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711322_0 | LONG ISLAND JOURNAL | But When It Rains? THE new mediation sundial at Hofstra University has many people meditating -- on how the sundial works. The huge timepiece has three large steel structures that look like the triangular skeletons of pyramids. Students usually tell with Timexes, so this new way makes the intellectual juices flow. "I c... |
709669_0 | Day 1 of I.R.A.'s Cease-Fire: Hopes Tinged by Skepticism | The day after the Irish Republican Army declared an unconditional cease-fire, people in the town where the troubles began 25 years ago emerged into the sun today and wondered if this is what peace feels like. In a way, it was hard to tell. Like any other warm day in September, streets were bursting with shoppers, and s... |
709692_1 | Women's Advocates Flocking to Cairo, Eager for Gains | Asyut, the fourth deadly attack in a week, Reuters reported, quoting police officials. The gunmen, who escaped, were believed to be members of the Islamic Group, which has stepped up attacks before the population conference opens. The conference has provoked anger from Muslims, who believe it will promote abortion and ... |
709692_2 | Women's Advocates Flocking to Cairo, Eager for Gains | problem: poor health care, lack of choice in family planning, abuses and general powerlessness suffered by millions of women. The conference's plan for stabilizing population growth will include all of these concerns and more. A broad accord is expected to be approved by most countries -- though not the Vatican, which ... |
709715_2 | For British, Move Toward Peace in Northern Ireland Is Still a War of Words | words that is going on," Mr. Hume said, adding that the I.R.A. statement could only be seen as intending a permanent end to violence. Others took the same view, including most notably the Irish Prime Minister, Albert Reynolds, whose Government is partner to the British in the latest peace initiative. Mr. Reynolds was e... |
709708_0 | With Church Preaching in Vain, Brazilians Embrace Birth Control | At a health clinic for working-class women here, the gynecologist initially thought the question was a joke. How often do women make religious objections when birth control techniques are discussed? "Well, I do remember a case last year," finally answered Jose Antonio Aviles, a gynecologist who treats about 80 women a ... |
709708_5 | With Church Preaching in Vain, Brazilians Embrace Birth Control | abortions are performed annually in Brazil and in the United States, Brazil records about 400,000 annual hospitalizations for medical complications resulting from abortions. In the United States, about 10,000 women are admitted annually for abortion complications. For the population conference in Cairo, the Government ... |
709672_1 | Awe-Struck U.S. Executives Survey the China Market | executives found China's leadership enigmatic, and the notion of political risk never far from their thoughts now that Deng Xiaoping, the country's paramount leader, has passed his 90th birthday. The businessmen said they were comfortable with President Clinton's new human rights policy, which is based on the idea that... |
710770_3 | VATICAN HOLDS UP ABORTION DEBATE AT TALKS IN CAIRO | two on internal and international migrations and their relation to the population question. The Vatican's actions provoked questions that extended beyond the current conference to forthcoming United Nations meetings on social and economic topics, including a gathering on the role of women, which is scheduled for next S... |
710767_0 | Pact May Open Phone Lines to Cuba | Clinton Administration officials and telecommunications companies said today that they were close to reaching an agreement with Cuba that would restore full telephone service with the island. Largely because of the American trade embargo, only two telephone circuits -- both routed through Italy -- are available for cal... |
710751_5 | Missing Boat: Perils in a Life at Sea, and on Land | lot of storms, hurricanes. When the wind kicks up, you've got waves 20 and 30 feet; they splatter all over the boat. We had windows broken in the pilot house, the doors smashed in, the lifeboats washed away. "Then in the wintertime, when the spray hits the mast, or any other part of the boat, it turns to ice. We stop t... |
710773_4 | Affluent Europe's Plight: Graying | out at $600 a month. Such considerations have evidently persuaded many Italians against having large families. The country's abortion laws are the most liberal in western Europe, permitting abortion on demand in the first three months of pregnancy. According to official statistics, the number of legal abortions per yea... |
710774_0 | Kennedy Supports Ordination Of Women as Catholic Priests | Little more than three months after Pope John Paul II declared that Catholics must accept that the priesthood is open only to men, Senator Edward M. Kennedy has said he favors allowing women to become priests. "I count myself among the growing number of Catholics who support the ordination of women as priests," Senator... |
710463_2 | Though Desperate, Most Cubans Are Not Ready to Take to Rafts | the incident on Aug. 5 that saw hundreds of people loot stores and attack the police and thousands more pour into the streets to watch -- what impresses many foreign diplomats here is how quickly the Government managed to turn people's attention to the flight on the rafts and Cuban talks on immigration issues with the ... |
710465_2 | Population Meeting Opens With Challenge to the Right | a means of family planning. Rarely if ever have so many misrepresentations been used to imply a meaning that was never there in the first place." Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali led off today's opening session saying that "the future of human society" depended on this conference and on its ability to effectivel... |
710554_1 | Sonic Device for Blind May Aid Navigation | totally unfamiliar terrain." The "personal navigation system," as it is being called, promises to expand blind people's horizons to unfamiliar streets and neighborhoods. Seeing Eye dogs, by contrast, rely on their owners for cues to tell them where to go. "This system will potentially improve tremendously the freedom o... |
710542_1 | The Good, the Bad and the Truly Ugly Faces of Electronic Mail | an accounting of what is wrong with E-mail and with those who abuse it. But first, here is what is right about E-mail, for those who have not experienced it: electronic mail can be as simple as the text of a letter or as complex as compound documents including pictures and sound. E-mail documents are transferred from o... |
710471_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International A3-10 A POPULATION OFFENSIVE The United Nations conference on world population opened with sharp attacks by delegates on Catholic and Muslim conservatives who have tried to block proposals that refer to abortion and women's rights. A1 SENSE OF URGENCY IN CUBA Not all Cubans want to leave and some continue... |
710512_3 | An Immigration Puzzle; Crises in Cuba and Haiti Resurrect Debate About Newcomers and Employment in U.S. | place or another, more unskilled immigrants mean lower wages and fewer low-end jobs for those already here. Mr. Katz, along with his Harvard colleague Richard Freeman and George Borjas of the University of California at San Diego, say the impact of unskilled immigrants has been substantial. They estimate that roughly o... |
710538_4 | Green Revolution Is Not Enough, Study Finds | study found, the green revolution, because it relies on irrigation, is depleting aquifers while rendering some soils permanently waterlogged and others too saline for farming. Soil fertility has also declined over widespread areas. To top it all off, Dr. Repetto said, "there is no sort of comparable technological break... |
712160_0 | Peace? Belfast Trial Explodes Into a Donnybrook | It was Tuesday afternoon, and Gina Adair was rounding up "the boys." There had been trouble at the Crumlin Road courthouse that morning, a pitched battle between Catholics and Protestants, and the police had waded in with riot sticks against Gina's people, the Protestants. Gina, with short platinum-dyed hair, gold-loop... |
714728_0 | Why Not Discuss Menopause First? | To the Editor: Jane E. Brody's Sept. 21 Personal Health column on sorting out the myths of depression at menopause lays out a convincing explanation, even if it is not empirically derived, for looking at depression among menopausal women as a function of shifting roles, aging and societal explanations. According to Ms.... |
714679_0 | Microwaves From 4 Stars Buoy Search for Life | MICROWAVE emissions of unusual intensity have been detected from four relatively close-by stars that resemble the Sun. Since these are far greater than the Sun's own microwave emissions, and since this type of frequency is used as a means of communication, at least among humans, the finding has stirred a ripple of exci... |
713211_4 | 3,000 U.S. TROOPS LAND WITHOUT OPPOSITION AND TAKE OVER PORTS AND AIRFIELDS IN HAITI | a diplomat from a country that supports the restoration of Father Aristide. "Why give these guys three extra weeks?" Several diplomats complained today that the Carter mission had made unnecessary concessions and had gotten too little in return. The United States "had them with their backs to the wall and a gun to thei... |
711679_0 | Brazil Cuts Its Tariffs on Many Goods | Tariffs protecting the Brazilian economy, Latin America's largest, are to be slashed by almost one-third on Monday. Moving to bolster the nation's fight against inflation, Finance Minister Ciro Gomes announced on Saturday that Brazil's median tariff, covering 13,000 types of goods, would drop to 14 percent from 20 perc... |
711639_2 | Press Notes | they could read them on the same day they were published in The Journal in the United States, Asia and Europe. The Wall Street Journal Americas, a daily two- to three-page section inserted into eight newspapers in Latin America, is the latest expansion by the flagship newspaper of Dow Jones & Company. The section began... |
711625_2 | I.R.A. Cease-Fire Shifts the Focus to Britain | of the long history of violence the British say they so desperately want to end. With the I.R.A. inactive, the British Government has an extraordinary opportunity to end the violence in Northern Ireland, but only if it has the courage to face up to the militant Protestant threat and to deal positively with the issue of... |
711665_3 | The Hidden Population Issue: Money | the year 2000, some $10.2 billion, is to be earmarked for family planning, while $5 billion is to be devoted to reproductive health. Actual Spending Unclear The Cairo conference has not addressed financing for broader educational and health programs, because they are supposed to come from other United Nations initative... |
711734_0 | World Economies | |
712929_2 | Wreckage in the Desert Was Odd but Not Alien | espionage. The spying system was the brainchild of Dr. Maurice Ewing, a geophysicist who during World War II worked at Woods Hole, on Cape Cod, and later founded a premier earth science research center, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. His work at Woods Hole involved naval research on the un... |
712928_4 | Cuba to Allow All Farmers to Sell Some Food on the Open Market | is to issue at least 20,000 visas to Cuban immigrants each year. The agreement also ratified Mr. Clinton's reversal of the longstanding American policy of taking in any Cuban who wanted to emigrate to the United States. But American officials refused to lift new restrictions on travel and the sending of money from the ... |
712676_0 | From France, Dance With an American Accent | WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT the Lyons Opera Ballet, the French company he directs, Yorgos Loukos keeps using the word "subvert." Trying to characterize his 30-member troupe, which begins a weeklong engagement at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, Mr. Loukos calls it "a classical company dancing a contemporary repertory." But he als... |
713040_0 | How Cairo Conference Echoed Health Debate | To the Editor: The news from the United Nations population conference in Cairo was depressing in its avoidance of central issues, namely that any child conceived, let alone born, should have the nurture, education and work opportunity to realize his or her capabilities; and second, that the increasing load of humanity ... |
712949_0 | 2 Leaders of Peace Effort Defend Push for British-I.R.A. Talks | The most influential mainstream Catholic leader in Northern Ireland today dismissed charges that he and Prime Minister Albert Reynolds of Ireland were in too much of a hurry to open formal talks with political leaders of the Irish Republican Army. The leader, John Hume, head of the Social Democratic and Labor Party and... |
712650_1 | A Fashion Gallery | with multiple teats, for instance, or bustles built for dragons -- that invoke the Dionysian principles of the 1960's, while also recalling Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus designs, Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss. Hers is a raw comic vision, close in spirit to vaudeville. In her current "Knee-o" series, with its punning effronte... |
712646_1 | A Fashion Gallery | with multiple teats, for instance, or bustles built for dragons -- that invoke the Dionysian principles of the 1960's, while also recalling Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus designs, Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss. Hers is a raw comic vision, close in spirit to vaudeville. In her current "Knee-o" series, with its punning effronte... |
709536_0 | Fears of New Violence Temper Joy in the U.S. | Optimism tempered by the memory of dashed hopes and the bitter lessons of centuries of violence characterized reaction yesterday in the United States and Ireland to the announcement of a cease-fire by the Irish Republic Army in its long campaign to force British troops from Northern Ireland. From political figures to I... |
709542_0 | How Adams Proved Again He Is Major Force for Peace | Only a month ago Gerry Adams, the Irish Republican Army's chief political leader, seemed on the verge of blocking further progress toward peace in Northern Ireland. As president of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, he presided over a party conference that rejected important elements of the peace proposal made in ... |
709647_2 | Hope Reborn in Northern Ireland | these shores, Mr. Adams was rightly warned that merely repeating old slogans like "Brits out!" wouldn't do and that he had to offer something more substantial in response to a December peace declaration jointly fashioned by Mr. Major and his Dublin counterpart, Prime Minister Albert Reynolds. So in successive interview... |
709517_3 | I.R.A. DECLARES CEASE-FIRE, SEEING 'NEW OPPORTUNITY' TO NEGOTIATE IRISH PEACE | talks. "If they are really renouncing violence, let them hand in their Semtex and all their weapons, because they won't need them any longer," said John Taylor, a Loyalist politician, referring to an explosive used frequently by I.R.A. bombers. In London James Molyneaux, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, met Wednesd... |
709516_3 | Vatican Says Gore Is Misrepresenting Population Talks | different views in the conference document. A Wider Audience By attacking Vice President Gore and seeking to highlight inconsistencies in the American position, Mr. Navarro-Valls also seemed to be reaching to a wider audience in the Islamic world and the third world, seeking to win allies for the Vatican's cause by dam... |
709516_5 | Vatican Says Gore Is Misrepresenting Population Talks | minority circles of certain opulent societies" and to impose those values on "the emerging, less developed cultures of our society." The Vatican's determined position against the document reflects the huge differences in fundamental perceptions of what the conference is all about. For feminists, the gathering represent... |
709518_1 | CEASE-FIRE IN NORTHERN IRELAND: THE LONG VIEW End of 'The Troubles'?; Trying to Exchange Old Hatreds for Peace On a Battlefield With Little Middle Ground | to South Africa and the Middle East, why not Ulster? -- no one has put forward a credible idea of how a final settlement might be arranged or what kind of political entity might actually result. Occasionally, people on the outskirts of the diplomatic maneuvering talk about the six counties of Northern Ireland becoming ... |
710959_1 | Paris Journal; Mitterrand's 'Mistakes': Vichy Past Is Unveiled | other signs of Mr. Mitterrand's growing sense of mortality. In an interview in Le Figaro today, the President, who is suffering from prostate cancer, spoke again about his past but also addressed rumors that his worsening health could force him to retire before his term ends in May 1995. "I think it will be obliging en... |
710946_0 | As Abortion Fight Rages, Population-Plan Accord Nears | As the United Nations population conference ended its fourth day of deadlock on the abortion issue, some delegates reported progress today toward agreement on what they called the real purpose of the gathering: a plan to increase global spending on population control and related health services from around $5 billion n... |
710946_3 | As Abortion Fight Rages, Population-Plan Accord Nears | for terminating an unwanted pregnancy either by persons lacking the necessary skills or in an environment lacking the minimal medical standards or both." Additionally, the new language deletes the phrase "circumstances in which abortion is legal" to "circumstances in which abortion is not against the law." Vatican Supp... |
709838_4 | One Stop at a Time, Sharpton Broadens Political Following | language at a hearing in July in warning of such an "ominous" rise in out-of-wedlock births that biologists might talk of speciation, or the creation of a new species that cannot breed with the one from which it evolved. Mr. Sharpton has accused him of "demonizing" welfare mothers and encouraging youths to accept fatal... |
709902_3 | Brazil Winces at Film on Its Hero | Mendes, the unionist's widow, rejected offers from half a dozen Hollywood studios and sold the rights to Joffre Rodrigues, a Brazilian film maker. "Chico was a Brazilian," she said at the time. "I believe that a national production company will make a film which tells the authentic story of Chico's life." The ink was b... |
709866_0 | Citing Safety, U.S. Bans Airlines of 9 Nations | The Federal Aviation Administration has barred airlines from nine nations from flying to the United States because of poor safety procedures. The unusual action, announced today, is a response to safety questions from consumer groups. Officials say they hope the economic fallout of the ban will encourage the airlines t... |
709837_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 2-4 MORE VIOLENCE IN ULSTER A killing in Belfast was a reminder that despite the Irish Republican Army's declaration of a cease-fire, peace in Northern Ireland remains a distant possibility. 1 U.S. TO INCREASE IRISH AID President Clinton met with Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and said he would reward th... |
709839_0 | A Slaying Shows Ulster Peace Is Still Elusive | It was a killing like hundreds of others over the last 25 years in Northern Ireland: a group of gunmen approached a man repairing a car on a Belfast Street, shot him dead and fled. The victim was Roman Catholic; the killers were members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters, a Protestant paramilitary group. But for politician... |
714795_0 | U.S. Plans Vast Restoration for Everglades | The Federal Government has drawn up an ambitious plan to restore the Everglades of southern Florida, reshaping much of the region's 11,000 square miles into something closer to the undisturbed wetlands of a century ago. The far-reaching project, which would take many years to complete, is still in the early planning st... |
711132_0 | Some Investments Tailored for Tuitions | Some investments are specifically tailored for parents saving for college. The simplest is a United States series EE bond. Backed by the Government, these savings bonds are readily available from most banks and through many employee payroll savings plans at no charge. The interest on series EE bonds issued after 1989 i... |
711107_0 | Yichang Journal; Digging Up the Ancient Past, Before the Deluge | Digging deep into the scarlet earth along the banks of the Yangtze River, China's archeologists are in a race against time to save the relics of nearly 8,000 years of Chinese history that will otherwise be trapped forever beneath a lake created by the world's largest dam. The project, the biggest archeological expediti... |
711089_1 | Vatican Drops Fight Against U.N. Population Document | Some delegates saw the five-day delay in itself was an achievement of sorts for church officials. But for many, the Vatican's stance ultimately suggested that it was out of touch with many of its own followers. Many conference delegates said the Vatican seriously miscalculated its potential clout in the debate, especia... |
711089_4 | Vatican Drops Fight Against U.N. Population Document | we can go to countries and say: 'This is a public health problem. How can we help you with it?' That's very important." Women's organizations here argued that in some cases, abortion is a woman's only recourse when family planning services are not available. The conference document does not endorse that option, since t... |
714297_0 | What Nassau Omitted On Mitchel Field Case | A letter by Nassau County Attorney Owen Walsh [ Outside Counsel: Need for Defense," Aug. 28 ] cites "ethics" as the reason for the county's retainer of 17 outside law firms to defend a citizen suit against past and present county officials responsible for the Mitchel Field "Sweetheart Leases." Mr. Walsh neglects to dis... |
714244_0 | Tech Notes; Old Bottles for New Milk | BEFORE recycling became common, milk came in glass bottles that were washed and used over and over. But today's plastic milk bottles generally cannot be reused for food packaging, because of Federal rules governing cleanliness. Yet Waste Age magazine noted recently that pellets of recycled polyethylene terephthalate, o... |
714353_2 | A Tide of Pollution Threatens China's Prosperity | stanch industrial pollution "is a job that is going to require offending people." But the central authorities have so far not been able to devise a politically acceptable way to shut down hundreds of factories that dump their toxic waste into rivers or pump them into the atmosphere. As a result, the degradation of Chin... |
714026_0 | Hooked on Philosophy | SOPHIE'S WORLD A Novel About the History of Philosophy. By Jostein Gaarder. Translated by Paulette Moller. 403 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $19. NO wonder Euro Disney is a flop; Europeans are too busy reading philosophy. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's "Qu'est-ce Que la Philosophie" (recently published in... |
714308_0 | If Flames Singe, Who Is to Blame? | ONE of the trickiest questions about the strange, new medium called cyberspace is how much responsibility a computer network should take for the words posted on its virtual bulletin boards. The problem arose in a particularly complicated context recently when two women at a California college were insulted on a compute... |
714255_1 | A Chattering Engine May Tell a Dirty Secret | to improve the mixing of gasoline and air. As the area of clearance has grown smaller, even a tiny buildup on the top of the piston of carbon deposits -- a residue of gasoline that has been burned -- can interfere with the piston's normal action. The noise usually subsides after the engine warms up and the piston expan... |
710238_0 | NEWS SUMMARY | International 3-18 WIDE-RANGING POPULATION AGENDA The Cairo population conference, which has stirred controversy over women's rights, will deal with other complex issues such as the rate of world population growth. 1 Zimbabwe, an exception in Africa, practices population control. 16 DAWNING HARD LINE ON HAITI American ... |
710231_0 | Reaching for the Stars in the New Military | IN the 1960's, a hard-charging, freshly minted second lieutenant wanted to go to Southeast Asia to experience combat in the Vietnam War. In 1990 and 1991, commanders turned away many young officers who volunteered for action in the Persian Gulf region. For generations of American warriors, there has never been much of ... |
710276_0 | Canine vs. Ovine | |
710270_0 | Zimbabwe Taking a Lead In Promoting Birth Control | Part Avon Lady, part Dr. Ruth, Maureen Dick works the African countryside, hut to hut, on her sturdy Government-issue bicycle. In her knapsack she carries a blood-pressure gauge, a logbook, a supply of pills and condoms, and a seven-inch wooden penis for demonstration purposes. Over the years, civil servants like Mrs. ... |
710270_4 | Zimbabwe Taking a Lead In Promoting Birth Control | the doubling of the population every 24 years. Strong Financial Support Women on bicycles hardly seem a revolutionary idea, and in fact similar programs have been tried in a number of countries. Zimbabwe officials and foreign experts who support them say they difference here is simply ample support from the Government.... |
710055_0 | WHILE MANNY'S LOCKED UP | We see the vulnerable, nurturing side of a gang girl throughout much of LeBlanc's article, subtitled "The Making of a Street Feminist." A street feminist? Let's not kid ourselves. Imagine that your daughter attended a school rife with gangs whose members beat girls simply for being vulnerable. Suppose the leader of the... |
710223_0 | Peace on Irish Horizon Doesn't Spell Prosperity | FOR all the jubilation in the nationalist strongholds of West Belfast, for all the waving of Irish flags and the taunts of "You're going home, Brit" by young Catholics to British foot soldiers, no one familiar with the last 25 tragic years in Northern Ireland believed that the province's future had been remotely settle... |
710247_0 | No Headline | "This is not just another meeting. The long-term fate of this planet is in the balance." J. JOSEPH SPEIDEL of Population Action International. [ 1:5. ] |
710290_2 | On Sunday; Words of Peace From Patriarch Of I.R.A. Anger | the old pattern of intramural treacheries was at an end. "Cahill has a bad heart and is worn out from this fight," said Mr. King. "But he knew he was sent to convince the hardest of the hard-liners over here and he spoke loud and clear for 10 minutes to these guys -- lawyers, businessmen in their 30's and 40's -- and h... |
710241_1 | U.N. Is Facing Angry Debate On Population | that would open the way for governments to spend billions of dollars on programs intended to stabilize runaway population growth. "This conference is playing for very high stakes," said J. Joseph Speidel, president of Population Action International in Washington, a nonprofit research group that advocates population st... |
713434_1 | Personal Health; Depression at menopause: sorting out the myths. | a community survey of 511 women in New Haven, beginning in 1967 and repeated in 1969 and 1976, found no evidence of an increase in depressive symptoms in the menopausal years. Rates of depressive symptoms were highest in women under 35 and decreased gradually with age, according to one author, Dr. Myrna M. Weissman, pr... |
713433_1 | Regimen of Moderate Exercise Tied to Drop in Breast Cancer | use to reduce their risk of getting breast cancer." In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. Louise A. Brinton of the National Cancer Institute said the new finding was especially important because it seemed to identify exercise as an independent factor influencing the risk of breast cancer. Dr. Rosenberg commented ... |
713088_2 | U.S. Has High Hopes for New Student Loan Plan | the participation of thousands of banks and lending agencies with their own rules. "The Government did this because it can make about $6.5 billion in about five years" by trimming out the 3 percent profit margin banks earn on each student loan they make, said Jerome H. Sullivan, the director of the University of Colora... |
711849_7 | Latest Threat to Yellowstone: Admirers Are Loving It to Death | the Yellowstone River south of Livingston, Mont., along the North and South forks of the Shoshone River west of Cody, Wyo., and along the edges of forests outside Bozeman. The Snake River watershed outside Jackson, Wyo., in the ecosystem's southwestern quadrant, has long felt development pressures. While private lands ... |
711796_0 | Key Panel at Cairo Talks Agrees on Population Plan | After a week of contentious debate, the main drafting committee of the United Nations Conference on Population and Development reached agreement today on a program that defines a new concept of reproductive rights and lays out a 20-year strategy to keep the world's population growth in check. The new "Program of Action... |
711796_1 | Key Panel at Cairo Talks Agrees on Population Plan | Women's Rights The goal of the program is to curtail population growth and make family planning available worldwide. It also enshrines the right of women to make their own decisions regarding their families and their relationships. The program declares that women have the right to decide the number of children they wil... |
711865_2 | Cotton-Top Tamarins: Cooperative, Pacifist And Close to Extinct | Society held in Seattle, the scientists presented surprising results on the hormonal mechanisms through which nonbreeding females keep their own reproduction in check. They had expected to find evidence that the breeding female kept the other females docile through intimidation and constant stress, but instead they det... |
711787_0 | Conscience Clear, Says Mitterrand | President Francois Mitterrand declared today that his conscience was "perfectly clear" about revelations that he worked for the pro-Nazi Vichy Government early in World War II before he joined the French Resistance and rose to become a leading Socialist. Along with Mr. Mitterrand's failing health, the subject of his pa... |
711782_2 | Bangladesh, Still Poor, Cuts Birth Rate Sharply | been more readily broken down. Also, the experts say, the fact that birth control it being promoted by women drawn from the villages has made it more difficult for opponents, including Muslim clerics, to condemn the effort as one foisted on the community by outsiders. The experts also say that Bangladesh made a major c... |
711962_0 | U.N. Population Meeting Adopts Program of Action | After nine days of arguing about sexuality and morals, the United Nations population conference ended today with a broad endorsement of a new strategy for stabilizing the world's population, mainly by giving women more control over their lives. The 20-year "program of action" drew unexpected if limited support from the... |
711993_0 | Population Debate: The Premises Are Changed | Despite the lingering discord at the end of the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo yesterday, few experts disagree that the meeting, and the social changes its debates reflected, have altered many of the premises for dealing with the crisis of too many people on earth. The phrase "populatio... |
711993_3 | Population Debate: The Premises Are Changed | in Roman Catholic and Muslim countries to disregard religious rules prohibiting or curtailing contraception, contributed to the increasing demands for family planning as a personal right. Not all women's groups in the developing world are pleased with the Cairo plan. Some are concerned that calls for action on populati... |
712094_0 | The New Population Control Weapon | The acrimonious debate over abortion at the world population conference in Cairo has obscured the truly radical element in the document approved by delegates at the final session yesterday: the notion that enhancing the educational, political and economic opportunities for women is perhaps the surest way to curb furthe... |
714510_0 | Patents; An Electronic Monitor for Leftovers Could Help Make a Refrigerator a Mold-Free Zone | AT one time or another, everyone has reached into a deep corner of the refrigerator, pulled out a long-forgotten plastic container and opened it to find a fuzzy, gray-green blanket of mold. In fact, said Dianna Namisniak, Americans throw away 15 percent of their fresh food and leftovers because they forget what is in t... |
714475_0 | Boats Done the Old Way, in Wood | |
714552_0 | World Economies | |
714461_0 | Cubans Get A Taste of Capitalism | This might have been called a market town when there was still anything much to buy. But as farmers rumbled into it this weekend on loaded-down tractors and their customers came however they could, San Nicolas seemed almost in the midst of a new discovery. A marketplace of sorts was set up on the long concrete platform... |
710623_2 | A Third-World Effort on Family Planning | country was approached cautiously. "We didn't treat our culture roughly," Dr. Haryono said. "You know, it is like giving flowers to your wife before asking for a kiss. Eventually you get what you want." Colombia, like Indonesia, has found that offering the widest range of options, except abortion, has contributed to su... |
710623_3 | A Third-World Effort on Family Planning | they take care of on Sundays, and their family planning the rest of the week," Dr. Trias said. "We have had several more or less serious showdowns with the church," he said. "But for the last 10 years the church has come to realize that family planning is a way of life in Colombia that could not be stopped, could not b... |
710609_1 | Vatican Rejects Compromise On Abortion at U.N. Meeting | head of the United States delegation, to assuage the Vatican's fears that the conference would legitimize abortion as a right and promote adolescent promiscuity. The conference's report will not be binding on any nation, but delegates say that the broader the consensus, the better the chances that population growth can... |
710642_2 | Irish Premier Receives I.R.A. Chief Over Protestant Objections | them deny this strenuously. Mr. Adams seemed particularly eloquent in calling upon the Protestants to lay down their fears. At one point he said: "I extend in generosity a hand of friendship to my Protestant brothers and sisters in the North. A negotiated peace settlement holds no threat for them." The ostensible purpo... |
710668_0 | Disabled: Public or Special School? | "Turning Point" demonstrates tonight that sensitivity need not dissolve into sentimentality. The delicate subject of "Sean's Story" is inclusion, the principle, which has won support from the United States Department of Education, that disabled children should be admitted to regular classrooms. Meredith Vieira, reporti... |
710682_0 | Late-Summer Festivities of the Tomato Clan | It is the height of tomato season in these last days of summer, and there is no better time to feast on a late but abundant crop. Tables at farmers' markets and specialty stores groan under the weighty rainbow of varieties, their colors ranging from the palest green of the Ivory Pears to the deepest red of the Romas. A... |
710715_0 | Public & Private; Beside the Point | When Tim Wirth, the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, first began to lay the Administration's rhetorical groundwork for this week's global population conference in Cairo, the note he sounded seemed inspired. "Sustainable development cannot be realized without the full engagement and complete empowerment of w... |
710715_1 | Public & Private; Beside the Point | Mr. Wirth as the linchpin of the Cairo conference. The world's women are increasingly moving to bring the birth rate down on a do-it-yourself basis. Not because of deforestation or famine per se, but because it is better for their children. Trying to divide their attention among four, trying to divide a small stock of ... |
1543574_5 | After Losing Momentum, Kerry Is Shifting Tactics To Gain 'Bounce' in Iowa | agenda for his first 100 days as president, to impress voters that he is best prepared to ''hit the ground running'' if elected. ''What can the next president do in the first 100 days?'' his latest commercial in Iowa and New Hampshire begins. ''John Kerry will put a stop to George Bush's radical agenda. He'll declare a... |
1543523_2 | Uncertain Future for the Past's Treasures | clouds each morning when I left the house for school. You see what I mean. The salvage is overwhelming, the size of it a painful reminder of our inadequacy as cultural stewards. One is strongly tempted to withdraw into comic fantasy: the grand heritage of civilization with laugh track as an ''I Love Lucy'' episode. Arc... |
1543511_0 | OBSERVATORY | Restoring Big Rams With all the debate about the re-engineering of plants and animals in the laboratory, it's worthwhile to remember that genetic manipulation occurs in many other ways, and by many other means, as well. Even by high-powered rifle, apparently. Researchers in the United States, Canada and Britain have di... |
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