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728153_6 | New York Starts Spinning Its Dross into Gold | grind the mixed glass back into sand or sell it for use in asphalt. New contracts with the city Department of Transportation require that glass be used in asphalt, and the city is hoping to increase the market for glass from 40,000 tons a year to 75,000 tons a year. Jobs Recycling Finds Value in Lives, Too In addition ... |
728205_3 | Virtual Literacy With Illustrated Holiday Books | esthetic and practical, for redesigning the space in your house or apartment. Offers the solutions, but even more important, defines the problems. BASEBALL: An Illustrated History. By Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. (486 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $60.) When television showed the nine-part series to which this handsome vo... |
728181_0 | A Scholar's Memoirs Raise Some Ghosts at Oxford | The sentence could have been written by Poe or Dostoyevsky, the way it summons the unspeakable in a coldly confessional tone: "But it was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candor: how to kill him without getting into... |
724492_2 | Recycled Products: The 'Ugly' Factor | Recycling is at a similar crossroads. It has been too content to hold the high ground morally (and remain adamantly anti-esthetic) with its paste-colored sheets, mottled clay tablewares and gray stationery. Now, it's poised to rush headlong into the race to capture America's consumer-driven heart. The choice may be aca... |
725439_2 | Irish Premier Says Threat to Coalition Impedes Peace Initiative | Mr. Reynolds said, "At this crucial stage of the peace process, it is my personal conviction that the interests of the nation are best served by the government continuing in office." Tonight, Mr. Spring said Mr. Reynolds must "redress the breakdown of trust in the partnership," when he addresses Parliament. Mr. Wheleha... |
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726796_1 | Patents; Through Genetic Engineering, Soil Bacteria Develop An Appetite for Sulfur and Help Clean Up Fossil Fuels | new bacteria. "The bugs directly out of the soil aren't very interested in removing sulfur," said Daniel Monticello, the company's vice president for research. Rhodococcus bacteria present no danger to humans. "You have to do some manipulating of the organism to convince it to consume sulfur at the high rate needed in ... |
726919_0 | Estrogen Substitutes Aren't All the Same | To the Editor: As an obstetrician-gynecologist with 30 years' experience and the director of the Menopause Institute of Northern California, I believe it may be helpful to readers of your Nov. 18 front-page article on hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause to know the important facts surrounding estrogen... |
726893_0 | World Economies | |
726795_1 | Patents; Through Genetic Engineering, Soil Bacteria Develop An Appetite for Sulfur and Help Clean Up Fossil Fuels | new bacteria. "The bugs directly out of the soil aren't very interested in removing sulfur," said Daniel Monticello, the company's vice president for research. Rhodococcus bacteria present no danger to humans. "You have to do some manipulating of the organism to convince it to consume sulfur at the high rate needed in ... |
725105_1 | Capturing a New Sense of Freedom in Eastern Europe | his photographs in Latvia the year before Communism ended there. Now, after a four-month picture-taking journey through Central and Eastern Europe, Mr. Sadan has new tales to tell. Poring over his contact sheets during a recent interview, he recalled his adventures in remote areas few Americans have visited. The purpos... |
725261_0 | Blame Stressful Student Life, Not Cornell Gorges, for Suicides | To the Editor: Your Nov. 5 news article on the suicides at Cornell University never confirms or denies if the suicide rate at Cornell is higher than at other universities. I suppose it is easier to invent some sort of mythological danger in the gorges on the Cornell campus, or in the weather, or the cows, than to analy... |
725275_2 | The 'Third World' Is Dead, but Spirits Linger | for easy explanations for development shortcomings. The new "imperialists" now tend to be lending organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which have tried to impose stringent fiscal regimes. The "neocolonial" tag has also been attached to donor nations asking questions about rights abuses, ch... |
725209_4 | Technology; Fiat Hopes to Put a Tilt Into Amtrak's Trains | to maintain passenger comfort and safety by adjusting to curves in the road. By 1975, he said, Fiat had built a prototype for the Italian state railway, which was interested in high-velocity trains but faced the problem of having heavily trafficked routes, like the Milan-Florence and Milan-Genoa tracks, that passed thr... |
725025_2 | Liftoff | to plug into the net. (Maybe 30 million people worldwide.) A simple address (aWriter@nytimes.com) directs the message, which can be simultaneously sent to any number of other addressees. When I dial into my on-line service, at home or with a portable computer anywhere, I immediately encounter a list of waiting messages... |
725025_3 | Liftoff | can stumble over or hunt down copies of Supreme Court decisions or Stephen Sondheim lyrics or software programs that teach a computer to perform special tricks and, with skill and luck, import them into your own computer. Knowing what's available and learning to find it at affordable hourly rates requires some expert i... |
725307_0 | Leadership, Equality and Violence on Bishops' Agenda | In their first meeting since Pope John Paul II "definitively" ruled out the possibility of female ordination, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are convening in Washington this week for discussions on promoting church leadership and equality for women. Similar issues will confront the members of the National Conferen... |
726303_0 | Beliefs | Having gambled $6 million on the popularity of Pope John Paul II's new book, what did the editors at Alfred A. Knopf think when they discovered their eminent author tossing in references to "the early and the late works of Ludwig Wittgenstein" or to "contemporary hermeneutics -- examples of which are found in the work ... |
696698_3 | Grisly Discovery in Rwanda Leads French to Widen Role | four-year-old civil war between the Government and Tutsi-led rebels erupted in new bloodletting after a suspicious plane crash killed Rwanda's President, a Hutu, and his counterpart from Burundi. The French insist their intervention, which is backed by the United Nations, is one of relief and is not intended to benefit... |
696847_0 | Before We Applaud France's Mission to Rwanda | To the Editor: President Francois Mitterrand of France has sent his troops to Rwanda for allegedly humanitarian objectives. Let's withhold our applause: France's role in the region, flush with self-interest, has been insidious. More a part of the problem than the solution, France clutches tenaciously to military presen... |
696786_0 | 30 Drown as Haitian Police Fire on Refugees | A police launch fired on a 60-foot boat carrying Haitian refugees early Wednesday, causing a panic in which at least 30 refugees drowned, two foreign journalists said today. The journalists, Edward J. Barnes of Time magazine and Simon Dring of the BBC, who arrived at the scene Wednesday afternoon, said witnesses had to... |
698961_8 | Vexing Pursuit of Breast Cancer Gene | left behind retain their malignant potential. What is more, in some families the altered form of BRCA-1 seems to markedly increase the risk of ovarian cancer as well as breast cancer. Should these women be counseled to have their ovaries removed as well as their breasts? "At some point you wonder how many organ parts y... |
698945_0 | Satisfying a Hunger for Excitement | Camaro City By Alan Sternberg 219 pages. Harcourt Brace & Company. $19.95. With "Camaro City," Alan Sternberg's first collection of stories, we are immersed in the daily life of a small Connecticut town. This blue-collar community -- nicknamed Camaro City for its residents' fondness for those fast, sporty cars -- is on... |
698937_1 | Notre Dame Joins the Big East | determine the competitive pecking order. No Changes for Football Notre Dame's football status as an independent will not change. But for its men's basketball team, which has not played in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament since 1990 and has been an afterthought at the most intense time of recent s... |
698964_2 | A Nice, Pretty, Quiet Online Neighborhood | only a handful of newspaper clippings, and the travel "chat" areas were deserted. Also, one of the great attractions of cyberspace is the ability to prowl around the Internet, a global information bazaar that is to E-World what Baghdad is to Bedford Falls. E-World has no Internet connections beyond mail at this point. ... |
700199_0 | Microsoft's Future Barely Limited | Rather than reining in the Microsoft Corporation, the consent decree that the Justice Department announced over the weekend with Microsoft, the world's largest software publisher, frees the company to define the computer industry's ground rules through the rest of the decade. The agreement leaves untouched what many co... |
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700723_1 | Personal Health; On land or, especially, sea, an old malady. | Mixed-Up Messages The affliction is believed to be caused by the brain's getting disparate, and therefore confusing, messages from the inner ear, which houses the mechanism for balance, and from the eyes and pressure receptors on other body parts. The inner ear contains three fluid-filled tubes called the semicircular ... |
700678_6 | Classrooms on the Information Highway | new technology requires extra manpower. Each school needs a technician to run the equipment and supervise the video classroom at a cost of about $30,000 in salary and benefits, Ms. Patterson says. Teaching assistants may be necessary, too. If a teacher is 15 or 50 or 300 miles away, a student who needs help after schoo... |
699421_3 | As Germans Parade in Paris, Some Cheer, a Few Are Chilled | Europe by a united Germany, Mr. Mitterrand and Mr. Kohl led the way in strengthening the 12-nation European Union, a move the French leader felt would "anchor" Germany in Western Europe. Since then, polls have consistently showed that a strong majority of the French favor a close relationship with Germany and do not co... |
699498_4 | Inside Art | not merchandise." Two Open Competitions, One Exception The chance to design a museum is an honor for any architect. But often, getting the job requires winning an international competition. In London this week, the Tate Gallery announced that it had opened a competition for the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art, a project... |
697720_2 | A Tower Pits Fordham vs. Botanical Garden | said. "It casts a minimal shadow. It doesn't block light and air." For the moment, however, Fordham says it faces the prospect of silencing WFUV (90.7 on the dial) after 47 years on the air. "We have to build this tower or the radio station will close," Dr. Byrne said. WFUV offers programs from National Public Radio an... |
696944_3 | Stay-at-Home SWB, 8, Into Fitness, Seeks Thrills | suppose they are kvetching him for, say, not cleaning up his nail clippings, which must be pretty big? And, like all New Yorkers, Gus needs more space. A small habitat for a polar bear, said Dr. Ian Sterling of the Canadian Wildlife Service, where they know about such things, would be 20,000 or 30,000 square meters, an... |
697015_0 | Tire Recycling Works, And It's Also the Law | To the Editor: The National Association of Counties has listed waste tires as its No. 1 solid-waste problem. Unfortunately, a well-financed special interest campaign is distorting the benefits associated with implementing a section of United States transportation law that requires federally supported highways to use a ... |
696928_2 | As French Aid the Tutsi, Backlash Grows | years old, was shot while running last week and has a hole in her right thigh. She lay on a cot, fed intravenously by a needle in her thin arm from a bag on a stick. A French paratrooper stroked her cheek tenderly. "They're very brave; they don't show their pain," he said. Before evacuating her, French soldiers unloade... |
696921_0 | Religion Notes | Go-Ahead for Altar Girls Altar girls can now formally take their places alongside altar boys in Roman Catholic churches in the United States. The final approval came in a vote by the nation's Catholic bishops, meeting last week in San Diego. In a statement in April, the Vatican formally approved the use of girls and wo... |
696910_1 | Polish Senate Votes to Liberalize Law Restricting Abortions | situation." Mr. Walesa, a devout Roman Catholic, has consistently said he would veto any liberalization of the current law, which was introduced early last year after a strong campaign by the church. "I may not and I never shall endorse a murder decision," Mr. Walesa said last month. The Senate action, which came on Th... |
702789_0 | Religion Notes | Twenty years ago in Philadelphia, 11 women were ordained priests in the Episcopal Church in direct defiance of official church rules. The ordinations, held on July 29, 1974, were considered by many to be a major victory for women's rights in Christianity. A number of the participants in that service -- including many o... |
698743_3 | For United Pilots, 2 Views of Buyout | company's diversification into hotels and rental car businesses. Mr. Hall, who was chairman of the United pilots' union at the time, recalls sitting in a meeting during the 29-day strike with the lawyer F. Lee Bailey, who suggested that the union acquire a majority stake in the company so that it could have a say in bl... |
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698724_2 | French Political Espionage Is Again a Cause Celebre | also French political life and public freedoms," he said. Writing in Le Monde this weekend, Edwy Plenel summarized the scandal, saying, "Only on the day when the right or the left proposes a law to disband the General Information can one take this shrieking seriously." Mr. Plenel has first-hand experience. After he dis... |
701201_0 | Auto Makers' New Idea: Focus on Used-Car Sales | The nation's auto makers, historically obsessed with offering the freshest shapes and the most advanced gadgets, are increasingly shifting their attention to something older: the booming used-car market, estimated at twice the size of the new-car market in the United States. For shoppers, the change will mean more well... |
701564_3 | Business Diary: July 17-22 | Southern somehow doesn't seem the right name for a company devoted to mutual funds. Aviation History, Frozen It all started with Penn Station. When it was torn down in the early 60's, the public snapped to attention and said, Hold it! We can't let architecture's past glories slip away so easily. And the Landmarks Prese... |
701663_1 | War-Weary, Arabs in Consensus On Giving Israeli Peace a Chance | war. Otherwise they seem to advocate further delays and paralysis for a few more decades with no obvious benefit. Paralysis only means that we would be negotiating tomorrow for gains we could have taken for granted decades ago. Wars have proven catastrophic for the Arab world. Call it a new mind-set; call it realism. T... |
701554_0 | Canada Bans Smoking On Its Airlines | The Canadian Government has banned smoking on all flights on Canadian airlines, except for some trips to Japan, on which smoking will be permitted until Aug. 31. The move adds to a trend by airlines and countries to restrict smoking during air travel. The two major Canadian carriers had themselves restricted or prohibi... |
699722_2 | Phone Antennas Resisted Out of Fears of Radiation | tower at the Winged Foot Golf Club near her home. "We just want to make sure it's safe for the community." Proposal Withdrawn Nynex ultimately withdrew that proposal, but it then proposed erecting a cellular station of six antennas atop several apartment buildings on Alden Road in Mamaroneck. Now officials here are con... |
699719_2 | Phone Antennas Resisted Out of Fears of Radiation | tower at the Winged Foot Golf Club near her home. "We just want to make sure it's safe for the community." Proposal Withdrawn Nynex ultimately withdrew that proposal, but it then proposed erecting a cellular station of six antennas atop several apartment buildings on Alden Road in Mamaroneck. Now officials here are con... |
697637_0 | Q&A | Wild Tomatoes Q. I was taught that the tomato is native to America. So where are all the wild tomatoes? A. Most of them are relatively small and are found close to the Equator. The tomato is a New World plant, but comes from South America and Mexico, not North America. There are thousands of varieties, and new wild var... |
697663_0 | Ultraviolet Studies May Revise Understanding of Food Chain | IN a development that may change the way scientists think about the food chain, Canadian researchers have found that ultraviolet light, which in the short term is known to inhibit the growth rate of algae, may in the long term encourage it. Although the radiation is harmful to the algae, it is also harmful to the organ... |
697600_2 | FRENCH ESTABLISH A BASE IN RWANDA TO BLOCK REBELS | including some 250,000 refugees from parts of the country now controlled by the rebels. As the French troops took up their positions, Rwandan officials drove along the dirt roads, using loudspeakers to urge the people not to flee, because the French had come to protect them. Shortly after the outbreak of the civil war,... |
697916_0 | Paris Journal; They Think, Therefore They Are Very French | Does knowledge inhibit the imagination? Is a coherent thought necessarily true? Can a work of art be considered immoral? Or how about this one? Is passion compatible with wisdom? O.K. Now, over the next four hours, write a five-page dissertation on one of these topics. Year in, year out, the rite of passage from France... |
702043_1 | Lavagna Journal; Italy Sees Smoother Sailing (Yachting's In Again) | 1980's prosperity took cover in safe havens up and down the Ligurian coast, a stretch of sinuous bays and inlets that is to Italian yachting what Milan's fashionable Via Montenapoleone is to shopping. At the Sangermani yards here, which Italian newspapers like to call the Ferrari of Italian boating, Cesare Sangermani J... |
702081_0 | Corrections | An article on Friday about a private company's efforts to win a contract to manage the public schools in Hartford misstated the position of the American Federation of Teachers on "mainstreaming," the placement of special-education students in regular classrooms. The union opposes a practice known as full inclusion, in ... |
702099_2 | Comet That Shook Jupiter May Probe Planet's Secrets | certain whether phosphine is present in Jupiter's atmosphere. Phosphine and hydrogen sulfide, respectively, are possible precursors of elemental phosphorus and sulfur, which could account for Jupiter's colors. Colors are especially vivid in the "Great Red Spot," and in the red, brown and yellow streaks in the planet's ... |
700283_0 | For Parched Beijing, A Giant Aqueduct | One of the largest public works projects ever conceived -- an 860-mile aqueduct in northern China -- is being considered by the Communist Party leadership to spare the Beijing area from perpetual drought. The aqueduct would have to cross 219 rivers and streams, including the Yellow River. To accomplish this, engineers ... |
700361_0 | Fordham to Seek New Site for Radio Tower | An over-the-fence squabble between two powerful Bronx neighbors cooled a bit yesterday when Fordham University agreed to look for a different place to put its new radio tower than directly across the road from the New York Botanical Garden. But Fordham fell short of promising that it would move the tower. "Without an a... |
700306_3 | Huge Water Project Would Supply Beijing By 860-Mile Aqueduct | when the water project is submitted to the National People's Congress, where party members can press regional claims against it. "I think this project will be more politically complicated than the Three Gorges Dam," Mr. Fan said. Taming the Yangtze The Three Gorges project, a 20-year, $10 billion undertaking, was appro... |
699061_1 | Superhuman Feats From a Subhuman Diver | he cooed. "His eyes are the sonar and the cameras, and these are his arms," he said, reaching down to the machine's claws. Mr. Michel, president of ROV Technologies Inc., is the nation's, and probably the world's, leading consultant for oil companies on underwater robotics. (ROV stands for remotely operated vehicles.) ... |
700903_0 | Sports of The Times; The Giants: Old Numbers, New Games | UNLIKE all the recent noise surrounding their sports neighbors, life at the Giants' training camp is relatively serene. Unlike the Rangers, the Giants aren't suing a "faithless" coach. Unlike the Yankees, they don't even have a vice president for community relations. Unlike the Mets, none of their players are suspended... |
697475_0 | Utuado Journal; Sign From God or the Whim of Mother Nature? | The church bell tower incongruously sticks out 10 feet above water in the middle of Lake Caonillas as a reminder of the neighborhood that once was. Still submerged are a school, a clinic and the Roman Catholic church itself, all sacrificed nearly 50 years ago to build a reservoir that now feeds two hydroelectric plants... |
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697486_1 | A Mormon Church Leader Weighs Dissent and Growth | from the headquarters of the church," he said. Mr. Hinckley discussed the incidents and other church matters before recent ceremonies here marking the 150th anniversary of the murder of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormon faith is officially known. In the interview, h... |
697486_3 | A Mormon Church Leader Weighs Dissent and Growth | and Canada, especially in South America. Mr. Hinckley said the church was also "very much encouraged" by recent growth in Eastern Europe and Russia. Always Looking for Leaders The church's growth requires a constant search at the local level for men who can demonstrate leadership ability, understand and communicate Mor... |
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701849_0 | Using Old Ways to Make New Waves | |
701893_0 | Galvanizing the Test Ban Talks | Talks on a treaty to ban nuclear tests around the world resume today in Geneva with little indication that they will be given the urgency they deserve. A test ban is surely in America's interest. The U.S. no longer needs tests to design new warheads, assess the reliability of old warheads or rattle potential foes. Inde... |
701826_1 | Sinn Fein Rejects Key Parts of Anglo-Irish Peace Initiative | that the Protestant majority would not be compelled against its will to become part of a united Ireland, the ultimate goal of the I.R.A. Before the Sinn Fein decision today, there had been hope among officials and ordinary people that Sinn Fein would indicate its willingness to arrange for a prolonged cease-fire by the... |
701804_1 | D'Amato and the Politics Of Wind-Shear Detection | site in New York, however, they say they are willing to investigate any alternative that could improve detection of wind shear, a condition that can cause crash landings. Wind shear, an abrupt change in wind direction, was first identified in the crash of an Eastern Airlines jet at Kennedy International Airport in 1975... |
700028_1 | Ideas & Trends; From Masses to Mass-Market | find a sitting Pope who wrote publicly outside of speeches, teaching documents and other, official communications is rare indeed -- at least in the modern era. "The only possibility I can think of is Benedict XIV," said the Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor of religion and religious studies at Catholic University, re... |
699885_2 | For a Troubled Building, a New Twist | Warwick said. "When the building was built, the degree of sophistication about high-rise structures was nowhere near what it is today. It's basically a safe building but the allowance for sway was much greater. In a heavy wind condition, it was not unsafe -- but it was uncomfortable." The job of making the tower more r... |
699795_1 | In Mexico City, Building And Rebuilding | remodeled and a bamboo forest is being built for the zoo's five giant pandas. The old amusement center inside Chapultepec has been renovated as well. Its vintage wooden roller coaster, called the Russian Mountain, has been computerized and painted white. In the core of the historic district, an ambitious city-sponsored... |
698444_0 | Fighting Terrorism: Airport Progress Report | Airline passengers in the United States may have to wait two to five years for the implementation of proposed new systems for detecting explosives hidden in baggage at the nation's airports, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. The report also found that while the Federal Aviation Administration has ... |
698482_1 | They Wait Loudly for Bridge | to the reconstruction of the Gowanus, slated to begin in 1997. The nine overpasses "are all scheduled for reconstruction due to deferred maintenance over the past three decades, since the Verrazano went up," said Mary Sempepos, the Community Board manager. "A lot of the support structures are beginning to rust, the dec... |
698465_1 | Technology; Smart Paper Documents For the Electronic Age | isolated space on a page and might be considered to be visually jarring in a letter or sales presentation. "If you load a page up with bar codes, it starts to look ugly," Mr. Hecht said. Researchers at Xerox, which is producing copiers that receive input from digital networks as well as paper originals, have developed ... |
701025_5 | Pirelli's Savior Faces New Headwind | has been generated through sales of Armstrong replacement tires at big retail outlets like Sears, Roebuck & Company. For the last two years, Pirelli Armstrong has been restructuring, to focus on car and light-truck tires and on productivity gains. In the second week of July, Pirelli Armstrong announced the company inte... |
697233_1 | Paper's Small But Issues Are Life-Size | by disabled children in the Brownsville section, and publishes the Chester Street Chatterbox. Unconcerned with fiscal matters and local politics, the tiny newspaper instead celebrates small victories at the school, and its sister sites, like the acquisition of a security fence around the playground at P.S. 189 in Crown... |
697365_5 | U.S. View of Sanctions: Turn Up Heat Half Way | sanctions can kill several birds with one stone. While one official said diplomatic demarches amount to little more than words over tea and cookies, sanctions make leaders look tough at home and abroad. Rallying other nations around a sanctions program is a visible way of claiming world leadership. In addition, sanctio... |
697413_1 | In America; Bears Who Swim Too Much | called a zookeeper. He's the general director of the Wildlife Conservation Society, formerly the New York Zoological Society, which decided last year that zoos in New York are far too upscale to be called zoos. They are now known officially as wildlife conservation parks.) "It's too repetitive," Dr. Conway said about G... |
702925_2 | Q and A | Smithsonian Institution, April 30 to May 13, starting at $6,845 a person, based on double occupancy, on the all-suite Queen Odyssey (the former Royal Viking Queen). The itinerary includes Athens, Nauplia, Seriphos, Siphnos, Naxos, Amorgos, Astypalaia, Leros, Patmos, Chios, Skopelos, Thasos and Samothrace. The guest lec... |
703155_1 | Last Frontier' on Lake of Ozarks | The lake is in Central Missouri. Party Cove is more like Fort Lauderdale at spring break. Families go to the Lake of the Ozarks, only not to Party Cove. John Treppler, 42, is a family man. Mr. Treppler, who puts in 16-hour days at his St. Louis auto body repair business, keeps a 25-foot cuddy cabin at the lake. By Wedn... |
710359_1 | A TRY AT A TRUCE OVER POPULATION | a desire to prevent Vatican and Islamic concerns from derailing what is seen as a broader agenda: the management of resources as the planet faces potential disaster from population growth. Since preparatory discussions began in April, the European Union has sought to serve as a moderating influence, whereas the Clinton... |
710399_0 | A Degree's Shrinking Returns | Despite the creation of more than four million jobs since President Clinton took office, many of them for college graduates, the wages of men with bachelor's degrees have continued to deteriorate, a study by a Washington research organization has found. Administration officials say the findings are probably accurate. T... |
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710385_10 | Turning Point: The I.R.A. Cease-Fire -- A special report; 2 Irish Foes Journey From Deeds to Words | have gotten rid of them in a fortnight. The problem was they believed in what they were saying. "The central difference was about methods. The whole objective was to bring about a total cessation of violence. We eventually agreed on that. Then the question was: how to get there?" By September last year, the views of Mr... |
712336_3 | French Team Develops Plastic Transistor | make organic transistors so thin they can be transparent and so flexible they could have many potential new uses," Dr. Garnier said in a telephone interview from Thiais, France. Potential uses include the manufacture of thin or bendable display screens and more durable "smart cards," devices the size of credit cards th... |
712349_0 | Persistent E-Mail: Electronic Stalking or Innocent Courtship? | One of the nation's broadest stalking laws will be challenged this year when Andrew C. Archambeau stands trial in Michigan for pursuing a woman by electronic mail and on her telephone answering machine after she told him to stop bothering her. Mr. Archambeau, a 32-year-old sign maker from the Detroit suburb of Dearborn... |
713902_0 | Belfast Journal; When It Comes to Peace, You Spell It B-I-N-G-O | Three weeks after the start of the Irish Republican Army cease-fire, the signs of peace in Belfast are as easy to find as the New Vic Bingo Hall downtown. Vera Gormley, who sells betting cards there, says the cease-fire is encouraging more and more people to come into the bingo hall at night to try their luck now that ... |
713879_4 | U.N. Eases Curbs on Yugoslavia After Serbian Peace Concessions | by tightening sanctions. It prohibits international travel by Bosnian Serb officials unless it is related to peace efforts. It bars trade and other economic activity with businesses or organizations owned or controlled by Bosnian Serb forces, except for relief goods. Bosnian Serb financial assets abroad are to be froze... |
713965_0 | Beliefs; A language barrier at the world population conference involved much more than words. | The language spoken at most sessions of the recent International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo was English. But the participants were unknowingly speaking three different languages, said William F. Vendley, executive director of the World Conference on Religion and Peace, who was an official nongove... |
713965_1 | Beliefs; A language barrier at the world population conference involved much more than words. | perspective. Last July, his organization sponsored a "multi-religious consultation" in Switzerland to look at the draft program for Cairo and explore where major religious traditions might diverge or converge. Then, on the eve of the Cairo meeting, the group issued an impressive statement. Signed by scholars representi... |
713951_0 | Corrections | Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about a business group's study advocating a new emphasis on basic academic training misidentified the term for placing all disabled children in standard classrooms. The practice is called inclusion, not intrusion. As a result, the article also referred imprecisely to th... |
713838_3 | Study Says Schools Must Stress Academics | programs. Most other details are now being worked out. "If we do business with someone, we constantly invite them in to show them new products and how things are changing," said Mr. Litow. "Nobody does that for schools." The economic development committee's report encourages such communication. It also makes specific r... |
713728_0 | At the Bar; A vexing legal question: when can Presidents ignore Congress and unslip the dogs of war? | In May 1801, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched a small fleet to the Mediterranean Sea to crush the Barbary pirates who were raiding American ships and demanding payments as tribute. In the florid language of the times, he ordered an American naval commander to seek out the pirates and "chastise their insolence by s... |
711547_3 | The French Keep Africa Under Wing | gear and discreet political intervention from Paris urging that a major cocoa trading concern here not be sold into American hands. No recent case has drawn more attention than that of an independent American oil company, United Meridian, which in March discovered enough oil and natural gas offshore here to meet this c... |
711410_0 | A Decade of Debate | The question of whether electromagnetic fields are capable of causing or promoting cancer has been debated since 1979, when Dr. Nancy Wertheimer and Dr. Ed Leeper of the University of Colorado reported that children exposed to higher than average magnetic fields had an increased risk of leukemia. The Denver study has g... |
711406_3 | Technology; Rethinking Plastics From the Ground Up | couple of years, supercritical fluids, in particular carbon dioxide, have been resurrected, this time not as energy savers but as environmental saviors in an era when industry generally faces increased regulatory scrutiny on the production of hazardous byproducts. "Supercritical carbon dioxide is an exciting area becau... |
711514_3 | Cairo Parley Hits a New Snag on Migrants | the closed-door maneuvering that generally dominates such gatherings. The development shifted the focus of the debate here, which has centered on the Vatican's opposition to language in the final document that it said implies a universal right to abortion. After forcing many changes, the Vatican agreed on Friday to sus... |
711217_8 | Forget PCB's. Radon. Alar | a result of long-term exposure to crude energy sources like indoor cooking fires. WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL thinking has great difficulty coming to terms with such realities. That third-world economists would call propane and kerosene "clean fuels," and speak longingly of the day when their countries are wholly electrified... |
711217_11 | Forget PCB's. Radon. Alar | hardly the solution. In Karachi, only a third of the homes have piped water. In Madras, only about a third of dwellings connect to anything like a sewer system. In Kinshasa, there is no sewage system at all. The situation for numerous other third-world cities is the same. Often, the poor of developing cities must get s... |
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