluded at a workshop here today. The meeting, held by the National Cancer Institute, was called in the aftermath of disconcerting questions rais... |
725873_1 | Concern Over Airline Safety | aircraft, and the people who fly them, should meet the same safety standards as major carriers. The Times's investigation of USAir, the nation's sixth-largest carrier, indicated that even major carriers' safety procedures can be flawed. Flying is still safer than driving to the airport. But two recent devastating crash... |
725835_2 | As It Scrubs Down Its Art, Rome Takes The Brush to Itself | after their restoration. Outside the same church, Bernini's beloved statue of an elephant supporting an obelisk is also rejuvenated, and its marble gleams in the sun. Not far away, through a doorway that most people pass without noticing, in a building many people don't realize is there, the courtyard of the Patriarcha... |
726722_0 | From Junkyards to Gardens, and Other Miracles | IT'S one thing to make a garden out of a piece of beautiful fertile land. It's quite another to turn an abandoned lot full of junked cars and tires, crack vials and broken glass into a place of beauty. I come upon these miracles in the heat of summer -- in places where it might be easy to give up hope -- and leave refr... |
726424_6 | What's New York The Capital Of Now? | it became the capital of piracy, thanks to a corrupt British governor's willingness to let pirates bring booty from around the world to sell to the town's cooperative merchants. (Captain Kidd had a mansion on Pearl Street.) Moral orthodoxy was impossible to impose on a diverse population with no homogenous upper class.... |
726581_0 | Scaffolding Leaving the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More to Come. | An update from one of the world's longest-running construction projects: the scaffolding will be coming down -- for now, at least. Since 1982, scaffolding has surrounded the south tower of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Amsterdam Avenue just north of 110th Street. It is a visual reminder that, after 102 years... |
726459_0 | A New Terminal in Frankfurt | The Frankfurt Airport last month opened Terminal 2, a new glass-domed building that will handle 19 international airlines formerly situated in Terminal 1, including Delta, Continental and, starting in January, USAir. Because Lufthansa (along with its partner, United Airlines) has remained in Terminal 1, passengers must... |
726700_1 | Troops Enter Rio Slums In Drug War | assassinations. Though such memories have faded for many people, the civilian leadership's decision to call out army troops underscores an impression that drug trafficking in Brazil is spiraling out of control. President Itamar Franco announced the army would intervene three weeks ago, as a rise in crime threatened the... |
726704_0 | Many Women Eager to Test Abortion Pill | A month after the announcement that the Planned Parenthood clinics here and in five other cities would take part in the clinical trial of the French abortion drug RU-486, thousands of women have called to volunteer, the clinics say. "It's been much more than we expected," said Kitty Kahn, director of surgical services ... |
726514_5 | Teaching Mothers Their Job | mothers, the program offers an alternative to the boredom and dead-end aspects of their routine. "I really came for the G.E.D.," said Amanda Castillo, who has a 2-year-old daughter and an 11-month-old son in the program. "I like it for the day care, because my kids are learning a lot. And they teach us how to disciplin... |
726098_5 | New Therapy For Menopause Reduces Risks | H.D.L.'s were higher among those taking any of the hormone regimens than in the group on the placebo. They were highest in women taking estrogen alone, but almost as high in those women on estrogen and micronized progesterone, Dr. Bush reported. Dr. Rita Redberg, a cardiologist who is co-director of a woman's health ce... |
724896_1 | Religion Journal; For School Storyteller, a Task of Biblical Proportions | Bible of sorts to the city's gastronomes. Tim Zagat, the company's co-publisher, said he was inspired to print the book after Miss Lea taught his children. He shared her belief that, religion aside, the Bible was at the very least a work of literature worthy of study. "You're really not educated until you know the Bibl... |
722202_2 | An Atlas of Information Services | my PowerPC Macintosh, however, forcing me to use it on an older Mac. Customer support is heavily automated. The cost picture is complicated. The service recently restructured its pricing plan. It costs $4.95 to open an account with Prodigy, which covers shipping and handling of its Windows, Macintosh or DOS software. T... |
722210_2 | Dublin Journal; Women's Movement in Ireland Slows to a Crawl | birth rate of about 2.5 children per woman is declining, but is still the highest in the European Union. Ms. Fitzgerald says the women's movement in Ireland has been slowed by the strong opposition that surfaced in public debates about abortion. The issue moved into the headlines in early 1992 when a 14-year-old girl w... |
722235_2 | After Crackdown, Smugglers Of Chinese Find New Routes | their final destination was New York City. So far this year, the Coast Guard has intercepted only two boats carrying Chinese immigrants in the Caribbean. Other boats, carrying a mix of Dominican, Pakistani, Cuban and Chinese illegal immigrants, have been discovered by the Border Patrol, the immigration service says. As... |
723228_5 | The Quadrangle Becomes a Globe | been easy to attract foreign students to American compuses overseas, foreign students have for years flocked to attend colleges and universities in the United States. In fact, according to the Department of Commerce, the 438,000 foreign students currently resident in the United States, while only a small fraction of th... |
723216_5 | The Quadrangle Becomes a Globe | been easy to attract foreign students to American compuses overseas, foreign students have for years flocked to attend colleges and universities in the United States. In fact, according to the Department of Commerce, the 438,000 foreign students currently resident in the United States, while only a small fraction of th... |
723242_0 | U.S. Seeks to Increase Lost-Bag Compensation | The Department of Transportation has proposed raising the limit on compensation to consumers for baggage that is damaged or lost by a United States airline. The new limit is $1,850 per passenger, a 48 percent increase from the $1,250 limit that was set 10 years ago. If approved by Congress, the change could become effe... |
723308_0 | POSTINGS: The Octagon Tower; A Plan to Stabilize a Roosevelt Island Landmark | One of New York's most haunting ruins, the 155-year-old Octagon tower on Roosevelt Island, has long posed a vexing question to those who would restore it: To which incarnation should the landmark be returned? To the design by Alexander Jackson Davis from the early 1830's, which was almost surely not followed exactly? T... |
725631_1 | Rhone Unit Focuses on Gene Drugs | of the previous investments in this field have involved large, narrowly focused deals, like SmithKline Beecham's $125 million agreement with Human Genome Sciences Inc., or Hoffman-LaRoche's $70 million deal with Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. Rhone-Poulenc Rorer itself has an agreement worth up to $113 million with Ap... |
725683_3 | Flood of Rwanda Refugees Is Destroying Ecological Treasure | Inspired by a visit to Yellowstone by a member of the Belgian royal family, it was first called Albert National Park. The area was set aside primarily for the study of the mountain gorilla, and unlike national parks in the United States and elsewhere in the world, it was closed to all human activity except for scientif... |
725693_1 | You'd Hardly Know Cuba's Open for Business | capitalist order he overthrew in 1959. But with Moscow's pulling of the plug on subsidies, President Castro and his Communist Government reluctantly approved an aggressive foreign tourist program to obtain hard currency to prop up the disastrous Cuban economy. It seems to be working. Cuba's Instituto Nacional del Turis... |
725700_0 | You'd Hardly Know Cuba's Open for Business; A Shirt for Every Man | To the Editor: I visited Cuba in June 1977, when President Carter briefly lifted the ban on travel there. I went quite by chance, on the Greek cruise ship Daphne, having heard of a low-cost luxury voyage. What I saw astounded me. I will mention only a few examples. Every block had a several-foot-high thermometer on the... |
727801_1 | Where Trite Is True, 'Hip' Rings Phony | the musical currents. What a difference from Leonard Bernstein's "Wonderful Town," which just finished its run at the New York City Opera; that musical may be three decades younger than "Show Boat," but it seems as creaky as a dilapidated steamship. On its opening night earlier this month, many presumably intelligent m... |
727919_1 | Technology; Coast-to-Coast Radio Without Squawk or Fade | the 1990's, radio has thrived, with revenues up substantially and station licenses trading near record highs. But the medium has limitations that David Margolese, the chief executive of Washington-based CD Radio, thinks offer an opening. With digital technology, satellite broadcasters can stuff dozens of channels of CD... |
727934_0 | New High School Is a Study in Green | From the composting of cafeteria waste in the basement to the roofing made of recycled tires, the High School for Environmental Studies is living up to its name. The school, which started at the old Stuyvesant High in 1992, moved this fall to its permanent home in a three-building complex at 444 West 56th Street. Pract... |
728005_0 | Nov. 20-26; Paying Germans to Have Germans | Many experts believe that over-population is one of the greatest threats facing humanity and the earth on which we live. Governments around the world are seeking ways to stop population explosions that threaten to overwhelm their economies and social structures. Germans, however, have precisely the opposite concern. Wo... |
727741_6 | The Uses of Malcolm | traditions of bathos, signifying and lewdness that give the diverse subgenres of rap their often ironic meaning. But in one limited yet vital sense, the invocation of signifying is beside the point. For many blacks and whites, gangster rap provokes genuine concerns about moral breakdown. They don't get the nuances of t... |
727869_0 | A Support Program For Healthy Siblings | TWELVE-year-old Craig P. was describing his little brother, George, who was born with cerebral palsy, to a group of other boys. After telling them about the younger child's wheelchair and his seizures, Craig paused and said quietly: "You know, it's funner having a regular brother. I wish I had a regular brother." Almos... |
725950_0 | Bishops Vote to Expand Women's Roles in Church | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops voted overwhelmingly today to explore alternative ways for women to attain leadership positions in the church, while acknowledging that sexism persists among "some members." "We commit ourselves to enhancing the participation of women in every possible aspect of church life," the bis... |
727529_0 | Seeking to stem a drop in birth rates that may be the sharpest in modern world history, the government of the eastern German state of Brandenburg has announced that it will pay parents $650 for every new child they have. "Eastern Germany's adults appear to have come as close to a temporary suspension of childbearing as... | |
722856_0 | Rome Journal; For the Long-Suffering Colosseum, Intensive Care | It's the top, after all -- it's the Colosseum. So the city government's measures to restore dignity to the immense ruined stadium seemed fitting. First, there were the Sunday pedestrian days last spring, when the broad Via dei Fori Imperiali, laid out by Mussolini in the 1930's as a parade ground, was closed to traffic... |
722967_1 | A Papal Best Seller -- and One That Wasn't | more powerful than ever while the foundations of the church have weakened. The priesthood is shrinking. Religious orders are in decline, and the parochial school system with them. And traditional Catholic social and ethnic associations have steadily lost members. True, new groups -- whether anti-abortion coalitions, as... |
722671_0 | Ireland and Britain Praise Clinton's Ulster Aid | Ireland and Britain today praised the Clinton Administration's decision to increase economic aid to Northern Ireland as a step toward advancing peace there. The White House announced late Tuesday that the President had decided to raise aid to Northern Ireland to $30 million a year over the next two fiscal years, up fro... |
722783_0 | U.S. Embargo of Cuba Violates U.N.'s Wishes; Preserve Health Care | To the Editor: Following up on "Health Care, Cuba's Pride, Falls on Hard Times" (front page, Oct. 30) and the United Nations vote overwhelmingly in favor of lifting the United States embargo against Cuba, I urge our Government to rethink its Cuba policy. After fighting a war with Iraq we did not forbid the sale of food... |
722769_0 | U.S. Embargo of Cuba Violates U.N.'s Wishes | To the Editor: The United States has asserted itself as the key player in the United Nations, utilizing it as a bulwark in creating multinational forces. The United States has prided itself on the cohesiveness of these coalitions. I do not want to debate its role in any of these actions; I merely seek to point out the ... |
724147_2 | Tense Times for France-Africa Tie | of rule by terror. Mr. Mitterrand's early years in office were marked by expectations of stronger support for democracy. After scant change in his first seven-year term, he revived these expectations at a Franco-African summit meeting four years ago when he spoke of linking aid with real democratization. The disappoint... |
728137_0 | Hormone Treatments Are Largely Synthetic | To the Editor: As a senior at Harvard College writing my honors thesis on hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women, I found misleading information on estrogen replacement in Dr. Phillip O. Warner's Nov. 21 letter. Although Premarin is not a "natural" substance, neither are the synthetically produced estroge... |
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